Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"What is your new movie about?" Aunt Karen asked Ronald after they finished the dinner she cooked.

"It's a story about a boy with a single parent, how he found a mentor, broke through his own obstacles, and finally defeated the powerful enemy who once bullied him, and won the heart of a girl..." Ronald told the general plot of "Longwei Boy" aside.

"Is it another fight?" Aunt Karen asked a little dissatisfied.

"It's not the kind of violent fighting, it's the fear of breaking through oneself. There are no plots inappropriate for minors in the whole film. We are planning to apply for a PG rating." Ronald explained.

This time he no longer used nudity and violent scenes to attract teenagers, but turned to traditional narratives and a bit of magical martial arts. After all, movies with a PG rating can attract more viewers.

"So there's a plot about a Vietnam War veteran?" Aunt Karen asked a few more questions after hearing that Chris from the Cobra Dojo was a Vietnam War veteran. She wonders what Ronald would have made of the Vietnam veteran.

"Yes, but I criticized his philosophy. We should not be violent for the sake of violence. We in America are so strong, why should we bully those farmers? So I made those students not agree with the philosophy of secret violence in the end. I learn martial arts to protect myself from being bullied."

Aunt Karen was silent for a rare moment. She brought coffee and added sugar cubes and milk to Ronald. "Ronnie, I'm very happy. You finally made a movie that I would also like to watch. If only The commander-in-chief at that time also had thoughts like yours, so he wouldn’t have sent Steve to the battlefield.”

Steve is his aunt's husband, and like Ronald's father, he served in the Marines.

"Thank you." Ronald had prepared a lot of excuses to answer his aunt's old idea of ​​letting him go back to college to get a diploma, but he didn't expect it to come to nothing.

"Hehe", Donna smiled beside her. She had already said a lot of good things about Ronald to Aunt Karen, so she wouldn't embarrass him this time.

"I'm really happy, Ronnie. The story you told reminds me of those movies I watched when I was a kid. They were so good. In addition to making money, the movie should also be touching. I have always advised You go back to college, and now that I see that you can really succeed in this industry, I feel relieved."

"When this movie comes out, I will go see it with Donna. If this movie satisfies me, then I will not urge you to go back to college to complete your studies. Hey, I was very difficult at the time,

I didn’t even notice that you had such a good artistic talent, which almost delayed you. "

Talking about the past, my aunt was a little excited. Ronald quickly hugged Aunt Karen, and the two sat down to drink coffee and talk.

"Your mother left me a message at that time that you must graduate from college. Although you have not completed your studies now, if your movie can move and teach people, I think it will satisfy your mother's request. You can rest assured..."

Aunt Karen recalled the scene where her sister and brother-in-law were in a car accident, and the scene where her sister entrusted her son to her after seeing her. If the movie was released, if it was as good as Ronald said, it would be time to hand over the relics left by her sister to Ronnie.

Thinking of this, Aunt Karen looked at Ronald's wrist, "Hey, where's your watch?"

"I sent it for maintenance, Helen... Helen said it was a pilot's watch from a long time ago, so I sent it to a watch shop for some maintenance. When I make movies in the future, I can just wear this Casio electronic watch."

Aunt Karen nodded, "This is your father's relic, please keep it well."

Donna went back to her room and started doing her own business. Aunt Karen took out a large pile of papers and turned them over to Ronald.

"This is the operation situation of the leg warmer factory. The movie 'Flashdance' you participated in was very popular, and even leg warmers became popular among teenagers. Not only dance students, but also ordinary girls now wear them, and there are many People also wear it when doing aerobics.”

No wonder Aunt Karen has gained the confidence. It doesn't matter if Ronald doesn't go to college. Even if he doesn't make money as a director in the future, his leg warmer factory has seen a huge increase in sales this year. Hundreds of thousands of units have been sold.

"The factory's net profit is more than 100,000 US dollars. I did not expand the production capacity without authorization. I will continue to follow the principles you said at the time, Ronnie, to maintain high profits. It is almost the end of the year, and I plan to distribute the dividends to everyone."

"This is good." Ronald thought of the small shareholders in the leg warmer business. He no longer cared about the money. He would divide it as a share and let the people around him share some of his own money. success.

But the movie's ability to sell goods was beyond his expectation. A blockbuster movie actually sold so many leg warmers.

"This is what you should get, a total of forty thousand dollars." Aunt Karen pointed to Ronald on the column of dividend numbers.

Ronald was not short of the money and wanted Aunt Karen to accept it.

The aunt insisted on giving, "Business is business, and the Parker family will never fail to keep their promises."

When Ronald saw his aunt saying this, he accepted it. He plans to use the money to pay for Donna's college living expenses. Elizabeth Su once told him that at an Ivy League university, even if Donna received a scholarship, she would still need a lot of social expenses to maintain friendships with her classmates.

You want to go to the ski resort in Vermont for vacation. Everyone goes there, so if you don’t go, you’ll feel out of place. I want to travel to Europe in the summer. If you can’t afford air tickets and hotels, you’re out of the loop. The cost of dressing up for a girl is also very expensive, and I definitely can't let Donna be looked down upon.

After her aunt put away the dishes, Donna sneaked out and asked Ronald.

