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In the imagination and understanding of many people in this world, the financial industry and the securities industry are relatively mysterious. Practitioners are basically synonymous with high education and high IQ, and they are all high-level existences. [Fights Break the Sphere]

This is a kind of cognitive bias. According to those professional senior stock brokers, finance does not need to be professional, but it needs to be very smart, but if smartness is not used on the right path, it is a rogue who becomes a financial elite , This is nothing special, finance and securities is an industry that is easy to go astray.

The financial industry at the bottom of Wall Street has very low barriers to entry. Practitioners at the bottom do all physical work, and those who can do technical work are elites at the top.

If you think about it, you will know, what special technology is needed for such a job as attracting customers? I just keep calling to attract clients every day. The financial background is just to be able to use some technical terms to fool clients when attracting clients. It sounds more professional and easier to attract clients.

Reliable companies will have a technical team to analyze, and the buying and selling points are still well-founded. Unreliable companies will try their best to let customers buy and sell after they get customers, and get the handling fee themselves. Of course, the more transactions the better.

So don't think that the elites in the financial industry, especially the account managers, go from ordinary dogs who pull customers to account managers, that is, from fools to big fools.

In the 1970s and 1980s in the United States, due to the lack of government supervision and ▲▲, x. restrictions on science and technology, this Jordan Belfort situation was very common and an absolute financial fraud, but the investigation was too difficult, and the related Laws and regulations are not perfect.

Just like Jordan Belfort, how do you regulate communications, accounts and account assets in an era when even major transactions are still done with paper money and telephones?

But since the mid-to-late 1990s, especially the rapid development of electronic computers since the beginning of the new century, this method has completely become obsolete. [Gate of Mysterious Realm]

In particular, the new high-frequency trading strategy uses cutting-edge computers to trade at one-tenth, one-hundredth, one-thousandth, or even one-millionth of a second. Jordan Belfort's fraud and The trading method has basically become history.

"Jordan Belfort's intermediary company is not considered the most elite layer in the financial industry, because strictly speaking they are only intermediaries, earning intermediary commissions."

After Gal Gadot read the script, Murphy said, "There is a saying that 'only those who are close to the money can make money', so it is said that the most profitable on Wall Street will almost never be this kind of intermediary agency. But they win in stability, and the myth of getting rich overnight is mostly a trader, a fund manager, a private equity, or a venture capital investment. However, it is also this group of people who went bankrupt overnight. The real elites in the financial world are typical Making a lot of money, a private equity with a scale of hundreds of millions of dollars, outside of practitioners, even many practitioners have never heard of it.”

Gal Gadot nodded and said, "I remember a sentence in Jordan Belfort's original book, 'When a big company like Merrill Lynch enters us, we will have no chance."

"They are incomparable to Merrill Lynch." Murphy would not be so stupid as to think that this "Wolf of Wall Street" would really be the master of Wall Street.

Although Jordan Belfort has achieved a considerable scale, the amount of fraud in the end was only more than 100 million U.S. dollars. Even if inflation is considered, it will not exceed 500 million U.S. dollars at most. Compared with real financial giants, it is still much worse.

Finance is a kind of wealth redistribution, not wealth creation. It is a zero-sum game. To put it bluntly, it is how to put money from other people's pockets into one's own pocket.

Murphy still remembers that when he was in college, when he was studying the stock market and studying finance, the three characters were high, big, and high.

An alumnus who graduated before him couldn't find a suitable job in the film and television industry because of the mediocre relationship between their schools. Later, he was approached by a friend and lured to a securities company to become a broker. [Indestructible Dragon Emperor]

The basic salary of 1800rmb during the internship period,

There was no commission for the first three months. He worked for one year and nine months. The most he earned in one month was 60,000 yuan. At the worst time, he was hunted down by clients and dared not go out for dinner.

The guy who started his job was to make phone calls. He made calls according to the list provided by the company. The list was bought from real estate companies and car 4S stores in major first- and second-tier cities. After two months of phone calls, he was transferred to work as a customer service officer. Flickering among the penguins.

The company has a group of ex-traders like Jordan Belfort who have been crowned with various awesome titles. They are called mentors...

In some respects, Jordan Belfort's autobiography is not wrong to say thugs, rascals, hooligans, thieves, liars...

In the words of the other side of the Pacific, flickering has always been a very profitable skill.

