Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Mr. Li, Mr. Li?"\u003c/p\u003e

A young girl who looked like a secretary, wearing high heels, ran into Ronald's business jet lounge at Los Angeles Airport. Opening the doors from room to room looking for Ronald. \u003c/p\u003e

"Ah, Mr. Li, you are here..." Ronald waved to her, and she finally saw herself. \u003c/p\u003e

"Mr. Goldberg asked me to deliver this script to the airport. I didn't know how to get to the business jet passenger lounge, so I had to ask a lot of people before I found the way in. It's great that everything went smoothly."\u003c/p\u003e

"Thank you, would you like to sit down and have breakfast together?" Ronald saw that she looked very tired and had dark circles under her eyes. She must have slept very late last night and was assigned such an extra task by the boss so early in the morning. The daily working hours are probably also very long. \u003c/p\u003e

Looking at her, Ronald was a little reminded of his cousin Donna. These girls who have just worked for a short time are the hardest working, and not many of them continue to work hard after two or three years. \u003c/p\u003e

"Thank you", the girl sat down, picked up the sandwich and started eating it. Ronald handed her a glass of orange juice. \u003c/p\u003e

"Mr. Li, our plane is ready for boarding."\u003c/p\u003e

After a while, the flight attendant came and asked Ronald to board the plane. He motioned for the secretary girl to finish eating before sending her back. He took the script in his hand and boarded the plane with Little Bud carrying his luggage. \u003c/p\u003e

"I am Captain Jimmy O'Connor, and on behalf of all the crew, I welcome aboard Mr. Ronald Lee, the film director who has made our Navy pilots so respected."\u003c/p\u003e

Ronald laughed loudly. Unexpectedly, the captain of the business jet this time was a fighter pilot who retired from the navy. He was also invited into the cab and took a group photo with the crew. \u003c/p\u003e

Returning to his seat, Ronald took the black tea brought by the flight attendant, and then opened the script he had just received. \u003c/p\u003e

The script is neat, but the paper has some rough edges, which indicates that this is a copy that has been circulated by many people. The title of the film is simply written on the cover:\u003c/p\u003e

"Working Girl (Wirl)"\u003c/p\u003e

Below "By Kevin Wade" is the screenwriter's name written in typewriter font,

only one. \u003c/p\u003e

"I've never heard of it," Ronald thought to himself. The script Goldberg sent him was actually written by an unknown screenwriter? \u003c/p\u003e

Ronald continued to turn. Goldberg doesn't just send in an uninteresting script without a purpose. \u003c/p\u003e

"Working Girl"\u003c/p\u003e

Drain out, pour in...\u003c/p\u003e

1 exterior scene. The Highlands of Staten Island—Shots from the Series—Scene 1\u003c/p\u003e

In the morning\u003c/p\u003e

Close shot of walking footsteps. A pair of them, wearing worn out running shoes that were soaked by the rain, ran down the mountain quickly. \u003c/p\u003e

The camera extends the island's calves, beautiful legs, trotting. The owner of the leg reached down and pulled up a pair of stockings that had lost their elasticity and were sagging. \u003c/p\u003e

Panorama of Theresa McGill. To her friends, it was Tess, a twentysomething secretary who was close to Ben San. \u003c/p\u003e

She was very attractive, but there was nothing exciting about her, but she had her own unique sex appeal. \u003c/p\u003e

She is trying to balance an umbrella, a newspaper, and a briefcase, almost as if she is juggling. \u003c/p\u003e

Camera angle reversal, panning...\u003c/p\u003e

We see her walking toward the slow-moving crowd of hundreds of commuters streaming into the entrance to the Staten Island Ferry, huddled against the rain and gray morning. \u003c/p\u003e

The camera pulls back from Tess, the long shot...\u003c/p\u003e

Tess blends into the vast crowd of people commuting to work in Manhattan. \u003c/p\u003e

……\u003c/p\u003e

"Huh?" Ronald understood what Goldberg was thinking, and it was no wonder he was looking for him. It tells the story of my aunt's home on Staten Island. He turned a page and continued reading...\u003c/p\u003e

Interior. Staten Island Ferry – same as above (indicates the sequence immediately following the above), scene two\u003c/p\u003e

