Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Listen, Ronald is a hot director in Hollywood now. He is especially good at making actresses famous. Ronald doesn't like parties usually, but this time he took advantage of his accidental injury to have a party.

This time, several of his close friends held a party for him. I found some of the biggest Australian actors in Hollywood to get the tickets. You must seize the opportunity..."

A manager in a suit and tie said to a tall, oval-faced, blonde curly-haired beauty.

"Oh?" The blonde beauty didn't know how to answer. She was full of fantasies about making her way in Hollywood, but Australians were unfamiliar with the place, and it was very difficult to take the first step without help.

Fortunately, the manager was relatively familiar with Hollywood, and took her to find Mr. Crocodile Paul Hogan and Rachel Ward's husband Brian Neil, so that she could attend Ronald's small-scale party this time.

"Come in..." Arriving at the mansion of the famous Hollywood actor Michael Douglas, the housekeeper came over to check her invitation, "This way, please, Miss Kidman..."

The classic-style mansion, the sun shone through the shade of the trees, making people feel dizzy. Nicole Kidman only heard faint laughter coming from the hall inside. She lifted her skirt, combed her curly hair, and walked a few steps into the second door.

"If you ask me, you might as well move to the suburbs of Los Angeles. It's very quiet here. There are LAPD patrols outside the house. It's very safe."

The owner Michael Douglas was discussing Ronald's distress with a large group of people. They all wanted Ronald to move to Hollywood.

"I like Hollywood. I have prepared a house and it is being built. But I still miss my hometown. Hollywood is great, but it's a bit crazy to live there..."

Nicole Kidman walked to the periphery of the crowd. The focus of everyone's attention was a handsome man taller than herself, the person she wanted to please on this trip, Ronald Lee.

"Ah...hahaha..." Douglas led the laughter, and everyone laughed too. Ronald said what all Hollywood stars feel. Living here, you will hear every day that someone got a role that may impact the Oscar, or sell 150 million.

Over time, everyone has a neurotic sensitivity to competition. Sometimes, the best way to convince a star to act is to tell him that his competitor is also pursuing the role.

Nicole Kidman also tried to show her most beautiful smile and clapped softly.

At this time, there happened to be a short bald comedian next to Michael Douglas. Danny DeVito saw her, "Oh, who is this beautiful lady?"

"My last name is Kidman, call me Nicole..."

"Are you the heroine in the movie with Sam Neill?" Danny DeVito remembered that she was the heroine of the well-received new film "Dead Silence". All major film reviews mentioned her. No wonder her face was familiar.

This kind of perfect beauty, height and hair color are the most favorite types in Hollywood. Suddenly, the men on the scene began to notice her and started to greet her.

Kidman knew that stars including Michael Douglas were married, and if she wanted the biggest reward, she had to keep an eye on single powerful people like Ronald.

But she lost track of Ronald after being interrupted. She looked around for a long time before she found him chatting with another beautiful woman.

"Katherine, how is your new project going? I heard Jim say he was trying to help you?"

"Yes, it's called Blue Steel, a commercial action crime film. I don't really want to shoot it, but Jim said it's the most important step to get Hollywood to recognize you..."

"Indeed, you see Jim can now shoot what he wants."

Ronald and Kathryn Bigelow talked about the new progress of her career. Jim Cameron has completely separated from Gale Hurd, with only the last bit of paperwork left.

Cameron has completed the main shooting of "The Abyss" and is now focusing on post-production. In personal life, he is inseparable from the beautiful director Bigelow, and is still helping her contact new projects. It seems that the two really have similar interests.

"I didn't expect Central Park to be so unsafe. When I was in Columbia, I went running every day..." Bigelow stroked his hair, exuding a mature and confident style, which made the young Nicole Kidman feel a little ashamed.

"Jim..." Ronald greeted Cameron who had just brought two glasses of champagne.

"Ronald, is your hand okay? This is really unexpected. I didn't expect that our brothers almost died in the past six months." Cameron came over and took a closer look at Ronald's injury, then hugged Bigelow's waist and continued to talk to Ronald about the production of "The Abyss".

"Huh..." Kidman breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that it was Cameron's partner...

"I went to your office yesterday and saw some special effects. It was really realistic... If I have some traditional special effects pictures and then use computer graphics to correct them, how would the effect be?"

