Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 408 Premiere

"Old Man" actually premiered at a middle school in a small California town, directed by Coppola, with three main stars Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, and Ralph The two of Mazio went to the middle school and had a party with the students who had written to Coppola to ask Coppola to come out.

  The cinema here in Los Angeles has several other starring actors, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruz, and Diane Lane.

  Ronald met Richard, the agent, at the entrance of the theater, and Paula Wagner accompanied Tom Cruise.

   There are very few photojournalists, so it was a bit of a disappointment for the starring teenage stars who were carefully dressed as the characters in the play. It seems that Warner Bros. was not optimistic about the film and did not invest much marketing resources.

   "The reporters that Nisita introduced to you are over there." Richard pointed to the two reporters standing opposite to Ronald. Ronald came to show his face just to grab some news.

   "Hi, how are you." Ronald stepped forward to say hello, "I'm Ronald."

   "Hello, I'm Downey" a reporter also responded kindly.

   "I'm Charlie, which family are you from?" another reporter asked Ronald.

   "I work for The Atlantic now." Ronald looked at the two young reporters as if they had just graduated from college.

   "Massachusetts' Atlantic Monthly? Oh, I didn't expect this movie to be interviewed by serious media?" Reporter Charlie expressed surprise.

   "This is an adaptation of SE Hinton's novel. The Atlantic Monthly has always paid attention to literary reviews and is also very concerned about the cause of affirmative rights for minorities." Reporter Downey explained, "Right, Ronald."

   Ronald smiled, knowing that they had misunderstood that he was also a reporter, so he was not in a hurry to explain, and asked them, "Why are so few reporters interviewing this movie? I thought there would be a lot of people at the premiere."

   "I heard that this movie was disliked by Warner Bros. If you look at our newspaper office, we filmed the two of us newcomers and wrote about it casually."

   "Disgusted?"

"Yeah, now the famous Italian directors of the 1970s are out of breath, and Marty Scorsese's new film 'The King of Comedy' is also a box office hit. I heard gossip that Scorsese's previous films , thanks to his editor Martha Lucas, the wife of George Lucas. After Martha got married, the quality of his films declined rapidly."

   "That is, I heard that Coppola was in debt, and his 'Diorama' company was going bankrupt. Warner Bros. basically gave up on the movie."

   "No, don't you think it's a bad boy?" Ronald said.

"I heard Roger Ebert fired on Coppola, although he gave it three stars. But he thinks Coppola should use these innovative styles, lighting, sets as an exercise, not a movie To experiment, he should make a real movie like Apocalypse Now."

   "Yes, I heard that the critics' evaluation after the special screening was not high. It is generally believed that the 90-minute story is not compact enough, the characters are well acted and the story is not good."

   "But I heard that it's because Warners compressed the duration. If the director's original two-hour schedule is followed, it's a good movie." Ronald and Coppola defended.

   "Hey, who would watch such a long movie now, did you hear it? Some small studios have already started not showing them, and they are directly filling video tapes and selling them."

"Yeah, and there's the same teenage gangster movie 'Bad Boys' coming out today, and that movie at least tells the story of Los Angeles in the '80s, Oklahoma in the '50s, and it's just us newbies. Send it over."

   "Ronald, Ronald." Nisita came over, "It seems that you have found two reporters, I don't have to worry. How are you talking."

   "Huh? You're not a reporter?" The two reporters looked embarrassed.

   "I'm Ronald Lee, here for the premiere."

  Nisita handed over the draft to the two reporters and took Ronald to the front to take pictures with the actors.

  "Hi Tom", Ronald and Tom Cruise hugged warmly, he is now over the top, various film appointments, under the arrangement of Paula Wagner.

   "You know, Paula picked up another movie for me. The heroine is a newcomer you brought up. She speaks highly of you. I want to make a movie with you."

   "Ah, is it? Who?"

   "Lee Thompson, we're going to Pittsburgh to shoot 'AllTheRightMoves', do you have any suggestions?"

   "Yes, when you go to Pittsburgh to shoot a movie, you'd better bring your anti-allergy medicine. The air pollution there is very bad, and the nostrils are full of dust at night, which is very uncomfortable."

   "Ah, is that so? I'm going to prepare right away." Paula Wagner next to him quickly wrote down what Ronald said.

   "What story and genre is this movie about?" Ronald asked Cruise.

   "Youth and excitement, high school students get football scholarships, and then come out of the small town story, Leigh Thompson plays my girlfriend."

  “Rugby scholarship?”

"I know, I know, I'm just playing a tackle, which is quite convincing in the high school team. It was also said in the movie that he was going to college, majoring in mechanics, and it was impossible to develop into a career in the future." Tom Ke Ruth knew his height problem, so the movie modified certain details for him.

