Ronald looked at the man with a square chin and a well-dressed man who looked like a banker. He was looking at him expectantly.
Then he took another look at the handsome middle-aged man hiding behind him. Yes, it was the former vice president Tom Mount who had bullied him many times at Universal and wanted to replace him.
"Dream on! (dream on)"
Ronald smiled slightly, turned his back and walked into the bathroom.
"You!" Tom Mount was still wearing a hand-sewn suit and his hair was meticulously combed. But he had reached the limit of furious embarrassment.
Ronald, who had snatched the director's position from a small crew under his own control back then, would he still be a young screenwriter looking for help now if Spielberg and Shenberg hadn't supported him?
Who would have thought that now that my own Mount Pictures wanted to attract some investment from Japan, it would actually have to kiss his butt in order to have a chance to meet the real owner.
Mount waved his hand, snorted, and was about to leave this high-end place.
"Tom, do you still want to finance your movie?" The man named Bannon was very dissatisfied with Mount's performance. It seemed that he had some "history" with Ronald. As soon as the two met
There was a falling out.
But in the eyes of an investment banker with a Wall Street background, this was not a setback at all. On the contrary, it was a very good opportunity to make good friends with Ronald.
"This kid hates me to the core. He won't help me." Tom Mount was so embarrassed and angry that his face turned red. He ignored the request of Bannon, the financing manager he hired, and went out by himself after saying this.
went.
"Mount, who was born as a son-in-law, is just not good enough. If he wants to make money, why should he care about being slapped in the face? If I were to go up and hug the other person's thigh, kneel down and beg for forgiveness." Bannon looked at his partner and sighed.
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He decided to stay and wait for the opportunity. He and Ronald had no quarrel. Besides, he had his own way to impress him.
After a while, Ronald came back. Bannon saw the opportunity and stepped forward to stop him.
"Hello, Director Ronald, I am Bannon, a Wall Street banker. My partner may have had some issues with you, and he has left with shame. I have no comment on his character.
But I still want to say something here, Director Ronald, we are all Americans and we should not kill each other in this place and make the Japanese people laugh.
The reason why they can defeat us in the fields of automobiles, consumer electronics and other fields is that they are always very united. When dealing with the American market, they can put aside their internal conflicts and be open to the outside world.
If you and other Hollywood employees are still like the automobile industry, it will be easy for those Japanese people to unite and defeat you."
"Hahaha, what do you want to do? Anyway, I won't give Mount Rong a chance to succeed."
Ronald saw that Bannon was talking very interestingly, so he immediately distanced himself from his relationship with Tom Mount, and gave Ronald a high hat.
Although this is all nonsense, he is still a very enterprising person who insists on waiting for himself just for a chance to meet the capitalists in the Japanese film industry.
"Apart from Mount, now that the yen has appreciated and money is loose, this is an opportunity for Wall Street to introduce a large amount of Japanese capital. You also need financing to make movies in Hollywood. I have a career in Wall Street operating funds to finance the film industry.
banker.
We can help each other, right? This is my business card."
"You are an interesting person. If you have any questions, you can call my agent. I will return your call." Ronald also took out a business card with only the agent's contact information and gave it to the other party.
This is the method Niceta taught him. If someone wants to deal with him on certain matters, but doesn’t want to get too close to him and be chased by others asking for cooperation resources, give him a ticket with an agent.
Business card with people contact information.
If something happens like this, they can only find their agent, and the agent will pass the matter on to Ronald. If they need to communicate, Ronald will use a temporary phone number to call this person.
Bannon took the business card, flicked it gently, and whistled. Although he only had the contact information of his agent, it was a great improvement for his newly started film career. From now on, he can brag to others.
Can discuss projects with director Ronald Lee.
This is the director who made "Top Gun". Who among the hottest people in Hollywood right now has not heard of or seen the movies he made? Go talk to those crocodiles on Wall Street about financing. Ronald's reputation is comparable to that of someone who has already resigned.
The former Vice President of Universal Pictures was much easier to use.
