Chapter 164: Ronald who understands the public psychology best
Fortunately, when Weintraub was developing the first part of "The Kid", he was still cooperating with Columbia Pictures. Due to the provisions of the contract, he did not release the sequel production rights of this series to the company he later established.
Unlucky Weintraub Films below.
This conveniently provided a platform for cooperation. Ronald then asked Susan Aikins to find two essential leading actors, Ralph Marzio, who played Daniel, and Master Miyagi, who played
Noriyuki Morita.
When Ronald saw the two of them, he couldn't help but shook his head. No wonder Weintraub didn't develop the third installment of The Kid, a project with great potential to make money, when facing a financial crisis.
Morita spent a lot of money on the Japanese-American co-production he directed the previous year, but it didn't even get a chance to be released in America, and it was also difficult to find a suitable role for him, an old Japanese man, in other movies.
Depressed, Morita indulged in drinking and sex, divorced his wife, and kept dating young beauties for several years. In addition, he drank drunkenly every day, his hair turned white, and his overall mental state was also very poor.
As for Ralph Mazio, he has another problem. Mazio, who has always looked like a Latino in the movies, seemed to have no development in his twenties, but in the past two years after marriage, Mazio gradually began to put on weight due to hormones.
The changes made him look like an adult and he can no longer play the energetic high school student in the first two episodes.
The first two parts of "The Dragon King" actually took place in the same summer, and then Daniel came back from Japan and suddenly became an uncle.
Sure enough, it was replaced with the outline of the story provided by Ronald, and Daniel and Master Miyagi traveled back to the Ming Dynasty in their dreams. They met the ancestors of the first generation of Master Miyagi's family, went to the South China Sea to learn Tang hand, and then returned to Ryukyu.
The story of turning into karate is more suitable.
Anyway, it is a story in a dream. The two of them have not met their ancestors from who knows how many generations ago. It is not surprising that people have become mature...
Tsui Hark studied abroad in America, and he brought his girlfriend, Ms. Shi, here, and got in touch with many Chinese filmmakers on the West Coast, and he was ready to do something big.
In addition to those actors who can play Chinese actors, there are also many professionals who serve in Hua Dao. Many filmmakers from Hong Kong have immigrated to America through marriage or other methods. This time, they have the opportunity to participate in a white and Japanese study of Chinese
We are willing to contribute to culturally themed movies.
Ronald saw the display of clothing and found it very beautiful. The extensive use of red and white had a natural hint of Chinese culture in it. The clothes were also very beautiful, not like the crude Ming Dynasty clothing imagined by Hollywood.
"I watched "Dragon Gate Inn" directed by Hu Jinquan and copied it. He is very familiar with the culture and history of the Ming Dynasty." Seeing that Ronald was satisfied, Tsui Hark proudly said the source of his creativity.
"This is a newly established project company and has nothing to do with my Weintraub Pictures." Weintraub was freed from his depression. He knew that this sequel could bring him some cash flow and rejuvenate himself.
Got fighting spirit.
"We don't care. The box office you make from this movie will first be used for the debts of Weintraub Pictures." Several debt lawyers held on to Weintraub.
"This is a limited company, the basis of America's innovative enterprises. You are still lawyers. Don't you even understand this?" Weintraub doesn't care about them. As long as they make money, he can bankrupt the old company and start his own new company.
The golden cicada escaped smoothly. Maybe some of the projects with filming rights can be transferred to the new company.
"We are lawyers representing Wall Street. If we say yes, then yes." The lawyers were indifferent and left with a sneer. What they were interested in were the large high-quality assets in Weintraub's personal name, a large number of Elvis Presley, John Denver,
and Frank Sinatra's live recording rights... In short, it is more beneficial for Weintraub to continue to be trapped in the quagmire than to make a blockbuster movie to pay back the money.
"Get this matter settled as soon as possible, otherwise we won't be able to cooperate..." Ronald reminded Weintraub that if he was involved in the so-called corporate debt, Ronald's income would not be guaranteed.
"Small problem, Jane (Morgan) has flown to Washington..." Weintraub smiled proudly. He had a wife and a lover who got along harmoniously and helped him solve the problem.
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"Barbara, those Wall Street vampires want Jerry (Weintraub) to continue to be trapped. Now that he has a project that is sure to make money, I don't want any special treatment, as long as they abide by business laws and rules."
." Jane Morgan has already set off early to meet her best friend Barbara, who is busy campaigning in Washington, D.C.
