Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 704 Premiere of the Evil Husband
Ronald was back in Los Angeles over the weekend.

"A Wicked Husband" is the first film produced and released by Disney's Touchstone Pictures after Michael Eisner took over.

It's a monumental movie, so Disney paid a premium for the premiere.They found Hollywood's largest Pulitzer Theater to hold the premiere in Century City Commercial City on the Avenue of Stars in the center of Hollywood.

Helen Slater wore a sleeveless red blouse, white skirt, and white high-heeled sandals. The facial features on her painted face were as structured as ancient Greek sculptures, and she was very photogenic.

In order to wait for her elaborate makeup, Ronald waited in the living room for more than half an hour.Helen adheres to her mother's progressive thinking and is more environmentally friendly. This suit is actually the costume she used to perform in a drama in New York. However, Karen, who has good skin and figure, actually looks a bit noble in ancient Greece.

She took Ronald's arm and appeared in the theater together.

Ronald was wearing a handmade suit, a dark red tie, brown leather shoes, and was elegant.The two stood up at the Pulitzer Theater and asked the reporters to take some photos for publicity.

"This theater, like the Astor Theater on Broadway in New York, has a neoclassical asymmetric exterior with a colonnade."

Helen is far more familiar with New York than Los Angeles, and the art education she has received since she was a child has also allowed her to express her comments on the architectural style of the Pulitzer Theater.

"Ah, maybe it is. Maybe the real estate developer built it after the Astor Theater in New York." Astor was the richest family in the United States in the [-]th century. There are many streets and buildings named after Astor in New York. Theatres, and even the best Waldorf Astoria are owned by their family.

"Good vision, this is the early 70s. Century City was built in the style of the Astor Theater. At that time, it was a big time in Hollywood, and many business cards premiered here."

Another bunch of handsome men and beauties appeared at the premiere. The man was mature and stable, with a chin like an American hero.The woman is young and beautiful, with a bit of a foreign temperament.

"Michael, good evening, thank you for coming to the premiere." Ronald hurriedly stepped forward to say hello to the man who spoke to him.

This is actor Michael Douglas.He was wearing a dark blue shirt, gray top, silver tie and had long hair.The beauty next to him is his young wife Diandra Luke, wearing a pleated skirt with an intricate pearl necklace.

At the premiere in the 80s, stars from all walks of life did not follow the old rules before the 70s, and they had to wear formal dresses to attend.

The current style is to wear various exaggerated daily fashions for reporters to take pictures.

The male stars mainly wore casual suits in various fancy colors, while the female guests wore fashions in various strange shapes, as if they had moved the runway to a theater.

When Helen saw the four rows of pearls juxtaposed, the necklace that almost covered her neck coughed. She secretly adjusted the necklace and earrings that Ronald gave her, and also came forward to say hello.The four hugged and congratulated each other, Ronald started and chatted with Douglas.

"Will you continue to be an actor or a producer?" Ronald asked Michael Douglas about his future plans.

"What did your agent tell you? Am I a bit of a celebrity now? Hollywood gossip reporters are saying that I'm on the phone all the time in the trailer on set."

"It doesn't hinder Ni's performance. I was very impressed with the Emerald movie."

"Hahaha, thank you, you are the first person in the industry who expressed appreciation to me in person for that commercial film."

"Producers make movies that audiences love, don't they?"

In 30, when Michael Douglas was just over [-] years old, as a producer, he won the Academy Award for Best Picture with "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

The script was a gift from his father, Kirk Douglas.As the son of a Hollywood bigwig, Michael doesn't want to be seen as just a lucky producer under his father's shadow, but wants to be a good actor.

He also played the leading role in his own film "Emerald" and its sequel "Treasure of the Nile", opposite Katherine Turner.

"Will there be a third Emerald?" Ronald was very interested in this kind of blockbuster series.

"Tsk... Catherine is unwilling to continue this kind of movie. She wants to play a more in-depth role. I am also a little tired of this kind of hero image, and want to try some more marginal villain images."

“So is your next film going to be self-produced?”

"Not necessarily, it depends on the market situation. I heard that you are very popular in Dongying, and I am also interested in finding financing there. Is there any way? How is there interest in investing in Hollywood?"

Michael Douglas is really more of a producer than an actor.In the end, the topic turned back to the most important job of the producer, financing.

"Many companies have expressed some interest, but they still have doubts about the Hollywood business. Many of Dongying's capitals are old-fashioned chaebols. They want to seize the local market, which is very different from what I thought at the beginning.

Only some new money developed after the war with new ideas and beautiful views of America is interested in investing in Hollywood. "

The two were about to exchange ideas on project financing when Douglas frowned suddenly. He found his wife, Diandra, chatting with another long-haired male star.

"Are you back in Hollywood, Mel?"

"Yeah, yeah. I love living at home in Australia, but there's money to be made here... hahaha."

