Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The Oscars Dinner Dance in the name of the directors of the Academy of Film was held at the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. All winners must be present.

The nominees who didn't win, and the audience, and those who didn't make it, wanted to squeeze into this natural social setting. It's not like Hollywood hasn't seen handsome men and beauties being brought into parties and soaring into the sky.

So almost everyone who attended the awards dinner came, except for David Lynch.

Failing to win one of the eight nominations, this arrogant new director did not want to attend the dinner party and faced the care and ridicule of others.

"How come there is none?" Ronald and Diane walked into the dinner together, and soon found the agent Rick Nisita, who had arrived earlier, and they found an empty table and sat down while eating chat.

"That's the beauty of Oscar, no one knows the result until it's announced." Nisita took a bottle of red wine and poured it into several glasses, "Congratulations, Ronald, young Oscar winner, cheers!"

"Cheers!" Diane and Burt, Richard also toasted congratulations.

Not too many people noticed their joy, nominations for best original screenplay, and best original song lyricist, not much of an award, except the waiter gave them a smile.

"Can I see this little golden man?" Burt said, staring at the trophy Ronald put on the table. His greatest wish was to train his daughter to be a star actor.

"Of course," Ronald motioned to Bert to do it himself. He took a plate of seafood pancakes as an appetizer, grabbed two pieces and stuffed them into his mouth. The taste was not bad.

Ronald took another red wine and poured a little into his glass. Napa Valley, Coppola Winery, it says in round letters on the label.

"Is this the Coppola I know?" Ronald asked Nisita.

"Yes, Coppola bought a vineyard with the money he earned from The Godfather 2." Nisita took a sip and put down the glass. He glanced at the Dianes, then leaned into Ronald's ear and said:

"Spielberg will be late. I made an appointment with his assistant Katherine. You go to deal with your trophy first, make a phone call or something. Come back and wait for him in half an hour, don't delay."

"I'll go right now." Ronald saw that he didn't continue drinking red wine, and thought, "Is it bad?"

He picked up his cup and took another sip, and hurriedly ate another seafood pancake. Take the little golden man back from Diane's hand, get up and hand it over to the staff of the Academy Council.

The place to return the trophy needs to sign a series of procedures. The most interesting thing is that the trophy cannot be resold without permission. If it is put up for auction, the college has the priority to take it back with a price of 1 USD. It was the Academy's remedy after some trophies hit the auction market in the early years.

"Mr. Li, the college only provides one free trophy for one award, and the remaining one costs $350." The staff politely asked him who would pay the money.

"So sell it for 350 and buy it for $1?" Ronald mumbled, and waited for Michael Gore to come over. The two discussed it and shared the money equally.

After lining up to call Aunt Karen and the family sharing the joy, Ronald walked back to the banquet hall.

As soon as you sit down. Timothy Hutton came over, stretched out his hand to pull Diane over with him, and said he pointed to the mortal crowd, "Mary Tyler Moore wants to see you."

Burt stood up to stand in front of his daughter, and his agent, Nisita, stood up, trying to avoid conflict.

Ronald also stood up and stretched out his arm for Diane to wrap it, "Let's go see Ms. Moore together."

Both Nisita and Bert thought it was a good deal, and stood up to go over.

"You are my girlfriend,

should be with me. "Hutton looked somewhat under the influence of alcohol.

"Poor child, the girl promised to go to the prom with you, doesn't mean she will dance with you after the prom starts." Ronald dropped a sentence and took Diane to meet the big names.

"Hey! You're a screenwriter who didn't win an award." Hutton found that no one cared about him, and followed him back.

Diane greets lead actress Mary Tyler Moore. It turned out that Mary liked Diane's "Love at Sunset Bridge" very much. Knowing that Hutton's female companion was her, she wanted to chat with her.

"Robert, this is Ronald for Best Original Song." Redford, who is also a client of CAA, introduced them to Nisita.

"Mr. Redford, I'm your fan." Ronald said quickly.

Redford responded politely, next to his grown daughter.

When Redford's daughter was just about to go to college, she joked about Hutton, "Isn't this your girlfriend? How to be with other people, what does he do."

"It's just a screenwriter..." Hutton responded indignantly, his voice a little louder.

Redford and Ronald looked back at the same time.

