The movie "Sticky Fingers" directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Helen Slater has opened in New York.
This is a film funded by women (including Ronald's money, of course), starring women, and directed by women. Of course, this was fully reflected in the publicity and distribution.
Most of the guests and reporters who came were women. Ronald saw a large group of female insiders at the scene.
However, because the protagonist tonight is Helen, Ronald only interacts with a few celebrities he is familiar with, such as Jamie Lee Curtis, the star of the horror film "Moonlight". The female director Martha Coolidge,
Talked to female producer Gale Hurd.
"You really like to shoot female subjects, and you are also willing to support women." Gale looked at Ronald and sighed in his heart. If Hollywood producers were 50% as friendly to women as Ronald, his achievements would be great.
It must be much bigger than it is now.
"How's Jim's new movie going?" Ronald asked.
"He was playing with his diving equipment at the Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant." Gale replied professionally, "Don't ask me anything else, I don't want to spoil the fun."
Ronald stopped discussing Cameron's personal matters with her and asked her if the strike had affected her.
Gale said that female producers like them are already discriminated against. Now that the copyrights for adapted novels are so popular, they can only get second-rate scripts.
Martha Coolidge, the female director who debuted with Ronald, now has no chance to make any blockbusters, so she can only sincerely ask Ronald to consider them as women if he has the opportunity.
Ronald said that as long as it is a low-cost production of less than two million US dollars, they are very welcome to contact them.
Jamie Lee Curtis walked up with a white-haired but very good-tempered woman and introduced to Ronald. "This is my mother. She has heard of your name and likes your spiciness very much."
Body dance. I want to come and see you and express her love."
"Ms. Leigh needs no introduction." Of course, Ronald recognized that this was the famous Ja Leigh. The mother and daughter looked very similar, both had long faces, and the mother was more beautiful than the daughter.
Some.
"I like your Dirty Dancing very much. I bought the video and watched it several times. Jamie said that he received an invitation, so I came to watch it too."
"I'm very honored. You are the girl of my dreams. When I was studying in college in New York, I watched your movies many times." Ronald was also very surprised that this person could come to New York.
"Oh, hahaha... I wonder which movie of mine you like to watch? Psycho?" Speaking of Janet Leigh, the audience is most impressed by the bathroom murder scene in Hitchcock's classic.
"No, I prefer Orson Welles's The Last Day..." Ronald replied. Welles's film has more depth. Decades later, it has been played on TV stations far more often than Psycho.
Of course, this also has something to do with Hitchcock’s daughter taking copyright too seriously.
"Oh? He's a genius. I also liked that movie. It's a pity that Xuanfa didn't do it well."
Ronald also said hello to Richie Lake, the chubby girl who played in "Hairspray". She is now working as a handyman at Daydream Company to help process some of Ronald's documents. Because of her figure, she is in the film industry.
It was difficult for her to get new roles, so she had the idea of turning to behind the scenes.
"Why don't you go with Helen for the interview?" Rich Lake also did some work in the promotion work of Daydream, and knew that Ronald invested in the project because of Helen.
"That's the stage for their female creators..." Ronald smiled, looking at Helen Slater who was being interviewed with director Kathryn Bigelow and best friend Helen Hunt.
She wore a home-style dress, a red sweater cardigan with a white skirt underneath. Ronald frowned. Helen did not change her habit of attending important occasions without wearing custom-made dresses.
"Do you think stories from a female perspective can find an appreciative audience..." A young reporter from the Washington Post was asking Helen and Bigelow a question.
"I think there are many young women in the movie audience. They like this movie and we are not worried about box office issues..." Helen Slater was very dissatisfied with the tone of the reporter's question and began to tit for tat.
"Hey, relax a little...be more respectful to the ladies..." Ronald went up and patted the reporter. At the film review sessions in Los Angeles and New York, the daydreams were already taken care of, but the box office of this movie was just a matter of time.
It won't be very good, the people sent are young people with no experience.
"All-female..." Helen Slater glanced at Ronald, indicating that the announcement strategy should highlight the all-female creative team.
Ronald smiled and walked aside. Helen still attached great importance to the movie. You could tell by looking at her nervous and excited look.
"Thank you, Ronald, I know that if it weren't for your help, just Gerald's help, this movie might not be so easy to release."
"Oh, hi, Alice..." Ronald turned his head and found that the speaker was Helen's mother, the environmental protection and anti-nuclear lawyer. "Let's not interfere here anymore, go sit in the back."
"We did not raise her with Jewish traditions. Helen spent Christmas like an ordinary American child. I also think it is very good for her. I don't want her to be forced to live a different life just because she is making a movie.
