Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The de facto premiere of "Children" took place in a small town high school in California, with Coppola directing and starring Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, and Ralph The two of them went to the middle school and had a party with the students who had written the letter begging Coppola to come out.

In the cinema here in Los Angeles, several other leading actors came, including Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruz, and Diane Lane.

Ronald met his agent Richard at the door of the theater, and Paula Wagner accompanied Tom Cruise.

There were very few photojournalists, which was a bit of a letdown for the few leading teenage stars who were carefully dressed to look like their characters. It seems that Warner Bros. is not optimistic about the film and has not invested much marketing resources.

"The reporters that Niceta introduced to you are over there." Richard pointed to Ronald and pointed to the two reporters standing opposite. Ronald came here to make news.

"Hi, hello." Ronald came up to say hello, "I'm Ronald..."

"Hello, I'm Downey" a reporter also responded in a friendly manner.

"I'm Charlie, where are you from?" another reporter asked Ronald.

"I work for The Atlantic now." Ronald looked at the two young reporters as if they had just graduated from college.

"The Atlantic Monthly in Massachusetts? Oh, I didn't expect that there would be serious media covering this movie?" Reporter Charlie expressed surprise.

"This is an adaptation of SE Hinton's work. The Atlantic Monthly has always been concerned about literary criticism and is also very concerned about the cause of equal rights for minorities." Reporter Downey explained, "Right, Ronald."

Ronald smiled, knowing that they had misunderstood that he was also a reporter, so he was not in a hurry to explain, and asked them, "Why are so few reporters coming to interview this movie? I thought there would be a lot of people at the premiere."

"I heard that this movie was rejected by Warner Bros. You see, our newspaper just filmed us two newcomers and wrote about it casually."

"Dislike it?"

"Yes, the Italian directors who became famous in the 1970s are all outdated now, and Marty Scorsese's new film 'The King of Comedy' also failed at the box office. I heard gossip that Scorsese's previous films , all thanks to his editor Martha Lucas, George Lucas’s wife. After Martha got married, the quality of his films declined rapidly.”

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I heard that Coppola was in debt and his "Peep Show" company was about to go bankrupt. Warner Bros. basically gave up on the movie. "

"No, don't you think 'naughty boy' is bad?" Ronald said.

"I heard that Roger Ebert was critical of Coppola, even though he gave him three stars. But he felt that Coppola should have used these innovative styles, lighting, and staging as exercises instead of making movies. To experiment, he should make a real movie like Apocalypse Now."

"Yes, I heard that the critics' reviews after the special screening were not very high. It is generally believed that the 90-minute story is not compact enough, and the characters are well acted but the story is not."

"But I heard that it was because Warner compressed the length. If the director's original two-hour arrangement was followed, it would be a good movie." Ronald defended Coppola.

"Hey, who would go to see such a long movie now? Did you hear that? There are many small studios that have begun not to release movies, but directly record them on video tapes and sell them."

"Yes, and today there is a movie with the same teenage gangster theme, 'Bad Boys,' released. That movie at least tells the story of Los Angeles in the 1980s. This kind of story of Oklahoma in the 1950s is only for us newbies. Send them here."

"Ronald, Ronald." Niceta came over, "It seems you have found two reporters, I don't have to worry. How was your chat."

"Huh? You're not a reporter?" The two reporters looked embarrassed.

"I'm Ronald Lee, here for the premiere."

Niceta handed the press release to the two reporters and took Ronald to the front to take photos with the actors.

"Hi, Tom", Ronald and Tom Cruise hugged each other warmly. He has finally made it through now, with various film appointments being arranged by Paula Wagner.

"You know, Paula has given me another movie. The heroine is a newcomer you recommended. She thinks very highly of you. I already want to make a movie with you."

"Ah, really? Who is it?"

"Lee Thompson, we're going to Pittsburgh to film 'all the right moves' soon. Do you have any suggestions?"

"Yes. It's best to bring anti-allergy medicine when you go to Pittsburgh to shoot a movie. The air pollution there is very bad. There is dust in your nostrils at night, which is very uncomfortable."

"Ah, is that so? I'll go get ready right away." Paula Wagner, who was next to her, quickly wrote down what Ronald said.

"What's the story of this movie, what genre is it?" Ronald asked Cruise.

"The story of youthful excitement, a high school student getting a football scholarship and then walking out of a small town, Leigh Thompson plays my girlfriend." Gu Yi

"Football scholarship?"

"I know, I know, I just played a tackle, and I was pretty convincing on the high school team. The movie also said that he wanted to go to college, majoring in mechanics, and it was impossible to develop into a career in the future." Tom K. Russ was aware of his height issues, so certain details were altered in the film to accommodate him.

