Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 1014 Go to New York Giants Stadium to shoot

   “I accidentally saw his AmEx statement yesterday.”

   "What does careless mean?"

  In a bookstore in New York, the camera is quietly capturing the conversation between Meg Ryan and Carrie Fisher.

  Sally, played by Meg Ryan, has changed her hairstyle to easy-to-manage curly hair. Another five years have passed, and the time in the movie plot has come to 1987, which is very close to the present. Sally, who is five years older, has lost a lot of fantasies and changed them to reality.

  Her clothes no longer blindly follow the styles in popular magazines as she did when she was young, but are practical and have her own style. A red turtleneck openwork knitted sweater, with a dark brown suede jacket on the outside, and the pair of glasses that were finally picked out also hung on the bridge of Sally's nose.

  Carrie Fisher plays Sally's best friend, Mary. With short hair and a loose brown and green patterned sweater jacket, she looks like an ordinary middle-aged woman. No one would have guessed that she was the **** idol of all American high school kids a few years ago, that Princess Leia in a bikini dancing in front of Jabba.

   Ronald is sitting behind the camera, and Carrie Fisher seems to have written her personal emotional experience with Paul Simon in the past few years into the role of Mary. Paul Simon also maintained a relationship with her for a period of time without proposing marriage, allowing Fisher to interpret Mary's pain in place.

   "I saw it in his briefcase when he was in the shower," Mary wanted to confide in Sally.

   "Are you crazy? What would he think if he came out and saw you rummaging through his bag?" Sally felt bad for her friend's behavior.

   "It doesn't matter...I just wanted to tell you what I found. He bought her wife a silk nightgown for $120, and I don't think he's going to leave her..."

   "Nobody thinks he's going to leave his wife..."

   "You're right, you're right..." Mary stepped aside, her friend's sincere words still made people irritated, she picked up a book and flipped through it, hoping to escape this discomfort.

  An extra performer walked by, Carrie Fisher raised her head and looked in the direction of the camera.

   "Cut! Very good, very good..." Ronald praised Carrie Fisher. The expression that told his lover that he would not leave his wife to give himself an explanation was full of pain and disappointment. Ronald didn't know that Princess Leia was so good at acting.

   "Will I be nominated for an Oscar?" Carrie Fisher pretended to be happy and asked Ronald hopefully. For an actress in a Ronald movie, the chances of getting various awards and critics' affirmation are very high.

   "I don't know, maybe you can tell me?" Ronald said in his heart, how do I know?

   "Hahaha..." Carrie Fisher is actually quite a straightforward person, she didn't ask questions when she saw this, and went to enjoy the snacks and coffee of the crew.

   "It's not impossible at all. The Oscars may not work, but there are still opportunities for star-hungry awards like the Golden Globes." Ronald thought so.

  He handled the filming of this film, deliberately using some innovative techniques and lens language, and deliberately distinguishing it from traditional Hollywood commercial films. For example, the way Carrie Fisher looked directly at the camera just now is a big taboo in traditional Hollywood.

  Hollywood's lens language theory believes that the camera is a tool for objectively recording drama, and looking directly at the camera is equal to acting. When Mary was reading, she found a man peeking at Sally, that is Harry whom she hadn't seen for five years.

  Using the traditional lens language method, here must be a forty-five-degree over-the-shoulder lens to explain Harry's voyeurism. But Ronald feels that the technique is for the purpose of expressing service, looking directly at the camera, as long as the editing is done properly, the audience can also feel the emotion of Mary discovering Harry, and this discomfort will also be caused by this directly facing the camera. The picture, amplified and resonated.

  This method of positively expressing character communication is more common in Japanese movies. For example, Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, in the movie, they don't care about the scheduling of the axis law at all, and they don't see any difficulty for the audience to understand.

   "Billy...I want a comedy version of Jack Nicholson from The Shining...", Ronald requested Billy Crystal.

  For this kind of skilled comedian, the director only needs to propose the desired effect and give him a reference.

   "Comedy version, The Shining, got it," Billy Crystal holds a book to cover his face, and creepy half hides behind a bookshelf.

