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It has been a month since I finished moving.

This month, apart from the casting of "Inception" has been completed, and the filming in Japan has started, there is nothing special about it.

In the next period of time, the two films "Julie and Julia" and "Inglourious Basterds" will be drawn successively, and the peaks will be the co-producers and co-distributors of these two films respectively.

Although it was also a film project planned and carried out by Yan Ruxin, relatively speaking, she, the shareholder behind it, did not participate in these two films very much. She has been high-profile for too long, and it is time to fade out of the public eye.

Therefore, Yan Ruxin arranged a vacation for herself, and just happened to go to Japan with the crew of "Inception".

Yes, Yan Ruxin's current position is an intern of the film crew, concurrently a shareholder of Xin Kepi and a film investor.

It's not that she deliberately pursues the gimmick of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. It is indeed a pleasure to show weakness first and then slap people in the face, but she has long since stopped pursuing this kind of bloody pleasure with no added value.

The main reason is that it happens that the college has a compulsory internship course in the senior year, and each student in the directing department needs to find a company related to the film industry in the senior year, and practice for more than 650 hours.

Yan Ruxin originally thought that she herself is the boss of the film investment company, and the major shareholder and management of Dingfeng and Xin Kepi, so it is not a matter of minutes to write a 650-hour internship certificate for herself like this ?

But after thinking about it, although she is now doing film-related investments, in fact, what she is doing is the same as what she is doing on Wall Street. To some extent, it is still a change.

The difference is that when she was at Morgan Stanley, she faced companies in various countries, industries, and fields, and she also executed large acquisitions and mergers worth billions or even tens of billions of dollars.

But now, she is more focused, and only uses her talents in the film and television entertainment industry where she has extraordinary talents due to accidents and blessings.

She didn't have any big breakthroughs, and as the talent from Angela girl was verified a little bit, what she did actually became repetitive and simple work.

——The first step is to use the keen sense of smell inherited from Angela to find a movie that is well-received and well-received.

——The second step is to use her own profession to try various ways to profit from it, such as investment, or cooperation, or mergers...

——The third step is to wait for the money to be collected.

Making money now doesn't seem to be a difficult task for her.

In the foreseeable next five years, or even ten years, as long as she wants, she can invest money in movies that she thinks will sell well, and then wait for the big picture to pay.

But Yan Ruxin felt bored.

Perhaps most people will envy the ability to earn wealth that countless people can't earn in their entire lives with such ease.

However, for a person who is keen to challenge difficult jobs, enjoys the excitement of money games like a fish in water in such difficult and high-intensity jobs like investment banking...

What she wants is not just money, but the fun of overcoming different difficulties in each project, confronting the most greedy enemy in the world, and confronting this unpredictable and unpredictable market.

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Babies are so greedy.

Her investment banking career has made her know what capital is in this world, and she has seen the top money game.

And now that she has been reborn once more, and escaped from death after a narrow escape, she thought, it's time for her to see something different.

It's not challenging and fun to spend all day making money just to make money.

So she thought... Maybe this is a perfect opportunity?

Yan Ruxin decided to start from scratch and become a directing trainee, because after taking directing classes for so long, she found that she didn't hate this job, on the contrary, she found it quite interesting.

But facing Yan Ruxin who asked to become a director assistant intern, Director Nolan resisted in his heart.

At the beginning of her request, Nolan's answer was a straightforward refusal: "This is definitely not possible, Angela. You are a major shareholder and an investor, and this is something the entire team knows.

Even after you did all those high-impact interviews, it became known all over America that you were invested in Simcopi and invested in Inception.

If you came to be an intern now, how would you ask everyone to treat you?Is it the attitude towards major shareholders and decision makers, or the attitude towards new interns? "

"Chris, your concerns are justified, but you should give me some trust. I'm not a rookie who doesn't understand the rules of the workplace, let alone a boss who likes to use his status to overwhelm others. I promise to be a quiet and shy intern. I just work in silence and don't express my opinions casually." Yan Ruxin said.

