Exploiting Hollywood 1980

At the Los Angeles preview, Don Simpson found a group of teenagers as the audience for the preview.

"Where did you find so many teenagers?" Ronald had also held a preview, and it was not easy to find so many teenagers by calling the cinema.

"I went to the university to recruit them. There were fighter jets firing missiles and Tom Cruise flirting with beautiful teachers. They signed up very quickly. Anyway, I paid for their movie tickets myself."

Ronald admired Don Simpson's action. Fighter jets and missiles fighting, plus flirting with beautiful teachers, this is simply the most beautiful love talk for college boys.

"But our target audience is not just teenagers. Will we not get real results?" Ronald was a little worried.

"Ronald, at this time, you should not have such a woman's sympathy. If we don't get the best audience evaluation, how much marketing budget do you think Mancuso will give us?" Don Simpson pulled him aside and whispered, pointing to Mancuso who was sitting in front. He came to see the preview in Los Angeles in person.

"To achieve the goal, you will do whatever it takes," Ronald added a comment to Simpson. But he was right. Since it was a fight between two parties, don't blame yourself for firing all the ammunition you can use.

The Paramount logo flashed, and two large metallic gray characters "Top Gun" appeared on the screen. At the preview, the subtitles were not fully matched. Then the theme song was played, and the fighter jets took off and landed on the aircraft carrier in Chaoyang.

"Ahhh..."

The college audience's adrenaline was soaring for the two beautiful music videos at the beginning. Then, in the Western Pacific, two MiG-28s used overlapping tactics to sneak attack the aircraft carrier formation.

They overlapped at close range, so that only one signal was displayed on the radar.

The Lone Ranger and Jaguar fighters were sent to intercept.

The Jaguar was shaken by the overlapping tactics of the MiG-28 and was stared at by one. The Lone Ranger ignored him and drove away the other MiG.

When the lone ranger played by Tom Cruise came back, he threatened the MiG-28 chasing the Jaguar with a reverse flight, and the MiG pilot was scared and fled.

There was a burst of fierce applause in the audience. For the powerful and cruel opponent of the Suvil Alliance, any action that could make them lose face, even if it was fake on the screen, made the young people very excited.

"It seems that my beginning was well arranged." Ronald sat in the back seat, looking at the applauding college students, and his heart was half relieved.

"Isn't this the Amish young woman in the witness?" Two male college students were talking about McGillis who appeared in the airport classroom wearing hair-style stockings and swaying.

"Oh, I didn't expect her to be so..." The two looked at each other and whistled. They had all seen the previous "witness", but they didn't expect that the pious and pure young woman there would become a teacher with flaming red lips here.

The whistles came one after another, and Ronald was still very happy. Male college students always have a special feeling for sexy female teachers.

When the scene of the pilots playing beach volleyball came, it was the turn of the female college students to start swallowing their saliva.

The plot progressed, and the Lone Ranger and the Goose went to the Top Gun Naval Aviation Technical School. On the training ground, the Lone Ranger was chased by the instructor "Joker". He suddenly had a whim and wanted to play a big one. He suddenly pulled up the F-14 Tomcat, put the F-5S driven by the instructor behind him in front, and then returned to the original altitude, and locked the other party with a missile radar.

"Damn! What a lunatic." The Joker cursed in the cockpit in front.

The young trainee defeated the instructor, and made the college audience very happy again. They applauded for the second time.

The plot continued to move forward. When competing for the trophy of the first place in the Top Gun score, the Iceman's plane held the front attack position and did not fire until the perfect attack position. The Lone Ranger urged him from behind, and he had to pull up the plane and leave.

The Lone Ranger and the Goose, who were very close, were swept into the wake of the Iceman's aircraft engine. The two engines stopped in the air one after another, and the Lone Ranger's fighter fell into a horizontal spiral.

The silly goose pulled the ejection lever, and with a blast, the water drop-shaped canopy was blown up. However, the plane that was trapped in a horizontal spiral did not continue to move forward, but turned in place. Half a second later, the silly goose that ejected first hit the canopy that should have been left behind.

Half a second later, the pilot Lone Ranger was also ejected. The canopy had been knocked away by the silly goose. He opened his parachute unscathed and fell on the sea.

"Oh..." The audience exclaimed. The audience did not expect that this radar officer with a sense of humor, brotherhood, and a happy family with a wife and son would die unexpectedly.

Fortunately, Ronald did not let the audience immerse in this emotion for a long time. The Lone Ranger and the instructor "Viper" talked about his father who disappeared on the battlefield of the Vietnam War. It turned out that he was besieged by MiG-21 and crashed in Vietnam in order to cover several comrades including "Viper".

In order to prevent the scandal of using the wrong map to cause the tragedy from being exposed, the American government did not give the Lone Ranger's father a certificate of death, and also let his orphan, the Lone Ranger, bear the rumor that his father might defect for the rest of his life, and he was skipped for promotion opportunities several times when serving in the Navy.

Discovering the true meaning of comrades-in-arms saving each other at the cost of their lives, the Lone Ranger quickly recovered.

