Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Hmm? Not 'The Bride and the Wolf'?"

Ronald thought. Although the movie also started with a song, the script of "The Bride and the Wolf" clearly stated that it would start with Pavarotti's famous aria "Your Cold Hands" from Puccini's opera "La Boheme".

The plot continued, and an actress Ronald knew, Tom Cruise's girlfriend Cher, played a middle-aged woman. She had gray hair, conservative and boring clothes, and was an accountant doing accounts for other small business owners.

"It seems to be the Bride and the Wolf, but the opening song has changed." The following plot is similar to the script he just read.

Ronald watched Cher's performance. It turned out that she was chosen as the protagonist, which was also very interesting. Although Cher is now nearly 40 years old, she is very trendy and very charming. But the makeup in this movie has obviously shown old age. I don't know how such a beautiful woman with a young temperament agreed to wear old makeup.

Cher plays Loretta Castorini, an Italian widowed woman who is having dinner with her boyfriend John Camarelli in a restaurant. A middle-aged man who is dining here wants to propose to his young girlfriend, but she dumps him first.

As a result, Loretta's boyfriend John also wants to take this opportunity to propose to Loretta, but Loretta doesn't like it because he didn't prepare a ring. Her boyfriend John proposed with an ordinary ring of his own, and Loretta agreed.

The fiancé went to his hometown in Palermo, Italy to visit his seriously ill mother, and finally asked Loretta to invite his brother whom he hadn't seen for a long time. Because of his brother, the brother lost a hand, and the brothers haven't spoken for a long time. He wanted his fiancée Loretta to invite.

Ronald laughed as his younger brother Ronnie Camarelli, who worked in a bakery, appeared in the camera. It turned out that the actor was Coppola's nephew, Nicolas Cage.

When he was filming "Peggy Sue Got Married", he insisted on using the acting method in the German expressionist film "Metropolis", and almost had a falling out with the heroine Kathryn Turner. Turner even threatened to quit the crew.

In the end, Ronald went to the crew to mediate and asked Cage to be more restrained, so that the film that Coppola wanted to use to completely pay off the debt and turn things around could continue to be filmed.

However, in this dream movie, Cage still has that expressionist acting style. The line "My hand fell off! My hand fell off!" and the indignant look are simply imitating the body language of the old German film "Metropolis", a silent film.

However, in this unrestrained and even a little strange movie, Nicolas Cage's acting style is really suitable.

"Ronnie, what are you laughing at? "Diane was awakened by Ronald's laughter. She raised her head in confusion and saw the moonlight shining into the room. She rubbed her eyes and saw the smile on Ronald's face in the moonlight.

"..."Diane looked at Ronald carefully for a while and found that he was indeed laughing. She also smiled from the bottom of her heart. This was because Ronnie had her in his heart.

It is said that when people are asleep, their true thoughts will be revealed.

"Oh, Ronnie...Oh, Ronnie..." Diane touched Ronald's face, then hugged Ronald's head, kissed him gently on the face, put his head on his chest, and continued to sleep.

"Oh, Ronnie, what about John? "In his dream, Ronald looked at Loretta played by Cher and Ronnie played by Cage.

The two negotiated in a room on the second floor of the bakery, and Loretta even fried steak for her fiance's brother. Perhaps it was the seductive moonlight that suddenly touched their hearts. Ronnie picked up Loretta and walked to the bed in the inner bedroom.

"I'm angry with him, my hand fell off, and you, such a beautiful woman, are going to marry him." Cage was roaring like a beast.

"Come on, come on, love me, Ronnie. Vent your dissatisfaction with John on me, so that he can only marry a shell of me." Cher hugged Cage's head, and the two acted very devotedly.

"Well..." Ronald felt his head being hugged in a daze, "This performance is very good, I have synaesthesia."

"I will marry your brother, nothing happened last night, did you hear? Nothing happened last night. "

The next morning, Loretta realized that she might have seen the big and bright moon last night, and went to bed with Ronnie in a daze.

So as soon as she got up, she told her fiancé's brother Ronnie not to mention what happened last night.

"I can't do it."

"Why?"

"Because I'm in love with you."

"Pah!" Loretta, played by Cher, slapped Ronnie in the face.

"Pah!" Seeing that Ronnie was still looking at her affectionately, Loretta slapped him again, "Wake up!"

"Well, this part is also well acted. "Ronald felt as if someone was touching his face.

In order to get rid of Ronnie's entanglement, Loretta decided to agree to Ronnie's request and go to the opera "La Boheme" with him tomorrow night.

For some reason, after the night when the moon caused trouble, Loretta regained her enthusiasm after her husband's accidental car accident. She went to the hair salon and gave herself a big wavy hair, had a beauty treatment, and dyed her nails.

