Said came to Los Angeles about ten days ago to prepare in advance for attending the Oscars.

For a few moments, he almost made up his mind to attend the Oscars in his royal gown.

And imagine what the expressions would be like for an Arab man wearing a white fine-plaid turban representing the Saudi royal family, wearing a black robe with a golden thread on the edge of the robe representing the royal family.

In fact, Sayed's royal identity is nothing special. He is just one of thousands of ordinary "princes".

In Saudi Arabia, the founding king Ibn Saudi Arabia and several of his brothers formed the original "Saudi royal family".

All adult male members of the royal family are called "princes", including the prince.

Although according to the ysl law, men can get four wives, people with high positions and power naturally have their own way to bypass the law, that is, divorce.

In order to unite a large group of scattered tribes across the country, the old Saudi king married more than 30 wives in order to unite the country's scattered tribes, with the most of them being politically married.

The old Saudi king gave birth to 36 sons, and his two brothers were almost the same, but his brothers' sons were both "princes" who had no inheritance rights.

The Saudi royal family, which soared in geometric multiples, currently has more than 5,000 qualified to be called "prince".

The old Saudi king died in 1953, and the throne began to circulate among the "second-generation princes" because the old Saudi king's last order asked his sons to "brothers and brothers".

Therefore, the "second-generation princes" faithfully fulfilled this principle and experienced three changes in the throne. The current Saudi king, Fahd, is still a member of the "second-generation prince". He is already over seventy at this time, so he may die in office like his brother and pass the throne to the crown prince, his younger brother Abdullah.

Sayed is just an ordinary "three-generation prince". His father is not the strongest "Surid faction" or the "Abdullah faction" who controls the army. He relies only on the slightest influence of his grandmother's family to become a minister of cultural ties. He belongs to the "second-generation prince" who is not as good as the top and the bottom.

The father is not the minister of the real power department, and with many sons, Sayed is even less prominent among the thousands of "Three Generations of Princes".

The most eye-catching of the "Three Generations of Princes" is naturally Wallid, known as "Buffett of Saudi Arabia", who spent 150 million US dollars in pocket money and worked hard to earn tens of billions of dollars, making a big profit at the bottom of Citibank.

But he seems to have invested in Apple... Forget it, everyone has investment mistakes.

The second most popular "Three Generations Prince" is Sultan Salman, the "Prince of Astronauts". He spent seven days in space on a space shuttle in 1985 and is now the director of the Saudi News Department.

In fact, except for the descendants of the ruling king, most of the "princes" are unknown, and the only article in the newspaper that appears their name is their obituary.

There are many "princes" like Sayed who are invisible to study abroad. In his early years, there were even "princesses" who did this. However, most of them like to study in Britain and France. For those like Sayed, who came to the United States in order to learn some movies and screenwriters, are only this one.

Now, Du Miaomiao has made a small fame and is really eager to bring good news to Saudi villagers.

However, on the day the nomination was announced, Sayed was immediately warned by Samantha, the "public relations consultant" hired by Bai Quinn. He must not disclose his identity as the Saudi royal family, which will make Oscar judges disgusted with The Legend of the Wicked. If you want to win the award, you have to keep a low profile.

If you want to make movies in the United States in the future, you will continue to hide your royal identity, otherwise you can only go back to Saudi Arabia to make movies.

This principle is also very simple. After all, the Jews have the right to speak in Hollywood. They may be able to tolerate an Arab to succeed in Hollywood to demonstrate their magnanimity, but they will never tolerate a Saudi prince occupying a place in the Jewish field.

Therefore, wearing a hijab and a robe to receive the prize was just a whim. After calming down a little, he himself abandoned the idea.

When Said came to Los Angeles, in addition to attending the award ceremony, there was another important thing, that is - meet netizens.

It’s not the kind of beautiful netizen who “why I’ll leave”, but a man who is still studying at the University of California, Berkeley.

As a hardcore Jackson fan and with a lot of pocket money, Sayed rented a server last year and built a Jackson Fan Billboard (BBS).

Its nature is the same as the White Quinn fan bulletin board established by "Jessica Waving the Scythe", and it is both a place where the companions are enchanting themselves.

But Sayed was only a movie student, and had a very little understanding of the website. He spent money to ask someone to build a BBS. After using it for a while, after a problem arose, he realized that he would not be able to maintain it at all. It seems that he had to ask someone to maintain the website.

At this time, an active BBS user took the initiative to apply for a job, received a meager reward, and began to maintain the website.

This guy who claims to be a professional computer in Berkeley did make some changes after taking over the website. He not only optimized resource configuration and improved access speed, but also upgraded the BBS function. Now the website supports GIF animations. The pictures of the event have been widely praised by netizens, and he also defeated a malicious hacker attack.

