Resource Tycoon Reborn

Chapter 193: Some people are happy and some are worried

There are many interesting things on the set of "Terminator 2".

For example, there are two sets of twins in the crew, one is Linda Hamilton. In the kindergarten in Sarah's dream in the film, the smiling Sarah holding her child is actually Linda Hamilton, who plays Sarah.

The twin sister played by Leslie Hamilton. The two of them also worked together in the ending of Terminator 2, in which Linda played the fake Sarah that the T-1000 transformed into, while Leslie played the real Sarah.

The other pair is the fat policeman in the lunatic asylum in the film. He was later killed by T-1000. In the film, T-1000 turned into a fat policeman. When the two people were in the same scene, it was not a computer stunt because they were

They are also twins. This is how Cameron solved the problem of high technology in the eyes of many people.

Many of the supporting characters in the film were not originally actors. For example, Cameron's brother, whom I mentioned earlier, played a guest role as a soldier in the opening scene. There is also Cameron's Japanese friend who had to appear in the film.

In it, he plays an unlucky guy who was affected by the gunfight. Arnold's manager guest-starred as one of the doctors who visited Sarah. The fat policeman who was ordered to jump off the helicopter by the T-1000 was a technician on the set.

The actor who plays the guard of the Cipotin Company is the action coach of Edward Furlong, who plays John.

"Although the investment amount should be sufficient for now, I can't rule out the possibility that more will be needed in the future, so I can save some. Besides, everyone is very excited about being able to invest 100 million in the first film in the history of the world's movies.

I'm very interested in appearing in a US dollar movie, so it's hard for me to refuse." Cameron replied casually. This saves costs and pleases the crew members. If you don't do it, you'd be crazy.

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With Fang Mingyuan joining, the filming speed of the "Terminator 2" crew has been accelerated a lot. However, the crew members often see a strange scene. Fang Mingyuan dances and gestures to Cameron, and then the two argue fiercely.

Then the shooting process of the next set of shots was determined. And during the shooting process, Cameron would sometimes pay attention to Fang Mingyuan's expression to decide whether to reshoot. This was very important to the crew members of "Terminator 2"

To us, this is a big gossip.

Although James Cameron in the 1990s cannot yet be called the uncompromising Hollywood "tyrant" that he will be in later generations, his basic characteristics have gradually emerged. This is the so-called saying that a country is easy to change, but its nature is hard to change.

After these days of filming, these crew members have experienced his bad temper. Therefore, they were particularly surprised that Cameron could tolerate Fang Mingyuan interfering with them during the filming process.

In fact, if it were another person, then the Cameron he faced was definitely the prototype of a "tyrant" in the eyes of the public. However, facing Fang Mingyuan, Cameron was particularly tolerant. Because from the beginning of the two people's acquaintance,

, when discussing the script, Cameron had a vague feeling that Fang Mingyuan's thoughts, ideas, and ideas often came to his heart, making him feel that that was what he had always wanted to express, and

It is also something in line with his own directorial style. It is almost like borrowing Fangyuan's words to express those things that he has been thinking about but has not yet formed specific contents. This feeling gives the conversation between Cameron and Fangyuan a kind of

It's an indescribable feeling of pleasure. It's like if you raise your head, the other person will immediately be able to think of a satisfying ending.

After several collaborations on the set, Cameron was even more convinced of his idea, and he was also convinced of his conjecture. As long as there was an assistant director who could understand and perfectly execute Fang Mingyuan's ideas, Fang Mingyuan would be able to make it happen.

He can also be qualified for the position of director, and he will do it better than 80 to 90 percent of directors in Hollywood.

In Cameron's words, Fan Mingyuan was born to be a director. In his mind, it was as if there was a big screen. The movie shots to be shot all had extremely clear images in his mind, and what he wanted to do was very clear.

All that needs to be done is to make the actors in reality consistent with this scene. Regarding this, Fang Mingyuan was wary at first, and then sweated violently. This person's observation ability is so strong that he can actually judge the situation.

With such precision, a good person is indeed a good person.

