After roughly flipping through the script, Xiao Yang asked Julia: "How much money are Disney and Buena-Vista going to invest in this movie?" ”

Julia curled the corners of her lips and replied proudly: "The approximate budget is 20 million, of which 8 million is my salary." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Xiao Yang smiled and shook his head, "Then they'd better start crossing their fingers now to pray that this investment won't lose too badly." ”

Julia couldn't believe it, "Will it turn out that bad?" ”

In fact, the result is even worse than she imagined, and if history continues to develop in the direction of Xiao Yang's memory, then there is no doubt that "I Love Trouble" will be a work that fails at both the box office and word of mouth, and also marks the beginning of Julia's acting career at a low point.

In fact, you don't need to refer to his memory, just looking at the content of the script can judge the reason why it is not pleasing to the audience.

According to the plot design, Julia Roberts' character in the film is an ambitious rookie journalist (a reality remake of Anna Meyer?). The plot mainly revolves around a news report related to a train explosion, in order to track down the inside story, the hero and heroine go from competing and hostile to working together, and finally reveal the truth to the world after going through hardships, of course, there are lovers who eventually become married - in short, suspenseful adventure and happy enemies, typical Hollywood routines.

Compared with the memory in his mind, Xiao Yang shook his head with a little regret, "Even if I don't use my foresight, from the perspective of a movie fan, I am not very optimistic about it, it is obvious that the screenwriter's creative idea is to highlight the excitement of adventure, but also unwilling to give up the warmth of love - as a common problem of Hollywood movies, whether it is suspense, adventure, action, war or science fiction, those producers like to forcibly add some romantic factors to it - but the result of trying to please both sides will only make it look nondescript, It's neither tense and exciting, nor humorous and romantic enough, and the straightforward plot can't be classified as a suspense film, all in all, this will be a bland and sleepy film, so there's no need to count on profit or anything, and it's still unknown whether the cost can be recovered. ”

Julia frowned, "If I suggested to the screenwriter and director of the film to change the plot and make it into a pure romantic comedy in the style of the previous "Pretty Woman", or a thriller like Judy's "The Silence of the Lambs", would the final box office be a little higher than you expected?" ”

Xiao Yang shook his head again, "It's possible, but it's more likely to get worse." ”

Julia thought about it very seriously and asked, "So, I should push it off, right?" ”

"Why push it off?" Xiao Yang spread his hands amusedly, "That's $8 million!" As long as you make money, do you care if the film company and the investor will lose money? ”

Julia hesitated, "But in that case, my box office appeal will inevitably be greatly reduced, and those investors will also have a wait-and-see attitude because of this......"

"It's inevitable." Xiao Yang picked her chin, looked into her eyes and said: "Don't forget what I said before, your career will inevitably fall into a trough in the next two years, this is fate, and it has nothing to do with your personal efforts, so don't force yourself too much to do anything or not to do anything, send you a word, fate is like a strong ~ rape, if you can't resist, just lie down and enjoy it." ”

Julia was amused by his words, "Well, I'm ready to enjoy......"

Early the next morning, Julia's broker came to pick her up and go to Burbank to meet with Disney's top executives, while Xiao Yang drove back to downtown Los Angeles to cash the check Jackson had paid him at the Los Angeles branch of Wells Fargo, where he had an account.

While waiting for the formalities to be completed in the VIP lounge area, the business manager in charge of him came to him with a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes, "Mr. Xiao, please allow me to introduce you to the head of the investment department of the bank, Mr. Peolo-Lesky." ”

Xiao Yang stood up and shook hands with the other party and said hello, "Fortunately, I don't know what to do with me, Mr. Lesky?" ”

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Shaw." Neither of them is the kind of idler who has a lot of time to squander, and Lesky did not beat around the bush, and directly explained his intentions: "Forgive me for taking the liberty of not knowing if Mr. Xiao has any intention of reinvesting the funds on hand, if so, I personally very much hope that you can hand over the business to Wells Fargo to take care of it." ”

Xiao Yang thought for a moment and said, "Before I give my own answer, can you introduce your investment strategy?" ”

"Of course." Lesky opened his briefcase, took out a thick stack of prospectuses and handed it over, "First of all, allow me to give you an overview of Wells Fargo, through excellent and effective management and continuous pioneering efforts, in the past 10 years, our stock price has risen from $1.92 in 1984 to $18.75 now, earnings per share have increased from $0.84 to $1.35, and our market capitalization has grown from less than $100 million to $1 billion......"

After listening to his brief introduction, Xiao Yang smiled noncommittally, "You want to suggest that I buy your bank's shares?" ”

"It's a good long-term investment strategy with stable and attractive returns, and of course, if Mr. Xiao feels that this approach is too conservative, we can also choose some portfolios that are relatively aggressive, slightly risky but have higher yields." Lesky flipped through the investment recruitment instructions that deliberately listed a lot of financial terms to show his professionalism, and spared no effort to recommend to Xiao Yang: "We can use your bonus as the principal to borrow short-term funds and buy long-term bonds for arbitrage, or we can take the form of interest rate swaps to borrow money to buy the bonds of relatively safe and stable European countries or the debts of high-yield enterprises, and we can also use leverage to buy commercial housing for rental profits......

In line with the purpose of learning and observing, and patiently listening to the other party's tirade, Xiao Yang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, can grow into one of the world's top market capitalization, qualified to keep pace with ICBC behemoth, Wells Fargo Bank in the choice of investment direction, risk and return control does have its own uniqueness, to the financial industry is far inferior to the automobile, electrical manufacturing and high-tech stocks at this stage, its return on investment efficiency can exceed Intel, General Motors and Coca-Cola and other giants is even more valuable, It's a pity that for a prophet like him, more than 20% of the annual investment income is still a bit insufficient, "Good introduction, detailed and professional, but unfortunately, Mr. Lesky, I'm afraid I won't leave my money to you to take care of." ”

A hint of disappointment flashed in Lesky's eyes, but he still didn't give up, "Mind revealing the reason?" ”

Xiao Yang smiled, got up from the sofa and shook hands with him and said goodbye: "Because I don't want to see my money go down the drain." ”