Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The de facto premiere of "The Outer Boy", held at a middle school in a small California town, was directed by Coppola, with three stars Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, and Ralph The two of Mazio went to the middle school and had a party with the students who had written to Coppola to ask Coppola to come out.

In the movie theater in Los Angeles, there are several other leading actors, such as Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruz, and Diane Lane.

Ronald met his agent Richard at the theater door, while Paula Wagner accompanied Tom Cruise.

There were few photojournalists, and it was a bit of a disappointment for the starring teenage stars, carefully dressed as the characters on the show. It seems that Warner Bros. was not optimistic about the film and did not invest much marketing resources.

"The reporters that Nisita introduced to you are over there." Richard pointed to the two reporters standing opposite to Ronald, and Ronald came to show his face just to grab some news.

"Hi, hello." Ronald stepped forward to say hello, "I'm Ronald..."

"Hello, I'm Downey" a reporter also responded friendly.

"I'm Charlie, where are you from?" another reporter asked Ronald.

"I work for The Atlantic now." Ronald looked at the two young reporters as if they had just graduated from college.

"Massachusetts Atlantic Monthly? Oh, I didn't expect serious media to interview this movie?" reporter Charlie expressed surprise.

"This is an adaptation of SE Hinton's novel. The Atlantic Monthly has always paid attention to literary reviews and is also very concerned about the cause of affirmative rights for minorities." Reporter Downey explained, "Right, Ronald."

Ronald smiled, knowing that they had misunderstood that he was also a reporter, so he was not in a hurry to explain, and asked them, "Why are so few reporters interviewing this movie? I thought there would be a lot of people at the premiere."

"I heard that this movie was disliked by Warner Bros. If you look at our newspaper, we filmed two of our newcomers and wrote about it casually."

"Disgusted?"

"Yeah, now the famous Italian directors of the 1970s are out of style, and Marty Scorsese's new film 'The King of Comedy' is also a box office hit, I heard gossip that Scorsese's previous films , thanks to his editor Martha Lucas, the wife of George Lucas. After Martha got married, the quality of his films dropped dramatically."

"That's right, I heard that Coppola was in debt, and his 'Diorama' company was going to go bankrupt. Warner Bros. basically gave up on the movie."

"No, don't you think it's a bad boy?" Ronald said.

"I heard Roger Ebert fired on Coppola, even though he gave it three stars. But he thinks Coppola should use these innovative styles, lighting, sets as an exercise, not a movie To experiment, he should make a real movie like Apocalypse Now."

"Yes, I heard that the critics' evaluation after the special screening was not high, and it is generally believed that the 90-minute story is not compact enough, the characters are well acted, but the story is not good.

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"But I heard that it was because Warners compressed the duration. If the director's original two-hour schedule was followed, it would be a good movie." Ronald defended Coppola.

"Hey, who would go to see such a long movie now, did you hear that? Some small studios have already started not showing them, and just sold them on videotapes."

"Yeah, and there's the same teenage gangster movie 'Bad Boys' coming out today, that movie at least tells the story of Los Angeles in the '80s, Oklahoma in the '50s, and it's just us newbies. Send it over."

"Ronald, Ronald." Nisita came over. "It looks like you've found two reporters. I don't have to worry about it. How are you guys talking."

"Ah? You're not a reporter?" The two reporters looked embarrassed.

"I'm Ronald Lee, here for the premiere."

Nisita handed over the draft to the two reporters and dragged Ronald to the front to take photos with the actors.

"Hi, Tom", Ronald and Tom Cruise hugged warmly, and he is now over the top, various film appointments, under the arrangement of Paula Wagner.

"Did you know, Paula picked up another movie for me. The heroine is a newcomer you brought out. She speaks highly of you. As I said, I want to make a movie with you."

"Ah, is it? Who?"

"Lee Thompson, we're headed to Pittsburgh for 'All The Right Moves,' do you have any advice?"

"Yes, when you go to a movie in Pittsburgh, it's best to bring allergy medicine. The air pollution there is terrible, and the nostrils are full of dust at night, which is very uncomfortable."

"Ah, is that so? I'm going to prepare right away." Paula Wagner next to him quickly wrote down what Ronald said.

"What's the story and what's the genre of this movie?" Ronald asked Cruise.

"Youth and excitement, high school students get football scholarships, and then come out of the small town story, Leigh Thompson plays my girlfriend."

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"I know, I know, I'm just playing a tackle, which is quite convincing in the high school team. The movie also said that he was going to college, majoring in mechanics, and it was impossible to develop into a career in the future." Tom Ke Ruth knew his height problem, so the movie modified certain details for him.

