Exploitation Hollywood 1980

"Please tell Mr. Ronald Lee that I am deeply grateful for his guidance. This is the greatest achievement I have ever achieved in my career..."

"Who's calling?" Ronald just finished taking a shower when he saw Diane answering the phone, with a half-smile on her face.

"It's your old acquaintance, Jennifer Tilly..." Diane handed him the phone and scratched his hand. She didn't know whether she was angry or coquettish.

"Jennifer, I remember telling you that I just appreciate your attitude of trying your best, and you don't owe me anything in the future." Ronald was a little annoyed. There are no secrets in Hollywood. In his previous formal relationships, Dai

An has heard it to some extent. The sister of her ex-girlfriend calls to say thank you, which always arouses bad associations.

"I didn't mean anything else, Ronald. I really just called to thank you. Now my agent has even received scripts that I never imagined I could get. This is what an actress can get."

The biggest admission." Jennifer Tilley immediately apologized, clarifying that she had no delusions and was just calling to thank her.

She used a few hundred dollars to create a public relations advertisement for herself in a magazine in the industry, inviting you to watch Jennifer Tilly's performance in "Bullets Over Broadway." It actually worked, and she won an Oscar.

Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

In this way, the same movie "Bullets Over Hollywood" has two Best Supporting Actress nominations, Dianne Wiest and Jennifer Tilly. It replicates Ronald's achievements in "Working Girl"

.

This achievement brought unexpected surprises and an increase in net worth to Jennifer Tilly, but it brought fear and shock to Harvey Weinstein.

Not only did Ronald secure several of the major awards he wanted in the important union awards. He also made moves effortlessly and unnoticed, and by some means, he actually allowed Jennifer Tilly to break through him.

The layout caused internal strife for Dianne Wiest's Best Supporting Actress award.

This kind of move that was beyond his imagination made Harvey Weinstein break out in a cold sweat, so much so that when Jennifer Tilly apologized to him in person at the celebration party after the nomination, she could only say "

Gentlely" she said it didn't matter and she was doing a good job.

If he still followed his original style and directly denounced Jennifer Tilly and did not give her any resources to win the prize, he didn't know what hidden tricks Ronald could use.

In addition to being humiliated at the awards night, any move may be counterproductive.

A person's biggest fear is not knowing where the fear will come from and scare him. Harvey Weinstein thought about it for a long time and decided not to fight in a battlefield that he is not good at. Ronald is in

Her ability to compete for Oscars is too scary, so I’d better give in for one term and only pursue small awards like Best Supporting Actress that won’t bother Ronald. I’ll use these tricks next year. Anyway, Ronald will be next year.

I haven't heard of any of the director's works being released.

After thinking about this, Harvey returned to his true nature, pointed at Jennifer Tilly and said, "But please don't do any public relations in private anymore. Dianne Wiest is..."

"I understand, I understand, I won't argue with her. I am satisfied with just one nomination." Jennifer Tilly didn't know why Harvey Weinstein, who has always been very strong, was so easy to talk to. She also thought about it for a long time.

, finally understand...

Harvey Weinstein is not easy to talk to, but he is afraid of a big man who is more powerful than him. Therefore, as someone who has received a huge favor from Ronald, she also feels that she needs to say hello to this benefactor.

Thank you, otherwise I don’t know what kind of character Ronald is. If I was nominated and didn’t show any expression, it would be bad to be resented by him.

However, Jennifer Tilly did not have Ronald's direct phone number. She only got a chance to get through the phone and communicate directly with Ronald through her agent and through hard work and persuasion.

Unexpectedly, it was self-defeating and made him unhappy. So on the phone, I hurriedly apologized.

"Hahaha, what's wrong with you Jennifer? We don't have any hatred, right? I just went home with my wife Diane. We just went to the Science and Technology Award Ceremony. I'm a little tired. When you called me, I thought it was someone else.

I'm looking for a way to get a role."

"Oh, my God, I am really a childish woman. When Diane asked me just now, I should have taken the initiative and asked for a role in a new movie. Now her new project has too many Hollywood projects.

All the actresses want to get a small supporting role."

Jennifer Tilly was a very shrewd woman who immediately understood the consequences of her actions and deliberately spoke loudly and flatteringly to Diane.

