Chapter 716 Going up the Tall Building Alone, Looking at the End of the World

After two months of release, "Some Like It Hot" was released in North America, with a total box office of more than 55 million. doubled.

In the global market, the number of countries where it was released has reached 17, and the total box office has already exceeded 30 million U.S. dollars. It is not over yet. Experts predict that the global box office of "Some Like It Hot" is likely to exceed the 100 million mark. A happy result.

Not long ago, Monroe was named one of the most watched female stars in the United States and one of the sexiest actresses in the world, and her reputation soared rapidly.

At the same time, Hall Films also received the box office of "Home Alone 2" from Warner, which was only the first batch of North American box office, with a total of 13.7 million, which made the company's funds extremely abundant all of a sudden. .

Now Jiang Hao has 20 million in his hand, I have the world, what to do next? Naturally, I continued to make movies.

Jiang Hao thought again.

He decided to launch two movies at the same time, one is "The Raccoon 3: The Little Ghost Fights Again", the plot basically continues the sequel of Home Alone, this time it mainly focuses on adventures in another city, and there are constant jokes.

As for the other film, Jiang Hao set his sights on a relatively famous film in the history of film, his name is "The Prostitute in the Brothel".

"The Brothel" was filmed in 1960, starring Elizabeth Taylor, a well-known actress at the time, and his other name is "Butterfield Eighth".

The reason why Jiang Hao aimed at this film was because the film was a huge success at the 1961 Oscars, allowing Taylor to win the Oscar for Best Actress.

If you want to promote Monroe, you need to make more films. In Some Like It Hot, Monroe is mainly sexy, and the Oscars may not favor it. Instead, the actor Jack Lemmon won the best actor. Jiang Hao is ready to cast a wide net. Once you catch a big fish.

Jiang Hao has watched "The Prostitute in the Brothel" and remembers every detail in the movie.

The heroine, Gloria, is cynical and omnipotent, smoking, drinking, and lusting. Her superficial identity is a glamorous model, but she is actually a high-end call girl from the prostitution agency. Her phone number is "Butterfield No. 8". Also became her nickname.

The flirtatious Gloria inevitably went downhill. Later, she fell in love with her client, a celebrity, but failed in the end. When she was disheartened, she thought of committing suicide, so she intentionally caused a car accident. Before she died, she finally woke up and wanted to live a new life, but it was too late.

To be honest, with his modern eyes, this movie has a strong 60s style, slow and long, and sometimes it feels drowsy.

But the core of this movie is very good, with constant conflicts, and Taylor's outstanding acting skills, this is also the reason why it can enter the Oscar vision, and it is also a box office hit movie, Jiang Hao feels that if the image of a prostitute makes Dream It may be more beneficial for Monroe's performance breakthrough if Lu comes to act.

Jiang Hao locked himself at home and started writing scripts. "Coon War 3" is a popcorn movie, as long as there are enough jokes, Jiang Hao can just take out some jokes from movies that later generations have seen.

What, you said that if you use it too much, it will be useless later?

Hehe, there are so many dramas and countless stalks, just copy them.

As for "The Prostitute in the Brothel", Jiang Hao put his heart into it, because he only borrowed the core of the story, and a lot of content in it needs to be rewritten, and he wants to make this classic even more classic.

For the creation of Hollywood movie scripts, later generations already have a set of mature creation templates.

That's right, it's a trick.

Mature commercial films basically use this set of standards, and the harsh places are even counted in seconds.

The opening scene reveals the tone, mood, type and subject matter of the film, and usually introduces the main characters, reveals the protagonist's history, and finally leads to the theme. This time period should not exceed 5 minutes.

Then there is the foreshadowing~

push~

Dispute~

The second act is connected, and the B story and the plot echo~~

over entertaining~~

The villain is approaching~

Breath of death, feeling of despair~

The third act connects, let A story and B story connect~~

The final climax~~

At the end, there is a warm and happy ending or a cruel ending.

This set of formulas has been strictly calculated to match the psychology of the audience. Of course, having a formula does not mean that it will be successful. There are still bad Hollywood movies in the future. What content is added to it is the skill of the screenwriter and director.

Jiang Hao has seen the original film of "The Brothel". He took the essence and discarded the dross, polished it with the latest formula and routine, and considered the situation from the height of the times. Adding some content to it will naturally get twice the result with half the effort.

As the saying goes, "read all the magic films in the world, and live naturally without codes".

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It has reached the state of "climbing the tall building alone, looking at the end of the world".

When Monroe came back, she saw that Jiang Hao was still writing. She took off her coat and put on home clothes. She approached the study and quietly opened the door. Seeing Jiang Hao reading the manuscript, there was a smirk on his face, and he walked in with his toes on the floor. After making a little noise, Dang walked behind Jiang Hao and stretched out his arms to hug Jiang Hao's neck.

"You're back." With Jiang Hao's sensitivity, he could naturally hear Monroe coming.

