Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ronald and Diane sat in front of the TV, waiting to watch the premiere of the TV series version of "Working Girls", which was the first TV series produced by Daydream to be broadcast on NBC.

"Let the River Flow..."

Carly Simon's theme song was once again linked to the title of "Working Girls". Ronald even found the beginning of the movie version he shot, the ferry slowly moving between Manhattan and Staten Island under the rising sun.

Today's Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, and New York Daily News have the premiere advertisement of Working Girls on the TV series page. The smile of the heroine Sandra Bullock occupied about half of the space.

Several maids, nanny Wang Ma, chefs, gardeners and others in Ronald's family were also watching the show in the next room. On the one hand, it was produced by the male owner's company, and on the other hand, Sandra Bullock's appearance also suited their preferences, and they wanted to see if the plot was good.

"Uh..."

After watching for ten minutes, Ronald yawned. It was really boring. The TV series version removed the fast-paced narrative of the movie version, as well as the cruel reality of Manhattan, New York, and the very unfriendly working environment for women.

Instead, it was presented with tenderness, as if all the gentle professionals on Wall Street had come to the heroine's side. Even the conspiracy of the villains was like the level between high school cheerleaders compared to Sigourney Weaver's arrogance and domineering in the movie version.

Sandra Bullock acted very hard, but Ronald's upper and lower eyelids were already close together and he began to doze off. During this period, Diane had to prepare for the role, and he took care of the children himself for some time, so he was still a little sleep-deprived.

"Shh..." Diane turned down the volume, and then gestured to Wang Ma who came to take over the care of little Roger. Gently covered Ronald with a blanket, then took out the script and started reading.

"Hmm..."

Ronald was sleeping in a daze, as if he was in an old house with old decoration. Suddenly, he felt a warm feeling, as if someone close to him had covered him with a quilt. Comfortably, he picked up the remote control and pressed the play button.

The light on a machine lit up a few times, and then a campus scene appeared on the TV. There were many American high school beauties on it, mixed with some Hong Kong-style martial arts moves.

A beauty broke through the railing on the second floor and fell to the first floor with a monster with fangs. This kind of hard-core martial arts moves is a typical invention of Hong Kong people.

"Buffy..." Another beauty downstairs screamed in fear.

Hey, this beauty downstairs looks a little familiar. Ronald identified it and found that it was indeed a teenage actor he knew. The one who played her daughter in Kim Basinger's "My Stepmother is an Alien" was called Alyson Hannigan.

"Ha...", the girl named Buffy was even more heroic. She took a Japanese sword, just like Toshiro Mifune in "Yojimbo" directed by Akira Kurosawa, using static to control dynamic, and killed the monster with fangs with two clean and sharp knives.

"Hey, this one looks familiar to me, but I can't remember who it is..." Ronald saw the character named Buffy and thought her big eyes looked like someone familiar.

"Let the rivers flow..."

The first episode of "Working Girl" was over, and the theme song was still the lyrical song praising New Babylon, and Ronald was also woken up.

"Ah, what time is it..." He asked while rubbing his eyes.

"Oh, did we wake you up, boss... I told them to keep their voices down..." Nanny Wang Ma happened to pass by, and she came to pick up the blanket that fell on the ground for Ronald.

"Why, do you all like this TV series?" Ronald looked to the side and saw that the staff were watching TV in the lounge next to him.

"It's the TV series shot by you, boss. I think those old Mexicans like it very much. The heroine is so beautiful, but it's not as good as the movies you shot..."

"Ha, I see, please help me pay attention to what TV series they like to watch, and tell me." Ronald felt that his taste seemed to be different from those people, and he didn't know whether he had changed or those people liked soap operas.

He took out his notebook and described the plot of his dream in detail. This time he dreamed of a TV series. Will TV series become more and more important after the 1990s?

…

"Bud, your mother told my aunt that you are going to marry your girlfriend?" The next day, Bud sent Ronald out as usual. Before getting in the car, Ronald asked his loyal driver in the lounge.

"Yes, she is pregnant. My mother said that we must get married first..." Bud showed his white teeth. His girlfriend also works for Ronald. They have a good relationship and it is finally time to get married.

