Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ronald looked at the man with a square chin who was dressed meticulously like a banker. He was looking at him expectantly.

Then he looked at the handsome middle-aged man hiding behind him. That's right, it was Tom Mount, the former vice president who had bullied him many times at Universal and wanted to replace him.

"Dream on!"

Ronald smiled slightly, turned his back and walked into the bathroom.

"You!" Tom Mount was still wearing a hand-sewn fitted suit and his hair was combed meticulously. But he had reached the limit of embarrassment of anger.

Ronald, who had snatched the director's position in a small crew under his command, would still be a young screenwriter begging for help if Spielberg and Sheinberg hadn't backed him up?

Who would have thought that now his own Mount Films, in order to attract some investment from Japan, would have to kiss his ass to have the opportunity to meet the real owner.

Mount shook his hand and snorted, and was about to leave this high-end place.

"Tom, do you still want to finance your film?" The man named Bannon was very dissatisfied with Mount's performance. It seemed that he had some "history" with Ronald, and the two had a falling out as soon as they met.

But in the eyes of an investment banker from Wall Street, this was not a setback at all. On the contrary, this was a very good opportunity to make friends with Ronald.

"This kid hates me to the bone, he won't help me." Tom Mount was very ashamed and angry, his face had turned red. He ignored the request of Bannon, the financing manager he hired, and left after saying a word.

"Mount, who was born as a young man, is not good enough. If he wants to make money, can he care about being slapped in the face? If it were me, I would hug the other person's thigh and kneel down to ask for forgiveness." Bannon looked at his partner and sighed.

He decided to stay and wait for an opportunity. He and Ronald had no feud. Besides, he had a way to impress him.

After a while, Ronald came back. Bannon saw the opportunity and stepped forward to stop him.

"Hello, Director Ronald, I'm Bannon, a banker on Wall Street. My partner may have had some problems with you, and he has left in shame. I won't comment on his character.

But I still want to say here, Director Ronald, we are all Americans, we shouldn't kill each other here and make fun of the Japanese.

The reason why they can beat us in the fields of automobiles and consumer electronics is that they are always very united. When dealing with the American market, they can put aside internal conflicts and always face the outside world.

If you and other Hollywood practitioners are still like the automotive industry, it is easy to be defeated by those Japanese people who unite together."

"Hahaha, then what do you say? Anyway, I won't give Mount a chance to succeed."

Ronald found Bannon's words very interesting. He came up and cleared his relationship with Tom Mount, and gave Ronald a high hat from a big perspective.

Although this is all nonsense, he can insist on waiting for himself to come, just for the opportunity to meet the capitalists in the Japanese film industry, and he is still a very enterprising person.

"Leaving Mount aside, the appreciation of the Japanese yen and the loose monetary policy are the opportunities for Wall Street to introduce a large amount of Japanese capital. You also need financing to make movies in Hollywood. I am a professional banker who has operated a fund for the film industry on Wall Street.

We can help each other, right? Here is my business card."

"You are an interesting person. If you have any questions, you can call my agent. I will call you back." Ronald also took out a business card with only the agent's contact information and gave it to the other party.

This is the method that Niceta taught him. If someone wants to deal with him on certain matters, but does not want to be too close to him and be chased by others for cooperation resources, give him a business card with the agent's contact information.

In this way, they can only find the agent when they have something to do, and the agent will pass the matter to Ronald. If communication is needed, Ronald will call this person with a temporary phone.

Bannon took the business card, flicked it lightly, and whistled. Although there is only the agent's contact information, it is also a great improvement for his newly started film career. In the future, he can brag to others and discuss projects with Director Ronald Lee.

This is the director who made "Top Gun". He is a hot figure in Hollywood now. Who hasn't heard of him or seen his movies? When talking to those crocodiles on Wall Street about financing, Ronald's name is much more useful than the former vice president of Universal Pictures who resigned a few years ago.

As for Tom Mount, the distribution contracts he signed with Universal have not expired yet, so he still has some value. Although it is unlikely to get financing in Japan, he can only find other money for him when he returns to China.

