Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 606 The Commander Wants to Watch Your Movie

"The Miramar base will let the actors who play the role of pilots and radar officers go to study for a week. They will actually shoot the shots in the cockpit on the plane. The Navy must first receive basic safety training and learn how to eject and parachute." Bruckheimer Said to Ronald.

"Very good. The next part is the most important air combat scene in the film. It would be great if the Navy could cooperate in this way." After a day's rest, Ronald continued to devote himself to the planning of the filming.

"Ronald, your phone number." Don Simpson came in from the side. He had already been released from the rehabilitation center, and his complexion improved a lot.

"Thank you", Ronald walked out of their office and went outside to answer the phone.

"Hello, Ronald? Are you still in Los Angeles? How's the filming going?" It was Roger Corman on the phone.

"You have to wait until the navy is ready before you can shoot the air combat shots, and you have to wait a few months until the full film is edited before you can appreciate your heroic appearance on the tower," Ronald joked with his former boss.

"So, are you free these days? That's great. The chairman of the Film Association called, and the general wants to watch 'Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears'. You and I will go to Washington." Roger Cole man on the phone
"I don't need to go, I've already seen it last time." Thinking of Nancy's difficult temper, Ronald really didn't want to go.

"Fool, this is a good opportunity to increase your social relations and influence. Do you still need me to teach you? Your breakdancing is not a promotion of the first lady. Can you get a box office of over [-] million in North America? That is, two days before and after. Days to make a good impression on the first family."

"Okay", Ronald thought it was true, although he was just a nobody in front of the commander-in-chief, what if the commander-in-chief also recommended his own movie?
"You kid, you are very smart, why are you so stupid sometimes?"

In the business-class seat at the front of the plane to Washington, Roger Corman gave Ronald a lesson.This time, the American Film Association paid for the air ticket and the luggage fee for the copy.Coleman took a rare business class seat.

"This kind of opportunity doesn't come all the time, you have to be good at grasping it. Frank Sinatra was originally in Hollywood, and he wasn't such a close friend of the Commander-in-Chief, but he has been funding the political activities of the Commander-in-Chief since he ran for the governor of California. Only after the casino photo was revoked by the FBI, can it be taken back again.”

"I just think the First Lady is a little..." Ronald scratched his head.

"Superficial? What's the matter? Which actress in Hollywood is not superficial? The Oscar honorary award last year was given to Barbara Stanwyck. She didn't even win an actor award. It wasn't because she was close to the leader that she could get it. Is this an honorable mention?"

Ronald only said yes, he felt that Coleman was still quite brooding that Hollywood did not recognize his contribution.

At the airport, the Secret Service sent a special car to escort Coleman, Ronald, and a dozen copies of the best-preserved movie to the White House.

White House Chief of Staff James Baker came out to see them and held out his hand, "We meet again, young man. Is this Sowell Alliance movie related to you? This is it?"

"This is the former president of New World Pictures, Mr. Roger Coleman, who presided over the introduction. This is Mr. Baker, chief of staff of the White House." Ronald introduced to Baker.

"Hello, Mr. Chief of Staff," Coleman shook his hand. "This is the movie that Ronald helped me choose when he went to Montreal. It was very successful."

"Come with me to the screening hall, the commander is waiting to see."

Ronald hurried forward and pushed the trolley containing the copy by himself, and the group arrived at the screening hall.Baker told them to wait and went elsewhere by himself.

Seeing that no projectionist came to take over, Ronald stepped forward, pulled out the first film, and stuck it on the top of the projector. Then he turned on the light of the projector and tried the effect.Then turn off the machine.After a while, no one came, so Ronald waited with Coleman.

After half an hour, the commander, his staff, the deputy commander and others walked in together.

"Young man, we meet again." The commander recognized little Ronald, "Why are you here today?"

"Mr. Coleman bought this movie for my boss back then." Ronald introduced Coleman next to him.

"Hello", the commander shook hands with him, "Where's the projectionist?"

"I will show a movie, I can show it for you," Ronald said quickly, and turned on the projector in the projection room at the back.

After more than two hours of filming, Ronald turned on the lights and went out to the projection room to wait for orders.

"It's really a good movie." The first lady Nancy took out a handkerchief and wiped her eyes.At the end of the movie, the two girlfriends of the female factory director Katerina left, leaving time for her friends and her lover Guosha who had finally found her back.

Katerina was full of sadness and sweetness, and said the line "I have been waiting for you for a long time" to her lover Guosha who was sitting at the table eating red cabbage soup.

In the end, the camera cuts from Katerina's apartment to the outside of the apartment. The windows are lit up, and amidst the lights of thousands of homes, ordinary families blend into the city of Moscow and disappear without a trace.

