Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 714 New Script
David Simkins, Ronald's script assistant, has had a very busy two weeks.Hundreds of scripts were arriving in the mail to his office non-stop.

"The Evil Husband" produced by the boss Ronald successfully became a dark horse at the box office. With weak marketing efforts and not many theaters, the box office of the second weekend was even higher than that of the first weekend. to number two on the leaderboard.

This achievement has attracted many people to mail over independent non-commissioned scripts. (It's not a script that the studio signed a contract to ask a screenwriter to write, but a script written by the screenwriter himself to try his luck).

"If you don't declare anything and give up the copyright of the script, don't read it all, and return it intact after stamping." David Simkins is teaching several assistants to handle the script.

The copyright of this kind of non-commissioned script belongs to the author. If you read it rashly, and some of the movies that Daydream makes in the future are similar to the ones they sent, someone will go to court to sue.

So if you don't give up at the beginning, it means that you are either a newcomer who doesn't understand any rules, or you came here to touch porcelain on purpose, and all will be returned intact.

Even so, after processing more than half of the script, Simkins was still very busy.In the past two days, apart from being in the office, eating at home, breastfeeding the baby, and before going to bed at night, I have been reading the script non-stop.

"Can't you ask your boss to hire more script assistants?" The wife was a little dissatisfied. After putting the children to sleep, she saw that her husband hadn't turned off the lights, and began to complain.

"It will be fine in a while, and I will bring it up to the boss. During this period of time, his ability as a producer has been widely spread in Hollywood, and the number of scripts sent to the office has increased tenfold, but after a while It will stabilize, and we will recruit people at that time, so I will be here in a short time."

Seeing this, the wife turned over and hugged David, "Are you going to be promoted? How much can you raise?"

"I think it will be good. Ronald is quite generous to his subordinates." Simkins flipped through a script called "Mannequin" and summarized which selling points should be highlighted in tomorrow's report. "

"What about your script? I know that you took this job because you hope that one day your script can be made into a script."

"I think my script still has a lot of childishness... still needs to be revised..."

"But I think the script you wrote is better than anyone else's." As a housewife, my wife was also reading the script Simkins brought back when she was free at home.

"That's because you love me, really? Shall I try too?"

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"Is this the script you picked out?"

The next day, Ronald frowned and read several scripts recommended by David Simkins, but he was not very satisfied.

"The number of scripts that have suddenly increased in recent times are mostly non-commissioned scripts written by fledgling screenwriters. I read a lot of scripts in the film company's library in the past few months, and picked out two that I think have great potential. It has been handed over to you."

"The script is not the only factor that determines the quality of a movie, but these few scripts make me feel nothing. More like a play in a children's theater than a script that can be made into a movie."

Ronald scratched his head, his daydream was a small studio, and Simkins searched the film libraries of many major studios before he found two films, "Dirty Dancing" and "Moonlight". A highly literary script.

Most of the ones that have been mailed over the past two weeks are the stuff of novice screenwriters. To be able to find these few works is already the result of picking them out after working overtime day and night.

"I just can't figure out who's going to see 'Swagger,' if someone makes a movie about it anyway."

Ronald pulled out the book "Extremely High", which was already the best quality among the few scripts Simkins picked out.

"This is following one of the most popular production trends, youth films." Simkins now reads a lot of scripts, and he understands the latest trends.

"Look at the plot setting of this movie, an ancient Egyptian princess, turned into a wooden beauty, has been wandering in the long river of time, waiting until a young American who has achieved nothing, arranging windows in a department store.

Every night the princess met him in real life, and in the morning she turned back into a wooden mannequin.In the end, the two defeated their opponents, freed the princess with true love, and became real people. "

"Now high school students like to watch this? Why do I feel like a fairy tale drama?" Ronald also couldn't grasp the preferences of the recent teenagers.

"That's it. The economy has developed very well since the Grand Commander took office five or six years ago. Most teenagers living in the suburbs and small towns can earn a good income and have enough pocket money as long as they are willing to work part-time.

