Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Columbus didn't embarrass Ronald for too long. After taking a few shots, he ended the filming of the guest scene.

"Is my photo okay? It's just that the costume is a bit cold here." Ronald took a blanket and wrapped it in it. He was wearing a vest in winter, and there were deliberately sprinkled water droplets on his body that looked like sweat. It was no joke.

"Did you know? In the original script, the comic character Sarah was obsessed with was He-Man, the giant of the universe and the prince of Etania." Columbus said to Ronald.

"Hahaha, then you have to wear those sexy clothes, wave your sword, and shout: Give me power! I am He-Man!" Lisabeth Su Yin couldn't stop laughing when she heard this. She used to be in high school. When I was a kid, I often watched the animations of He-Man and She-Ra.

"Uh..." Ronald shook his head. He didn't want to dress like Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian.

Ronald chatted with Yin Lisabeth Su for a while. It was the first time that she took on the role of a heroine with a sufficient role. She was full of eagerness to try, fully embodying the mentality of a high school nanny, and her creative state was very good.

This "Adventures in Babysitting" is very interesting, but it actually has no real male protagonist. The whole story revolves around the heroine nanny Chris Parker.

"Ronald, am I really going to be photographed for a Playboy magazine?"

Yin Lisabeth Su's eyes were bright, and she asked Ronald, who had helped her debut in chewing gum commercials. She trusted Ronald.

Probably more than half of American girls had the idea of ​​becoming Playboy girls when they were young. Of course, when they grow up and know what their male classmates will do with Playboy photos of their midriffs, they will immediately give up this idea.

"So, do you want to take the photo or not?" Ronald replied with a smile.

"Well, I do want to take some nice photos. Is it a Playboy cover photo or a mid-section photo?"

Yin Lisabai Su is wearing a yellow camel hair coat. She has a very good temperament and looks like a daughter raised by an upper-middle-class family.

Ronald is still very satisfied with his casting decision.

"Cover, center seam, the whole set," he replied.

Although Playboy is a men's magazine, it is also sold on newsstands in America, so the cover often shows a close-up of the model's upper body, and the center seam is the main reason why many men buy the magazine, and the size is larger.

"Ah...can you not take a photo of the midriff? I don't want to take a photo of you taking off your clothes."

Yin Lisabeth Su is a little embarrassed that she finally got the heroine of this movie, but if she takes off her clothes on the screen, even if it is a photo in a magazine, it will have a great impact on her future.

"What are you thinking? This is a PG-13 movie. Of course you are wearing clothes." Ronald couldn't help but patted Su on the head. He had been playing the role of a high school nanny all day long, and he got too involved in the drama and got a little distracted.

"Oh..." Yin Lisabeth Su also smiled, she really thought too much.

Returning to the hotel where the crew was staying, Ronald checked into a room and called his agent Niceta in Los Angeles.

"I wanted to talk to Hugh Hefner, the owner of Playboy, but the crew said they couldn't find anyone else recently."

"Hefner? Are you looking for him?" Niceta was a little surprised. Why did her client's taste change? A blonde who wanted some food?

"There is a subplot in "Adventures in Nanny." The protagonist, the nanny Chris, looks a bit like the Playboy cover girl. We plan to let Elizabeth Sue take some photos and make a fake Playboy book. This thing requires Hefner Nod, but the Disney people couldn’t find him.”

"Oh, you can't find him." Niceta understood what Ronald was thinking, and then talked about what happened recently in California.

In the mid-1980s, especially at the beginning of the second term of office of the President, the conservative forces in America gradually occupied some space for activities.

Playboy, a men's magazine popular during the hippie era, has now become a target of conservative forces. Many anti-pornography activists have gradually begun to target this most famous magazine, and some departments of the American government are also showing signs of beginning to crack down on this media.

Some women's rights groups, centered on some magazines in New York, have also begun to expose and criticize magazines that objectify and exploit women.

This caused Playboy's stock price to begin to slowly decline, and the high-end clubs that the magazine had opened across the country were gradually closed.

Especially in the past few months, "Newsweek" interviewed the magazine tycoon Hugh Hefner and did a cover story.

The report relayed the conclusion of some Wall Street researchers that subscriptions to Playboy magazine were declining rapidly. The capital market's reaction to this impending storm was a plunge in stock prices.

As a tycoon who pioneered serious adult magazines in the conservative 1950s and 1960s, Hugh Hefner had a very keen sense of smell. He felt that a force against him was gradually taking shape. Just a few weeks ago, he was admitted to the hospital after suffering a minor stroke.

"He's not really having a stroke, is he?" Ronald asked.

"Who knows? Now he's back at the Playboy mansion with only one girl taking care of him. I can find a way to get him to call you back."

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"Is this Mr. Ronald Lee?" A delicate woman's voice called after a while.

