Exploiting Hollywood 1980

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The first case of the newly established 101st Congress was the "Stars and Stripes Protection Act." This is because two senators are elected from each state, and at least one representative from each state is allocated according to population proportion.

The founding fathers designed America's political system to contain each other. Congress, as a legislative body, generally tends to protect the power of small states.

The Supreme Court, which is a judicial body, rejected the case of Texas prosecuting the burning of the flag as a violation of the First Amendment. It was also restrained by the legislative power of Parliament.

The legislative threshold for adding an amendment is too high, but the legislative threshold for passing a law can be reached. Whether it was to give an explanation to the voters or the new parliament wanted to show its sense of existence, this law, which was obviously contrary to the Supreme Court, was quickly passed by an overwhelming two-thirds vote based on public opinion.

This saved the commander-in-chief, Old George, a lot of trouble. The Supreme Court's judgment was challenged, and the legislative and judicial powers were in opposition. As a third party in the system design, the head of administrative power had to take a stand.

If a two-thirds majority passes, the commander-in-chief has no veto power (if a general majority passes, the commander-in-chief can also veto and send it back for reconsideration. Two-thirds of the votes are needed in both houses to override the veto of the commander-in-chief again. Passed by force), which made George Sr. relieved that he no longer had to express his position when public opinion was in conflict.

"These are two artists from the Alliance Against Art Censorship, Dred Scott, Sean Aikman... The other person who burned the Stars and Stripes on the steps of Capitol Hill was Vietnam War veteran David Blaylock .

They chose to burn the Stars and Stripes again in front of a group of reporters and photographers while Congress was reviewing and passing the bill. He happened to violate the bill that had just been passed and was immediately arrested by the MPDC (Special District Police).

Before they were loaded into police cars, the three suspects distributed a statement to reporters calling on others to express their opposition to "forced patriotism" by burning the Stars and Stripes. "

Old George was in the White House and happened to see this scene on the news during dinner. He called his assistant back, gave a few instructions, and continued to eat with Barbara and her family.

"Hey, Commander-in-Chief would like to know the backgrounds of these three people, especially whether they are related to the alliance?"

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"These are professional criminals who have been singled out to deliberately cause litigation in order to oppose specific bills."

In the apartment on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, Ronald and Helen were watching TV on the super king-size bed in Ronald's bedroom.

"You seem to know their details very well, don't you?" Ronald played with Helen's calf with his toes while watching the news absentmindedly.

"Well, when my mother was young, she often participated in such activities and was arrested by the NYPD. My father was the one who bailed her out every time."

"Are you talking about some kind of alliance between those two artists? That one doesn't seem to be the case?" Ronald found that the news media had different names for the several perpetrators. When it came to Aikman, he was an artist, and when it came to Blaylock, he was an artist. A veteran of the Vietnam War, he wore a U.S. Army M65 windbreaker, and Ronald's deceased uncle also had one.

"Are you going back tomorrow?" Helen's feet were itchy from Ronald's hook, so she simply put her legs on his waist.

"Well, I still have three small productions to be released urgently." Ronald's eyes were full of Helen's eyes, and he couldn't help but rub her waist.

"Then what are you waiting for?" Helen turned over and sat up.

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"Huh...huh..." Early the next morning, Ronald got on the business jet and flew back to Los Angeles. He fell asleep covered with a blanket and snored a little.

"My boss usually rests on the plane. He sleeps soundly every time. If you want to sign them, I have a few signed boxes of Top Gun video tapes. You can take them if you want."

The assistant, the chubby girl Rich Lake, is already very skilled in dealing with the flight attendants on these business jets.

Lake looked back at Ronald and grimaced. As a personal assistant, she certainly knew why Ronald was so sleepy while traveling back and forth from coast to coast.

Then she took out an acting textbook by Uta Hagen from her bag and started reading. Although he is not good-looking and has a fat body, Lake's acting dream has not been extinguished because of "Hairspray".

Whoopi Goldberg, who worked on the set, may have seen that Lake and her appearance were similar, so he gave her a textbook for learning acting skills and gave her the phone number of Uta Hagen's acting training class. she.

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"Dong...dong dong..."

Ronald was on a plane and dreamed of a very upbeat piece of music.

"I will follow him,

Follow him wherever he goes. "

Ronald was familiar with the song, with its lively tempo and humorous lyrics. Ronald thinks it can be explained as a stalker girl who pursues male celebrities and follows him everywhere. No matter where the celebrities go, she will follow them.

"I will follow him,

i always will

Because nothing can keep me away

He is my destiny..."

However, this version of the song is a chorus version, and the camera flashes to a medium shot.

"Huh?" Ronald was shocked, why are they a group of nuns?