   "Hey, what can I say, I wish you all the best! Leigh Thompson is indeed a very talented actress."

  "Ronald", Nisita dragged him aside again, "My assistant just sent it from the office, Helen sent you a postcard. She said thank you very much for the reminder."

   "Huh?" Ronald took it happily, only to see Helen writing a paragraph on a postcard.

   She really listened to Ronald's words, and instead of shooting that dangerous shot of taking off from the water, she had a stand-in instead. The stand-in was entangled in a wire while practicing and suffered minor injuries.

   In the end, the crew decided to take a picture of Helen, enlarge it to life size, and then stick it on the wooden model, and then use the camera to film the puppet being quickly pulled out of the water to fool it.

   came with the postcard, the picture of Helen they were going to put on the puppet. I saw her raising one hand up, her blonde hair fluttering, her red cloak open behind her back, and the combination of tights, short skirts, and leather boots looked particularly attractive.

  Ronald kissed the photo, put it away with the postcard, and put it in the bag on his chest, "Thank you, and it was specially sent to me." He shook hands with his assistant and sent a banknote as a thank you.

"Hmph! I'll ignore him in the future." Diane, who had seen Ronald coming over, saw Ronald kissing Helen's picture halfway through, stomped his feet angrily, turned and ran to meet him Emilio Estevez who played "Bitch" chatted.

"I bought another of Ms Hinton's novels with my father, 'That was then. This is now', and I'll make it into a screenplay myself, and I'll be starring Tom Cruise and you The heroine."

  Emilio Estevez was glad Diane came to chat with him and started bragging. On the cast of "The Worldly Urchin", Diane was the girlfriend that all the actors wanted to date, but none of them succeeded.

   "Your father?" Diane pretended not to know, and asked Emilio Estevez, in fact, Emilio had said it eight hundred times on the set.

"Yes, my father, Martin Sheen. He played Captain Willard in Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'. I actually had a small role in that movie too, but it ended up being cut There's only one back left."

   "Really, that's such a shame." Diane acted very realistically, "or you could have been famous years in advance."

"It doesn't matter, the novel I bought, I will adapt it myself, will you come when the time comes?" Emilio Estevez has a hunchback, and now his happy neck is more protruding forward, thinking Go hug Diane.

   "Diane, you're here." Ronald finally found Diane, "I didn't see you just now. Your scene in the final film wasn't cut, right?"

   "I haven't seen it yet, but I heard it's okay." Diane answered Ronald's question indifferently, but she deliberately held Emilio Estevez's arm.

"Ronald, long time no see, when are we going to have another round? This time we can play tennis." Emilio heard what the scene was cut off, thinking Ronald was deliberately provocative, and Diane held his arm again , suddenly came to the mind of a challenge.

   "Then I can't do it", Ronald recalled the days when he practiced tennis hard for the dream, and he could only swipe vigorously, and then he would be embarrassed by others.

   "Really, I thought you were omnipotent?" Emilio Estevez sneered.

   Ronald was about to fight back when suddenly a woman came from behind and pulled Emilio Estevez, "Emilio."

   "Kelly, why are you here." Emilio Estevez was startled, and pulled the woman named Kelly to the side to speak.

This Kelly is pretty good-looking, but her personality seems to be that kind of Latino American housewife who was dismissed by Emilio in a few words, just like those fathers in Catholic families who waved their hands to let their mothers do the laundry and cook. .

   "Who is she?" Diane crossed her arms over her chest, three feet away from Emilio.

"She's...well, a friend who works as a graphic model for the agency Wilhelmina Models. She's approaching me for something,...something, yeah, just to play a role in my adaptation of Hinton's script. Role."

   "Yeah, of course", of course Diane wouldn't believe this kind of nonsense, and left Emilio and Ronald behind to find his father, Bert.

"Didn't hear about Diane's romantic relationship with Emilio Estevez?" Ronald, who was confused about the situation, decided to ignore this kind of thing. Anyway, Diane was an adult at the beginning of this year, and even her father Bert Can't handle her either.

   Soon fans of Coppola and Hinton's novels started pouring in, and the movie started showing.

   Sure enough, the movie was cut to pieces at Warner's 90-minute request. Many important plots in the novels have been cut, not only the fans of the novels sighed and dissatisfied, but even the ordinary audience who came from Mucopola's fame did not understand the foreshadowing of some plots.

   After all, this movie is not a simple plot like a high concept, but the kind of drama Coppola is good at depicting the relationship between characters and advancing the story. This cut, um..., no wonder even a film critic like Roger Albert, who loves Coppola, has a lot of criticism.

   It seems that the box office of this movie is worrying.

   (end of this chapter)