Emmerich doesn't really know much about the law, and he doesn't understand much after listening to the legal details of the VIE structure.

But when he heard Gu Kun mention the place names of "Cayman Islands, Bahamas, and Virgin Islands", he could roughly understand what Gu Kun wanted to do.

These are especially famous tax evasion resorts.

Later generations of China N more Internet giants, which are not registered in the Cayman Islands.

Later generations of Oceania N more Internet giants, which are not registered in the Bahamas.

As long as you export not physical goods, but virtual items, such as code, videos, music, and non-material services, you can go to these islands to maximize your benefits.

The Lanfang Islands, a small and dirty foreign country, seem to be very suitable for doing this kind of thing after a little transformation, the only difference is that they are located in Southeast Asia.

A comparison, an example, is sometimes more confident than a thousand-word theoretical explanation.

Emmerich made up a treacherous image of the "Oriental Cayman Islands", and instantly felt that Gu Kun could really do it.

Of course, only Gu Kun himself knows that his Lan side will not be able to do the "Cayman Islands of Asia" after all, mainly because the political environment and other expectations of the Lan side do not meet the expectations of Internet giant investors.

After all, Lan Fang is still a monarchy, there is a grand duke, and others have to worry about whether there will be changes in the policy of capital inflow and outflow in the future, worry about the long-term expectations are not consistent enough, and so on.

Therefore, for the time being, it is just to attract the transfer and outsourcing of the special effects team, a sub-category, to draw blood from Hollywood.

However, this is enough to make Lanfang, which now has a permanent population of only 100,000, eat and drink enough, and maybe the price of Lanfang's tourism industry will also be raised by two percent in the future.

......

After no longer doubting policy expectations and tax incentives, Emmerich was left with only one doubt:

"Gu, if you do this, aren't you worried about lowering the 'forced qualification' of your Lanfang tourism industry? Are you not afraid that those fresh and artistic tourists will hate Lanfang from now on and make you lose the source of tourists?"

Hearing this question, Gu Kun couldn't help laughing: "Of course I'm not worried, it's a little fresh and artistic, where you like to go and play, I don't care about their business, my route is similar to the route that a small tribe called Dubai in the Middle East is secretly planning." ”

Gu Kunke plans to control the Lanfang in a few years, after the Southeast Asian financial crisis, to completely break away from the influence of the West, and then find a suitable time to discover the Lanfang oil field in the future, and then take the route of showing off his wealth in Dubai.

In the future, those Internet celebrities who pretend to be small and fresh literary and artistic, will they go to Dubai to check in and plant grass?

Of course not, Dubai is all about showing off your wealth.

But in this life, Gu Kun is doing this business, and the literary and artistic youth has been insulated from him.

In the future, the dislike of literary and artistic young people will exceed their dislike of Wang Xcong.

If you want to reach the top, you must suffer from it. What price to pay, Gu Kun has long understood in his heart, so there is no regret at the end.

Hearing him say so decisively and thoroughly, Emmerich was a little more awe-inspiring:

"Gu, I didn't expect you to see so far and be so resolute. To be honest, your words and deeds have given me greater encouragement, and I am willing to continue to walk on this creative road of 'showing off my skills and selling cool', and I hope that our business and works can continue to be popular." ”

Gu Kun: "Don't, there is no business in this world that can continue to be popular, it is all a wave of the pandemic for more than ten years, and it will have to be repaid sooner or later after it has passed." The business of special effects show-offs, I judge, now belongs to the tuyere that is just about to rise, and after more than ten years, everyone is tired of watching it, so they won't care.

Similarly, the pursuit of local tyrants to show off their wealth may last for more than ten years, and in the future, after everyone is not so bad for money, there will be a demand for niche literature and art. No one can do a lifetime of tuyere business, what was earned in the previous era, the next era will have to pay the price. You'd better be mentally prepared for this. ”

In addition to the cost reasons, the more important thing is that Hollywood itself is not popular to respect special effects.

This change in the audience's aesthetics is both Chinese and foreign, because the explosion of technology has reached a bottleneck, and everyone is tired after watching too many big scenes. So Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic couldn't sustain themselves and had to sell S to Disney.

And although Disney is still making money in later generations, it has also fallen into the strange circle of material selection for the sake of showing off skills, just like filming "Zootopia", just because "smooth and greasy creatures like traditional avatars and aliens can no longer satisfy the show-off skills of modelers and renderers, you have to be fluffy little animals, and make every hair float clearly to show off your skills."

But in fact, if you want to see special effects, you can still go back and watch old movies from the late 90s or before 2010, which is enough to satisfy, and there is no need to pile up new high special effects every year.

It's the same in the gaming world, the last one to be sought after by the world with its graphics is none other than the "Assassin's Creed" series, and after that, players will no longer pay for "wow, the graphics of this game are so realistic".

Because there are a lot of, and no matter how much progress is made, ordinary ticket holders can't watch it carefully.

