Hotspot 1:
According to lotus officials, the brand officially released its first pure electric SUV model - ELETRE on March 29 at 19:30 London time. It is also understood that the new car is expected to be officially put into operation in the Wuhan intelligent factory in the second half of this year.
Hotspot 2:
In 2021, Great Wall Motors shouted out: by 2025, sales will exceed 4 million, of which 80% will be new energy vehicles, with revenue of more than 600 billion yuan. On March 29, Great Wall Motor released its 2021 financial report. Operating income of 136.4 billion yuan, an increase of 32.04% year-on-year, and net profit of 6.73 billion yuan, an increase of 25.41% year-on-year. The two most important indicators, revenue and net profit, Great Wall Motors have done well. However, there is still a big gap from achieving the goal of "revenue breaking 600 billion yuan and sales breaking 4 million".
Hotspot 3:
On the evening of March 27, local time, the 94th Academy Awards ceremony opened in Los Angeles. The Oscars have developed to today, coupled with the film and television winter brought by the epidemic, last year's ratings were even less than half of the previous ones... Unexpectedly, this year's Oscar ceremony was unexpectedly out of the circle! The reason for all this is that the movie emperor - Will Smith came to the stage and beat people!
Big and small horses talk about science and technology, use poisonous and spicy perspectives, and talk about science and technology hotspots.
Talk about three cars and tech hotspots a week, I'm Egg Puree, I'm David, I'm Electric Emma.
Egg puree:
Okay, so let's talk about the first topic first, Lotus electric SUV Eletre released, buy? In fact, this news estimates that many people do not think it is a big hot spot, but we think that there is actually a lot of material to dig, because lotus is a brand that was previously translated as Lotus, which can be said to be this kind of aristocrat called decline.
I think that this Lotus was called the world's three major sports car brands together with Porsche and Ferrari, and it was also the royal car of the 007.
Emma：
That car was later taken in by Musk.
Then won eighty-one F1 Grand Prix. But over the years, the Lotus brand is definitely far worse than Porsche Ferrari. Many people say that Lotus's sports car genes are actually purer than any other, but this time he sent an electric SUV Eletre.
And the founder of Lotus is called Colin Chapman, he was actually admired of this Lotus sports car lightweight, the result of this new car is SUV Eletre, directly estimated the weight of more than two tons, is the heaviest car of Lotus. Then I saw foreign car critics say that as soon as Lotus was taken over by Geely, they all made Kling Chapman angry that he wanted to lift the coffin lid to find Li Shufu to settle the account.
David:
If a fallen noble marries a local tycoon boss in the East, you have no right to speak.
Yes, I don't know how you feel when you see this new Lotus car?
My first impression was that the front face of the car looked too much like a Lamborghini Urus. Low-end version of Urus This really is, you look too much alike.
It is said that the side face looks like extreme krypton 001.
A little bit, a little bit indeed.
It was these before Lotus, and I still used to call it Lotus... Because this Lotus sports car in my childhood that impression, whether it is watching European and American dramas or Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas, everyone says Lotus this car, you have a very high-level feeling, you say Lotus feels a lot of low-end at once. Just like when I was a child, I heard Toyota's big SUV called Toyota Overlord, and later translated as Land Cruiser, you think this name, that what is it, it is not overbearing.
Yes, Lotus actually has lightweight sports cars, positioned at the same level as the Porsche 718, but it would be cool in design. So in fact, I think that in the play car, this is a relatively niche category. It's not that kind of heavy sports car, not the kind of heavy sports car like lamborghini and Ferrari. So once I watched a video of A Lotus driving and then crashing into a pole, and the whole car fell to pieces, just shattered.
In fact, what David just said is that Lotus is represented by a sports car. If you are not so familiar with it, in fact, Tesla's first car, the Roadster, is based on Lotus or Lotus's Elise, and then developed on it. I actually had the opportunity to drive before, Uncle Tat, his Roadster is quite handsome, very handsome from the outside, but when it is driven, it is indeed not so easy to drive anyway, but it is a very memorable car.
You don't understand, I think this is a lotus car it is a very representative place, it drives up if you are an ordinary driver, you think it is not easy to drive, but a pure car play, you will feel that it feels like a large version of the kart, is a pure sense of racing, it and Porsche's comprehensive strength of what power, control, comfort, luxury are both, is not the same number of roads.
To the running track.
