Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"No, no, no, this is not the Charlie I want. You dressed her up as one, one..." Ronald looked at the three expensive hairstylists, costume designers, and makeup artists who spent two hours to dress Kelly McGillis up, and denied it repeatedly.

"One what? This is the latest fashion trend, isn't it good?"

The hairstylist came from New York. He once did the hair of Molly Ringwald, the heroine of "Sixteen Candles". A short red hair style would earn more than two thousand dollars.

"Like a streetwalker," Ronald couldn't help it, "I want an intellectual woman who can give lectures to fighter pilots with various doctorates and master's degrees."

"Okay, let's change another set." The costume designer pulled over the clothing rack and began to select intellectual style clothes.

"Also, how many inches are these high heels? Too high, a little lower."

"Intellectual women can also love beauty," McGillis protested in red high heels, turning around twice.

"Okay, try again."

The two male protagonists, Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, walked in and put on the uniforms of naval pilots. The photographer sent by Paramount to take stills for the crew saw this and pressed the shutter for the three leading actors dozens of times.

Soon, a news report about the start of filming of the "Top Gun" crew was put on the seventh page of "The Hollywood Reporter". It was accompanied by a group photo of the three leading actors.

On Monday, the crew went to Miramar Naval Base, where they will shoot the main scenes on the ground.

In the first scene, Ronald arranged a classroom scene. On the first day of the Lone Ranger's arrival at Top Gun Flight School, he and other students of the same period, Iceman, listened to the lecture of the instructor with the call sign "Joker".

The Joker was played by Michael Ironside, who was born with a bad face. He was also bad when he was an instructor.

"In our navy, the exchange ratio during Korea was twelve to one. We shot down twelve opponents and lost one. In Vietnam, it became three to one. Many pilots relied too much on missiles and forgot the skills of dogfighting.

At Top Gun School, you are here to learn advanced aerial combat skills, commonly known as dogfighting. You are all the top 1% of the elite in the Navy. The one with the highest score here will get the Top Gun trophy."

"Cut!" Ronald smiled. For the first shot, he deliberately chose a simple one. The camera was just facing the clown. Over there was the Iceman played by Val Kilmer, and the other two main supporting roles, Barry Tubb who played the werewolf, and Rick Rossovich who played the slider.

This kind of shot allows everyone to warm up and get into the state quickly, but it is not too difficult to affect the confidence of the actors.

The crew began to prepare for the next shot. The clown introduced the school's director "Viper" and the reactions of the students to the clown's words.

The curtains were opened, and the setting sun shone obliquely into the blinds. Each group quickly made arrangements.

Ronald took advantage of the break to observe the status of several actors. Tom Cruise was wearing headphones and reciting his lines. Val Kilmer looked at Tom with disdain, and the two of them officially faced off in the crew.

"... The top 1% of the elite, the one with the highest score here, will get the Top Gun trophy."

The clown's head was half bald, and he turned his back to the camera and recited the lines again. This time the camera captured the students' reactions.

"This sentence made me hard." Barry Tubb, who played the werewolf, was a handsome boy with a baby face. He said dirty words to the camera, and he also had a childish and innocent childishness, which was very popular with women.

"Don't flirt with me." Next to him was Rick Rossovich, who played the slider. He was at the other extreme. He had Eastern European ancestry and looked very dull, but his muscles were also the favorite of some female audiences.

"Cut!"

Ronald's shooting was moving closer in an orderly manner. This kind of high-concept movie does not require much acting skills, and these actors are not novices. This level of shooting is a piece of cake. He just chose to shoot in the evening, and the magic light shone into the room, which looked very beautiful.

The first day of shooting ended quickly. Tom Cruise came to say hello. He didn't live with the rest of the crew. Paula came to pick him up and handed over the tape of the next day's lines. The two drove to a hotel with better conditions.

Val Kilmer was another star who lived in a separate hotel. He didn't choose the one of Tom Cruise, but went to a hotel in a small town in the other direction with his manager.

"Okay, guys, we can go to the bar for a beer. Wednesday and Saturday are the nights of the base pilots. We can go to the bar at other times." Ronald clapped his hands twice and drove the group of male actors with excess hormones to the bar. Instead of letting them drink wildly in the hotel, it is better to drink some beer in a controlled manner.

Ronald did not participate in the beer party. He returned to the hotel by himself, took a magazine shot by Bruce Weber from the room, and read it in the lobby bar of the hotel.

Ronald ordered a cocktail and drank it slowly while reading. This Bruce Weber magazine is full of photos of naked men from all angles and poses. It is the favorite of women in the boudoir.

Among the photos in this issue, there is a photo of three people. One looks like Tom Cruise, and the other looks like Val Kilmer. The three of them posed by the swimming pool, with the sunlight reflecting off their naked upper bodies, showing their very good muscle lines.

"How was this shot? Why are the muscles so obvious?" Ronald took a sip of wine and talked to himself. He was studying how to make the male stars sexy and win the favor of female audiences.

"They all have olive oil on their bodies. Some of my classmates from Julia have taken such photos." The heroine Kelly McGillis came over in a pair of high heels. Seeing Ronald looking at these magazine photos, she smiled.

"Do you usually read these magazines to relax?"

"Ah? No, I'm thinking about the beach volleyball shots later." Ronald quickly closed the magazine, and the beautiful male body was locked in it and put aside.

