Birth of an actor

For the "Apollo" cruise ship, this was a sleepless night, and it was also an exciting night that couldn't be controlled.

For most guests, it's simply the most memorable party they've ever been to.

Perhaps at the moment of death they still clearly remember all the details.

The most passionate moment is of course the moment when William Bradley jumped into the sea with Leonardo DiCaprio in his arms.

"They really jumped down! They really jumped down!" How many people couldn't help shouting these words at that moment.

It's just insane.

Although the crowd was booing just now, not many people think that William Bradley and Leonardo DiCaprio will actually jump into the sea-Jesus Christ, although the sea surface temperature near the port of Los Angeles is It is the highest in the United States, but it is still more than ten degrees lower than the body temperature of the human body. Now the cruise ship is still some distance away from the port. If you are not a good swimmer, you may not last long. Most people thought that it would be a swimming pool. Chasing drama, anyway, there is a huge swimming pool on the cruise ship, isn't it?

But the crazier ones are yet to come.

Following William Bradley and Leonardo DiCaprio, there were indeed many girls who were not afraid of death and jumped together shortly after the two.

The picture of the colorful bikini girl stretching her body in mid-air and splashing a wave on the sea is really both beautiful and crazy.

Then there was a group of men, when they were taking off their suit jackets on the deck, they said while taking off their suit jackets: "We are going down to make sure no ladies are drowning, who knows if there is any water in the girls who are so crazy that they jumped into the sea just now?" What about the bad ones?"

This sentence is very reasonable, so within 5 minutes, almost all the people on the deck who are familiar with water have jumped off.

"The mysterious big boss wants us to take good care of William Bradley, but if we don't pay attention, today's Hollywood star can't think about running to the ocean. Ah, there is still a burden, and a group of cute little girls " The captain grumbled complainingly, commanding a dozen sailors and crew members to lower the two lifeboats, and prepare some blankets, swimming rings and life jackets, so as to be ready to rescue those who choose to give up due to exhaustion.

"It's just a sea jumping carnival." David Letterman admitted that this is the most memorable party he has ever attended. If he is not too old and not good at water, even he would like to Jumping down to join in the fun with the young people—to be honest, the group of beautiful girls with beautiful long hair, proud figures, and gorgeous bikinis swimming in the sea, don't they look like mermaids?Every man probably had such a dream when he was a boy.

but. "God, I knew, we should have sent a helicopter over!" David Letterman's voice of regret floated on the deck: "Now there is no shot of Will and Leo in the sea!"

While the other spectators were busy stretching their heads to identify each figure in the sea, Christopher Nolan grabbed the railing and looked at the sea level not far away. The scene of William just jumping into the sea was still playing back in his head.

For some reason, William Bradley's smile, his gestures, and his ease when he jumped off the bow suddenly gave Christopher Nolan an idea. He thought: "This scene is so interesting. Use it in the movie! '

——A few years later, Nolan modified the details and used this scene in his own movie "Batman Begins", using Bruce Wayne who spared no effort to create his playboy image after returning to Gotham .

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"The Late Show with David Letterman" finally created the highest ratings in the history of late-night talk shows in the 21st century. After the advent of the [-]st century, the Internet era also came. The number of viewers of live TV programs has dropped sharply year by year. No one was able to break the ratings record set by William for a long time. It was not until the TV station began to count the number of viewers on-demand on the Internet that the record was gradually broken.

At a time when TV programs are still mainstream and dominate the entertainment life of most American audiences, the impact of "The Late Show with David Letterman" is even more sensational. , various controversies and discussions that lasted for one month, hot topics include how luxurious and rich Hollywood stars are, who is the number one golden bachelor in Hollywood, inventory of Hollywood actors' income and star assets, etc. Leonardo DiCaprio His new gossip girlfriend is also eye-catching, but as Leonardo himself expected, the heat created by "Carl jumped off the Apollo with his arms around Jack" swept everything (the impact of "Titanic" has not yet been released. Not far), a gossip object who has not yet been certified as "Leonardo's girlfriend", just occupies a page in the B or C of the newspaper, not the front page, and there are not many follow-up reports.

The news that continues to ferment not only affects the fame of the stars involved, but even further drives the box office of "Blood Together".

Before the film was released, Universal had estimated the box office. They believed that the global box office of "Blood Together" should be between US$[-] million and US$[-] million. Leonardo DiCaprio will take into account the impact of the movie's box office, and then combine various data such as theater line screening rate, film quality, and word-of-mouth fermentation.

But now it turns out that Universal still far underestimated the potential of "Blood Together" at the box office.

