Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

"Honey, help me pick and choose, who do you think are more suitable?"

Back in the temporary office of the small apartment, Helen Slater suppressed a smile, and showed Ronald a bunch of audition photos she got from the cast group, and asked him to choose the man who would be paired with her in the movie. Protagonist.

Ronald had a big oolong, and the news reached Helen's ears.She was a little angry and a little happy.During this time, she also had a strong sense of crisis.

Ronald got married and Diane soon became pregnant. For Helen, it was a crisis moment of her own charm.Back then, Katharine Hepburn's life with Spencer Tracy was not smooth sailing.Tracy had the idea of ​​completely breaking off relations with Hepburn and returning to the family... In the end, it was because of the two people's common interest in drama that they experienced a long period of company.

Ronald's crazy performance today proves that his jealousy is still very full.Helen also felt relieved, Ronald was very similar to old-school Hollywood directors, he was more nostalgic than new Hollywood people...

"Well, you found Patrick Dempsey?" Ronald turned over and saw a handsome face, the male protagonist of the movie "Love Is Not For Sale" jointly produced by him and Bannon.

"Yes, we think his image in that movie is very nerdy. And he is very handsome, so the difference before and after the transformation can be convincing." Nora Ephron came up and commented.

"Very good..." Ronald smiled, which was also a kind of respect for him.Helen is the heroine, acting in a romantic drama, the male lead must be approved by her boyfriend.

Patrick Dempsey is also a relatively well-behaved person in life, and he will not be too worried when he shoots some intimate scenes with Helen.

After looking at a few more photos, Nora Ephron suddenly pulled out an audition photo from the bottom, "How about this ex-boyfriend Slash who plays Alex, he looks violent, look at this chin, strong He looked like a criminal... and could have broken Dempsey's arm with one punch."

"Huh? Anyone can think about it, but he can't." Ronald saw that it was Brad Pitt, and immediately threw his photo to the other side of the table.

Ronald's face flushed a little, he lowered his head and kept flipping through the pile of photos, one by one, pretending to be serious and turned to the back to look at the resumes of those actors.This incident made him a little embarrassed, and he had to pretend that nothing happened.

"Why? I think he's a good villain. Stupid and handsome." Nora Ephron suppressed a smile in her heart, gesturing to take the photo.

"Ahem, this person once came to ask out my cousin Donna for a role, but when he got a new role, he brought other actresses to the party. I don't want to see him in any of my crews." Ronald had to call his cousin Donna moved out as a shield.

"When are we leaving? Are you all ready?"

At this time, Donna and Douglas Jr. just walked in from the door. They were dressed very formally today, attending the premiere of "When Harry Met Sally" as relatives and friends of Ronald.

"We were discussing the casting of the new movie, Ronald said that this actor is terrible, he can't be chosen, he also dated you, let you go..." Nora Ephron suffocated a smile.

"Ah, it's him. It's a bastard, but I've forgotten him a long time ago. The characters in the movie are completely different from the real people. I didn't know. I thought that what a star is on the screen is what he is in life. You want If you use it, use it anyway.”

"Puchi..." Nora Ephron couldn't bear it anymore, picked up the photo of Brad Pitt, and laughed out loud.

Then, Ronald's old friend Julia Taylor in New York, who came specially to help, also laughed.In the end, Helen couldn't hold back her laughter and burst out laughing. Only Donna was a little confused and didn't know where the laughter was.

"You bastards..." Ronald also realized that they already knew the details of his embarrassment, so he cursed and laughed himself.

Anyway, there is no one else in this room. The director Ephron, the heroine Helen, and Julia Taylor who came to help with the casting, and several female artists are all old friends of Ronald.These Hollywood women have seen a lot of ugly things about handsome guys, and they will comment on all kinds of men when they are together, they are very sturdy.Ronald couldn't do anything about them either.

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"Thank you, Miss Meg Ryan went to Hawaii for the shooting of the new film, but I will record all your praises for her and send them to her by FedEx. When she left, she specially asked me to hear from the fans First hand evaluation."

The premiere in New York, of course, is hosted by actor Billy Crystal.He himself is very humorous, and such small scenes are easily captured.Think of it as conditioning for the Oscars.