This group of nuns also performed a variety of dance moves, which were not as serious as traditional choirs. Two nuns, one fat and one thin, can even stand alone and make provocative movements of "come, come, come".

"What is this?" Ronald didn't understand. Although Hollywood is relatively free with various themes, it rarely pokes fun at religion for fear of causing unnecessary trouble.

"Oh..." When the camera turned, Ronald understood a little bit.

The man conducting in front of the choir is undoubtedly Whoopi Goldberg. She has wavy hair and two big glittering earrings. She is much more advanced than the psychic she just photographed.

Next, she sang this part of the song solo. She dances and sings at the same time, with a relaxed demeanor, very much like a singer.

Ronald listened to the lyrics carefully, and therein lies the magic of this song. In addition to the magical and unforgettable melody, the lyrics can also be interpreted into various stories.

In addition to the stalker version that Ronald had in mind, it could also be interpreted as a girl's confession to the boy she loves, or as in this dream movie, an expression of love for Jesus.

Moreover, black choirs are inherently unrestrained. If Whoopi Goldberg's character were to transform the original serious church choir, then it would be a good show in terms of dramatic structure.

"Wow, wow, wow...", thunderous applause. After the song was sung, another nun in the audience also stood up and applauded.

Ronald recognized it. This was Maggie Smith, a British actress and a double Hollywood movie queen.

"Is it still a big production?" Ronald muttered.

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"Ronald? Are you awake? We're almost there."

Ronald, who was dreaming about watching a movie, was gently pushed awake by his assistant Lake.

"Ah? We're here?" Ronald was a little regretful that he didn't dream more about it.

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"Yesterday, there were also actions in Seattle that actively violated the Star-Spangled Banner Law. They also burned the flag under live broadcast by the media."

Coming to pick up Ronald were Daydream director Michelle Cannold and consultant Michael Gray. The two were talking about the release of the three quickly shot patriotic films about the Star-Spangled Banner.

The appeal of three people who actively violated the law in DC was circulated by the media, and as expected, someone responded. In Seattle, the famous city of freedom, the organization "Vietnam War Veterans Against Imperialism" organized group activities and proactively responded.

And as luck would have it, their activities were filmed by a Seattle TV station that was filming a news program nearby, and it was broadcast on the local TV station.

For a time, this news was widely disseminated by television networks across the country. Left-wing organizations and Vietnam War veterans in many places were preparing to take action.

All three films have been shot and are in the process of final editing. After discussing it with two colleagues, Ronald decided to release it urgently.

He called Lindsay Dolan at Paramount and asked her to coordinate the lab's overtime reprinting of the three Daydream films.

Some of the editing work that has not yet been completed, daydreams can no longer take care of so much. Catching up with this hot spot is much more important than meticulous editing.

500 copies of each film were produced, and development and printing began urgently.

Salespeople in Daydream's distribution department started picking up the phones and making sales calls to movie theater managers in the Midwest, Deep South states, and non-metropolitan cities on the East and West coasts.

"Are you Mr. XX, the manager of XX Cinema in Little Rock, Alabama? We are Daydream Pictures. Have you heard about the recent burning of the Stars and Stripes in big cities on the east and west coasts?

Yes, we are dissatisfied too. Here are three movies that reflect the patriotic fervor of the Star-Spangled Banner. Would you like a few copies? Yes, it's all patriotism under the Stars and Stripes, including beating up Japanese traitors and raising the Stars and Stripes in Little Japan in Los Angeles. There was also the victory of the Korean Taekwondo National Team in Korea and the raising of the Star-Spangled Banner. The last one represented American kickboxing, which defeated Thailand’s Muay Thai at the Global Martial Arts Conference, allowing the Stars and Stripes to appear at the top of the podium.

OK, how many copies do you want? Three? Do you want more? It is expected that there will be a strong moviegoing craze, and openly burning the Stars and Stripes outside the Capitol is a provocation to the House of Representatives and the Senate..."

In short, the prints of three low-budget new films, "Kickboxer," "King Kong," and "Black Belt," have just come out of Paramount's lab, with fresh The taste was put on a FedEx plane and quickly distributed to the base of the Elephant Party in America.

All kinds of movies set in metropolitan life are not bad to watch, but they are a bit incompatible with life in small towns with thousands or tens of thousands of people.

For example, in "Working Girl", Tess did not forgive her boyfriend who had a new love because she was busy at work. Instead, she pretended to be her boss and worked on her own projects. This attitude creates a natural gap between high school men and women in small towns. They yearn for life in big cities, but they don't fully understand the choices men and women make when faced with temptation.

Another example is "When Harry Met Sally". The two people clearly have a crush on each other, but they take all kinds of irrelevant things too seriously. For example, do men and women have friendship? Should you fall in love with your friends?