After the global box office has reached nearly [-] million US dollars, the weekly box office decline of "Blood Together" has been increasing. Although it is lamented by the box office miracle created by this movie, many theaters are already preparing to reduce the screening rate, but In the week after "The David Letterman Show" aired, the film's box office rebounded, and many viewers (especially male audiences) who had not seen the film before also walked into the theater after the talk show aired Want to know what kind of movie this is, why so many people love it, and why so many hate it.Not only has the film screening rate not decreased, many theaters in the United States even plan to show the film for a long time in a small number of screening halls, in case there will be another movie-watching craze coming at some point.

——"Blood Together" finally achieved a huge commercial success on a global scale, with a North American box office of 3.79 million US dollars, an overseas box office of 4.93 million US dollars, and a global total box office of 8.72 million US dollars, ranking on the box office list of film history No.5 in the world, second only to "Titanic" in 1997, "Star Wars Episode 1999: The Phantom Menace" in 1994, "The Lion King" in 1993 and "Jurassic Park" in 21, and remains The fifth place in film history, it was not until the advent of the [-]st century that the Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, DC, and Marvel superheroes and other major hit series appeared, and they were not squeezed out of the top ten in film history.

——In terms of return on investment, the profit ratio created by "Blood Together" is also much higher than that of "Titanic". The production cost of "Into Blood" was 5000 million US dollars. Thanks to the developed Internet communication, the publicity cost was even less than 3000 million.

As far as the movie itself is concerned, "Blood Together" is actually controversial. Ten or 20 years later, when people mention it, they still cannot give a purely good or bad evaluation, but no one can refute it. However, the film eventually became one of the most sensational pop culture phenomena in the past few years, and even led to two upsurges: the discovery and production of the fan film model by the Hollywood film industry; , werewolves, demons and other creatures that traditionally represent evil are subversively recreated.

Before "Blood Together", Hollywood vampire-themed movies can be roughly divided into two categories. One is based on the characteristics of vampires. Whether the theme is love or death, they all promote the history and culture of vampires all the time. Somewhat close to epic movies, such as "Interview with the Vampire", an adaptation of Anne Rice's novel of the same name, and "400 Years", an adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula".The other is a typical Hollywood commercial film, which uses vampires as a gimmick to tell some eclectic or scary stories between vampires and humans, werewolves, and hunters. These movies generally have a lot of killing scenes. From "Vampire" to "Tianshi Catch Monster" in the 30s, "Horror of Vampires" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" a few years ago, most of them belong to this type.

However, there has never been a type of vampire movie that is so fresh and fashionable, without nagging about the origin and development of vampires, and without inexplicable killings and plasma, even in old Hollywood movies. There has never been a vampire hunter who coexisted with vampires. The life of vampires is so modern. Each of them is a handsome man and a beautiful woman with a young face. They have lived for too long and accumulated huge wealth. A modern apartment with a simple style, wearing the clothes that keep up with the trend of the times, driving the most expensive sports car, and talking elegantly and talentedly, no matter in terms of appearance, wealth or strength, he is a well-deserved winner in life-vampire movies can still be made like this ?This has almost triggered new thinking in all Hollywood studios.

To be honest, Hollywood produces hundreds of love movies every year, and the audience has long been tired of the stereotyped protagonists and storylines that change the soup without changing the medicine, so that the most prolific love movies in the market often have a return on investment. It is the lowest, and now, "Blood Together" not only gives movie fans, but also gives Hollywood film companies more choices.

"The release of "Shakespeare in Love" at the end of last year created a Shakespeare craze around the world." It not only boosted the sales of Shakespeare's original works and various books related to Shakespeare himself, but also caused publishers and bookstore owners in the United Kingdom and the United States to issue A windfall, and even "Hamlet", "Macaubeth", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and many other Shakespeare films were approved. Pushing forward another four years, "Sense and Sensibility" also promoted Jane Austen's books sales in the UK and the US.”

"A vampire-themed romance novel recently hit the New York Times bestseller list, fantasy-themed romance movie scripts are suddenly circulating among major Hollywood studios, and the HBO television network seems to be planning a new one." The first TV series related to vampires, all this seems to have something to do with the vampire craze started by "Blood Together". In the eyes of Hollywood professionals, this is by no means a coincidence, William Bradley is like a trend Triggers can always trigger all kinds of interesting cultural phenomena.”

Almost everyone in Hollywood has an authoritative "Variety Show" in "William Bradley: A Simple Actor and Icon, or a Pop Culture Leader?" " said so in the special report, and the report finally joked: "Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" should be filmed by William Bradley. In that case, maybe the US Department of Defense You won’t have to worry about the dwindling number of military enlistees every year.”

