Chapter 468

In the imagination and understanding of quite a few people in this world, the financial industry and the securities industry are relatively mysterious, and the practitioners are basically synonymous with high education and high intelligence, and they are all a big existence.

This is a cognitive bias. According to those professional senior stock brokers, finance doesn't need to be multi-disciplinary, but it needs to be very smart. If intelligence is not used on the right road, it means that local ruffians become financial elites. It's nothing special. Finance and securities are industries that are easy to go astray.

In fact, the threshold of financial industry at the bottom of Wall Street is very low. What the bottom employees do is manual work, and those who can do technical work are the elites at the top.

If you think about it, what special technology is needed to pull customers? Every day is to call and pull customers, financial background just can use some professional terms to deceive customers when pulling customers, it sounds professional and easy to pull customers.

Reliable companies will have a technical team to analyze, and there is a basis for buying and selling. Unreliable companies will let customers buy and sell as much as possible after they get customers, and take their own handling charges. Of course, the more the number, the better.

So don't think that in the financial industry, the elite, especially the customer managers, from the ordinary dog who pulls customers to the customer manager, is from cheating to cheating.

In the 1970s and 1980s in the United States, because of the lack of government supervision and scientific and technological restrictions, Jordan Belfort's situation was a very common situation, which was an absolute financial fraud. However, the investigation was too difficult, and the relevant laws and regulations were not perfect.

Just like Jordan Belfort, how to regulate communications, how to regulate accounts and account assets in an era when even major transactions are done with paper money and telephone?

But since the middle and late 1990s, especially since the new century, the rapid development of electronic computers has made this way completely obsolete.

In particular, the new high-frequency trading strategy, through the most cutting-edge computer, trades at one tenth, one percent, one thousandth or even one millionth of a second. Jordan Belfort's fraud and trading method has basically become history.

"Jordan Belfort intermediary company is not the most elite in the financial industry, because they are strictly only intermediaries, earning Commission."

After Gail gado finished reading the script, Murphy said, "there is a saying that" only those who are close to money can make money. "So it is said that this kind of intermediary will never make the most money on Wall Street. However, the myth that they win in stability and get rich overnight is that most of the owners are which trader, which fund manager, which private placement and which VC. But overnight bankruptcy is also about this group of people. The elites in the real financial sector are typical of those who make a lot of money. They are a private placement with a scale of hundreds of millions of dollars. Besides practitioners, even many practitioners have never heard of it. "

Gail gado nodded and said, "I remember there was a saying in Jordan Belfort's original book," when big companies like Merrill Lynch come in, we won't have a chance. "

"They can't compete with Merrill." Murphy is not stupid enough to think that this "wolf of Wall Street" will really dominate Wall Street.

Although Jordan Belfort has achieved a considerable scale, the amount of fraud in the end is only more than $100 million. Even considering inflation, it will not exceed $500 million at most, which is much worse than that of a real financial giant.

Finance is a kind of redistribution of wealth, not wealth creation. It is a zero sum game. To put it bluntly, it is how to put money into one's own pocket from other people's pocket.

Murphy still remembers that when he was in college, he used to read the stock market and finance in three words: high, big and high.

An alumni who graduated before him couldn't find a suitable job in the film and television industry because of the general relationship of their school. Later, he was approached by a friend and was pulled to a securities company as a broker.

During his internship, he got a base salary of 1800rmband didn't get a commission in the first three months. He worked for one year and nine months, earning 60000 yuan in one month at the most. At the worst, he was chased by customers and didn't dare to eat out.

The first job of that man was to make a phone call. He made a phone call according to the list provided by the company. The list was bought from real estate companies and automobile 4S stores in the first and second tier cities. After two months of calling, he was transferred to serve as a customer service, and the penguins were fooling around.

The company has a group of former operators, such as Jordan Belfort, who are called mentors

In some ways, there is nothing wrong with Jordan Belfort's autobiography - ruffians, rascals, thieves, swindlers

In the words of the other side of the Pacific, deception has always been a very lucrative skill.

In any case, with the help of Wall Street professionals, Murphy and his writing team successfully completed the play about finance and securities.

