Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The casting for "Sleepless in Seattle" was settled, and Ronald interfered no further.

"Sisters" was a huge box office success and Emile Adolino essentially gained financial freedom. He has been shooting documentaries and dance films, and now he has the freedom to shoot the movies he likes.

The New York City Ballet, under Ronald's leadership, filmed the late dance director Balanchine's adaptation of "The Nutcracker" with its main cast.

The dance difficulty of this version is higher than that of ordinary dance groups. It uses a lot of classical ballet techniques. Even a strong dance group will not be able to dance it. The background has also been changed from the Germany of Tchaikovsky's original work to the America of the Victorian era.

Sometimes, a director just has to swing between business and his own artistic expression. If you only do one thing, you will either have no money to live a comfortable life, or your creativity will dry up.

Emile Adolino has been making films for Ronald and has made a lot of money, and now it's time to express himself. In addition to filming this stage play, he also has his eye on a project to film a biopic of the famous Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. This is also his interest.

In order to reward him, Ronald contacted TriStar Pictures and specially invited Barbra Streisand to play this controversial but very talented dancer and singer. Anyway, Streisand once said she wanted to cooperate with him...

He also found Dirty Dancing costar Cynthia Rhodes, an actress who was married to singer Richard Marks, and persuaded her to come out and film a small supporting role. We also found the dance troupe and choreographer of Dirty Dancing to collaborate. It was a reunion of the cast of "Dirty Dancing", with a little bit of a gimmick.

Only Jennifer Gray offered the idea of ​​a supporting role, which he rejected. After her plastic surgery, she was really not worthy of the salary her agent wanted, and Ronald didn't intend to be so generous.

Her latest movie, which was also the last movie in which the audience recognized her before her plastic surgery, "Beyond the Speed" was a movie invested by Francis Coppola and shot for her senior brother Carol Ballard.

This is about the process of the American sailing team regaining the trophy after losing the America's Cup. America's sailing team once won 24 consecutive championships and dominated the America's Cup for 132 years. It was not until 1983 that the Australian team used a sailboat with advanced technology to defeat it.

This "Beyond the Rapids", like Carol Ballard's previous "Black Horse", is full of the wildness of fighting nature and a child-like innocence. Ronald likes it very much.

Coppola invited him to watch the finished edit. In the end, America's fleet, driven by the bosun played by Jennifer Gray, replaced the new sails made with technology and surpassed the defending Australian in the race. The situation of the team is simply exciting to watch.

"I feel that the final climax is not enough..." Ronald knew that Coppola's own financial situation was not very good. His purpose of investing in this film was the same as the filming of "400 Years Later", in order to make money to pay off debts. .

However, when the film was screened by the distributor Sony Columbia, his director's "400 Years of Horror" was still criticized as having too strong a personal style and seemed unable to gain favor from the audience in the domestic market.

At this time, Ronald must come forward and vouch for Coppola, so that the Columbia distribution department can give the film a relatively high rating.

After watching the edited version, Ronald was still very impressed. Coppola's creativity has not diminished, and he still has many artistic breakthroughs. The bigger reason why some of his films have been commercial failures is that his ideas are out of touch with the mass audience.

And this "400 Years of Horror" seems to capture some common emotions of the audience while bursting with wild imagination. Just like the Godfather back then, it captured the people's disappointment with the government and looked forward to a "godfather"-like figure to restore order.

Ronald was not too sure whether this vampire movie really captured some of the audience's collective unconscious emotions as he suspected. He proposed to hold a few test screenings to see how the audience performed. .

But his statement is equivalent to an endorsement of Coppola. Columbia's distribution department, who heard that Ronald felt it was necessary to come to multiple test screenings, felt that this was an expression of optimism from the producer. The test screening is definitely just to make some final changes based on audience feedback. Otherwise, he would have lost interest long ago...

Coppola was filled with emotion after receiving Columbia's measures to improve the distribution level, increase budget and other measures for "400 Years of Mystery". It seems that I have returned to the kind of courtesy I received when I just finished filming The Godfather.