The next day, President Haruki Kadokawa introduced his monthly girls' magazine to take photos of Diane Lane wearing kimono for the cover and center-seam poster of the next issue.

Ronald also took time to watch the shooting. Diane's temperament wearing kimono presents a very strange sense of disharmony. Although she is wearing the clothes of a Japanese girl, her temperament is that of a typical New York girl, outgoing and confident.

However, the young people in Japan seem to unexpectedly like this performance of foreigners wearing kimonos. The photographer applauded repeatedly, and I don't know whether it is true or polite.

Kadokawa Publishing also has many popular comic magazines in Japan, and Ronald saw many of them on the spot. After flipping through them, he found that the Japanese market is now very segmented. Some specialize in publishing girls' comics, and some are for high school boys.

"Here, this is a Japanese afternoon tea drink, it tastes very good." Ronald drank the drink from the magazine and handed it to Diane who was taking a break from filming. The taste was unexpectedly sweet and very good.

"Well, I can't drink too much. This dress is very complicated to wear. I'll show it to you when I get back..."

...

"Ronald, I've been looking for you for a long time. Your script assistant David Simkins called you for a long time. It seems that there is something urgent."

Ronald returned to the hotel with Diane and saw Niceta waiting for him in the lobby.

"I'll call him back." Ronald and Niceta turned upstairs and went to their room to call Simkins overseas.

"David, what's the matter so urgent? It's already late at night there, right?"

Ronald answered the phone and answered it with Niceta.

"I got a very good script. It was written by a Broadway playwright for the first time as a movie script."

"A debut work?" Nicita said beside him.

"Yes, Mr. Nicita. Although it is a debut movie script, the quality is very good. We are lucky. The author encountered many setbacks in the seven major studios before submitting the script to a small production company like Daydream."

"You said the quality is good, how good is it?" Ronald had never seen David Simkins praise a script so much. He himself is a movie screenwriter, so it must be really good. But how good is it is a question.

The film library of Hollywood studios is full of high-quality scripts that no one is willing to invest in. Truly outstanding scripts will always be sent to the right producers.

"I can only say my own opinion. I think it's better than the script of Dirty Dancing. This is a very talented author named John Patrick Shanley, an Irish playwright.

This is his first movie script, and I am familiar with this feeling. Just like William Goldman's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", it is a masterpiece that the author wrote with great effort for the first time."

Ronald felt that this evaluation was high. This was the movie script that the gold medal screenwriter William Goldman wanted to write the earliest. This kind of script often includes the story that the author wanted to write most in the first half of his life, and it is also the accumulation of life experiences in the first half of his life.

Even genius playwrights rarely have the opportunity to write such a masterpiece. Often after writing one, it takes many years before there is another one.

"Better quality than Dirty Dancing? Compared with Rain Man?" Niceta interrupted. What Ronald's next movie will be is of great interest to Hollywood executives and actors.

"Personally, I feel that it is even better than your "Rain Man". At least it is a classic traditional three-act play, with a beginning, a middle, and an end."

"Hahaha", Ronald knew that his script assistant was complaining that "Rain Man" did not have a classic three-act play structure.

"Since you are so enthusiastic about it, wait until I come back..."

"No, Ronald. I don't think I can wait until you come back to decide. The news that this movie was sent to Daydream Pictures will definitely be known. The playwright's agent may take our promise to negotiate with other companies.

I don't want the "Dirty Dancing" incident to happen again with this script called "Bride and Wolf."

"You are so optimistic about this script? Do you think that as long as I show interest, other companies will compete for it?" Ronald attaches more importance to this.

"Yes, agents are shameless... Uh, I'm not talking about you, Mr. Niceta."

"It doesn't matter, I can take it as a compliment." Niceta said, indicating that she didn't mind. If she were the agent of the screenwriter Shanley, she would probably do the same to maximize her profits.

