Emmerich actually doesn't know much about law, and after hearing the legal details of VIE structures, he didn't understand much.
But when he heard Gu Kun mention the place names like "Cayman Islands, Bahamas Islands, and Virgin Islands", he could roughly understand what Gu Kun wanted to do.
These are all famous visa laundering and tax avoidance resorts.
Of the many Internet giants in China in later generations, none of them were registered in the Cayman Islands.
Of the many Internet giants in Oceania in later generations, none of them were registered in the Bahamas.
As long as what you export is not material goods, but virtual goods, such as code, video, music, and non-material services, you can go to these islands to maximize your benefits.
A small, dirty foreign country like the Lanfang Islands seems to be very suitable for doing this kind of thing after a slight transformation. The only difference is that it is located in Southeast Asia.
A comparison or an example can sometimes give more confidence to the collaborators than a thousand words of theoretical explanation.
Emmerich imagined a treacherous image of the "Oriental Cayman Islands" and instantly felt that there was a high probability that Gu Kun could really accomplish this.
Of course, only Gu Kun himself knows that his Lanfang will not be able to become the "Asian Cayman Islands" after all. This is mainly because the political environment and other expectations of Lanfang do not meet the expectations of Internet giant investors.
After all, Lanfang is still a monarchy with a Grand Duke, and others still have to worry about whether there will be changes in the policy of capital inflows and outflows in the future, and whether long-term expectations are not consistent enough, etc.
Therefore, for the time being, it is only attracting the transfer outsourcing of a sub-category of special effects teams and drawing blood from Hollywood.
However, this is enough to feed Lanfang, which has a permanent population of only 100,000. Maybe Lanfang's tourism prices will increase by 20% in the future.
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After no longer having any doubts about policy expectations and tax benefits, Emmerich only had one remaining doubt:
"Gu, if you do this, aren't you worried that it will lower the quality of your tourism industry in Lanzhou? Aren't you afraid that those fresh and artistic tourists will hate Lanfang from now on, causing you to lose your customer base?"
After hearing this question, Gu Kun couldn't help laughing: "Of course I'm not worried. I'm a fresh and artistic person who can go wherever he likes. I don't care about their business. My route is different from that of a small tribe in the Middle East called Dubai.
The route we are plotting in secret is almost the same."
Gu Kun planned to control Lanfang completely away from Western influence in a few years after the Southeast Asian financial crisis, and then find a suitable opportunity to discover the Lanfang oil field in later generations, and then follow the route of Dubai to show off his wealth.
Will those Internet celebrities in future generations who pretend to be fresh and artistic will go to Dubai to check in and plant grass?
Of course not, Dubai is all about showing off your wealth.
But this is what Gu Kun has been doing all his life, and literary and artistic young people have been isolated from him.
In the future, literary and artistic young people will hate him more than they hate Wang Xcong.
If you want to reach the top, you must suffer. What price you have to pay, Gu Kun has long understood in his heart, so there is no regret at the end of the day.
Hearing him speak so decisively and thoroughly, Emmerich felt a little more in awe:
"Gu, I didn't expect you to see so far and be so decisive. To be honest, your words and deeds have given me greater encouragement, and I am willing to continue on this creative path of 'showing off skills and selling pleasure'
I hope our business and works will continue to be popular."
Gu Kun: "No, there is no business in this world that can last forever. They are all popular trends that happen every ten years. Sooner or later, they will have to pay back. In my judgment, this kind of special effects show-off business is a just-in-time business."
In the rising period, after more than ten years, everyone will be tired of seeing it and no longer care.
Similarly, the pursuit of local tycoons to show off their wealth may only last for more than ten years. In the future, when everyone is not so poor in money, there will be demand for niche literature and art. No one can be in the trendy business for a lifetime, the last one
Whatever you earn in one era, you will have to pay the price in the next era. You'd better be mentally prepared for this."
In later generations, Hollywood's special effects were successfully transferred to China for outsourcing. In addition to cost reasons, the more important reason is that Hollywood itself is no longer popular in respecting special effects.
This change in audience aesthetics is common to both China and foreign countries, because the explosion of technology has reached a bottleneck, and everyone is tired after watching too many big scenes. Therefore, Lucasfilm, Industrial Light and Magic cannot sustain themselves, and have to
Sold to Disney.
Although Disney is still making money in later generations, it has also fallen into the cycle of selecting materials for the sake of showing off skills, just like making a special "Zootopia", just because "traditional Avatar, smooth and oily creatures like aliens can no longer satisfy the modeling requirements."
To show off the skills of a rendering artist, you have to dress up as a furry animal and make every hair float clearly to show off the awesomeness of your skills."
But in fact, if you want to see special effects, you can still go back and watch old movies from the late 1990s or before 2010. They are enough to satisfy you. There is no need to pile up new high-end special effects every year.
The same is true in the gaming industry. The last game that made the world popular based on its graphics was nothing more than the "Assassin's Creed" series. From now on, players will no longer pay for it because "Wow, the graphics of this game are so realistic."
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Because I’ve seen so many awesome people, even if I make some progress, ordinary fans won’t notice them carefully.
Unless you are a very small number of hardcore fans, you will emphasize that "the rain effect in this game is different from the rain textures in other games. The raindrops in this game will drip onto the gun, and you can see the real physics engine's impact on the droplet collision."
