Chapter 115 (1/2)

In July, half of the summer vacation in 1987 has passed unconsciously.

Except for detective Beverly 2, there are no other local box office blockbusters that are expected to exceed 100 million yuan.

Jack Nicholson's ”the Witch of East Town”, Arnold Schwarzenegger's ”the iron soldier”, Tom Hanks and Dan ecroyd's ”the net” and other films that are expected to reach $50 million or $60 million in North America's total box office can only be regarded as small profits, basically not meeting the expectations of major film companies.

Among them, Matthew Broderick, who had a conflict with Simon at the beginning, starred in the new film ”plan X”, which was scheduled to be released on June 5 by Fox pictures, with 1022 screens. The box office in the first week was 4.57 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office in the whole June was only 12 million US dollars. Compared with the production cost of US $15 million, fox pictures will not lose money through its later operation, but the film can not afford the high-quality schedule and publicity resources it has obtained.

Simon noticed the film before the release of project x, but he didn't feel much about it.

The original thing is already over, as long as Matthew Broderick does not provoke himself, Simon will not have any interaction with each other in the future.

On the other hand, on July 2, the S & P 500 index broke through the 290 point mark. After a month and a half of silence, Simon again began to issue trading instructions to Noah Scott, gradually clearing 4500 contracts originally held in Westeros' accounts, and at the same time began to build positions again.

In this era when there is no ”daily debt free settlement system” for stock index futures trading, there are many advantages for futures speculators, but the disadvantage is that Simon can't directly use the book profits of 4500 contracts to increase his position. If he wants to increase his position, he must complete a clearance and turnover,.

Simon had expected to be able to change hands in the S & P 500 between 290 and 295. However, after the volatile June stock index futures delivery month, the S & P 500's rise accelerated significantly.

Westero's account opened at an average of 272 points in the S & P 500 index in mid May, but it was cleared and changed at an average of 295 points in the end.

With an average increase of 23 points, the book profit of each contract reached about $11500.

After settlement, 4500 long contracts in westero's account, excluding transaction costs, accumulated profits of $50.65 million in one month, and Simon's principal increased to $125 million.

After the change of hands, westero's long positions increased to 6800, and the proportion of positions still reached a very dangerous 80%.

Fortunately, from July 2 to July 10, the second layout ended, and the S & P 500 index had already risen to 298 points at the close of the day on July 10. Just in a few days, the long contract in the account of Westeros once again produced a very considerable book profit.

Simon found that he would probably no longer need to use the Wells Fargo loan. In fact, he did not want to use the loan until he had to.

The second most important thing is that once the misappropriation of the loan is discovered, Simon's operation in the futures market may also be exposed.

Compared with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's daily trading volume of more than 80000 stock index futures, the thousands of contracts held by westero would not have had much impact on the market. However, if someone finds out that a young man who has just created a box office miracle in Hollywood has also joined the game, and has already made a lot of money unconsciously. Then, according to Soros's famous reflexivity theory of ”interaction between market participants and the market”, Simon's operation will also magnify the impact on the stock index futures market, and the original market trend in his memory is likely to change.

Meanwhile, in the last week of the shooting plan, the crew of ”death is coming” returned to Los Angeles from New York and completed the opening air crash scene in the studio of Fox Studios. The film was successfully completed on July 9.

Simon spent a few days with Wes Craven to discuss and confirm the detailed plan for the later stage of ”death is coming”. On July 13, the production of ”vulgar novel” was officially started.

In a bar on Venice Beach.

On the third day, the crew is filming the plot of gangster boss Masha Wallace persuading Butch Coolidge to fight fake boxing.

There is a soundtrack in the plot, but at this time, the atmosphere in the bar is very quiet.

All parts of the cast are surrounded by the two actors who play Martha Wallace and Butch Coolidge in an orderly manner, and there is only the voice of the black actor van Reims who plays Martha Wallace.

”When it's over, you'll find that you're the one who laughs last. Butch, although you are still strong, unfortunately, you won't be strong for long... ”

Due to the fixed position shooting, Simon doesn't need to check the lens composition effect in real time through the monitor. Instead, he stands outside the photographers, lighters and other staff, holding his arms to watch Robert De Niro's performance without a few lines. He can't help comparing it with the original Bruce Willis.Among a large group of tough actors such as Stallone and Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis is the best.

However, in this scene of the original vulgar novel, watching Lao Bu sitting in front of the camera listening to the instructions of the gang boss, most people still subconsciously have an idea that this is Bruce Willis, this is Bruce Willis, this is Bruce Willis

At this point.

Simon looked at Robert De Niro, who was holding his shoulders and pursing his lips slightly. He was repressing his anger and unwillingness, but he did not dare to attack in front of the gang boss. There was only one feeling in his heart, which was Butch Coolidge, a boxer whose career was coming to an end, and who had some strength but failed to make his mark.

In the vulgar novel, Butch Coolidge has no less room to play than Vincent and Jules. But in the original film, due to lack of acting skills or no thought at all, the role was basically played as a real man of Bruce Willis.

This is probably why the media and the audience like to talk about Vincent, Mia, Jules and other characters, but few people talk about a boxer who plays a very important role.

In contrast, Simon can't help admiring Robert De Niro, who has always been known for his dedication, for the preparation he has done for the role in recent months.

Although he is a boxer, Butch Coolidge will not appear in the ring. But even so, in order to look like a professional boxer, Robert De Niro still had two months of physical training and gained weight.

For the present scene, Robert De Niro not only discussed with Simon many times the details of the character's psychological changes and performance methods, but also asked van Reems to record the dialogue for his own speculation.

Now, it's just Robert De Niro's first scene after the film started. Simon is sure that this time, Butch Coolidge will definitely leave a deep impression on the audience as much as Vincent, Jules and other characters.