King of Hollywood

Chapter 162 Shearing Sheep

On the street, there was a long queue that could not be seen at a glance, as if it could go to Long Beach. The men and women in the line vv were talking excitedly or agitatedly, stretching their necks to look at the entrance of the theater from time to time, hoping to buy movie tickets. However, when it was finally the turn of a child V, the theater staff put up a notice that the tickets were sold out.

The smile disappeared from the girl's face immediately, followed by a loud protest with her boyfriend, which immediately caused a commotion in the queue behind, and many people who had been in the queue for a long time also rushed up and shouted dissatisfiedly. Although they were very excited and impatient, the theater staff still explained patiently, and it seemed that they had dealt with such scenes many times.

Indeed, this kind of thing is happening all over the United States during this period, and who else but "Titanic" caused all this? Among the late but unanimously applauded film reviews, coupled with the fact that the promotional work of the film has never stopped, the film has already begun to ferment thoroughly. Although the horrible high box office situation in the second week did not reappear, it has been stable all the time, and it continues to occupy the top spot on the North American box office list.

Even so, it still swept the box office of the current schedule, and many film companies have delayed the release of their works to avoid the edge of "Titanic".

"I like this movie so much. If possible, I might watch it again." A male audience who watched this movie for the second time said so excitedly in an interview.

"Titanic" was also screened in Europe soon, and similarly, a sensation was inevitable, especially in the UK, where there was a long queue like the US, wanting to see the true appearance of this level of production as soon as possible. The media also sang praises. After all, when the Titanic was launched, the British Empire was at its peak, and the British were actually very nostalgic.

"This is a romantic but tear-jerking disaster love movie." There was such a comment in "The Times". With the help of these guys, "Titanic" became more and more popular in the UK.

Although the European Continent is not so exaggerated, it has also aroused considerable enthusiasm. This work that fully demonstrates film technology, those, when young people gather to have a party, if the discussion of the plot is not suitable, it will be absolutely inferior. It turned out that those who ridiculed Adrian's complete Hollywoodization temporarily shut their mouths. This movie has a good height in terms of story and art, and swept all those jerky European art movies into the corner. go.

"Titanic" is so popular, and they can't talk about the box office - no matter how huge the investment is, when the movie is a hit, no one in their right mind will say that before it goes offline. thing. So in the end, I can only choose to swallow my anger, and at most say a few unpleasant words, such as——

"It is not so much Cameron's victory as it is the victory of computer special effects. It is basically the credit of these technologies to give people an immersive feeling." This is a comment in the French "Liberation". Sour but pretending to be disdainful, it fits the French personality very well.

Adrian is well aware of these situations. Although he is quite confident in "Titanic", and the current box office has proved this, he still ordered Charlize to sort out the news related to the movie, and after a certain amount, he will give it to He looks. Moreover, as an investor, during this period of time, he was often questioned by reporters. The director and leading actor have received all kinds of attention. How could he, an investor who gambled with a huge sum of 200 million yuan, be let go, let alone a miracle? Directors and the like are already household names.

However, Adrian didn't take these things to heart. The current popularity of "Titanic" is enough to swell the faces of those guys at the beginning. Don't you see, even those gossip tabloids can only make fuss about other aspects, and don't mention the huge investment at all? As long as the sales continue like this, who cares what they think. The only regret is that almost no one realizes that the era of special effects occupying the mainstream of movies is coming.

So now he is devoting most of his thoughts to the post-production of "The Matrix". In addition, he is also supervising the preparations for "Shakespeare in Love" and "Elizabeth". If everything goes well and nothing unexpected happens—— For example, the costumes in line with the era and the production of the set have been completed, etc.-it can be launched in the UK by mid-August at most.

The main work of "The Matrix" is on editing and special effects. The former has to wait for the editor to complete the preliminary editing before Adrian will complete the Taiqi editing by himself, while the latter has been entrusted to Industrial Light \u0026 Magic—he I really want to give it to Cameron's studio, but Cameron's team has not recovered from the devilish late stage of "Titanic", and their morale is not too high, so they just can give up.

As long as Generation A is clear about these two tasks, even across the Atlantic Ocean, the supervision work will be troublesome at best. If Adrian moves fast enough, maybe the filming of the two films will be completed, and the later stage will be released at the end of the year. Anyway, the schedules of Gwyneth and Blanchett have already been reserved.

Speaking of Gwyneth, her father's invitation is not a big deal, Adrian can basically guess what the other party wants to say, after all, his 1a1a son's name is now known to almost everyone in the entertainment circle, and He has an affair with many v people, and his v daughter is one of them. Bruce Paltrow will definitely not be too happy.

