Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Back in the Mercedes-Benz that little Bud drove, Ronald was chatting and relaxing with Yin Lisabai Su. The intense filming is a very intense use of the director's mental strength. Ronald felt that chatting with the beautiful women was a way to reintegrate into life and restore vitality.

  Su talked a lot about his experience at Harvard. The LiberalArts major was purely prepared for those rich children. After Yin Lisabai entered Harvard, he found that it had no effect on his acting career.

"It's not like that either. University is a place to be educated, and it's good for your acting career." Ronald disagreed with this. Many actors from the bottom can't play high-status roles, but they have a good experience. It is possible for educated actors to go back and play people at the bottom.

   At least you can broaden your play.

   "Actresses have spent so many years in their careers. I've wasted several years in college. After this time, my agent also advised me to drop out of school and focus on my acting career."

  Ronald shrugged. He was also a suspended student and had no right to speak on such matters.

   Chatting all the way, Ronald felt a lot more relaxed. Su studied at Harvard for three years, and her temperament has changed a lot. Ronald and her chatted very happily.

   "When you arrive in Toronto, I have arranged for someone from the crew to pick you up. You have a good rest. You are exhausted from this business trip."

   "Hehe, it's alright, I feel like a girl's generation dream has been fulfilled."

  The car arrived at the airport, Ronald took Yin Lisabai Su's luggage and took her on the plane. Ronald specially bought a first-class ticket to let Su have a good rest, and then returned to Toronto to continue the intense shooting.

  The car turned around and Bud asked, "Shall we go to an apartment, or a hotel?"

"Let's go to the hotel, the apartment has been unoccupied for a long time, and it has to be cleaned." Ronald is a director, and his income is mainly from the salary and some investment income. Taking care of it, naturally I don't want to go back to clean the room. Little Bud turned the wheel and went to the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

   "DiDi..." The car phone rang, Ronald picked up the phone, "Hey, who's looking for me?"

"Ronald, the two producers of Top Gun, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer asked you to come to the celebration party, and Top Gun won the box office of the year in 1986. They called me Here, are you going?" It was the call from the agent, Nisita, who was the only one who made the most of this kind of personal calls.

   Before Ronald could express his opinion, Nisita continued, "Go, Tom will make time too, you haven't seen each other for a long time."

   "Okay, I'll go, you tell little Bud the time and address."

   A celebration party is a private banquet. Don Simpson is currently using a "twelve-step therapy" to kick his alcohol addiction, so he doesn't have a lot of beauties for a messy party. Instead, it was placed in his Beverly Hills mansion, the normal pattern of everyone with a female companion.

   Ronald arrived at the hotel, checked into the suite, and called a few acquaintances.

  Helen went back to New York and made two consecutive films as the heroine. She moved her mind and wanted to lead the filming of a movie by herself. Recently, she has been doing the preparatory work with the help of her father.

  Diane was not in her small apartment in New York, and the phone calls were recorded, but she had an agent to help with things. After Ronald called her agent, she called back quickly.

   "Ronnie, where are you?"

   "I'm in Los Angeles, see if you're free, I'm going to the Top Gun party."

   "Oh? I happen to be in Los Angeles, wait, I'll find you."

  Dian hurriedly hung up the phone after saying hello to the address.

   "Do you have a new audition?" Ronald poured Diane a cup of coffee. She has no connections in the circle. Ronald is busy with new movies and doesn't care much.

   "No, this time Matt Dillon called me and said he had a good chance and asked me if I wanted to try it."

   "Oh", Ronald hasn't heard from Matt Dillon for a long time, this guy has also been pitted by Coppola's two or three consecutive movies that did not sell well. Like Diane, three consecutive starring films failed at the box office, and he wasted so far without becoming a star.

   "Hey, I don't actually get along with him, but they all said that he and I had a lot of chemistry on the screen. You know, the photo opportunity took two people who originally hated each other, and it was very emotional."

  Diane saw that Ronald didn't speak, thought he was a little unhappy, and hurriedly explained.

   "No no, I'm happy for you, Diane. Is there any news on when the 'Running Man' I introduced to you will be released?"

   "I heard that editing was difficult, it reminded me of bad memories from the past."

