Hollywood Hunter

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Entering July, half of the summer vacation of 1987 has passed without knowing it.

Apart from "Beverly Detective 2", there is no other local box office hit that is expected to exceed 100 million in this summer.

"The Witch of East Town" led by Jack Nicholson, "The Predator" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and "The Internet" with Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd are expected to total North American box office Movies that can reach $500 million to $60 million can only be considered a small profit, basically not meeting the expectations of major film companies.

Among them, the new film "Project X" starring Matthew Broderick, who had a conflict with Simon, was scheduled to be released on June 5 by Fox Pictures. The opening scale of 1022 screens, the box office of the first week was 4.57 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office of the entire June was only more than 12 million US dollars. Compared with the production cost of 15 million US dollars, although Fox Pictures will not lose money through post-operation, this film is also completely unworthy of the high-quality schedule and publicity resources it has obtained.

Simon paid attention to this film before "Project X" was released, but he didn't feel much in his heart.

The original matter has long been over. As long as Matthew Broderick no longer provokes himself, Simon will never have any interaction with the other party in the future.

On the other hand, on July 2, the S\u0026P 500 index broke through the 290-point mark. After a month and a half of silence, Simon again began to issue trading orders to Noah Scott, and gradually liquidated the positions originally held in the Westeros account. 4,500 contracts and started building positions again at the same time.

In this era when there is no 'daily debt-free settlement system' for stock index futures trading, there are naturally many benefits for futures speculators, but the disadvantage is that Simon cannot directly use the book profits of the original 4,500 contracts for buying operations, and wants to increase positions. , you must complete a clearance change.

Simon had expected to complete the change in the S\u0026P 500 range between 290 and 295. However, after the more volatile June stock index futures delivery month, the S\u0026P 500's rally accelerated significantly.

Westeros accounts opened at an average of 272 in the S\u0026P 500 in mid-May, but ended up closing at an average of 295.

With an average increase of 23 points, the book profit of each contract reached about 11,500 US dollars.

After settlement, the 4,500 long contracts in the Westeros company account, excluding various transaction fees, accumulated a profit of $50.65 million in one month, and Simon's principal increased to $125 million.

After the change of hands, the long position of Westeros Company increased to 6,800 shares, and the position ratio still reached a very dangerous 80%.

Fortunately, from July 2 to July 10, the second layout ended. The S\u0026P 500 index had risen to 298 points at the close of the day on July 10, but in just a few days, Westeros The long contracts in the corporate account again produced a very substantial paper profit.

Simon found that he might no longer need to use the Wells Fargo loan at all. In fact, he really didn't want to use that loan unless he had to.

The breach of the loan contract is second, and the most important thing is that once the misappropriation of the loan is discovered, Simon's operations in the futures market are likely to be exposed as well.

Relative to the daily volume of more than 80,000 stock index futures traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the thousands of contracts held by Westeros would not have had much impact on the market.

But what if someone finds out that some young man who has just made a box office miracle in Hollywood is also in the game and unknowingly already making a fortune. Then, according to Soros's famous reflexivity theory of "interaction between market participants and the market", the interference of Simon's operation on the stock index futures market will also be amplified, and the original market trend in his memory is likely to be affected by this. Change.

At the same time, in the last week of the shooting plan, the "Death Comes" crew returned to Los Angeles from New York and completed the opening air crash scene in the Fox Studios studio. The film was successfully completed on July 9.

Simon spent a few days with Wes Craven discussing and confirming the detailed post-production plan for "The God of Death". On July 13, "Pulp Fiction", which had been in preparation for several months, officially started filming.

Inside a bar in Venice Beach.

On the third day of the show, the crew was filming the plot of gang boss Marsha Wallace lobbying Butch Coolidge to fight fake punches.

This episode in the feature film has a soundtrack, but at this time, the atmosphere in the bar is very quiet.

The various departments of the crew were organized around the two actors who played Marsha Wallace and Butch Coolidge, and there was only the narration of Ving Rhames, the black actor who played Marsha Wallace.

"When all this is over, you will find that you are the one who has the last laugh. Butch, although you are still strong now, unfortunately, you will not be strong for long..."

Because of the fixed camera position, Simon did not need to view the composition of the lens in real time through the monitor, but stood outside the photographer, lighting engineer and other staff, holding his arms to watch Robert De Niro's line without a few lines. 's performance, I couldn't help comparing it with the original Bruce Willis.

Among a large group of tough-guy actors such as Stallone and Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis' acting skills can be said to be the best.

However, this scene from the original Pulp Fiction

, watching Lao Bo sitting in front of the camera and listening to the instructions of the gang boss, most people still have a subconscious thought, this is Bruce Willis, this is Bruce Willis, this is Bruce Willis...

at this time.

Simon looked at Robert De Niro, who had slumped shoulders and slightly pursed his lips, a pair of suppressed anger and unwillingness, but did not dare to attack in front of the gangster boss, but his inner feeling was, this is Butch Coolidge, a certain A career is coming to an end and there are still some poor boxers who have not been able to stand out.

In "Pulp Fiction", Butch Coolidge's room for play is actually not much smaller than that of Vincent and Jules. But in the original film, due to lack of acting skills or no effort at all, the role was basically played as a real-life Bruce Willis intrusion.

This is probably why the media and audience will talk about characters such as Vincent, Mia, Jules, etc., but few people discuss a certain boxer with a heavy role.

In contrast, even Simon couldn't help but be amazed by the preparations that Robert De Niro, who has always had a reputation for being dedicated, has done for this role in recent months.