"Hey, what can I say, I wish you all the best! Leigh Thompson is indeed a very talented actor."

"Ronald", Niceta dragged him aside again, "my assistant just sent you a postcard from Helen from the office. She said she was very grateful for the reminder."

"Huh?" Ronald took it happily and saw Helen writing a paragraph on a postcard.

She really listened to Ronald's words and did not shoot the dangerous shot of taking off from the water. Instead, she asked a stunt double to take over. The stand-in got entangled in the wire during practice and suffered minor injuries.

In the end, the crew decided to take a photo of Helen, enlarge it to life size, glue it to a wooden model, and then use a camera to film the puppet being quickly pulled out of the water to fool it.

Sent together with the postcard was the photo of Helen that they planned to put on the puppet. I saw her raising one hand upward, her blond hair flowing, the red cloak spread out behind her, and the combination of tights, short skirt, and leather boots looked particularly attractive.

Ronald kissed the photo, put it away together with the postcard, and put it in the pocket on his chest. "Thank you, you sent it to me specially." He shook hands with his assistant and gave him a banknote as a thank you.

"Humph! I'll never pay attention to him again." Diane, who originally saw Ronald coming over, saw the scene of Ronald kissing Helen's photo halfway through. She stamped her foot hatefully, turned around and ran to talk to him. Emilio Estevez, who plays "Bitch", chatted.

"Together with my father, I bought another copy of Ms. Hinton's book, 'That Was Then...This Is Now,' which I will personally adapt into a screenplay starring Tom Cruise and me. You are the heroine.”

Emilio Estevez was delighted that Diane came to chat with him and started bragging. On the set of "The Kid", Diane was the girlfriend that every actor wanted to have, but no one could get her.

"Your father?" Diane pretended not to know and asked about Emilio Estevez. In fact, Emilio had said it eight hundred times on the set.

"Yes, my father, Martin Sheen. He played the title role of Captain Willard in Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now.' I actually had a small role in that movie, but it was only edited out. There is only one figure left."

"Really, that's such a pity." Diane's performance was very real, "otherwise you could have become famous years in advance."

"It doesn't matter. I will adapt the one I bought myself. You will come when the time comes, right?" Emilio Estevez is a bit hunchbacked, and now his happy neck protrudes forward, and he wants to go Hug Diane.

"Diane, you are here." Ronald finally found Diane, "I didn't see you just now. Your scenes in the final film were not edited out."

"I haven't seen it yet, I heard it's okay." Diane was very cold and answered Ronald's question, but she deliberately held Emilio Estevez's arm.

"Ronald, long time no see. When are we going to have another round? This time we can play tennis." Emilio heard something about the scene being cut out and thought Ronald was deliberately provoking, and Diane took his arm again. , and suddenly the idea of ​​​​challenge came.

"Then I'm not good at it." Ronald thought of the days when he practiced tennis hard for his dream. He could only hit hard, and he would be fooled by others.

"Really, I thought you were omnipotent?" Emilio Estevez sarcastically said.

Ronald was about to fight back when suddenly a woman came from behind and pulled Emilio Estevez, "Emilio."

"Kelly, why are you here?" Emilio Estevez was startled and pulled the woman named Kelly to the side to talk.

This Kelly is quite pretty, but her personality seems to be that of a Latin American housewife. She was dismissed by Emilio in a few words, just like the father in those Catholic families who waved his mother to do the laundry and cook. .

"Who is she?" Diane crossed her hands on her chest, three feet away from Emilio.

"She is...well, a friend who works as a print model in Wilhelmina Models agency. She came to me for something,...something, yes, she wanted to act in my adaptation of Hinton's play. A character."

"Yeah, of course", of course Diane would not believe such nonsense, left Emilio and Ronald behind, and went to find his father Bert.

"I haven't heard of any romantic relationship between Diane and Emilio Estevez?" Ronald, who was confused about the situation, decided to ignore this matter. Anyway, Diane became an adult at the beginning of this year, even her father Bert I can't control her.

Soon, fans of Coppola and Hinton began to flock in, and the film began to be screened.

Sure enough, the film was cut to pieces at Warner's request of 90 minutes. Many of the important plots in the film have been cut out. Not only did the fans sigh and were dissatisfied, but even the ordinary viewers who came from Mukopola's fame could not understand the foreshadowing of some plots.

After all, this movie is not a simple plot like high concept, but a drama that Coppola is good at depicting character relationships and advancing the story. Cut like this, well... no wonder even film critics like Roger Ebert, who loves Coppola, criticized it.

It seems that the movie box office is worrying.

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