It was on this sports car called Emira, and then just started to watch it this promotional video, think wow, this car looks too much like a Lamborghini, the result of a check price of 800,000, buy! Too cheap.
Yes, the track Emma just said is indeed what Lotus is good at. And even in fact, when Lotus was preparing to build a headquarters in Wuhan, Li Shufu also proposed a concept called "track-level intelligent driving", which I think is quite funny. He said that within ten years, as long as you have a driver's license, you can win the F1 championship with the assistance of Lotus intelligent driving, which is very exciting and funny.
I saw the car reviewer on YouTube called Carwow, and he commented on the car and said a particularly funny sentence, saying "The car is designed in Coventry England with heritage and produced in Wuhan", which was particularly funny, and then I said this car was made in Wuhan.
In fact, this car is an SUV, and it will be called Type132 in 2022, and then it will be out of this kind of coupe after the next 2023, 2025, and 2026, which is what it plans. So the SUV is equivalent to what I feel is a bit of a test, and it will still insist on doing that sports car later.
Yes, but I'm sure I think that taste will change, because who is your dad, in fact, I think it will affect your entire brand and the whole model. I've been watching lately, in the late '90s, that Rolls-Royce and that Bentley were actually positioned as super luxury cars. But you'll find out by now that Rolls-Royce is getting more and more expensive it sells, but Bentley it's getting cheaper and cheaper. One of the important reasons for this is because they sold to different companies, Volkswagen acquired Bentley, and then BMW acquired Rolls-Royce, which was originally very good at luxury brands, so it let Rolls-Royce you stick to the positioning of that super luxury, and then every year it will engage in four or five thousand units, insisting on pure British hand-made, all kinds of customization, and then the price is naturally high. But Volkswagen it is different, it does not require Bentley to play a big card, you can sell well, and then it will break through 10,000 units in that year, so the gap between the two on the currency grid will be opened. So I think it's actually quite important who your dad is.
So can I speculate: after Dad is Geely, then Lotus will sell cheaper and cheaper?
It should be felt that this supercar is only more than 800,000.
Yes, at least there will be cheaper models. There are definitely more sellers.
The first domestic supercar I came into contact with when I was a child was called the Beauty Leopard, and this was to overturn my impression of the sports car, that feeling, a sports car at a glance, all your fantasies about sports cars, that fantasy shattered to the ground. Really.
But at least one advantage, that is, before Geely took over Lotus, in fact, Lotus has not pushed a new model for almost ten years, in fact, the investment in research and development is very insufficient. But Geely has already produced several models since taking over, right, that is, Evija, then Emira, and then including this Eletre out of this time.
I also looked up this SUV Eletre it spelled ELETRE. According to Lotus, it's actually Hungarian, a bit of the word "birth." And then at the same time it can also mean "electricity" in Portuguese. Because it is also the first pure electric SUV, the name is not so easy to remember, but it is still quite meaningful.
This adds drama to itself.
This can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. Right.
Yes, in fact, I checked Lotus, and it later in this context everyone knows that in 2017 Geely Group acquired 51% of the shares of Lotus Group. Then later it opened a smart factory or something in Wuhan.
So I think there's one thing that's quite interesting. At the end of August 2021, in fact, I recently did an episode of the video of NIO Capital, NIO capital at the end of August 2021 it also invested in Lotus, which is quite funny, in fact, not only Geely's capital has been injected into Lotus, but even Weilai has actually injected. Then there is another point that is very interesting, there is a small gossip, I actually analyzed before, WEILai Capital why it invested in this Lotus. Because originally Weilai wanted to build a factory in Wuhan, and Weilai Capital and the Wuhan Municipal Government had to build a 10 billion fund, but then because that Weilai it was not in 2018, the capital flow what sold the car, anyway, the loss of tens of billions, the reputation is not good.
Later, the Wuhan thing was cold, fortunately Hefei saved it, but I feel that Weilai did not completely abandon the base of Wuhan, right? It is equivalent to that although it cannot be built in Wuhan and in the aspect of Weilai Automobile, it is equivalent to having some connections with Wuhan in terms of capital, through Lotus, and then there are some associations in Wuhan, which is quite interesting.
This car I look at on its spec writes it has 34 sensors.
David is here!
And then there's two NVIDIA Orin chips that we talked about in the last episode, four lidars. I'm thinking, you're a sports car, why are you putting so much of this stuff? Do you understand? Like we talked about the show before, I think of a sports car brand, it has to keep its own genes, this dynamic look.
