“Other People’s Money (OPM)” is a Wall Street term that means using leverage to use other people’s money to conduct mergers and acquisitions. It’s like borrowing a chicken to lay an egg in Chinese.

If you are more accurate than others and see a speculative opportunity that is underestimated by other investors in the market, and you can borrow a large amount of OPM at a low cost, you will make enough money for a lifetime at this rally.

Of course, if you read it wrong...the enlarged lever will also give you an equal enjoyment of the enlarged sense of failure.

This script tells the story of Garfinkel, a Jew, who used OPM to acquire an American manufacturing company, and then went through a series of bankruptcy and reorganization operations to create huge wealth out of thin air in the financial market.

Jorgensen, the founder of this company that produces cables, painfully watched as his father established it and worked with local workers through a series of major events such as the Great Depression, Roosevelt's New Deal, World War II, and the Vietnam War.

The business ended because a giant in the financial market felt that the company would make more money if it went bankrupt than if it did not go bankrupt.

And the workers in those factories... have become even more miserable and have joined the ranks of the unemployed.

In short, this is a play that explores the hottest topics nowadays. Should we follow the principle of making money, how to manipulate the stock market, how to exploit legal loopholes, and how to make money? Or should we return to the old-school entrepreneurial spirit and build jointly with workers?

Community, a business brings employment, community, business, education, religion, and even the prosperity of the entire region?

On the way home from the airport, Ronald lost control and read the script to the end in one breath. It was really a script that people couldn't put down once they read it.

"A tragedy in the end?" Ronald looked at David Simkins.

At the end of the script, Jorgensen failed in the board vote, and the cable company was acquired by Garfunkel. After declaring bankruptcy and reorganization, he made a lot of money, and the shareholders went home happily with their money.

Jorgensen was unwilling to leave the company and went to work in the factory to help unemployed workers find new jobs.

The script also gives Garfunkel, an obese, ugly Jew, a happy ending. Kate, the daughter of Jorgensen's lover and secretary, a Wall Street lawyer, is invited by Jorgensen to fend off Garfunkel. In the end

He also didn't agree with Jorgensen's ideas. After the merger and acquisition case was concluded, he married Garfinkel and helped him run the merger and acquisition business together.

This ending is undoubtedly a very serious blow to the simple values ​​​​of the mainstream people, and it is a definite tragedy for Jorgensen, who has a lovable character.

Ronald thought that the trouble David Simkins mentioned was because of the tragic ending, which was not in line with the commercial film route that Ronald had always insisted on... It is not that commercial films cannot film tragedies, but even if the protagonist dies, he must remain.

His bright hopes, such as his ideas and ideals, were realized by future generations...

Although Jorgensen is not dead now and has made a lot of money from the stocks he holds, his philosophy and the spirit of America from the founding of the country were killed at the end of the script. It will definitely not be very good at the box office.

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"The trouble I'm talking about, of course, also includes the trouble of revising the script, but it's mainly caused by Warner Bros. When you look at this script, doesn't it look like a movie script?"

When it comes to scripts, David Simkins is very professional.

"Is this a Broadway play?" Ronald understood. The play obviously conforms to the three unities of the play. The characters and scenes are very compactly concentrated in three scenes, plus a scene that makes people think more than makes them think.

The comfortable ending is indeed very much like a drama.

"This is a Broadway play that was spotted by Warner Bros. before it was even staged. They used US$325,000 and a share agreement to buy the rights to adapt and produce the play within five years."

"Oh..." Ronald thought, this play must be well received in the industry. It was bought by Warner Bros. before it was even staged.

Generally speaking, the copyright acquired by a film company is the adaptation right within a certain period of time. Usually five years. If you do not invest in filming and releasing it within five years, the copyright owner can take back the right to adapt the film and then sell it to the next person.

One family.

With more than 300,000 plus the share agreement, the real price of this script is equivalent to close to 2 million. It is indeed a popular script that everyone is optimistic about.

Ronald's relationship with Warner was average, and there were no senior executives he knew well, so he looked at David Simkins and wondered if he had any ideas about going to Warner to negotiate the transfer of change rights.

"I had preliminary contact with them. Warner heard that we wanted it, so they quickly raised the price..." Simkins said a number in Ronald's ear, which Daydream could not agree to.

"Don't they want to cooperate?" Ronald was a little surprised. Generally speaking, when he hears about a movie that Ronald is interested in, shouldn't his first reaction be to talk about cooperation instead of transfer?

"Ahem..." David Simkins laughed dryly and whispered a few words in Ronald's ear.

"No way?" Ronald said in surprise.

The current president of Warner Bros. Pictures is Terry Temel, a high-profile Brooklyn Jew. Ronald has not had much dealings with him, but he also knows that this man is a more traditional Jew and may have some feelings for him.

There is something unacceptable about some of these behaviors.

The CEO and Chairman of Warner Bros. Pictures is veteran producer Robert Daly. This man moved from the position of president of CBS Television to the film industry and is considered a very famous boss in the industry.

David Simkins said that his sources within Warner Bros. told him that Daly personally mentioned the script this time, and someone from below came forward to buy the play before it was even staged.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I don't remember that he is Jewish?" Ronald also knew that he had a normal relationship with pro-Israel Jewish conservatives. They now have ownership of the script. According to business rules,

There was nothing wrong with it. He could either pay ten times the price for it or keep silent about it.

