Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Some of the media took what I said out of context. I first met Rey at the Cannes Film Festival in the seventies, and had seen his Abdul trilogy before.

Rey was invited by Hollywood in the mid-1960s to shoot his Alien movie. At that time, the script was mimeographed a lot. Twentieth Century Fox was very close to reaching a cooperation with him. At that time, the script was in the big screen. The studio has spread it widely. "

Scorsese denied the allegation of supporting Rey on the phone, and he only expressed his admiration for the Bangladeshi director Rey.

This plagiarism has been widely mentioned by people in the film and television industry, but Universal seems to have made some efforts to suppress domestic media reports of plagiarism allegations.

American media, generally not reporting the allegations from an unknown small country director as news, attacked their own teenage hero who saved Hollywood, Spielberg.

It was some tabloids and magazines in London's Fleet Street that reported the suspected plagiarism of Spielberg with great fanfare. They seem to have written numerous reports in disregard of America's media silence.

Among them is the entertainment magazine under the "Daily Star" that Ronald bought, "Star Weekend".

Spielberg denies that he copied Rey's script. The main reason he uses is that when Rey's script was approved in Hollywood in 1967, he was still in high school and had no chance to see Rey's script.

The "Star Weekend" report did not directly compare the similarities between the two scripts, but seized Spielberg's rebuttal and began to examine Spielberg's true birth date.

"Mr. Spielberg graduated from high school in 1965, and in 1969 has been working as a director in Hollywood..."

The magazine also has his high school graduation photos and transcripts. I don't know how much effort these puppies took to dig out these old things.

"What's the use of listing Spielberg's high school graduation date like this?" Ronald didn't quite understand the mystery of the British tabloid report, so he asked Richard for advice.

"If this graduation photo is real, then he was over thirty when Jaws came out in 1975, not the genius who was billed as the first Hollywood-changing box office hit before he turned thirty. .

There are rumors in Hollywood that Steven reported his age by two years. "

Richard hits the mark.

If Spielberg was thirty-one when he photographed the great white shark, not twenty-nine,

Then he doesn't have the aura of making the biggest-grossing movie of all time before he's 30.

It was hard for Ronald to understand what these people thought. Spielberg was two years older, and when he was 30 years old, he made Jaws. That's a rare talent in the history of cinema, so what does it matter?

"Because that way, the British director Alfred Hitchcock would have the honor of making a blockbuster masterpiece before the age of thirty. Hitchcock, at twenty-seven, depended on the director.' Blame the Tenants', it became famous in Britain, and then Hollywood."

Ronald finally understood the strange vanity of the British. Bangladesh is also part of the Commonwealth, so America's genius, the script for his top-grossing film, was actually borrowed from the Commonwealth's genius.

"It's really kind of boring, we Americans don't care about that at all."

"bell bell bell"

Putting down the phone, Ronald's doorbell was rang.

Two workers who looked like they brought two large and one small three boxes into Ronald's house.

"This is the ibm personal computer (pc) you ordered, Mr. Ronald Lee? Please sign." One of them took out a receipt and asked Ronald to sign.

Ronald, who had signed, saw the two open two large boxes, took out two white plastic boxes, and placed them on his desk.

They put a flat box underneath with a monitor stacked on top. After plugging in the cables, doing some debugging, and then powering up the monitor.

With a "hum" sound, the monitor lights up, and there is movement on the black screen.

"Here are two floppy drives, you can put floppy disks." Take out a boot floppy disk and insert it into the a drive on the front of the lower host. Then he turned on the red power switch located at the bottom right of the chassis.

After a squeak, the system was successfully started, and the a:\\\u003e mark appeared on the display.

"Power on the monitor first, then power on the console. Turn it off in reverse."

"OK."

Ronald sat next to the monitor, typed the "dir" command, and hit enter.

The directory below the floppy disk in drive a appears on the screen.

After playing a few times, Ronald nodded in satisfaction.

"This is the pc-dos version of the word processor 'Wordstar'". Another worker punched the small box, which also contained a floppy disk and instructions.

Ronald took it and stuffed it into the b drive, then started wordstar, tried it, and signed for it.

An up-to-date personal computer, plus a typing software, cost Ronald $1,800, the computer $160, and the software $200, very expensive.

However, using a high-quality mechanical keyboard, and the crackling typing, Ronald thinks it is still worth it, and it is much more comfortable than Commod's keyboard.