"I feel the same as the characters in the play. Marriage is really a difficult process. It is difficult to find the right person. Sometimes you have to take risks, just like jumping off a cliff. If the two are right, you will be safe. The net is below to catch you..."

Playing the supporting actress, Sally's best friend is Star Wars' Princess Leia - Carrie Fisher.Her appearance and figure have dropped a lot in the past few years, but she doesn't go for plastic surgery and maintenance, that's all.At the premiere in New York, as a representative of the female cast, she also answered many questions from the audience.

This movie is based on Nora Ephron and many friends in New York, using many love stories that actually happened in New York as materials.So, back to the place where the story took place, the premiere in New York, the audience also gave special recognition to this film.

The Yankee baseball game, the red leaves in Central Park in late autumn, the museum, Times Square New Year's countdown and other scenes are shown on the screen one by one. The story of Harry and Sally is very real, just like what happened around them. friend story.

And there's something about this movie that's particularly relevant to New York audiences.

Last year, the average age at first marriage in America was 26.1 for men and 23.9 for women.But in New York City, especially Manhattan, both ages are about 3-5 years above the national average.

So Harry and Sally spent many years together, Harry got married and divorced, Sally got engaged and then called off, and finally got married when Harry was 35 and Sally was 32.

This phenomenon of postponing marriage did not resonate with many small-town audiences.Only in big cities like New York, because of career development, financial status and other reasons, a large number of women have not married after the age of 30.

Just like the female audience tonight, many of them are elites in the workplace, single, divorced, or single mothers account for a large proportion.

They are particularly satisfied with the fairy-tale happy ending of stories about older urban men and women like "When Harry Met Sally".After all, what single man or woman does not dream of such an ideal situation happening to him?

A man and a woman who have had each other in their hearts for many years finally broke through all obstacles of reality and bravely jumped into marriage. How many Manhattan women would dream of this at night?

In a big city like New York, when a man kneels and proposes in public, the onlookers congratulate him, a true reflection of the prevailing sentiment.

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The audience meeting after the premiere ended, and Ronald continued to communicate with a large number of film critics from the New York media.These film critics have high hopes for him, a New York director, and they are also very partial.

This "When Harry Met Sally", like the previous "Working Girl" directed by Ronald, is a story about New York.And he took the professional women in New York so independent, smart, beautiful, and romantic, and finally gave the heroine a good man.

This really captures the wildest dreams of the mostly female critics.The film critic who said that Ronald is a younger, more romantic, and more optimistic Woody Allen wants to praise Ronald to the sky.

Ronald did not dare to be negligent, and asked his assistant to offer a lot of coupons, including family tickets for the Yankees game that are suitable for taking family and children to watch, and one-stop package coupons for beauty, manicure, massage, and hot spring SPA that are suitable for movie critics to enjoy alone .

These are Gods of Wealth who can further magnify the film's good reputation. In addition to material rewards, Ronald has to properly tout their contribution to New York films.

This work lasted very late, and the main creative staff all went home. Ronald and Helen, who was still waiting for him, both felt a little hungry, so they ate together in the mall where the movie theater where the premiere was located was located.

"I haven't eaten pizza and Coke for a long time." Helen smiled and ate a small piece of pizza with tomato and other vegetarian ingredients, and then took a sip of Diet Coke.

This cinema, marked by oasis palm trees, is invested by Saudis.Just near the busiest midtown in Manhattan, the land here has undergone rezoning during the reign of the previous grand commander, and a newly built shopping mall.

It happens to be the highest floor where the shopping mall is located, and there is also a chain of high-end pizzerias.Ronald is here to tackle a meal.

"Well, it feels right to eat here." Ronald ate a lot more aggressively, stuffing a slice of pizza into his mouth, and drank the traditional sugar cola.We New Yorkers eat like this...

"Well, hurry up, we have to catch the midnight show, and it will start in a quarter of an hour. It's hard to buy tickets for this movie."

"Romance movies, there are only a dozen or so theaters in Manhattan right now, and they were made by the director of Working Girl last time... Of course they are very popular. I still got the tickets from Linda, the secretary of the marketing director. Right, Linda ?”

