Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Several creators from the 'Fast-Paced Richmond High School' crew arrived at JFK Airport in New York at noon on Saturday. In the city, they'll meet up with early-arriving actors Sean Penn, Judge Reinhall De and others gathered to participate in the fan meeting in various theaters in New York.

The film, which opened on Thursday and officially opened on the East Coast on Friday, was an explosive box-office sellout. This makes Universal's distribution department very happy, but also very regretful.

If the film could be released simultaneously across the country, instead of using this old regional distribution model, what would it be doing now at the box office?

The budget requested by the marketing department is also running out. The fan meeting in New York worked well. They plan to add some budget and hold two more meetings in New York.

'Fast-paced Richmond High School' has been a hit on the West Coast, and has also been sought after by fans on the East Coast...

We'll be interviewing Jennifer and Phoebe, who play the two heroines. "

"Come on, this cutscene is done, let's go to the Ziegfeld Theater." The host urged the cameraman to get in the car quickly and go to the theater where the fans were active to continue shooting.

Globo New York dispatched a small crew to film "fast-paced Richmond High" news footage that was sought after in New York, ready to be broadcast to cable subscribers as part of the movie's marketing.

Small TV stations don’t have many resources. One host does their own makeup, and one videographer and recording will do it.

They are using Sony's new BetaCam camera, although the picture quality is not very good, but a microphone can be plugged into the camera, and the photographer can do the work of two people, which is very suitable for this kind of small cable network.

"Let's go to the Ziegfeld Theater, too." Ronald and the roadshow group walked outside the airport, where a lot of taxis were parked.

He couldn't help thinking of the scene when he came back to college from Los Angeles, where he was also waiting for the bus, and met Diane's father, Burt, who drove a taxi.

At the Ziegfeld Cinema, Ronald was surrounded by Sean Penn, who arrived earlier, and Judge Reinhold, and came up to hug him tightly.

"Director, I didn't expect this movie to be so popular when I was making it!" Judge was very excited, and his eyes were full of gratitude when he hugged. His agent has apparently received more script offers and calls recently, more directors have recognized his acting skills, and producers have recognized his market value.

"No one thought of it, I thought it was a simple teen exploitation movie." Sean Penn took out the Spiccoli costume and put it on again, and was stopped by many fans at the entrance of the cinema to ask for autographs.

For a young actor, being recognized by fans on the street for the first time is a unique experience.

Sean Penn is obsessed with method acting. He doesn't expect himself to be a star, but the magical boy image of Brooke Shields in "Fast Tempo" made him suddenly become the idol of the national high school boys.

The fan meeting is mainly before the screening of the film, where several main actors interact with the audience, answer some questions about the plot, and talk about some gossip during the filming.

Actors have a much shorter work cycle than directors. The director needs to be involved in the project approval, script, shooting, post-production, and publicity of a movie. Often, a movie will take more than half a year to a year and a half.

Actors are mostly only involved during filming, and at the same time, they may have made two or three films.

So when a movie is released, for actors, it is often the last movie they shot, or the last movie.

Fortunately, most of the actors in "Fast-paced Richmond High School" are newcomers, and they don't have so many script invitations, so most actors have a fresh memory of some things during the shooting that have not been diluted by the new movie.

So they interact with fans, and they have a lot of questions and answers.

"How did you get along with Brooke Shields during filming?" A male fan was particularly interested in Brooke Shields' cameo.

"Oh, Baby, she's really good looking." Sean Penn deliberately used the appearance of the character Spiccoli to answer this question, causing a lot of laughter.

"Phoebe, we love you! Where are you from?"

Phoebe Cates' nudity in this film is very minimal, but the public response it provoked is several times that of the upper "Paradise". The boys started putting up large posters of her on the walls of the room.

"Thank you for liking, I'm a New Yorker."

"Oh oh oh..." A cheer followed by a few loud whistles made Phoebe very happy.

Judge Reinhold, who plays brother and sister, and Jennifer Jason Leigh also have fans who have raised some questions.

Seeing that the time for the interaction is almost here, the host came to the stage to announce the end of the interaction and start showing the movie.

Most of the audience just watched some clips from when Barbie Wygant and Brooke Shields were on the show, and it was the first time they watched the film in its entirety, and immediately the audience began to quiet down.

This interaction with fans has nothing to do with the director. The marketing stage is more of a stage for actors and other front-of-stage personnel.

Ronald is sitting in the back row of the Universal Marketing Department, sitting in the back of the aisle, quietly watching his first theatrical feature film with his family with his family.

Cousin Donna has always admired the artistry of the big cousin, waiting to see him perform like "Rock High School". Aunt Karen is more of a relief to watch Ronald's successful directorial films, and she herself doesn't like watching movies of this kind.

