Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Boom, boom... boom, boom"

The heavy drums began to beat, and Ronald, who was lying on the bed, tried to open his eyes. Could it be that he drank too much champagne at the party and forgot to turn off the TV?

A skeleton warrior made of silver and white metal jumped out on the TV, only two eyes were red, and he was holding a thick gun in his hand.

"biu biu biu..."

It's not bullets that shoot out of the gun, it's lasers. Huge helicopters, robots, and humans in military uniforms.

"Hey, dreaming again?" Ronald regained his spirits. Which actor did he see today that triggered the dream?

"Skynet, the computer that controls all these robots, sent two Terminators, traveling through time and space, from the future back to our time..."

A somewhat muffled female voice narrator interjected.

"Is it Jim's Terminator?" Ronald thought to himself, "So the Terminator is still made, but you have to take a good look."

Under the bluish background light, a burst of lightning intertwined, and a naked muscular man appeared.

"Isn't this a bodybuilding champion? It seems that the muscles didn't explode when they took Mr. Olympia before." No wonder I dreamed that the Terminator robot was played by Schwarzenegger.

The Terminator went into the bar, grabbed other people's leather jackets and boots, and grabbed a shotgun.

There was another burst of lightning, this time it was a handsome naked man. His luck was not very good and he fell next to a police car. He punched the policeman unconscious, then put on the police uniform and drove away in the police car.

"This is probably a human resistance soldier." Ronald watched with relish, and Jim's director was very good.

The Human Rebellion found the address of Rebel leader "John Connor, a ten-year-old boy, through a portable computer in the police car.

"The script changed?" Ronald thought, the script he had read was coming back to kill his mother. However, there is still a child's play. Jim seems to be of a very high level. It is difficult for child actors to direct well.

In a trance, the camera turned to the street.

The Terminator, played by Schwarzenegger, drove a Harley motorcycle to find John Connor on the street. He found Connor riding a small motorcycle on an elevated road, and the speeder began to pursue.

At the same time, the human resistance fighters who found the address also began to look for them, and the two saw John Connor playing game consoles in the mall at about the same time.

The Terminator pulled out a shotgun and aimed it at Connor in the aisle, and the rebel fighter on the other side of the aisle also pulled out a small pistol and aimed it at the Terminator.

"Get down!" The Terminator called out, then took a step forward and shot the resistance fighter.

"Huh?" What's the plot? Killed the human protagonist not long after the opening?

The "Rebel Soldier" paused after being hit, then stood up straight, and continued to walk forward. A large hole hit by a bullet in his body began to be repaired and restored.

"Ah, I..., this is a robot." Ronald thought to himself. The suspense was well set. At first, I thought it was a human resistance army, but I didn't expect it to be another robot terminator, the liquid metal robot that can transform into millions.

But is this script changed by magic or what? Why are the two robots fighting? Stealing power?

In another trance, John Langner took the opportunity to escape from the mall and drove off on his little motorcycle.

The two Terminators continued to chase. The liquid metal robot grabbed a big truck and tried to kill Connor. The Terminator played by Schwarzenegger appeared in a Harley, grabbed Connor with one hand and put it on his motorcycle, and then Fancy reloading the shotgun with one hand and blowing the truck tank backwards.

It was another trance, Ronald couldn't understand a little, why didn't the Terminator kill Connor after saving him, but also took him to rescue his mother Sarah Connor?

John Connor asked the Terminator why he was saving him. It turned out that he was a robot recoded by the Resistance, sent by the old Connor to protect his young self.

In a battle at the mental hospital, the two rescue Sarah, and the Terminator recounts the origins of Skynet. The three decided to kill the designer of the Skynet chip, change history, and prevent mankind from falling into a nuclear war.

The liquid metal robot arrived and killed the black chip designer in the shootout. The two sides are in a street chase again. The liquid metal robot can't be killed, and he will repair it himself.

In the end, the helpless people drove the car to the steel plant, and in the steel blast furnace, the liquid metal robot was finally eliminated. And the last chip that humans can evolve into Skynet is in the mind of the Terminator played by Schwarzenegger.

He voluntarily self-destructed for the future of mankind.

"Dong dong, dong dong... dong dong, dong dong" The heavy drum beat began to beat again, and the actor who played Sarah Connor had a man's chin. She told the audience with a low narration that she woke up in the original historical Skynet The day when nothing happened, they have changed history.

"what!"

Ronald shouted, woken up by himself.

Why is it so beautiful? How come the special effects are so realistic?

The image of the liquid robot transforming into someone else is flawless. And he was frozen on the ground by liquid nitrogen. After encountering the high temperature of the explosion, he returned to liquid state. Countless mercury-like droplets aggregated together and recovered into a robot. How was this filmed?

Is the gap between people really that big?

Even George Lucas and Spielberg couldn't make this scene.

Ronald fell into deep self-doubt.

"Congratulations, Jim, you wrote a good script."

Ronald found Gail Heard's apartment two days later and passed his script revisions to Jim Cameron.

Ronald finally figured out that he might not be dreaming of the Terminator, but a sequel to the Terminator.

The Terminator droid played by Schwarzenegger in the first movie is the villain, which is why Sarah Connor runs away when she sees him in a mental hospital.