It is said that he is now learning the latest Flash animation and is preparing to add Flash function modules to the website.

Since he came to California, Said naturally wanted to meet this "meeter".

As early as last year when Bai Quinn and Jack Cheng first met, Said exposed the news that the two sides would cooperate to BBS. Later, he reported the progress of the matter one after another, making the entire site know about the existence of "Rush Hour" by Xinyi Film.

Of course, there are not many people who really regard this matter.

In order to endorse Niu B whom he brags, Sayed insisted on asking Bai Quinn to go with him when he met netizens.

Bai Quinn refused at first, but couldn't stand Prince Said's nagging. He thought of it as helping his cousin Medou, who was about to enter Berkeley, finally agreed.

So Tang Sen, a graduate student in the Berkeley Department of Computer Science, and his two friends, Peric Lee and Steve Wang, finally met at a cafe on campus, hiring them to maintain the "webmaster" of the BBS website and the living White Quinn with sunglasses.

Tang Sen, Peric Lee and Steve Wang, all three are Chinese. They grew up in the United States and received American education. The difference between them and Bai Quinn is that they are not mixed.

Tang Sen, whose name still retains Chinese characteristics, is the leader of the three. It was he who received the job of maintaining the website from Sayed.

All three Berkeley top students are Jack-in-Carn fans. Perrik Lee and Steve Wang have graduated. The two have created a studio that specializes in helping companies or individuals in need but not in technology to build their own websites. Tang Sen is preparing to join them.

Since everyone got together because they were Jack Cheng's fans, the topic was still around Jack Cheng at the beginning, but soon turned to the Internet industry that Prince Said didn't care much about.

The three began to inquire about the situation of the Future Bo Company invested by Bai Quinn.

Just a few weeks ago, under the leadership of Andy Rubin, Futureboat Company finally completed the development of Flash 1.0 version and began to provide this animation production software to the public for free.

At the same time, the browser-based Flash player has also undergone important updates, which can play sounds simultaneously while playing animations, and supports several common video formats, making it a real audio and video player.

As practitioners, Perrik Lee and Steve Wang's Design Reactor studio has noticed the animations appearing on the MSN.com homepage since the FSA period, and has begun to pay attention to future wave companies that develop this software.

They knew that Bai Quinn was the major shareholder of Future Bo, and had just invested 10 million US dollars in Future Bo Company not long ago.

But what they didn't know was that the ten million dollars did not come from Bai Quinn.

Shortly after the company sale on Thanksgiving, Bai Quinn began to clear Charlie Jackson's shares.

With the cooperation of Andy Rubin, the new programmer was deliberately postponed to join the company, resulting in a slow development progress. Taking advantage of the difficulties in Flash 1.0 R&D, Bai Quinn spent two million to purchase 12% of Charlie Jackson's shares through the vest provided by Mr. Victor, and invited him out of Future Wave Company.

As soon as Charlie Jackson left, the people who had been in short supply were immediately in place.

Led by two bigwigs in the field of video software, more than 20 programmers worked hard for two months, and the animation drawing software was finally developed successfully. Taking advantage of the good news released by Flash 1.0, Future Bo Company accepted the first investment from a professional institution.

The new collaborator is the Janus Investment Fund, a private equity fund that tends to invest in Internet startups. It has invested in search website Excite, online community Globe, and GeoCities, which opens personal pages by Bai Quinn.

This operation not only brought continued expansion funds to the future wave, but also directly brought a large number of customers. Globe.com and GeoCities.com used animations made by Flash on their pages, directly converting the huge user group of the two websites into installers of Flash plug-in, further promoting other websites to support Flash.

In this "arms race", websites that fail to introduce Flash animations in time will be considered by users to be not cool enough and are backward in the previous era.

In just two weeks, the number of downloads of browser plug-in Flash players has approached the 10 million mark. In the past, MSN homepage only accumulated less than two million plug-in installations in half a year.

This is just the data installed by browser plug-in. There are tens of thousands of downloads of Flash 1.0. In the future, there will inevitably be a large number of Internet animations produced using Flash 1.0, which will continue to push up the number of downloads of Flash players.

Janus Investment Fund is not losing money either. They spent 10 million US dollars to buy 15% of Future Wave shares, and have begun to promote Future Wave's listing plan.

After a round of dilution, Bai Quinn is still the controlling shareholder of Future Wave, but before Future Wave goes public, his shares will face two rounds of dilution.

After talking about this, Sayed discovered that "netizen" Tang Sen had previously squeezed him and asked him to bring Bai Quinn, which turned out to have another purpose.

