In the evening, Chi Mingzhe met Martin in a restaurant in Manhattan, and today is November 7, and the Asian economic and financial market is already in shambles. Joining Martin was his father's friend, Schulke, an investment broker who was eating on Wall Street, "Mr. Schulke! I think Martin has already told you what we want to do, right?" Chi Mingzhe went straight to the point; "Yes, William! I know very well that the most discussed thing on Wall Street now is the Asian economic and financial market. But first of all, I want to know how much money you are going to put in, and I beg your pardon! I'm curious why you're Korean, why do you copy your country's currency, you ...... "Ah! I know what you mean, Mr. Schulke! First of all, I want to make a point that I came to the United States when I was 12 years old and have American citizenship. Besides, why don't you earn money if you have money?" Ji Mingzhe was a little tired, and dual citizenship not only allowed him to avoid South Korean military service, but also allowed him to avoid some troubles when developing in the United States. Despite the disgust of the United States administration for these dual nationals, they turn a blind eye as long as nothing goes wrong. "I see!Mr. William!Please tell me specifically, how are you going to operate this?" Schulke is not unavoidable, "First of all, I will use the Guò offshore company to carry out capital turnover, and I will also sign a confidentiality agreement with the trader, of course, you also have to sign it together, and add a clause in the agreement that you must buy and sell in strict accordance with my requirements, do you understand what I mean?" Ji Mingzhe said staring at Schulke's eyes. "I see, the customer is God!"

Chi Mingzhe registered two offshore companies with Guò Law Firm for this capital operation in order to prevent being exposed in the future, and he is preparing to return to South Korea for development in the future. Soon, Chi Mingzhe transferred a total of $2.3 million and the $500,000 that Martin had borrowed from home to an offshore company account called "Blue Bird", which was not well known on Wall Street. Now Chi Mingzhe only has $50,000 left in his hand, and the 2.3 million miles can also be as well as the $2 million compensation from the insurance company after his father's death. Of course, he also agreed with the traders when to buy and when to sell, and now all he has to do is wait. In the midst of anxiety, the time came to the end of December, and as I knew in my dream, the won fell by nearly 70 percent, and the financial leverage operation of 50 times returned to the hands of nearly 80 million US dollars. Ji Mingzhe held the check and was excited, "Thank you!" sighed silently in his heart. The offshore company Chi Mingzhe has not been deregistered, and he will not really deregister these shell companies until next year. At Christmas, Chi Mingzhe specially went back to Los Angeles to visit his old neighbors, and bought a lot of gifts for Xiuyan and Xiujing, the two little girls were happy for a long time, only he knew that this was just for the future of the two little girls and to build a good relationship in advance, thinking of these Chi Mingzhe blushed slightly.

In a blink of an eye, it has come to Chi Mingzhe's graduation season, of course, at this moment he is already a rich man with a lot of money and billions of wealth, of course, compared with the real rich people, he is still far from it, and Schulke continued to cooperate with the rupiah again, and he earned 400 million US dollars, of course, the trader has changed a group of newcomers, and the basic secrecy work is still required. But at this moment, he is worried about what graduation work to shoot. I have a lot of movie memories in my mind, but I still have to think carefully about what I want to shoot. In the end, after thinking about it, he chose "Smart: Ghost Shadow", which will be released in September 2009 in the future, and is a horror film with a small budget but a big box office shot by director Oren Pei with DV, which is really a small budget, and the entire filming production only cost 11,000 US dollars, of course, the publicity expenses are calculated separately, but it has a box office of more than 100 million US dollars. Originally, Chi Mingzhe wanted to choose "Blair the Witch", the pioneering work of the pseudo-documentary, but after all, he was still very professional and found that after careful analysis, this film lacked something that really moved people, and there was no theme or even connotation. So in the end, it was decided to choose "Smart-Ghost Shadow", the future box office dark horse, of course, in order to make the movie more sophisticated, Chi Mingzhe decided to increase the production fee to 100,000 US dollars. This number is already the bottom line in his heart, no matter how high it is, it will lose the meaning of playing the gimmick of small cost and big box office. Chi Mingzhe did his homework before the filming, first returned to Los Angeles to buy a small film company that was about to go out of business, this kind of small film companies abound in Los Angeles, after changing the company's name to Skyrim Pictures, the headhunter found an experienced professional manager as the company's manager, this is called Perry, a professional manager in his 50s, has 30 years of distribution experience in Hollywood, and has worked in distribution and management in Warner and Universal in Hollywood's eight major film companies, for which Chi Mingzhe offered an annual salary of 600,000 US dollars。 After that, the Tongguò Actors' Union found a few unknown young actors to play the starring roles, of course, there were no supporting roles in this movie, and then filming began in a rented villa. Originally, this movie did not have a complete script in later generations, and even the lines were thought about while filming, but when it came to Ji Mingzhe, of course, the script and lines were written in advance and registered. The original film took 1 week to shoot, and Ji Mingzhe took 12 days to complete the shooting. Of course, it was to shoot more delicately, but no matter how detailed it was, it only took 12 days. The post-editing production was done by Chi Mingzhe in the dormitory with a home computer, the same as the original, in order to be more refined, he also chose a song that was very good in later generations as the ending song, the song is called "4minutes", which was sung by Madonna and Justin, the queen of American music in the future, but now the original singer has become a friend of Chi Mingzhe, Garne, who studied music. Of course, Chi Mingzhe didn't systematically learn the music system, so he had to hum and record it by Garne, and then arrange and make it by Garne in the recording studio, but after Garne finished recording the song, he found that the song did not match the content of the movie at all, Chi Mingzhe just asked Garne, "Is it good?" "It's a good song, William!" Garne replied truthfully, "Uh-huh! It's good!" Chi Mingzhe took the song and turned around and left, of course, Garne sighed at Chi Mingzhe's talent in music creation, Chi Mingzhe ......

