Hollywood Secret Garden

The afternoon sun shines through the filmed floor-to-ceiling windows and splashes a little light in the cafeteria. The employees of the Pixar animation and game department are sitting at the small round table in twos and threes and discussing issues while drinking afternoon tea. Talk about people who leave their unused refreshments and rush off to work after an inspiration strikes midway.

This is the working environment of Pixar. Although it is only a glimpse of the leopard, it fully embodies the characteristics of casual but full of enthusiasm.But at this time, whoever was discussing in the dining room had to glance at the French window on the right, because the queen of the film department was sitting there with her two friends.

Yes, the queen of the film department, this is the nickname given to Angela by the employees of the animation department in private, because Angela, who does not hold any position in the film department, has the right to say nothing about the production!As for why, just look at the statuette that was brought back the day before yesterday.Although this is not the first time Pixar has won an Oscar, which film company or film department has won the best film in less than three years since its establishment?Not to mention that almost all of the box office hits produced in the past two years are related to her, which makes Pixar grow stronger.

The animation department has only produced one animated movie after "Toy Story", and although the box office is good, it doesn't actually make much profit. Even though the animation department doesn't make money from animated movies, these rather proud animators When we talk about Angela, we will inevitably feel a little aggrieved and depressed.

Although Angela doesn't know her ridiculous nickname, she still knows a thing or two about the animator's mind, because this is Pixar, a place where any employee can drag the supervisor to discuss their own ideas.

And even if it wasn't very clear before, after talking with Roger, I can get a general idea.In fact, this is not a big deal. Unlike the masculinity outside, what they care about is that Pixar’s foundation is in animation. As a result, animation is still the main development direction at present, but the film department, which is an unintentional place, is actually a latecomer and even faintly. The trend of substitution, anyone who faces this situation will feel a little emotional.

But Angela is not in the mood to give them psychological counseling classes now. Anyway, Ed and John are very clear about her own thoughts, and besides, the things in front of her are bothering her.

"Do you need another banana boat, Lindsay?" Angela held her face, stirred the cold drink in her glass with a straw, and asked with raised eyebrows at the little girl in front of her.

"Can I have another serving?" Lindsay, who purposely poked the spoon back and forth on the ice cream, raised her head and looked at Angela with a smile. The ice cream on the face is correspondingly interesting.

"There's no door at all!" Angela snorted immediately.

"Okay, Lindsay, you've had enough." Jessica, who was sitting next to Angela, smiled and shook her head to smooth things over.

"But, just now Angie said that I can eat as much as I want." Lindsay said plausibly, and at the same time scooped out a large piece of ice cream with a spoon as if in a demonstration, and then slowly fed it into her wide-open mouth. The whole movement It's like the slow motion in a movie, obviously made on purpose to irritate people.

"Yes, I did, but I didn't expect you to eat twice in a row. God, it's still March, so you're not afraid of stomach pain!" Angela rolled her eyes and said angrily.

"But the outside temperature is already as high as 70 degrees Fahrenheit, isn't it appropriate to eat ice cream? Besides, who told them to make banana boats so interesting." Lindsay shrugged her shoulders, and said, "It's a knife that killed someone. Go find a knife." Don't look for me".

Because of Pixar's relaxed atmosphere and even the food served in the restaurant is unique and full of interesting things, so Angela can only roll her eyes again at Lindsay's excuse.

"I really wish she was my sister." Angela whispered into Jessica's ear through gritted teeth, and after the other party showed a puzzled look, she immediately added: "Then I can take her without hesitation." Press it on the ground and beat it hard!"

Jessica burst out laughing, and looked at Lindsay who was concentrating on dealing with the banana boat. She suddenly sighed softly, leaned into Angela's ear and said in a subtle voice: "If that's the case, Lindsay must would be happy."

Angela frowned suddenly and looked at Jessica with questioning eyes, while Jessica shrugged slightly and returned a look of "you know", Angela immediately understood, yes, she knew, of course I know.

"Slow down, don't eat too much in one bite, or I won't even let you finish this!" The girl rubbed the little guy's head half-threateningly and half-sympathetically.How about taking custody and custody of her over?Angela thought this way, anyway, there are already two more girls in the family, and one more is not too much, it's just...

A group of people walked into the restaurant at this time, and when they saw Angela, the fat guy with slightly bald forehead began to say hello from afar: "Hey, look who's there, Angie, how are you?"

"Wow, it's really rare that you will appear here together." Angela stood up with a smile, and John Lasseter, Ed Cam, Andrew Stanton, and Chris Taylor who came over " Executives" shook hands in turn, and then introduced their friends to them. After exchanging pleasantries, several people pulled up chairs and sat down at the round table.

