Exploiting Hollywood 1980

When Ronald returned home, his first reaction was to call Ed Limato, the Italian jerk.

"Ed, you bastard, you made me miserable. Nicholas is only 17 years old, and now my hero is going to be taken by Heikelin's people.

You are a bedbug, hiding in dark corners every day, trying to suck blood on the artist, and emitting all kinds of stink.

The customers are all your family members? I think you are worse than Michael Corleone in The Godfather, and it's your family who are cheating. "

After scolding Limato all over his head and face, he finally calmed down a bit. Limato on the other end of the phone could only be perfunctory and apologize by the way.

"In order to get the main role, Nicholas deliberately made a fake voice certificate. Someone deliberately went to his uncle Francis to verify it. I think someone from the crew is still targeting you. Ronald, you have to be careful." Limato told him conclusion of the investigation.

Ronald hung up the phone and fell into inexplicable irritability.

There is a high probability that the leading actor, Brad, will be taken away by Judge Reinhold, and he lost the opportunity. The heroine is asked to find Brooke, who now looks dangerous as well. If Hekleen gets most of the cast, she can question her direction on set.

When it comes to the daily sample viewing session that the producer will attend, if I am questioned again. Attack up and down, and your position will start to shake.

If this kind of doubt is passed on to the crew, then the actors will have even more distrust of themselves, and the quality of daily shooting will decline, a vicious circle.

If this situation lasts for a week, then it is really possible that the director will be dismissed according to the contract because the quality of the film does not meet the requirements of the producer. Hollywood pays attention to rules. Whoever hires you can fire you. There is nothing in the contract.

Looking at the computer on the table, the more Ronald thought about it, the more something went wrong. He suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and continued to write the script evaluation of "Back to the Future".

I still have a trump card, which is Spielberg's airborne support on the day of the start-up. For this, I have to take time to write the evaluation opinion.

"After the protagonist travels back to the 1950s and helps his parents change history, he shouldn't make too many changes to the history of the 1980s, so that the audience can't get more empathy. Instead, the original house of the parents should be greatly changed on the original site. The magnitude of the improvement..."

After saving the disk, Ronald pressed the print button, and the dot matrix printer began to print out the words he wrote.

Tear off the printed pages,

Ronald read it through and thought there was nothing wrong with it. Then I pressed the button of the floppy drive, and with a click, the thin 5-inch floppy disk popped out forcefully.

Ronald was not used to the elasticity of the floppy drive, and accidentally cut his finger by the floppy disk. He put his injured finger in his mouth and went to find a Band-Aid in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom.

Finally found the medicine box above the mirror, Ronald stuck his fingers together, and inadvertently glanced at himself in the mirror.

An anxious face appeared in the mirror, with a messy beard and bloodshot eyes.

"What's wrong with me?"

Confused, Ronald walked back to the bedroom where the computer was used as a study. Being a film director is my dream, but now that I have realized it, I am not as happy as I imagined.

After I became a director, I didn't do many things that I wanted to do. Scanning the scene, drawing storyboards, and imagining how to re-create the text on the script into an image.

This is something that has been repeated many times in my dreams. But now my energy seems to be mainly focused on the power struggle.

"Fast-paced Richmond High School" is a masterpiece that has a commemorative videotape released 15 years later. The picture in the dream told me without a doubt that if I could reproduce the level of the movie in my dream, I would undoubtedly have realized my dream of making a movie that people will still remember after many years.

Why do these things that divide the scope of power? Do you guarantee that your name is in the director column?

If I don't follow the rules of art and compromise for power in casting, I'm afraid I will be caught by the other party. As long as I respect the laws of artistic creation and find an actor with the right temperament to play the corresponding role, who else can take my position away?

Amy Heckling, like herself, is also a novice who has never directed a feature film. Although she spent several years more studying in school than herself, filmmaking is a craft, and she may not have much experience in actual operation, so I shouldn't be afraid of her.

The so-called director's power ultimately depends on the samples produced. The actors are all professionals. When the daily samples are released at night, they can tell the difference between good and bad performances by seeing their own performances.

As long as I can give them the chance to act and let them see that their career prospects will be bright after the movie is released, what does it matter who recruits me into the crew?

Ronald felt that he had fallen into a misunderstanding, taking the means of various power struggles as the goal.

Seeing the "Back to the Future" script on the table, I posted a post-it with Spielberg's name on it. "Don't forget your original dream, and think about your original intention when you go astray," Spielberg's advice to himself came to mind.

"shxt! You can't get caught up in the power struggle of the crew like this. As long as you respect the rules and have a nuclear director agree to come to the crew to support you, I don't believe that you can't establish the authority of the director and make blockbuster classics."

Ronald took off his T-shirt and went to take a hot shower. The warm water rushing over his head made him think about many things clearly.

By the time he finished the shower, he had fully figured out what to do next.

Even if the actor I dreamed of was not the best, it was proven to be successful by another history, and I didn't need to deliberately divide it according to the personnel camp.

Sean Penn still asked him to play the idiot Spiccoli according to the assignment in his dream, and don't move him into Brad, otherwise the temperament will not fit and the film will not be effective.

Judge Reinhold is playing the role of big brother Brad just like in a dream. Tom Hanks in the interview is more suitable than other candidates, and he is also going to test the possibility of running at both ends of the TV series and movies.

As for Nicolas Coppola, and Eric Stoltz, give a small role if you will.