Own……"
Helen's mother, Alice, suddenly said something to Ronald about raising Helen as a child.
"I don't quite understand..." Ronald didn't know what he meant.
"You are too busy, and I rarely have the opportunity to see you. This is just a bit of selfishness as a mother. We don't want our children to live in a way they don't like..."
"Mom, let's go in and watch a movie..." Helen came over at this time, hugged her mother, and smiled at Ronald.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Ronald, who was a little confused, followed him in. The audience at the movie premiere was dominated by women, accounting for more than 80%.
The opening scene showed Helen and another heroine walking on the road. Her long legs were very conspicuous in the camera. Ronald turned to look at Helen. She was really suitable for the movie.
The whole movie is actually a pretty old-fashioned comedy. Two girls who played the violin found a bag of cash in their rented room, which amounted to 900,000 US dollars. They did not resist the temptation, paid the bills, and invested.
For my own music career, I bought two expensive antique violins, as well as many beautiful clothes and shoes.
Finally, the trafficker's landlord came back to ask for money. The two frightened girls ran away from the window. The dealer's landlord was shot dead by the police who arrived.
The tone of the entire movie is similar to Helen's movie "The Evil Husband" two years ago. It is a comedy with a less fast pace and a certain plot. Of course, the level of comedy directed by Kathryn Bigelow is better than that of Jerry
·Zach is a lot worse.
The whole movie is quite satisfactory. Except for the use of too many slow motions in the third act at the end, there are no major flaws. However, the laughs are not very dense, and the frequency of laughter and applause from the audience is a bit lower than expected.
There are many troubles that girls often encounter in the plot, and the depiction is more realistic than the current Hollywood movies. It seems that the all-female creative team still has something to read.
On the contrary, the audience liked Helen Slater's performance very much, but Ronald felt that the audience did not appreciate the acting skills, but liked her clothes and high heels in the movie. The female audience members were in awe after putting on each pair of beautiful shoes.
The close-up came and gave a loud praise.
Maybe what they really like is the feeling of having a windfall that seems to stick to their fingers and they have to spend it constantly in the shopping mall.
"What do you think the box office will be like? I'm so nervous, almost as nervous as I was when I first filmed Supergirl..."
Back at the apartment on Fifth Avenue, Helen lay on Ronald's body, still excitedly telling her feelings after the first movie she directed was released.
"I'm so happy today. My mother Alice also thinks that I took good photos. My father Gerald also came here before and chatted with my mother for a few words. Unfortunately, he had something to do and left first and didn't see me.
New film.”
Ronald changed his position so that Helen could lie down more comfortably, and gently combed her blond hair with his hands. Since filming Supergirl, Helen has been dyed blonde. "Oh? Gerald is here too?
Why should he leave first?"
"I heard that an important person from Hollywood came and had a meeting with him." Helen felt very comfortable and also touched Ronald's arm with her hand.
"What did he say to your mother? Alice said something to me today that I don't quite understand. She said that when you were a child, you were not raised according to Jewish traditions. You only celebrated Christmas, but Hanukkah and so on."
"She is a liberal Jew. She hopes that I will grow up like my classmates at school, and that my family will buy a Christmas tree every year because of my Jewish identity."
"How much do you think the box office of the movie will be?" Helen still had no idea about the movie.
"Daydream Professionals expects it to be released in four to six weeks, which will roughly equal the production cost."
"Well... I'm also worried about the poor box office... If we can keep investors from losing money, then there will be opportunities to make more movies with similar themes. There are too few female-themed movies in Hollywood now."
"Don't worry, there are still video tapes being released, and there are many people in the video rental stores who can slowly choose the genre they like."
Michelle Cannold is not very optimistic about the box office of this movie, but the subject matter is very special. It is more interesting and reasonable than a daytime soap opera. However, without big stars, it is impossible to attract enough women.
The kind of movies that audiences go to the cinema to watch.
After this type of film appeared on television and housewives watched soap operas at home, few producers were willing to invest in filming them. On the contrary, those housewives and professional women are now gradually going to video rental stores to pick up video tapes.
Habit, this kind of female-themed "chick movie" has been resurrected in disguise.
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Early the next morning, while Ronald was still sleeping, Helen had already gotten up early, picked up the film review newspaper delivered to the door, and started reading it alone.
"You can tell at a glance whether it's a boy's movie or a girl's movie. Shopping, dieting, which rag is for washing dishes and which is for wiping tables. Girls' movies always have a lot of focus on the closet.
And boy's movies are mostly about guns, cars, and... well, about guns, did I already mention guns? You watch boy's movies and they're all stupid.
