Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 692 You fax the script to me

  Ronald looked at the square-jawed man dressed like a banker, who was looking at himself expectantly.

   Then he took another look at the handsome middle-aged guy hiding behind. That's right, it was Tom Mount, the former vice president who had bullied him many times at Universal and wanted to replace him.

   "Dream! (Dreamon

   Ronald smiled slightly, turned his back and walked into the bathroom.

  "You!" Tom Mount was still wearing a hand-stitched fitted suit and his hair was meticulously combed. But he had reached the embarrassing limit of rage.

   Ronald, who stole the directorship in a small production crew under his own back then, would still be a young screenwriter looking for help if not for the support of Spielberg and Simberg?

   Who would have thought that now his own Mount Pictures, wanting to pull a little investment from Dongying, would have to kiss his **** so that he could have the opportunity to meet the master.

  Mount waved his hand and hummed, and was about to leave this upscale place.

   "Tom, do you still want to finance your movie?" The man named Bannon was very dissatisfied with Mount's performance. It looked like he had some "history" with Ronald, and the two fell out as soon as they met.

   But in the eyes of an investment banker from Wall Street, this is not a setback at all. On the contrary, this is a very good opportunity to make good Ronald.

   "This kid hates me to the bone, he won't help me." Tom Mount was very embarrassed and his face had turned red. He ignored the request of Bannon, the financing manager he hired, and after leaving a sentence, he went out on his own.

"Mount, who was born in the son's brotherhood, can't do it. If you want to make money, you can still care about being slapped in the face? If you are yourself, go up to hug the other person's thigh, kneel down and ask for forgiveness." Bannon looked at his partner and sighed. .

   He still decided to stay and wait for the opportunity, he and Ronald did not have a holiday. Besides, he has his own way to impress him.

   After a while, Ronald came back. Bannon saw the opportunity and stepped forward to stop him.

   "Well, Director Ronald, I'm Bannon, a Wall Street banker. My partner may have had some festivals with you, and he has left without feeling ashamed. I don't comment on his character.

   But here I still have to say, Director Ronald, we are all American, we shouldn’t kill each other in this place and show jokes to the Eastern Ying people.

  Why they can beat us in automotive, consumer electronics, etc., is because they are always very united. When dealing with the American market, you can let go of internal contradictions and come to the outside world all the time.

  If you and other Hollywood practitioners are still like the auto industry, it is easy to be defeated by those East Ying people united. "

   "Hahaha, then what do you want to do. Anyway, I won't give Mount a chance to succeed."

  Ronald saw this Bannon talking was very interesting, and when he came up, he distanced himself from Tom Mount and gave Ronald a high hat.

  Although this is all nonsense, but he can insist on waiting for himself to come, just for a chance to meet the capitalists in the film circle of Dongying, he is still a very hardworking person.

"Let's not talk about Mount, now that the yen is appreciating and the money is loose, it is an opportunity for Wall Street to introduce Dongying Capital. You also need financing to make a movie in Hollywood. I have operated the fund for the film industry on Wall Street. banker.

   We can just help each other, right? this is my name card. "

   "You are an interesting person. If you have anything, you can call my agent. I will call you back." Ronald also took out a business card with only the contact information of his agent and gave it to the other party.

This is what Nisita taught him. If someone wants to deal with him on certain matters, but doesn't want to get too close to him and is chased up to cooperate resources, give him a brokerage business card with contact information.

   If there is something like this, they can only find the agent, and the agent will tell Ronald the matter. If communication is needed, Ronald uses a makeshift phone to call this person.

  Bannon took the business card, flicked it lightly, and whistled. Although there is only the contact information of the agent, it is also a great improvement for his newly started film career. From now on, you can brag to people and discuss projects with director Ronald Lee.

   This is the director who made "Top Gun". Now, who is the hottest person in Hollywood, who hasn't heard of or seen the movies he made? Going to talk to the crocodiles on Wall Street about financing, Ronald's name is much better than the former vice president of Universal Pictures who has quit for a few years.

