Chapter 496: Trillionaire, perfect life.
At the end of March, the movie "The Truman Show" directed by Link was released in North America.
After its release, this film caused a sensation and heated discussion in North America.
After watching the movie, many film critics praised "The Truman Show" and praised Link's ability and creativity in directing the movie.
The day after the film was released, The New York Times published a long review of more than 3,000 words in the literature section, praising the film highly.
It is claimed that the film creatively combines surreal allegory with criticism of the media, and through various metaphors in the film, it criticizes the dissolution of the boundaries between reality and fiction in contemporary society.
At the same time, with highly stylized audio-visual language, the film transforms Foucault's theory of "disciplinary society" into a narrative spectacle that the public can perceive. The film successfully predicts the emotional alienation in the era of reality shows, and the balance between technical details and philosophical thinking also makes "The Truman Show" a rare "thought entertainment complex" in film history.
This is an extremely excellent film, and director Link's talent and creativity in film are amazing.
The Chicago Tribune commented that the film not only made a powerful satire on the morality, human nature and fickleness of contemporary society, but the production structure and plot setting of the entire film also demonstrated the skills of the main creative staff. The theme of the film is profound. This is a classic representative work of black comedy. It is hard to imagine that Director Link came up with another classic less than a year after making "American Beauty". Director Link's strength is really admirable.
Some media also praised the leading actor Jim Carrey. The Los Angeles Times praised his performance system in the film for its subversive innovation.
Jim Carrey's performance achieved the dialectical unity of comedy and tragedy. He originally liked to make exaggerated expressions in movies. This expression was originally a comedy symbol, but in the play it became the character's weapon to fight against false instincts. This design that allows the actor to carry the triple identities of narrator, spectator, and rebel at the same time provides a new paradigm for method acting.
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Due to the high quality of the film, it received a lot of praise and attracted great attention in North America as soon as it was released.
In its first week, the film earned $38.41 million in 1,664 theaters, with an attendance rate of over 90%.
In its second week, the film earned $40.11 million in 2,207 theaters, and the attendance rate of major theaters remained above 80%.
In its third week, the film expanded to 3,117 theaters and earned $75.02 million.
The box office totaled 153 million US dollars in three weeks, and it is also the first movie to break the 100 million US dollar box office in North America this year.
After the release of "The Truman Show", Link also received congratulations from many acquaintances, praising him for making another Oscar-level movie. Including the films he had shot in the past such as "Seven", "The Sixth Sense", "The English Patient", "Saving Private Ryan" and "American Beauty", he has shot too many classic movies. No one in the history of film has shot more classic movies than him.
Some also predict that he is likely to win the Oscar for Best Director again.
Link doesn't care much about this. One Oscar for Best Director is enough. There is no need to get too many.
Only Quentin kept finding fault with him when he was on the phone, saying how to shoot it better. Link didn't refute him and accepted everything.
In April, the new Forbes magazine rich list was released, and Link ranked second on the list with a net worth of US$62 billion.
The first place is Bill Gates, with total assets of 90 billion US dollars.
This year is the peak of the Internet bubble, and almost all Internet stocks have increased across the board, with Microsoft having the highest market value.
Microsoft shares were split twice last year, with 1 share becoming 4 shares. After each split, Microsoft's stock price was halved, but it grew rapidly in the following months. The current stock price is $42.38.
The total market value has reached 559 billion US dollars and is continuing to grow rapidly. It is expected to exceed 600 billion in the first half of the year, making it the company with the highest market value in the world.
Bill Gates holds 16% of Microsoft shares and has total assets of approximately US$90 billion.
The asset structure of Link, the second-place winner, is relatively complicated. Forbes magazine noted that it only investigated Link's visible assets, which amounted to approximately US$52.5 billion.
The domestic assets are valued at approximately US$33 billion.
Link's assets in the United States mainly consist of three parts: Flash Gold Capital, Guess the Movie Pictures, and other investment companies.
The most valuable one is Flash Gold Capital, an investment company that owns shares in more than 20 listed companies.
Including 3.91% of Microsoft shares, 3.15% of Cisco shares, 3.13% of Berkshire Hathaway shares, 2.3% of Disney, 6.83% of Pixar Animation Studios, 31.2% of Apple shares, 8.4% of Yahoo shares, and 18.4% of Amazon shares.
As well as the newly added 2.3% stake in Walmart, worth approximately $2.8 billion, 3.2% of Pfizer, worth approximately $1.5 billion, and 1.8% of ExxonMobil, worth approximately $2.6 billion.
The funds for the acquisition of new shares mainly come from the sale of some stocks of Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco, Apple, etc.
There are 21 unlisted companies, including 12.8% of MGM Pictures, 15% of eBay shopping website, 18% of LTD clothing company (Victoria's Secret parent company), 95% of Marvel Entertainment shares, 15% of UTA agency, 3.5% of CAA agency shares, 25% of Google, etc.
Forbes magazine estimates that the total market value of FlashGold Capital is approximately US$58 billion, and the 74.5% stake is worth approximately US$43.3 billion.
The second part is Guess What - MGM Pictures. After Guess What Pictures acquired MGM, its market value first fell and then rose. Due to the good box office revenue last year, Wall Street gave a valuation of approximately US$11.5 billion at the beginning of the year.
Link holds 31.5% of the company's shares, worth approximately $3.6 billion.
In addition, Link holds large shares in companies such as Rose Garden and the Lin Family Development Fund, with a value of no less than US$1 billion.
As a result, Link's assets in the United States are approximately US$48 billion.
In addition, Link's overseas assets are mainly Jinshan Investment Company.