"It's me, are you?" Ronald answered the phone and asked.

"Mr. Hugh Hefner wants to speak to you."

"Ronald, can I call you Ronald? Have you been to my Playboy Mansion? Although there are not as many beautiful girls as before, I still recommend you to come and have fun. There is everything here."

"Hello, Mr. Hefner, I have been there once, but I didn't stay for too long. Thank you for your invitation."

Ronald went there a long time ago and didn't leave a deep impression, so he left halfway.

"I think my agent has also told you that I hope you can support Hollywood like before. There is a plot in a movie I produced..."

"No problem, I only have one request." Hefner is very interested in this director who is in the limelight in Hollywood. Although the magazine has to avoid the limelight for the time being, there will always be a day to recover. Men say that they should respect women, but are they still secretly looking at the slit girls?

If such a director can often appear at the parties in his Playboy Mansion, it will be very attractive to those beauties who want to enter the film industry.

"Please say..." Ronald didn't expect Hefner to give face to Zancheng so much, and he also politely asked him to put forward his request.

"What's your actress' name... Elizabeth Sue?... She's going to be photographed at the Playboy Mansion."

"That's not necessary, right? We can ensure that the shooting process is in line with Playboy's photography style, and the fake magazine will look the same as your magazine."

"My dear Ronald, this is just a little bit of my willfulness, you won't let me down, right? Besides, why would you want to shoot a fake one when you have the real one? I can provide a real Playboy photographer, who will shoot at the Playboy Mansion, the location of the centerfold girl shooting in the monthly magazine, and we can publish a special edition..."

Hugh Hefner is now being criticized by conservatives and feminist organizations. If there is a Hollywood director who can come out to justify his magazine... so he insists on shooting on the spot.

Ronald scratched his head. The film was still being filmed. The heroine had to fly to Los Angeles to take photos, which would take some time. In addition,...

"I'm afraid I can't, Mr. Hefner. My heroine, Elizabeth Sue, has a contract with Disney. There is no clause about taking off clothes. I can't force or trick her..."

"You are a gentleman, hahaha, Ronald." Hugh Hefner laughed on the other end of the phone.

"In fact, I have no prejudice against Playboy, but I think the models who become Playboy's Girl of the Month know what they have to pay. And our film is going to be shot according to the PG-13 rating."

"Who said we have to shoot undressing? Of course we have to shoot dressed. It's a special edition." Hugh Hefner chuckled, "In fact, Playboy has photos of tastefully dressed women in every issue, but my center-gap girl is the most famous. It just so happens that I am also starting to transform the magazine."

"Is that so? Well, let's make a deal?" Since Hefner can let the girls in clothes appear in Playboy, it's better to let the original photographers and staff make a special edition prop, which is the most similar.

"It's settled. You and your actress come over the weekend. We'll have a good chat when we get there. My daughter Christie will be in charge of the shooting."

Since it was a vacation, Ronald flew back to Los Angeles alone. He was still a little worried and had to go to the Playboy mansion first to finalize the matter.

Playboy Mansion is located near Holmby Hills near the coast in the greater Los Angeles area.

It was originally built by a department store tycoon on Broadway and passed through several owners. In 1971, it was bought by Hugh Hefner, who was successful in running a magazine. He converted it into a limestone and brick mansion complex.

There are 29 rooms in total, as well as an outdoor swimming pool, waterfall, organ room, movie theater, outdoor barbecue and sauna. There is also a large koi pond with an artificial stream, a small citrus grove and two mature tree ferns and redwood forests.

Ronald was very interested in this koi pond, which has a strong oriental flavor.

"The various landscapes here were built for the photos in each issue of Playboy. They have been gradually added and renovated for more than ten years. I will take you to visit them all."

The speaker is Christie Hefner, Hugh Hefner's eldest daughter. Her parents divorced when she was very young. Christie went to college on her own and worked as a film critic for a while after graduation. Later, she reconciled with her father and came to work for Playboy magazine.

So Christie naturally feels a little close to Ronald, the director.

"Thank you, I feel that coming here during the day is very different from the last time I came at night." Ronald took off his sunglasses. This place is still a very interesting tourist attraction during the day.

"Haha, you feel the same way, right? I've been persuading my father recently to open this place to travelers who travel with their families, and transform it into a must-visit attraction for tourists to Holmby Hills."

"Will Hugh agree to this?"

Ronald was stunned. This is Hugh Hefner's empire and his domain. He lives here. The original servants' west wing is now the editorial department of the magazine.

At the same time, Hugh Hefner also invited those women he liked to live in the mansion. At most, he once dated seven women at the same time.

Such a happy cave, turned into a family vacation destination?

