"Mr. Li, Mr. Li?"

A young girl who looked like a secretary, wearing high heels, ran into Ronald's business jet lounge at Los Angeles Airport. She opened the doors one after another in search of Ronald.

"Ah, Mr. Li, you are here..." Ronald waved to her, and she finally saw herself.

"Mr. Goldberg asked me to deliver this script to the airport. I didn't know how to get to the passenger terminal of the business jet, so I had to ask a lot of people before I found the way in. It's great that everything went smoothly."

"Thank you, would you like to sit down and have breakfast together?" Ronald saw that she looked very tired and had dark circles under her eyes. She must have slept very late last night and was assigned such an extra task by the boss so early in the morning.

The working hours every day are probably very long.

Looking at her, Ronald was a little reminded of his cousin Donna. These girls who have just worked for a short time are the hardest working, and not many of them continue to work hard after two or three years.

"Thank you," the girl sat down, picked up the sandwich and ate it. Ronald handed her a glass of orange juice.

"Mr. Li, our plane is ready for boarding."

After a while, the stewardess came over and invited Ronald to board the plane. He motioned for the secretary to finish eating before sending her back. He took the script in his hand and boarded the plane with Little Bud carrying his luggage.

"I am Captain Jimmy O'Connor, and on behalf of all the crew, I would like to welcome aboard Mr. Ronald Lee, the film director who has made our Navy pilots highly respected."

Ronald laughed heartily. Unexpectedly, the captain of the business jet this time was a retired fighter pilot from the Navy. He was also invited into the cockpit and took a group photo with the crew.

Returning to his seat, Ronald took the black tea brought by the stewardess and then opened the script he had just received.

The script is neat, but the paper has some rough edges, indicating that this is a copy that has been circulated by many people. The title of the film is simply written on the cover:

"Working Girl"

Below "By Kevin Wade" is the screenwriter's name written in typewriter font, only one.

"I've never heard of it," Ronald thought to himself. The script Goldberg sent him was actually written by an unknown screenwriter?

Ronald continued to turn the page. Goldberg would not send an uninteresting script without purpose.

"working girl"

Fade out, fade in...

1 Exterior. Highlands on Staten Island—Shots from the Series—Scene 1

in the morning

Close shot of walking footsteps. A pair of them, wearing worn out running shoes that were soaked by the rain, ran quickly down the mountain.

The camera extended to show her beautiful legs, trotting. The owner of the legs reached down and pulled up a pair of stockings that had lost their elasticity and were sagging.

A panoramic view of Theresa McGill. To her friends, she was Tess, a twenty-year-old, close-minded secretary.

She is very attractive, but there is nothing exciting about her, but she has her own unique sexiness.

She is trying to balance an umbrella, a newspaper, and a briefcase, almost as if she is juggling.

Lens angle reversal, panning...

We see her walking toward the slow-moving crowd of hundreds of commuters streaming into the entrance to the Staten Island Ferry, huddled against the rain and gray morning.

The camera pulls back from Tess, the long shot...

Tess blended into the vast crowd of people going to work in Manhattan.

…

"Huh?" Ronald understood what Goldberg was thinking. No wonder he was looking for him. He was telling the story of his aunt's home on Staten Island. He turned the page and continued reading...

Interior. Staten Island Ferry – Same as above (indicates the sequence immediately following the above), Scene 2

Tess and Cyn, her fellow secretary and best friend, with Cyn in short hair and very heavy make-up, huddled together on a wooden stool on a crowded ferry.

On the ferry, Tess held a bouquet of flowers and Xin lit a match on top of a Twinkie butter cake. She began singing "Happy Birthday" in a thick accent.

One or two passengers joined in the song, but most began to complain, some quite loudly.

Tess smiled and blew out the match. The whistle of the ferry docked was loud. Everyone rushed to the exit.

…

The more Ronald read, the more he felt that the quality of this script was similar to the movie with grand aerial shots that he had dreamed about several times on the plane to and from New York and Los Angeles.

The core of the story is about an older female secretary named Tess who continues to study hard. She has a seriously ill mother who needs to be taken care of. In between her heavy work and family obligations, she also attends night classes to care for her.

economic news.

She was on the ferry one day and saw a very good merger and acquisition opportunity in the news, but her boss, a staid middle-aged man, did not believe in her ability as a secretary to propose a merger and acquisition proposal.

Finally, a friend of her boss, a mergers and acquisitions consultant named Jack Trainer, understood her and worked with Tess to propose a great merger and acquisition plan to a company that owned the property rights of a television network.

