Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 537 Ronald's Forehand Punch

"I want to speak to Mr. George Lucas. This is Ronald Lee. He said if I need help, I can call this number."

Ronald was alone in the office and dialed the number given by George Lucas.

"George, there is a man named Ronald looking for you." It was a woman's voice on the phone.

"Thank you, Linda," Lucas took the receiver from his girlfriend Linda.He and pop singer Linda Ronstadt have been dating since their divorce.

"Hi, Ronald, hello. Linda and I happen to be on vacation at Skywalker Manor. Would you like to come over and have fun?"

"I have something and I need your help, George. You once said that I can come to you if I have any problems." Ronald said straight to the point and asked for help.

"Okay, let's hear what you have to solve." Lucas became a little more serious and changed his sitting position.

Ronald told Lucas all about the predicament he was facing, hoping that he could come out and endorse himself. His "Dragon Mighty Kid" is not an imitation of "Rocky".

"Of course there is no problem, let your PR company contact me, you have a PR company, right?" Lucas didn't take it seriously when he heard that it was such a trivial matter, "But you are sure to use my Promise? I think your agent should have other solutions to this matter."

"Yeah, they offered me to default to Rocky, or wait for the news to die down, but I didn't like that. This movie was the first time my family praised and recognized my work. I didn't want this movie, Put this taint on it."

Lucas was silent for a moment. What happened to Ronald reminded him of his father, George Lucas the Old.

His father, a right-wing businessman, was very disappointed after Lucas went off to college to make some boring movies, and the relationship between the two has not been good.

Just like the villain Darth Vader in Star Wars, George Sr. also hopes that his son can join him and inherit his business empire. In the scene where the father and son turned against each other in "The Empire Strikes Back", Lucas refined his father-son relationship, and then exaggerated it and changed it.

Luckier than the Skywalker family, Lucas' father survived to the day his son became famous and became the most profitable director and producer in Hollywood.Just like in "Return of the Jedi," the two eventually reconcile.

If I let my father and son reconcile Star Wars, and someone slanders it as an imitation, I am afraid that I will be very angry in my heart, and I have to fight back to clarify.

"Okay, how do you want me to help you?"

"I'm going to work out a plan with my PR consultant, go on a TV show, ... fight back against Stallone's statement. Then I hope you can do an interview and endorse my statement."

"Yes, I haven't been interviewed by a TV station for a long time. If you find an important talk show host to come to Skywalker Manor, I can spare two hours." Lucas agreed.

"Lucas has agreed to accept an exclusive interview at his manor. Next, we will contact the media and let Ronald have an influential program as soon as possible to clarify the facts."

After Ronald invited Lucas, Nisita immediately invested the resources he could mobilize and began to plan for Ronald.

This young man always surprises himself.With the support of a top producer in the industry at the level of Lucas, Ronald's future is limitless.

"This matter should be done within this week, and it's best to find a host of the top three talk shows." Eva, the public relations consultant, started to go out and make phone calls with Paula to coordinate resources with all parties.Their impromptu team is very excited, and they would rather pay a big price, but also let Ronald stir up the heat again when the public is still impressed by this matter.

The so-called three major talk shows are the three major male hosts who have dominated late-night talk shows since the 70s. NBC's Johnny Carson's Tonight Show is thriving, making CBS and ABC among the three major wireless TV stations jealous, and they also launched their own candidates for the ring.

CBS is looking for Maven Griffin, and ABC is looking for Dick Cavett.

The two have their own characteristics. CBS's Griffin takes the low-end route, which is more vulgar and indecent than Johnny Carson's jokes.By the 80s, the ratings were bleak, and after being fired by CBS, he went to cable stations, and Stallone was on his show.

Dick Cavett of ABC conducted in-depth interviews. Although he was able to talk about in-depth content, but in America, where there is an average of one and a half TV sets in each household, he talked about some in-depth content late at night, and the ratings were not good. After being fired It was moved to PBS TV station together with the program, and the contract was terminated again at the end of the year before last.

In addition to the three veteran talk shows, it is NBC's evening show after Johnny Carson's show. This is hosted by Ronald's friend David Letterman, and the ratings are about half of Carson's.

After a series of urgent negotiations, and an exchange of resources, it was agreed with David Letterman that, on Friday night, instead of the original guest, Sean Connery's new film, the copycat version of "007" movie Bond Girl One Barbara Carrera, put Ronald on top, and talk about "The Dragon Boy".

The show was recorded at NBC's fifth studio in New York. Ronald, Nisita, and Eva, a public relations consultant, caught a plane to New York.

"Your appearance is about 13 minutes. I will ask about some movies and your personal experience, and then turn to Stallone's rumors about you." David Letterman gave Ronald a brief introduction to the arrangement.

Because talk shows require on-the-spot reactions, Ronald did not rehearse and went straight to the recording.

"Three...two...one...start", the on-site director pointed the camera at the host Letterman.

"The next guest is an old friend of ours. His movie once gave me a bit of an actor's addiction in the studio... Let us welcome, the director of 'Breakdancing' and 'Longwei Kid', Luo Nader Lee..."

