Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 296 The All-Metal Robot in the Dream

After speaking, Cameron fainted weakly again.

Everyone hurried forward, and Ronald helped to pull off Cameron's collar, and touched his forehead, which was terribly hot.But the pulse in the neck was beating fairly steadily.

Seeing this, Roberto helped to contact a private hospital run by an American, but the efficiency of the ambulance system in Rome was very poor, and patients were often sent to hospitals that paid more kickbacks.He suggested driving himself to the hospital.

Ronald and Roberto carried Cameron into Roberto's car, Gail helped to support his head, and a group of people sent Cameron to the hospital.

The doctors at the hospital are all American-trained and speak English.After some inquiries, some blood tests were done, and some antibiotics and glucose were given to him. After a few hours, Cameron woke up in the hospital bed.

The doctor judged that Cameron was fine, but that he was weak due to insufficient nutritional intake.The direct cause of the illness may be food poisoning caused by eating spoiled food in the trash can.

Because he had no job, his visa expired, and he had no savings, a young man in good health, almost had a big accident in Italy because of a small problem.

On the third day, the hospital notified Ronald that the medical insurance of Cameron's directors' union was the lowest, and he had used up the insurance amount after two days in the hospital, and he would have to pay for it if he stayed any longer.

After seeing the price of hospitalization at their own expense, Ronald and Gail had to pick Cameron out, and with the help of Roberto, they found a clean and cheap family hotel to live in.

Roberto's girlfriend, Nicoletta, speaks English, and the two of them have very good hearts, knowing that Cameron has just recovered and needs to eat some digestible and nutritious food.

Nicoletta made a large pot of lobrita soup, a traditional Italian food cooked with overnight bread, pasta, and meat sauce, and brought it to them.

Gail fed Cameron with a spoon.Cameron finally regained a little energy after raising the will for two days.

"What happened? Why didn't you edit the film and went to live in a hotel? We went to the address of the producer Asonitis in America. It wasn't his office, but Rome's. A state-run film studio?"

Seeing that Cameron was recovering well, Ronald and Gail began to ask their friends what happened.

"Hey, I've met a liar."

Cameron also intermittently told his two friends about his experience.

It turns out that Asonitis, the producer of "Piranha 2," is a liar.Relying on shooting some exploitation films in America, and then using the American theaters as a gimmick to sell the movies to some small theaters in Europe.

Because he exploited the members of the directors' union before and asked him to replace the director's signature with himself after the film was finished, the directors' union has banned any film directed by him from being released in America.

In order to get around this limitation, he found the unknown Jim Cameron as the signed director.After Cameron finished shooting all the exterior and special effects shots in Jamaica, he was shooting interiors in Los Angeles.

Asonitis refused to re-enter the studio on the grounds that Cameron's dailies did not meet the requirements.

Cameron couldn't argue with the Italian-speaking crew.I could only watch helplessly as my shooting results were stolen by Asonitis and brought back to Rome for post-editing.

Cameron, who wanted to stand out with "Piranha 2", had already spent the initial salary of the special effects director and the successor director in Jamaica, and made a realistic piranha model for the film at his own expense. After the filming was completed, He already lives off savings and odd jobs.

In order to prevent his first famous movie from becoming a bad movie, he finally had to take all the cash at home, plus a little money borrowed from Ronald, bought a one-way plane ticket, and came to Rome, Italy .

Cameron found the producer Asonitis, but was blocked from the editing room.Not reconciled, he opened the door of the editing room with a bank card, sneaked into the editing room every night, and secretly revised his work.

Unexpectedly, it was discovered by the producer Asonitis, and he changed back what he had modified during the day.

Cameron couldn't speak the language, didn't know people, and his savings were exhausted. In addition, his visa expired, so he could only live in a cheap hotel by picking up leftover food from other guests.

If he hadn't been ill and had to call Gail for help, he would probably do odd jobs in Italy, earn enough airfare money to fly back, and secretly bury this embarrassing history in his memory.

He didn't want his friends and family to see him being tricked into living on the street because of the movie he loves.

Gail, who knew the whole story, felt that Cameron's measures were unwise.America is a country founded on laws. When encountering such a thing, of course, it is necessary to find a lawyer to sue the other party.

