Exploiting Hollywood 1980
Chapter 288 Can we add some more love scenes?
The soundtrack of "The Karate Kid 2" was still given to Bill Conti, who worked on the first film. He rejected Stallone's invitation and chose Ronald and Weintraub instead.
"Here, when Daniel and Kumiko kiss for the first time, I want a pan flute, the ethereal Ryukyu style."
Just like the first film, Ronald took out the edited work copy and discussed the soundtrack he needed with Conti in detail. This method is more suitable for the atmosphere of the film than the common method of making interlude soundtracks first.
Conti sat with Ronald for a day to fully understand his intentions, and the two had a coffee and chatted for a while.
Bill Conti didn't want to go to Stallone's "Rocky 4", but the situation on Stallone's side was already extremely bad.
The girlfriend, Brigitte Nielsen, was in the editing room with Stallone throughout the whole process, hoping to ensure her appearance time and close-up shots. Stallone let her do what she wanted, completely ignoring the industry's conventions and contract issues, which made director John Avildsen so angry that he almost turned against him.
"Normally, Stallone wouldn't be so obsessed with a female model who turned into an actress, right?" Ronald also found it incredible. The woman's daily expenses were also very high, and Stallone paid for them all. Stallone was still happy and didn't care.
"You don't know us Italians, Ronald." Bill Conti asked him, "What do you think of Italians?"
"Well? They are good at food, pick up girls, and many gangsters are Italians." Ronald replied. After the two "Godfather" trilogies sold well, Americans saw Italians and thought they were family members.
"Maybe the Italians in Italy are really like what you said." Conti replied, "But the Italians in America have often immigrated here for two or three generations. The Italian community in New York has very cold weather in winter, and there is no unrestrained geographical environment like they did in southern Europe.
In addition, we believe in Catholicism and are controlled by our mothers, so many Italians are not good at picking up girls. Our parents can cook traditional food, but in our generation, many people are just like you, only heating frozen food and ordering takeout.
In addition, most Italians are engaged in low-level jobs, such as running grocery stores and laundries, and there are actually very few who are gangsters."
"Oh," Ronald suddenly realized.
Sylvester Stallone was also born in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, New York. In fact, he is not the romantic Italian in the movie. After he became famous, he was not the kind of man who fascinated women. With such a Nordic blonde model taking the initiative to throw herself into his arms, Stallone also fell into the land of tenderness.
Soon, the production of the second part of The Karate Kid was initially completed. After watching the sample, Weintraub was very impressed. He organized Columbia and his own company employees to watch a preview while preparing to submit it for PAA rating.
Ronald was free for a few days, but was caught by his agent Richard's phone call.
"Ronald, the PAA rating went smoothly, but the producers think that after the introduction of the new PG13 rating, the PG rating has more room for scale. They hope you can add some more ambiguous scenes between the male and female protagonists."
"Richard, you must be out of your mind? The Karate Kid is about teenagers, how can you shoot particularly ambiguous scenes?" Ronald was discussing acting with Helen Slater, and suddenly heard this request, and almost spit it out.
"It's my fault. I didn't make it clear. I'm not talking about The Karate Kid 2, I'm talking about Top Gun."
"Ah? How can we reshoot? It's been almost six months since Top Gun was wrapped, and Tom Cruise is now filming 'The Color of Money' by my teacher Martin Scorsese."
"Come on, producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer are looking for you all over the world, they are very persistent."
"Okay, I'll go to your office."
"Honey, I'm sorry, my producer wants me to reshoot. Look, they don't respect me at all, how can I reshoot after half a year of shooting."
Ronald actually wanted someone to find him. Helen was preparing for the next "The Evil Husband", and heard that Ronald was free now and went to Messner's acting training class, so she came to sign up for the class.
It just so happened that Ronald didn't take the class with Michelle Pfeiffer because of the scandal, so it was good to have a familiar new partner.
However, Helen's acting skills are really a headache. She always considers Messner's acting training from the perspective of Shakespeare's plays. In fact, the requirements for acting in drama and film are very different.
Ronald and her "rehearsed" acting skills for two days in the holiday villa on the beach in Malibu. He was so exhausted that he didn't want to act with Helen anymore. Richard's call just allowed him to leave without any burden.
"You should work on the movie first, that's very important. I heard that Hollywood is waiting for your Top Gun to be released. I'll go back and rehearse with my classmates in the training class."
Helen came up and kissed Ronald. She is actually gentle, outstanding in appearance, and has a very good figure. She is a first-class candidate as a partner. As long as she doesn't discuss acting with you.
"I rented this villa for another weekend. You can ask your bestie Helen Hunt to come and play with you." Ronald put on his clothes and went to the bathroom to tidy up and prepare to leave.
"Okay, she is taking a training class with me, so I will practice acting with her." Helen lay down, covered herself with a blanket, picked up the remote control, turned down the volume, and started calling her best friend Helen Hunt. .
