Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ronald returned to Los Angeles over the weekend.

"The Wicked Husband" is the first film produced and released by Touchstone Pictures, a subsidiary of Disney, after Michael Eisner took over.

This is a memorable film, so Disney spent a lot of money on the premiere. They found the largest Hollywood theater, the Platt Theater, to hold the premiere at Century City Commercial City on the Avenue of Stars in the center of Hollywood.

Helen Slater wore a sleeveless red top, a white skirt, and white high-heeled sandals. The facial features on her face with makeup were as distinct as ancient Greek sculptures, and very photogenic.

In order to wait for her elaborate makeup, Ronald waited in the living room for more than half an hour. Helen adheres to her mother's progressive ideas and is more environmentally friendly. This dress is actually the costume she wore when she performed in a play in New York before, but Karen, who has good skin and figure, actually looks a bit noble like the ancient Greek goddess of beauty when she wears it.

She took Ronald's arm and appeared in the theater together.

Ronald was dressed in a handmade suit, a dark red tie, and brown leather shoes, and he was very elegant. The two stood in the Plitvice Theatre and let the reporters take some photos for publicity.

"This theatre is similar to the Astor Theatre on Broadway in New York. The exterior is also asymmetrical and colonnaded in neoclassical style."

Helen is much more familiar with New York than Los Angeles. The art education she received since childhood also allows her to speak eloquently, which is a comment on the architectural style of the Plitvice Theatre.

"Ah, maybe, maybe the real estate developer built it according to the Astor Theatre in New York." The Astors were the richest family in the United States in the 19th century. There are many streets, buildings, and theaters named after the Astors in New York. Even the best Waldorf Astoria Hotel is owned by their family.

"Good vision. This was built in the early 1970s in Century City in the style of the Astor Theatre. At that time, it was a great heyday in Hollywood. Many business cards premiered here."

Another group of handsome men and beautiful women appeared at the premiere. The man was mature and steady, with an American hero-like chin. The woman was young and beautiful, with a bit of foreign temperament.

"Michael, good evening, thank you for coming to the premiere." Ronald hurriedly stepped forward to greet the man who spoke to him.

This is actor Michael Douglas. He was wearing a dark blue shirt, a gray top, a silver tie, and long hair. The beauty next to him was his young wife, Diandra Luke, wearing a pleated skirt with a complicated pearl necklace.

At the premiere in the 1980s, celebrities did not follow the old rules before the 1970s and had to wear formal dresses to attend.

The current style is to wear various exaggerated daily fashions for reporters to take pictures.

The male stars mainly wore casual suits in various fancy colors, while the female guests wore various strange fashions, which looked like the catwalk was moved to the cinema.

Helen coughed when she saw the necklace with four rows of pearls in parallel, which almost covered her neck. She secretly adjusted the necklace and earrings given by Ronald and also came forward to say hello. The four hugged and congratulated each other, and Ronald started to chat with Douglas.

"Will you continue to be an actor or a producer next?" Ronald asked Michael Douglas what he planned to do next.

"Did your agent tell you? Am I a bit famous now? Hollywood gossip reporters are saying that I'm on the phone all the time in the trailer on the set."

"It doesn't affect your performance. I was impressed by the movie Emerald."

"Haha, thank you. You are the first person in the industry to express your appreciation for that commercial film to me in person."

"Producers have to make movies that the audience likes, don't they?"

In 1975, when Michael Douglas was just over 30 years old, he won the Oscar for Best Picture as a producer for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

The script was a gift from his father, Kirk Douglas. As the son of a Hollywood tycoon, Michael didn't want to be seen as just a lucky producer under his father's shadow, but wanted to be a good actor.

He also played the leading role in "Emerald" and its sequel "The Jewel of the Nile", and played opposite Kathleen Turner.

"Will there be a third Emerald?" Ronald is very interested in this kind of best-selling series of movies.

"Tsk... Catherine doesn't want to continue with this kind of movie. She wants to play a more profound role. I am also a little tired of this kind of hero image and want to try some more marginal villain images."

"So will you produce your next movie yourself?"

"Not necessarily, it depends on the market situation. I heard that you are very popular in Japan. I am also interested in looking for financing there. Is there any way? How interested are they in investing in Hollywood?"

Compared to an actor, Michael Douglas is really more like a producer. The topic finally turned back to the most important job of a producer, financing.

"Many companies have expressed some interest, but they are still skeptical about Hollywood business. Many Japanese capitals are old-fashioned chaebols. They want to seize the local market, which is very different from what I thought at the beginning.

Only some new money that has developed after the war and has new ideas and the beautiful scenery of America is interested in investing in Hollywood."

Just as the two were about to exchange more opinions on project financing, Douglas suddenly frowned. He found that his wife Diandra was chatting with another long-haired male star.

"Have you returned to Hollywood, Mel?"

