Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"I recently watched my friend Ronald's new film Top Gun, and honestly it'll make young people like it, the movie is top-notch, the flying stunts, the dogfights of the fighter jets are very good, he can make a war scene Awesome.

I can't make this kind of film, my film is the other extreme, telling the cruelty of war and the destruction of human nature.

Top Gun preaches that wars are clean, wars are easy to win, but no one in the movie mentions that Tom Cruise's character just started World War 3! "

"Ha ha ha ha"

Ronald watched the interview Oliver Stone gave and couldn't help laughing. This top student at Yale University and George Jr.'s classmate is a wonderful person. Throughout the interview, where he said "Top Gun", he was cursing and helping.

The best part is that this interview is featured in the latest issue of Playboy magazine.

In a favorite adult magazine for male teens, the largest audience of "Top Gun", saying that Ronald's movie fighter is good is to increase the box office for himself.

As for the final episode where the Mavericks shot down three Souvelle MiG-28 fighter jets in the Indian Ocean, to be honest, even if this happened in the real world, it was unlikely to spark World War 3. .

This is Hollywood, fuck it. In the end, if there is no heroic behavior, how can the audience buy tickets obediently and come in?

But Stone's remarks actually aroused the curiosity of the teenage audience. They want to see the plot of this movie, how can it arouse the third world war?

Immediately following the New York premiere, Paramount held a premiere in San Diego, California.

The premiere was held at the Naval Air Force Base in Miramar.

All the Naval Airmen who have supported the filming, the pilots who participated in the filming, Kristen Fox, the prototype of Charlie played by McGillis, the "dumb b" Lloyd Abel who did the hardest aerobatics footage, the Navy's liaison officer Matthew, PN's former instructor Pete Pettigrew, both brought their families to the premiere.

"Ha ha ha ha"

B, who has switched to an airline to fly a passenger plane, was very happy to see the opening shot of the Tomcat taking off from the deck of the aircraft carrier.

The Boeing 707 series does not have the function of the Tomcat, which is turned upside down. It is used to driving a passenger plane that requires a smooth and stable landing, and it is best that passengers do not feel it when landing. I miss my navy years.

"Hey, why so many rolls, what's the use of this in a dogfight?"

The pilots saw Ronald interspersed a lot of rolls in the dogfight, and complained to Pettigrew, who was a consultant, "My 8-year-old son knows that rolls can't avoid the MiGs behind. Cannon, can't you have more barrel rolls?"

"Don't scold me, I've done my best, if I hadn't blocked, that young director Ronald could make a dog fight a break dance?"

"Oh my God, it's good to have you, Pete."

Pettigrew is raining down, and the dog fight scene in this movie is fake. There's only a dozen or so seconds of scissor maneuvers that a real pn pilot would use in a dogfight.

Several wingmen cooperate with the lead plane to exchange positions when chasing, so that the enemy plane in front can be exposed to the position where the missiles and cannons can be locked for as long as possible.

"Relax, Pete," Ronald noticed Pettigrew's distressed appearance, and a film made in this way may, in his eyes, be like a novel about making a film, changing the camera from a long shot to a close-up instead of Changing the lens made him unbearable.

"God, I didn't expect this movie to be so unbearable after a few months. I hope these pilots don't bother me after it's officially released."

"Boom!"

The movie puts the end of the Lone Ranger fighting 5 MiG-28s alone, when a Sidewinder missile flies out from under the wings of the 14 Tomcats and hits the MiG-28's wing.

The MiG-28, with half of its wings cut off, rolled and fell, and then a fireball rose and disintegrated in the air.

"Oh it's a rattlesnake!" The pilot's 8-year-old child, seeing this scene, applauded very happily. He often took his father's 14 model, and played games with the boy in the neighbor's house at home. He thought about this shot of the rattlesnake hitting the enemy plane a million times in his mind, but he never thought it would look so good on the screen.

"This missile shot is not bad." His father, the pilot, touched his chin next to him. "Top Gun" still has a real place to shoot.

"This is the third round? And the fourth round?" Matthew, the Navy's liaison officer stationed on the crew, silently counted the Sidewinder missiles fired in the movie, and then wrote it down in his notebook. At that time, the Secretary of the Navy specially approved two sidewinders to be used for real shooting. Why are there four here?

"Could it be that the weapons personnel at Miramar Base were bought by them? Such a real launch scene is likely to be a secret launch! Report to the Navy Department immediately to see if the Minister wants to set up an investigation team to start an investigation!"

Ronald didn't see the look on Liaison Officer Matthew's face, he was immersed in what a real Navy officer would think of the movie. Although they disapproved of some battle scenes, the rest of the scenes were still very much in line with their tastes.

After all, who doesn't want a handsome guy like Tom Cruise and Fang Kimer to play himself?

