Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"While participating in a 6.2-mile cross-country running race in Camp David, Maryland, T\u0026T accidentally suffered a heat stroke and fainted, and was rushed to the hospital. According to the White House, after treatment, T\u0026T was fine, but he was unwell due to the high temperature that day... …”

Ronald and his agent Eddie were waiting in the CBS studio when they saw the news on TV about the heatstroke caused by Datong Leader running.

"Didn't he often brag that he was in good health and could run a marathon? Why did he faint after only 6 miles?" Ronald asked.

"Who knows? After all, he is already 55 years old, although he is still relatively young among previous commanders." Eddie is not very interested in the current commander-in-chief. Since the Persian King went into exile overseas, oil prices have been rising, making the people confused. The dissatisfaction was vented on the commander-in-chief, and TV news also ridiculed him without a single kind word.

Eddie has been following Ronald for the past two days. If the version shot by Ronald in this chewing gum commercial can win, Hershey will make additional investment. Shoot more than 10 series of advertisements with the same idea. Eddie's actors will have many more TV commercial opportunities out of thin air.

This is why Eddie would rather sign a fledgling Ronald. Once a director can gain a foothold in the industry, he can open an advertisement and find job opportunities for many of his actors.

"Darcy Maguire is here, and she looks a little bit unhappy." Eddie touched Ronald, reminded him in a low voice, and then greeted him with a smile on his face, "Darcy, how are we? When will we We can use this studio, and we also need to set up uneven bars and lighting. Ronald said it would take at least 2 hours.”

"Dan is making a trick, we were informed that we cannot use this studio today." Darcy Maguire said bitterly.

Ronald was stunned and quickly asked: "What is our backup plan, Darcy?"

"There was no backup plan. I didn't expect him to be able to influence the insiders at CBS. The British man he found, Hugh Hudson, has already erected a huge outdoor billboard today. The filming can be completed in the next two days, and then go The TV station was still ahead of us late last night.”

"Dan, through his protective umbrella among partners, influenced CBS management. The reason they rejected me this time was that the venue needed to film other programs the next day, and the installation and dismantling of gymnastics facilities would have an impact."

Both sides have their own intelligence networks, and Darcy Maguire also knows full well about Dan's filming progress.

"Don't worry, Darcy." Ronald immediately decided to look forward.

Darcy Maguire also knows that if he breaks up with CBS now, even if he gets the filming permit, the manager Dan influenced will still use subsequent tricks to delay time. Just write this down first and talk about it later.

"We can find a gymnastics gym to shoot on-site, which can save time on setting up the scene. If done properly, it won't be a waste of time." Ronald came up with an idea.

"But we are borrowing the CBS filming team. If we find other places to shoot, their personnel and machines cannot be loaned out." Darcy Maguire frowned, "Ronald, if you have your own The filming team would be great.”

"This is just an ordinary commercial shot with a TV camera. If we can't use the CBS team, we have many master's degree students at Tisch College who all have practical shooting experience. We will find some to temporarily form an advertising shooting team. Not a big problem.”

Darcy looked at Ronald. If it could be arranged in this way, the progress would not fall behind him, and maybe it could be completed ahead of schedule.

"Okay, you are responsible for gathering the shooting team, and I will contact the high school with a gymnasium." Darcy was also a person who took action and immediately decided to divide the work, and the two of them went to make phone calls separately.

Eddie looked at Ronald eagerly, hoping that he could assemble a shooting team and start shooting immediately. He was counting on him for his advertising business in the next year. His actors can shoot commercials for companies like Hershey, and he has much greater control over the actors and models he contracts.

"Let me make some phone calls first." Ronald took out his notebook and motioned to Eddie.

We first found Spike Lee. His crew had been filming for less than a month and had already shut down due to financial reasons. If you find him, you can bring along his black classmate, Ernest Dixon, who guest-starred as the director of photography in his movie, so that the camera crew and lighting crew can handle it.

Then he roped in the senior female classmate who helped with the photography class homework last time, and roped in a few of her suitors to guest-star on the recording team, so that the on-site recording could also be in place.

Ronald can direct, assistant director, and scriptwriter.

Darcy Maguire also found Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan and borrowed their gymnasium.

“This is my high school alma mater, I learned gymnastics there, and my coach was still there, and she agreed to let us go shoot for a day.

The rest is a matter of commercial borrowing of photographic equipment.

"Do you have a way to borrow a TV camera?" Ronald asked Darcy Maguire. In the warehouse of New York University, there are more old film equipment, and the relatively new TV equipment is also occupied.

