Chapter 115

In July, half of the summer vacation in 1987 has passed unconsciously.

Except for detective Beverly 2, there are no other local box office blockbusters that are expected to exceed 100 million yuan.

Jack Nicholson's "the Witch of East Town", Arnold Schwarzenegger's "the iron soldier", Tom Hanks and Dan ecroyd's "the net" and other films that are expected to reach $50 million or $60 million in North America's total box office can only be regarded as small profits, basically not meeting the expectations of major film companies.

Among them, Matthew Broderick, who had a conflict with Simon at the beginning, starred in the new film "plan X", which was scheduled to be released on June 5 by Fox pictures, with 1022 screens. The box office in the first week was 4.57 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office in the whole June was only 12 million US dollars. Compared with the production cost of US $15 million, fox pictures will not lose money through its later operation, but the film can not afford the high-quality schedule and publicity resources it has obtained.

Simon noticed the film before the release of project x, but he didn't feel much about it.

The original thing is already over, as long as Matthew Broderick does not provoke himself, Simon will not have any interaction with each other in the future.

On the other hand, on July 2, the S & P 500 index broke through the 290 point mark. After a month and a half of silence, Simon again began to issue trading instructions to Noah Scott, gradually clearing 4500 contracts originally held in Westeros' accounts, and at the same time began to build positions again.

In this era when there is no "daily debt free settlement system" for stock index futures trading, there are many advantages for futures speculators, but the disadvantage is that Simon can't directly use the book profits of 4500 contracts to increase his position. If he wants to increase his position, he must complete a clearance and turnover,.

Simon had expected to be able to change hands in the S & P 500 between 290 and 295. However, after the volatile June stock index futures delivery month, the S & P 500's rise accelerated significantly.

Westero's account opened at an average of 272 points in the S & P 500 index in mid May, but it was cleared and changed at an average of 295 points in the end.

With an average increase of 23 points, the book profit of each contract reached about $11500.

After settlement, 4500 long contracts in westero's account, excluding transaction costs, accumulated profits of $50.65 million in one month, and Simon's principal increased to $125 million.

After the change of hands, westero's long positions increased to 6800, and the proportion of positions still reached a very dangerous 80%.

Fortunately, from July 2 to July 10, the second layout ended, and the S & P 500 index had already risen to 298 points at the close of the day on July 10. Just in a few days, the long contract in the account of Westeros once again produced a very considerable book profit.

Simon found that he would probably no longer need to use the Wells Fargo loan. In fact, he did not want to use the loan until he had to.

The second most important thing is that once the misappropriation of the loan is discovered, Simon's operation in the futures market may also be exposed.

Compared with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's daily trading volume of more than 80000 stock index futures, the thousands of contracts held by westero would not have had much impact on the market. However, if someone finds out that a young man who has just created a box office miracle in Hollywood has also joined the game, and has already made a lot of money unconsciously. Then, according to Soros's famous reflexivity theory of "interaction between market participants and the market", Simon's operation will also magnify the impact on the stock index futures market, and the original market trend in his memory is likely to change.

Meanwhile, in the last week of the shooting plan, the crew of "death is coming" returned to Los Angeles from New York and completed the opening air crash scene in the studio of Fox Studios. The film was successfully completed on July 9.

Simon spent a few days with Wes Craven to discuss and confirm the detailed plan for the later stage of "death is coming". On July 13, the production of "vulgar novel" was officially started.

In a bar on Venice Beach.

On the third day, the crew is filming the plot of gangster boss Masha Wallace persuading Butch Coolidge to fight fake boxing.

There is a soundtrack in the plot, but at this time, the atmosphere in the bar is very quiet.

All parts of the cast are surrounded by the two actors who play Martha Wallace and Butch Coolidge in an orderly manner, and there is only the voice of the black actor van Reims who plays Martha Wallace.

"When it's over, you'll find that you're the one who laughs last. Butch, although you are still strong, unfortunately, you won't be strong for long... "

Due to the fixed position shooting, Simon doesn't need to check the lens composition effect in real time through the monitor. Instead, he stands outside the photographers, lighters and other staff, holding his arms to watch Robert De Niro's performance without a few lines. He can't help comparing it with the original Bruce Willis.Among a large group of tough actors such as Stallone and Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis is the best.

However, in this scene of the original vulgar novel, watching Lao Bu sitting in front of the camera listening to the instructions of the gang boss, most people still subconsciously have an idea that this is Bruce Willis, this is Bruce Willis, this is Bruce Willis

At this point.

Simon looked at Robert De Niro, who was holding his shoulders and pursing his lips slightly. He was repressing his anger and unwillingness, but he did not dare to attack in front of the gang boss. There was only one feeling in his heart, which was Butch Coolidge, a boxer whose career was coming to an end, and who had some strength but failed to make his mark.

In the vulgar novel, Butch Coolidge has no less room to play than Vincent and Jules. But in the original film, due to lack of acting skills or no thought at all, the role was basically played as a real man of Bruce Willis.

This is probably why the media and the audience like to talk about Vincent, Mia, Jules and other characters, but few people talk about a boxer who plays a very important role.

