The prototype of the story is actually quite full, involving: rich second generation, fraud, cheated by an old liar, murder, son kills father, brother turns against each other, and tainted witnesses.
But the movie wasn't done well.
The release of the movie itself had many twists and turns due to Kevin Spencer's sexual harassment incident. The film itself was not well shot, and the main problems are:
1. The story is not told powerfully or deeply enough. Excellent financial films, such as "The Wolf of Wall Street", "The Big Short", "Wall Street 1", etc., will have a lot more energy. The story is told like boiled water, neither in the financial industry nor in the story. Basically the quality of the movie is similar to "Wall Street 2".
2. The characters are not prominent, not convincing, and the turning point is abrupt. How can an excellent graduate be turned into a scammer who is greedy for profit and only wants to get rich? did not say.
3. The progression and ending of the story is a bit sloppy. The director and the screenwriter are the same person, and he divided the story into several subsections: try your hand at a trick > set up a game > develop rapidly > be cheated by an old hand > kill an old liar > go wrong and make quick money > fail again, kill again > brothers turn against each other. The process is a bit of a running account, and the story is relatively ordinary.
4. The director obviously wants to insert more elements into a financial fraud story, such as brother rebellion + reverse ending, trying to be richer than the conventional plot. But didn't do it well. How the two brothers turned against each other is not impressive. In the end, the blackening of the male No. 2 is more contrived. The last sentence at the end of the film is forcibly sublimated, very far-fetched, and pretends to be deep: We used to be old friends, but we will never be friends now. It's too fake.
Let's talk about the real history of the prototype of the story.
The real case on which the story is based took place in 1983. Really a bunch of kids from rich families, thinking about getting rich quick, they started such a company in Southern California: BBC: Bombay Bicycle Club Bombay Bicycle Club. The name comes from the name of a restaurant that Joe Hunt frequents in Chicago.
With the sponsorship of wealthy relatives and friends, the company's business soon started. The lives and expenses of everyone in the BBC are also extravagant.
Other wealthy and rich second-generations are also willing to join companies such as the BBC to make high-level investments because of their lack of experience and difficulty in obtaining their desired roles in regular companies, such as executives, and they are unwilling to start from low. Types of investments including auto trade, stock market, gold futures…
However, no novice will invest, and the company's business has embarked on a typical Ponzi scheme model from the beginning. This Ponzi scheme is also very simple. The customer puts in 10,000 yuan, and after three weeks, the customer will be given 5,000 yuan, which is said to be profitable, and the remaining 10,000 yuan will continue to be profitable. In fact, the 5,000 yuan was borrowed by the BBC through a bank loan.
Young after all. Less than a year later, business development was stagnant. At this time, a liar named Ron Levin defrauded the rich second generation of $4 million. In addition, the BBC's business has not developed so rapidly that new inflows of funds can cover the high returns they promised to early investors. Can't repay the bank loan. Being stretched thin, they had to deal with those who pressed them too hard first. So the company's top leader Joe Hunt, the company's second leader Karny, and the director of security Pittman first killed Ron Levin. It was 1984, and their company had just opened for a year.
At this time, Joe Hunt's plan was that if he was suspected by the police, they would put the blame on a pair of wealthy twins among the executives, because the car and related evidence involved in the killing of Ron Levin were related to the twins. However, he thoughtlessly suggested to his accomplices that the twins be killed and silenced so that the police would die without any evidence. . . . Brother, if the twins are killed again, their deaths will also be investigated. . .
Then one of the rich second-generation fathers also became their target and was killed. It is said that the son was disappointed that his father did not give him the huge fortune soon, so he made a killing attempt. The father is a high-ranking official of the Iranian government. They think that if you kill him, you can get 35 million, but in fact, the father has become a poor man.
Then, one of the rich second generation's girlfriend was also targeted, they wanted to kill her, take her money, and then frame it as the rich second generation accidentally killed her while playing sex games with her girlfriend.
……It can only be said that there are many dramas in wealthy families……
The two deaths were revealed when the police investigated them. The company's second-in-command, Karny, began turning into a tainted witness in exchange for immunity from prosecution. At trial in 1987, Joe Hunt was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. In 1988, prosecutors reached a plea deal with Pittman, who shot and killed, and pleaded guilty without penalty. The second murder case was not so crisply tried. In 1992, the jury found Joe Hunt not guilty in the second murder of his father due to insufficient evidence, and prosecutors dropped the relevant charges. Joe Hunt is serving his first sentence in prison.
A year later, in 1993, the Pittman went on television to confess and describe his killing of Ron Levin, bragging that prosecutors could no longer pursue him in both cases due to a series of restrictions. Four years later, in 1997, the Pittman died of kidney failure at the age of 44.
Karny turned into a tainted witness and entered the police's witness protection program. Changed a new name and identity, changed a new address, and started life again. His father is a local real estate businessman, so Karny's life is not worrying about food and clothing.
In 1987, NBC made a miniseries about the story. Then in 2002, there was also a small TV series that said this.
To sum up: don't be greedy, and make money in the right way.
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