"In fact, we often appear in restaurants together, so it's really rare for you to appear here." Lasseter said jokingly, spreading his hands after sitting down.

"I know, so I'm here, right?" Angela curled her lips and changed the subject, "How is the production progress of "Toy Story 2"? I heard that you plan to release it at the end of the year?"

"If you're willing to participate in the production, we can definitely advance," Lasseter said dissatisfied, "Ed told me that you have a director project that will start soon, God, if you remember that you promised to Voiced by Cowgirl Jesse. You released us once last year, are you going to continue this year? Heck, the boss released his own company."

"Hey hey, John, last year it was an accident, it was an accident, okay?" Angela raised her hands, "There will definitely be no accidents this year, even though my director's work is very heavy, I can still use the dubbing during the summer vacation, can't I?"

"Summer vacation? Sorry, we decided to release it during the summer vacation, like

Like the first one," Lasseter spread his hands helplessly, "and there are several animations in preparation, ready to start production at any time. "

"Several animations are in preparation?" Angela frowned immediately, "Sorry, did I hear something wrong?"

"No, you heard me right, that's true." Lasseter took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose helplessly, "After all, although the animation department is doing well now, the profit it gets is even worse than that of the game department. Not to mention compared with the film department."

"Wait! Wait!" Angela waved her hands and grabbed the air forcefully, pointing at Lasseter and looking at Ed and the others: "Can you tell me—is this John Lasseter? Are you sure?" Isn't this a devil in John Lasseter's skin sitting here?"

She stood up suddenly, put her hands on the round table and looked at the few people in front of her with her brows twisted into ropes: "Are you sure this is Pixar's animation department and not somewhere else?! Tell me, your original goal of animation What is it?! What is the concept?! Who said that we should keep improving and produce animations that adults and children like?! And why should I separate the film department?! Could it be that all I did was for nothing?!"

After the questioning in the torrential rain ended, the restaurant became quiet. Everyone looked at this side with surprised eyes, and Lasseter seemed to be stunned as he leaned back.However, he reacted immediately, and smiled, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers in front of Andrew and Chris, then swung his index finger and middle finger back and forth.

And Andrew and Chris both lamented, took out their wallets and each took out 20 dollars and handed them to Lasseter.Watching all this, Angela opened her mouth and turned her head from left to right. How could she not understand what happened in this situation? After wailing, she simply sat down and hugged her head.

Crackling applause rang out at this time, but Angela, who was complaining, sounded more like encouraging another one after watching the excitement, so she immediately raised her head and glared at the chubby instigator in front of her.

"Come on, I just wanted to make a joke, but the two of them had different opinions, so it became..." Lasseter spread his hands with a smile, and pulled Andrew and Chris into the water very unkindly .

"I don't know anything, and I didn't participate in anything." Ed also quickly cleared himself.

"We were just joking, and we just wanted to be joking." Andrew and Chris defended themselves at the same time.

The law never blames the crowd, and now Angela is still alone - her two allies have just come back to it at this time and are giggling.So she can only shrug her shoulders helplessly and express that she doesn't care. Speaking of which, she was deceived so easily...Is it because she is an idealist?Fortunately, the ending wasn't too bad.

After the atmosphere was restored, it was natural to talk about some work matters. Although Ed didn't say it clearly, the important people in these companies knew that Angela would make big moves next.

However, since Angela decided to keep it secret until before the boot, she would definitely not say anything more before this time, so she chatted for a while and got around to the dubbing, and then she simply pulled Jessica and Lindsay over.

"Well, if you're worried that I'll release pigeons again, what about them?" Angela said, looking at Jessica and Lindsay, and after thinking for a few seconds, she pushed Lindsay aside: "This won't work, Too young."

"You can't do this, it's age discrimination!" Lindsay protested loudly, and her cheeky tone made several people around chuckle.

Angela ignored her, and grabbed Jessica's shoulders with both hands as if selling goods and said: "Jessie's voice is very nice, and she will definitely not lose to anyone. As long as you hear it, you will definitely fall in love with her. It is crisp, melodious and magnetic. And there’s no need to change batteries!”

"I'm sure you're talking about a radio called Jess, aren't you?" Jessica said helplessly, making Lasseter and the others laugh again.

The animation department is still advancing according to the inherent rhythm, striving for excellence in the production of each animation.The development of the game department surprised Angela a little.

"The Battle.net of "Warcraft" will be launched this year, and "Warcraft 2" has already begun preparations," Chris Taylor roughly introduced, "But I am no longer in charge of this game, Jeff Stein Now in charge, honestly he's doing a really good job with a lot of great ideas on the game."

"What about you?" Angela asked curiously. Although the game department was preserved and developed under her intervention, after the establishment of the film department, she seldom asked about things here.

