Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 574 Chapter 204 The Commitment of the Secretary of the Navy

   Ronald's filming efforts on Staten Island were thwarted. The New York film industry, ever since Edison started chasing studio royalties, has been wiped out.

   If you can find an agent in Los Angeles, you can bring in the cast, workers, and professionals such as lighting and recording photographers. In New York, only those Broadway actors can choose, and they can't afford movies, they are not high art. As for cheap open-can film, there is nowhere to find cheap photographers who have shot exploitative films.

  Although labor and land prices are cheap in Staten Island, the professionals needed by the film industry are more expensive. You have to find someone from Hollywood, and you have to take care of food, lodging, and transportation.

   It seems that the kind of Roger Coleman-esque $200,000 a piece of low-budget exploitative films can only be made in Hollywood, an industrially developed place. A movie of the same quality would cost at least 600,000 yuan to make in New York.

  New York's agent Eddie also came to participate in the business discussion of Daydream Pictures. He has some ways to shoot image promotional videos and product samples for some companies. The development of video recorders has made many big companies have the heart to shoot a high-quality promotional video and play it on the company's front TV in a loop.

   New York has a lot of people working in the television industry, and it is also suitable for shooting this kind of film. After adding some cameras, lights, recording and other equipment, Ronald asked Eddie to organize his own staff and began to try to take some orders.

   "I'll show you the sample corporate videos I've collected." Eddie got up and turned on the TV.

   "Wait a minute", little Douglas stopped him. As a son of a wealthy family, he is very concerned about the news of this election.

   TV is talking about the debate between the deputy commander and the candidate of the Donkey Party. This debate was much more exciting than the last debate between the Grand Commander and Mundell. Both played well, and TV commentators agreed that both were good debaters.

   Newspapers and TV stations believed that the two sides were tied, but the polls after the fact were very divided. Male audiences generally believed that the vice-president won the debate, while female audiences mostly believed that the female candidate of the Donkey Party won the debate.

   The main reason for this disagreement is the confrontation between the deputy commander and Ferraro over an issue. The host asked Ferraro, who was elected to the three-term House of Representatives, and the two-term vice-commander of the House of Representatives, the ambassador to China, the ambassador to the United Nations, the CIA director, and the vice-commander. Who knows more about foreign affairs and politics.

   The deputy commander opened his mouth and said, "Let me help you find out the different behavior of the former and current commanders in the face of the Persian and Lebanese embassies being held hostage."

  Ferraroma retorted, "I express strong protest that the deputy commander came up with an attitude that could teach my country's foreign policy."

   may think this is nothing from the perspective of men, but professional women who have suffered from sexism in the workplace immediately empathize with Ferraro's attitude. So there is a lot of support from women.

  Ronald mused, this kind of anti-sexism from a female perspective seems to be more and more a trend of thought in America.

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  Secretary of the Navy John Lehman at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego on the west coast is also watching the deputy commander's debate analysis show.

  Lyman was the youngest Secretary of the Navy in American history. He was only thirty-eight when he took office four years ago. America is a civilian army, and the Secretary of the Navy is appointed by the Grand Commander.

  Rao is like this, when he joined the job, he still received a lot of criticism. In addition to his unusually young age, Ryman was the first secretary in years not to serve in the Navy. When he was young, he only served as a pilot in the Air Force and Navy Reserves. In the first few years of his tenure as minister, he also had Navy Reserve flights to fly.

   In the face of a group of admirals qualified enough to be his father, Lehmann resorted to a plan to build a large warship. After taking office, he quickly catered to the tough commander of the Soviet Union, and came up with a plan to restore the Navy's active ships to 600 ships.

   In addition to the re-commissioning of the Iowa-class battleships, he also promoted the new Aegis ships, the Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines carrying Trident ICBMs, the Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarines, and the upgrading of the number of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.

   Therefore, conservative politicians like the Party who are tough on the Soviet Union are the biggest support for his career.

"Yes, these congresswomen who decorate the House of Representatives like vases really need World War II veterans like the deputy commander to give them a good lesson in international politics. Do they know what the world triangular politics is? The deputy commander has experience in China, Just the right person to give them Dr. Kopp Kissing's theory."

He remembered the script that the deputy commander called him and mentioned that the current number of service members in the Navy has been declining year by year. It is necessary to make more heroic movies like Hollywood during World War II, so that enough young people will join the Navy. With these six hundred A world-class ship.

