"The commander-in-chief made the announcement without asking or telling. I know it was you who helped. Although it did not achieve the best effect of overturning the blue dismissal legislation, it is already a good choice in reality."
After the commander-in-chief announced the new policy, the happiest person was none other than David Geffen. He strongly supported William's campaign last year. The main purpose was to allow his brothers to obtain a status that would not be discriminated against.
Most of the discrimination in America now comes from the people. This can be slowly and subtly changed by time and literary and artistic works. However, discrimination within the military is determined by law.
This policy of dismissal of people with minority orientations has not only been in place since World War II, but this year the conservatives of the Elephant Party also initiated legislation in Congress, completely turning it into a legal form, stipulating that people can be fired as long as they come out as gay.
Whether it is the House of Representatives or the Senate, this bill has been approved by the majority of members. If the President exercises his veto power, it is likely to be voted on again by both houses and veto the President again with a two-thirds majority vote.
When the people of most states (not the proportion of population, because a large number of people are concentrated in the relatively open east and west coasts) still discriminate against these people, the commander-in-chief used a flexible approach, without undermining the legislation, using a
It is very smart to use administrative orders to temporarily solve the problem.
"No, no, I didn't do anything. It was your unremitting efforts over a long period of time that allowed the commander-in-chief to face the pressure from Congress and make the right choice." Ronald didn't want to take credit. This matter actually started in the 1980s.
From the beginning, those hard-line groups continued to hype this issue in various elections, and even joined forces with the progressives of the Donkey Party, so that they could put such great political pressure on the commander-in-chief.
If there is anything Ronald has done, at most he has agreed to show the true face of some groups of people in some movies, such as the upcoming Philadelphia Story.
"I understand, but my gratitude is sincere. You gave the commander-in-chief the inspiration for this policy. My friends all told me. Although I will not admit my gratitude to the commander-in-chief in public, this matter is at this stage
This idea of yours is the best..."
David Geffen is well-informed, and some of what happened in the White House that night has reached his ears. However, as the spokesperson of this kind of people in Hollywood, Geffen has to continue to promote the complete repeal of blue retirement legislation from Congress.
, on the surface he still wants to speak ill of the commander-in-chief.
"I owe you a big debt. If there is anything I can do to help, just ask..." David Geffen was in a very good mood. Ronald would not make things difficult for his friends, so it would be better if he made this kind of promise.
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"You're too polite, David..." Ronald laughed. It would be nice to just listen to such Jewish words.
"You have gained something this time, right? The commander-in-chief watched the preview of Philadelphia Story at the White House, which must have had a lot of marketing effect. By the way, can you show it to me too? We people owe this movie a lot."
"Of course. I asked someone to prepare a copy. You may not believe it, but Commander David didn't mention the movie. It was just the press spokesman who mentioned it before asking reporters to ask questions. No reporters asked questions after that..."
Ronald is still a little disappointed. The person living in the White House now has a good demeanor, but he is not the kind of person who is very kind to his friends. Maybe he owes too much to others and can't pay it off.
"It's still good. It's the first movie that William asked to watch after he took office. Ronald, I still say the same thing, call me whenever you need something, okay?"
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Although the commander-in-chief did not publicly promote this Philadelphia story, people in Hollywood circles still got the news, especially Elizabeth Taylor and her friends, because the film's performance and care for... the crowd was special.
I was so moved that I took the initiative to call Ronald, hoping that he would invite me to the premiere.
Ronald was also very moved by the actions of these people. Elizabeth Taylor started working for these minorities for a long time simply because her good friends had minority orientations, and because... she unfortunately died.
Lower your status and show up at some events just to get more donations.
Ronald specially arranged a screening for her and her friends from the foundation, and even went there personally to work as a waiter, serving coffee, listening to their opinions, etc. This made Jade Lady Taylor hate Ronald.
Being very touched, I pinched his butt lovingly to express my gratitude.
"Ronald, my back has been causing me trouble again recently. I can't go to your premiere..."
Taylor sat on the sofa, and Ronald put a thick pillow behind her to make him more comfortable.
"Don't say that. You can't go to the premiere, so I'll just bring a copy... The statement you published in the newspaper is already the public relations marketing we dream of for Jonathan and I..."