"It's very difficult, mainly because of the problem of manpower. The waves in the abyss are purely computer renderings, and then they just need to be synthesized with normal shooting pictures. But the things you said must be connected frame by frame, otherwise it will be a catastrophic mistake"

According to Cameron, pure traditional special effects and pure computer-generated special effects are both relatively simple, but synthesizing the two is a very labor-intensive process.

"How many special effects shots do you have left to complete? When can we see the finished film?" Ronald was very impressed by the clips he saw in the office. The waves were simulated by the computer into human faces, which were very smooth and realistic.

"I'm still working on the final rendering shots, which will be finished in about a week. Come and show me when the time comes..." Cameron was helping Bigelow with new projects when the computer rendering was not available for other things. He was a little embarrassed when Ronald mentioned it.

"Is Fox satisfied?" Ronald asked.

"Hey, Goldberg has resigned, and now the new president wants to shorten the total length of my finished film. I'm arguing with them..." Cameron had originally agreed with Goldberg to let him give his best and make a three-hour blockbuster.

But the new president in charge of production certainly had no substantial support for such a project led by his predecessor. Taking advantage of the recent sluggish box office, he wanted Cameron to reduce the length of the set to about two hours.

Although details like this are written in black and white, the studio is stronger than Cameron after all. They can come up with countless reasons to make Cameron surrender. This game, in the final analysis, is still a question of who needs whom more.

"Let him come to me to talk..." Ronald was very angry about this suppression. In order to suppress the achievements of the former president, he deliberately made trouble to cut off Cameron's blockbuster.

If it were someone else, it would be fine. This is one of the directors who is second only to Spielberg and Lucas in the achievement of shooting special effects movies. The future of Hollywood depends on them to expand, and it is really harmful to others and not beneficial to oneself to cause trouble for them.

"I will. As for Catherine's new film, it is still funded by a small production company and is preparing to participate in a small film festival next year..."

"Haha, go talk to Michelle Cannold. We are also looking for a project to participate in the Sundance Film Festival next year." Ronald said to Bigelow with a smile, "You should have come to me earlier. I thought you had already received investment..."

"Jim said that this is a necessary process..."

Two major things were done in a few words, shocking Nicole Kidman who was secretly listening to their conversation. What was difficult for her might be a piece of cake for this director and producer who is good at supporting actresses.

Moreover, he is tall and handsome...

"Mr. Li, please let me introduce myself..." Kidman saw that Ronald seemed to be going to socialize with other people, and didn't care that no one introduced herself, and hurried forward to seize the opportunity.

"Who are you?" Ronald frowned, he didn't know this beautiful woman.

"My name is Nicole... Nicole Kidman"

"Ah, I heard Paul (Hogan) mention you, welcome to Hollywood..." Ronald glanced at her and knew that this person was born to be a movie star. Her body proportions and lines are perfect, and her golden red hair is the type that Hollywood likes the most.

There are a few freckles on her face, a strong nose and a perfectly pointed chin, and her cheekbones are very suitable for close-ups. Photographers will like her.

She is just a little chubby... It seems that Diane was not popular for a long time after she played "The Little Brat". Thinking of Diane... Ronald turned around and looked for her...

"Has anyone seen Diane?"

"She seems to be chatting with Michael Douglas's wife over there," Bigelow pointed to the side.

"Excuse me..." Ronald nodded politely, leaving Kidman on the spot, and then walked towards Douglas' wife.

Diandra Luke, Douglas' wife, was chatting with Diane about her husband's situation. Diandra is the daughter of an Australian diplomat. She loves this movie star and stayed in America after marriage.

Although she has a close relationship with Australia, she has a bad opinion of Australian female stars. These people often ask Michael for help by relying on their own connections, but when they meet Michael, they keep trying to seduce him in person, which is very shameless.

"How do you think of a way now..." Diane really wants to know how Diandra guards against these actresses who come one after another.

"Oh, my poor Diane, you have to let him marry you first before you can worry about these things..." Diandra Luke is still an Australian woman after all, and she speaks very directly.

"Diane, Mrs. Douglas..." Ronald came over, took Diane's hand, and smiled.

"Tick, tick..." Diandra Luke made a gesture of knocking on her watch, reminding Diane to seize the opportunity as soon as possible.

"Why, is it time for me to go to the airport?" Ronald raised his wrist to check the time, and there were still more than ten minutes. He lowered his head and kissed Diane, and he could accompany her more.

"I've already told Paula that Disney is very happy that you're interested in participating in the film. They will prepare a fitting for you. I called Mr. Giorgio Armani, and he's very happy that you're playing a heroine again. He agreed to sponsor the film and order a few nice clothes for you..."

