Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Star Wars - Return of the Jedi" premiere, is different. Everyone came to the scene wearing Star Wars-themed T-shirts.

There are several kilometers of queues outside the cinema, and many fans dress up as the characters in the show, some dressed in Darth Vader's black armor, or holding Lu Zuotian's lightsaber, and some girls have their hair combed. Princess Leia's double bun.

When Ronald came over, there happened to be a TV station interviewing the audience. Some people said that they had already lined up here at 6:00 in the morning, and they were only lined up for the second lap.

Walking past the line, at the theater's main entrance, some lucky ones who got invitations to the premiere get to see the movie two hours before the rest.

Security guards at the theater, in uniform, are maintaining order, and only those with invitations are allowed in. Ronald took out the invitation and handed it over. Looking back, the dense crowd stretched across the road.

America is a nation with no history, and its citizens all immigrated from the old continent to the new world, so it has not always had their own heroic epics like the various nations on the old continent.

This movie trilogy by Lucas, to these children, is like a heroic epic. And thanks to the technology of the movie, it is an epic with figures, pictures, and special effects.

Unlike the enduring TV series Starfleet, Star Wars is more personal heroism and more dramatic. Although it was only six years old, it has left a deep imprint on a generation of young people in America.

The Star Wars invasion of American culture was all-encompassing.

The SDI missile defense system announced by the commander this time has been called Star Wars by many people. And his previous speech on the Evil Empire, which was also quoted by members of Congress, likened the Souvel League to Darth Vader. This movie has entered the daily language expression of America.

Although the Academy Awards Organizing Committee and the Directors Guild were very unhappy with George Lucas, they did not give him the best director or best picture affirmation, but only gave him some technical awards. But that doesn't stop teenagers across the country from seeing Lucas as the greatest visionary.

Ronald is very envious. This kind of film that can embed himself in the language level is a more solid and permanent monument than Oscar. I don't know if I can change the language of America in a small place or two in the future.

Aside from the invited circle friends, most of those in attendance were lucky viewers who wrote to Lucas and were eventually selected.

Lucas himself came to the scene to congratulate everyone on the final release of the final part of the trilogy. Soon, the curtain was raised and the film was officially shown.

Ronald watched the movie with great interest.

After the last movie "The Empire Strikes Back", Darth Vader claimed to be Luke's father. For three years, many viewers wondered whether this was Vader's lie or the truth.

Princess Leia took off her elegant robe and put on a sexy bikini to dance to Jabba, the slave owner, and the whole audience made a loud gulping sound.

Then came Luke, who built a green lightsaber, defeated Jabba, and rescued Han Solo, who had been carbonized. It was discovered that the Emperor was working on a second Death Star to destroy the rebels.

After a series of battles, Luke faced the attack of the Emperor and Darth Vader alone. In the final battle, Luke chopped off Vader's mechanical hand. The emperor tried to lure him full of negativity and degenerate to the dark side.

The voices of Obi-Wan and Yoda sounded in Luke's ears, giving up negative emotions such as anger, fear, etc., unwilling to surrender to the dark side of the Force, and being shocked by the Emperor's Force Lightning. After all, Darth Vader couldn't live up to the love between father and son, and pushed the emperor off the throne and fell into space. Too bad he died in the end.

The end is the tradition of Star Wars again, everyone stood together and smiled happily. But this time, there are three more Jedi Knights of the Force, Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Darth Vader's real body, Anakin.

The audience began to shout and applaud enthusiastically. After three years of waiting, a complete and wonderful story finally came.

After ten minutes passed, the audience stopped applauding, and there were already several TV station film crews waiting to interview the audience at the door.

Ronald has a special car waiting to pick up some of their guests to celebrate the party. After eight years, George Lucas has finally completed the Star Wars trilogy. He is the emperor tonight.

The celebratory party was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel next door. Champagne like a hill, big cakes, all kinds of food, and wearing a T-shirt, a completely different temperament from the average movie party.

Ronald saw that his agent Nisita also came to the scene and greeted him, "Rick, why are you here? Do you want to sign Chewbacca?"

George Lucas fell out with the director's union, so he hired directors who did not belong to the union to play the last two films. The stars of Star Wars have long been tied up by their agents. As for the two robots, C3PO and R2D2, they are not qualified to sign agents.

So Ronald joked with him that he was going to sign the fluffy Wookiee.

"I came here to remind you not to mention Martha's affairs in front of George." Nisita whispered in Ronald's ear.

"What?" Ronald was a little confused.

"Ovitz told me today that George's wife Martha cheated on him and wanted to divorce him. So I came to remind you right away that when it's time to congratulate George, don't mention Martha's name."