  Ronald knew that Diane was talking about "Magic Stain Band" and "Rage Streets," and when things went wrong, the editing was slow and difficult. The end result is also often bad.

   "But this movie is made by Martin Lansohoff's company, and I heard he's going to make Matt Dillon the next Paul Newman, or Steve McQueen."

   Diane's eyes flashed with longing, she also wanted to be famous and find her lost dream.

  She was born as a child star. Although she has gone through ups and downs, with success and failure, she has not yet reached the age of twenty-two. Compared with Yin Lisabai Su who is in her twenties since her debut, she has a strong age advantage.

   "Who is Martin Lansokhov?" Ronald didn't know these people.

"Don't you know? Your friend Tom Cruise's previous 'The Color of Money' was the sequel to 'The Prodigal Son' he produced in the 1960s, which made Paul Newman popular, and then 'The Cincinnati Kid' ', made Steve McQueen popular. Back then, he made the two major male stars popular, and this time he wanted to make Matt Dillon the same star.

   Even the plot is similar, and he is also a master of the casino. "

  "Oh", Ronald doesn't feel much about casinos. In reality, making a movie with real money is not more exciting than going to Las Vegas to play poker?

   "This is a more casual party, so just wear your usual clothes, Paula Wagner said, as if Tom's new girlfriend is going too."

   Ronald took Diane around the hotel mall, bought her a pair of earrings, and the two went to the "Top Gun" celebration party in their everyday clothes.

   "What was the final grade?" Ronald asked Jerry Bruckheimer who came to say hello at the party.

   "The national release time that entered the box office statistics, a total of 34 weeks, a total of 193 million in the domestic market."

   Bruckheimer gave a number, then handed Ronald a box office summary.

   "It almost broke 200 million." Ronald tutted, a pity.

   If you can break through 200 million, you will be a "200 million director" if you say it yourself. Compared with the hat of a 100 million director, it is still a bit different.

   "The incident at Persian Gate has an impact on us. When the audience saw the government's inability to show the Lebanese hostage incident, they lost interest in beating up fighter jets from other countries in the movie."

   Bruckheimer gave Ronald a reason. After the first week of 1987, the film withdrew from the national mainstream theaters because of the plummeting box office.

   "Oh, what a pity", Ronald read the summary carefully. At that time, I was able to direct the film, and I also owed the help of the commander. This time, because of the scandal of the commander, the box office did not end perfectly, so I paid it back.

  Top Gun won the 1986 annual box office championship. However, compared to last year's champion "Back to the Future" and the previous year's champion "Ghostbusters", the results are still slightly worse, not breaking the 200 million mark like the previous two years.

   However, the weekly average box office results, and the average box office of the single hall, are actually similar to the champions of the previous two years.

   The gap at the box office is mainly because "Top Gun" did not spend enough time in the theater like them.

Compared with the box office champions in the past five years, the most powerful is Spielberg's "ET Alien", which has received 350 million box office in China. More than 80 weeks, which lasted more than a year. It has been on the box office charts for over 50 weeks.

   "Ronald, congratulations." Bruckheimer picked up the champagne and congratulated Ronald loudly.

   No matter whether it exceeds 200 million or not, the film can become the annual box office champion, which is a great recognition for a director's commercial ability.

   Especially "Top Gun", which no one has ever successfully lived in the air combat theme before, makes Ronald's reputation, in the eyes of major producers, equal to the guarantee of making money.

   "Congratulations."

  Ronald clinks glasses to congratulate him. Diane, who was holding her arm, smiled even happier than herself. She stamped her feet desperately to express her excitement.

   "Ronald, you are really amazing, you succeeded."

   "Hahaha", Ronald was praised by the beauty, and he was still a little happy in his heart, but he had to be modest, "It's also luck that he can sell so well."

   Diane looked into Ronald's eyes, full of admiration. The director's reputation represents the past achievements, and the box office reflects the current ability.

   "Where's Don?" Ronald asked Bruckheimer Simpson's whereabouts.

   "He's over there, chatting with Tom and his new girlfriend, let's go over there."

   Ronald nodded to the crowd who were eager to talk to him, and floated to the other side of the great room with Diane.

