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Chen Qing, who changed into home clothes, soon appeared in the restaurant.

Lily and Lili helped deliver the breakfast, and they couldn't help talking about the movie they watched last night. Christie also took the initiative to talk to Chen Qing about the movie's high reputation and outstanding box office.

Chen Qing's feelings were similar to theirs.

Of course, I was too scared last night.However, other than that, compared to other people, Chen Qing had a weird expression when she saw the newspaper saying about redefining Hollywood horror movies.

In fact, it is not new at all.

Although there is no trace of her own boss on the credit list of this movie, Chen Qing can be sure that Simon's involvement in the script must be very deep.

Because many elements in the film are completely common routines in oriental ghost films.

Ghosts are not allowed in mainland horror movies, but in Hong Kong, they are all used badly.

For example, you can see the wish power and ghosts on the coins through the glasses wiped with the tears of a newborn baby. It is obviously the evolution of the cow's tears in oriental ghost movies.Moreover, in China, there is no need to wipe glasses at all, and those who can directly wipe the eyes directly open the yin and yang eyes.

For another example, the concept of karma in the film

There is also resentment, and, the ghost hits the wall.

As for the wish power coin, the wish power long sword, tsk, isn't it just a copper coin sword.

What the hell kind of wish power?

That's yang!

Moreover, the long sword studded with coins in the film is really ugly, and the copper coin sword strung with red string looks more effective in catching demons and exorcising ghosts.

In addition, all kinds of ghosts, ghost babies, hanged ghosts, drowned ghosts, ghosts in the mirror, etc., there are not many horror movies in Hollywood, but in Hong Kong-style ghost movies, they are all over the street. It's not rare to catch them.

Chen Qing even complained a little.

My boss just used some superficial things. If I bring all the five-element formations, birthday horoscopes, ink fountain talismans, glutinous rice red sand, etc. from China... Well, Chen Qing suddenly understood that this is too high-end, foreigners can not read it.

It's no wonder that we can only give some superficial information, and we are still bluffing about subversion and innovation.

Gee.

Foreign devils just don't know much about it.

Ok.

My boss, not counting, my boss is a knowledgeable foreign devil... No, my boss is not a foreign devil... It doesn't seem right... Never mind, the boss can't hear it anyway.

Chen Qing immediately thought of the mainland.

We are all discussing the development of domestic film genres, but our culture is going to be stolen by a foreign... boss, but there can be no ghosts in our own movies, what a shame.

Chapter 1234 What If I Make A Mistake?

Point Dume Manor.

This is after breakfast on Sunday. On a sunny morning, Shell Villa has a glass curtain wall with a beautiful sea view. Simon and Anthony Johnston and Norman Johnston are sitting on the sofa next to the curtain wall. The two big My uncle was passing around the letter written by Kim Young-san.

Anthony Johnston read the handwritten letter written in English in his hand, handed it to his younger brother, took a sip of the coffee in front of him, leaned on the sofa comfortably with his legs crossed, and said, "Simon, South Korea is so small, and it is so small. Very xenophobic, I don't understand why you would be interested in this country?"

Simon also leaned on the sofa with his legs crossed, holding a coffee cup, with a relaxed posture, and said: "Because the timing is too suitable in all aspects."

Anthony is also paying close attention to the Asian financial turmoil. Of course he knows it well. After thinking for a while, he said: "But I think, no matter what you fancy in South Korea, we can actually do it ourselves."

Simon shook his head: "Tony, there is an old saying in China, to the effect that the upper class uses others, the middle class uses intelligence, and the bottom uses physical strength. If we have to do everything by ourselves, we will only limit ourselves to the use of individuals. The mediocre category of intelligence."

Anthony smiled and said, "Simon, I understand what you mean. However, what I mean is that just because we do it ourselves doesn't mean we have to use our own brains to do it."

Simon thought for a while, and also smiled: "Then, Tony, maybe we should put ourselves on another level, a higher pattern that directly uses the upper class instead of the middle class to expand for us."

"I think Simon is right," Anthony hadn't replied this time, and Norman Johnston, who had quickly browsed Kim Young-sam's handwritten letter, answered with a smile, then looked at his wife and brother, or Cousin, asked: "Simon, what are your specific arrangements for South Korea?"