Aircraft carrier fighter pilots are a profession that requires high IQ, high education, and incomparable courage. Any pilot who dares to land on an aircraft carrier at night is a warrior with a strong heart.

They are very satisfied with the beautification of them by the film. Even with the admiration of the family, their dissatisfaction with Ronald's tampering with the dogfight has also eased.

After saying goodbye to the pilots with a smile, Ronald drove his Ferrari and returned to Hollywood.

He parked the car directly under the office, Michael Ovitz's business is getting bigger and bigger, a few packaged movies are box office well, and they make tens of millions of dollars.

In order to build an office that matched his identity, Ovitz also contacted a famous Chinese-American architect, Luming Pei, to design a brand-new office building. It is said that Ovitz still named Bei Luming to design.

The new building has to be relocated, and the old office is still in the same place. Not far away, construction is ramping up on Cannon's new office building. They didn't find any famous designer, they just built it well.

Perhaps Ovitz's idea of ​​building a building was also stimulated by Minakhan Golan.

The power of 300 million US dollars is very powerful. The Minahan brothers began to acquire the British theater chain, and also paid a lot of money to invite Stallone to go to the Cannon to make a film. It is said that it was a price that Stallone could not refuse.

On the basis of Stallone's usual $5 million salary, he added more than $8 million. There are different opinions on the specific amount, but Stallone and Brigitte Nelson both joined Cannon to shoot the new film, which shows that the price makes them very satisfied.

Today, Don Simpson, and Jerry Bruckheimer, two producers also condescended to come, and they are going to discuss further marketing matters with Ronald, and by the way, to chat about the idea of ​​​​a new film. Their package service, for the two producers of high-concept films, is very convenient.

"The first collaboration object was Ray-Ban's aviator sunglasses." Paula Wagner attended on behalf of Tom Cruise.

In "Good Boys Are Crazy", Cruise, who cooperated with Ray-Ban, did not forget to market with Ray-Ban.

The rr series glasses are the ones the Lone Ranger wore in "Top Gun". From an old model that is about to be delisted, it has become a classic popular that is about to become popular again. Ray-Ban has launched an activity to buy sunglasses and send movie tickets at various counters.

"The other is a navy turtleneck leather bomber jacket, and we've reached out to Macy's, as well as flight supply stores, and they're starting to have the same leather jacket."

This kind of leather jacket with a high neck and waist, which is close to the buttocks, is favored by many brands, and is expected to become a popular sales model in winter.

The linkage of multiple channels has begun to exert force, and they all want to push up the box office as much as possible on the weekend of May 16th.

"A total of 1,028 theaters screened our films on weekends, and the prints and posters, roll-up banners, have been delivered to theaters across the country. Paramount spent nearly 8 million in marketing expenses for this grand opening, waiting for the first After the weekend box office results come out, the follow-up copy and marketing investment will be decided.”

"Very good, we will definitely set a box office record in mid-May." Ronald is full of confidence, such a movie is not to grab the box office of a certain popular schedule, but should stimulate the box office of a certain small schedule. , let the latecomers follow suit.

"Top Gun pn, tells the story of a navy ace pilot played by Tom Cruise, who controls 14 Tomcat fighter jets and fights MiGs. According to the news revealed by multiple film critics, the air battle scenes are intense and realistic."

On the night of the release, Ronald bought several newspapers such as The Hollywood Reporter and Variety and read them in the department store. He went back to the pizzeria opposite the cinema on the fourth floor of the department store where "Fast Pace" was filmed, waiting to observe the box office of the first Top Gun.

"However, the ground part of the film is a bit sluggish, p-rated it, more like Tom Cruise's Ray-Ban sunglasses, and Kelly McGillis' lipstick commercials, and an extended version of the Berlin band Take My Breath ."

"Huh" Ronald put on his Ray-Ban and put down the newspaper in dissatisfaction. These snobs just don't want to say good things about popcorn movies, and see how they will kneel down and say good things when they come out at the box office.

The movie released at the same time as Top Gun, as well as the sci-fi film "Thunderbolt 5" about an industrial robot's consciousness and escape, and about the Japanese-funded company's acquisition of a Detroit car factory, the two countries' workers and managers are culturally intense. Conflict film "Gonghe n"

"It's still a lot of people watching Top Gun." Ronald watched the box office for a long time, and went home to rest satisfied.

"bell bell bell"

Early Monday morning, the phone at Ronald's house rang violently.

"I'm Ronald, I'm not at home now, please leave a message if you have anything." After a few rings, the automatic answering machine started to work.

"Ronald, it's me, Nisita. Pick up the phone, the opening weekend box office is out."

"Ah, how much?" Ronald heard Nisita's words, and hurriedly answered the receiver, and the drowsiness disappeared without a trace.

"Nine million, your movie broke America's box office record for May."

"s!" Ronald waved his fist into the air.