Chapter 460: Ronald is the discoverer of good directors
The casting for "Sleepless in Seattle" was settled and Ronald would not interfere further.
"Sisters Are Crazy" was a great box office success, and Emile Adolino basically gained financial freedom. He had been shooting documentaries and dance films, and now he had the freedom to shoot the movies he likes.
The New York City Ballet, under Ronald's leadership, filmed the late dance director Balanchine's adaptation of "The Nutcracker" with its main cast.
The dance of this version is more difficult than that of ordinary dance companies. It uses a lot of classical ballet techniques. Even a strong dance company will not be able to dance. The background has also been changed from the Germany of Tchaikovsky's original work to the Victorian era.
America.
Sometimes, a director just has to swing between business and his own artistic expression. If he only does one side, he will either have no money to live a comfortable life, or his creativity will dry up.
Emile Adolino has been making films for Ronald and has made a lot of money, and now it's time to express himself. In addition to filming this stage play, he also has his eye on a project to film the famous Stripper Jeep
A biopic of Cy Ross Lee. That's what he was interested in.
In order to reward him, Ronald contacted TriStar Pictures and specially invited Barbra Streisand to play this controversial but very talented dancer and singer. Anyway, Streisand once said that she would cooperate with him...
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He also found Cynthia Rhodes, an actress who was married to singer Richard Marks and the supporting actress of Dirty Dancing, and persuaded her to come out to film a small supporting role. He also found the dance troupe and choreographer of Dirty Dancing.
Come to cooperate, it is a reunion of the cast of "Dirty Dancing", with a little bit of a gimmick.
Only Jennifer Gray took the initiative to ask for a supporting role, but he rejected it. After her plastic surgery, she was really not worthy of the salary her agent asked for, and Ronald did not intend to be so generous.
Her latest movie, which was also the last movie in which audiences recognized her before her plastic surgery, "Wind" was a movie invested by Francis Coppola and shot for her senior brother Carol Ballard.
This is about the process of the American sailing team regaining the trophy after losing the America's Cup. The American sailing team once won 24 consecutive championships and dominated the America's Cup for 132 years. Until 1983.
It was only defeated by the Australian team's sailboat using advanced technology in 2018.
This "Beyond the Rapids", like Carol Ballard's previous "Black Horse", is full of wildness of fighting nature and a kind of child-like innocence. Ronald likes it very much.
Coppola invited him to watch the finished edited version. In the end, America's fleet, driven by the boatswain played by Jennifer Gray, replaced the new sails made with technology and surpassed the defending Australian in the race.
The situation of the team is simply exciting to watch.
"I feel that the final climax is not enough..." Ronald knew that Coppola's own financial situation was not very good. His purpose of investing in this film was the same as the filming of "400 Years Later", in order to make money to pay off debts.
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But when the film was screened by distributor Sony Columbia, his director's "400 Years of Horror" was still criticized for having too strong a personal style and seemed unable to gain favor from audiences in the domestic market.
At this time, Ronald must come forward and vouch for Coppola, so that the Columbia distribution department can give the film a relatively high rating.
After watching the edited version, Ronald was still very impressed. Coppola's creativity has not weakened, and he still has many artistic breakthroughs. The reason why his movies have some commercial failures is that the greater
The reason is that his thinking is out of touch with the public audience.
And this "400 Years of Horror" seems to capture some common emotions of the audience while bursting with wild imagination. Just like the Godfather, it captured the people's disappointment with the government and expected a "
Godfather"-type figures to restore order.
Ronald was not too sure whether this vampire movie really captured some of the audience's collective unconscious emotions as he suspected. He proposed to hold a few test screenings to see how the audience performed.
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But his statement was equivalent to an endorsement of Coppola. Columbia's distribution department heard that Ronald felt it was necessary to come to multiple test screenings, and they all felt that this was an optimistic expression from the producer. The test screenings were definitely
It's just to make some final changes based on audience feedback. Otherwise, he would have lost interest...
After receiving Columbia's measures to improve the distribution level and increase the budget of "400 Years of Mystery", Coppola was filled with emotions. It seemed that he had returned to the kind of courtesy he received when he just finished filming The Godfather.
