Jimmy said a little unconvinced: "Why didn't Dongbao agree, no, I have to try, otherwise I will not be reconciled." After saying that, he turned around and left.

However, it turned out that Downing's guess was correct, and it didn't take long for Jimmy to come back, and said angrily: "NND, not only did Toho not give you and me, but he actually hooked up with your old rival Tamayu Shifu, claiming to use Godzilla Part II to open the American market, but they didn't want to think about it, if it wasn't for my Jimmy to promote it, Godzilla would have so many theater screenings?" I really thought that as long as the film was good, the box office would be good! ”

Tang Ning said with a smile: "I said that Toho won't give it to us, so you will definitely touch a bag when you go now, but Toho and Kodama teaming up is quite unexpected to me, but don't worry, I have already thought of a way to deal with Toho." ”

Jimmy asked curiously, "What's the solution?" ”

"Let's shoot Godzilla too."

Jimmy said dejectedly: "Dizzy, I thought you had a good way, let's shoot Godzilla can shoot Toho, after all, it's an original, and you haven't dug up that Inoshiro, so how do you say this sequel will be filmed?" ”

Tang Ning pointed to his brain and said, "Although we are not original, we have wisdom. My plan is to make a breakthrough in the existing Godzilla plot, isn't this big monster wreaking havoc everywhere, so how can I arrange a righteous opponent for him, two big monsters to fight, how beautiful is such a scene. ”

Jimmy nodded, "Well, it sounds interesting, but what kind of opponent are you going to arrange for Godzilla?" It's not going to be a two-headed Godzilla fight, right? ”

Tang Ning refuted: "Just kidding, how can I be so uncreative, you must be familiar with the opponent I arranged, that is our American monster hero, the ancestor of monster movies - King Kong!" ”

Jimmy asked, somewhat puzzled, "King Kong?" This big guy is a good opponent indeed. But I heard you mean to let King Kong defeat Godzilla, but in this case, can the audience who watched the first part accept it? ”

Tang Ning explained: "You are stupid, our target this time is not the Japanese market, but the American market. Do you think, as an American, do you like to watch Japanese monsters play their prestige or do you like to watch American monsters play prestige? ”

Jimmy suddenly realized, "That's right, that's right. It must be that King Kong has more appeal when he wins, how big is the market in Japan, how can it be compared to the United States, and I can find special effects producers from the United States. Really speaking, it's still our American special effects that are powerful, and Little Japan just took advantage of a loophole and used real people to put on coats and pretend to be monsters, and other places can't compare with us at all, don't worry. I'll find someone to do this King Kong vs. Godzilla when I go back this time, and wait until next year to fight Toho's sequel! ”

Two years later, Jimmy, who got the script and found his way back to work, confidently returned to Hollywood to make his King Kong vs. Godzilla, while Downing continued to fight his Guam renovation plan.

In the second year, the second film produced by Jimmy Films, "King Kong vs. Godzilla", really beat Toho's second Godzilla "Godzilla's Counterattack" at the box office, of course, this film was naturally not as good as Toho's at the box office in Japan.

Although Downing's film brought Downing and Jimmy good profits. On the other hand, Downing's losses were not small, because in March 1957, the United States and Europe simultaneously broke out in the first major financial crisis after World War II.

According to the discussion between Tang Ning and Wei Maider and others. In the mid-50s, there was a general economic upsurge in the advanced capitalist countries, with Japan and Germany being the most prominent. The widespread adoption of advanced technologies in the heavy industrial sectors, especially in the emerging ones, in the major capitalist countries has contributed to a boom in investment of fixed capital. This is the core of this upsurge. Take the United States, for example. From 1955 to 1957, investment in the United States also grew by more than 10 percent, which is considered the most prosperous period of the postwar American economy. The measures taken by state monopoly capitalism to stimulate the economy also played an important role in this economic upswing.

But the upswing phase breeds a crisis, and prosperity is only a prelude to a crisis storm. With the deepening of the contradiction between the expansion of production and the need to have the ability to pay, March 1957. A worldwide economic crisis finally erupted first in the United States, with unsalable goods, rising inventories, a 13.5% drop in industrial production, more than half of the fastest growing sectors in Japan and Germany (the two sectors that are the fastest growing in Japan and Germany), a 15.6% year-on-year decline in fixed capital investment in the third quarter of 1958, and unemployment rising to 7.5%, double the pre-crisis level.

Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany were also embroiled in the crisis. Due to Japan's high dependence on U.S. exports, Japan's crisis is second only to the U.S. in depth and duration. Japan's crisis lasted 13 months, with industrial production falling by 10.4% and the wholesale price index falling by 7.4%. The UK followed with a 13-month crisis and a 3.7% drop in industrial production. In West Germany, however, the crisis lasted only four months, with industrial production falling by only 1.4 percent.

However, due to the large distance between countries' economic competitiveness, the degree of intervention in the economy has increased, and the independence of the economies of countries has also increased. Japan and Germany have low wages, low currency valuations, and growing trade surpluses as investment expands and international competitiveness increases rapidly. Britain and the United States are in relative decline, with economic growth rates only about half that of Germany and Japan.

Although the United States is still the leader of the world economy and the epicenter and first place of the world economic crisis, its economic status has declined significantly, and it is not enough to pass on the crisis to the outside world, so it cannot get out of the crisis first. On the contrary, the German economy has the ability to pass on the crisis and become a leader in getting out of it.

As a result, Tang Ning also figured out one point, that is, the crisis of the DuPont family is not only caused by the inopportune internal system and the inability to keep up with market changes, but also the deterioration of the external economic environment is also an important reason for the crisis.

In response to the crisis, the United States continued to use the old method of increasing fiscal spending, mainly on roads and housing construction ($3.65 billion) and military spending ($5.8 billion), which also promoted the possibility of US troops in Lebanon and Vietnam. (To be continued......)