From the perspective of the young people in the small town, they don’t understand why they have been struggling with this kind of thing for so long.

What also confused them were those who burned the Stars and Stripes in protest. The Stars and Stripes is the flag of the Yankees in the North. They have no respect for the Stars and Stripes. How do you expect them to confront the Seville Union people head-on?

Or are we in the South more patriotic, and you ask them to burn a Southern Confederate flag?

Therefore, the popularity of these three patriotic films like Daydream in the small-town South was beyond the expectations of the cinema.

Is this what Hollywood movies are interesting for? Good guys are good guys, bad guys are bad guys, good guys defeat bad guys, kill Japanese people, kill Koreans, this is what we young people in American towns like to watch.

Bruce Lee, Master Miyagi, America’s quintessence of kickboxing, are the best! These foreigners are not fair enough. If they can't box, they still have to use their feet.

But we Americans are smart and strong. Whether we are playing our kickboxing, or their taekwondo, or Muay Thai, we can become world champions.

In short, these three movies have achieved small success at the box office in a manner that mainstream Hollywood manufacturers do not understand.

Taking advantage of the end of the summer season, the traditional gap period lacks time for masterpieces, coupled with the confrontation between the Star-Spangled Banner Act and the First Amendment, the first weekend trend was very good.

Ronald feels that it is not a big problem for these three movies to recover their costs through domestic box office. If you release the video tape while it's hot, you'll make a net profit.

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Coincidentally, Ronald's new residence in Beverly Park has also been completed. I kept the windows open for ventilation for two months, and hired people to use instruments inside to test every day. Finally, there were no harmful substances exceeding the standard.

Ronald sought Diane's advice and decided to live in it first and then slowly buy things. Then move some of their personal collections and things in and organize them.

Diane's pregnancy gradually became longer and she always felt tired. She couldn't control those things and the internal furniture purchases for a few times, and she would easily get emotional and lose her temper.

Ronald only spent six hours a day in the post-production visual effects studio and went home on time to be with the pregnant woman.

"I understand that when Angie and I's first child was born, Angie was also very worried. It's best to spend more time with her." Walter Murch, who was responsible for the entire image and sound editing, understood Ronald very well and reminded Ronald Don't ignore Diane's psychological needs.

There is a lot of visual effects work to be done. The three special effects directors have their own studio teams, and they lack a unified talent. Ronald asked Walter Murch to pay attention to the daily work progress of each studio. If there were any problems or conflicts, Ronald would be notified to attend a meeting.

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"Hey, here's your call!" Diane, who was next to the phone, stretched out the phone to Ronald and glanced at him.

Diane wanted to eat blueberries again today. The blueberries that were about to go out of season were not available in supermarkets and markets nearby. Ronald had no choice but to ask Richard to settle the matter.

When Diane heard the call, she thought Blueberry was coming...

"Ah, Niceta, I thought it was Richard. Oh, what?"

Ronald listened to Niceta's words for more than a minute, his brows frowning more and more.

Jim Cameron's new film "The Abyss" performed well in the box office market, but there were some discordant voices among the executives at 20th Century Fox. They accused Cameron of using Fox's money to experiment with deep submersibles and visual effects for himself. Some executives also vaguely pointed the finger at Ronald, who originally advocated for additional investment in Cameron and longer editing. version of.

"I know, I'll call Mr. Barry Diller." Ronald didn't feel very good. How can every movie be a hit? Jim's box office was worthy of his investment. At most, he didn't earn as much as his previous films.

The video tape market is so hot now, Fox will not make any less money.

"It's yours again..." Diane received a second call, and it was not Blueberry again, and pointed the receiver at Ronald again.

"It's me, Ronald." It was Joel Silver, the producer of Die Hard, on the phone.

"Twentieth Century Fox started complaining that our crew spent too much money. This is a sequel to a hit action movie. What did they mean when they said this in the middle of filming?"

"You didn't invest more, did you? You did? Well, I'll call them."

Joel Silver's hands and feet are not very clean. This time Fox accused him of spending too much money. I wonder if it has anything to do with Cameron's matter? What's more important is whether it has anything to do with you.

Ronald was thinking about something when the phone at his hand rang again.

"Diane?" Ronald pointed to the phone.

"It must be your job again..." Diane pouted, not wanting to answer the phone anymore. I say I'm going home, but actually I'm not doing a lot of work.

"Aha, thank you. I'm sorry to bother you. That's what I said. Mr. Ohga even flew in the best Nordic blueberries himself."

Richard made a call to Sony's President Ohga's office, and the freshest blueberries flown from Northern Europe were immediately sent to their new home.

"Hehe, that's pretty much it." In the evening, Diane ate fresh blueberries and turned a blind eye to Ronald's constant calls.

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