Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ronald's first reaction when he got home was to call Ed Limato, the Italian bastard.

"Ed, you bastard, you screwed me up. Nicholas is only 17 years old, and now my hero is going to be taken by Heckling's people.

You are a bug, hiding in dark corners every day, trying to suck blood on the artist's body, and exuding all kinds of stench.

Are your clients your family? I think you're worse than Michael Corleone in The Godfather, and it's your family that's the one to blame. "

After scolding Limato in the face, he finally calmed down. Limato on the other end of the phone could only be perfunctory and apologize by the way.

"Nicholas deliberately made a fake sound proof in order to get the main role. Someone deliberately went to his uncle Francis to verify it. I think the crew is still targeting you, Ronald, you have to be careful." Limato told him conclusions of the investigation.

Ronald hung up the phone, inexplicable irritability.

The actor Brad is likely to be taken away by Judge Reinhold, and he lost the opportunity. The heroine was asked to find Bo Ji, who now also looks dangerous. If Heckling gets most of the cast, she can question her directing on set.

When it comes to the daily sample viewing session where the producer will attend, if you are questioned again. Pinch up and down, your position will start to shake.

If this kind of doubt is passed on to the crew again, the actors will have more distrust of themselves, and the quality of daily shooting will decline, creating a vicious circle.

If this situation continues for a week, then it is really possible that the director will be dismissed according to the contract because the quality of the film does not meet the requirements of the producer. Hollywood pays attention to the rules. Whoever hires you can fire you. The contract is written in black and white, and there is no emotion to talk about.

Looking at the computer on the table, the more Ronald thought about it, the more wrong he felt. He suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and began to continue writing the script evaluation of "Back to the Future".

I also have a trump card, that is, Spielberg's airborne support on the day of the launch. For this, I have to take time to write the evaluation opinions.

"After the protagonist travels back to the 1950s and helps his parents change history, he should not make too many changes to the history of the 1980s, so that the audience cannot gain more empathy. Instead, the original house of his parents should be enlarged on the original site. The magnitude of the improvement..."

After saving the disk, Ronald pressed the print button, and the dot matrix printer began to print out the text he wrote.

Ripped off the printed page, and Ronald read it through without any problem. Then I pressed the button of the floppy drive, and with a bang, the thin five-inch floppy disk popped out with great force.

Ronald was not used to the elasticity of the floppy drive, and accidentally cut a hole in his finger by the floppy drive. He put his injured finger in his mouth and went to the medicine cabinet in the bathroom for a Bundy Band-Aid.

Finally found the medicine box above the mirror, Ronald put his fingers on it, and glanced at himself in the mirror inadvertently.

An anxious face appeared in the mirror, with a messy beard and bloodshot eyes.

"What's wrong with me?"

Ronald walked back to the bedroom where the computer was placed, which was used as a study. It is my dream to be a film director, and now I have realized it but I am not as happy as I imagined.

After I became a director, I didn't do much of what I wanted to do. Kanjing, drawing storyboards, and imagining how to recreate the text in the script into an image.

This is something that I have repeated many times in my dreams. But now his energy seems to be mainly on the power struggle.

"Fast-paced Richmond High School" is a masterpiece that also released a commemorative video tape 15 years later. The picture in the dream told me without a doubt that if I could reproduce the level of the movie in my dream, it would undoubtedly have realized my dream of making a movie that will be remembered many years later.

Why do all these things that divide the scope of power? Make sure your name is in the director's column?

If I don't follow the rules of art and compromise for power in casting, I'm afraid I will be caught by the other party. As long as you respect the rules of artistic creation and find actors with suitable temperament to play the corresponding roles, who else can take away their position?

Amy Heckerling, like herself, is a novice who has never directed a feature film. Although she spent several years studying in school more than herself, filmmaking is a craft, and she may not have as much experience as she has learned in practice, so she shouldn't be afraid of her.

The so-called director's power ultimately depends on the samples they produce. Actors are professionals. When they show daily samples at night, they can tell whether they are good or bad when they see their performances.

As long as I can give them the opportunity to act and let them see that their career prospects are promising after the movie is released, who will recruit myself into the crew, what does it matter?

Ronald felt that he had fallen into a misunderstanding and regarded various means of power struggle as ends.

Seeing the "Back to the Future" script on the desk, I posted a post-it note with Spielberg's name on it. "Don't forget your original dream, think about your original intention when you go wrong," Spielberg's advice to himself came to mind.

"Shxt! You can't get caught up in the power struggle of the crew. As long as you respect the rules, and there is a nuclear director who promised to come to the crew to support him, I don't believe that you can't establish the authority of the director, and you can't make a blockbuster classic."

Ronald took off his T-shirt and went to take a hot shower. The warm water rushed over his head, making him think about a lot of things.

By the time he finished taking a shower, he had fully figured out what to do next.

The actor dreamed of in the dream, even if it is not the best, has been proved to be successful by another history, and I don't need to deliberately divide it according to the personnel camp.

Sean Penn still let him play the fool Spiccoli according to the assignment in his dream, and don't move him into Brad, so that the temperament does not fit and the filming will not be effective.

Just like a dream, Judge Reinhold takes on the role of big brother Brad. In the interview, Tom Hanks is more suitable than other candidates, and also to test the possibility of TV dramas and movies.

