Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 408 Premiere of the Urchin Outside the World
The de facto premiere of "The Outer Worlds," which took place at a small-town California middle school, was directed by Coppola, with a trio of stars Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, and Ralph The two of Mazio went to that middle school and had a party with the students who had written a letter begging Coppola to come out of the mountain.

In the movie theater in Los Angeles, several other leading actors came, including Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruz, and Diane Lane.

Ronald met agent Richard at the door of the theater, and Paula Wagner accompanied Tom Cruise.

There are few photojournalists, a bit of a dampener for the leading teenage stars, who are carefully dressed to look like the show's characters.It seems that Warner Bros. is not optimistic about this movie and has not invested too much marketing resources.

"The reporters that Nisita introduced to you are over there." Richard pointed to the two reporters standing opposite to Ronald. Ronald came to show his face to catch news.

"Hi, hello." Ronald stepped forward to say hello, "I'm Ronald."

"Hi, I'm Downey," a reporter also responded friendly.

"I'm Charlie, which one are you from?" another reporter asked Ronald.

"I'm working for The Atlantic now." Ronald looked at the two young reporters as if they had just graduated from college.

"Massachusetts Atlantic Monthly? Oh, I didn't expect this film to be interviewed by serious media?" reporter Charlie expressed surprise.

"This is an adaptation of SE Hinton's novel. The Atlantic Monthly has always paid attention to literary criticism, and is also very concerned about the cause of equal rights for minorities." Reporter Downey explained, "Right, Ronald."

Ronald smiled, knowing that they misunderstood that he was also a reporter, so he was not in a hurry to explain, and asked them, "Why are there so few reporters interviewing this movie? I thought there would be many people at the premiere."

"I heard that this movie was rejected by Warner Brothers. You can see that our newspaper just photographed us two newcomers to write about it casually."

"Disgusted?"

"Yeah, the Italian directors who became famous in the 70s are all dead now, and Marty Scorsese's new film 'The King of Comedy' is also at the box office. I heard gossip that Scorsese's previous films, It was all about his editor, Martha Lucas, who was George Lucas's wife, and when Martha got married, the quality of his films went downhill."

"Yeah, I heard Coppola was in debt and his 'Diorama' company was going bankrupt. Warner Bros. basically gave up on the movie."

"No, don't you think 'The Urchin of the World' is not good?" Ronald said.

"I heard that Roger Ebert took offense at Coppola, even though he gave it three stars. But he felt that Coppola should have used these innovative styles, lighting, and sets as exercises, not for making movies. Come experiment, he should be making a real movie like 'Apocalypse Now'."

"That's right, I heard that the critics' evaluation after the special screening was not very high. It is generally believed that the nine-to-ten-minute story is not compact enough. The characters are well acted but the story is not good."

"But I've heard that it's because Warner has compressed the duration. If it follows the director's original two-hour arrangement, it would be a good movie." Ronald defended Coppola.

"Hey, who will watch such a long movie now, have you heard? Some small studios have stopped showing it and sold it directly on videotape."

"Yeah, and today there's the same teenage gangster movie 'Bad Boys' coming out, which is at least an 80s Los Angeles story, a 50s Oklahoma story that only us newbies will be able to distribute. "

"Ronald, Ronald." Nisita walked over, "It seems that you have found the two reporters, I don't have to worry about it. How are you chatting?"

"Ah? You're not a reporter?" The two reporters showed embarrassment.

"I'm Ronald Lee, here for the premiere."

Nisita handed over the draft to the two reporters, and took Ronald to the front to take a photo with the actors.

"Hi, Tom", Ronald and Tom Cruise embraced warmly, he is now in the early stages, and various film appointments are constantly arranged by Paula Wagner.

"Did you know that Paula accepted another movie for me, the heroine is a newcomer you have promoted, and she speaks highly of you. I want to make a movie with you."

"Ah, is it? Who is it?"

"Lee Thompson, we're going to Pittsburgh to shoot 'All The Right Moves,' do you have any advice?"

"Yes, if you go to Pittsburgh to shoot a movie, you'd better bring anti-allergy medicine. The air pollution there is very bad, and the nostrils are full of dust at night, which is very uncomfortable."

"Ah, is that so? I'll get ready right away." Paula Wagner next to him quickly took down what Ronald said.

"What's the story, what genre is this movie?" Ronald asked Cruise.

"A youthful, high school kid who gets a football scholarship and comes out of town, Lea Thompson as my girlfriend."

"A football scholarship?"

"I know, I know, I just played a tackle, and I was convincing on the high school team. The movie also said that he was studying mechanical engineering for college, and it was impossible to develop professionally in the future." Tom Ke Ruth knew his height problem, so the movie modified certain details for him.

