The person Ronald took Emil to meet was Walter Murch.
Murch has not found a new director opportunity since "Return to Oz" failed at the box office. He also had several children to raise, so he began to take over editing work.
Ronald is very busy during this time. Several crews have to follow up. All matters big and small in the "Dirty Dancing" project have to be reported to him and wait for his decision.
After finishing the movie, he had to immediately start the preparation work for "Moonlight". So this time Ronald invited Walter Murch, who was also his teacher and friend, to be the editor and sound editor of "Dirty Dancing"
Editing work.
"You give too much, Ronald." Murch took Ronald aside and spoke to him privately.
Murch saw the number on the contract given by Ronald. This price was the market price when he was a gold medal editor and sound editor before he became the director of "Return to Oz". In order to prepare and direct this film
, he wasted two years, and now he has returned to the professional market, and the market price no longer exists.
"I'm not giving it to you in one go. You also know that this is a small production." Ronald pushed the contract back, "Now I can only give you one-third of the total price, and I have to wait until it is released to repay the money."
, to pay you the full amount. This means you have to wait a long time to get paid, so it is normal for it to be higher than the market price."
"Okay, I will do my best." Walter collected the contract and advance payment check and put them in his bag. "Let's go see those dancers now."
Walter Murch had a deep understanding of both editing and sound editing, so he usually only took on two projects that were assigned to him at the same time.
Unlike ordinary editors, he joins the crew after the filming is completed. At the beginning, he has to see the script, and then the actors and locations, and is involved in the filming of the film from the beginning. He believes that this way can achieve a holistic view of the film.
Grasp the temperament and tone of the entire movie.
"They're going to Palm Springs today and dance training is grueling, so let them relax."
Ronald picked up Murch and took turns driving with Emil to Palm Springs.
Gale Hurd, a native of Palm Springs, helped contact a company because the director of "Top Gun" was coming and offered a special off-season discount.
“You should dance—yay!”
When they arrived at the resort hotel, the dancers had already turned on the tape recorder and started playing the famous song "You Should Dance" by the Bee Gees, and a group of people started dancing disco.
The dancers had dance bugs and left the rehearsal place. They were unwilling to dance Dirty Dancing, which was adapted from the mambo, and instead chose disco, which was no longer so popular.
Ronald was there too and danced a few times with them.
"Oh yeah!" the extras started to scream. The director's dancing skills are not bad. It seems that this movie will not mess around and regard those introductory dance steps as classics.
Walter Murch took out a stopwatch, compared the scenes in the script, started watching the dancers' dance rehearsal, and started the stopwatch.
"What are you doing?" Assistant Director Emil asked Ronald in a low voice.
"This is one of Murch's working methods. He is used to estimating the duration of each scene in the script before filming begins. Then when he sees the finished film, he compares it with his own estimate. There is a big discrepancy. That is
The major differences between the director's and my own understanding of the scene need to be carefully considered."
Ronald explained.
"Yeah, that's right." Murch smiled after hearing Ronald's answer, "Emil, come and time it with me."
Ronald was happy to be alone and relaxed. He walked to the side and picked up a glass of juice drink and drank it in one gulp.
"What happened to Richard yesterday?"
When Ronald saw the two main characters, Patrick Swayze and Cynthia Rhodes, approaching to chat with him, he put down his drink and asked some private questions.
"As a director, it is very useful to know about the actor's private life. On the one hand, it can be used to guide emotions, and on the other hand, it can also avoid trouble.
"It's Cynthia's suitor", Sweets smiled and took a sip of the drink, then left, leaving Ronald and Cynthia to chat privately.
"He chases me very persistently, but I don't want to be with him."
"Why? He looks like a good guy." Ronald smiled.
"He is several years younger than me. He is still very naive and immature." Cynthia shook her head and glanced at Ronald.
"You can take care of it yourself, don't affect the filming. It's okay to let him come to visit the team when the time comes."
Ronald also took a sip of his drink.
"Ronald, can you ask them to dance for me according to the music in the script?" Walter Murch came over with a stopwatch and made a request to Ronald.
Ronald was distracted and started looking for choreographer Ortega.
"I haven't obtained the copyright for the song yet, and I'm not sure what song it will be for the final dance, so I use a metronome to adjust it to the rhythm of the swing dance of the 1950s and let them dance along."
Ronald suddenly became anxious, "Why hasn't it been done yet? Emil, Emil..."
He quickly called the assistant director over and said, "Go call Danny Goldberg and ask Danny Goldberg, our music director, what song does he want me to use for the episode?"
When the choreographer Ortega saw that the complaint was successful, he immediately took out a cassette tape, "We still play the tape of the screenwriter Miss Eleanor, although the sound quality of the duplication is average..."
Ronald waved his hand and told him to do it himself, helping Murch better estimate the time of each shot.
He found the phone himself and received a call from music director Danny Goldberg.
"Danny, how much longer do you want? The dance rehearsals here will end in a week. Do you want me to use a metronome to accompany them when we start filming?"