"Of course it's no problem. I'll ask Jeb to make some calls..." Although Barbara is very busy now, she actually doesn't have many close friends in the upper class. When Jane Morgan comes, she has to find time to come.
See you.
"I asked, is your husband's new project really going to make money?" Barbara and Morgan knew each other very early, before Jane Morgan and Weintraub got married.
"It should be no problem. He and Ronald Lee are going to make the third installment of The Kid, and the Hollywood sequels will all make money, right?"
"Ha, I still remember that when George and I went to Hawaii, we lent him a helicopter for filming. However, even Ronald can't guarantee that the new movie will make money, right?" Barbara and Jane Morgan
People are actually in the same boat. They all face the problem of their husbands cheating on them for a long time and still refusing to break off the relationship with that woman.
"I don't know, but Ronald is the Hollywood person who knows what the public is thinking the most that I have ever seen. Every time he makes a movie, it seems that he has captured the hearts of us women. Alas..."
"That's right," Barbara said deep in thought. She is now worried about her husband's approval rating continuing to lag behind. The schedule for the three debates in the T&T election has been set, and the gap between the two parties' approval ratings is still about 5%.
, although George borrowed the help of the black man Holden to escape while he was home for the weekend and continued to kill people, he caught up with many incidents.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, when it reached 5%, the support rates of both parties stabilized and there was no change. Here is an advertisement to smear Dukakis
In the past, the huge amount of funds invested seemed to have hit the ceiling and was of no use anymore.
"Don't worry, my dear. No one will disturb your husband during the filming of the movie." Barbara was busy with work, and hurriedly said goodbye to Jane Morgan and went to find her eldest son, George Jr.
"You can find a way to contact Director Ronald. I want to have a phone call with him."
"Mom, I asked him last time, and he didn't have any good ideas."
"Go and get in touch..." Barbara was disappointed with this eldest son, so you definitely wouldn't ask.
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"Kim, where are you? There's good news here." Ronald happened to be calling Kim Basinger.
The actress Basinger did not replace, Sean Young, fell and broke her handle while learning to ride a horse on the set of Pinewood in London.
"I'm calling you at the ranch. Do you want to come? I have two thousand acres here and many good horses. You can ride horses with me. Western movies can also be filmed on my ranch, hahaha."
Basinger, like Ronald, is now constantly getting money from the "9 and a half weeks" video tape. Almost every male customer who goes to Blockbuster will buy a box of this pornographic film. Just like
Every female customer comes with a box of "Dirty Dancing".
Men and women also have different tastes and hobbies. "Nine and a Half Weeks" only has desires and fantasies, which is suitable for male viewers. But female viewers prefer "Dirty Dancing", where they talk about love first and then go to bed.
"The actress in Batman may have to be replaced now. Go to London as soon as possible and attend the audition urgently." Ronald told Sean Young about his fall.
This thing is also very strange. Originally, in the script of "Batman", there were not many scenes of the heroine Vicky riding a horse, but director Tim Burton insisted on adding a lot of horse riding scenes, and also asked Sean Young to
training.
Sean Young practiced for more than six hours every day. During the second week of training, she was too tired and accidentally dropped her handle and broke it.
Ordinarily, Vicky, a female reporter, just needs to be a good vase. If the director or producer is supportive, Sean Young still has a chance.
When Orson Welles was filming "The Last Day", the heroine Janet Leigh was injured and broke her arm. Welles carefully redesigned all the heroine's scenes, found the camera angle, and forced her to
Even when my arm was not good, I still took classic photos.
This can actually be accommodated. However, everyone on the crew pretended that this option was not available. Sean Young was almost just injured, so he contacted CAA and asked for a change of role.
Jack Nicholson even called Ronald and told him that what he promised had been accomplished by some strange combination of circumstances, and asked him to quickly contact the recommended female star and come to London as soon as possible.
"But if you put it this way, isn't there still hope for Sean Young to star? Could it be that I went to London Pinewood Studios to audition, just as a backup, and in the end she got the role. I didn't want to give her the chance to laugh at me.
"
"Don't worry, only you can laugh at her, it's impossible for her to laugh at you, but I don't encourage you to do so. Sean Young is a famous crazy woman."
"Okay, I'll go to London... However, the business class tickets for the temporary flights to London may be sold out." Basinger has to rush from the ranch to New York first... and may have to endure the torture of economy class.
"Don't worry about this. The earlier you arrive, the more confident you will be in winning the role. You don't think you are the only actress in Hollywood being invited, do you? I'll have someone book the Concorde for you..." Ronald
Just help Basinger decide.