"I'm planning another new sci-fi RTS game, the background is set in the future universe," said Chris, who seemed excited, "I have conceived of this game a long time ago but never Putting it into action, after several years of modification and the development of computer hardware, I can definitely make a classic RTS game."

After a pause, he joked again: "If it hadn't been decided a long time ago, maybe I would participate in the production of that ARPG "The Matrix" game, you know, the 'gun fighting technique' you proposed ’ concept is really a good fit for a game.”

"Thank you for the compliment." Angela stuck out her tongue in her stomach.It never occurred to them that they had already started preparing to make a game version of "The Matrix", and the action was really fast.But thinking about how Lucas's "Star Wars" can be made into a game, I'm relieved. I just don't know what will be made with "The Matrix" with "Gun Fighting" and Pixar's current technology accumulation in games. So, is it a sci-fi version of "Devil May Cry" or a brand new game?

The afternoon passed without knowing it. After coming out of the restaurant, Angela took Jessica and Lindsay to visit other places before embarking on the return journey, but before leaving——

"John, Ed, maintaining a childlike innocence is the most beautiful and attractive part of Pixar's animation. I don't want this beautiful thing to disappear because of the appearance of the film department. I said at the beginning that if it affects the animation department I would rather not have a film department, and this view has not changed. I know that the films I direct are too heavy and depressing, and the animators have different ideas, but it is precisely this that requires them to produce better, better and warmer works. No one can Saying that the movies I made are the best, but the best computer animation must be produced by Pixar." Angela said this to the two who sent herself away.

"Don't worry, Angie, the philosophy we adhere to is not so easy to change, and it's better to have competition," Lasseter and Ed patted her on the shoulder respectively, "As you said, let Pixar's animation be the best. Great!"

"It can be seen that you like them very much." Jessica said suddenly after the car drove onto the highway.

"Of course, remember what I told you before, if I didn't have something I have to do, maybe I would come here to be an animator." Angela shrugged and then looked out of the car window with a smile, " Wait and see, as long as they don't change, Pixar's computer animation will be the best."

"So can you tell us now, what is your plan they said?" Lindsay's voice sounded out of place at this time, and at the same time she raised her little buttocks and sat on Angela's lap to hug her intimately her waist.

Angela rubbed Xiao Hai's head helplessly, looked at Jessica who was staring at her curiously, and shook her head: "Sorry, I can't reveal anything more now, because a 19-year-old woman does this It’s really a little shocking.”

"Really? Is there anything more shocking than being nominated for an Oscar for Best Director at the age of 18?" Lindsay blinked, and in her opinion, this was an excuse.

"This is a commercial secret!" Angela looked down at the little girl viciously, rubbed her head again, and then said: "Okay, everyone will know by the end of next month at the most."

The car quickly returned to Los Angeles, and the first thing it did was to send Lindsay home.

"Goodbye, it's a pleasure to go out with you today, Angie." Lindsay, who stepped out of the car with one foot, turned her head and said goodbye.

"Me too," Angela smiled and kissed her forehead, "Remember to practice guitar, we agreed."

"Know-know-" Lindsay dragged out her voice.

"Then goodbye, and say hello to Ellie for me." After a pause, Angela said her name.

A gloomy look flashed in Lindsay's eyes, she suddenly turned around and threw herself into Angela's arms, closed her eyes and hugged her tightly, that nostalgic feeling gushed out without reservation, for a moment It made Angela a little overwhelmed.

A few seconds later, Lindsay raised her head, touched Angela's lips lightly with her lips, then turned around and quickly ran into the small yard of her house.After Angela touched her lips in a daze, she sighed and closed the car door to signal to drive away.

"It looks like Lindsay has fallen in love with you just like me." Jessica teased in Angela's ear in a subtle voice.

"Jessie!" Angela immediately glared at her.

"Okay, I'm joking," Jessica sat up straight and put away her smile, "I just want to say that Lindsay is really, really attached to you now."

"Tell me the specifics." Angela frowned.

"It's the same as before, no, it's worse," Jessica shook her head with disgust and disdain, "Although Mr. Lohan was not very successful in quitting alcohol before, at least he was willing to quit drinking. But now he not only drinks heavily but also often Gambling, Lindsay also said that she saw her father taking drugs a few times, God! And Mrs. Lohan, she cares about Lindsay's money much more than her daughter. You know, since Lindsay took over There are much fewer advertisements than before, and I made an appointment with you and spent a lot of time on musical instruments and singing..."

hateful!Angela pinched her fingers a little angrily, and at the same time a little annoyed.After going to the east coast, I started to ignore the things here, and now Jessie actually wants to remind herself that even if she has something to be busy, she shouldn't... Only now did she understand why the little girl always avoided looking at her.

We must find a way to solve this matter.Angela said silently in her heart.