Exploitation Hollywood 1980

"What's his reason?" Ronald came to Jonathan Demme's office again. After Sean Connery read the script, he declined the invitation, saying that he would not play Dr. Lackett.

"He said he didn't want to play a serial killer..." Jonathan Demme didn't look very good. He didn't even want to audition or interview, so he immediately refused. Such a direct refusal was not polite to a director like him.

"Let me ask his agent..." Ronald said and called Niceta. Sean Connery has a transcendent status within CAA because he was the first person signed by Ovitz.

A star. Now in the new building of CAA, Connery also has a very large office. Many stars who are more famous than him only have a small office to use because of their lack of qualifications.

After a while, Niceta's call came back, "Ovitz called me himself. He said that Connery's star image needs to be protected and he cannot play such a particularly bad villain. This is his personal decision."

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"Okay, I understand. Thank you." Ronald turned to Demi and relayed the reason.

Everyone understands that this reason makes sense. A positive male star with a good image is best not to try a villain role. Even if he plays a villain, it is best to have a last resort reason and have various concessions.

A villain with lovable traits. Serial killers like Dr. Lecter should never be touched.

However, this reason is not valid when applied to Sean Connery. After 007, Connery did not have a positive and deeply rooted new image. CAA strongly praised him for winning the Oscar in 1987.

The Best Supporting Actor Award is a serious statement that Connery has degenerated into a character actor and can only play supporting roles in Hollywood.

I still want to play a leading role, either in the B-movie "Highlander" or in Britain to make my own European movie "The Name of the Rose".

After all this, and still pretending to be a celebrity, Ronald undoubtedly wondered whether the real reason was Ovitz's hostility towards him.

"Maybe Mr. Connery wants to go back and play Bond..." Ronald smiled helplessly at Demi, laughing at himself.

"It's not impossible, the current Bond is really bad." Jonathan Demme has experienced many failures, but his fighting spirit and sense of humor are still there.

"What do you think of the leading actor? Set some criteria and we'll look for him." Ronald actually didn't know the actor in the dream, but he just thought he looked familiar.

"I still have the same idea. I want someone who plays a good guy and has an inherent image in the audience's mind to play the villain."

"So who do you think is the best good guy in the movies you've ever seen?"

"Well..." Demi rubbed his chin and thought for a long time, "Do you remember David Lynch's The Elephant Man?"

"That man with a deformed face?" Ronald Momo Huhu was a little impressed.

"Yes, the British actor who played Dr. Treves in it was so kind to such a deformed child. The audience was very moved at the time."

"what is his name?"

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The actors for each movie are prepared in the MPAA, but the quickest way is to call the casting director. Ronald called Julia Taylor.

"Oh, him, he is a stage actor, specializing in Shakespeare's plays. In the version of The Lion in Winter played by Katharine Hepburn, which won the Best Actress, he played her son Richard the Lionheart. His name is Anthony Hopkins

Si, I'll send you his audition photos.

But I don’t have his phone number. His last Hollywood movie, 84 Charing Cross, cost a lot of money. After that, he acted in stage plays and movies in Britain. You have to find his agent.”

Anthony Hopkins' American agent has basically given up on his future. Ronald didn't go to see him through CAA anymore. He didn't want Ovitz to get the news and interfere again.

So Ronald called Die Hard's villain, Alan Rickman, directly.

"Hopkins? I know him quite well. Do you want to find him? I'll give him a call." Rickman is now in Hollywood hoping to get more movies due to the success of Die Hard.

Opportunity, but everyone still follows the template of that villain when looking for him.

"Of course, that's why I came to you. Also, what do you think of his ability to play a villain? He's the kind of villain with a lot of inner drama."

"Hey, didn't you know? He played King Lear and Antony in Cleopatra at the Old Vic."

"Hopkins plays King Lear and Antony. He has no problem playing this." Just as he and Demi were relaying the actor's qualifications, Ronald received the audition photos of Anthony Hopkins.

"Ha, I think he is Dr. Lecter." Ronald looked at the pair of cunning eyes in the photo and handed it to Demi.

"There's no problem with the appearance. I have to talk to him."

"I've sent him an audition invitation and he rushed over from Britain right away."

After handling the casting of Silence of the Lambs, Minahan Grann had another problem. He made an appointment with Ronald and brought the team of the musical "Lombada" to see Ronald.