"Oh, thank you." Ronald thanked Nisita. George Lucas is the most profitable director right now, holding two major killer series, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones. This kind of other people's private matter, a bad one, is known to Lucas, and it is not worth it to cause bad feelings.

"Congratulations, Mr. Lucas. This film is very good. It finally fulfilled a dream of watching New Hope when I was a child. Luke became a great Jedi fighter. I wonder if you will continue to make it?"

Ronald took a chance and went up to congratulate Lucas.

"Oh, Ronald. Hello. Not for a while, I'm too tired, I've paid too much for this Return of the Jedi, and then I think I'll take a break." Lucas told Rhona De still had an impression, and had a brief chat with him.

"It seems that his mental state is really not very good. On the night of the movie's big sale, he didn't seem to be too happy."

"Hey, you don't know, this matter hit George hard." Nisita finally sent Ronald home and told him the whole story in the car.

It turned out that the director of "Return of the Jedi" originally booked Spielberg, but because the director's union banned union members from participating in Lucas's project. Lucas experienced the rejection of David Lynch, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven and others, and finally found a Welshman Richard Marquand as the director.

But Richard Marquand, on the Pinewood set in London, was dogmatic and had a lot of trouble with the actors who played the three leading roles. In the end, Lucas had to take over halfway through and flew to London to pick up the directing job himself.

George Lucas and Martha had a big conflict because George was busy with work. One of their adopted daughters was left in a high-end hotel during George's trip to London and Martha took care of her alone.

Martha Lucas would have been a very good editor. Used to be Martin Scorsese's official editor, collaborating on all of Scorsese's best-selling works. But now it is unbearable for her to be a housewife whose husband does not come home.

Martha later returned to the estate Lucas had bought to concentrate on renovating her own house. She hopes to cover the dome of a library with the stained glass of the Renaissance church, which looks very artistic.

Who knows this glass-firing artist, take advantage of it. George Lucas pleaded bitterly, but could not restore Martha's heart, and the two only waited for "Return of the Jedi" to be released before announcing their divorce. The reason for not getting a divorce right away is for the final episode of the Star Wars trilogy, not to be disturbed by this gossip.

Martha Lucas herself won the Oscar for best editing for the editing of "Star Wars - A New Hope", and she is also very emotional about the Star Wars series, so the two agreed to announce their divorce later.

"Oh, how could this be? The last time I saw them, they were still very affectionate." Ronald sighed in the co-pilot.

"It's unavoidable. For a movie, especially a giant production like Star Wars, it usually takes a year or two to prepare, shoot, edit, and produce special effects. For a workaholic like George, he may not be able to talk to Martha when he goes home. A few words, no matter how much love is, there will be problems."

"Then Martha is not miserable, she cheated first, didn't she get any property?"

"What does this have to do with cheating? Is it the law of your New York state? California is a state where assets are divided equally." Nisita looked at Ronald in surprise.

"Huh?" Ronald was surprised, "I don't know that."

"California law stipulates that no matter who earns the most contribution to the couple's property after marriage, in principle, the principle of equal sharing is adopted after divorce. Generally, the woman has to bear the support of the child, and will share more."

"Oh," Ronald thought, if he gets married in California in the future, it's better not to get a divorce.

The next day, the nation awaited the box office results of "Star Wars - Return of the Jedi." The end result was $6.2 million.

After Ronald learned of this result, he knew that the theater line of "Night of the Comet" would be compressed.

Over the weekend, "Return of the Jedi" raked in $23 million, making it the first film in American history to top $20 million in its opening weekend.

The theaters of "Night of the Comet" were squeezed to only more than 700 theaters. Although the box office of the individual theaters did not drop significantly, the total box office has dropped below 3 million US dollars and reached 2.4 million US dollars.

Turn on the TV and it's full of Star Wars news and talk shows. Open a big newspaper such as the "Los Angeles Times", and news about Star Wars is also on the front page.

At the end of the "Star Wars" trilogy, the audience frantically bid farewell to the three protagonists and their own youth. They've pushed this modern-day American epic from entertainment to front page, from NBC Entertainment News to NBC National News.

English-speaking countries, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand are also looking forward to the early arrival of movie copies, and there are audiences who can't bear it, and they come to New York on transoceanic planes to watch.

Faced with the frenzy sweeping the world, Ronald's "Valley of Comets" had no choice but to retreat. Fortunately, it has accumulated more than 11 million box office in the first two weeks, plus 2.4 million in the third weekend, it is close to the box office score of 15 million.