In fact, intelligent driving and sports cars I don't think there is a positive correlation in the middle, but after you put it on, I feel a little chicken ribs. Then what makes me even more incredible is that its four radars use two suppliers, namely the two most leading lidar suppliers in China, one is Sagitar in Shenzhen, and the other is Hesai in Shanghai. Then after the car came out that day, I saw that the sales of the two companies were posting this same advertisement in the circle of friends. I was thinking about how this was going on.
So what is this logic of it? Why split into two companies?
The main radar it uses Hesai' radar, and then the radar that makes up for the blindness uses the Sagitar M 1, but I think this is also unfair to the Sagitar radar, because sagittarius radar claims that the indicators are very good, it is the material for the main radar, how to give people a radar to make up for the blindness?
Yes, Hesai is actually the two radars on the front and rear of the roof, and then Sagitar is the two radars on both sides of the car, on the tires.
And the radar on its tire is with a small door, which can be turned on.
Yes, I look at Sagitar's public relations draft is also very interesting, said that it is precisely because the position of the two lidars placed on the tires is actually more tested, because it is easy to say that small stones are up, and then the wind and rain are mixed, so it chose Sagitar Polytron, which is more durable, and then I feel that the two lidars on the top of this hesai have been offended.
The main radar above it didn't look like that bang this time, but made a look like turning on the headlights, and it could flip up on its own.
We've talked about this design before, what's the problem with this design? It is the lidar that we have to do very accurately when doing external reference calibration, and its several radars and cameras, images and lidar point clouds can match the tight seams. But it opens like this, and I think it may not reach the accuracy required by the external reference in the long run. Let me give you an example, maybe you turn it on 100 times, and finally when you turn on the radar again, you can't go back to the original initial calibration position. So I think this may be in practice to solve this problem, it may introduce an automated calibration thing. When the car is driven, its various sensors can re-mark this sensor according to the feature points, otherwise it will run away while running.
So what do you think is the biggest selling point of this car?
It's Lotus.
Lotus's SUV is a purely electric pair.
If this car is replaced by Geely's Lynk & Co...
Yes, I feel that the first point is that it is a car that I estimate will definitely sell for more than a million. Then more than a million words, like all kinds of configurations have been completed, right, lidar gives you four, anyway, not bad money, all for you to shake. The second point is that it is indeed designed to look good. The various holes in its car are also what Lotus is good at, for example, its founder also said: There is nothing lighter than setting a hole, right?
So when I watched the car review, the car reviewer took a drum stick and poked it, just to tell you that it was permeable, this, this is transparent.
It's all holes, and it's actually a design language, which I think is also very handsome. Anyway, I think the first one is that all the configurations are given to you, and the second design is indeed very unique. Although we just said that it is very similar to the Lamborghini, and then the side is very similar to this extreme Krypton 001, but it is true that if you look closely at the various holes and what, you can see at a glance that it is a very high-level Lotus. Yes, I see that Dong buys and buys another one.
How to buy and buy everything for Dong, is your industry so profitable?
Dong buys and buys more profitably.
That day, I saw netizens leave a message for the egg paste, saying that the egg puree bought model Y again, bought the Taycan, and then there was EQS, egg paste, what do you do.
No. Let me clarify: I actually only have one Model Y right now.
Or bought before the price increase.
Yes or before the price increase, EQS is the business order we gave, but we have not bought it, unfortunately. Then Taycan is ready to save money, and is also ready to buy used. This is actually not as much as you think you earn.
OK Then let's talk about the second topic: Great Wall Motors made 6.7 billion yuan, still afraid of BYD? This is actually the great wall motor two days ago issued its annual report, in fact, I think the annual report of this number is not bad.
You see, for example, its net profit of 67 billion, that is, we just said that the big profit of 67 billion. Then it sold 1.28 million vehicles, that is, the whole year of 2021, with sales of 1.28 million vehicles, which is actually a little higher than the previous year's 2020 words, which was more than 1.1 million vehicles the year before.
That's right, that's more than 15 percent. Right.
But its flag is too high to complete its own indicators.
