The premiere of "Earth Strikes Back" was indeed a success. In just a few days, it became a box office hit.
In just two or three days, tens of millions of dollars in ticket sales were collected across the United States.
After all, this is a big-time and exciting movie that has earned a cumulative box office of 800 million US dollars in history.
Emmerich was very excited and took Gu Kun and several other friends to have a drink before letting Gu Kun go.
During this period, Gu Kun was captured several times by the entertainment media. He also helped Emmerich make guest appearances and attended several business promotion events for Emmerich.
He also boasted to a reporter from Fox TV Entertainment Channel that "if such a big scene theme can be introduced to the East Asian market, it will definitely achieve greater success, and everyone should make more contributions to cultural exchanges between the East and the West."
Such nonsense.
By the way, he was also asked some personal questions by reporters, including some about his competition resume. Who makes reporters from the entertainment section willing to interview basically anything.
Anyway, it’s just a sedan chair carrying people.
It was delayed until July 7th, three days after the premiere, and only one week left before the official opening of the Atlanta Olympics.
Gu Kuncai declined all social activities and interactions with friends, and finally followed up on the Sequoia Secondary Fund, which focused on Nasdaq stocks, that he had entrusted when he was in San Francisco, and learned about recent investment returns.
Then he took all his entourage and rushed to Atlanta.
As a digression, the Nasdaq Internet stock sector in 1996 really started to go crazy.
On one side are most traditional investment institutions that traditionally look at price-to-earnings ratios, market-to-business ratios and other data. On the other hand, they are saying that they don’t understand. They feel that the valuation system of the Internet sector is completely unsustainable and that there is already a bubble. For example, the famous Warren Buffett insists on it for his whole life.
I don’t buy stocks that cannot be valued using value investment theory, so I stay away from Internet stocks.
On the other side, there are those hot money who claim to have seen new directions, and they are constantly pouring in. Even if the revenue of these companies is completely zero, as long as there are clicks, users and market share, they dare to spend money.
Gu Kun obviously followed up on a low-value area. He only entrusted the investment for about 20 days and already earned 15% of the income.
The $50 million he invested turned into $58 million three weeks later.
Compared with those reborn people who gather together individual stock quotes or bet on single product futures/foreign exchange, Gu Kun's rate of return is certainly nothing. People often add leverage to increase the value of their money many times in a short period of time, and that's why they have dignity.
Dare to say that I am worthy of my status as a reborn person.
But after all, what Gu Kun is doing is long-term, and he can do a long-term bull market upward channel for one year, or even one and a half years. He invests in a combination of selected stocks, and the ups and downs of most stocks will offset each other.
, so making $8 million in three weeks is already a very good trend.
After confirming that the Sequoia Secondary Fund is still very reliable, Gu Kun no longer has any worries.
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On the night of July 7, a Hilton hotel in downtown Atlanta.
After Gu Kun and his party arrived, they stayed here. It is not far from Atlanta's Olympic Sports Center, and the transportation is very convenient during the competition.
The reason why he chose the Hilton Hotel was not because Gu Kun had any bad taste, he just stayed there casually as he thought of it.
"Honey, no, the Olympics will start in one week. You have to maintain your strength." Lin Ying was still very considerate of Gu Kun in the hotel and looked very virtuous.
"Don't worry, there won't be a swimming competition on the first day of the opening ceremony. I won't be able to compete for ten more days. I've been holding it in for half a month. It's okay to vent my anger!" Gu Kun said this, and Lin Ying thought
Naturally, the delicate physical strength cannot resist.
An hour later, Lin Ying asked with gentle concern: "What's wrong with you? Are you under any pressure recently, or are you unhappy?"
Gu Kun hugged Lin Ying to his broad chest and said coldly: "In the past few days, those crazy bees and butterflies have made me uncomfortable. Before I got on the plane today, that little girl Pablo came to tease me. You
Don’t blame me for venting on you.”
"How could it be? You didn't bother to provoke others, but you couldn't bear to come back to me. It's too late for me to be happy. Fortunately, I still have a place in your heart. However, this is the last time before the end of the game. You must keep it closed in the future.
Get up and be free from desires." Lin Ying said softly.
"I won't be sentimental towards any Oceanic woman, we are just using each other. Foreign girls are just for fun, to stimulate the national attention and to promote the business." Gu Kun explained subconsciously, although
He made no promises to the Warblers.
Lin Ying sighed slightly: "I know, she came to you for the same reason. It is also hype, but the consideration of the national attention must be deleted - Oceania will not use its own country's ladies to be taken advantage of by foreign men.
Glory."
Gu Kun was a little relieved to see that his sister could understand: "Oh, I am so persuasive to everyone in the world, but few people in the world understand me and think I am really lustful.
Does anyone know that I am here to feed Lanfang’s 100,000 mouths, to have jobs for hundreds of thousands of Chinese people in surrounding industries, and for those who got rich first in China to spend money on me in Lanfang when they show off to other countries?
