Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

"There are a few films here that follow the trend of mature themes and have a good patriotic connotation. I think I can choose these few films to rush to shoot."

Early the next morning, Ronald came to Daydream to work, and David Simkins, who was in charge of the script, gave him several movie scripts that he thought were in line with the recent trend of public opinion.

One is called "Kickboxer", which is about two brothers in American kick boxing (a type of fighting developed in the Bruce Lee era). Killed in the ring.

The younger brother found a reclusive muay thai fighter, and after receiving special training, he practiced his unique skills.Came to Thailand, killed the villain in a life-and-death battle, successfully took revenge, and won the championship of the fighting competition.

There are many similarities between this film and Jean-Claude Van Damme's previous film "Killer".With a swipe of a pen, Ronald changed the final fighting contest into a kick boxing competition where the protagonist represented America, and he faced the villain, who represented Thailand in Muay Thai.

The national flags of various countries were also hung on the final field.When the protagonist's elder brother was defeated, the Stars and Stripes was thrown down as an insult. After the younger brother won, he hung the Stars and Stripes as the champion.

"That's the secret to success..." David Simkins recorded the adaptation of the plot dictated by Ronald with a smile. The most powerful thing about his boss is that he can still perceive the tastes of the people.

"Who are you looking for to play the leading role?" Michelle Cannold shook her head and smiled as she looked at the script. This kind of silly script is easier to be loved by the audience at this special moment. If it is released at another time, it will definitely be a mentally handicapped action. piece.

"Why don't you just ask Jean-Claude Van Damme, his biochemical man will be released soon." When Ronald saw a lot of karate kicks in the script, he thought of this Chinese star.

The second script is called "Showdown in Little Tokyo (Showdown in Little Tokyo)" tells the story of two LAPD detectives in Los Angeles, bravely broke into the Japanese settlement called Little Tokyo, broke through the Yakuza, and rescued their Controlling beauties.

In the script, Little Tokyo is described as invincible, and the people here still abide by the Yakuza rules of the Japanese people. It is a dark world ruled by Yakuza, and even ordinary LAPD dare not go in to enforce the law.

So how to show the charm of the Stars and Stripes?Ronald thought for a while, and added a more mentally handicapped plot. The people here are mainly Japanese-Americans and their descendants who were left behind in World War II and were imprisoned in the camp.

They were so dissatisfied with America that they secretly raised plaster flags in Little Tokyo.Two LAPD police detectives, one white and one Japanese, bravely broke in. With a hot gun, nunchakus and Dongying knives, they beat Yakuza to screaming and rescued the beautiful woman who was controlled and hijacked by them. , threw the plaster flag on the ground, and raised the Stars and Stripes, so that these Japanese people in the extrajudicial land knew that America could defeat them once, and it could also defeat them a second time.

"Hey hey, this script...", David Simkins was about to laugh out loud, this is pure violence for the sake of violence, and the hard plot for the honor of the Stars and Stripes.But forget it, now people want to see this kind of joke about the invincibility of the Stars and Stripes.

"This one for Lundgren?" asked Simkins.

"Well, he can... find a Chinese action actor to play the Japanese police detective. Their action scenes are more beautiful." Ronald rubbed his chin. The reputation of Dongying people in America is still very bad. Get rid of their bad reputation and be a villain.

The third suitable script is called Best of The Best. It is about the Taekwondo World Championships. The members of the representative team from Korea received strict training from an early age and enjoyed comprehensive financial support from the country. A human fighting machine.

The American team here is made up of professional enthusiasts from all walks of life.Under the guidance of a coach who pays attention to freedom and individuality, blue-collar workers from automobile factories, boxing gym coaches, street fighters and other individual players are gathered. After intensive training, they finally go to Korea.

In the end, America and Korea met in the final, and both sides suffered a lot of injuries.In the end, the contestant representing America, a Korean-born contestant, was able to KO the opponent and win the match, but in order to prevent the opponent from being fatally injured, he gave up punching.

In the end, the Korean team won, but their players were moved by this great sentiment that puts sportsmanship first, and they voluntarily gave up the gold medal and hung the gold medal around the neck of the American team.

"Well, add a gold medal award ceremony and a star-spangled flag raising ceremony." Ronald saw all kinds of irony and metaphors in this script.For example, the Korean team is actually not an amateur player, but a professional player trained by the state.For another example, here in America, all the athletes are amateurs, professional players are not allowed to participate, etc. This is obviously teasing the Olympics.

There are also Koreans who were assimilated by the spirit of America, and actively approached, etc... It is also a metaphor for the real national relationship between the Koreans and America.

