Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 327 Necessary Conditions for Dreams

   "It was wandering in the depths of the universe when the solar system was formed. Its elliptical orbit is so long that the last time it visited Earth was 65 million years ago, just in time for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

   But now, in the last two decades of the twentieth century, it has returned. "

   The clear dream came unexpectedly, Ronald saw a hand put the videotape into the machine and press the play button.

   Then a red star appeared on the TV, flying towards the audience, accompanied by this scary narration.

  The camera turns.

   A beautiful woman in a movie theater uniform on TV is talking to the boss.

  Ronald found out that it was played by Katherine Mary Stewart whom he had seen at the reception.

  The heroine Regina, played by Katherine Mary Stewart, is a movie theater employee. While she was playing the game console, several customers came to buy tickets to enter the venue.

  The boss is selling them a comet headgear that can be hung on the head, a small ball with a long tail behind it. Today is the day the comet visits the earth. The audience can watch the movie and then go out to see the comet in the sky.

  Regina is a game console master, she broke the high score record. The boss asked her to go to the field.

  There are many cinemas in America, but the quality of the audience is actually very poor. They often deliberately litter food and rubbish, and some hyperactive teenagers will wreak havoc inside, and it's not a problem to take down a chair.

   This often requires cinema staff to use flashlights to patrol the venue.

   But the light of the flashlight would disturb the audience and make them dissatisfied, and some people threw things directly at the auditors.

  Regina was very unhappy about this job, she reluctantly took the torch and went to tour the venue, then walked into the back projection room and complained to her boyfriend who was a projectionist.

  Boyfriend is making some film prints and throws the rest of the film in the trash.

   "What's this for?" Ronald didn't understand, the projectionist was not an editor, why was the projectionist cutting the film with scissors like an editor?

"It's 'From Space,' how much do you pay for a copy? A hundred dollars, hey, I'm a 3D movie, and a hundred dollars is an insult to me. One hundred and ten? Well, one hundred and ten." TV My boyfriend is negotiating the price of a pirated copy with a pirate dealer.

"This **** made a pirated copy for $110 and sold it to an underground dealer. This copy can be shown in theaters for at least a year. How much will the studio lose? How much will we directors lose? "Ronald was so angry he wanted to yell at the character in his dreams.

  The tape goes on.

Regina was calling her sister Samantha. The stepmother of the two wanted to go out to see the comet. She slapped the disobedient sister Samantha, Samantha fought back, and the stepmother punched Samantha's mouth with blood. , and then went out to see the comet by himself.

   This slap seems to be very realistic. Ronald thought that the actor who played his sister was also an acquaintance, Kelly Maloney, who played the cheerleader in "Fast-Paced Richmond High." Is she finally playing the lead role in this movie?

  Sister Regina spent the night with her boyfriend in the screening room, while her younger sister slept at home to heal her injuries. Their stepmother went out to watch the comet with the neighbors. An old man still said that in 1910, he saw Halley's Comet. At that time, it was said that anyone who saw the comet would die.

  Suddenly the comet came, and bursts of lightning-like light illuminated everyone's faces.

   Then there was another very bright red light, everyone watching the comet let out a cry, and then the TV flashed, switching to a bleak red sun in the sky.

   The sky is very coquettish red. It seems that the dust stirred up after the comet hit the earth was lifted into the sky?

   There were a few shoes and clothes on the ground, and there was some red dust on them, and people were evaporated.

   "This video is wrong, where's the shot of the comet hitting the Earth in the middle? Too violent and cut out?" Ronald thought.

  Regina's boyfriend opened the door in the morning and went out.

  Suddenly, a terrifying zombie rushed over and killed him with a wrench.

   "Is this a zombie movie? Isn't it a sci-fi movie?"

  Ronald recognizes the gray-faced, low-spoken zombie makeup from the low-budget exploit film "Dawn of the Living Dead" four years ago. After that, a group of follow-up exploitative films were all Human vs Zombies.

  Regina killed the zombie and drove home on her boyfriend's motorcycle. Except for his sister Samantha, everyone in the family was turned to ashes.

  The sisters heard that the radio was still playing, and the two went to the radio. Another surviving man, Hector, is found.

The    station played time-lapse tapes. Sister Samantha DJs temporarily, playing pop music to survivors and calling them to meet on the radio.

  The sisters randomly changed beautiful clothes in the shopping mall, and with the accompaniment of a nice song, they entertained themselves and started a dress up fashion show.

   The song is nice, but the lyrics are a bit unrestrained, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun (GirlsJustWannaHaveFun

   Who knows that the broadcast did not attract survivors, only a group of robbers. Fortunately, the sisters' father is an army officer and has been shooting targets at the shooting range since childhood. They pick up a short submachine gun and shoot the robbers, eventually defeating them.

