Chapter 235 Buy the Golden Globe Award, choose the Oscar
Jane Fonda wore a simple sweater and jeans, with her hair blown high on top and curled down from her ears. Since last year, American stars have begun to popularize this hairstyle.
"Ronald, I'm glad you can come. Hello Diane. Hello, you must be Bruce's daughter Laura."
After Ronald exchanged greetings, he sat down with the two little girls, looked at Jane, and waited for her to say something about inviting him.
Compared with the last time Ronald saw her, Jane Fonda had more wrinkles on her forehead. Her overall condition was not good, and there was occasionally a trace of sadness in her eyes.
"I invite you here because of one thing. My father Henry is in poor health and has been recuperating in the hospital for several months. For the movie 'Golden Pond', I specially bought the copyright of the original work and invited him to
Taken together.
Henry has never won an Oscar in his life. Last year, the Academy awarded him a lifetime honorary award. I was in the audience when he gave his speech. I don't believe that this is the highlight of his acting career. He deserves an Oscar.
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Now that the nominations for the Oscars are about to begin, I decided to ask every one of my friends and my father’s friends to vote for Henry. I don’t want him to have any regrets.
The day before yesterday, my agent reminded me that Ronald, you are also a member of the academy, so..."
"My vote will be for Mr. Fonda."
Ronald has been busy with his own movies recently and hasn't watched much of other people's movies. He only had time to go to the cinema in the past few days and watched Golden Pond, which was just released a month ago.
Henry Fonda is indeed a veteran star. He played an old father who has a bad relationship with his daughter very well. His performance is worthy of an Oscar.
Anyway, I haven’t watched any other movies. If Henry Fonda is nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor, of course I will vote for him. After all, Jane Fonda gave me the first opportunity and sold it.
The first script and a series of subsequent opportunities all started here.
"Jane Fonda must be very sure that her father will be nominated." Ronald thought to himself, Henry Fonda has been in Hollywood for decades, and stars such as James Stewart are his close friends. A nomination must be
There is no problem.
The nominations for the Oscars are more complicated. Members of each Academy can only nominate people in their own categories. Ronald can only nominate directors, Jane Fonda can only nominate actors, and Walter Mersey can only nominate editing.
As for the award, it depends on the voting results of all members, no one can say for sure. After the nomination list is announced, all members can vote across categories, so Ronald can also vote for the Best Actor candidate.
An actor's network is limited to his profession, and if he can get some votes from other categories of members, he can be insured for this award at the last moment of Henry Fonda's life.
After talking about the most important things, Ronald began to chat with Jane Fonda about trivial matters during the filming of "On Golden Pond".
"The most difficult scene was the close-up of my father Henry acting opposite me by the lake. You know Henry is an old school. All lines cannot be changed or improvised on the spot, otherwise he will criticize me.
So I deliberately saved his close-up shot for the last shot that day. I held his hand and improvised a line that was not in the script. 'I want to be your friend.' At that moment he was moved, and then I watched
There was a flash in his eyes, he lowered his head, lowered his hat, and looked elsewhere."
As she spoke, Jane Fonda became excited.
"Oh, I can't say this. I cry every time I say it."
Ronald quickly said a few words of comfort.
"Mr. Fonda will be fine. How is his health now?"
"He is in the hospital, and his condition is much more stable now. I have been accompanying him all the time, and I have not even participated in the marketing of Golden Pond."
"On Golden Pond" is now showing in major cities. I think Hairstylist Universal is also learning from the previous "The Deer Hunter". After the movie wins the Golden Globe Award and Oscar nomination, it will take advantage of the news to take advantage of the audience's interest in the Oscar-nominated blockbuster.
Expand the scale of screening.
Ronald saw Diane eager to try next to him, so he asked her, "Do you have anything to ask Jane? Diane?"
"You were so good at the scene in the pond. How did you do it?" Diane really wanted to imitate the actress's acting skills.
"It's a long story. My close-up shot was taken immediately after Henry's shot. But I had exhausted all my emotions in the last shot. This is the most fearful situation for actors. You should know that." Jane said to
Said to the two young actors Diane and Laura.
"My heart was empty, I had no emotions at all, and I didn't know what to do, so I had to tell the director, I have to turn my back to you to prepare my emotions. When the emotions are right, I will come back and you can start filming me.
In fact, I don’t know if I can express my emotions by turning my back, but I have no choice. At this time, I saw Katherine Hepburn lying in the bushes, where the camera couldn’t capture it, and she saw that I was exhausted.
Emotions, specially come to encourage me.
She was clasping her hands and mouthing to me, 'Jane, you can definitely do it.' Suddenly I found the source of emotion, and I acted very well in that close-up shot."
The two little girls Diane and Laura were very excited when they heard how these superstars stimulated their acting skills during filming. Diane Lane's eyes shone, wishing she could have such a level.
