Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"At noon on Saturday, several creators from the 'Fast Richmond High' crew arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. In this city, they will meet with actors Sean Penn and Judge Reinhall who arrived earlier. De and others gathered to attend fan meetings in various theaters in New York.

The movie, which had early screenings on Thursday and was officially released on the East Coast on Friday, had explosive box office sales. This made Universal's distribution department very happy and regretful.

If this movie could be released simultaneously across the country instead of using this old regional distribution model, what would the box office performance be now?

The budget applied for by the marketing department is almost running out. The fan meeting in New York was very effective. They plan to increase the budget and hold two more meetings in New York.

'Fast-paced Richmond High' continues to be a hit on the West Coast and has become a hit with fans on the East Coast...

We will interview Jennifer and Phoebe, who play the two female leads. "

"Hurry up, this cut scene has been filmed. Let's go to the Ziegfeld Theater." The host urged the cameraman to get in the car quickly and go to the theater where the fans were active to continue filming.

Globo New York sent a small crew to capture news footage of "fast-paced Richmond High" becoming a hit in New York, preparing it to be shown to cable TV subscribers as part of the film's marketing.

Small TV stations don’t have many resources. A host does his own makeup and a cameraman and recorder can do it all.

They used Sony's new BetaCam camera. Although the picture quality is not very good, a microphone can be plugged into the camera, and one photographer can do the work of two people. It is very suitable for such a small cable TV network.

"Let's go to the Ziegfeld Theater too." Ronald and the road show group walked outside the airport, where many taxis were parked.

He couldn't help but think of the time when he came back from Los Angeles to go to college. He was also waiting for a taxi here and met Diane's father, Bert, who drove a taxi.

Arriving at the Ziegfeld Cinema, Ronald was surrounded by Sean Penn and Judge Reinhold, who had arrived earlier, and came up to hug him tightly.

"Director, I didn't expect this movie to be so popular when I made it!" Judge was very excited, and his eyes were full of gratitude when he hugged him. His agent has obviously received more script invitations and phone calls recently, more directors have recognized his acting skills, and producers have also recognized his market value.

"No one expected it, I thought it was just a simple teen exploitation movie.

"Sean Penn took out the Spicoli costume and put it on again, and was stopped by many fans at the entrance of the cinema asking for autographs.

For a young actor, being recognized by movie fans on the street for the first time is a unique experience.

Sean Penn was obsessed with method acting. He did not expect to become a star, but the image of the magical boy who seduce Brooke Shields in "Fast Times" made him suddenly become the idol of high school boys across the country.

The fan meeting mainly allows several main actors to interact with the audience before the movie is screened, answer some plot questions, and talk about some gossip during the filming.

The work cycle of an actor is much shorter than that of a director. The director is involved in a movie from the project establishment, script, shooting, post-production, and promotion. A movie usually takes more than half a year to a year and a half.

Most of the actors only participate in things during the filming period. At the same time, they may have filmed two to three movies.

So by the time a movie is released, for actors, it is often already the last movie they shot, or the last movie they were in.

Fortunately, most of the actors in "Fast-paced Richmond High" are new actors. They don't have many script invitations, so most of the actors still have fresh memories of some things during the filming that have not been diluted by the new movie.

Therefore, they interacted with movie fans and answered questions in a decent manner.

"How did you get along with Brooke Shields during filming?" one male fan was particularly interested in Brooke Shields' cameo.

"Oh, Baby, she's really beautiful." Sean Penn deliberately used the character Spicoli in the play to answer this question, which caused a burst of laughter.

"Phoebe, we like you! Where are you from?"

Phoebe Cates had very little nudity in this film, but it aroused several times the public response than the previous film, "Paradise." The boys began plastering large posters of her on the walls of their rooms.

"Thank you for liking me. I am a New Yorker."

"Oh oh oh..." A burst of cheers accompanied by several loud whistles made Phoebe very happy.

Judge Reinhold and Jennifer Jason Leigh, who play brother and sister, also had their fans raise some questions.

Seeing that the time for the interaction was coming soon, the host came on stage to announce the end of the interaction and started to show the movie.

Most of the audience only watched some clips played when Bobbi Wygant and Brooke Shields were on the show. This was the first time they watched the film in its entirety, and the audience immediately began to quiet down.

This kind of interaction with movie fans has nothing to do with the director. The marketing stage is more of a stage for actors and other front-of-house staff.

Ronald was sitting in a seat in the back row against the aisle arranged by the Universal Marketing Department, quietly watching his first theatrical feature film with his family.

Cousin Donna has always admired her elder cousin's artistic level and waited to see him perform like "Rock of Ages". Aunt Karen was more relieved to see Ronald's successful director's movie. She herself didn't like to watch movies of this kind.