Unless you're a very small number of hardcore enthusiasts, you'll stress that "the rain in this game is different from the texture rain in other games, the raindrops in this game will drop onto the gun, and you can see the real physics engine's calculation of droplet collisions", or "the mirrors in this horror game have their own ray-traced effects, and the reflection will change depending on the viewing angle".

Therefore, after 2010, it is almost difficult to produce big IPs in the film and television and game industries, and after the industry has hit a wall for a few years, go back and replay the sequels of the old generation of big IPs, or high-definition remakes, and continue to harvest the nostalgic money of the "millennials".

(Note: The definition of "millennials" in Oceania is equivalent to the post-85s and post-90s in China.) ）

It's a pity that the directors and game developers who are now in the game don't know how valuable the adaptation rights and sequel rights of the big IP they hold in their hands will be in the future.

James Cameron will also sell the follow-up adaptation rights of the "Terminator" series to Paramount for 20 years at a very low price in 1998.

The list goes on.

Gu Kun infiltrated Hollywood at this moment, and there was another purpose, which was obviously to do things to arbitrage high-quality nostalgic IP in the future at a low price.

......

Gu Kun lived in Emmerich House for several days, and everyone talked about industrial investment and had a party every day. The time has quietly entered July.

Because everyone has a common vision of the industry, Emmerich is also very righteous, and has successively introduced him to some contacts in the circle, mainly some other directors and screenwriters of the "dazzling film" type, as well as several executives and technical leaders of the famous special effects company Industrial Light and Magic.

Who made Emmerich the biggest customer who spent the most money at Industrial Light & Magic this year?

Gu Kun even had the opportunity to have a drink and chat with George Lucas, the big boss of Lucasfilm, at a cocktail party before the premiere.

George Lucas is the parent company of ILM and the big boss of Lucasfilm.

The company Industrial Light & Magic, along with Skywalker Sound Effects, which does audio special effects, is a subsidiary of George Lucas that was established twenty years ago to film "Star Wars".

Being able to connect with such a leading figure is naturally quite helpful to Gu Kun.

Although the Olympics have not yet started, his photos of Gu Kun have appeared in local entertainment magazines in Los Angeles several times, and the introduction of him in the industry has also added the names of some film and television investors.

But in any case, this is the beginning of a cross-circle influence.

During this period, in order to better make friends with Hollywood celebrities, Gu Kun also let his woman go around Beverly Hills for a while, and then bought a small villa.

Beverly Hills is the heart of Hollywood, so the land price is extremely expensive, Gu Kun just built a small house of half an acre including the garden, and spent more than three million US dollars, so it is naturally impossible to match the orchard.

And the top stars here are generally bought according to the municipal permit, which can reach one and a half acres.

For example, this villa in Emmerich covers an acre and a half with a garden.

It takes a handful of the industry's top bigwigs, like the bosses of the Big Six distributors or the godfather of independent cinema like Harvey Weinstein, to push the limits of what the law allows to land on a seven-acre estate in Beverly Hills.

The day of the transfer of ownership of the villa coincides with the premiere of Emmerich's "Earth Strikes Back" and the Oceania National Day on July 4.

Gu Kun and a group of friends who have been playing well recently are in Beverly Hills, holding a party to celebrate the upcoming hit.

At this party, there were some old friends and families who came to visit.

It was not surprising that Gu Kun met Mr. Richard Hilton of Hilton Hotels & Resorts.

"Mr. Hilton, I'm so sorry that I haven't been here in Los Angeles for the past few days. The main thing is that Mr. Emmerich is more agreeable here, and we are busy talking about some business cooperation. ”

At the cocktail party, Gu Kun held a wine glass, touched a glass with Richard generously, and didn't forget to ask, "But I really didn't expect that a hotel giant like you would come to such a small gathering in the film and television industry." ”

Richard Hilton tightened the arm of the beautiful woman next to him, and said ostentatiously: "You are a foreigner, and you may not be familiar with Hollywood rookies - my new female companion, but an insider, we are here to play with her today." ”

Gu Kun raised his eyes and saw that it was a white beauty, but unfortunately he didn't recognize it, it shouldn't be a first-line female star, so Asian audiences were not familiar with it.

Looking at it like this, this actress has been taken down by Richard, who is a middle-aged rich second generation, and Hollywood is really a place full of money.

The most exaggerated thing is that Richard brought his wife and daughter to this kind of drinking party, and he was able to hold it down.

However, Gu Kun soon noticed that Richard did not prevent his wife from drinking and chatting with other young handsome men, it seems that these families of cultural and tourism tycoons rely on such blind fools to maintain social hot spots.

"This is the little girl Pabrie, Gu, you are almost the same age, let's get to know each other. ”

Gu Kun was still criticizing and condemning the world of Hollywood in his heart, but Richard's words interrupted his musings.

I saw that Richard, the turtle father, actually pushed a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl to Gu Kun's side without heart and lungs, prompting them to make friends.

Obviously, he hopes that his daughter will have a male friend with the title of "N Olympic champions and the most world record-breaking men in the world".

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