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When the major media opened up the assets of eight Hollywood stars, the assets under William's name were further exposed, and the "San Francisco Chronicle" used "Hollywood's biggest "invisible rich man"? ", an in-depth analysis of how much money should be in William Bradley's account. After this report came out, countless people were surprised. The shares of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and other companies have increased their holdings of Dell, Cisco, Oracle and other companies in the past year.

Perhaps these stocks are not enough to allow him to attend the year-end shareholders meeting, but in the eyes of ordinary people, they are already of amazing value, let alone it seems that from the moment William Bradley bought the stocks of these companies, these stocks The market value of the company is constantly skyrocketing - the most typical example, when William bought a large amount of shares in Microsoft, the market value of Microsoft was around 5000 billion US dollars, and now, Microsoft's market value has risen to nearly 6000 billion US dollars , Senior Wall Street investors have estimated that within this year Microsoft should be able to break through the $6000 billion market value mark, not only surpassing General Electric to become the world's largest company by market value, but also create the highest market value record for a listed company in human history.

How much money was in William Bradley's account?Nines or Tens?Use William's two most representative stocks to analyze the value-added in recent years-one is Amazon. Since its listing in 60, the stock value has increased tenfold. William holds about 90 shares. The income is hundreds of millions of dollars; the other stock is Apple. Although Apple has not recovered from the severe damage in the early 250s, and the stock price has not risen as far as some emerging technology companies, it still maintains a very high level. High appreciation rate. When William purchased 40 million Apple shares in mid-[-], the price of one share was less than [-] US dollars, and now it is more than [-] US dollars per share. It is no wonder that some stocks have already achieved such amazing returns. The "San Francisco Chronicle" will call William the biggest "invisible rich man" in Hollywood and the youngest billionaire in the world.

"'Either God favored William Bradley with unrivaled good fortune, or he simply chose the wrong industry and should have come to Wall Street or Silicon Valley,' said Wall Street legend Warren Buffett. "

The latest report of "Wall Street Journal" "Technology Investment Boom in Hollywood" also pointed out: "William Bradley has obtained huge returns because of his investment in Silicon Valley, which seems to have ignited the new investment passion of many Hollywood stars. In the past few months, many celebrities have invested their funds to buy luxury houses and sports cars on Wall Street, and named them to buy specific stocks, including Julia Roberts and George Clooney, which are well-known to the public. Hollywood superstar."

"However, people in the industry have pointed out that although the technology investment market has a good prospect, it is basically unrealistic to achieve the same rate of return as William Bradley. On the one hand, the entire technology investment market has been heated up. , the speculative income has not been maximized. On the other hand, whether it is Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, or Cisco, the timing of William Bradley's choice of entering the market is very clever. He just started when the stock price was at its lowest value. If investors entering the market now want to discover a second Apple or Amazon in Silicon Valley, it is better to expect the entire market to double again. "Legendary stock god" Buffett is also a strong supporter of this argument. One of the billionaire Paul Allen as an example - Paul Allen has determined to become an angel investor since he left Microsoft, and he also expects that there will be a second Bill Gates in the project he invests in one day Or Steve Jobs, but sadly, Paul Allen lost nine out of every ten investments, and only one made him get his money back, and it wasn't a very profitable one."

The investment boom in Silicon Valley at the end of the century also gave birth to the excessive prosperity of the technology stock market on Wall Street. New technology companies in Silicon Valley, as long as the project concept is not too bad, can always attract a large amount of venture capital or angel investment. On Wall Street, because the market I am optimistic about technology stocks, and the stocks of technology companies that have been listed are also rising steadily. Those who have invested in the past two years have basically obtained objective returns.

It can be said that the pursuit of technology stocks by the wealthy in the United States and Wall Street has reached a crazy level, and now, even Hollywood has joined in the fun... One of the markets with the most liquid capital in the world, a large number of actors can aspire to the top Oscar's acting skills, but he knows nothing about investment. Who knows what kind of impact these people's blind influx will have on Wall Street and Silicon Valley.This may be a good thing, but the more likely consequence is to generate more tech bubbles for the stock market.

"No matter what investment behavior, when it has developed into an upsurge that can sweep the whole people, it is not far from a collapse." William emphasized to the microphone for the N+1 time, perhaps because he repeated similar words too many times , his voice sounded exhausted.

"You mean this tech boom has the potential to turn into a stock market bubble?" Ben Affleck's voice was filled with intense uncertainty: "It can't be, man, everyone knows the Internet is the future. "