Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 237

  The Oscars Dinner Dance in the name of the directors of the Academy of Film was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel. All winners must be present.

   Those who did not win the nominees, and the audience, and those who did not enter the scene, want to squeeze into this natural social occasion. It's not like Hollywood hasn't seen handsome men and beauties being brought into parties and soaring into the sky.

   So pretty much everyone who attended the awards dinner came, except for David Lynch.

   Failed to win one of the eight nominations. This arrogant new director did not want to attend the dinner party and faced the care and ridicule of others.

"Why don't you have one?" Ronald and Diane walked into the dinner together, and soon found the agent Rick Nisita, who had arrived earlier, and they found an empty table and sat down while eating chat.

   "This is the charm of Oscar, no one knows the result until it is announced." Nisita took a bottle of red wine and poured it into several glasses, "Congratulations, Ronald, young Oscar winner, cheers!"

   "Cheers!" Diane and Burt, Richard also toasted.

   Not too many people noticed their joy, nominations for best original screenplay, and best original song lyricist, not much of an award, except the waiter gave them a smile.

   "Can I see this little golden man?" Burt said, staring at the trophy Ronald put on the table. His greatest wish was to train his daughter to be a star actor.

   "Of course", Ronald motioned to Bert to do it himself. He took a plate of seafood pancakes as an appetizer, grabbed two pieces and stuffed them into his mouth. The taste was not bad.

  Ronald took another red wine and poured a little into his glass. Napa Valley, Coppola Winery, it says in round letters on the label.

   "Is this the Coppola I know?" Ronald asked Nisita.

   "Yes, Coppola bought a vineyard with the money he earned from The Godfather 2." Nisita took a sip and put the glass down. He glanced at the Dianes, then leaned into Ronald's ear and said:

   "Spielberg will be late. I made an appointment with his assistant Katherine. You go to deal with your trophy first, make a phone call or something. Come back and wait for him in half an hour, don't delay."

   "I'm going right now." Ronald saw that he would not continue drinking red wine and thought, "Is it bad?"

   picked up his cup and took another sip, and hurriedly ate another seafood pancake. Take the little golden man back from Diane's hand, get up and hand it over to the staff of the Academy Council.

  The place to return the trophy needs to sign a series of procedures. The most interesting thing is that the trophy cannot be resold without permission. If it is put up for auction, the college has the priority to take it back at the price of 1 USD. It was the Academy's remedy after some trophies hit the auction market in the early years.

   "Mr. Li, the academy only provides one free trophy for one award, and the remaining one costs $350." The staff politely asked him who would pay the money.

   "So sell it for 350 and buy it for $1?" Ronald muttered, and waited for Michael Gore to come over. The two discussed it and shared the money equally.

   Lined up to call Aunt Karen, and after the family shared the joy, Ronald walked back to the banquet hall.

  Sit down. Timothy Hutton came over, stretched out his hand to pull Diane over with him, and said that he pointed to the mortal crowd, "Mary Tyler Moore wants to see you."

  Bert stood up to stand in front of his daughter, and his agent, Nisita, also stood up, trying to avoid conflict.

   Ronald also stood up and stretched out his arm for Diane to wrap it, "Let's go see Ms. Moore together."

   Both Nisita and Bert thought it was a good deal, and stood up to prepare to go over.

   "You're my girlfriend and should be with me." Hutton looked a little under the influence of alcohol.

   "Poor child, just because the girl promised to go to the prom with you doesn't mean she will dance with you after the prom starts." Ronald dropped a sentence and took Diane to meet the big names.

   "Hey! You're a screenwriter who didn't win an award" Hutton found that no one cared about him, and followed him back.

   Diane greets lead actress Mary Tyler Moore. It turned out that Mary liked Diane's "Love at Sunset Bridge" very much. Knowing that Hutton's female companion was her, she wanted to chat with her.

   "Robert, this is Ronald for Best Original Song." Redford was also a client of CAA, and Nisita introduced them.

   "Mr. Redford, I'm your fan." Ronald said quickly.

   Redford responded politely, next to his grown daughter.

   When Redford's daughter was just about to go to college, she joked about Hutton, "Isn't this your girlfriend? How to be with others, what does he do."

   "It's just a screenwriter..." Hutton responded indignantly, his voice a little louder.

  Redford and Ronald looked back at the same time.

   "You're a screenwriter, Ronald. Everything you write needs our actors to appear in front of the camera. You write so many scenes, but you can't appear in any of them. Movies are the art of performance after all, right?"

