Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 245 Who are you filming for?

   "So this is the secret of the stone ball? Install it on the track with a trap, which can stop the stone ball from rolling at any time?" Ronald heard Spielberg's introduction and knew how to make the stone ball not dangerous.

   "Yes, although the glass fiber reinforced plastic is very light and hollow, but I doubled the size of the stone ball. If it rolls, it is still dangerous. It is much better with the brakes."

   "Good luck with your ET project and thank you for your advice."

   "Good luck to you too, Ronald." Spielberg said goodbye with a "I don't need good luck" smile.

After    and Spielberg get some tips on shooting, Ronald and Nisita leave the theater.

"Why, aren't you going to the parking lot with me? I'll take you back to the hotel." Nisita got on Singberg as she wished, and was about to pick up the car when she saw Ronald standing still at the door of the ticket booth. Feeling strange, come up and ask him.

"I'm wondering why Spielberg is so confident." Ronald stared at the door of the ticket booth, not moving. "ET's script is clearly aimed at young children, and Columbia's marketing department is right. And teenagers will love to watch it. A film for young children?"

   "Didn't you say it? He has the ability to realize his imagination. Simberg also trusts him. Let's go, this is not the time to think about this, you should prepare for the next interview.

  Amy Hecklein is not an outsider. We have learned that she is your alumnus at NYU Diesel College, a few years older than you. She has done editing work in Los Angeles for a period of time, and she has the strength to act as a director. "

   "Okay, I'll come." Ronald took two steps and looked back at the crowd lined up outside the ticket booth. Today, many parents took their children to see the preview of the PG-rated "The Lost Ark of the Covenant". The parents accompanied the children, and there were several people in the whole family. "

   Ronald returned to the hotel and waited with peace of mind for the joint interview to decide who would be the director.

  Things to be thought have been thought, all that has to be done have been done, the dice have been rolled, waiting for the judgment of the facts.

Ronald became relaxed all of a sudden. He took notes on the script every day to see if there was any new inspiration. He took time to watch TV shows. There are many TV shows produced locally by Hollywood in California. He watched the blond **** TV. Quan Dang was relieved of his boring conversation in the valley accent.

He even took the opportunity to watch a few movies, including the just premiered "Endless Love". Before the heat of Brooke Shields' congressional hearing had passed, PolyGram played a big hit with Brooke Shields in theaters all over the country. The poster with the avatar attracts some people very much.

   "Oh, Jed's boyfriend loves her so much that he will do anything for her."

   "Yeah, when we go to high school, it would be nice to have a boyfriend like David."

   "Is it really that good between men and women?"

   "I don't know either, my sister is already in grade 12, she said I'll know when I get into high school."

   Ronald, who was sitting in the cinema, couldn't help laughing while listening to the little girls in the seventh and eighth grades talking about the movie.

   In fact, Brooke Xiaosi's ecstatic expression was the result of forcibly controlling the pain and itching caused by pinching her toes.

   As if to blame Ronald for his inappropriate laughter, the little girls in the front, back, left, and right all glared at him.

   Ronald hurriedly sat down. There were only two or three teenage couples among the dozens of spectators in the hall, and most of them kissed each other as if no one else was there.

   A week later, it was finally time for the interview scheduled with Simberg and Mount.

   Ronald finally met his invisible opponent, Amy Hecklin.

   She is a beautiful woman, wearing a pair of sunglasses, with slightly curly short hair scattered on both sides, a black shirt on the upper body, a pair of jeans and sneakers on the lower body, the whole person is very free and easy.

   She reminds Ronald of Catherine Bigelow, a woman who wants to be a film director, with some tough and capable qualities.

Amy Hecklein came over to say hello, "Hi, Ronald, I'm Amy. I heard you're a New Yorker too? A student of the Emperor? New Yorkers are familiar with the rules of competition. It's a professional behavior, not a personal grudge. "

   "There is no personal grudge involved." Ronald shook hands with her.

   Immediately, Amy Hecklin was the first to be called into the interview room to interview Tom Mount and Sidney Simberg.

   "Americans like to say that," Ronald said to Nisita and Richard who were with him.

   "Because the American people like to compete, they can cooperate after winning and losing. This is the key quality of our leadership in the free world." Nisita replied.

   "Bullshit." Ronald thought to himself. There is nothing that doesn't involve personal grievances, there are only so few opportunities, and you can't give them to me. For anyone who gets the chance to direct, they can get a chance to roll the dice, and they can continue to direct new movies if they sell well at the box office.

   And the one who didn’t get the chance, had to go back to technical careers like editing, assistant director, casting director, etc.

   Or continue to write the script, wait for a chance to be spotted by the producer, and then compete with other younger players.

   There is nothing here that is not personal.

   "Amy, can I call you Amy?" In the interview room, Tom Mount greeted Hecklen first.

   "Sure, Mr. Mount, Mr. Simberg."

   "Please tell me what you want this movie to be like?" Simberg began to ask.

"I wanted to make 'Fast Rhythm' a song ensemble about teens growing up. California high school students are very diverse, so that when the audience sees it, they think of themselves in high school, and high school Like friends and teachers..."

  Amy Hecklein added some of his own understanding to the character portrait of Ronald given by Mount.

