Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The Oscars Dinner-Dance, held in honor of the Academy's trustees, was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel. All winners are required to attend.

Those nominees who did not win, and the audience, as well as those who did not enter the scene, all wanted to squeeze into this natural social occasion. It’s not uncommon in Hollywood for handsome men and beautiful women to be brought into parties and fly into the sky.

So almost everyone who attended the awards show came, except David Lynch.

Having failed in one of the eight nominations, this arrogant new director did not want to attend the dinner party and face the care and ridicule of others.

"How come there isn't anything?" Ronald and Diane walked into the dinner together and quickly found their agent Rick Niceta, who had arrived in advance. They found an empty table and sat down while eating. While chatting.

"This is the charm of the Oscars. No one knows the result before it is announced." Niceta took a bottle of red wine and poured it into several glasses. "Congratulations, Ronald, young Oscar winner, cheers!"

"Cheers!" Diane, Bert, and Richard also toasted.

Not many people noticed their joy, and the nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Song Lyricist were not very important awards, except for the waiter who gave them a smile.

"Can I see this little golden man?" Bert said, staring at the trophy that Ronald placed on the table. His biggest wish was to train his daughter to become a star actress.

"Of course," Ronald motioned for Bert to start. He took a plate of seafood pancakes as an appetizer, grabbed two pieces and stuffed them into his mouth. They tasted pretty good.

Ronald took another red wine and poured a little more into his glass. Coppola Winery, Napa Valley, says it in round letters on the label.

"Is this the Coppola I know?" Ronald asked Niceta.

"Yes, Coppola used the money he earned from 'The Godfather Part II' to buy a vineyard." Niceta took a sip and put down the glass. He glanced at Diane and his daughter, then leaned close and said in Ronald's ear:

"Spielberg will be a little late. I made an appointment with his assistant Catherine. You go and deal with your trophy first, make phone calls and so on. Then come back and wait for him in half an hour. Don't delay."

"I'll go right away." Seeing that he didn't continue drinking red wine, Ronald thought, "Doesn't it taste good?"

He picked up his cup and took another sip, then ate another seafood pancake in a hurry. Get back the statuette from Diane,

Get up and hand it over to the staff of the College Council.

A series of procedures need to be signed when returning the trophy. The most interesting thing is that the trophy cannot be resold privately. If it is put up for auction, the college has the priority to take it back for $1. This was the academy's remedial measure after some trophies were sold on the auction market in the early years.

"Mr. Li, the academy only provides one free trophy for each award, and the remaining one has to pay a cost of US$350." The staff politely asked him who would pay the money.

"So it's only 350 to sell and 1 dollar to buy?" Ronald muttered and waited for Michael Gore to come over. The two discussed it and divided the money equally.

After lining up to call Aunt Karen and sharing some happiness with the family, Ronald walked back to the banquet hall.

Once seated. Timothy Hutton came over, stretched out his hand to pull Diane to go with him, and pointed to the crowd of ordinary people, "Mary Tyler Moore wants to meet you."

Bert stood up and stood in front of his daughter, and agent Niceta also stood up, wanting to avoid a conflict.

Ronald also stood up and stretched out his arm for Diane to take, "Let's go meet Ms. Moore together."

Niceta and Bert both thought it was a good idea to handle it this way, and stood up to prepare to go over.

"You are my female companion and should be with me." Hutton looked a little under the influence of alcohol.

"Poor kid, just because a girl agrees to go to the graduation prom with you, it doesn't mean that she will also dance with you when the prom starts." Ronald said a word and took Diane to meet the big names.

"Hey! You're just a screenwriter who didn't win any awards." Hutton found that no one was paying attention to him, so he followed him back.

Diane greets actress Mary Tyler Moore. It turned out that Mary liked Diane's "Love at Sunset Bridge" very much. Knowing that Hutton's female companion was her, she wanted to have a chat with her.

"Robert, this is Ronald who won the best original song." Redford is also a client of CAA, and Niceta introduced them to them.

"Mr. Redford, I am your fan." Ronald said quickly.

Redford responded politely, flanked by his adult daughter.

When Redford's daughter was just getting ready to go to college, she made a joke about Hutton, "Isn't this your female companion? Why is he with someone else? What does he do?"

"Just a screenwriter..." Hutton responded angrily, his voice a little loud.

Redford and Ronald looked back at the same time.

"You are a screenwriter, Ronald. What you write ultimately requires us actors to appear in front of the camera. You wrote so many scenes, but you can't appear in any of them. Movies are the art of performance after all, right?"