What David said makes sense, that is, its stock price fell sharply after the annual report. The first point that David just said is that the flag is too high, because in the middle of last year, it set a strategic goal for 2025, that is, to achieve annual sales of 4 million vehicles, new energy vehicles accounted for 80%, and then operating income of 600 billion, but in fact, its completion is still a lot worse. I also roughly calculated that it sold 1.28 million vehicles last year, and sold 137,000 new energy vehicles, which actually accounted for only 10.7%, which is still too far away from the 80% it did.
Then BYD's new energy accounted for 80%.
Yes, 81% is right, let's compare, 10.7% and 81% are actually very far apart. Then we look at the income, its income is also very poor or very far, it wants to earn 600 billion, but in fact it is only 1364 billion, which is 23% of this target.
The new energy sales of the Great Wall just now we said 10.7%, which is already higher than the 7.5% sales of Geely New Energy that we talked about in the first topic. But compared to it, this goal is still far from it.
And its gross profit is not high, the gross profit is 16 points, of course, there is still a certain gap with the domestic ratio, and the gross profit ratio of Tesla is even more large.
So everyone thinks that the first point is that it is still too far away from the previous flag.
And then the second point I think is a very funny thing, that is, there are five major brands under the Great Wall, Harvard, Weipai, Euler, Tank, and the Great Wall pickup truck.
And then after that it's going to do that salon, and we've talked about the mech dragon before, don't talk about four or less, lidar. That Lotus could speak this time.
I think the more embarrassing point is that the average bicycle price of the Great Wall and its entire company is just 106,000 yuan. It has always wanted to do this kind of brand exploration, and wants to make the average car price go up. So it actually spares no effort, using the name of its own boss Wei Jianjun, right.
In fact, Wei Pai is to impact this high-end market of new energy vehicles. But as a result, Wei Pai's sales decline last year was quite serious, but it was the tank brand that came out of Wei Pai's list, and the sound volume was not bad.
It hurt the boss's heart so much.
It hurts the boss's heart too much, and their brand wants to move up, make a relatively high-end brand, and find this Huawei princess to shoot that advertisement, that is, mocha and cappuccino. Then I thought it was funny when I saw the name.
What is the name of it "Weipai Machiduo", and what is also "Weipai Latte", right?
Anyway, I don't remember the name, it's the pile of coffee.
These two words alone feel that the contrast is quite strong, right, Weipai Mocha, Weipai latte, feel that one is a tough guy right - Wei Pai, and then one is the category of coffee.
I think of the big lady in Chow Sing Chi kung fu movie "I am a farmer", what are you doing with me with so many names?
Anyway, the Great Wall is quite distinctive, that is, it has engaged in a bunch of brands, and its entire organizational structure is actually called "one car, one brand, one company". In fact, for example, Euler, for women's electric vehicles, in fact, Emma also went to Euler to cooperate with them before, how did you feel at the time?
I think there is a very powerful place about the Great Wall, that is, you can see that it has built models that both macho men and girls like.
These two waves of riders should get together.
Tank 300 These are all likes of tough guys, and then Euler's punk cats, black cats, and white cats are typical little girls like.
I was just starting out when Euler asked me to do a workshop on what to co-create models. Originally, I thought it was a particularly boring kind of old cadre meeting, but what I never expected was actually the car company activity that made me feel the most surprised in addition to the Tesla conference.
There are two points: the first is that the guests it is looking for are girls, and they are all relatively young, and then it is completely different from the kind that the car companies have found in the past, and the careers of these girls are also particularly interesting, there are film critics, there are car players, there are entrepreneurs, and then everyone is from different angles to talk about what should happen if there is a car for women. There is one point that I am particularly impressed with, there is a little sister, she said that the commuting time is not very long, and then the girl is in the car, whether you are driving or sitting in the car, in fact, it is very boring, then at this time, if the air outlet of the air conditioner can come out with collagen on the whole, spray some steam out, let us apply a mask by the way, and make a SPA for the hair So that the effect will be particularly good.
I felt very fanciful at the time, and it also made me see some new possibilities in the automotive industry. What I didn't expect was that the Great Wall hatched another sub-brand inside it, and then it was completely different from its DNA. From its whole campaign to its head of the Euler brand, their designers, you can feel that they are very young and a new generation of Automakers in China.
It makes me feel like these different brands under the Great Wall are a bit like the clubs in the university.
It's a little bit of that feeling.
What is the macho boy group, what is the little sister group, I feel very suitable to do a friendship or something, that's it.
Tank 300's user base and Euler come together.