   She was interviewed first, arranged by Tom Mount, so that she could gain a lot of advantages with Simberg.

After    asked a few questions, the interview with Heckling was over. Tom Mount was whispering something to Simberg, and Heckling was about to leave.

   "Miss Hecklen, last question, who are you making the movie for?" Simberg asked, interrupting Mount's whisper.

   "Who is it for?" Hecklin didn't expect that there was still a problem, and was a little surprised. But she quickly reacted, "I want to make a comedy for the audience."

   "It will be somewhere between a neuro-comedy and a romantic comedy, with some farce elements. I want the audience to feel that the characters in this comedy are living around us.

  Let's put it this way...if an audience member wakes up and finds himself in the world of comedy movies. Then the audience who fell into the "unprecedented flying" will feel hopeless, and all the characters are crazy.

  The audience who fell into the "9 to 5" will feel scared, and the supporting characters in it are even **** and hung from the ceiling in order to laugh.

  I hope the audience who falls into the 'fast-paced Richmond High School' will feel relieved. Because they've entered the high school world again, there's no one to kill them here, and no nerve-racking dialogue, but a lighthearted, knowing humor.

  Like when I watched George Luca's debut "American Graffiti", the laughter was full of hope and sweetness. "

   "Thank you, Miss Hecklen."

  Amy Heckling came out of the room just in time to see Ronald. She stretched out her hand and shook Ronald again, "You don't have to be discouraged if you lose, you might as well be an assistant director for me. With this experience, you will soon be able to direct independently."

   This is the second person to say something similar to Ronald recently, but this time Ronald and her are rivals, so I don’t want to show weakness,

   "So do you, Miss Hecklen."

   "Hello, Ronald, tell me what you want this movie to be like." Tom Mount sat upright and began to ask Ronald questions in an official tone.

   "Like I said last time, I want America's young people to see their own lives on the screen..." Ronald repeated his last thoughts.

   "Are you going to make it into a drama? Like your last screenwriting work 'Famous Around the World'?"

"No, I want to make a light comedy with a realistic touch about the love lives of men and women in those public schools in the California Valley. Most of the three public TV shows are produced in Hollywood, and the valley accent here also spreads to All over America.

With the increasing number of teenage viewers of TV series, the valley accent in Southern California has become a symbol of a superior life, and young people across the country are popular with California high school students, so I hope to shoot the characteristics of the valley girl and attract the national audience. audience. "

  Tom Mount cross-examined some more questions, then began to whisper to Simberg, shaking his head as he spoke.

   "Who do you want to make this movie for?" Interrupting Mount's whisper, Simberg asked this question as usual.

   "Show it to high school students across America." Ronald replied without hesitation.

   "The content of this movie will probably be rated R. This way our main audience will need to be accompanied by adults.

   Of course America's movie theaters don't strictly follow this rule, and our audience won't ask their parents to watch this kind of movie with their parents, who will be intimidated by how open the movie is.

   Therefore, the **** they seek to watch the movie will not look for their parents like the "Lost Ark of the Covenant", but the whole family will go out to watch the movie. They are probably looking for older brothers, seniors, or even older heterosexual lovers.

  The viewing tastes of these teenagers are not like those of the younger audiences faced by the ET script, and there should be no violence or exposure scenes that cause discomfort.

  It's not like the recently released "Endless Love", most of them are junior high school girls, a group of little girls who have no experience in love, as long as the love in your movie makes them feel great, no matter how ridiculous the content is.

   What teenage audiences need is a certain authenticity that makes them feel believable about the characters on the screen. It also includes some of the things they wanted to do in life but didn't get it done.

   For example, winning a rugby game, successfully deceiving your parents after getting into trouble, or finding your beloved boyfriend and girlfriend to spend the first time in your life together…”

  Simberg was satisfied with Ronald's answer.

   "Mr. Li, thank you, you can go out now."

  After the door was closed by Ronald, Tom Mount changed direction and said to Simberg, "Hecklin has more experience. She edited documentaries for film academy in Hollywood for half a year."

   "But I heard that she was fired because she couldn't find where to put the edited film."

   "I watched Hecklin's graduation short film, it was very inspirational, and she grasped the character portraits in the script very accurately."

   "Don't talk like a fool, Tom. That was Ronald's first interview question you asked him."

   "And take care of your crotch, Tom. Don't hang around with these women of interest, the company's lawyers have handled several cases for you."

   "You!" Tom Mount was at a loss for words, but then he said, "Sidney, you still want to get ET back from Columbia, right?"

   "I decided on a film project without your consent, Tom."

   "But you don't want someone to trouble you on the board, do you?"

"what do you want?"

   "Hecklin likes this script very much..."

  "Impossible, Ronald is obviously the better candidate, he's a script writer and Roger Coleman trained him to know how to operate a low-budget movie.

   More importantly, Spielberg admires him very much and wants to invite him to his amusement park to play, I don't want to make extra troubles in the ET thing. "

   "Then what I promised Heckling..."

   "That's your business, you can find another job for her. I'll approve it."

   "Okay, Sidney, you win this time." Tom Mount raised his hands in surrender.

   (end of this chapter)