Chapter 186: Captain of Freedom

Daniel uses a Yahoo email address that shows 104 unread emails.

Generally speaking, private phone calls are not easy to circulate, while private mailboxes are not so easy to keep private, because phone calls are generally considered to be more private, while mailboxes are much more open.

As a result, Daniel's private mailbox was always full, and people from all kinds of sources sent things to it.

A director who wants to get a deal, a screenwriter who wants to be made into a movie, an actor who wants to be physically famousโ€”and a restricted-grade photo, all in all, it takes twenty minutes to throw the spam in the trash, and he has to avoid accidentally deleting important emails.

"This little girl," Daniel looked at the email, a little headache.

Amanda. Seyfried, since the last time she announced at the "Pirates of the Caribbean" audition that she would strive to be Daniel's wife, she has sent Daniel some personal thoughts every now and then, life small things and so on. Daniel assures that it must have been Jerry's email address to her.

At the beginning, with the mentality that more is better than less, and he did have a lot of things before, so he didn't reply to these emails, but the little girl actually went to visit the class in "Fake God", Seth, the slut, was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, but he was very compatible with Amanda, and betrayed him a lot.

Later, he began to reply to one or two letters once in a while, and Amanda was easily satisfied.

Daniel's special circumstances and circumstances have made him hardly experience the change in mentality of a young Hollywood dreamer - from high-spirited, to self-doubting, to decadence, to nirvana rebirth, this process now seems to be very interesting. Amanda apparently treats him like a tree hole, and her mood changes at work are unabashedly poured towards him.

"Today's audition went, and the director was a squinting goldfish-eyed Texan, and I almost didn't spit yesterday's burger on his bald head."

"Alas, Nogood many times today, maybe I really don't have any talent?"

"I'm. The actor he cooperated with is a pig, and he has been Nogood fifteen times, doesn't the director know to throw him into the sea and then change someone. โ€

"It went well today. The producer said I had improved a lot. โ€

"You know what? You know what? Today our executive producer mentioned you. Well, it's just a lesson to us young actors, saying that we are not geniuses like you, and we don't have a face like you, and if we don't work hard enough, we should never think that we can succeed. Although he was scolded very badly, he said that it was very reasonable, but Daniel, you are really good, you are a role model and idol for all the young actors I have met. โ€

"Daniel, I heard about Scarlett. Johnson and you are the same agent? Is your broker willing to accept new clients? If not, can you get him to kick Scarlett off? โ€

No matter how big or small, there is no cover-up.

Reading Amanda's emails every night has almost become a major pastime for Daniel, but she has never given up on declaring her identity as "future Daniel's wife". This gave Daniel a bit of a headache.

Shaking his head, he pulled the email into the group.

Raymond's financial documents are generally full of data, bar charts, pie charts, line charts, and it took Daniel a while to learn to understand them. Of course, none of this is a problem now - generally speaking, the level of a person's exposure and his various abilities will be subtly matched, and it is difficult for you to make a trick of reading the financial report of a fund, right? Daniel's gradual involvement in the investment field is also based on the premise that his wealth has grown and there is an investment need.

During the day, Raymond called Daniel. Let's put it simply.

This is a report on Apple, a few months ago, Daniel sold Apple's stock, the first one because the Apple stock price was in a state of wild volatility. Investability is low, and Apple's stock has been too volatile during this period; The third is because he plans to transfer the money to MB's account to pay for MB's development needs. Of course, Apple's growth is still certain, and Daniel will also have the opportunity to continue to buy in the later period.

As a result, MB later made a breakthrough in the profit point and survived on its own. Now the situation is getting better and better, and this money has only made some short-term investments in the hands of Raymond in the past few months, and the returns are not particularly impressive. When Daniel filmed "The Impostor", that is, at the end of September, Apple had already fallen by about 45% - this was a bit unexpected, because the iPod launched by Jobs was conquering the city, and Sony's Walkman could not be found, but the stock market bucked the trend, and after Daniel sold the Apple stock, it began to fall rapidly, until the end of September, Raymond copied the bottom - as a result, this time the stock of Apple, there was enough to make a profit of tens of millionsHe originally held nearly 4 million ordinary shares, each of which was about $21 at the time, worth $84 million. Now Apple's stock is only $11.5, and Raymond has re-opened 5 million shares, which only cost 57 million, and the net profit is 27 million. However, the money was not saved, and recently Raymond and Microsoft finally negotiated to buy 2.5 million shares from Microsoft for $9, an investment that cost 23 million.