   As for Tom Mount, several distribution contracts he signed with Universal have not expired, and he still has some value. Although it is unlikely to get financing in Dongying, he has to return to China to find other money for him.

  The next day, President Haruki Kadokawa, the girl's monthly magazine he introduced, took a photo of Diane Lane wearing a kimono for the next issue's cover and mid-seam poster.

   Ronald also took time to watch the filming. Diane's temperament, dressed in a kimono, presents a very strange dissonance. Although she wears the clothes of a young girl, her temperament is that of a typical New York girl, outgoing and confident.

   However, the young people of Dongying seem to like this kind of foreigners wearing kimonos unexpectedly.

  Kadokawa Publishing House, there are also many popular comic magazines in Dongying, Ronald saw a lot of them at the scene. After looking through it, Dongying's market has been very subdivided now. Some of them are specially published for girls' cartoons, and some are for high school boys.

   "Here, this is Dongying's afternoon black tea drink. It tastes very good." Ronald drank the drink from the magazine and handed it to Diane, who was taking a break during the shooting. It was unexpectedly sweet and very good.

   "Well, I can't drink too much. This dress is very complicated to wear. I'll show you when I go back..."

  …

   "Ronald, I've been looking for you for a long time. Your script assistant, David Simkins, called you for a long time, as if there was an urgent matter."

   Ronald, who returned to the hotel with Diane, saw Nisita waiting for him in the lobby.

  "I'll call him back", Ronald and Nisita turned upstairs and went to their room to call Simkins across the ocean.

   "David, why are you so anxious, it's already late at night where you are?"

   Ronald connected the call and answered with Nisita.

   "I got a very good script, the first screenplay written by a Broadway playwright."

   "First work?" Nisita called out beside him.

"Yes, Mr. Nisita. Although it is the debut of the screenplay, the quality is very good. It can be said that we are very lucky, the author has repeatedly encountered obstacles in the seven major studios, and only cast the script to a small production company such as Daydream. ."

   "You say good quality, how good is it?" Ronald has never seen David Simkins praise a script so much. He is also a screenwriter himself, which must be really good. But how good is the question.

  Hollywood studios are full of high quality scripts that no one wants to shoot. Really great scripts always go to the right producers.

   "I can only speak my opinion, I think it's better than the script for The Spicy Dance. This is a very talented writer named John Patrick Shanley, an Irish-born playwright.

   This was his first screenplay, and I was familiar with that feeling. Just like William Goldman's "Tiger and Leopard Little Bully", it is the author's first masterpiece written with painstaking effort. "

   Ronald felt that this evaluation was high. This is the first screenplay that gold medal screenwriter William Goldman wanted to write. This kind of script often includes the story that the author wants to write most in the first half of his life, and it is also the accumulation of his life experience in the first half of his life.

   Even a talented playwright rarely has the opportunity to write such a masterpiece. Often after one is written, it will take many years before another.

   "Better than the quality of Hot Body Dance? Compared to Rain Man?" Nisita interjected. What Ronald's next film is about is of interest to Hollywood executives and actors alike.

   "I personally feel that it's even better than your "Rain Man". At least it's a classic traditional three-act play with a beginning, middle, and end."

   "Hahaha", Ronald knew that his script assistant was complaining that "Rain Man" did not have the classic structure of a three-act play.

   "Since you admire it so much, wait for me to come back..."

"No, Ronald. I don't think we can wait until you get back. The news of the film's delivery to Daydream will be known. The playwright's agent may be holding our promise. Negotiating with other companies.

  I don't want the "Dancing Hot" thing to happen again in this script called "The Bride and the Wolf". "

   "Are you so optimistic about this script? You think as long as I show interest, other companies will be able to compete?" Ronald paid more attention to this.

   "Yes, agents are shameless... um, I'm not talking about you, Mr. Nisita."

   "It's okay, I can take him as a compliment." Nisita approached, expressing that he didn't mind. If he were the agent of the screenwriter Shang Li, in order to maximize his profits, he would probably do the same.

   "But I can't just buy the script based on your evaluation. By the way, how much do you think I can pay for this 'The Bride and the Wolf'?"

