Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 486 Aunt's Concession

   "What's your new movie about?" Aunt Karen asked about the new movie after eating dinner with Ronald.

"It's a story about a single-parent boy, how he found a mentor, broke through his own obstacles, and finally defeated the strong enemy who once bullied him, and won the heart of a girl..." Ronald explained the general plot of "Longwei Boy" aside.

   "A fight again?" Aunt Karen asked, a little dissatisfied.

   "It's not that kind of violent fighting, it's a fear of breaking through oneself. There is nothing inappropriate for minors in the whole film. We are going to apply for a PG rating." Ronald explained.

   This time, instead of using **** and violence to attract teenagers, he turned to traditional narratives and a bit of magical martial arts. After all, PG rated movies can attract more audiences.

   "So there's a Vietnam Veteran plot?" Aunt Karen asked a few more questions after hearing that Chris at Cobra Dojo was a Vietnam Veteran. She wondered what Ronald would make of the Vietnam veteran.

"Yes, but I criticized his philosophy. We shouldn't be violent for the sake of violence. Why do we bully those peasants when we are so strong in America? So I asked those students not to agree with the philosophy of secret violence in the end. Learning martial arts is to protect yourself from being bullied."

Aunt Karen was silent for a rare moment before she brought coffee and sweetened Ronald with milk and sugar, "Ronnie, I'm so glad you've finally made a movie that I'd love to watch too. If The chief commander at that time also had the same thoughts as you, and he would not have sent Steve to the battlefield."

  Steve is the husband of his aunt and, like Ronald's father, used to play in the Marines.

   "Thank you." Ronald had prepared a bunch of excuses to answer his aunt's old idea of ​​letting him go back to college to get a diploma, but he didn't expect it to come to nothing.

   "Hee hee", Donna smiled beside her. She had already said a lot of good things about Ronald to Aunt Karen, so this time he won't be embarrassed.

"I'm really happy, Ronnie. The story you're telling reminds me of the movies I watched when I was a kid, and they're so good. Besides making money, movies have to be a little bit touching. I've always advised You go back to college, and now I'm relieved to see that you can really get ahead in this line of work."

"I'll watch this movie with Donna when it comes out. If this movie can satisfy me, then I won't rush you back to college to finish your studies. Hey, I was having a hard time, and I didn't notice that you had Such a good artistic talent almost delayed you."

   Speaking of the past, Auntie got a little excited again. Ronald hugged Aunt Karen quickly, and the two sat down over coffee and chat.

"Your mother left a message for me at the time that you must graduate from college. Although you haven't completed your studies now, if your film can touch and teach people, I think it has satisfied your mother's request. You can rest assured..."

   Aunt Karen remembered the scene where her sister-in-law was in a car accident and her sister entrusted her son to her after seeing her. When the movie is released, if it is as good as Ronald said, it is time to hand over the relics left by her sister to Ronnie.

  Thinking of this, Aunt Karen looked at Ronald's wrist, "Hey, where's your watch?"

   "I sent it for maintenance, Helen... Helen said it was a pilot's watch from a long time ago, and I sent it to the watch shop for some maintenance. I will just wear this Casio electronic watch when I make movies in the future."

   Aunt Karen nodded, "This is your father's relic, keep it well."

   Donna went back to her room and started her own business. Aunt Karen took out a large pile of documents and turned them over to Ronald.

"This is how the leg warmer factory operates. The movie 'Lightning Dance' you participated in is very popular, and even leg warmers have become popular among teenagers. Not only dance students, but ordinary girls now wear them, and many more It is also worn when people do aerobics."

   No wonder Aunt Karen has the confidence. It doesn't matter if Ronald doesn't go to college. Even if he doesn't make money as a director in the future, the sales of his leg warmer factory have soared this year. Hundreds of thousands of units have been sold.

   "The net profit of the factory is more than 100,000 US dollars. I did not expand the production capacity without authorization. I still continue to maintain a high profit according to the principle you said at the time, Ronnie. It is almost the end of the year, and I plan to use it to distribute dividends to everyone."

"That's very good." Ronald thought of the small shareholders in the leg warmer business. Now he doesn't care about the money, and he will distribute it as a share, and let these people around him share some of his own. success.

   On the contrary, the movie's ability to bring goods exceeded his expectations. A blockbuster movie actually sold so many leg warmers.

   "This is what you should get, forty thousand dollars in total." Aunt Karen pointed to Ronald on the dividend number column.

   Ronald was not short of the money and wanted Aunt Karen to take it.

   Aunt insisted on giving, "Business is business, and the Parkers will not break their promises."

   Ronald saw what his aunt said, so he accepted it. He was going to use the money for Donna's college living expenses. Elizabeth Sue told him that at the Ivy League, even if Donna got a scholarship, she still needed a lot of social expenses to maintain her classmate friendship.

   On vacation, you’re going to Vermont’s ski resort, everyone goes there, you don’t fit in if you don’t go. If you have to go to Europe in summer, if you can’t afford air tickets and hotels, you are not in the circle. The girl's installation fee is also very expensive, and I definitely can't let Donna be looked down upon.

  Auntie went to pack the dishes, and Donna sneaked out to ask Ronald.

