Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Click, click", the photographer continued to take the remaining shots.

Ronald watched from the side and curled his lips. The photographer herself was a woman, and her aesthetic angle could not capture Diane's sexy side, and she only went for the cute angle.

The photographer's name was Albana Navez, a beautiful woman from the United States. She had been an actress and model before, and had played a supporting role in the famous erotic film "Story of O".

After the shooting was completed, Diane went to change clothes, and Ronald stood by and waited.

Photographer Navez looked at Ronald. His profile was looking at the distance, with a slight smile on his face, looking at the dressing room at the end.

This angle perfectly showed Ronald's perspective as a bystander, full of thinking and observation, which just matched his identity as a director.

So she took a picture of Ronald as well.

"Oh, did you take a picture of me?" Ronald asked, "Don't forget to send it to me when the time comes."

"You seem to have a different opinion of my shooting." Navez saw Ronald curling his lips, how about you take a picture? As she spoke, she handed Ronald a 120 medium format camera. Professionals can never tolerate others looking down on their professional abilities.

"Ronnie," Diane changed her clothes, wearing a red vest and black trousers, took a puff of cigarette with one hand, and then rubbed her short hair dyed blonde, "Let's go."

Ronald turned the camera's film advance handle and looked at Diane through the viewfinder. In fact, as long as you start from a male perspective, cuteness can immediately turn into sexiness.

"Click", just pressing the shutter is Ronald's style.

"Let's go, don't smoke." Ronald went up and took the cigarette from her hand and threw it in the ashtray, "It's not good for the actor's teeth and lungs, and you will have to say long lines in the future."

"I know, brother!" Diane hung on Ronald and kissed him.

"Brother, Ronnie, brother... Brother Ronnie!... Ah!"

Diane hugged Ronald tightly and lay on the bed in Ronald's apartment, her face flushed.

Ronald turned over and lay down, one hand around Diane's neck, the other hand slowly stroking her belly.

"Hmm..." Diane made a comfortable sound like a kitten, and moved closer to Ronald's arms, "Don't you think I'm fat? Hehehe."

"You seem to have recovered your figure well, you are not fat now, at most it's a muffin (uff)." Ronald touched Diane's slightly protruding belly and smiled. "

"Your love handles are similar." Diane snorted and pinched Ronald's waist.

Unlike Diane's fat on the belly, Ronald's fat appeared on both sides of the waist, slightly bulging.

Diane can easily grab it, increase speed and frequency, so it is also called love handles.

Ronald touched his fat, and it turned out that the continuous shooting and reduced exercise still showed the bad results, and he couldn't even laugh at Diane.

"When are you going to Los Angeles to attend the premiere of "Rage Streets"? "Ronald asked Diane after helping her tidy up her messy hair.

"I'm not going," Diane buried her head in Ronald's chest, "The director and producer exclaimed to each other that they were done after seeing the finished film. Their expressions at that time were almost like dead people. I don't want to embarrass myself."

"You know? They say that movies still need stories. It seems that only pictures and atmosphere can't make a hit movie." Diane took out a hand and touched the "love handle" again. "If I had known this, why didn't I write a good story? I pushed the mermaid and that one got a bargain..."

"Donna said you don't want to be in the movie I directed. Why?" Ronald was tickled by Diane and began to slide his hands up and down her smooth back.

"The road to fame that Bert prepared for me is now only the 'Cotton Club'. The peak of an actress is only a few short years. If you don't climb to the top, it will be difficult. I don't want to be an actor anymore. I want to meet my mother and learn about her life. "Diane touched Ronald's waist again and again.

"Don't you blame her for 'kidnapping' you?" Ronald was a little angry because of the teasing. He sat up and hugged Diane, and the two looked at each other.

"Forget it, she also wants to control my acting career. Now I can hardly find a role to play. After all, she is my mother. I want to get along with her and see if we can get along. I used to envy Donna for having a mother like your aunt."

"Really?" The hot air from Ronald's breath sprayed on Diane's nose. She couldn't help but hug Ronald's head, "Come again. "

After a long time, Diane lay down on the bed contentedly and fell into a deep sleep.

Ronald sneaked into the study, turned on the computer, connected the telephone line, and after a squeak, the modem connected to the Internet.

After a while of downloading, Ronald opened the BBS reader, and in the movie section, he finally found a post evaluating "Breakdance".

"Last Saturday night, I had the unfortunate experience of watching "Breakdance", one of the worst movies ever.

This is a so-called dance movie. Although there are some good dances, it does not make up for the wooden acting, cheap sets, terrible scripts, decadent directors, and poor camera work.

Even the dance shots are poorly shot, often missing the entire dance process.

The audience members who watched this movie with me (in Chicago) kept laughing in disgust. It's shocking that they didn't tear down the theater out of anger, or at least demand refunds (I guess this review is helping me vent some of my dissatisfaction.