"Now is the time when the film company is willing to spend a lot of money to reserve the script. I estimate that it can be won under 200,000. And your reputation can guarantee that the film can be produced and then released by the seven majors." Nisita thought about it. Now, answer.

   He is also very interested in this matter. As long as Ronald likes it, he can complete a package project and stuff a lot of favorite actors into it.

   "What story is this?" Ronald decided to understand the situation first.

   "It's a story of Italian origin, but not like Coppola's gangster story. A history of family, love, and immigration into America."

   "That being said, I still can't decide, or you should go into more detail."

   "David", Nisita cut the conversation, "I'll go find a fax machine, you can send a fax across the ocean and send the entire script over."

  Ignoring the expensive fax fee, Ronald and Nisita were just in front of the fax machine in the business center, waiting for Simkins to send the fax.

   "Squeak... Squeak...", the fax machine rang, and the scripts of "The Bride and the Wolf" were spat out from the fax machine one by one.

   Bring one, and Nisita sorts it out and hands it to Ronald. Ronald sat there looking at one.

  The script is really well written, and it is similar to "Spicy Dance". It tells the story of Italian descent, but it doesn't quite match the stereotype of Italian descent in the traditional Hollywood Italian story.

   They are no longer engaged in "traditional occupations" of Italian origin in Hollywood, such as boxers, gangsters, and pimps. Instead, he did a profession that the average American would do. Open a grocery store, open a hardware store, etc.

   But the Italians in it also have some stereotypes that Americans admit. Such as superstition, low level of education, emphasis on family and so on. Audiences definitely don't think of this story as the story of another race.

   "It's a good story, but it might not suit you."

  Nisita also likes the script and the story, but... it's a little bit of a problem.

   He and Ronald went back to the room and continued to call David.

   "David, do I think Ronald should buy it and find another director? This script is about a middle-aged love story, and Ronald may not be suitable."

   "But the screenwriter is not very old," said David Simkins, "he is only a few years older than Ronald. These plots and details are definitely not his own experience, but what he has seen.

   Besides, the author is not Italian, he is Irish. This is a script written by the playwright with careful observation and years of accumulation. I can't read it wrong. I've been reading scripts for the past few years. This kind of playwright's outbursts of genius, full of genius scripts, can only be seen in Hollywood once every few years. "

"This is exactly the problem, why is there no Big Seven willing to try such a talented work? It shows that the market potential is worrying. The audience for this script is the disappeared audience who watched 'The Sound of Music'. It is difficult for us to It's safe to let them out to the cinema."

   Seeing Nisita and Simkins arguing on the phone, Ronald told them to stop first.

   "You let me think about it, and I'll call you back tomorrow to make an appointment."

   I am looking at the script myself, and then I expect to be able to dream of a finished film, so that I can predict the quality and success of the film.

  …

   "Ronnie!"

  Dian, who had been waiting for him for a long time in the room, was still wearing a kimono with a wooden hairpin on his head.

  The lively and enthusiastic body is not like the conservative and shy Eastern Ying people at all. But the material of this kimono was very good, and the texture of silk slipped through Ronald's hands, making Diane snort comfortably.

   "Huh... huh?" After a long kiss, Ronald began to look for buttons or zippers for his kimono. Wearing a sturdy kimono, he couldn't find a place to start.

   "Hahaha, to be here..."

  Diane's hand guided Ronald, undoing the wide belt, reaching through the slash at the neckline, and undoing the other belt.

   It was very late, and the silver-white moonlight entered the window and shone lightly on the bed, like weeping.

   Ronald leaned on the bed and hugged Diane from behind. There seemed to be a faint scent of kimono incense on her body, which made Ronald feel very relaxed and quickly fell asleep.

The   water-like moonlight continued to shine on the two young souls, as if it were also in Ronald's dream.

   He saw vaguely that a big bright moon was high in the sky, shrouded in clouds and mist.

   A deep voice sang a nice love song.

  "When the moon hits your eye

  Like a big pizza, that is love.

   When the world seems to sparkle

   It's like you drink too much wine, that's love. "

   (end of this chapter)