He immediately agreed to make any changes based on the audience's feedback, as long as Ronald nodded. Both the distributor and the director were happy and quickly recruited willing audiences in New York and Los Angeles.
When Coppola's own film distribution problem was successfully resolved, he immediately thought of his senior brother Carol Ballard's film. Because of the lack of budget, the filming of various big scenes of racing on the sea was canceled.
Limitation. Can Ronald also help?
"I like this movie...", Ronald thought of a shot he had dreamed about on a plane of a girl sitting in a homemade plane and flying with birds. The shooting temperament of this movie, and Carol
Ballard's is very similar.
It's not the language of the camera or the trend of the performance, but the love for nature, which is very unique at first glance.
"Play the final catch-up climax again," Ronald felt inspired. This director's expressiveness was really on a par with all other directors.
"Dong dong dong dong..."
An abstract painting of a warrior was imprinted from a rock mural on the Gobi Desert and printed on the high-tech sail, becoming the symbol of America's sailboat.
"Take out my whomper sail." Jennifer Gray, wearing a sailing hat, urged the captain.
"Whomper?" The actor who played her ex-boyfriend and the captain made an expression that I didn't know.
"Whomper, as soon as you hook it up, it will unfold with a whomper sound! Bring our ship back to this damn race... Hurry!"
With the drumbeat of the soundtrack, everyone, urged by the crew member played by Jennifer Gray, raised the sail, and it was filled with the wind with a bang.
The sail with the symbol of a child's stick figure was lowered, and the other whomper sail with the pattern of an angry human face seemed to be roaring forward, symbolizing the unyielding fighting spirit of mankind, leading the American sailing ship to move forward rapidly, drawing closer.
the distance from the ship in front.
"daxmn it, there should be an overhead shot here. The rear boat is catching up, parallel, beyond..." Ronald was also angry. He happened to see the intense place, but why was it gone?
"Hey, I'm out of money, Ronald."
"I'll come out and ask Ballard to recall everyone and go to sea for reshoots..." Ronald hadn't seen such an exciting movie scene for a long time. He stood up and waved, "We must reshoot here."
Otherwise a great movie would have been wasted. Fuck...fuxk, fuxk, fuxk..."
He thought again of Jennifer Gray who had private plastic surgery. What should he do?
"There are also the lightning shots from before, if they can be paired with your lightning lights..." Coppola didn't understand what Ronald was scolding, and thought he was overly excited, so he quickly tried to get more reshoots for his senior brother.
Chance.
"That's nothing..." Ronald waved his hand, "It's just that the heroine had plastic surgery and her nose was gone..."
"Oh, shxit..." Coppola understood immediately, "Then we'll shoot the big panorama. The impact here mainly depends on the rhythm of the crew's coordinated actions..."
"You're right, let's do it. I still have an old model of lightning lamp over there, and I'll send it to you right away. The new model is for Steven to use..."
"Hahaha, having you in Hollywood is really a great thing for such a unique director." Coppola smiled and hugged Ronald. Those producers who use various stars and various formulas to select scripts
Everyone has cerebral palsy. Only people like Ronald, who are rich, influential, and have artistic vision, can fund these directors who can produce such moving works.
"Hey, I'm all for film art (box office revenue)." Ronald waved his hand, "By the way, Francis, tell me, can that nose be reshaped?"
"Forehead……"
Coppola could only touch his forehead. In all his years in Hollywood, he had never seen anyone who could get his face back through plastic surgery.
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"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Jennifer Gray cried while calling someone she knew who had a relationship with Ronald.
"Patrick, can you put in a good word for me in front of Ronald? I have discussed it with no fewer than five of the best plastic surgeons in Hollywood. They all said that my nose is already very fragile. If it is done again, it will
There is a risk of collapse..."
"Hey, let me tell you something." The person on the other side of the phone was Dirty Dancing actor Patrick Schwytz. He couldn't bear to hear such a cry from Gray.
"Just stop getting involved... This matter is not mutually exclusive," his wife said to Schwytz after he put down the phone.