There were a lot of worries. In the first movie that Ronald invested himself, all the unsatisfactory aspects seemed to be magnified countless times compared to when he was shooting other people's movies.
Every time there was a small setback, Ronald felt that his account numbers turned into bats and flew away with a squeaking sound. And every time he solved a small problem, he felt that the green banknotes were attracted by the movie and flew back.
Ronald is now more able to feel Weintraub's state of mind when he asked himself to be the director of "The Dragon King". Investing his own money in a film project is really stressful, and he thinks too much when there is any trouble.
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"Don't worry, I'm negotiating with major record companies now. What you want are famous songs at that time, and the property rights are complicated. We don't have a big budget, and I don't want them to feel that we really want these songs, so we can only take our time.
Talking in the dark cannot reveal our true purpose..." Danny Goldberg was still operating unhurriedly.
Ronald couldn't stand it anymore, "I'm going to start shooting soon, so you can get it done as soon as possible. If you can't get it done, tell me early so that I can find someone who can do it..."
"Pah..." Ronald hung up the phone angrily.
"What's wrong? Is something wrong?"
The person asking the question was Ronald's other agent, Richard, who had returned from "The Nanny Adventures" and was helping Ronald with work.
There were some minor problems with the investment in "The Babysitters". The investment share of the second phase of the "Screen Fund" of which George Jr. was a director was directly allocated to Michael Eisner.
The first issue before George Jr.'s intervention was evenly divided between HBO and Britain's EMI Productions.
Wall Street is making rapid progress, and the Dow Jones Index has risen much more than a few years ago. The third phase of the Screen Fund has begun to be sought after by high-net-worth private investors. Roland Bates, who is responsible for issuing the fund, wants to raise the financing amount of the third phase from
The second phase of 190 million was increased to 300 million US dollars.
Faced with such a large amount of money, both HBO and Disney are fighting for the right to use the funds.
The condition given by HBO is that the Screen Fund has the decision-making power over the project. Disney's Eisner demands that he have full control over the project.
The reason he moved out was that with a visionary director and producer like Ronald working for Disney, Wall Street, as capital, just needs to hide behind the professionals, let them decide art and please the audience, and then count the money after the release.
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Therefore, Eisner called Ronald and requested that the filming of "The Babysitter" be moved to the day after New Year's Day next year. This would allow this Ronald-led movie with a high probability of being a blockbuster to enter its third year.
The investment scope of the third-phase fund.
With this golden brand, investors will have an upper hand over the rights to use the third phase of the Screen Fund to Disney.
"Our music director, Danny Goldberg, has not yet negotiated the copyright for the episode. This time is enough for a pregnant woman to give birth to a child." Ronald began to sneer.
"Goldberg is a Jew, and I know him." Seeing no one around, Richard whispered in Ronald's ear, "In fact, no one has valued these songs from the 1950s. Dan
Ni is procrastinating like this because he wants to turn this into a big deal.
If I think correctly, the next thing he will say is that some singer-songwriters have passed away and their relatives are more difficult to negotiate."
"Huh? He did say that." Ronald looked at Richard Lovett, his agent was also of Jewish descent.
"I am different from them. I am a Jewish boy who grew up in rural Wisconsin. There are only 20,000 Jews in the entire state. When I was a child, I went to public schools with Puritans and Catholics. Our family also celebrated Christmas. I had nothing to do with them.
Both.
When these Jews who grew up in Los Angeles, California, reached adulthood, they discovered that there are more than just Jews in the world... but they still use Jewish business rules to treat customers from other cultural backgrounds. In their view, as long as they can
It’s up to them to make enough money.”
Richard pushed up his glasses and said.
Ronald nodded. Richard had always been very loyal to him. In this kind of matter, he, his biggest customer, was the greatest protector of his interests. He must be telling the truth.
Danny Goldberg's inability to do things should be a strategy of his, not only to buy the copyright without delaying Ronald's affairs, but also to pay a price that is neither high nor low, so as to make a little profit for himself.
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"What do you recommend?"
"Dirty Dancing also has a Jewish girl plot issue, so I suggest finding a non-Jewish agent to handle the purchase of the episode's rights." Richard leaned closer and spoke in a lower voice, "The key is
, the person who goes to buy should do it as your company’s purchaser, and don’t reveal that you are the person behind the project. If you act quickly, it should be done quickly.”
Ronald woke up from a dream. If it were not a movie project that he invested and directed, then "Dirty Dancing" would be just a boring movie about the love story of high school girls in the 1950s with an investment of 4.5 million.
Who would be excited about this?
Songs from the 1950s, no matter how famous they were at that time, as long as they can be sold for a little royalties, it would be a blessing.
"I'll go find Weintraub and borrow someone." Ronald figured out the crux and smiled slightly.
Danny Goldberg also wants to monopolize the benefits and eat from both sides. As long as Ronald keeps it secret and fights with speed, he will get things done before he even reacts.