An hour and a half later, with the ending song "Goodbye, Goodbye" sung by the band Oingo Boingo, the endings of each character began to flash across the screen.

Brad put on a suit and became the manager of Seventy-One convenience store.

Stacey and Mark are both in love, something they haven't done yet.

Linda actually dated a college professor as her boyfriend.

"Hahaha……"

The audience's favorite is the ending where Spicoli saves Brooke Shields.

"Is this song a parody of the scene at the end of Ingrid Bergman's 'Princess?'"

"Yes, just like at the end of 'The True and False Princess', the Queen Mother said to the distinguished guests that the show is over and go home. It's a pun."

Ronald heard someone asking him a question and answered it smoothly.

"Hi, Helen. I'm so glad you came." A smile appeared on Ronald's face, and it was Helen Slater whose face was as red as an apple.

"My father Gerald gave me the ticket." Helen waved to him.

Ronald pulled Helen and hugged her.

Helen pushed her dark brown hair behind her ears and said, "You did a great job. I even regretted not acting in this movie."

"That's because Gerald said you were underage at that time. Our filming schedule is very tight. Young actors will be bound by union regulations, so we may not be able to invite you to shoot." Ronald replied.

In this exploitation film, the heroine is absent. Ronald was also reluctant to let Helen do this kind of scene. Maybe it would be good if it was a guest role.

"Hi, Karen, Donna." Helen went to the leg warmer store and bought a lot of goods, and said hello to Ronald's family.

"How is the filming of your TV series going?" Ronald remembered that after Helen was not selected for Coppola's "The Kid", she returned to New York to film the ABC TV series.

"The filming is done and it will be broadcast on the weekend." Helen Slater touched her face. The air-conditioning in the theater seemed not cold enough. Her face was a little warm and must have turned red.

"Then I'll wait and see."

"Don't watch it, it's very boring." Helen was a little shy. She felt that the TV series she filmed would definitely not be as exciting as today's movie, and the requirements for acting in TV series were also much relaxed.

"My father Gerald chose these roles for me. I actually don't really want to play such a role."

"What are you saying bad things about me again?" Gerald ended his greetings with his colleagues from Global TV and came to pick up his daughter.

"Mr. Slater," Ronald greeted him.

"Well done. The young people in our TV station are all talking about your movie. Congratulations."

"You have a lot of people waiting for you?" Gerald pointed behind Ronald. There were a lot of people waiting to talk to him. "We're leaving now. Congratulations again."

Gerald stretched out his arm, Helen circled it obediently, and the two of them walked towards the door of the theater.

"Contact me by phone." Helen turned around and made a phone call gesture to Ronald, and then mouthed it silently.

"Call me by phone." Ronald replied and said goodbye to her with a smile.

"Hi, Ronald, congratulations!" CAA's agent Richard jumped in front of him.

"Why did you come from Los Angeles?"

"It should be. Although this is not a premiere, it is the first time that a film shot by my client is shown at the Ziegfeld Theater. I should come."

"Thank you, will you come back with me for a drink?" Ronald invited.

This is not a premiere after all, and there is no after-party. So except for a few actors who came from out of town, they would go to the hotel to rest with the people from Universal. Ronald, Phoebe Cates, and several other New York natives were ready to go home after the show.

"No, you should be with your family this night. I'll call you tomorrow." Richard also made a phone call gesture to him, "You have several invitations for scripts and directors. We'll talk tomorrow."

"Ronald, Ronald!"

After dealing with a group of people who came up, both familiar and unknown, inside and outside the circle, Ronald said goodbye to several actors and staff, and accompanied his aunt and cousin to the parking lot of the Ziegfeld Theater to pick up their car and go home.

Aunt Karen drove Ronald back to the apartment to rest in her RV.

Ronald returned home, looked at the familiar furniture, and a familiar smell penetrated his nose. He felt very comfortable returning to his family.

"Do you still like my movies?"

"It's quite interesting, but those people don't speak grammatically. I think the education level of public high schools in California is really average."

Donna began to complain about the valley accents of the cheerleading girls in the movie, "Why do all the theater words start with "Literally" and all the verbs are replaced with like?"

Ronald laughed. Donna went to a key high school. The students there were all highly intelligent. She definitely didn't like money-worshiping girls like Valley Girls.

"Donna, it's time for you to go to bed. Ronald, come here, I have something to say to you." Aunt Karen urged Donna to go to bed, and then made Ronald a cup of black tea.

"What's wrong, Aunt Karen? Don't you like my movie?"

"I can't say I like it, nor can I say I don't like it. I'm past the age of liking movies." My aunt also took a cup of black tea and drank it.

"Now that you are a director and your movies are hits, when can you go back to NYU to continue your studies?"

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