Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Huh..."

Ronald suddenly felt that he slept very soundly. On the big screen that suddenly appeared in his dream, there was only a close-up shot without any sound. In addition, the picture used a shallow depth of field lens, and except for the protagonist's face, the background was a blurred golden color.

The special lighting seemed to simulate the natural light of magic time, soft and full of magic, and seemed to make the lens inlay a sense of justice.

"Huh?"

Ronald felt very strange. This technique did not look like a movie lens, but more like a court scene in a TV series. The camera was facing the actor's face, taking a close-up shot of the front, and then switching repeatedly on the faces of several characters.

This feeling reminded people of the classic court scene in a TV series, where the defense lawyer and the witness talked to each other, and then switched on their faces. Because the TV screen is relatively small, the expression cannot be seen clearly using the over-the-shoulder lens of the movie.

Not to mention that ordinary movies do not use this technique, even if they borrow the technique of TV series, few movie actors' faces can withstand such high-intensity ravages.

"It seems to be more difficult to shoot than the frontal shots in The Silence of the Lambs." Ronald muttered. In The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster at least had lines to communicate, but in this plot in the dream, there was no line for dozens of seconds, only the voices in the background were talking.

The actors were all old acquaintances of his. At the beginning, it was Tom Cruise, then the camera switched to Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore was interspersed in the middle. They all had no lines and only acted with expressions.

"Do you have any other questions for me, Mr. Lawyer?"

Finally, just when Ronald suspected that he didn't dream of the voice this time, Jack Nicholson spoke. His cynical smile made Ronald feel that this guy could really play all the villain roles.

"Strange!"

Ronald heard the lines, and it was about Mr. Lawyer. So this is a court scene as he guessed. But why are these people wearing military uniforms?

Tom Cruise and Demi Moore seemed to be wearing navy uniforms, while Jack Nicholson was wearing a Marine uniform. The two soldiers sitting in the dock were also dressed in Marine uniforms.

What kind of play is this? A fierce battle in a military court? It's rare.

Ronald murmured in his heart. This scene obviously made him think it was a good movie because it was full of big stars and required sufficient acting from all parties.

But Hollywood has been avoiding this kind of scene since the Hays Code. Few people shoot such internal military affairs.

The camera gradually pulled away to a medium shot. Seeing that Tom Cruise's character didn't speak, Jack Nicholson stood up and was about to leave, but was gently stopped by Tom Cruise and asked to continue answering questions.

Jack Nicholson was obviously very unhappy. The verbal confrontation between the two began to escalate, and the words between you and me gradually became fierce. In the end, it turned into a quarrel-like attack on each other.

Cruise was so excited that his handsome face was distorted. Finally, he shouted out this line: "Colonel, did you issue an order to enforce the Red Army Code on the night of the incident?"

"Colonel, you don't need to answer this question." The judge sitting above was played by a black actor.

"No, I want to answer this question." Jack Nicholson seemed calm on the surface, but you could feel his calmness outside.

"You want me to answer?" Under his anger, there was also an old-fashioned arrogance.

"My position gives me the power to ask questions." Tom Cruise was also irritated.

"You want me to answer?" The arrogance shown by Jack Nicholson finally made the opposing lawyer burst out.

"I want the truth!" Cruise said firmly, and the whole person seemed to tremble with excitement.

"You can't accept the truth!" Jack Nicholson's volcano also erupted.

Ronald didn't understand what the previous plot was like. This section was obviously the climax, and it seemed that two big stars were acting together.

"Ronald, Ronald..."

"Hmm..." Ronald was suddenly distracted by a voice calling him, and the movie scene seemed to be moving away from him. He turned over and buried his head in the wool blanket again, trying to catch up with the gradually fading picture.

"Ronald!" The voice was still calling him relentlessly.

"Well... don't bother me..." Ronald vaguely recognized that it was a woman's voice. He didn't want to be distracted by thinking about who it was, but just wanted to get more clues.

"Ronald, you have to get up, we are in big trouble."

"I..." Ronald's blanket was taken away, and the movie in his vision completely disappeared, leaving only darkness, which made him sit up in anger.

Just when he was about to curse, he saw a very intellectual and strong beautiful face in front of him, and his mind was shocked, and he almost kissed it. Now all the angry words ran away.

Jodie Foster was also startled. At that moment, it was clear that Ronald wanted to kiss her. It seems that when he just woke up, his instinct was activated. Judy, who secretly said it was a pity to miss the opportunity, immediately took a microphone and wanted Ronaldo to answer the phone.

"Um..." Ronald didn't answer the phone. Instead, he raised his finger to tell Jodie Foster not to speak. Then he took out his notebook, bit off the cap of the ballpoint pen with his teeth, and began to write the content and plot of the movie in his dream on the notebook.

