Chapter 186: The Captain of Liberty
? Daniel uses Yahoo's e-mail, which shows 104 unread e-mails.
Generally speaking, private phone calls are not easy to spread out, but private mailboxes are not so easy to keep secret, because it is generally believed that telephone calls are more private, while mailboxes are much more open.
As a result, Daniel's private mailbox is always full, and people from various channels send things to it.
A director who wants to be funded, a screenwriter who wants to be made into a movie, an actor who wants to pay for his body and be famous-and with R-rated photos, all in all, it takes twenty minutes to throw these spam emails into the trash can, and he has to avoid one Be careful to delete important emails.
"This little girl," Daniel said, looking at the email with a headache.
Amanda Seyfried, since the last "Pirates of the Caribbean" audition announced that she would work hard to become Daniel's wife, she sent Daniel some personal thoughts, little things in life and so on. Daniel assured that this must be Jerry's mailbox for her.
At the beginning, I had the mentality that one more thing is worse than one less thing, and he had a lot of things before, so he didn't reply to these emails. As a result, the little girl actually went to visit "Fake God". Chaotic, but very speculative with Amanda, and betrayed him a lot.
Later, he began to reply to one or two letters occasionally, and Amanda was easily satisfied.
Due to Daniel's special circumstances and circumstances, he has hardly experienced the mentality change of a young Hollywood dreamer—from high-spirited to self-doubting. From decadence to loss, to rebirth in Nirvana, this process can be seen now. It's actually very interesting. Amanda obviously regarded him as a tree hole, and the mood changes at work poured out on him unabashedly.
"I went to the audition today. The director is a lewd, goldfish-eyed Texan. I almost spit yesterday's hamburger on his bald head."
"Hey, I've d many times today, maybe I really don't have any talent?"
"I'm so pissed off. The co-actor is a pig. He actually got fucked fifteen times. Didn't the director know how to throw him into the sea? Then change someone else."
"It went well today, and the producer said that I have made great progress."
"Do you know? Do you know? Our executive producer mentioned you today. Well, it was just to teach us young actors that we are not geniuses like you. We don't have a face like yours. If we don't work hard enough, we will Never dream of success, although he was scolded miserably, but he said it was very reasonable, but Daniel, you are really good, you are the role model and idol of all the young actors I have seen."
"Daniel,
I heard that Scarlett Johansson is the same agent as you? Is your broker willing to take on new clients? If not, can you let him kick Scarlett away? "
No matter how big or small. Nothing to hide.
Reading Amanda's emails every night has almost become a great pastime for Daniel, but she has never given up on declaring her identity as "the future wife of Daniel". This gave Daniel a little headache.
Shaking his head, he dragged the mail to 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 read these things. Of course, these are no longer a problem now-generally speaking, the level of contact with a person and his various abilities will be subtly matched, and it is difficult for you to let a non-food player understand fund financial reports. Is not it? Daniel's gradual involvement in the investment field is also based on his wealth growth. subject to investment needs.
During the day, Raymond called Daniel and talked briefly.
This is a report on Apple, a few months ago, Daniel sold the stock of Apple, the first one at that time was because the stock price of Apple was in wild fluctuations, and it was less investable, and the stock of Apple during this period was indeed The fluctuations are too much; the third is because he plans to transfer money to mb's account to pay for mb's development needs. Of course, the growth of Apple is still certain, and Daniel will have the opportunity to continue to buy in the later stage.
As a result, mb made a breakthrough in the profit point and survived by himself. Now the situation is getting better and better. The money has only been used in some short-term investments in the hands of Raymond in the past few months, and the income is not particularly impressive. When Daniel was filming "The Fake God", that is, at the end of September, Apple had already fallen by about 45% - which was a bit unprepared, because Jobs' launch was attacking the city, and Sony's walkman couldn't find it. , but the stock market went against the trend. After Daniel sold the Apple stock, it began to fall rapidly. Until the end of September, Raymond bought the bottom. With a profit of tens of millions, he originally held nearly 4 million common shares, each of which was around $21 at the time, worth 84 million. Now Apple's stock is only $11.50, and Raymond bought 5 million shares intermittently, which only cost 57 million, and the net profit was 27 million. However, this money has not been saved. Recently, Raymond and Microsoft finally negotiated and purchased 2.5 million shares from Microsoft at a price of 9 US dollars. This investment cost 23 million.