But we have to say that Euler is actually doing a good job of this brand, in addition to the previous chip door pair, there is also said that it is like a beetle, right. If you pay tribute to the problem, but it really sells well.
Tank 300 pays homage to the Mercedes Grand G.
Euler sold 135,000 units last year, more than double the previous year's 56,000 units.
And all kinds of cars on the road, you are going to notice its models.
There are characteristics, and the return rate is still quite high.
In fact, I first learned about the Great Wall brand, when I was not old, I saw that the Great Wall sponsored the Dakar Rally team, that is, the first time China had its own fully autonomous team to go to the Dakar Rally, I was quite excited at the time, because the Rally is indeed an extreme environment, relatively bad. At that time, the international mainstream teams were all using Japanese and European and American cars, and China had its own model for the first time, and at that time, it felt that this car was really leather.
Now the Haval brand sold by the Great Wall is still its main force, but its growth is not so obvious, and its subsequent growth pole is actually mainly based on a female brand Euler that we just said, and the other is its tank 300 and tank 500.
In fact, I think the Great Wall is still quite good at playing, for example, the tank is engaged in this kind of cyberpunk modification, right, in fact, tough guys prefer to change back and forth. Although Euler is now black cat, white cat does not take new orders, but its voice has come out, at least in the heart of the little sister, there is already Euler such a female electric vehicle brand. I think this is also the power to be made after the Great Wall.
Yes, and if we look at the growth points of the Geely Great Wall and BYD, there is a very interesting one, Geely and the Great Wall actually made a big layout in the aspect of going to sea last year. But the way they go to sea is different. The Great Wall mainly relies on building factories abroad to sell cars, and has built factories in Russia, Thailand and Brazil. Then Geely mainly relies on acquisitions in foreign countries, it also incorporates those into its own, and then BYD's going to sea is mainly by buses, so BYD is different from the other two, it still relies on new energy vehicles to make power, as its growth point.
Yes, Great Wall Motors actually has one more thing that I think is quite interesting. It formed the Ultimate Wisdom Act. Before I also watched the publicity, saying that I was the first place in China's automatic driving mass production, in fact, I also had a lot of cooperation with the US group, and I did that kind of unmanned car.
It is a foundry.
Yes, the design is still done by the US group, is David a direct competitor with your company?
There is a part of competition, there is a part of cooperation, their CEO is my former Baidu direct leader, are one, the relationship is relatively close. And in fact, milli-end, if I remember correctly, it is a combination of several companies, for example, there is the Great Wall's own family of troops, that is, the Great Wall Baoding Automobile Research Institute, and then in Beijing also set up a milli-end, of course, in Shenzhen also, it is actually several branches of the joint establishment of this mill-end wisdom line, in fact, it also has a passenger car section, there is a low-speed section, there is a special ADAS, it is actually doing it up and down, there is a big product matrix.
Anyway, on the one hand, it is to give Great Wall Motors these kits for automatic driving, and then on the other hand, it is to cooperate with meituan and Ali to do this kind of unmanned delivery car. So how do you feel about them at this level?
I feel like they need our help.
Pull a single on the spot, it's time to pick up the work.
This is not a high emotional intelligence answer.
So what services do you need to help provide? Wei Zong.
I think we can help it, whether it's in autonomous driving, from perception to high-precision maps. Of course, we also need its help, that is, in more traditional areas, such as the three electric cars, including the chassis, which I think are what they are better at, so they have their own advantages and disadvantages.
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Okay, so let's move on to a third topic: Will Smith slaps Hollywood awake, and the web series wins.
I think it's the hit hollywood, yes. To be honest, if it wasn't for his slap, I wouldn't have known there was an Oscar now.
Yes, it is true that the Oscars have been declining in ratings from 2014 to the present, and the ratings have fallen very, very badly. When I look at 2014, the ratings were still 43.7 million, and at last year's Oscars, the ratings had fallen below 10 million, and young people were no longer very good at it.
In the past, it was on a par with the Super Bowl, and the American Spring Festival Gala was the Oscar and the Super Bowl. Now the Oscars have reduced their ability to absorb fans, but this slap has brought back 20 million fans.
I saw a statistic that when the United States went down in his slap, less than 1 million people in the United States were watching this Oscar, and after one slap, the number of viewers doubled, and there were many back-ups in the later stage, so it saved this number of plays.
But the data I look at is almost a few million views, but the conclusion is that Will Smith doubled the ratings with this slap anyway. Yes, it feels like big and small horses, do we have to tidy up and slap each other. Spend the whole time.
