"Boss, this is your express delivery..." Yang Yanzi, as Ronald's more assured employee, made a special trip to Connecticut for him and sent a donation check and a generous donation to Dr. Henry Li.
thick envelope.
Then she waited another night at Dr. Li's research center. After Dr. Li performed the surgery himself and completed the evaluation, she took the result sealed in an envelope and flew back to Los Angeles without stopping.
"Thank you, would you like to sleep in the guest room for a while? It's really hard on you..." Ronald held the thick envelope and put it on the table calmly.
"What is this? Boss, is it a script?" Yang Yanzi asked suddenly. She flew remotely. Perhaps she couldn't restrain her curiosity and asked a personal question that she shouldn't ask.
"Did you ask Dr. Li for some key plot points? Boss, are you going to make a suspense movie? Is it a courtroom drama like Lawyer Mason?"
"Almost, I need him to help me check a key reversal plot in one of my scripts." Ronald smiled. Yang Yanzi is indeed a smart person. This question may seem abrupt, but in fact he is saying to himself, I
I haven't opened it to see what's inside.
"Oh oh. Is the court really overturning the verdict on the spot? I can't wait. Do you know that I am a fan of Lawyer Mason? Is the lawyer in this script also a gray-haired lawyer like him? He can go to the auditorium behind the court.
You mean, is that the real murderer?"
"Well, you guessed the plot, that's not very good. I have to change it, maybe change it to a beautiful lawyer like you..."
"Oh hahaha, boss, you are really awesome. I'm going to leave first. Then you can write it down and show it to me, okay?"
"Bang……"
After Yang Yanzi left, there was a loud noise from the study room upstairs, and then Ronald screamed in pain. The Chinese-style furniture was made of hardwood, and he hit it hard with his palm. Nothing happened to the desk.
Nader's palm actually screamed out in pain.
In the envelope Yang Yanzi got back, Dr. Henry Li clearly stated that several pages of this script were printed by the same printer as the previously quietly sent revelations.
Looking at the pages of the script that Dr. Li had marked, it turned out that the paper used was all the same color, ocher yellow. This shows that these pages of revised drafts of the script were put in at one time...
Ronald looked at these pages of ocher-yellow script and felt very disgusted. Now he is not 100% sure that this was done by Michael Ovitz, but all kinds of evidence point to him, and even God seems to have given Ronald
A hint from Nader...
The traitor who betrayed Jesus, Judas, often wore ocher yellow in the history of art. At least in Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper", the Judas holding a bag with silver coins in his hand was wearing ocher yellow clothes.
.
After taking some ice cubes from the refrigerator and applying them to his hands, Ronald decided to make sure first. He called Barbra Streisand and said that in those pages of the script, there was a conversation between a mother and her daughter at home.
The plot needs further revision.
Barbra Streisand expressed confusion. It was a plot in which the heroine discovered the source of her unhappiness in the first half of her life. The main reason was that her mother had been accusing her of not being beautiful. This time when her mother stayed at her home, the two broke out again.
After the conflict, the heroine realized that this was the mother's harsh criticism of her daughter, and she rediscovered herself.
Ronald replied that no mother would use words to hit her daughter because she is not beautiful enough or not as beautiful as herself. On the contrary, women of the older generation would urge their daughters to dress up more, because at that time, the only way out for women was to get married.
a husband.
"Oh..." Barbra Streisand has a soft ear. She really has no talent in directing or screenwriting. With many years of acting experience, she can still identify what is a good idea.
As soon as Ronald pointed out this point, she immediately understood that what she had thought before was wrong. Those senior advisers all advised her to modify the script to highlight the heroine who starred in her. But Ronald's idea was
It's real drama.
In the history of a bad relationship between mother and daughter, this sentence suddenly revealed the truth. It was only because of their different views on the world and women that the mother and daughter did not talk to each other, and both of them were pregnant with
Love each other deeply.
"You are right, Ronald, I will change it right away..."