Anthony Johnston and Norman Johnston brought their family to North America this time, nominally to visit their younger sister’s family, but in fact, they discussed face-to-face the core lithium, nickel, cobalt, etc. of Simon’s future battery industry layout. The mineral resources part requires the Johnston family to undertake a part of the layout.

All day yesterday, the three brothers had been discussing relevant details and initially finalized many things.

Today is a day off.

However, taking advantage of the opportunity of Jin Yongsan's personal letter, let's talk about the next step for South Korea, an important chess piece.

Simon heard Norman's question and said: "In South Korea, I am more interested in semiconductors and LCD screens. I won't talk about this part with you. Just taking advantage of this opportunity, I hope Australia can help eat South Korea together." Australia’s shipbuilding industry, as well as construction and machinery, can be properly involved in Australia. How about this, I’ll ask A to compile a document for you later.”

The two brothers nodded together. Norman Johnston has always been in charge of Asian affairs. He thought for a while and said, "Simon, I know you have always been optimistic about China. It may develop into the world's largest producer and consumer country, which in turn will drive the development of the global economy and the explosion of material transportation. In this case, there is no problem for us to bet on the shipbuilding industry. However, Simon, have you considered it? What if we made a mistake in judgment?"

When my brother asked this question, Anthony also looked over.

This is probably the unanimous concern of the two.

Especially in Australia, Johnston Holdings' many layouts in recent years, including the steel industry, and even the large investment in China's coal industry some time ago, as well as the Korean shipbuilding mentioned at this time, all of these are based on one foundation The premise is that the Chinese economy will rise rapidly in the next few years.

But what if it's wrong?

If these things judged at this time did not happen, the entire Westeros system might not be hurt, but Johnston Holdings would suffer a big fall.

This situation is roughly like a down jacket company judging from various information that the coming winter will be very cold, so it increased production and tried to stock up before winter came, hoping to make a fortune in the cold month, but unexpectedly ushered in A super warm winter with very little below zero.

Encountering similar changes, bankruptcy is not impossible.

Simon also knew that the two uncles' considerations were not unreasonable, so he thought about it for a while and said, "Tony, Norman, I can only say that we are now in a very favorable situation where chess players can actively manipulate and influence the direction of the world economy." It is no longer those small and medium-sized capitals that can only passively adapt to the economic cycle. Under such a favorable situation, we should have the courage to make enough layouts. If we fail again, it can only be said that our luck is very bad.”

When the two heard the words, they both nodded.

Influenced by the character of their grandfather and father, the two brothers are both ambitious and will not be satisfied with the status quo of the Johnston family.Now, this brother who is actually a family has created such a superior situation for everyone, and the two have no reason to back down.

If you don't even have this adventurous spirit, you don't have to do anything.

Thinking of this, the two brothers couldn't help having the same idea as their father for a while. It would be great if this little brother could return to the family and change his surname to Johnston.In this way, the Johnston family will become the most powerful family on the planet, bar none.

It's a pity that it's useless to think too much.

Norman Johnston quickly asked again: "Simon, you said that China's entry into the WTO will be a turning point in the country's economic rise. Since this is the case, should we actively promote the acceleration of this matter? "

Simon nodded, then shook his head: "We will make sure this happens, but we don't need to push it forward."

Norman Johnston didn't understand for a moment.

Anthony smiled and explained to his younger brother: "China joined the WTO later, so we can have more time for planning."

Norman was taken aback, and then smiled and said, "Speaking of which, Simon, my father appreciates your operation of using Hong Kong to harvest international speculators this time, and thinks this is what the boys of the Johnston family should do. However, father also I'm a little dissatisfied with your last mercy, he thinks it's completely unnecessary, what do you think?"

What Norman was talking about was still the trend of the Hang Seng Index on Friday local time.

According to the capabilities of the Westeros system, Quantum Fund, and other Wall Street capital, when other international speculators are basically exhausted, if they make unreserved efforts on the same day, they will directly raise the Hang Seng Index to 12000 points or even 13000 points. Not impossible.

If it is really necessary to create a super extreme market with a single-day increase of more than 20%, the result of short positions will be the same as Simon remembers that a certain bank in China was scammed by 300 billion in crude oil futures overnight, and at that time International speculators only cheated a certain one, and this time on Friday, if they really had to work hard, they would be cheated by a large group.

