Three Hundred and Twenty-Nine-I Don’t Play Finance
After a simple dinner provided by the hotel, Wayne went back to the bedroom early, holding the South African diamond in his arms to prepare for an early rest. After getting off the plane, he rushed to the set. At noon, he had another big fight, which made him feel exhausted. Use some strength.
"Honey, please plan to stay for a few days when you come here this time."
Charlize Theron was wearing pajamas, sitting in front of the makeup mirror, applying lotion on her face with her hands, and suddenly looked back at Wayne who was leaning on the bedside and asked.
He raised his head and looked at the South African diamond, thought about it, and said: "Tomorrow at the earliest and the day after tomorrow at the latest, preparations for a new film will begin in Los Angeles soon, and I have to go back to host it."
"Ah, you are leaving so soon?" The woman looked surprised, lifted the quilt and got into his arms, adjusted her posture, and rested her head on his chest comfortably.
Raising his hand to gently stroke the woman's hair, Wayne looked at her and smiled. "I came here this time just to see the progress of Zach's filming. Since everything is going well, there is no point in me staying here. I will go to the studio tomorrow to check it out. If there are no surprises, I will go directly to the airport after everything is done."
As he spoke, his other hand skillfully slipped into the woman's pajamas and began to wander under the quilt.
"Hey."
Charlize Theron raised her head from his chest, bumped his chin lightly, looked into his eyes without hesitation, and rolled her eyes. "Honey, isn't the madness at noon enough? I have a very important scene tomorrow, so don't torture me."
"Okay, I will be gentler..."
After one night, when Wayne opened his eyes again, he was alone on the bed. He reached out and found the watch on the bedside table. When he held it in front of his eyes and looked at the time, he realized that he had slept for nearly ten hours.
I haven't touched a woman for several months, I overplayed it and overslept.
"Boss, are you awake?"
The bedroom door was knocked by the assistant lady from outside. "It's already nine o'clock, and we still have to go to the set."
"Ha..." Covering his mouth and yawning, Wayne lifted the quilt and said loudly while getting dressed: "I'll be right away. You and Sergey pack your bags. We'll go directly to the airport from the set in the afternoon."
He walked into the bathroom, took a simple shower, took the two of them in the car arranged by the hotel, and went straight to the studio in the suburbs.
Different from what happened yesterday, the entire crew was busy today. In the largest studio, Zack Snyder had already started shooting.
In the venue is Li Guohao's action scene. This kind of shot always looks coherent, but the shooting is very short. Sometimes it takes less than two seconds for a shot to be stopped by Zack Snyder.
Wayne did not go over to disturb their normal work, but stood outside the crowd, leaning in front of the studio door and watching carefully.
In the action scenes being filmed now, except for the scenes of the male protagonist Neo, almost everyone else appears as a stand-in. Especially when I saw Charlize Theron’s stand-in turned out to be a bearded man wearing a tight leather jacket, I immediately thought His eyes were stagnant.
Recalling the leather jacket game, and looking at the bearded man performing seriously in the venue, he decided never to play this game with the South African diamond again, otherwise he would think of this stuntman every time, which would affect his mood too much. It will also leave a psychological shadow.
In fact, this is the case for all Hollywood crews. Action scenes are usually performed by stunt doubles. Even if the main characters are very skilled, the director will be cautious about such performances.
If the main character performer is injured, the consequences will be much more serious than if a stunt team member is injured. Slowing down the filming progress of the crew is equivalent to an invisible increase in production costs. For such a large group of hundreds of people, the daily expenses are not a small number.
As a stand-in for Teti, who is at the bottom of the industry, he doesn't have so many worries. Even if there is an accident, the crew will pay some compensation according to the contract, and the filming will never stop. There is never a shortage of such low-level staff.
In 2011, when Jet-li was filming "The Expendables 2", his stuntman Liu Kun died accidentally while filming an explosion scene. The stuntman was only 26 years old at the time, but his family only received 160,000 yuan in compensation. Note, it is RMB.
In movies like "The Expendables", there are always a lot of explosion scenes. For safety reasons, even if you want to shoot it yourself, the director and producer will not agree. Even though Jet-li has very few scenes, it's okay. Safety protocols must be followed.
The contract signed between his stunt double and the crew was different. According to the terms written in black and white on the contract, the crew only had to compensate the life of 166,000 yuan. A young life was taken away by the crew with just this amount of money.
In fact, this kind of thing is not uncommon. As long as the crew of a commercial action film does not have the slightest problem during filming, it is simply delusional.
"Why doesn't Lee use a substitute?" Sergey stared at the action guides curiously, looking eager to try, and muttered. "Although he fought beautifully, I still feel that such an action cannot help me punch him."
"That's not necessarily true..." Wayne shook his head gently, watching Li Guohao and others patting each other. "He had a great father, and he was the man who could make New York amend the Constitution just by watching a TV show."
