Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 579 Chapter 209 The Hurrying Wedding

"Okay, so many revisions?" Ronald was in the Mercedes car, answering a call from Navy Liaison Officer Matthew, "Okay, I'm attending my agent's wedding now, wait until it's over. Can I discuss it with you in more detail?"

   "Alright? We're going in to pick up Paula." Rick Nisita, wearing a dress and offering flowers, came outside Paula Wagner's apartment, staring anxiously at Ronald.

  The embarrassed Ronald quickly hung up the phone, "Okay, let's go"

   "Let's go in." Nisita sorted out her clothes and the bouquet in her hand.

  Ronald and Richard, as Nisita's best man, accompanied him to knock on Paula's door.

   "Come on", Paula's girlfriends opened the door and surrounded Paula wearing a bridal gown.

  Nisita and her looked at each other with a smile, and walked down the stairs holding hands in the rice that everyone threw.

  Nisita divorced his wife last year, and Paula also resumed being single, so this Italian custom wedding was held in the way of "elopement". The groom came directly to pick up the bride, and the two went to the church together.

  The two paid a great price for love. Not only saying goodbye to past marriages, but also going public with their relationship in CAA means that Nisita is not trusted by Ovitz, and it is difficult to reach the level of final partner. And Paula has difficulty recruiting new stars.

   However, the most important clients of the two were present to congratulate them.

  In the church, Tom Cruise, director Francis Coppola, and others came to watch the ceremony. Even if they don't continue to upgrade, the two brokers can still live happily with their current clients.

   "Amen, you can kiss the bride now."

  Catholic priests were also infected with some customs in America. Nisita and Paula put rings on each other and kissed each other.

   "Bravo!" Coppola took the lead in cheering, and their wedding was Italian-style according to Nisita's ethnicity. Coppola handed over the scissors, cut Nisita's tie into pieces, and distributed them to the unmarried male guests as a blessing.

  The two brokers and their husbands got into the convertible car, dragged the cans hanging on the back of the car, and drove away with a bang, leaving behind a group of guests to start the banquet.

   "Your Cotton Club has a lot of marketing, Francis." Ronald pulled Coppola and chatted about his upcoming movie.

  The newspapers were full of reports that Director Coppola encouraged the actors to improvise, and Richard Gere and Diane Lane didn't know what to do in the afternoon in the morning.

   There are also some tabloids saying that Richard Gere is extremely difficult to deal with on the set. Not only is he at odds with the heroine Diane, but even the supporting actress and supporting actor have difficulty getting along. Coppola tried to change him several times.

   made Ronald do not know if it was a deliberate hype, or if a conflict broke out between the actors.

"Oh, the film critics gave very good reviews of the film, they all said it was my best performance since 'Apocalypse Now'. We will also go to Europe, mainly to promote the film in the country. You know, the people in the country are very fond of My films have always had good reviews."

   "Yes, yes", Ronald agreed, feeling a little bad in his heart. Coppola didn't talk about the prospect of the release in America, but wanted to sell copies in the hair country. It seems that this "Cotton Club", which cost more than 50 million yuan, has a worrying domestic box office prospect.

   "If the box office is really bad, Diane is going to make three big productions in a row. The future in Hollywood is bleak." Ronald thought of Diane Lane again.

  The heart of a person always thinks of a certain person at a certain moment.

  Helen seems to have come out of the shadow of "Supergirl" not being able to be released. She is still happy in the crew and does not put a lot of pressure on Ronald.

   Brooke Shields is devoted to being a college student at Princeton, while Ronald is busy in Hollywood and has less and less interaction with her. However, Brooke is so open about her own reputation that she may be forgotten by the public, which is what she wants now.

  Only Diane, who had no help in her acting career, experienced strikeouts and was expected to be miserable in the future. Ronald felt that there was a chance to pull this girl.

   "Isn't it too selfish to think so? After all, being a director, it's hard to enjoy an ordinary love life like ordinary people. I can't do anything about it. I'm all running around for film art." Ronald comforted himself.

   Brokers can't enjoy a real honeymoon, and Nisita and Paula enjoy a day of leisure at Avila Springs outside Los Angeles, before heading back to Hollywood the next day.

   Paula accompanied Tom Cruise to continue learning to fly while taking acting lessons.

  Nisita accompanied Ronald, Hui= met the two producers, and met with the Navy's liaison officer, Matthew, to discuss the Navy's comments on the revision of the "Top Gun" script.

  The Navy gave a lot of suggestions for revision of the script, and densely wrote more than ten pages of paper. Opinions fall into two main categories.

  The first category is about military secrets and sensitive plots of the Navy.

