Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 296 Full Metal Robot in Dreams

After   , Cameron fainted again weakly.

   Everyone hurried forward, Ronald helped to unzip Cameron's collar, touched his forehead, it was terrifyingly hot. However, the pulse in the neck was beating fairly steady.

  Roberto helped contact a private hospital run by an American, but the ambulance system in Rome was inefficient, and patients were often sent to hospitals with high kickbacks. He suggested driving himself to the hospital.

   Ronald and Roberto carried Cameron into Roberto's car, Gail helped hold his head, and the group took Cameron to the hospital.

  The doctors at the hospital are all America-trained and speak English. After asking some questions, doing some blood tests, and giving him some antibiotics and glucose, Cameron woke up in the hospital bed a few hours later.

  The doctor judged that Cameron was fine, just a little weak due to insufficient nutritional intake. The immediate cause of falling ill may be food poisoning caused by eating spoiled food in the trash can.

  Because he didn't have a job, his visa expired, and he had no savings, a young man with great health, almost had a big accident in Italy because of a small problem.

   On the third day, the hospital informed Ronald that the medical insurance of Cameron's director's union was the lowest level, and the insurance limit had been used up in the hospital for two days, and if he stayed any longer, he would have to pay at his own expense.

  After seeing the price of hospitalization at his own expense, Ronald had to pick up Cameron with Gale, and with the help of Roberto, he found a clean and cheap family hotel to stay in.

  Roberto's girlfriend Nicoletta speaks English, and the two of them are very good-hearted, knowing that Cameron has just recovered and needs to eat some easily digestible and nutritious food.

  Niccoletta made a big pot of rotten traditional Italian food Robritta soup cooked overnight with bread, pasta, and meat sauce, and brought it to them.

  Gail feeds Cameron with a spoon. After two days of raising, Cameron finally recovered a little bit of energy.

"What the **** happened? Why didn't you cut the film and go to the hotel? We went to the address that producer Asonitis had in America, and it wasn't his office, but in Rome. State-run film studios?"

   Seeing that Cameron was recovering well, Ronald and Gale began to ask their friends what happened.

   "Hi, I met a liar."

  Cameron also intermittently told his two friends about his experience.

  It turns out that the producer of "Piranha 2", Asonitis, is a liar. By shooting some exploitative films in America, and then using the American theaters as a gimmick to sell the films to some smaller theaters in Europe.

  Because he exploited the members of the directors' union before, and asked him to replace the director's signature with himself after the film was made, the director's union has banned any films he signed as a director from showing in America.

   In order to circumvent this restriction, he hired the unknown Jim Cameron as a signed director. After Cameron shot all the exteriors and special effects shots in Jamaica, while shooting interiors in Los Angeles.

  Asonitis refused to allow Cameron to re-enter the studio on the grounds that the dailies shot by Cameron did not meet the requirements.

  Cameron couldn't argue with the Italian-speaking crew. I could only watch as my shooting results were stolen by Asonitis and brought back to Rome for post-editing.

Cameron, who wanted to make a name for himself with "Piranha 2", had already spent the special effects supervisor and the first salary after taking over as director in Jamaica, and made a realistic piranha model for the film at his own expense. After the filming was completed, He already lives on savings and odd jobs.

In order to prevent his first deployment of the famous movie from becoming a bad movie, he finally had to take all the cash at home, plus a little money borrowed from Ronald, bought a one-way plane ticket and came to Rome, Italy .

  Cameron found producer Asonitis, but was blocked from the editing room. Unwilling, he opened the door of the editing room with a bank card, slipped into the editing room every night, and secretly modified his own work.

  I didn't expect to be discovered by the producer Asonitis, and changed the place he modified during the day.

  Cameron doesn't speak the language, doesn't know people, and has exhausted his savings. In addition, his visa has expired, so he can only survive in cheap hotels by picking up leftover food from other guests.

  If he was not sick and had to call Gale for help, it is estimated that he would do odd jobs in Italy, earn enough airfare money to fly back, and secretly bury this shameful history in his memory.

   He didn't want to be deceived by his friends and family to live on the streets because of the movies he loved.

   Gail, who knew the whole story, felt that the measures Cameron took were unwise. America is a country founded on the law. When encountering such a thing, of course, find a lawyer to sue the other party.

"I will introduce my lawyer to you, and I must seek justice from Asonitis. The director must sign your name. If he changes your film too much, file a complaint with the director's union, cancel the signature, and let his The movie can't be shown in America, so he'll give in."