"Ronnie, why don't you go visit Diane? She is going to be abducted by the hero."

"What did you say?" Ronald was surprised.

"Of course I want to see her. What's up with the male protagonist you mentioned?"

"It's Richard Gere, the leading actor in 'The Cotton Club'. They play a bunch of couples in the movie, and your good friend Nic Cage is also there. When I went to visit the class, he even asked about you. .”

"I'm asking what happened when you kidnapped someone and ran away?"

"Hahaha, I scared you. It seems you still care about Diane. She knows you are back, why don't you go see her?"

Valley

Ronald looked at Donna and confirmed that she was joking, "I'll go tomorrow and I'll call Director Coppola later."

The next day, Ronald arrived at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens. "Cotton Club" was shot entirely in New York, and the studio recreated the Harlem area where gangs were prevalent in the 1920s very well.

The Cotton Club was actually a nightclub in the black neighborhood of Harlem. There is moonshine for sale during the Prohibition period, and there are also many black musicians and dancers playing soft and quiet jazz.

In this movie, Diane plays a dancer at the Cotton Club who is the plaything of a gangster and ends up running away with her beloved trumpeter.

Wearing a visitor's tag, Ronald quietly hid in the back watching the filming.

The trumpet player played by Richard Gere seems to really have the ability to play the trumpet, and he kept playing jazz during the warm-up on the set.

"Dudu, Didi..." He played very immersed and intoxicated. But Ronald sounds like his level is just average.

"Hey, what do you think of my playing skills? Can I join Woody Allen's band?" Richard Gere was chatting with his manager.

"Where's Diane?" Ronald looked around and didn't see her.

"Hi, Ronnie, why are you here?" The person who spoke in a muffled voice, as if he had rhinitis, was Nicolas Cage.

"What's wrong with your nose?" Ronald thought he had a nose allergy when he heard his pronunciation.

"Don't you think this is cool? I'm imitating the acting techniques of German Expressionist films. This kind of vocalization is very charming, isn't it?"

Ronald felt that something was wrong with this crew. Everyone was thinking about how to express themselves, and no one was coordinating the overall situation. What was Coppola doing there?

"Are you here to meet my uncle?" Cage called to his uncle Francis Coppola enthusiastically.

"Ronald, it's good. It's good that you're here." Coppola was biting his fingernails and his eyes were a little dull. His hair was messy, and he seemed to be looking at the set aimlessly and not giving orders.

"What's wrong? Aren't you going to shoot today?"

"We're still waiting for the band, their Concorde is coming soon." Cage chimed in next to him.

"Concorde?" Ronald was confused.

"I play the role of a member of the jazz band at the Cotton Club. They are one of the best jazz bands in New York. Now they have performances in Switzerland. They take the Concorde back and forth between the two sides of the Atlantic every time. It's very fast, only two hours."

Ronald was stunned by the huge waste of the crew, but Coppola was the director. He frowned and said nothing, but asked, "Where's Diane? Why didn't you see her?"

"Isn't that right?" Cage pointed to a woman in a black dress walking over to the locker room.

"Oh..." Ronald gasped, not seeing Diane for more than a month, why did Diane become like this.

Diane was wearing a V-neck evening gown, holding a small bag studded with diamonds and pearls, wearing heavy makeup from the 1920s, and red lipstick.

The eyeshadow is very dark, like two panda eyes, and a pair of eyebrows that were originally very distinctive have been shaped into the thin and curved eyebrows of old Hollywood.

The most shocking thing is the hat that Diane wears, which tightly wraps her hair. The loops of hair below are fixed under the hat, like the bun of a Buddha statue from the East.

"Ronnie!" Diane ran over happily, took Ronald's arm and shook it, "You're here."

Ronald was pulled by Diane, and the strange feeling in his heart about this weird makeup faded a little. Diane was still the cute little sister.

"Donna said you are still filming and I'm here to visit."

Diane came up and hugged Ronald tightly. She also missed Ronnie a little. Yesterday, Donna called her to inform her of Ronald's schedule. She didn't expect to suddenly appear on the set today as a surprise for herself.

Ronald was hugged tightly by her and felt Diane's still hot figure under the ugly old-fashioned dress. He put his arms around Diane, picked her up and spun her around half a circle.

"Why have you gained so much weight?" Ronald thought to himself. When Diane was filming "Street of Rage", she gained a lot of weight, and... there seemed to be a large decoration on the abdomen of this old-fashioned dress, which separated herself from Dai. An's stomach feels very uncomfortable.

Ronald slowly put her down and touched the belly of her dress with his hand, thinking, "What kind of decoration is this? It's still soft."

"Huh?" A touch of warmth came from Ronald's hand, which turned out to be Diane's belly. He was shocked as if he was struck by lightning.

"You...you're pregnant?"

"What's pregnant? I'm not pregnant?" Diane followed Ronald's gaze and looked at her belly. Because of Coppola's request, she had gained a lot of weight. In order to restore the aesthetics of the 1920s, I not only gained twenty pounds, but also plucked a lot of my eyebrows, making a lot of sacrifices.

"You...I..." Diane didn't come up for a breath, "Do you dislike me for being fat? I'm so angry, I'm so angry..." She started punching and kicking Ronald.

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