"Hey, what can I say, I wish you all the best! Leigh Thompson is truly a talented actress."

"Ronald," Nisita dragged him aside again, "my assistant just brought it from the office, a postcard from Helen. She said thank you for the reminder."

"Huh?" Ronald took it happily and saw Helen wrote a paragraph on a postcard.

She really listened to Ronald's words, and instead of shooting the dangerous shot of taking off from the water, she had a stand-in instead. The stand-in was entangled in a wire while practicing and suffered minor injuries.

In the end, the crew decided to take a picture of Helen, enlarge it to life size, stick it on the wooden model, and then use the camera to film the puppet being quickly pulled out of the water to fool it.

Along with the postcard was the picture of Helen they were going to put on the puppet. I saw her raising one hand up, her blonde hair fluttering, her red cloak open behind her back, and the combination of tights, short skirts, and leather boots looked particularly attractive.

Ronald kissed the photo, put it away with the postcard, and put it in the pocket on his chest, "Thank you for sending it to me specially." He shook hands with his assistant and sent a note as a thank you.

"Hmph! I'll ignore him in the future." Diane, who had seen Ronald coming over, saw Ronald kissing Helen's picture halfway through, stomped his feet angrily, turned and ran to meet him Emilio Estevez who played "Bitch" chatted.

"With my dad, I bought another of Ms Hinton's novels, 'That was then...this is now', and I'm going to make it into a screenplay myself, starring Tom Cruise and me. , you are the heroine."

Emilio Estevez was glad Diane came to chat and started bragging. On the cast of "The Worldly Urchin", Diane was the girlfriend that all the actors wanted to date, but none of them succeeded.

"Your father?" Diane pretended not to know, and asked Emilio Estevez, in fact, Emilio had said it eight hundred times on the set.

"Yes, my father, Martin Sheen. He played Captain Willard in Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'. I actually had a small role in that movie too, but it ended up being cut There's only one back left."

"Yeah, that's such a shame." Diane acted very realistically, "or you could have been famous years in advance."

"It doesn't matter, the novel I bought, I will adapt it myself, will you come when the time comes?" Emilio Estevez has a hunchback, and now his happy neck is more protruding forward, thinking Go hug Diane.

"Diane, you're here." Ronald finally found Diane. "I didn't see you just now. Your scene in the final film wasn't cut, right?"

"I haven't seen it yet, I heard it's okay." Diane answered Ronald's question indifferently, but she deliberately held Emilio Estevez's arm.

"Ronald, long time no see, when are we going to have another round? This time we can play tennis." Emilio heard what the scene was cut off, thinking Ronald was deliberately provocative, and Diane held his arm again , suddenly came to the mind of a challenge.

"Then I can't do it." Ronald recalled the days when he practiced tennis hard for the dream, and he only slammed vigorously, and then he would be made a fool of himself.

"Really, I thought you were omnipotent?" Emilio Estevez sneered.

Ronald was about to fight back when suddenly a woman came from behind and pulled Emilio Estevez, "Emilio."

"Kelly, why are you here?" Emilio Estevez was startled, pulling the woman named Kelly to the side to speak.

This Kelly is pretty good-looking, but her personality seems to be that kind of Latino American housewife who was dismissed by Emilio in a few words, just like those fathers in Catholic families who waved their hands to let their mothers do the laundry and cook. .

"Who is she?" Diane crossed her arms over her chest, three feet away from Emilio.

"She's...well, a friend who works as a graphic model at the agency Wilhelmina Models. She's looking for me on something,...something, yes, in my Hinton script. a character."

"Yeah, of course", of course Diane wouldn't believe such nonsense, leaving Emilio and Ronald behind for his father, Bert.

"Didn't hear about Diane's romantic relationship with Emilio Estevez?" Ronald, who was confused about the situation, decided to ignore this kind of thing. Anyway, Diane was an adult at the beginning of this year, and even her father Bert Can't handle her either.

Soon fans of Coppola's and Hinton's novels started pouring in, and the movie was showing.

Sure enough, the film was cut to pieces at Warner's 90-minute request. Many important plots in the novels have been cut, not only the fans of the novels sighed and dissatisfied, but even the ordinary audience who came from Mucopola's fame did not understand the foreshadowing of some plots.

After all, this movie is not a simple plot like a high concept, but the kind of drama Coppola is good at depicting the relationship between characters and advancing the story. This cut, um..., no wonder even a film critic like Roger Albert, who loves Coppola, has a lot of criticism.

It seems that the movie box office is worrying.

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