It's a very absurd world, where the poor want to work in exchange for a full meal, but they don't have a chance, and the rich hold a piece of paper and are greeted everywhere.
If you have money, you can eat the Overlord meal.
The male protagonist has been hungry for two days, penniless, hungry. He wants to eat the Overlord meal, what should he do?
This is a movie from 66 years ago, but it profoundly reflects the problem of our life today: no money can not eat the overlord meal, but money can be.
Adam is a wandering American citizen in London, England. He laid down his last dignity and went to the embassy, but the clerk told him that he didn't have any job or the help he needed, and that he could give him a loan if he had something to mortgage.
Oh, this is really a nonsense inquiry, why should you take out a loan if you have money. Just when he was dazed, someone upstairs called out to him.
Adam looked up and there were two rich men on the balcony. They asked Adam to come in and talk, but they didn't know what the purpose was.
Desperate, Adam decided to be a living horse doctor, maybe there was any chance.
The Obama brothers laughed when they heard Adam's tragic past. Adam was a little upset and turned to leave.
They stopped Adam, gave him a letter, told him to open it again at two o'clock, and told him to go fast, and Adam walked away in the clouds, feeling something was wrong with him.
Adam was about to faint from hunger, and finally put down his dignity and came to the restaurant, ready to eat a meal of overlords. He sat down at the table in front of the restaurant, and the waiter said, "There is someone at that table, you can change it," and arranged Adam at the innermost table.
It turned out that the waiter saw that Adam was dressed shabbily and did not want him to sit outside. Yadan ate a full meal regardless of whether he was at it, and at this time he was like a needle felt.
Finally it was almost two o'clock, and the waiter came to urge Adam to check out, and Adam had to tear open the envelope and take out the contents.
When I opened it, it turned out to be a check, and it was still a million pounds, and all three of them froze.
Adam said, "There's no change, trouble," and the waiter showed the store manager a check, who soon concluded that Adam was an eccentric millionaire.
The waiter immediately came over and whispered to Adam: "We can't find this money, but we can give you a free order, I hope you will help more in the future."
Adam got up and left, and the two old men bowed to him all the way, afraid that if he was angry, he would not come here to eat.
Adam hurried back to the rich man's house, wanting to get the pound back. But the news was that they were traveling and would not be able to return for a month.
Adam was sitting on the stairs of the rich man's house when he found another letter in the envelope that read: "The £1 million is lent to you first, you can use it for a month, and then you have to return the check, and if you pay it back, then you can get any job we can offer."
What is the use of a banknote worth a million?
You may not know how much purchasing power the 1 million pounds is, the film is set in 1893, which is equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars now, and the wealth that ordinary people can't hold in a lifetime.
It turned out that the Two Onima brothers had made a bet on whether a penniless guy, with a check for a million pounds in value, would starve to death or live.
The Onima brothers were not afraid of Adam running, because the check could not be spent anywhere. If he spent it in the bank, he would still be arrested, which would have upset Adam.
Adam was depressed about the check for a long time, and he went to a tailor's shop to see how powerful the check really was.
Sure enough, as soon as they entered the store, the clerks saw Adam's clothes, they were reluctant to entertain him, and they turned on the kicking ball mode, and the last clerk gave Adam a set of clothes that others did not want.
Adam asked if he could take credit, and I happened not to have any change, and the young clerk taunted, "You certainly won't bring change."
Adam had to take out his check, and the clerk took a look at it and immediately knelt down in front of it. The next thing is like being in a restaurant. The boss prepared many clothes for him and accepted his indefinite payment, hoping that he would help him more in the future.
The tailor shop owner knew Adam had no place to stay and introduced him to a luxury hotel. The people in the luxury hotel heard about the million pounds, and immediately mobilized the whole hotel to prepare to receive Adam, and also drove the duke out of the suite who had not paid for half a year.
The hotel made a fuss, treated a guest like a millionaire, was super courteous to Adam, and took care of everything.
Until Adam came to identify himself, the hotel immediately revoked all the treatment of the guest, cursed people, and drove people out. Adam was kind enough to keep his guests and let him live with him in order to add insurance to the pound.
What followed was a large number of gifts, some from hotels, some from tailors...
Soon, the image of a millionaire was finally determined. Later, Adam came to the U.S. Embassy, remembering that Adam had told the clerk about his misfortune at the entrance of the embassy, but the other party did not care at all, and did not help at all.
Now it was the ambassador himself who entertained Adam and unconditionally sent him £500 to introduce him to the local high society.
Pretend to be rich, can you become a real rich man?
Now Adam is in the upper class with this banknote, and everyone competes to befriend him, including a beautiful girl.
Rachy wanted to ask Adam to help her host the charity event, and the two soon learned that the owner of the pound was not Adam. Just as Adam was at a loss, he was approached by a gentleman who was a former colleague of his father's.
Sparks were sparked. Adam was going to attend a charity event invited by Rasch, Adam made a fuss and spent £5,000 to buy a vase, and all kinds of charity activities invited him, and everyone hoped that he would donate money.
This man actually came to Adam for help, which made him invest all his money in the gold mine, and now facing a broken capital chain, he wants to use Adam's power to help him, not to ask for his million pounds. Rather, he wanted to give Adam the influence he had now.
It turns out that Adam's name is now so hot that it is a household name in high society, as long as Adam invests in the stock of the gold mine, everyone will follow suit.
Sure enough, everyone heard that this mysterious rich man invested 20,000 shares in the Haiwang Gold Mine, and the remaining stocks were bought in an instant. Adam got the news and netted £15,750.
At this time, Adam was not too happy, because at this time, he was in love with a noble lady, and he told her the story of his birth in poverty and then the adventure. Miss Noble thought he was testing her, and as a result, she was angry.
Soon, Adam encounters a new problem, and in his hotel, there is a duke who is dissatisfied with him and wants to deceive Adam. To clean his million checks to hide.
The duke spread false news everywhere that Adam was not a millionaire at all and did not have a million check.
The news spread quickly, and someone began to ask Adam for a check to see, and then Adam really couldn't find the check. Scandals spread far and wide, and high society immediately regarded Adam as a liar.
Icing on the cake is always there, and there are few charcoal in the snow. Adam had no intention of deceiving anyone, but now everyone regarded him as a liar.
At this time the duke of Adam felt that he had gone a little too far, and quickly returned the check to him. Adam took the check, held it up for everyone to see, and suddenly everyone began to praise him and bless him, and he was the millionaire Adam gentleman again.
Practice has proved that money is not a panacea!
The end of the film arrives, everything is restored to its appearance, and after witnessing all this, Miss Noble understands that Adam did not deceive her, adam is for true love. This is indeed a clear stream in the eyes of snobbery!
A month later, Adam returned the pound sterling to the rich man. Adam won, and now he's a billionaire with £20,000 and a beautiful man.
Money is really a good thing, it can win respect, it can make friends, it can make ourselves a status, and most importantly, money can let us know ourselves.
The heroine tells us that money is not omnipotent, and it cannot produce its own love for the male protagonist. This is the only warmth in this satirical drama, is this warmth like a fairy tale?
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