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In the imagination and understanding of many 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 IQ, and they are all tall and tall.

This is a kind of cognitive deviation. According to those professional senior stockbrokers, finance does not need to be professional, but it needs to be smart, but if smart is not used to the right path, then it is that the rogue becomes a financial elite. , This is nothing special, finance and securities are an industry that is prone to go wrong.

The barriers to financial employment at the bottom of Wall Street are actually very low. The bottom-level practitioners do all manual work, and those who can do technical work are the upper-level elites.

Just think about it, what special technology is needed to attract customers? I keep calling customers every day. The financial background is just to fool customers with some professional terms when attracting customers. It sounds professional and it's easier to attract customers.

Reliable companies will have a technical team for analysis. The buying and selling points are still well-founded. Unreliable companies will let customers buy and sell as much as possible after attracting customers, and take the handling fee by themselves. Of course, the more transactions the better.

So don't think that the financial industry is tall and elite, especially the account manager, from the ordinary dog ​​who pulls the customer to the account manager, that is, from the fool to the big fool.

In the 1970s and 1980s in the United States, due to the lack of government supervision and scientific and technological restrictions, this Jordan-Belfort situation was a very common situation, and it was an absolute financial fraud, but the investigation was too difficult, and the relevant laws and regulations were too difficult. perfect.

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

However, since the mid to late 1990s, especially the rapid development of electronic computers in the new century, this method has become completely obsolete.

Especially the new high-frequency trading strategy, which uses the most sophisticated computer to conduct transactions at one-tenth, one-hundredth, one-thousandth, or even one-millionth of a second, such as Jordan Belfort’s fraud. And trading methods have basically become history.

"Jordan Belfort intermediary companies are not considered the most elite layer in the financial industry, because they are strictly speaking intermediaries, earning intermediary commissions."

When Gal Gadot finished reading the script, Murphy added, "There is a saying that'only those who are close to the money can make money', so it is said that the most profitable on Wall Street will almost never be this kind of intermediary. , But they win in stability. Most of the owners of the myth of getting rich overnight are traders, fund managers, private equity, and venture capitalists. But overnight bankruptcy refers to this group of people. The real financial elites are typical Not only the practitioners, but even many practitioners have never heard of it.”

Gal Gadot nodded and said, "I remember Jordan Belfort's original book saying, "We won't have a chance when big companies like Merrill Lynch enter."

"They are incomparable to Merrill Lynch." Murphy is not so stupid to think that this'wolf of Wall Street' will really be the ruler of Wall Street.

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

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

Murphy still remembers that when he was in college, there were three words for the stock market and finance in the school-high, big, and high.

An alumnus who graduated before him could not find a suitable job in the film and television industry because of the general relationship of the school they were in. Later, he was called by a friend to be a broker in a securities company.

The basic salary of 1800RMB during the internship period, there was no commission in the first three months. He worked for one year and nine months, and made 60,000 oceans in the most one month. In the worst case, he was chased by customers and dared not eat out.

The first job was to make a phone call, and follow the list provided by the company. The list was bought from real estate companies in major first- and second-tier cities and automobile 4S shops. After two months of phone calls, he was transferred to serve as customer service. Flickering in the penguin colony.

The company has a group of ex-traders like Jordan Belfort who have been dubbed various titles, they are called mentors...

In some respects, Jordan Belfort's autobiography is not wrong-ground ruffians, rogues, gangsters, thieves, liars...

In the words of the other side of the Pacific, Flicker has always been a very profitable skill.

In any case, with the assistance of Wall Street professionals, Murphy and his team of screenwriters successfully completed the script on finance and securities.

Murphy also completely determined the tone of the future film-a black comedy that is extremely wild and ironic.

In the following time, the hired screenwriters continued to fill in the outline framework he set, and Murphy modified the beginning of the script, changing the original sequential narrative into the previous flashback technique. I have to admit that this A biographical film is more suitable for narrative using flashbacks.