The heroine Stacy, in the dream scene, was played by the star's daughter Jennifer Jason Lee. In the limited swimming pool scene, she acted quite well, so she was still invited to audition.

Her bestie Linda, the prettier girl, and Mike the scalper, and Mark the nerd "rat," were not seen in the audition. Or take the initiative and go to the casting director to see the audition materials.

Brooke Shields also got in touch with her. If she is willing to come, she has the opportunity to shoot commercials and have a passion for "Endless Love". I believe that I know better than anyone how to direct this beauty with little acting skills.

Based on the casting of the film he dreamed of, plus his accumulated contacts, and CAA's agent network, the advantage is still on his side.

Do it now!

A few days later, Brooke Shields' mother received a script from Ronald.

After learning about the story, Terry was not very satisfied, because Stacy was not the absolute protagonist in this movie, and she didn't want her daughter to compete with other actresses for appearance time in the movie.

"But I want to act in this kind of drama. This kind of drama is very interesting, just like the stories in my high school." Brooke was a little bit eager to try.

"Darling, dear, this doesn't fit your identity and status." Terry comforted her daughter, "Besides, the crew doesn't have a budget, so they can't pay you."

"Anyway, I think Ronald is very good at directing. His classmates said that I acted well when he directed my scenes." Brooke muttered softly.

Terry paused for a moment, Brooke's youthful rebellious psychology was a little bit onset. It turned out that she would not object to her decision, but now she actually insisted on her different opinions for Ronald, a small director. It appears that action must be taken.

"Honey, I will discuss the price with the producer. If they can pay 1.5 million yuan, nothing will be an obstacle."

Ronald left the negotiations with Brooke to the producers Lin Sen and Heikelin, and went to the TV series production studio of ABC to discuss the possibility of Hanks' part-time job.

"We usually start shooting at nine o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in the evening, and most of the content is shot in the studio."

"This is the home of the two protagonists." Ronald followed the production supervisor to visit. "This is the bedroom, and this is the living room..."

It turns out that the home of the two in the TV series is actually the next door in the studio.

"If you shoot part-time and at the same time, then you can only let him shoot at night," the production supervisor concluded.

That's not acceptable. Most of the "fast-paced" scenes are during the day. If you use technical means to shoot the daytime at night, the cost is unacceptable.

Except for Hanks, and Brooke Shields encountered difficulties here. Several other characters were easy to find.

The original cast of nerdy Mark "Mouse" was Brian Becker, who seemed like the type who wouldn't dare ask a girl out in high school.

The kid from a poor family, the scalper Mike, is hidden in the casting director's materials. Robert Romanus himself was born in a slum in the Bronx, New York. He raised money to buy a plane ticket to Los Angeles. He has a kind of poor family. The temperament of a child.

Ronald put him in Universal's extras dormitory and asked him to do odd jobs to earn money. The lad is willing to do anything.

Neither of the two, Heikelin, expressed any objection. They had relatively few scenes, and she was quite satisfied with the temperament of the two actors who fit the roles. Of the six leading actors, five have already been confirmed. Only the black-haired girl with big glasses who played Linda was nowhere to be seen.

Ronald rummaged through the audition photos sent, and also looked for descriptions of the actors, hoping to see more candidates, but there was still no trace in the vast crowd.

Ronald can only do simple sketches, but he can't print out the appearance of the actors in his mind, and the effect of finding them is too slow.

On this day, Ronald just came out of CAA's office after reading a box of actor materials, when he was suddenly stopped by an enthusiastic voice.

"Ronald!"

Ronald looked back and saw that it was the Israeli brothers Minahan and Yoram.

"I knew it was you, come to our office?"

"Next time, I'm busy now."

"I know, I know, we saw the news of your project's establishment in the Hollywood Reporter, and Universal Pictures sent the news."

"Just sit down for a while, our office is nearby, and it will be soon, without delaying your business." Yoram is also very enthusiastic.

"Okay." Ronald felt that it would be a good pastime to chat with the Israeli brothers for a while to change their minds, and Minahan's brains were especially big.

"I heard you're shooting a youth film? What's the story?"

"It's the ones in the Hollywood Reporter." Ronald recounted the outline of the story published in the newspaper.

"So there is racing, love, love between men and women, abortion..." Minahan counted on his stubby fingers.

"Yes, those are the elements."

"Hahaha, you will succeed." Minahan and Yoram winked, and I will show you the office. After you came last time, we have invited a lot of people, and there is also a small screening room.

After the two left, Yoram wrote down all the elements that Ronald talked about. Their youth film "The Last Virgin in America" ​​is also in the preparation stage. It can be plagiarized, no, take a look at Universal's production ideas, is it still worried that it won't sell?

"This is accounting, this is script reading, and this is our sales." Minahan introduced employees along the way.

These people sat in cramped offices, and the accountants still worked in the aisles. Ronald is also unbeatable, which is too stingy.

"This is our little screening room, I'm not like those Hollywood tycoons, playing golf to pass the time. I and Yoram are free, just watch movies here, new, old, silent, black and white, sometimes watch to tears..."

Ronald didn't listen to what Minahan was saying, his attention was all attracted by the heroine on the screen, and this was the actor he couldn't find Linda, the actress with black hair and big glasses.

"which movie is this?"

"Paradise," says Minahan, "was filmed in Israel and wanted us to find him distribution in America."

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