Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Immediately after the opening, it was a tense air battle.

In the air over the Caribbean Sea, the MiG-28 of the Cuban Air Force adopted superposition tactics. The two-aircraft formation was very close, and only a small dot was displayed on the radar.

After a casual flight, the Lone Ranger flew upside down above the enemy plane and took a photo of the pilot. Scared each other away.

"Yeah..." Several supporting actors began to cheer and applaud.

This is a specially designed opening scene, allowing the audience to concentrate immediately and focus on the development of the plot.

The applause did not arouse the audience's reaction. Ronald looked around, and the audience seemed to have no reaction, neither excited with the plot, nor bored and distracted like after the opening scene failed. They still stared blankly at the screen as they did at the beginning.

"What's going on here? The first shot didn't start? Obviously, the audience responded very well during the first test screening last year?" Ronald turned his attention to the two producers.

He remembered that during the last screening, Don Simpson had specially recruited audiences from college students, in order to achieve the best results and give Paramount's high-level confidence.

Perhaps this is the normal reaction of the audience?

Continue to look down.

It's time for the Lone Ranger and instructor Charlie to make love. Nothing happened between the two at home, and they met in the elevator the next day, rekindling hope.

Later in class, Charlie criticized the Lone Ranger, the two raced passionately, and finally kissed each other. Amidst the music of the Berlin band "Take My Breath Away", the camera switched to the re-shooting passionate scene.

McGillis was a little shy seeing himself on the big screen. Although she has been engaged in acting career since middle school, the big screen puts the image of people very large, so seeing herself and Tom Cruise on the big screen always reminds her of the passion with Ronald two days ago surging.

She looked in Ronald's direction, but saw him unexpectedly showing an anxious expression, frowning, and constantly looking around at the audience, trying to find some expected answers.

Ronald was getting more and more anxious.

The audience still didn't respond to the passionate and romantic scene. Neither excited, nor whistling, swallowing, drinking coke and other common actions seen on the big screen in sex scenes with handsome men and beautiful women.

The first two preset audience emotional climaxes all failed!

What followed was a low tide.

Because it was caught in a horizontal spiral, when the goose was ejected, its head hit the canopy that exploded and flew out, and unfortunately died. His wife and children came to the base, and the Lone Ranger hugged the widow of his weeping comrade-in-arms. In the end, the widow gave him a dog tag of a stupid goose as a souvenir.

If the audience didn't watch the first half of the plot, I believe that there are indeed foolish gooses and lone rangers in the world, such as fighter pilots, the audience should lose their attention completely when the low tide plot is reached.

They won't feel sad for a character who fails to arouse empathy, and maybe there will be horrible scenes of talking to each other, chatting, picking up girls, and even going to the bathroom in a large-scale exit.

Ronald sat in a chair, squirming. He was a little afraid to look at the auditorium. For the first time, there was a sign that he might lose the audience's favor. How could such a thing happen?

fine!

After two minutes of uneasy rest on the chair, Ronald found that although the audience did not respond to the previous two climax scenes, they had some reactions when they saw the temporary low scene before the final climax here.

Some viewers' eyes started to turn red and they stopped eating popcorn. Some took out handkerchiefs and wiped their eyes, and some even sobbed softly.

"Ah...it's okay." Ronald let go of a little worry, "I didn't expect that the previous passionate climax was not included in the film, but the audience's tragic plot here is included in the film. Could it be that I am also very talented in filming tragedies?"

Soon, Ronald's fantasy was also shattered.

In the last air battle, Hollywood, the Lone Ranger's companion, was shot down and he went to the rescue. With one against five, three enemy planes were shot down with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, forcing the remaining two MiG-28s to flee.

During the first few test screenings, the audience burst into applause. Any strong counterattack against the Souville Alliance will make the audience feel good.

but……

After modifying the movie by myself, the audience became lifeless again, with no reaction at all.

"congratulate!"

"congratulate!"

Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, and several supporting cast members all embraced as they celebrated each other.

After filming, actors usually don't know how their scenes will be cut in the end. It's rare for them to see a film as hearty as "Top Gun".

Ronald treats them very well, regardless of the protagonist or the supporting role, the screen image is well established. Even the two supporting roles, wearing cowboy hats, and deliberately walking backwards in the crowd to gain more time for close-up shots, the director didn't care, and they all stayed in the finished film in the end.

This is a very good foundation for their future acting careers. At least future casting directors will think of those scenes in "Top Gun" when they see their names.

"Ronald!" McGillis was also very happy. He didn't expect his image to be so sexy by Ronald in this casual popcorn commercial film. They were going to the bar to celebrate, and McGillis also wanted to call Ronald along.

Ronald was whispering to the two producers over there.