   "That's the smell..."

   Soon, filming continued. More than five years later, Harry ran into Sally again. This time Mary thought he was a bit handsome, and she was very interested in him when she heard about his career as a political consultant.

  Sally said that Harry was married, but after Mary's questioning, she confessed that Harry said that he was going to get married more than five years ago, and in America, divorce after five years is also very common.

  Sally continued to evade, not wanting to meet Harry again, so she shirked that Harry definitely didn't know herself.

  Unexpectedly, at this time, Harry had already walked in front of her and said, "Hi, Sally Albright, I thought it was you..."

  Carrie Fisher disappeared automatically and quickly...

   "Cut!"

  Mary has realized that Harry and her friend Sally have a special bond, and it is hopeless for Harry to compete with her, so she simply leaves.

  The camera turns to another angle to film Harry and Sally's reunion again.

"How are you?"

   "Fine, I'm fine..."

   "How is Joe?"

   "He's not bad either, I hear he's not bad."

   "You and Joe broke up?"

   "We just broke up..."

   "Cut!" Ronald commanded the camera to turn 180 degrees, and continued to shoot this conversation from behind Harry.

   "I'm sorry to hear the news...it's too bad."

   "Yeah...yeah..." Sally smiled wryly, her expression sad, but she didn't want to show too much sadness in front of Harry, "So, how are you?"

   "I'm fine, fine..."

   "How is life after marriage?"

   "..." Harry's expression also became sad, "It's not good, I'm getting a divorce."

   "I'm sorry, that's too bad".

   "Yeah...so, what's up with you guys?"

   "Cut!"

  Ten years after their first meeting, Harry and Sally have become very practical and matured by life. At difficult times in their respective lives, the two found an old friend they could confide in, and they became acquainted immediately, and they made an appointment to have dinner to talk about the failure of their respective emotional lives.

   "That's all for today..." Ronald announced the end of work on time again. When the filming is on the weekend, I have to go back to spend time with my family, and the two leading actors are the same.

   "Great, I have to catch a plane, go back to accompany Dennis (Quaid), goodbye..." Meg Ryan didn't want to be away from her boyfriend for too long, so in the contract, the crew had to reimburse business class air tickets to go back on weekends.

   "Bye..." Billy Crystal also rushed home to be with his family.

  After bidding farewell to them, Ronald also returned to Staten Island with Little Bud. The plot of this movie unfolded in New York, and most of them were interior scenes. Ronald entrusted all the chores to the assistant director, and he was like a white-collar worker, who could go home and rest on weekends.

   Such a movie shooting schedule made Ronald very comfortable. Of course, this is the treatment only great directors have, otherwise they would not have the ability to equip such a capable crew.

  …

   "Ronald, you are becoming more and more of a family man now." The family had dinner on Friday night, and Douglas Jr. joined in the fun.

   "Doug, you are treating this place as your own home more and more..." Ronald slapped little Douglas lightly with his fist. This guy likes to come to his aunt's house for dinner if he doesn't come home.

   "Hey, you know, eating with a big family is boring, but the atmosphere in your house is good, Donna, don't you think so?"

   "Who wants dessert?" Aunt Karen went and brought pudding.

   "How's the campaign going now?" A week later, old George's advertisements attacking Dukakis appeared one after another. In addition to attacking him for messing up the water quality in Boston Harbor, it also brought it to himself.

  Some newspapers began to attack Dukakis for being mentally unstable and had been admitted to a mental hospital before. Including his wife, Kitty, who burned the American flag in protest of the Vietnam War.

  These rumors are not groundless. The source is Idaho Elephant Party Senator Steve Sims. Because these attacks were too vicious and base, George Sr. did not speak out himself. Instead, it took the usual campaign practice of getting another person to speak out and then running an ad through an action committee quoting that person.

"The attack on George Jr.'s side didn't have any effect. On the contrary, some middle voters think this statement is too bizarre. Kitty Dukakis is not Jane Fonda, and she will not burn the national flag to fight against the war." Douglas Jr. and Ronald lowered their voices and whispered.