But precisely because of this reason, it can be said that Cameron regards Fang Mingyuan as his confidant in the film career, and the relationship between the two has always been very harmonious.

Moreover, later generations discovered that in addition to the films that Cameron directed and wrote, Fang Mingyuan served as the screenwriter for most of the films he directed in his lifetime, and all of them were quite good at the box office, including some masterpieces.

During this period, Gore and the senior executives of the Emerald Bird Film Company often appeared on the set of the crew, and they had several seemingly casual conversations with Fang Mingyuan, but in fact they had other intentions. Fang Mingyuan could sense that it seemed that the Emerald Bird Film Company had recently

It seemed like there was going to be some big move, and it might have something to do with him, but I couldn't tell what it was specifically.

However, Fang Mingyuan, who has the right to adapt Michael Crichton's novel, is really not worried about what tricks Kingfisher Films can play. Michael Crichton's novel is no less popular in the United States than

The best-selling books on leadership in China among civil servants are only Michael Crichton's novels, which people are willing to buy, but..., they are forced to buy.

No Hollywood film company will miss the opportunity to win the right to adapt Michael Crichton's novel. Unless the Kingfisher Film Company wants to break up after the filming of "Terminator 2" is completed, otherwise,

There is absolutely no way he can play any tricks that really endanger his own interests. So Fang Mingyuan is happy to sit back and watch what happens.

Uda Mitsuri finally fulfilled her wish and appeared in "Terminator 2". Cameron also took special care of her and gave her several close-up shots, which left a deep impression on the audience.

Come. Moreover, she did not receive the so-called sponsorship fee. Naturally, Uda Mitsuri was very satisfied with this result.

During this period, Fangyuan also took out the script of "True Lies" and gave it to Schwarzenegger, who was fascinated by it. After that, according to Cameron later, Schwarzenegger

Ge came to him excitedly with the script and said that he was very interested in this role and hoped that Cameron would read it. Although Cameron knew that this was Fang Mingyuan's script at the time, he was still very surprised because he had never seen Schwarz.

Singer was so fascinated by the characters in a script that after reading the script, Cameron decided to take over the director's post.

During these days, under the leadership of Cameron, Fang Mingyuan got to know many Hollywood stars and obtained autographs from many people. I believe that taking it back will definitely please Zhao Ya and the others.

On June 17, that is, after Fang Mingyuan stayed in the United States for almost half a month, under the repeated urging of Yu Qiuxia in Hong Kong, Cameron, who had repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay, reluctantly sent them on their way.

Hong Kong plane. Uda Mitsuri stayed in Hollywood and will return to Japan by herself in the future.

After arriving at Hong Kong Airport, Fang Mingyuan and his party were immediately taken to the Guo family's mansion by Yu Qiuxia, where Mr. Guo was waiting for him.

"Crude oil is petroleum, also known as black gold. It is a viscous, dark brown and sometimes green liquid. China is the first country in the world to discover and apply petroleum. As early as nearly a thousand years ago, Shen Kuo, a famous scholar in the Song Dynasty, published

He was the prefect of Yanzhou. During his tenure, he discovered and investigated the oil deposits and uses in Luyan. He left a large amount of written materials. The word "petroleum" as we call it today was also the first to be used by him. However, since modern times,

, China’s policy of seclusion has caused China’s scientific and technological level to lag far behind that of Western countries. Not only has it been difficult to discover large-scale crude oil fields within the country, but also its crude oil utilization technology lags far behind Western countries!” Standing

The middle-aged man in front of Fang Mingyuan and Mr. Guo said sadly.

This middle-aged man is Yu Dongfeng, a Chinese futures trader specially invited from Singapore by Mr. Guo. He can be regarded as a distant relative of Yu Qiuxia's family. Although he is unknown in China, in the futures industry in Southeast Asia, Yu Dongfeng is famous.

, in the past few years, he has repeatedly obtained huge profits from futures contracts such as rubber and oil. If Mr. Guo had not personally come forward to invite him, he would not have been invited to lead a team to trade for Fang Mingyuan and Mr. Guo. But today

, because of Mr. Guo’s request, Yu Dongfeng will systematically explain the knowledge of oil futures to Fang Mingyuan and Mr. Guo in a simple and easy-to-understand way.

