Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Jackie Chan inspected the production and distribution system in Hollywood. He had not yet made up his mind to leave Jiahe, which was taken care of everywhere, and come to Hollywood to start a career on his own.

However, his wife, Sister Jiao, took a fancy to Los Angeles. The climate here was pleasant and there were many Chinese people. The most important thing was that she remembered that her son had been naughty since he was a child. He happened to be of elementary school age and wanted to transfer to Los Angeles so that foreign teachers could take good care of him.

Ronald asked Niceta and Richard to meet Sister Jiao and Jackie, and helped them recommend several famous public and private schools, and finally selected John Thomas Day Elementary School.A private elementary school located near Beverly Hills that values ​​privacy and comprehensive development (that is, not all based on grades).

Diane also persuaded Sister Jiao to buy a house near Beverly Park so that she could keep an eye on her children nearby.This made Sister Jiao very excited, and finally decided to buy an apartment and become neighbors with Ronald.

Jackie Chan has been researching Hollywood for several weeks. His biggest concern is the language barrier, and he has doubts about whether his funny action film will sell well here.

Ronald tried his best to persuade him to come to Hollywood to make movies. There is also a very broad Chinese audience base here, and there are also many blacks and Latinos who also like his videos.Many Latinos don’t understand English anyway, and black people don’t like actors and plots that are dominated by white people.However, Jackie's humorous fighting style can transcend language.

Jackie will return to Xiangjiang soon to prepare for a new movie and have a good chat with his old club Jiahe.After so many years of overseas distribution and video tapes, I haven't seen any money back, so I can't just let it go.

Because the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild can guarantee member benefits, Ronald introduced Jackie Chan to apply, but he had only filmed a supporting role many years ago, and the length of time was not enough to qualify.Ronald had no choice but to let him join the Stuntmen's Union first and enjoy America's compulsory union protection.

Sister Jiao did not go back with him. She was very busy buying a house and settling here, bringing her son over to go through the transfer procedures, etc.

Ronald also returned to his normal work rhythm.

The script "Other People's Money" becomes more interesting the more it is changed.The plot of this movie is actually the structure of a suspense drama.Initially, Wall Street banker Garfin Cole wanted to buy the New England Cable Works.

Finally, shareholders must be persuaded to agree to the merger plan through a shareholders' meeting.Factory owner Jorgensen mobilized employees and shareholders to resist, and finally they all had a showdown at the final shareholders meeting.

It is also interspersed with episodes in which Jorgensen has no choice but to turn to his illegitimate daughter Kate as a legal adviser, and Garfunkel falls in love with Kate at first sight and pursues her.

All in all, it is a very classic Hollywood suspense structure. The more Ronald changes, the more enthusiastic he becomes, especially the speech scene between the two at the final shareholder meeting. From the beginning, Jorgensen is about to arouse the emotions of employees and shareholders, and wins by relying on tragedy. .Garfunkel unexpectedly appealed to money and convinced shareholders with the principle that making money and creating a business should make profits for shareholders.

I had dreamed of incomplete fragments of this conversation, and now it is even more complete.

After writing the first draft of the script, Ronald sent the outline, as well as the climax of the two final speeches, to all his friends who were entrepreneurs and company executives, asking for their comments.

Soon, he received great feedback.Ed Bastian, the president of his own company, the New York Daily News, called and told Ronald excitedly that these were the two most in-depth descriptions of the true meaning of business in all the movies and TV shows he had ever seen. .

Ronald's personal lawyer Lindsay Dole praised the role of Kate Sullivan as a female lawyer, saying that she is the embodiment of female lawyers in New York.Looking forward to seeing the character on screen soon, and hinting that Ronald should consider giving himself royalties. (Because she feels that many of Kate’s plots are based on her)

If the feedback from these people made Ronald feel that they were complimentary because they were serving him, the call from another person made him feel that he had really written something remarkable.

That was investor Warren Buffy, who became famous after investing in Coca-Cola.The first thing he said when Ronald picked up the phone was:
"Ronald, you saved me from reading corporate financial statements for an hour today. The two ends of the script at the end are so good..."

