Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 486 Aunt's Concession

"What's your new movie about?" Aunt Karen asked after she and Ronald had finished her dinner.

"It's a story about a single-parent boy, how he found a mentor, broke through his own obstacles, finally defeated the strong enemy who bullied him, and won the girl's heart..." Ronald said the general plot of "Longwei Boy" aside.

"Is it fighting again?" Aunt Karen asked a little dissatisfied.

"It's not that kind of violent fighting, it's a kind of fear that breaks through the self. There are no plots that are not suitable for minors in the whole film. We are going to apply for PG rating." Ronald explained.

This time, instead of using nudity and violence to lure teenagers, he turned to traditional narrative and a bit of magical martial arts.After all, PG-rated movies can attract more audiences.

"So there's a Vietnam Veteran plot?" Aunt Karen asked a few more words after hearing that Chris in the Cobra Dojo was a Vietnam Veteran.She wondered what Ronald would make of the Vietnam Veteran.

"Yes, but I criticized his philosophy. Violence should not be for the sake of violence. We are so strong in America, why should we bully those farmers? So I asked those students not to agree with the philosophy of secret violence in the end. Learning martial arts is to protect yourself from being bullied."

Aunt Karen was silent for a rare moment. She brought coffee and put sugar cubes and milk on Ronald. The commander-in-chief at the time also had thoughts like yours, and he wouldn’t have sent Steve to the battlefield if he went too.”

Steve, my aunt's husband, had been in the Marine Corps, like Ronald's father.

"Thank you." Ronald had prepared a full stomach of excuses to answer his aunt's old idea of ​​asking him to go back to college to get a diploma, but he didn't expect it to come to nothing.

"Hee hee", Donna smiled beside her. She had already said a lot of good things about Ronald to Aunt Karen, so she won't embarrass him this time.

"I'm really happy, Ronnie. This story you tell reminds me of those movies I saw when I was a kid. It was so good. Besides making money, movies have to be touching. I used to persuade You go back to college, and now I see that you can really make a difference in this industry, I am relieved."

"When this movie comes out, I will go see it with Donna. If this movie satisfies me, then I won't urge you to go back to college to finish your studies. Hey, I was very difficult at the time, and I didn't notice that you had Such a good artistic talent almost delayed you."

Speaking of the past, my aunt was a little excited again.Ronald quickly hugged Aunt Karen, and the two sat down to drink coffee and chat.

"Your mother left me a message at that time, she must let you graduate from college. Although you haven't finished your studies now, if your film can move and teach people, I think it can be considered as meeting your mother's request. You can rest assured..."

Aunt Karen recalled the scene where her sister and her husband were in a car accident, and her sister entrusted her son after seeing her. If the movie was released, if it was really as good as Ronald said, it would be time to hand over the relics left by her sister to Ronnie.

Thinking of this, Aunt Karen looked at Ronald's wrist, "Hey, where's your watch?"

"I sent it for maintenance, Helen... Helen said it was a pilot's watch from a long time ago, and I sent it to a watch store for some maintenance. When I make movies in the future, I will just wear this Casio electronic watch."

Aunt Karen nodded, "This is your father's relic, you should keep it well."

Donna went back to her room and started busy with her own affairs.Aunt Karen took out a large pile of papers and showed Ronald.

"This is the operation of the leg warmer factory. The movie 'Lightning Dance' you participated in was very popular, and even leg warmers became popular among teenagers. Not only dance students, but ordinary girls now wear them, and there are many more People also wear it when they do aerobics."

No wonder Aunt Karen has gained confidence. It doesn't matter if Ronald doesn't go to college. Even if he doesn't make money as a director in the future, the sales of his leg warmer factory have increased significantly this year.Hundreds of thousands of sets have been sold.

"The net profit of the factory is more than [-] U.S. dollars. I didn't expand the production capacity without authorization, and continued to follow the principles you said, Ronnie, to maintain high profits. It's almost the end of the year, and I plan to use it to distribute dividends to everyone."

"That's good." Ronald thought of the small shareholders in the leg warmer business. He doesn't care about the money now, and he will share it as a share, and let these people around him share some of his own money. success.

On the contrary, the ability of movies to sell goods exceeded his expectations. A blockbuster movie actually sold so many leg warmers.

"This is what you should get, a total of forty thousand dollars." Aunt Karen pointed to Ronald on the column of dividends.

Ronald was not short of the money and wanted Aunt Karen to accept it.

The aunt insisted on giving, "Business is business, and the Parker family will not fail to keep their promises."

Seeing what his aunt said, Ronald accepted it.He was going to use the money to pay for Donna's college living expenses.Elizabeth Su told him that at the Ivy League University, even if Donna got a scholarship, she still needed a lot of social expenses to maintain friendship with her classmates.

If you want to go to Vermont's ski resort for vacation, everyone will go, but if you don't go, you won't fit in.You still have to travel to Europe in the summer, and if you can’t afford air tickets and hotels, you’re not in the circle.The girl's clothes are also very expensive, so I definitely can't let Donna be underestimated.

Auntie went to clean up the tableware, and Donna sneaked out to ask Ronald.

"Ronnie, why don't you visit Diane? She's going to be kidnapped by the leading actor."