Tess and Sheen, her fellow secretary, and best friend, Sheen with a short bang and very heavy make-up, huddled together on a wooden stool on a crowded ferry. \u003c/p\u003e

On the ferry. Tess held a bouquet of flowers in her hand, and Xin lit a match which lay on top of the Twinkie's little butter cake. She started singing "Happy Birthday" in a thick accent. \u003c/p\u003e

One or two passengers joined in the song, but the vast majority started complaining, some quite loudly. \u003c/p\u003e

Tess smiled and blew out the match. The ferry whistle sounded loudly as it docked. Everyone rushed to the exit. \u003c/p\u003e

……\u003c/p\u003e

The more Ronald read, the more he felt that the quality of this script was similar to the movie with grand aerial shots that he had dreamed about several times on the plane to and from New York and Los Angeles. \u003c/p\u003e

The core of the story is an older female secretary named Tess who continues to study hard. She has a seriously ill mother to take care of, and in between her heavy work and family obligations, she attends night classes and pays attention to financial news. \u003c/p\u003e

She was on the ferry one day and saw a very good merger and acquisition opportunity in the news, but her boss, a staid middle-aged man, did not believe in her ability as a secretary to propose a merger and acquisition proposal. \u003c/p\u003e

Finally, a friend of her boss, a mergers and acquisitions consultant named Jack Trainor (Jaer), understood her and worked with Tess to propose a great merger and acquisition plan to a company that owned the property rights of the television network. \u003c/p\u003e

At this time, Tess's boss saw that his secretary could actually surpass him, so he became evil and claimed that the plan was his own. \u003c/p\u003e

Tess, who has fallen in love with Jack Traynor, hopes that her boyfriend Traynor can help her clarify to the boss of the company who is the original author of the plan. \u003c/p\u003e

However, under the coercion of Tess's boss, Traynor had to give up on Tess, saying that the plan was her boss's original idea, and Tess just plagiarized her boss's creativity. \u003c/p\u003e

However, Tess produced evidence to prove that she was the original author of the merger plan. Her boss and Trainor were fired, and Tess's wish that she had struggled for many years was finally achieved. \u003c/p\u003e

When the plane flew over the Midwest, Ronald had already watched the last scene in one breath:\u003c/p\u003e

Another angle, inner office, continued, scene 260\u003c/p\u003e

Tess: Okay. \u003c/p\u003e

Ben (Tess's male secretary since her promotion) closed the door behind him. Tess walked to the window, looked out, then tentatively sat on the bench and lay down leisurely.\u003c/p\u003e

Tess was as happy as a child in a candy store. She walked to the phone, took a piece of paper from her purse, and made a long-distance call. \u003c/p\u003e

Tess:\u003c/p\u003e

(To the phone)\u003c/p\u003e

Yes, please look for "thia O'Rourke!\u003c/p\u003e

"Xin, guess where I am?"\u003c/p\u003e

"Well, it doesn't seem to be a movie." Ronald closed the script and carefully compared it with the scenes in his dream. None of the content in his dream was in the script. \u003c/p\u003e

For example, the beginning and the end, two great aerial shots from a helicopter and long shots with full-focus zoom, are definitely not in this script. \u003c/p\u003e

Either someone changed the script, or there's another movie with similar content. Ronald closed the finished script and thought to himself. \u003c/p\u003e

The writing style of this screenwriter named Kevin Wade is very similar to that of John Padric Shanley, the screenwriter of "Moonlight" whom he worked with last time. Many scenes have a very strong stage play style. \u003c/p\u003e

For example, I like to use a series of shots to complete a dense plot in a limited space. This is an inevitable requirement for stage plays, but in fact it is not necessarily necessary for film shooting. \u003c/p\u003e

……\u003c/p\u003e

"Thank you for the ride, thank you." When they arrived at the New York Airport, the crew members, who were former Navy pilots, came over to say goodbye to Ronald. \u003c/p\u003e

"Thank you." Ronald took another photo with them below the plane, then turned to little Bud and said, "You go get the car, and I'll make a call first."\u003c/p\u003e