"Calculation"; or "The mirror in this horror game has its own ray tracing effect, and the reflected image will change according to the viewing angle."
Therefore, after 2010, it is almost impossible to create a big IP in the film, television and game industries. After the industry has hit a wall for a few years, it will go back to play sequels or high-definition remakes of the big IPs of the old generation, and continue to harvest."
Millennials’ nostalgia money.
(Note: The definition of "millennial generation" in Oceania is equivalent to the domestic post-85s plus post-90s.)
It is a pity that the directors and game developers who are currently involved in the game do not know how valuable the adaptation rights and sequel rights of big IPs they hold will be in the future.
Two years later, in 1998, James Cameron casually sold several subsequent adaptation rights to the "Terminator" series to Paramount at a very low price for a period of 20 years.
There are countless such examples.
Gu Kun's infiltration into Hollywood at this moment has another purpose, which is obviously to obtain future high-quality nostalgic IP at a low price.
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Gu Kun stayed at Emmerich's house for several days. Everyone talked about industrial investment and had casual parties every day. Time quietly entered July.
Because everyone had a common industrial vision, Emmerich was also very generous and introduced him to some contacts in the circle, mainly other directors and screenwriters of the "show-off and cool-movie" type, as well as the famous special effects company Industrial Light and Magic.
Several senior executives and technical leaders.
Who makes Emmerich the major customer who spent the most money on Industrial Light & Magic this year?
Gu Kun even had the opportunity to have a drink and chat with George Lucas, the big boss of Lucasfilm, at a cocktail party before the premiere.
George Lucas is the parent company of Industrial Light and Magic and the boss of Lucasfilm.
The company Industrial Light and Magic, together with Skywalker Sound Effects, which does audio special effects, was a subsidiary established by George Lucas twenty years ago to make "Star Wars".
Being able to establish connections with such a prominent figure would naturally be of great help to Gu Kun.
Although the Olympic Games have not yet started, his photo of Gu Kun has appeared several times in local entertainment magazines in Los Angeles. The industry has also introduced him as a film and television investor, and they have made false claims about him.
There is a movie theater project in Asia and there is investment in a special effects company, but they are actually nothing.
But anyway, this is the beginning of a cross-circle influence.
During this period, in order to better make friends with Hollywood celebrities, Gu Kun also let his woman wander around Beverly Hills for a while, and then bought a small villa.
Beverly Hills is the heart of Hollywood, so land prices are extremely expensive. Gu Kun just built a small house on half an acre with a garden, which cost more than three million U.S. dollars. Naturally, it was impossible to add an orchard.
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As for the top stars here, the standard equipment is generally purchased according to the maximum price of the municipal permit, which can reach one and a half acres.
For example, Emmerich's villa covers an area of one and a half acres with its garden.
Only a handful of the industry's top tycoons, such as the bosses of the six major distributors or independent film godfathers like Harvey Weinstein, can break through the upper limit of legal permission and acquire a 7-acre estate in Beverly Hills.
The date of transfer of the villa happened to be the premiere of Emmerich's "Earth Strikes Back", and it was also Oceania's National Day on July 4th.
Gu Kun and a group of friends he had become familiar with recently held a party in Beverly Hills to celebrate the upcoming hit movie.
At this party, some old friends from the past came to visit with their families.
Gu Kun was not surprised to meet Mr. Richard Hilton from the Hilton Hotel Group.
"Mr. Hilton, I'm really sorry that I haven't come to see you these past few days in Los Angeles. The main reason is that Mr. Emmerich is more congenial here, and we are busy discussing some business cooperation."
At the reception, Gu Kun held a wine glass and had a glass with Richard generously, and did not forget to ask, "But I really didn't expect that a hotel industry giant like you would come to such a small gathering in the film and television industry.
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Richard Hilton tightened the arm around the beautiful woman next to him and said ostentatiously: "You are a foreigner, so you may not be familiar with the new talents in Hollywood - my new female companion is an insider. We are here today."
I came here to play with her."
Gu Kun raised his eyes and saw that she was a beautiful white woman. Unfortunately, he didn't recognize her. She was probably not a first-line female star, so Asian audiences were not familiar with her.
It looks like this actress has been won by Richard, who is a middle-aged rich second generation. Hollywood is really a place full of money and sex.
The most exaggerated thing is that Richard brought his wife and daughter to this kind of drinking party. Fortunately, he could control himself.
However, Gu Kun soon noticed that Richard did not prevent his wife from drinking and chatting with other young handsome men. It seems that these cultural and tourism tycoon families rely on such blind fooling around to stay popular in society.
"This is my little girl Pablo. Gu, you are almost the same age. Let's get to know each other."
Gu Kun was still criticizing and condemning the world of Hollywood in his heart, but Richard's words interrupted his meditation.
I saw that Richard, the turtle father, actually thoughtlessly pushed a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl to Gu Kun and encouraged them to make friends.
Obviously, he hopes that his daughter will have a male friend with the title of "N Olympic champion, the man with the most world records in the world".
GAN, DE, PIAO, LIANG, is this really your biological child?
He~tui~ People in the cultural and tourism industry are really dirty!