Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 604 How much does an aircraft carrier cost per hour?
"What are you going to do with Val Kilmer?" Bruckheimer asked Ronald in the cabin.

"Is it too late to change roles now?"

"Ah..." Bruckheimer was startled, seeing Ronald smiling, he realized that he was joking, "Hahaha, that's what it is like to work with stars, they rank their own image higher than the overall movie appeared."

"I know," Ronald smiled. This is the big difference between an actor and a star.Celebrities will pursue a fixed image both on and off the screen.This is the capital on which they live and work.

From this perspective, he also understands Fang Kilmer a little bit. With that square jaw, he can't play anything but a tough guy.If he can overwhelm Tom Cruise in this scene, it will indeed be good for his image.

But that wouldn't do the movie any good!
Fortunately, the scenes of Val Kilmer on the aircraft carrier have been filmed, and there are only a few shots in the cockpit of the F-14 Tomcat after that. In short, I don't have to bear him for a long time.

"Buzzing..."

Val Kilmer and Rick Rossovich moved to a cabin far away from the nuclear reactor, but it was close to some mechanical device, and there was some noise at night.

The two couldn't sleep. Val Kilmer made a fool of himself on the set today, and he didn't achieve his goal. He was so angry that he picked up the whiskey he smuggled onto the ship and drank it from the bottle.

"Hey, we can finish filming tomorrow, and we can leave this ghost place the day after tomorrow." Rick Rossovich also opened a can of beer and drank it.

"Huh!", Val Kilmer drank the last bit of whiskey in four days, and also took a bottle of beer, and the two of them drank bottle after bottle.

"These privates, they're bastards," Val Kilmer began cursing at the private extras who made him look bad for an ice cream.

"They are all people who... just for a little sweetness. They have been tamed by the army and are no longer free American people." Rossovich is also a bit on top, he plays the radar officer of the Iceman, and Fang Kilmer's two characters are tied together.

"There are also those pilots who look down on us even more."

"Damn it, why should they? We sleep in such a ghost place here, and the pilots sleep in the clean and spacious dormitory on the upper floor."

"That's right, it's not fair, we have to show them some color."

The two drunkards supported each other, staggered up the deck, and walked towards the area where the flying wing was sitting on the front deck.

On the dark deck, the two staggered drunk, bypassing the sentries and other soldiers, and came to the central bridge area.

"Damn it, it's uncomfortable."

Val Kilmer took out his dick and pointed it at the gap between the deck and the wall and took a dip.

"We are farther than anyone else."

Rossovich also started to come.

"Hahaha", Val Kilmer felt very relieved after draining the water, picked up his Polaroid camera, and stuffed it into Rossovich's hand, "Give me a picture"

He made a pose that he thought was very handsome, pointed at the antenna on the bridge with one hand, and saluted with the other.

"Click" Rossovich pressed the shutter, and a quick photo was squeezed out. After he tore it off, he fanned it vigorously in the air, so that it could develop faster.

"Who's there? Hands up!"

A team of sailors just passed by and saw two men dressed as American sailors taking pictures of the most secret antennas on the aircraft carrier, so they hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed them.The officers behind also took out their pistols and pointed them at them.

"Who are you? How did you get on the ship? Why did you shoot the antenna?"

Rossovich was of Eastern European Slavic appearance, and was even more suspicious. He was punched in the stomach by the officer, and he vomited on the floor with an "oh".

"I said that if this kind of unauthorized action happens again, you will be expelled." The captain was woken up by his subordinates in the middle of the night, and found that his sailors had beaten the actors of the two crews.There is also a photograph of the antenna secretly taken in a disposable imaging camera as evidence.

He knew that the actor was probably drinking too much and messing around again, so he might not be a spy of the Sowell Alliance, and he didn't want to involve the investigation team of the higher authority.

So he also angrily sent someone to wake up Ronald and Bruckheimer and let them come to the captain's room.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Captain. Their recidivism is unforgivable." Ronald looked very angry at the two drunks who were still drunk.Today, the shot of the carrier-based aircraft ejecting into the air was going to be shot, and the situation was disrupted by two idiots. It is unknown how much the captain and the flight captain will cooperate this time.

"Gentlemen, the aircraft carrier is the weapon of the navy, and the navy is the most disciplined force. What do you think I should do with them?"

"According to Mr. Captain's opinion."

The captain was even dissatisfied with Ronald. This group of people has really brought down the atmosphere on the aircraft carrier. If the sailors will come like this in the future... After all, the aircraft carrier is a place that pays attention to discipline.

"Then I'm going to fulfill my promise. I'll ask you two to leave the enterprise account at dawn."

The two actors, at dawn, were stuffed into the helicopter and transferred to the supply ship in the fleet, where others picked them up and left.

During the morning lecture, the captain reiterated his discipline, the sailors on the ship were canceled the ice cream supply on the weekend, and the crew began to become an unwelcome group of people.

