It's ironic too... By the way, for all Gucci lovers
R Jun said
"Each of us is alone in the world.
Everyone is imprisoned in an iron tower,
You can only rely on some symbols to convey your thoughts to others;
And these symbols do not share a common value,
So their meaning is vague and uncertain.
We very pitifully want to pass on the wealth of our hearts to others,
But they do not have the ability to accept these riches.
So we can only walk alone,
Although the bodies are close to each other, the hearts are not together,
Neither knows others nor is it known by others. ”
(Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence)
Today, R Jun's company is said to have become a "sub-close connection" occasion because an employee has been infested in a close connection, or even encountered by chance, without warning, and more than 300 students who work or work overtime in the company on weekends have been involved in the "48 hours" test and closure.
This is the R Jun Company building under the sunset, is there no panic, and there is a little bit of peace?
R Jun's front foot has just received the company's official notice, and there are various rumors flying out of the outside of the back foot, lest the world not be chaotic... It really shows how good human nature is.......
In the vast world, in fact, everyone will encounter countless unexpected things, but how to achieve "the landslide in front of the color remains unchanged", (the original text comes from Su Xun's "Heart Technique": "For the way of the general, when the heart is first cured." Tarzan collapses in front of the same color, elk is happy on the left and does not look at the moment, and then it can control the interests and harms, and can wait for the enemy. In the face of various situations, "Immovable as a mountain" (Sun Tzu's Art of War. Military Contention"), this is the trait that a true leader needs to have.
If you appear panicked in the face of various conflicts and interest temptations, or are too impatient and short-sighted, you will be chaotic, and no matter how good your military position, career, and resources are, you will break a good hand.
For example, the "Gucci Family" that we are going to review today is itself as dramatic as the story in the movie:
It was filmed under the patronage of the Gucci brand, reflecting the gucci founders' gucci family feud, which eventually lost equity and control of the gucci brand, and triggered the whole journey of the family murder.
So, you must think it is very strange, why does the Gucci brand want to make a movie about the scandal of its own entrepreneurial family and publicize it to the world? In fact, today's Gucci brand belongs to Kering Group, which is a luxury retail group, in fact, since 1995, the Gucci family has sold all the shares held by Gucci, so the current Gucci brand does not have a dime relationship with the founder Gucci family.
To what extent has the Gucci Group's enthusiasm for this Gucci Family film soared? In addition to filming in many Gucci stores and products going abroad, Jared Leto, who played Tom Ford in the movie, played Jared Leto. Leto was originally one of Gucci's global ambassadors and spokespeople; Salma Hayek Salma, who plays the divination witch in the film, was originally a global ambassador and spokesperson for Gucci. Hayek's husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, is the chairman of Kering...
So it's no wonder the Gucci family is quite unhappy with this Gucci brand sponsorship to shoot the film, and has lodged an official protest.......
Without shares, can protest be useful?
R Jun speculated that Gucci Group sponsored this "Gucci Family" purely to better arouse curiosity and enthusiasm for the Gucci brand in the world, without taking into account the face of the Gucci family.
In fact, even at the 90th birthday celebration of the Gucci brand, no one from the Gucci family was invited....... It is really strange that the relationship between this founder and his own brand can become like this.
In fact, as demonstrated in the movie (which is also a fact), the Gucci family has actually been in a state of brotherly discord and family infighting for a long time, and has encountered a "red face scourge" that inserts a particularly good thing into the marriage, and the result is that not only the family business has not been saved or developed well, but also the development of dog blood, brothers tearing each other apart, family anti-eyes and even buying murder a series of surprising world operations...
And our 75-year-old veteran director Ridley. Scott also particularly likes to shoot this kind of blood feud (just like his previous works "Money World" "R Jun's Film Review: "Money World": Redleys Court's Middle Finger on "Money First"", and "The Final Duel" "R Jun's Film Review: Is There a Real Winner in This Famous Duel?"). The same), the story of the swinging intestines, it is really impressive...
So money is really not a panacea, there is no good quality, even if it is given to you by God, you can't keep it...
