Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 776 Chapter 4 Playboy Mansion
Columbus didn't embarrass Ronald for too long, and after taking a few shots, he ended the shooting of this cameo scene.

"Is my photo okay? It's just that the clothes are a little cold here." Ronald took a blanket and wrapped it up. He was wearing a vest in winter, and there were drops of sweat that were sprinkled on his body intentionally. It was not a joke.

"Do you know? In the original script, the comic character that Sara is obsessed with is Heman—the giant of the universe, the prince of Etania." Columbus said to Ronald.

"Hahaha, then you have to wear that sexy dress, brandish your sword, and shout: Give me strength! I am Seaman!" Elizabeth Su couldn't stop laughing when she heard this passage. She used to be in high school. When I was a child, I often watched the animations of He-Man and She-Ra.

"Uh..." Ronald shook his head, he didn't want to dress like Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian.

Ronald chatted with Elizabeth Sue for a while. It was the first time for her to act as a heroine with enough roles. She was full of eagerness to try, fully substituted the mentality of a high school nanny, and her creative state was very good.

This "nanny adventures" is very interesting, in fact, there is no real hero.All the stories revolve around the heroine nanny Chris Parker.

"Ronald, am I really going to do a Playboy shoot?"

Elizabeth Su's eyes were bright, and she asked Ronald who brought her out to shoot chewing gum commercials.She has a lot of trust in Ronald.

Probably more than half of the American girls had the idea of ​​being a Playboy girl when they were young. Of course, when they grow up, they will give up this idea immediately after they know what the male classmates are doing with the photos of the Playboy.

"So, do you want to shoot or not?" Ronald replied with a smile.

"Well, I do want to take some nice photos, is it the cover shot of Playboy, or the centerpiece?"

Elizabeth Su was wearing a yellow camel hair coat, and she had a good temperament. She looked like a daughter raised by an upper-middle-class family.

Ronald is still very satisfied with his casting decision.

"Cover, center seam, all in one," he replied.

Although Playboy is a men's magazine, it is also sold on newsstands in America, so the cover is often a close-up of the upper body of the model, and the middle seam is the main reason why many men buy the magazine, and the scale is larger.

"Ah... can you not take a picture of the middle seam? I don't want to take that kind of undressed picture."

Elizabeth Su was a little embarrassed, she was finally able to get the heroine of this movie, but if she took off her clothes on the screen, even if it was a photo in a magazine, it would have a great impact on her future.

"What are you thinking? This is a PG-13 movie. Of course he is wearing clothes." Ronald couldn't help but pat Su on the head, playing the role of a high school nanny all day long, and getting too involved in the scene was a bit distracted.

"Oh..." Elizabeth Su also laughed, she really thought too much.

Back at the hotel where the crew stayed, Ronald opened a room and called Nisita, his agent in Los Angeles.

"I wanted to talk to Hugh Hefner, the boss of Playboy, and the crew said they couldn't find anyone else recently."

"Hefner? Are you looking for him?" Nisita was a little surprised, why did his client's taste change, and wanted a blonde girl with some ingredients?

"The Adventures of the Nanny has a subplot where the protagonist Chris, the nanny, looks a bit like a Playboy cover girl, and we're going to have Elizabeth Sue take some pictures and make a fake Playboy book, and Hefner needs to nod on this , but the people at Disney couldn't find him."

"Oh, you couldn't find him." Nisita understood Ronald's thoughts, and then talked about what happened in California recently.

In the mid-80s, especially since the second term of the Grand Commander, the conservative forces in America gradually occupied some space for activities.

Playboy, a men's magazine popular in the hippie era, is now targeted by conservative forces.Many anti-pornography activists gradually began to target this most famous magazine, and some departments of the American government also showed signs of starting to clean up this media.

Some women's rights groups, centered on some magazines in New York, have also begun to denounce such magazines that objectify and exploit women.

This caused Playboy's stock price to slowly decline, and the magazine's exclusive clubs across the country were gradually closed.

Especially in the past few months, "Newsweek" interviewed the magazine tycoon Hugh Hefner for a cover report.

The report relayed the conclusions of some Wall Street researchers that subscriptions to Playboy magazine are declining rapidly.The reaction of the capital market to this impending storm was a sharp drop in stock prices.

Hugh Hefner, as a tycoon who founded a serious adult magazine in the conservative 60s and [-]s, has a very keen sense of smell, and he feels that a force against him is gradually taking shape.Just a few weeks earlier, he had been admitted to the hospital after suffering a minor stroke.

"He didn't really have a stroke?" Ronald asked.

"Who knows? Now he's back in the Playboy Mansion with only one girl around him. I can figure out how to get him to call you back."

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"Is that Mr. Ronald Lee?" A delicate woman's voice called after a while.