"Well, what can I say, I wish you all the best! Lee Thompson is indeed a very talented actress."

"Ronald," Nisita dragged him aside again, "My assistant just sent it from the office, a postcard from Helen. She said thank you for your reminder."

"Huh?" Ronald took it happily, only to see Helen wrote a paragraph on a postcard.

She really listened to Ronald, and instead of shooting that dangerous take-off shot out of the water, she had a stand-in instead.The stand-in got tangled up in the steel wire during practice and suffered minor injuries.

In the end, the crew decided to take a photo of Helen, enlarged it to life size, and then glued it to the wooden model, and then used the camera to shoot the puppet being pulled out of the water quickly to fool it.

Along with the postcard was the picture of Helen they were going to stick on the puppet.I saw her raising one hand upwards, her blond hair fluttering, her red cape spread out behind her back, her tights, short skirt, and leather boots looked particularly alluring.

Ronald kissed the photo, put it together with the postcard, and put it in his breast pocket, "Thank you, and sent it to me." He shook hands with his assistant, and sent a banknote as a thank you.

"Hmph! I won't pay attention to him again." Diane, who saw Ronald coming over, saw the photo of Ronald kissing Helen halfway, stomped her feet angrily, turned and ran to meet Emilio Estevez, who played "Bitty Mouth," chatted.

"Together with my father, I bought another novel by Ms. Hinton, 'That was before. It's the heroine."

Emilio Estevez was delighted that Diane had asked him to chat, and began bragging.In the crew of "Naughty Boys Outside the World", Diane was the girlfriend that all the actors wanted to date, but none of them got it.

"Your father?" Diane pretended not to know, and asked about Emilio Estevez. In fact, Emilio had said it eight hundred times on the set.

"Yes, my father, Martin Sheen. He played Captain Willard in Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now.' There's only one back left."

"Really, that's such a pity." Diane acted very realistically, "otherwise you would have become famous years earlier."

"It doesn't matter, I will adapt the novel I bought myself, and you will come then, right?" Emilio Estevez is a little hunchbacked, and now his happy neck is protruding forward, thinking Go hug Diane.

"Diane, you are here." Ronald finally found Diane, "I didn't see you just now, your scenes in the final film were not cut out."

"I haven't watched it yet, I heard it's okay." Diane was very cold, and still answered Ronald's question, but she deliberately held Emilio Estevez's arm.

"Ronald, long time no see. When will we have another round? We can play tennis this time." Emilio heard that some scenes were cut, thinking that Ronald was deliberately provocative, and Diane held his arm again. , Immediately came the thought of challenge.

"Then I'm not good at it." Ronald recalled the days when he practiced tennis desperately for his dreams. He would only lash himself vigorously, and he would be made a fool of himself by then.

"Really, I thought you were omnipotent?" Emilio Estevez sneered.

Ronald was about to fight back, when suddenly a woman came from behind and pulled Emilio Estevez, "Emilio."

"Kelly, why are you here?" Emilio Estevez was taken aback, and pulled the woman named Kelly to the side to talk.

This Kelly looks pretty, but her personality seems to be the kind of Latin American housewife who was dismissed by Emilio in a few words, just like the fathers in those Catholic families who waved their hands and asked their mothers to wash clothes and cook. .

"Who is she?" Diane folded her arms over her chest, three feet away from Emilio.

"She's...well, a friend, a graphic model at the Wilhelmina Models agency. She's looking for me for a,...a thing, yes, in my adaptation of Hinton's play a role."

"Yeah, of course." Of course, Diane would not believe this kind of nonsense, leaving Emilio and Ronald behind, and went to find her father Bert.

"I haven't heard of any romantic relationship between Diane and Emilio Estevez?" Ronald, who was not sure about the situation, decided to ignore this matter. Anyway, Diane became an adult at the beginning of this year, and even her father Bert I can't control her either.

Soon, fans of Coppola and Hinton's novels began to pour in, and the film began to be screened.

Sure enough, the movie was cut to pieces at Warner Nine's 10-minute request.Many important plots in the novels have been cut. Not only the fans of the novels sighed and were dissatisfied, but even the ordinary audience who came from Mukopola's fame could not quite understand some of the foreshadowing of the plots.

After all, this movie is not a simple plot like high-concept, but the kind of drama that Coppola is good at portraying the relationship between characters and the advancement of the story.This cut, um... No wonder even Roger Ebert, a film critic who loves Coppola, has a lot of criticism.

It seems that the box office of this movie is worrying.

(End of this chapter)