A bloody dog
At the heart of the story, of course, is the murder on the morning of March 27, 1995:
The third generation of the Gucci family, Murricio. Maurizio Gucci, before entering his office building in Milan, Italy, was assassinated by a Sicilian killer and killed on the spot.
The murder that shocked the global fashion circle was broken a year later because the killer was denounced when he bragged about his deeds. The final proof was that it was Murricio's ex-wife Patricia. Patrizia Reggiani, through her friends, hired 2 killers to shoot their ex-husbands for 600 million lira (about $1.5 million at the time).
The motive for the shooting was not only the inheritance of a huge inheritance (at that time, Murricio had sold all of his Shares in Gucci, the last share of the Gucci family in the Gucci brand, to InvestCorp., an investment bank from Bahrain, for $170 million), and of course, Patricia's hatred for Meridzio's empathy.
The movie is to show the whole ins and outs of this whole grudge to everyone.......
In fact, Patricia can of course also be said to be a model of "Cinderella": Patricia, who comes from an ordinary family, meets Murricio at a party, immediately realizes the potential behind this treasure boy, and immediately begins to spend all kinds of efforts to trap this almost ironclad rich prince.
As the so-called "women chase men, compartmentalized veils", Murricio, who is obviously not very shrewd and business-minded, soon fell under the skirt of this scheming Italian beauty, and was so addicted that his father Rudolf threatened to break off the father-son relationship, nor did he stop him from marrying the gold-worshiping woman.
When it comes to Patricia, it must be known that she is best known worldwide for her famous quote: "I'd rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bike." (I'd rather cry in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle, preferring to sit in a Rolls-Royce and cry than sit on a bicycle and laugh.) This can be regarded as the originator motto of "gold worshipper".
This extremely intelligent woman disguised her desires, and Murricchio, who was expelled from the house, performed a couple's "I love your person, not money" for several years, until the gucci family's infighting was in full swing, and finally it was Murricchio's turn to appear.
In fact, the infighting in the Gucci family began in the 2nd generation. Actually, the founder Guccio. Guccio Gucci has six children, five boys and one woman. The big guy teaches children from an early age to encourage internal competition, report and expose each other, and then reward the children who report and punish the children who make mistakes. Even when they grow up, they deliberately provoke the relationship between these children and make them hostile to each other. (This is the rhythm of not being too early to abandon the demise of his own family)
However, when he died, due to the early death of one son, the 2 sons and 3 sons were addicted to pleasure or filmmaking, so they divided their family property equally among the three remaining boys, except for the daughter who did not leave a penny. Therefore, the daughter and her brothers began to fight a inheritance lawsuit, and the storm broke out in the city, and a bunch of internal family scandals broke out.
Long story short, this infighting was ultimately won by the eldest son, Aldo, and the younger son, Rudolf (Meridgeio's father), who divided the shares equally. Among them, Aldo's contribution to the Gucci brand is still considerable, gucci's classic bamboo bag and now the "GG" trademark are from his design). In the end, Aldo was in charge of the global market, while Rudolf was in charge of the company's finances and the Italian market, and the division of labor was collaborative.
However, the family's education problems seem to be engraved in the family genes. Aldo's eldest son, Paul, although he is a good designer (Gucci's classic diamond pattern, which is from his handwriting, is actually not as bad as it is shown in the movie), in order to compete for his own power and the right to operate the entire brand, not only does he not deal with his father, but he also often quarrels with his third uncle Rudolph. As a result, Paulo Gucci, who set up his own independent brand, was sued by his father and uncle for infringing on the brand logo, which ended dismal; he also held a grudge and reported his father for tax evasion, so that the 81-year-old father Aldo was also imprisoned.
So, as shown in the movie, since Aldomen was unfortunate, as the only seemingly heir in the third generation: Meridgeio, he was successfully given the opportunity to show his ambitions.
However, everything is an illusion.........
Mericchio and Patricia, who had been expelled from the house because of love and were willing to be poor, once they came to power, changed their frugal nature in the past and completely indulged in extravagance and lasciviousness.
They buy properties, cars, yachts and even islands on a large scale, wearing all the supplies of haute couture and profligate.