   "Why don't you guys go to the study later to talk? We're still having dinner." Donna protested. The family was finally reunited, and the two still kept talking.

   "Okay...", Ronald raised his hand in surrender, waited until the dessert was finished, hugged Aunt Karen to thank her for the dinner, and then went to the study to chat with little Doug.

   "Little George estimates that in about two weeks, Barbara will not stick to the attack strategy and turn to your communication strategy."

   "It's not mine, it's Roger Ailes's." Ronald didn't want to get too involved in the campaign.

   "As long as Little George thinks so..."

  The two still stick to the original strategy. After winning the election, they are just two donors. It will be difficult to meet the commander-in-chief at that time, but it is important to have a good relationship with Little George.

   "Ronald...your assistant director is looking for you...", Donna knocked on the door and motioned for Ronald to pick up the phone.

   "I told them that I'm going to spend the weekend. There may be something urgent." Ronald picked up the phone receiver.

   "Let's go, this is the director's private matter..." Little Douglas stood up and motioned for Donna to go together. All kinds of things in the crew are also very gossip. Let Ronald solve this kind of thing within the scope of the crew.

   "I heard you did a good job in the fund?" Little Douglas chatted with Donna.

   "Mr. Simmons' formula still has some room for fine-tuning, and our operation is still good..."

   "Can mathematics really be used to speculate in stocks?"

   "Yes, this is using the hidden Markov chain method of probability theory to remove the noise in the market data and leave the signal..."

   Little Douglas tried his best to pretend to understand Donna's explanation...

   "What happened? Didn't the Giants agree? Why did they go back on their word?"

   Ronald's voice came from behind the door, full of anger.

   "Ronald, what's the matter?" Donna asked outside the door.

   "I'll talk about it when I get back..." Ronald, who hung up the phone with a snap, came out of the door.

   "The crew wanted to shoot scenes in the stadium of the New York Giants. It was supposed to be good, but we were suddenly informed that we couldn't shoot. Isn't this to make me look good?"

  Ronald was very angry. The biggest fear of making a movie is that the plan will be disrupted. The scene introduces Harry's male friend Jess, who chats about their divorce while watching a New York Giants football game. It not only introduces the audience to Harry's current state, but also introduces a very important character in the second half of the movie, Jess.

  The shooting of the scene will start next week, and now the Giants have suddenly informed that they will not be filming here. In such a hurry, where can I find another professional team that is available? How could Ronald not be angry?

   "Tell my aunt, I'm going to Manhattan right away to talk to the owner of the Giants, what's going on."

   "Are you going alone?" Donna asked, this cousin really worked too hard.

   "Little Bud sent me to Manhattan..."

   "Huh?" It was Donna who elbowed little Douglas, and the latter spoke out.

   "I'll go with you, I'm familiar with the heir of the Mara family of the Giants."

  …

   "It just so happens that Marla's family members are having a meeting today..."

   Arriving in the huge box above the Giants Stadium, the manager in charge of public relations blocked Ronald and Douglas Jr. from the box door.

   "Is Tim there? You told him it was Douglas Hansen Jr." Little Doug is now familiar with wealthy families in all districts of New York because he helped many fundraising meetings of the George family.

  The Tim Mara he was talking about is the current owner of the New York Giants, the two speakers of the Mara family, the nephew of Tim and Wellington, and he is the third generation descendant of the founder. Wellington is Tim's uncle, and the brothers Jack, Tim's father who died unfortunately, are the managers of the Giants.

   "I'll report it."

   Not long after, Ronald and Doug Jr. were invited into the big box.

"Doug, this must be Director Ronald. I'm very glad that you can come to visit our Giants' stadium..." Tim Mara is a middle-aged man in his forties. He introduced a lot to Ronald. members of the family. Today may be a day for discussions within their family, and many members of the Mara family are present.

   "I came here simply to get permission to film on the Giants, and I don't know why my original application was cancelled."

  Ronald finally sat next to Tim and expressed his intention.

   "This is a matter decided by my uncle Wellington, why don't you ask him himself," Tim said calmly.