"You have to think about it. I don't want to hear Richard LaGravenese (the screenwriter of the film) complain to me again in two days. You have to change it back after hearing what a senior consultant said."
"Hahaha, you know it too. This can't be the case. This can't be the case. I have acted in many movies by famous directors, and I have also read many Oscar-winning screenplays. What you are talking about is the key to this story. Will it?
It makes the image of my protagonist Rose more three-dimensional."
"Well, I hope so. I'm curious, who is giving you the advice, Jon Peters? He's not so short-sighted, is he?"
Ronald deliberately named a person. Peters was Guber's partner and the former boyfriend of Barbra Streisand. He started out as a hairdresser and relied on Streisand to start his career in Hollywood...
Afterwards, Barbra Streisand had a new love, Richard Gere...Peters and she broke up amicably, and still remained friends.
"Hey, no, no, Jon has always encouraged me. I listened to Michael O...oh, no..." Barbara remembered the rumors in the industry that Ronald and Ovitz were at odds.
"Ovitz? I guess it's him too. He is a very good producer and the most successful agent in the industry. However, Barbara, if you ask me, we artists still have to persevere. Commercially, their interests are the best.
Culture is not consistent with ours."
What Ronald means by this is that the director and the actors hope that the film itself will be outstanding and will be well received by critics. But businessmen like Ovitz hope to fill in as many actors as possible for their own agency.
There will definitely be inconsistencies in terms of casting, script, etc. As a director, you have to stick to it.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Hey, you are right. No wonder he invited me to his home and then convinced me to modify that story. You know
, he is very persuasive sometimes..."
"Bingo..." Ronald got the information he wanted and was about to hang up the phone.
"Ronald, who do you think is better to play my mother?" The more Barbra Streisand thought about it, the more she felt that Ronald was right. There could be more sparks between mother and daughter Rose.
"I thought of a candidate, but it might be better if you don't use her..." Ronald thought for a while, but a supporting role from the Golden Globe Award-nominated movie "The Storm" jumped out.
"Who?"
"Lauren Bacall..."
What Ronald was talking about was Lauren Bacall, the leading actor in "The Spies of North Africa", the widow of Humphrey Bogart, and a star at the end of the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was famous for her beauty back then, and also acted in
Having watched movies such as "How to Marry a Millionaire", the image of Rose's mother is quite close to the audience's mind.
Lauren Bacall's acting skills are also very good, especially in recent movies. As she gets older, she becomes more sophisticated, and often a few lines can make other actors feel excited. However, because of this, Ronald actually
I feel that Barbra Streisand's acting skills will be exposed when compared with Lauren Bacall.
"Your idea is so good, I will contact her agent right away..." Who knows that Barbra Streisand didn't understand... Or maybe she did, and she just had a mysterious confidence in her acting skills. She had it back then.
Oscar winner, sharing the Best Actress crown with Katherine Hepburn...
Lauren Bacall, on the other hand, has not received recognition from the Oscars. Who do you think has better acting skills? Maybe in Streisand's eyes, her own acting skills really stand out?
Regardless of this, Ronald put down the phone and summoned Ed Bastian to fly to Los Angeles. Along with Richard, Rick Niceta, and Paula Wagner, plus his own lawyer
Lindsay Dole and others held an emergency meeting in the conference room at home.
"Everyone, please leave your mobile phones and other communication tools here..." Bodyguard Daniel, with a team of security personnel, collected the mobile phones of all participants at the door and scanned their bodies up and down with detectors.
, confirmed that there were no bugs before letting them in.
Everyone looked at Ronald, who still had an ice pack tied to his hand, and was a little confused as to what was going on. They exchanged glances with each other, and only Bastian had some guesses.
"Everyone, you are all the people I trust most. Now someone wants to mess with me, my Daydream Pictures, and the business we jointly founded and developed... What do you think we should do?"
"Of course Fuxk has gone back...no matter who he is..." Richard was the first to express his position.
"Of course, if anyone wants to do such a thing, we must fight back mercilessly..." Paula Wagner also understood something. When she spoke out, she not only represented her husband Rick Niceta, but also now
Including Cruise, who co-founded the company with her.