"Huh?" Ronald, who had combed his hair, came out and saw Orson Welles being interviewed on TV.
This film master, whom I haven't seen for a long time, now has a gray beard and has lost a lot of weight. It's a bit weak to speak.
Ronald felt sorry for him. Because of his reputation as a difficult person, no one in Hollywood was willing to invest in his movies. He was in poor health and had no one to accompany him in his later years. He was a genius when he filmed "Citizen Kane" at the age of twenty-four. He really should leave more classic masterpieces.
"I'm leaving first." Ronald kissed Helen goodbye.
"Well", Helen recovered from the long kiss, and then continued to call her best friend, "Ah, it's Ronald. What's wrong? I don't care about so much now, as long as I am happy in my heart. I can also play the leading role in a movie. , thanks to him, you know both of my movies failed at the box office..."
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"So why the sudden extra drama?"
Ronald arrived at CAA's office and saw Don and Jerry, two bearded men waiting for him.
"Ronald, we did a few more test screenings, in the middle of the country in Chicago and Detroit, and in the south in Houston and Atlanta, and the response there was just as good as in New York and Los Angeles. But they had a little bit of the same feedback."
Bruckheimer took out an audience feedback scale and handed it to Ronald.
"They generally believe that the love and romance scenes between the male protagonist Lone Ranger and the female protagonist Charlie, the instructor, are not enough. They hope to add some ambiguous, kissing, and slightly erotic sex scenes."
"I don't quite understand? Why don't the audiences in New York and Los Angeles get this kind of feedback?"
Ronald read excerpts of the audience comments. Indeed, many people said that the Lone Ranger and Charlie did not have an earth-shattering scene, that it was not satisfying and not exciting enough. "
"Remember Oklahoma Mom and Dad?" Don Simpson said loudly nearby.
"Of course", Ronald remembered this saying that the two producers liked very much. They represented the aesthetics of parents in the largest small town in America. If you want to get the biggest box office, the aesthetic taste of the movie is best based on They are the ones to rely on.
"Ronald, the 'truth' I know is that if you treat the American audience like idiots, you can make a lot of money."
"Ah?" Ronald was used to hearing Don Simpson's shocking words, so he didn't react much, "How do you say this?"
Don Simpson explained to him slowly.
The people on the east and west coast are relatively well-educated and the atmosphere is free and open. The vast majority of America's population actually lives in the Midwest (where Chicago is located, the Great Lakes of Illinois, and the Indiana, Kentucky, and Missouri areas, which are to the west relative to the East Coast) with conservative values and relatively low education levels, and in the South ( Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas).
Compared with the openness of the two coasts, people in these two areas have strong religious sentiments, like conservative values, and also prefer straightforward love between men and women.
Although Ronald filmed the Lone Ranger and Charlie, they kissed passionately on a motorcycle, and Charlie also imitated the lines of the stupid goose wife and asked the Lone Ranger to take her home. Teenagers in New York and Los Angeles have been immersed in movies and novels for a long time. In this slightly ambiguous expression, they already understand the mutual attraction of the male and female protagonists.
However, for those teenagers in the Midwest and the Deep South, if two people don't have a passionate kiss and sex scene, they don't love each other.
"It's a very profound insight, but why didn't you tell me earlier? Now Tom is going to film 'The Color of Money'. My teacher Scorsese is famous for being strict. It's a bit difficult for you to let him cross the scene."
The two producers also smiled awkwardly.
In the past six months, America's movie rating standards have undergone relatively big changes.
Last year, in order to make "Indiana Jones" an adventure movie with some scenes that cannot be rated with a PG rating, the box office was very good.
Spielberg, along with Lucas, pushed the PAA to introduce a PG13 rating, between the PG and R ratings.
This level is defined as a strong reminder to parents that special guidance is given regarding the attendance of children under 13 years of age, and that some material may not be appropriate for children.
But as soon as pg-13 was born, it was taken advantage of by the seven major studios and rated some originally R-rated movies as pg-13.
Even John Milius's "Red Dawn," a movie about teenagers fighting guerrillas with the Soviet Union and the Cuban army in America, was rated pg-13.
This year, more movies have been classified as "PG13", which is equivalent to moving the original R-level here, and the R-level accommodates more scenes that can only be watched by adults.
In the second half of the year, PAA even revised the definition of pg13 to "Parents, please note that some materials may not be suitable for those under 13 years old", removing the sentence of special guidance.
As the overall content became looser, the original PG became less strict, and the studio was able to stuff more ambiguous scenes into it.
Erotic scenes that were previously inconvenient and relatively straightforward can now be divided into PGs in a dignified manner.
"Hey, okay." Ronald understood the cause and effect, and of course he would not refuse if he could get a higher box office.
“I flew to Chicago to ask my teacher Scorsese for help. I hope he can lend Tom Cruise out for the reshoot.”
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