   Looking at the envious gazes of the actresses around, Diane also felt a strong sense of satisfaction, "Hmph, what kind of friendship do I have with Ronald! I attended the Oscars with him in 1981."

   "Hi, Ronald", Tom Cruise, who was chatting with Don Simpson, saw Ronald come over and quickly hugged and said hello to him.

   "What are you talking about?" Ronald looked at Don Simpson and Cruise as if they were talking speculatively.

   "We are talking about the twelve-step treatment method. Tom's new girlfriend is a great inspiration to me. Sometimes religion and psychiatrist have similarities."

  Don Simpson's improvement has improved a lot after treatment. He pointed to a blond beauty next to him with his champagne hand.

   "I haven't introduced you yet, this is my girlfriend Mimi, this is Ronald, this is Diane." Tom Cruise reacted and was busy introducing Ronald.

   Then he looked at Ronald, wondering how he would react to his new girlfriend.

   "Ah, hello, Miss Rogers."

   Ronald looked at this beauty. She was very particular about her position, very measured, slightly behind Cruise, and always highlighted Tom's status.

  Ronald's eyes moved down, and sure enough, she was wearing a pair of flat shoes, so when behind Tom, she would appear a few inches shorter than him.

   But this woman named Mimi looks much older than Tom. Her blond hair roots and some new black variegated hair appear to be artificial blondes too.

   But Ronald's taste for Cruise is no stranger to him, since the original Rebecca De Mornay, his girlfriends are at least three years older than him. At least Mimi Rogers is much younger than Cher.

   "It's really nice to meet you, Ronald, when Tom was talking about working with you just now, it was his most comfortable acting experience."

"a ha ha ha…"

When   Mimi Rogers spoke, Ronald could not help frowning in his heart.

   This woman is a crooked mouth.

   It's not that she sees the wind, and she is very good at saying things that make everyone happy. But Mimi Rogers really has a crooked mouth.

   As soon as she spoke, her mouth tilted to the right involuntarily. Makes Ronald very uncomfortable.

   And Mimi gradually came out from behind Tom, facing Ronald to communicate, Ronald took a closer look, Mimi has a little big eyes.

   "Mimi, Mimi, where are you?"

   At this time, in the dark of the corridor leading to the rest of the room, a short man came, and he hurriedly called Mimi Rogers. Both Ronald and Diane looked in the direction of the voice.

I saw a short man with a funny watermelon head and a moustache coming up to Mimi Rogers and saying, "I've been looking for you for a long time, Mimi. Are you free now? I think I desperately need one. audit!"

   "Oh, Sonny, can I just go there later? Now I'm still talking with other people." Mimi looked very polite to the people who came.

   "Hi, Tom, hi, Don, I have to borrow Mimi's time, don't you object?" The man named Sonny apologized to Tom Cruise for a while, and took Mimi to leave.

   "Are you so impolite? We are chatting." Ronald felt that something was wrong, looking at Tom Cruise, it seemed a little difficult to hide, so he stopped.

   "It's okay, Ronald, this is Mimi's job, I'll accompany her to see it." Tom didn't have any special dissatisfaction, but just didn't want Mimi to leave him.

   "I'll do an audit for him, soon." Mimi Rogers smiled with a crooked mouth and patted Tom Cruise on the arm. Then she walked out of the room with the watermelon head and went to another room to chat alone.

   "That looks like Sonny Bono, Cher's ex-husband?" Diane whispered in Ronald's ear.

   "Are you sure?" Ronald recalled for a moment, and indeed his voice was very similar to the male voice that sang with Cher in the song "IGotyouBabe".

"It's Sonny Bono," Don Simpson confirmed with a nod to Ronald, "Mimi is a senior auditor for Scientology, and Tom is her client, and so is Sonny, but soon I guess she's just Audited Tom."

   "Audit? Is she an accountant?" Ronald felt that Mimi Rogers' temperament was nothing like his accountant, Lawrence.

   "Ah, no, it's a form of Scientology."

   "Scientology, what is that?" Ronald looked at Tom Cruise suspiciously. What is the name of an accounting firm?