"Mr. Goldberg, I just arrived in New York. Yes, I read the script on the plane. I really liked the tone of the story, but I wanted to meet with the screenwriter Kevin Wade to talk about what could be changed. ”\u003c/p\u003e

"What do you think can be adjusted?" Goldberg was very happy when he heard Ronald's call. The original director, Michael Nichols, had many requirements for the filming, some of which were unacceptable to Fox. \u003c/p\u003e

It would be good for Fox to have a new competitor. \u003c/p\u003e

"I have two ideas. First, Tess's boss should be a woman, so that the way she replaces her boss will be convincing. Otherwise, Wall Street will not be able to listen to a secretary's spiel."\u003c/ p\u003e

"It's very reasonable." Goldberg has no objection to this. If Tess has a female boss, then Jack Traynor can be written as her boss's boyfriend, which will add some love triangle drama to the script. It has romantic drama elements that audiences will love to watch. \u003c/p\u003e

"What's another idea?"\u003c/p\u003e

"Another thought is that the details of mergers and acquisitions in the script are a bit frivolous. The background of this story is very realistic. We have to make the details of this merger and acquisition so that employees working on Wall Street cannot see the flaws."\u003c/p\u003e

Ronald liked the story very much, but the details of the merger were a bit exaggerated and lacked authenticity. \u003c/p\u003e

When Ronald read it, he felt that this story was a bit like the "Secret of Success" starring Helen Slater and Michael J. Fox. The main story focused on the male protagonist's love story, work and mergers and acquisitions. It was simplified into the kind of cartoonish story found in general textbooks for middle school students. \u003c/p\u003e

But that movie is a romantic love story, and this movie is a business war drama. Tess’s story needs to be set off by very realistic business war details. \u003c/p\u003e

"Is this true? There are not many screenwriters who understand Wall Street."\u003c/p\u003e

"I can find some people who know Wall Street to participate in rewriting the script and turn it into a movie with the most realistic details of business war. In addition, I want to find a screenwriter to rewrite the draft."\u003c/p\u003e

"I will remember your request. Please give me an actionable plan first, and then we will contact you."\u003c/p\u003e

"Huh?" Ronald felt that Goldberg's tone was a little off. Could it be that he was looking for him more as a competitor to lower the price of the original director, Michael Nichols? Or strive for a greater say? \u003c/p\u003e

"What about screenwriter Kevin Wade?" Ronald thought for a while, but instead of telling the truth, he asked if he could meet with the screenwriter. \u003c/p\u003e

"Of course, I'll ask him to call you. He's in New York."\u003c/p\u003e

Little Bud packed his luggage and came to find Ronald on the phone. \u003c/p\u003e

"Let's go to the apartment on Fifth Avenue. You call the lobby manager and help me turn on the air conditioner and order some food. I have to work at night."\u003c/p\u003e

"Okay..." Bud opened the car door, asked Ronald to get up, and then called the apartment on Fifth Avenue. \u003c/p\u003e

Ronald took out the white paper from his bag and began to draw pencil drawings on it. He tried to draw two aerial shots of the beginning and ending of the dream. \u003c/p\u003e

By the time they arrived at the apartment on Fifth Avenue, Ronald had already finished drawing two separate shots. \u003c/p\u003e

He put the drawings and script together, made a few phone calls, and made an appointment with Michael Gray, a marketing consultant who had arrived in New York in advance, to talk about the premiere of "Moonlight" in New York. \u003c/p\u003e

"Instead of Los Angeles, in New York we invited all the Broadway supporting actors who were involved in the filming. In addition, we also found some celebrities, such as members of the rock band Bon Jovi, and some of your actor friends in New York, Shirley Mac Lin, Matt Dillon and others.\u003c/p\u003e

Oh, by the way, there is also the social celebrity of the Kennedy family, JKF’s sister-in-law Lee Radziwiew. That leaves Cher and Nicolas Cage. ”\u003c/p\u003e

The arrangement of the premiere in New York is even higher than that in Los Angeles. There are many social celebrities like Lee Radziwiew here in New York. In fact, they don’t have any profession, they just know a lot of people. \u003c/p\u003e

Being able to find such a social butterfly at the premiere will attract many celebrities, which will be good for the promotion of the movie. \u003c/p\u003e