   Hutton said, "The Hollywood spotlight is always on the stars, Ronald. The girls only know me."

  Redford couldn't help frowning when he heard this. The screenwriter of the common man was there. Didn't Hutton include him in his words? At the beginning, in order to invite him to adapt this best-selling novel, I wasted some energy.

  The people at the scene also saw the problem, and everyone looked at Ronald to see how he responded.

   "Mr. Hutton, you won the Best Supporting Actor Award, but you appear in every scene of the movie. Who is your Support?"

  Ronald fought back with words. Hutton is obviously the protagonist, but he did not dare to compete with several veteran acting schools such as Robert De Niro, Jack Lemmon, and Peter O'Toole this year, and went to the best male supporting role to grab the fruit.

The crew also nominated actors for Best Supporting Actor who were forced to give way, Mary Tyler Moore, who directly competed for the actress and failed, and Donald Sutherland, who was squeezed out by Hutton and was not nominated for a supporting actor, all in their hearts. Ronald thumbs up.

   Hutton, who just debuted, won an Oscar, and some of his styles really aroused the hatred of many people.

   "You!" Hutton, who was told the central matter, immediately blushed.

  Robert Redford saw all this and thought to himself that this young man has sharp words and wonders how the screenwriter works?

  Nisita took the opportunity to introduce Ronald as one of the nominees for Best Original Screenplay this year. Redford became a little interested in Ronald and said:

   "A good script is the dream of a film actor. My film festival in Park City, Utah has been changed from this year to January. If you have a good script and make it into a low-budget film, you might as well send it to the exhibition next year."

   Ronald quickly thanked him and went back to his seat with Diane after a few chats.

   At this time, on the other side of the hall, several heavyweights just walked in.

  George Lucas and Mrs. Martha, in and Steven Spielberg. We are discussing the final editing of the new film "The Lost Ark of the Covenant".

   Martha Lucas is also a film editor, "From 3 hours to under 2 hours, it's very good. But I think the film lacks an emotional climax.

  The actor Indiana Jones, and the heroine Marion Lavenwood did not meet in the end. In this way, the audience is missing out of the cinema. "

"You're right, the test audience generally felt that this was a problem. I was preparing for the Harrison and Kelly reshoots." Spielberg said, "Martha, George, did you see anything in the final version? ?"

   "What?" asked Martha.

   "The shot of that McDonnell Douglas DC-3 aircraft", George Lucas smiled, "Is it a shot from an old movie that was reused?"

   "Hahaha, yes. It can save a lot of budget, I don't think the average audience can see it, it's very cleverly cut."

   The three of them took a glass of Coppola's red wine and continued to sit down and chat.

   "How did Francis start selling wine?" Spielberg asked Lucas.

   "His new film 'Old Love and New Love' was withdrawn by the investor, and now he needs to mortgage his own vineyard to complete the film and use it at the Oscar dinner, which can make Chase Bank value it higher."

George Lucas used to be Francis Coppola's younger brother, and he was full of emotion when talking about the eldest brother, "I persuaded him, but he liked the movie very much, and he also invited the dance king Gene Kelly as the choreographer. For this film, he bought a large soundstage in Los Angeles and re-set it instead of shooting it on location."

   Several are old friends who know the style of Francis Coppola, the budget of the movie is always higher and higher, and each shot is like a gamble. Coppola also loves gambling. He once took a thousand dollars to Las Vegas, hoping to win the bet and buy a better camera, but he lost everything.

   "It's okay, Francis Coppola played better when he was under pressure," Spielberg said.

   "Hahaha. You're right." Lucas knew that his old friend was referring to the last movie "Apocalypse Now", and he invested tens of millions of dollars in this way, and then successfully made a comeback at the box office.

   "We're going to be here for a while, how about you, Steven?" asked Martha Lucas, neither of them being social by nature. When I meet old friends, I can talk about the topics I like, but I am not very keen on social occasions like Hollywood.

   "I'm also meeting a young man who gave me some advice on the script for my new film, just as I thought."

   "Young people who interest you? Like Zemeckis?" Robert Zemeckis was the equivalent of Spielberg's apprentice, but he was a screenwriter, and Spielberg's 1941 was a complete failure.

   Spielberg contacted Columbia again and asked Zemeckis to direct "Intrigue", which will be released soon.

   "I don't know, so I want to meet him."

   (end of this chapter)