"Hi Miranda, long time no see." Ronald was surprised to see the choreographer of Dirty Dancing and Miranda Garrison, who played an important supporting role, in the team.

"Ronald, it's so nice to see you..." Miranda Garrison jumped up and hugged Ronald, and led him to dance a few steps of Dirty Dancing.

"Gaga ga ga, my idea is to copy the choreography team of Dirty Dancing... How about it, it's not bad, right?" Minahan Gran said to Ronald with a smile.

The sales of Dirty Dancing's video tapes have been stable, and there are a lot of residual dividends distributed to those who participated in the event.

This remaining dividend is not a dividend signed by each actor individually, but a dividend that is uniformly allocated to the Actors Guild and then distributed to participating actors every quarter.

For an ordinary movie, a participating actor can only get a few dozen dollars in dividends each time. A hot-selling movie may earn hundreds of dollars a month. But a movie like "Dirty Dancing" that has a long history of selling video tapes can bring in huge profits.

few.

In particular, these special actors who perform dangerous actions such as dancing have all entered the remaining dividend list. Their income is thousands of dollars every quarter, and it is extremely stable. Since the video tape was sold, every time

The checks are all stable in four figures.

Ronald also saw several pairs of dancers who participated in the choreography and performance of this lambada when filming Dirty Dancing, and he really admired Minahan's intelligence. This kind of relationship between men and women

For dances with special provocative moves, the Dirty Dancing team is indeed the most suitable one.

I have to say that Minahan has a good eye for filmmaking, and he has good control over small productions. He can guarantee that he will not lose money every time, and there will be one movie every year that can make a lot of money. But he can't let it go to his head.

If he goes out of his way to shoot any big production, that is really not his area of ​​expertise.

"This is the heroine, Miss Laura Harling. She was Miss America in 1985, and then traveled around the world to promote the concepts of world peace and environmental protection. However, she studied drama at the London Academy of Performing Arts and also received Latin

Dance training (including Argentine tango)." Minahan introduced Ronald to the heroine.

In this kind of dance movie, the most important thing is that the heroine is beautiful. Ronald was satisfied that Laura Harling was actually born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. A typical Latin beauty, she later settled in Texas.

Si, she worked her way up through local beauty pageants, won Miss Texas, and then participated in the Miss America pageant.

"Nice to meet you...Minahan is good at choosing actresses." Ronald shook hands with her politely.

The cost of this movie is very low, and Ronald is very confident about making a profit. Minahan will make more B-level movies like this in the future. To be honest, Ronald doesn't mind if Minahan remakes the plot of his own Dirty Dancing, as long as

The audience would love to see it. It would be great if he collaborated with himself and filmed everything from samba, rumba and tango.

"So what happened?" Expressing satisfaction with the team and casting, Ronald pulled Minahan into the conference room. Isn't this going well? What happened again?

"Hey, I...someone stole my...my...I lost the name of the movie."

"What the hell, how did you lose the name of the movie?" Ronald was confused.

"That's right, Ronald, don't be angry. My cousin Yoram", Minahan said his cousin's name, and spat on the ground to express his disdain, "He was on my twenty-first birthday.

Century Pictures planted spies and learned that I was going to make Lombarda. They bought the rights to adapt the name Lombarda in advance and they also wanted to make the movie."

"Ah? Why didn't you negotiate to buy it in advance?"

"On the one hand, the spy is a manager who can see my project documents. On the other hand, I want to save some money." Minahan smiled awkwardly and told the truth.

"Hey..." Ronald was helpless. Why did the two cousins ​​seem to be enemies now? Yoram was still eyeing Minahan's project, just to sabotage his movie and prevent him from making a comeback to take revenge on him.

"Did you buy the right to use that song?" Ronald thought for a while and asked.

"Of course, I bought the right to use the interlude of Kaoma's song, but the title of the song was taken away by that bastard Yoram... drink, bah..."

"Don't spit in my conference room, you disgusting ghost." Ronald was so angry that he took a few napkins and threw them on the floor. This guy...

"Let me ask my lawyer..."

Ronald called Lindsay Doerr and told him everything about the movie.

"Humph..." Lindsay looked up some case information there and came back and said to Ronald, "I remember that Lombada, like tango, is the name of a dance, right?"