  Military secrets, such as the early models of the F-14A, are prone to engine problems during high angle of attack attacks. There have been several accidents where the plane crashed after entering a horizontal spiral. The script wanted to include this, and the Navy was worried that the Solvay Alliance would take advantage of this weakness to develop targeted tactics, and strongly urged Ronald to revise it.

  The sensitive part of the plot, such as fighting in the Caribbean Sea with the Cuban MiG-21 who came to monitor the US aircraft carrier. This kind of plot is not good for stimulating the eastern camp, and the navy dare not provoke the Soviet Union and his closest ally, Cuba, too much on this kind of thing.

   The second category is about character.

  The Navy does not allow pilots to disobey the law, speeding while driving, and after being caught by the patrol police, they use their Navy credentials to escape. This is not in keeping with the good social image of the Navy.

  The navy also does not approve of relationships between pilots and female officers on active duty. Although love is not forbidden in the military, active servicemen are never encouraged to fall in love with each other. Such a plot of two people falling in love in the movie is not conducive to the morale of the majority of male soldiers.

   Ronald finds both kinds of opinions ridiculous.

   First of all, the engine defects of the F-14A only appear under very specific circumstances. The chances of such a problem being caught by an Alliance pilot are extremely small. Moreover, the previous related accidents have been disclosed in the news, I am afraid that the other party has caught the weakness long ago.

   And the sensitive plot is even more ridiculous. This is an exaggerated hero film. There is no specific enemy. How to show the greatness of the hero? What's more, this movie will not be released in the Eastern camp, why is the Navy afraid that the other party will fail?

   As for the second opinion, it is even more ridiculous. It's character traits and character development plots, the Navy discourages romance, but Ronald isn't making up what happens to pilots on Wednesday and Saturday nights at rest nights in the airbase's bar.

   Could it be that those ladies are all foreign warblers?

   As for speeding, this is the operation of young Americans in America. How can it affect the image of a naval pilot?

  Don Simpson and Ronald had a similar look and feel, and they quarreled with liaison officer Matthew.

   "I'm just passing the word, you can summarize your defense opinions, and I'll take them back to the Pentagon for review again." Matthew was not in a hurry, nor did he argue with the other party.

   "I..." Ronald felt his head hit an invisible wall.

   "But the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. John Lyman, promised..."

   "If I were you, I would not handle this matter through Mr. Minister's relationship." Matthew looked at Ronald and said sincerely.

"why?"

"Hey," Matthew sighed, "you guys don't know much about the Navy, and what I'm going to say to you next, I won't admit it except for this door. Because I like your script stories a lot, I personally will Say something."

   Ronald made a please gesture.

"The navy is a huge machine, and it doesn't depend on the will of a certain officer. A civilian secretary of the navy may not necessarily be able to direct a group of generals to do things they don't like, especially making movies that don't match the Navy's budget. related things."

  Matthew paused, Ronald and both producers nodded in understanding.

   "The problem is, we don't know what your movies will look like. We don't trust Hollywood right now. So, to solve the problem, we need someone who can be trusted on both sides to act as a middleman."

   "I think you're a good fit." Ronald immediately thought Matthew was a good middleman.

   "I can't, I'm still on active duty in the navy, I have to obey orders, preferably someone who has a deep connection with the navy and is now retired from active duty."

   understood Matthew's suggestion, Ronald and Don Simpson discussed it, and proposed the candidate proposed by the Grumman engineer.

   "How about Mr. Pete Pettigrew, a former TopGun flight school instructor and retired Navy Captain? We think he's a good fit for the role."

   Matthew smiled, "I think you can apply according to the procedure, and I will transfer it to the Pentagon. They also hope that a trusted expert will be responsible for the filming without obvious technical errors."

   Let Matthew submit the defense opinions of the script together with the application for the intermediary liaison expert. Ronald looked back at Nisita, and suddenly felt really embarrassed for pulling him out on the second day of the wedding.

   "It's okay, you don't need to feel embarrassed. Paula and I are married just for the sake of the two of us. We just moved the family to live together, and everything else is business as usual."

   "It seems that you really love each other", Ronald admires the love between the two and can break through all kinds of secular obstacles. In addition to the original marriage of the two, the union of an Italian with a Jewish would have an impact on the original family. Neither Paula's parents attended the wedding.

   "However, you are registered to get married in California", Ronald didn't know whether to bring this up.

   "Is it the law of equal division of property? We are both married people, there is nothing taboo about it. Paula and I signed a prenuptial agreement and we will both keep the income from our respective businesses."

   "Oh", Ronald thought Paula agreed to this agreement too.

  "Hahaha", Nisita seemed to have read Ronald's mind, "Paula is very confident in Tom, she thinks that she may not make less money than me."

   "It's you, when you get married, don't forget to sign the prenuptial agreement. Don't forget about George Lucas, the director's divorce can bring great economic losses."

   (end of this chapter)