But in fact, our focus today is not to talk about Will Smith's slap, in fact, I see that many bloggers have finished this hot spot, and even like Bi Dao also wrote a special article, that is, to analyze the strength of the pump, according to this mechanics, I estimate that after that he will also do some videos out.
Yes, and I think foreign netizens are very funny, they said that if it is Dwayne Johnson who jokes about your wife, do you dare to fight?
If Dwayne Johnson had made a joke about Schwarzenegger, I don't know what would have happened to the scene.
That rating is estimated to have more than doubled. Anyway, today's hot spot is that the light can't go in. We mainly want to talk about this web series that has won a big victory. In fact, before the awards, everyone's expectations are relatively high is Netflix, its "Canine Power", in fact, there are 12 nominations, but in the end only one award. Later, we were surprised by Apple TV, which made a movie called "Coda", Chinese named Hearing Girl, which was actually the streaming service provider that won the first Oscar for best picture.
Then it just so happened that Tim Cook was also on the scene, right, and went to the scene, so he was surprised. I don't know if David is this film you have seen.
After watching, I very much recommend that you go to see this auditory girl, which is a very warm, full of family emotions such a drama, and its auditory impact will be very high. Because this film is actually about this family, only this little girl has hearing, so the whole movie is in sign language during the filming process, and then this girl sings very well. Suddenly, as soon as the girl is singing, and then turns back, she and her family are in sign language, and you will have a strong auditory impact that can bring you into the real life of people like us who have hearing impairments. So I like this very much, and because you have to listen very carefully, you can pay more attention to the emotional expression of these words.
In the movie, many times when there is no sound, it is the most tense. So a lot of ghost films will be particularly little sound, like this very little, rarely like this kind of warmer positive film sound is very little.
Yes, it's a bit like when the up master is doing the video, and suddenly the BGM stops, and the point is coming. Yes, the emphasis is drawn, there is an inner taste.
In fact, in recent years, I think streaming media has become more and more important in the Oscars, you see, when the Oscar nominations, Netflix has 27 award nominations, of which "Canine Power" contains 12 nominations. I don't know what you think this streaming will do in the next few years?
In fact, I think it is because of the epidemic that it has to be, because the six major hollywood film companies in the traditional sense have a monopolistic role. In fact, these stars and directors are directly signed with these film companies, but the epidemic can not go because the theater line can not go, then the box office directly fell miserably, but what to do if you want to make a movie? That can only turn to these streaming media, so the streaming media has become the richer financial father now, then you know who has money and who speaks, so you have to tilt to the streaming media.
You see in 19 years, this film is called The Irish Man, Martin Scorsese made, such a cow movie actually did not win the award, so you can imagine, at that time for streaming film, it was actually a kind of discrimination I can't say discriminatory, but biased. But in the past two years, because of network dramas, streaming media have invested more money and filmed more films, so they have to unload their previous prejudices. I think that's a good thing, that's that no one says you have to be a studio to make a movie, right?
Yeah, and that's a particularly good thing for that kind of independent filmmaker. Because there are actually a lot of independent niche and very talented producers in the jianghu. But like David said, if you don't have any background, in fact, you want to rely on big companies and big movie companies to invest in you, and you may not be able to turn these people in the next life, but streaming, what Netflix, Apple, Amazon, they need a lot of original content. So it just feeds this group of independent films that have passion and then a very unique aesthetic.
In fact, online media is equivalent to saying that the venture capital of this industry is like sprinkling sesame seeds, giving you a little sprinkle. You see "Coda," it cost $10 million, which is unthinkable, and the Hollywood Oscar for Best Picture was made for $10 million.
Anyway, I think it's really like sprinkling sesame seeds. Especially this apple, before everyone actually felt that this apple is just a little bit of a day in the money, but did not bet out of one, is better, but the money for a long time, right, it will always come out. And like Apple, it's not just about this movie, it's also about poaching all kinds of people. And the competition with Netflix is actually very hot, such as this to reduce the monthly fee, and then when you buy Apple devices, you will send various Apple TV members or something. Anyway, in recent years, this Apple investment is also particularly large. And now not only Apple but also Netflix, like Amazon, and Disney, Facebook and everything else are participating in this competition.