At the beginning, Apple and Microsoft fought a lawsuit, and finally the two parties settled. Microsoft even bought 150 million shares of Apple stock to maintain the cooperation between the two parties. However, the newly appointed Microsoft Ballmer refused to continue to hold these stocks. These stocks have been sold out one after another in the past year or so, but Apple's stocks have not been selling well recently, and Microsoft's reduction of holdings itself is a bad news for Apple—— As soon as he sells, the stock price will fall, and fewer people will buy it. Therefore, the price is much lower than the market price, and buying 2.5 million shares in one go is already quite a catcher.
Calculated in this way, Daniel already has 7.5 million Apple shares in his hands, and these shares will rise to more than 140 shares in 2008, which is more than one billion. Sometimes Daniel also wants to lie here, wait for the wealth in his hands to appreciate, and then live his life without worry.
But the reluctance of rebirth will always make this kind of sign quickly suppressed.
The opportunity to make a greater cause, whether it is in pure wealth or in a movie of interest, is missed because of fear of challenges, laziness, and lack of ambition. In any case, Daniel cannot pass his heart.
Therefore, these stocks, which are equivalent to a huge amount of wealth, will still be sold in succession in the next two months-this was originally a bottom-hunting, and then to make a living from Apple's large-scale fluctuations, plus Daniel Nearly 80 million from the "Greek Wedding" belongs to Daniel's investment department - about 70% of this money will be settled before the end of the year, which is 50 to 60 million, and the follow-up account will be paid in the next quarter. Income from dvd, broadcasting rights, post-payments for placement of advertisements, etc. will also be settled before Christmas.
So for this oil speculation, Daniel can finally raise nearly 250 million yuan. Based on the 100% profit per barrel, the money will be more than doubled. In the scale of hundreds of billions, although this cannot be said to be silent, it does have no impact on the overall situation.
He and Raymond have been working on this matter in recent months, especially Raymond, money comes in from different channels, reasonable tax avoidance, legalization, and evasion of operational purposes are all professionals can do As for the matter, Daniel just read the report and couldn't give any specific opinions.
Daniel has already adapted to the life of Hollywood by day and Wall Street by night.
So joining the group "Pirates of the Caribbean" did not make him uncomfortable.
For the role of Captain Jack, he discussed with Rob, Jerry, and even Robert, Iger and others what kind of image he should be.
Of course he knows Johnny Depp's conservative praise for Jack, the neurotic, sissy, tenacious, persistent Captain Jack Sparrow, dressed in a pirate-style weird costume, with weird and different behaviors, everything All very attractive.
However, when you want to grasp the core elements of this role.
The key word given by Robert is: a sense of drama.
The description given by Jerry is: anti-traditional
The characteristics that Rob thinks are: lonely and gorgeous
Daniel's own understanding of this role is based on the analysis of the previous work and his own understanding. He thinks it is: freedom!
At the beginning, Gore Verbinski and Jerry were the same, but they were not fully recognized by Robert. Robert thought that the Jack Sparrow they planned to create was not like a legend with a strong sense of drama, but like a psychopath— ——Too much emphasis on differences, so that some of its own requirements are ignored.
To give a simple example, you want to eat a dinner that is completely different from others, but no matter how different it is, it must always be edible and satisfying, not a stone, nor a colorful lump. You have to be able to eat the feces, otherwise the so-called difference is meaningless.
Of course, if Daniel didn't step in, with Robert's leadership quality, he would respect the professional opinions of Gore and Jerry, and it is the same now.
"In my opinion, whether it is alternative, dramatic, lonely or gorgeous, it is just a way of expression. What kind of Sparrow is an alternative Sparrow? A Captain Jack with a strong sense of drama is another What kind of image? A lonely captain, a gorgeous captain, and then? The core of this character must be a free soul. Because of the freedom of the soul, he does whatever he wants, ignoring the worldly rules, aesthetics, and etiquette—so He looks very different. Free and different, like a Van Gogh appearing in a group of classical painting masters, this is the origin of the dramatic conflict of characters, another kind of "natural" appears in the "natural" all over the world, which is not very Is there a sense of drama? As for what kind of modeling is used to publicize this freedom, it belongs to the technical category.
The core should be these two words: freedom. "(to be continued)
ps: Third watch, please recommend.