Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 337 Hollywood celebrity

After that, Ronald spent two days carefully breaking down Cameron's script.

The story is solid, going back in time in a time machine and killing the son of the rebel leader in the same way he killed his mother.American audiences haven't seen such a plot idea, and they will be very curious if they think about it.

Cameron started out as a special effects makeup and special effects machine, and the script is very well laid out in terms of special effects scenes.Ronald also saw a lot of special visual designs, which were quite unexpected.

However, the problem may also lie in Cameron's special effects. Ronald felt that there were too many scenes in this area. Even Spielberg and Lucas did not abuse the special effects scenes. Instead, they used them very restrained. .

Just like the shark in Jaws, it doesn't appear many times in the whole film. It uses the audience's anticipation to create suspense early, and it can only scare people when it really comes out.

After marking all the special effects scenes in the "Terminator" film, Ronald began to rate each scene according to the difficulty of realization and the audience's expected response.

Some special effects will make people unforgettable, such as the transformation of the liquid robot into the appearance of various characters. Ronald knew that this kind of scene would cause a sensation, but the cost was unknown, so he put a question mark on all such scenes.

There are also some scenes, such as another Terminator robot killer, after being broken, the whole body is exposed.This kind of lens can be realized with machinery, which makes the audience feel very real.

Divide a large number of special effects scenes into two categories.Ronald suddenly felt that it seemed that this movie could be divided into two parts.

Delete the scene of the liquid robot with an unknown cost, and then let the main line focus on the human warrior sent back by the human rebels, and the Terminator Iron Killer sent back by Skynet. The audience is more focused on the main line, making it easier to understand the plot.

When Ronald himself edited "Fast Pace", he suffered from the fact that the plot lines were too scattered. He wrote down his opinions, put them away, and waited for two days to see if he had any new ideas.

"Ring ring ring ring..."

"Ronald, it's me." The agent Richard came to pick him up at the door.

"Come on." Ronald put on his coat, arranged his hair, and went to the party together.

Although the script sales of "Night of the Comet" suffered setbacks, Ronald still felt Hollywood's enthusiasm for him.

Perhaps the economic policy of the new general has had an effect, or it may be that Spielberg's ET aliens and the lost Ark of the Covenant have given a boost to the box office. This year's annual box office is still more than two months away. , it has exceeded the whole year of [-].

The first batch of children born after the Baby Boomers have already started high school graduation.Hollywood is still in the stage of exploring what movies these audiences like to watch. "Fast Pace" is the first movie aimed at this audience with a big box office.

The outbreak of "fast-paced Richmond High School" made Hollywood producers a little bit puzzled.

To be honest, the director's level of this teenage movie is not very strong, and the performances of the actors are not worthy of Oscar nominations. Everyone is very interested in why it can sweep the teenage audience across the country and become a phenomenal movie with a box office ten times its cost.

Everyone thought Ronald might have the answer.Since coming to Los Angeles, invitations from various acquaintances have come one after another. For a while, Ronald became one of the people who like to invite to Hollywood parties. His manager Richard often gave him invitations and took him to various parties.

"Hi Ronald, congratulations, congratulations."

Tonight Ronald went to the big star Sylvester Stallone's party nicknamed "Sly".His new film "First Blood" is about to be released, and he has started a big party to connect with all parties, hoping to create momentum when it is released.

Stallone didn't arrive on time, and it was composer Michael Gore who greeted Ronald.Since winning an Oscar with him for their "Fame" theme song, Gore has reaped a big dividend.

Unlike Ronald, who only wrote the lyrics for two songs, Gore wrote almost all of the episodes and film scores on the Famous soundtrack, which sold so well that he sold more than [-] copies each quarter. Can collect a fat check.

"How's it going? Are you still working on movie soundtracks?" Ronald was happy to see old friends.At the party, all kinds of strange beauties tried to get together with various purposes, which made Ronald tired of coping. It was more relaxing to chat with old friends who worked hard together from poor boys.

"I'm composing the music for the TV drama version of 'Fame', so it's better to cooperate with old friends." After Michael Gore won the Oscar, it seems that he has similar troubles, and many people want to take advantage of it.

"That TV show doesn't seem to have a good rating," Ronald said.

"Yes, I heard that there are some problems with the renewal of the new season."

"The other thing is to arrange music for Erin's MV." Gore pointed to a black girl at the party, which was the famous lead actress Erin Cara.

"Or the theme song of 'Fame'?" Ronald has seen three or four versions of 'Fame' on TV, and Erin Cara has been singing on TV for two full years relying on this song variety show.

"That's right, the comedians on SNL laughed at Erin for singing 'Same'. She hasn't sung anything else for two years."

"Hahaha……"

Gore held the wine glass and asked the beauties in the party to stay away, then approached Ronald and lowered his voice, "Seriously, Ronald. What projects do you have recently?" Ronald became a director, maybe in the future With this old relationship, he can also earn some work on the soundtrack.

"I have a new script, a sci-fi film, and I'm looking for a producer who is willing to invest."

