Chapter Eighty-Four: The Rain Man

Wang Jie now holds 97% of the shares of Twentieth Century Fox, and now instructed the old Jim to inform the shareholders holding the remaining 3% of the shares, Fox Films was officially delisted, and the shareholders had no choice but to sell all the shares to Wang Jie at the market price. Originally, Wang Jie wanted to delist his Disney and Luen Mei, but found that it was a little unrealistic, although he already held 95% of Luen Mei's shares and 87% of Disney's shares, but the funds in his hands were not strong enough to run three large film companies independently.

Since then, Wang Jie's foundation in Hollywood has finally been solid, as long as it doesn't go wrong, it will be wrong, and in the mid-to-late nineties, after the world entertainment industry has developed in an all-round way, he can completely control most of Hollywood's voice with his company.

After Wang Jie was free, he began to think about filming movies again, and after thinking about it for a few days, Wang Jie was ready to hit the Academy Awards, and after careful selection, Wang Jie was ready to shoot the movie that caused a huge sensation in the eighties - "Rain Man".

The prototype of the movie "Rain Man", Kim Peake, is an autistic person from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He has an extraordinary memory, is known as an "expert", is proficient in 15 subjects, from literature to history, and can memorize at least 9,000 books word for word.

In 1951, when Peake was born, doctors found a blister on the right side of his skull, and subsequent scans of the whole brain revealed many abnormalities: the corpus callosum, which connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres, was non-existent, the connection between the front and back of the brain was missing, and the left cerebral hemisphere showed abnormalities, and the cerebellum was smaller than normal, and it appeared abnormal because it was surrounded by fluid.

Pique's parents never gave up on him and brought him into society with all their love. When Pique was 16 months old, his parents, like ordinary parents, began to read some books to him, and as they read them, they pulled Pique's fingers along the contents of each book and slid between the lines. His brain is like a huge database that can be memorized and automatically searched. His father took him to volunteer with him in the community when he was a teenager. In 1969, at the age of 18, Peake was assigned by his father to work at a research institute for adults with disabilities, and he was able to accurately calculate how much each employee should be paid for the hours he worked without using a calculator. Since then, he has volunteered with his father at disability centers in many communities, using his own example to bring joy to people with physical and mental disabilities.

In 1987, Pique's life took a major turn. At the time, Hollywood screenwriter Barry Murrow drew inspiration from Pique's personality to create "Rain Man," a touching story about the true love between autistic genius "Rain Man" and his brother's brotherhood. The movie "Rain Man" starring famous Hollywood stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, and finally won 4 awards including the 1988 Oscar for Best Picture, and Hoffman won the Oscar for his successful portrayal of "Rain Man".

When all walks of life knew that "Rain Man" was based on Peake's experience, they invited him to give speeches and visits to many communities, elementary and junior high schools, universities, and welfare institutions across the United States, and he did not receive any remuneration for speaking. Pique and his father have been running for more than 10 years, with the ultimate goal of telling the public about autism and sharing Pique's personal experience. Kim and his father became messengers for the disabled, and over the years 2.6 million people have shared Kim's story.

On December 19, 2009, at the age of 58, Pique died of a sudden heart attack, ending his legendary life. According to Peake's father, Fran, Peake suffered an upper respiratory infection a few weeks ago and suffered a heart attack on Saturday that eventually led to his death at Murray City Hospital near Salt Lake City, Utah.

His father, Fran, said he was pleased that although Peake was still an autistic person until his death, he had the opportunity to be invited to speak at campuses and community libraries across the United States and even in front of HSD officials during his lifetime, demonstrating his erudition and superior memory skills. This allowed him to get out of the dark world of autism and embrace the wider masses. "Everything he knows is unbelievable," said Fran mournfully. He has traveled nearly 3 million miles by plane and spoken to nearly 60 million people, half of whom were students. ”

After Wang Jie decided to shoot "Rain Man", it took two days to revise the script, and then he personally visited Jim Peake's family, and when Peake's father knew Wang Jie's intention, he resolutely refused the $500,000 gift from Wang Jie. Although Wang Jie was a little indifferent to outsiders, he was still moved by the sentiments of Pique's father, and finally at Wang Jie's suggestion, Wang Jie took out two million dollars to set up a charitable fund named after Pique, and the beneficiaries were autistic people like Pique.

Wang Jie's revised "Rain Man" tells a somewhat sad story: Charlie Babbitt is a young car dealer in Los Angeles. He ran a small car dealership, and with his shrewd mind and nimble skills, he had a thriving career. Today, Charlie is happy to see a deal being done, and he takes his girlfriend Suzanne, one of his only two staff, to Palm Springs for the weekend.

On the way, he receives a call from Lenny, an assistant who stayed behind at the company, informing him that his father had just died. Charlie was indifferent, but he decided to go to Cincinnati for his father's funeral.

It turned out that Charlie's mother died when he was two years old, and his father was very strict with him. When Charlie was 16 years old, he once ignored his father's ban and drove his father's favorite 1949 "Buick" brand white convertible out to take his classmates for a ride, but his father deliberately called the police to say that the car was stolen, so that Charlie and his classmates were detained by the police on the charge of "stealing cars", Charlie's classmates were soon released on bail by their respective parents, and Charlie's father deliberately let Charlie be locked up in the police station for two days in order to teach him a lesson. As a result, the father and son turned against each other, and Charlie ran away from home in anger, after which he refused to contact his father in any way. Charlie's father's statement in his will was that he "let him lose another son". But his father is a father after all, and in addition to wishing Charlie all the best, his father left him the white Buick sedan that caused their father and son to turn against each other and the grafted rose bush that he won the award. His house and other estates worth $3 million are classified as trust funds and are held in trust by the trustees as beneficiaries of the estate.