"Is it a problem with my reshoots? It destroyed the rhythm of the original film?"

"No, absolutely not. There must be something wrong with this group of audiences. I watched it very well, and you also feel good watching these actors." Don Simpson flatly denied it.

"Yes, definitely not your problem." Bruckheimer said the same.

"Top Gun doesn't have any twists and turns in the story, it's completely a high-concept movie, made up of some good-looking story fragments, completed with quick editing techniques of MV and commercials.

The two passionate scenes you re-shooted were seamless, without changing the overall rhythm and emotional ups and downs. I believe no one can do better. "

"What the hell is going on?" Ronald saw the audience leaving, so he simply ran out, resorted to his movie-watching magic weapon, and went to the bathroom to eavesdrop on the audience's thoughts.

Not only did the audience not respond in the auditorium, but they did not even respond in the bathroom.

Ronald found that the audience had no desire to speak, and mostly used eye contact, and no one talked about the highlights of the air battle, and the passionate scenes of the hero and heroine.

"This is not normal, this is not normal!"

Ronald muttered to himself, is it really the audience that has a problem, as Don Simpson said?

But in such a short few months, can the values ​​of the American people change so much?

They suddenly don't like the drama of shooting down the fighters of the Suwei Alliance?

Or do they suddenly dislike watching a guy like Tom Cruise fall in love with a beauty like McGillis on screen?

Haven't you heard that the Grand Commander is going to surrender to the Alliance?

Don Simpson and Bruckheimer came over, and none of the three could find the problem.

"Don't worry, that's how movies are. Sometimes the test audiences respond well, and sometimes they don't." Bruckheimer tried to comfort him, but halfway through, he didn't believe it himself.

"In the past six months, what has caused the audience to have such a big aesthetic change?"

Ronald began to feel his heart beating faster and faster, as if a great fear came from the universe and was about to hit him.

"Is a director acting like a magician about to meet Waterloo in Top Gun?"

"You know what? I think of a past incident when I first entered the industry."

Ronald went to the counter to buy a pack of cigarettes, and smoked in the corner with the two producers.

"Jane Fonda starred in a dreary movie called Huaguo Syndrome. It was a very boring anti-nuclear story. A nuclear power plant had a core leak and then melted through the earth, and the nuclear fuel went to Huaguo on the opposite side of the earth. country.

This was originally a very ridiculous story, but when it was released, the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant just happened. Suddenly, the movie became prophetic, and everyone wanted to see what happened to the nuclear accident on the screen.

Boom! It ended up grossing $50 million domestically and re-emerging Jane Fonda as a box office darling. "

"You!" Don Simpson listened to Ronald's story, as if he had heard a horror story.

Ronald is suggesting that "Top Gun" may be the opposite of "Hua Guo Syndrome". Some recent limited changes have made audiences no longer like air combat and movies that are tough on the Souvier Alliance.

"So, what exactly happened to cause such a big shift in the public's reaction in half a year?" Bruckheimer was still calm, and if he could find the root of the problem, he might be saved.

"When was the last time you heard the Grand Commander call the Suvail Alliance an evil empire?" Don Simpson asked suddenly.

"Hiss! It's been a long time." Ronald also understood a little bit.

It seems that after the new General Secretary Mikhail took office, the general's attitude towards the alliance is not as hostile as before.

"I remember, he also said that this newcomer's general secretary is different from the first three, he is a figure who can communicate with the West, and he is looking forward to meeting him." Ronald added.

"I remember that in the newspaper, it seemed to say that the two countries are still negotiating on nuclear disarmament."

"By the way, have you seen the movie 'White Night' starring Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer who defected? In that movie, there were many scenes of easing tensions between the two countries. dancers who defected and ended up going back to America."

"I know, I know, I heard that the British princess in the White House originally wanted to dance with Baryshnikov."

The more the three talked, the more anxious they became, and they began to complain that the commander-in-chief was not tough enough.

"Didn't you say you wanted to defeat the evil empire? It turned out to be a softie."

"If there is another crisis like the Iran hostage incident, maybe the audience's taste will turn back?"

"Disarmament, disarmament, disarmament, whoever is laid off to watch naval air combat."

"Ronald, won't you come to the bar party with us?"

McGillis came over again and invited Ronald to celebrate with him.

"No, I have something else to do. I need to call when I get back."

"Then I'll go with you too." McGillis saw that Ronald was in a bad mood, and didn't know what happened, but the thoughtfulness of a mature woman made her greet her friends and send Ronald off in person. Nader returns to the hotel.

"Are you okay, Ronnie?" Tom Cruise also came to say hello.

"It's okay, I have a headache, let Kelly take me back to the hotel."

Actors have no idea of ​​these audience reactions, they are still intoxicated by their screen image.

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