Ed Bastian looked at Ronald firmly and nodded. His interests were highly consistent with Ronald's, and there was no need to say anything more.
"Of course, I support you, Ronald. However, it seems that I am the only one who doesn't know what happened here." Lindsay Dole looked around and asked the questions in her heart.
"That's why I invited you here, Lindsay." Ronald said the conclusion of the appraisal, a few pages of samples of Ronald and Cruise's dirty materials that were originally sent to the media, and those in the script.
Copies of the two-page ocher-yellow script were distributed to everyone one by one.
Everyone read it over and understood the root of the problem. The interests of these people and Ronald were highly bound, and it was impossible for Ovitz to bribe them. To discuss with them was because Ronald wanted to brainstorm ideas.
Ovitz has been in Hollywood for more than ten years longer than Ronald. He also built a big business with his bare hands. In addition, Ovitz himself is also a billionaire, and he is very interested in using money to throw money at him.
It is basically immune.
In order to completely eliminate this threat, Ronald thought about it and decided to combine everyone's strength to have a better chance of winning.
"Expose this matter?" Niceta whispered.
"That's not right, we actually don't have very solid evidence..." His wife Paula Wagner was the first to object.
The evidence Ronald showed them was actually quite complicated, and it would not be easy to explain it to an ordinary citizen. If it were directly exposed, Ovitz would actually have quite a few ways to deny it.
For example, the printer is not his, someone secretly printed on his printer, Ronald framed it, etc. Moreover, Paula Wagner is also vaguely worried that the Tom Cruise scandal, which was finally suppressed, will
It will be hyped up again.
"That's not a good option, Rick."
Ronald also understood that he had to unite the majority in order to defeat opponents who were evenly matched with him. This was also the original intention of inviting Paula.
"I understand, I just want to put forward an option that is easy to think of first." Niceta and Paula looked at each other. Ronald is still a wise person who will take into account the interests of his allies. Such a person is worth following, better than
Ovitz makes 99.5 yuan for himself and only leaves a nickel for his opponent. Those who cooperate well are much more likely to cooperate.
"Ovitz also has a strong influence in the media, and he is not inferior to us." Bastian understands Ovitz's strength relatively well, and he also has allies in the media industry.
"Ronald, what does revenge look like in your imagination? Going to court with him, or ruining his reputation?" Lindsay Dole read the document several times. She is good at considering issues from a legal perspective.
Although this case is weak, it is not impossible to obtain some benefits in court. However, first she must understand what Ronald wants.
"First of all, I don't want another powerful person to always hide in the dark and attack me..." Ronald picked up the ocher-yellow scripts, "I am not a saint like Jesus.
, I hope he will no longer have the ability to betray me."
"In other words, you want him to leave CAA or retire voluntarily?" Lindsay Dole frowned. This matter is not easy. Through legal means, there is little hope.
"Not only that, I hope he won't have enough power in Hollywood to mess with us in the future." Ronald is not just thinking about CAA.
"This is a long-term plan, Ronald. We are unlikely to KO someone of Ovitz's magnitude with one punch." Rick Niceta became more steady. His history in the brokerage industry is no shorter than Ovitz's.
, knowing that it is not so easy to ban someone in this industry.
After all, an agent does not need any special monopoly capital. As long as an actor is willing to leave the signing of the contract to you, you will have an agent business.
"I'm thinking that maybe Ovitz himself has the idea of leaving the industry without us driving him away." Richard LeWitt suddenly spoke. Among these people, he most wanted Ovitz to get out.
"Huh?" Ronald looked at Richard.
"That's right. Ovitz has expressed his dissatisfaction with people in the office several times that his agent cannot legally participate in the production business. He is often missing now, which is very similar to the situation when he was arranging Sony Columbia and Panasonic Universal.
…
And we need to contact CAA’s only remaining founding partner, Ron Meyer… His views on Ovitz are highly consistent with ours…”