   "Their uncle and nephew haven't spoken for many years." Little Doug came over to explain that the two had hated each other for a long time because of their disagreement over the candidate for the general manager, and never spoke in public. In recent years, because the Giants have performed very well, Tim has a greater say in the team because of the effective players he has introduced.

   On the other hand, Wellington only got some insignificant powers, such as handling Ronald's application for filming.

  Ronald and Douglas Jr. went over there to find Wellington. Wellington, who was already in his sixties, was chatting with another young man.

  "Mr. Mara", Douglas Jr. was familiar with the head, so he came forward to say hello.

   "Hehe, look who's here? Staten Island bumpkins," the young man looked up and sneered at Ronald and Doug.

"Hehe, so it's you..." Ronald recognized the speaker. It was Steven, the independent producer who had competed with him for the filming rights of "Dirty Dancing" and the eldest son of the Tishi family. · Dishi.

"Uncle Duke (Wellington's name is taken from the Duke of Wellington), don't cooperate with this kind of person, they will only steal what originally belonged to you... Huh..." Steven Tishi was very dissatisfied, " The box office of Dirty Dancing was nothing, but after the income from the video gradually spread in Hollywood, he regretted it to death.

   "I remember that we were in a normal competition at the time. You can't slander my reputation just because the bid is not high enough. I beat you in a fair competition, the loser (Loser.

   Ronald figured out who was doing the trick, and fought back.

  The Tisch family is also a patron of the Giants. In the past two years, in order to buy players to compete for the Super Bowl, their family has also donated a lot of money.

   "Is that so? Little Steven?" Wellington Mara asked Steven Tishi, who looked as if he couldn't afford to lose. If it is really a fair competition as Ronald said, then you can only blame your incompetence, and you can only watch others make a lot of money.

   "Hmph..." Xiao Dishi stood up and left without saying a word.

   "Mr. Mara", Ronald found the real master Wellington Mara.

"I understand you, but it's a decision made by the Giants, not Steven Jr. My nephew Tim doesn't know about football, and the Giants games are the biggest telecast in America. We're not one of those small clubs It’s okay to let you shoot some empty venues, but if the venue is full, shooting will hinder the TV broadcast...”

  Ronald squinted at Tim Mara over there. The uncle and nephew had a deep grudge. One agreed project, another will be destroyed, no matter how big or small, or good or bad for the team.

   "I'd like to get permission to shoot some stadium exteriors". Ronald didn't know how to persuade the other party, so he could only speak empty words stipulated in the agreement. If the other party really disagrees, I'm afraid I have nothing to do with this old money family. The liquidated damages are paid by others, and you cannot force the other party to perform the contract.

   "papa, papa..."

  While Wellington was arguing with Ronald, a little girl a few years old stumbled over and asked Grandpa Wellington to hug her.

  When the little girl passed Ronald, she suddenly lost her balance and fell to the ground.

   "Little cutie, don't fall..." Ronald had sharp eyesight and quick hands, bent down and reached out to pick her up.

   "I want papa..." The little girl was held by Ronald, but she still reached out to get enough of Wellington.

   "Oh, my little Kate", Wellington stretched out his hands to take the little Kate and put it on his lap.

   "papa", the little girl wriggled restlessly, looked at Ronald in turn, became interested again, and giggled at him.

   "What a cute little girl, is this your granddaughter?"

   "Yes, she's Chris's kid, Princess Kate, right? Kate?"

  The two people's perception of each other is very interesting because of a little girl.

"Well, Ronald, little Kate rarely smiles at strangers. You seem to be a man of integrity. I agree to have your camera crew come to the Giants Stadium, but you can only film during the TV break. , I don't want to interfere with the TV broadcast, which is our biggest source of money. You want the Giants to win another Super Bowl, right?"

   "Thank you, Mr. Mara, and thank you for allowing us to shoot. However, I am actually a fan of the San Francisco 49ers." Ronald replied.

   "Ha, if we meet at the Super Bowl, I'll send you tickets." Wellington Mara ignored the two young men and concentrated on teasing her granddaughter Kate.

  (end of this chapter)