Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 254 Chapter 205 Do not forget the original intention

   Ronald's first reaction when he got home was to call Ed Limato, the Italian bastard.

   "Ed, you bastard, you've hurt me. Nicholas is only 17 years old, and now my hero is going to be taken by Hecklen's people.

  You are a bug, hiding in dark corners every day, trying to **** blood on the artist's body, and exuding all kinds of stench.

  Customers are all your family? I think you're worse than Michael Corleone in The Godfather, and it's your family that's the one to blame. "

   scolded Limato in the face, and finally calmed down. Limato on the other end of the phone could only be perfunctory and apologize by the way.

"Nicholas deliberately made a fake birth certificate in order to get the main role. Someone deliberately went to his uncle Francis to ask for evidence. I think the crew is still targeting you, Ronald, you have to be careful." Limato told his investigation conclusion.

  Ronald hung up the phone and fell into inexplicable irritability.

  The male protagonist Brad is likely to be taken away by Judge Reinhold, and he has lost the opportunity. The heroine was asked to find Bo Ji, who now also looks dangerous. If Heckling gets most of the cast, she can question her directing on set.

   When it comes to the daily sample viewing session where the producer will attend, if you are questioned again. Pinch up and down, your position will start to shake.

   If this kind of doubt is passed on to the crew again, then the actors will have more distrust of themselves, and the daily shooting quality will decline, which is a vicious circle.

   If this situation continues for a week, then there is a real possibility that the director will be dismissed according to the contract because the quality of the film does not meet the requirements of the producer. Hollywood pays attention to the rules. Whoever hires you can fire you. The contract is written in black and white, and there is no emotion to talk about.

   Looking at the computer on the table, the more Ronald thought about it, the more wrong he felt. He suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and began to continue writing the script evaluation of "Back to the Future".

  I also have a trump card, which is the airborne support of Spielberg on the day of the launch. For this, I have to take time to write the evaluation opinions.

"After the protagonist travels back to the 1950s and helps his parents change history, he should not make too much changes to the history of the 1980s, so that the audience cannot gain more empathy. Instead, it should be in the parents' original house, on the original site. Great improvement..."

   Saved the disk, Ronald pressed the print button, and the dot matrix printer began to print out his own words.

   ripped off the printed page, and Ronald read it through without any problem. Then I pressed the button of the floppy drive, and with a bang, the thin five-inch floppy disk popped out with great force.

   Ronald was not used to the elasticity of the floppy drive, and accidentally cut a hole in his finger by the floppy disk. He put his injured finger in his mouth and went to the medicine cabinet in the bathroom for a Bundy Band-Aid.

   Finally found the medicine box above the mirror, Ronald stuck his fingers and glanced at himself in the mirror inadvertently.

   An anxious face appeared in the mirror, with a messy beard and a little blood in his eyes.

"What's wrong with me?"

  Ronald walked back to the bedroom where the computer was placed, which was used as a study. It is my dream to be a film director, and now I have realized it but I am not as happy as I imagined.

   After I became a director, I didn't do much of what I wanted to do. Kanjing, drawing storyboards, and imagining how to recreate the text in the script into an image.

   This is something that I have repeated many times in my dreams. But now his energy seems to be mainly on the power struggle.

  "Fast-paced Richmond High School" is a masterpiece that even released a commemorative video tape 15 years later. The picture in the dream told me without a doubt that if I could reproduce the level of the movie in my dream, it would undoubtedly have realized my dream of making a movie that will be remembered many years later.

  Why do these things that divide the scope of power? Make sure your name is in the director's column?

  If I don’t follow the rules of art and compromise for power in casting, I’m afraid I will be caught by the other party. As long as you respect the rules of artistic creation and find actors with suitable temperament to play the corresponding roles, who else can take away their position?

  Amy Heckerling, like herself, is a novice who has never directed a feature film. Although she spent several years studying in school more than herself, filmmaking is a craft, and she may not have as much experience as she has learned in practice, so she shouldn't be afraid of her.

   The so-called director's power ultimately depends on the dailies produced. Actors are all professionals. When they show their daily dailies at night, they can tell whether they are good or bad when they see their performances.

   As long as you can give them the opportunity to perform and let them see that their career prospects are promising after the movie is released, who will recruit themselves into the crew, what does it matter?

   Ronald felt that he had fallen into a misunderstanding and regarded the means of various power struggles as the goal.

   Seeing the "Back to the Future" script on the desk, he posted a post-it note with Spielberg's name on it. "Don't forget your original dream, think about your original intention when you go wrong," Spielberg's advice to himself came to mind.

   "Shxt! You can't get caught up in the power struggle of the crew like this. As long as you respect the rules, and there is a nuclear director who promised to come to the crew to support him, I don't believe that you can't establish the authority of the director, and you won't be able to make a blockbuster classic."

  Ronald took off his T-shirt and went to take a hot shower. The warm water rushed over his head, making him think about a lot of things.

   By the time he finished his bath, he had fully figured out what to do next.

  The actor dreamed of in the dream, even if it is not the best, has been proved to be successful by another history, and I don’t need to deliberately divide it according to the personnel camp.

   Sean Penn still asked him to play the fool Spiccoli according to the assignment in the dream, and don't move him to Brad, so that the temperament does not fit and the filming will not be effective.

  Judge Reinhold just like a dream, to play the role of big brother Brad. In the interview, Tom Hanks is more suitable than other candidates, and also to test the possibility of TV dramas and movies.

