Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 913 Find a secret helper before the strike begins

   Ronald Helen arrived first, took a rest in the house on Fifth Avenue, and Ronald went to change clothes. Helen saw the photo of Ronald and the couple attending Demi Moore's wedding that Ronald just got on the table outside, and picked it up to look at it for a while.

   "What do you think of the marriage between Bruce Willis and Demi Moore?" Helen turned her head and asked Ronald who had changed his clothes.

   "I'm happy for them." Ronald glanced at Helen, why did he talk about this topic?

   "I mean, what do you think about marriage...? I mean, do you think the two of them really love each other?" Helen was a little flustered under Ronald's gaze.

   "I think so. Looking at their smiles, I believe it's true love." Ronald picked up the photo of himself and the newlyweds alone, and pointed it out to Helen.

  The photo shows Demi looking at Bruce with spring in her eyes and a hand on her husband's shoulder. Bruce had a happy smile on the corner of his mouth, and also had an arm around Demi Moore's waist.

   "Marriage without love is immoral." Helen Slater said looking at the photos of the two, "If marriage is to obtain something other than love, there will definitely be problems."

"Isn't it difficult? When a person travels in the world, he is always surrounded by various factors, such as wealth, passion, children, or something. The kind of love you mentioned may only exist in Hollywood movies. .”

"Don't say that, I think a man and a woman must have pure love before they can get married. Recently, the newspapers have been saying that Demi married Bruce because of his star status with a salary of 5 million, calling him a gold digger. "

   "That's not fair, Demi Moore is missing a movie."

"Huh..." Helen's uptown girl's prattle temper came up, "What about Harrison Ford and his ex-wife? Divorced her before she acted in Star Wars. I don't think they had a real relationship at the time." love."

   "We don't know how his relationship with his ex-wife was at that time." Ronald felt that Helen was a little abnormal today. Whether Harrison Ford loves his ex-wife is a personal privacy, but he has two children. Right now it's just child support.

   "What about George Lucas, another example? His ex-wife Martha is an editor. She edited many parts of Star Wars. Isn't she still divorced?"

   "This..." Ronald knew the inside story, and it was Martha Lucas who cheated.

  "Men are like this. At that time, they liked their girlfriend's beauty, or asked for her. After ten years, the woman is not beautiful, or the resources are no longer useful to him. Your friend Cameron is the same."

   "Er..." Ronald thought this is true, "but they loved each other very much when they got married."

"That's what I said, true love. This kind of short-term passion is not true love." Helen began to use her own logic, "However, people who take the opportunity to fall in love don't know if it's true or not." Yes. So my point of view is that it is better not to get married, because you can't know what true love is."

  Ronald wiped his sweat secretly, it’s not a forced marriage. "I think you're right, can we have dinner now?"

   "Hahaha..." Seeing that Helen was talking nonsense like this, Ronald was still very patient with himself, and his mood suddenly improved, "How about we go eat Italian food?"

   The two tacitly stopped talking about this matter, and found an expensive Italian restaurant for dinner next to the shopping mall below the building.

   While eating, Helen was still thinking about the phone conversation she overheard when she went to her father, Gerald. They were discussing the possibility of Helen marrying Ronald and making Ronald accept Judaism. Although her father immediately refused, this kind of treating her as a bargaining chip made her very uncomfortable.

   Fortunately, Ronald didn't see himself that way. Helen smiled again at Ronald.

   Ronald was inexplicable, what did he say, some good and some bad? What he didn't know was that there was a large group of Jewish people behind Helen who were considering the possibility of recruiting him.

  The Jews in Hollywood are still very concerned about Ronald's appearance. Such a talented non-Jewish director and producer is undoubtedly a threat to the Jewish control of the entertainment media industry.

   Ronald has a production and distribution company, so he has the possibility of breaking away from the seven major studios and doing it himself. Although the Jews are now gradually controlling the few remaining major studios and distribution channels, even the most anti-Semitic Disney, Eisner, is gradually opening up the situation.

  But there is no telling about the movie, how many movie studios can rise because of a movie. The Jews don't want to have any surprises in this kind of hard-won situation. Suppressing Ronald requires a lot of resources, and it is also detrimental to supporting Jewish star actors.

   After all, Ronald's "Dirty Dancing" won the rare Jewish actress Jennifer Gray. Now the circle is piling up resources on this rare and beautiful actor who is also loved by the audience. It's been a long time since Barbra Streisand cut back on a Jewish star. The biggest obstacle for this race to dominate the entertainment industry is that women are not good-looking.

  If Ronald can be recruited to be the husband of the Jewish girl, and then converted to Judaism through some operations, then the problem that he is not his own can be solved at the lowest cost.

  …

  Helen let go of her worries, and the quality of her rest with Ronald at night was very high. Ronald slept soundly until dawn.

  Proper male and female lives make men full of energy. Very early on, Ronald came to the office where the film was being prepared.