Apple signed Tom Hanks, in fact, before you can hardly imagine, like Tom Hanks such a big name, signed Tom Hanks to make a movie a year. It was Greyhound, the film about this submarine, and then last year it was Finch, which was about a robot he built and his dog.
Then 2022 should also have a Tom Hanks movie. So in fact, this is a weather vane, like Tom Hanks, a big name, you want people to shoot "Forrest Gump", "Save Private Ryan", this has to fall to what extent to give you the network company to shoot, but he can also put down this kind of figure.
So you see the advent of streaming, which makes the relationship between movies and stars different. I think it also changed the relationship between cinemas and film studios. The previous process was definitely for movies to be put in theaters first, and then turned into DVDs or de-streamed. But now, especially during the pandemic, you'll see that streaming platform that can easily premiere exclusive original content to hundreds of countries in real time, which is a nightmare for theaters.
In fact, if you look at Netflix's divine drama last year called "Squid Game", it is a record. Korean can be made, in fact, for mainstream countries, Korean is a small language, can be launched in 190 countries at the same time. All I can say is that only the power of the network can reach this level.
Yes, I think there is a metaphor that is quite interesting. Then say that Disney Plus or Apple TV is actually like NetEase Cloud Music, and then HBO, Max, Hulu is like QQ music, and then Netflix is more like Douyin, because Netflix is big, right, and you are all customized in different countries, so it feels like although they are called streaming, they are still not on the same track.
Just now Emma said that the previous film distribution model is the investor is the film company, and then the distributor theater, and finally wait until it is a little too much, saying that the first wave of this money is earned, and then it is the turn of the DVD company. In fact, the earliest thing Netflix did was to issue DVDs, or rent DVDs, so in fact, you see the past twenty years of wind and fire, who can think of helping others to distribute DVDs in the company finally overtaking.
I also made a video of Netflix before, and it is very powerful to be able to cut off both arms and then start a new business directly, which is also very forward-looking.
Yes, it is also particularly difficult, equivalent to Kodak not doing film, yes, not doing film to rush to the front line to make mobile phones, it is too difficult.
David, you are a more senior user of streaming media, and then do you have any films, in addition to what we just said like "Coda", and Netflix's "Canine Power", there are any other films you can recommend to everyone.
This is a good question, in fact, I see it more complicated. There are a lot of dramas on Netflix that I like, in fact, they are all this kind of documentary, which is a documentary. Including that I have a friend who said David you raise funds, you go to see a movie, that movie that girl is terrible, took a blood test in Silicon Valley, fooled the US secretary of state, I said that the one you are talking about is not called "Bad Blood".
So in fact, Netflix can make a lot of such documentaries, and then I think the impact is very strong, and it actually doesn't care much about anyone, you say I will say me, including you see Netflix shooting one that says Trump, Trump himself is very angry.
So in fact, Netflix's entire system is particularly incompatible with Trump's fans. So I have a friend who is that kind of hardcore Sichuan fan, and he says I don't want to watch Netflix, he's too blue.
I may have seen it in the last year or two, and one of the things I like very much is Jordan's documentary, which is particularly good and very emotional. There is also a queen's film called "The Crown", and then there is a lot of gossip in it, and it is particularly well filmed. And it's very interesting, that is, it finds a different lead actor to play every season, and then the level of each season is very high.
From the language to the costumes, to the degree of reduction is very high. You look at this Diana actor it's looking for, it's looking for the Queen's actor, wow, it's too much reduction.
Yes, and they are all very well-known actors in the UK, but when she plays, you think she is the queen, too powerful.
I will say that these british stage actors are really used to act in movies. Because the stage drama is more difficult than the movie, the stage play requires a pass, and there is no NG in the middle, so their language expression ability and the performance tension of the scene are very strong.
I think the test is that an actor is not very good, he can control different roles. Then it's not like there are some actors, one trick to eat all over the sky, and then play the emperor, right? Like this streaming media is Netflix, this award-winning "Power of Dogs", in fact, starring Infu, he actually acted very strongly, he has been playing this kind of image of a personable British gentleman, and then this time directly made this kind of American Western cowboy, it is this kind of tough guy image, a bit like the image of driving a tank 300, echoing our previous theme, so really he may be able to drive both Euler and tank 300, which is what I think is a better actor.
Yes, including actresses are also like this, many times when she is offstage, not in front of the camera, she is a person who may look ordinary, but as soon as she is in front of the screen, you feel that she is a big heroine, a big beauty.
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