Fang Mingyuan knew that mankind officially entered the oil age in a certain year at the end of the 19th century. In this year, the proportion of oil in the primary energy consumption structure reached 40%, while the proportion of coal, the original hegemon, dropped to

It dropped to 38%. This marked the end of the steam era and the beginning of the internal combustion era. The growth of oil demand and the expansion of oil trade resulted from the large-scale use of oil in industrial production. Before World War I, the world

The oil produced by various countries is mainly used for lighting. The main oil-producing countries, the United States and Russia, are also major consumers. However, in World War I, the strategic value of oil has initially emerged. Because oil has high combustion efficiency and is lightweight, it is very useful to all countries.

The improvement of the military's combat effectiveness is of great strategic significance. By the 1920s, as oil became the power of internal combustion engines, global oil demand and trade expanded rapidly. It became the most important part of oil energy.

Petroleum is the "blood of industrial production" and an important strategic material. It is not only the world's main supplier of energy, but also an indispensable and important raw material for the world's materials industry and agriculture. Without oil, these industries and their related industries would be

The development of the world will be fatally threatened. In order to safeguard their own interests, the world's major oil-producing countries established the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, referred to as OPEC, in 1960, with its headquarters in Vienna, the capital of Austria. OPEC's oil reserves account for 10% of the world's total oil reserves.

The reserves are nearly 50%.

"Due to the oil crisis that occurred in the early 1970s, it had a huge impact on the world oil market and the violent fluctuations in oil prices directly led to the creation of oil futures. Since the birth of oil futures, its trading volume has been growing rapidly.

The potential of oil futures has exceeded that of metal futures and is an important part of the international futures market. Oil futures are formulated uniformly by the exchange, which stipulates the delivery of a certain quantity and quality of oil at a specific time and place in the future. It is a standardized contract of futures.

A trading variety in trading. It may be simply understood as futures with forward oil prices as the underlying items. Crude oil futures are the most important oil futures variety. Other oil futures varieties include heating oil, fuel oil, gasoline, light diesel, etc.

..." Yu Dongfeng is obviously extremely familiar with these materials. He doesn't need any written materials at all and just opens his mouth.

Fang Mingyuan and Mr. Guo listened attentively and took notes from time to time. Although they invested huge sums of money in the oil futures market, they really didn't know much about oil futures.

Moreover, neither of them have much spare time during this period of time, so they don't have much time to learn more about oil futures.

Professional matters should be left to professionals. It can be said that the actions of the two perfectly illustrate this sentence. Mr. Guo just informed Yu Dongfeng of Fang Mingyuan's "vision" and asked him to strictly follow this vision to complete the task. As for

Mr. Guo didn't ask a single word about how Yu Dongfeng arranged it and how he achieved his goal.

Yu Dongfeng observed Fang Mingyuan while explaining. Of course he was very familiar with Mr. Guo, but this young man who just appeared here today made him a little confused. Judging from his age, he was said to be Mr. Guo.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a grandson. But judging from the conversation between the two, although this young man respects Mr. Guo from the bottom of his heart, the relationship between the two seems to be equal.

Yes, Yu Dongfeng was quite surprised when he discovered this. Mr. Guo has been in charge of Guo's Shipping Group Company for decades. He has a supreme position that cannot be doubted by others in the Guo family and in the Hong Kong shipping industry.

A young man who doesn't even look twenty years old can actually talk to him on an equal footing! Who is this young man?

To be honest, Mr. Guo's request for Dongfeng this time made Yu Dongfeng a little confused. In his opinion, with the Iran-Iraq War between Iraq and Iran, also known as the First Persian Gulf War, in 1988

With the end of the truce, the Gulf region, which has been filled with war for nearly eight years, finally saw the dawn of peace. During the Iran-Iraq war, the oil production and tanker transportation in the Gulf region that were deeply affected finally gradually got back on track.