In a general sense, what the opening shots have to describe is the beginning of a movie story, but just as there are flashbacks in narrative narrative techniques in literature, there are also flashbacks in the opening shots of movies.

Some films will deliberately intercept a certain segment in the middle of the story development and put it in the opening scene. As for the later story, this will slowly transition to this segment, and the subsequent story of the segment will be explained, which has a kind of twists and turns.

The advantage of this approach is that it can enrich the story structure of the film, create more dramatic conflicts and tension, and also help 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 the actors. After several communications with Robert Downey Jr. and Jonah Hill, they are basically determined to play Jordan Belfort and his best friend Donny Azov. .

However, the specific remuneration will have to wait for 20th Century Fox to conduct a project review and formally determine the investment amount of the film before discussing it in detail.

With the corresponding worth of Robert Downey Jr. and Jonah Hill, the sum of $20 million for the two men is enough.

I have been busy until mid-March when the first draft of the script was announced. Since Murphy only provided the outline template, most of the actual content is the responsibility of the hired screenwriters. This kind of streamlined screenwriting creation can undoubtedly greatly improve efficiency. And save time, but the final audit must be checked by Murphy in order to discover the problems in time.

For scripts produced by this kind of assembly line, the leader must self-check.

The first item in the self-check is the protagonist. Murphy will check all the scenes that the protagonist participated in, and check whether the protagonist Jordan Belfort is active enough in the plot written by the screenwriters. The protagonist of a movie must firmly grasp the control. , Never give up the struggle, a passive protagonist can never attract the audience.

This can be said to be one of the foundations for character creation. Even Frodo Baggins, who was pitted by Gandalf, became the initiative in the meeting of King Elrond.

Not to mention Hollywood, which has an extremely mature industrial chain. Even the other side of the Pacific knows how to follow this basic principle. For example, in the famous "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", Big Big Wolf is very popular because he has something that he has become a popular protagonist. Character traits: never give up, be proactive, always stick to your goal and never waver, that is, catch the sheep.

Even if it is hit, interrupted, or obstructed by various things, Big Big Wolf will not give up the goal of catching sheep. Therefore, there will be a call in the market that when you marry, you will marry Big Big Wolf. This is actually related to his relatively successful character. Shaping is inseparable.

In the second aspect of the self-examination, Murphy must ensure that Jordan Belfort can always appear in the sight of the audience, even if there is no him in some scenes, but the story is still related to him.

If the supporting role and the audience spend more time to meet than the protagonist, then it is time to consider writing a script for the supporting role, and this film may also hit the streets.

Then there is the dialogue of all the characters, that is, the lines. Murphy asks each screenwriter to read out the lines he is responsible for writing, both to him and to them, if all the dialogue sounds like A person is talking, and the script absolutely needs to be overhauled.

After seeing the protagonist, the supporting role cannot be ignored. This is also the key point Murphy explained when setting the outline template. Even supporting roles must have a specific personality that attracts the audience, which will greatly improve the overall level of the script.

Finally, Murphy had to ask lawyer Robert to review the script in order to find out what touched the legal issues related to Jordan Belfort.

The other is to avoid some copyright conflicts.

Script writing itself is a kind of commercial activity. The writing process does not have complete originality, or is clean, and the possibility of personal inspiration is very small. Hollywood scripts are streamlined, and the structure of most works is actually They are all the same, for example, a very weak protagonist, after hard work, obtained various opportunities, and finally stood in the high-end field of society...

Its entire pattern and routines are not new and old, only the difference in details, such as the protagonist’s personality, behavior pattern, and opportunity encountered, is presented to the audience bit by bit by what way.

With an experienced lawyer like Robert in this area, there are basically not too many problems.

After reviewing the script, Murphy sent it to Carla Firth for the first time. Twentieth Century Fox went through the review process. The review was not completed yet, and someone specifically found Murphy to invest in this film.