It’s Sticky Fingers is a funny comedy, especially for female viewers, great heels and earrings, almost no wardrobe scenes in a boy’s movie…”
It seems that the film review reporter from the Washington Post who came yesterday still likes this movie. Helen happily put the newspaper away.
"Are you awake, Ronald? Your agent Richard just sent a review of the film, so I read it first. Do you want to read it?" Helen handed out the newspaper with her hand.
"Of course I want to take a look..." Ronald reached out and hugged Helen. Her nose didn't look like a Jew, and her big eyes didn't even look like a Jew. To say that she was a Jew, it was probably because of religion, and there might not be any blood connection.
Ronald looked at Helen's seductive green eyes and kissed her quickly. Well, it smelled very good. This is a relatively fresh grass-scented perfume, which is very environmentally friendly...
"Um……"
Helen finally managed to free herself from Ronald's enthusiasm, "Richard said he has something to do with you and asked you to call him back. I will also call Helen (Hunter)."
Instead of continuing the good things he did last night, Ronald smiled, went to the bedroom, picked up another phone, and called his agent Richard.
"Ronald, Ovitz has also arrived in New York. He wants to invite you to the synagogue in Brooklyn."
"Can't you just say I'm not free?" Ronald didn't like Ovitz calling him, but Richard said it was an important matter, and Ovitz took it seriously and called him several times.
.
"Okay, okay, I'll just go see him." Ronald stood up and waved to Helen, who was on the phone with his best friend. After changing his clothes, he set off.
The Brooklyn United Synagogue is a very old building, just opposite the library. It is not only a religious place, but the fifth floor is also rented to a German international school as a classroom.
Ronald saw many Germanic blond boys attending classes here, coming in and out, and couldn't help but feel an interesting contrast.
Arriving inside the club, there was a private room that seemed to be used by a Jewish rabbi, where Michael Ovitz was waiting for him.
"Hello, Ronald, nice to see you here." Ovitz was wearing a ridiculous little round hat. Ronald rarely saw him like this. This kind of little hat can only cover up
It covers a very small part of the head, and the person wearing it may have used pins or something to fix it, so it won't fall off no matter how you shake your head.
"This was designed by architect Arnold Brenner and completed in 1929. It is the largest Reform synagogue in New York." Ovitz introduced the origin of the building to him.
"Reform Judaism?" Ronald heard a new term.
"Yes, they are also called liberals or progressives, but whatever they are called, they are all a development of Judaism after it entered America. Do you know? The biggest difference between this and traditional Judaism is that we reformists no longer believe in the Old Testament
It is the only classic and cannot be changed."
"Oh?" Ronald said perfunctorily. He was actually not very interested in these things. This place is not like the German International School on the fifth floor which is full of secular atmosphere and has a religious feeling. "
"Yes, we no longer insist that the Jews are God's chosen people, no longer emphasize the principles and core beliefs of race, but pay more attention to personal spiritual experience and community participation. You see, we even rented a floor in Germany
School."
"Ah, yes, I saw the students."
"I'm glad that you have a preliminary understanding of us. So, are you willing to become one of our own?"
"What?" Ronald didn't expect Ovitz to say such words. Was he inviting himself to join this Reform Judaism and become a member of the Jewish people?"
"Yes, we are very welcoming to people who become part of our community through marriage, especially artistic talents like you. Don't be surprised. I talked to Gerald yesterday and I know that you and Helen have a good relationship. You still give me
She invested in movies.
If you are willing, I will be happy to serve as your introducer...The ceremony is actually very simple..."
"Wait a minute, Mr. Ovitz."
Ronald understood everything, why Ovitz would say something about himself to him on the set of Rain Man. Why Helen's father would not attend his daughter's movie premiere, and what Helen's mother would say to him, saying that he didn't want her daughter to live a life she didn't like.
lifestyle.
"I think you are mistaken. I am a Christian Quaker." Ronald stopped him quickly.
"I've talked to many of your friends, and you basically don't go to church. Even if you go to church, you can transfer after studying Jewish scriptures..." Ovitz frowned, thinking that this was a question to himself.
The news I received doesn’t seem to match.
"This is not my own thing. In fact, my father's family has always been the main sponsor of the Quakers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Recently, I also donated to the new Quaker church on Staten Island." Ronald
He quickly denied it, this was really funny.
"Oh, my fault, I thought there might be some mistake in the middle. I'm sorry that I made you misunderstand what I said and wrote. In fact, if..." Ovitz couldn't help but apologize. This was very embarrassing.
"My friends must have misunderstood that I don't go to church in Los Angeles. In fact, my main church is here on Staten Island."