Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 621 Three Applause

   The test screening in Los Angeles, Don Simpson recruited an audience of mostly teenagers as the audience for the test screening.

   "Where did you get so many teenagers?" Ronald also had a test screening. With so many teenagers, it was hard to find them on the phone through the cinema.

   "I recruited at the university, with fighter jets launching missiles, and Tom Cruise picking on beautiful teachers. They signed up very quickly. Anyway, I paid for their movie tickets myself."

   Ronald admires Don Simpson's action, fighter-missile fighting, and falling in love with a beautiful teacher. Saying this is simply the most beautiful love story for college boys.

   "But our target audience is not just teenagers, will this not get real results?" Ronald was a little worried.

"Ronald, don't have the sympathy of a woman like this at a time like this. How much marketing budget do you think Mancuso will give us without getting the best audience rating?" Don Simpson pulled him to Aside, whispered, and pointed to Mancuso who was sitting in front. He saw the test screening in Los Angeles in person.

   "It is unscrupulous to achieve an end," Ronald added another comment to Simpson. But what he said was right, since it was a fight between the two sides, don't blame yourself for shooting out all the ammunition that could be used.

  Paramount's factory logo flashed, and two large metallic gray characters "TopGun" appeared on the screen. At the time of the test screening, the subtitles were not fully matched. The back is accompanied by the theme song, the scene of the fighter taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier on Chaoyang.

   "Ow..."

  The college student audience was maddened by the adrenaline of the two good music MVs at the beginning. Then, in the Western Pacific, two MiG-28s attacked the aircraft carrier formation with overlapping tactics.

   They are stacked close together so that on the radar, only one signal is displayed.

  Lone Ranger and Jaguar, two fighter jets, were sent to intercept.

   The Jaguar was swayed by the overlapping tactics of the MiG-28 and was pegged by one. The Lone Ranger ignored him and drove away another MiG.

   When the Lone Ranger played by Tom Cruise came back, he threatened the MiG 28 chasing the Jaguar with a face-to-face threat, and the MiG pilot was frightened and fled.

   There was a burst of fierce applause from the audience. For the powerful and ruthless opponent of the Suwell Alliance, any action that can make them shriveled, even if it is fake on the screen, also makes the young people very excited.

   "It seems that my opening arrangement is very good." Ronald sat in the back seat and looked at the applauding college students, half of his heart was relieved.

   "Isn't this the young Amish woman in the witness?" The two male college students were chatting about McGillis, who appeared in the airport classroom swaying in hair-style stockings.

   "Oh, I didn't expect her to be like this..." The two looked at each other and whistled. They have all seen the previous "witnesses", but they never expected that a pious and pure young woman would become a teacher with flaming red lips.

The    whistles came one after another, and Ronald was still very happy in his heart. Male college students always have a special affection for **** female teachers.

   When the pilot plays beach volleyball, it is the female college student's turn to start drooling.

   As the story progresses, Lone Ranger and Goose go to the TopGun Naval Flight Technical School. On the training ground, the Lone Ranger was closely pursued by the instructor "The Clown", and he wanted to play a big game on a whim. Suddenly pulled up the F-14 Tomcat, put the F-5S driven by the instructor behind it to the front, and then returned to the original height, one locked the other with the missile radar.

   "Damn! What a lunatic." The clown cursed in the front cockpit.

  The young students beat the instructor and made the university audience so happy that they applauded for the second time.

  The plot continues. When competing for the top trophy in TopGun, the Iceman's plane held the attacking position in front of him and kept not firing in order to wait for the perfect attacking position. Lone Ranger urged behind him, and he had to pull up the plane and leave.

   The Lone Ranger and the Silly Goose, who were very close, were caught in the wake of the Iceman's aircraft engine. The two engines stopped in the air one after another, and the Lone Ranger's fighter jet fell into a horizontal spiral.

  The dumb-headed goose pulled up the ejection lever, and there was a burst of sound, and the drop-shaped canopy was blasted and flew up. But the plane that got stuck in a horizontal spiral did not move forward, but spun in place. Half a second later, the goose that ejected first hit the canopy that should have been left behind.

   After another half a second, the pilot Lone Ranger was also ejected, and the cockpit cover was knocked off by the goose. He opened the parachute unscathed and fell on the sea.

   "Oh..." The audience exclaimed. The audience didn't expect this radar officer who had a good sense of humor, a buddy loyalty, and a happy family with a wife and son to die unexpectedly.

   Fortunately, Ronald did not let the audience immerse in this emotion for a long time. The Lone Ranger and the instructor "Viper" chatted about his father who disappeared on the Vietnam War battlefield. It turned out that he was besieged by MiG 21 and fell in Vietnam to cover several comrades including "Viper".

In order not to expose the tragic scandal of using the wrong map, the American government did not give the Lone Ranger's father a death certificate, and let his orphan, the Lone Ranger, carry rumors of his father's defection all his life, while serving in the Navy. Been skipped promotions several times.

   discovered the true meaning of saving each other at all costs, and the Lone Ranger soon recovered.

