Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 924 Dukaski's cousin

  Many people in the circle know about Ronald's endorsement of Melanie Griffith's accident. Director Jonathan Demme, who had directed Melanie, called to express his gratitude. He knew Melanie's potential, not the **** doll that people recognize.

   But Ronald's manager was a little frustrated. Nisita arrived in New York in the evening, and hurried to visit Ronald with Richard.

   "I won't disturb you, right?" Nisita knocked on the door of Ronald's room. He knew that the director was very busy during filming, so he didn't know if it was appropriate to come today.

   "Come in, I have a very professional team for this big production, and I just need to make decisions on many things. But I still can't sleep until late at night, and I have to change the script with Cameron (Crow)."

  Ronald put in the two agents who were careful, and poured them some whiskey, "Drink some, the people from Fox gave it to me today, and you are also here for Melanie's business?"

"I don't want to interfere with your decision, Ronald. Mr. Michael Ovitz called today when he was on a business trip. I want to know what you think. Of course, if you really like Melanie, you can ’” Nisita joked.

"I really like her..." Ronald also joked, watching his agent's eyebrows wrinkle, "I like her ability as an actress." Now he has been nominated for the best director of this year's Oscar, In many cases, people in the circle have a lot of respect for themselves.

   Ronald explained. If the movie succeeds, it's mostly because of Melanie Griffith's success, not Harrison Ford's face. Because this is not a simple commercial film, but a film that reflects major changes in contemporary society.

   is what Ronald has always wanted to make, the kind of movie that can still stand after thirty years. So he hopes to use the most suitable actors.

  Professional women have increasingly entered the management of the workplace in America, but the traditional idea that women should go home is still very stubborn. When Ronald is handling the performance, he pays attention to various places, not to cross the bottom line of the audience.

  For example, Tess made a lot of common sense mistakes as a blue-collar at the beginning. The folder was tied with a rubber band instead of holding a valuable leather bag. There are stuffed animals on the desk instead of family photos, and no idea that you don't need to pay for drinks at the open bar where you meet Jack Trainor.

  After these foreshadowings were made, Sigourney Weaver was quickly shaped into a bad guy in the traditional sense, taking credit from his subordinates.

   Finally, the plot of Jack Trainor played by Harrison Ford was also revised. In the end, he chose to trust Tess instead of betraying her for personal gain.

  All of this requires an actor whose performance can be recognized and invested by the audience, and at this point in time, no one will do it better than Melanie Griffiths.

   "Your understanding of movies has deepened again, and we will fully support your decision. Many people have been spreading this matter, and we have to come to you to clarify it in person." After hearing this, Nisita's expression relaxed a lot.

   Not because of personal reasons, but because of very convincing artistic reasons, it must be able to quickly calm the doubts of some people at 20th Century Fox. Some people saw that Ronald was nominated, and they really wanted to see him fall because of personal affairs.

   Relaxed, the two agents had dinner with Ronald, and Ronald continued to prepare for tomorrow's shooting. The two are about to say goodbye and leave.

   "Just stay in this hotel for one night, and I'll have someone open a room for you." Ronald was very satisfied with the two agents. Filmmaking is a large-scale social activity involving tens of millions of investment. Communication, compromise, justification, and even deceit are all necessary in order to be able to complete the shoot.

  Nisita and Richard are always on his side, which saves him a lot of trouble.

   "By the way, you help me bring this check to Director John Waters."

  Before leaving the house, Ronald remembered and handed Richard a check.

   "Is it about Divine?"

  Seeing Ronald nodded, Richard expressed his understanding. He will not return to Los Angeles tomorrow, but as a personal representative, he will help Ronald complete this matter that is best handled privately.

  After Divine died, there was a lot of excitement in the media. All the news about him would mention his posthumous work. Dinvine also personally made the final contribution to the box office of the movie "Hairspray".

   But Divine, who is buried next to his grandmother's grave in Baltimore, remains controversial. His gender and attire sparked protests, and the funeral became a bone of contention for both progressives and conservatives alike.

   In addition to some fans sending flowers, there are also some particularly conservative southern white organizations to make trouble. In the end, the wreath sent by the black actress Whoopi Goldberg was the last straw that broke the funeral.

  The wreath reads "Look what happens when you get a good review?" The two factions began to attack each other, which made the priest who presided over the ceremony very embarrassed. That night, the tombstone was damaged with spray paint and many bad words were written on it.

