Minahan is Jewish, but for Christmas, he will be taken to see him soon. However, Ronald will have to spend the holidays with Aunt Karen and Donna, and put on airs and talk about it after Christmas.
During the day on Christmas Eve, several shareholders of the leg warmer company, neighbors Theresa and David, as well as friends from the aunt's Veterans Club, and little Bud's mother Mrs. Davidson all came to the house to congratulate him.
Teresa's child is a boy, already two years old. Mrs. Davidson's son, Bud, will finish serving overseas next year and return home from the army. Ronald promised to find him a job, and Mrs. Davidson burst into tears of gratitude.
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As the actual person in charge of the leg warmer factory, Aunt Karen sent dividend checks to all shareholders. Everyone spent Christmas happily.
In an instant, Ronald felt that the sense of accomplishment in doing business and distributing money to shareholders was no less than that of making a movie that was successfully released and well-received by the audience.
Early the next morning, Minahan drove his car and waited at Ronald's door. When Ronald went out to get a newspaper for a walk, he jumped out and asked Ronald to get in the car.
"Wait for me to say something to my family." Ronald laughed when he saw his pitiful and aggrieved look. He went home and talked to Aunt Karen, took two packs of biscuits baked by his aunt and went out to hand them to Rice who was smoking in the car.
marvel.
"Try it, my aunt baked it. Bring the other bag to your child."
Minahan started the car, opened a package and ate a cookie, "Oh, this is the best cookie I've eaten since I came to America."
"Yeah, my aunt's secret recipe." Ronald was very happy to hear Minahan's praise. Of course, the so-called secret recipe is probably just adding more butter and honey.
The two arrived at a small second-run movie theater. Minahan paid to book the place, gave the projectionist a few bills as a tip, and played "Sahara," which he actually directed and starring Brooke Shields.
"Ah, hahaha..." Bo Ji's bright face appeared on the screen, and she drove a car like a racing driver and flew around the test track.
"It's so beautiful...she looks like she did in the 1980s." Ronald saw a close-up of Brooke's face on the big screen. Her face looked masculine and heroic, retaining the innocence of her childhood.
"Huh?" Ronald suddenly saw the editing change, and the scene cut to the second floor of the mansion. Brooke's face turned upside down, and when she looked down from the spiral staircase, her expression changed. A middle-aged man walked in.
, reports on the sudden death of Dale Gordon's father, the owner of a racing factory, played by Brooke.
Ronald couldn't help but cover his face. Is this Minahan a classic movie scene thief?
Here he stole a bit of the composition of Hitchcock's classic film, and there he stole a bit of Indiana Jones's racing scene. Classic clips of different types, eras, and styles were used by him to pay homage (plagiarism) at random, and then ignored them as a whole.
differences, clipped together.
After the rally started, Dale, played by Brooke, was with the prince of the Arab tribe again, fighting back against the evil tribesmen who were recruiting German military aid. The soldiers of the two tribes fought with machine guns in the desert, with camels and horses beside them.
"Lawrence of Arabia" Ronald added another classic to his heart.
Then Brooke wore a one-piece white swimsuit and took a bath under the waterfall. The righteous tribal prince stood beside him like a gentleman in an Arabian robe and was passed by.
"Isn't this a copy of the Blue Coral Reef?" Ronald turned back to look at Minahan, who was giggling. He probably thought he had taken a good picture.
"At least make this waterfall bigger. Such a thin flow of water is like a sewer." Ronald complained again.
The Germans drove tanks welded with thin iron sheets and came over with machine guns to attack the righteous tribe. Poky bravely rushed forward to face the machine gun fire and placed a stick of explosive in the sand.
Apparently Bo Ji's calculations were accurate. The tank was paralyzed when it happened to pass through the land mine.
"This... John Ford's "Fit" in 1939 is more exciting and reasonable than his battle scenes.
Resisting the urge to laugh, Ronald watched the end. The female racing driver played by Brooke finally kissed the Arabian prince, and the two rode a horse and slowly walked into the sunset.
The picture finally freezes with two people and a horse riding in the desert under the setting sun, turning into a silhouette.
"Quack..." Minahan was very excited. "How about this ending? Is it worthy of an Oscar for Best Cinematography?"
"Hey..." Ronald patted him on the shoulder, "Let's play another one."
"Hey, are you more interested in the other one?" Minahan went to the back screening room to negotiate, and the projectionist started showing the second movie.
