I was studying "Once Upon a Time in America" and stumbled upon a Hollywood anecdote.
The protagonist of the story is George Clooney.
He was the batman of 1997 Batman and Robin, the soul of the Eleven Rohan series, and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2006 for Cinrina.
If 007 is an American, he must be the best candidate.
As early as the end of 2017, there were many reports that he gave 14 friends 1 million US dollars each, that is, 14 million red envelopes were sent at once.
The source is from his winery partner, Rande Gerber.
According to the partner, Clooney called 14 friends to his house for dinner and gave each of them a black box filled with bills.
In addition, Clooney helped them pay their taxes for an additional year.
The local tycoon's kind deeds also include that when he flew in 2017, because he was worried about his children's big noise, he gave first-class passengers a free anti-noise headset for one person, and attached a small note saying that he apologized for the baby's crying in advance.
It is said that Clooney's children were very quiet during the journey.
His fear was that it was somewhat "superfluous".
For the rumor of sending money to 14 friends, Clooney recently responded for the first time in an interview with GQ magazine.
He acknowledged his "money throwing" and revealed more details of his actions.
It turned out that things were more exciting and interesting than expected.
It's not just that the local tycoons feel that the money can't be used up, but they just want to send red envelopes.
In the '80s, George Clooney, who was still a nobody, traveled to Los Angeles on the advice of his cousin to find an opportunity to become an actor.
But things didn't go well, and Clooney, who was far away, was once so depressed that he had no place to live.
Fortunately, there were friends who were willing to help him, not only providing a place to live, but also borrowing him money.
It wasn't until 1994, when the series "The Story of the Emergency Room" aired, that he became a well-known actor.
3 years later starred in "Batman and Robin", although the reputation of the movie is not good, but relying on Batman's popular IP, his fame has increased unabated.
By 2013, he was on the front lines of Hollywood.
For such first-line actors, for cost reasons, film companies sometimes hire them, instead of paying millions of dollars at a time, they take a box office share.
That way there will be a lot less pressure at the box office.
Movie stars won't resist this either, because in the event of a box office hit, they'll make more money than drug dealers.
According to Clooney, the filmmakers of "Gravity" signed a box office share model with him because the film's box office was not optimistic.
Warner is one of the producers of the film, and perhaps it is a good idea for Warner.
As a result, the cost of 100 million yuan of "Gravity" won 723 million US dollars at the global box office, and the filmmakers made hundreds of millions of dollars.
As a lead actor, Clooney, who gets a box office share, is naturally indispensable, and there are definitely more than ten million.
He made a windfall anyway.
The money is suddenly too much to know how to use, and I am single, I have no intention of getting married, and there is no point in saving money. At this time, he remembered the friends who had given him a place to live in Los Angeles and borrowed him money.
He didn't want to transfer money directly, and it was a little strange to have a bank account number one by one.
So, he planned to send it directly! appear! gold!
But getting a lot of cash in greater America is not as simple as it is in China.
Then he used his ability to steal the day in "Eleven Arhats", investigating a safe route, and built a large truck, disguised as sending flowers.
Escorted by bodyguards, $14 million in cash arrived at a warehouse, and Clooney began packing it in an average of 14 black suitcases.
In the end, there was no danger, and 14 boxes were transported back home.
Then, as Rande Gerber put it, Clooney invited the friends to his house.
It is estimated that these friends saw the contents of the box at that time, and they were all moved to "crack the wall".
Perhaps God saw this righteous act of "repaying the grace of the dripping water with a gushing spring" and gave Cupid, the god of love, a task.
The year after "Throwing Coins", in 2014, Clooney, 53, married Emmo Alamuddin, a beautiful lawyer who was 17 years younger than him, ending his singleness.
Three years later, the two had a dragon and phoenix fetus. And in one flight, all the anti-noise headphones of the passengers in the same cabin were given away, out of fear that the dragon and phoenix tires would make a big fuss.
Will good people be rewarded?
Yes.
In 2018, George Clooney suffered a serious traffic accident. He hit the car on a motorcycle and fell to the ground.
Unexpectedly, he once thought that he would die like this, but he was only slightly injured, and it was not a big problem.
Just before the "money throwing" behavior, he listed the 14 friends as beneficiaries of his insurance policy. But after making a windfall, I thought, why wait for my friends to be killed before they receive kindness?
He decided to pay the "insurance compensation" himself first.
There is no need to compensate for dying, then naturally he will not die.