Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 714 New script

  David Simkins, Ronald's script assistant, has had a very busy two weeks. Hundreds of scripts were mailed non-stop to his office.

Boss Ronald's production of "The Wicked Man" has successfully become a dark horse at the box office. With weak marketing efforts and few theaters, the second weekend's box office was even higher than the first weekend. 2nd on the leaderboard.

   This achievement has attracted many people to mail independent non-commissioned scripts. (It's not a script that the studio signed a contract with the screenwriter to write, but a screenplay that the screenwriter wrote to try his luck.)

   "If there is no statement on everything, if you give up the copyright of the script, don't read it all, and return it intact after stamping." David Simkins is teaching several assistants to deal with the script.

  The copyright of this kind of non-commissioned script belongs to the author. If you read it rashly, and there is a similar paragraph in the movie that Daydream made in the future, someone will go to court to sue.

   So if you don't give up at the beginning, it means that you are either the newest novice and don't understand any rules, or you have come to touch the porcelain on purpose, and they will all be returned intact.

   This is the case. After processing more than half of the script, Simkins is still very busy. In the past two days, in addition to being in the office, returning home for dinner, nursing the child, and before going to bed at night, I have been reading the script non-stop.

   "Can't you ask your boss to hire more script assistants?" The wife was a little dissatisfied. After putting the child to sleep, she began to complain when she saw that her husband hadn't turned off the lights.

"It will be good in a while, and I will bring it up to the boss. During this time, his ability as a producer has been widely spread by Hollywood, and the script sent to the office has increased tenfold, but after a while, the It will stabilize and recruit more people at that time, so I have to come in a short time."

   Wife turned over and hugged David, "Are you going to be promoted? How much can you raise?"

   "I think it will be good, Ronald is quite generous to his subordinates." Simkins flipped through a script called "Mannequin", summarizing tomorrow's report, which selling points should be highlighted. "

   "What about your script? I know you took this job because you hope that one day, your script will be made into a script."

   "I think my script still has a lot of childishness...and needs to be revised..."

   "But I think your script is better than anyone else's." As a housewife, my wife is also watching the script brought back by Simkins when she is free at home.

   "That's because you love me, really? I'll try too?"

  …

   "Is this the script you picked?"

   The next day, Ronald frowned and read several plays recommended by David Simkins, and he was not very satisfied.

"The number of non-commissioned scripts written by budding screenwriters has suddenly increased recently. I have read a lot of scripts in the film company's library in the past few months, and picked out two that I think have great potential. has been delivered to you."

   "The screenplay is not the only factor that determines the quality of the film, but these few scripts don't make me feel like it. It's more like a play in a children's theater than a screenplay that can be made into a movie."

Ronald touched his head. His daydream was a small studio. Simkins searched the film libraries of many big studios before finding out "Dancing Hot" and "Moonlight Sultry". Literary script.

   Most of the things that have been mailed in the past two weeks are novice screenwriters, and being able to find these is the result of picking them out after working overtime day and night.

   "I didn't think about it anyway, who would watch this 'Beautiful' if someone made him into a movie."

  Ronald pulled out the "Spirit", which is already the best quality of the several scripts that Simkins picked out.

   "This is one of the most popular production trends right now, from teen movies." Simkins is now reading a lot of scripts, and he understands the latest trends.

   "You see the plot setting of this movie, an ancient Egyptian princess, turned into a wooden beauty, has been wandering in the long river of time, until a young American who has achieved nothing, decorates the window in the department store.

   Every night, the princess turns into a real person and meets him, and in the morning, she turns back into a wooden model. In the end, the two defeated their opponents, freed the princess with true love, and became a real person. "

   "Now high school students like to watch this? Why do I feel like a fairy tale?" Ronald is also a little unable to grasp the preferences of recent teenagers.

   "That's it. The economy has developed very well since the commander took office for five or six years. Most of the teenagers living in the suburbs and small towns, as long as they are willing to work, earn good income and have enough pocket money.