"Why don't you go to the bar with the boys?" Ronald asked McGillis.

"I'm not interested in those young men. I like men with depth." McGillis glanced at the magazine next to Ronald, ordered a cocktail, and sat next to Ronald, "Do you mind?"

"Of course not, please sit down." Ronald asked her to sit down.

"In fact, several of our leading actors are very good, and they are definitely not just stars with pretty faces. You will know after you spend more time with them. Besides, you will also be shooting the scene of being attacked by the Lone Ranger in the bar, so you can go and get familiar with the place first."

"To be honest, these scenes are not challenging for me. I agreed to Paramount because of the film contract." McGillis crossed his legs, and his pants wrapped around his plump buttocks, deliberately shaking a few times.

"Besides, Val Kilmer actually has a bit of the kind of star flavor you said who only has a pretty face. He can't even tell whether my object is I or,."

"Puff..." Ronald almost spit out his cocktail, "Hahaha".

Val Kilmer is indeed more pretentious and not very educated. Although he went to Juilliard School for four years, he spent most of his time picking up women who would help his acting career.

"Anyway, I like your directing style." McGillis clinked glasses with him, "I wish you good luck directing."

"I also wish you good luck acting."

At the same time, in a well-equipped rehabilitation center outside Los Angeles, Don Simpson got the latest issue of "The Hollywood Reporter".

"Dan it," he turned to the edition where "Top Gun" was filmed, and the photos of the three leading actors on it caught his eye.

"I knew they didn't pay attention, hey... I want to make a call, listen, I want to make a call. I want to call Hollywood director Ronald Lee. It's business."

Don Simpson started shouting.

A tall and strong black caretaker came over, "Mr. Simpson, you have already made a call this week. In our rehabilitation center, you can give a number and make a call once a week."

Don Simpson sat down helplessly. On the first day he arrived at the rehabilitation center, he called his female companion and wanted her to come in and accompany him. But after his female companion refused, the caretaker didn't let him make the second call.

This is the rule of the drug rehabilitation center. They are afraid that there are rich customers inside, so they call someone to send...

Don Simpson was a little annoyed. After he met with Paramount CEO Frank Mancuso, he knew that this person was stubborn and still lived in Hollywood in the 1950s.

After Mancuso learned about the progress of "Top Gun" and looked at the selection of actors, the first question he raised was Tom Cruise's height.

In his mind, Hollywood men must be over six feet tall, preferably like Jimmy Stewart or Gary Cooper, so that when kissing beautiful women, they can have a high-low composition.

Tom Cruise's height is his flaw. He looks shorter than Kelly McGillis, and Frank Mancuso also praised Kilmer, thinking that his height is enough to play the leading role.

Don Simpson originally wanted to remind Ronald to find a way to avoid the scene where McGillis is taller than Cruise in the stills and the shots where the two appear at the same time.

Neither Bruckheimer nor Ronald thought of this. In the photo shoot, Tom Cruise seemed to be about the same height as McGillis, and both of them were shorter than Val Kilmer.

When the people sent by Frank Mancuso went to the crew for inspection, they would definitely report this issue to him. By then, he didn't know what would happen with his conservative mind.

"Mr. Simpson, do you remember me?" A beautiful woman with a hoarse voice talked to Don Simpson next to him.

"Aren't you Ronald's someone..."

"Demi, Demi Moore" Demi was wearing a hospital gown, "I can be discharged from the hospital today. If you have any message to give to Ronald, I can do it for you."

Don Simpson carefully avoided the sight of the nurse, "Tell him not to let Tom look shorter than McGillis, and not to let Val Kilmer look much taller than Tom."

"That's all?" Demi asked in surprise.

"That's all. In addition, if you have a way, bring me some... in."

"Mr. Ronald, your phone number" In the hotel bar, a waiter came to inform Ronald.

"Sorry," Ronald stood up to answer the phone. McGillis was a good person to chat with, and the two had a pleasant chat.

"Ronnie, it's me, Demi."

"Demi? Why is it you? Have you finished your treatment at the rehab center?"

"Yes, listen to me first. I'm in the phone booth and don't have much change. Mr. Don Simpson asked me to bring you a message." Demi relayed Simpson's words.

"Thank you, I don't know how to thank you this time." Ronald thanked Demi. This information is very important. It seems that tomorrow's play should be modified.

"You can do it now. I have no money and I'm stuck at the public transportation station. Can you send someone to pick me up?" Demi reported the address.

"Wait and don't move. I'll send someone to pick you up."

Ronald called Bud and asked him to pick up Demi outside the rehabilitation center. She didn't want her boyfriend Emilio to know her predicament, so she used the excuse of going abroad for vacation.

"Do you have change? Give Demi two hundred dollars and find her a clean hotel to stay in first. Other things will be discussed on the weekend."

Ronald returned to the table.

McGillis paid the bill. She stood up and smoothed the back of her pants with her hands to smooth out the wrinkles after sitting for a long time.

Ronald stared at her beautiful legs that were decorated by a pair of high heels.

"Why, am I intellectually beautiful in this outfit?" McGillis smiled, "I heard you're good at taking photos of women's legs."

"I'd rather see you barefoot without high heels."

"Hahaha..." McGillis grinned, "Then come to my room."