Jon Bon Jovi, the lead singer of Bon Jovi, lives in New York. He likes to date movie stars and enjoys joining in the fun. \u003c/p\u003e

"Is Cher still coming with her little baker boyfriend?" Seeing Gray nodding, Ronald continued to confirm the list of all the guests with him, "Well, please remind Nicolas Cage that this time he wants to The publicist will dress him up and, by the way, find a female companion."\u003c/p\u003e

By the time the details were confirmed, Ronald was already feeling tired. He took a shower and slept on the big bed. \u003c/p\u003e

"Huh...", a wave of sleepiness came over me. \u003c/p\u003e

……\u003c/p\u003e

A secretary-looking woman with long, blond hair, combed high, got off the ferry from Staten Island. Next to her is another friend with heavy makeup, who also looks like a secretary. His hair is like a chicken coop, colorful, and his eye shadow is also very colorful, but the actress's face looks very cute. \u003c/p\u003e

They both wore very cheap clothes. The female secretary with blond hair wore an oversized leather jacket and a pair of white sneakers. Apparently it's Tess from the movie. \u003c/p\u003e

Her friend with colorful hair is Xin, also wearing a red coat and blue silk scarf, both bargains. \u003c/p\u003e

"Hey, isn't this Melanie Griffiths?" Ronald recognized the actress, who was the heroine of Jonathan Demme's movie "Lulu." \u003c/p\u003e

Is she starring in this movie? What a surprise. \u003c/p\u003e

Ronald found it interesting that Melanie was about the same age as the heroine Tess, also in her thirties. Her experience is also somewhat similar to that of the protagonist Tess. She was born as a child star but failed to achieve stardom. \u003c/p\u003e

[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo Reading to catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. It can be used on both Android and Apple. 】\u003c/p\u003e

But this look is very impressive. At first glance, Tess looks like an old secretary with an unsatisfactory life, the kind with no future. \u003c/p\u003e

Can she really transform into a sexy girl that makes even Wall Street elites swoon? \u003c/p\u003e

The movie was playing forward, and Ronald saw Melanie Griffiths again. She was already wearing a black low-cut diamond formal dress, with black stockings and high heels underneath, which was very sexy. \u003c/p\u003e

She was in a bar, looking for Jack Trainor to talk about mergers and acquisitions. \u003c/p\u003e

A very handsome guy came over to strike up a conversation. \u003c/p\u003e

"Hello, I rarely see such a sexy lady like you on such occasions."\u003c/p\u003e

"Why not? I have a mind suitable for business and a body tempting to commit crime."\u003c/p\u003e

"Oh..."\u003c/p\u003e

Ronald was also fascinated by Melanie Griffith's appearance. This actress is very malleable. The two appearances before and after were very consistent with the character, and the audience could tell that it was the same person, which was very convincing. \u003c/p\u003e

And the handsome man who came to strike up a conversation was clearly played by Harrison Ford. \u003c/p\u003e

"Hehehe... It seems like this is that movie. The star is in the spotlight, there is no doubt about it."\u003c/p\u003e

But why, this scene of Tess changing shoes on the pier is so familiar, I seem to have seen something similar. \u003c/p\u003e

"Huh? Ah... not bad..." Ronald was awakened by his own question. \u003c/p\u003e

He touched the edge of the bed and found that it did not fall. The special mattress was indeed big enough. \u003c/p\u003e

"I thought about it." Ronald, who was anxiously trying to remember the dream in bed, finally thought of the origin of the scene of changing shoes. \u003c/p\u003e

This is not a movie, but what happened in real life when I first met my partner in the leg warmer business, Theresa Kate, who was still a secretary at a Wall Street company at the time on the Staten Island pier. She was afraid that her high heels would be damaged on the ferry, so she always put her shoes in a bag and took them to the office before changing them. \u003c/p\u003e

"Also, Teresa's nickname seems to be Tess. Could it be that Kevin Wade adapted it based on her true story?"\u003c/p\u003e

Ronald wrote down what he wanted to do tomorrow in his notebook and invited Theresa Kate to come and chat. \u003c/p\u003e

Then he fell asleep again. \u003c/p\u003e