There are many unreasonable things about Sean Young's dismissal. I'm afraid not one person wants her to get out. In addition to Nicholson's liking to sleep in in the morning and partying at night, and not liking Sean Young's procrastination, the film's producers
One of the producers, Jon Peterson, probably also contributed a lot.
Especially after Sean Young threatened to expose all the men he slept with for the role of "Batman", there was a strange atmosphere in Hollywood, and no media, whether it was newspapers or TV, continued to
Follow up on this matter.
Now Sean Young is in London, negotiating with Jon Peterson. Maybe Peterson had promised her something, so when Sean Young broke up and forced him to fulfill his promise, everyone hoped to replace her.
The candidate will appear in London as soon as possible.
"Okay, I'll go..." Kim Basinger understood the urgency of the matter from Ronald's tone and immediately stated that he would leave immediately.
"Ring, ring, ring..." Ronald, who had just put down the phone, heard the phone ring again.
"Hello?"
"It's still me, baby. I forgot to thank you. When I come back from London, we'll discuss editing techniques... um um um..." Basinger was so excited that he forgot to thank Ronald, who had done the most, and quickly made up for it.
one time.
"Go quickly...we'll talk about other things when we come back." Ronald smiled, and Basinger's reward was worth looking forward to.
"Ring ring ring ring..."
The bell rang again.
"Baby, if you want to repay me, wait until the big thing is done..." Ronald picked up the phone and said. Despite his tall and outstanding figure, Basinger actually looks like a little woman and likes to be inseparable like this.
Say little things.
"What do you want in return, Ronald? You ask for it, and when George's big things are done, you sit in the Oval Office and you can talk about anything."
"Um...Ms. Barbara? I thought you were calling from someone else." Ronald recognized that the caller was Barbara, the wife of the deputy commander, and what he said was so embarrassing.
"That's not important. Tell me, what do you want before you are willing to help George improve his approval rating? We don't have much time now."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Ms. Barbara..." Ronald wanted to say, what can I do if your highly paid campaign consultants can't do anything about it?
Method?
"Listen, Ronald, I'm very busy and don't have time to be polite. Jane Morgan told me that you are the director in Hollywood who best understands what the people want. Campaigning and acting are actually very similar. Do you have any good ideas?"
Barra interrupted Ronald's refusal forcefully, now was not the time to take things slowly.
"The people hope that the deputy commander will...well, what can be said to support him?" Ronald repeated, and then began to think quickly.
"I think attacking the other party is not enough to make me change my mind about voting. I only vote for my own benefit..."
"Go on..." Barbara took out a pen and paper and began to record. Ronald was indeed a bit proficient, and this sentence made sense. Why hadn't he noticed it before? (In fact, little George had already conveyed this point.
Thoughts, it’s just that George Sr. was ahead at that time, and Barbara liked Jeb’s strategy more)
"Well... take me for example. In addition to agreeing with the deputy commander's political views and leadership, another important reason is that the deputy commander promised to continue the economic policies of the current commander-in-chief, as well as various tax policies that are beneficial to the creativity of entrepreneurs.
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"Tax policy..." Barbara wrote in her notebook. She had heard this countless times, but after attacking Dukakis could no longer narrow the gap between the two, she was very interested in any new ideas.
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"Also, I like the deputy commander's attitude towards the three armed forces. My father once served in the Marine Corps, and my grandfather and great-grandfather all served in the US military and sacrificed their lives for the country. Dukakis's attitude towards the army
manner……"
"I don't know, you still come from a traditional patriot family..." Barbara felt very inspired and was about to discuss with Roger Ailes about the army, military-industrial enterprises, and their families.
Many of them are located in the north, on the east and west coasts, in states where competition is fiercer, with factories and locations.
"I will never forget your help today..." After listening to Ronald's thoughts, Barbara hurried to convene an emergency meeting. The tone of the entire campaign was about to change.
"Doug, hasn't the support rate of the commander-in-chief gone up yet?" Ronald put down the phone and hurriedly called Douglas Jr.
You and Douglas Jr. have donated money, and you have organized many people to donate to George Sr. Don’t let it go to waste.
"It's not very optimistic. We will know the outcome in the first candidate debate next month. You haven't forgotten how the current commander-in-chief defeated his opponents and won two big victories."
"Of course..." Ronald was worried about whether he could still enjoy the tax cuts. Old George's personal charm was much worse. TV debates are actually about who looks more like a commander-in-chief.