The company's managed shares include 11.35% of Dell Computer shares, worth $8.1 billion; 3.5% of Cisco Systems shares, worth about $5.04 billion;
14.34% of LVMH shares of Louis Vuitton Group, worth approximately US$3.2 billion.
There are also shares of several large real estate companies in Hong Kong Island and companies such as China Petroleum, China Petrochemical, China Electric Power, China Bank, China Life, Dongfeng Pictures, Wanda Real Estate, and China Resources Supermarket, with a value of approximately US$2.8 billion.
Link owns 22.5% of Kingsoft Capital, worth approximately $4.5 billion.
Link's total domestic and overseas assets are US$52.5 billion.
Third place, Warren Buffett.
With total assets of approximately US$36 billion, Berkshire Hathaway's market value exceeded US$100 billion at the beginning of the year, and Buffett owns 36% of the company's shares.
Fourth place, Paul Allen, Microsoft shareholder, worth $30 billion.
The fifth and sixth places are Chinese real estate tycoons Li Ka-shing and Li Ka-shing, with assets of approximately 24 billion and 23 billion respectively.
Other billionaires in the top ten include Microsoft shareholder Steve Ballmer, Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding Company owner Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Indian telecom magnate Mukesh Ambani, and Oracle owner Larry Ellison.
After the release of the "Forbes Global Rich List", Link's assets once again caused heated discussions. He is only 27 years old this year, with a net worth of 52.5 billion US dollars, and is sought after and envied by countless people.
Some media also suspected that he had more than these assets, and that the shares and funds originally transferred out were actually still under his control. His net worth might exceed 100 billion or even 200 billion U.S. dollars.
Link did not respond to this, but simply strengthened the security measures for the children and continued to use the Diana Charitable Foundation and the Lin Foundation to do charity work around the world.
In early May, the filming of "A Beautiful Mind" was completed, and Link returned to Los Angeles with the crew to rest.
Ding-a-ling!
While basking in the sun with Monica, Liu Xiaoli, Jennifer and others in the backyard of the villa, I received a call from lawyer Sean Tang.
Sean Tang told him that the legal department and Blackwater's intelligence department worked together to find evidence that Epstein bribed prisoners to kill Harvey.
Next, they plan to communicate with Bob and jointly file a lawsuit in court to send Epstein to prison as soon as possible.
Link said he understood.
"My dear, you are already very good, do you want to continue making movies?"
Monica asked, leaning into his arms.
"Making movies is my job. If I don't make movies, I have nothing to do."
Link smiled as he groped the woman's smooth and delicate shoulders.
“You can stay home with the kids.”
Liu Xiaoli smiled.
The other girlfriends all smiled and agreed.
"No, I'll leave the baby-raising to you. I'm a man and I need to earn money outside to buy milk powder."
"We can also earn money outside to buy milk powder, so you don't need to do it yourself."
Kate Winslet laughed.
"Do you have a lot of money? Show it to me."
Link reached out and grabbed her, holding her in his arms and bullying her.
The others joined in the laughter.
Soon the lawn in the backyard of the villa became a stage for a grand party of life, colorful and magnificent, like a paradise where God and angels play.
A few hours later, it was getting dark and Monica and the others were sleeping in a mess.
Link lay on the grass in the middle, resting his head on his arms and looking at the night and starry sky above his head. He couldn't help but think of the dark, damp and cold little hotel in Park City eight years ago, and that fragrant and chaotic dream.
Compared with reality, that dream seemed to lack some imagination.
He smiled gently, pulled his arm out of Monica's arms, and waved at the peeping stars.
"Bye now!"
"Thank you for lighting my light."
——(End of this book)——
Follow-up.
During the summer vacation, movies such as "Pirates of the Caribbean" directed by Link, "Spider-Man" directed by James Cameron, "The Matrix" directed by the Wachowski brothers, and "Erin Brockovich" directed by Steven Soderbergh were big hits and continued to sweep the box office market.
During the winter vacation, movies such as "The Lord of the Rings", "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Shakespeare in Love" continued to be box office hits.
Guess what - MGM Studios leads all other studios in terms of film production.
At the 2000 Academy Awards, Link once again won the Academy Award for Best Director for "The Truman Show".
In March 2000, the Internet bubble burst and Internet stocks plummeted across the board. Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo lost more than 50% of their value.
Because Link had made arrangements in advance, he was able to exchange many of his stocks for funds and invest them in other areas before the Internet stocks plummeted, thus escaping the disaster.
After the Internet crisis ended in 2002, Link transferred a large amount of funds into the Internet field and bought large shares of companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and Amazon.
By 2002, he topped the Forbes rich list with a net worth of $88 billion, and his total assets actually reached $200 billion.
In 2002, many actresses including Charlize Theron, Kate Beckinsale, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Liv Tyler, Jessica Alba, Anne Hathaway, Eva Green, Aishwarya Rai, Lewinsky, Rie Miyazawa, Izumi Sakai, Norika Fujiwara, Shizuka Kudo, and Akina Nakamori became pregnant and gave birth.
The number of his children exceeds 100.
By 2025, Link will have made 100 films, his physique will reach superhuman level, his total assets will reach 2 trillion US dollars, the number of his children will exceed 500, and the total population of his entire family will exceed 1,000.
In 2055, Link drove a spaceship and took the crew to the Mars base to shoot "Space Opera".
In 2072, Link accidentally entered a time and space wormhole while filming on Venus and has never appeared since. Some said he died, some said he was taken away by aliens, and some said he turned into Superman, wearing a cape and red underwear and flying into the depths of the universe.
His family and fans are devastated by his loss.
The world cinema lost its greatest king.
(End of this chapter)
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