As for Tom Mount, the distribution contracts he signed with Universal have not yet expired, and he still has some value. Although it is unlikely that he will be able to get financing in Japan, he will have to go back to China to find other money for him.
The next day, President Haruki Kadokawa introduced the magazine's Girls' Monthly, which took a photo of Diane Lane wearing a kimono for the next issue's cover and center-seam poster.
Ronald also took the time to watch the shooting. Diane's temperament was in a kimono, which presented a very strange sense of disharmony. Although she was wearing the clothes of a Japanese girl, her temperament was that of a typical New York girl, outgoing and confident.
However, young people in Japan seemed to unexpectedly like the way foreigners wear kimonos. The photographer kept praising them, but he didn't know whether it was true or just being polite.
Under Kadokawa Shosha, there are also many manga magazines that are popular in Japan. Ronald saw many of them at the scene. Looking through them, he found that the market in Japan has been very divided. Some specialize in publishing shoujo comics, and some are
For high school boys.
"Here you go, this is Japan's afternoon black tea drink. It tastes very good." Ronald drank the drink brought by the magazine and handed it to Diane who was taking a break from shooting. The unexpected taste was sweet and very good.
"Well, I can't drink too much. This dress is very complicated to wear. I'll show it to you when I get back..."
…
"Ronald, I've been looking for you for a long time. Your script assistant David Simkins has been calling you for a long time. It seems there is something urgent."
Ronald, who returned to the hotel with Diane, saw Niceta waiting for him in the lobby.
"I'll call him back." Ronald and Niceta turned and went upstairs to their rooms to make an overseas call to Simkins.
"David, why are you so anxious? It's already late at night at your place, right?"
Ronald put the call through and answered it with Niceta.
"I got a very good script, and it was the first movie script written by a Broadway playwright."
"Debut?" Niceta asked next to her.
"Yes, Mr. Niceta. Although this is his debut screenplay, the quality is very good. It can be said that we are very lucky. The author encountered many obstacles in the seven major studios before submitting the script to a small production company like Daydream.
.”
"You said the quality is good, how good is it?" Ronald has never seen David Simkins praise a script so highly. He is also a film screenwriter himself, so it must be really good. But how good it is is a question.
.
Hollywood studios' film libraries are filled with high-quality scripts that no one wants to film. Truly outstanding scripts will always be sent to the right producers.
"I can only express my own opinion. I think it is better than the script of Dirty Dancing. This is a very talented author named John Patrick Shanley, an Irish playwright.
This is his first movie script, and I am very familiar with this feeling. Just like William Goldman's 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', they are both masterpieces that the author painstakingly wrote for the first time."
Ronald felt that this evaluation was high. This was the first movie script that gold medal screenwriter William Goldman wanted to write. This kind of script often includes the story that the author most wanted to write in the first half of his life, and is also the accumulated experience of the first half of his life.
.
Even talented playwrights rarely have the opportunity to write such a masterpiece. It often takes many years after one is written before another one is produced.
"Better quality than Dirty Dancing? How about compared to Rain Man?" Niceta interjected from the side. Hollywood executives and actors are very interested in what Ronald's next movie will be.
"I personally feel that it is even better than your "Rain Man". At least it is a classic traditional three-act play with a beginning, middle, and end."
"Hahaha", Ronald knew that his script assistant was complaining that "Rain Man" did not have the classic structure of a three-act play.
"Since you admire it so much, then wait until I come back..."
"No, Ronald. I don't think we can wait until you come back to make a reservation. The news that this film was sent to Daydream Pictures will definitely be known. The screenwriter's agent may take our promise
Go to negotiate with other companies.
I don’t want what happened in ‘Dirty Dancing’ to happen again with this script called ‘The Bride and the Wolf.’”
"Are you so optimistic about this script? Do you think that as long as I express interest, other companies can compete for it?" Ronald paid more attention to this.
"Yes, agents are shameless... Well, I'm not talking about you, Mr. Niceta."
"It doesn't matter, I can take it as a compliment." Niceta said, saying that she didn't mind. If she were the agent of the screenwriter Shanley, I would probably do the same in order to maximize profits.