"What did you say?" Ronald was taken aback.

"Of course I'm going to see her. What's the matter with the male lead you mentioned?"

"It's Richard Gere from 'The Cotton Club'. They play a couple in the movie, and your good friend Nick Cage is there. When I went to visit the set, he asked about you .”

"I'm asking what happened to the abduction?"

"Hahaha, I scared you. It seems that you still care about Diane. She knows you are back, so why don't you go see her?"

Ronald looked at Donna and confirmed that she was joking, "I'll go tomorrow and call Director Coppola later."

The next day, Ronald arrived at Kaufman-Astoria Studios in Queens. "Cotton Club" was filmed in New York throughout, and the studio restored the Harlem district where gangsters were prevalent in the 20s very well.

The Cotton Club was actually a nightclub in a black enclave in Harlem.There are moonshine wines for sale during the Prohibition period, and there are also many black musicians and dancers playing soft and quiet jazz.

Diane plays a Cotton Club dancer in this film who is the plaything of a mob boss and ends up flying away with her beloved trumpet player.

Wearing a visitor's badge, Ronald quietly hid behind to watch the filming.

Richard Gere plays the trumpet player, he seems to have the ability to play the trumpet, blowing jazz all the time while warming up on the set.

"Dudu, Didi..." He played very devotedly and intoxicated.But Ronald sounds like a mediocre level.

"Hey, how do you think I play? Can I join Woody Allen's band?" Richard Gere was chatting with the manager.

"Where's Diane?" Ronald looked around but didn't see her.

"Hey, Ronnie, why are you here?" It was Nicolas Cage who spoke in a muffled voice as if he had a rhinitis attack.

"What's wrong with your nose?" Ronald thought he had an allergic nose when he heard his pronunciation.

"Don't you think this is cool? I am imitating the acting skills of German expressionist films. Isn't this kind of sound very charming?"

Ronald felt that something was wrong with the crew. Everyone was thinking about how to express themselves, but no one was in charge of the overall situation.What is Coppola doing there?
"Are you here to see my uncle?" Cage enthusiastically called to his uncle Francis Coppola.

"Ronald, it's good, it's good that you're here." Coppola bit his fingernails aside, his gaze was a little dull.His hair was scattered and disheveled, and he seemed to be watching the set absently, without giving orders.

"What's wrong? Aren't you shooting today?"

"We're still waiting for the band, and their Concorde is coming soon." Cage spoke beside him.

"Concorde?" Ronald wondered.

"It's the jazz band members in the Cotton Club. They are one of the best jazz bands in New York. Now they have performances in Switzerland. Every time they take the Concorde to go back and forth between the two sides of the Atlantic. It's very fast, just two hours."

Ronald was stunned by the huge waste of the crew, but Coppola was the director. He frowned and said nothing, but asked, "Where's Diane? Why didn't you see her?"

"Isn't that right?" Cage pointed to a woman in a black dress walking over from the dressing room.

"Hey..." Ronald gasped. It's been more than a month since he last seen him. How did Diane become like this.

Diane was wearing a V-neck evening gown, carrying a small bag studded with diamonds and pearls, wearing what I don't know the so-called heavy makeup from the 20s, and the red lipstick was scary.

The eye shadow is very deep, like two panda eyes, and a pair of very individual eyebrows have been repaired into the curved and thin eyebrows of old Hollywood.

The most ridiculous thing is the hat worn by Di An, which wraps her hair tightly, and the hair in circles below is fixed under the hat, like the bun of a Buddha statue from the East.

"Ronnie!" Diane ran over happily, took Ronald's arm and shook it, "You're here."

Ronald was pulled by Diane, and the strange feeling of this weird make-up faded a little in his heart. Diane was still that cute little sister.

"Donna said you're still filming, I'm here to visit."

Diane came up and hugged Ronald tightly. She also missed Ronnie a little bit. Yesterday Donna called her to inform her about Ronald's itinerary. She didn't expect to surprise herself by appearing on the set today.

Ronald was hugged tightly by her, feeling Diane's still hot figure under Diane's ugly old-fashioned dress.He put his arms around Diane, picked her up and turned her around in half a circle.

"Why is it so heavy?" Ronald thought to himself, Diane was much fatter than when he was filming "Streets of Rage", and... there seemed to be a large decoration on the abdomen of this old-fashioned dress, separating himself and Dai Ann's stomach hurts.

Ronald put her down slowly, touched the belly of her dress with his hand, and thought, "What kind of decoration is this, it's still soft."

"Ah?" There was a trace of warmth in Ronald's hand, which turned out to be Diane's belly.He was shocked like he was struck by lightning.

"You... are you pregnant?"

"What's pregnant? I'm not pregnant?" Diane followed Ronald's gaze and looked at his stomach. Because of Coppola's request, he voluntarily gained a lot of weight.In order to restore the aesthetics of the 20s, I not only gained [-] pounds, but also plucked out a lot of eyebrows, and made a lot of sacrifices.

"You...I..." Diane didn't come up in one breath, "Do you think I'm fat, I'm so angry, I'm so angry..." She punched and kicked Ronald.

(End of this chapter)