Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"It was a really great party, Mary. And I hope it was a great birthday too."

"Oh, it's my last birthday. I'm tired of living."

A man dressed as a priest, wearing a black robe with only a white collar, helped an elderly woman with white hair go upstairs.

Ronald was watching his own TV series at home. ABC TV station was showing the four-part miniseries "The Thorn Birds". Originally, Ronald rarely watched TV series. He watched this miniseries because Richard Chamberlain was the leading actor. He previously played the leading role in the TV series "The General" directed by Ovitz, and also won the Golden Globe Award and the Emmy Award. .

Of course, what attracted Ronald even more was the white-haired woman. She was the most famous actress in old Hollywood, and perhaps had the best acting skills among the actresses who had not won an Oscar. Or from Ronald's point of view, she is the best actress of all.

Barbara Stanwyck, a true woman with many faces, can play a liar, a bad woman, a victim, a naive girl, and a columnist, all of them perfectly. Already in her seventies, she is still playing the role of an Australian large estate owner on the TV screen.

The two of them walked up the stairs and were about to enter Mary's bedroom.

"Kiss me and say goodbye, Ralph," Mary, played by Barbara Stanwyck, tells the Reverend Ralph, played by Richard Chamberlain.

"Good night, and wish you a happy birthday." Ralph held Mary's hand, lowered his head and kissed it.

"No! Kiss me on the mouth, Ralph, kiss me, as if we were lovers." Barbara Stanwyck's acting suddenly broke out, and the emotional expression of a woman longing for a man to kiss her was completely different. Like a seventy-six-year-old man.

Ronald was shocked. He had never read the original work and did not know that Pastor Ralph was sent to Australia because of his sins.

"But I'm a priest!" Ralph defended without changing his face.

"You are not a priest, you are just a timid, impotent man! I love you, I have always loved you."

"No, you don't love me. I'm just a phantom in your memories of the past. When you see me, you remember your youth."

"Let me tell you what it's like to be old. Under this stupid skin, I'm still young! I still have feelings! I still want! I still have dreams!" Barbara Stanwyck's eyes were full He expressed his unwillingness to accept the past and said, "I still love you!"

Ronald pressed the pause button on the remote control,

Go back and watch it again. The performances of these veteran actors are superb, the emotional progression is very rhythmic, and they have met good opponents. Stanwyck's climactic performance can be said to be worth watching once.

When he watched it again, Ronald felt that Barbara Stanwyck's performance was not only a plot, but also a farewell to his past acting career. With the increase of experience and wisdom, if it were not for the aging of her appearance, she would have just reached the peak of her acting skills.

After watching Stanwyck's performances several times, Ronald wrote down his thoughts. I am always told that my acting skills are not good, but I still want to watch more performances from these veteran actors who have experienced the golden age of Hollywood. Anyway, I don’t really want to act, but I want to inspire the actor’s performance.

"Hey, who is this actress?" The video tape continued to play. A few years later, Pastor Ralph seduced Maggie, the granddaughter of Mrs. Mary's brother.

This actress has big eyes and a refined temperament, not like an American girl. The inner wildness of the soul and the weak outer appearance are an interesting contrast. Not really an Australian girl, right? Only that barbaric land could cultivate such a character.

"Rachel Ward," Ronald wrote down her name.

"Have you watched the ABC miniseries 'The Thorn Birds'? Barbara Stanwyck was so good in it."

Early the next morning, Ronald arrived at CAA's office to talk to Niceta about his next film project. I haven’t seen Niceta for a while, so let’s brag. Ronald talked about his discovery yesterday to the two agents, Niceta and Richard.

"That was a project promoted by Mr. Ovitz." Niceta smiled, "Richard Chamberlain was the male lead in Ovitz's first packaged TV project, 'The General'. It was the first time that CAA tried this kind of thing. packaged form, but we’ll be able to replicate it on film right away.”

"Oh, which movie is it?"

"Come with me." Niceta brought Ronald into a large conference room. "On the wall are all the Hollywood projects we are following, including movies, TV series, and talk shows. They are all here."

