Chapter 464 Buying an Island and Becoming the Island Owner
"128th 3-shot, start!"
On the set of "The Truman Show", Link and his crew continued filming.
On Utopia Island, after meeting his father, Truman discovered the flaws in the world around him and prepared to find a way to leave.
In order to prevent him from thinking too much, the producer of "The Truman Show" arranged for Truman's father to come back to life and return home, using the excuse that he was rescued after falling into the water and then lost his memory.
Originally, producer Christopher thought he could use this method to keep Truman, but it didn't work. Truman took advantage of the flaw in the camera position and put a doll under the quilt when he was sleeping in the basement to hide from the crew's surveillance, and then sneaked out of the villa through a hole dug in advance.
After the production team discovered that Truman was missing, they arranged people to search everywhere, and finally found Truman on the sea preparing to leave by boat.
In order to prevent Truman from escaping, the production team used tools to create storms and lightning, trying to make Truman give up.
Unfortunately, this trick still doesn't work.
After weathering the first storm, Truman shouted towards the end, "Do you have any other tricks? You want to stop me, unless you kill me!"
“Cut!”
"Good, keep shooting!"
Jim Carrey had completely immersed himself in the role when performing this scene. His movements, expressions, and language were impeccable. Even if Link used the most stringent standards, he could not find any flaws.
This is one of the problems that directors need to face when shooting.
Sometimes actors don’t perform well and need guidance, and we use various methods to guide them into the role.
Sometimes, it is troublesome when an actor performs too well. The actor performs beyond the role he or she has set, far beyond what the script has set for the role. This is when the director's courage and aesthetic taste are needed.
A mediocre director will interrupt the actors' performances and ask them to act according to the script, not allowing them to perform freely, so as to avoid affecting the arrangement of the entire film or the performances of other characters. Sometimes it is better for both actors to perform mediocrely than for one actor to perform well and the other to perform poorly.
Top directors have strong control over movies and actors, allowing actors to perform freely and giving them more opportunities.
This is why actors all want to work with top directors.
Working with top directors can help them showcase their acting talents, improve their own performance level, and win awards.
Working with mediocre directors and crews and not being able to express yourself freely will only make the show worse and worse.
Link has directed more than ten films and gained a lot of experience. No one can compare with him in directing skills.
Therefore, Jim Carrey can perform freely in front of the camera.
Boom! !
After Truman issued the challenge, Christopher, the producer of "The Truman Show", became enraged and asked the crew to increase the intensity of the storm and use the strong wind to blow Truman into the sea so that he would give up.
Despite the crew's dissuasion, Christopher insisted on doing so.
After he personally pressed the button, huge waves rolled up on the sea and rushed towards Truman's boat.
After being hit by several huge waves, Truman was blown into the sea and fell into a coma.
The storm attack arranged by the production team ended.
Truman slowly woke up on the boat, and in front of billions of viewers around the world, he raised the sails and continued moving forward.
“Cut!”
After shooting a set of shots, Link looked at his watch. It was eight forty in the evening. Because this scene was shot in a studio, thousands of headlights on the dome made the room as bright as day.
He saw that Jim Carrey was very tired and asked him if he wanted to continue.
Jim Carrey wants to continue filming.
After a day's sailing, the small sailboat suddenly hit the "sky". Truman came to the bow and found that the sky was fake, and it was a wall with blue sky and white clouds painted on it. He hit the wall hard, but couldn't break it open.
Truman jumped off the boat, walked forward along the edge of the wall, and saw the steps leading upwards.
"Truman! You can speak now. I can hear you."
When Truman opened the exit door, producer Christopher spoke through the radio. His voice came from the sky, like the voice of God.
Truman looked at the sky in shock.
"Who are you?"
"I'm the creator, and I created a TV show that everyone watched."
"Who am I then?"
Truman asked.
“You’re the star of the TV show.”
"So it's all fake?"
"You are real, that's why so many people like to watch you."
Christopher said.
Truman nodded and turned towards the exit.
"Wait, Truman!"
Christopher said, "The world outside is just as fake as the world I created for you, with the same lies and the same deceptions, but in the world I created, you don't have to be afraid of anything. I know you better than you know yourself."
"You can't put a camera in my head," Truman interrupted.
"You're scared, so you won't leave."
Christopher continued, "Don't be afraid, Truman. I know you. I have witnessed your whole life. I watched you when you were born, when you learned to walk, when you went to school, and when you lost your first baby tooth. Truman, you can't leave here. You belong here, with me. Say something, Truman. You are on TV, being broadcast live to the whole world."
Truman turned around in front of the exit, looked up at the sky, and said with a smile what he would say to his neighbor every morning, "If I never see you again, I wish you good morning, good afternoon, and good night!"
Truman bowed towards the sky, turned around and walked into the exit.
“Cut!”
"Good job Jim, this one passed."
After shooting this set of shots, the film's shooting progress reached 90%, with only some scattered indoor shots left. These shots are not difficult to shoot and can be completed in about two weeks.
During the filming in Florida and Los Angeles, Link unexpectedly received a call on his cell phone from Epstein, who claimed on the phone that he was a fan of his and admired him very much and hoped to visit the crew.
Link didn't object.
After Epstein arrived, Link chatted with him, but since he was too busy with work, they didn't talk too much. He left the task of entertaining Epstein to the assistant director.