In the world futures market, the price of oil is gradually falling significantly, from 21 US dollars per barrel in January to 16 US dollars per barrel today. The oil production of OPEC member states in the Gulf is also rising. But in

At this time, Mr. Guo believed that in the second half of 1990, in August and September, the international price of oil would skyrocket. He insisted on following this idea to conduct futures operations and purchase large quantities of oil futures.

This capital has a natural speculative demand. This does not differ because of the different political systems of various countries. After doing futures for so many years, Yu Dongfeng naturally understands that using the oil futures market can attract a large amount of funds on the one hand, thus providing support for the oil industry.

Development provides the first driving force; on the other hand, using the futures market, traders can avoid the negative effects of international oil price fluctuations on the one hand; on the other hand, they can also obtain more benefits from market price fluctuations through speculative transactions. In the specification

In the market, speculation must be subject to strict supervision and management. Speculators obtain normal economic benefits under the condition of strictly following trading rules. Supervision and management make speculation a tool to regulate the futures market. With the participation of speculators, futures

The trading volume of the market increases, and the market supply and demand relationship can be better adjusted.

But! This does not mean that the oil futures market is a purely free market. In fact, many times, on the surface, everyone is trading freely, but in fact it is controlled by large international fund buyers. The unspoken rule is to buy low.

Sell ​​high and seek huge profits. In various commodity futures markets, international speculators will create, fabricate, fabricate and speculate all kinds of so-called "news" in order to control the price of commodity futures and create excess profits -

This is just like the reasons that market makers in the stock market find to speculate on stocks. For any commodity or listed company, you can find corresponding so-called news or themes, and any news or theme that we find unbelievable, insignificant, or out of reach

As long as the bookmaker needs the event, he will discover it, transform it, arrange it, and spread it. These reshaped events become a powerful weapon for them to control prices, manipulate the market, and make huge profits. In the futures market, there is no doubt that

In the same way, Yu Dongfeng wondered whether Mr. Guo had been influenced by some news to make such a decision.

Yes, in the Gulf region recently, there has been a lot of quarrel between Iraq and Kuwait over oil prices, production, territorial disputes between the two countries and the Iraqi debt held by Kuwait. But Yu Dongfeng does not think that Iraq has

Have the guts to launch a brazen war against Kuwait like they did against Iran.

Iran was attacked by Iraq, superficially, because of the territorial dispute between the two countries, but fundamentally, it was because of the ambitions of the leaders of the two countries, and because Iraq and other Arab countries were worried about Iran's 1979

The armed regime produced by the February Revolution spread to surrounding areas. In this process, the United States also played an important role-the United States provided arms to Saddam and supported his attack on this disputed area, trying to contain the recent

The Iranian regime came to power through revolution and was strongly anti-American. Several factors were mixed together to create the Iran-Iraq war that lasted for nearly eight years and caused heavy losses to both countries.

However, Kuwait is a member of the Arab countries and is politically close to the United States and Saudi Arabia. During the Iran-Iraq War, it provided a large amount of assistance to Iraq. Iraq's attack on Kuwait will undoubtedly cause extreme dissatisfaction from the United States and other Arab countries in the Middle East.

Saddam should understand the key to this - doing so will only make him a target of public criticism.

As long as a large-scale war does not break out in the Gulf and Middle East, or a catastrophic natural or man-made disaster affects the oil exports of Arab countries, Yu Dongfeng cannot see that the price of oil in the world market will rise in recent months.

Possibility. In fact, the price of oil in the Middle East may bottom out at US$11 or US$12 per barrel. Mr. Guo’s futures transaction has a high probability of becoming the biggest wrong investment in Mr. Guo’s life.

It's not that Yu Dongfeng didn't mention this to Mr. Guo, but every time, Mr. Guo patted his shoulder with a smile and expressed his heartfelt thanks for his concern, but did not change his mind at all.

In order to reduce Mr. Guo's losses as much as possible, Yu Dongfeng has been very cautious in purchasing futures contracts since he took over, and tried his best to avoid the risks he considered in the future.

So now, in nearly July, nearly one-third of the huge funds prepared by Fang Mingyuan and Mr. Guo are still left.

