Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 574, Chapter 2, The Promise of the Secretary of the Navy

Ronald's filming efforts on Staten Island were thwarted.The film industry in New York has declined since Edison started chasing the studio's royalties everywhere.

Just find an agent in Los Angeles, and you can recruit actors, workers, lighting, recording photographers and other professionals from the crew.In New York, only those Broadway actors can be selected, and each of them can't afford movies, which is not considered high art.As for cheap open-can film, there is nowhere to find cheap photographers who have shot exploitation films.

Although labor and land prices are very cheap on Staten Island, the professional talents required by the film industry are more expensive.You have to find someone from Hollywood, and you have to take care of food, lodging and transportation.

It seems that the kind of Roger Corman-style $20 low-budget exploitation film can only be made in Hollywood, an industrially developed place.A movie of the same quality can barely be made in New York at least 60 yuan.

New York agent Eddie also came to participate in the business discussion of Daydream Films. He has some ways to shoot image promotional videos and product samples for some companies.With the development of video recorders, many large companies have also thought about shooting a promotional video with a tall and elegant temperament, which will be played on the company's front desk TV in a loop.

New York has a lot of TV industry practitioners, and it is also suitable for shooting this kind of film.After adding some cameras, lighting, recording and other equipment, Ronald asked Eddie to organize his own staff and began to try to take some orders.

"Let me show you the samples of corporate promotional videos I collected." Eddie got up and turned on the TV.

"Wait a minute," Douglas Jr. stopped him. As a son of a wealthy family, he paid close attention to the news of this general election.

The TV is all about the debate between the Deputy Commander and the Donkey Party candidate.This debate is much more exciting than the last debate between the Grand Commander and Mundell.Both played well, and TV commentators agreed that both were good debaters.

Both newspapers and TV stations believed that the two sides were tied, but the polls after the event were very different.Male audiences generally believed that the Vice President won, while female audiences overwhelmingly believed that the female candidate of the Donkey Party won the debate.

The reason for this disagreement is mainly due to the confrontation between the deputy commander and Ferraro on an issue.The host asked Ferraro, who was elected to the House of Representatives for three terms, and the deputy commander of the two-term Congressman, the ambassador to China, the ambassador to the United Nations, the director of the CIA, and the resume of the deputy commander. Who knows more about diplomacy and politics.

The deputy commander opened his mouth and said, "Let me help you find out the difference between the former and the current grand commander when they faced the Persian and Lebanese embassies being taken hostage."

Ferraroma immediately retorted, "I express my strong protest. The deputy commander put on an attitude that can teach my country's foreign policy."

From a man's point of view, it may be nothing, but professional women who suffer from sexism in the workplace immediately feel the same about Ferraro's attitude.Therefore, it has received a lot of support from women.

Ronald thought about it. This kind of aversion to sexism from a female perspective seems to be becoming more and more a trend of thought in America.

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Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, who is at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego on the west coast, also tunes in to the deputy admiral's analysis of the debate.

Lyman is the youngest Secretary of the Navy in American history.He was only 38 when he took office four years ago.America is a civilian military officer, and the Minister of the Navy is appointed by the Grand Commander.

Even so, when he joined the job, he still received a lot of criticism.Aside from his unusually young age, Lehman was the first minister in years not to have served in the Navy.As a young man, he was only a pilot in the Air Force and Navy Reserve.In his first few years as secretary, he also had flying missions in the Naval Reserve.

Facing a group of admirals who were qualified enough to be his father, Lehman resorted to a plan to build a large warship.After taking office, he quickly catered to the commander who was tough on the Soviet Union, and came up with a plan to restore the navy's active ships to [-] ships.

In addition to the re-commissioning of the Iowa-class battleship, he also promoted the new Aegis ship, the Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine carrying the Trident intercontinental missile, the Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarine, and the upgrade of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.

Therefore, conservative politicians like Xiang Dang who are tough on the Soviet Union are his biggest reliance on his career.

"Yes, these female congressmen who decorate the House of Representatives like vases really need World War II veterans like the deputy commander to give them a good lesson in international politics. Do they know what the world's big triangle politics is? The deputy commander has experience in China, Just the right person to give them Dr Koepkissing's theory."

He remembered the script that the deputy commander called him and mentioned that the number of service members in the navy has been declining year after year. It is necessary to make more heroic movies like Hollywood during World War II, so that there will be enough young people to join the navy. A world-class ship.