"Excuse me, Adrian, I want to know where Gwynne is in your heart." After dinner, Bruce Paltrow invited Adrian to sit in the study, and then asked.

"Unfortunately, Bruce, I can't give you or Gwynnie any promises." Adrian was straightforward.

The old Paltrow's face suddenly became a little ugly, but before he could speak, Adrian continued: "I like Gwynnie very much, she is very cute, sexy and beautiful Taobao.com Women's Tmall Taobao mall Taobao women's winter coat M will be tempted by any man, and I am no exception, I am still very happy when I am with her."

"I think you probably say this kind of thing often, Mr. Adrian." The old Paltrow sarcastically said somewhat unceremoniously.

"No, I only say this to those who are worth cherishing." Adrian shrugged, then raised his hand to stop the other party from speaking, "I can only say this, Bruce, as long as Gwynnie is by my side One day, I will try to make her feel happy and satisfied. If one day she gets tired and wants to leave, I will never stop her."

The old Paltrow was a little angry for a while, staring at Adrian speechless, he immediately stood up: "For the time being, let me leave first, you have enough time to think, and you and Gwynnie a But, no matter what, please don't accuse her severely and reprimand her, she still loves you very much. "

The above is the conversation in the old Paltrow's study that day. Although Bruce Paltrow and his wife are not big figures in the circle, they still have some contacts, otherwise Spielberg would not be allowed to be Gwyneth Silk's godfather. If it were Adrian who was young, he would definitely not be able to talk to him like this, but now...

Old Paltrow is neither a fool nor a stubborn one. Although he is very dissatisfied with Adrian's attitude and does not know whether his words are true or not, but V is obviously infatuated with him, so he didn't treat Gwyneth. Si said something about prohibiting contact, but told her to be careful while sighing.

"What the hell did you talk about in the study?" Gwyneth asked later. "Dad always had a scowl after that."

"It's nothing, I just expressed my determination to keep his baby v by my side, as well as the necessary respect." Adrian replied with a smile, "He's probably unhappy about something."

I don't need to say what it will be.

"Ha, if I invited Kate to participate that day, would the scene be more interesting?" Gwyneth said suddenly, holding her face.

"Don't be kidding, Gwyneth, even if you invite, Kate won't agree." Adrian laughed and shook his head, if the old Paltrow saw him flirting with Gwyneth and Blanchett If you hug it, maybe the volcano will explode.

But the biggest gain from this matter is Gwyneth's words. Although she said this in a half-joking tone, the thoughts deep in her heart that she didn't even know clearly came out like this. With Adrian making other arrangements for Monica, she basically doesn't fly with Julia now, except for the occasional threesome with Liv and Sarah, and more often Gwyneth and Bran Chet right.

After the specially planned elevator romance, Adrian usually took the initiative to pull them together, and as time passed, they began to become tacit understanding, but the two V people never took the initiative to speak. So when Gwyneth speaks like this, it means that a line has been crossed in her heart again.

The old Paltrow probably just thought that he was keeping ambiguous with different women. If he knew that his wife not only often had sex with another woman under him, but also started to take the initiative, how would he feel about it.

Well, while Adrian is working on two new movies after just finishing The Matrix, that's still a while away, and there's one more important thing going on that needs his attention right now - shearing the sheep.

As early as the end of June, the Thai baht had already started to become unstable. The Thai government tried its best but it didn't work much, so it collapsed just after entering July. Soros led the international hot money to cross the border like locusts, looting the wealth accumulated in Thailand over the years.

Then, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan all became unstable, and the Thai baht crisis began to turn into a financial crisis in Southeast Asia, which may further turn into a financial crisis in Asia.

"I don't recommend reaching out to Hong Kong." This is what Adrian said after dragging Claude out of his busy schedule.

"Why?" Claude was slightly stunned, just now he was happily describing his gains in the Thai baht crisis.

"Hong Kong is more troublesome than those countries in Southeast Asia." Adrian considered his words.

"I don't think that the Hang Seng Index has fallen below the 10,000 mark, unless someone invests an unprecedented amount of money, but which fool has the ability to fight against so much money?" Crowder shrugged.

"Really not?" Adrian asked back.

"At least I can't figure it out..." Claude stopped suddenly when he said this, and raised his head thoughtfully after a few seconds, "You mean...the Chinese government?"

"You know, their system is different from ours. If necessary, they can help Hong Kong with the whole country at any time. No matter how much capital Soros has behind him, he can't compete with a country." Adrian said word by word.

