Ronald accompanied Helen to a party with her classmates from her acting college. Most of the attendees at this party were children from wealthy families like Helen.
Instead of playing loud rock music, everyone played a set of jazz music. With the accompaniment of soft music, Ronald and Helen's friends played the game "Twenty Questions".
As the name suggests, this is a question and answer game.
The respondent picks an object in the room, and then the rest of the people can ask her twenty questions. The respondent can only answer with "yes or no". If everyone fails to guess what the object is, the respondent wins.
Already.
During the filming of the movie "Famous", most of the actors Ronald saw with majors in acting had graduated, and most of Helen's classmates had not participated in the filming at that time.
But they were still talking about all kinds of anecdotes and gossip about "Famous". Because Helen's classmate Erica is playing the leading role in the TV version of "Famous", the Latina black girl Coco.
Another partygoer was Juilliard graduate Lori Singer, who also starred in the TV version, playing a cellist.
"Is it a TV?" Helen asked.
"no."
"Ah, Helen. You lost. You didn't guess that it was a desk lamp. It's not just the TV that lights up, but also the desk lamp." Lori laughed out loud. She won this round.
Everyone started to drink drinks happily, take a rest and watch TV.
"Lori, are you a real cellist?" Ronald had nothing to say and chatted with Helen's friend. This kind of music and games were actually not to Ronald's taste.
The TV version of "Famous" was broadcast on the MGM TV network, and the ratings were relatively dismal. The producer of the film, Da Silva, lost a lot of hair. In the original film, only Ronald's younger brother LeRo
Yi and a few others participated.
Really big names, such as Erin Kara, who plays Coco, have long since stopped being involved in TV dramas.
"Yes, I played with the Oregon State Symphony Orchestra when I was thirteen years old. I even won the Bergen Philharmonic Competition in 1980." Lori is a cello prodigy. She looks very young and still plays high school students. In fact,
I have been married for two years.
"Oh, that's really amazing. Didn't you develop your career as a professional cellist later? Why did you become an actor later?"
"I really wanted to be a cellist. My father was the conductor of the Portland Symphony Orchestra. This was my childhood dream. But all my dreams were shattered at a music summer camp in New York that year."
"what happened?"
"At the summer camp held by Ms. Dupree, she had quit playing and switched to teaching. There was a Chinese boy who participated. He was two years older than me. After listening to his performance, I felt that it was impossible for me to reach that level.
Already."
Ronald shook his head. The careers of these classical music performers are worse than those of movie directors. Unlike directors who can shoot different movies, they can only perform the same piece of music repeatedly. After the popularization of modern recording technology, a well-known classical music
In music, often only one or two performers can be popular among the public.
"So you're going to become an actor?"
"Yes, my uncle is a cameraman for a TV station, and my brother is also an actor..."
"I've thought about it, it's your turn to ask questions, Ronald." A girl came over and interrupted Ronald's chat, and the game continued.
"Okay, let me think about it." Ronald began to think about how he could ask questions to find out the answer as quickly as possible.
"Is it alive?"
"No"
"Does it use science and technology for entertainment, communication, or work?"
"Yes." The girl didn't expect Ronald to ask such a stupid question, so she had no choice but to nod.
“Is it a product for entertainment?”
"Will it glow?"
"It's a TV."
"You're cheating." Helen came over and rubbed Ronald's face. Everyone laughed together.
"Well, let's play a 'what if' game." Seeing that everyone was not interested, Ronald suggested changing the game.
"I'll give you a premise, if something happens, and then you use your imagination to tell me what will happen next?"
"Okay, you can ask." The boys and girls gathered around and looked at Ronald with interest.
"What would you do if a comet hit the earth and most of the human race was wiped out? You found that there were only a few living people around you?"
"That's great. We can go to Wuxi Department Store and grab those beautiful clothes that we usually can't afford."
"If most people become extinct, then I won't have to compete with other bitches for handsome guys. And handsome guys will have no choice but to date me."
"Hahaha……"
Ronald didn't expect the girls' ideas to be so interesting, so he chatted more with them.
Most of them still regard this kind of thing as an opportunity to indulge themselves and do things they usually wouldn't dare to do.