Only the carrier-based aircraft wing, which does not belong to the same command system as the captain, is more welcome to the crew.Ronald, along with the remaining technicians and actors, moved to the flight department to prepare.

As dusk approached, it was the crew's last chance to film the catapult takeoff aboard the Enterprise.

"Don't worry, the captain is not targeting you. If you don't pay attention to discipline, this behemoth will not be able to survive a day at sea." The squadron leader of the fighter squadron came to chat with Ronald.They are the group of people who welcome the crew the most. After all, the protagonist of the movie is the pilot of the carrier-based aircraft.

"I understand, but they are a bit too much, and they deserve to be sent away. I hope the captain will not be too angry and affect the shooting."

"Hahaha, this is probably the first time in the history of the Enterprise that someone sprinkled water under the bridge where the captain was entrenched."

It seemed that the captain wasn't too narrow-minded and meant to embarrass them.

Ronald commanded the camera crew and set up a battle on the deck.

The fighter squadron was very cooperative. The landing team, the ejection team, the weapons team, and the maintenance personnel who refueled and powered up, wore helmets and vests of different colors, and made various actions very cooperatively.

Two F-14As are also very cooperative on the deck, allowing maintenance personnel to prepare.

Ronald is still the old way, shooting against the light.In the setting sun, the steel behemoth was guided into the steam catapult in the launch area.

This silhouette-like effect in backlight is very suitable for shooting take-off shots.

"Top Gun crew special operation, request to take off." The squadron leader used the pager to communicate with the bridge captain and the flight control center.

"Agreed to take off" came the flight control center's agreeing voice from the wing captain.

"Attention, turn around," the captain also issued an order.

There was a rapid siren sound, the red light began to come on, and the huge Enterprise aircraft carrier began to turn around, turning to the direction it came from just now.

"What are you doing? Don't turn around! I want that direction."

Ronald watched the aircraft carrier begin to turn slowly, almost crazy.Finally found a suitable backlight angle, what is the captain doing?
He looked at the figure on the bridge and the distance of the stairs. Time was precious. Ronald walked to the landing gear where the camera was installed and asked the coolie to shake him up.

Ronald sat on the platform of the lift and was sent to the opposite side of the bridge window, and he shouted to where the captain was.

"I want you to face that direction, I want the backlight in that direction!"

"What did you say?" The captain motioned to open the window.

"I want the aircraft carrier to face that direction, I want to shoot backlight, go back quickly, there is not much time for suitable lighting."

"I'm sorry, this is already the boundary of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier formation in the Indian Ocean mission area. According to the formation order, I have to turn around."

"How do you want to turn around?" Ronald yelled towards the bridge, holding the helicopter in one hand.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Li. The navy is performing its mission and has not cooperated with your obligations. The subsidy we receive is only two hours a day. Today's time has come."

Ronald was mad, Navy bastards.They were charged tens of thousands of dollars an hour for the use of the aircraft carrier. In fact, they were going to go to sea. The money was just a license fee.

After receiving the money, he refused to accommodate on the mission route.Even if Val Kilmer offended him, there was no need to retaliate like this.

"It's time? How much does it cost to rent the aircraft carrier for an extra hour?" Ronald called out in a hurry?
"Hehe, twenty-five thousand dollars." The captain sneered and spread his hands.He didn't want to cooperate with these bastard artists.If you want to shoot, just shoot, if you don't want to shoot, just pull it.You have to change direction. Is the American Navy serving Hollywood?

Ronald waved the elevator down and shouted to the assistant director, "Get my bag."

After taking the bag, he took out the checkbook and pen, wrote a note on it, tore it off, and commanded the elevator to go up to the window of the bridge.

"It's twenty-five thousand dollars, now give me a fucking U-turn."

The dumbfounded captain took the check from Wells Fargo, which read, USS Enterprise, $[-].Below is the signature: Ronald V. Lee.

"Turn around!"

The captain didn't expect Ronald to write a check. It seemed that he was really in a hurry.Soldiers love action, and the captain immediately ordered a U-turn.

"Action!"

Seeing that the aircraft carrier was back on the correct course, Ronald quickly ordered to start filming. The sun was already setting.

The flame deflectors were raised, and Navy fighter pilots turned on the afterburner.First to the left, then to the right, the two tailpipes opened, emitting orange-red flames.

The engine gradually increased from a soft hiss to a roar.

"Bang", the heavy hammer of the steam catapult was disengaged at once, and the F-14A Tomcat seemed to be pushed hard by someone, and rushed forward along the deck.

Very close to the end of the deck, the tomcat raised its head, made a very chic gesture, and flew into the sky.

"One more!" Ronald yelled.

"Bang", on another take-off runway, another F-14A was ejected and stood up at the end of the deck.

"Shxt! Only two were photographed."

Seeing that Kimball had given him a good signal, Ronald felt at ease, and wondered if this little material was enough.

(End of this chapter)