Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 824 The one named Kimura is the most like a star

"Best actress at the 2nd Tokyo Film Festival went to Rachel Ward for her performance in 'The Good Wife,' who embodies the complexities of human nature, in an unnoticed place in the world before World War II In the corner, the emotional release of a repressed wife is superb."

   In a large movie theater owned by the Tokyo Rapid Express Group in Shibuya Ward, the award ceremony of the second Tokyo International Film Festival has reached its final several awards.

   "Next, we invite the famous Hollywood director, Ronald Sand, to present the award to the Australian star Ms. Rachel Ward who came here on a special trip."

   Following the host's introduction, Ronald took a few quick walks and jumped onto the theme stage. The trophy was awarded to Rachel Ward, who was already waiting by the hand of the hostess.

   "Congratulations!" Ronald looked at Ward, who was still charming. Today, Ward wore a red and yellow dress from the early years of Australia, with a string of red coral necklaces, and her hair was carefully made into a mess, which was still charming.

   "Ronald", Ward smiled at Ronald. Ronald also smiled back, and the two of them were silent. Ronald stepped aside and gave the stage to Ward.

   "First of all, I would like to thank the jury of the Tokyo International Film Festival for their affirmation, and I would also like to thank my husband, who also played my husband's Barry in the movie..."

   "Huahuahua..." After a round of applause from the audience, the live band began to play music.

   Ronald and Ward walked off the sidelines together. The audience's applause was very polite. The festival's organizer, Tokyo Rapid Railway, is a railway and real estate company that owns several movie theaters in Shibuya.

   They are trying to copy the Oscar awarding process in every aspect, and on the surface they are quite similar. The only downside is that the stars under the stage are not dazzling enough. Except for a few stars who came to participate in the competition, there are no well-known actors.

  "Barry", Ronald handed over Rachael Ward with his arms to her husband and took a seat in the front row.

   "It's my turn", Diane wore a black suit with her hair pulled up, looking a little more mature than she really was. Ronald kissed her on the face and stood by watching her walk to the podium.

   "The best actor in the second Tokyo Film Festival is Zhang Yimou from China, 'Old Well', and we have invited the famous Hollywood star Diane Lane to present the award.

  Because Mr. Yimou could not come, this award was received by Wu Tianming, the director of "Old Well". "

  The audience in Tokyo was still very polite. Although the male protagonist did not come, he still gave him a warm applause no less than Ward.

  Diane took the crystal trophy and presented it to Director Wu.

   "Thank you, thank you to the judges of the film festival, the friendship between China and Japan has a long history, and the two countries are neighbors separated by a strip of water..."

   Director Wu said the award-winning words in Chinese, and an interpreter from the organizing committee translated on the spot.

   Ronald saw that Director Wu was really unprepared, and spoke out the lines of the diplomat.

   "Wow wow wow..."

  Ronald felt that the audience applauded more intensely this time, maybe they were not all polite, but Diane was really popular here.

   After finishing the award speech, Di An came down with Director Wu, and when he walked to the side aisle, he took Ronald's arm instead.

"It's a very good movie, I like it very much, congratulations", Ronald and Director Wu crossed each other, watching him take out his handkerchief to wipe his sweat, he couldn't help but feel happy, "You will prepare the thank you words for the Best Film Award later. Yet?"

   Director Wu looked at Ronald, who spoke Chinese, and seemed to be stunned by the news he disclosed in advance.

   "Do you speak Chinese?"

   It turned out that he was surprised that an authentic Western foreigner could speak Chinese.

  "Knowing a thing or two", Ronald stretched out his other hand to shake his hand, "Ronald, Ronald Lee."

   "Oh, you are Director Luo who helped Director Huang of Xujiahui win the Los Angeles Women's Film Special Award."

   Director Wu suddenly realized that the domestic film circle was stunned by that award. The authentic Hollywood award may be a little worse than the Oscar? Who doesn't know Director Ji Yuluo who helped Director Huang win the award? I heard that he is very interested in Chinese culture.

   Sure enough, seeing a hundred things is better than seeing them. It is not easy to speak Chinese, and to be able to use idioms correctly is really amazing.