At the graduation ceremony, Iceman received the first place trophy. But a sudden warning came, and five recruitment letters recalled the three crews of Iceman, Hollywood, and Lone Ranger, and returned to the aircraft carrier in the Caribbean to fight against the MiG-28s that came to harass the malfunctioning minesweeper.

The MiG-28 once again used the overlapping and concealment stunt. The radar signals of three MiG-28s were discovered on the aircraft carrier, which was actually a six-plane formation. Two crews, Iceman and Hollywood, attacked, but were unexpectedly surrounded by six planes. Hollywood's F-14A was immediately shot down by a missile launched by a MiG.

The Lone Ranger and the temporary radar officer Wizard attacked together. During the dog fight, he accidentally fell into the wake and horizontal spiral again. Fortunately, he recovered quickly. Holding the metal dog tag of Silly Goose in his hand, the Lone Ranger overcame the psychological barrier and rushed into the battlefield again.

"Ouch...ouch..."

This passionate two-on-six scene quickly aroused the enthusiasm of the audience, and they started screaming again.

The Lone Ranger used a sudden pull-up tactic to let go of the following MiG-28, and shot down the opponent with one missile.

"Hua Hua Hua..." The young people couldn't bear this kind of heroic act and started to applaud again.

Iceman was rescued by the Lone Ranger, and he also shot down a MiG-28. Under his control, the Lone Ranger used his superb flying skills to bite two MiGs and shoot them down respectively.

Finally, on the sea, two F-14A Tomcats shot down four MiG-28s and lost one of their own. The two remaining MiG-28s, seeing that they were outmatched, pulled the joystick and fled.

"Aw, ow..." The audience began to scream again. The ending of defeating more with less, saving their companions, and shooting down the enemy made them feel comfortable.

In the end, the Lone Ranger did not choose to continue serving on the aircraft carrier, but returned to Top Gun Flight School and became an instructor. He and Charlie reunited in a bar and the two kissed while singing "Take My Breath Away."

"Man, when are you going to officially release it? Next year? Great, so by next summer, we will be the only people in Los Angeles who have watched the movie? Cool! My roommate didn't listen to my advice and watch it. He will regret it to death. ”

"This is the best movie I have ever seen, absolutely amazing!" Audiences lined up to fill out evaluation forms at the Paramount staff at the door.

"Yeah, do you still play it in Los Angeles? It's so beautiful. I want to watch it again."

"A+, A+, A+ again." After collecting all the score sheets, the staff in charge of statistics began to scream, "Oh my God, I have never seen such test screening scores."

"A+? Really?" Mancuso received the score from the on-site statistics in the VIP lounge. This shows that there are not many viewers who gave it a score below A+.

"Did everyone in the audience fill it out? Are there any errors in the statistics?" After carefully asking the team a few questions, Mancuso took off his reading glasses from the bridge of his nose and said, "Okay, you can go out first."

He pinched the root of his nose and felt a sour feeling.

How can this be?

Even if Don Simpson played a trick and found an audience that was too concentrated among young people, the ratings were not fake after all.

To take a step back, even if the score is fake, the three applause, whistles and shouts that came during the screening cannot be faked.

"Allocate the marketing budget based on one to one production cost." Mancuso felt bitter, but for a movie that received feedback from test screenings, he had to give the most generous marketing budget.

"I'm leaving first. You can discuss the marketing plan with the producer and director." Mancuso felt that he could not understand the audience. After giving instructions to Ned Tanin, Mancuso silently left the cinema.

Instead of going home, he went to the home of his son, Frank Mancuso Jr., and when he got to the driveway in front of his son's house, he got out of the car, sent the driver back, and walked into the door alone.

"Daddy", his son Frank Jr. was about to go out. He inherited his legacy and worked as a producer for Paramount. "Can I find a good schedule for my 'April Fool's Day' next year? Is it possible to have a summer schedule?"

"You should release it in March, the summer time slot...the summer time slot will be reserved for a great and strong film."

"Well, Mira is watching TV inside. She knows that Big Daddy will be happy to come and see him."

Old Mancuso walked into the room and saw his granddaughter Mila lying on the bed watching her favorite MTV channel, which was playing "We Are the World" narrated by Jane Fonda.

"Sweetheart, why do you like to watch MTV?"

"Big Daddy!" Mira stretched out her hand for old Mancuso to hug, "I just like to watch it!"

Mancuso held his granddaughter in his arms, "Can you tell Big Daddy why you like this channel?"

"Hmm... this one looks good, but other channels are too slow." While her granddaughter was getting close to her grandfather, she was still staring at the TV intently, and started to applaud MJ on the TV. When she was at home, she could watch two videos by herself. Three hours of MV program played repeatedly.

"Too slow..."

Mancuso put his granddaughter down, looked at his watch, and counted the shots silently. On average, the shot only cuts once every two to three seconds, which is indeed much faster than the movies he made. "

"Hey!", he sat down on the chair slumpedly, maybe the next generation will be the world.