Sadness is not enough to describe.

Moreover, in that case, except for some top financial institutions with rich family backgrounds such as Deutsche Bank, many other small and medium-sized short capitals cannot afford to pay at all, and can only be paid by the Hong Kong authorities.

Simon shook his head with a smile, and said to the two brothers: "You can't do that, and many organizations will really rebound."

If you cheat your family, you can only admit that you are unlucky.

A group of people are pitted, and they are still pitted to death without leaving any room. Others have no way to survive, and they will die if they don't rebound.

When Simon explained this, Norman suddenly understood.

Anthony nodded slightly in agreement, and then looked at his younger brother: "That's why father said that Simon is more ambitious than you, but at the same time he knows how to measure."

Norman Johnston was helpless.

I can't remind you, but he said just now that his old man was not satisfied with Simon's mercy.

However, who made the younger brother in the family the most outstanding? With the old man, whatever he said, whatever Simon did was right.

Just like the chaotic state of someone's private life, if Simon was just a poor boy who just met his sister ten years ago, if he dared to mess up like this, it would be strange if his old man didn't take a gun and kill him.

Now, because in the old man's mind, this is more of his nephew, the very, very promising kind, or to be more precise, this is Simon Johnston.Therefore, it is understandable for young people to be overly sexual with women, not to mention that the eldest son and the second son are all pure family members, and the other little guys will not be separated much in the future.

Thinking of this, Norman Johnston pointed to the handwritten letter that he had just placed on the coffee table after reading it: "Simon, how do you plan to respond to this letter? Will you provide assistance to South Korea?"

Simon shook his head: "No, what I am currently promoting is that South Korea first open up foreign ownership restrictions on enterprises. In addition, you don't have to worry here. For South Korean shipbuilding, machinery and other enterprises, take over slowly in the next few years. The timing better."

Norman generally understands that this is Simon's judgment on South Korea's economic trend, but he is still curious and hopes to get a more specific reason: "Why?"

"South Korea's current damage is only the financial system. The impact of this crisis on the real industry will only appear in the next two years." Simon explained: "In addition, for example, the two largest conglomerates in South Korea, Hyundai and Daewoo, They are all mainly heavy industries, because they are too large and belong to the key enterprises supported by South Korea. If they are not allowed to fall into enough crisis and desperation, we want to take over. It is not easy for the South Korean government to pass it.”

"Actually, I think..." Anthony said at this time: "Simon, your meddling in Hong Kong this time may have accidentally terminated the continued spread of the Asian financial crisis. In this case, the current problems in South Korea may not be chained too far." seriousness."

Simon said confidently: "We are chess players, Tony, as long as we don't want the game to end, they must continue."

Norman said: "In this way, Simon, your attitude towards the differences between different countries in Asia will be revealed. For example, South Korea, they may feel your hostility."

Simon just smiled: "Norman, my attitude towards Asian countries is different. For China, we are partners, because China is too big to eat. For South Korea, we are conquerors, conquerors There is no need to consider the feelings of the conquered, because no conquered is willing to be conquered by himself."

Norman once again felt the ambition in his younger brother's seemingly relaxed words, but he still said: "Simon, South Korea's ethnicity is extremely fierce. If we do this, we may become the boycott target of the Korean people."

"This goes back to the issue we just discussed," Simon said: "I just said that we want to use superior people to be higher-ups. For South Korea, our strategy is like this. We don't We will stand directly in front of the stage. On the bright side, the Korean economy will still be controlled by those chaebols. All we have to do is to control those chaebols. At that time, the Korean people will only know that the chaebols are controlling them and oppressing them. , and the incompetence of the government caused them to be oppressed by the chaebols. In order to conform to public opinion, the South Korean government had to confront the chaebols frequently, and was unable to care about other things. This formed a conflicting relationship between the chaebols, the government, and the people. We play games with each other, everything has nothing to do with us, we just need to watch and reap our interests at regular intervals."

When Anthony heard the words, they were both thoughtful.

After a while, Anthony said: "I think Simon, the entire Westeros system, can use this method."

