Poor ** plan, rich conscience.

This view may not be shared by many poor people, or may not be applied in most cases.

But no matter how much they oppose it, they have to admit that in a specific situation, that sentence just now is certainly true.

That's for artists.

If an artist has money, he can create entirely for the sake of artistic ethics and ideals, and does not have to give up discipline for the sake of money.

It's like an UP owner of station B who can't spend enough money, he can focus on what he thinks is interesting and worth doing, without having to affect the audience experience.

is like an online writer who can't spend enough money, and it is impossible for him to end up because of "hitting the street". He can make his work live a little longer for the sake of a small group of like-minded ideals, and become a person with an absolute "conscience" in the hearts of readers.

(I'm not saying that rich writers won't be rotten, they should be rotten, but at least they aren't rotten because they "can't make money", maybe they really can't write.) I don't have such a noble temperament, because I'm poor, so I'm treacherous, otherwise I won't be able to live. ）

If this is not called "rich conscience", what is counted?

And Emmerich obviously belongs to a director who has a conscience at least because he is rich.

He is a rich second-generation background, and he doesn't care about the feelings of insiders or investors when he makes movies.

For such a person, giving him money is not the greatest support. In contrast, when others abuse him, understanding his work and creative motives can win his friendship more.

"Alas, Gu, I'm sorry, I always thought you were a self-hyped cultural tourism luxury businessman, but I didn't expect you to have this kind of tolerance for art.

At the beginning, I was mainly afraid that investors would point fingers when they gave money, and when I saw insiders criticizing me, I would interfere with my creation, so I didn't want your money. ”

After listening to Gu Kun's incisive remarks just now, "There is no distinction between elegance and vulgarity in the audience's needs, and if someone wants to, they will be filled, and the merits and demerits will be left to history for verification", Emmerich's sense of confidant towards Gu Kun instantly increased by one and a half levels.

I feel that I hate each other late.

Gu Kun patted the other party on the shoulder unceremoniously: "It's nothing, it's just a little money, if I really voted for you at that time, maybe it would become 'making money from the white audience with a clear conscience', it's good now, anyway, let's witness the big sale together first, and talk about the rest later." ”

He didn't say "I wish you a big sale", but said "Witness together", and the subtleties of his words made people feel that his confidence in this movie was purely from the inside out and from the heart.

Emmerich: "Don't say anything, if you're not busy going to Atlanta, you'll have to spend a few more days in Los Angeles, and we'll wait until the Independence Day premiere results come out and have a few drinks." ”

Gu Kun was training everywhere, and as for adapting to the water, soil and climate before the game, it was enough to ten days in advance, so he happily agreed: "Do you need to wait for the results after a few drinks?" You can drink it now, Roland, are you reluctant to give up your family's good wine." ”

Emmerich smiled happily: "What's the matter, you have Yaxing, then have a few drinks today." What do you drink?"

Gu Kun glanced at the wine cabinet behind the living room: "Gin or vodka or brandy is fine, as long as it's not whiskey, I don't drink Bretania." ”

Emmerich showed a "you know" expression, and while going to get the wine, he casually complained: "You guy, look down on the temper of the Bretons, it's all written on your face." But it's none of my business, in fact, I don't like it. ”

Emmerich is German, but in recent years his film career has come to Hollywood, and he certainly doesn't have to look down on Breton.

In the mid-90s, in the context of the establishment of the European Union and the reconciliation between Germany and France, the sense of Germany and France for the Brittany-stirring stick also fell to a low point. I feel that the Bretons have been a lowly and bad race that destroys peace and sow discord in Europe since ancient times.

So, Emmerich picked out a few bottles of highly ethnic liquor in his wine cabinet, Nordic Aguaveit wine, and talked with Gu Kun.

Aguavit is actually similar to vodka, but this is a Swedish wine, a highly refined liquor typical of Germanic culture, which is relatively niche internationally.

It can even be said that "vodka" and "aguavet" are just the pronunciations of "water of life" in Old Russian and Old Swedish, respectively. (But the selection of brewing materials for wine is indeed slightly different, and anyone who has played the Age of Discovery OL understands)

The two drank and drank, and chatted about the film business by the way, Gu Kun said directly that there will be other cool visual effects productions in the future, and he must be asked to invest money, and it is best to go to Lanfang for filming.

He is willing to set up special locations for pure special effects films, give various concessions, and even give technical services to stunt companies according to the VIE structure.

These conditions really lit up Emmerich's eyes when he heard them.

He forcibly sobered up his drunkenness and asked in detail: "Can you explain the tax transfer to the VIE structure of the special effects company? It sounds a bit mysterious, can't Hollywood avoid taxes?"

There are too many cities in the world that are willing to rely on tax cuts to steal Hollywood business, as far as I know, Vancouver, Canada, next door, has been talking about various tax incentives for many years, but still hasn't stolen much business, can the one you are talking about be more favorable than Vancouver's policy?"

Later, in the 2020s, Vancouver, Canada, through more than 20 years of unremitting efforts, various tax incentives, and the suppression of labor unions, finally leveraged 60% of the low-end industrial jobs in Los Angeles or Hollywood, and transferred them to Vancouver.