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If it hits Lan Fang, it can be turned into an aircraft carrier and radar base to protect Malacca's international shipping lanes. It's better than hitting Li Mattai and Japan with sticks."
The money that people who get rich first use to show off cannot spend it on their own country. They are destined to find a foreign country to spend it on, so it has nothing to do with whether they are patriotic or not.
There is a short video clip by an Internet celebrity on the Internet. It is said that a Northeastern customer arrived in Yalong City on Hailan Island and saw a high-end restaurant that only accepted foreigners. He was dissatisfied and called the other restaurant owner a traitor.
In fact, these trolls really don’t understand. As a high-end restaurant in a Chinese tourist city, what’s wrong with only accepting foreign tourists? Doesn’t this mean that it knows its prices are expensive and is looking for foreigners to rip off customers?
There are very few rich people in China who really come to Yalong City to show off. With that kind of money, who wouldn’t spend it abroad?
The consumption choices in the tourism industry do not represent the quality of services and the beauty of the scenery. That is, distance produces beauty, and it is an economy where "one group of people spend a lot of money to go to a place where another group is tired of living".
Therefore, even if Hailan Island is built as an "international tourist island", and no matter how well Yalong City is built, it should be positioned to "attract rich people from old age and Japanese Nanbang to come and play", and it cannot be used for "
We hope that wealthy people in this country will not go abroad if they want to see high-quality tropical beaches.”
Because there is no scarcity, there is no pretentiousness. People do it not for the scenery, but for the coolness. There is no scarcity in our own country. The further away we are, the more scarcity there is.
When the distance between all the countries on the earth cannot establish a threshold for showing off wealth in the circle of friends, you can only challenge the extreme harsh environment. For example, the 300,000-level Mount Everest climb, Antarctic tour, and so on that became popular after 2016.
As for Mount Everest, there is a lot of traffic jams.
All Gu Kun can do is to make "since the Chinese people still have to spend most of their show-off money on foreigners no matter how hard the country tries, it would be better to spend it on this specific foreigner."
Spending money on travel to Lanzhou is not only better than spending money on other foreign travel, it is also better than spending money on French Italian luxury goods.
In fact, the underlying logic of the luxury goods industry and the cultural tourism industry is the same. They are just for show. The real value of the goods is actually very small, so 90% of the value comes from value hype and "the cliques that define the upper class society."
Translated in human terms, it means "the right to speak to define who is a wealthy person."
Lin Ying watched Gu Kun point out Jiang Shan and scold Fang Qiu, and felt intoxicated in her heart: "People in the world don't understand you, it's because they are all heartless people, why should you care."
Her tone of voice was so gentle, just like in Brigitte Lin's version of "The Swordsman", Xue Qianxun was comforting Dongfang Bubai, don't care about the bunch of heartless people in "the world".
Is my husband called a scumbag? Haha, that’s for the common people of the world, the country and the country!
There was nothing she could do about it, she was already a die-hard fan of Gu Kun.
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After getting rid of the pent-up pressure of the past few days, Gu Kun finally returned to a state of complete mental clarity before the battle.
There are only ten days left before the competition, so he refuses to socialize with any guests and concentrates on training. Apart from coach Chen and training partner Luo, only physical therapists and nutritionists have contact with him every day.
On July 14, the official opening day of the Olympic Games, the Lanzhou team will of course also participate.
Only Gu Kun and Luo Haili formed a delegation. The leader, Luo Haili, was responsible for holding the flag, while Gu Kun followed behind, holding a bouquet and waving when passing by the audience table.
Because the opening ceremony was broadcast live to the whole world, in order not to be embarrassed, Gu Kun and Luo Haili got up early early and practiced the goose step for half an hour to ensure that the pace and rhythm were consistent.
Don’t think that “training for only half an hour for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games” is rash. There are only two people in the Lanzhou team. It’s too easy for two people to follow the same pace. A half-hour rehearsal is enough to give face.
"Kacha kacha~" With the flashing of the spotlight, Gu Kun finally appeared in front of audiences around the world in a global live broadcast for the first time.
CNN's TV host explained in fluent English: "The team coming to us now is the Lanfang Islands team. The Lanfang Islands are new members of the International Olympic Committee this year and are also the 191st member of the International Olympic Committee.
But we must not underestimate the Lanfang Islands team. The only athlete of the Lanfang Islands team, Gu Kun, is a world-class athlete who broke 9 swimming events and 24 world records at last year's World University Games.
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Let’s wait and see how the Lanfang Islands team performs in this competition.”
Gu Kun waved a bouquet and greeted the camera gracefully. That action was actually no different from other athletes.
However, there were a bunch of other athletes waving together, so it looked like they were working part-time, and the one in the stands was the boss. But Gu Kun was the only one waving, and the scene looked more like he was inspecting the nobles in the stands.