What's even more exasperating is that after the funeral, the IRS in charge of taxes seized all of Divine's property, including his wig and clothing in "hairspray", and an auction will be held in the next week to make up for his previous tax evasion. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes.

   Seeing that Divine worked very hard during the filming and after the promotion, and died in the name of the announcement, Ronald took the initiative and wrote a check to make up most of the debt. Let this controversial actor get eternal peace.

   "Ring ring ring ring..." Ronald in the room picked up the phone receiver.

   "Mr. Lee? Mr. Buffy from Washington, D.C. is calling."

   "Thank you, please take this." Ronald finally waited for the investor's call back.

"Ronald, I've done what you asked for. Catherine agrees with you to use their real newspapers as movie props. I heard that it is an important prop for the heroine to turn defeat into victory in the workplace. She will give you without licensing fees." Use it, and the power of attorney will be faxed to you."

   "Thank you so much, Warren. I owe you one. I want to add some realism to this movie, those prop newspapers are so fake."

  What Ronald said was that the one Tess saw led him to produce the newspaper that allowed Tesk to acquire the radio station. In order to avoid copyright disputes, Hollywood generally uses what is commonly known as a fictitious newspaper. The content on it is generally fixed, and only the headlines leave a director to write news related to the plot.

  But the newspaper of "Working Girl" is not a general prop, but a newspaper that plays a decisive role in Tess's fate. After Ronald saw the prop newspaper, he wanted to replace it with a real newspaper.

   After contacting the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and being rejected immediately, Ronald had no choice but to find his old friend, Mr. Buffy, an investor from Omaha, and his confidante Mrs. Graham, who is the owner of the Washington Post.

"You're welcome, it's been a pleasure chatting with you, I always have a feeling of returning to my youth. Next time you come to Washington, DC, or Omaha, don't forget to chat with me. Can you play bridge? Yes You can play with me, it’s hard to find a capable partner now.”

   "Then it's settled, thank you, bye."

   Ronald puts down the phone, Buffy certainly didn't call because it was fun talking to him, at least not entirely.

  Ronald did his homework early on, and not long after the stock market crash, Nisita was able to contact his youngest son, Peter, who was engaged in music work.

  Peter Buffy was engaged in music work, but failed in San Francisco, and then returned to Milwaukee, which is very close to his hometown, signed a small record company, wrote some light music and released records.

  Daydream got Peter a small job on the soundtrack of a campaign ad, which was well received. Last month, he was also appreciated by John Barry, who made the soundtrack for the 007 series of films, and asked him to work with him to make the soundtrack for Daydream's new film "Sticky Fingers".

  John Barry is also unlucky. He made the soundtrack for George Lucas's protracted masterpiece "Howard Duck". Ronald handed over the soundtrack to him this time, and he was also happy to bring a young man to familiarize himself with the real film soundtrack production process.

  Although Buffy doesn't care much about his children, his youngest son can finally do better than the average person in a certain industry, which makes him very happy.

  …

   Once filming continued, everything went smoothly. Harrison Ford plays Jack Trainor and Tess a lot opposite each other. After "borrowing" Catherine's clothes, Tess acts like a real investment manager, convincing Jack Trainor that she's a professional.

  Today’s scene is that Harrison Ford came to the company where Tess worked, and the two had an interview to discuss some ways of cooperation.

   Tess is a very smart person, and she invited the other party with the intention of dispelling doubts. Wall Street is a place where there are a lot of scammers. On the phone, Catherine's colleague said that when she came to visit, she held a document bag tied with a rubber band, revealing the secret of the secretary.

   Tess could only ask Jack to come to see him work in Catherine's office to dispel the other party's suspicion.

   "Oh, Mr. Trainor, Miss Tess McGill is waiting for you. I'll take you there."

  Joan Cusack plays Shin, who is pulled to the rescue by Tess. She took Tess's place, became secretary to Tess McGill's manager, and sat in Tess's usual place.

  Seeing Jack Trainor walking into the office, she was afraid that Jack would reveal his secrets when talking to others, so she immediately went up to hold the other's hand, and dragged him into Catherine's office.

   "Miss McGill, Mr. Trainor." Joan Cusack opened the door of the office and said to Tess who was pretending to be sitting in Catherine's seat.

   "Thank you, Xin..." Melanie Griffiths recovered well, and she also passed the daily routine blood test, and nothing happened again.