"Hahaha, I didn't expect you to like my script so much. This kind of affirmation makes me more confident."

"You know what? You remind me of when I first bought Berkshire Hathaway."

Buffy had a rare chat with Ronald about his past.When he ended his investment fund and turned to a limited company as an investment vehicle, he acquired a company whose main business was the production of shirts at the time, which was Berkshire Hathaway.

This company's shirts were once the best brand in the American market and were deeply loved by high-level white-collar workers.It can be said that when Xiangjiang's textiles invaded, it still maintained considerable competitiveness.

However, the state government is very unfriendly to this company. Not only does the labor union often cause trouble and demand wage increases, but because it is a textile company, it also pays a considerable amount of sewage fees for environmental protection in order to continue operating.

When the quality of textiles in Xiangjiang improved rapidly, the labor unions and local governments that initially charged them high fees were unwilling to lower costs to help them tide over the difficulties.

In the end, Buffy, the investment genius, invested year after year in the textile business of this company, and finally ended up with the worst return on investment.One of his worst investments.

Later, Buffy reluctantly closed down the company's textile business and worked hard to transform Berkshire Hathaway into an investment company.This was the beginning of his investment journey with a much higher return on investment than the market average.

"I'm not complaining about a specific ethnic group, but you Hollywood artists (Buffy means Jewish), the culture of black entrepreneurs is very bad. This country is actually created by entrepreneurs and lawyers.

If America loses this social atmosphere of respecting entrepreneurial heroes, then the final result will be that no one makes any money. "

Buffy also vaguely points to the special left-wing style of the Jews. In their writings, entrepreneurs and bankers are a bunch of bad guys, villains, and people who need to be defeated.

That's why he liked the scene of the final shareholders' meeting so much that he went against the rules and read the script during working hours without reading the reports.

And he was very satisfied with the final plot of Garfinkel convincing the shareholders' meeting and the board of directors through rigorous financial analysis.

"The costs within the report must be considered, as well as the costs outside the report. I was deceived by those hidden costs, so I kept the shirt business for more than ten years. If I had shut it down earlier, my wealth would have been The growth will be faster.”

Berkshire Hathaway's shirt business has been passively divided by labor unions, environmental groups, and local governments on the basis of noble reasons.In good times, the increased costs are uncomfortable but survivable.

But when times are bad, the sewage charges collected by the government, the fees charged by environmental protection organizations, and the wage increases demanded by labor unions cannot be reduced.Working with enterprises to tide over difficulties, these expenses have always been easy to raise but difficult to come down from.

"But the shirts you originally produced were of very good quality. Isn't it okay to just target the high-end market?" Ronald still didn't know much about business, so he had to ask Buffy.Shirts are different from the cables in the script. They are consumer goods. In fact, they can survive by occupying the high-end market through brand and quality.

"Hey, Ronald, you still don't know much about the company. You need to read more financial statements." Buffy came to chat with Ronald not as a movie director, but as a potential investor.He instilled in Ronald that if the return on investment of a business is worse than his average return on investment, then even if you can still make money, you will still lose money.

"And let me tell you, the decline of the industry is easy to ignore. In the era when horse-drawn carriages were replaced by cars, the horsewhip factory that was the last to go bankrupt must have made the best horsewhips with good quality, low cost and sufficient profits. , maybe we can also acquire the second or third horsewhip factory in the industry.

But when the industry as a whole is eliminated, it will happen overnight. "

"Ah, that's very well said. Do you mind if I put your words into Garfunkel's speech at the end?" Ronald felt that what Buffy said was similar to what he said in his dream. , but the metaphor is even better, and I immediately asked for permission to use it in the movie.This is the business philosophy expressed by America's number one investor...it greatly improves the authenticity of the movie.

"Hey, I don't mind, but you can't let anyone know it was me who said it."

"No problem." Ronald agreed with a smile.

With Buffy's approval, Ronald revised the script again, this time giving it to several well-known Jewish actors in the industry.

The leader is Michael Douglas.Ronald pretended to invite him to play the role of Coles, the general manager of the New England Cable Factory. He was not only the narrator of the story, but also a very important role in the fight for shareholder votes.