At this time, Tess's boss saw that his secretary was able to surpass him, so he became evil and claimed that the plan was his own.

Tess, who has fallen in love with Jack Traynor, hopes that her boyfriend Traynor can help her clarify to the boss of the company who is the original author of the plan.

However, under the coercion of Tess's boss, Traynor had to give up on Tess, saying that the plan was her boss's original idea, and that Tess had only plagiarized her boss's creativity.

However, Tess produced evidence to prove that she was the original author of the merger plan. Her boss and Traynor were fired, and Tess's wish that she had struggled for many years was finally achieved.

When the plane flew over the Midwest, Ronald had already watched the last scene in one breath:

Another angle, interior office, continued, scene 260

Tess:Okay.

Ben (Tess's male secretary after her promotion) closed the door behind him. Tess walked to the window, looked out, and then tentatively sat on the bench, lying down leisurely.

Tess was as happy as a child in a candy store. She walked to the phone, took a piece of paper from her purse, and made a long-distance call.

Tess:

(to the phone)

Yes, please look for "Cynthia O'Rourke!"

"Xin, guess where I am?"

"Well, it doesn't seem like it's a movie." Ronald closed the script and carefully compared it with the scenes in his dream. None of the content in his dream was in the script.

For example, the beginning and the end, two great aerial shots from a helicopter and long shots with full-focus zoom, are definitely not in this script.

Either someone changed the script, or it was another movie with similar content. Ronald closed the script after reading it and thought to himself.

The writing style of this screenwriter, Kevin Wade, is very similar to that of John Padric Shanley, the screenwriter of "Moonlight" whom he worked with last time. Many scenes have a very strong stage play style.

For example, I like to use a series of shots to complete a dense plot in a limited space. This is an inevitable requirement for stage plays, but in fact, this is not necessarily necessary in film shooting.

…

"Thank you for flying, thank you." When they arrived at the New York Airport, the crew members who were former naval pilots came over to say goodbye to Ronald.

"Thank you." Ronald took another photo with them below the plane, then turned to little Bud and said, "You go get the car, I'll make a phone call first."

"Mr. Goldberg, I just arrived in New York. Yes, I read the script on the plane. I really like the tone of the story, but I want to meet with the screenwriter Kevin Wade to talk about what can be changed.

"

"What do you think can be adjusted?" Goldberg was very happy when he heard Ronald's call. The original director Michael Nichols had a lot of requirements for the filming, some of which were very difficult for Fox.

It's unacceptable.

It would be good for Fox to have a new competitor.

"I have two ideas. First, Tess's boss should be a woman, so that her replacement as her boss will be convincing. Otherwise, Wall Street will not be able to listen to a secretary's spiel."

"It's very reasonable." Goldberg has no objection to this. If Tess has a female boss, then Jack Traynor can be written as her boss's boyfriend, which will add some love triangle drama to the script.

It has romantic drama elements that the audience will love to watch.

"What's another idea?"

"Another thought is that the details of the merger and acquisition in the script are a bit flippant. The background of this story is very realistic. We have to make the details of this merger and acquisition so that employees working on Wall Street cannot see the flaws."

Ronald liked this story very much, but the details of the merger and acquisition case were a bit exaggerated and lacked authenticity.

When Ronald read it, he felt that this story was a bit like the "Secret of Success" starring Helen Slater and Michael J. Fox. The main story focused on the male protagonist's love story, work and mergers and acquisitions.

It was simplified into a cartoon-like story found in middle school students’ general textbooks.

But that movie is a romantic love story, and this movie is a business war drama. Tess’s story needs to be set off by very realistic business war details.

"Is this true? There are not many screenwriters who know Wall Street well."

"I can find some people who know Wall Street to participate in rewriting the script and turn it into a movie with the most realistic details of business war. In addition, I want to find a screenwriter to rewrite the draft."

"I will remember your request. Please give me an actionable plan first, and then we will contact you."

"Huh?" Ronald felt that Goldberg's tone was a bit wrong. Could it be that he was looking for him more as a competitor to lower the price of the original director, Michael Nichols? Or to fight for a bigger voice.

right?

"What about screenwriter Kevin Wade?" Ronald thought for a while, but instead of telling the truth, he asked if he could meet with the screenwriter.

"Of course, I'll ask him to call you. He's in New York."

Little Bud packed his luggage and came to see Ronald who was on the phone.

"Let's go to the apartment on Fifth Avenue. You call the lobby manager and help me turn on the air conditioner and order some food. I have to work at night."
To be continued...