Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 488 Wonderful Comprehension Ability

  Minahan is Jewish, but Christmas, he will be taken to see him soon. But Ronald was going to spend the holidays with Aunt Karen and Donna, and put on the air to talk about Christmas.

   During the day of Christmas Eve, several shareholders of the leg warmer company, neighbors Tereza and David and his wife, as well as friends from Aunt's Veterans Club, and little Bud's mother, Mrs. Davidson, all came to the house to congratulate.

  Tereza's child is a boy, two years old. Mrs. Davidson's son, Bud Jr., will end his overseas service next year and return home. Mrs. Davidson was grateful for Ronald's promise to find him a job.

  Aunt Karen, as the actual person in charge of the leg warmer factory, issued dividend checks to all shareholders. Everyone had a happy Christmas.

  In an instant, Ronald felt that the sense of accomplishment of doing business and giving money to shareholders was no less than the success of his own movie, which was welcomed by the audience.

   The next morning, Minahan drove his car and waited at Ronald's door. When Ronald was out for a walk with the newspaper, he jumped out and asked to pull Ronald into the car.

   "Wait for me to say something to my family." Ronald laughed when he saw his pitiful aggrieved look. I went home and talked to Aunt Karen, took two packs of biscuits baked by my aunt and went out and handed them to Minahan, who was smoking in the car.

   "Tast it, it was baked by my aunt, and another bag for your children."

  Meinahan started the car, opened the package and ate a cookie, "Oh, this is the best cookie I've had since I came to America."

   "Yeah, my aunt's ancestral recipe." Ronald was delighted to hear Minahan's praise. Of course, the so-called secret recipe is probably just adding more butter and honey.

  The two went to a small second-round movie theater. Minahan spent money to wrap it up, gave the projectionist a few bills as a tip, and put away his actual director, "Sahara" starring Brooke Shields.

   "Ah, hahaha..." Bo Ji's bright face appeared on the screen, she was driving a car as a racing driver and galloping on the test track.

   "It's so beautiful...the looks of the 1980s." Ronald saw a close-up of Brooke's face on the big screen. Her face had a masculine and heroic look, and she had the innocence of a child.

   "Huh?" Ronald suddenly saw a change in the editing, and the screen cut to the second floor of the mansion. Brooke's face turned upside down, and when she looked down from the spiral staircase, her expression changed. A middle-aged man walks in and reports that Dale Gordon's father, played by Brooke, has suddenly passed away.

   Ronald couldn't help covering his face, is this Minahan a classic movie scene thief?

He stole a bit of the composition of Hitchcock's classic movies here, and a bit of Indiana Jones' racing scene there, classic clips of different genres, eras, and styles, which he used to pay tribute (plagiarism) at will, and then ignored these overall On the difference, clip together.

After the start of the    rally, Dale, played by Brooke, was with the prince of the Arabian tribe again to fight back against the evil tribesmen who received German military aid. The soldiers of the two tribes fought with machine guns in the desert, next to camels and horses.

   "Lawrence of Arabia" Ronald added another classic in his heart.

   Then Brooke, in a one-piece white swimsuit, bathes under the waterfall. The righteous tribal prince stood beside him and turned his back like a gentleman in Arabic robes.

   "Isn't this a copy of a blue coral reef?" Ronald turned his head to look at Minahan, who was giggling and probably thought he had done a good job.

   "At least make this waterfall bigger, with such a thin stream, it's like a sewer." Ronald complained again.

  The Germans drove dirt tanks made of thin iron sheets and came to attack the righteous tribes with machine guns. Brooke bravely rushed forward to face the machine gun fire and put a stick of dynamite in the sand.

   Apparently Bo Ji's calculation was very accurate, the earth tank was paralyzed by the explosion when it happened to pass the earth mine.

   "This...John Ford's 'Guan Shan Fit' in 1939 is better and more reasonable than his fight scenes.

   Resisting the urge to laugh, Ronald saw the end. The female racing driver played by Brooke finally kissed the prince of Arabia, and the two rode a horse and slowly walked into the sunset.

  The picture finally freezes in the sunset of two people riding a horse in the desert, turning into a silhouette.

   "Quack..." Minahan was very excited, "How about this ending? Does it deserve an Oscar for Best Cinematography?"

   "Hey..." Ronald patted him on the shoulder, "Let's put another one."