In any case, with the assistance of Wall Street professionals, Murphy and his screenwriting team successfully completed the scenes about finance and securities in the script.

Murphy also completely set the tone of the future film, a dark comedy of extreme wildness and irony.

In the following time, the hired screenwriters continued to fill in the content within the outline framework he set, and Murphy revised the beginning of the script, changing the original sequential narrative to the previous flashback technique. I have to admit that this A biographical film is more suitable to use flashbacks to narrate.

Generally speaking, what the opening shot describes is the beginning of the movie's story, but just as there are flashbacks in the narrative technique, there are also flashbacks in the opening shot of the movie.

Some films will deliberately intercept a certain segment in the middle of the story development and put it at the beginning. As for the later stories, it will gradually transition to this segment and explain the follow-up story of this segment, which is quite a meandering path.

The advantage of this method is that it can enrich the story structure of the film, create more dramatic conflicts and tensions, and also help mobilize the audience's thinking, so that the audience will not feel bored because the plot is simple and easy to understand.

At the same time, Murphy is still considering actors. After communicating several times with Robert Downey Jr. and Jonah Hill, it is basically confirmed that these two people will play Jordan Belfort and his buddy Doni Azoff respectively.

However, the specific remuneration has to wait for 20th Century Fox to review the project and formally determine the investment amount of the film before discussing it in detail.

With the corresponding worth of Robert Downey Jr. and Jonah Hill, the combined salary of these two people is 20 million US dollars is enough.

It was busy until mid-March, when the first draft of the script was announced to be completed. Since Murphy only provided the outline template, most of the actual content was the responsibility of the hired screenwriters. This kind of streamlined screenwriting can undoubtedly greatly improve efficiency And save time, but the final review must be checked by Murphy so that problems can be discovered in time.

Like this kind of script produced by the assembly line, the leader must check himself.

The first item in the self-examination is the protagonist. Murphy will check all the scenes that the protagonist participated in, and check whether the protagonist Jordan Belfort is active enough in the plot written by the screenwriters. The protagonist of a movie must firmly grasp the control, Never giving up the fight, a passive protagonist can never captivate the audience.

This can be said to be one of the foundations of character creation. Even Frodo Baggins, who was tricked by Gandalf, became active at King Elrond's meeting.

Not to mention Hollywood, which has an extremely mature industrial chain, even the other side of the Pacific knows how to follow this basic principle. For example, in the famous "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", Big Big Wolf is very popular because he has a Character traits: Never give up, be proactive, always insist on your goal and never waver, that is, to catch the sheep.

Even if he is hit, interrupted or thwarted by various things, Big Big Wolf will not give up his goal of catching sheep, so there will be a voice in the market that if you marry a man, marry Big Big Wolf, which is actually in line with his relatively successful personality. Shaping is inseparable.

In the second aspect of self-examination, Murphy must ensure that Jordan Belfort can always appear in the audience's sight, even if he is not in some scenes, but the story is still related to him.

If the supporting characters spend more time with the audience than the main character, then it's time to consider writing a script for the supporting characters, and the film will probably fail.

Then there is the dialogue of all the characters, that is, the lines. Murphy asked each screenwriter to read the lines they were responsible for writing aloud, both to him and to themselves. If all the dialogue sounds like With one person talking, that script definitely needs an overhaul.

After seeing the main character, the supporting characters should not be ignored. This is also the link that Murphy focused on when setting the outline template. Even the supporting characters must have a specific personality that attracts the audience, which will greatly improve the overall level of the script.

Finally, Murphy had lawyer Robert review the script to find out where it touched on legal issues related to Jordan Belfort.

The other is to avoid some copyright conflicts.

Script writing itself is a kind of commercial activity. The writing process does not have complete originality, or is clean, and the possibility of personal inspiration is very small. Hollywood scripts are streamlined, and the structure of most works is actually They are all similar, for example, a very weak protagonist, through hard work, obtained various opportunities, and finally stood in the high-end field of society...

There is no old or new in its entire patterns and routines, only the differences in details, such as the protagonist's personality, behavior patterns, and opportunities encountered, are presented to the audience bit by bit in what way.

With Robert, an experienced lawyer, in this regard, there would basically not be too many problems.

After reviewing the script, Murphy immediately sent it to Carafes, and 20th Century Fox went through the review process. Before the review was completed, someone specifically approached Murphy to invest in the film. (To be continued.)

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