It was recommended by Mr. Chen Ping, so I read it.
1. The movie has a good name, "Other People's Money"
2. The beginning of the movie is very good, and it brings you in at once.
3. The story after that is quite inconsistent with the title of the movie.
4. The whole story is that when a Wall Street financial tycoon was researching a listed company, he saw an opportunity to make money and wanted to make a wave of quick money, but it would affect the company itself, so the founder of the company rose up to resist the story. , and paralleled an ambiguous and strange emotional line between the Wall Street tycoon and the founder's daughter.
6. Put aside the deliberately designed struggles, conflicts, and weird emotional scenes, and return to the original intention of watching the movie, what is the financial part of this movie?
1) I don’t know if there is a concept of “market capitalization ratio” in the financial industry.
Assuming PA (market capitalization ratio) = share price per share/asset value per share, because the share price reflects people's expectations for the company's future profitability, so in general, PA > 1, if it is reasonable, it is at most PA= 1, or slightly less than 1.
2) The male protagonist in the movie is a Wall Street tycoon who found out that there is a company whose PA=0.4, which is far less than 1. Specifically, his stock price is $10, but all the company's assets add up to $100 million. The company has 4 million shares in total, so one share is worth $25. PA=10/25=0.4.
3) The boss researched for a long time and found no problems, so he also asked his subordinates to investigate, but also found no problems, no debts, no environmental pollution problems, no strikes by employees, and no lawsuits.
4) So the big guy wants to buy this company and then sell it, buy 10 yuan for 25 yuan and sell it, with a 150% rate of return. Bloodthirsty capitalists naturally have green eyes.
5) However, why is it worth $25, but the stock price is only $10, because there is no profit, no profit, the movie says this is a sunset industry.
6) There is no profit, and it is still a sunset industry. Why are other items in the financial data so good-looking and so perfect?
The big guy gave a good explanation: before the era of automobiles completely replaced the carriage, the last company that made the carriage must be able to make the best quality whip on the market! Because this company has a lot of experience, the workers love this business, and you can't find another home in the market. But tragically, times have changed and no one needs a whip.
7) People are not stupid. The purpose of the company is to make profits. Are the founders and executives of this company turning a blind eye to "no profit"? Because when people get old, they will indulge in the past, indulge in the original mode, and like the original way of doing things, because the times have marked everyone, the times will change, and time will always move forward, but the brand that people put on in their youth, once they are marked take forever. In order to fight back against Wall Street bigwigs, when the lawyer suggested changing the company's registered place, the founder in the movie actually said so fiercely why? I will not change!
8) So Wall Street bigwigs came to this company to talk to them about cooperation and acquisition. The word in the movie is "Corporation Takeover". The founder said angrily that you are cooperating with me? You are making me commit suicide, I will never commit suicide. The boss said how can this be called suicide, it is called "euthanasia".
9) Maybe the audience of the 1991 movie knew what a "Corporation Takeover" was. Anyway, I don't know, and the movie didn't go into details. One was very excited and the other was furious.
10) The approximate meaning should be: the industry has declined, you have no customers, Singapore and Taiwan will completely eat up your market share sooner or later, but it is not yet at that time, you let me trade, we will take all the company Re-organize his assets and split them into several parts. If he is dying, let him die early, and if he is good, keep it or sell it for a good price.
11) So the old man called his daughter, who is a lawyer, and gave an idea. The daughter found some ways to delay the action of the financial boss while negotiating with the boss;
12) Finally, the old man decided to hold a referendum and let shareholders vote. If you want to continue to follow, you should listen to the financial boss.
13) Before the referendum, both the old man and the boss gave a speech, which was the most exciting part of the whole movie. The old man spoke first and the financial boss later. The old man probably meant to say:
What a glorious history our company has in the past, we have survived the Great Depression, we have survived World War II, and what hard times have we not experienced. Then came this financial tycoon. He is a "destruction machine". He creates nothing, He builds noting, He runs nothing. After he leaves, nothing will be left. When he came to talk to me, If he says I know how to run a business and how to do business, then I can talk, but what does he say? He said: I will kill you because at this particular moment you are worth more dead.
Comrades, now our industry is not as good as it used to be, but there will be a day when we will usher in a turning point. The Japanese yen is in full swing, but it will also have a weak day. When that day comes, the dollar will strengthen and demand will surge. , we will create more brilliant!
If you choose to kill yourself just because it's more worthwhile to die now, choose to kill the person next to you, when we're good again, then our country will only be hamburgers and lawyers who provide tax avoidance advice, because All the other people in business committed suicide, and you conspired with Wall Street to kill real industry and industry.
This is not only suicide, but also murder. Only in the eyes of Wall Street tycoons can it be called shareholder value maximization. They think this is legitimate, and their conscience has replaced the dollar, Damm it!
Industry is more valuable than stocks. This is where we live and raise us, where we make a living, where we meet friends, where we dream, and this is the cell of society. Here, we care more than stock prices! Here, we care about people.
Then there was thunderous applause from the audience, thinking about Trump's call for the return of manufacturing, it's really embarrassing, 1991-2020, but thirty years.
14) Then it was the turn of the Wall Street tycoon. I thought the Wall Street tycoon was going to lose, but I didn’t expect the Boss’s speech to be as wonderful. Below is the video from Station B:
In the end the big guy won.
15) Finally, let me complain. The emotional line of the movie is embarrassing and weird, and it is also interspersed with obscene jokes. The old man's daughter is a lawyer and has negotiated with the financial boss for many times. The lawyer turned around and left, the boss chased after him and said:
I have a proposal, you go to bed with me, whoever orgasms first loses.
Really hehe. In the United States in 1991, Wall Street was really a big boss among bigwigs. If you have money, you can turn the world around.
The director's design for arranging this dialogue is also very clever, and the boss naturally has a condescending perspective.
16) The heroine is beautiful, but her acting skills are really poor
16) So, what's the matter with Other Peope's Money? It's a story layout mixed with awkward sensibility. The Wolf of Wall Street is more of Other People's Money than this movie.
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