Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"It was wandering in the depths of the universe when the solar system was formed. Its elliptical orbit is so long that the last time it visited the earth was 65 million years ago, just when the dinosaurs became extinct.

But now, in the last 20 years of the 20th century, it is back again."

The clear dream came again unexpectedly. Ronald saw a hand put the video tape into the machine and pressed the play button.

Then a star flashing red appeared on the TV, flying towards the audience, with this scary narration.

A beautiful woman in a movie theater uniform was talking to the boss on TV.

Ronald found that it was played by Catherine Mary Stewart, whom he met at the cocktail party.

The heroine Regina played by Catherine Mary Stewart is an employee of the movie theater. When she was playing the game console, several customers came to buy tickets to enter.

The boss was selling them a comet headdress that can be hung on the head, with a long tail behind a small ball. Today is the day when the comet visits the earth. The audience can go out to see the comet in the sky after watching the movie.

Regina is a video game expert. She broke the high score record. The boss asked her to patrol the theater.

In many movie theaters in America, the audiences are actually of poor quality. They often deliberately litter food and garbage, and some hyperactive teenagers will cause some damage inside, and it is not a big deal to dismantle a chair.

This often requires the employees of the movie theater to patrol the theater with flashlights.

However, the light of the flashlight will disturb the audience and make them dissatisfied. Some people will directly throw things at the patrollers.

Regina is very unhappy to do this job. She reluctantly took the flashlight to patrol the theater, and then walked into the projection room at the back to complain to her boyfriend who is a projectionist.

Her boyfriend is making some movie copies and throwing the remaining film in the trash.

"What is this for?" Ronald didn't understand. The projectionist is not an editor. Why is this projectionist cutting the film with scissors like an editor?

"This is 'From Space'. How much do you want for a copy? One hundred dollars. Hey, this is a 3D movie. One hundred dollars is an insult to me. One hundred and ten? Okay, one hundred and ten." The boyfriend on TV is negotiating the price of the pirated copy with the pirated distributor.

"This bastard made a pirated copy for one hundred and ten dollars and sold it to the underground distributor. This copy can be shown in the cinema for at least more than a year. How much money will the studio lose? How much money will we directors lose?" Ronald was so angry that he wanted to curse this character in his dream.

The video tape continued to move forward.

Regina was calling her sister Samantha. Their stepmother wanted to go out to see the comet. She slapped her disobedient sister Samantha. Samantha fought back. The stepmother punched Samantha in the mouth and made her bleed, and then went out to see the comet herself.

This slap seemed to be shot very realistically. Ronald thought that the actress who played the sister was also an acquaintance. Kelly Maroney, who played the cheerleader in "Fast and Furious Richmond High". She finally played the leading role in this movie?

Regina and her boyfriend spent the night in the theater, while her sister slept at home to recover from her injuries. Their stepmother went out to watch the comet with the neighbors. An old man still said that he had seen Halley's Comet in 1910. At that time, it was said that anyone who saw the comet would die.

Suddenly the comet arrived, and bursts of lightning-like light illuminated everyone's face.

Then there was another very bright red light, and everyone who saw the comet screamed, and then the TV flashed and switched to a bleak red sun in the sky.

The sky was very red, and it seemed that the dust stirred up by the comet hitting the earth was blown into the sky?

There were several shoes and clothes on the ground, with some red dust on them, and the people were evaporated.

"This videotape is wrong, where is the shot of the comet hitting the earth in the middle? It was too violent and was cut off?" Ronald thought.

Regina's boyfriend opened the door and went out in the morning.

Suddenly, a terrible zombie rushed over and hacked him to death with a wrench.

"Is this a zombie movie? Isn't it a science fiction movie?"

Ronald recognized the zombie makeup with ashen faces and low voices. It was the trend brought about by the low-cost exploitation film "Dawn of the Dead" four years ago. After that, a batch of follow-up exploitation films were all about humans fighting zombies.

Regina killed the zombie and drove her boyfriend's motorcycle home. Except for her sister Samantha, everyone else in the house turned into ashes.

The sisters heard that the radio station was still playing programs, so they went to the radio station. They found another survivor, Hector.

The radio station played a timed tape. Sister Samantha temporarily became a DJ, playing pop music to the survivors and calling them to meet at the radio station.

The sisters changed into beautiful clothes randomly in the mall, and entertained themselves with a dress-up fashion show accompanied by a nice song.

The song was nice, but the lyrics were a bit unrestrained, "Girls just want to have fun (girlsjtwannahavefun)"

Who knew that the radio did not attract survivors, but only a group of robbers. Fortunately, the sisters' father was an officer and had been shooting at the shooting range since childhood. They picked up a short submachine gun, fought with the robbers, and finally defeated them.