   "Morning, Ronald." The assistant was surprised to find that he came earlier than Ronald.

   "Morning, it's still the same as yesterday. You help watch the door. If someone from the screenwriters union comes, give me an early warning time." Ronald's progress in the morning was good, and he wrote several scenes. Until a phone ringing interrupted him.

   "Hello, Ronald is talking." Ronald picked up the phone receiver.

   "Hey Ronald, remember me? I'm Cameron."

"Oh, God, Cameron, why did you call me? We haven't seen each other for two or three years, have we? Are you okay?" Ronald recognized it, this is his first movie Screenwriter, Cameron Crowe, author of the original novel "Fast-paced Richmond High."

  Since the two finished the film, Crowe also wrote "Crazy Wild Life" later, the box office has not been as fast-paced. After that, he worked as a screenwriter doctor for director Joe Schumacher and revised the script of "St. Elmo's Fire".

  Ronald turned around and went to shoot the low-cost "Night of the Comet" and "Longwei Boy". The two have rarely seen each other since.

"I wrote a TV series for Global Television Network, which is a spin-off of 'Fast Pace'. They have the copyright to adapt it. But the ratings in 1986 were not high, and the eighth episode was cut. Even Back to the Future Lead actress Claudia Wells can't be saved...lol."

   No wonder Ronald hasn't heard Cameron Crowe's name popping up in Hollywood lately. He didn't find a chance to be a director, and then switched to TV dramas. After the failure, he was basically given up by Hollywood.

  After the "fast-paced" TV adaptation was axed, his rock star girlfriend, Nancy Wilson, had a career explosion. The Red Heart band formed by Nancy and her sister has released two consecutive records that topped the charts, both of which sold millions of copies.

  The two married in 1986, and Cameron Crowe basically became Nancy's househusband after marriage. But this year, Nancy reduced her musical output and began to rest. She also encouraged Crowe to continue to try her favorite film career.

   "So, you are the helper Rick (Nisita) helped me find?" Crowe called, and it was arranged by Nisita.

   "Yeah, I don't think there is a better way to return to Hollywood than this, as long as you still recognize my screenwriting ability." Cameron Crowe was the first on the list to be picked up by Nisita.

"I've got to be honest with you, Cameron. I can't sign you, I can't pay you, we have to sneak in, you can't tell anyone you're doing me a favour. Wait until the Writers Guild and Producer The Filmmakers Association reached an agreement, and I will compensate you from other sources."

   "No problem, we are old acquaintances." Cameron Crowe readily agreed.

"This job has to work late. The script I have to rewrite every day will be faxed to you as soon as possible. You must revise it immediately. No matter how late at night, you must give me a satisfactory revised draft. Tuck it under the door so they can get used to it before filming starts the next day."

   "I understand the rules", Cameron Crowe also cherishes this kind of opportunity. I made an agreement with Nancy that she will support me.

"That's great. I'm very assured of your level. But we have to be careful. After you call my assistant, I will sneak out and find a place to talk to you. A strike may be inevitable, and they will occupy it by then." On the set, these people will stare at me every day when they have nothing to do."

   "It doesn't matter, I've been with Nancy for the past two years. I haven't paid the membership fee of the screenwriters union. My current membership is suspended. They won't care about me too much..."

  Nisita also called Ronald afterward, asking him how the interview with Crowe was going.

   "I've already decided to use him. This is not a job interview. I just need someone who has worked with me. He is the most suitable."

   "I've worked with you here, since you like him, then settle it. I will arrange for him to fly to New York and rent a hotel."

   Cameron Crowe came to New York on the earliest flight that day. During the journey, he revised the script that Ronald faxed. After staying in the hotel, he discussed the plot with Ronald in the hotel.

"Very good, very good, you are still that genius screenwriter. You wrote Harrison Ford very well", Ronald watched Crowe's plot, he let Harrison Ford play his own charm, but also made other The matching of the characters is done very well without affecting the overall plot conflict.

   "Nancy is his fan, and I watched a lot of videos." Crowe is very familiar with Harrison Ford's star image, so the Jack Trainor he described has Harrison's usual temperament.

"Very well, that's it. I'm sorry, but I can't ask you to go to the crew to communicate with the actors. Today, the Screenwriters Union officially announced that it will start a general strike. We will keep this kind of private communication. No one in the crew will know that you are here to help me gone."

   "No problem, but I don't know what to eat here." Cameron Crowe breathed a sigh of relief seeing that Ronald was satisfied with his job.

"Call this number," Ronald took out the key card of his apartment on Fifth Avenue, which had the housekeeper's phone number on it, "This is the service apartment I live in. There are five floors of shopping malls under the building, and there are restaurants inside and nearby. You can order food or keep accounts, you can order whatever you want. If you get tired of eating, you can go to other places for a change.

  Well, why don't you just live with me, it's more private, and the screenwriters union can't get in. "

"That's great, thank you."

