Tang Ning explained with a smile: "Don't worry, have I made any mistakes in my investments over the years?" I expect that if nothing happens, it is very possible for this stock to multiply hundreds of times in the future, so don't sell it if it rises three or five times, and I plan to leave these shares to my sons. ”

Downing is naturally confident in this stock, because this supermarket is not somewhere else, but the famous Wal-Mart supermarket in later generations. Founded in 1962, the department store is arguably the world's largest chain of companies, mainly involved in the retail industry, and is the world's largest company in terms of turnover, and its controlling company is the Walton family, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, USA. Walmart is the company with the largest number of employees in the world, ranking first in the Fortune Global 500 for three consecutive years, with 8,500 stores in 15 countries and operating in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Wal-Mart mainly has four business forms: Wal-Mart Shopping Mall, Sam's Club, Wal-Mart Store, and Wal-Mart Community Store. In March 2013, Walmart's full-year online sales were expected to exceed $9 billion. On July 7, 2014, Wal-Mart ranked first in the Fortune Global 500 list with a revenue of $476.3 billion. On July 22, 2015, Fortune magazine announced the 2015 Fortune Global 500 rankings, and Walmart ranked first.

Therefore, when Downing accidentally learned that Wal-Mart was going to go public, he immediately organized funds to entrust Jimmy to buy a large number of shares of Wal-Mart, because he knew that the future profit of this investment would be thousands of times. (Wal-Mart went public in New York in 1972 and its value increased 4,900-fold over the next 25 years (by 1999).) ）

However, this time Jimmy came to Japan, and he also had a task to discuss a new movie with Downing, and it is said that Jimmy is now an old Hollywood fritter, but he is still a little unsure about this movie. So he said to Downing: "Tony, a young man recently came to me for investment, I am very optimistic about his talent and script, but he wants to shoot a new type of film, I don't know if I should agree to him." With that, he put the script in the tray of the hot spring and pushed it over to Tang Ning.

Originally, Downing didn't take it seriously. But when he saw the title of the script and the director's name, he was shocked, because it clearly said "Jaws" Steven Spielberg!

For the name Steven Spielberg, all friends must be familiar with it, "Jaws", "ET", "Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Ryan" and other classic movies are all from him. Although there are many excellent directors in Hollywood and even around the world, it is still unsatisfying to be able to perfectly combine the profound ideology and commercial elements of the film like him, so that the audience can experience the shocking and magnificent picture effect while feeling the profound connotation conveyed in his film. Memorable. This is a rarity in the entire American film industry and even in the global film industry.

And this "Jaws", which should have been born in 1975, not only made Spielberg famous in one fell swoop, but also the first film in film history to exceed 1E US dollars at the box office. In 2010, the seaside town of Edgartown in Massachusetts, USA, welcomed the first "Great White Shark Festival" at "Martha's Vineyard". This commercial disaster thriller that shocked all moviegoers with amazing special effects at the time, the shark left an indelible impression on people, and after its release, many vacation beaches in the United States were deserted, and people were frightened by the great white shark. Spielberg's famous work has long been characterized as a horror film. It also set off the "third frenzy" of American disaster films.

For this drama and this person, Tang Ning naturally refuses to miss it. A director like Spielberg who can both think and box office is the favorite of every studio owner, and a stubborn old man like Akira Kurosawa is really annoying, only knowing that you can increase your investment and increase your budget, but you don't make much money

Although with Tang Ning's strong support, the filming of this drama is still extremely bumpy, and the crew members have suffered a lot. Just manipulating the "great white sharks", which are made of a skeleton with a mechanical device and covered with shark skin made of rubber, made them practice for several weeks. For months, they had had enough of the crying noises coming from the internal air compressor to mimic the Jaws, and they had thought about it once the last shot was taken. Throw Spielberg off the ship. It took a long time after filming for Spielberg to come to his senses, only to feel as if his nerves had just undergone an electric shock, and he even vowed never to make movies on location again. It is said that Spielberg, who was naturally fond of water, left his first assistant behind for the final job, and he escaped in a small boat himself. As the ship moved away, he stood on the boat imitating General MacArthur and announced, "I will never come back." ”

But the success of the film is undoubted, at least when Downing watched the premiere of "Jaws" in person, he was very satisfied with the plot and the audience's reaction. Before that, although Downing's film company made many films, he almost never went to the premiere, but this "Jaws" was an exception, because he always felt that such thrillers or special effects films only have a feeling and atmosphere when they are watched in theaters, and those feature films, comedies and even kung fu movies don't matter, the effect is the same when you watch them at home.

Looking at the great white shark 30 years ago with the eyes of Downing tempered by countless special effects blockbusters in later generations, the stunts are naturally needless to say, and the feeling of horror can hardly be found, the stunts seem simple, but at least simple, not rough or any other adjective, because although it is simple, it is not rough, it is not uncomfortable, the whole movie plot is compact and powerful, the picture is very smooth, and it is not because it is a 1970 work, and it seems to be reckless, And the stunned expressions of the people at that time and the silent scene in the dark theater are enough to prove that the impact of "Jaws" on people's nerves at that time was strong and fierce, and the shark gas attacked for a while! It makes people excited, excited, frightened, screaming, and reluctant to give up, and they still talk about it when they go back. (To be continued.) )