At this year's Oscars, "The Shawshank Redemption," "Leaving Las Vegas," "The English Patient" and "Fargo" are all favorites to win awards.

Except for "The English Patient", the other three films were all invested and produced by Xiang Nan. His investment vision is so precise that even Wall Street speculators can't match it.

Then the Oscars ceremony officially opened, and various awards were awarded one after another.

The Coen brothers won Best Original Screenplay, and the screenwriter of "The English Patient" won Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, and Best Sound Effects, etc., which were also won by this film.

Losing several major awards in a row made the crew of "The Shawshank Redemption" somewhat unmotivated.

But then, Morgan Freeman won the Best Supporting Actor for "The Shawshank Redemption", which immediately opened the door for this film to win awards.

Immediately afterwards, it won the Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture one after another. In this way, although it lost several technical awards, it won all the most important awards, and it was still regarded as a full-fledged film. The biggest winner in the game.

Nicolas Cage won the Oscar for Best Actor for "The Shawshank Redemption", which also proved his strength and officially joined the acting class.

However, at the party after the award ceremony, Xiang Nan secretly suggested to him, "Cage, don't spend it randomly when you have money in the future. Either buy some Coca-Cola, Intel, or Microsoft stocks, or buy one or two Beverly Hills." Don’t buy luxury houses in Shanshan without buying them in other places.”

After Nicolas Cage became rich, he spent money lavishly. He owned four yachts alone, the most expensive one worth 20 million US dollars.

In addition, there are more than 50 luxury sports cars, more than 30 motorcycles, a private jet, and even two private islands in Panama...

Because of his unrestrained spending, he spent all the money before he died. In order to pay back the money, he was forced to accept a large number of bad movies, and he was reduced from an Oscar winner to the king of bad movies. It was a pity.

And there are actually many people like him in Hollywood.

For example, Johnny Depp, Michael Jackson, John Travolta, Kim Basinger, Lindsay Lohan, etc.

The reason why there are so many is that on the one hand, most of these artists are out of school and have not received a good education. Therefore, after becoming famous, they have no ability to control their own wealth and are more likely to spend money lavishly.

On the one hand, because these artists have no professional knowledge, they can easily be deceived by their financial managers and allow them to embezzle their funds at will.

For example, Nicolas Cage sued his financial advisor, saying that he lost so much money because of the other party's misguidance.

Xiang Nan didn't want Cage to make the same mistake again and go bankrupt due to excessive spending, and then take on a lot of bad movies and waste his talent, so he gave the suggestion.

Nicolas Cage nodded and decided to accept Xiang Nan's suggestion.

Because not only is his achievements in the film field unparalleled, but his talent in the investment field is also terrifying.

He went from star to boss of Universal Pictures in just a few years. Anyway, he has never seen anything like this in his more than ten years in Hollywood.

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At the party after the Oscars, Xiang Nan finalized two more projects.

One was recommended by Ben Affleck and included the project "Good Will Hunting" planned by his good friend Matt Damon.

Ben Affleck and Xiang Nan have collaborated on "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and "Daredevil", so they have some friendship.

"Good Will Hunting" was written by him and Matt Damon together. They thought this project might be possible, so they tentatively found Xiang Nan.

Xiang Nan has not seen this movie, but he has heard about it and it seems to be a good work, so he agreed to their request.

One is the science fiction film "Starship Troopers". This film is adapted from Robert Heinlein's well-known science fiction novel "Starship Troopers". This novel once won the Hugo Award, the world's largest science fiction award. It has influenced subsequent science fiction films.

Games have a huge impact.

For example, in Blizzard's "StarCraft", many of the Zerg settings come from this novel; in addition, the powered armor mentioned in the novel is also used in movies such as "Halo" and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"

Reflected.

Xiang Nan has watched "Starship Troopers" before, and he still remembers the alien bugs that swarmed out of it like a tide. Moreover, if he remembers correctly, this movie was originally supposed to be Denis Richards' famous work.

She played the role of the male protagonist's ex-girlfriend in it and became famous because of her beautiful face and figure.

Xiang Nan then arranged for Nicole Kidman to replace Denise Richards' role in "Men in Black" and assigned her to star in "Starship Troopers".

Denise Richards had been preparing for "Men in Black" for almost two months, and now she suddenly changed roles, so naturally she was very dissatisfied. However, she couldn't resist Xiang Nan, so she had to accept the arrangement obediently.

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In April, "The Matrix" was officially prepared to start filming.

Xiang Nan discusses the filming of the film with the director Wachowski brothers, heroine Angelina Jolie, supporting actor Laurence Fishburne and other creative teams every day.

Its story, its theme, its spirit, its meaning...from dialogue to action, from photography to editing...

Angelina Jolie had never heard such an imaginative story, so her admiration for Xiang Nan could not be greater. The Wachowski brothers were even more amazed.

Because the brothers had this idea before and planned to make a movie called "Brain in a Vat".

The so-called "brain in a vat" is a hypothesis elaborated by Hilary Putnam in her 1981 book "Reason, Truth and History".

He hypothesized that the human brain would be removed and placed in a nutrient solution, and the cranial nerves would be connected to a computer. The computer would transmit information to the brain according to a program, allowing it to maintain the illusion that everything was normal.

So the question arises, how do people determine whether they are in this kind of dilemma?

After this hypothesis was launched, it was quickly sought after by novelists and the film and television industry. Many science fiction novels and film and television dramas began to use this setting in their creations.

The Wachowski brothers also wanted to create such a script and were still in the process of conceiving it. Unexpectedly, Xiang Nan had already written it. After reading Xiang Nan's script, the two of them immediately fell in love with Xiang Nan.

Xiang Nan's script was so to their liking. It was written exactly what they thought, and it was more mature, more specific, and more exciting than their ideas.

Because everyone worked together, the process of "The Matrix" was very smooth.

Shooting will officially begin in June.

Before that, Xiang Nan and Angelina Jolie had already hooked up.
Chapter completed!