Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 474 Chapter 105 When is the wedding?

"Wow..." The curtain was gently pulled to a corner, Diane was still sleeping on the bed, with a smile on her lips, dreaming of returning from a Broadway show when she was a child, sitting in the back seat of a taxi driven by her father, Bert, and curled up in the seat sleep.

   "Diane, Diane..."

   In the dream, Bert called her softly, and the car seemed to be parked in front of the low-rent apartment in the lower city.

   "Well..." Bert's face and voice in Diane's dream gradually changed to that of Ronald.

  Dian hasn't slept so sweetly in a long time, the pressure is gone, the morning sun seems to have found him, and it's warm.

   She opened her eyes, Ronald was wearing pajamas, pushing a breakfast cart full of various foods, calling her name softly.

   "I didn't know what you wanted to eat, so I ordered a little."

   "Well..." Diane finally hugged the warm blanket, which still had the madness of last night. Next to it is the expensive Armani costume, neatly placed on the sofa.

   She sat up, put on Ronald's big shirt casually, put the pillow behind her back, picked up a glass of milk and took a sip, looked into Ronald's eyes, and said innocently:

   "When did you tell Bert about us? He's already paying me for the wedding, but he doesn't have much money. Don't make the wedding too grand."

  Ronald was stunned...why is Diane such a girl?

"Are you sure?"

  Dian nodded with a smile, "Bert always said that it's okay to experience love as an actor, but if you have a boyfriend in your life, you must take it home, and he will screen it for me..."

   "I'm filming 'Long Wei Kid' now and will be back in New York for vacation before Christmas. When will your new film start? Let's find a time."

  Ronald thought about his schedule, but did not expect his marriage to be decided like this. Diane knew it all the time, really getting married... there's nothing wrong with that... right.

   No, Diane is lying to herself.

   Ronald could not hold back the smile on Diane's face.

   "Hahahaha..." Diane burst out laughing and wrapped the quilt tightly, "Donna is right, as long as I say so, you will definitely propose on the spot."

   Ronald reacted that Diane was joking at him, laughed too, and put his hand to Diane's armpit to tickle.

   "Hahaha..." Diane's breathing became thicker, begging for mercy, "Donna and I just want to try."

   "GirlsJustWanttoHaveFun?" Ronald remembered what Donna had said to him that day for no reason.

   "Yeah, I don't want you to restrict yourself too much. I'm going back to New York to join the crew soon. I need to eat more. Director Coppola just returned to the crew and he asked me to eat fat." Diane began to choose breakfast.

   "What's your new movie called?"

   "The Cotton Club."

  Diane began to grab the table and put bread, mixed with bacon, and ate it with sausage and baked beans.

  "It's good not to be picky eaters", Ronald thought Diane was cute.

The two chatted while eating. Coppola fell out with producer Robert Evans during the filming of "Cotton Club". Coppola expressed his anger and withdrew from the set, leaving the investors in him and Evans. Choose between Vince.

   In the end, the studio chose to trust Coppola. They persuaded Orion to give the masterpiece Coppola had high hopes for a turnaround and an additional $20 million budget.

   Ronald couldn't help frowning. The bank loan Coppola owes has not been repaid. His house and vineyard are still mortgaged.

   shook his head, and Ronald started to eat too. Last night's physical exertion was really a bit heavy.

  The two fed each other and laughed for a long time.

   "Where are you going today?"

   "I have nowhere to go, how about you?" Diane wore Ronald's big shirt and went to take a bath with bare legs.

   "The crew is temporarily suspended. Producer Weintraub and Columbia's executives are watching the demo. I will probably go back to work on Monday."

   "Then you can stay with me for a day." Diane said, sticking her head out of the bathroom.

   "Of course." Ronald put together a pair of red diamond high heels that were far away on the floor.

  "Dangdang..." Diane washed quickly and walked out wrapped in a large bath towel. She hummed the lyrics of "Girls just want to have some fun", pretended to be a fashion model, and walked out on tiptoe and catwalking.

   Ronald, knowing that Diane was imitating his costume change in "Night of the Comet", whistled in encouragement.

   "The girl just wants to have some fun, just to have some fun." Diane threw the bath towel aside like a fashion, approached Ronald, and straddled Ronald's lap.

  Ronald looked at Diane's smiling face, gently touched the small scar beside her right eye with his hand, and then hugged her tightly. The aroma of the shampoo on the smooth back and hair swept Ronald intoxicated.