At the beginning, Apple and Microsoft fought a lawsuit, and in the end, the two sides reconciled, and Microsoft even bought 150 million shares of Apple stock to maintain the cooperation between the two sides. But Ballmer, the new CEO of Microsoft, refused to continue to hold these shares, which have been sold one after another for more than a year, but Apple's shares have not been selling well recently, and Microsoft's reduction in itself is Apple's downside - as soon as he sells, the stock price falls, and fewer people buy it. Therefore, the price is much lower than the market price, and eating 2.5 million shares in one go is already a big taker.

In this way, Daniel's Apple stock has 7.5 million shares, and this batch of shares will rise to more than 140 shares in 2008, which is more than a billion. Sometimes Daniel wants to lie here, wait for the wealth in his hands to appreciate, and then live a worry-free life.

But the unwillingness to be reborn once again will always make this kind of sprout quickly suppressed.

The opportunity to make a bigger career, whether it is in pure wealth or in the movie where the ambition is, and missing out because of the fear of challenges, laziness, and lack of initiative, in any case, makes Daniel unable to pass his heart.

Therefore, these stocks, which are equivalent to a huge amount of wealth, will still be sold in the next two months - this was originally a bottom-buying, and then a sum of cash from Apple's large-scale fluctuations, plus Daniel's share of nearly 80 million belonging to Daniel's investment department from "Greek Wedding" - this money will be settled by the end of the year about 7 percent, that is, 5, 60 million, and the follow-up account will be divided in the next quarterly account period. And the income from DVDs, broadcast rights, and post-payment of product placement will also be settled before Christmas.

Therefore, in the end of this oil speculation, Daniel was able to raise nearly 250 million or so, and according to the profit of 100% per barrel, this money will be more than doubled. In the scale of hundreds of billions, although this point cannot be said to be inactive, it does have no impact on the overall situation.

He and Raymond have been busy with this matter in recent months, especially Raymond, money comes in from different channels, reasonable tax avoidance, legalization, and evasion of operational purposes, which are all things that only professionals can do, Daniel just looked at the report, and couldn't give any specific opinions.

Hollywood by day and Wall Street by night, Daniel has adapted quite a bit.

So joining the group "Pirates of the Caribbean" didn't make him uncomfortable.

For the character of Captain Jack, he has discussed with Rob, Jerry, and even Robert, Egger and others what kind of image he should be.

Of course he knew Johnny. Depp's portrayal of Jack is conservatively praised, that neurotic, sissy, tenacious, persistent and other Jack. Captain Sparrow, dressed in a strange pirate-style outfit, behaves in a strange and unusual way, each of which is very attractive.

However, when you have to get to the heart of the character.

The key word Robert gives is: drama.

Jerry's description is: iconoclastic

Rob believes that the characteristics are: solitude and gorgeousness

Daniel's own understanding of this character is based on his analysis of the previous work, as well as his own understanding, which he believes is: freedom!

At the beginning, Gore. Verbinski and Jerry were on the same page, but they did not get the full approval of Robert, who thought they intended to portray Jack. Instead of a dramatic legend, Sparrow is a psychotic โ€” emphasizing the difference so much that he ignores some of his own requirements.

As a simple example, you want to have a dinner that is completely different from everyone else's, but no matter how different it is, it must always be edible and satisfying, not a rock, not a lump of colorful dung, you have to be able to eat it, otherwise the difference is meaningless.

Of course, without Daniel's step-by-step and Robert's leadership, he would have respected Gore and Jerry's expertise, and that's no different.

"I think that whether it's alternative, dramatic, lonely or gorgeous, it's just a way to express it, what kind of alternative Sparrow is? What kind of image is Captain Jack with a strong sense of drama? Lonely captain, gorgeous captain, and then what? The core of this character is definitely the soul of freedom. Because of the freedom of the soul, he does what he wants, ignoring the rules of the world, aesthetics, etiquette - so he seems very different. Free and alternative, just like a Van Gogh in a group of classical painting masters, this is the origin of the dramatic conflict of the characters, and there is another kind of "taken for granted" in the world's "taken for granted", isn't it very dramatic? As for how to use the shape to promote this freedom, it belongs to the technical category.

At its core, it should be these two words: freedom. (To be continued.) )

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