Although Fang Mingyuan said that he did not understand the specific operation of futures contracts, he could see that the trader Mr. Guo was looking for was quite dissatisfied with his idea and thought that this was a wrong operation. Therefore, when purchasing futures contracts,

His actions were more cautious. Fang Mingyuan was not angry about Dongfeng's approach, because he knew that in his previous life, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait shocked the world. Almost everyone thought that the Iraq-Kuwait war was impossible.

, Iraq occupied Kuwait. Even the heads of the five permanent members of the Security Council misjudged the situation and were deceived by Saddam's illusion. Even the invaded Kuwait thought that Iraq would solve the problem through negotiation.

There is a dispute between the two countries. So it is not surprising that Yu Dongfeng cannot see through this.

If I were not a reborn person, I am afraid that I would be like him at this time and would only think that the price of world oil would gradually drop. In the previous life, this was indeed the case, even if Iraq invaded Kuwait and caused the world oil price to drop.

Prices skyrocketed, and OPEC also expanded production in a short period of time, re-stabilizing prices and bringing them down again. Fang Mingyuan wanted to seize this opportunity and make a huge profit to meet the needs of the Fang family's future development.

Such a rare opportunity is not something you just expect to encounter.

Originally, he planned to take advantage of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but that was still far away from now, and there were still many things to do in between. More importantly, Fang Mingyuan had an idea.

We cannot delay the disintegration of the Soviet Union by one to two years. Before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, although the Cold War was over and the United States clearly had the upper hand, the United States was still quite afraid of the Soviet Union, which was a skinny camel bigger than a horse.

It was after the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Yeltsin's vigorous promotion of the "new economic" policy that Russia's national power declined significantly that the Americans turned their attention to China.

Since then, the number one enemy of the Americans has changed from Russia to China. In the following years, although China and the United States could still maintain peace, friction incidents occurred one after another, including "accidental bombings" of embassies.

Plane collisions in the South China Sea, arms sales to Taiwan... and finally even the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier fleet arrived on the Yellow Sea. Its intention to curb the rise of China is obvious.

If the Soviet Union can support it for two more years, in order to prevent the Soviet Union from resurrecting, the United States will have to maintain a good and stable relationship with China to prevent China from falling to the Soviet Union. With these two more years, perhaps the future history of China will be related to

There was a big difference in Fang Mingyuan's previous life! This idea came up accidentally, but once it came out, Fang Mingyuan found that it had a great attraction for him. He no longer thought about the kind of life in his previous life - he watched helplessly

Seeing the US military fleet showing off its power at the doorstep, even the small Philippines did not take China seriously.

If that is the case, the opportunity to make money from the Soviet Union may have to be postponed, and this opportunity cannot be missed.

"...With the substantial expansion of energy demand due to economic development, oil is no longer just a basic energy source today. In addition to the risk promotion and commodity pricing functions of futures, which have a value-preserving role in national wealth, oil futures and the oil futures market

It has been given more meanings and has become a tool of developed countries. In a sense, oil is no longer just a pure commodity, it contains too many financial factors and political factors. It can be said that in the future, oil will

Pricing power will be a reflection of a country's international status and comprehensive national strength." Yu Dongfeng stopped and took a sip of water, "Next, I want to talk to you two about the risks in futures trading."

Mr. Guo couldn't help but laugh. This Yu Dongfeng never forgot to remind himself of his worries about this trading. In fact, at the beginning, Mr. Guo's worries were not inferior to his, but as time went by, Fang Mingyuan's words

Some clues have appeared in the bay, which doubled Mr. Guo's confidence in Fang Mingyuan's idea.

It can be said that this is a big gamble. If the gamble fails, the development speed of Kuok's Shipping Group will inevitably be affected, but it will not affect the status of Kuok's Shipping Group in the shipping industry in Hong Kong and even Southeast Asian countries.

; If the bet succeeds, then this is an opportunity for Guo's Shipping Group to take off! Maybe he can take another step to the next level, spread routes all over the world, and become a shipping group company that is also well-known in the world.

With such a huge gap between risk and return, how could Mr. Guo not be tempted?