Ronald remembered this big board with the progress of all major productions on it, where CAA's agents searched, exchanged, and tracked various opportunities.

At the bottom are a few new movies that have been released recently.

"A Dance with Dragons" directed by Stallone and starring John Travolta opened in more than 1,600 theaters during its first weekend, but only took in 12 million at the box office.

"Jaws 3D" has a box office of more than 13 million in 1,300 theaters.

Looking at the performance of these movies, Ronald felt funny. They were not as good as his own "Night of the Comet". If Atlantic had the marketing and distribution capabilities of blockbusters, these would be his defeat.

Since no movie could carry the banner, "Night of the Comet" slightly moved up two spots to the twelfth spot, with "Flashdance" above it, continuing to be a box office hit.

Of course, this is not the strongest nail household.

The strongest target is Disney's color cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Almost every seven or eight years, Disney re-releases it to familiarize the younger generation of children who have never seen it with this Disney princess. It has already earned more than 6 million at the box office in its first weekend.

As a color cartoon filmed in 1937, this achievement is truly terrifying.

Further up the board are movies that will be released next year, are currently completed, or are in production.

"Dune" finally started shooting. After several painful revisions of the script, David Lynch went to Mexico to shoot this science fiction masterpiece.

The above is "Red Dawn" by John Milius. This movie tells the story of America being invaded by airborne troops from the Soviet Union and Cuba. Many teenagers turned into militiamen and fought guerrilla warfare until China sent troops, and The U.S. military joins forces to save the people of America.

Nearly all the young actors in Hollywood, including those Ronald worked with, auditioned. "Red Dawn" written and directed by John Milius, the screenwriter of "Apocalypse Now", is favored by many producers.

The column above is the new project "Romang the Stone" directed by Robert Zemeckis. In order to direct his own "Back to the Future", he first chose commercial films to prove himself. Ronald saw Michael Douglas written in this column. CAA chose this movie for him.

On the top, there is "Mozart Biography (Amadeus)". Ronald saw that the names here did not have the CAA logo, indicating that this was not a contracted customer of CAA.

Director Milos Forman is the director of the Oscar-winning "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Ronald unexpectedly saw Meg Tilly's name in the leading actress column. Her husband Zinnemann is quite awesome.

There is a mark next to "Czechoslovakia" and "Mozart", indicating that it was filmed in a foreign country. Many Eastern European socialist countries will attract Hollywood movies to be filmed there to earn foreign exchange. It just so happens that Milos Forman is of Czech origin.

At the top were two movies, "Beverly Hills Cop," and "Ghostbusters," which Ronald had seen.

"This is Ghostbusters", this is another packaged project promoted by Mr. Ovitz. If this movie can be a big hit, more CAA studios will come to us for cooperation, and you will have more Here's your chance, Ronald." Niceta tapped the movie title on the board with her hand.

"Hello, gentlemen." Ron Meyer, one of the founders of CAA, walked in wearing a Hawaiian shirt. "Can you give us the conference room? Michael will meet important guests here soon."

"Of course", Ronald, Niceta and others filed out.

"I wonder which big star Mr. Ovitz will meet again?" Ronald thought.

Richard opened the office door a small crack and was peeking in.

A very strong figure entered the conference room under the guidance of Ovitz himself.

"It's Stallone," said Richard LeWitt.

"Stallone? He has a new movie?" Ronald thought of the script for "Rambo 2" written by his good friend Cameron.

Behind Stallone was another man with long hair, chatting with Stallone.

"It's John G. Avelson!"

"Avelson?" Ronald was a little suspicious. Why were they talking together again?

"What's going on?" Ronald looked at Niceta.

"This is normal. The film directed by Stallone did not do well at the box office and received rave reviews from critics. He had doubts about whether the director of his next Rocky series, 'Rocky IV', would still be directed by himself, so he found the director. Avilson discussed the director of Rocky."

Niceta and Stallone are both of Italian descent, and he has his own sources of information.

"Isn't Avelson directing the film I wrote, The Dragon King?" Ronald muttered.

"So we should pay Mr. Weintraub a visit."

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