"Here..." Ronald threw a bunch of keys over, "This is the key to the apartment next to my house. Your family will have a child soon and you will need a convenient place to live. The house is under the management of my aunt's charity foundation."

Bud bought a house in his hometown in Stanton and rented an apartment in Los Angeles, but it was a bit far from Ronald's home. He usually lived in Ronald's home for convenience.

Apartments near Beverly Hills are not affordable for Bud, whether renting or buying. Ronald was reminded by his aunt and quickly made some arrangements to relieve him of his worries.

"Oh...thank you, thank you..." Little Bud was a little excited after taking the key, and came up and hugged Ronald. His whole family works for Ronald and they are considered his die-hard fans.

"Where's the bodyguard, Mr. Dan..." Little Bud thought of the bodyguard who usually partnered with him. He took the key and wanted to show it off to others. It suddenly occurred to him that this might be Ronald's reward for his loyalty all the way. No. Must be the kind that Bodyguard Dan can get.

"Hahaha, he used to work for the president and his income was higher than yours. Don't worry about that. Dan is a professional." Ronald had to deliberately win over the staff around him like Little Bud. Dan's salary from him is much higher, not in this way.

Little Bud was particularly focused on driving today, and the car came all the way to Holmby Hills, which is one of the best areas in Beverly Hills.

Gregory Peck has a French-style manor here. The gray stone building and the huge lawn all show the love of the male owner for the female owner. Pike's second wife grew up in the country, so buying this place also meant to solve the pain of homesickness.

In addition, Gregory Peck liked gardening, horse racing, and red wine, which fit well with this place.

Ronald spotted Gregory Peck playing with his golden retriever on the lawn. Wearing an old pullover and thick corduroy trousers, Packer has the style of an old-school rich man, which is very different from his image as a simple international leftist in China.

"My old friend Jimmy Stewart is a master of telling jokes. He told me more than ten years ago that when a person reaches seventy, he must patch up everywhere..."

Gregory Peck played with the golden retriever for a while, then sat down in a chair on the lawn to rest. His health has not been very good this year. The strong man who did all the fighting scenes by himself back then became a little thin due to an illness, and his baggy clothes actually made him look a little fat.

Ronald strongly invited him to play the leading actor Jorgensen in "Other People's Money". Pike liked the script very much after reading it, but he was ill and could not agree immediately.

It wasn't until several weeks of recuperation that I gradually recovered. Ronald came to see him to confirm the old handsome guy's physical condition in person, and it seemed that there was no big problem.

"Honey, you better come in and talk with Ronald..." Veronica, Parker's wife, turned out to be an entertainment reporter. She interviewed Parker when he was filming "Roman Holiday". After filming the movie, Gregory Peck soon started dating her.

After that, he divorced his first wife and married his young wife the next day. The two have always been in love and have a son and a daughter.

"We are currently doing preparatory work for the movie. We found a cable factory in Rhode Island, which fits the situation of the cable factory in the script. For other small towns built around factories, you can go to my hometown of Stan. Filmed on Don Island..."

Ronald gave Gregory Peck a detailed introduction to the situation and showed him some photos taken at the scene.

The serious attitude made Gregory Peck very satisfied. When "To Kill a Mockingbird" was filmed, Hollywood didn't take it so seriously. It seems that agreeing to Ronald's mission this time was the right choice.

Ronald also brought a costumer to Gregory Pike. The clothes she prepared were made according to his previous figure. Now when he wears Pike, like his own clothes, he looks a bit fat.

However, this is a mistake. Jorgensen is a powerless business owner. In the face of environmental protection and the general trend of industrial hollowing out, his strategies are actually very helpless and destined to be unsuccessful.

Such a slightly aged and decadent image fits the character of Jorgensen very well in appearance.

"When can I meet the heroine?" Gregory Peck and Ronald took the final photos and returned to their humorous nature. Since he agreed to this role, he hasn't met Diane yet.

"I'm afraid this isn't appropriate. You, Diane, and Hanks who plays Garfield, it's best not to meet each other before starting rehearsals. I need that sense of strangeness..."

Ronald laughed and explained that Kate, played by Diane, is actually the illegitimate daughter of Jorgensen and his secretary, Ms. Sullivan. After struggling on his own, he was admitted to law school and escaped the strange fate of being a child who was not in the Jorgensen family, but was related by blood to the town's factory director Wang Jorgensen.

