Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The opening was followed by a tense aerial battle.

Over the Caribbean Sea, the Cuban Air Force's MiG-28s used stacking tactics, with the two-plane formation so close that they only showed a small dot on the radar.

After a casual flight, the Lone Ranger flew upside down over the enemy plane and took a photo of the pilot. scared away the opponent.

"Yeah..." Several supporting actors began to cheer and applaud.

This is a specially designed opening scene that allows the audience to concentrate at once and focus on the development of the plot.

The applause didn't bring the audience's reaction, Ronald looked around, the audience didn't seem to react, neither excited with the plot, nor bored and distracted like the opening scene after the failure. They still stared blankly at the screen as they did at the beginning.

"What's going on? The head shot didn't go off? The audience's response was very good during the first test screening last year?" Ronald turned his eyes to the two producers.

He remembered that in the last preview, Don Simpson was looking for audiences from college students, in order to achieve the best results, to give Paramount's high-level confidence.

Maybe this is the normal reaction of the audience?

Keep looking down.

It's time for the Lone Ranger and Instructor Charlie to fall in love. Nothing happened at home, and the two met in the elevator the next day, rekindling hope.

Later in the class, Charlie criticized the Lone Ranger, the two were racing passionately, and they fell in love with one last kiss. In the music of the Berlin band "Take My Breath", the camera switches to the passionate scene of the reshoot.

McGillis was a little shy seeing himself on the big screen. Although she has been engaged in acting since middle school, the big screen puts people's images in a big place, so seeing herself and Tom Cruise on the big screen always reminds her of the passion she had with Ronald the previous two days. surging.

She looked in Ronald's direction, but saw an anxious look on his face unexpectedly, frowning tightly, constantly looking at the audience around him, trying to find some answers he was looking forward to.

Ronald grew more anxious.

Passionate and romantic scenes, the audience still did not respond. Neither excited nor whistling, swallowing, drinking Coke, etc., are the common actions of seeing handsome guys and girls in bed scenes on the big screen.

The first two preset audience emotional climaxes were all in vain!

What followed was a low ebb.

Because it was caught in a horizontal spiral, when the goose was ejected, its head hit the cockpit cover that flew out of the explosion, and unfortunately died. His wife and children came to the base, Lone Ranger hugged the widow of a weeping comrade-in-arms, and finally the widow gave him the dog tag of the dumb goose as a souvenir.

If the audience did not watch the first half of the plot, I believe that there are indeed dumb geese and lone rangers in the world, such as fighter pilots, at this low point of the plot, the audience should completely lose their attention.

They don't grieve for a character who doesn't evoke empathy, and there may be scenes of horribly talking to each other, chatting, picking up girls, and even mass exiting the bathroom.

Ronald sat in his chair, writhing around. He was a little afraid to look at the audience. For the first time, there is a sign that it may lose the audience's love, how could such a thing happen?

fine!

After two minutes of restlessness in the chair, Ronald found that although the audience did not respond to the previous two high-climax scenes, when they saw the temporary low-level scene before the final high-climax, there was some reaction.

Some viewers started turning red and stopped eating popcorn. Some even took out a handkerchief and wiped it on their eyes, and even sobbed softly.

"Ah...it's okay." Ronald let go of his worries, "I didn't expect that the climax of passion in the front was not included in the play, and the tragic plot that the audience came here to play. Am I also very talented in filming tragedies?"

Soon, Ronald's fantasy was also shattered.

In the final air battle scene, the Lone Ranger's companion Hollywood was shot down, and he came to the rescue. With one enemy five, three enemy planes were shot down with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, forcing the remaining two MiG-28s to flee.

During the first few screenings, the audience burst into applause. Any strong counter-attack against the Suwell Union will make the audience feel good.

but……

After modifying the movie by myself, the audience turned into a lifeless look, and there was no reaction at all.

"congratulate!"

"congratulate!"

Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, and several supporting cast members all hugged and celebrated each other.

Actors often don't know what their final cut will look like after they've made a movie. They don't often see such a hearty film like "Top Gun".

Ronald treats them very well, and the screen image is well established regardless of the protagonist or the supporting role. Even the two supporting roles, wearing cowboy hats, and deliberately walking backwards in the crowd to get more close-up time, the director didn't care, and they all stayed in the final film.

This is a very good foundation for their future acting careers. At least future casting directors will think of those scenes in "Top Gun" when they see their names.

"Ronald!" McGillis was also very happy. He didn't expect that in this casual popcorn commercial film, Ronald would make his image so sexy. They were going to go to the bar to celebrate, and McGillis wanted to call him too. Go with Ronald.

Ronald was over there talking quietly to the two producers.