Seeing Ronald's disbelief, Christie quickly said the answer she had been honing recently, "Our Playboy magazine has always been a feminist magazine, a serious magazine covering politics, economics, fashion and other fields. Many children regard the Playboy Mansion as a place like Disneyland.”

"Pfft...cough..." Ronald couldn't hold it back and thought the Playboy mansion was a Disneyland. How dare you think that.

"Father?" Christie was about to retort when she saw her father, Hugh Hefner, walking on the bridge.

"Ronald, it's great to see you here." Hugh Hefner was wearing his signature silk pajamas, smoking a pipe in one hand and holding a Pepsi in the other.

"Hello, Mr. Hefner, I was speaking to Christie about the feminist nature of your magazine."

"That's no problem, we just have different views on feminism." Hefner walked a little slowly, as if the previous stroke still had some impact on him.

"Newsweek said that our ratings have dropped. Didn't they go to the newsstands in New York to read it? We are still the best-selling magazine among retailers. But in recent years, they have to buy two more magazines, including Playboy , just so that no one can see it.”

"Oops..." Hugh Hefner slipped on the wooden bridge of the artificial creek, and a blond sexy bombshell next to him immediately supported him.

The woman beside him was Kelly Leigh, a rare date in Hugh Hefner's life.

"Ronald, I loved your Top Gun."

Kelly Leigh, who was proud to have captured America's most famous playboy, came up and led Ronald towards the big house. After walking across the wooden bridge, the koi that had gathered at Ronald's feet dispersed in a rush.

"Mr. Hefner, I'm here this time to confirm the details of the shooting with you..." Ronald began to express his interest after visiting Hefner's wine cellar.

"You discuss all these details with Christie. I just want to make sure you are happy here, right?"

Hugh Hefner and Ronald tasted a bottle of wine from the cellar.

It may be that feminists and religious conservative forces have been more aggressive in pursuing Hefner recently, and he no longer mentioned the First Amendment, which he always talked about, resisting government investigations.

Apart from Kelly Leigh, Ronald found no other Playboy girls in the mansion.

It's as if this symbol of adult magazines really wants to change his ways.

Afterward, Ronald and Christie worked out the details of the shoot. "Adventures in Babysitting" will guarantee screen time in Playboy magazine, and the magazine will have the words "Special Edition" typed on the cover to distinguish it from the original undressed center-slit girl.

Before the movie is released, Playboy will also invest some marketing resources and place advertisements in advertising light boxes in some department stores in Los Angeles and New York to promote this special edition of Playboy and warm up the movie, hoping to achieve a win-win effect.

After signing the memorandum of cooperation, Ronald discovered that Christie then started to discuss family travel routes with a few people who looked like travel companies, looking at the model of the mansion.

“Even Playboy bills itself as a feminist magazine?”

After leaving the mansion, Ronald kept thinking about this matter.

What is the current public attitude toward women working independently and taking control of their own destiny? It seems that more and more people are beginning to think that working girls are a better choice than housewives?

Changes in social trends will also be reflected in Hollywood movies. Some new things only become the trend of the whole society after being amplified by movies.

Being able to predict the next popular trend of thought in advance will be of great benefit to Hollywood practitioners...

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"I feel like this makeup doesn't look like me anymore." Yin Lisabeth Su took advantage of her weekend break to fly back to Los Angeles and was taken to the Playboy mansion by Ronald's car. The magazine's makeup artist and photographer Shooting started.

"That's it. In the plot, the cover girl just looks like you. Such slightly different photos make it easier for the audience to understand the humor in the plot."

Ronald took a look at Su's makeup, and it really looked like a playboy.

With slightly exaggerated eye shadow and hairstyle, coupled with large wavy hair, Su is no longer a karate girl or a nanny, but a mature woman exuding strong sex appeal.

Wearing a red top, after taking the cover photo, the photographer was ready to move to the bedroom to take a mid-section photo.

"Um, I don't need to take off my clothes, right?" Su followed Ronald and asked quietly.

"No, just wear sexier pajamas and I will help you figure it out."

Elizabeth Su Yin walked out of the dressing room wearing a set of vertical striped blue and white pajamas.

"Okay, very good, give me a classic Monroe pose." The photographer team surrounded her with a lot of lights and reflectors. On the big bed in the bedroom, Yin Elizabeth Su, Luo Shan undressed and took the photo Lots of sexy photos.

"You see, they are all very tasteful photos. If you think any of them are bad, I will inform them not to be included in the special edition of the magazine."

One day later, the photos were sent to Ronald, and Ronald spread them out one by one to show Yin Elizabeth Su.

Photos of this scale are actually often seen in conservative home magazines.

“Actually, I like them all, but my dad would say something to me, well…never mind, they’re really beautiful.” Most of Su’s photos are of the girl next door type, and she likes this kind of charming photos.