"Honey, is your script ready?" Monroe said in Jiang Hao's ear, looking over Jiang Hao's hands through his shoulders.

"Just finished it, do you want to take a look." Jiang Hao raised the thick script in his hand.

Monroe jumped up all of a sudden, "Okay."

Taking the script in Jiang Hao's hand, he read out the name, ""The Prostitute in the Brothel"? Do you want me to play a prostitute?"

"We'll discuss after you read the script."

"OK."

After reading the script, Monroe was attracted by the story in the script, she came to Jiang Hao and said, with a sad expression on her face, "My dear, this is a tragedy, Gloria died in the end, why did you do this Write, I feel very uncomfortable."

Jiang Hao asked her to sit down next to him, and said, "Monroe, in fact, the identity of Gelia in the story is doomed. She has become cautious again, she wants to maintain her self-esteem, and she is humble in heart, when encountering things, sometimes she will naturally become hysterical, the past is not wrong, but he will decide the state of mind."

Monroe half-understood, "Honey, I think I need to read it again."

Jiang Hao smiled, and pointed to the already dark sky outside, "Let's go out to eat something, and you can continue watching after you come back. Don't worry, I have enough time. I'm going to help Carter get the raccoon 3 up. Preparations for the movie "The Prostitute in the Brothel", selecting actors, forming the crew, etc., will take about a month before the filming starts."

"Who do you plan to cast as the rich businessman in the movie?" Monroe asked.

"Of course it is me."

Monroe suddenly smiled, "I found that you are a very domineering guy, whether it's in the movie or outside the movie, you always dominate me and prevent me from cheating."

"Why, do you feel suffocated?"

"No, Jon, this way I will feel safe. I would rather be strangled by love than be ruthlessly abandoned." Monroe said with her arms around Jiang Hao.

on Wall Street,

In addition to interests, everything is just a cloud.

What everyone pursues is profit. A group of bankers have a meeting in a small room. They have no friends, no morals, no feelings, and nothing but interests.

It is often the greediest who win.

Andy knew this truth very well. Looking at the busy staff in the hall outside the glass wall, he smiled, stood up and walked to the outside table, and shouted to everyone: "Call, call everyone , Tell them that our investment profit rate is guaranteed to be 15% to 20%, and investing in Andy Dufresne Securities Company is definitely their best choice."

A month later, Andy absorbed more than 10 million investment through the temptation of this high interest rate, and then he used this investment to operate a stock, and fired a junk stock from 0.45 US dollars per share to 1.18 US dollars now. It has nearly tripled, and the company has made a lot of money as a result.

After the stock was sold, Andy distributed dividends to investors, and their investment income reached 3.7% in one month. If calculated in this way, the income in that year would reach 40%. Introduce your loved ones to Andy Dufresne Investments and get a commission for those introductions.

That night, Jiang Hao and Andy talked a lot. The financial market of future generations will become more and more chaotic as it becomes more mature. Especially after the rise of the Internet, just post an investment app, get a few advertising pages, and then use WeChat and other methods to spread the word , you can harvest a group of investors.

Then, the low-level ones are to run away with the money as soon as possible, and the high-level ones use financial operations. Slowly you will find that your funds are increasing, but they have set many conditions, and you will not be able to get back your money no matter what.

Jiang Hao's suggestion made Andy Mosai, who is familiar with financial operations, suddenly enlightened, as if a person with profound internal skills suddenly learned a set of unique skills, he has become a top expert in the investment world, and often every operation is a combination of punches.

The advantage of combo boxing is that he didn't really violate the law, but just wandered on the edge of the law. This has nothing to do with morality, because on Wall Street, morality is never the standard of conduct.

As Andy himself said, Wall Street bankers have never been a good group of people.

Here, it is Chiguoguo's 'capitalism'.

After three months of operation, the funds in Andy's hands have now exceeded 40 million US dollars. Of course, there are 20 million from customers, and he is targeting junk bonds.

Junk bonds are mainly issued by some small companies to raise funds for business development. His other name is high-risk bonds, which are somewhat similar to seeking angel investment. Because the credit of this kind of bonds is doubted, there are very few people interested in them, and Jiang Haohe He talked about how to operate junk bonds, and Andy was shocked and inspired when he heard it.

Andy took a fancy to a pharmaceutical research company in the United States.

He is going to talk to their boss first, buy all the issued bonds at a super low price, spend money on publicity, and create a rumor, for example, they have developed a drug that can treat hepatitis, which is exactly what their research institute One of the main research projects of the company, the value of bonds was raised through publicity, and finally sold to complete a 5-fold profit.

As for the shattering of rumors, the research institute can say that what they told reporters at the time had made great progress, but it was written as a success unexpectedly. However, we have indeed seen the dawn and so on. Even if they are investigated by the Economic Crime Investigation Section, they have nothing to do .

This is the operation process that Andy prepared for himself.

Of course, there is a lot of risk in it, but there is no risk in investment. If you want excess returns, you must dare to take risks.