   Meanwhile, Weintraub is in the screening room with Columbia executives watching Ronald's first week of dailies.

   "Trust me, Ronald definitely has the efficiency to shoot successful exploitative films, and he can also shoot very artistic clips where needed."

   Weintraub is saying good things about Ronald.

   "Let's take a look first." This high-level executive from Columbia, who was not in the film and television industry, was parachuted from Coca-Cola and was considered a direct descendant of the current president, David Purnant.

  The auditorium starts playing the dailies without the synchronized recording.

   First, Daniel and Ali met twice. Daniel fell in love at first sight and was fascinated by Ali as if struck by lightning. Ali gradually learned more about Daniel's character. The second time the two met in the cafeteria, the poor Daniel took out a few one-dollar bills and paid for lunch together for Ali.

  The executives of Colombia were very satisfied with this shot. He couldn’t help but think of the past when he got his first job at Coca-Cola and met the wife of a city girl. He didn’t have much money, but every time he met, it was always warm.

   Then there are two encounters between Daniel and Master Miyagi. The first time Daniel went to the repair shop to ask Miyagi to fix the faucet. Miyagi was addicted to catching flies with chopsticks and ignored Daniel's repair request.

   The second time he came to the apartment for repairs, he happened to see Daniel being punched with a panda eye, and he kept practicing karate against a book, wanting to take revenge.

   Columbia's executive turned to Weintraub and said, "Who is this? He seems to be an ordinary repairman. The director Ronald gave him a lot of shots."

   "This is Master Miyagi, who later taught Daniel karate. His occupation was an apartment repairman, but he was actually a master of karate."

   "Well..." The executive nodded, this setup is quite interesting.

  Daniel later went to where his mother worked and found a karate club across the road. He went in and saw a life-size card of Chris, and couldn't help but want to go in and see if he could sign up.

   Who knew that when he got inside, he saw Johnny and his partner who beat him up. He was terrified and ran away from the gym.

   "How is it? Am I right?" Weintraub was actually seeing these samples for the first time, and he was very satisfied with Ronald's handling.

   "The filming is good, but the president, Mr. Pnant, doesn't like his reckless personality. The director is not qualified to fire the producer. It's the same everywhere."

"That's my problem. In the days when I wasn't on set, Charles Okun was challenging the director's authority in person." Weintraub didn't hesitate to excuse Ronald, "I promise, as long as my The influence is back on the set, and it won't happen again."

   "Are you willing to seal the ticket?" The executive wiped his glasses and asked.

"I'm willing to endorse him," Weintraub certainly took care of Ronald, who helped him a lot, "and he has recently been rumored to have an affair with Brooke Shields, and when the movie is released, he can also get a wave of free media. focus on."

   "Okay, I'll report to Mr. Pnant. After the shooting is complete, I'll come back and watch the film together."

   Ronald, who spent a day at the hotel with Diane, returned home.

The red light on the answering machine kept flashing, and Ronald pressed the play button.

   "Ronald, I'm Weintraub. Come on set on Monday, it's settled. We can resume filming."

   On Monday morning, Ronald arrived at the filming location wearing sunglasses.

  Diane was already on the flight back to New York last night. The Cotton Club is in the Bronx, New York. It used to be a black jazz dance hall.

   Ronald also has a set, the props team and the set team, who arranged the apartment downstairs of the original apartment into the office of Master Miyagi.

   Morita Noriyuki wears glasses and holds a pair of large scissors, ready to prune the pine trees in the bonsai.

   Ronald's mental and physical strength has returned to its peak, he looked at Morita and started Monday's shooting.

   "Cut!" Ronald quickly stopped when he saw that Morita himself was trimming the bonsai.

   "Master Miyagi is a horticulturalist and artist, so he couldn't have cut it all at once."

   "Cut!" After Morita finished cutting the pine branches, he cut it twice.

   "The artist will keep his movements to a minimum. If you don't think about it, you won't cut it."

   "Cut!" Ronald laughed too, Morita Noriyuki had cut out not much of the bonsai left.

   "That way, you make a thoughtful pruning look, and then look back and see Daniel walk in."

   "Diane is like a fire, he seems to be a little too excited." Ronald poured a cup of black tea from the thermos and stabilized his rhythm.

   "Very good, this shot has passed."

   (end of this chapter)