   "Hey, are you more interested in the other film?" Minahan went to the rear screening room to negotiate, and the projectionist began to show the second film.

   "Ninja III: The Domination"

   Ronald looked at the movie title on the screen, "This is the movie you asked Chuck Norris to play?"

   "Yes and no," Minahan said. "Chuck refused to wear a ninja mask, he asked to show his face in the movie, so we prepared another script for him. Here he only has a cameo at the beginning."

  Ronald continues to read, Chuck Norris plays a storyteller, and his poor line skills make the story feel strange. Legend has it that the ninjas of Dongying have a secret technique. After death, their souls can also possess other people, so that they can continue to walk in the world, and the possessed people will fully inherit the fighting skills before the ninjas.

   A man dressed as a Japanese ninja was killed by his enemies. His soul came to the street, and a female worker in a cowboy suit and hard hat climbed a wooden pole and began to repair the telephone line.

   A gust of wind blew, and the female worker was possessed by a ninja. Her behavior became more and more strange, and she became a master fighter, and finally began to seek revenge for the enemy in front of the ninja. In the end, the ninja got revenge, and the female workers also found themselves.

   The same scary plot, the same plagiarized scene from the classic movie, this movie can copy a lot of Bruce Lee's movie fighting scenes. But on such a low-cost exploit piece, whatever feels right.

   "Why don't you release this movie?" Ronald asked Minahan, "This kind of low-budget movie, even if you don't go through MGM, can make a lot of money."

   "How can I possibly be nominated for an Oscar without releasing it through MGM?" Minahan said bitterly.

   "Yes, this Minahan doesn't usually play with him in the circle, and he often takes other people's ridicule and jokes seriously."

   Ronald shook his head, "Meinahan, we're friends, I might have to say something other people in Hollywood won't say to you."

   "You said, you said..." Minahan made a look of listening intently.

"Wake up, your exploitative films are well done, why don't you continue this promising career? After you make a lot of money for the Oscars, you can find a director to shoot it. As a producer, you can also get the most Great movie."

   "Are you saying that my directing skills are not good enough?" Minahan said anxiously, "Why, MGM doesn't like my movies, so what's wrong with me?"

   "It's bad everywhere," Ronald wanted to say.

   But he still euphemistically said, "I'm not saying that your director is poor, but you don't know the American audience. If you like classic Hollywood movies, you often choose classic scenes from them and repeat them in your movies..."

  Meinahan nodded happily, Ronald was on the point. After all, he is different from MGM, and he can see his intentions.

   "But it's not okay to repeat like this. These movies have westerns, epics, youth movies, and romance movies. You cut them together, isn't it nondescript?"

  Meinahan looked at him in confusion. If the classics are put together in this way, wouldn't they be classics too?

"When an audience comes to a movie theater and pays for a ticket, they sign a contract with the director. For example, when they watch John Ford, they know there will be a cowboy heads-up. When they watch David Lean, they know there are epic landscapes and heroes. Narrative. Seeing Brooke Shields…”

  Ronald paused, "I know it's a movie that shows a youthful and beautiful body."

   "You put them together and the audience sees everything but nothing."

  Meinahan blinked twice, he seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand.

Ronald was laughed at by him, "I think in this 'Ninja III', the audience knows very well that they will see ninja fights, as well as many strange oriental legends, and there are also such exploitative films as standard They come here just to have fun."

   "You might as well just release this one, 'Sahara' is really not suitable for the North American market."

   "Not suitable for the North American market?" Minahan responded, "You mean, he might be suitable for the European and British markets?"

   "Uh..." Ronald thought to himself, "Maybe, I don't know."

"No, you know, you're right, I'm going to release this movie in Britain." Minahan jumped up happily, "Ronald, you're a genius, the British love to see their American cousin. Failed, their beauties were taken away by Arab princes, and their careers in Africa were thwarted by the British Empire."

   "And, last year, Mrs Thatcher's son, who went missing for two weeks at the Paris-Dakara Rally, sent troops to look for him. British audiences are interested in the Desert Rally..."

   Ronald was dumbfounded by Minahan's ability to understand.

   "Okay, do whatever you want. But this ninja movie is well done, and the actress is quite talented."

   "You mean Lucinda Dickey?" Minahan said the heroine's name.

   "Ronald is optimistic, then we have to get her back and sign a long-term contract with her. I thought she had no talent and let her go back to Arizona to be a nanny."

   (end of this chapter)