The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 350 Thinking about the future

After Richard got the script of "Alien", he immediately contacted the original author-Dan O'Bannon, and then purchased the script.

Because Dan O'Bannon's script is not very suitable for making a movie, and some places are not so scary, so after obtaining Dan O'Bannon's consent, Richard asked the screenwriter to add and delete some plots.

And after the script is finished, start looking for a suitable director to shoot.In the end Richard chose Leslie Scott from England. In the 70s, the Anglo-American film industry was deeply connected. Many American films used British filming locations, especially science fiction films.

Because the British pine forest studio is so large and wide that it can even simulate the vast universe.The old-fashioned and dogmatic British technicians also endowed the British special effects technology with a rigorous and delicate style, making the special effects produced very realistic and breathtaking.

The actors are more closely related. For example, although the 007 series is the representative work of United Artists, most of the leading actors and main actors are from the UK.Leslie Scott is also from the UK, and previously worked as a BBC TV director, and then founded his own advertising company.

The first "The Duelist" filmed by him this year achieved a very good reputation, but the box office was much miserable, but the talent he showed still attracted the attention of Hollywood.

Richard Zanjuk chose him to shoot "Alien" this time because he also valued his amazing photography and framing skills.Leslie Scott was an advertising director before, so he has very high requirements on the screen, and he pays attention to attracting the audience's attention at the first sight.

For sci-fi horror films, nature photography is even more important.Only through perfect photography skills can the fierce, cunning, dangerous and brutal side of the alien be successfully displayed on the screen.What is important is to scare you at the first sight. In fact, it is similar to the pursuit of advertising to attract you at the first sight.

Xu Guanwu knew that the reason why Richard was so active in planning this film was that apart from the excellent script of "Alien", the most important thing was the high investment.The initial budget was as high as more than 800 million U.S. dollars, and an alien model would cost hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars, which is quite an expensive investment.

And this is why although the script of "Alien" is good, it can't find the investment from the film company.In the 70s, sci-fi films were already a minority, and a horror film was also a minority. Two-in-one can be said to be a minority among the minority. It is strange that the box office can be high.

The highest record for a sci-fi movie in the 70s was set by "2001: A Space Odyssey", with a box office of tens of millions of dollars in North America and a total of $100 million in the global box office.Since this record was set in [-], it has lasted for ten years, which shows how sci-fi movies were in Hollywood before.

It was Xu Guanwu who invested in "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" that broke the box office record of "2001: A Space Odyssey".These two films, one with a global box office of [-] million US dollars and the other with [-] million US dollars, left the old man far behind.

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Let Richard take care of the filming of "Alien" slowly, while Xu Guanwu travels in the United States with his wife.The private jet will not be completed in half a month, and they just took this opportunity to have fun in the United States.

Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Yellowstone Park, Niagara Falls... the places that I didn't have the chance to visit before, I took the time to visit all of them this time, and I stayed in each place for two days to avoid missing the charming scenery because of the hasty itinerary.

"Azhi, it's rare to have this month of leisure. I don't even want to go back to work." Xu Guanwu sat in the restaurant next to the waterfall, tasting delicious apple pie, and said to Zhao Yazhi with a smile.

"You're only in your 30s now, do you think you're lazy and retired?" Zhao Yazhi said with a chuckle, "Then stay at home and be a couch potato, isn't it wronging you as a talent?"

Sofa potato is a term that Zhao Yazhi has just learned. It is used to describe those who sit in front of the TV for a long time and become fat because they are too lazy to move.Most of them are middle-aged men, which has become a phenomenon in the United States, and it is a very bad way of life.

"Of course I won't be a couch potato," Xu Guanwu waved his hand, "After I retire, I will also choose to travel around the world, going to Europe, Africa, Australia, South America...to get to know the local customs and customs, and to broaden my horizons .”

"Then what about the company, you don't mind handing it over to others?" Zhao Yazhi asked worriedly, the scale of Xu Guanwu's company is getting bigger and bigger, and the industry in Hong Kong alone is worth nearly one billion Hong Kong dollars, which is quite huge a piece of property.

"I can monitor through remote control." Xu Guanwu smiled and said, "At that time, we can communicate with Hong Kong while admiring the snow scenery on Mount Kilimanjaro; or go to Rio de Janeiro to participate in the carnival and communicate with Hong Kong on Monte Cristo." contact; even went surfing in Oahu, Hawaii, and communicated with Hong Kong underwater. Don’t you think this is very creative?”

"Although it is so true, I still feel that this kind of life is easy, but people don't seem to be rushing." Zhao Yazhi frowned worriedly and asked, "Honey, don't you want to become a person who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun in the future?" Prodigal son?!"

Xu Guanwu was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, "Eating, drinking, and having fun doesn't mean sitting and eating. In fact, our current investment can't be eaten up in ten lifetimes."

"Then use the money to do some good deeds. Charity is a blessing, and those who accumulate yin merits will be rewarded with blessings." Zhao Yazhi waved her hands.

"I don't even believe this, you are superstitious." Xu Guanwu smiled.Do you want to donate your hard-earned money to others? !Xu Guanwu was really reluctant.

"It's no good to leave too much money to your children and grandchildren. You didn't realize that there are so many rich families who are separated because of property disputes, and even have to go to court to sue. How sad it is." Zhao Yazhi frowned and said, "I'd rather my son not have much money, and I don't want them to fight for the family property and turn brothers against each other."