"It's me, are you?" Ronald answered the phone and asked.

"Mr. Hugh Hefner wants to speak to you."

"Ronald, can I call you Ronald? Have you ever been to my playboy mansion? Although there are not as many beautiful girls as before, I still recommend you to come and play. There is everything here."

"Hello, Mr. Hefner, I have been there once, but I didn't stay for too long. Thank you for your invitation."

Ronald had been there a long time ago, and he left halfway without leaving a deep impression.

"I think my agent also told you that I hope you can support Hollywood like you used to. There is a plot in one of the movies I produced..."

"No problem, I only have one request." Hefner is very interested in this Hollywood director who is in the limelight. Although the magazine wants to avoid the limelight for the time being, there will always be a day when he recovers. The men say to respect Women, secretly or secretly looking at the middle-aged girl?

If such a director can often appear at the parties of his playboy mansion, it will be very attractive to those beauties who want to enter the film industry.

"Please tell me..." Ronald didn't expect Hefner to give him such a face, and politely asked him to put forward his request.

"Your actress, what's her name...Elizabeth Sue?...She's going to the Playboy mansion to shoot."

"That's unnecessary, right? We can guarantee that the shooting process is in line with Playboy's photography style, and the fake magazines we make are also in the same appearance as your magazines."

"My dear Ronald, this is a little capriciousness of mine, you won't let me down, will you? Besides, why shoot fake ones when there are real ones? I can provide real Playboy photographers, just We could do a special edition of the Monthly magazine's centerpiece location, the Playboy mansion..."

Hugh Hefner is now being scolded by conservatives and women's rights organizations. If a Hollywood director can come out to justify the name of his magazine...so he insists on shooting on location.

Ronald scratched his head. The film is still in the process of being filmed. The heroine flies to Los Angeles to take pictures, which will delay some time, plus...

"I'm afraid I can't, Mr. Hefner, my heroine Elizabeth Sue signed a contract with Disney, and there is no undressing clause in it, and I can't force or coax her..."

"You're a gentleman, hahaha, Ronald." Hugh Hefner smiled on the other end of the phone.

"Actually, I have nothing against Playboy, but I think the models who go to be Playboy's Girl of the Month know what they're paying for. Our movie is going to be rated PG-13. taking pictures."

"Who says you want to take pictures of undressed ones, of course they are dressed. It's a special edition." Hugh Hefner laughed, "In fact, every issue of Playboy has pictures of well-dressed women, but I The inseam girl is the most famous. It just so happens that I am also starting to transform the magazine."

"Well, well, we've made a deal?" Since Hefner can make Playboy show girls in clothes, it's best to ask the original photographer and crew to make a special edition prop, which would be the most like Well.

"It's a deal. You can come with your actress on the weekend. We'll have a good chat when we get there. My daughter Christie will be in charge of all the filming."

Anyway, it was a vacation, so Ronald flew back to Los Angeles by himself.He was still a little worried, and wanted to go to the Playboy's mansion first to finalize the matter.

Playboy mansion in the Holmby Hills neighborhood near the coast in the greater Los Angeles area.

It was originally built by a Broadway department store tycoon. After several owners, it was bought by Hugh Hefner, a successful magazine manager, in [-]. He rebuilt it into a limestone and brick building. Mansion group.

There are a total of 29 rooms, as well as an outdoor swimming pool, waterfall, organ room, movie theater, and outdoor barbecue and sauna.Also outside are a large koi pond with an artificial stream, a small citrus grove and two forests of mature tree ferns and redwoods.

Ronald was very interested in this koi pond, which has a strong oriental flavor.

"The various landscapes here are all built for the photos of Playboy in each issue. Over the past ten years, they have been gradually added and rebuilt. I will show you around."

The speaker was Christy Hefner, Hugh Hefner's eldest daughter.Her parents divorced when she was very young.Christie went to college on her own, worked as a film critic for a while after graduation, and later reconciled with her father to work for Playboy magazine.

So Christie has a natural affinity for the director Ronald.

"Thank you, I feel that coming here during the day is very different from the last time I came at night." Ronald took off his sunglasses, and this place is still a very interesting tourist attraction during the day.

"Haha, do you feel the same way? I've been persuading my father recently to open this place to family travelers and transform it into a must-visit attraction when visiting Mount Holmby."

"So, will Hugh agree?"

Ronald was taken aback. This is Hugh Hefner's empire, his domain.He lives here, originally a servant in the West Wing, which is the editorial department of the magazine.

At the same time, Hugh Hefner also invited those women he fancy to live in the mansion.At most, he dated seven women at the same time.

Such a happy cave, turned into a family vacation destination?