"What's wrong with you? What are you thinking about?"
Seeing that Ronald was lost in thought, Helen came over to ask him.
"Your friend's answers are great. I'm wondering if I should use them to write a script."
"Oh, Ronald, don't forget us when the time comes. I want to play the leading role." Lori started to tease.
"Who knows? If the studio likes my idea, they will definitely invite you to audition."
"Spielberg, the director of et Alien, was revealed to have plagiarized a script written by Indian-American director Satyajit Ray..."
A burst of entertainment news came from the TV.
Ronald was startled and raised his head to look at the TV.
Everyone's voices immediately became quieter, and a girl walked over to help turn up the volume on the TV.
"Indian-Bengali director Satyajit Ray claimed that E.T. plagiarized his 1967 script "The Alien". Ray said through reporters that without the script he created, "E.T.
"Aliens" simply cannot exist."
"Is this true, Ronald?" Helen's classmate actors asked the director who was most familiar with Spielberg and Hollywood, Ronald.
"I can't say. The script and the final movie are not necessarily the same thing. And I haven't seen the movie Rey mentioned, so I can't answer this question."
Ronald fooled him with a few words.
Plagiarism of a script is a very serious accusation. In this case, it is illegal if the original author is not contacted in advance. Not only will the original author have to be compensated for the loss in court, but the plagiarist's reputation in the circle will be greatly affected.
Big impact.
Sergio Leone, the director of "Once Upon a Time in America," the biggest-budget movie currently being shot in Hollywood, was once a plagiarist.
His famous work "A Fistful of rs" is Clint Eastwood's famous work, which tells the story of a western cowboy who saves a small town from villains.
In fact, every scene and every shot of this movie is copied from Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's black and white Japanese film, "Yojimbo".
Leon's movie just changed the story from ancient Japan to a western town. The protagonist's weapon was changed from a samurai sword to a revolver. Of course, such plagiarism would not stand up in court, and Kurosawa sued
Finally, Leon paid the money and settled the matter.
Of course, this is probably not the case with E.T. The script Rey mentioned has not been made into a movie, and is still in the form of a script. As Ronald said, the script is still far from being a film.
.
This kind of movie has many special effects scenes, coupled with Spielberg's unique brushwork, using light and shadow to draw a children's fairy tale. The effect of the finished film is not what can be seen in the script. Ronald didn't believe it
Spielberg had to plagiarize.
Ronald estimated that there may be some similarities in creativity and plot. This kind of thing is all about aliens, and it is inevitable to crash.
When Ronald returned home, he called his agent Richard and asked about the alien situation.
"Isn't this Rey just here for a fight?"
"No, Ronald Rey is a famous Indian director, he is also a famous screenwriter and composer.
The song "Song of the Road" he directed won the Cannes award. Later, he also made two other films "Song of the River" and "Song of the Big Tree" with the protagonist Apu, which won the Venice Golden Lion Award and
West Berlin Golden Bear.”
"Um... I just want to ask about the accusation of script plagiarism. Did Steven really plagiarize his script?"
Ronald knew that he was weak when it came to non-English films and films from third world countries. He had not watched many of these films, and compared to Spike Lee, an alumnus of New York University, he was relatively ignorant.
"I heard he will make a statement tomorrow."
Regardless of the various surprises brought about by the box office success of E.T., Ronald sat down at the keyboard and tried to write a synopsis of the script.
He wanted to seize inspiration and write a play by himself without the help of dreams.
Dreaming about movies has no rules and is difficult to reproduce. If I want to continue in the film industry, I am afraid that sooner or later I will have to go back to being a screenwriter and writing scripts.
"The comet hit the earth, and a catastrophe like the extinction of the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous came to the earth. New York and Los Angeles were destroyed...
Several young valley girls escaped death because they visited nuclear war protection facilities. How did they use the ideas of valley girls to solve a series of survival problems after the disaster."
Ronald wrote in stops. There was no reference to the original work or the movie in his dream to guide him. He wrote very slowly.
The TV screen was a bit glaring, and Ronald soon felt his eyes became dry and wanted to cry.
It seems that I still need to buy a SE Hinton type computer with a dedicated typing display.
"Ask the dealer tomorrow and see how much it will cost."