   "It's a new kind of religion, auditing in Scientology, like Protestant prayer, or Catholic confession." Tom Cruise knew Ronald was wrong. Not the kind of auditing of accounting.

"Yes, they are very effective. This is an instrument invented by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, like an electrician's multimeter, and it works very well. I feel that after using it, the whole person It's all easy." Don Simpson said good things about Scientology from the side.

   "Lafayette Ronald Hubbard? I seem to have heard that name somewhere." Ronald frowned.

"He turned out to be a science fiction writer who wrote the best-selling book 'Earth Battlegrounds' and later created 'Dianetics', a new form of meditation that fuses psychology, mystical experiences, and religion, with a focus on learning Very good." Tom Cruise introduced Ronald to the work of his new girlfriend Mimi.

   "Oh", when Ronald heard these things, he remembered David Lynch's transcendental meditation, and he had a natural distrust of such things.

   "Actually, this Scientology has helped my dyslexia a little bit, and I can read a little more script now." Tom Cruise whispered in Ronald's ear.

"Oh, that's not bad, it's very helpful to you." Ronald heard that it could treat dyslexia, but he was not so disgusted with Dianetics. Maybe it was the psychiatrist who made a makeover, which was just right for Tom. .

   "By the way, Ronald, what's your religion?" Tom Cruise asked him, "There's a celebrity club in Scientology, would you like to experience it?"

   "I belong to the Quakers in New York and Boston." Ronald didn't expect Tom to ask himself this question. After thinking about it, he moved out of the denomination to which his ancestors belonged and pushed back.

   "Oh, that's an old sect." Tom Cruise didn't go on.

   After a while, Mimi Rogers completed the audit for Sony Bono and came out to chat with Tom and Ronald again.

   "You're a Craig? So do you go to church every week?" Mimi Rogers was much more passionate about Scientology than Tom.

   "I'm the director, so I'm sure I don't have time." Ronald was a little impatient. The enthusiasm of this kind of missionary is not the place. Mimi's crooked mouth looks even more annoying.

   "Actually, the solution in the West has come to an end. We have to go to the East to find some solutions to solve the current problem in America."

Mimi Rogers also wanted to try, "Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the founder of our Scientology, was inspired by a great man from the East, who in the 1950s was inspired by Inspired by the founder of Jet Labs, Jack Parsons, and his Eastern counterparts, he gradually became interested in the occult."

  Ronald gradually began to get tired of this kind of messy rhetoric, and Diane, who was shaking hands with him, felt that the power in his hand was wrong. Diane looked at Ronald and quickly touched his arm with the other hand to soothe his emotions.

"When you are free, you can come and see the hall left by Herbert. He was called by the Universe Lord early last year and left the believers who loved him." Mimi Rogers also keenly felt Ronald's Impatient, and ended the topic.

"I feel that oriental philosophy does have merit. Our western civilization has its weaknesses and has given too little consideration to the connection between people. Therefore, many people in the film industry are interested in oriental philosophy. Ronald, you You are also interested in oriental culture, I see your Longwei boy, there are many elements of oriental culture."

  Mimi Rogers chatted for a while, then turned the subject back. She knew that Ronald didn't like occultism, so she changed the method and wanted to discuss some high-end philosophical issues with him.

  Mimi's father was one of the founding fathers of Scientology and a friend of Herbert. Since she was a child, she knew how to deal with different people and attract them in different ways.

  Tom Cruise is not very literate and has dyslexia, so he is very interested in talking about the occult, plus it can help him read the script without getting dazzled, which is the best proof that Scientology is effective.

   And Ronald seems to be a person with a wide range of readings, and he knows a lot of film and television technology. For this kind of people if they are not interested in the occult, then talk from a philosophical level, some of the educated people who join Scientology are also interested in some of the specious cosmic theories of the founder Herbert and joined.

   "Actually, I have also studied Eastern philosophy. For example, I have been studying the teachings of Confucius." Ronald felt no interest in chatting with her, and moved out the ultimate topic Terminator:

   "Confucius said, a gentleman should not talk about supernatural phenomena of power, or the sins of man's unnatural depravity, and supernatural evil creatures."

"Forehead…"

  Mimi Rogers's mouth is even more crooked, this person, why did he stop talking about the topic?