   At the graduation ceremony, Iceman got the trophy for the first place. But a sudden warning came, five call letters recalled the three crews of Iceman, Hollywood, and Lone Ranger, back to the aircraft carrier in the Caribbean Sea, against the MiG 28 who came to harass the malfunctioning minesweeper.

  The MiG-28 again took out the stunt of overlapping and concealment. The radar signal of three MiG-28s was found on the aircraft carrier, which was actually a formation of six aircraft. Two crews, Iceman and Hollywood, attacked, but they were not expected to be besieged by six crews. Hollywood's F-14A was immediately shot down by a MiG-fired missile.

  The Lone Ranger and the temporary radar officer wizard attacked together. During the dogfight, he accidentally fell into the wake and horizontal spiral again, but he recovered quickly. Holding the metal dog tag of the dumb goose in his hand, the Lone Ranger overcame the psychological barrier and rushed back into the battlefield.

   "Ow...Ow..."

   This kind of hot-blooded two-and-six scene quickly aroused the enthusiasm of the audience, and they began to scream again.

   The Lone Ranger used a sudden pull-up tactic, let go of the trailing MiG-28, and shot down the opponent with a missile.

   "Wah hoo hoo..." The young man couldn't stand this kind of heroic behavior, and began to applaud again.

   Iceman was rescued by the Lone Ranger, who also shot down a MiG-28. Under his restraint, Lone Ranger used his superb flying skills to grab two MiGs and shoot them down separately.

   Finally at sea, two F-14A Tomcats shot down four MiG-28s and lost one of their own. The two remaining MiG-28s, seeing that they were invincible, pulled the joystick and fled.

   "Ow, ow..." The audience began to scream again, so that they could win more with less, save their companions, and shoot down the enemy, making them feel comfortable.

   In the end, the Lone Ranger did not choose to continue serving on the aircraft carrier, but returned to the TopGun flight school and became an instructor. He and Charlie reunited in a bar, where they kissed over the song "Take My Breath".

"Dude, when is the official release for you guys? Next year? Great, so when it comes to next year's summer season, we're the only audience in Los Angeles that's seen the movie? Cool! My roommate will regret it if he doesn't listen to me. of."

   "This is the best movie I've ever seen, absolutely!" The audience was at the Paramount staff at the door, queuing up to fill out an evaluation form.

   "Yeah, are you still showing it in Los Angeles? It's so good. I want to watch it again."

   "A+, A+, A+ again", after the staff in charge of statistics received all the score sheets, they began to scream, "Oh my God, I've never seen such a test screening score."

   "A+? Really?" Mancuso was in the VIP lounge and got a score from the live statistics. This shows that there are not many viewers who gave scores below A+.

   "Did everyone fill in? Did the statistics go wrong?" After carefully asking the team a few questions, Mancuso took off the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Okay, let's go out first."

   He pinched the root of his nose, and a sour feeling came.

How can this be?

   Even if Don Simpson played tricks, the audience he was looking for was too concentrated among young people, but the ratings were not fake after all.

   Take a step back and say that even if the ratings are faked, the three times of applause, whistles and shouts that came during the screening cannot be faked.

   "The marketing budget is allocated according to the one-to-one ratio of the production cost." Mancuso only felt bitterness in his mouth, but he had to give the most generous marketing budget for the movie with such a test screening feedback.

   "I'll go first, you can discuss the marketing plan with the producer and director." Mancuso felt that he couldn't understand the audience. After he instructed Ned Tanin, he left the movie theater silently.

   Instead of going home, he went to his son, Frank Mancuso Jr.'s house. When he got to the driveway in front of his son's house, he got out of the car, sent the driver back, and walked into the door alone.

   "Daddy", son Frank Jr. is about to go out. He inherited his mantle and worked as a producer for Paramount. "My 'April Fool's Day', can I find a good schedule next year? Is it possible for a summer schedule?"

   "You better release it in March, the summer season... The summer season will be reserved for a great and strong film."

   "Well, Mila is watching TV inside. She knows that Big Daddy will be happy to see him."

  Old Mancuso walked into the room and saw that his granddaughter Mila was lying on the bed watching her favorite MTV channel, which was playing Jane Fonda narrated "One World".

   "Sweetheart, why do you like watching MTV?"

   "Big Daddy!" Mi stretched out and asked old Mancuso to hug him, "I just like to watch it!"

  Mancuso held his granddaughter in his arms, "Can you tell Big Daddy why you like this channel?"

"Well...this one looks good, other channels are too slow." The granddaughter kept her eyes fixed on the TV while getting close to her grandfather, and started to applaud MJ on the TV. When she was at home, she could watch two episodes by herself. For three hours, the MV program that was played repeatedly.

   "Too slow..."

  Mancuso put his granddaughter down, looked at his watch, and counted the shots silently. It takes an average of two or three seconds to cut a shot, which is indeed much faster-paced than the films he made. "

   "Hey!" He slumped into the chair, maybe the next generation will be the world.

   (end of this chapter)