   "Are you going to travel to China? Your movie is very popular in China now, and everyone wants to see you."

   "Huh?" Ronald didn't expect Director Wu to say that his movie was a hit in China.

   "What movie? There is no plan for my new movie to be released in China?"

   "Break dance, break dance. Now even in my Western Film Studio, there are many young people learning to dance, not to mention big cities."

   "Ha..." Ronald reacted, and his "Break Dance" was also one of the ten films exported to China this year by the American Film Association, and sold it to them at a very cheap price.

   "Is it really popular? I want to check it out..."

   "If you have time, please come to my Western Film Studio. I am the director of the factory there. We still have Terracotta Warriors to see, and your commander has also seen it."

   "Okay, you must go when you have time... Where did your male lead come from? I watched his performance, like a real mason."

"Hahaha, in fact, his job is a photographer, a treasure I dug from the Guangying Studio. But he is from the Northwest, I really can't find the male lead, so I found him. His understanding of movies is already in place. , so there is no problem with the performance. But, I don’t know if it will be liked by the judges this time... This is the best actor in our first overseas film festival after liberation.”

   Director Wu was actually the director of the Western Film Studio. The director turned to be the director. He was originally very eloquent. The language barrier in Tokyo, and there is no one to communicate after leaving the translation, so I am suffocated. I happened to see that Ronald could speak Chinese, and I was excited after winning the award, so I started talking nonstop and wanted to have a good conversation with "Director Luo of Hollywood".

   Ronald restrained his laughter, looked at the anxious translator next to him, and pointed to the stage.

   "The winner of the Best Film Award at the 2nd Tokyo Film Festival is Hua Guo, 'Old Well'!"

   "Director Luo, I really want to hear that they are talking about Lao Jing? Did I hear it wrong?"

   Ronald quickly pushed Director Wu, who was overwhelmed, and signaled to the translator next to him for help.

   Director Wu gave Ronald the crystal trophy for Best Actor, turned around and went up to accept the award again.

   "Congratulations, Director Wu, this award was strongly recommended by Ronald Lee, and I was able to confirm it against all opinions."

   The jury chairman Gregory Pike gave the award. He saw Director Wu chatting with Ronald below for a long time and knew that the two hit it off.

   "Thank you, thank you", Director Wu did not expect to be loved by two big Hollywood names in Tokyo. Then, reminded by Parker, he took the golden flying dragon-shaped trophy and walked to the microphone to give his second speech.

"Um... I'm very happy that this film can be liked by the Dongying audience. This is the crystallization of our collective creation, not me alone. My male protagonist is also my photographer. In order to play the role of Wangquan, in The stone that he carried on the mountain for a month, the stone trough at the beginning of the movie, was hit by himself.

  Huaguo movies are also influenced by Dongying movies, our hero is a loyal fan of Mr. Kurosawa Akira…”

   Director Wu is worthy of being a leader and director. Without any preparation, he improvised an acceptance speech.

  …

  After the awards show, Ronald and Diane came to the closing dinner of the film festival together. Director Wu is being surrounded by many filmmakers from Dongying. They like the desolate and vast scenery in the northwest.

   Gregory Pike stands with Ronald, and he is most appreciative of this kind of film that reflects the different styles of third world countries.

   "If there is a chance, I also want to make this kind of movie."

   "If you go, I'm afraid it will be crowded."

   "Hmph, such a movie, for Hollywood, may be really realistic." A British accent said without warning.

   Ronald tilted his head and looked at the man who said the strange thing. The director Alan Parker, who was officially "famous in the world" at the time, perverted the British director who did not let himself get the screenwriter's signature. He likes to shoot the dark side of society, and he always disdains such movies with bright endings.

   "Ronald, look at you, you are also a film director now."

   Ronald smiled, not knowing him in general. He criticized mainstream commercial movies, and in the end, Hollywood paid him to make movies, not those vulgar movies. This person has no chance to make those dark "realistic" movies.