What Ronald was saying was that Elizabeth Taylor, in the name of her foundation, published comments in the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers, saying that this was the first Hollywood film to be played by a movie star in a major studio film.
Please applaud this movie and express your tolerance for any offense in the movie.
The entire review has no marketing component. It is entirely from the perspective of an old Hollywood person. She is grateful for such a movie and gives a very objective evaluation of the causes she cares about. I also want to thank the viewers who were offended by this and thank them.
Give such a beloved movie a chance.
Most of her fans are middle-aged and elderly people, who are also strongholds of conservative values. These people will more or less give her a little face and not criticize Philadelphia Story. Maybe some people will do it out of respect for the popular Jade Woman when she was young.
For your support, go to the cinema and watch it.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Such actions are much greater support than the words of Commander William and David Geffen. They really love this movie.
Actions that only talented people can do.
"I called some friends and invited them to attend the premiere, but most of my friends now have various health problems like me... If you have any big names you want to invite, I can help you call them to urge them...
..." Taylor admires the style of this movie very much. It doesn't blindly sell misery, nor does it make any moral defense. It just presents the whole film in a respectable manner and is occasionally sensational.
"Thanks from all my heart..." Ronald was very grateful to such a sincere friend. Taylor suffered from spinal problems due to a fall while riding a horse while filming Jade Goddess Pony when he was young. During the attack, he was able to sit
Watching a movie here is already a break from the norm.
Elizabeth Taylor's foundation, and many celebrities have donated money. In addition, people who have a deep relationship with her have also expressed their willingness to contribute, calling their relatives and friends to urge them to watch this movie.
Taylor told them that this movie can make people who are originally afraid and afraid of this, begin to understand and sympathize with them. This is a very good comfort to these people who in the past few years were considered to be the incarnation of the devil.
However, since there are people who are very kind to the movie, there are also people who hate the movie very much, and it is not just those defenders. The most vicious attack on Philadelphia Story comes from a practitioner in Hollywood who has a different orientation.
This person is Larry Kramer, the founder of the organization ACT UP, who encountered extreme protests when Ronald was directing projects such as "Other People's Money" and "Silence of the Lambs."
Because he is one of the few openly gay people in Hollywood, and he is also a member of ACT UP who campaigned for government investment research for..., he was naturally placed on the preview list for Philadelphia Story.
Unexpectedly, a week before the premiere, when film critics who had watched the early screenings were not allowed to comment, an entirely critical article was published in the Los Angeles Times.
The title of the article is called "Why I Hated the Philadelphia Story": a playwright and minority activist saw Hollywood's first major... movie and was deeply disappointed.
The first paragraph was full of energy, and I had a blast telling the story of Philadelphia.
"Philadelphia Story is a heartbreakingly mediocre film. It is dishonest and often legally, medically and politically inaccurate. It breaks my heart to say that it is simply not good enough and I would rather people not see it at all..."
Then criticism began. The author, Larry Kramer, was the same as those anti-Vietnam War activists back then. The main reason for the criticism was that the Philadelphia Story was not radical enough.
He said that in the past few years, millions of people of minority orientations, patients and families, have waited in despair for a movie to make a statement on this topic.
Just like the Holocaust, the Vietnam War and the Watergate Incident, they all had their own movies to tell the public how serious the matter was. However, the big studios have always said that there will be no audience for this subject, so for twelve years they have been
Turn a blind eye.
I finally waited for a movie with this theme, but it was a very mediocre work. After watching it, ordinary audiences will think of it as the conservatives like old Commander Ronald, old Commander George, and Senator Helms.
Like pie, it won't have any impact on it.
Larry Kramer also criticized the studio. He said that "Philadelphia Story" was distributed by TriStar Pictures, which is a part of Columbia, and Columbia is a subsidiary of Sony, which in turn is owned by Japan.
enterprise.
As we all know, there are very few... cases in Japan. They are persecuting two groups of people in America. They deliberately made a very bad movie to silence these people. They have been scolding the big studios for deliberately ignoring them.
With this subject matter, they are now using a movie that no one is destined to watch. They are trying to tell people like themselves, look, no one is watching Philadelphia Story, so don’t make it again.