As for Nicholas Coppola, and Eric Stoltz, give a small role if you will.

The heroine, Stacey, in the dream scene, was played by Jennifer Jason Lee, the daughter of the star. In the limited swimming pool scene, she acted quite well, and she was still invited to audition.

Her best friend Linda, the prettier girl, and the scalper Mike, and the "rat" nerd Mark, were not seen in the audition. Or take the initiative to go to the casting director to see the audition materials.

Brooke Xiaosi also got in touch. If she is willing to come, there is a commercial shoot, and the incense love of "endless love", I believe that she knows better than anyone how to direct this beauty with little acting skills.

According to the casting of the film in the dream, plus the personal connections accumulated by myself, and CAA's agent network, the advantage is still on my side.

Take action now!

A few days later, Brooke Shields' mother received a script from Ronald.

After learning about the story, Terry was not very satisfied, because Stacey was not the absolute protagonist in this movie, and she didn't like letting her daughter compete with other actresses for time in the movie.

"But I want to play this kind of play. This kind of play is very interesting, just like the story in my high school." Brooke wanted to try it a little bit.

"Darling, dear, this doesn't fit your identity and status." Terry comforted his daughter, "and the crew doesn't have a budget, so you can't pay your salary."

"Anyway, I think Ronald is very good at directing. When he directed my scenes, my classmates said I did a good job." Brooke whispered.

Terry paused for a moment, and Brooke's youthful rebellious mentality was a bit of a seizure. It turned out that she would not object to her decision, but now she insists on her own disagreement for Ronald, a young director. It appears that action needs to be taken.

"Honey, I'm going to negotiate the price with the producers. If they can pay 1.5 million, nothing will be a hindrance."

Ronald left the negotiation with Brooke to producers Linson and Heckleyn, and went to ABC's TV production studio to discuss the possibility of Hanks working part-time.

"We usually start shooting at nine in the morning until six in the evening, and most of the content is shot in the studio."

"This is the home of the two protagonists." Ronald followed the production director to visit, "This is the bedroom, this is the living room..."

It turns out that the home of the two people in the TV series is actually next door in the studio.

"If you shoot part-time jobs at the same time, then you can only let him shoot at night," the production director concluded.

That can't be done. Most of the "fast-paced" scenes are in the daytime. If you use technical means to shoot the daytime at night, the cost is unacceptable.

Except for Hanks, and Brooke Shields encountered difficulties here. Several other characters are easy to find.

The original cast of nerdy "mouse" Mark was Brian Becker, who at first glance wasn't the type to be afraid to ask girls out in high school.

Mike, the scalper of a poor family, is hidden in the casting director's data pile. Robert Romanus himself was born in the slums of the Bronx, New York. He pooled money to buy a plane ticket to Los Angeles. He has a kind of poor family. child's temperament.

Ronald put him in Universal's group dorm and asked him to do odd jobs to earn money. The boy will do anything.

Neither of the two, Hecklin, expressed any objection. Their roles were relatively small, and she was satisfied that the temperaments of the two actors fit the roles. Five of the six starring actors have already been confirmed. Only the black-haired girl with big glasses who played Linda was nowhere to be seen.

Ronald scoured the audition photos sent, and also found descriptions of the actors, hoping to see more candidates, but there would still be no trace of the crowd for a while.

Ronald can only sketch briefly, and he can't print out the actor's appearance in his mind, and the effect is too slow to find.

One day, Ronald just came out of CAA's office after reading a box of actor materials, and was suddenly stopped by an enthusiastic voice.

"Ronald!"

Ronald looked back and saw that it was the Israeli brothers Minahan and Yoram.

"I knew it was you. Come and sit in our office?"

"Next time, I'm busy now."

"Know, know, we saw the news of your project on The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures made the news."

"Just go and sit for a while, our office is nearby, very soon, without delaying your business." Yoram was also very enthusiastic.

"Okay." Ronald felt that it would be a good pastime to chat with the Israeli brothers for a while, and Minahan's brain was especially great.

"I heard you're shooting a youth film? What's the story?"

"It's the Hollywood Reporter." Ronald recapitulated the story that was published in the newspaper.

"So there's drag racing, love, love between men and women, abortion..." Minahan counted with his stubby fingers.

"Yes, those are the elements."

"Hahaha, you will definitely succeed." Minahan and Yoram winked, and I'll show you the office. After you came last time, we invited a lot of people and a small screening room.

After the two of them left, Yoram strove to write down all the elements Ronald talked about. Their youth film "The Last Virgin in America" ​​is also in the preparatory stage. It can be plagiarized. No, if you learn from Universal's production creativity, are you worried that it won't sell?

"This is accounting, this is script reading, this is our sales." Minahan introduced the staff along the way.

These people are sitting in cramped offices, and the accountants are still working in the aisles. Ronald is also absolutely down, which is too stingy.

"This is our little screening room, and I'm not like those Hollywood tycoons who play golf to kill time. I'm free with Yoram and just watch movies here, new, old, silent, black and white, sometimes to tears..."

Ronald didn't listen to what Minahan was saying. His attention was all drawn to the heroine on the screen, who was Linda he couldn't find, the actress with black hair and big glasses.

"which movie is this?"

"Paradise," says Minahan, "was shot in Israel, and wanted us to find him a distribution outlet in America."