The configuration of two floppy drives also allows Ronald to switch floppy disks when he does not need to save.

Looking at the sentence he typed on the monitor, it was not dazzling at all, and it seemed that his eyes would not dry out when typing for a long time. Ronald felt that his shopping was worthwhile.

Anyway, I have already made a lot of money on the personal computer and the word star, and I bought this machine as a reward for myself.

A few days later, Ronald was at home with his agent, Eddie, and a female editor of the publishing house, looking at proofs of books, when a news item on TV caught their attention.

"Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, suffered a head injury in a car accident yesterday, September 13, and unfortunately passed away in hospital today..."

"Oh my God." Eddie called out, and the TV was accompanied by a picture of Grace Kelly, and below it were the two numbers 1929 – 1982.

"Grace Kelly passed away in a way that didn't seem to belong to her. Fifty-two, daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia businessman, Hollywood actress, Oscar winner, Princess of Monaco, and more about her life, by Rainer to you bring."

The TV shows the images of Grace Kelly announcing her engagement to King Rainier of Monaco, followed by a review of her film career, with scenes from "Rear Window", "High Noon", "Country Girl" and more. .

"Is Hollywood cursed? It lost two superstars in two weeks." The female editor also interjected.

Ronald knew she was talking about Ingrid Bergman, who died late last month.

Two of America's most dazzling female stars of the 1940s and 1950s died within two weeks of each other.

These two can also be regarded as two of the most beautiful and temperamental female stars in the golden age of Hollywood. I wonder what beautiful actresses will join Hollywood in the next two decades of the twentieth century?

"Mr. Ronald Lee, your manuscript is like this. If you have no objection, we will be ready to deliver it for printing next month, and you can see your book in the bookstore in October."

It took more than an hour to continue to read the proof of the book page by page, and the female editor finally completed the final comparison of Ronald's first published book and got up to leave.

"Thank you, thanks to your patient proofreading." Ronald sent the editor out.

"Ronald, I was there when I signed you, but I didn't expect you to write books other than scripts and be able to publish them."

Agent Eddie laughed happily. Ronald's agents outside of his film business are all entrusted to him in New York, and the published book, according to the editor, is the first of its kind on the market, and is likely to sell well.

"Thanks to Ms. Hinton, the publishers wouldn't like my book if it wasn't for her recommendation."

Ronald smiled and simply made a long-distance call to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and called Hinton, the author of "Urchin", to thank him.

"Ms Hinton? I'm Ronald."

"Hi, Ronnie. Is your book ready for publication?"

"Yes, I called specifically to thank you for your help."

"Haha, I thought you had talent in this area. At that time, I was on the set of Tulsa's 'Out of the World'. Without your help, I couldn't write the script for 'Betta Fish' with a computer."

Hinton smiled heartily. When she saw Ronald's talent, she helped the publishing house she contacted and wanted to publish a book for what Ronald taught her to help authors like her.

"Thank you, how's your 'Betta' shooting?"

"Director Coppola is progressing relatively smoothly, and it is expected that the filming will be completed early next month."

"They didn't fight now, did they?" Ronald asked with a smile.

"Nope, unlike the urchins who have two gangs and a dozen lads, Douyu has only three male protagonists, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, and Francis' nephew Nick. No need for your help, Diane is there. , they can't fight. Hahaha..." Xinton also laughed.

"By the way, I haven't congratulated you on your movie's big sales. Is there any hope of breaking 40 million?" Hinton remembered the big sales of Ronald's film "Fast Pace". At that time, the assistant of the crew had become a blockbuster. director.

"Universal said that there are still four to six weeks of release time, and it is still a matter of whether it can break through 40 million." Ronald replied.

"Anyway, congratulations... Ronald."

"thank you too."

Hanging up the phone, Ronald looked at the proof of the book in his hand. The cover of the large format had the title "wordstar for dummies" written on it.

This is a book for authors who write with WordStar software on the computer. It tells how to install and use WordStar software to write or document.

There are also a lot of explanatory diagrams, and a list of shortcut keys, which can be cut out and pasted next to the personal computer.

Not only ibm computers, but others such as Commod and even Apple ii computers, also have detailed installation tutorials.

Ronald looked at this book and couldn't help but fell into deep thought. He remembered the scenes of filming "The Outer Boy" in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and how he got the idea to write this book.

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