Charlie was disappointed and furious, he thought that he was the only heir to his father's property, who would want to be a sideline. However, Charlie, who has a tough personality and a shrewd mind, does not intend to stop there, and he decides to find out the whereabouts of his father's huge inheritance, and prepares to fight a battle for the inheritance to defend his rights.

Along the way, Charlie and Suzanne find a nursing home called Walbrook. and soon figured out that the custodian of the three-million-dollar estate was Dean Bruno. Dr. Bruno was an old friend of Charlie's father for many years. He was appointed to administer the estate, and the beneficiary of the estate was Raymond Babbitt, who had been living in the sanatorium for a long time. Raymond suffers from autism, he is unable to interact with people in a normal way and cannot adapt to social life in the usual sense.

Charlie then learned that he also had an older brother. Faced with this brother who "has no concept of money" but inherited a three-million-dollar inheritance, Charlie was angry and laughed: "What does this money mean to him (referring to Raymond)?" He felt that his father was deliberately fooling him, punishing him, and playing a big joke with him. He took his resentment of his father out of the "elder brother" who suddenly appeared in front of him, and looked at this stupid brother with intellectual problems, Charlie was both jealous and contemptuous. However, this Raymond seems to be at the mercy of maneuvering, and Charlie decides to use him to reclaim half of the inheritance that should be his own.

Without Bruno's consent, Charlie took Raymond out of the nursing home without permission, and as long as he won custody of Raymond, he also won back his father's inheritance. Besides, he had to rush back to Los Angeles to take care of his business. Suzanne was unhappy with Charlie's use of Raymond and left him angrily.

So Charlie had to take Raymond on the journey alone. However, it is not easy to get along with this mentally troubled brother, and Raymond's life is strictly based on fixed rituals, and he has to do fixed things at fixed times (because Raymond is an autistic person and behaves repetitively and stereotypically in certain things). Watch a fixed TV show at a fixed time, have a fixed recipe for each meal, and go to bed at a fixed time. He also only wears boxer briefs bought from a certain store. In addition, he refused to fly and drive on the highway, which stemmed from his fear. While at the airport, he suddenly lost control of his emotions and yelled because Charlie tried to force him to fly. During the journey, Charlie was exhausted by Raymond's many strange habits and foreign appearances due to his ignorance of the world. However, Charlie also soon discovered the high talent of this imbecile brother: Raymond has an amazing memory and has the ability to "never forget". He can accurately report the flight schedule, time, place, and cause of all major air crashes in flight history, and he can quickly count the 246 toothpicks that have fallen on the restaurant floor. He can also remember any phone number he has read in his phone book. His mental arithmetic speed is not inferior to that of a calculator.

The clever Charlie had an idea and thought about it: "He did some training and "packaging" for Raymond, and then took him to a casino in Las Vegas, a casino in Las Vegas, and lived up to his expectations, Raymond won $86,000 by gambling with his amazing memory. (Charlie's loan was gone, his car was confiscated, his credit card was blocked, he didn't have much cash, and he later found out that his brother was very good at mental arithmetic and went to the casino)

And for Raymond, it was also an unusual trip, leaving the same life in the sanatorium and changing the fixed rituals of life that he was used to, all of which made him uneasy, but it was also a new experience: even such a small thing as riding the escalator made Raymond feel new and interesting, he counted cards to win money for his brother, and he also played a lucky wheel, had a short conversation with a nightclub girl, wishful thinking booked a date, and he insisted that Charlie teach him to dance in order to get there. Although his "female companion" did not show up in the end, in order to comfort him, the kind-hearted Suzanne danced with him in the elevator and taught him to kiss.

It is this series of frictions, disputes and awkward journeys that made the brothers gradually sprout brotherhood, or find their former family affection. Once, when Raymond saw the hot water poured into the bathtub, he suddenly lost control of his emotions again, shouting: "Hot water will hurt the baby, and it must not hurt Charlie Babbitt". Charlie learned that the "rain man" that remained in his vague childhood memory was Raymond, (the "rain man" in English is Rain Man, which is similar to Raymond (Raymond), so Charlie would mispronounce it when he was a child, whenever little Charlie was afraid, "Rain Man" would sing to him and comfort him. For a long time, Charlie thought that "Rain Man" was just his childhood fantasy friend, but this vulnerable person in front of him who needed to be protected had protected him and comforted him, and was sent to a nursing home by his father because he almost hurt him. Although he has no impression of his mother, he cannot perceive the love of his father, who is not good at expressing his feelings. However, how much love he has received from his family.

Charlie, who has always been cold to the concept of family affection, was deeply touched, and his resentment towards his father also melted. The Raymond in front of him is his brother who is connected to each other, witnessing his family's deep love for him, and Charlie's affection for Raymond also makes Suzanne see Charlie's inner world, his original emotions and innate virtues. Their love has also deepened and intensified.

Charlie ultimately failed to win custody of Raymond, but this time Charlie didn't care about the inheritance, he was worried that he wouldn't be able to see Raymond again. Raymond rested his head on his brother's head. He used this childish way to express his love and attachment to his younger brother.