Seeing Ronald's disbelief, Christie quickly said the answer she had been polishing recently, "Our Playboy magazine has always been a feminist magazine, and its content involves politics, economics, fashion and other serious fields. Many children regard the Playboy mansion as a place like Disneyland."

"Pfft...cough cough..." Ronald couldn't help it, he thought the playboy's mansion was a Disneyland, how dare you think about it.

"Father?" Christie was about to retort when she saw her father, Hugh Hefner, walking on the bridge.

"It's great to see you here, Ronald." Hugh Hefner, wearing his signature silk pajamas, was smoking a pipe in one hand and a Pepsi in the other.

"Hi Mr. Hefner, I was speaking to Christie about the feminist nature of your magazine."

"That's no problem, we just have different views on feminism." Hefner still walks a little slowly, and it seems that the previous stroke has some influence on him.

"Newsweek said our subscriptions were down, didn't they go to the newsstands in New York? We are still the best-selling magazine at the retailers. It's just that in recent years, they have bought two more magazines, including Playboy. , not to be seen."

"Oh..." Hugh Hefner slipped on the wooden bridge of the artificial creek, and a blonde sexy bomb beside him immediately supported him.

The woman next to him was Kelly Leigh, the rare, single-minded date in Hugh Hefner's life.

"Ronald, I adore your Top Gun."

Kelly Leigh, proud of capturing America's most famous playboy, came up and walked Ronald to the big house.Walking across the wooden bridge, the koi carp that had gathered at Ronald's feet scattered under the bridge.

"Mr. Hefner, I'm here this time, and I want to confirm the details of the shooting with you..." Ronald began to talk after visiting Hefner's wine cellar.

"You talk to Christie about these details. I just want to make sure you have a good time here, don't you?"

Hugh Hefner and Ronald tasted a bottle of red wine from the wine cellar together.

It may be that feminism and religious conservative forces have been chasing Hefner more ruthlessly recently, and he is no longer talking about the First Amendment, which he always talks about and resists government investigations.

Ronald didn't spot any other Playboy girls at the mansion, except for Kelly Leigh.

It seems that the symbol of this adult magazine is really going to change his ways.

Afterwards, Ronald and Christie worked out the details of the shoot. "Babysitter Adventures" guaranteed Playboy photo time, and the magazine typed a special edition on the cover to differentiate it from the original undressed center-seam girl.

Before the movie is released, Playboy will also invest some marketing resources, placing advertisements in the advertising light boxes of some department stores in Los Angeles and New York to promote the special edition of this issue of Playboy, warming up the movie, in order to achieve a win-win effect.

After signing the memorandum of cooperation, Ronald found that Christie started discussing family travel routes with a few people who looked like travel companies in front of the model of the mansion.

"Even Playboy advertises itself as a feminist magazine?"

After leaving the mansion, Ronald kept thinking about it.

What is the current public's attitude towards women working independently and controlling their own destiny?It seems that more and more people are beginning to think that working girls are a better choice than housewives?
Changes in social trends will also be reflected in Hollywood movies.Some new things become the trend of the whole society only after they are magnified by movies.

Being able to predict the next popular trend of thought in advance will be of great benefit to Hollywood practitioners...

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"I feel like this makeup is not like me." Elizabeth Su, taking advantage of the weekend rest, flew back to Los Angeles, was picked up by Ronald's special car to the Playboy mansion, and the magazine's makeup artist, and photographer, started shot.

"That's how it is. In the plot, the cover girl just looks like you. Such a slightly different photo makes it easier for the audience to understand the humor in the plot."

Ronald took a look at Su's makeup, and it really looked like a playboy.

With slightly exaggerated eyeshadow and hairstyle, plus big wavy hair, Sue is no longer a female karate player, or a babysitter, but a mature woman exuding a strong sexy charm.

Wearing a red top, after taking the cover photo, the photographer is going to move to the bedroom to take the middle photo.

"Uh, I don't need to take off my clothes, do I?" Su quietly asked after following Ronald.

"No, just wear more sexy pajamas, and I will help you grasp it."

Elizabeth Sue came out of the dressing room wearing a set of vertically striped blue and white pajamas.

"Okay, very good, give me a classic Monroe pose." The photographer team arranged a lot of lights and reflectors around her. Less sexy photos.

"You see, they are all very tasteful photos. If you think there are any bad ones, I will inform them that they will not be used in the special edition magazine."

A day later, the photos were sent to Ronald, and Ronald spread them out one by one for Elizabeth Sue to see.

Photos of this scale are actually often seen in conservative home magazines.

"Actually, I like them all, but my dad will tell me, um...don't worry, the photos are really beautiful." Most of Su's photos are of the girl-next-door type, and she likes this kind of charming photos very much.

(End of this chapter)