Exploiting Hollywood 1980

On Christmas Day, Ronald got up early. The snow season in New York is in January and February every year, and there are very few white Christmases. This year is the same, the weather is sunny and a bit warm, with temperatures above ten degrees Celsius, so just wear a coat.

After breakfast, Ronald followed Aunt Karen's instructions, took Diane and Donna, and the three of them took the ferry and went for a walk in Manhattan.

The slightly humid air was sucked into the lungs. Although today is a public holiday, department stores and several shopping streets are still open for business. Ronald was on the shopping street next to Fifth Avenue, accompanying the two girls to hunt for some bargains.

The store here is not big, but it is full of wholesale goods, from luxury watches to diamonds, women's clothing to plush toys. Knowledgeable tour guides and hotel concierges will take customers here to shop, which is better than the boutiques on Fifth Avenue. Much cheaper.

Carrying large and small bags, Ronald held Diane and Donna in each hand, and the three of them started looking for a place to eat.

In addition to the large commercial streets, there are many small businessmen opening their doors in the community. The three of them found an Italian cafe with a lot of customers and ate some meatballs and spaghetti.

The shop owners are an old couple who live in a nearby community and are playing with their granddaughter holding a cat.

"Are you ready for the social studies class? This time, the teacher will be broadcasting the class live across the country, and children all over the country will be with you."

"Ready...hehe", the little girl hugged the cat and happily circled on the ground. Several regular customers commented on her beautiful cat and dress.

Ronald had not tasted this kind of life of ordinary people in New York for a long time. The residents of Los Angeles live very dispersedly, and the atmosphere in which neighbors know each other and help each other is not as strong as in New York. Opposite the Italian area is the Irish area, and on the other side is the Chinese area.

If you look at it from a helicopter, Manhattan looks very much like a colorful platter, with various ethnic groups living together but not mixed. They respect each other's culture but are culturally isolated from each other. In this case, it often takes the third generation of immigrants to slowly begin to integrate into mainstream values ​​and slowly forget the traditions of their own ethnic group.

For descendants of Chinese ancestors like Ronald, no trace can be seen in appearance or in the circles he interacts with. Only in his heart, there is still a preference for Chinese culture.

After dinner, we walked to Fifth Avenue again. In the afternoon, the two ladies went shopping in a boutique. Sometimes, without buying anything, just looking at the price tags of the good things she bought in boutiques would keep Donna entertained for a long time. Diane also hugged Donna and laughed. She rarely enjoyed this kind of bargain shopping experience.

"!"

"Um?"

Ronald, the porter, was waiting at the door.

Suddenly I heard someone outside calling for instructions for filming a movie.

He called the salesman and asked him to take a look at the pile of purchased items. Then he took out his credit card and handed it to Donna, asking her to check out after she liked it. Go out on your own and see what crew is filming.

I didn't see the nypd closing the road. There was only a small crew, diagonally across the road at the entrance of the Plaza Hotel, with a camera and a recording pole, filming on their side of the road.

"Guerrillas." Ronald smiled.

When he was filming "Night of the Comet", he did not contact the municipal government because of tight budget, but secretly filmed it himself. Unexpectedly, there is someone doing this on Fifth Avenue, the most prosperous shopping mall in Manhattan, New York.

On Ronald's left side, a young blonde beauty with a black and white patterned silk scarf covering her hair, wearing a dark red V-neck dress, walked quickly to Ronald's right side.

"What's going on? Is anyone filming a movie?" Donna noticed the movement and came over to take a look.

Unlike Los Angeles, it is not very common to film TV dramas on the streets of New York. This was the first time for Donna to see this kind of live shooting. She leaned on the door and looked across, completely curious.

"It's probably a small crew filming, and there are no road closures." Dai An was experienced and could tell at a glance that it was a candid shot that had not been registered with the municipal government.

"Don't cross that line and ruin their shot," Ronald warned. Although it seems that the other party is using a close-up lens, and it is unlikely that I will enter the lens, I still stand a little further away to be on the safe side.

"Well, she is a beautiful woman. But it seems that I have never seen her play before." Diane commented on the actress.

"It could also be a small production, her debut."

"Cut!" The director opposite stopped the filming. "Linda, this scene is about Su suddenly discovering who her true love is, and then running to pursue it. So your twist needs to have some... Do you understand what I mean?"

Ronald took the opportunity to open the door and come out with Diana, ready to leave.

"Yo, I said man, do you want to be in a movie? Can you be a guest actor in our next scene? We need a tall guy."

The male lead of that crew, a man with a strange accent, saw Ronald and suddenly extended an invitation to them.

"Sorry, we have other things to do." Ronald carried the two beauties and prepared to leave.

"Hey, we are making a big-screen movie and it will be released in Australia. Don't you want to see your appearance on the screen?"

The male protagonist is from Australia and wears a crocodile leather jacket and a cowboy hat with a ring of crocodile teeth inlaid on his head. They came to New York to reshoot an ending, and saw that Ronald's height was just right for him, so they invited him again and again.

"Oh, my God. That's Ronald, Ronald Lee." The blonde actress in the red dress was interrupted by the conversation. She looked over and discovered Ronald's identity.

"Paul, this is the famous Hollywood director, Ronald Lee." The heroine named Linda took the hero's hand and asked him to stop entangled.

"You know me?" Ronald handed the shopping bag to one hand, then reached out to shake Linda and Paul's hands.