As he spoke, he waved to Luke Simmons, waited for him to approach and said, "Luke, I'll leave this to you. I'll go back to Los Angeles right away. If you need anything, call me anytime. I won't disturb Zach's work." ”
"No problem, I'll send you off?"
Wayne patted his arm and shook his head. "Forget it, the hotel has sent a driver, just go ahead and get busy."
When they came to Australia this time, they found that everything went smoothly. They came in a hurry and left in a hurry. They got on the return plane before the afternoon.
For the "Matrix" project, Wayne did not put much effort into it. He is also a normal person and cannot ask for everything. Since he does not have time to make this classic, leaving this series to his own people is the best choice now.
In fact, no matter in the commercial field or in terms of reputation, "The Matrix" was once his choice for himself. If this series is not shot wrong, it is destined to be recorded in film history. Even if it is more than ten or twenty years later, there will be no shortage of fans. Talk about it with relish.
But people are always making choices. No one can take advantage of all the good things. Since I have chosen to compete for the Olympics next year, I will definitely not have the time and energy to produce "The Matrix" again. I really want to leave it to He would definitely not be willing to accept that pair of brothers (sisters).
Judging from Wayne's current situation, this film is useless to him. If he wants commercial success, it is better to make a superhero directly. If he wants academic recognition, this film will definitely not be as good as "The Departed".
The plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport. As soon as they left the terminal, before Sergey's car came over, Nina answered the phone and looked at Wayne with a smile on her face.
"Boss, Colin called me and said that $90 million has been transferred to Greenberg Studio's account. Warner Bros. is moving very quickly."
Wayne nodded with a smile on his face. It is always pleasant when money is made. "You follow the plan and transfer the money to the charity fund first, and I will notify you of the rest."
"Colin wanted to call you, but I refused."
Nina opened the door and got into the car, while continuing: "Our accountant seems to have other ideas and wants to convince you personally."
Taking out a bottle of water from the car refrigerator, Wayne raised his head and took a few sips, and asked casually: "What does he want to do? You can tell him directly next time, no matter how good the Internet market is now, I will still use this money." "
"It's not the Internet, it's finance." Nina knew in her heart that this was one of the fastest ways to make money, and now her boss was indeed qualified to sit at this card table.
If the stocks of Internet companies that sell concepts are like a sickle to cut the leeks of ordinary people, then finance is like a harvester. There is no comparability between the two.
Of course, if you want to play this game, you must pay some price to buy tickets for the table, otherwise the Jewish Wall Street bosses will not contact them through Colin.
Wayne's face darkened when he heard about finance. "What did Colin say?"
"There are people who want to talk to you who are interested in Warner Bros. and the film industry."
"Pushed." Without any hesitation, he immediately gave his answer. "Tell Colin Howard, I won't touch things that I can't control, even if I make money."
The assistant lady smiled and showed a look that she had known for a long time. "I have rejected him for you."
Wayne nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm not short of money, and I won't give up money in the future. There's no need to participate in that kind of game. Nina, you have to remember that there are really no good people in this circle, including myself. But finance, huh, I still have I don’t want to go to hell after death.”
We are still in the mid-1990s. From the perspective of ordinary people in this era, finance is nothing special. People only understand this industry as a group of money-playing people.
But in another twenty years, many people will slowly begin to understand, and they will find that finance has become a nightmare for people all over the world. If you compare who has committed more sins in this world, and those who commit more sins will go to hell, you will find that those at the bottom of hell, without exception, are almost all in finance.
Even the executioners who have killed countless people are probably not as bad as these financial guys.
The first step for financial institutions to play with society is to create social demand. They will make ordinary people lack money. They will create credit cards and various loans for you, and use all the names you claim they gave you to let ordinary people go. Have a life that you couldn’t enjoy before.
This leaves only one topic, borrowing money from him, then borrowing money from him will lead to an increase in the needs of ordinary people, and then the producers who meet the needs of ordinary people will also be short of money, so they will also need to borrow money from him.
Now the West is almost in this strange circle. That is, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the present, it has only done one thing in the past five hundred years, which is to allow financiers to expand the world's needs and then deprive the world of its wealth.
This is the main reason why 42% of families in North America cannot afford one dollar, and 60% of families cannot afford one thousand yuan.
This is also the so-called solidification of class. Whether an 18-year-old North American child wants to go to school or work, he has only one way, and that is a loan.
When he takes out a loan to go to school, buy a car, and buy a house, he suddenly discovers that his life is inseparable from loans and credit cards. His habit of excessive consumption will change his life. I couldn't get a penny out, and my days were spent in constant repayment.
But ordinary people don't know that the money lent by financial institutions to go to school, buy houses, buy cars, and credit cards is all leveraged by financiers. Wall Street is the center of this game that exploits ordinary people, and the financiers are also the rule makers of the game that exploit ordinary people.