Wang Kuo and the others didn't know what they were going to do until they got on the plane.

I heard that the film crew who wanted to enter Hollywood would provide some help to the prop team, and several students were a little unsure.

"Teacher Yu, we don't know much about props either," Li Huixiang said anxiously.

Several other students also looked at Yu Dong, because Li Huixiang asked what they wanted to ask.

Before Yu Dong could answer, Liu Changmin spoke first: "You can learn if you don't understand, but you must have confidence before doing anything. Since the school has chosen you, it must have our reasons. You must first believe in yourself, and in addition, you must

believe us."

"Teacher Liu, we are mainly afraid of holding you back," Wang Jin said.

Yu Dong said with a smile, "It's okay. This time, the main thing is to study. In addition, the work is not difficult. You can draw whatever I say. I believe you still have these basic skills."

After hearing what Yu Dong said, they felt a little relieved.

"By the way, Teacher Yu, do you think there will be many readers coming to pick you up when you arrive this time? I heard that big foreign stars are picked up wherever they go."

The only girl on this trip, Lin Ke, who majored in fine arts, asked curiously. She had followed some foreign news and knew that movie fans from abroad were picking up the plane.

"There were people who picked up, but they were all Universal Pictures staff," Yu Dong said.

Hearing Yu Dong's words, the students were slightly disappointed. They had not seen the airport pick-up scene yet.

In fact, Jimmy and Yu Dong discussed the airport pick-up matter.

Yu Dong and Jimmy have very different ideas on this matter. Jimmy's idea is to maintain a sense of mystery while ensuring exposure.

Mystery and exposure may sound contradictory, but Jimmy believes that these can be achieved at the same time. To ensure exposure, as long as there is regular news about Yu Dong, so that the public can often see him, hear about him, and never forget him.

He is everywhere in life. To maintain a sense of mystery, Yu Dong should accept as few interviews as possible, talk as little as possible, and maintain a cold attitude as a writer.

It's just that Yu Dong feels that no matter what Jimmy does with the promotion of his work, the promotion of his personal life should be minimized. After all, he is still a writer, not a film and television star, and he does not want to sacrifice his privacy.

Therefore, Jimmy did not arrange for book fans to come over for this airport pick-up.

Jimmy was originally planning to mobilize the members of the book club to pick him up at the airport to make the noise bigger and create more hype.

This was easy to do, and the members of the book club were eager to pick her up at the airport. No one had ever seen what YU looked like.

…

When the group arrived in California, the sun had just set.

Jimmy came with the Universal staff. Although he hired a translator, this was the first time they met, and Jimmy still acted as the translator.

And when it comes to Chinese-American bilingualism, there are few in the entire United States who can match Jimmy. With him around, translation will naturally have to take a back seat.

"Everyone is tired from the journey. Come with me to the hotel first. Drinks are ready for you. My name is Jimmy, and my Chinese name is also Jimmy. You can call me Jimmy or Mr. Ji."

Jimmy gave himself a Chinese name, surname Ji and first name Mi.

He is very satisfied with his Chinese name, which bodes well.

In fact, he also gave himself another Chinese name, Yu Dadong, with a big character in the middle of Yu Dong's name. He was very obsessed with bigness.

However, the name Yu Dadong was strongly opposed by Yu Dong.

Of course, Yu Dong also gave Jimmy a Chinese name, Jixiang, which would have a better omen, but the name Jixiang was strongly opposed by Jimmy himself.

After Jimmy expressed his objection, Yu Dong sighed: What a good name.

If I had met Jimmy earlier and given him this offer when he first arrived in China, I am afraid he would have accepted it.

Liu Changmin had known Jimmy for a long time and was not surprised at all by his authentic Chinese. On the contrary, several students felt as if they had seen a ghost when they heard Jimmy speak Chinese.

In fact, Wang Jin and the others have also met Jimmy. After all, Jimmy often hangs around Jinyi, but they have never spoken to him.

"Mr. Ji, hello, hello."

Several students worked hard to make their Mandarin standard and did not want to embarrass themselves in front of Jimmy, a foreigner.

Liu Changmin laughed and said: "He often travels to Jinling now, and his accent has changed a lot. Before, he was an authentic Beijing movie actor."

…

Jimmy took Yu Dong and others to have dinner first, and then let them go to the room to sleep.

"I know some of you must have already slept on the plane, but you must sleep now and try to reverse the jet lag. We will go directly to Universal City tomorrow."

Universal Pictures' production is in California, while distribution and administration are in New York. Yu Dong's main work is still carried out at the studio. After the props work is completed, they will go to New York to carry out promotional activities.

After Liu Changmin took the students to bed, Jimmy went to Yu Dong's room.

They definitely still have a lot of time to connect before work can begin.