Coles wanted to become general manager and take over the factory after Jorgensen retired.But Jorgensen always said he would give it to him when the time came.With such an unclear future, Garfinkel offered a price higher than the market valuation to acquire his shares, winning over the management team in one fell swoop.

"Listen, Ronald, I'd love to work with you, but why don't you ask me to play Garfunkel, the Jewish banker?" Michael Douglas asked him.

"I thought about letting you play this role, but you have already played Gekko, a classic Jewish banker in Wall Street. Don't you want a business war role with a richer dimension?

Besides, Garfunkel likes to eat donuts and drink Coke. He is very ordinary looking. You are too handsome to be suitable for this role. "

"Ahahahaha..." Michael Douglas laughed wildly. Could it be that Ronald didn't want his wife Diane to play a couple with him, right? "I'll think about it...Ronald."

"Okay, I'll wait for your decision. If you pass, I'll find someone else..." Ronald said that he was his first choice. "Also, if you have the chance, can you give the script to your father?" Overview? I want to know what he thinks of the character."

Kirk Douglas is also the representative of the old Jews in Hollywood. Ronald approached Michael Douglas and also used this Jewish actor's family to suppress possible Jewish forces and oppose the Jewish banker Garfunkel in the script. All kinds of ugly objections.

"No problem, I'll send it to you personally. I think he will like this script." Michael Douglas knew Ronald's thoughts well.However, since the other party respected his family so much, he felt very comfortable and agreed to help.

Kirk Douglas didn't have any objections to the script, as Ronald feared. On the contrary, he liked the script quite a bit.

"It was very well written. Although the character was not likable at first, in the end he got together with the heroine and won the debate in the boardroom. If I had not retired, I would have wanted to play Jorgen The character Sen..."

"Ha, Ronald will be happy to hear this. I thought you would object to this script." Michael Douglas was also a little surprised.

"You don't understand, we Jews rely on being cautious..." Kirk Douglas already knew that it was impossible to stop Ronald's rise. Ovitz was not successful in doing things before, and he could not introduce a Jewish girl to Ronald to get married. , take it for your own use.

But if you can't be one of your own, there is no need to become an enemy, and Ronald respects himself quite a lot, which makes the old man very useful.

“Michael, let me tell you, we Jews used to have bigger gangs in Hollywood than Italians, but now is there a movie about Jewish gangs?
In literary and artistic works, what is important is subtlety. Jews are not only greedy, they are also very business smart and can win the favor of the most beautiful girls. This is the belief that this script wants to convey.

Ronald, this young man, has a good grasp of all kinds of people in Hollywood and the psychology of the people. You will be right to cooperate more with him in the future. "

As he said that, Kirk Douglas pulled the blanket on his body. It had been a long time since he had met a young man with such insight into the world.

"My father also liked it very much. He said that if he hadn't retired, he would still want to audition for Jorgensen." Michael Douglas called Ronald back to report the situation.

"Hahaha, then I am assured of the quality of the script." Ronald replied with a smile. It seems that the Jewish people gave the script a green light.

"He still wants to remind you a little bit." Michael Douglas then said.

"The name Garfunkel is too Jewish. Can you change the name? In fact, it is always a bit of a stereotype to associate a black-hearted banker on Wall Street with a Jewish person."

"Ha, it was my oversight. Change it, change it. How about calling it Garfield?"

Ronald changed his name to a surname commonly used by Anglo-Germans, and after consulting with Michael Douglas, he changed Garfunkel to Garfield on the computer.

"Will this change prevent the audience from thinking that he is Jewish?" David Simkins asked Ronald next to him.

"No, but this is approved by the Douglas family, who can say anything?" Ronald smiled.In the first half of the twentieth century, America was no less discriminatory against Jews than Europeans.

At that time, many Jews changed their surnames to Anglo-German forms.There are many cases where Garfunkel was changed to Garfield.

So much so that when a person hears Garfield's name, the first thing that comes to mind may be that he is Jewish.

Ronald didn't really want to rectify the name of the Jews, but the script described the typical shortcomings of Jews in the public impression (not handsome, smart, greedy), and he had to find a shield.