Immediately, he called the Foreign Relations Liaison Office under the Ministry of the Navy, saying that he wanted to meet these patriotic filmmakers who wanted to create naval heroes.

Ronald was very surprised when he received the call. He didn't expect that the deputy commander's family did not reply to him, but settled the matter calmly.

He hurriedly flew back to Los Angeles, met the two producers, and went to the Naval Air Force Base in San Diego, Southern California, to meet Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, who was inspecting here.

"Your Excellency the Deputy Commander told me that you are going to make a story about a heroic fighter pilot in the Navy?"

"Yes, Mr. Lehmann. We really want to do a new age hero, like..." Don Simpson had enough of... at home before he came, and now he's a little too energetic.It is the choice of words, which is affected by the chemistry of the brain, but is not very sensitive.

"It's like a Star Wars movie with fighter jets fighting at sea." Ronald quickly picked it up.

"Let's be honest, we need movies like this," said John Lyman, a handsome, middle-aged man with a red tie that indicated his political stance.

"The Navy can help with your film, but we will evaluate the script and the leading actor." John Lyman rang the bell and called in a man and a woman, two tall officers.

"This is Matthew, the foreign liaison officer of our naval base. In the future, you can contact him for coordination regarding the equipment such as rented planes and framing for filming.

This is our PhD in aerodynamics, Christine Fox, and you can ask her for the ins and outs of fighter jet combat. "Lyman introduced the background of the two to the three.

"This support is really strong," Ronald exchanged glances with the two producers.

"It turns out that writing a letter to the deputy commander is really useful?" Bruckheimer was also very excited. Many difficulties in the preparatory stage were solved with the promise of the Secretary of the Navy.

"By the way, Miss Fox also has a pilot's call sign, you can call her Legs."

Ronald glanced at Christine Fox's long legs, thinking that the call sign was similar to a nickname, and it was indeed worthy of the name.

"So, tell me, gentlemen, what kind of character will the protagonist of your movie be?"

The Secretary of the Navy asked the two liaison officers to go out, and then he walked around from behind the desk, sat in a corner of the table, and chatted with several producers and directors.

The two producers looked at it and gestured for Ronald to answer with their eyes.

"We feel that in the last ten years, there is a lack of hero movies from the previous golden age of Hollywood. Our idea is to reproduce the heroic epics like 'Guanshan Fit' in the 30s. To reshape the image of John Wayne's western cowboy hero, only But change the dueling revolver into a modern jet fighter."

"Very good, do any of you three have flying experience?" The minister felt satisfied and asked casually.

Both Don Simpson and Bruckheimer shook their heads.

"It's not going to work, you guys have to experience a real naval fighter, otherwise how can you make a convincing movie?"

"My grandfather and great-grandfather used to be fighter pilots in America. They participated in World War I and World War II respectively." Seeing this, Ronald tried to make the minister more confident.

"Very good, very good. Now, since you are from a family of pilots, it's up to you. I'll let Fox contact the Blue Angels aerobatic team and let them take you up there to experience it."

"This..." Ronald thought to himself that I just want to eat steak, there is no need to be a cowboy myself.

"That's it." John Lehman waved his hand, indicating that this matter is arranged like this, "If you like flying, you can also try the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet, which is the main fighter jet of our navy. That's how the Navy works, and you'll get used to it."

John Lehman said to the three of them, "After I give the order directly, the bureaucracy may still make things difficult for you. If you don't cooperate, you can directly ask Matthew for coordination. If he can't handle it, you can give it to me directly." Call the office."

"Mr. Ronald, is your height six feet two inches?" Long-legged Fox came over to look at Ronald, and accurately reported his height, "I will prepare a flight suit for you according to this size, We made an appointment and let you try it."

The Blue Angels aerobatic team, using Douglas A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft.Ronald put on his flight suit and sat in the rear seat of the plane.

The blue body is painted specially for the Blue Angels.Ronald put on his oxygen mask nervously.

"Are you ready?" The pilot in the front seat looked more amiable.

"Yes."

"Let's go."

Ronald suddenly felt a strong push back, and the light jet engine let out a sharp roar.A short takeoff and Ronald soon found himself in the air.

The blue coast in the distance and the white clouds in the sky were turned upside down by the pilot's roll.Ronald seemed to be unable to tell the difference between up and down, and the wonderful feeling seemed to have touched his pilot genes.

"It's fucking more exciting than a Ferrari."

(End of this chapter)