Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 324 Sahara

   "Hi, Brooke!"

   "Hi Ronald, does NYU really have no walls?"

   Brooke Shields found Ronald in front of the cafe opposite the NYU teaching building. She wears a pair of large sunglasses, her long blond hair is tied up, and she is dressed very simply, so she has not been recognized yet.

   It was near noon, and there were not too many people here. Ronald chose here to meet Brooke and his mother. They also lived in Manhattan for a long time and knew the address as soon as they spoke.

   "Yeah, I'm not kidding you. You're looking for that ivy walled school, go to Columbia University."

"Well, I didn't expect New York University to be like this. It's far from what I imagined. This time I also visited Brown University, and JFK Jr. was my tour guide. There is a very old charm there. I saw JFK Jr. I was so nervous that I didn't dare to speak, he was my childhood idol."

   "How does it compare to Princeton? Which one is better?" Ronald asked.

   "It's better than Princeton. The admissions office at Brown University wanted me to come and said SAT scores didn't matter. It made me feel like they needed me more, and Princeton treated them equally. I think that's the real academic palace."

  Borgy Xiaosi will graduate from high school soon and will start to choose a university. She participated in the early admissions of many universities in the early stage, but after hearing Ronald's words about chasing her dreams last time in Los Angeles, she added a few Ivy League universities to the schools she signed up for. This time she came to the eastern region to visit a few University campus.

"Then NYU must have disappointed you. This is a relatively new university, not like those centuries-old traditions. NYU is known for having no walls..." Ronald also dismissed NYU as having no money. I told you about the forced sale of the campus.

   "Right, Brooke, as I said, you should still go to Brown University, where your idol JFK is still there. Princeton's admissions office only said that it should be considered comprehensively, and did not give you a promise."

  Borgy's mother, Terry, is still relatively awake in the morning, and will be drunk after noon.

   "Okay, I'm not going to visit NYU. Thank you, Ronald, I listened to your words before I went to apply for Princeton. Whether I get accepted or not, I won't regret it."

   "You can't say that on Johnny Carson's show, or the boys at NYU will kill me and ruin their dream of going to school with you."

   "Hahaha..." Brooke Xiaosi laughed happily, which attracted the attention of many customers. Several people looked over and seemed to recognize her, and were wondering whether to come over and ask for an autograph.

   "Let's go and change place."

   Brooke Shields called Ronald yesterday, hoping that he could show her a tour of New York University. She is about to start applying for school selection.

  Ronald thought that he still owes him a big favor for promoting "fast-paced" on cameos and talk shows, and said that he would be Brooke as a tour guide and answer all relevant questions.

   "Let's take your mother back to the hotel first."

  Terry took the whisky out of his bag and started drinking again, looking like he was going to be drunk again.

   "Dick, help my mom." Brooke Shields asked the driver to help Terry into the car, and she sat next to her herself. The car started, and she chatted with Ronald in the co-pilot.

   "It would be great to be admitted to Princeton, I'm so nervous."

   "They'll take it all together, don't worry."

   "Well, it's my dream to go to Princeton. After you said it last time, I seem to have a goal and I must try it."

   "After you went to college, like Jodie Foster, did you stop acting in Hollywood movies?" Ronald asked.

  Jodie Foster, who was involved in the assassination of the commander-in-chief, plunged into Yale to go to school and didn't have much contact with the media. All the reporters who came to her to interview Hinckley, the suspect in the assassination case, were scorned by her and turned around and left.

   This has become an anecdote in Hollywood. The actress has been completely cut off from the public. Except for some European movies during the summer vacation, she really stopped taking scripts.

   "My biggest dream in life now is to go to Princeton. Let's talk about the future. My mother is talking about a big production. Maybe after the filming, I will temporarily suspend filming and suspend my modeling career."

   "Why?" Ronald was a little surprised to hear that Brooke wanted to follow Jodie Foster's example.

   Judy was most likely implicated by Hinckley. The rich oil businessman hired a few barristers to defend his son, and actually used the reason of insanity to get out of the charge of assassinating the chief commander. However, after he was acquitted in court, he was immediately sent to the Elizabeth Mental Asylum, where he appeared to spend the rest of his life.

After all,    is the supreme commander of America, so walking out of the court without guilt is too uncomfortable for ordinary people. The assassination of John F. Kennedy more than ten years ago has become a thorn in the hearts of the American people, and the case has not yet been solved.

   If the result of fooling the people occurs again this time, I am afraid that the prestige of the federal government will also be greatly affected.

   "Well, Ronald. Don't you think that actresses, female models, when they talk about these professions, they all have a condescending taste?

  Although they like me very much now, but I know that in their hearts they don't actually see actresses as a real profession. Even Kennedy and ordinary people felt that they should choose Jacqueline instead of Marilyn. "

   Bo Ji hesitated for a moment, and then said what was in her heart.

"Um?"

   Ronald didn't expect Brooke Shields to say such a thing. Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline, was from a prestigious family and had a good college education. And his lover, Marilyn Monroe, didn't even finish high school.

   It seems that Brooke wanted to go to Princeton because they refused to give her special treatment and regarded her as an ordinary high school student.

   She wanted to prove that she was not the kind of actress who knew nothing based on her looks. It is a smart girl who can also go to a prestigious school by her own ability.

  The American people actually have a special contempt for the knowledge of actresses. In particular, talk show hosts like Johnny Carson will deliberately guide actresses with questions on the show, so that their answers will give the audience the impression that they can do nothing but good looks.