The sister Samantha's broadcast was heard by a government scientist in an underground bunker. They sent a helicopter to take the sisters to the research center in the bunker.

"Hey, isn't this female scientist Mary Voronov?" Ronald recognized another actress he had worked with before, who played the old-fashioned female principal in "Rock High School".

Surprised, Ronald woke up.

"Gu...gu..." Ronald went to the bathroom and got himself a glass of water, tilted his neck and drank it.

The scene in this dream was relatively clear and lasted for a relatively long time. Ronald sat at the table and began to wonder why he had dreamed about this movie.

This movie didn't quite resemble the big production that Ronald had in mind. There are very few actors in it, and the scenes that require the use of extras are all close-ups and close-ups, so there is no need to hire many extras.

But on the other hand, the investment in the movie seems to be huge. The red sky and empty city would cost millions to build the scenery. If it were a real shoot, then the application process alone would be quite expensive, and it would also require the favor of a major studio to get the government's cooperation.

Is there any footage of a comet hitting the earth? There are many coincidental scenes between this movie and the script I wrote, but there are also some differences. Ronald was a little undecided for a moment.

Let’s think about why we dream about movies.

Ronald listed the things he had done on a piece of paper.

Tennis, meditation, aerobics, these sports are a bit inconsistent with the time of dreams.

Is it because I happen to have written a script related to Comet, with plots such as motorcycles, shopping mall clothes for free, news broadcast on the radio, etc.?

That's not quite right. I have been writing this plot summary for several days. Why did I dream about it today?

Maybe it was because he met Katherine Mary Stewart who played the leading role?

possible.

Thinking back to "Rock 'n' Roll", "Famous", "Fast-paced Richmond High", and "Children", I dreamed up some of the movies. I saw or wrote the plots of the scripts myself, and then Meet the actors who played the lead roles in the movie.

Maybe having read/written the script and knowing the actors participating in it are the necessary conditions for dreaming about the movie?

Maybe you should also exercise on your own, or sleep more deeply and dream more after drinking alcohol.

Also, maybe you need to remember the movies you watched in your previous life.

Ronald looked at the four points he had summarized. In the future, he would get to know more and more people in the industry. After his status rose, more and more scripts would be invited to direct. Wouldn't he be able to dream of more movies?

Ronald felt that his future was bright. I immediately turned on my computer and started writing the script for Comet from memory.

What's your name?

"The night the comet came?"

"A comet hitting the Earth?"

Ronald was stunned. It would be better to keep it simple. "Fast-paced Richmond High School" is often shortened to "Fast-paced" because the name is too long. If you want to spread word-of-mouth among the audience, it is most convenient to have a short and easy-to-remember name.

It's called "Night of the Comet"

Ronald typed the title and then started typing. At the beginning, when the comet hits the earth, a big scene must be added to make the audience happy.

In the final outcome, the base was invaded by zombies, and the sister was contaminated by zombies and followed the zombies away. The sister and Hector left together to find other survivors to jointly deal with the zombies.

The sun shone into the bedroom, and Ronald pressed the save shortcut key to save the script he had written into a floppy disk. The floppy disk began to chirp.

"It's better to buy a more advanced computer. The one Hinton used on the set of 'The Kid' is good."

Ronald thought that the monitor of this Commodity computer was a TV, and it was too tiring to stare at it for a long time.

With a "click" sound, the floppy disk stopped making sound.

Ronald knew that the save was done, and then he pressed the print shortcut key, and the dot matrix printer began to squeak, and he quickly tapped on the ribbon line by line, printing out sheets of manuscript paper.

"Richard", Ronald put together the script and went to the copy shop to make a copy. Then I picked up the phone and hung up with my agent. After I finished writing the first draft, I sent a copy to CAA and asked them to help spread it around the studio circle.

Although this method of writing your own script and asking the studio to read it is actually not in compliance with the rules of the Screenwriters Guild, as long as it is a screenwriter with a famous work, the studio is not opposed to this operation. Sometimes the screenwriter's instincts can be sharper than those of the studio.

"Ronald, do you also know?" Richard answered the phone and said to Ronald.

"What do I know? I've written the first draft of the script and am ready to send it to you."

"So fast? That's Hershey.

No, I'm talking about the plagiarism of the scripts of Spielberg and Alien. Your teacher Scorsese has spoken out in support of Bangladeshi director Rey. "

"Ah? Why did he do this? Is it really plagiarism?"

"Go and buy a copy of 'Celebrity Weekend Magazine'. It has detailed research on it. Ronald, Steven is in trouble now. Can you contact Mr. Scorsese first?"

The person on the other end of the phone was Niceta. It was obvious that they were having a meeting to discuss and try to get some benefits from it.