She looked at Emma Thomas on the side, and joked jokingly: "And it doesn't matter what you say, in theory, arranging interns is the job of the most beautiful and elegant producer lady."

Yan Ruxin took Emma's hand and looked at her with bright eyes.

The Nolans were instantly dumbfounded by this exaggerated cuteness. Mrs. Nolan messed up Yan Ruxin's caramel-colored hair, and said with some evil humor: "Well, you will be my assistant for three days first, and I will investigate Let me know if you can be a quiet intern, if I am satisfied, I will arrange you for the position of assistant director."

From the words of Emma Thomas, we can see the friendship between the Nolans and Yan Ruxin.

If the relationship is unfamiliar, it is absolutely impossible to do such an action that is easily misunderstood when you have the interests of a partner.

It is only when the relationship is close enough that they will not shy away from saying such things and making such arrangements.

Yan Ruxin pursed her lips, expressing her displeasure vividly, but finally agreed.

Her performance was good enough, and she did follow her promise. She never regarded herself as a big investment boss, but did everything as an intern. Her performance met Emma's requirements.

Within a few days, she took up the post with honor and became an assistant intern on the crew of "Inception".

Filming with director Nolan's film crew, I can really learn a lot.

In each scene, the lighting engineer has to spend a lot of time to determine various lighting details.

Unlike other directors, Nolan has already considered all the things needed for post-production when the filming is in progress.

The special effects technology department is synchronously adjusting the data while shooting, which ensures that when the editing is completed and enters the post-production stage, all special effects can be properly and appropriately added to each frame without spending too much effort Adjust, or make up shots.

Nolan also has a unique style in the use of lens language during shooting. He likes to use a long lens to shoot a complete scene, which will make people feel more real and coherent.

At the same time, Yan Ruxin also saw Nolan's royal photographer, royal lighting engineer...the perfect cooperation between these royal friends.

There are countless other things that are not the same as what she learned in film class...

Perhaps because Nolan is not a director with a professional background, in some respects, he has unique insights, which is refreshing.

She had only been with the crew for less than a week, and she had to admit that her thinking about making a movie was really too simple.

It is not difficult to make a movie, but it is not easy to make a good movie.

Of course, she doesn't think Nolan, who has already become a god director, is perfect. What she can judge from an academic perspective is that Nolan lacks some imagination or courage in the production of big scenes, and he is not big. Good at deep digging of emotional lines.

If some big scenes were replaced by the director of "Transformers" and Michael Bay came to shoot, it would definitely make people excited.

The same is true for the emotional line, at most it can be scored as a passing grade. Yan Ruxin read the script of "Inception", and Nolan seemed to be aware of this, and added the emotional line between the male protagonist, his ex-wife and the architect girl. .

But what is flawed is that in terms of narrative, logic, and high IQ...Hollywood probably can't do much better than Nolan.

In Yan Ruxin's mind, she thought it was appropriate to call Nolan a new generation of great director.

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"Are you still on vacation?" On the other end of the Skype video, Marcos frowned at Yan Ruxin, who was wearing an exquisite Japanese yukata and sitting on the tatami mats of a Japanese-style hot spring hotel.

"Who said that? I'm an intern, okay?" She said with a smile.

"The stock price of Summit has reached $10 per share." Marcos said, "But our two partners, Robert and Patrick, seem to be reducing their holdings of stocks. There is a suspicion of cashing out, and there may also be a third party secretly buying stocks."

"You mean..." Yan Ruxin straightened up after hearing this, and asked seriously, "How much did they reduce their holdings respectively? Can you find out who is next?"

"This can still be found, and there is no need to check it. I think you should have already guessed it..." Marcos said meaningfully.

"Carl Icahn." Yan Ruxin said the name.

"Yes, although he can't intervene in YA, Karl is not a person who will give up easily. He has already started." Marcos said plainly, and then with some jokes, "It's a pity, but I have to inform you, you vacation is over."

"...Okay, I'll be back tomorrow." Yan Ruxin said.