  Gail Hurd immediately thought of a solution.

   Ronald also felt that Cameron should find an agent so he wouldn't run into a liar producer without knowing anything about it. If the broker wants to take a commission, he must figure out these things, or he will be fired.

   "You should find an agent, Jim. Having them there will give you a portion of your income, but it will save you a lot of things.

   Also, if you encounter this kind of difficulty in the future, you must remember our two friends. If you didn't call Gale smartly this time, I don't know what would have happened? "

   On the contrary, Roberto and his girlfriend Nicoletta, who are members of the Italian party, understand Cameron very well.

   "Come on, Jim is an artist. Artists tend to focus on entertaining the people. It's hard for us to fight movie capitalists who just want to make money."

  Niccoletta translates a sentence Roberto said in Italian into English.

   "I see, thank you." Cameron held Gale's hand and thanked several friends. This time, not only two good friends flew to Rome, Italy to find him, but also gained the friendship of Roberto, an exotic artist.

  Cameron's body is recovering rapidly, and he still has some time every day to draw something with a pencil in bed.

Ronald saw that he was getting better, and he was preparing for his return trip. He received a cross-ocean call from his agent, Richard, about the marketing of "fast-paced Richmond High School". He went back to discuss.

   On this day, he booked his plane ticket and came to say goodbye to Cameron, Gale, and Roberto.

   He's going back to Los Angeles, where the "fast-paced Richmond High School" is already getting ready to do some marketing. While Coppola is said to have made progress with Warner Bros., Coppola caved in and agreed to invite teenage stars in the movie.

"This is the scene I dreamed when I was sick." Cameron handed Ronald a pencil sketch, which was the result of his drawing in the past few days, "I am going to write this dream into a script. "

   "What is this?" Ronald took over the sketch, which showed a robot with a skull-like head, a long knife in one hand, and a machine gun in the other hand shooting into the distance.

   "This is the scene I dreamed in my dream the day you found me. He was so clear, a robot with silver-white metal all over his body, walking towards me with a machine gun in one hand."

  Cameron excitedly described his dream to Ronald.

   "He has the power to destroy the sky and the earth. I dreamed that he appeared from the flames, and when he approached me, he made a long knife in the other hand.

   He came over and pointed at me with a knife and said, you must take me out and let me appear in this world. "

   Ronald looked at the sketch. The skeleton robot on it was very realistic. He glanced at Cameron and thought, "Isn't this guy also a traveler? Can you dream of future movies?"

   "What's your name?" Ronald asked, pointing to the skull on the painting.

   "The Terminator". Cameron got up from the bed and said excitedly, "I already have an idea in my mind, this is a futuristic sci-fi story where robots and humans fight for the earth.

   Like George Lucas' Star Wars, Terminator will be an epic sci-fi movie. When I have finished writing the script, you can help me read it and make some comments. "

"Okay, I'll watch it when you recover. If this robot can be filmed, it will definitely be a sensation." Ronald knew that Cameron's stunt model had matured, and he thought of such an all-metal robot. Appearing on the screen, I also want to have a sneak peek in my heart.

   Farewell to Cameron, Gale, and Roberto, Ronald left Rome, Italy first. It was another ten-hour flight, and after Ronald called a taxi back to the hotel at the airport, he fell asleep all day. This has initially reversed the fatigue and jet lag of the journey.

   "Bang Bang Bang" There was a knock on the door of the hotel room, Ronald rubbed his eyes, got out of bed and opened them.

His agent, Richard, came in, "You're back? Ronald? I've got a long-distance call with you, and David Letterman is planning to invite Brooke Shields on his late show, which happens to be a publicity. Great opportunity for 'Fast-Paced Richmond High'."

   "Oh, just got back from Italy and I'm jet lag. Is this a good thing? What's wrong?"

"Borgy Shields' mother's request for the appearance fee is too high. Letterman wants to contact Brooke Shields directly through your relationship. Can you ask her to lower the price? Letterman's show has just started airing not long ago, and now he can't get too much funding, so he I thought of you."

"I?"

   "Yeah, you have a lot of influence on Bo Ji, and she also came to me to find you. The key is that if Bo Ji can be on TV, it will be a very strong propaganda for your movie."

   "Huh?" Ronald suddenly regained his senses, "That's right."

   (end of this chapter)