Just in time, Ronald put the call on speakerphone, and then talked there while drinking tea. This conversation was heard by Diane, who was about to change clothes and take a shower. Some misunderstandings disappeared, and she gently pulled the phone.

He unzipped his skirt, gave Ronald a look, then entered the bathroom, and said: "Don't use the speakerphone, I don't want to hear about work matters tonight..."

Ronald picked up the receiver knowingly, and Jennifer Tilly on the other side also laughed, saying that she would not cause any displeasure to her great benefactor.

The two said a few words and were about to hang up the phone. Jennifer Tilly remembered another important thing. She said quickly to Ronald, "I don't want to waste more of your time, but today I am with me."

I wanted to celebrate my nomination with my sister, and she intentionally revealed something to me.

The relationship between Jennifer Tilly and her sister Meg is quite similar to the two sisters in the golden age of Hollywood, Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. Both have actress-level performances, but each other

The attitude is average, especially when the other party has received some new award recognition, the other party will never say anything nice, but when the other party has problems, the other party will silently provide help.

Therefore, when Jennifer won the nomination and started to show off in front of her sister Meg, her sister would definitely "unintentionally" reveal some of the satisfactory parts of her life so that her sister would not be so proud.

The last time in 1987, Meg Tilly was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for "Agnes of God". This time it was her sister Jennifer's turn. Meg was also very uncomfortable and took away her boyfriend who had successfully dated her.

I told my sister what I had asked many times not to disclose in advance.

Since Meg Tilly broke up with Colin Firth, she is already the mother of three children (two with her ex-husband and one with Colin Firth). In Hollywood, this is what actresses do

A doomsday-like scene.

Therefore, she accepted her fate and took the initiative to agree to a blind date with some middle-aged widowed Hollywood studio executives. Her efforts paid off last year when a producer, John Kelly, who was thirty years her senior, was chosen.

of this actress.

When John Kelly was at Warner Bros., he approved the Superman series, which became his credit. In fact, he was able to enter the upper echelons of the studio because he had a bad relationship with his wife, who was originally a Playboy cover girl.

Well, I can only devote myself to work to distract myself. The speed of producing 12 films per year can be called a model worker.

Of course, this kind of data can only deceive outside capital, such as Japanese people. In fact, everyone in Hollywood understands that the so-called executive producers are lucky, and the chance of encountering several blockbuster projects is much higher than

Do they have any production vision or talent?

After he divorced his wife, he lived with the widow of the famous British director David Lean, as if being close to the wife of a famous director who was recognized for both box office and artistry would make him someone like Lean.

of.

After this dream was shattered, he quickly abandoned Lean's widow and fell into the arms of Meg Tilly.

After this Oscar awards show, he will marry Meg Tilly, a woman 30 years younger than him, and then accept the invitation of Columbia Pictures to serve as director there.

After being disappointed with a CEO like Gubel, who is known for his vision, the Japanese now want to find someone who suits the taste of the Japanese and is known for his hard work.

After hearing what Jennifer Tilly said, Ronald felt a little complicated. He regarded this Oscar as very important. It was an affirmation and summary of his director career. With someone like Meg Tilly coming to disrupt the situation,

He doesn't like it very much.

On this occasion, he just wanted to be with the one he loved and the one who loved him. However, thinking of this, Ronald still hesitated for a while. He thought of Helen in New York, and this grand event to honor him hoped that

She can also attend live.

"Honey..." Diane stuck her head out of the bathroom, seeming to complain that Ronald was still on the phone.

"I have to hang up, Diane is calling me..." After finishing his sentence, Ronald hung up the phone with Jennifer Tilly. He entered the bathroom with a smile on his face and looked at Diane who was well dressed.

, I made up my mind to make this awards show perfect and not let anything spoil the fun.

At his position, intimacy is probably the most important thing in Ronald's life, and beauty and wealth are ranked lower.

…

"Ring ring ring ring..."

Early the next morning, Ronald got up from the bed very tiredly. Only no more than ten people could get through to this phone call. There must be something important coming to him. He looked at the clock and saw that it was not even five o'clock in the morning.

arrive.

Hey, not even sleeping in after a wonderful night.

