Jackie Chan inspected the production and distribution system of 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.
It was his wife, Jiao Jie, who 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 had just reached the age of elementary school 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 school with a focus on privacy and
A comprehensive (that is, not all based on grades) private elementary school located near Beverly Hills.
Diane also persuaded Sister Jiao to buy a house near Beverly Park so that she could keep an eye on her children nearby. Sister Jiao was so moved that she finally decided to buy an apartment and become neighbors with Ronald.
Jackie Chan has been inspecting 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. Anyway, many Latinos don't understand English, and blacks don't like white people.
The actors and plot are excellent. But Jackie's humorous fighting style can transcend language.
Jackie will return to Hong Kong soon to prepare for a new movie and have a good chat with her old club Golden Harvest. After so many years of overseas distribution and video tapes, she has not seen any money back, so she cannot just let it go.
Because the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild can guarantee the benefits of its members, 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 to let him join the Stunt Actors Guild first and enjoy the benefits.
Let’s talk about forced union protection in America.
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 has also returned to his normal work rhythm.
The script of "Other People's Money" becomes more and more interesting the more it is revised. The plot of this movie is actually the structure of a suspense drama. At the beginning, Wall Street banker Garfin Cole wants to acquire the New England Cable Factory.
In the end, shareholders had to 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 resorted to money and convinced shareholders with the principle that making money and creating a business should make profits for shareholders.
I have dreamed about incomplete fragments of this conversation, and now I can complete it with ease.
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 this was one of the best movies and TV shows he had ever seen.
These are the two most in-depth descriptions of the true meaning of business.
Ronald's personal lawyer Lindsay Doerr praised the role of Kate Sullivan as a female lawyer, saying that she is the embodiment of a female lawyer in New York. She looks forward to seeing this character on the screen as soon as possible, and hinted that Ronald
Nader should consider paying herself royalties (because she feels that many of Kate's plots are based on her)
If Ronald felt that in the feedback from these people 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 Warren Buffy, an investor 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 chance to 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 that was producing shirts as its main business.
The company is 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, they 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 to operate.
When the quality of textiles in Xiangjiang increased 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 got the worst return on investment. It became one of his worst investments.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Later, Buffy still reluctantly closed down the company's textile business and made every effort to transform Berkshire Hathaway into an investment company. This is the beginning.
This explains his investment history that has 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 was actually created by entrepreneurs and lawyers.
If America loses this social atmosphere of respecting entrepreneurial heroes, the final result will be that no one will make any money."
Buffy also vaguely pointed 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 how Garfinkel used rigorous financial analysis to convince the shareholders' meeting and the board of directors.
"The costs within the report must be considered, and the costs outside the report must also be considered. 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 is being passively divided by labor unions, environmental groups, and local governments on the basis of noble reasons. When the world is good, the increased costs are uncomfortable.
But still able to survive.
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. When we work with enterprises to overcome difficulties, these fees have always been easy to go up but difficult to come down.
"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. Is there any problem between the shirts and the cables in the script?
The same is true for consumer goods. In fact, you can survive by occupying the high-end market through brand and quality.
"Hey, Ronald, you still don't know enough 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 taught 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 be losing 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 entire industry 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 of 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 was 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 be the general manager and take over the factory after Jorgensen retired. But Jorgensen always said that he would hand it over to him when the time came. With this unclear future, Garfinkel made a high offer.
To acquire his shares at a price based on market valuation, the management team was won over 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 image of a Jewish banker in Wall Street. Don't you want to play 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 and not suitable for this role."
"Ah ha ha ha ha..." Michael Douglas laughed wildly. Could it be that Ronald didn't want his wife Diane to play a couple with him? "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?"
Review? 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 Garfin Cole in the script.
All kinds of ugly opposition voices.
"No problem, I will send it to you personally. I think he will like this script." Michael Douglas knew very well what Ronald was thinking. However, since the other party respected his family so much, he also felt very comfortable.
, agreed to help deal with it.
Kirk Douglas did not have any objections to the script as Ronald feared. On the contrary, he liked the script quite a lot.
"This is 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..."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "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 caution..." 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 there is no need to become an enemy if you can't treat him as one of your own, 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 around him. 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 said immediately.
"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-minded 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's discrimination against Jews was no less than that of Europeans.
At that time, many Jews changed their surnames to the Anglo-German form. In many cases, Garfunkel was changed to Garfield.
So much so that when a person hears Garfield's name, the first thing that comes to mind is that he may be of Jewish origin.
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.