Michael Douglas frowned slightly again, just as a pudgy black actress came over, "Woobie, we meet again, Diandra, come meet Whoopi Goldberg." A sensual interruption separates the wife from the Australian megalomaniac.

"Ah, I know you, you were in Spielberg's 'The Purple,' as Celie..."

The Douglases entered the theater.

"Ah, these Kike guys," the interrupted Mel Gibson muttered.

"What did you say? Mel, long time no see." Ronald who came up to say hello didn't hear clearly.

"It's nothing, Ronald, long time no see!" Mel Gibson greeted Ronald and Helen with hugs.

The pair haven't seen each other since their falling out at Stallone's party over Rachael Ward.

"Why, do you know Mrs. Douglas?"

"Don't you know? She turned out to be the daughter of an Australian diplomat stationed in the United States, and she is well-known among Australians."

"I don't know, it's the first time I've seen you. I heard you're already preparing a new movie?"

"Lethal Weapon is filming next month, Joe Silver's project. Unlike other actors, I'm based in Hollywood and usually live in my hometown in Australia, so I don't know much about many projects. .What movie will you make next?"

"Ha, it's a small project with a heroine as the main character."

Mel Gibson returned to Hollywood this time and watched two new films directed by Ronald, especially "Top Gun". Every actor in it was shot by Ronald as very star-like. Gibson, who has shed her "Mad Max" persona, is envious.

"Rachael Ward is taking a break from acting for the time being. She said she wants to further study acting skills. Her attitude towards movies is very serious..." He took Ronald to talk about a lot of artistic opinions, hoping to have a better understanding of art. Find a common language with Ronald.

Facing the Aussie who came up to discuss art, Ronald really couldn't stand it.After being perfunctory for a long time, I still used the excuse that the director and actor of "The Family Has a Bad Husband" had already arrived, so I asked him to talk later.

"Okay, Ronald, you are really an artistic director, let's talk again when we find time, and we must collaborate on a movie next time."

"Is this guy's idea of ​​art just to take off his shirt and play volleyball on the beach?" Helen was not very happy about this Australian guy who suspected of saying the anti-Sewish name Kike and mentioned another actress in front of her. Pulling Ronald's arm and complaining.

"Hahaha, I think many housewives will not agree with you. In their eyes, that is art."

"That's not what people said..." Helen misunderstood what Ronald said, "I think your figure is more attractive to me. I like men who are taller than me."

Ronald pinched Helen's waist lightly. Helen felt her body heat up, begged for mercy, and hid in the theater first.

Next, the trio of Jerry Zucker and Ronald in the main creator greeted and went in, and the remaining male and female protagonists Danny Dewito and Bette Midler were briefly interviewed by reporters.

"How does it feel to be the lead?" Ronald asked the last two lead actors to enter the theater.

"Ah... very good, very good." Danny DeWitto spoke in a trance, his female partner wore a strange see-through outfit and fishnet stockings, and murdered a lot of film.

"Not bad, I like the battle." Bette Midler was a little better than DeWitto, and she took a glass of champagne from a table next to the aisle and drank it down.

"Why are you a little nervous?" Ronald thought to himself that something was wrong.

Fortunately, Helen, who came in first, didn't feel anything, and the two found a place to sit down.

The beginning of "A Family with an Evil Husband" is a cartoon-style title.The main plot in the film is vividly expressed in a cartoon way.

It seems that the ability of Disney's animation department was used, Ronald thought secretly.

It's the second time I've seen this comedy movie on the big screen.Ronald knew in advance all the plot trends and jokes.

But it's very interesting. The jokes of this comedy are caused by the absurdity of the story itself, so even after watching it in advance, Ronald still laughs where he should laugh.

This kind of movie is not the same as Zach's previous "flying all over the sky" with dense language and nerve comedy. Even if you spoil the storyline in advance, you will still have a good viewing experience.

This is actually a lot of actors' skills. Among the two leading actors, the bad son-in-law played by Danny DeWitto is a cartoon-style bad guy. Even if everyone knew that he was bad from the beginning, but seeing him being kidnapped and his wife as a hostage Everyone is looking forward to uniting for revenge.

The rich girl played by Betty Midler is also a very contrasting role. At the beginning, she is a fat vicious woman who scares the kidnappers into a ruthless character like a chicken.Gradually, the audience discovered that she was just a middle-aged woman who wanted to lose weight, but the kindness in her heart was much stronger than that of her husband.

The laughter of the audience is similar to that during the test screening, often, but not intensively.

"Oh my god, I'm such a bad actor."

Helen looked at the picture on the screen, and sometimes had the urge to cover her eyes with her hands.

Since being called out by Ronald for his acting problem of overexerting himself, now looking at the previous shots, it feels awkward no matter how you look at it.

(End of this chapter)