"But I can't just buy the script based on your evaluation. By the way, how much do you think I can offer to buy this "Bride and the Wolf"? "

"Now it's time for film companies to spend a lot of money to reserve scripts. I estimate that less than 200,000 can be obtained. And your reputation can guarantee that the film can be produced and then distributed by the seven majors." Nicita thought about it and answered.

He was also very interested in this matter. As long as Ronald liked it, he could complete a packaged project and put a lot of his favorite actors in it.

"What is this story?" Ronald decided to find out the situation first.

"It's an Italian story, but it's different from Coppola's gangster story. It's about family, love, and the history of immigrants integrating into America."

"I still can't decide, why don't you tell me more details."

"David," Nicita interrupted, "I'll find a fax machine, you send a fax across the ocean and send the entire script."

Regardless of the expensive fax fee, Ronald and Nicita were in front of the fax machine in the business center, waiting for Simkins to send the fax.

"Squeak...squeak...", the fax machine made a sound, and the scripts of "The Bride and the Wolf" were spit out one by one from the fax machine.

After each one came, Niceta sorted it out and handed it to Ronald. Ronald sat there and looked at one.

The script is really well written and has similarities to "Dirty Dancing". It tells the story of Italians, but it is completely different from the stereotypes of Italians in traditional Hollywood Italian stories.

They no longer engage in the "traditional professions" of Italians in Hollywood such as boxers, gangsters, and pimps. Instead, he took up a profession that ordinary Americans would engage in. Open a grocery store, open a hardware store, etc.

But the Italians there also have some stereotypes that Americans recognize. Such as superstition, low education, emphasis on family, etc. The audience will never think of this story as a story about other ethnic groups.

"It's indeed a good story, but it may not be suitable for you."

Niceta also likes the story of the script, but... there are some minor problems.

He and Ronald returned to the room and continued calling David.

"David, I think we should let Ronald buy it and then find another director? This script tells a love story of middle-aged people, and Ronald may not be suitable for it."

"But this screenwriter is not very old either," said David Simkins. "He is only a few years older than Ronald. These plots and details are definitely not his own experience, but what he has witnessed.

Moreover, the author is not of Italian descent, he is of Irish descent. This is a script written by the playwright based on careful observation and years of accumulation. I can't be wrong. I have been reading scripts for the past few years. This kind of burst of genius from a playwright, a script full of genius, is only seen once every few years in Hollywood. "

"This is exactly the problem. Why is such a talented work that no one is willing to try it? It shows that the market potential is worrying. The audience for this script is exactly the disappeared audience who watched 'The Sound of Music'. It is difficult for us to We are sure to let them go to the cinema.”

Seeing Niceta and Simkins arguing on the phone, Ronald asked them to stop first.

"Let me think about it and I'll call you back tomorrow to make a decision."

I am reading the script, and then I hope to dream about the finished film, so that I can predict the quality and success or failure of the film.

…

"Ronnie!"

Diane, who had been waiting for him in the room for a long time, was still wearing a kimono and a wooden hairpin in her hair.

His lively and enthusiastic body does not look like the conservative and shy Japanese people at all. But the material of this kimono was very good, and the silk texture slipped through Ronald's hands, making Diane hum comfortably.

"Hmm...huh?" After a long passionate kiss, Ronald began to look for buttons or zippers on his kimono. The solid kimono he wore made it difficult for him to find a place to start.

"Hahaha, I want to be here..."

Diane's hands guided Ronald, unfastened the wide belt, reached through the slanted lapel of the collar, and unfastened the other belt.

It was already very late, and the silver-white moonlight shone into the window, shining faintly on the bed, making me cry.

Ronald leaned sideways on the bed and hugged Diane from behind. There seemed to be a faint fragrance of kimono incense on her body, which made Ronald feel very relaxed and fell asleep quickly.

The watery moonlight continued to shine on the two young souls, and seemed to shine into Ronald's dream.

He vaguely saw a bright moon high in the sky, shrouded in clouds and mist.

A deep voice sang a beautiful love song.

"When the moon hits your eyes

Like a big pizza, that's love.

when the world seems to sparkle

Like you've had too much wine, that's love. "

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