Although he is a boxer, Butch Coolidge does not appear in the ring in the film. But even so, in order to look like a professional boxer, Robert De Niro still carried out physical training for up to two months and put on weight.

For the current scene, Robert De Niro not only discussed the details of the character's mental changes and performance methods with Simon many times, but also asked Ving Rhames to record this dialogue for himself to ponder over and over again.

Now, it is only the first scene that Robert De Niro participated in after the filming, Simon is sure that this time Butch Coolidge will definitely leave the audience as profound as Vincent, Jules and other characters. impression.

Three minutes later, when Robert De Niro and Ving Rhames' first performance was over, Simon motioned for the others to rest and brought them to the monitor.

The video assistance system in the 1980s was just emerging. The monitor screen was only 6 inches in size, but the rental of the whole set of equipment was very expensive, almost the same as the rental price of the camera.

In the previous "Lola Run", in order to save the budget, Simon simply did not use this equipment.

This time, naturally, there is no need to be so frugal.

The three watched the replay in front of a monitor screen only comparable to later large-screen mobile phones. After a while, Simon pressed pause, fixed the picture on a small detail that twitched the corner of Robert De Niro's mouth, turned his head and asked Robert De Niro who was standing next to him, "Bob, what do you think?"

Robert De Niro looked at it for a moment, shook his head and smiled, and said, "Excessive force."

Simon nodded and said: "As a small person, Butch is actually very jealous of Masha. His long silence has already shown his inner resistance, but he can't dare to show too obvious dissatisfaction. So, Next, you need to converge a little bit."

Robert De Niro didn't say much, and said, "Simon, let me brew it."

Simon waited for Robert De Niro to return to his seat before turning to Ving Rhames, who played Marsha Wallace.

Like Samuel L. Jackson, who played Jules, Ving Rhames is also an original actor.

Also, Ving Rhames is similar to Samuel L. Jackson in other respects.

The black actor is also a standard academic background. He has studied drama performance at the State University of New York and the Juilliard School in New York, which is known as the 'Harvard of Music'. He has a bachelor's degree in art, and also has Broadway performance experience and Has been playing some humble little roles in Hollywood.

From Samuel L. Jackson and Ving Rhames, it is not difficult to see that Hollywood still has deep-rooted racism after all. In Hollywood, many black movie stars have a higher level of education. Relatively speaking, the "barrier" for white people to realize the American dream is much lower.

Due to his background in the class, although Ving Rhames did not show his face at all in the just three-minute performance, Simon was also amazed by the profound skills of the lines he showed.

Simon and Ving Rhames had a few chats, and had a very good impression of the actor who played a gangster boss but had a rather mild personality in reality, and finally extended his hand to the other party and said: "Wen, your lines are very good, I I think we will have the opportunity to work together in the future.”

Ving Rhames shook hands with Simon and said with a smile, "Of course, I'm looking forward to it too."

Having said that, Robert De Niro said that he could start shooting again, and Simon told everyone to prepare again.

Today, we mainly shoot several scenes of Butch, Marsha, Vincent, and Jules in the bar. A set of scenes in which Marsha persuaded Butch to fight fake punches was repeatedly shot for an hour, and Simon said it passed.

John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson had already done their make-up before quickly starting other shots.

So busy until five o'clock in the afternoon, the crew officially ended work.

The others dispersed, Simon and several assistant directors confirmed the shooting plan for tomorrow, and sent today's filming film to the Fox Studios. It was already 6:20.

Inside Fox Studios.

Leaving the post-production center, Simon looked at Jennifer Leibold, who had become accustomed to following him these days. The girl had left George Norman's law firm soon after his last invitation, and came to give Work on your own.

Slowing down and walking on the asphalt corridor in the studio, Simon asked the girl next to him, saying:

"Jenny, how are you feeling these days?"

Jennifer Leibold was carrying a briefcase and a folder in her hand, and when she heard Simon's question, she couldn't help thinking of the experience of these days. At the end of last month, she suddenly made the decision to give up her career as a lawyer. All her relatives expressed that she could not accept it. Her parents also flew over from New York on purpose.

It's just that Jennifer, who has been a good girl since childhood, doesn't plan to obey her parents' wishes this time.

After several confrontations, she finally got what she wanted.

However, Jennifer has also made some compromises. Her parents demanded that she must complete the California Bar Examination at the end of July to officially obtain a practicing certificate. In this way, she can also switch back to the legal profession at any time in the future.

Then.

Beginning on July 1, the girl officially became Simon's personal assistant.

The occupational categories of secretaries and assistants overlap, but they are also basically two different jobs. To put it simply, in an enterprise, the authority of an assistant is usually much higher than that of a secretary.

For the past two weeks, Jennifer is still at the stage of getting familiar with her work.

In fact, Simon's career in Hollywood is just beginning, and there are not many jobs that can be handed to her.

However, as long as the operation in the stock index futures market is successfully completed and a large amount of capital is available, the industry under Simon's name will definitely expand rapidly. By then, the workload of girls will increase significantly.

At this point, hearing Simon's question, Jennifer said, "I don't feel like I can do much for you. Maybe, I should take some film majors in Southern California."

Hearing this, Simon shook his head with a smile, and said, "No need, Jenny. You must know that in Hollywood, experience is more important than education. Besides, I have no intention of training you to be a film producer."

Jennifer wondered: "Simon, what are you going to ask me to do?"

"It's just my assistant," Simon smiled, paused, and said, "Actually, I've been doing other things recently, but it's not convenient to tell you right now. After a while, you'll find that you may be busy. It's time to fly."

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