Exploiting Hollywood 1980

After a lot of red tape, the lights in the screening room dimmed. The words "cannon group presents" appeared on the screen.

Powerful disco drumbeats began to play from the speakers, and a large building popped up on the screen. Flags of various countries were flying on the flagpoles outside. A group of people ran into the building screaming.

This is a good start, Ronald commented secretly. A few strokes outline the apocalyptic scene in 1994. What will happen next? Is the Cold War turning into a hot war? Alien invasion? Or an asteroid hitting the earth?

After thinking about several of the most popular disasters in Hollywood scripts, Ronald quickly gathered his mind and watched the movie. As a buyer, your main task is to watch the movie from the audience's perspective, not to do any analysis.

Three male and female singers, dressed in sparkling white diamond-encrusted costumes, sang and danced disco-style songs on the stage.

It’s really unexpected? This building is not a meeting of the United Nations to deal with the crisis, but a concert.

No, it's not a concert, but a song and dance show. The heartbeat of the audience and the decibels of the shouts determine whether the contestants will leave or stay.

The second person to take the stage was a male and female group. They had no band accompaniment, only an acoustic guitar, and what they sang was not current pop music, but more like the country rock that hippies loved in the 1960s. The audience was silent and did not cheer. Some people stood up impatiently to let them go, and some started throwing things on the stage.

As soon as the scene changed, two singers, a man and a woman, were still singing with smiles on their faces. The audience gradually sat down and listened carefully. The heartbeat of the audience in the control room gradually reached 150. The director was stunned and decided to make some noise to ruin the performance.

Ronald was also shocked. This movie was not as good as Roger Corman's. How to put it, it's like a college student visiting the set of Director Corman, and then going back to work on his own spare time homework.

What follows is even more absurd. The talent show director turned out to be Satan. They made noise to deliberately lower the scores of the duo, and then signed the female singer Bibi instead of her partner and boyfriend Alfie. Movies have evolved from musicals to mythological films.

But the names of the protagonists were a bit interesting, and Ronald couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw this. Alfie is the name of the protagonist in a 1966 movie of the same name starring Michael Caine, in which he played a love interest named Alfie.

This small-budget British production cost less than 1 million US dollars, and sold 18 million in America. Ronald also watched it during class.

And the name of the heroine Bibi,

Anyone who is familiar with rock music gossip knows that this is an allusion to Bibi Burr, a relatively well-known rock and roll man, who slept with popular rock bands.

Ronald's laughter caused the beauty next to him to roll her eyes. She can't stand this shit anymore and wants to leave. "Fortunately, this handsome guy from America confiscated my movie ticket money, otherwise I would have to ask him to refund the money."

When Ronald saw this, he had given up the idea of ​​buying the movie. The first reel of film (11 minutes) made the audience want to leave, and the gods will not be able to save them in the subsequent plot.

Most of the audience was just being polite and didn't leave early at the festival's opening film. Some members of the audience had begun to doze off, but were soon awakened by a burst of singing and dancing.

The scene suddenly jumped from the office to a cave, where a group of devils began to sing and dance, urging the heroine Bibi to take a bite of the big apple.

Ronald looked at the fat producer sitting in the front row, who was bobbing his head happily to the music. The joys and sorrows of human beings in this world are really not connected. Fatty is immersed in his great movie song and dance scenes, but the audience only feels that the noise is preventing them from sleeping.

Not to mention the plot that follows, even Ronald can't stand it. Only in two places did he wake up from his drowsiness.

For the first time, the producers of Satan in Disguise signed the female lead. Immediately her record sales began to skyrocket. Ronald, who fell asleep to the noisy singing and dancing, suddenly woke up after the background noise disappeared and glanced at the screen twice.

"But I haven't recorded a song yet? Why can I start selling records first?" Bibi asked in confusion.

"This is the true meaning of business, you sell it first and then start making it." Satan laughed.

Hey, this idea is interesting. Isn't this how the fat man operates the movie?

Ronald found it interesting and went back to sleep.

The second time, near the end of the film, Bibi finally woke up, no longer controlled by Satan, and ran to find the male protagonist Alfie. The two find a group of people, leave behind modern technology, and live like hippies. Unknown plants burned on a large lawn, becoming very "spiritual" in the smoke.

Satan led the security guards to arrest Bibi, and their family and children were about to be destroyed. Yes, I don’t know why the hero and heroine suddenly got married and had children.

At a critical moment, the screen suddenly shines brightly, and Ronald is awakened by the bright light.

I saw a Rolls-Royce car glowing with white light appearing in the sky, making a sound of "biubiubiu" and falling from the sky. An old man with a white beard came out, saved the hero and heroine, and led them to a new planet to start over. Human reproduction.

Ronald rubbed his eyes. Is this a "big price" for special effects? It seemed quite expensive, probably only two dollars and thirty-eight cents.