"Hehe..." Diane was very happy. She still had weight in Ronald's heart, so she took the initiative to give him a kiss.

"Hmm, um..." The two kissed passionately and then separated. Their eyes were full of love.

"Uh..." Nicole Kidman followed again and saw this scene.

"The information is wrong, damn it... They didn't say Ronald had a fixed female companion..." Kidman was unwilling to fail, so he rearranged the collar of his shirt, confidently found the best angle, and went up to talk to Ronald again.

"Ronald..."

"Hi... Tom..." Ronald saw Tom Cruise who had just walked in, and went up to hug him.

"Shxt!" Nicole Kidman cursed in her heart, why did someone come to disrupt the situation again?

"I wrote an outline using the method you taught me, can you help me take a look?" Cruise took out a few sheets of paper from his shirt pocket and handed them to Ronald.

"So fast? Hmm..." Ronald read the story in the script at a glance.

"Not bad, quite good..." Ronald glanced at Tom Cruise, why did he suddenly get it?

This story is actually the most suitable for Tom Cruise to shoot. It tells the story of a NASCAR driver, Cole Tricker. He knows nothing about the mechanics of racing cars, but he has a natural good instinct for driving.

With the help of his mechanic and boss Harry Hogg, Cole, who had experienced failure, rose again. With the help of the beautiful neurosurgeon Lyle, he finally returned to the track and won the Indy 500 Grand Prix.

Ronald saw this part of the plot, looked up at Cruise and laughed.

"Isn't this... uh, the storyline you are best at? It seems that you have a talent for screenwriting..."

"Hehe... Everyone knows that this is the racing version of Top Gun, so I'm the first to show it to you. I wonder if it's okay to shoot it like this?" Cruise also knew that his debut was completely imitating Ronald's "Top Gun".

It's just that the fighter jet was changed to a NASCAR race car, the beautiful instructor was changed to a beautiful doctor, and the teacher of the flight school was changed to an old mechanic of the racing team. The rhythm and story twists of other roads are the same.

"I'm very happy about your screenwriting style..." Ronald felt that Tom Cruise finally understood that stars like him were born to shoot these movies that make female audiences excited and male audiences secretly happy. What Oscar, that's something for others to pursue.

"Yes, Paula is helping me start with the simple logic of commercial films, which will help me have a better understanding of acting. I can find a movie that can really get me nominated..."

"Hey..." Ronald shook his head, it was a waste of praise. This guy is still obsessed with Oscars.

"Very good script, I think it's okay, you can tell Paula what I mean..." Ronald guessed that Cruise came to him to get insurance. Since there was no big problem, he would just find a professional screenwriter to fill in other details.

"I have to go, Tom, the plane is waiting for me..." Ronald looked at his watch again.

"Everything went well..." Tom Cruise and Ronald hugged again and sent him and Diane out.

"Humph..."

Nicole Kidman was so angry, why do these men like to pester Ronald so much?

"Find more people to fill in the details. In some parts, airplanes and racing cars are different. The dramatic conflicts should be arranged according to the characteristics of the project..." A few minutes later, Tom Cruise returned to the hall and took out a recorder to record Ronald's opinions to him.

He took out his own script outline again, trying to better understand Ronald's meaning.

The letters on the white paper suddenly moved like ants. He could see a few letters, but after the words entered his brain, it was like a crash. Cruise tried to open his eyes, but he couldn't understand the meaning of the words and sentences. Only the lonely letters seemed to dance there.

"Are you okay?" Nicole Kidman saw Cruise trying to open his eyes, with drops of sweat dripping from his hair, and couldn't help but wonder, this Hollywood star, wouldn't he abuse drugs like those people in Australia?

"Can you tell me what's written here? The light here is too strong, I can't see it clearly..." Cruise panicked, he hadn't had such a severe dyslexia attack for a long time.

Mimi (Rogers) asked for too much every day, and the two were on the verge of breaking up. Cruise's dyslexia, which had improved because of Mimi's care like an older sister, began to worsen again.

"This paragraph is about the male protagonist being teased, and a genuine neurologist was treated as a stripper invited by the team to play a prank..." Nicole Kidman was very patient with the handsome guy, and smiled and explained to him slowly.

"Oh, thank you. I always feel that blinding light..." Tom Cruise suddenly felt a little dry in the mouth. This actress was as gentle as Mimi Rogers when he first met her. Moreover, she was much prettier than Mimi...