He immediately promised to make any modifications based on the feedback from the audience as long as Ronald nodded. The distributor and director were delighted and quickly recruited willing audiences in New York and Los Angeles.

When Coppola's own film distribution issues were successfully resolved, he immediately thought of his senior brother Carroll Ballard's films again. Due to a lack of budget in that movie, the filming of various big scenes of racing on the sea was limited. Could Ronald also help?

"I like this movie..." Ronald thought of a scene he had dreamed about on a plane in which a girl sat in a homemade plane and flew with the birds. The shooting temperament of this film is very similar to Carol Ballard's.

It's not the language of the camera or the trend of the performance, but the love for nature, which is very unique at first glance.

"Play the final catch-up climax again," Ronald felt inspired. This director's expressiveness was really on a par with all other directors.

"Dong dong dong dong..."

An abstract painting of a warrior rubbed from a rock mural on the Gobi was printed on the high-tech sail and became the symbol of America's sailboat.

"Take out my whooper sail." Jennifer Gray, wearing a sailing hat, urged the captain.

"Whoper?" The actor who played her ex-boyfriend and the captain made an expression that I didn't know.

"Whoper, as soon as you hook it up, it will unfold with a whooper sound! Get our ship back into this damn race... Hurry!"

With the drumbeat of the soundtrack, everyone, urged by the crew member played by Jennifer Gray, raised the sail, and it was filled with the wind with a bang.

The sail with the symbol of a child's stick figure was lowered, and the other sail with the pattern of an angry human face seemed to be roaring forward, symbolizing the unyielding fighting spirit of mankind, leading the American sailing ship to move forward rapidly, drawing closer. distance from the ship in front.

"Daxnit, there should be an overhead shot here. The rear boat is catching up, parallel, beyond..." Ronald was also angry. He happened to see the intense place, but why was it gone?

"Hey, I'm out of money, Ronald."

"I'll come out and ask Ballard to call everyone back and go to sea for reshoots..." Ronald hadn't seen such an exciting movie scene for a long time. Standing up and waving his hands, "This must be made up, otherwise a great movie will be wasted. Fuck... fuxk, fuxk, fuxk..."

He thought again of Jennifer Gray who had private plastic surgery. What should he do?

"There are also the lightning shots from before, if they can be paired with your lightning lights..." Coppola didn't understand what Ronald was scolding, and thought he was overly excited, so he quickly tried to get more reshoots for his senior brother. Chance.

"That's nothing..." Ronald waved his hand, "It's just that the heroine had plastic surgery and her nose was gone..."

"Oh, shxit..." Coppola understood immediately, "Then we'll shoot the big panorama. The impact here mainly depends on the rhythm of the crew's coordinated actions..."

"That's right, let's do it. I still have the old model of lightning lamp over there and will send it to you right away. The new model is for Steven to use..."

"Hahaha, having you in Hollywood is really a great thing for a director with such characteristics." Coppola smiled and hugged Ronald. Those producers who use various stars and various formulas to select scripts are all cerebral palsy. Only someone like Ronald, who has money, influence, and artistic vision, can fund these directors who can produce such moving works.

"Hey, I'm all for film art (box office revenue)," Ronald waved his hand, "By the way, Francis, tell me, can that nose be reshaped?"

"Forehead……"

Coppola could only touch his forehead. In all his years in Hollywood, he had never seen anyone who could get his face back through plastic surgery.

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"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Jennifer Gray cried while calling someone she knew who had a relationship with Ronald.

"Patrick, can you put in a good word for me in front of Ronald? I have discussed it with no fewer than five of the best plastic surgeons in Hollywood. They all said that my nose is already very fragile. If it is done again, it will There is a risk of collapse..."

"Hey, let me tell you something." The person on the other side of the phone was Dirty Dancing actor Patrick Schwytz. He couldn't bear to hear such a cry from Gray.

"You should stop getting involved...this matter is not pleasing to both sides." His wife said to Schwytz after he put down the phone.