When he left, Epstein enthusiastically invited him to join his club and told him that there were many acquaintances in the club, including Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, Clinton and others.
Link declined, saying that he had too much work to do and had no time to participate in other activities. He rarely went to the club he had joined before, and to avoid being rude, he never joined any other clubs.
Epstein said he knew inside information about the financial industry and could share it at parties.
Link said he was not interested in investing. The work of Flash Gold Investment Company was mainly handled by the management. He knew nothing about these things and it was useless to know too much.
Seeing him refuse one after another, Epstein's face became very ugly, and finally he laughed awkwardly and left.
After the other party left, Link didn't take it to heart and continued filming in the crew.
It took more than three months before "The Truman Show" was completed. Link returned to the company's studio with the film tapes and began film editing.
While editing the two films, the post-production of "American Beauty" and "Unbreakable" was completed one after another, and Link also received systematic evaluation and rewards.
His participation in American Beauty is 73.1%, the film is 99.1% complete, and the film meets the market at 93%.
Rewards include 2.8 times the box office subsidy; director experience +20%; director physical fitness +15%; film quality increase +16%
The participation rate of "The Untamed" is 65.3%, the completion rate of the film is 96.8%, and the degree of conformity between the film and the market is 90%.
Rewards include 2.5 times the box office subsidy; director experience +15%; director physical fitness +20%, film quality increase +15%
After increasing his physical strength by 35%, Link's physical fitness has once again undergone a qualitative improvement. Various test data are off the charts, and he is already close to the level of half Superman. It's a pity that he is just a director and has no interest in saving the world. Otherwise, with his abilities, he can easily change the outcomes of many wars and even change the direction of the human world.
However, when his physical fitness improved again, his girlfriends at home suffered.
Whether it is Monica, Brooke Shields, Sandra, Sophie Marceau and others at home, or Jennifer Aniston, Vivian Chow, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Li Bingbing, Shizuka Kudo and others outside, as well as Liu Xiaoli, Lewinsky, Aishwarya and others around them.
They have all become cities after a war, filled with smoke and devastation, and it will take a long time to recover.
Also because he showed it too frequently, 21 people including Diana, Jodie Foster, Brooke Shields, Jennifer Connelly, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Cindy Crawford, Gong Li, Vivian Chow, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, and Chen Hong announced their happy news one after another.
For security and privacy reasons, Link spent $600 million to buy 98% of the land ownership of Lanai Island in Hawaii, allowing his girlfriends to raise their babies on the island.
Lanai is the sixth largest island in Hawaii, with a total area of 365.2 square kilometers. It has 18 beaches, five coral reef diving sites, a whale watching resort, golf courses, horseback riding ranches and shooting bases. It is 60 miles away from Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii, and has convenient transportation.
Originally, this company belonged to Durr & Company, the largest pineapple producer in the United States. In 1922, the owner of Durr & Company, James Dole Smith, invested $1.1 million to buy the island, and spent another $5 million to transform it into a pineapple plantation, build a dock road, dig water sources, and eventually established the city of Lanai.
In the 1960s, Dole was acquired by Castle & Cooke, an American food company.
Due to climate and market reasons, the pineapple industry declined significantly. After Castle & Cooke discovered that growing pineapples was not profitable, it began to develop tourism and real estate on Lanai.
After more than 20 years of construction, Lanai Island has gradually become a famous tourist destination in Hawaii.
However, due to poor management, Lanai did not bring much profit to Castle & Cooke, but instead became a burden to the company.
When Link was on vacation in Hawaii late last year, he heard that Castle & Cooke was considering selling the island, so he arranged for someone to negotiate with Castle & Cooke.
After several rounds of bidding, the Link Family Foundation invested $600 million to buy 99% of the land ownership of Lanai from Castle & Cooke. The remaining 1% of the land belongs to the Hawaii state government.
After purchasing the island, Link planned to transform it, isolate the area with the best scenery with an artificial canal, and build a super luxurious holiday estate on the island, allowing only family members to enter.
This part is about 50 square kilometers.
Build a luxury resort in the next-level scenic area, open it to the public after completion, and rent it out to wealthy people for vacation.
This part covers approximately 100 square kilometers.
The remaining 200 square kilometers will be used to build public tourist attractions and open them to the public, thereby increasing the island's revenue and tax revenue for the state of Hawaii.
The investments are expected to cost approximately $3 billion and are expected to be completed within five years.
"Such a big island, now it belongs to our family?"
Monica asked happily while standing on Lanai Ridge, more than a thousand meters high, looking at the beautiful beach forest at the foot of the mountain.
"Yes, it belongs to us in property rights."
However, land tax, that is, real estate and property tax, must be paid every year. Depending on the different uses of the land on the island, Lanai Island has to pay approximately US$5 million in property taxes each year. This is also the reason why the property rights price of the island is not high, but not many wealthy people are willing to invest in it.
"This place is too big. There must be many countries on Earth that are not as big as our island."
Liu Xiaoli said with a blushing face.
"About twenty or thirty."
There are certainly many countries on Earth that are smaller than Lanai, including the Vatican, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu, San Marino, etc., but Link has never calculated how many there are.
"This is really great. In the future, I can ride horses on the island whenever I want, dive whenever I want, and run without clothes here without being photographed by paparazzi. It's great."
Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Kate Winslet and others shouted excitedly down the mountain.
Link smiled and continued climbing the mountain with his girlfriends.
(End of this chapter)
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