The first few scenes were deliberate tricks by Cameron. This made the audience mistakenly think that this time Schwarzenegger was still the villain robot, so in the first half hour, he rescued John Connor, which was the first major reversal of the plot, just to revive the audience's curiosity. rise.

Ronald was quite sure that what he dreamed of was a sequel movie.

Because the special effects inside are obviously ahead of the current film industry. Lucas's Star Wars special effects, I don't know how to make the details, but I can always think of a general idea.

And those liquid metal robot deformation lenses in the dream don't even have ideas. While Cameron is a special effects genius who can produce great results at a low cost, Ronald doesn't believe he can make that kind of shot right now.

Maybe some new technology will come out in the future to make that kind of special effect possible.

"Ronald, do you have an idea?" Cameron saw Ronald's visit, and hurriedly took the revision from Ronald's hand and read it.

"What budget are you going to find for this movie?"

"Me and Gale expect to spend between eight and ten million."

"That's impossible. I marked some scenes that were too expensive to realize. You can control the special effects. I just have doubts about the effect of some shots, such as the liquid robot. The current technology will only feel fake. ."

Cameron frowned, realizing that the liquid metal robot had been cut out.

"Anything else?" he asked.

"You have too many scenes, Jim." Ronald pointed to the table he made, "so many scenes, the cost of each set, the cost of lighting, and the total length of the shooting, it can make you bankrupt. ."

Ronald pointed to the scene in the script and carefully analyzed it for Cameron.

"These scenes can all be merged together, so that you don't need too many transitions, each transition is troublesome, wastes time, and increases labor costs...

These scenes can all be shot at night, mostly in shopping malls, parking lots, and streets, so that you can directly use the lights in these scenes without artificial lighting...

Trust me, when I was filming 'Fast Pace', the arcade scene was more than twice as fast as the rest of the...  

And these scenes are merged and shot together, you can also save the time of rehearsal, so when you shoot the scenes of the actors' dialogue, you can arrange them to shoot on a day without waiting for the lighting time, and the emotions can be matched when editing... …”

The doubt in Cameron's eyes gradually turned into a sudden realization.

Everyone has worked for Roger Coleman. Needless to say, there are some things that need to be said. This modification of the script is completely based on the economics of shooting, and try to shoot more economically without destroying the picture and drama. .

"It's roughly like this. When you shoot, you will find that spending money every day is like running water, so on the whole, you are not afraid that some scenes will be difficult to shoot, but you are afraid that some scenes will be difficult to film in advance. If the shooting plan is delayed for one more day, your expenses will be reduced. Uncontrolled rise."

"In addition, I suggest that you secretly shoot some scenes and do not report it. Otherwise, the cost of lapd's dispatch to clear the scene will be a large sum of money, and there are strict time limits. Of course, if you can persuade the seven major studios, take To a big budget of more than 10 million, that's another story."

Ronald also remembered the past when he was filming "Famous in the World", when nypd dispatched to block the road, and it was impossible to shoot more than a minute.

Cameron looked at the proposal and recalled what Ronald said, "Ronnie, this is the best proposal I have heard since I wrote this script, I have to calculate it carefully and change it like this, Gale would have a much higher chance of getting an investment."

"This is your script." Jim took out a copy of Ronald's "Night of the Comet" script in the drawer and handed it over, which was full of Cameron's notes.

"The actor's makeup problem, you can solve it like this...

The main features of zombies are that their faces are blue and their eye sockets are enlarged. If they can do without rubber and plaster, they don’t need special makeup, and they can be solved by conventional makeup…

The ashes after people are evaporated by comets, there is no need to use the pigment powder commonly used in Hollywood, it can be replaced by a common building material...

And the red sky, if you shoot for Coleman, you can actually be lazy and do it with a little trick, but it will require some redesign of the shots, so that the audience will not be too dramatic...

The hard thing to solve is this deserted city. I have been thinking about it for a long time, but there is no way to save money and ensure the viewing effect of the audience. "

Ronald read the notes carefully, and Jim made detailed annotations for many special effects makeup and special effects models.

But the scene of the deserted city, Ronald didn't want to compromise.

There are three or four concentrated scenes before and after the plot. If you delete it or replace it with small scenes such as schools and shopping malls, it will be impossible to bring the audience into a sense of apocalyptic reality, and the overall appeal of the movie will be greatly reduced.

Ronald doesn't really want to make a Roger Coleman-esque exploitative movie, the kind of movie that New World costs 20-300000 yuan, the audience is with a kind of I know you're a bad movie, I just came to see it Beauties and plasma attitudes come.

This kind of movie Ronald has long been made, and if he continues to make it, he will not improve. The mainstream film circle may forget himself.

Calculate the amount of money that Jim can save for his ideas. The cost of this night of the comet, it seems that it can be made without two million. In this way, with the 500,000 investment promised by Roger Coleman, he still has a funding gap of more than 1 million to invest.

Ronald couldn't help but envy Cameron. He had his girlfriend Gail to help with investment and distribution, and only concentrated on artistic play.

"Jim, I'm going to add your name to the writers. These changes helped me a lot."

"Help each other, and I'll add your name to the Terminator writers too."

Ronald has more experience in directing and coordinating, editing, and Jim also has experience in special effects makeup and special effects models. A friend who is also a director helped each other and gave advice, which was very helpful to the creation of the two.

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