"Yeah, yes. Although I love living in my home in Australia, there is money to be made here...hahaha."

Michael Douglas frowned slightly again, and a short and fat black actress came over. "Wubi, we meet again, Diandra, come and meet Whoopi Goldberg." He interrupted calmly, separating his wife from the Australian egomaniac.

"Ah, I know you, you played Celie in Spielberg's "The Color Purple"..."

The Douglases entered the theater.

"Ah, these kike guys," Mel Gibson muttered after being interrupted.

"What did you say? Mel, long time no see," Ronald, who came forward to greet him, didn't hear clearly.

"Nothing, Ronald, long time no see!" Mel Gibson hugged Ronald and Helen and said hello.

The two hadn't seen each other since they had a falling out over Rachel Ward at Stallone's party.

"Why, you know Mrs. Douglas?"

"Don't you know? She was the daughter of an Australian diplomat in the United States, and she's very famous among Australians."

"I don't know, it's the first time I've met her. I heard you're already preparing a new film?"

"Next month I'm going to shoot 'Lethal Weapon', a project of Joe Silver. Unlike other actors, I'm not based in Hollywood. I usually live in my hometown in Australia, so I'm not very well-informed about many projects. What movie will you make next?"

"Ha, it's a small project with a female lead."

Mel Gibson returned to Hollywood this time and watched two new films directed by Ronald, especially 'Top Gun'. Every male actor in it was shot by Ronald to look like a star, which made Gibson, who wanted to get rid of the character image in 'Mad Max' as soon as possible, very envious.

"Rachel Ward has temporarily retired from the film industry. She said she wants to further study acting. Her attitude towards movies is very serious..." He pulled Ronald to talk about many artistic insights, hoping to find common ground with Ronald in art.

Faced with the Australian who started discussing art, Ronald really couldn't stand it. After a long time of perfunctory talk, she still used the excuse that the director and actor of "The Evil Husband" had arrived and asked him to talk later.

"Okay, Ronald, you are really an artistic director. Let's find time to talk. We must cooperate on a movie next time."

"Is this guy's idea of ​​art just taking off his shirt and playing volleyball on the beach?" Helen was not happy with this Australian guy who seemed to have used the discriminatory name "kike" against Jews and mentioned another actress in front of her. She pulled Ronald's arm and complained.

"Hahaha, I think many housewives will not agree with you. In their eyes, that is art."

"That's not what I meant..." Helen misunderstood Ronald's statement. "I think your figure is more attractive to me. I like men who are taller than me."

Ronald pinched Helen's waist lightly. Helen felt her body getting hot and begged for mercy and hid in the theater first.

Then the Jerry Zucker trio in the main creation greeted Ronald and went in. The remaining male and female protagonists Danny DeVito and Bette Midler were briefly interviewed by reporters.

"How does it feel to be the protagonist?" Ronald asked the last two actors who entered the theater.

"Ah... Very good, very good." Danny DeVito spoke in a trance. His female companion wore a strange see-through outfit with fishnet stockings, which killed a lot of film.

"Not bad, I like this kind of scene." Bette Midler was slightly better than DeVito. She took a glass of champagne from the table next to the aisle and drank it all.

"Why are you all a little nervous?" Ronald thought to himself.

Fortunately, Helen, who came in first, didn't feel anything, and the two found a place to sit down.

The beginning of "The Evil Husband" is a cartoon-style title. The main plot of the film is vividly expressed in a cartoon-like way.

It seems that the ability of Disney's animation department is used, Ronald thought to himself.

This is the second time I have watched this comedy movie on the big screen. Ronald already knew all the plot trends and jokes in advance.

But it is interesting that the jokes in this comedy are caused by the absurdity of the story itself, so even if he has seen it in advance, Ronald still laughs where he should laugh.

This kind of movie is different from Zack's previous neurotic comedy "Unprecedented and Unprecedented", which is full of language jokes. Even if you are spoiled in advance, you will still have a good viewing experience.

This actually requires a lot of actors' skills. Among the two leading actors, Danny DeVito's bad son-in-law is a cartoon-style villain. Even if everyone knows that he is bad from the beginning, seeing him being retaliated by the kidnappers and his wife who is a hostage still makes everyone look forward to it.

Bette Midler's rich girl is also a very contrasting role. At the beginning, she gives people a fat and vicious woman who scares the kidnappers like chickens. Gradually, the audience finds that she is just a middle-aged woman who wants to lose weight but can't. The kindness in her heart is much better than her husband.

The audience's laughter is similar to that of the preview. It often occurs, but not densely.

"Oh, my God, I acted so badly."

Helen looked at the picture on the screen and sometimes had the urge to cover her eyes with her hands.

Ever since Ronald pointed out that I was overacting, the shots I shot in the past now seem awkward no matter how I look at them.