Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Immediately following the opening scene, there was a tense aerial battle.

Over the Caribbean Sea, the MiG-28s of the Cuban Air Force adopted a superposition tactic. The two-plane formation was very close and only showed a small dot on the radar.

After a casual flight, the Lone Ranger flew upside down above the enemy plane and took a photo of the pilot. Scared the other person away.

"Yeah..." Several supporting actors began to cheer and applaud.

This is a specially designed opening scene to make the audience concentrate immediately and focus on the development of the plot.

The applause did not bring about any reaction from the audience. Ronald looked around. The audience seemed to have no reaction. They were neither excited with the plot nor bored or distracted like after the failure of the opening scene. They were still staring blankly at the screen as they had done at the beginning.

"What's going on? The first shot didn't go off? The audience's reaction was obviously very good during the first test screening last year?" Ronald turned his attention to the two producers.

He remembered that during the last test screening, Don Simpson specially found the audience from college students in order to achieve the best effect and give Paramount's executives confidence.

Maybe this is a normal reaction from the audience?

Keep looking down.

It's time for the Lone Ranger and instructor Charlie to fall in love. Nothing happened between the two at home, but when they met in the elevator the next day, their hopes were rekindled.

Later in class, Charlie criticized the Lone Ranger, the two raced passionately, and sealed their love with a final kiss. Amidst the music of the Berlin band "Take My Breath Away", the camera switched to a reshoot of the passionate scene.

McGillis was a little shy seeing herself on the big screen. Although she has been engaged in acting since middle school, the big screen magnifies the image of people. Seeing herself and Tom Cruise entangled on the big screen always reminds her of the passion she had with Ronald two days ago. Surging.

She looked in the direction of Ronald, only to see him unexpectedly showing an anxious expression, his brows furrowed, and he kept looking around at the audience, trying to find some answers to his expectations.

Ronald's anxiety grew.

The audience still didn't respond to the passionate and romantic scenes. He was neither excited nor whistled, swallowed, drank cola and other common actions seen in sex scenes between handsome men and beautiful women on the big screen.

The first two preset emotional climaxes for the audience failed!

What followed was a low point. Because it was trapped in a horizontal spiral, when the goose was ejecting, its head hit the canopy that flew out due to the explosion, and unfortunately died. His wife and children came to the base, and the Lone Ranger hugged the crying comrade's widow. Finally, the widow gave him Goose's dog tag as a souvenir.

If the audience did not follow the first half of the plot and believed that there are indeed such fighter pilots as Goose and Lone Ranger in the world, the audience would have completely lost their attention at this low point of the plot.

They won't feel sad for a character who fails to arouse empathy. They may end up talking to each other, chatting, picking up girls, or even leaving the bathroom on a large scale.

Ronald sat in his chair and squirmed. He was a little afraid to look at the audience. This is the first time that there are signs that you might lose the audience's love. How could this happen?

fine!

After staying uneasily on the chair for two minutes, Ronald discovered that although the audience had no reaction to the previous two climax scenes, there was some reaction when they saw the temporary low point before the climax at the end.

Some viewers' eyes began to turn red and they stopped eating popcorn. Some took out handkerchiefs and wiped their eyes, and some even sobbed quietly.

"Ah...it's okay." Ronald let go of his worries. "I didn't expect that the passionate climax from before was not included in the scene. The audience was attracted by the tragic plot here. Do I have a high talent for shooting tragedies?"

Soon, Ronald's illusions were shattered.

In the final air battle scene, the Lone Ranger's companion Hollywood was shot down, and he went to the rescue. With one against five, they shot down three enemy planes with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, forcing the remaining two MiG-28s to flee.

During the first few test screenings, the audience burst into enthusiastic applause. Any strong counterattack against the Suwei Alliance will make the audience feel happy.

but……

After I modified the movie, the audience became lifeless again, with no reaction at all.

"congratulate!"

"congratulate!"

Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, and several supporting actors all hugged each other as they celebrated each other.

After actors finish filming a movie, they usually don't know what their scenes will look like in the final cut. It’s not often that they see a heart-pounding film like “Top Gun.”

Ronald is very good to them. Regardless of the protagonist or the supporting role, the screen image is well established. Even the two supporting characters, wearing cowboy hats, and the little idea of ​​deliberately walking backwards in the crowd to get more close-up shots, the director did not care about, and they were all left in the final film.

This is a very good foundation for their future acting careers. At least future casting directors will think of those scenes in "Top Gun" when they see their names.

"Ronald!" McGillis was also very happy. He didn't expect that in this casual popcorn commercial film, his image would be so sexy by Ronald. They were going to the bar to celebrate, and McGillis also wanted to shout Ronald goes along.

Ronald was talking quietly to the two producers over there.