"Hey, yes, it's a proprietary dance name. It wasn't invented by Caoma, who sang this song. In fact, she also sang a Spanish song in Portuguese."

"That's easy to do. The name of this dance is legally a proprietary name and cannot apply for patent protection. The adaptation rights they bought can only control it. You can't just use the word Lombada as the name of the movie.

However, you can make a movie called, Lombarda - the magical dance, Lombada - the sexy dance. There is no basis in the copyright law to award the name of this dance to them. Even if they sue, we

The possibility of winning is also very high, and the highest possibility is that it will be rejected by the judge at the pre-trial stage.”

"Lombard, the forbidden dance..." Minahan heard the two names repeated by Ronald from the side, and he immediately called out another name that was more exciting.

For young audiences, the more taboo something is, the more they want to watch it. This is one of the main reasons why the average box office of movies rated PG13 is higher than those rated PG.

"Okay, let's call it Forbidden Dance." Ronald also approved the name.

"But, you can do this." Ronald picked up the pen and paper and started drawing on the white paper.

"Lombada...the forbidden dance." Ronald wrote the three words "Lombarda" in a large size, and "Forbidden Dance" several sizes smaller, squatting in the second line aggrievedly as a subtitle.

"Gah ga ga, Ronald, you are really an evil genius, but I like it. When the time comes, I will have a ring with Yoram's Lombard to see if I don't beat his ass out! Drink... bah

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"Fuck you, get out of here..." Seeing that Minahan was about to spit again, Ronald was so angry that he pushed him out of the conference room.

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"Hahaha, that's it. This unlucky guy forgot to buy the right to adapt the song's name, and the result is now like this, two production companies making one movie."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Back at the hotel, Ronald told Diane, and the visiting Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman about Minahan

It's a joke. They are all actors in big Hollywood productions, and they all laughed out loud when they heard about this low-budget B-movie mess.

Kidman, an Australian girl, is very tall and wears flat shoes to match Cruise's height. She originally wanted to hook up with Ronald, but unexpectedly she fell in love with Tom Cruise at first sight.

Cruise invited her to serve as the heroine in "Thunder", the first movie where Cruise served as screenwriter. Kidman was very satisfied with her charm and good luck in Hollywood. Until Cruise brought her to

When Ronald formally introduced his new girlfriend to him, he felt lost again.

Ronald also showed Tom some photos of his luxury vacation home on the beach in Brisbane, Australia, and invited them to go on vacation together when they have time. There are two villas connected together, which is completely comfortable.

Kidman, who grew up in Australia, knew that there was the most luxurious beach house that Australians longed for. It originally belonged to local wealthy man Cass, but in order to pick up clothes for his wife, he sent a private plane to pick them up.

people.

That Diane is not as beautiful as herself...

"Ronald, Nicole has just come to Hollywood, do you have any advice for her?" Tom Cruise was still very interested in this new girlfriend and directly asked Ronaldo, who was very experienced in training actresses.

Nader, give Kidman some advice.

Ronald looked at Paula Wagner who was coming with him. She and Niceta also came to the party.

Wagner made an expression like "I think Tom is stuck, too." Tom Cruise's previous girlfriends were all more mature and older than him, with less aggressive faces. From Rebecca·

De Mornay, to Cher, to Mimi Rogers who has not yet finalized her divorce, are not the most beautiful types in Hollywood.

But this Nicole Kidman is the radiant type. Especially with a small oval face and rich layers, she is very popular with the photography director.

Ronald understood that this time Tom Cruise deviated from his usual aesthetics. He must have fallen in love in a serious way, and the divorce would definitely cost him a fortune.

"It's hard to say anything about an actress's acting career. I can't give you any advice, and it may limit your performance." Ronald felt that in this case it is better not to say anything too specific, otherwise he may be blamed in the future.

"The only thing is, your hair is very distinctive, whether it is hair color or curly hair, it is actually very beneficial to maintain it like this. Hollywood lacks such a distinctive type that is easy to be remembered by the audience."

"Thank you..." Nicole Kidman disagreed. Everyone in Hollywood knows that blonde girls are the audience's favorite.

"Pfft", Diane almost laughed out loud. Brother Ronnie liked his original hair color and hairstyle. Is this a special reminder to himself?