   As for Nicholas Coppola, and Eric Stoltz, give a small role if you will.

  The heroine Stacey, in the dream scene, was played by the star's daughter Jennifer Jason Lee. In the limited swimming pool scene, she acted quite well, and she was still invited to audition.

  Her best friend Linda, the prettier girl, Mike the scalper, and Mark the "rat" nerd were not seen in the audition. Or take the initiative to go to the casting director to see the audition materials.

   Brooke Xiaosi also got in touch. If she is willing to come, there is a commercial shoot, and the incense love of "endless love", I believe that she knows better than anyone how to direct this beauty with little acting skills.

  According to the cast of the dream cast, plus the personal connections that I have accumulated, and CAA's agent network, the advantage is still on my side.

   Act now!

   A few days later, Brooke Shields' mother received a script from Ronald.

   After learning about the story, Terry was not very satisfied, because Stacey was not the absolute protagonist in this movie, and she didn't want her daughter to compete with other actresses for time in the movie.

   "But I want to play this kind of play, this kind of play is very interesting, just like the story in my high school." Brooke wanted to try it a little bit.

   "Darling, dear, this doesn't fit your identity and status." Terry comforted her daughter, "And the crew doesn't have a budget, so you can't pay your salary."

   "Anyway, I think Ronald is very good at directing. When he directed my scenes, my classmates said I did a good job." Brooke whispered.

  Terry paused for a moment, and Brooke's youthful rebellious mentality was a bit of a seizure. It turned out that she would not object to her decision, but now she insists on her own disagreement for Ronald, a young director. It appears that action needs to be taken.

   "Honey, I will negotiate the price with the producers. If they can pay 1.5 million, nothing will be an obstacle."

  Ronald left the negotiation with Brooke to producers Lin Sen and Hecklin, and went to ABC's TV production studio to discuss the possibility of Hanks working part-time.

   "We usually shoot from nine in the morning to six in the evening, and most of the content is shot in the studio."

   "This is the home of the two protagonists." Ronald followed the production supervisor to visit, "This is the bedroom, this is the living room..."

  It turns out that the home of the two in the TV series is actually next door in the studio.

   "If you shoot part-time at the same time, then you can only let him shoot at night," the production director concluded.

   That can't be done. Most of the "fast-paced" scenes are in the daytime. If you use technical means to shoot the daytime at night, the cost is unacceptable.

   Except for Hanks, and Brooke Shields encountered difficulties here. Several other characters are easy to find.

  Nerdy "Rat" Mark's original cast is Brian Becker, who at first glance doesn't seem like the type to ask girls out in high school.

The poor family's child, scalper Mike, is hidden in the casting director's data pile. Robert Romanus himself was born in the slums of the Bronx, New York. He pooled money to buy a plane ticket to Los Angeles. He has a kind of poor family child. temperament.

  Ronald put him in the Universal dormitory and asked him to do odd jobs to earn money. The boy will do anything.

   Neither of the two, Hecklin, expressed any objection. Their roles were relatively small, and she was satisfied that the temperaments of the two actors fit the roles. Among the six leading actors, five have been confirmed or have candidates. Only the black-haired girl with big glasses who played Linda was nowhere to be seen.

  Ronald scoured the audition photos sent, and also found descriptions of the actors, hoping to see more candidates, but there will still be no trace of the crowd for a while.

  Ronald can only draw simple sketches, but he can't print out the appearance of the actors in his mind, and it is too slow to find.

  On this day, Ronald just came out of CAA's office after reading a box of actor materials, and was suddenly stopped by a warm voice.

   "Ronald!"

   Ronald looked back and saw that it was the Israeli brothers Minahan and Yoram.

   "I knew it was you. Come and sit in our office?"

   "Next time, I'm busy right now."

   "Know, know, we saw the news of your project on The Hollywood Reporter, and Universal Pictures made the news."

   "Let's go and sit for a while, our office is nearby, very soon, without delaying your business." Yoram was also very enthusiastic.

   "Okay" Ronald felt that it would be a good pastime to chat with the Israeli brothers for a while, and Minahan's brain was especially great.

   "I heard that you are shooting a youth film? What's the story?"

   "The ones on The Hollywood Reporter." Ronald summed up the stories published in the newspaper.

   "So there's drag racing, love, love between men and women, abortion..." Minahan counted with his stubby fingers.

   "Yes, those are the elements."

   "Hahaha, you will definitely succeed." Minahan and Yoram winked, and I'll show you the office. After you came last time, we invited a lot of people and a small screening room.

   Yoram wrote down all the elements Ronald talked about after the two left. Their youth film "America's Last Virgin" is also in the preparatory stage. It can be copied. No, let's learn from Universal's production creativity and see if they have chosen the plots in the novel and copied them.

   "This is accounting, this is script reading, this is our sales." Minahan introduced the staff along the way.

   These people are sitting in cramped offices, and the accountants are still working in the aisles. Ronald is also absolutely down, which is too stingy.

"This is our little screening room, and I'm not like those Hollywood tycoons who play golf to kill time. I'm free with Yoram and just watch movies here, new, old, silent, black and white, sometimes to tears..."

   Ronald didn't listen to what Minahan was saying. His attention was all drawn to the heroine on the screen. This was the actress who played Linda, the black-haired actress with big glasses, whom he couldn't find anywhere.

"which movie is this?"

   "Paradise," Minahan said, "shot in Israel and wanted us to find him a distribution outlet in America."

   (end of this chapter)