Taxation is actually a secondary reason, after all, knowing the tax incentives for foreigners, the local government in California can also reduce taxes in an inclined manner, if the supporting industrial chain is in Hollywood, after the transfer of upstream and downstream cooperation is not smooth, others are still unwilling to go.

Just like in the future, after Vietnam's labor costs were lower than those in China, they still did not succeed in poaching industrial chains like Foxconn, because their upstream and downstream supply chain cooperation systems are still in deep towns, and it is inconvenient to move the assembly plant away.

What really squeezed out the low-end jobs in Hollywood was that the trade unions in the Oceanic countries were too strong, and the protection of uncompetitive low-end jobs was too strong, so that the capitalists were unwilling to leave in anger.

While Vancouver poached a large number of low-end positions, many Hollywood special effects outsourcing teams in later generations moved to Huaxia.

Therefore, don't spray the future Huaxia Film and Television Company to do bad special effects, this is not a technical problem, it is a problem of audience aesthetics and investment washing.

Around the mid-2010s, the special effects team of the Chinese people was already absolutely world-class, but the audience loved to watch the little fresh meat traffic dog and was unwilling to pay for the special effects, so the national films and dramas did not spend money on special effects.

Faced with Emmerich's question, Gu Kun also had to pretend to be a little relieved to answer:

"Specifically, I don't want to say much, this is some legal tricks, valuable trade secrets. As I told you, you must not disclose it to anyone who is an investor or an industrial policy politician. ”

Emmerich: "Of course, we're friends, and I don't have any other politician friends, so why would I betray you?" ”

Gu Kun: "The VIE structure is a way for Internet companies to avoid taxes invented by our Chinese people, and it has just been born in the past few months.

If you are interested, you can observe a new Internet company named Sohu in China, which is about to accept venture capital from Silicon Valley in the past few months, and the specific structure used is invented by a lawyer named Liu Gang.

In short, it is to circumvent the restriction that 'Internet companies operating in China must be registered in China's home country', and make the operating company and the technical service company double nested, and then the actual operating company is actually almost zero profit, and all the benefits are transferred to the overseas company that provides technical services. ”

(Note: Liu Gang's real name is a historical fact, this barrister is the father of Huaxia VIE, and he undertook the venture capital legal model of the three families of Sohu groom Huang Yisan.) However, there will be no plot of these people in this book, and the above is pure popular science and does not infringe on anyone's right to reputation. ）

Gu Kun paused and continued to explain: "As for me, I can be regarded as borrowing from this lawyer Liu's strategy, I think that special effects are actually the easiest way to realize foreign outsourcing to reduce the voice of the trade union.

At present, Hollywood's directors' union and several other unions are not allowed to directly package the special effects production as a whole, but we can provide 'technical services' for local special effects companies through the special effects of an overseas offshore company, and then the profits are kept in the technical service company, and the local general contractor in Hollywood has almost zero profits, so there is no need to pay taxes.

At the same time, our technical services company in Lanfang will not charge any income tax, and you can share the spoils as much as you like, just like other California Internet tax avoidants are preparing to do in the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, and the Virgin Islands. Within a year, I was able to convince the Lantian government to transform its high-tech industry tax system to the Cayman Islands. But we have more packages than the Cayman Islands. ”

Visual stunt companies, in the final analysis, belong to the IT industry and only serve the film industry, so this is the most suitable for transferring out with the tax evasion structure of Internet companies.

It's just that it's only 1996, and the serious Internet companies haven't all figured out this structure, and only one or two leading leaders have figured it out.

So, the unresponsive guys in the entertainment industry are completely unaware that there is an opportunity to shift tax evasion, and the environment is quietly ripe.

In this case, why can't Gu Kun, a reborn person, drink the first sip of profit and pave the way for his cultural and tourism career.

As for the special effects cinema he will pull for Lan Fang in the future, even if there is no tax benefit, he can get it back from tourism and city business cards.

It's like after the 21st century, when my tourism industry in Kansai has become sluggish, Osaka has to rely on a Universal Studios to get some façade back. For Gu Kun, such a transaction is definitely profitable.

Of course, just one Emmerich, the driving effect is still limited, but the road is taken step by step, Gu Kun can count on this breakthrough, and gradually pull a group of "Guo Degang-type" special effects dazzling directors who are not allowed in the traditional circle of Hollywood to him to shoot, outsource special effects and large-scale props.

As for those relatively elegant literary and artistic coercion, Gu Kun must definitely not be able to count on them, and if they love to stay in Hollywood, they will continue to stay in Hollywood.

In Gu Kun's eyes, these literary and artistic coercion are just half-, they don't look down on showmanship kitsch, but unfortunately they don't see how elegant they are, if you really want elegant artists, you go to the three major European film festivals, go to France and Germany to shoot in Italy, what Hollywood.

It's all come to Hollywood, so don't keep your face up, if you want to be vulgar, you will be vulgar to the end. When I got to the kiln, I still pretended to be a clear man, like something.

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