   They are not like our generation, they were very distressed when they were in middle school, and they had to fight for the work of delivering newspapers and milk in the morning. "

"Okay, I'll know more." Ronald recalled the recent movie, and indeed the life of a teenager in it is not as difficult as in the seventies, you need to face the competition of involution, and only a few coins in your pocket, think A life without a girl.

  Most young men, no matter what they look like, always seem to have a girlfriend. Love is more about the fit of personality and hobbies, as well as the pursuit of more beautiful and unrestrained characters, becoming a man of the year in school.

   In Ronald's "Fast Pace" that year, excellent nerds worked hard and were kind-hearted, and finally they could gain the love of beautiful female classmates.

   In this "Brilliant", the male protagonist is frustrated and will be fired if he does any job, and he also has a girlfriend who is a supervisor. In the end it was just because he didn't get up and dumped him.

  Perhaps in the past few years, population reduction, economic development, and the values ​​of young people have indeed undergone some subtle changes. With the popularization of education and the increase in opportunities, more people are no longer struggling for what they have, but are more concerned about quality.

  Like Coppola's "Old Boy", the story of dozens of teenagers who are bachelors and can only get together to play poker on the ground for fun, appears less and less in movies. No matter how bad it is, you can go to McDonald's to sit.

  Ronald hesitated in his heart, he didn't like this script, but Simkins was right.

   "I'll take the script back and think about it...Oops", Ronald accidentally spilled coffee on the cover of the script and hurriedly cleaned it up.

   "I'll help you." David Simkins felt the script take away, then pulled a few napkins over to wipe it.

   "What is this? You wrote it?"

   After the stack of scripts on the table was removed, Ronald found a script lying at the bottom.

   The title on the cover is "Adventures in Babysitting", and the author is Simkins.

   "Yes, I wrote a script for a long time."

   "As I said, you have a script for me, and I will give it priority."

   "I originally wanted to improve it. This script has some flaws in the plot."

  Simkins had to say more, but Ronald raised his hand to stop him. After watching the beginning, he was attracted by the plot.

"A girl who was waiting for her girlfriend to invite her to the dance was let go of her pigeons by her boyfriend, so she had to be a nanny in a family with three children. Her friend asked her to pick him up when she had a problem at the airport. The girl took the child and drove to the airport. , but punctured the tire on the road, and accidentally entered the car repair shop opened by the gang..."

   "It's very well written, I'm fascinated by it. If I want to say, the plot of this one is very good, much better than that 'Spirit'."

   Ronald took a brief moment to skim through Simkins' scripted story.

   As he said, there are still many problems in the details of this script, some plots are too bizarre, and there are many coincidences. Finally, a lot of cartoon-style plots were added to the movie, which was also a bit nondescript.

   But the theme story of the script is very good, and people's appetite is very high from the beginning, and starting from daily life, the protagonist suddenly faces force majeure and is pushed into a huge crisis.

   This is a very orthodox way of writing a three-act play. Simkins has read a lot of the script and wrote it himself.

   "What do you know? I'll take these two scripts home and read them carefully. If I feel good, I'll be the producer myself and help you find the right distributor."

   "Boss, are you serious? Or my wife encouraged me to show you the script."

   "It does make me feel good, but it depends on the publisher's idea. They nod me to approve the project.

   Your screenwriting talent is very good. What kind of job do you want to do in Hollywood in the future? "Ronald felt that Simkins was a talent and wanted to keep him in his daydream for a long time.

   "I'm actually interested in the process of film and television production."

"Then you want to be a producer? No problem. You can start recruiting people now, just do what you want, and find someone who can replace you. I'll let you participate in more filmmaking sessions, If you're lucky, you can start with this script of yours."

  In addition to promotion and salary increase, employees must also be able to engage in their dream jobs. There are many opportunities in the film industry anyway, and Ronald just needs more production talents.

   "Thank you, boss."

   "Good job."

   (end of this chapter)