They are not like our generation, who were very distressed when they were in middle school, and they had to fight for the jobs of delivering newspapers and milk in the morning. "

"Okay, I know more about it." Ronald recalled the recent movies. It is true that the life of teenagers in it is not as difficult as it was in the 70s. You need to face the competition of introversion, and you only have a few coins in your pocket, and you want to pick up girls. A life that cannot be lived.

Most young men, no matter what they look like, seem to have a girlfriend.Love is more about the fit of personality and hobbies, and the pursuit of more beautiful and unrestrained characters, so as to become famous in school.

In the "Fast Pace" filmed by Ronald back then, the excellent nerd works hard by himself and is kind-hearted, only to gain the love of the beautiful female classmate in the end.

In this "Spirited and Excited", the male protagonist is frustrated like a waste wood who will be fired for doing any job, and he also has a girlfriend who is a supervisor.In the end, he just dumped him because he didn't come up.

Perhaps in the past few years, with population reduction and economic development, some subtle changes have indeed taken place in the values ​​​​of young people.With the popularization of education and more opportunities, more people no longer struggle for having or not, and instead care more about quality.

Like Coppola's "Naughty Boys", dozens of teenagers are single, and they can only get together to play poker on the ground for fun, and there are fewer and fewer movies.No matter how bad you are, you can still go to McDonald's.

Ronald hesitated in his heart, he didn't like the script, but Simkins was not unreasonable.

"I'll take the script back and think about it... Oops", Ronald accidentally spilled coffee on the cover of the script, and hurriedly cleaned it up.

"Let me help you." David Simkins felt the script away, and then pulled a few napkins to wipe it.

"What is this? You wrote it?"

After removing a pile of scripts on the table, Ronald found a script lying at the bottom.

The title on the cover was "Adventures in Babysitting," and the author was Simkins.

"Yes, I've been writing a screenplay for a long time."

"As I said, you have a script you can give me, and I will give it priority."

"I wanted to improve it. This script still has some plot flaws."

Simkins wanted to say more, but was stopped by Ronald raising his hand.He read the beginning and was attracted by the plot.

"A girl who was waiting for her girlfriend to invite her to the prom was put off by her boyfriend, so she had to work as a nanny in a family with three children. Her friend had a problem at the airport and asked her to pick her up. The girl took the child and drove to the airport. , but blew a tire on the road, and strayed into a garage run by a gangster..."

"It's so well written, I'm hooked. I'd say the plot of this one is really good, much better than that 'Swaggering'."

Ronald took a brief moment to skim through Simkins' script story.

It is true that as he said, there are still many problems in the details of this script, some plots are too bizarre, and there are many coincidences.In the end, a lot of cartoon-like plots were added to the movie, which is also a bit nondescript.

However, the theme story of the script is very good, and people's appetite is very full from the beginning, and starting from daily life, the protagonist suddenly faces force majeure and is pushed into a huge crisis.

This is a very orthodox way of writing a three-act play. Simkins has read a lot of scripts, and his own writing is also very charming.

"What do you know? I will take these two scripts home and read them carefully. If it feels good, I will be the producer myself and help you find a suitable distributor."

"Boss, are you serious? My wife encouraged me to show you the script."

"It really feels good to me, but it also depends on the ideas of the publishers. I can only approve the project if they nod.

Your screenwriting talent is very good. What kind of work do you want to do in Hollywood in the future? "Ronald felt that Simkins was a talent and wanted to keep him in his daydream for a long time.

"I'm actually interested in the process of film and television production."

"Then you want to be a producer? No problem. You start recruiting people in the newspapers now, recruiting people like yourself, and find someone who can replace you. I will let you participate in more film production links, If you are lucky, you can start with this movie script of yours."

In addition to promotion and salary increase, employees must also be able to work in their dream jobs.Anyway, there are many opportunities in the film industry, and Ronald just needs more production talents.

"Thank you, boss."

"Good job."

(End of this chapter)