   "When you were on the set, you were still a young man who changed the script..." Alan Parker still has to rely on the old to sell the old, to regain some face in front of Ronald, so that the producers of Dongying can trust him more. His last film was a box-office flop, and it wasn't easy to find investors.

"Good luck finding investors in Hollywood who also appreciate your taste." Ronald smiled, ignored him, and left with Diane to greet Rachel Ward and her husband Barry Brown .

   "Rachel, Barry", Ronald greets the two with a hug.

   "How's your movie box office? When will it be showing in America?"

   "We only got a box office of over US$100,000 in Australia, and no publishers are willing to take over in America. This time we won the best actress, and we hope to promote overseas distribution."

  Rachel Ward didn't hide from Ronald. She heard that Ronald also has a publishing business now, and wanted to find him to see if he was interested.

   "Why? I think it's an interesting movie?" Ronald was a little surprised by the box office numbers.

  The heroine played by Rachel Ward and the love triangle between the two brothers, even if the background of the story is relatively unpopular, it is not so miserable.

  Ward and her husband Barry looked at each other and smiled, "Our image in Australia is too far from the one in the movie."

   Ronald chatted with them for a while and figured out why.

The   Ward couple are similar to Paul Newman and his wife Woodward in Australia, and they are a loving star couple. But in the movie, Barry Brown plays an incomprehensible husband who doesn't have much in common with his delicate wife, so that the wife finally cheated on her husband's younger brother.

   This kind of movie plot where the character image is contrary to the star image makes the audience uncomfortable. Although there are unwanted scenes and strong storylines, Ward's performance is also very good, and the audience just doesn't sell it.

   However, no one in America knew them both...

  Ronald couldn't help but evaluate the prospects of this movie in America. Rachel Ward is a great beauty, and she worked hard with her husband, um...

   "I'll show my colleagues what I can do..."

   declined the organizer's invitation, Ronald and Diane left the dinner first, and they also went to the dinner of Kitagawa and Kadokawa Haruki.

   "The 2nd Tokyo International Film Festival came to a successful conclusion, the film from China was a great success... Diane Lane presented the award for the best actor Yimou"

   "Oh oh... This film festival has made a lot of noise." Kadokawa Haruki, the junior owner of Kadokawa Bookstore, watched the news on TV and couldn't help but sighed that it was all on NHK news.

"Dian Sang is also very beautiful, showing the style of a Hollywood star." Johnny Kitagawa's sister Mary, began to flatter Ronald and praised his girlfriend Diane for how Americana woman style.

"Hahaha..." Ronald is quite happy. Diane seems to be very popular in Dongying. She has made a few more versions of this year's commercials. The audience here gives her high praise, she is like a Hollywood superstar. treatment.

   "Can you consider doing a movie or two in Dongying?" Ronald turned around and asked Diane, maybe she could make a movie in Dongying.

   "Huh, I'm very popular in Dongying, my 'Angry Street', and now the cinema is still playing."

   Ronald made an expression of disbelief, turned his head to look at Johnny Kitagawa, this movie was all three years ago, is it still on?

   "It is true that there are long-term theaters still playing." Johnny Kitagawa nodded, "Now the opening and ending music of that movie are often on-demand on the radio, and the MV is often broadcast on TV."

  Ronald looked back at Diane, and the scene where she was wearing Armani's performance costumes, long lively, was the scene when Ronald discovered her femininity.

   Perhaps seeing the tenderness in Ronald's eyes, Diane smiled and touched Ronald's hand, pinching it hard.

"Our new trainees are also learning the Japanese version of this episode", Mary Kitagawa began to rush to show her abilities again, "I asked them to perform for Ronald Sand? best."

"Ha, then let them try it out." Ronald held Diane's hand, remembering that when he came last time, Kitagawa also found a group to sing. This time, it's good to see how well the next generation of Johnnys is. .

  Mary Kitagawa gave instructions to the assistant, and after a while, six young boys in their teens filed into the banquet hall.

   facing Ronald, one by one stood up and introduced themselves.

  "My name is Masahiro Nakaju, I am 15 years old"

   "My name is Takuya Kimura, I am 14 years old"

   "My name is Katori Shingo, 11 years old"

  …

   "They are so young..." Diane looked at the boys.