"I'll pick her up outside. You go back to sleep..." Ronald comforted Diane, who couldn't even open her eyes, and ran to the small study to answer the phone.

"It's me, Ronald."

"What's going on? So early?"

On the other end of the phone was the CEO of DDH, Ed Bastian. He didn't sleep last night, and it was only early this morning that he got the exact news and called Ronald immediately.

"Credit Lyonnais has a big problem. I heard the latest audit results. Last year's loss was 1.2 billion francs..."

"Twelve billion francs, that's...two billion dollars?"

Ronald did some calculations on the calculator, and the number was far beyond his expectation.

Since the early 1990s, Crédit Lyonnais has suffered huge losses since its large-scale overseas acquisitions. Especially the acquisition of MGM and the purchase of Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC), a state-owned financial institution in China.

losses caused by a large amount of assets.

In the fiscal year of the previous year, Credit Lyonnais suffered a loss of 6.9 billion francs. Last year, the Chinese government had to rescue the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC), an institution responsible for many local infrastructure and pension investments.

Injecting 3.6 billion francs into Crédit Lyonnais.

The idea was to sell MGM, a toxic asset, and put Crédit Lyonnais on track by selling off some profitable growth, such as shares in Germany's Adidas Group.

Unexpectedly, in the next fiscal year, Credit Lyonnais's losses doubled...

This time, they want to continue to force the Chinese government to come to the rescue, and then take advantage of the government's capital injection to directly become a state-controlled enterprise. The original senior executives will be transformed into state-owned enterprise executives, and they no longer have to worry about being held accountable by the capital market for failed investments.

Responsibility.

However, the country's government is not a vegetarian. The previous left-wing Mitterrand government was relatively tolerant of these things. However, the country will hold a general election this year, and the right-wing candidate, former Prime Minister and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, is not

An easy person to talk to.

Therefore, of course, before the general elections in April and May, the matter of rescuing Crédit Lyonnais was put on hold. Moreover, relevant departments also spread the word that unless Crédit Lyonnais took over MGM’s bad debt before the new leader took office,

Once processed, new capital injections cannot occur.

Obviously, if Jacques, the favorite among the candidates, comes to power, he will not unclearly rescue Credit Lyonnais again. Unless the left-wing candidate Jospin, who is also a former prime minister, wins, Credit Lyonnais will acquire MGM

The big holes always have to be filled in.

It has been made very clear that the executives of Crédit Lyonnais will either find a bad guy to take over, or they will clean their butts and wait to go to jail. They must settle the accounts in the MGM acquisition case.

After such successive mergers and acquisitions and prosecutions, who in Hollywood still doesn’t know that MGM has been turned into a bottomless pit by several previous bosses? Who has the courage to jump into it?

The two "taken advantage of" people who wanted to acquire MGM before were one an Australian stock speculator and the other an Italian financial fraudster. If they took over MGM, they could live happily for a few more years. If they didn't take over, they would be immediately prosecuted by the inspection agency.

In addition, MGM's most valuable assets, the numerous film libraries handed down from the golden era, were sold to pieces by predecessor Kerkorian, and they were not included in the last train to be acquired by the Japanese, thus wiping out the deficit at once.

, now it’s really a life and death moment.

At this moment, the people at Crédit Lyonnais, still a dead horse, came to seek help from DDH to see if they would be interested in anything in the remaining properties of MGM, and they could buy some.

Ease the crisis.

"I still reply to them the same way, I don't want to take over the MGM label. Whoever sold it to them back then, just go find them and buy it back..."

Ronald knew that Kerkorian had bought the MGM from the old Bronfman of Seagram in order to use the MGM name to attract customers to his casino, and in addition to pocket the MGM movie theaters.

Previous assets in the industry.

He didn't believe that Credit Lyonnais, a bank, didn't even have this handle. Now it was time to force the big liar.

As for the big pitfall of MGM, Ronald is not uninterested. Among them, after the failure of Heaven's Gate in 1980, Ronald was still very interested in taking over United Artists.

After all, this is a studio that has a say in the MPAA rating agency. It doesn't want the expensive distribution agency that other big media groups in Hollywood care about. It just wants a say in the ratings. I guess everyone still doesn't need it.

I broke up with Ronald because of this matter.