It can be imagined that people's energy is limited, and they are drunk and obsessed every day, how to have time to study and take good care of the company. Therefore, under the management of Murichio, the Gucci brand is dizzy and has repeatedly come to the brink of bankruptcy. (This also includes his partnership with an investment bank, which bought a 50% stake in Rudolph and Bao Luo Paul, and completely monopolized the management of Gucci.)
Although there is no way to verify the authenticity, Patricia, who is represented in the film, plays a rather important role in this series of tricks. This is probably quite reasonable, too. At least from her famous words and daily performance, it is clear that there will be no positive promotion and help for Murichio.
If the mind is not right, sooner or later it will be eaten back by evil deeds.
Murricio ended up with his company's designer, Paula, a good friend of Ome Bamboo Horse. Paola Franchi came together and eventually divorced Patricia. At the same time, he sold all his remaining shares in Gucci to the investment bank, and since then the Gucci brand has nothing to do with the Gucci family...
And Patricia, who was resentful and used to a luxurious life, eventually moved to kill.
Looking back, everything was a heavenly cycle. You have exhausted your mind and tricks on others, how can you blame others for having kindness to you?
If you really want to investigate its origins, you may really blame the old ancestor Guccio himself, only know that he created an excellent brand, but do not know to create an excellent family. I don't know how he would feel when he saw that the brand he founded also sponsored the filming of such an ugly history of his own family........
Is this another history of women's struggle?
In fact, the entire film is almost entirely based on Patricia, played by Lady Gaga.
Many people watch Director Lei's "The Last Duel" and feel that this is a feminist film, shouting for the unfair treatment and environment of women. R Jun would like to ask, then this "Gucci Family", is not Patricia, as an independent woman, independent to change the fate of a history of struggle?
For every individual, the struggle to be independent and change the fate is of course inspirational, but who says that the result must be good, right, and beneficial to society?
If you want to say, Adolf. Hitler also wrote Mein Kampf, a false case of a male struggle that ended in disaster for the world; then on January 3, 2022, the U.S. Federal Court against the famous Theranos founder Elizabeth. Elizabeth Holmes, the establishment of the famous "female version of Jobs" for four frauds, up to 25 years in prison and $250,000 in punishment, is a negative teaching material for the results of a proper women's struggle.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with the struggle itself, and it has nothing to do with gender differences, the most important thing is still what you are fighting for and what reason and way to choose to fight?
In the movie, Patricia is definitely a woman with a vicious eye, quite thoughtful ideas, and a lot of execution. From the first moment she met Murichio, she knew what she wanted and put it into long-term strategies and actions. From this point of view, you have to admire such a person.
While you may not like her performances in the film, you must admit that Patricia does a lot of things for the benefit of Muricchio and herself (and her and Murricio's daughter).
She tried to persuade Murricchio to return to the family, accept the job, meddle in management, and even play tricks to stir up relations and seize control and shares of the company, and from her own point of view, there was nothing wrong with it.
But the fault was that she was only thinking of herself, not the bigger picture.
In fact, Murricchio did not have the ability to manage the company well, nor did she, but she was full of thoughts about maintaining her money and power first. But Gucci's big ship sank, what could she do? She hadn't thought about it. Or maybe she didn't actually feel that she didn't have the ability to run this business, and she also felt that she was capable of doing everything right.
In fact, Hitler first took the interests of the German nation as his goal, and Theranos took "a drop of blood can test a variety of diseases" as his goal, can you say that these initial dreams are wrong and not noble?
But the road is off the road, the sense of self is inflated, and many things fall behind self-interest, face and self-esteem, even if they deviate from the original dreams and goals, it is no longer important.
This may be the core reason for the difference in the same struggle.
In the end, the core is neither a problem of women and men, nor a problem of struggle or non-struggle, but still a problem of everyone's character, vision, self-discipline and self-control. Otherwise, what God gives today will be taken back tomorrow.
There is providence in the darkness. Perhaps we should be thankful that the Gucci family did not continue to run the Gucci brand.
R Jun, March 13, 2022, in Shanghai.
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