"I will introduce my lawyer to you. I must seek justice from Asonitis. The director must sign your name. If he makes too many changes to your film, he can appeal to the directors union, cancel the signature, and let his The movie can't be shown in America, and he'll give in."

Gail Hurd immediately thought of a solution.

Ronald also felt that Cameron should find an agent, so that he would not run into a scam producer and know nothing about it.If a broker wants to make a commission, he must figure out these things, otherwise he will be fired.

"You should get an agent, Jim. They will take part of your income, but they will save you a lot of work.

Also, if you encounter such a difficult situation in the future, you must remember our two friends. If you hadn't called Gail this time, what would have happened? "

But Roberto and his girlfriend Nicoletta, who are Italian party members, understand Cameron very well.

"Come on, Jim is an artist. Artists tend to only want to entertain the people. It is difficult for us to fight those film capitalists who only want to make money."

Nicoletta translated into English what Roberto had said in Italian.

"I see, thank you." Cameron shook Gail's hand and thanked several friends.This time, not only two good friends flew to Rome, Italy to find him, but also gained the friendship of Roberto, a foreign artist.

Cameron's body is recovering quickly, and he still spends some time in bed drawing with pencils every day.

Seeing that he was getting better, Ronald was also preparing for his return trip. He received a transatlantic call from his agent Richard, saying that there was something about the marketing of "fast-paced Richmond High School", which made him He went back to discuss.

On this day, he booked a plane ticket and came to say goodbye to Cameron, Gail, and Roberto.

He's headed back to Los Angeles, where "fast-paced Richmond High" is already preparing to do some marketing.While Coppola was said to have made progress with Warner Bros., Coppola gave in and agreed to invite teenage stars to participate in the film.

"This is what I dreamed about when I was sick." Cameron handed Ronald a pencil sketch, which was the result of his drawing in the past few days, "I'm going to write this dream into a script. "

"What is this?" Ronald took the sketch. It was a robot with a skull-like head, holding a long knife in one hand, and holding a machine gun in the other hand to shoot at a distance.

"This is the scene I dreamed of in my dream the day you found me. He was so clear, a robot covered in silver-white metal, walking towards me with a machine gun in one hand."

Cameron excitedly described his dream to Ronald.

"He has a destructive power, I dreamed that he appeared from the flames, and when he approached me, a long knife appeared in the other hand.

He came over and pointed at me with a knife and said, you must take a picture of me and let me appear in this world. "

Ronald looked at the sketch, and the skeleton robot on it was very realistic. He glanced at Cameron and thought, "Isn't this guy also a time traveler? You can dream of future movies in your dreams?"

"What's your name?" Ronald asked, pointing to the skull on the painting.

"The Terminator".Cameron got up from the bed and said excitedly, "I already have an idea in my mind, this is a future science fiction story, where robots and humans compete for the earth.

Like George Lucas' Star Wars, The Terminator will be a sci-fi film with an epic structure.When the time comes, I've finished writing the script, so you can read it for me and give me some comments. "

"Okay, after you recover, I will see it. If this robot can be filmed, it will definitely be a sensation." Ronald knew that Cameron's stunt model level had matured day by day, so he thought of such an all-metal robot Appearing on the screen, I really want to see it first.

After bidding farewell to Cameron, Gail, and Roberto, Ronald first left Rome, Italy.It was another ten-hour flight, and after Ronald took a taxi back to the hotel at the airport, he fell asleep for a whole day.Only then did the tiredness and jet lag of the journey be reversed.

"Bang bang bang" came a knock on the hotel room door, Ronald rubbed his eyes, got out of bed and opened the door.

His agent Richard walked in, "Are you back? Ronald? I have a long-distance call with you. David Letterman plans to invite Brooke Shields to his evening show, which happens to be a promotion Great opportunity for 'fast paced Richmond High'."

"Oh, just got back from Italy and I'm jet-lagged. Is that a good thing? What's up?"

"The appearance fee requested by Brooke Shields' mother is too high. Letterman wants to contact Brooke Shields directly through your relationship. Can you ask her to reduce the price? Letterman's show has just started airing not long ago, and now I can't get much money, so I just Thinking of you."

"I?"

"Yes, you are very influential on Brooke, and she also came to me to find you. The key is that if Brooke can be on TV, it will be a very powerful promotion for your movie."

"Huh?" Ronald regained his spirits all of a sudden, "That's right."

(End of this chapter)