Ronald added a little bit more heat and added a scene of a gold medal national flag. Anyway, the heat of the Olympic Games held in Korea last year has not completely passed, and the film can be sold to Korea to try the market at that time.

There is no suitable candidate for this movie. The action actors that Ronald cooperates with either have a karate background or Xiangjiang's martial arts background. No one has practiced taekwondo.Ronald thought of his old partner, Darryl Vidal, the stuntman in the Longwei kid.Let him recommend some taekwondo experts.

"In short, it's a principle, you have to shoot fast, you have to shoot as fast as Roger Coleman." Ronald no longer cares too much about the details of these small productions, and just asks Daydream's high-level executives to speed up the production progress , I don’t know how long this enthusiasm will last in America. We should seize this opportunity as much as possible, and pick up as many leaks as we can during the summer vacation and the off-season after that.

The most important thing, of course, is to quickly release the video tape.The vast Midwest and the deep South are the most passionate areas against the Supreme Court's decision. When they feel lost, let them find illusory comfort in video tapes.

"Are you going to the premiere of Cyborg?" Michelle Cannold of Tube Distribution asked Ronald to make arrangements.

"I'll just go to a Los Angeles premiere, just to chat with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Lundgren about the new film, and I won't go for the rest. My own new film When Harry Met Sally is about to be released. I will go to a few more premieres."

Ronald is now like a family man, he can't wait to spend four hours in the office every day before going back to be with Diane.

"Okay, let's arrange it like this." Michelle Cannold commanded the distribution and marketing staff, including Claudia Wells, to start preparations.

"Is there any particularly strong competitor for the new film?" Ronald asked Michael Gray, a consultant in charge of marketing.

"This year's summer season started with a lot of sequel movies, including the second part of Lethal Weapon, the second part of Ghostbusters, and the fifth part of Star Trek... 007's latest license to kill..."

Michael Gray showed Ronald the marketing plan for the new film.These sequels are films that do not require much investment in marketing, and the third part of Long Wei Kid, co-produced by Daydream and Weintraub Films, is the same, and will start filming in the second month of the summer vacation , steer clear of these sequel movies.

And "When Harry Met Sally" directed by Ronald himself has a different audience from action movies and sequel movies.Michael Gray is expected to be slightly older than the usual movie audience, college students or working young men and women, who are more interested in this subject matter.

The good thing about this type of movie is that if the audience approves it, word of mouth will spread spontaneously, allowing audiences who rarely go to movie theaters to watch it.

The disadvantages are the same, usually those teenagers who automatically go to the summer movies to watch movies may not understand the love story of this kind of older hero and heroine.

Moreover, these target audiences may not necessarily be TV channels such as MTV TV stations, which are easier for audiences to invest in.It is not easy to find them even with trailer ads.

Michael Gray, inspired by last year's and millennium's approach to the Oscars, gave Ronald a word-of-mouth marketing plan to copy in the summer file.

When this "When Harry Met Sally" was first released, it was limited to no more than [-] theaters. Wait for word-of-mouth and film review articles to come out in the first weekend, and then slowly expand the release scale in the second week .

The target is [-] theaters in the second weekend, and if word of mouth and movie reviews are as good as in the third weekend, it will be expanded to [-] theaters.

The advantage of this kind of screening from small to large is that it can maintain a relatively high reputation and film score.In addition, small-scale releases tend to increase the average single-house box office results, which can make it easier to persuade movie theaters to allocate more screens for When Harry Met Sally.

"That's it, what's the matter, ask my assistant to call me..." Ronald explained the business and hurried back. His assistant, the fat girl Ricky Lake pouted, this boss is now enjoying family life For the first.

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"I tried to make a mushroom soup, you try it? Wang taught me..." Diane started to try cooking again at home.

"Well, not bad." Ronald put it down after taking a sip, and then called the nanny in Chinese, "Wang Ma, do you have something simpler? Get me something to eat." There was another problem with the preparation of this mushroom soup. There are too many seasonings.

"Well, I'll try again tomorrow..." Diane took a sip and became disgusted, "By the way, Little Douglas called you."

"Hi, Doug, I'm Ronald..." Luo quickly called Douglas Jr. back.

"Little George called and asked if we could make some patriotic and Star-Spangled Banner-related movies or TV shows. The Grand Commander is officially standing in both houses of Parliament."

"Okay, I'm setting up this morning, so this is it?"

"Mr. 80.00%." ​​Douglas Jr. smiled.

Ever since Old George became the commander-in-chief, once he did a few things, the political circles saw through this person's background.

Unlike his predecessor, who was able to overcome difficulties and use his communication talent to call on voters to write letters to their respective congressmen and senators, and to promote bills that could not have been passed in the two chambers, old George is completely a speculator.