"How does it feel to be in the United States for the first time?"

Yu Dong smiled and said, "It will take a few days for you to answer this question."

Jimmy was already used to Dong's calmness. He didn't know why. Yu Dong had never been abroad, but after arriving in Los Angeles, there was no surprise on his face at all.

China is still in the initial stage of development and is very backward everywhere. Even cities like Shanghai and Jinling are completely incomparable to the scene in Los Angeles. Sometimes it feels like two different worlds.

Although Liu Changmin and the others tried their best to maintain it, surprise and envy could still be seen on their faces.

Maybe Yu Dong was born with a big heart.

"Spielberg asked me to apologize to you. He was supposed to come to see you tonight, but he couldn't come because he had a lot of work to do. In fact, the workload is still very heavy when you come here this time, Spielberg.

Berg's team tried to design some props, but he was not satisfied with most of them. So the props that have been made may be overturned and redone."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It doesn't matter, we are here to solve the problem."

"Well, I believe you, but you still have to be mentally prepared. Spielberg is usually easy to talk to, but he has very high demands on his work. Moreover, it seems that it is not easy for us to use their artists now.

, so the students you brought this time can’t just watch from the sidelines.”

Yu Dong nodded, indicating that he understood. Jimmy later had a detailed discussion with Universal Pictures about the patent for the appearance of the props. In addition to Universal Pictures' own film and television peripherals, an additional appearance patent contract was attached.

The content of the contract shows that once the props designed by Yu Dong and his team apply for a design patent, the patent rights will be enjoyed by Deep Space Company. In addition to the peripherals later sold by Universal Pictures, other individuals or units want to use this design patent.

A Deep Space Corporation licensing fee needs to be paid.

In other words, the appearance patent of the prop belongs to Deep Space Company, but it has been authorized to Universal Pictures in advance. They can use it, but they cannot sell the patent authorization.

In fact, this essentially doesn't have much impact on Universal Pictures. The commercial value of props to them is mainly peripheral products. Now that they have the authorization for peripheral products, they naturally don't care about other things.

Not all props can apply for appearance patents, and the possibility of other units using the patent is probably not high.

However, the appearance patent belongs to Deep Space Company, and Universal will probably not be too active.

Yu Dong didn't care. As for designing props, Liu Changmin and a few students would be enough.

…

Early the next morning, Jimmy took Yu Dong and the others to Universal City.

They met Spielberg in the props studio.

Without Jimmy's introduction, Yu Dong recognized Spielberg at a glance, and similarly, Spielberg recognized Yu Dong at a glance.

"YU, welcome to your arrival."

Just as Yu Dong was about to reach out, Spielberg hugged him enthusiastically.

Spielberg was not very tall, so he had to use his feet to hold Dong's shoulders with one hand. He probably felt that this position was awkward, so he hugged him for a while and then let go.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time." Spielberg smiled.

Although Yu Dong could hear Spielberg's words, Jimmy still ran over to translate for them.

No matter how down-to-earth the conversation is, once a translator intervenes, it will immediately become formal. Perhaps because of this, Spielberg didn't want to waste time and immediately got down to business and asked Yu Dong if he could get into work immediately.

.

"There is no problem at all on our side." Yu Dong smiled.

After listening to Jimmy's translation, Spielberg smiled and said: "Then let's get started."

Spielberg was not sloppy at all in doing things, and he was already moving forward as he spoke.

Everyone came to a long table. There were many manuscripts on the table, some neatly folded and placed aside, while others were scattered randomly on the table.

Spielberg picked up three pictures and handed them to Yu Dong, "We tried to design mobile phones. This one is the most mature, but I still feel that something is missing."

Yu Dong took the manuscript and read it. The three pieces of paper drew the front, back, and sides of the mobile phone respectively, and also marked the dimensions.

Speaking of which, this phone has a very high-tech feel, with a full screen, no borders, a length of 27.6 cm, a width of 9.56 cm, and a thickness of only 3 mm.

This size is not like a mobile phone, but more like a tablet.

"This is just a simplified diagram. We imagine that special metal materials will be used on the back to facilitate heat dissipation."

Yu Dong smiled and nodded, "It's pretty good."

Jimmy translated Yu Dong's words to Spielberg, who was a little disappointed. What he wanted to hear more was "this is not good" and "there is a better plan".

However, Jimmy didn't react at all. He understood Yu Dong. Yu Dong said this, which means that the thing designed by Spielberg and others is simply not working.

Sure enough, Yu Dong continued, "Director Spielberg, I think your ideas may be somewhat solidified. Although I did not describe the appearance of the mobile phone in detail in the novel, it can be seen from some details that not everyone uses it.

All mobile phones are the same. So if we want to create a decent near-future world, we must first work on the types of mobile phones.”
To be continued...