"No, we usually find production companies. BBDO won't care about this." Darcy Maguire couldn't think of a channel for the moment.

"Eddie, what about you? Can you borrow the equipment?"

"Of course, I have a relationship with equipment leasing, but they all settle in cash. The cooperation between BBDO and CBS is a business transaction between the companies, and we don't need to advance money." Eddie said hesitantly.

"It's an emergency now, I'll just advance the money." Ronald replied.

"No, Ronnie, you actually have a channel to borrow equipment, why don't you try it?" Eddie's Jewish side exploded.

"Who is it? How come I don't know?" Ronald looked confused.

"It's Helen Slater, the other version of the advertisement you told me about, who is leaving..." Eddie reminded.

Ronald slapped his forehead, how could he forget about him. It's not too much for a father to lend some equipment to her daughter when she is shooting an advertisement for her daughter herself?

"Ronald, you borrowed the filming equipment, are you shooting my daughter's scene?" Gerald certainly wouldn't give Ronald the opportunity to use his influence in vain.

"No, Mr. Slater. Helen's appearance is more suitable for the role of the student who goes to the company for internship. We have prepared the shooting script and storyboard, and are about to send it to you for approval. This time we are shooting gymnastics, so we found a member of the gymnastics team of a New Jersey high school to play it." Ronald replied.

"Okay, then you send the script and storyboard to my office and give it to my secretary Stella. I will take a look." After saying that, Gerald hung up the phone.

"Mr. Slater agreed. We will go to the WNDT branch in New York to borrow equipment. They can also lend us a van and driver. Next, we will wait for Elizabeth Shue to go to Stuyvesant High School to shoot together." Ronald said to Darcy Maguire.

"Is it Gerald Slater from PBS? Do you know him?" Darcy Maguire was surprised, and she began to wonder if Ronald was the child of some big shot.

"He was the key figure who facilitated the national live broadcast of the Congressional hearing on the Watergate incident in 1973. Without his live broadcast, PBS TV would not have become a national television network."

"We met by chance. I agreed to let her daughter appear in the advertisement. We have to let her be the protagonist later." Ronald simply made Helen's matter clear. Now is a good time.

"No problem, Ronald. You really have 'resources' and can get things done." Darcy Maguire thought this was the price of borrowing equipment, and agreed without hesitation to let Helen be the protagonist of another version of the advertisement.

Everyone immediately divided the work. Darcy went to Stuyvesant High School to contact the gymnastics coach first, Ronald went to the New York TV station under PBS to borrow equipment and drivers, and Eddie waited for the heroine Elizabeth Shue on the scene and took her to Stuyvesant High School.

"Don't let me know who is making trouble today, otherwise..." Darcy Maguire stomped her high heels and frowned and cursed.

"Why, knowing who is making trouble will be good for our competition?" Ronald stopped and asked.

"Of course, at least I can know whether the person who leaked our script to Dan is a traitor around me or a senior person, so that I can avoid them during the next filming, or even..."

"You can use double agents to pass some false information." Eddie is no stranger to this kind of conspiracy.

"I can make a phone call and find out from the side." Ronald thought of Pia, the popular female host at CBS.

"Pia, this is Ronald... I'm at CBS now. Yes, I'm preparing to shoot a Chewels gum commercial. Helen is also in the plan. She will shoot one of the series of commercials...

No, today we are preparing to shoot the first gymnast. We borrowed the CBS studio, but we were notified that it could not be used at the last minute... No, no, I didn't mean to force it. I just want to know who is making things difficult for us... Okay, thank you Pia, I'll wait for your call here."

After 10 minutes, Pia called. Today, the secretary of Alan Wagner, a senior executive of CBS, notified them to cancel their filming arrangements.

"Alan Wagner is the vice president of CBS in New York. He created the Mary Tyler Moore Show, a program with high ratings, and is a great contributor to CBS's transition from rural to urban." Pia specifically told Ronald not to think of any revenge.

"Don't worry, Pia, we just want to know who the mole is inside BBDO Advertising Company." Ronald answered according to Darcy Maguire's teaching.

Darcy Maguire indicated that he already knew who leaked the creative and shooting plans here. One of the partners of BBDO has always had a good relationship with CBS's Mary Tyler Moore Show and has placed many advertisements. He is Dan's direct protector.

At the door, the three of them just met Elizabeth Shue, who came to the door of the CBS studio with her mother.

"My daughter can't participate in your advertising shoot."