The China Hustle Movie Script

Companies lie.

Companies lie.

Companies have companies' best interests at heart-- not a community's, not a people's.

The people need to have their own interests at heart.

Flint's an awesome town.

It's always been an awesome town.

Very hardworking community.

Very hardworking community.

All right, look.

I saw myself growing up in Flint and staying there forever.

And then the jobs were gone.

Dan had investigated the companies from the ground up.

Matt had seen the bird's-eye view of their SEC filings.

Together they began to realize how shockingly simple the whole thing was.

Let's say that you wanted to construct a fraud.

What you would do is, you would have a factory.

You would have a chairman.

And then you would find someone, a gatekeeper, for example.

A finder says, "This is your business.

What could you do with $100 million?" He would help with connections with auditors, legal tier-three banks.

This operator in China would be like, "Well, that'd be-- it would be a game changer." "I'd buy up my competition.

I could do this.

I could do that.

I'd be this big." Get to the United States.

This guy or this company in China would say, "Okay, I'm gonna get you a $100 million, but this is what you have to do.