Chapter 31: Trouble to distinguish the difference, OK?
It's not hard to control the Big Seven in Hollywood, especially when you have a seat at the Fed's annual meeting, and don't forget that capitalism in the United States is much purer than in Europe. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
European capital is still fighting back and forth with power, and it will be suppressed once or twice from time to time, but since the early days of the founding of the United States, those founding fathers have tried their best to suppress power.
What's more, the time is just right, starting in the 80s is undoubtedly easy difficulty, the 90s can be counted as ordinary difficulty, even in the 21st century, it is only difficult at best.
Those who were reborn and ran to Hollywood to make movies, and then shouted that they wanted to overturn the Big Seven are impossible, generally speaking, they are all bad brains.
Wrong route, knowledge ...... It's wrong, it's going in the wrong direction, and no matter how capable you are, it's useless.
It's like a man who claims to be the most powerful person in America, and he runs for mayor, mayor, governor, and president of the United States, and then says that he can't have power without that...... Isn't this the staff maker of Mader?
You said that you climbed up in a big family, and you didn't want to be the patriarch or enter the patriarchal council, but you ran to be a general manager who had a tenure of only 8 years and could be kicked out at any time if necessary?
It's true that the chief steward can be in a vertical and horizontal position, but do you know how long some of the people in the council of chiefs have been in that position?
Similarly, how many of the seven big controllers of Hollywood came from the position of director? How many of them came from the position of producer? Even the founders of CAA's gang of play management, one by one, seemed to be calling for wind and rain, but after they jumped ship to major studios in the early 90s, they were still the only one? Meyer barely got out of the way.
If you want to surpass the Big Seven, or control the Big Seven and overturn the Big Seven, instead of using the golden finger to make money and expand your network in order to win into Wall Street - Wall Street in the real sense - but run to be a director and make a movie, you are embarrassed to make nonsense and say that it is impossible?
Please, everyone is reborn, what kind of big-tailed wolf is pretending, to put it mildly, the mentally handicapped aura on your body, the world's strong X-ray aura seems to not exist.
As long as you have a status, funds, and connections on Wall Street, it is not too easy to play the Big Seven, and how many of the financial activities in the United States can leave Wall Street? How many are not controlled by Wall Street?
It is estimated that some people want to say that Hollywood even dares to cheat on Wall Street and other nonsense, this question has been mentioned before, and the guys who believe in this stupid statement obviously don't know how financial derivatives are played.
For example, Paramount's "Melrose" movie platter investment plan consists of 25 films, including the best-selling "Mean Girl" and "The Manchurian Candidate" and the box office underwhelming "Copy the Wife" and "Murder with a Knife", as well as the box office poison "Childe Alfie" and "Elizabethtown", which were packaged together and sold to investors through four financial institutions.
Sounds familiar, and the next day the chefs mix leftover cod with a few pieces of fresh cod in a pot to make a soup, and the fresh cod soup is baked.
Investors don't know which mortgages have good credit, and that's okay, we have professionals.
Investors don't know which junk bonds have value, and that's okay, we have professionals.
Investors don't know which films are likely to be profitable, and that's okay, we have professionals.
If investors accuse us, let's just say that we have always executed a low-risk strategy of using our clients' investments in products with AAA ratings, so our clients' losses are not caused by us.
In other words, if you are dissatisfied, you can go to a credit rating agency, to find a company that has launched an investment project, we investment banks are just platforms, what is the responsibility of the platform?
This is how money is cheated step by step, this kind of trick Wall Street has been playing since the 80s, and Hollywood is just following behind.
In fact, strictly speaking, the movie platter project is a financial derivative that is stolen by the concept, and Wall Street helps Hollywood scam money from investors, and Hollywood makes accounts for investors.
So Wall Street can make a look of a lawsuit and say to investors: Look, we're not in league with them.
Only those stupid guys who believe it to be true after watching a few news stories will think, oops, Hollywood is so powerful, even Wall Street money dares to cheat.
To be honest, Li Xu really wants to know which Taobao merchants can pit Taobao's own money.
I really don't know how stupid it must be for a platform, and it is also a platform for both players and referees, to be cheated by a group of amateur players.
Well, back to the topic, although Hollywood is controlled by Wall Street, it is still unlikely, or very troublesome, to make the Seven Connections a finger, and it takes a lot of time and energy.
Li Xu, who has already developed a lazy habit in this life, has no interest in becoming a workaholic, so he recalled a lot of information, and discussed it with his parents a few times in a half-concealed manner, and finally decided on a policy of leading from point to point after thinking for a long time.