Hutton said, "The spotlight in Hollywood is always on the star, Ronald. And the girls only know me."

Redford couldn't help but frowned after hearing this. The screenwriter of Ordinary People was at the scene. Didn't Hutton include him when he said this? In order to invite him to adapt this best-selling movie, I wasted a lot of effort.

Everyone present also saw the problem, and everyone looked at Ronald to see how he would respond.

"Mr. Hutton, you won the award for best supporting actor, but you appear in every scene of the movie. Who are you supporting?"

Ronald shot back with words. Hutton is obviously the protagonist, but he doesn't dare to compete with this year's veteran actors such as Robert De Niro, Jack Lemmon, and Peter O'Toole, so he grabs the prize for Best Supporting Actor instead.

The cast and crew were also nominated for Best Supporting Actor and were forced to give way. Mary Tyler Moore, who directly competed for Best Actress, failed, and Donald Sutherland, who was squeezed out of the spot by Hutton and was not nominated for Supporting Actor, all felt sorry for him. Ronald gave a thumbs up.

Hutton won an Oscar just after his debut, and some of his style really aroused the dislike of many people.

"You!" Hutton's face turned red immediately after being told the central issue.

When Robert Redford saw all this, he thought to himself that this young man had sharp words, but what about his screenwriting work?

Niceta took the opportunity to introduce to him that Ronald was one of the nominees for this year's Best Original Screenplay. Redford became a little interested in Ronald and said:

"A good script is the dream of a film actor. My film festival in Park City, Utah will be moved to January this year. If you have a good script and make it into a low-cost film, you might as well send it to the exhibition next year."

Ronald quickly expressed his thanks, and after chatting for a while, he and Diane returned to their seats.

At this time, several heavyweights had just walked in on the other side of the hall.

George Lucas and Mrs. Martha, with Steven Spielberg. We are discussing the final editing issues of the new film "The Lost Ark of the Covenant".

Martha Lucas is also a film editor. "It was cut from 3 hours to less than 2 hours, which was very good. But I think the movie lacked an emotional climax."

The hero Indiana Jones and the heroine Marion Ravenwood did not meet in the end. In this way, there is something missing when the audience walks out of the cinema. "

"You're right, the test screening audience also generally felt that this was a problem. I'm preparing reshoots for Harrison and Kelly." Spielberg said, "Martha, George, do you see anything in the final version? ?”

"What?" Martha asked.

"That shot of the McDonnell Douglas DC-3 aircraft," George Lucas smiled, "is it a reused shot from an old movie, right?"

"Hahaha, yes. It can save a lot of budget. I don't think ordinary viewers can see it. The editing is very clever."

The three of them grabbed a glass of Coppola's red wine and continued to sit and chat.

"How did Francis start selling wine?" Spielberg asked Lucas.

"His new film 'Just Love' was withdrawn from investors. Now he needs to mortgage his vineyard to complete the film. Using it at the Oscar dinner can make ****'s valuation higher."

George Lucas was once Francis Coppola’s younger brother, and he was full of emotion when talking about his eldest brother, “I tried to persuade him, but he liked the movie very much and hired the dance king Gene Kelly as the choreographer. For this movie, he bought a large sound stage in Los Angeles and rebuilt the scenery instead of shooting on location."

Several of them are old friends and know Francis Coppola's style. The budget of the movie is always getting higher and higher, and every shooting is like a gamble. Coppola also loved gambling. He once went to Las Vegas with a thousand dollars, hoping to buy a better camera when he won the bet, but he lost everything.

"It doesn't matter, Francis Coppola performs better when he is under greater pressure." Spielberg said.

"Hahaha. You're right." Lucas knew that his old friend was referring to the previous movie "Apocalypse Now," and he invested tens of millions of dollars in this way, and then successfully turned around at the box office.

"We're going to be here for a while, what about you, Steven?" Martha Lucas asked, neither of them being social people by nature. When I meet an old friend, I talk endlessly about the topics I like, but I am not very enthusiastic about the relationship-building social occasions like Hollywood.

"I also want to meet with a young man who gave me some suggestions for the script of my new film, and he has the same ideas as I do."

"Young people who interest you? Like Zemeckis?" Robert Zemeckis is equivalent to Spielberg's apprentice, but he served as the screenwriter and Spielberg directed 1941, which was a complete failure.

Spielberg contacted Columbia again and asked Zemeckis to direct "Intrigue," which will be released soon.

"I don't know, so I need to meet him."

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