"You think so far. Now you don't even have a son, so you're thinking about the struggle for future generations." Xu Guanwu couldn't help laughing.

However, he also knew that Zhao Yazhi's worry was not unreasonable. Because Hong Kong was less affected by the war, after a hundred years of relatively stable development, many wealthy people had accumulated quite a lot of property.

The older generation of rich people in Hong Kong are deeply influenced by traditional Chinese culture, so they basically pay attention to order, brotherhood, and family harmony.

So basically in terms of property division, there will be more successors.Others will only get some soup and water.This is to prevent the family property from being too scattered, causing the family to fall and being overtaken by other families.

But people of the younger generation are more deeply influenced by Western liberal culture, and they pay attention to personal egoism, so naturally they don't want their own interests to be taken away.What's more, in Western culture, the emphasis is on self-expression, so why would you want to have most of the family property owned by one person? !

So after entering the 60s, with the passing away of the older generation of rich Chinese in Hong Kong, news about family wars for property emerged endlessly.In addition, Hong Kong previously followed two sets of laws, the British law and the Qing law, so Chinese were allowed to marry wives and concubines.

Generally, rich people have a big house, a second house, a third house, etc., and each house has more or less children, so on the issue of property distribution, it has become a mess, and even fought so much that they have to go to court. Outsiders saw a lot of jokes.

What Zhao Yazhi was worried about was that her family had so much property. In the future, if her children turned against each other in order to fight for property, it would really break their parents' hearts.There is another thing to beware of, that is, Xu Guanwu is still young and in full bloom after all, if he secretly sticks flowers and grass outside, and Jinwu Zangjiao starts another house, the future will be really messy.

So for the sake of herself and her children, Zhao Yazhi didn't want to have too much family property.She thinks more thoroughly than Xu Guanwu, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, don't worry about their children and grandchildren.

Although Xu Guanwu understood Zhao Yazhi's thoughts, he did not agree with her idea.In his opinion, Zhao Yazhi's idea is the small peasant's idea that a small fortune means peace.What is important is that the fish is raw, the fire is raw, the meat is phlegm, and the radish and cabbage are safe.I don't cause trouble, and I don't want things to trouble me.

This proposition will certainly reduce a lot of trouble, but it will also lose more opportunities.In the future of the information explosion, the whole world has shrunk into a global village, and you are still hiding at home with pots and pans, planning to live your little life in peace, how can it be possible? !

Xu Guanwu knows how cruel the future competition will be: if ordinary people do not rely on their parents, it will take decades to buy a house.Is it possible to be lazy and not make money now, and to embarrass your children and grandchildren in the future? !Not to mention skyrocketing prices, skyrocketing fees, currency depreciation, etc. If you don’t save a little more now, you may cry to death in the future.

In the period of the reform and opening up in the Mainland, a group of artists who got rich first, earned a few 10 yuan, and felt that they would have nothing to worry about in this life.Therefore, those who retreated into hermits, those who went abroad, ended up coming back in despair after 30 to 10,000 years. The reason is that the currency has depreciated sharply and prices have soared. I can't hold on anymore.

Besides, Xu Guanwu didn't believe that his sons and daughters would be such bastards, fighting for family property, fighting for your old X!There are many ways to solve the children's struggle for family property, and donating most of the family property is undoubtedly one of the most stupid methods.

No matter how much Westerners pay attention to making their children independent, they don't donate all their property to let their children run around for a living.

Bill Gates claimed to donate all his property to charity, but he actually donated it to his foundation.And this foundation will be inherited by Bill Gates' children in the future. This is to avoid a large amount of inheritance tax.

With Bill Gates' net worth of more than 500 billion U.S. dollars, if the children want to inherit the inheritance, they must first pay a huge inheritance tax of more than 200 billion U.S. dollars before they can receive all of Bill Gates' inheritance.

But his children don't have so much property to pay taxes, so it's equivalent to Bill Gates' inheritance, and they can't inherit it at all.At this time, donating the inheritance to a charitable fund, and then letting the children succeed the charitable fund, is undoubtedly the best method of inheritance and tax avoidance.

Because US law stipulates that donations and insurance are not subject to inheritance tax.Therefore, this move of Bill Gates not only won the wide welcome of the people who don't know the truth, but also avoided paying taxes reasonably through this move, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

And this kind of tactic is actually one of the common tactic used by rich people in Europe and America. When mainland netizens saw the big donations made by Western rich people and shouted for them, they thought they were conscientious, but they didn’t see that they saved money that should have been saved because of their large donations. Huge taxes paid.Winning the face and winning the face, it is really both the inscription and the archway.

People in Europe and the United States who pay attention to their children's independence will leave a large inheritance for their children. Xu Guanwu, who has been influenced by Chinese culture, naturally pays more attention to leaving a rich inheritance for his children.

But he also knew that his success was all due to his advanced memory.But the children don't have this talent at all, so they must rely on themselves to succeed. This also reminds Xu Guanwu that he must strictly control their education, otherwise if something happens, it will be a catastrophe.

　I uploaded the chapter "Tianyantong" last night, but I forgot to set the release time. As a result, I uploaded "Alien" at noon today, and the title was also wrong. I found it after posting. Unfortunately, the title of the VIP chapter cannot be modified, nor can the chapter. Adjustment.

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