An hour and a half later, along with the ending song "Goodbye, Goodbye" sung by the Oingo Boingo band, the ending of each character began to flash across the screen.

Brad put on a suit and became the manager of the Seven Eleven convenience store.

Stacey and Mark are both in love, and they haven't done it yet.

Linda actually dated a college professor as her boyfriend.

"Hahaha……"

The audience's favorite was the ending in which Spiccoli rescued Brooke Shields.

"Is this song imitating the scene at the end of Ingrid Bergman's 'True and False'?"

"Yes, just like at the end of 'True and False Princess', the Queen Mother said to the distinguished guests who came to attend, the show is over, go home. It's a pun."

When Ronald heard someone ask him a question, he answered without hesitation.

"Hi, Helen. Glad you're here." There was a smile on Ronald's face, the apple-blush Helen Slater.

"My dad Gerald gave me a ticket." Helen waved to him.

Ronald pulled Helen and hugged her.

Helen pushed her dark brown hair behind her ears. "You did a great job. I regret not being in this movie."

"That's when Gerald said that you were not yet an adult. Our filming schedule was very tight. Young actors will be bound by union regulations, so you may not be invited to film." Ronald replied.

In this exploitative film, the heroine has a break. Ronald also did not want Helen to make such a scene. If it's a cameo role, maybe that's fine.

"Hi, Karen, Donna." Helen went to the leg warmer store to buy a lot of goods, and greeted Ronald's family.

"How's your TV show going?" Ronald remembered that Helen had returned to New York to shoot an ABC TV series after she was not cast in Coppola's "The Outer Boy."

"The filming is done, and it will be played on the weekend." Helen Slater touched her face. The air-conditioning in the theater didn't seem to be cold enough. Her face was a little hot, and she must have turned red.

"Then I'll wait and see."

"Don't watch it, it's very boring." Helen was a little shy. She felt that the TV series she made was definitely not as exciting as today's film, and the requirements for performing TV series were also much relaxed.

"It's all roles that my dad Gerald gave me. I don't really want to play roles like that."

"What are you talking about me again?" Gerald ended his greeting with his colleagues from Universal Television and came to pick up his daughter.

"Mr. Slater." Ronald greeted him.

"Well done, the young people in our TV station are talking about your movie. Congratulations."

"Do you have a lot of people waiting?" Gerald pointed behind Ronald, and there were a lot of people waiting to speak to him. "We're going first. Congratulations again."

Gerald stretched out his arm, Helen circled it obediently, and the two walked out of the theater.

"Phone contact" Helen turned around and made a phone call gesture to Ronald, then silently said something with her mouth.

"Contact by phone." Ronald also replied with a smile, saying goodbye to her with a smile.

"Hi Ronald, congratulations!" Richard, CAA's agent, jumped in front of him.

"Why did you come from Los Angeles?"

"Yeah, it's not a premiere, but it's the first time my client's film has been shown at the Ziegfeld Theatre, and I should be there."

"Thank you, come back with me for a drink?" Ronald invited.

This isn't a premiere after all, and there's no follow-up party. Therefore, except for a few actors from other places, they will go to the hotel to rest with the people from Universal. Like Ronald, Phoebe Cates, and other New York natives, they are all ready to go home after the end.

"No, this night, you should be with your family. I'll call you tomorrow." Richard also made a phone call gesture to him, "You have a few script and director invitations, we'll talk tomorrow."

"Ronald, Ronald!"

After dealing with the people who knew and didn't know, and a group of people inside and outside the circle, Ronald said goodbye to several actors and staff, and accompanied his aunt and cousin to the parking lot of the Ziegfeld Theater to pick up the car and go home.

Aunt Karen drove Ronald back to the apartment in her SUV to rest.

Ronald returned home, looking at the familiar furniture, a familiar smell got into his nose, he felt very comfortable returning to his family.

"Do you still like my movies?"

"It's pretty good, but those people don't speak grammatically. I think the public high school education in California is really average."

Donna began to complain about the valley accent of the cheerleader girls in the movie, "Why does the theater start with Literally, and all verbs are replaced with like?"

Ronald laughed. Donna went to a key high school, and the students there were all high IQs, so she definitely didn't like girls like the Valley Girls.

"Donna, it's time for you to go to bed. Ronald, come here, I have something to tell you." Aunt Karen urged Donna to sleep, then made Ronald a cup of black tea.

"What's the matter, Aunt Karen? Don't you like my movies?"

"I can't say I like it, and I can't say I don't like it. I'm past the age of liking movies." My aunt also took a cup of black tea and drank it.

"Now that you're a director, and the movie is selling, when can you go back to New York University to continue your studies?"