   The two arrived on Fifth Avenue, and Ronald opened a long-term rental room for Crowe in the hotel.

   "The conditions here are great, very quiet, and I will be very efficient," Crowe laughed, and he turned on the TV, just in time to replay the scene where the screenwriters union announced the strike.

  The plenipotentiary negotiator of the two major screenwriter unions, Brian Walton, announced the start of the strike on television. The two major trade unions in the East and the West, with a total of more than 9,600 screenwriters, will refuse to write new scripts for Hollywood movies, TV dramas, live reality shows with scripts, and TV commercials from now on.

  He vowed to help the screenwriter and get the power he deserved.

"First of all, there is a total of 300 million U.S. dollars in arrears, which are owed to all screenwriters by producers in Hollywood and New York TV stations in the past three years. Nick Kunt, the president of the Producers Guild, proposed a 50 million U.S. dollar bill The compensation amount is a public affront to screenwriters, who have long been exploited by an alliance centered on producers and directors.

  We not only need to get the full amount of the money, but also reach a new dividend ratio, and continue this model of remaining dividends.

   Then, the screenwriters have to have enough say over the director and the leading actors. The audience in America is enough to watch the actors forced by the producers. "

  Brian Walton has a good image on TV, with a British accent and a gentle tone, but the content is very tough:

"We will definitely not give in this time. We will film our screenwriters as volunteers to supervise the filming of Hollywood crews and talk show TV sets that have already started filming. No one can violate the regulations. Otherwise, we will have legal rights according to the law. Right to prohibit.

This time is different from two and a half years ago. We know that the Directors Union and the Producers Association have reached an agreement in advance, but we will not stop because of this unfair agreement that obviously favors the director and discriminates against the screenwriter. We will unite and take to the final victory.

  Finally, I would like to warn the directors and producers of those crews, you better not play any tricks, we will catch those who want to cheat. "Finally Brian Walton pointed to the TV camera.

   "Fortunately, I'll finish it first." Ronald thought to himself, this strike may not end so easily. The action of the negotiator seemed to be pointing at himself outside the TV.

   Having solved a major hidden worry, Ronald went back to the preparation office. Once at the door, he was surrounded by a large crowd.

   "I'm Mona Mangan from the News Writers Branch of the Screenwriters Union. My team and I are responsible for the strike supervision of the working girl crew."

  The leader of those people was a woman, who introduced herself to Ronald when she came up.

   "Well, how do you want to supervise, I hope it won't affect our shooting." Ronald shrugged helplessly.

   "Of course, you are also a member of the Screenwriters Union, as long as you cooperate with the collective actions of the union, we will get along well.

  Look over there, it’s our protest team. Every day, a few screenwriters will come to the shooting scene to protest, but they won’t disturb your filming. Do not enter the core area of ​​​​your shooting. This is the coverage we want to strive for in the media, I hope you can understand. "The union woman Mona Mangan is very professional.

   "As long as it doesn't affect the shooting, it's okay. I can understand."

   "Very well, there is our inspection team over there. All people who enter and leave the studio need to register their names and identities with them. We will assist in the investigation every day."

   "Talk to my production assistant, don't embarrass the crew and actors, especially the actors, they are very sensitive, if they are stopped by your people, they may lose their status."

  Mona Mangan discussed with her staff for a while, "This is no problem, but we need to get the list of your crew pass and check the photos."

   Hurry up to negotiate the terms, and Ronald sends these annoying trade unionists away.

There has been a lot of discussion in the crew, Ronald went up to call everyone together, and assured them that the script of the crew has already been written, the dialogues and scenes have been refined, and will not be disturbed by the strike of the screenwriters union, please cooperate with the union work, etc. .

  The staff and actors asked a lot of questions, and Ronald answered them one by one, and they left in peace.

   Ronald heaved a sigh of relief, looked at his watch that it was already night, and hurried back. When he was going out, he was stopped by the inspector of the trade union, and it was clearly Ronald who let him go.

   "What a mess, the union has made a lot of noise..." Ronald returned to his house, still complaining after taking a shower.

  Turn on the TV, it's David Letterman's Late Show.

"Our first guest tonight is... No, there are no guests today..." David Letterman, who was unshaven, said weakly to the camera, "We can't invite guests without the scriptwriter. What do we I can’t do it either. The high-level executives are negotiating urgently, you ask me what to watch today? I don’t know either.”

   "Boom... Boom..." The band also played a soundtrack that is often used in movies to express helplessness.

   "Why don't I show you how I shave? Hmm..." David Letterman took out his electric razor and buzzed to shave. The assistant sent a cosmetic mirror in due course, and Letterman took a picture of it after hanging it up.

   Then the scene cuts, and the last interview between Cher and ex-husband Sonny Bono, the highest-rated episode, is brought out for reruns to the rescue.

   Ronald used the remote to switch a few stations, and the late-night talk shows were basically reruns.

   This is really a big mess.

  (end of this chapter)