After the film production was good, he participated in the graduation evaluation, which caused a sensation in the film school, thinking that Chi Mingzhe had created a new way of filming, and Chi Mingzhe did not blush and declared that this film style was called "pseudo-documentary", for which Chi Mingzhe's teacher hoped that the film could be screened in theaters, and the academy came forward to contact and invite the cinema line to test the film, and then Chi Mingzhe cut multiple versions of the trailer and let Perry, the general manager of Skyrim Pictures, launch a network of relationships in major theaters, TV stations and newspaper networks to broadcast and promote in turn, And specially chartered a movie theater to invite some ordinary audiences and college students to watch the film together, hoping that they would spread the word of mouth and play an auxiliary role in the promotion of the film. The effect was very ideal, and with a lot of publicity from various media, this successful film was officially released in 645 theaters across the United States on August 15, 1998, and many ordinary audiences attracted by the trailer and intensive publicity flocked to the theaters to see this horror film that Ji Mingzhe claimed to be a bloody masterpiece. The first week of "Ghost Story" grossed $8.95 million, which was a good result for a restrictive horror film, and then the box office went from strength to strength, and theaters adjusted in time to increase the number of theaters to show the film in as many as 2,600 theaters. By the fifth week, the box office of the film had surpassed that of its previous life, reaching $116 million, and the media was even more surprised, it was crazy, the production cost of $100,000 plus the publicity cost of $5 million, how much is the box office now?

"The film is a masterfully designed horror film, and beneath that delicate, detailed shell, the director reveals to us the true source of fear: our own hearts. ”

- Chicago Sun-Times

The director's interpretation of "what you see is not what you get" in the film is unforgettable. ”

- "Variety"

"At certain points in the film, apart from the dizzying hand-held panning cinematography, the film is very much like Hitchcock's work, and the suspense and thriller atmosphere in the film is undoubtedly very successful. ”

- "The Los Angeles Times"

After the official release of the film, the North American box office alone reached 180 million US dollars, and after the cooperation of Skyrim Pictures Tongguò and a number of Hollywood film distributors, the film was released in 57 countries around the world except Chinese mainland, with a total box office of 436 million US dollars, deservedly becoming the annual box office champion in North America. The incident caused a huge sensation in Ji Mingzhe's hometown of South Korea. At this moment, due to the Asian economic crisis, South Korea is in mourning, the real estate industry is collapsing, a large number of enterprises are closing down, the unemployment rate is soaring, the film industry is even more decayed, the South Korean authorities are miserable, and the people are spontaneously donating all kinds of gold jewelry to support the authorities to increase the country's gold reserves to repay foreign debts. Now, when South Korea is in dire straits, the South Korean authorities have seized the opportunity to hype up the public morale when news came from the United States that a Korean film director had swept the North American box office market with a graduation work that cost only $100,000 to produce a film that cost only $100,000.

"Today, Korean director Ji Myung-cheol is proud of the international film industry, and at this time of crisis, all the Korean people should unite to face the national crisis. ”

-- Chosun Ilbo

"The glory of my Korea, Ji Myung-cheol, as a rookie director, swept the international film industry and set a global box office of 436 million US dollars, and my Korean director has finally been internationally recognized. ”

-- Dong-A Ilbo

Korean director Ji Myung-cheol xi...... Glorious ......!"

-- JoongAng Ilbo

Ji Mingzhe is well-known in South Korea, but of course his dual citizenship has been selectively ignored by the South Korean authorities. And some film companies in the United States have also recorded him for later observation, but at the moment, our director Chi is walking alone in New York's Central Park, and he should think about how to go after graduation. That night he had dinner with Martin and a few other friends, then went to a bar for a night of partying, and the next morning he took the first flight from New York to Los Angeles.