"Ronald is now Hollywood's box office guarantee. As long as he says yes, the producers will follow suit. With such influence, why would you go against his wishes?"

"Me? Ronald is not such a person. When we were filming Dirty Dancing, he was so patient, charming, and leading. He knew how to let us actors develop our potential. Without him, I would not be able to It might be successful..."

Patrick Schwytz was a little unhappy. How could Ronald be like that? You are not familiar with him and don't understand this person's inner thoughts. He is an actor's director, so why can't he understand the inner thoughts of an actor?

"Well, even if you are right, Gray may not necessarily be grateful to you..."

"How could it be? She begged me while crying."

"Don't you understand, doesn't she know that if she undergoes plastic surgery, it will affect her film appointments and box office appeal? Well, maybe it's a little underestimated, but she definitely understands... Why would she still do it? "

"You're right..." Schwytz moved his hand away from the phone.

"Girls love to be beautiful. She definitely doesn't know how many times she has been told that her nose is ugly. Even if she had the opportunity to film Dirty Dancing 2, she was told that she was ugly to her face and failed every time in the audition. If she has a good script, First give Michelle Pfeiffer such suffering..."

"Okay, I'd better call Ronald..." Schwytz said he understood. Although she was liked by the audience and had box office,... a young girl was said to be not beautiful enough every day, especially in Hollywood. Self-esteem is a very serious injury.

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"Tell her that if she can't do it, then don't do it. She will be asked to reshoot the film. No one will be replaced..." Ronald received many calls from people asking for mercy, and finally sent a message to Jennifer Grey's agent, asking her not to take the risk of having her nose fixed again.

"Where were we talking about?" Ronald put down the phone and came back to face a fat man.

"I feel bad. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was filmed like that. I..." The fat man was Joss Whedon, the screenwriter who came to Ronald with his own script.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" has just been released and the box office is a mess. The main problem is that the director is not very good at making this kind of movie. He made this fantasy movie look weird.

Originally, Kristy Swanson's appearance as the heroine was very good. She was the actress who replaced Kim Cattrall in the sequel of "Swagger", and her beauty was not inferior to the original.

The supporting role is the old Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, the father of Julia Roberts's dumped fiancé. This is another actor who doesn't need to worry about his acting skills.

In addition, Daydream has a large number of experienced special effects makeup and props talents, and the production team also inherited the temperament of Roger Corman's horror films in the vampire's appearance.

But perhaps, the bad thing is the combination of these elements, which was evenly distributed by the director. On the set, the director did not suppress Donald Sutherland, and many scenes were shot according to the actors' ideas.

This caused the film's priorities to be inappropriate, the supporting roles took over the main roles. The main characters did not have enough scenes, and so on. Combined together, it became this work that made the screenwriter angry and asked Ronald to reshoot.

"It is impossible to reshoot. This is what I told you before. If you want the movie to present your ideas, you must be the director yourself."

"I regret it now. If I direct it myself, at least it won't be like this..." Joss Whedon covered his face.

"Then you should learn slowly. I happen to have a sequel to a taekwondo movie here. You can practice."

Ronald admires this kind of screenwriter who has a high sense of responsibility for his work. Only such people can make good works. If a director is only interested in hanging out with female stars and pocketing money from the filming, it would be terrible if he has no talent.

And talent is something that no one knows before trying it.

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"Michael, is this movie your project? My agent told me that there is a biopic about Gypsy Rose Lee. Is it possible for me to direct it?"

Barbra Streisand received the invitation for that movie. She was conceited that she was a big star, so she called Ovitz directly to confirm.

"My dear Barbara, why do you want to get involved with a project that I didn't package? I was just about to tell you this. Our ethnic group should unite and not have anything to do with this company."

"But I want to be a director. I want to be an Oscar-winning director like Costner, or at least be nominated."

"Barbara, how could I forget you? I have prepared a script for you..."

After the call, Ovitz jumped from the table, as if he was going to smash him to pieces.

"Come on, take my three-point home run..."