   "Ronnie, why don't you go visit Diane? She's going to be kidnapped by the hero."

   "What did you say?" Ronald was taken aback.

   "Of course I want to see her, what's the matter with the male lead you said?"

"It's Richard Gere, the lead actor in 'Cotton Club,' they play a couple in the movie, and your good friend Nick Cage is there. He asked about you when I visited the class. ."

   "I asked what happened to the kidnapping?"

   "Hahaha, I scare you, it seems that you still care about Diane. She knows you are back, so you don't want to see her?"

  Ronald looked at Donna and confirmed she was joking, "I'll go tomorrow and call Director Coppola later."

   The next day, Ronald arrived at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens. The entire "Cotton Club" was filmed in New York, and the Harlem area, where gangsters were prevalent in the 1920s, was well restored in the studio.

  Cotton Club is actually a nightclub in a black settlement in Harlem. There are Prohibition-era moonshine for sale, and there are many black musicians, dancers, playing soft and quiet jazz.

   Diane plays a dancer at the Cotton Club in this film, a plaything of a mob boss who ends up flying away with her beloved trumpeter.

   Wearing a visitor's sign, Ronald quietly hid behind to watch the filming.

  The trumpeter played by Richard Gere, who seems to have the ability to play the trumpet, has been playing jazz during the warm-up on the set.

   "Dudu, DiDi..." He was very devoted and intoxicated. However, Ronald sounds, the level is just average.

   "Hey, how do you think I'm playing? Can I get into Woody Allen's band?" Richard Gere was chatting with the manager.

   "Where's Diane?" Ronald looked around and didn't see her.

   "Hi, Ronnie, why are you here." It was Nicholas Cage who spoke in a muffled voice as if he had a rhinitis.

   "What's wrong with your nose?" Ronald thought he had an allergic nose when he heard this pronunciation.

   "Don't you think it's cool? I'm imitating the acting skills of German expressionist films. Isn't this sound very charming?"

   Ronald felt that something was wrong with the crew, everyone was thinking about how to express themselves, and no one was planning the overall situation. What is Coppola doing there?

   "Are you here to see my uncle?" Cage called to his uncle Francis Coppola enthusiastically.

   "Ronald, it's good, it's good that you are here." Coppola bit her fingernails, her eyes a little dull. His hair was scattered and messy, and he seemed to be watching the set absentmindedly without giving orders.

   "What's the matter? Are you not shooting today?"

   "We're still waiting for the band, their Concorde is coming soon." Cage said next to him.

   "Concorde?" Ronald was puzzled.

   "Just playing the jazz band at the Cotton Club. They're one of the best jazz bands in New York. Now there's a show in Switzerland. Every time I take the Concorde to and from both sides of the Atlantic, it's fast, it only takes two hours."

   Ronald was stunned by the huge waste of the crew, but Coppola was the director. He frowned and didn't say anything, just asked, "Where's Diane? Why didn't you see her?"

   "Isn't that right?" Cage pointed to a woman in a black dress walking over from the dressing room.

   "Huh..." Ronald gasped, he hadn't seen him for more than a month, how did Diane become like this.

   Diane was wearing a V-neck evening dress, holding a small bag full of diamonds and pearls, wearing what I don't know the so-called heavy makeup of the 1920s, and scary lipstick.

  The eye shadow is very deep, like two panda eyes, and a pair of eyebrows that were originally very individual have been repaired into thin curved eyebrows like old Hollywood.

  The most shocking thing is the hat that Di'an wears, which tightly wraps his hair, and the circles of hair below are fixed under the hat, like the bun of a Buddha statue from the East.

   "Ronnie!" Diane ran over happily, grabbing Ronald's arm and shaking, "You're here."

  Ronald was pulled by Diane, and the strange feeling about this kind of weird makeup faded a little in his heart. Diane was still that cute little sister.

   "Donna said you were still filming, and I came to visit the class."

  Diane came up and hugged Ronald tightly. She also missed Ronnie a little bit. Yesterday, Donna called her to inform her of Ronald's itinerary. She unexpectedly appeared on the set today and surprised herself.

  Ronald was hugged tightly by her, feeling Diane's hot body under the ugly old-fashioned dress. He wrapped his arms around Diane, picked her up and turned her around in a half circle.

"Why is he so much heavier?" Ronald thought to himself, Diane had gained a lot of weight when filming "Street of Rage", and... the abdomen of this old-fashioned dress seemed to have a large ornament, which separated him and Dai. Ann's stomach is uncomfortable.

  Ronald put her down slowly, touched the abdomen of her dress with his hand, and thought, "What kind of decoration is this, it's soft."

   "Huh?" There was a hint of warmth in Ronald's hand, which turned out to be Diane's belly. He was shocked as if struck by lightning.

   "You... you're pregnant?"

   "What's pregnant? I'm not pregnant?" Diane followed Ronald's gaze and looked at his belly. Because of Coppola's request, he voluntarily gained a lot of weight. In order to restore the aesthetics of the 1920s, I not only gained 20 pounds, but also plucked a lot of eyebrows, making a lot of sacrifices.

   "You...I..." Diane didn't come up in one breath, "Did you dislike me for being fat, I'm mad, I'm mad..." She punched and kicked Ronald.

   (end of this chapter)