“Ninja 3 – Possession (ninja iii: the domination)”
Ronald looked at the movie title on the screen, "Is this the movie you asked Chuck Norris to star in?"
Grain rust
"Yes and no," Minahan said, "Chuck refused to wear a ninja mask and appear in the movie. He asked to appear in the movie, so we prepared another script for him. Here he only has a cameo at the beginning."
Ronald continued to read. Chuck Norris played a storyteller. His poor dialogue skills gave the story a strange feeling. Legend has it that Japanese ninjas have a secret technique that can be used after death.
, the soul can also possess other people, so that they can continue to walk in the world, and the possessed person will inherit all the fighting skills of the ninja.
A man dressed as a Japanese ninja was killed by his enemies. His soul came to the street. A female worker wearing jeans and a hard hat climbed up a wooden telephone pole and began to repair the phone lines.
A gust of wind blew, and the female worker was possessed by the ninja. Her behavior became more and more strange, and she became a fighting master. She finally began to seek revenge on the enemies in front of the ninja. In the end, the ninja was avenged and the female worker was recovered.
self.
The same shocking plot, the same plagiarized scenes from classic films, this movie has copied a lot of fighting scenes from Bruce Lee's movies. But in such a low-budget exploitation film, it feels right no matter how you look at it.
"Why don't you distribute this movie?" Ronald asked Minahan. "You can make a lot of money with this kind of low-budget movie even if you don't go through MGM."
"But how could I possibly get an Oscar nomination if it wasn't distributed through MGM?" Minahan said bitterly.
"Yes, this Minahan usually has no one to play with, so he often takes other people's ridicules and jokes seriously."
Ronald shook his head, "Minahan, we are friends, and I might want to say something that other people in Hollywood wouldn't say to you."
"You said, you said..." Minahan pretended to be listening.
"Wake up, your exploitation films are very good, why don't you continue this promising career? The Oscars are waiting for you to make a lot of money and then find a famous director to make them. As a producer, you can also win the most.
Excellent video.”
"Are you saying that my directing skills are not good?" Minahan asked anxiously, "Why on earth is MGM not interested in my movies? What's wrong with me?"
"It's bad everywhere." Ronald wanted to say this.
However, he still tactfully said, "I'm not saying that your director level is poor, but that you don't understand American audiences. If you like classic Hollywood movies, you often select classic scenes from them and repeat them in your movies..."
Minahan nodded happily, and Ronald finally got the point. After all, unlike MGM, he could see his intentions.
"But it's not okay to repeat it like this. These movies include westerns, epics, youth movies, and romance movies. If you cut them together, wouldn't it be neither fish nor fowl?"
Minahan looked at him in bewilderment. If you put a classic together like this, it will become a classic soon?
"When the audience comes to the cinema and pays for the ticket, it is equivalent to signing a contract with the director. For example, when they watch John Ford, they know that there will be a western cowboy duel. When they watch David Lean, they know that there are epic scenery and heroes.
Narrative. Seeing Brooke Shields..."
Ronald paused, "I knew it was a movie that showed the beautiful body of youth."
"If you put them together, the audience will see everything but nothing."
Minahan blinked twice. He seemed to understand, but he seemed not to understand.
Ronald was amused by him, "I think in this 'Ninja 3', the audience knows very well that they will see ninja fights, and many weird Eastern legends, which are standard features of this kind of exploitation film."
They're just here to watch the fun."
"You might as well just release this one. 'Sahara' is really not suitable for the North American market."
"Not suitable for the North American market?" Minahan reacted. "You mean, he may be suitable for the European and British markets?"
"Well..." Ronald thought to himself, you are really good at making connections, "Maybe, I don't know."
"No, you know clearly, you are right, I want to premiere this movie in Britain." Minahan jumped up happily, "Ronald, you are really a genius, the British people just love to watch their American cousin.
Failure, their beauties were taken away by Arab princes, and their cause in Africa was thwarted by the British Empire."
"Moreover, Mrs Thatcher's son disappeared for two weeks while participating in the Paris-Dakla Rally last year, and troops were sent to look for him. The British audience is interested in the Desert Rally..."
Ronald was dumbfounded by Minahan's ability to understand.
"Okay, do whatever you want. But this ninja movie is good, and the actress is quite talented."
"You mean Lucinda Dickey?" Minahan said the heroine's name.
"Ronald is optimistic. Then he has to find her back and sign a long-term contract with her. I thought she had no talent, so I asked her to go back to Arizona to work as a nanny."