"Wow, he's so masculine." Jodie Foster felt a sense of admiration and love in her heart. Hannibal in the movie also has this kind of masculine charm that makes people obey him as he says. It's just that Anthony Hopkins's performance is too abnormal. How can a director as suave and rich as Ronald make people addicted.

a heat flow from the body

"Whose call?" Ronald finished jotting down the content, then took the phone and asked Foster.

"Ah, it's Mr. Mike Medavoy from TriStar Pictures. He said the matter is urgent." Jodie Foster did not dare to look at Ronald anymore, sat on the seat next to her, and then turned her head He glanced at Ronald with the corner of his eye.

"Mike, you're at Los Angeles Airport. What's going on? What?"

Ronald, who put down the phone, was also anxious. Unable to maintain his grace, he quickly asked the stewardess, "How long does it take for us to arrive in Los Angeles? Can you tell the pilot that I need to get there as soon as possible..."

Mike Medavoy called with terrible news. Prompted by some well-intentioned people, minority groups have applied to the LAPD to protest the film in front of the Beverly Hills Cinema where the premiere was held.

It is said that their momentum was so great that there were hundreds of people, enough to block the intersection in front of the cinema, and there was no doubt that reporters would take pictures of them all.

Ronald suppressed his uneasiness on the plane and could not show any emotions in front of the crew and stars.

This demonstration came at the perfect time, planned when Ronald was away, and launched when he returned and was on the plane. By the time he got to Los Angeles, it was difficult to change the location of the premiere, and he had to face huge protests.

This will have a very bad impact on the box office of the movie, and if it is not handled well, there may be a risk of a box office collapse.

Because the box office in the first week of a movie is the most critical. If it is messed up by these people, it will be useless no matter how you make up for it later. You will definitely lose a large proportion of the audience who would have come to watch the movie.

Fortunately, there was still more than a week between the film's premiere and its official release, which officially started on Valentine's Day, February 14th. Ronald still had a little time to think of a solution.

"Woo..."

The pilot contacted the airport tower and arrived at Los Angeles Airport one hour early at an uneconomical speed. When he got off the plane, Mike Medavoy, Michelle Cannold, Michael Gray and others were waiting for him, and everyone got into a Toyota van...

"Miss Foster..." Seeing that Jodie Foster was also about to get in the car, Mike McDavoy frowned and stopped him. It would be best for the star not to know so much negative content, as long as he has a good rest and will be full of energy tomorrow. Just go to the premiere.

"Maybe I can make some suggestions, Ronald..." Jodie Foster rushed up and whispered in Ronald's ear, "I understand a little bit about their mentality..."

Ronald nodded and asked Jodie Foster to get in the car. She was indeed one of the minority groups...

"Call Diane and tell him that I have something urgent. There is a big trouble at the movie premiere and I can't go back first." Ronald saw little Bud's expression, reacted, and asked him to call home first to report that everything was safe. .

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"What are these people protesting for?" Ronald didn't understand. This "Silence of the Lambs" is a thriller. What does it have to do with you LGB... and other minority orientation groups with a long list of letters?

"Have you forgotten? The villain in the movie is an antisocial pervert who wants to be transgender but cannot get it..." Mike Medavoy spread out the copy of the application form that he obtained through his connections within the LAPD on the table.

It turns out that among the audience who saw the premiere in New York, there were supervisors from their association. Every time a movie with relevant characters is released, they will watch it and then report it to the association to see if there is any supervision action to protest against the stigmatization of minorities.

"this……"

Ronald did not expect that the dividends of political correctness gained in "Dances with Wolves" would be returned so quickly in "The Silence of the Lambs."

Several minority groups and women's groups have jointly applied to protest. The main content is that "Silence of the Lambs" continues the stereotype of minority groups and exaggerates the violent exploitation of women.

"Does this movie also discriminate against minority groups? And where does the violent exploitation of women begin?"

"Here's the thing..." Jodie Foster is both a minority and a woman, and she fully understands the mentality of these people.

That villain is from a minority orientation. In their view, it is equivalent to the movie promoting that minority orientations are villains. Moreover, this serial killer wanted to kill women and skin them because he wanted to become a woman and was rejected by doctors, so he could sew a human skin suit for himself and indulge in the fantasy of becoming a woman.

In the eyes of those groups, isn't this proper discrimination against them? Once the movie comes out, this stereotype that they are perverts will definitely be reinforced.

Agent Claire, played by Jodie Foster, was sent by her boss to meet Hannibal because she was beautiful, so she was used as a bait. This is very common in the workplace and is a form of so-called mind control and mental exploitation.

