Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Early the next morning, Ronald took Brooke and slipped out of London to play. He asked someone in the London office of CAA to borrow a car, tried hard to adapt to the right-hand steering wheel and accelerator, and drove to the outskirts of London.

Brooke combed her hair up, which was completely different from her usual hairstyle in America. She also wore huge sunglasses and sat in the passenger seat.

Although she was with Prince Andrew yesterday, many media knew her. But to ordinary people in Britain, she is not a well-known icon, only some young people know her.

This is the weakness of models. Compared with movie stars, the popularity accumulated through magazine covers is obviously not as profound as the audience watching a story in front of the screen in a movie theater.

Ronald vaguely remembered the road here, and he drove along with his memory, and actually drove to the Pinewood Studio. This is a place he is familiar with, especially the largest studio, which was once the main filming location for "Supergirl".

Now that you are here, why not take a stroll here.

Ronald made up his mind, parked the car, and walked along the path with Brooke. There was a comfortable hotel in front of him, and the waffles there were good.

"You seem to be familiar with this place?" Brooke asked.

"This is Pinewood Studios, the largest filming base in Britain and even Europe. In front of it is the studio where 'Superman' and 'Star Wars' were filmed." Ronald pointed to the largest studio.

"Oh," Brooke looked at it. Now she was less interested in filming than getting a Princeton diploma. Although she had dreamed of pursuing a career as an actress in the future, the reviews and box office of her recent two movies were mediocre, making her a little doubtful of her talent.

The two of them walked among the pine trees. The Pinewood Studio lives up to its name. It was originally a large pine forest, and now there are many woods between the studios. Between the woods is grassland, and some outdoor scenes that require grassland can be filmed here.

There are also some ancient castles in the distance, which are castles passed down from older times. Because of its convenient location, it is an ideal location for Shakespeare's plays and Jane Austen's plays, and many costume crews film here.

Ronald held Brooke's hand and they walked on the grass. The grass in the morning is a little moist. Under the sunlight, it makes people breathe and smell the smell of green grass, which is very pleasant.

Hold hands and walk together. The fresh air coming through the meadows and pine forests made Ronald's spirit and body

They all seem to be starting to recharge their energy.

The two walked up a gentle slope. Looking from a distance, they saw a group of people filming a movie in front of them.

"Yeah, the clothes they wear are so quaint, they seem to be from a costume film." Brooke Shields is very knowledgeable about clothing, and she couldn't help but say it.

"Let's go and have a look." Ronald walked slowly along the trail, passed through a pine forest, and arrived at the filming location.

When I got closer, I saw that the clothes worn by the crew were very simple. They were not the style of princes and nobles in Shakespeare's plays, nor were they the handsome men and beauties of Jane Austen. It's the look of a Midwestern American peasant woman.

If you look carefully, you can see that she is not a peasant woman, but a teenage girl wearing an old-fashioned skirt, carrying a lunch box in one hand and holding a hen in the other.

"What kind of British drama is this?" Ronald searched his mind but couldn't figure it out.

However, others were filming, so it was hard for me to interrupt. Fortunately, the filming was in a medium shot. Ronald and Brooke appeared in the distance, which did not affect the crew's filming.

The hen clucked, and a metal monster came next to it. It looks like an upside-down spittoon, with metal eyes and a beard on it, and a large winding key on its back.

"Mr. tik-tok, we still have to defeat those wheel people."

"Bumping..." The big spittoon began to stamp its feet on the ground, walking on the ground slightly strangely. Ronald guessed that there was someone walking in this iron suit, like the R2D2 robot in Star Wars.

"Cut!" A voice called out, and a middle-aged man with an unshaven beard and a tired face used an electric horn to stop filming.

Ronald felt that the voice sounded familiar, so he pulled Poky forward two steps.

Sure enough, this director is Walter Mersey, Ronald’s mentor in editing techniques. His new movie is actually being filmed on Pinewood Studios?

"Walter!" Ronald waved to him happily, and walked down the high slope with Brooke.

Walter Mersey was worried about the unsatisfactory progress of the shooting. Suddenly he heard someone calling him and looked over. A flash of sunlight reflected on the lenses of his glasses passed by.

"who is it?"

"It's me, Ronald. Sorry to disturb you." Ronald saw that the atmosphere was not right, and immediately slowed down and apologized.

"Oh, Ronald. Nice to see you here." Walter shouted to the crew, "Ten minutes off."

A little man got out of the big spittoon named "tik-tok". He was in an inverted position inside, with his legs curled together on the bottom of the inverted spittoon, and his hands supporting the "tik-tok" legs so that he could assume that stupid walking posture.

"Who is that? Is that girl with him Brooke Shields?" he asked the little girl holding the hen next to him.

"I don't know you." The girl sighed and handed the hen to the assistant. "The filming of this scene was so slow. This chicken stinks to death."

"How's it going? I didn't expect you to be filming here, and you happened to be walking next to it." Ronald was very excited. What Walter Mersey filmed here must be "Return to Oz" that he wrote and directed? That little girl must be Dorothy.

Walter Mersey smiled bitterly, "If you had come a few days later, maybe I wouldn't be here." He handed a cup of coffee to Ronald.