"But I can't just spend money to buy the script based on your evaluation. By the way, how much do you think I can pay for 'The Bride and the Wolf'?"
"Now is the time when the film company is willing to spend a lot of money to reserve scripts. I estimate that it can be obtained for less than 200,000 yuan. And your reputation can ensure that the film can be produced and then distributed by the Seventh Group." Niceta thought at the side.
Take a moment and answer.
He is also very interested in this matter. As long as Ronald likes it, he can complete a package project and stuff in many actors he likes.
"What's this story?" Ronald decided to understand the situation first.
"It's an Italian story, but it's different from Coppola's gangster story. It's about family, love, and the history of immigrants integrating into America."
"So I still can't decide. Why don't you give me more details?"
"David," Niceta said, "I'll find a fax machine and you can send an overseas fax and send the entire script."
Regardless of the expensive fax fees, Ronald and Niceta were in front of the fax machine in the business center, waiting for Simkins to send the fax.
"Zhizhi...zhizhi...", the fax machine beeped, and the scripts of "The Bride and the Wolf" were spit out from the fax machine one by one.
Come one, Niceta sorted it out and handed it to Ronald. Ronald sat there and looked at one.
The script is indeed well written and has similarities to "Dirty Dancing". It tells the story of Italians, but it is completely different from the stereotypes of Italians in traditional Hollywood Italian stories.
They no longer engage in the "traditional professions" of Italians in Hollywood such as boxers, gangsters, and pimps. Instead, they engage in professions that ordinary Americans would engage in. They open grocery stores, hardware stores, etc.
However, the Italians in it also have some stereotypes that Americans recognize. For example, they are superstitious, poorly educated, value family, etc. The audience will never think of this story as a story of other ethnic groups.
"It is indeed a good story, but it may not be suitable for you."
Niceta also liked the story of the script very much, but... there were some minor problems.
He and Ronald returned to the room and continued to call David.
"David, I think we should let Ronald buy it and then find another director? This script tells a love story of middle-aged people, and Ronald may not be suitable for it."
"But this screenwriter is not very old," said David Simkins. "He is only a few years older than Ronald. These plots and details are definitely not his own experience, but what he has witnessed.
Moreover, the author is not of Italian origin, he is of Irish origin. This is a script written by the playwright based on careful observation and years of accumulation. I can’t be wrong. I have been reading scripts in the past few years. This kind of playwright
A burst of genius and a script full of genius, which the whole of Hollywood only sees once every few years."
"This is exactly the problem. Why is such a talented work that no one is willing to try it? It shows that the market potential is worrying. The audience for this script is exactly the disappeared audience who watched 'The Sound of Music'. It is difficult for us to
We are sure to let them go out to the cinema."
Seeing Niceta and Simkins arguing on the phone, Ronald asked them to stop first.
"Let me think about it and I'll call you back tomorrow to make a decision."
I am reading the script and hoping to dream about the finished film, so that I can predict the quality and success or failure of the film.
…
"Ronnie!"
Diane, who had been waiting for him in the room for a long time, was still wearing a kimono and a wooden hairpin in her hair.
His lively and enthusiastic body did not look like the conservative and shy Japanese at all. But the material of this kimono was very good, and the silk texture slipped through Ronald's hands, making Diane hum comfortably.
"Hmm...huh?" After a long passionate kiss, Ronald began to look for buttons or zippers on his kimono. The solid kimono he wore made it difficult for him to find a place to start.
"Hahaha, I want to be here..."
Diane's hands guided Ronald, untied the wide belt, reached through the slanted lapel of the collar, and untied another belt.
It was already very late, and the silver-white moonlight shone through the window, shining faintly on the bed, making me cry.
Ronald lay sideways on the bed and hugged Diane from behind. There seemed to be a faint fragrance of kimono incense on her body, which made Ronald feel very relaxed and fell asleep quickly.
The watery moonlight continued to shine on the two young souls, and seemed to shine into Ronald's dream.
He vaguely saw a bright moon high in the sky, shrouded in clouds and mist.