Obviously, I recommend that everyone not watch it. But for those who still insist on watching this movie, you will be happy to know that at the end of the movie, its sequel was announced.

Professor, University of Chicago."

"What? It's obviously you, a professor, who can't empathize with such a good movie like ordinary people. Didn't the audience laugh happily throughout the whole audience?" Ronald angrily closed the post.

It seems that those who use BBS now are all high-level intellectuals, and those real audiences don't have the opportunity to speak up.

"Once Upon a Time in America, a masterpiece is about to be released."

Ronald scrolled down and saw the professor's Post. He praised the film "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​premiered in Cannes as very beautiful and literary, and said that it did not win an award entirely because Europeans suppressed pure American stories.

On the weekend of June 1st, he will go to the cinema on time to watch this masterpiece.

It seems that intellectuals still like this kind of film with "deep meaning" instead of the exploitation film made by Ronald.

Although Diane did not want to attend the premiere, Ronald still received an invitation from Joe Silver, the producer of "Rage Street", to attend the premiere at the Academy Theater in Beverly Hills.

This is the headquarters of the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and it is also the place where Oscar nominations are announced every year. Some stars live nearby, so several famous stars were invited to the opening ceremony.

A few days later, Ronald and his good friend Xiao Douglas flew to Los Angeles together and attended the event together.

"Why don't there seem to be any stars?" Little Douglas was a little disappointed, "You haven't compensated my wounded heart yet. You have to introduce me to some female stars today anyway."

Ronald couldn't help laughing, and Natasha Kinski was introduced to Little Douglas by Ronald. Little Douglas excitedly invited Kinski to dinner, only to find out that she was pregnant.

Kinski also told him that the child was from her ex-boyfriend Vincent Spano, but she was going to marry Egyptian businessman Ibrahim Moussa. Moussa also accepted her and the child. But if there were other producers willing to ask her to continue filming, she would also like to continue filming.

Little Douglas, who was greatly shocked by the Hollywood style, stared at the belly of female stars today, and anyone with clothes He never approached and chatted with those who were relaxed.

He still caught a slender female star. With the help of Joel Silver, Ronald met the female lead of "Hallowed by the Moon", the new generation of scream queen, Jamie Lee Curtis.

Douglas Jr. approached and chatted with her, fully exerting the charm of a wealthy man in the countryside of New York.

Ronald was attracted by an older beauty next to Curtis. She had a head full of silver hair, extraordinary temperament, and her face was 70% similar to Curtis. Ronald asked tentatively, "Excuse me, are you Ms. Janet Leigh?"

"Young man, have you seen my movie too?"

It turned out that it was Curtis' mother, the heroine of Hitchcock's "Psycho", and the scream queen of the previous generation in Hollywood.

"I am a movie director, Ronald. I admire your performance very much." Ronald was very happy to chat with the legendary actress.

"Aha, this makes me feel like I'm back to my youth, when reporters were rushing to ask me questions." Janet Leigh laughed self-deprecatingly, "When I was shooting Hitch's movies..."

"No, I appreciate your performance in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil more. Unfortunately, his original intention was tampered with by the producers. I deeply regret not having seen the original appearance of that movie."

"Oh, you are the first person to talk to me about that movie in a long time. When I was shooting that movie, my arm happened to be broken, so my arm was hidden behind in many shots, and it was still in plaster." Janet Leigh also liked Welles' movies more.

The two chatted quite well, just as Douglas Jr. and Curtis also chatted well. Until the premiere.

"Well, no wonder this movie is not good." Ronald finished watching the finished film. Except for the two amazing concerts performed by Diane at the beginning and the end, the whole movie was relatively lackluster.

All the plots were predictable, and there were no unexpected surprises. And the last male protagonist Cody and Willem Dafoe, who played the villain, actually used two big hammers to hit each other and finished the final battle.

Maybe it was to get a PG rating? Ronald guessed. The quality of this movie is indeed a big problem. There are too many compromises for various requirements.

How to say it? The whole movie seems to have made too many compromises during editing. Maybe it was to meet the requirements of the senior executives, or maybe the director didn't know how to cut it into a story. The whole movie is a bit behind the times, maybe it can still sell some copies in other markets in the world.

The first weekend of June passed.

The box office of "Breakdancing" continued to soar when the number of theaters released by MGM was reduced to 800, and it won a box office of 33 million. It ranked third after the two big blockbuster sequels, "Star Trek: The Search for Spock" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" each with 16 million.

"Rampage" was shown in just over 1,000 theaters, but only earned a little over 2.4 million at the box office, and it seemed that the box office had no hope of breaking even on the production costs.

"Once Upon a Time in America", a masterpiece that took two years and cost 30 million, was ordered by the distributor Warner Bros. to be cut to 90 minutes. It was a box office failure, but only earned 2.4 million.

"Breakdance", which was released for five weeks and earned 34 million, really attracted the attention of many bigwigs. Ronald's agent, Niceta, began to receive calls from bigwigs of higher rank.