"Is it a problem with my reshoots? It ruined the rhythm of the original film?"

"No, absolutely not. There must be something wrong with this group of audiences. I watched it very well, and you also felt good watching these actors." Don Simpson denied it.

"That's right, it's definitely not your problem." Bruckheimer also said so.

"Top Gun has no twists and turns in the story. It is a completely high-concept movie, composed of some good story clips, and completed with the fast editing techniques of V and advertisements.

The two passionate scenes you re-shot were seamlessly put in, without changing the overall rhythm and emotional ups and downs. I believe no one can do better."

"What's going on?" Ronald saw the audience leaving, so he simply ran out, used his own magic weapon for watching movies, and went to the bathroom to eavesdrop on the audience's thoughts.

Not only did the audience not respond in the screening room, but they also did not respond in the bathroom.

Ronald found that the audience had no desire to speak, and at most communicated with their eyes. No one talked about the wonderful clips of the air battle and the passionate clips of the male and female protagonists.

"This is not normal, this is not normal!"

Ronald murmured to himself, is it really like Don Simpson said, that there is something wrong with the audience?

But in such a short few months, can the values ​​of the American people change so much?

Do they suddenly not like the scene of shooting down the fighter jets of the Suvil Alliance?

Or do they suddenly not like watching handsome guys like Tom Cruise and beautiful girls like McGillis fall in love on the screen?

Haven't you heard that the President wants to surrender to the Alliance?

Don Simpson and Bruckheimer came over, and the three of them couldn't find the problem.

"Don't worry, movies are like this. Sometimes the audience responds well to the preview, and sometimes it doesn't." Bruckheimer tried to comfort, but he didn't believe it halfway through.

"What happened in the past six months that made the audience's aesthetic change so much?"

Ronald began to feel his heart pounding faster and faster, as if a huge fear came from the universe and was about to hit him.

"Is the magician-like director's performance going to suffer a Waterloo in Top Gun?"

"Do you know? I remembered an incident when I first entered the industry."

Ronald went to the counter to buy a pack of cigarettes and smoked in the corner with the two producers.

"Back then, Jane Fonda starred in a dull movie called China Syndrome. It was a very boring anti-nuclear story. A nuclear power plant had a core leak, which then melted through the earth, and the nuclear fuel ran to China on the other side of the earth.

This was originally a very ridiculous story, but when it was released, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident happened. Suddenly, this movie became a prophecy, and everyone wanted to see what happened to the nuclear accident on the screen.

Boom! In the end, it made $50 million in domestic box office, and made Jane Fonda a box office darling again."

"You!" Don Simpson listened to Ronald's story as if he had heard a horror story.

Ronald was hinting that "Top Gun" might be the opposite of "China Syndrome". Some recent changes in limitations have made the audience no longer like air combat and tough movies against the Suvil Alliance.

"So, what happened to cause such a big shift in the public's reaction in half a year?" Bruckheimer was still calm. If the root of the problem could be found, there might be hope.

"When was the last time you heard the Grand Commander call the Suvil Union an evil empire?" Don Simpson suddenly asked.

"Hiss! It seems to have been a long time." Ronald also understood a little.

It seems that after the new Secretary-General Mikhail took office, the Grand Commander's attitude towards the Union was not as hostile as before.

"I remember that he also said that this new Secretary-General is different from the previous three. He is a person who can communicate with the West. He looks forward to meeting him." Ronald added.

"I remember that the newspaper seemed to say that the two countries will also negotiate nuclear disarmament."

"By the way, have you seen the movie "White Night" starring the ballet dancer Baryshnikov who defected? There are many plots of easing between the two countries in that movie. In the end, the defected dancer who unexpectedly returned to the Union finally returned to America."

"I know, I know, I heard that the British Princess in the White House actually wanted to dance with Baryshnikov."

The three people became more and more anxious as they talked, and began to complain that the Grand Commander was not tough enough.

"Didn't he say he was going to defeat the evil empire? Turns out he's a wimp."

"If there's another crisis like the Iran hostage crisis, maybe the audience's taste will change?"

"Disarmament, disarmament, what the hell, who will come to watch the naval air battle if you disarm?"

"Ronald, aren't you going to the bar party with us?"

McGillis came over again and invited Ronald to celebrate together.

"No, I have something else to do. I'll call you when I get back."

"Then I'll go with you." McGillis saw that Ronald was in a bad mood and didn't know what happened. However, as a mature woman, she said hello to her friends and personally sent Ronald back to the hotel.

"Are you okay, Ronnie?" Tom Cruise also came over to say hello.

"It's okay. I have a headache. Let Kelly take me back to the hotel."

The actors were still unaware of the audience's reactions. They were still intoxicated by their screen images.

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