   On the one hand, people adore them, ask for their autographs, and want to take pictures with them, on the other hand, there is a common belief that "she doesn't just rely on a face".

   "It makes sense for you to think so, and I support you in going to Princeton to try." After arriving at the hotel, let Terry sit on the sofa to rest, Ronald and Brooke continued to chat about her future plans in the hotel room.

   "But you don't have to give up your acting career for your studies, this business..."

   Ronald remembered what his agent had said to himself, "This business is very good at forgetting."

   "No, my fans won't forget me so easily, you don't know how crazy they are."

Brooke laughed, "My mother has already made some plans for me, she said that I will do one or two more little girl plays, and then I can get a good education in college, which is more suitable for playing mature female roles. ."

   "That's good, America's audience will miss you."

   "Actually, seeing you today, Ronald, my mom and I would like to ask your opinion. She wants to pick up a script for me, but I don't know if this script can be made into a box office hit like Blue Coral Reef."

   Brooke turned around and took out a script and handed it to Ronald.

   Her mother Terry also woke up from half-drunk, sat and looked at Ronald, "Ronald, I want you to see if this script is suitable for Brooke."

   "Fast-paced Richmond High School"'s box office results shocked not only those inside the circle, but the studio executives, and those around Ronald began to change their views on him. Brooke's mother, Terry, also wanted to hear his opinion after receiving the script.

  Ronald took over the entire script, which was thicker than usual and seemed to be a 120-minute blockbuster.

   Bo Ji Xiaosi's appeal and status in the circle put her in a relatively detached position. Unlike ordinary actors who cannot see the entire script when they audition, Bo Ji can see the complete script during the negotiation stage, and then decide whether to participate in the role or not.

   "Sahara?" Ronald was a little puzzled when he saw the name of the script. Is this a story in the desert?

   Screenwriter James R. Silk, story Minahan Golan.

   "Huh?" Ronald opened the script and read it.

  The story tells the story of a girl named Dale in 1927, who takes the place of her sick father in an African rally, and is captured by a Bedouin chief in the middle. Another contestant, the wicked Germans, provided rival tribes with weapons of war.

   In the end Dale was rescued by the good chiefs, who defeated the bad chiefs supported by the Germans and won the rally. On the podium, Dale saw the good chief, said goodbye to the team members, and rode back to the tribe with the chief.

  What kind of rotten stories are these?

   Ronald's intuition was wrong.

   An American girl, rescued by an Arab chief, finally abandoned the civilized world and lived with the chief in a backward tribe.

  America viewers would certainly not be able to accept this ending. It's that kind of whimsical plot again, like an American movie in the eyes of foreigners. At first glance, it is Minahan's handwriting.

   This signature is probably true, not false credit.

   "Why are you picking up their trash?" Ronald quickly finished the script and asked Brooke and Terry, "Those two Israelis can't make Hollywood movies, so there is a serious problem with the script of this movie."

"Don't say that, Ronald. They are very sincere, and I read the story well." Terry was a little annoyed, Ronald belittled Minahan Golan as soon as he read the script, did he have any ideas? ?

   "Hey", Ronald secretly sighed, Terry's eye for script selection was not very good. Although the script does not represent the standard of the movie, many good scripts in Hollywood have been made, but the quality of the film is not very good, and there are also many ordinary scripts that have made classic masterpieces.

   But if the script has some basic problems, such as split characters and weird plots, it cannot be saved.

   In the past two years, Ronald has watched a lot of classic movie scripts, and his taste has been cultivated by good scripts. When he saw this "Sahara", he knew that there was a misalignment with the basic values ​​of the American audience, and it was a project that was difficult to save.

   "If Bo Ji was my cousin, I would let her give up this movie, because it will damage Bo Ji's screen image and will not bring any room for improvement in her acting skills."

   "But there are a lot of popular elements here, racing, youth, love, exotic scenery..." Terry defended his vision.

   "Mom, let me talk to Ronald." Brooke quietly interrupted her mother, then leaned over and said to Ronald, "My mother is a little drunk, don't argue with her."

"When she was sober, she told me the reason for taking the film, she didn't want me to talk too much before college and focus on the film, which will be directed by Andrew McLaglan, who used to direct Jimmy Stewart movies."

   "No wonder the script has a taste of the 1950s and 1960s." Ronald secretly complained.

"Yes, he is like Bo Ji's grandfather, he will love Bo Ji as much as his granddaughter. I think after Bo Ji enters college, and then think of a way to improve her acting skills, that's when she transforms into acting as a mature woman. role."

  Terry seemed to be fully awake and explained to Ronald.

   "Ronald, you made a blockbuster movie, but don't look down on Mr. Golan, they are willing to invest more than 20 million yuan to make this movie, which will be shot in Israel and Egypt, a real big production.

   And they'll pay Brooke what she deserves, two million dollars. "

   "I see, good luck to you." Ronald wanted to understand.

   After the passing of the tax cut bill by the current leader, the tax burden of the entertainment industry has been reduced a lot at once. With so much remuneration, if you invest wisely, Brooke can do anything even if she quits filming right away.

   "If there is any problem, I mean if...call me, or my agent, I know Minahan and he owes me one more time." Ronald said to Brooke quietly at the door as he left the house.

   "Thank you, Ronald."

   (end of this chapter)