  Sister Samantha's broadcast was overheard by government scientists in an underground bunker. They sent a helicopter to take the sisters to the scientific research center in the bunker.

   "Huh, isn't this female scientist Mary Voronoff?" Ronald recognized another co-actress, who played the old-fashioned headmistress in "High School of Rock".

   Surprised, Ronald woke up.

   "Gu... gu..." Ronald went to the bathroom to get himself a glass of water and drank it with his neck up.

   The scene in this dream is relatively clear and the time is relatively long. Ronald sat at the table and began to wonder why he had dreamed of the movie.

   This movie doesn't look like the big production Ronald had in mind. There are very few actors in it, and the scenes that use extras are also close-ups and close-ups, so that there is no need to hire many extras.

   But on the other hand, the investment in movies seems to be huge. The red sky, the empty city, if it is a setting, the cost should be in the millions. If it is a real film, then the cost of the application procedures is not low, and it is necessary to catch the favor of the big studios to ask the government to cooperate.

  Is there any footage of a comet hitting the Earth? There are many coincidental scenes between this movie and the script I wrote, but there are also some differences. All of a sudden Ronald was a little undecided.

   Still think about why you dream about movies.

   Ronald made a list of things he did on paper.

  Tennis, meditation, aerobics, these sports and dreams don't match the time.

   Is it because you happened to write a comet-related script, including motorcycles, shopping mall clothes, radio broadcasts, etc.?

   is also not quite right. I have written this plot outline for several days. Why do I dream today?

   Maybe because he met Katherine Mary Stewart, who played the lead role?

possible.

Recalling "Rock High School", "Famous in the World", "Fast-paced Richmond High School", and "The Worldly Urchin", several movies in which I dreamed of fragments, I saw or wrote the script plot myself, and then Meet the actor who played the lead role in the movie.

  Perhaps having read/written the script, and knowing the actors involved are the necessary conditions for you to dream of a movie?

   Maybe you should add your own exercise, or sleep more deeply and dreamy after drinking.

   Also, maybe you have to remember the movies you watched in your previous life.

  Ronald looked at the four points he had concluded. He knew more and more people in the circle in the future, and as his status rose, he would invite more and more scripts to direct. Wouldn't he be able to dream of more movies?

   Ronald felt his future was bright. Immediately turned on the computer, and began to write the script of Comet from memory.

   What's your name?

   "The night the comet came?"

   "A comet hit the earth?"

  Ronald was stunned, it would be better to keep things simple. "Fast-paced Richmond High School" is often shortened to "fast-paced" because the name is too long. If you want to spread word of mouth among the audience, a short and easy-to-remember name is the most convenient.

   is called "Night of the Comet"

  Ronald typed the title, and began to type in a crackle. The start of the comet hitting the earth has to add a big scene to keep the audience happy.

   In the final ending, the base was breached by zombies. After my sister was contaminated by zombies, she left with the zombies. My sister and Hector left together, looking for other survivors to join forces to deal with the zombies.

   The sun shone into the bedroom, Ronald pressed the save key to save the script he had written to a floppy disk. The floppy disk began to squeak.

   "I still have to buy a more advanced computer. The one used by Hinton on the cast of 'The Outer Boy' is good."

   Ronald thought that the monitor of this Commodity computer was a TV, and it was too tiring to stare at it for a long time.

With a    "click", the floppy disk stopped beeping.

  Ronald knew that the save was ready, and then he pressed the print shortcut key, the dot matrix printer began to creak, and quickly tapped on the ribbon line by line, printing out sheets of manuscript paper.

   "Richard", Ronald sorted out the script and went to the photocopy shop to make a copy. Then pick up the phone and hang up with the agent. After writing the first draft, send a copy to CAA and let them help pass it around in the studio circle.

  Although this method of writing a script by yourself and asking the studio to read it is actually not in line with the rules of the Screenwriters Guild, but as long as the screenwriter has a famous work, the studio does not object to this operation. Sometimes the intuition of the playwright may be sharper than that of the studio.

   "Ronald, did you know that too?" Richard picked up the phone and said to Ronald.

   "What do I know? My first draft of the script is ready to be sent to you."

   "So soon? That's a good thing.

  No, I'm talking about the Spielberg ET Alien script plagiarism thing. Your teacher Scorsese has spoken out in support of Bangladeshi director Rey. "

   "Ah? Why did he do this? Is it really plagiarism?"

   "You go and buy a 'Star Weekend Magazine', which has detailed research. Ronald, Steven is in trouble now, can you contact Mr. Scorsese first?"

  The other end of the phone was changed to Nisita, obviously they were having a meeting to discuss, trying to get something out of it.

   (end of this chapter)