On the afternoon of the 17th, Zhang Junsheng changed into blue casual clothes and appeared in the parking lot of the Santa Monica Marina area with Zhou Xun and Wen Ziren...

He's here for the Inception party...

The yacht is called the Rising Sun, which is 450 feet long and is the 11th superyacht in the world...

The cost is more than 250 million US dollars!

Even Little Plum can't afford to play, and its current owner is David Geffen, one of the former DreamWorks Big Three...

Its first owner was named Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle...

Billionaire!

The only thing in this world that can distinguish a billionaire from a billionaire is a superyacht.

All the amenities and configurations of those seven-star hotels on a superyacht can only be described as "standard"...

This kind of top-level luxury is only willing to be bought by the super bigwigs who spend a lot of money!

However, in 2006, Larry Ellison sold the Rising Sun to David Geffen...

David Geffen is rich!

After the acquisition of DreamWorks, he had a cash flow of nearly $2 billion, and after a series of investments, he now has almost $3 billion in Apple stock, plus other industries, and his personal net worth is more than $7 billion...

Even David Geffen is a bit overwhelmed, after all, the annual maintenance cost of the Rising Sun is as high as 13 million US dollars!

So, most of the time, the yacht will be used for rent.

Leased to some of David Geffen's Hollywood bigwigs, including A-list superstars...

The party that Little Plum throws with his girlfriend is a superyacht party.

As one of the leading actors in "Inception", Xiao Lizi certainly knows Zhou Xun, and Brother Xun plays the dream builder Adrian.

Therefore, it is very logical for Zhang Junsheng to take Brother Xun to the yacht party together...

And, of course, Wen Ziren, another producer of "Inception"...

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The Santa Monica marina area is home to some of the world's most luxurious superyachts!

In fact, every year, Santa Monica hosts a boat show.

Hollywood celebrities can be said to be the key customers invited by the exhibition, compared with some more stingy business elites, the overall cultural quality and cultivation of Hollywood stars are not high, prefer a daughter.

Some even go so far as to borrow large sums of money for this.

The most famous is, of course, Nicolas Cage...

"Welcome, Director Zhang, Mr. James, Miss Zhou Xun. ”

The person in charge of the party checked the invitations of the three of them, and then personally sent the three of them to the extra deck...

“… I'll go, rich people are really enviable!"

Feeling the blowing of the sea breeze, Zhang Junsheng couldn't help but complain in Chinese!

"Big brother, you are also rich!"

Wen Ziren probably knew a little Chinese, and when he heard Zhang Junsheng's complaint, he reminded him...

“… But I would never spend so much money on such a thing!"

"I heard from my tax broker that buying a yacht can be tax deductible, and he also suggested buying a yacht for about 10 million dollars..."

Wen Ziren roughly introduced the benefits of raising a yacht: first of all, yachts are non-financial assets, and the allocation of assets as yachts can avoid part of the tax, and as a large asset, yachts can be used as residences, so as long as the yacht is decorated like a home, and then live on it for a period of time every year, you can file tax returns and tax deductions in the name of "second residence"...

All in all, there are many benefits!

Zhang Junsheng was a little speechless, and finally could only sigh: "... I don't understand the logic of you Americans!"

After chatting for a while, Zhang Junsheng took the initiative to find Xiao Lizi who was talking to his friend Blind Ji...

Tobey Maguire, Matthew McConaughey, Little Plum's group of friends...

"Hey, what are you talking about?"

"We're talking about Hollywood today, where art films are getting weaker and weaker... I'm Matthew, hello, Director Zhang!"

“… Hello, I've seen your "Lincoln Lawyer" and it's done very well!"

Zhang Junsheng smiled and shook hands.

When Matthew McConaughey debuted, he was known as the younger version of "Paul Newman". For a long time, he starred in some very cheesy love light comedies, playing the role of a handsome guy, a prodigal son and other vase roles, Hollywood stallions...

His transition was probably in 2008, and by 2008 he was tired of it all, and at the same time he focused on his family, and his daughter and son were born in 2008 and 2010 respectively. At this time, he received a script "Lincoln's Lawyer", during college, his greatest wish was to become a lawyer, and his childhood dream coupled with his unprecedented seriousness towards this drama made him successfully play the role of a lawyer.

He and Xiao Lizi have always been friends, and they auditioned for "Titanic" together.

As for Tobey Maguire, he has always been one of Xiao Lizi's friends, both of them were born as child stars, and they met when they auditioned for the American drama "Parenting" together...

Xiao Lizi asked Zhang Junsheng rhetorically: "Zhang, do you think popcorn movies have the value of existence?"

After a pause, Zhang Junsheng continued: "On December 28, 1895, the film was first shown in a café with the Lumière brothers' "The Train Arrives", which also became the birth date of the film. But! You had to pay 1 franc to enter this café that afternoon to see a movie!"

"Today's era is the best time for superhero movies, but there are still a few pure movies every year that are different from the same popcorn movies!"

"In fact, "Inception" can be regarded as an original genre film!"

This is also the main reason why Zhang Junsheng is willing to cooperate with Christopher Nolan!

In Hollywood, where adaptations and sequels are made, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, including Spielberg, are the last banners of original big-budget films...

If even they were going to tinker with superhero movies, then... Hollywood is completely the same!

If you want to distinguish yourself from other large Hollywood production companies, in addition to horror films, the most important thing is to recruit a group of talented and individual top directors...

Investing in "Inception" can also be regarded as a thousand gold to buy horse bones!

"Actually, from a producer's point of view, I think movies are only bought by people and no one buys, and if a commercial film is really vulgar enough that no one watches it, it won't exist. Movies are a form of expression, and as long as they are expressed properly, it doesn't matter whether they are commercial or literary films. There's no need to step on one another, it's all mainstream! Anyway, I won't make a cult movie!"

The mainstream of Hollywood has always been big-budget commercial films and drama films, that is, literary films, and cults, anti-Semites, and anti-Christs are marginal cultures!

Even though Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" won $610 million at the global box office, he is still a marginal figure!

Tobey Maguire glanced at Xiao Lizi, and then asked, "... So why does Summit Entertainment keep insisting on making horror movies?"

“… It's easy, because the return on investment is high!"