"I will watch it when I have the chance. This movie can help me understand the soul of the Russians." The commander-in-chief was very touched. The real joys and sorrows of ordinary people in this alliance are not easy to find in the public media.

"Young man, what do you think?" The commander saw little Ronald standing beside him, and asked him how he felt.

"I feel like watching a Hollywood movie, they also have strong women, they have single mothers, they have good friends, they have alcoholic ex-husbands, they have struggle and love, I feel that they are real people like us, they have ordinary people's emotions."

"That's very good," the commander-in-chief nodded frequently, "There are too many unnecessary eroticism and violence in Hollywood now. It's been a long time since I have seen a romantic movie about ordinary people's love life. Young man, you are filming what movie?"

"I'm working with the navy to make a patriotic movie about the navy pilots, mainly about the struggle and love of young pilots." Ronald broke out in cold sweat and glanced at Coleman next to him.

In the plots of the movies I made before, they were either pornographic (naked scenes in fast-paced scenes) or violent (Martial Arts sparring by Kid Longwei). They were authentic exploitation films taught by Coleman University.

"Yes, our old friends in Hollywood are calling to complain that there are too few movies of this kind of John Wayne-style American heroism. I am very happy that you can make one. When it is released, I will give away one A copy is at the White House, and Nancy and I are waiting to see it."

Ronald was overjoyed to be praised by the commander in person, and hurried forward to express his thanks.

"The copy is here, I have to read it a few more times." The commander shook hands with him.

The first lady also came over to thank him, "I will remember to ask old Ronald to watch your new movie. Has it been named yet? When will it be released."

"It's called Top Gun, and it's expected to be released next summer."

The deputy commander next to him adjusted his glasses, nodded to Ronald, and walked out.

"I told you, this kind of thing can't let go of the opportunity. How about now?" On the plane back, Coleman sat in the back seat of the economy class and said to Ronald.

"Yes, I'm still not used to dealing with politicians." Ronald adjusted his sitting posture. His stature was a bit uncomfortable when dealing with the airline's increasingly smaller economy class seats.

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"boom……"

A few days later, at Naval Air Station Miramar, Tom Cruise sat on a contraption that resembled a jumping machine in an amusement park, strapped on his seat belt, and the machine suddenly launched, sending him several meters into the air .

This is a machine that simulates the ejection of a pilot.All actors who play pilots and radar officers must come here to train.After getting the Navy's security clearance, you can get into the back seat of the F-14A Tomcat and take the shots in the cockpit.

After returning from Washington, Ronald also came to the base. He also had to complete training. For some shots, he had to go to the sky and direct on the spot from the plane next to him.

"It's really exciting", Tom Cruise has a strong interest in flying, and he is very happy to do these trainings.

"It's really boring." Fang Kimmer next to him was dissatisfied. He was tortured by the blue angels last time, and he vomited all over the floor, completely destroying the image of a tough guy.In fact, he doesn't want to fly in the sky. For the shots in the cockpit, just find a prop to set up the scene?

"Gentlemen, we're off to one last session, the pool session."

A group of people followed the naval instructor to a large outdoor swimming pool.

Everyone put on thick flight suits and parachutes.This training is part of search and rescue.In case something goes wrong in the sky, the pilots in the front seat will guarantee the ejection and fall on the flat ground. They have been trained in skydiving, so there is no problem.

But if you fall in the Pacific Ocean, you have to learn how to save yourself with a parachute and a flight suit.Wait a few 10 minutes without drowning until the search and rescue helicopter comes.

"Fcuk, why would I do such a stupid thing?" Val Kilmer cursed at the side again.

"Pay attention to the essentials. After falling into the water from a high platform, keep your balance and don't make unnecessary movements. The more you struggle, the easier it is for the paracord to get entangled. As long as you keep your balance, our search and rescue personnel will arrive soon."

"Shxt", Fang Kilmer didn't pay attention to the lecture. After he fell into the swimming pool, he struggled several times and accidentally loosened his shoelaces.A shoe got into the water, and he tried hard to reach it, but lost his balance and choked on several saliva.

The training instructors at the base hated him for not paying attention to the lectures and making wild moves.I deliberately didn't catch him right away.After he choked on a few sips of water and waited in the pool for 5 minutes with a boot soaked in water, he was pulled up.

"Damn it, I don't want to do this anymore," Val Kilmer cursed and went to the locker room.

"Does he have any other training programs?" Ronald asked the assistant.

"It's over, you can take the back seat and take off to shoot."

"What a troublemaker." Ronald shook his head. This kind of star will never be used again when he can control the casting power of the crew in the future.

(End of this chapter)