What he is best at is not expressing his position on an issue, and after being optimistic about everyone's position, he chooses a position that 80.00% of the congressmen agree with, and then mobilizes all resources to let the media report on this position .

In the end, when the spotlight and the camera lens turned around, the Grand Commander still struggled to stand in the middle of the first row, being the one with the brightest smile in the photo.

"Hey, I really didn't know he was such a person." Ronald shook his head. Old George didn't stand firm when he was campaigning, so why is he swaying with the wind now...

However, he does not have the charm and favor among the people like his predecessor, and he cannot be a leader who does not stick to the pot like his predecessor, so it is understandable to be cautious.Ronald immediately told Douglas Jr. about the titles and brief introductions of the three films he was planning to shoot, and asked him to pass them on.

"By the way, what happened to that business?" Ronald asked again about the FBI's investigation of the wiretapping case. The suspect died in the Beverly Police Station. The FBI was disgraced, but Detective Claire went back. At the time, he hinted that he would continue to investigate.

The telephone line is not a confidential line, and Ronald has also learned his lesson and uses code names.

"Our friend (George Jr.) said that the current trend of the financial department (FBI) and consumer (CIA) department is not good for the market (Jewish) in the Middle East. The big boss (big boss) just took the opportunity to rectify. We Need to wait for a while."

"Really? That big client didn't renew the contract (the suspect died), is it true that an insider has leaked commercial secrets?"

"They did a good job without leaving any evidence, and the internal audit department (the internal investigation of the FBI and CIA) is investigating." Little Doug said a little about the information George Jr. revealed to him.

Inside the FBI and CIA, there are many Jewish agents. They are not like the few real moles who send intelligence and technological information to Israel.

In general, these Jewish agents are loyal to America and have lived in this country for several generations. How many of them would commit such felony for the sake of the so-called Jewish motherland?
Their complaints and anger are actually due to a very strong pressure.Within the two organizations, they are suspected by people of other ethnic groups, and within them, they also hate those few real moles.

Under the current patriotic upsurge, the reason why these people have a hard time and have no chance of promotion is that they were killed by those few moles, making the entire ethnic group suspicious of loyalty.

"Are you coming to New York anytime soon?" asked Douglas Jr. at last.

"I'm still going to the premiere of When Harry Met Sally..."

"Haha, it seems that you really enjoy your married life very much."

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"Ronald, it looks like you're really enjoying your married life."

At the premiere of the new film Biochemical Man, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Lundgren, the two leading actors, took Ronald to take pictures at the entrance of the theater.Both of them had been Ronald's bodyguards, and now they were wearing costumes from the movie, surrounded Ronald from left to right, and posed like bodyguards full of muscles.

"Hi..." Ronald felt that this kind of publicity was not good, so he also rolled up his sleeves, imitating the two muscle action stars, trying his best to bulge his biceps.

"Cybionic Man" was originally a film invested by Minahan Gran's Cannon. It was originally a wasteland science fiction style, but after the filming was completed, Cannon's financial situation was tight, and there was no money for post-production special effects.

Jean-Claude Van Damme himself did not want the film to be locked in a warehouse, so he approached Ronald to discuss taking over the distribution. In the end, he bought the film himself, edited it himself, and finally finished the film.

"Huh, huh, huh...", after watching the movie, Ronald applauded with the others.Jean-Claude Van Damme has created a small miracle, cutting a bad film with no money for special effects into a completely different film.

He re-edited some wonderful action shots of himself and Lundgren in it, flexibly used the techniques he learned from the director of Xiangjiang action films, and cut a sci-fi film into an action film alive.

No special effects shots?Just use action close-ups to make up.

Not enough time for action close-ups?Then slow down, and then repeat, a fighting scene is repeated at normal speed, then in slow motion, and finally interspersed with other people’s reaction shots, and then put the best second of the action shot at the end.

In short, just take off and kick the villain's head, and repeat the slow motion three times.

The audience had never seen such a wonderful fighting scene, and they yelled and enjoyed it. After the premiere, they surrounded the two male protagonists and asked them to reproduce the slow motion Feijiao again.

The two action actors who really couldn't play the slow-motion three-times effect on the spot had to use muscle poses to fool them.

Even so, the audience was also very happy, surrounding the male protagonists and not letting them go, wishing to go up and touch their muscles.

"It's close to 500 million at the box office in the first weekend?" Ronald got the box office statistics and thought happily, this Hong Kong-style editing method, it seems that American audiences like it very much, and more than [-] theaters have created it. With such a good box office, it actually ranks fifth in the box office list. The Biochemical Man is expected to create a small miracle at the box office...