"What's wrong? What happened?", Ronald was surprised.

Gu Qi

"It's nothing, I'll tell you later. You coming to see me is the only good news in the five weeks since filming started." Walter looked at Ronald and was very pleased. His apprentice was actually successful.

"Is this Brooke Shields?" He saw the tall girl holding hands with Ronald, and realized it was the American idol.

"Yeah, it's me, nice to meet you, Mr. Mersey." Brooke Shields took off her sunglasses and said hello to him.

"Oh oh..." Everyone exclaimed, it turned out to be Brooke Shields.

Brooke quickly pulled her hand back, fearing that the news would get out.

"You are all professionals here, right?" Ronald looked around. It was best not to let the news of his coming with Poji be published in the newspapers.

"It doesn't matter, I may be fired soon, and they will be dispersed to other crews. Even if reporters come in two days, the person involved will not be found." Walter Mersey still had some remaining sense of humor, and he asked He sat down on the chair with his name written on it and told Ronald what happened during the filming.

It turns out that Disney's performance has declined in recent years, and the power of Ron Miller, the son-in-law of founder Walt Disney, in the company has been greatly reduced by the gang of old officials headed by his nephew Roy Disney.

Ron Miller's original green-lighted project, "Return to Oz," has also been relegated to a separate volume. Add to this the difficulties encountered by Walter Mersey during filming. Five weeks into filming and more than two weeks behind schedule, Disney has begun discussing whether to end the project.

In order to kill the chicken to show the monkey, Disney executives have fired two important candidates, Walter Mersey's first assistant director and director of photography. If Merzy doesn't speed up the process and continues to delay, he will be the next one to be fired.

"Why?" Ronald looked at the young actors in the venue and was a little confused. Although animals and children are two of the three most difficult subjects to shoot in movies, the young actor who played Dorothy performed quite well as Ronald just saw.

Even if her shooting time is restricted by the union, she won't be half behind schedule in five weeks.

"Come and see." Walter Mersey urgently needed someone to talk to. He took out a sketchbook. "This is my movie sketch. In this movie, in addition to the little girl, there are robots, hens, and mechanical hens. And with stop-motion animation, our actors are acting against imaginary things and often make mistakes.”

"Oh," Ronald understood. Walter Mersey's debut novel is too ambitious. It looked like a stunt blockbuster from the beginning, but by the end, except for Dorothy, who appeared in almost every scene, most of the other characters were special effects that needed post-production synthesis.

Even George Lucas only dared to have two robots and one humanoid when filming Star Wars.

"Disney had doubts about this movie, and I might be fired at any time." Walt was a little frustrated.

Ronald also sighed. Only the director is responsible for this kind of thing. Halfway through the filming, no one can directly help. The only thing he can do is encourage the director and let him persevere.

Just as he was about to give Mozi some encouragement, a group of people came over.

The leader was a big man in a suit and leather shoes, and next to him was a secretary-looking person.

"Walter, it's time for us to talk."

"Okay, Gary." Walter Mersey recognized the film's executive producer and knew the expected ending was coming. He looked to the side. No one on the crew was willing to approach him. Everyone guessed the outcome of this conversation.

Walter sighed, put the electric horn into Ronald's hand, and walked into the trailer parked next to him with Gary.

Ronald opened his mouth wide, couldn't he? He actually happened to meet the moment Walter Mersey was fired.

"Is he okay?" Brooke looked at Ronald and asked.

"The most he can do is get fired. I can just have a chat with him to save him from being too sad." Ronald replied. Walter Mersey had been working on this movie for several years, but he was fired and the movie was probably going to die. For a movie like this that uses a lot of special effects, it's hard to find someone to take over.

"He is so pitiful." After listening to Ronald's story about Mersey's preparation for the movie, Brooke also felt that this was too cruel to him.

"There is nothing I can do. Once the movie shoot goes over budget, the money is like water. There are not that many Orion Pictures companies that can fully support Coppola's spending." Ronald also felt very regretful.

"Am I not suitable to be a director?"

In the evening, Walter Mersey, who was indeed fired, drank a lot with Ronald in the bar.

"No, I think the problem mainly lies in underestimating the shooting time of the stunts." Ronald replied, "I haven't seen the samples, but I think the performance level of the child actor you chose is already top-notch."

"Fairuza Balk," Mersey replied, "I took a long time to find her. She is very suitable for the role of Dorothy, even more suitable than the original Judy Garland. Dorothy is just a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old. "

"Is there no room for redemption?" Brooke interjected, watching the two of them drinking whiskey.

"No, I was able to convince Disney to give the green light because of George's influence." Walter Mersey gradually began to whisper, and finally leaned on the table. He was a little drunk.

Ronald sent Walter Mersey back to his room.

He pondered Mersey's last words, "George exerted influence." Was it his college friend George Lucas?

Ronald touched his chin, as if Walter Mersey once told him that at that time, George Lucas and him were competing for the opportunity to be Coppola's assistant. The two agreed that the one who won would meet him in the future. At the critical moment, you have to pull out the loser.

Returning to his temporary room, Ronald called the front desk, "I want an international call, to... Los Angeles, America."

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