Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ronald's filming efforts on Staten Island were thwarted. The New York film industry, ever since Edison started chasing studio royalties, has been wiped out.

Just find an agent in Los Angeles, and you can bring in the cast, workers, lighting, recording photographers and other professionals. In New York, only those Broadway actors can choose, and they can't afford movies, they are not high art. As for cheap open-can film, there is nowhere to find cheap photographers who have shot exploitative films.

Although Staten Island is cheap for labor and land, the professionals that the film industry needs are more expensive. You have to find someone from Hollywood, and you have to take care of food, lodging, and transportation.

It seems that Roger Coleman-style low-budget exploits for $200,000 apiece can only be made in Hollywood, an industrialized place. A movie of the same quality would cost at least 600,000 yuan to make in New York.

New York's agent Eddie also came to participate in the business discussion of Daydream Pictures. He has some ways to shoot image promotional films and product samples for some companies. The development of video recorders has made many big companies have the heart to shoot a high-quality promotional video and play it on the company's front TV in a loop.

New York has a lot of people in the TV industry, and it's also suitable for shooting this kind of film. After adding some cameras, lights, recording and other equipment, Ronald asked Eddie to organize his own staff and began to try to take some orders.

"I'll show you the sample corporate videos I've collected." Eddie got up and turned on the TV.

"Wait a minute," Little Douglas stopped him. As a son of a wealthy family, he is very concerned about the news of this election.

The TV is all about the debate between the deputy commander and the candidate of the Donkey Party. This debate was much more exciting than the last debate between the Grand Commander and Mundell. Both played well, and TV commentators agreed that both were good debaters.

Newspapers and TV stations both believed the two sides were tied, but opinion polls after the fact were widely divided. Male audiences generally believed that the vice-president won the debate, while female audiences mostly believed that the female candidate of the Donkey Party won the debate.

The main reason for this disagreement is the confrontation between the deputy commander and Ferraro on an issue. The host asked Ferraro, who was elected to the three-term House of Representatives, and the two-term vice-commander of the House of Representatives, the ambassador to China, the ambassador to the United Nations, the CIA director, and the vice-commander. Who knows more about foreign affairs and politics.

The deputy commander opened his mouth and said, "Let me help you find out how the former and current commanders behaved differently in the face of the Persian and Lebanese embassies being held hostage."

Ferraro retorted, "I strongly protest that the deputy commander came up with an attitude that can teach me about my country's foreign policy."

It may seem okay from a male perspective, but professional women who have suffered from sexism in the workplace immediately empathize with Ferraro's attitude. So there is a lot of support from women.

Ronald mused, this female-perspective antipathy to sexism seems to be increasingly a trend in America.

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Secretary of the Navy John Lyman at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego on the West Coast

Lehman), is also watching the deputy commander's debate analysis program.

Lehmann was the youngest Secretary of the Navy in American history. He was only thirty-eight when he took office four years ago. America is a civilian army, and the Secretary of the Navy is appointed by the Grand Commander.

Rao is so, when he joined the job, he still received a lot of criticism. In addition to his unusually young age, Ryman was the first secretary in years not to serve in the Navy. When he was young, he only served as a pilot in the Air Force and Navy Reserves. In the first few years of his tenure as minister, he also had Navy Reserve flights to fly.

Faced with a group of admirals qualified to be his father, Lehmann resorted to a plan to build a large warship. After taking office, he quickly catered to the tough commander of the Soviet Union, and came up with a plan to restore the Navy's active ships to 600 ships.

In addition to the re-commissioning of the Iowa-class battleships, he pushed for new Aegis ships, the Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines with Trident ICBMs, the Los Angeles-class attack submarines, and an upgrade in the number of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.

Therefore, conservative politicians like the party who are tough on the Soviet Union are the biggest support for his career.

"Yes, these congresswomen who decorate the House of Representatives like vases really need World War II veterans like the deputy commander to give them a good lesson in international politics. Do they know what the world triangular politics is? The deputy commander has experience in China, Just the right person to give them Dr. Kopp Kissing's theory."

He remembered the script that the deputy commander called him and mentioned that the current number of service members in the Navy has been declining year by year. It is necessary to make more heroic movies like Hollywood during World War II, so that enough young people will join the Navy. With these six hundred A world-class ship.

Immediately, he called the Foreign Relations Liaison Office of the Ministry of the Navy and said that he wanted to meet these patriotic filmmakers who wanted to build naval heroes.