Tom Hanks plays Jorgensen's mortal enemy, the villain who wants to acquire and kill the cable factory. However, both Hanks and Jorgensen actually have a decent temperament. If they were to get acquainted with each other in advance, it would be difficult to perform the tense and tense emotions they had when they first met, wanting to kill each other.

"My dear, why did you agree to this drama?" Veronica Pike was actually surprised. Gregory had not made movies for many years and only enjoyed filming some TV series that did not require high energy.

This year, I agreed to shoot two movies at once.

One is Martin Scorsese's remake of "Cape Fear." The movie originally starred Gregory Peck. He and two other original starring actors, Martin Balsam and Robert Mitchum, also have guest roles in the new version.

Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte played the roles of Mitchum and Pike respectively.

The other one is the business war drama Ronald. It has been a long time since Gregory Peck played one of the protagonists of a movie so seriously.

"I wanted to do a tribute to my favorite character, Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird."

Gregory Peck patted his wife's hand. His image in Hollywood is that of an orthodox white successful man who opposes discrimination, pursues fairness and justice, and has personal charm.

But some recent events have made even him, a veteran star who presents himself in such an image, somewhat confused. Jews are gradually dominating Hollywood. Black stars complain that the Oscars do not allocate awards to them proportionately. Some minority groups are acting like crazy. How come they are the objects of discrimination that they fought to protect at the time, but now they are discriminating against others?

So, a few years later, when he passes away, will the values ​​he held on to back then still be correct? Will future generations laugh at him for this?

Gregory Peck was deeply concerned. At that time, will Jews, blacks...these groups who were discriminated against back then accuse themselves of not being "equal" enough to them because of their role back then?

So when Ronald was offered the film "Other People's Money," he quickly agreed to star in it. There is not only an echo of his grievance against the discrimination against Jews back then (although now, most people in America can only complain sourly that Jews dominate the media, entertainment, and financial industries, rather than criticizing their race. Discriminated.)

On the other hand, this movie also makes a profound reflection on the first white people of Anglo-German descent to come to this land. If I could play an impressive role in this movie, I wouldn't worry about being forgotten and laughed at in the future, right?

…

Ronald continued to prepare for a new film, and time passed quickly, and it was already the busiest summer time of the year.

The third part of "Back to the Future" was released first, which is different from the second part, which was released late last year and was well received and filled in many of the flaws of the first part. The third film becomes a Western that has nothing to do with the first two.

Marty and the Professor returned to the pioneering era of the West. Although the plot was still exciting, fans were still disappointed. The box office dropped by 48% after one week, almost halving.

The remaining sequel projects, "Another 48 Hours", "Gremlins 2", and "RoboCop 2", did not sustain the glory of the original work, and the box office debuts were a huge disappointment to the producers and audiences.

Only after Columbia was acquired, the first blockbuster, "Total Recall" starring Schwarzenegger, achieved relatively good results.

Although "Pretty Woman" has been knocked off the championship throne again, due to weak competition, it has remained in the top five and is gradually hitting the record of 150 million. Disney has become the most unexpected winner in this battle for summer movies.

"Ronald, you have to attend the premiere."

"Die Hard 2" producer Joel Silver called Ronald several times, trying to invite him to the grand premiere.

"Don't you know, I also have a new movie coming out?" Ronald really didn't want to go. After watching the test screening, he already regretted having endorsed him and Bruce Willis at 20th Century Fox.

From the screen, it is difficult to see where the film's continuous overruns, and the final production cost of more than 85 million US dollars, were spent.

The entire plot is far-fetched, and the actors' perfunctory attitude toward the movie is visible to the naked eye. If it weren't for the final airport battle and the use of new computer special effects, it's doubtful whether the final climax of the movie would have been possible.

"You are a producer. You must come, at least to Los Angeles." Joel Silver was already anxious. This time, 20th Century Fox's attitude towards him could be said to be a reprimand. We must do everything we can to increase the number of viewers on the first weekend.

Anyway, this kind of popcorn movie is not afraid of bad reputation. The key to the box office is how many visitors it can get on the first weekend.

If you can deceive one more person, just come in and buy a ticket.