"Oh, this is the true level of Cher's beauty, the woman that Tom Cruise is obsessed with." Ronald watched this makeover and exclaimed. It was really well edited.

In romantic movies, one of the man and the woman usually awakens the power of love, turning from an ugly duckling into a white swan, and thus becoming more worthy of the other party with superior conditions.

However, this plot usually occurs in teenage movies. Ronald had the idea of ​​making a movie with this makeover plot as the core story, but John Hughes took it away and made "Pretty in Pink".

It's just that because the roles of men and women are reversed, American audiences prefer to watch handsome men and beautiful women, and generally like women to change their appearance, so the box office of Pretty in Pink is average.

This movie used it correctly, making Loretta change her appearance and become a sexy goddess with outstanding temperament.

It seems that the plot of love scenes for middle-aged people is not much different from that of love scenes for teenagers. Ronald's confidence increased greatly.

While watching the opera, Loretta found that her father and his lover were also having a tryst in the opera house. The two agreed not to tell their partners.

However, Loretta's mother, Rose, as an Italian woman, knew everything long ago, and she left the house unwillingly. In the restaurant, mother Rose met the man who proposed to her in the restaurant but was dumped by his girlfriend.

The two had a good chat. The man was a university professor. He was tired of the shallowness of young girls and wanted to invite Rose to continue dating.

Rose kept her bottom line and did not cheat. When she returned home, she couldn't figure out why men looked for women.

"Why do men look for women?"

"Why do men look for women?"

Rose asked many people this question, but the answers did not satisfy her. In the end, her husband gave her a satisfactory answer, "Because men are afraid of death."

Ronald was shocked. Do men look for women because they are afraid of death?

He suddenly woke up, gently let go of Diane's hand, and then got out of bed and went to the table by the window to get a cup of water.

A bright moon was slanting in the sky. It seemed that the moon today was very big, and the moonlight made people feel some emotions.

Maybe it was true!

Men are afraid of death, so they want to try their best to succeed and leave something behind, and then use success to conquer women in order to get peace of mind on such a night.

Ronald looked back at Diane in the moonlight. I should try to find her some good roles, otherwise what is the meaning of a man conquering a woman? Isn't it to let the beloved woman do what makes her happy?

...

"Have you decided?" The next morning, in the hotel's breakfast room, Nicita saw Ronald, who was full of energy, and asked him what he thought about last night.

Ronald was eating baked beans, bacon, and soft bread with Japanese characteristics with his cheeks puffed up. The Japanese have learned the West very thoroughly. The Western breakfast in the hotel is very decent, and the bread has a unique flavor and is more delicious.

"I have decided to buy this movie script and then find a distributor and investor." Ronald finished another sausage.

"But this is a middle-aged man... Forget it, you know it anyway." Nicita stopped persuading him. Ronald was just at the time when he had made two hit movies in a row. Now he was very confident in art, and he didn't know more than Ronald.

Agents are not used to pour cold water on clients when they are enthusiastic about creation, but to solve problems when they encounter difficulties.

"By the way, I'm going to ask Cher to play the leading female role. What do you think?" Ronald raised his hand and asked the waiter to come over and send a breakfast to Diane who was still sleeping in the room.

"Well, it's a good idea." Niceta felt that the role was very suitable for Cher, and the agent teams of both Tom Cruise and Cher were not optimistic about the relationship. Let her come to Ronald's place to film and continue to live apart. Maybe the two of them will cool down.

"Do you think it's good too?" Ronald wiped his mouth, asked the waiter to bring the phone, and asked the front desk to make a long-distance call across the ocean.

"David? This is Ronald. I decided to buy this script. You discuss with John Patrick Shanley's agent. I will buy his script option for one year first, and then I will talk to him after I come back."

"Okay, you won't be disappointed." David Simkins was very happy. He hung up the phone and hurriedly arranged it.

"The next stop is Hong Kong. Japan's box office accounts for 5% of the world's box office market. Although Hong Kong accounts for a smaller proportion, it seems that the film industry there is more developed than Japan?" Ronald asked Niceta after finishing the call.

"Yes, our statistics are the same. Korea, India, and... all have market access policies. A Hollywood movie can only sell a dozen copies to enter a market of tens of millions of people. Although it is popular and the audience queues up to watch long-term screenings, it is not conducive to our rapid accumulation of star fame.

Although Hong Kong has a language barrier, it is still a good market environment by comparison."

"I heard that it is called the Oriental Hollywood. I will meet the filmmakers there if I have the chance." Ronald thought of the filmmakers he met in Xujiahui. They all had a good chat and wanted to meet the people there. "

"No problem, I'll ask someone to arrange it. "