He yawned loudly, and the beautiful woman next to him was also awakened. The two found that the movie had ended, and the beauty was awakened by the reopened theater lights.

The fat man who gave Ronald the movie ticket happily walked onto the stage in front of the screen and took the microphone prepared by the organizer. "I am the director of this film, Minahan Golan..."

"Hey...hey...don't hit anyone."

The audience had been holding back their anger and wanted to vent it. Montreal has been in debt of one billion dollars since hosting the Olympics. Four years have passed, and the main venue for the 1976 Olympic Games has not yet been completed. A large amount of taxes paid each year are used to pay off debts, and public facilities have not been updated. There is great resentment.

The Montreal International Film Festival is also an idea thought up by the city government, hoping to attract investment from the film industry and boost employment and tax revenue. However, the French-speaking part of Montreal limits the film source and scale of the film festival, and its development is far inferior to that of another Canadian film festival established at the same time, the Toronto Film Festival.

Thinking that the taxes he had worked so hard to pay had led to such a terrible movie, it would be better to build roads and increase funding for public education. I happened to have the mini record that was given to me when I entered the house. The audience imitated the scene at the beginning of the movie and threw the record in their hands at the fat man Minahan.

Fat Minahan fled off the stage in embarrassment, clutching his head and running away. The audience didn't give up, and the audience in the back row also started throwing the record forward. Their hands were not strong enough, and it fell on the head of Ronald, who was sitting in the front row.

"Hey, don't throw it away..." Ronald held his head and ran out of the cinema.

The beautiful woman beside me disappeared somewhere. Ronald had to walk slowly back to the hotel alone. Is the level of the Montreal Film Festival limited? It's said to be an A-level film festival, so what kind of opening film was chosen?

When Ronald returned to the hotel, he made a cup of instant coffee to calm his frightened mind.

In fact, thinking about it afterwards, the investment in this movie is probably not small. There are so many dancers participating, and although many big scenes are ugly, the scenery is real.

There are a lot of bad movies because the budget is small and corners are cut. This bad movie is bad in a unique way. It’s not that the money wasn’t invested, it’s that the investment was not in the right place.

The movie is set in 1994, but the props and scenery look like they were in 1954, giving people a very low-key feel.

The hero and heroine become hippies to save the world, but they are not hippies at all. Hippies advocate freedom, and no one can dance in a group dance with uniform movements like them.

how to say? It feels like the director only saw descriptions of hippies in magazines, and then used his own imagination of the reported text to direct the hippie scenes, which is specious.

"You can't leave. What the audience threw was the record you sent. You, Cannon Pictures, must compensate."

At the same time, another fat man, Yoram, the cousin of Fatty Minahan, was held tightly by the manager of the cinema and refused to let him go. It turned out that some of the records thrown by the audience hit the screen with too much force and broke the screen.

The main venue of the Montreal Film Festival is very large, and the supporting large screen is very expensive. If it is broken, it will cost a lot of money to replace it, and the organizing committee will also screen other films here. The person in charge of the cinema grabbed Yoram and refused to let go, and would not give up until he came up with money.

"It's no use holding me back, only Minahan can sign the check."

"Where did he go?"

Everyone searched around the venue three times but could not find Minahan.

His cousin and partner Yoram said helplessly, "Maybe Minahan has gone back to the hotel. He put a lot of effort into this movie and directed and edited it himself. Why don't you go back to the hotel with me, I'm afraid of him receive a blow."

The cinema manager, a senior member of the organizing committee, returned to the hotel with Yoram. There was no sign of Minahan in the room. Everyone looked for him several times but could not find Minahan, so they had to go back to the lobby to discuss compensation.

"Minahan won't escape, right?" The theater manager and Yoram had this thought in their minds at the same time.

"He's here...he's going to jump off the building." A staff member shouted outside.

Everyone ran out of the lobby and saw a person standing on the railing of the balcony outside the room where Minahan lived.

None other than "Apple" director and producer Minahan Golan.

Yoram was very anxious and shouted to the top, "Minahan, don't worry about it. Let's go back and continue financing the next movie. We will definitely succeed."

Minahan glanced down and murmured in a low voice: "It's useless, the audience doesn't like my movies. I figured it out, I don't have the talent for movies. This time we will shoot the movie in Israel and distribute the movie I lost all the money I earned and I don’t want to live anymore.”

"Think about your wife, think about your children, Minahan..." Seeing that Minahan had not left the railing, Yoram shouted anxiously louder. The organizing committee staff nearby were already preparing to call the police.

Ronald was also disturbed by the shouting from downstairs in his room. He opened the balcony door and prepared to go out to watch the excitement.

When I walked to the balcony, I saw many people below waving their hands to the top, shouting "Don't jump."

Ronald looked in the direction they were pointing and saw a fat man standing on the balcony railing of the room next to his, preparing to jump down.

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