Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 526 Finally raised his eyebrows

  Nisita asked Ronald to watch this time, and asked his major producers and independent producers who wanted Ronald to direct.

"Paramount wants you to shoot a movie, and the person they contacted me said, Mr. President Michael Eisner has been following you, and the success of 'breakdance' this time makes him feel that he has been cultivated for a long time. When the results come." Nisita first turned to two script outlines.

   "Am I related to him? He nurtured me?" Ronald wondered.

   "Didn't he ask you for your opinion? He also let you participate in the shooting of 'Lightning Dance'. In the eyes of such a big man, this is giving you a chance."

  Nisita noticed Ronald's strangeness and explained it to him.

   "What movie does he want me to make?"

"There are two candidates, the first is 'Young Sherlock Holmes'. Young characters, with a production budget of 15 million. This is Spielberg's project, his Amberlin co-produced with Paramount. Stein Wen appreciates your abilities."

   "Mmmm..." Ronald lifted Erlang's legs proudly.

   "The second is to tell the story of NASA, a science fiction film. Paramount invested by itself, and young people built a spaceship and explored the story of deep space. The budget is not less than 15 million.

   Both films are in line with your past resume, young protagonist, sci-fi, high concept, exploitative genre. It belongs to the kind of way to shoot B-level exploitative films with the budget of A-level films. "

   Ronald listened with a smile. His three movies were consecutively selling well, and they finally got the approval of the big studios. The invitation for big productions came soon.

   "Anything else?" Ronald still wanted to hear.

"Yes, Frank Price, president of Universal. He is more optimistic about you. He called me personally and said that your first script caught his attention back then, and your skills have been honed and gradually matured. , it's time to give you a chance to direct."

   "What project does he have?" Ronald still remembered the only high-level Hollywood executive who could understand the script, and he was his own Bole.

"There's a 'St. Elmo's Fire', a young man's story. Screenplay by your friend Cameron Crowe. It's a group drama, a story of a group of college graduates going into society. And the previous 'The Big Chill' Very similar. But it was a story ten years after graduation, so they gave him the code name, 'Xiaohan'."

   "Group portrait play, youth play", this is another project based on my resume.

"Another film, which has been in the works for a long time, is based on the script of Mikhail Baryshnikov, a ballerina who defected from the Soviet Union. The story of a plane breakdown and forced landing in Siberia."

   "Dance Drama, Young Man's Story" is based on Ronald's history.

   "So I can pick and choose?" Ronald was greatly satisfied.

   "Of course, you can choose whatever you want, and then you can negotiate with them. Of course, they are also choosing you at the same time." Nisita replied.

   "It's already very good, what do you recommend? Which one should I choose?"

"You look at the synopsis of the plot first, and let's talk about which one you have feelings for." Nisita smiled and moved over the scripts sent by another independent producer. "And these. Of course, I suggest you to wait for 'Long Wei' The boy's release, if it sells again, our bargaining chips will also be high."

   "Hahaha, well, it's finally time for them to send me the script." Ronald happily broke danced twice.

  The work of the screenwriter is very hard, and I have to endure the rude revision opinions of the big stars. Now it is finally my turn to choose someone else.

The marketing of    "Longwei Kid" will not start until next week, and Ronald starts to take a vacation in Los Angeles.

   Wearing a T-shirt, shorts, riding a Honda motorcycle, wandering around, and having a good time.

"cheers!"

   At noon that day, Ronald came to the house of his friends Jim Cameron and Gail Hurd, and the three moved out of the stainless steel barbecue together and ate barbecue and beer in the yard.

"The Terminator" has just finished filming. With Ronald's revisions, the scenes of the film have been condensed a lot. With a budget of more than six million, the shooting went smoothly. On the day of packing, the budget for the shooting part was just used up. Cameron is very proud.

   "Your method is really useful. In the Sherman Oaks department store you recommended, I set the lighting according to the "fast-paced" storyboard drawings you shot back then, and the shooting speed is really fast."

"And your guerrilla shooting, I asked Schwarzenegger and a few supporting actors to do their own makeup, secretly rode a Harley to the bar in the middle of the night, and then Jim was right there to shoot, just before the police came over, Just go home."

  Gail added a beer to them, Ronald's tricks really helped them save a lot of money.

   "Boom!"

While    was chatting, there was a sudden burst of thunder, and Ronald was startled, and his forks fell to the ground.

   "Tianxiaying...no...why is there such a big cumulonimbus cloud?" Ronald raised his head and pointed to the layered cumulonimbus clouds in the sky, hiding his embarrassment.

   "God, call the photographer. Quick...Gail, you help me find the phone number."

  Cameron jumped up, walked into the room in a hurry, and dialed the phone.