Ronald, who received the call, was very surprised. Unexpectedly, the deputy commander's family did not reply to himself, but calmly settled the matter.

He quickly flew back to Los Angeles, joined the two producers, and went to the Naval Air Station in San Diego, Southern California, to meet Secretary of the Navy John Lyman, who was here to inspect.

"Your Excellency the Deputy Commander said to me, you want to make a story about a heroic fighter pilot in the Navy?"

"Yes, Mr. Ryman. We do want to make a new-age hero film, like..." Don Simpson had plenty of... at home before he came, and now he's a little too energetic. It is the choice of words, influenced by brain chemistry, that is less sensitive.

"Like a Star Wars at sea, fighting with fighter jets." Ronald hurriedly connected.

"Let's be honest, we need movies like this," says John Lyman, a handsome middle-aged man whose red tie shows his political stance.

"The Navy can help with your movie, but we're evaluating the script and the lead actor." John Lyman rang the bell and called in a man and a woman, two tall officers.

"This is Matthew, the external liaison officer of our naval base. In the future, you can contact him to coordinate with the equipment such as planes that need to be rented for filming, and framing.

This is our aerodynamic doctor, Kristin Fox, you can ask her about the details of fighter air combat. "Lyman introduced the three to the background of the two.

"This support is really strong," Ronald and the two producers exchanged glances.

"It turns out that writing a letter to the deputy commander is really useful?" Bruckheimer was also very excited. Many difficulties in the preparatory stage were solved with the commitment of the Secretary of the Navy.

"By the way, Miss Fox also has a pilot's callsign, you can call her Legs."

Ronald glanced at Kristen Fox's long legs and thought that the call sign was similar to a nickname, and it really lived up to its name.

"So, tell me, gentlemen, what kind of character will the protagonist of your movie be?"

The Secretary of the Navy asked the two liaisons to go out, then walked around from behind the desk and sat in the corner of the desk, chatting with a few producers and directors.

The two producers looked at it, and both gestured for Ronald to answer with their eyes.

"We feel that in the last ten years, there has been a lack of hero movies from the golden age of Hollywood. Our idea is to reproduce the heroic epic like 'Guan Shan Fitu' in the 1930s. To recreate the hero image of John Wayne's western cowboy, It's just that the dueling revolver was changed to a modern jet fighter."

"Very well, do any of the three of you have flying experience?" The Minister was satisfied and asked casually.

Don Simpson and Bruckheimer both shook their heads.

"That's not good, you have to experience real naval fighter jets, otherwise how can you make a convincing movie?"

"My grandfather and great-grandfather used to be fighter pilots in America. They participated in World War I and World War II, respectively." Seeing this, Ronald tried to convince the minister.

"Very good, very good. In this way, since you are from a family of pilots, then it's up to you. I will let Fox contact the Blue Angels aerobatic team and let them take you up to experience it."

"This..." Ronald thought to himself, I just wanted to eat steak, no need to be a cowboy.

"That's it," John Lyman waved his hand, indicating that this matter is arranged like this, "If you like flying, you can also try the F-14 Tomcat fighter, which is the main fighter of our Navy. That's the way the Navy works, you'll get used to it later."

John Lyman said to the three of them, "After I gave the order directly, the bureaucracy may still make things difficult for you. If you don't cooperate, you can directly find Matthew to coordinate. If he can't handle it, you can give it to me directly. Call the office."

"Mr. Ronald, are you six feet two inches tall?" Long-legged Fox came over to look at Ronald, and accurately reported his height, "I will prepare a flight suit for you according to this size, We make an appointment and let you try it."

The Blue Angels aerobatic team, using Douglas A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft. Ronald put on his flight suit and got into the back seat of the plane.

The blue fuselage is specially customized for the Blue Angels. Ronald put on his oxygen mask nervously.

"Are you ready?" The pilot in the front seat looked kinder.

"Yes."

"Let's go."

Ronald suddenly felt a strong push back, and the light jet engine let out a shrill roar. A short takeoff, Ronald quickly found himself in the air.

The azure coast in the distance, and the white clouds in the sky, were turned upside down in a tumble of the pilot. Ronald didn't seem to be able to tell the difference between upper and lower, and the strange feeling seemed to touch his pilot genes.

"It's more fucking exciting than a Ferrari."