   Immediately, he called the Foreign Relations Liaison Office under the Admiralty and said he wanted to meet these patriotic filmmakers who wanted to build naval heroes.

   Ronald, who received the call, was very surprised. Unexpectedly, the deputy commander's family did not reply to himself, but calmly settled the matter.

   He quickly flew back to Los Angeles, joined the two producers, and went to the Naval Air Base in San Diego, Southern California, to meet Secretary of the Navy John Lyman, who was inspecting here.

   "Your Excellency the Deputy Commander said to me, you want to make a story about a heroic fighter pilot in the Navy?"

   "Yes, Mr. Ryman. We do want to make a new-age hero film, like..." Don Simpson had plenty of... at home before he came, and now he's a little too energetic. It is the choice of words, influenced by brain chemistry, that is less sensitive.

   "Like a Star Wars at sea, fighting with fighter jets." Ronald hurriedly connected.

   "To be honest, we need movies like this", John Lyman is a handsome middle-aged man whose red tie shows his political stance.

   "The Navy can help with your movie, but we'll evaluate the script and the lead actor." John Lyman rang the bell and called in a man and a woman, two tall officers.

   "This is Matthew, the external liaison officer of our naval base. In the future, you can contact him for coordination with regard to the rental of aircraft and other equipment for filming, and framing.

   This is our aerodynamic doctor, Kristin Fox, you can ask her about the details of fighter air combat. "Lyman introduced the three to the background of the two.

   "This support is really strong", Ronald and the two producers exchanged glances.

   "It turns out that writing a letter to the lieutenant commander is really useful?" Bruckheimer was also very excited. Many difficulties in the preparatory stage were easily solved with the commitment of the Secretary of the Navy.

   "By the way, Miss Fox also has a pilot's callsign, you can call her Legs."

   Ronald glanced at Kristen Fox's long legs and thought that this call sign was similar to a nickname, and it really lived up to its name.

   "So, tell me, gentlemen, what kind of character will the protagonist of your movie be?"

  The Secretary of the Navy asked the two liaisons to go out, and then he walked out from behind the desk, sat in the corner of the desk, and chatted with several producers and directors.

   The two producers looked at it, and both gestured for Ronald to answer with their eyes.

"We feel that in the last ten years, there has been a lack of hero movies from the golden age of Hollywood. Our idea is to reproduce the heroic epic like 'Guan Shan Fitu' in the 1930s. To recreate the hero image of John Wayne's western cowboy, It's just that the dueling revolver was changed to a modern jet fighter."

   "Very good, do any of you three have flying experience?" The Minister was satisfied and asked casually.

  Don Simpson and Bruckheimer both shook their heads.

   "This can't be done, you have to experience a real navy fighter jet, otherwise how can you make a convincing movie?"

   "My grandfather and great-grandfather used to be fighter pilots in America. They participated in World War I and World War II, respectively." Seeing this, Ronald tried to give the minister more confidence.

   "Very good, very good. In this way, since you are from a family of pilots, then it's up to you. I will let Fox contact the Blue Angels flight demonstration team and let them take you up and feel it."

   "This..." Ronald thought to himself, I just want to eat steak, there is no need to be a cowboy.

"That's it," John Lyman waved his hand, indicating that this matter is arranged like this, "If you like flying, you can also try the F-14 Tomcat fighter, which is the main fighter of our Navy. That's the way the Navy works, you'll get used to it later."

John Lehman said to the three, "After I gave the order directly, the bureaucracy may still make things difficult for you. If you don't cooperate, you can directly find Matthew to coordinate. If he can't handle it, you can give it to me directly. Call the office."

"Mr. Ronald, are you six feet two inches tall?" Long-legged Fox came over to look at Ronald, and accurately reported his height, "I will prepare a flight suit for you according to this size, We'll make an appointment and let you try it."

   Blue Angels flight demonstration team, using Douglas A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft. Ronald put on his flight suit and got into the back seat of the plane.

The    blue body is specially customized for the blue angel. Ronald put on his oxygen mask nervously.

   "Are you ready?" The pilot in the front seat looked kinder.

"Yes."

   "Let's go."

  Ronald suddenly felt a strong push back, and the light jet engine let out a shrill roar. A short takeoff, Ronald quickly found himself in the air.

   The blue coast in the distance, and the white clouds in the sky, were turned upside down in a tumble of the pilot. Ronald didn't seem to be able to tell the difference between upper and lower, and the strange feeling seemed to touch his pilot genes.

   "It's more **** exciting than a Ferrari."

   (end of this chapter)