  It turned out that there was one final scene left in the whole movie. The protagonist Sarah Connor drove a jeep into the distance with the future leader of the human resistance army.

  This shot needs the cooperation of the weather, but recently Los Angeles has always been sunny, and since Ronald today, finally, there are particularly suitable clouds and light, Cameron and Gale immediately began to contact the photographer.

   "Fuck, the photographer went on vacation." Cameron scolded and walked out.

   "It's just a long shot, right? We can't do it ourselves." Ronald can still operate the camera, and he has been a photographer, so he has a little aesthetic literacy for the picture.

   "Thank you!" Cameron patted it heavily, "Let's go quickly, this astronomical phenomenon will disappear at some point."

  Cameron and Ronald loaded a jeep with a movie camera and film cassette that had been temporarily at home, covered it with canvas, and the two jumped into the car. Gale started the car and drove off to the outskirts of the interstate.

   Along the interstate, the group found an ideal shooting location.

   "I think it's a good shot from here." Ronald held the director's viewfinder and crouched on the ground beside the road, looking at the picture in the viewfinder.

   On the vast land, a straight road leads to the distant skyline. The clouds in the sky are getting thicker and thicker, and it seems that it will rain at any time.

   A kind of feeling that the end of the world is approaching, the vast land, the protagonist is advancing towards the unknown, overcoming all difficulties and dangers arise spontaneously.

   "It's right here, right here." Cameron couldn't be more excited. Today is God's cooperation. Such an ending scene will definitely upgrade the quality of the movie.

   "Hurry up, hurry up." He kept shouting, urging Ronald to set up the camera.

   "Don't rush," Ronald said angrily, "I've never loaded or unloaded film, and if it's exposed, it's over."

  "Okay, hurry up", Cameron ran to Gail Heard again to give a face-to-face advice, she was going to sit in the driver's seat and pretend to be the starring Linda Hamilton. Anyway, it's the camera behind it, so I can't tell that it's her acting as a stand-in.

   "Why are you more like a tyrant on the set than me?" Ronald muttered, Cameron is not usually so violent.

   Finally installed the film in the dark bag, Ronald shouted, "The camera is ready."

   "Okay", Cameron took a scoreboard and played it in front of Ronald,

   "Action!"

   In order to seize the time, we will not do synchronous recording, and will dub it later.

  Gail started the jeep and drove slowly from the road behind Ronald. The weather is about to rain heavily, and there is no car on the road, which is a godsend.

   Ronald operates the camera, facing the road.

  The jeep drove onto the road behind Ronald and slowly walked away. Gail's hair fluttered in the wind.

   In the distance are the green mountains, and in the sky are thick cumulonimbus clouds moving fast. A big tree on the side of the road adds a center of gravity to the whole picture.

   "Cut!"

   Cameron didn't stop until he had driven so far and the jeep had shrunk to a tiny spot in the camera.

   "How is it? Ronald, can it be used?" Cameron asked impatiently.

   "Okay, do you want another one?"

   "Jeep ahead, please pull over. It's illegal in California to shoot a movie on an interstate without permission."

   A police car drove slowly in the distance, and the state trooper yelled at the three over a loudspeaker.

   "Oh Shxt!"

  Cameron is very frustrated, the cost of filming has been spent, and he has no money. The rest of the budget is for special effects, and if getting caught is a fine, he has to pay thousands of dollars out of his own pocket.

   "It's the state trooper, can we run?" Gale, who drove the jeep back, was bold, "Ronald, are you sure you'll get rid of them?"

   "Don't be impulsive, they must have recorded your license plate." Ronald stopped Gale from thinking, "Let me talk to them."

"Sir, hello. We are film students at the University of Southern California, and we are here to shoot our graduation project. Our teacher has not taught us the laws of film shooting, and we don't know the rules. Please do it well and give us a yard. ."

   "USC? Students?" The state trooper looked at Ronald's youthful appearance, and believed it by eight points. It was his two classmates who were old-fashioned.

   "The Trojans!"

   "Defeat the Grizzlies!"

   Ronald shouted the cheering slogan of the USC football team, which was to defeat the rival UCLA Grizzlies. He knew this when he made his first film, Fast-Paced.

   "Let me see your library card, my brother is at USC." The state trooper relaxed.

   Ronald was stunned, he didn't have a library card.

   "This is mine, Sir"

  Cameron took out his library card when he was reading movie books at USC and handed it over.

   "Okay, you have to obey the law in the future, you know? If you want to shoot on the roads of California, you have to apply for a filming permission from the Film Association in advance, understand?"

   "Huh..." The three of them let out a long breath and returned to the jeep.

   "It seems that I can only take this one, go back and print it." Cameron started the car.

   (end of this chapter)