"This breaks the rules, we can apply pressure from other places." Claude said, rubbing his chin.

"Come on, Crowe, China is not Indonesia." Adrian laughed.

Indonesia is also in Southeast Asia and is one of Soros' targets, so the Indonesian rupiah has also been hit. The Indonesian government is still relatively smart and wants to maintain a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar to maintain the situation, but how could the financiers who have raised their knives and forks allow them to do so. The International Monetary Fund immediately issued a warning that if this would withdraw aid to it, the United States and Western Europe also unanimously opposed it. Coupled with various means, the Indonesian government had to give up this plan, so the Indonesian rupiah is already on the verge of faltering .

This is the fate of countries that fully open up their financial industry and even give the responsibility to experts from other countries. If they take advantage of it, they will pay a price.

However, it is precisely this crisis that has severely damaged Indonesia's vitality, coupled with various factors, so next year...

Whenever he thinks of this, Adrian's face will be somewhat hazy, but unfortunately he can't and doesn't want to do too much. The cause of this matter is too complicated, there are many historical factors, and it is so densely intertwined that it is impossible to simply say who does not act, it is difficult to sort it out, and he really does not want to pursue these things. So what can be done is to arrange for a more passionate young reporter affiliated with net who has been brainwashed by mainstream American values ​​to go to Jakarta. I haven't fully realized it yet, but Adrian is all too aware of the power of the Internet.

But that's all there is to it, don't forget who he is now, if you accidentally put yourself in it, that would be the most stupid thing.

Well, let's get back to Hong Kong.

"The Chinese know very well that we set the rules. If we act according to the rules, we will only be played by us." Adrian continued, "They may not be able to make rules, but they are absolutely capable of breaking them, such as the International Monetary Fund. We have reached an understanding with them on pegging the renminbi to the U.S. dollar, so even if we attack them in the media for violating financial freedom, it will not help. "

There was a pause here, and when Claude digested his words, Adrian continued: "Make a very simple assumption, if the Chinese government announces that the RMB will not depreciate, what will happen? Even return some What will happen if Southeast Asian countries provide assistance? Of course, we can find ways to coerce each other, but at most it will be a draw. Since we can't get any benefits, why must we go to Hong Kong?"

He let out a long breath. Although he was a little nervous, he still looked at Claude with calm eyes. The flickering this time is no easier than persuading Claude to join the team. At that time, Claude didn't know much about IT, so he could naturally give a passionate speech, but finance is what Claude is best at. If If you sell it casually, you will pay yourself out instead.

So he simply used the method of leaving blank to roughly mention a sentence in an important place, and let Claude make up the rest, so that many things can be avoided.

"It seems," Claude opened his mouth slowly after thinking for a long time, "You are not ignorant of these."

Facing his smiling appearance, Adrian couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

"Well, I admit, there is some truth in what you said..."

"If you think there is a problem, you can choose to sit on the sidelines, Crowe." Adrian said quickly, "It doesn't have to be a lot of money in Hong Kong, how about being a bystander and taking a closer look?"

After a pause, seeing that Claude had no interface, he said again: "In short, our goal is to focus on Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan and other countries."

"You seem to have forgotten something, Ed," Claude suddenly reminded, "and Russia."

"No, no, Claude, Hong Kong we can still judge the situation by watching from the sidelines to make more money, but it is best not to touch Russia." Adrian shook his head and denied his statement.

"Oh?" Claude looked at him puzzled.

"Let's put it this way, we have entered the market, we have used all the techniques used in Southeast Asian countries, we are seeing the harvest, and then—" Adrian looked at Claude with a smile, "Russia announced that the ruble is unlimited Depreciation, what do you think will happen in the end?"

"Are you sure?" Claude raised his eyebrows immediately.

"I'm not sure, but after the disintegration, Russia has been so bad that it couldn't be worse. It's at the bottom of hell. What if it goes a little lower?" Adrian spread his hands, although he didn't understand it well in his previous life. It's too much, but I still have an impression of Russia's trick of hurting others and hurting itself. Soros was also hurt by this trick.

"Okay, I see, I will pay attention." Claude said after pinching his fingers.

Although his answer was not so certain, Adrian did not emphasize again that Claude has his own opinions, not to mention that this is what he is good at. Anyway, I will intervene at any time, and even if it takes time to involve Russia, Claude is also very careful. After all, this is related to the further development of the group, so let's just leave it at that.

This is the most important thing that Adrian is most concerned about at present. Besides, there is another thing that is not as important as this one, but it still has some weight. Christina Aguilera will sing the theme song of "Charlie's Angels" . f

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