"Then what should we do?" Luo Bian smacked his lips. Can this also be related to discrimination?

"The opinions of the female community are actually easy to resolve. We just need to increase the publicity of Jodie Foster. This is not the exploitation of beautiful women in the workplace, but beautiful women who are independent and rely on their own intelligence rather than their sexy bodies. , a successful resistance to the exploitation of old white men.”

Michael Gray is indeed a master of public relations, and he came up with an idea just by looking at Jodie Foster.

"Well, hum..." Jodie Foster straightened her neck and showed a proud smile on Ronald's lips. That means nothing more than, look, it was foresight for me to let you remake a trailer with me as the main character, right?

"You're good!" Ronald pointed at Jodie Foster and affirmed, then ordered his subordinates to increase the intensity of the trailer, and then contacted the Feminist Association and asked them to come to the "Silence of the Lambs" production The role of women is liberated, come and protest.

Anyway, Ronald felt that there must be someone fucking behind him. You can find the Women's Protection Association, and I can find it too. Let's see who is willing to spend money.

"What about the sexual minorities?" Ronald looked at Michael Gray again.

"This is a bit troublesome. The villain in the movie is indeed one of them. This is a fact. Unlike Miss Jodie Foster, who is a living spokesperson for the character, we lack an actor with the charm to play that kind of person... …”

For a moment, everyone's eyes focused on Ronald again. Jodie Foster in particular looked transfixed.

"It just so happens that our costume designer Adele Lutz's sister is a... victim of the virus. We can try to contact her to see if she is willing to speak out about this."

"Huh?"

Suddenly Michael Gray reacted. The victims of this virus, except for a few cases of infection due to surgical blood transfusions, are mainly sexual minorities. As long as we have such a victim come out and say good things about the movie, we can largely reduce the negative impact of the other party's demonstrations.

"Is it Zhou Tianna? I'm trying to find a way to ask Adele Lutz to see if she is willing to send a message. We can donate some money to the charity association where her sister belongs." Michael Gray also knows this person. encounter.

"Very good. As long as her sister Zhou Tianna is willing, we can pay for the treatment and training." Ronald breathed a sigh of relief. With such a minor celebrity coming out as a shield, the attraction of those demonstrators to reporters will undoubtedly be affected. Dissolve.

"Just be careful not to say the reason why she contracted the virus during the interview." Ronald suddenly remembered that Zhou Tianna only contracted the virus after having an affair with a man. Don't say more to break the public's understanding of the relationship between minorities and the virus. stereotype.

Everyone was assigned tasks, and each one was busy contacting and making arrangements. Only Jodie Foster was left in the room.

"What's wrong?" Ronald looked at the other person's face and felt strange. Is she also proud of who she is?

"Oh, Ronald, I really like the way you give orders like this." Jodie Foster rushed up and kissed her.

"Hey? Don't you have a new boyfriend?" Ronald was a little confused by the kiss and pushed her away and said.

"Hahaha, are you talking about Randy Stone? He is just like me..."

"Huh? No, I'm confused. Do you like men or women?" Ronald was even more confused. If Randy Stone is her best friend, doesn't that mean Jodie Foster is still a woman... …

"That's not the case. Let's put it this way. Of all the people who have a close relationship with me, regardless of gender, you make me dizzy the most..."

"Really?" Ronald didn't believe it and stretched out his hand to check. Sure enough, it was already in pieces...

"You may not believe it, but when I was with Kelly (McGillis) and Jennifer (Beers), I never felt this dizzy.

Holding Jodie Foster slumped in his arms, Ronald's vanity was greatly satisfied. A female star who likes women also falls under her charm. With one effort, Foster was picked up.

"Hmm..." Jodie Foster took the initiative to look for her lips. She was already confused and confused and didn't know where she was. Only deep breathing and moist lips allowed her to still hold on tightly. idea.

But after a long time, Ronald didn't move, so she opened her eyes again.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm looking for..." Ronald tore open the book he took out from the bedside table drawer with his backhand...

Jodie Foster smelled the charming feeling that only a few people's male charm can bring to her, and screamed out.

"oh……"

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"The crew of The Silence of the Lambs held a charity event for former supermodel Tina Chow before its premiere in Los Angeles. The event raised funds for...disease projects in Los Angeles. Afterwards, The Silence of the Lambs will be screened in 45 theaters in Los Angeles. It is reported that this film has been highly sought after and highly recommended by New York audiences and film critics. It is a rare thriller and horror film adapted from a best-selling film in recent years..."

The Los Angeles Times the next day reported extensively on the care of the Silence of the Lambs crew for...the patients, as well as the excellent quality of the film itself.