"What about you, Laura? If you have any questions, you can ask me." Jane Fonda rarely saw the children of her brother Peter's best friend, "Peter's daughter Brigitte is a few years older than you, and she also wants to enter the film industry.
, but no luck yet.”
Ronald was smiling next to him. The granddaughter of Henry Fonda and the niece of Jane Fonda are definitely not short of audition opportunities. It is probably because there are no good heroine opportunities, so she has not debuted for the time being.
Laura Dern also asked a few questions, and Jane Fonda answered them one by one.
"Are you here to serve as Miss Golden Globe at the Golden Globe Awards?" Jane Fonda discovered Laura Dern's new role at the Golden Globe Awards.
"Yes, I will work at the awards show." Laura Dern's parents are one level less well-known than Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, so they use this method to make their daughter's debut.
"The Golden Globes, oh, I will go too. They promised to give Henry the Best Actor Award if I go."
Although they were all insiders, Ronald was still a little uncomfortable hearing Jane Fonda expose the Golden Globe Award so directly. He twisted twice on the sofa. He himself also won the Golden Globe Award.
of.
"Pia Zadora's husband invited the Hollywood Foreign Press Association judges to a luxury resort hotel today. He wanted to buy a Best New Actress award for his wife. I heard there were a lot of delicious food."
La Dunn revealed another inside story.
"Although they all say they buy the Golden Globes and choose the Oscars, this is going too far. NBC will not be happy if it is broadcasted." Jane Fonda has been working in Hollywood for many years and knows a lot of insider information.
It turned out that the Golden Globe Awards had been exposed to an award-buying scandal before. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) suspended NBC's live broadcast of the awards dinner for seven years on the grounds that the winners were not determined before the awards were presented. It was not resumed until 1975.
However, the Golden Globe Awards organizing committee relies on broadcast ratings to make money. In order to attract more stars to come to the awards ceremony, they will continue to exchange the star's attendance for the award.
Seeing that Jane Fonda was a little tired, Ronald said goodbye.
"By the way, let me show you this." Jane Fonda took out a box of video tapes and handed it to Ronald, "This is the Jane Fonda fitness video tape I took."
"Oh", Ronald took the videotape, which showed Jane Fonda wearing high-cut yoga clothes and leg warmers. This is the cover of the new edition, and there is a number next to it, "The choice of one hundred thousand people. You
That’s okay too.”
"Is the leg warmer business going well? I haven't cared about this for a long time." Ronald thought of his cooperation with Jane Fonda in supplying and mailing leg warmers. She was also a big customer of his factory.
"About one in 10 customers will purchase a pair of leg warmers, which is pretty good."
So there are 10,000 people who bought leg warmers? Ronald was quite happy because he had an idea and copied the inspiration from his dream, and it has already had good sales. Even if it cannot be done in a niche market
It’s big, but it’s a good thing, not too big or too small, to improve the living standards of my aunt’s family and dozens of families of Vietnam War veterans.
As several people walked through the huge living room of the Jane family, Ronald suddenly remembered the script "My Brother's Keeper" he had written for Jane Fonda.
"By the way, Jane. How's the script going? It seems like the two-year deadline is coming soon, right? Has Colombia started filming?"
"No, I just want to spend more time with Henry. This is the closest time I have had with him in decades." Jane Fonda shook her head and said she would not appear in movies during this time.
"And don't you know? After Columbia was acquired, Frank Price, who had originally nodded, was severely impacted by the executives sent by the new owner. He no longer had the energy or interest to advance the project."
"Is that so?" Ronald thought that he should call his agent to see what would happen with this script in the end. If his "fast-paced" new film is a hit at the box office, he could also move forward with this project.
"By the way, I forgot to ask you, how is the new film you directed?" Jane Fonda said goodbye to Ronald and the two little girls, and remembered Ronald's identity as a director in the porch.
"The film has been cut and the audience will be invited to test screen it immediately. If there are no problems, it will be released in six months, at the end of July or early August this year."
"Ah, it's always hard waiting for the first movie to be released. You reminded me of when I made my first movie. I waited every day for it to be released. It took me a full year to see myself on the screen. After that...
Someone took the initiative to send me a script."
"Yes, I now hope it will be released tomorrow."
Ronald said goodbye and left.
"Ronald, if you were the director, could you really cut the ending of 'Ladies and Gentlemen, The Amazing Stains'?" Diane asked Ronald.
Diane Lane and Laura Dern have also been waiting for that movie to be released for a long time. They did not have a big hit with their first movie like Jane Fonda. Now there are no new scripts coming to their doorsteps, and they have to go to various crews.
Audition.
If Ronald could cut "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Amazing Dirt Band" and release it in theaters, it might become a hit.
"Of course. Your director is a novice. He used to run a record company. Professional matters should be left to professionals like me."