"Is it my fault for reshoots? Broke the rhythm of the original film?"

"No, absolutely not. There must be something wrong with this audience. I watched it very well, and you feel good watching these actors." Don Simpson denied it.

"Yes, definitely not your problem." Bruckheimer said the same.

"Top Gun doesn't have any twists and turns, it's a high-concept movie, made up of some good-looking story clips, completed with the quick editing of music videos and commercials.

The two passionate scenes you re-shooted were seamless and did not change the overall rhythm and emotional ups and downs. I believe that no one can do better. "

"Then what's going on?" Ronald saw the audience leaving the stage, so he ran out too, offered his magic weapon for watching movies, and went to the bathroom to eavesdrop on the audience's thoughts.

Not only did the audience not respond in the theater, but also when they went to the bathroom.

Ronald found that the audience did not have the desire to speak, and most used eye contact. No one talked about the highlights of the aerial combat and the passionate scenes of the hero and heroine.

"This is not normal, this is not normal!"

Ronald murmured, is it really the audience that's the problem, as Don Simpson said?

But how could the values ​​of the American people have changed so much in such a short period of time?

They suddenly don't like the drama of shooting down the Solvay Union fighter?

Or did they suddenly dislike watching handsome guys like Tom Cruise and being in love on screen with beauties like McGillis?

Haven't heard that the commander wants to surrender to the alliance?

Don Simpson and Bruckheimer came over, and none of the three could find the problem.

"Don't worry, that's the way the movie is. Sometimes the audience reacts well to the test screening, and sometimes it doesn't." Bruckheimer tried to comfort, but halfway through, he didn't believe it himself.

"In the past six months, what is it that makes the audience have such a big aesthetic change?"

Ronald began to feel his heart pounding faster and faster, as if a great fear was coming from the universe and was about to hit him.

"A director acting like a magician is about to encounter Waterloo in Top Gun?"

"You know what? I remember an incident when I first entered the industry."

Ronald went to the counter to buy a pack of cigarettes and smoked in the corner with the two producers.

"Back then, Jane Fonda starred in a dull movie called Huaguo Syndrome. It was a very boring anti-nuclear story. A nuclear power plant had a core leak, then melted through the earth, and the nuclear fuel ran to Huaguo on the opposite side of the earth. country.

This was originally a very funny story, but when it was released, it happened that the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident happened. All of a sudden, the movie was a prophecy, and everyone wanted to see what was going on with the nuclear accident on screen.

Boom! It eventually made $50 million at the domestic box office and made Jane Fonda a box-office darling again. "

"You!" Don Simpson heard Ronald's story as if he had heard a horror story.

Ronald is suggesting that "Top Gun" may be the opposite of "Hua Guo Syndrome", and some recent limited changes have made audiences less fond of aerial combat and films that are tough on the Soviet Union.

"So, what happened to cause such a big shift in the public's response in half a year?" Bruckheimer is still calm, and if he can find the root cause of the problem, there may be help.

"When was the last time you heard the Grand Commander call the Souvelle Alliance an evil empire?" Don Simpson asked suddenly.

"Hey! It's been a long time." Ronald also understood a little.

It seems that after the new general secretary Mikhail took office, the commander's attitude towards the alliance is not as hostile as before.

"I remember, he also said that the new secretary-general is different from the first three. He is a figure who can communicate with the West, and he is looking forward to meeting with him." Ronald added.

"I remember that in the newspapers, it seemed to say that the two countries still have to negotiate on nuclear disarmament."

"By the way, have you seen the movie 'White Night' starring Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer who defected? There are a lot of plots in that movie where the two countries eased, and finally this guy unexpectedly returned to the alliance. The defector dancer who eventually returned to America."

"I know, I know, I heard that the British Princess in the White House actually wanted to dance with Baryshnikov."

The more they talked, the more anxious they became, and they began to complain that the commander was not tough enough.

"Didn't you say you want to defeat the evil empire? It turned out to be a softball."

"If there is another crisis like the Iran hostage incident, maybe the audience's taste will turn back?"

"Disarmament, disarmament, disarmament, whoever sees the naval air combat."

"Ronald, aren't you going to the bar party with us?"

McGillis came over again and invited Ronald to celebrate with him.

"No, I still have something to do. I'll call when I go back."

"Then I'll accompany you too." McGillis saw Ronald in a very bad mood and didn't know what happened, but the thoughtfulness of a mature woman made her greet her friends and see Ronald in person. Nader goes back to the hotel.

"Are you all right? Ronnie?" Tom Cruise also came to say hello.

"It's okay, I have a headache, let Kelly take me back to the hotel."

Actors are still clueless about these audience responses, and they are still reveling in their on-screen presence.

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