In contrast, Simon can't help admiring Robert De Niro, who has always been known for his dedication, for the preparation he has done for the role in recent months.

Although he is a boxer, Butch Coolidge will not appear in the ring. But even so, in order to look like a professional boxer, Robert De Niro still had two months of physical training and gained weight.

For the present scene, Robert De Niro not only discussed with Simon many times the details of the character's psychological changes and performance methods, but also asked van Reems to record the dialogue for his own speculation.

Now, it's just Robert De Niro's first scene after the film started. Simon is sure that this time, Butch Coolidge will definitely leave a deep impression on the audience as much as Vincent, Jules and other characters.

Three minutes later, when Robert De Niro and van Reems finished their first performance, Simon motioned to the others to rest and took them to the monitor.

In the 1980s, the image assistant system was just on the rise. Not long ago, the monitor screen was only 6 inches in size, but the rent of the whole set of equipment was very expensive, almost equal to the rental price of the camera. In order to save the budget, Simon didn't use this set of equipment at all.

This time, of course, you don't have to be so frugal.

After a moment, Simon pressed pause to freeze the picture on a small detail of Robert De Niro's mouth. He turned his head and asked Robert De Niro standing beside him, "what do you think, Bob?"

Robert De Niro looked at him for a moment, shook his head, laughed, and said, "it's too much."

Simon nodded and analyzed: "as a little man, Butch is very afraid of Masha. His long silence has shown his inner resistance, but he can no longer dare to show too obvious dissatisfaction. So next, you need to be a little bit more restrained. "

Robert De Niro did not say much and said, "Simon, I need to brew."

Simon waited for Robert De Niro to return to his seat just now, and then turned to the actor of Masha Wallace, Wen rimes.

Like Samuel Jackson, who plays Jules, van Reems is the original actor.

Besides, van Reems is similar to Samuel Jackson in other aspects. The black actor is also a standard professional. He has studied drama performance at State University of New York and Julia College of New York, which is known as "Harvard of music". He has a bachelor's degree in art. Before that, he also has Broadway performance experience and has been acting in Hollywood Play some small roles.

It can't be seen from Samuel Jackson and van Reims that Hollywood has deep-rooted racial discrimination after all. In Hollywood, many black movie stars have higher education level. Comparatively speaking, the threshold for white people to realize the American dream is much lower.

Due to his professional background, although Wen Reims didn't show his face in the three minute performance, Simon was also impressed by his profound lines.

Simon and Wen Reims talked a few words, and they had a good impression on the actor who played the gangster boss but was quite gentle in reality. At last, they reached out to each other and said, "Wen, your lines are very good. I think we will have a chance to cooperate in the future."

Wen Reims shook Simon's hand and said with a smile, "of course, I'm looking forward to it."

So Robert De Niro said he could start shooting again, and Simon told the people to prepare again.

Today, we are mainly shooting several scenes of Butch, Masha, Vincent and Jules in the bar. Masha lobbied Butch to fight fake boxing for an hour, and Simon said that he passed.

John Travolta and Samuel Jackson had already finished their make-up, and then quickly moved on to other scenes.So busy until five o'clock in the afternoon, the crew officially finished work.

When the others dispersed, Simon and several deputy directors confirmed their shooting plans for tomorrow and sent today's film to Fox Studios. It was already 6:20.

In Fox Studios.

After leaving the post production center, Simon looks at Jennifer Leibold, who is used to following him these days. After his last invitation, the girl soon left George Norman's law firm and came to work for herself.

After slowing down and walking down the tarmac corridor in the studio, Simon asked the girl beside him, "Jennie, how are you feeling these days?"

With her briefcase and a folder in her hand, Jennifer Leibold can't help remembering these days when she hears Simon's question. At the end of last month, she suddenly made a decision to give up her profession as a lawyer. All her relatives around her expressed that they could not accept it. Her parents flew over from New York in their busy schedule.

It's just that Jennifer, who has always been a good girl since she grew up, doesn't intend to comply with her parents' wishes this time.

After several fights, she finally got what she wanted.

However, Jennifer also made some compromises, and had to complete the California bar qualification examination at the end of July to officially get her practicing certificate. In this way, she will be able to return to the legal profession at any time in the future.

Then, from July 1, the girl officially became Simon's personal assistant.

Secretaries and assistants share the same occupation, but they are basically two different jobs. In short, in an enterprise, the authority of an assistant is usually higher than that of a secretary.

In the past half a month, Jennifer is still in the stage of getting familiar with her work.

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

However, as long as the operation of the stock index futures market is successfully completed and a large amount of funds are available, Simon's industry will certainly expand rapidly, and girls will be busy at that time.

At this point, hearing Simon's question, Jennifer said, "I don't feel like I can help you do too much. Maybe I should take some film courses at USC."

Simon sniffed, but he shook his head with a smile and said, "it's not necessary, Jenny. You know, in Hollywood, experience is more important than education. Besides, I'm not going to make you a filmmaker. "

"So, Simon, what are you going to ask me to do?" asked Jennifer

"It's just my assistant," Simon said, pausing with a smile. "Actually, I'm doing something else recently, but it's not convenient to tell you now. After a while, you will find that you may be too busy to fly. "