"Yes, Daley has never spoken openly about his religion or ethnicity, a habit he has maintained since his days at CBS. However, I heard that his parents are Russian immigrants and were in the Israeli spy Borat

During the case, he publicly campaigned to exonerate him, and he was also a member of the Holocaust Memorial Council..."

"If you quacked like a duck and walked like a duck..." Ronald said this famous saying with a smile, he had a bad reputation in the eyes of these so-called Orthodox Jews.

"Then he is just a duck..."

"What are you going to do?"

"I plan to ask Mr. Michael Gray to cooperate and create some momentum so that we can have a chance to get this script at a fair price..."

…

A few days later, Ronald and his pregnant wife, Diane, appeared at the Cineplex Odeon in Century City, Los Angeles, where "Steel Magnolias" would host a charity screening to raise money for the American Diabetes Association.

Diane wore a floor-length green Armani dress. Although she was pregnant, she was still very elegant. Ronald accompanied Diane throughout the whole process with a smile, providing Diane with a rest at any time.

Ronald took Diane into the screening room, and several reporters gathered around him, wanting to interview him.

"Hello……"

"Mr. Li, thank you for accepting our interview..." The reporters took out a booklet and started recording.

"What do you think about the poor box office performance of some art films at this stage?" A senior reporter asked first.

"I don't know what you are referring to. In fact, I think movies are a combination of art and commerce. There is no distinction between the two..."

"Thank you. Some people are saying that in the future, unique artistic works in Hollywood such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Mozart" will gradually give way to commercially successful productions. Do you agree with this statement?"

"I can probably guess which film you were referring to in your question, but I think this is nonsense. Film is always a diverse art form. If it were the same, then there would be no art."

"Are you saying that because you intend to sponsor films with strong artistic qualities?"

"Actually, I don't think it is a very correct approach to combine the simple atmosphere of movies with art and commerce. All the Oscar-winning movies have been box office hits. And many commercially successful movies also have high artistic achievements..."

"Thank you. There are rumors that you will be collecting movie scripts that meet the tastes of Oscars and critics on a large scale. What do you think of this?"

"In addition to being a film director, I am also a producer. I can only say that such rumors have little understanding of the producer's business operations..."

"Do you deny the rumors of acquiring the script at a high price?"

"No comment..."

"Okay, recently Hollywood has a new creed on movie box office predictions. Stage play adaptations and recently released movies with similar stories will be given heavy negative ratings. What do you think of this, Mr. Li?

"

"Ha, I dare say that there are indeed people in the industry who make such assessments. However, I think this is not a reliable standard. If film producers could rely on mathematical formulas to score, then there would not be so many unexpected hits.

and movies that failed at the box office."

Ronald touched Diane's back, and Diane leaned over, "Darling, my feet are a little sore from standing..."

"Gentlemen, I want to accompany my wife to find a place to rest. Thank you all..."

…

"Steel Magnolias" has begun to show. This movie is quite interesting, focusing on the sisterhood of southern women. Diane plays the girl with glasses who works in a hair salon and escapes from her husband's domestic violence. At the beginning of her appearance

A bit ugly, but later on, she became a hidden second heroine who took over the role of Julia Roberts and continued to live.

At the end, many women in the audience couldn't help crying, and there were low sobbing in the cinema.

In the end, the mother played by Sally Field and the woman played by Diane who escaped from marriage met again at the funeral after the protagonist played by Julia Roberts died of diabetes.

The mother played by Sally Field showed a happy smile when she saw Diane's character living happily.

This kind of Southern sisterhood has been an emotional anchor for American people since the beginning of Gone with the Wind. After the screening was completed, the audience loved it.

At the charity screening, many wealthy old ladies came. They donated generously and raised US$500,000 in donations to the Diabetes Association.

"It's really a masterpiece." Ronald went up to congratulate director Herbert Ross. "I heard the screenwriter Robert Harlin said that together with charity screenings in New York and Chicago, a total of more than 2 million donations could be raised."

"Yeah, hello, Diane. The last scene is really great..." Herbert Ross smiled and adjusted his glasses. Although he was old-fashioned, the appeal of the film is still amazing. This must be attributed to a lot of things.

For the successful casting...

"Where else are you going to hold a charity screening?" Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline Lee Radziwiew Ross, the second wife of director Herbert Ross and the sister of former first lady Jacqueline, wearing

A hat with a feather, come and ask Ronald.

Her lengthy title was inherited from her second marriage to a Polish nobleman. Although the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize her marriage as legal, she still used it and continued to use it after marrying Ross.

"Next week I will go to the hometown of screenwriter Robert Harlin and his alma mater, the University of Louisiana, and then I will go to London early next year..."

"Royal premiere?" Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline Lee Radziwiel Ross's eyes immediately shone, "I am also a noble, and I can talk to Her Majesty the Queen about the past glorious era..."

"Uh..." Ronald didn't know what to say to this person, so he nodded quickly, then held Diane's hand and left the banquet.

…

"Director Ronald Lee announced at the screening of his new film that he would buy high-artistic movie scripts..."

"Ronald Lee denounced the ridiculous judging criteria of Hollywood production companies. Whether it is a stage play adaptation has nothing to do with the movie's box office..."
To be continued...