  Tess wearing the red fashion glasses "borrowed" from Catherine, signaled Xin to go out.

"Is there anything else you want? Mr. Trainor." Joan Cusack was unwilling to leave at the door. She played Xin as a pure secretary who didn't have much pursuit. She saw a handsome guy like Harrison Ford , eyes shining and unwilling to leave.

   "Coffee, tea, or me?" Xin, with lioness hairstyle, asked funny at the door.

   "Hahaha...my secretary is a bit overexcited." Tess gestured with her eyes, and pushed Xin out halfway.

   "Cut!"

  The shooting has returned to normal, Ronald is very satisfied, and the progress is advancing according to plan.

   It was the regular lunch time, and this time Ronald took Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffiths, Joan Cusack and others to eat Italian food.

  The chef cooks with heart, and some of the ingredients are airlifted from Italy to this restaurant. The four people are full of praise.

   "This job makes me feel like a woman, like a star cheerleader, eye candy for the audience..." Harrison Ford began to complain about his lack of roles to Ronald.

"Whenever he walked into a room, all the female extras would wink at him." Joan Cusack, who played the secretary, knew about some of the extras. Those actors and staff shared this experience Consider it your chance to meet one of the most handsome men in Hollywood.

   "Do you want to play a more complicated role? Why don't we change Jack Trainor's ending back? This way you have some challenging scenes to play." Ronald made a suggestion along the way.

  In the original script, Jack Trainor was not such a purely good person. In the end, he learned that Catherine stole Tess's idea and took it for himself. But in order to keep his job and future, Tess did not testify that the idea was hers.

  But Tusk, the boss of Tusk Company, is a self-made entrepreneur who saw through what Tess said was true. After testing her and Catherine, he believed that Tess was the real initiator and promoter of the project.

  Jake Trainor ends up going home to reflect on his life without a big project. Nor was it with Tess as the finale.

   "I'm not talking about that kind of... I mean, give Jack something that fits my image..."

  Harrison Ford wasn’t fooled, so he wouldn’t play this kind of villain. Stars play heroic images, and there is no need for character transformation. He is a positive hero as soon as he appears on the stage. He is always cool, handsome, and wins until the last moment.

   "Yeah, I'm just saying." Ronald then tasted the iron pizza.

  Many things are compromises. Although Harrison Ford made the role of Jack Trainor not three-dimensional, there are many people who go to the cinema for him, right? In the past two days, the women in the crew have started to stir up trouble, which is proof.

   Besides, the movie has a happy ending at the end, and there's nothing wrong with having Tess and Jack as a couple. Ordinary audiences will be more satisfied, picky and knowledgeable metropolitan audiences also know that couples may not have a happy ending... Commercial movies should not be too out of the ordinary, and it is also a good thing to be careful not to touch everyone's cultural taboos.

  The shooting in the afternoon was also very smooth. Melanie Griffiths was holding a Washington Post, which was spliced ​​by props using real newspapers and prop newspapers. The correct date, and the headline on the front page, and the other side is the content related to the plot, about the news that the daughter of the owner of the Tusk Enterprises is engaged in charity activities.

  Melanie Griffiths cut out the content about Tusk's daughter from this newspaper and received it in her clipping booklet.

   "Cut!"

  After filming this segment, Ronald waved for Melanie to bring the clipping.

   "Oh...why does the Washington Post still have entertainment news?"

   He checked, and it was indeed the Washington Post. There is also Xueer's head portrait on it.

  It turns out that today's post is a special topic reporting on Oscar nominees, and every year it is divided into several weeks to serialize some history and background information of each nominee. This is the tradition of the Post's film review page.

   "New Adventures of an Old Singing Star..." The title tells Cher's story.

   "Hey, why is there still Olympia Dukakis?" Ronald looked down, and there was also the content of Dukakis who made a cameo in this movie.

   "Is Olympia Dukakis, the actor with the most Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and Michael Dukakis, the Governor of Massachusetts and the leading politician in the Donkey Party primary election, related?"

   "You won't wear it?" Ronald put the cut newspaper on the newspaper, folded it twice, and gestured in his hand.

"Hmm..." Ronald was relieved, the content of Dukakis would not appear in front of the camera, otherwise a character who appeared in the movie would appear as an Oscar nominee in the prop newspaper, and the audience who discovered this detail would be shocked. play.

  (end of this chapter)