"Oh, man. Why don't you keep making teen movies." Gore's surprise wasn't fake.

"Because I have no inspiration." Ronald spread his hands. "Many people don't believe it. I really didn't come up with any good stories. I read some old Universal scripts, but I didn't like them."

"I believe in you." Gore patted Ronald on the shoulder. As the creator, he understood the distress of not being inspired.

"How do you get the inspiration for your screenwriting? When I have no inspiration for composing, I often listen to some Elvis Presley or Frank Sinatra songs in the 50s to find inspiration."

"Looking for inspiration? I'm about the same. I often watch old movies, watch TV, news in newspapers, or chat with old friends." Ronald recalled his creative (dreaming) process, probably through these channels.

"Really? I heard a strange thing today, and it was also a movie I saw in the newspaper." Ge Erxing raised his head and talked about his friend's experience.

Gore's friend was Dean Pitchford, who turned out to be a lyricist.

One day he saw a piece of news in the newspaper that in some small towns in Utah, the local pastor and the government have been banning the playing of rock music and prohibiting the townspeople from dancing.

After Pitchford heard it, he came up with the idea of ​​writing a script based on it. How did a high school student transferred from a big city break the taboos of a conservative and closed town and let the great invention of the [-]th century, rock music The wind of disco dancing blows into this small town with strong conservative religious beliefs.

"This kind of inspiration is hard to come by." Ronald thought for a while, and he was similar. When he came across news, actors, scripts, he didn't know how to trigger the dream.I think everyone's creative process is similar.It's just that his own method is more mysterious and advanced.

"No, Ronald. That's not the end of the story. His script was sold to a producer, and after being put into a turnaround script by Twentieth Century Fox, now Paramount is suddenly interested, willing to invest, and give I got him a guaranteed contract of 'act or play'. Do you think this is luck?"

"Oh! It's really luck." Even Ronald felt envious when he heard it.

This is not an ordinary contract, but a guarantee contract like the one signed by Jane Fonda. Even if the movie is not made for various reasons, Gore's friends can still get paid.

Moreover, Paramount decided that the movie that offered a guarantee contract must not be a small production of more than 300 million made by itself, but at least a medium-cost movie of about 800 million.

Why didn't I have such luck?The studio just wants to continue directing youth films and be a director who repeats the previous work.

In the past few days, CAA's agent showed him a lot of scripts, all of which were sexual comedies, with an investment of around 500 million, and the quality of the scripts was not as good as "fast paced", which made Ronald angry.

"Hi, Ronald." Erin Cara saw Ronald and came over to say hello, "Are you and Gore going to cooperate again?"

"Eileen!" Both Ronald and Gore hugged her.

"No, we just ran into each other. You should ask Gore more, I just wrote a few lines by chance, he is a genius of composition."

"No, you are all geniuses." Irene Cara has been in Hollywood for a long time and has become a lot more mature.Her singing career has hit a bottleneck, the old song 'Fame' is no matter how good it sounds, the audience is tired of listening to it.

"I have to ask you guys for advice, I'm also learning to write lyrics and compose myself now..."

"Let us welcome, great actor, writer, director, His Royal Highness Sylvester Stallone."

Several people were chatting, several bodyguards opened the door, and a master of ceremonies announced the arrival of Stallone, the host of the party, with the etiquette of introducing nobles.

"Sly..."

Ronald saw Nisita of CAA and other agents, including vice president Ron Meyer, also go forward and hug Stallone.

For a moment, everyone's attention was focused on this big star who wrote, directed and acted by himself.

This year, Stallone filmed the third installment of the "Rocky" series he wrote, directed, and acted in. American audiences did not show any signs of boredom with this Italian bull boxing scene.

There is also his upcoming "First Blood", which is based on the novel of the same name and tells the story of the conflict of discrimination against Vietnam veterans after returning to civilian life.

"I heard that the 'First Blood' media film critics special response is very good." Richard quietly told Ronald.

"Let me introduce you, Sly, this is the 'fast-paced' director Ronald Lee, who is also a client of CAA." Nisita also appeared beside Stallone. Nader.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Stallone." Ronald stepped forward.

"I know you, keep trying to make some good movies." Stallone patted Ronald on the shoulder, and then continued to chat with Ron Mayer.

"I think you should take this movie. The fusion of comedy and action may be the direction of the future. Only in this way can you stand apart from that bodybuilding champion. You have acting skills, Sly." Ron Meyer and Rona De nodded, pulled Stallone away, and the two chatted privately.

This is a Hollywood celebrity. With three series of movies with a box office of [-] million, everyone has to respect him.

Envy welled up in Ronald's heart, and he asked Nisita beside him, "Who is the bodybuilding champion he's talking about?"

"Who else? That Austrian Schwarzenegger, 'Mr. Olympia,' world bodybuilding champion, have you seen 'Conan the Barbarian'?"

"Oh, it's him." Ronald knew that "Conan the Barbarian" was a mythical film directed by Coppola's younger brother John Milius.Released this year, the box office is not as good as Rocky III, but it also broke through [-] million.

(End of this chapter)