Yes, I told my grandfather before that my father mainly controls Warner, indirectly controls Fox, he mainly controls Disney, indirectly controls Paramount, and my mother mainly controls Columbia, indirectly controls Universal - Universal was bought by Panasonic in the mid-80s, just like Columbia was bought by Sony.
Similarly, Panasonic was also cheated by the Americans, and in the end it didn't stick to it and sold the world again. If you intervene at that time and let them be less miserable, or inject money to keep them, you may be able to usher in spring like Sony.
Of course, Hollywood is still very wary of foreign investment, or the US government is very wary of foreign investment in Hollywood, Colombia is always managed by the Americans, and Sony is actually more American.
Therefore, the mother's side is mainly used to lead the system, and Li Xu and his father's side are the focus.
As mentioned earlier, Warner and Disney are the only two companies in Hollywood that have grown from a big studio to a media conglomerate. Moreover, the former is preceded by the name of Times Group, and the latter is the unique Disney, such a signboard has a huge influence, especially in Hollywood, the base of the American film industry, which is not something that ordinary people can imagine.
In fact, the reason why the Seven National Congresses are difficult to be overturned is not because of how good they are at making false accounts and how desperate they are at working hard for interests, but because they have become living signboards in decades of development.
If there really is a domestic entertainment tycoon in the United States, reborn from the 21st century to the early 80s, and wants to control Hollywood, the first thing to do is not to plan to buy the Big Seven, but to prevent the merger of MGM and United America.
Hollywood's Big Seven did not have a Disney position at first, but a position was vacated after the merger of United America and MGM, and Disney developed rapidly in the late 80s to fill it.
If Luen Mei is still there, Hollywood will be the eight, not the seven, and the brand Luen Mei can do a lot of things. You know, even if MGM is half-dead by Kirk Kerion, it's easy to get financing.
Similarly, like Morgan Stanley, even if it is still at a low point, as long as this brand is still there, this brand has existed since the 30s, and can even be traced back to the 19th century, it is not afraid that it will not exist.
So, Li Xu has to get Disney, so Roy Disney has to get out.
"But even if you help Ray Miller get rid of Roy Disney, he won't be grateful to you," said his father, looking at him at this time, "especially since his management skills are mediocre and he will definitely be replaced." ”
Li Xu was silent for a moment, although he was a little reluctant, but he also admitted that Dad was right, no matter what, Miller was still a member of the Disney family, even if Dani Disney followed Miller's surname.
"It's a real nuisance. He muttered.
"I want to ask, II," my father said again, "why are you so attached to Disney and Warner Bros."
Then without waiting for him to answer, he laughed again: "It can't be a little girl, right?"
Li Xu immediately rolled his eyes: "Am I not giving advice to you and grandpa's ideals?"
"First of all, that's your grandfather's ideal, and second, I know it's good to control the media, but you obviously can't have no intentions, can you?" Father spread his hands, "You've talked to me about more than that, but also about controlling the fashion industry, so as to promote the interaction between fashion and the media, and then increase our influence." ”
"What's wrong with that? The interaction between fashion and the media can indeed increase our influence, and the vast majority of women in this world are very passionate about fashion. Li Xu shrugged.
"But it doesn't have much to do with your grandfather's ideals. Father reminded.
"It doesn't matter how it is, as long as we have enough influence, there will only be less resistance to doing things. Li Xu immediately retorted.
But his father didn't speak, just looked at him, and after a while, he had to raise his hands a little depressed: "Well, a lot of time, too much influence is not entirely a good thing." ”
Decades have passed since the Morgan consortium was broken up, and if the three agencies were really interested in merging, they should have been decided when they negotiated at the Cavern Hotel in Bermuda Bay. However, there was no progress in that negotiation, except for the delineation of the scope of each other's business and the establishment of terms such as mutual assistance.
Some may want to see a restructuring of the Morgan consortium, but many more don't want to see it – at least for now.
Not to mention the "Glass-Steagall Act" hanging over the head, although this bill has now been infiltrated by capital, and some commercial banks have private investment business, but as long as it is not formally repealed, the government has a legal basis to prevent the merger.
Therefore, in this situation, it is not the case that the greater the influence, the better.
"Moreover, I have talked to Rupert Murdoch that even if there are only seven or eight influential media groups left in the market as you expected, it will not be too difficult for us to indirectly control them and let them speak for us," said my father, "tell me what you think, II." ”
"I want to be respected enough to be in the entertainment industry. After a few minutes of silence, Li Xu looked at his father and replied.
"I don't think it's difficult......"
"No, no, no, you don't understand what I mean, I mean the entertainment industry, not just Hollywood!"