Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Why did you let Kimball, the director of photography, tamper with the negatives? Although it protected Tom's interests, it was very disrespectful to Ronald." Niceta smoked a cigar and said to his wife Paula sitting opposite.

Ronald called himself before and said something very serious. The implication was that he asked him to take care of his wife. This kind of trick went beyond the norm and greatly damaged the atmosphere of the crew. Next, Fang Kilmer will not continue to abide by the unspoken rules, and competition will expand to areas where Ronald does not want to go.

"I know, I know, I originally wanted to keep things between Kimball and I, so that Ronald wouldn't necessarily find out, so it wouldn't affect our relationship. Who knows he guessed it soon, I He was deceived into telling the truth."

Paula smiled bitterly. Ronald actually wasn't sure who did it, so he lied to her to see her reaction. She was caught in his aura and accidentally let the response reveal that she was the one who planned the overexposure incident.

"I will apologize to him in person, Paula. I don't understand. Ronald is one of our own, and he will also appropriately reduce Val Kilmer's role. We have this tacit understanding.

What's the reason for doing this? I know you are a smart person, and this is not good for Tom, because Kilmer will also make extra moves next time, which is not good for Ronald, and it is not good for us. "

Paula sat in Niceta's arms and hugged her husband's neck. The two went through hardships and paid a great price to get married. They had true love for each other.

"Of course I won't be so stupid. You expect Ronald to favor Tom in editing. This is of course good, if Ronald can really get the power to edit."

"What do you mean?"

Paula felt her husband's body stiffen. Ronald was now his most profitable director, leading the careers of many actors. Does this mean that you are not optimistic about Ronald's ability to direct editing?

"I have my source of information, Rick. Val Kilmer is loved by Paramount CEO Frank Mancuso. He personally praised Kilmer in high-level meetings and suggested signing multiple film contracts with him."

Niceta thought of her wife's Jewish identity, and the news should be highly reliable.

"And he didn't mention anything about Tom in the high-level meeting. The most important thing is that he praised Kilmer's height and praised it for being in line with the appearance tradition of male stars since the golden age of Hollywood. He also said that he would use the same method he used to praise Gary. Grant came to praise him."

Niceta put down her cigar and was silent for a long time. It seems that Mancuso really wanted to get involved in the filming and editing of the film.

Frank Mancuso is a fool;

A fool becomes a CEO without knowing it. He is very confident in his judgment of Hollywood and wants to get involved in the production business. This will inevitably bring about a series of disasters.

There are reports from various channels that Mancuso wants to restore the old practice at Paramount, signing male stars to lead large-scale productions, building scripts around them, and then everyone from the director to the recorder will be an assembly line worker.

Of course, this approach that goes against the historical trend will not succeed. Now is not the era when studios shot fifty movies a year. Technical staff can schedule production like an assembly line. If the director is disobedient, he will have the editor re-edit and then replace it.

Today's Hollywood studios are more like venture capital funds, betting that projects led by producers, directors, or stars can bring in box office, and then make bets. What everyone is competing for is vision and the ability to control key people, not bypassing them to their own end.

Paula's approach did protect Tom Cruise's interests to the greatest extent, but Ronald's interests were damaged. If Ronald and Tom hadn't been friends since childhood, they might have fallen out at once.

But Paula and she were one husband and wife after all. Niceta thought for a while, slowly raised her head, and said to Paula in her arms:

"You withdraw from the negotiation to renew the contract with Ronald. In the next contract, you will not be his agent."

…

Instead of continuing to work as a director on Sunday, Ronald took a rare day off from filming. Together with Bruckheimer, he came to the rehabilitation center to meet Don Simpson.

"You're in good spirits." Ronald saw Tang wearing sunglasses and lying comfortably by the swimming pool to soak up the sun.

"There are many actresses here, and I know quite a few, hahaha."

"Don, we're not here to chat with you..." Bruckheimer told Simpson what happened on the set in detail.

Don Simpson listened to them finish talking about Val Kilmer's scene-stealing problem, "This is all caused by Frank Mancuso's old brain. You continue to shoot, I guess I will finish filming the scenes that do not involve fighter jets." It's Kilmer's time to strike. Then I can get healthy and go out and play bad cop again."

"Why? The scenes at the base and studio will be filmed in another month."

Don Simpson shook his head. He had seen scenes where the main actors in the crew would attack each other at all costs. It would be very ugly.

"Von Kilmer doesn't have solid evidence to prove that someone is responsible, and he himself is not clean. Besides, he won't have many scenes in the future. I think only after the scenes that don't involve fighter jets come to an end, he will compete for those Particularly outstanding is the time spent in the cockpit of a fighter jet.”

Ronald felt relieved when he saw Don Simpson say this. When this "bad cop" comes forward, all relations between the crew and crew can be straightened out. It was my first time to find a star to act in a drama. It was really uncomfortable to have them intervene in the crew's creation at any time.

"That girl of yours named Demi is pretty good. She has courage, sees the situation correctly, and dares to place bets. To be honest, she is very suitable for working in Hollywood..."

"Oh, shxt", Ronald then remembered that he had forgotten Demi Moore at the motel for several days. He quickly said goodbye to the two producers and went to release her.

"Do you think Ronald was able to withstand Mancuso's pressure when the crew switched to shooting the fighter plane scenes? Will Mancuso forcefully intervene in the subsequent shooting of the fighter plane scenes? His professional ability is not good, but he has power. Struggle is such a good player that even Eisner was pushed out of Disneyland by him.”