"Who doesn't know you?" Diane added next to it.

"Oh, New York is really a crouching tiger, hidden dragon. You can see great directors on the streets." The actor Paul has a tough guy temperament, and he invited Ronald and the others to the Plaza Hotel for a chat.

"Anyway, we have to take a break and don't shoot for a long time, which attracts the attention of the nypd."

"Hahaha..." Ronald was very attracted to these people. He had no money to apply for filming, so he secretly filmed it like a guerrilla. This style of doing it first and then making sure to make the movie made him want to chat with them. chat.

"Great, let me get your stuff."

The heroine Linda was also very happy to have the opportunity to meet the big shots in Hollywood, and quickly helped Diane and Donna pick up the shopping bags.

"Are you Diane? Diane Lane?"

Arriving at the Plaza Hotel, Linda recognized Diane again who had taken off her sunglasses.

"It's me. I didn't expect anyone to remember me."

Linda burst out laughing, "I've known you for a long time. I saw your show when you were playing Off-Broadway. I was doing 'Death of a Salesman' off-Broadway two years ago."

Turns out he was a Broadway actor.

A few people sat down in the lobby bar, and Linda Kozlowski, the girl in red, told Ronald the story of their crew.

It turns out this is an Australian film crew. They came to film an Australian country bumpkin who came to New York and all the interesting things that happened due to cultural conflicts.

The actor Paul Hogan is also the screenwriter and financier of the film.

Paul Hogan has a complicated experience. He once worked as a construction worker and later made his comedy debut on Sydney television. When he was young, he once visited New York. It was like arriving in an alien world. In a metropolis with millions of people, he greeted everyone in the morning because he thought all these people would go to a bar to drink in the evening.

"Will your movie be shown in America?" Ronald asked them.

"Not necessarily," Paul Hogan replied.

"Australia hasn't made a proper film, like the commercial films you're used to seeing in Hollywood. No one has made a real, popular, successful, entertaining film."

"After I finish filming, I plan to release it in Australia first, and then try my luck at film festivals to see if it can be sold overseas. I feel that if I'm lucky, I can make millions of Australian dollars."

"Oh? What's the story of your movie?"

"It's about a hunter in the great swamps of northern Australia. He was raised by the indigenous people. Once in a critical moment, he killed a large crocodile alone. He was then interviewed by Sue Charlton, a newspaper reporter from New York." Paul Hogan hugged actress Linda Kozlowski.

"Then Su had a sudden idea to let the Australian savage come to New York to experience life in the center of the universe. This is a story of great contrast. The female reporter in New York went to the primitive wilderness, and then the savage went to the most prosperous city."

"Sounds interesting," Ronald said. He felt the film's angle was clever, like the first half of Tarzan and the second half of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

"After your movie is finished, you can come to me and I'll help you see if it's possible to distribute it in America." Ronald thought the story was good and worth trying.

"That's great." Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski were overjoyed and quickly exchanged business cards.

"Since you haven't identified a Hollywood distributor, it must not have been the production investment obtained in Hollywood?" Ronald thought of something.

"Yes, we raised the money." Paul Hogan said proudly.

"Raising funds?" Ronald expressed confusion.

Hogan explained. It turns out that in Australia, the tax law allows funds invested in movies and other literary and artistic undertakings to receive a tax refund of 200% of the tax payable. Although Australia does not have any famous film companies, it does have a lot of rock stars.

They also speak English and share a single language and cultural market in the world with Britain, America, Canada, etc.

A rock band inxs believed in Paul Hogan and took the lead in investing hundreds of thousands of Australian dollars. This has inspired many singers to invest in crowdfunding, hoping that the film can make a return. At the same time, you can enjoy a tax-free limit of twice the investment amount, which is especially attractive to rock stars with high incomes.

They eventually raised $8 million Australian dollars and started filming. Investment is limited, and the entire cast is made up of talents from the Australian television industry. Only the heroine Linda Kozlowski was imported from America.

After chatting for more than half an hour, the assistant from the production crew came in to report that it was calm outside now and the crowd of onlookers had dispersed. It was time to take another candid photo.

"Do you think there is anything that can be improved in my performance in this scene?"

Linda Kozlowski is a bit blind to Hollywood directors like Ronald. Whenever possible, I would ask him for tips on acting.

Ronald is actually not good at directing performances, but he also knows how to talk to hide his weaknesses.

"Suddenly Sue discovered that she was not deeply in love with the general manager of the newspaper, but with this wild man from Australia. So she must be very anxious in her heart. You can consider using a small prop to express this sudden discovery that her true love has run away. , anxious mood in my heart."

"Hmm..." Linda Kozlowski felt it made sense.

When the filming started, after running for a while, she decisively threw her two high heels aside and chased forward with bare feet.

When leaving the set, Diane always looked at Ronald secretly and said nothing.

Ronald knew that she still wanted to be an actor, so he comforted her, "My current wealth is not enough to make movies by myself. I will help you see if there are any suitable opportunities when I return to Los Angeles. But if you are willing to start from a low-cost If the film starts again, there will be a lot more opportunities.”

Diane hugged Ronald's arm tightly and said nothing. She was once a much-anticipated child star, and she almost broke into the forefront of Hollywood's teenage stars. She also experienced strikeouts and was cheated when selling nutritional supplements... She had seen too many She knew that she didn't need to say too much at times like this, just let Ronald keep it in mind.

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