"You're a screenwriter, Ronald. Everything you write ends up in front of our actors. You write so many scenes and you can't be in any of them. Movies are the art of performance, right?"

"The Hollywood spotlight is always on the stars, Ronald. The girls only know me," Hutton said.

Redford couldn't help frowning when he heard this. The screenwriter of the common man was on the scene. Didn't Hutton include him in his words? At the beginning, in order to invite him to adapt this best-selling novel, I wasted some energy.

Everyone at the scene also saw the problem, and everyone looked at Ronald to see how he responded.

"Mr. Hutton, you won the Best Supporting Actor Award, but you appear in every scene of the movie. Who are you with?"

Ronald fought back with words. Hutton is obviously the protagonist, but he did not dare to compete with several veteran acting schools of Robert De Niro, Jack Lemmon and Peter O'Toole this year, and went to the best male supporting role to grab the fruit.

The crew also nominated actors who were forced to give way for best supporting actor, Mary Tyler Moore, who directly competed for the actress and failed, and Donald Sutherland, who was squeezed out by Hutton and was not nominated for a supporting actor. Ronald thumbs up.

Hutton, who just debuted, won an Oscar, and some of his demeanors really aroused the hatred of many people.

"You!" Hutton, who was said to be the center, suddenly blushed.

Seeing all this, Robert Redford thought to himself that this young man has sharp words and wonders how the screenplay works?

Nisita took the opportunity to introduce Ronald as one of the nominees for Best Original Screenplay this year. Redford became a little interested in Ronald and said:

"A good script is a film actor's dream. My film festival in Park City, Utah has been changed from this year to January. If you have a good script and make it into a low-budget movie, you might as well send it to the exhibition next year."

Ronald quickly expressed his gratitude, and after a few chats, returned to his seat with Diane.

At this time, on the other side of the hall, several heavyweights had just entered.

George Lucas and Mrs. Martha, with Steven Spielberg. We are discussing the final editing of the new film "The Lost Ark of the Covenant".

Martha Lucas is also a film editor, "From 3 hours to under 2 hours, it's very good. But I think the film lacks an emotional climax.

The hero Indiana Jones, and the heroine Marion Lavenwood did not meet in the end. In this way, the audience is missing out of the cinema. "

"You're right, the test audience generally felt that this was a problem. I was preparing for the Harrison and Kelly reshoots." Spielberg said, "Martha, George, did you see anything in the final version? ?"

"What?" Martha asked.

"That shot of the McDonnell Douglas DC-3," George Lucas smiled, "is it a shot from an old movie that was reused?"

"Hahaha, yes. It can save a lot of budget, I don't think the average audience can see it, it's very cleverly cut."

The three took a glass of Coppola's red wine and continued to sit down and chat.

"How did Francis start selling wine?" Spielberg asked Lucas.

"His new film 'Just Love New Love' has been withdrawn by the investor. Now he needs to mortgage his own vineyard to complete the film and use it at the Oscar dinner, which can make the valuation of **** higher."

George Lucas used to be Francis Coppola's younger brother, and he was full of emotion when talking about the eldest brother, "I persuaded him, but he liked the movie very much, and also invited the dancer Gene Kelly as the choreographer. For this film, he bought a large soundstage in Los Angeles and re-set it instead of shooting it on location."

Several were old friends who knew Francis Coppola's style, and the budgets were always getting higher and higher, and every shot was like a gamble. Coppola also loves gambling. He once took a thousand dollars to Las Vegas, hoping to win the bet and buy a better camera, but he lost everything.

"It's okay, Francis Coppola played better when he was under pressure," Spielberg said.

"Hahaha. You're right." Lucas knew that his old friend was referring to the last movie "Apocalypse Now", and he invested tens of millions of dollars in the same way, and then successfully made a comeback at the box office.

"We're going to be here for a while, how about you, Steven?" asked Martha Lucas, neither of them being social by nature. When I meet old friends, I can talk about the topics I like, but I am not very keen on social occasions like Hollywood.

"I'm also meeting a young man who gave me some advice on the script for my new film, just as I thought."

"Young people who interest you? Like Zemeckis?" Robert Zemeckis was the equivalent of Spielberg's apprentice, but he was a screenwriter, and Spielberg's 1941 was a complete failure.

Spielberg contacted Columbia again, and asked Zemeckis to direct "Intrigue", which will be released soon.

"I don't know, so I want to see him."

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