Murphy has also set the tone of the film of the future - a black comedy full of wildness and satire.

In the following time, the hired playwrights continued to fill in the framework of the outline he set, while Murphy modified the beginning of the script, changing the original narrative sequence into the flashback technique. It has to be admitted that such a biographical film is more suitable for flashback narration.Generally speaking, the opening shot is to describe the beginning of the film story, but just as there is flashback in the narrative technique of the narrative, there is also flashback in the opening shot of the film.

Some films deliberately cut a segment in the middle of the story development and put it at the beginning. As for the later story, it slowly transits to this segment and tells the follow-up story of the segment, which is quite meandering.

The advantage of this method is that it can enrich the story structure of the film, create more dramatic conflicts and tension, and also help to mobilize the audience's thinking, so that the audience will not feel bored because the plot is simple and easy to understand.

At the same time, Murphy is still considering for the actor. After several communication with Robert Downey Jr. and Jonah hill, they are basically determined to play Jordan Belfort and his best friend Doni Azov respectively.

However, the specific payment will be discussed in detail after the project review of 20th Century Fox and the formal determination of the investment amount of the film.

With Robert Downey Jr. and Jonah Hill's worth, 20 million dollars is enough.

It was busy until mid March when the first draft of the script was announced to be completed. Since Murphy only provided the outline template, most of the actual content was in the charge of the hired screenwriters. This kind of pipelined screenwriting can undoubtedly greatly improve efficiency and save time, but the final review must be checked by Murphy, so as to find out the problems in time.

For example, the script produced by this kind of assembly line must be self checked by the leader.

The first item of self-examination is the protagonist. Murphy will check all the protagonists' scenes and whether the protagonist Jordan Belford is active enough in the plots written by the writers. The protagonist of a film must firmly grasp the control and never give up the fight. A passive protagonist can never attract the audience.

It can be said that this is one of the bases for shaping the role. Even Frodo Baggins, who was cheated by Gandalf, became active in the meeting of King Elon.

Let alone Hollywood, whose industrial chain is extremely mature, even the other side of the Pacific Ocean knows how to follow this basic principle. For example, in the famous pleasant goat and grey wolf, grey wolf is very popular because he has a personality characteristic of becoming a popular protagonist: never give up, take the initiative, always adhere to his goal, never waver, that is to catch the sheep .

Even if he is hit, interrupted and obstructed by various things, grey wolf will not give up the goal of catching sheep. Therefore, there will be a voice in the market that if he marries someone, he will marry grey wolf, which is actually inseparable from his relatively successful character building.

The second aspect of self-examination is that Murphy should make sure that Jordan Belfort is always in the audience's sight. Even if he is not in some scenes, he is still talking about things related to him.

If the supporting actor and the audience have more time to meet than the protagonist, then it's time to consider writing a script for the supporting actor alone, and the film may also hit the streets.

Then there is the dialogue of all the characters, that is, the lines. Murphy asked each screenwriter to read the lines he was responsible for writing out loud, not only for him, but also for themselves. If all the dialogues sound like a person talking, the script definitely needs to be overhauled.

If you have seen the leading role, you can't ignore the supporting role. This is what Murphy explained when setting the outline template. Even the supporting role should have a specific character to attract the audience, which will greatly improve the overall level of the script.

Finally, Murphy has to let attorney Robert examine the script to find out what touches the legal issues related to Jordan Belfort.

The other is to avoid some copyright conflicts.

Script writing itself is a kind of commercial behavior. The writing process is not completely original, or clean, and the possibility of personal inspiration spark is very small. Hollywood script is streamlined, and the structure of most works are similar. For example, a very weak protagonist, after efforts, gets all kinds of opportunities and finally stands To the high end of society

There are no new and old patterns and routines, only differences in details, such as the protagonist's personality, behavior pattern, opportunities, and how to present them to the audience.

With Robert, an experienced lawyer, there are not many problems.

After examining the script, Murphy was immediately sent to Carla Firth, who went through the audit process by 20th century fox. Before the audit was completed, someone specially found Murphy to invest in the film. (to be continued). )