"Ronald is now Hollywood's box office guarantee. As long as he says yes, the producers will follow suit. With such influence, why would you go against his wishes?"
"Ronald is not that kind of person. When we were filming Dirty Dancing, he was so patient, charismatic, and leading. He knew how to let us actors unleash our potential. Without him, I wouldn't be able to
It might be successful..."
Patrick Schwytz is a little unhappy. How could Ronald be like that? You are not familiar with him and don’t understand this person’s heart. He is an actor’s director, so why can’t he understand the heart of an actor?
What about ideas?
"Okay, even if you are right, Gray may not be grateful to you..."
"How could it be? She was crying and begging me."
"Don't you understand? Doesn't she know that if she undergoes plastic surgery, it will affect her film appointments and box office appeal? Well, maybe it's a little underestimated, but she definitely understands... Why does she still do it?
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"You're right..." Schwyz moved his hand away from the phone.
"Girls love beauty. She definitely doesn't know how many times she has been told that her nose is ugly. Even if she had the opportunity to film Dirty Dancing 2, she was told that she was ugly to her face and failed every time in the audition. If she has a good script,
First give Michelle Pfeiffer such suffering..."
"Okay, I'd better call Ronald..." Schwytz said he understood. Although she was liked by the audience and had box office,...a young girl was said to be not beautiful enough every day, especially in Hollywood.
Self-esteem is a very serious injury.
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"Tell her, if you can't do it, then don't do it. She will still be asked to reshoot the movie, and no one will be replaced..." Ronald received intercessory calls from many people, and finally called Jennifer Gray
Her agent told her not to take the risk of having her nose reshaped again.
"Where have we talked?" Ronald put down the phone and came back to face a fat man and said.
"I feel bad that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was filmed like that, and I..." This fat man is Joss Whedon, the screenwriter who came to Ronald with the script he wrote.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" has just been released, and it's a mess at the box office. The main problem is that the director is not very good at making this kind of movie. He made this fantasy movie look different.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Originally, Christy Swanson's appearance as the heroine was very good. She was the actress who succeeded Kim Cattrall in the sequel to "Beautiful", and her beauty level is also very good.
Not inferior to the original.
The supporting role is Canadian veteran actor Donald Sutherland, the father of Julia Roberts's dumped fiancé. This is another actor who doesn't need to worry about his acting skills.
Coupled with Daydream's large number of experienced special effects makeup and props talents, the production team also inherited the temperament of Roger Corman-style horror movies in the appearance of vampires.
But perhaps the bad thing is that the combination of these elements was evenly distributed by the director. On the set, the director did not suppress Donald Sutherland, and many scenes were shot according to the actor's ideas.
This resulted in problems such as misprioritization of the film, supporting characters taking over the main role, insufficient role of the protagonist, etc. Combined together, it became a work that made the screenwriter so angry that he asked Ronald to reshoot it.
"Reshooting is impossible. This is what I told you before. If you want your ideas to be presented in a movie, you must be the director yourself."
"I regret it now. I directed it myself, at least not like this..." Joss Whedon covered his face.
"Then you'd better learn slowly. I happen to have a sequel to a Taekwondo movie here. You can practice your skills."
Ronald admires screenwriters who have a high sense of responsibility for their works. Only such people can produce good works. If it is just to hang out with female stars and make money from the shooting, such a director will not have talent.
If so, it would be terrible.
As for talent, no one knows it until you try it.
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"Michael, is this movie your project? My agent told me that there is a biopic of Gypsy Rose Lee. Is it possible that I could direct it?"
When Barbra Streisand received the invitation to film, she was confident that she was a big name, so she called Ovitz directly to confirm.
"My dear Barbara, why do you want to be associated with a project that I did not package? I was just about to tell you about this matter. Our ethnic group must unite and not have anything to do with this company."
"But I want to be a director. I want to be like Costner and get the best director Oscar, at least a nomination."
"Barbara, how could I forget you? I have prepared a script for you..."
After making the call, Ovitz took out a baseball bat from under the table and waved it in the air, as if there was a head in front of him and he was about to smash it.