"This is Johnny's strategy. They have been trained since childhood, and they have to sign long-term contracts." Ronald explained to Diane, this is not Hollywood, Kitagawa casts a net on these boy groups, Trainees are trained from an early age.

   These six boys are very lucky, they have formed a Junior group, and they can make their debut after raising them for a year or two.

   "Thank you, next, we bring you a song, 'Tonight is the meaning of youth'"

  The six boys begin singing the Japanese translation of the ending theme song for "Rage Street" along with the accompaniment tape.

   They were all a little nervous. The two eldest boys, Masahiro Nakai and Takuya Kimura, sang out of tune, but the youngest, Katori Shingo, sang well.

   "Okay..." Diane likes them very much. Her own singing skills are average, but she just thinks that they are trying to sing very cute.

   "Ronald Sang, do you think these guys are good at it?", Mary Kitagawa's habit of showing off her handsome boys has committed again.

  Johnny Kitagawa stopped the impatient sister and let the group of six push down first, "Ronaldsan, which one do you think has the most potential?"

   "Acting? The one with long hair is called Kimura?..." Ronald said without hesitation that the second-oldest Takuya Kimura, who he felt had the most potential in acting, was. "

   "Oh, how do you say this?"

  Johnny Kitagawa was also quite surprised. He didn't expect Ronald to be able to name the candidate in one gulp. Haruki Kadokawa over there also looked at Ronald with interest and listened to what he said.

   "He is very focused and imaginative in his eyes. Among the six people, when looking at the few of us in the audience, he is the only one who seems to be facing a concert of 10,000 people, and seems to be looking at tens of thousands of audiences."

   "Hahaha, that's what it is, Ronald, I understand." Johnny Kitagawa was very happy and toasted Ronald.

   "Our investment is done, let's trouble Ronald Sand."

   "I'll trouble you too."

  Ronald and them were drinking sake. The two film festival bosses from Dongying decided to invest in Hollywood movies with Dongying plots, or films with the participation of Dongying movie stars. Ronald and the others were also welcome to film in Dongying.

   Ronald, as a contact person in Hollywood, his recommendations and projects will receive priority investment from the two here. And relax the screening conditions in Dongying. This time, the "Spicy Dance" will be screened by the two cinema chains.

   "Cheers!" Bannon, who had been watching the wind, finally waited for the moment to finalize the cooperation, and happily raised a glass with them to celebrate.

   "Speaking of the 10,000-person concert, this time MJ's new album concert in Tokyo is very popular."

   Kitagawa changed the topic and talked about MJ's concert arrangement in Dongying.

   "Diane and I will go to the scene to watch, MJ sent the front row tickets."

   "Does Ronald Sand and King of Pop also have an intersection?" Kitagawa likes MJ's concert style very much, and has always wanted to introduce his live performance to the music scene of Toyo.

   "We are very good friends." Ronald smiled lightly, these Eastern Ying people are still very adored by MJ's music and live performances.

"As expected of Ronald Sand, we can help with anything in Dongying in the future." Kitagawa and Kadokawa exchanged glances. As one of the few pro-rice factions in Dongying's business community, there is such a person in America. He has made extensive friends and cooperated with big directors, and is also a key figure who can break into the American cultural circle.

  "It's easy to talk, easy to talk", Ronald tried his best to maintain the attitude of a mysterious expert. In fact, he didn't know as many people in Hollywood as they thought.

   "By the way, is there a lot of people watching the video tapes in Dongying now?" Ronald remembered Diane's "Street of Rage". Since it is still so popular, maybe he can make a fortune by releasing the video tapes.

   "There are still quite a few, and the format battle between Sony and JVC is still going on, but when it comes to movies, everyone still likes the VHS format. Their videotapes can be packed in one box of one movie."

   "If Ronald Sang has the copyright of a movie that Dongying audiences like, he might as well release a videotape here. Both manufacturers are very welcome. Their VCR sales also depend on good movies to drive them."

   "Well, I'll go back and discuss with them and choose some movies that Dongying audiences like to try."

   (end of this chapter)