The current volume of the Westeros system in the trillions is basically a separate economy after the United States and Japan.If the goal is too large, it will inevitably become the target of various countries and forces to transfer conflicts.To avoid becoming a target or even being shot into a sieve, it is necessary to take the initiative to adopt a strategy of conflict transfer to avoid being targeted.

"I have already started to do this, not only in North America, but also on a global scale," Simon nodded, and said, "One of the goals I want to achieve is to build the Westeros system into a system that overrides all countries and controls the entire world." A separate economy in the world economy, to be the ultimate chess player. We don’t take any stand, so no one, and no one is allowed to transfer the contradiction to us. Speaking of it, this is actually like the global expansion of the United Kingdom back then, and the caste of India The system, the massacre in Rwanda three years ago, was fundamentally the result of the strategy of the British Empire to deliberately localize and split to create internal conflicts in the region so as to avoid being targeted. After all, the empire on which the sun never sets only occupied A part of this world, and we, will use the entire planet as a chessboard in the future."

Norman Johnston nodded subconsciously, and said with a smile: "Simon, I think we should sit and chat like this more in the future, it will bring a lot of insights."

Simon smiled and said, "Actually, talking to Lei more often will have the same effect."

Norman shook his head and said, "It's different. My father prefers to teach us how to do it directly, and he doesn't like to explain the reason. Heh, in fact, he probably doesn't understand the reason. It's just the instinct of a businessman."

Chapter 1235 game, game

Monday, November 11rd, a new week.

Today is Seattle's 4th birthday.

At the beginning, Seattle and her younger brother Nicholas, who was born three days later than her, were registered under the name of Janet as twins. Although the family is now less and less concerned about these things, they still celebrate their birthdays together, and usually choose one on the weekend.

This time is different, November 11rd is Monday, November 3th is Thursday, neither is a weekend.

However, just as the two children's uncle and uncle came to visit relatives in North America, they decided to hold a birthday party tonight to have fun.

The two families deliberately delayed their return to Australia by one day.

Simon still goes to work normally today.

When he arrived at the company, the first document Simon got was the box office data for the Halloween schedule in North America this past weekend.

In the three days of the weekend of March 2, due to various breakthrough settings, it reached the top without any suspense. On the first weekend, with the large-scale opening of 3354 screens and super high reputation, it earned 4671 million in one fell swoop. U.S. dollars, higher than the $4613 million in the first seven days of the week.

For the Conjuring Movie Universe series, Simon has been deliberately guiding the establishment of a complete human-ghost confrontation system in order to form a certain pattern and process, rather than relying on accidents or mouthpieces to defeat evil spirits like many Western horror films.

These years have yielded remarkable results.

However, it is a bolder attempt by Simon, directly adding a large number of new settings.Of course, as a certain girl can easily see through, most of the settings, such as ghosts hitting the wall, such as wish power coins, such as newborn baby tears, etc., are actually based on various supernatural legends from the Chinese tradition on the other side of the ocean. The adaptation evolved.

The risks can be imagined.

If Western audiences don't buy it and feel that many settings are nonsense, then it may not be a horror film, but a comedy.Fortunately, not only did this situation not happen, but, judging from the feedback from the media and the public in recent days, more viewers believed it to be true, so all kinds of ridiculous social news broke out.

It was no surprise that Simon was once believed to be a real hit.

The elites in the United States are of course very elite, but the middle and lower classes... no matter now or in the future, too many facts have proved that these people are really not very smart.

At the same time, all kinds of ghost costumes and other props in the movie have also become popular during Halloween.

In an email to Simon, Amy Pascal mentioned with regret that if he had known this earlier, he should have released it a few days earlier.

In doing so, with the ferment of public opinion on a large scale, related peripherals will sell better.

However, because the series of props have been distributed in advance, the sales volume is not bad, but after all, it lacks a bit of the popularity boost brought by the film, otherwise the sales volume will definitely be better.

Plans never keep up with changes, and no one can do anything about it.

After all, if it is released a week in advance, once the feedback from the reviews is not so good, the next week may not get much of the schedule bonus of the Halloween week.

There is always a trade-off.

What's more, the high box office of 4671 million U.S. dollars in the first three days of the first weekend did not make people have too many regrets.