Prince Said finally realized: When he met netizens, he was always the one who was hurt in the end.

However, Bai Quinn is not interested in Design Reactor Studio's business. He is not the kind of investor of Guangsan.com. The reason why he focuses on future waves is because he sees future trends in memory fragments. If these three Chinese youths are working in communication and chat software, he would invest in them without hesitation.

But building a website for others is too unimaginable.

However, Tang Sen, a young Chinese born in Vietnam, fled to the United States with his parents when Saigon evacuated. He seemed to be naturally good at finding opportunities. If one plan didn't work, he had another idea.

He put forward an idea and brought the topic back to Jack Cheng.

"I have a habit of watching movies in the theater, and before going to the cinema, I must first see the reviews of this movie. If it is not good, I won't waste my time."

The other two nodded in agreement. Bai Quinn and Sayed are both film practitioners. Even if some films have bad reputations, they sometimes have to watch them, so it is difficult to agree.

Tang Sen continued: "But when "Red Anime" was first released, I couldn't see its reviews in the newspaper, but I knew "Red Anime" was released on Hong Kong Island a few months ago, so I went online to Hong Kong Island's website to read its reviews.

I still remember this incident freshly until now, because I understand Chinese, so I can see Hong Kong Island's review of "Red Fan District".

But what about other Americans? They don’t know what kind of action star Jack is, and they may miss that work.”

Everyone reached an agreement on this.

Most Americans look down on foreign films arrogantly and lack interest in trying.

But in fact, most Americans who accidentally watched "Red Fan District" thought it was "very fragrant" and then began to recommend it to their friends.

Tang Sen continued to say slowly: "This situation can also occur in different parts of the United States, such as here. Everyone is reading the film reviews of the Los Angeles Times and the Hollywood Reporter. The Chicago area focuses on the column of Roger Albert in the Chicago Sun, and as for the New York area..."

"There are more choices in New York!" Prince Said seemed to have been infected with the "best" infectious disease in New York and has regarded himself as a New Yorker.

"So, what's your idea?" Bai Quinn had to correct the topic.

Tang Sen continued: "I want to build a website to summarize the reviews from different places, so that it can eliminate the differences caused by different information sources in various regions, and even recommend good videos from different countries to the audience..."

"For example, a movie made by Jack." Others said in unison.

"Good idea," Bai Quinn praised.

"How is this different from IMDB's scoring?" Steve Wang asked his friends.

Bai Quinn said faster than Tang Sen, who proposed the idea: "This website does not subjectively evaluate a movie. It is just a porter of film reviews. The purpose is to eliminate information differences in different regions and even reduce the misleading of some film critics because of their personal likes and dislikes."

As an insider, Bai Quinn has seen a lot of this kind of thing, and many personal likes and dislikes are mostly just not enough.

"The Legend of the Wicked" was rave reviews at the beginning of its release. One of the key reasons is that millions of American dollars were stuffed into the pockets of film critics through various channels.

Among the many production and distribution companies in Hollywood, Miramax is the one who attaches the most importance to maintaining a good cooperative relationship with film critics.

"Of course there are at least 60 of the 100 film critics who have given good reviews to be considered a good movie." said Perrik Lee, who dropped out of school and started a business.

A few people said and said, perfecting Tang Sen's creativity.

Finally, Bai Quinn said: "You can make a plan first. If it works, I can invest in building this website and leave it to your company to build and maintain it."

Bai Quinn also has an inconvenient idea. If such a website can be made, if he makes a bad movie in the future, he can at least control the public opinion on the Internet...

Prince Said also echoed: "I can invest too. We can first move all the reviews about Jack Cheng in Hong Kong to the Internet to let them know how powerful Jack Cheng is."

...

So two days later, Bai Quinn and Said received a creative plan from Tang Sen and others working overtime to drive out. The website's name is "Rotten Tomatoes". Those with a positive review of more than 60% are fresh, while those with a lower than 60% are rotten tomatoes.

A century ago, the way American audiences expressed dissatisfaction with the drama was to throw rotten tomatoes on the actors' heads.

After discussing, the two decided to jointly invest, and first asked Tang Sen to be responsible for the website, develop the company that was handed over to the other two, and make the "rotten tomato" website first.

On the day of the performance of the "Viol Snake House" bar, Bai Quinn and Said took their lawyer Jerry to Berkeley to sign a contract with Tangson, and reserved a small amount of shares for the three of them as an incentive.

After signing the contract, Bai Quinn decided to take three tech men to see the world and specially took them to the "Viculent House", the bar with the most celebrities in Los Angeles.

...

As soon as I entered the private room, I saw Charlize Theron, who was about to play the second female lead with "Last Summer".
Chapter completed!