"Of course, my boss, Larry, someone sent him a ticket. He happened to be on a business trip to Miami, and it was all cheap for us."

Ronald, who was gorging himself, heard several women rushing into the pizza shop, asking the clerk to speed up...don't delay them from watching the movie.

When he turned his head, he saw five or six women wearing exaggerated large earrings, relatively cheap work clothes, combed hair high, and heavy makeup, stamping their feet to urge them.

"If you don't mind, I can give you the pizza I want first." Seeing that they were watching his movie, Ronald was moved, and put the already baked, sausage and cheese stuffing that he ordered Give them the pizza.

"Oh, you are such a good person. You just watched Harry Met Sally with your girlfriend, right?" The leading woman, an acquaintance, came over and sat at the next table with Ronald, then said to He listened to the plot.

"Is this a good ending? Did Harry and Sally get together in the end? I saw the ad in The New Yorker, but it didn't say whether it was a comedy or a tragedy."

"Good ending. It was a bit miserable before, but we got together in the end. When you see Sally crying, don't think it's a tragic ending. Just keep reading. I won't say much to avoid spoilers. "

"Okay, thank you." The audience ate the pizza Ronald gave up and thanked him one after another.

"Why did you come to the show so late?" Ronald asked them. It was almost midnight, and there were no restaurants in the mall except pizza, McDonald's, and Burger King.

"We are all classmates in business night school. Let me tell you, we all went to study business after watching the director of today's movie and the movie Working Girl. We are both secretaries, and the heroine Tess is the same Yes, now Tess is the most successful idol in our secretary's heart.

We all want to watch the movies he directed first. "

"Then do you know the name of the director?" Helen glanced at Ronald. She had never imagined that he had such a great influence in New York.

"It's called Ronald Lee, um, what's in the middle? We can't remember the middle name, but we can't miss his movies, my boyfriend also likes his Top Gun, I prefer Dirty Dancing, We all bought the tape and rewatched it every weekend."

"Hehe, then why do you want to watch this movie?"

"Hey, besides being promoted, what our female secretary wants most is to have a boyfriend who loves me..." This secretary named Linda is also very straightforward. The dream of getting a job and a salary increase. "When Harry Met Sally" is here to give their dreams about love.

"Linda, let's go, we're going to be late soon." The remaining secretary called Linda, asking her to bring the pizza and check the tickets first.

"Thank you for your kindness, and I wish you happiness." Linda bid farewell to Ronald and the others in a hurry, and ran to the opposite cinema. The secretaries were wearing sneakers, and they ran very fast.

"I didn't expect these secretaries to really believe in the dreams you created for them and go to night school?" Helen covered her mouth, shocked.Movies in turn affect the lives of Americans. There are actually not many such movies in the history of Hollywood.

"The movies I direct have always been like this," Ronald laughed out loud. He was in a good mood when he met his die-hard fans today.He started boasting to Helen.

From the earliest break dancing caused a trend (break dancing has the widest influence, in addition to domestic, Europe and Asia have set off the trend of break dancing), to Longwei boy made the business of karate clubs boom, and after Dirty Dancing, there are more people in the United States There are many Latin dance classrooms, and the number of recruits in the Navy has soared since Top Gun...

Ronald may not be the most artistic director, but when it comes to leading social trends, he must be the most accomplished one in the contemporary era.

"Your pizza..." The shop assistant who came to work brought Ronald a new pizza.

"Thank you", Ronald quickly ate two pieces, drank the Coke, put the rest of the pizza back into the box, and then took Helen's hand, the two were like young high school students, happy after the date go home hand in hand...

It was another passionate night, and the next day Ronald fell asleep until he woke up naturally.After he got up and finished his breakfast, he received a call from Ed Bastian, an accountant for Price Waterhouse.

"The New York Daily News is becoming more and more inseparable from your financial support. For many things other than asking for money, the editor-in-chief James Wells has also begun to consult our team more. It seems that you are in the newspaper. will not be hindered too much by them.

However, they gave me another call today and asked for our opinion on one matter. This matter is of great importance, and we still have to listen to your opinion. "