"Hello!" Ronald waved his hands and greeted the audience.The audience below applauded and screamed as the assistant arranged.

"Thank you, David. I'm very happy to be here." Ronald and Letterman shook hands and sat on the guest's chair.

"You breakdancing gave us a good time. I saw that you like to shoot bikini girls' thighs. Is this a personal hobby of yours?" Letterman's show aired late at night. essential.

"Hahaha..." The audience also laughed seeing Ronald's embarrassment.

"Hey, the audience likes this kind of scene, and my task is to shoot what they like to see."

A loud whistle accompanied by applause, the audience loves this kind of director.

"Speaking of movies, another new movie of yours this year 'The Dragon Boy' is coming out, and there is also a beautiful girl in it."

"Yeah, you might recognize her as one of the Burger King girls..."

The two chatted briefly for a few minutes, and Letterman began to get down to business, "Two days ago Stallone was on TV and said that your new film is to imitate his Rocky, a teenage version of Rocky, is it true? Is your director filming When making movies, do you deliberately imitate those classics?"

"You know me, David. You've made a cameo in one of my movies. I don't like to imitate people when I make movies. It's the same this time. I'm not actually imitating Rocky."

"So you did copy other movies, but not Rocky?"

"Movies always have a beginning, middle, and end. Every movie story must conform to the rules before it will be liked by the audience. We will not say that the hero and heroine of every romantic comedy are imitating just because they kiss each other at the end." Ronald pretended Dissatisfied, he shrugged his shoulders.

"But your plots are indeed very similar, especially there is a master who defeated the defending champion under his training."

"If you say that, then all the movies are imitations. If we insist on giving 'Longwei Boy' an object of 'imitation'..." Ronald stretched out his hands, hooked twice with his index finger and middle finger, Indicating imitation is in quotation marks.

"It's supposed to be 'Star Wars' parody."

"Star Wars? Daniel slashed at each other with a lightsaber?" Letterman made a look of slashing at each other.The band played the Star Wars theme song in unison.

"No, but their master, the background is more similar, isn't it? Coach Rocky is just a grumpy boxing coach.

And Master Yoda, and Master Miyagi, both hid their secrets at the beginning, pretending to be ordinary people without magic skills. "

"Repairman, huh?"

"Yes, they are all short in stature, humorous, and they like to use inversions and don't follow grammar."

"Used correctly, no defense can stop it." Letterman sat on a chair, trying to make a crane kick.

"And in the end, what they value most is not the disciples defeating each other, but defeating themselves. It is the correct philosophy that defeats the wrong philosophy. Their apprentices did not kill their opponents after being taught by their masters, but achieved reconciliation.

So this is not a martial arts movie, but a movie about the philosophy of life.The correct philosophy of life allows children to get good results, not the level of force.It's totally different from those boxing and martial arts movies. "

"The dark side of the force?" Letterman imitated the beat of a Star Wars drum with his hand on the table. "Bang, bang, bang... bang bang... bang."

"Hahaha, the audience started laughing."

"It's like pursuing too much power and falling into the dark side of the force." Letterman concluded.

"Yes, that's it, just like Darth Vader, everyone has their own light side and dark side, sometimes we forget about philosophy, we get lost, and then we can't see ourselves clearly. It's like..."

Ronald paused on purpose, and Letterman raised his brows. Is this to name Stallone?
"Like Johnny in the movie." Ronald gives the audience a moment to smile, realize who he's actually talking about, and returns to the movie.

The theme song to The Late Show with David Letterman began to play softly, a signal that the hour was approaching.

"Audience friends, Ronald Lee," Letterman began to lead the audience in applause.

Ronald stood up and called everyone a curtain call.

"Very good, very good," Eva tugged at Ronald's slightly wrinkled back of the suit, "You have completely achieved the purpose we expected, and I don't see that your talking style in the talk show is also good. "

"It will air on time at ten o'clock on Friday night." Letterman came over to confirm that the video was all OK. "My ratings are only half of Carson's, but this is the best I can do."

"Thank you," Ronald stepped forward and hugged him tightly.I have to remember this job, although Sean Connery's agency CAA is helping to mediate, but Letterman has also contributed a lot. Without his permission, I might not be able to do this.

"The next step is to interview Lucas's team. We'd better get an important talk show host to interview Lucas before next weekend." Nisita came up to talk, this is their next most important job .

Ronald's forehand punch today has a very strange angle, and it seems that it will be far beyond Stallone's expectations.Then look at how "Rocky" hugged and defended, and Ronald's team hit Lucas' backhand punch again.

"It shouldn't be difficult. Which reporter doesn't want to interview him?" Ronald asked.

"Of course, but to find someone who is willing to cooperate and ask the right questions, you need to choose carefully." Eva concluded. "Actually, if there is no retirement, Dick Cavett in the three major talk shows is the most suitable. His interviews are always in-depth, and he asks questions in casual places, so that the interviewees are willing to talk in depth."

　Thank you for the reward from the lord "Cang Hai Yi Yi Meow 1", thank you.

　
(End of this chapter)