After Ronald left, Bruckheimer expressed concern about his partner, "The main reason we asked Ronald to come was because of his aesthetic ability in photographing fighter jets. If Mancuso wanted to use Van Kilmer's affairs to cause trouble and propose a replacement, We have to protect Ronald."

"Don't worry, I don't need to show up." Don Simpson looked very good. He has been recuperating in the rehabilitation center and seems to have really gotten rid of his addiction.

"The Navy is so cooperative because of Ronald's very strong relationship. If Mancuso wants to join the crew and fire Ronald and replace him, he will encounter a big problem. Do you think the Navy will provide facilities to the crew? "

"Demi, are you okay?" Ronald rushed to the hotel where Bard had booked. Demi had been waiting for him here for three days.

Little Bud strictly followed Ronald's instructions, booked a cheap hotel for Demi, gave her two hundred dollars in cash, and watched her in the hotel.

Demi has been very good these days. She did not go home to reunite with Emilio, but waited for Ronald in the hotel.

"Don't worry, I won't touch that thing anymore. I want to be a star. I saw the big star Farrah Fassett in it. She has become... there may be very few actors anymore." Demi took the cash. Come out and return the remaining one hundred dollars to Ronald.

"Take it, I owe you a favor this time." Ronald pushed her hand back, "I guess you are not very short of money now, I will remember it and recommend you when there is a suitable opportunity."

Seeing that she had achieved her goal, Demi Moore picked up the small luggage bag that she had prepared long ago from the bedside, "Thank you, Ronald, but you still have to lend me some money. I came out this time without any clothes. I lied to Emilio that I was traveling to Europe and I had to buy some clothes to go back.”

Ronald took out his credit card and handed it to Little Bud, "Take Demi to a clothing store in West Hollywood. It's under five thousand, no, ten thousand dollars. Don't call me."

"Thank you", Demi rushed up, happily hugged Ronald and kissed him.

…

Sure enough, just as Don Simpson and Niceta expected, Val Kilmer didn't make any fuss during the rest of the filming time, except for his daily tricks to steal the scene, and changing his ways to show off with Tom Cruise. Apart from hosting a banquet with the actors, they acted quite cooperatively.

Tom Cruise and Paula went to find Ronald and apologized to him face to face. Cruise repeatedly promised that he was not aware of Paula's little tricks. He was confident that he could defeat Val Kilmer without these tricks. After all, Ronald was his buddy.

Paula apologized generously and said that she would focus on being Tom's agent and would fade out of Ronald's agency business.

Ronald, who had interviewed Niceta beforehand, also forgave Paula. He was asked to stop making any extra moves until the filming of "Top Gun" was completed.

Tom Cruise's confidence is not unreasonable. His handsomeness and ability to arouse the audience's emotions are slightly better than Val Kilmer. If Ronald had been in charge of filming until the final cut and score, Tom would have attracted more fans than Kilmer.

The filming at the Miramar base quickly came to an end, and the crew was here with only one shot of a fighter jet flying over the tower to be shot.

This was the only fighter shot shot in advance before the crew concentrated on shooting the air combat scenes, because the tower at Miramar Airport was needed to take the shot.

Ronald brought in consultant Pete Pettigrew to discuss the matter. Before he entered the conference room, he was arguing with a few old colleagues from real top gun flying schools outside the door.

"You don't know the style of these Hollywood people. If I hadn't stopped them, they would have made the movie into a musical or a fighting movie."

Peter said excitedly to his old colleague, his voice was so loud that it was heard inside.

"Pete was a bit frustrated. The instructors had strong opinions on him. They thought the footage we shot was too nonsense. It is impossible for a real fighter pilot to fly like this."

The person speaking to Ronald was F-14A pilot Lloyd Abell, whose call sign was "Bozo." He will also serve as the flight consultant for the crew in subsequent air combat shootings, and will work together to design air combat scenes.

"What? Why?"

"The shot you took today made the F-14 Tomcat pass by the tower at high speed. If it were shot at high speed, it would shatter all the glass on and off the tower. And any fighter pilot who dares to do this will He was punished and ordered to be dishonorably discharged."

Idiot bozo laughed.

"We are making a movie, we need some gimmicks."

"Actually, I really want to do this. I will retire from active service in the second half of the year and fly a commercial airliner." Bozo said his whereabouts a little melancholy.

"When you get to the civil aviation, don't pull up high, otherwise the passengers will be vomited by you." Ronald thought of his glorious deeds of vomiting Tom Cruise.

"Hahaha, I'm not really stupid."

"I never asked you, you really want to be fearless. Isn't there nothing that scares you as a naval pilot?" Ronald asked.

"There are still some," the fool blurted out without hesitation, "What we are most afraid of is landing on the aircraft carrier at night. Every time my heart beats as if it is about to explode."

"Oh?" Ronald was about to ask, when Peter Pettigrew persuaded his old colleague to leave, opened the door and walked in.

"You're here, great. Let's talk about this maneuver. Low altitude, low speed, force the wings to retract, but don't really break the tower glass."

"I think so too," the idiot answered, "The speed is low when leaping, which is also convenient for you to shoot."

Ronald nodded, he had to listen to the consensus reached by the experts.

"Okay, I'll go find the pilots at the base and see who wants to fly." Peter turned back to find the pilots.

"Uh..." The idiot raised his hand and then put it down, "Forget it, let's not argue with the young people. I'm going to retire soon anyway."

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