He also attacked the director's writing skills and Tom Hanks' performance, saying he was doing nothing more than pitting a noble minority-oriented white male hero (Tom Hanks) against a hateful minority-oriented black man chasing an ambulance.
A lawyer (Denzel Washington) comes together to tell a story that seems to be popular.
Tom Hanks didn’t perform at all, it was his makeup and weight that acted. The movie’s portrayal of the lives of minorities was simply a fabrication. He was particularly disgusted with Andy, played by Hanks. When he told his family, they
Everyone is happy for him. It is a very cheap flattery. It seems that a minority of people have to be grateful because of the support of their families and stop any resistance. It is like Commander William gave a small group of people in the army an unfair advantage.
If there is a policy of asking and not telling, they should shut up and stop pursuing complete liberation.
"Is this Larry Kramer mentally ill? Why not go to a mental hospital for treatment?" Ronald was very angry. These people who have nothing to do sports are really sick. I watched the plot of this movie
What do you mean by just investing money to find a distributor after touching people? You scolded me and all the participating studios and distributors from Sony to Daydream.
Not only that, he also scolded Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, who I think performed very well. The supporting actress in the movie, Mary Steenburgen, was also scolded by him, saying that she acted
She's a white guy working for a law firm boss who is deathly afraid of minorities.
Ronald was even more furious. Mary Steenburgen was an actor he respected very much. She originally played the professor's wife in the third movie of Back to the Future. Jonathan Demme invited her to play the role, and her scene was shot on the first day.
At that time, because she had a relative who died..., she couldn't perform and was in extreme pain, so she told Demi that she wanted to quit.
It was Jonathan Demme who persuaded her. It was precisely because of this experience that her performance was more accurate and better able to reflect the state of these people. In the end, Mary Steenburgen also completed the character creation exceptionally well.
For such a compassionate actress to be scolded like this by Larry Kramer is simply inhumane.
"How did this guy get nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay?" Ronald really couldn't figure it out, so he asked his assistant to find his resume. Who else would he scold if he continued to read this shameless report?
"Pfft..."
Before I even got my resume, Ronald looked at it and laughed.
This guy finally revealed his secret in the last third of the page. What Larry Kramer was really dissatisfied with was Ronald's editing opinions, which included the Latin characters Tom Hanks and Anthony Banderas.
The sex scene with the handsome Asian guy was deleted.
This guy also shamelessly said that studios say that no one will watch movies about minorities. If this "Philadelphia Story" stars Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise as a couple, they will
You will earn hundreds of millions of dollars by cuddling naked in bed, talking in an adult manner, and doing the things that male and female couples do in every movie, TV show, and commercial.
"Ah, thank you..." Ronald got the resume of Larry Kramer brought by his assistant. It turned out that the film he was nominated for was actually an adaptation of DH Lawrence's erotic novel "Women in Love".
The reason why he was able to make some money was because he shamelessly copied Frank Capra's masterpiece "Lost Horizon", invested in the movie, and remade it almost intact.
This guy is a typical person who has no talent and relies on opportunism to gain fame and wealth. He just happens to be a minority.
"Ring ring ring ring..."
As he was talking, a call came. When Ronald answered it, it turned out that Tom Cruise had also seen this report and called to ask Ronald.
"What kind of garbage is this Larry Kramer? Why did you bring me in? Is he targeting you or me?"
"It's probably aimed at me. I have a way to deal with him. You were accidentally injured."
"Okay, I'm really angry. Why did you involve me inexplicably, and arrange for me and Tom (Hanks)... and said that I can make a lot of money by performing sex scenes with him..."
"This is not nonsense. I have already proved it. You played shirtless volleyball in Top Gun, which made the movie at least 50 million more."
"Hahaha, just tell me what you want me to do about this..." Cruise also lost his temper and hung up the phone.
Later, Daydream's production director Michelle Cannold, director Jonathan Demme, and TriStar Pictures CEO Metavoy all called to ask for countermeasures.
Ronald thought about it for a long time, and then asked public relations consultant Michael Gray to discuss it. Although this matter was ridiculous, maybe... it was a publicity opportunity?