Niceta and Paula hurried back to make phone calls to learn more about Gene Hackman. The situation was not optimistic. This actor, who had little box office appeal, had everything going well this year. He was very satisfied and felt that he
When anything goes.
On the one hand, he participated in "Mississippi Burning" directed by Alan Parker, which tells the story of three black civil rights movement volunteers in conservative and backward Mississippi (a state with the lowest per capita income) in 1964 during the civil rights movement.
, the story of being murdered by remnants of the Ku Klux Klan. He plays a senior FBI agent trying to uncover the truth.
British director Alan Parker is still in the same old style, turning a blind eye to the disgusting things in his country, and taking pleasure in exposing America's racial discrimination every day. In fact, class conflicts in their country are much more acute.
Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s just talk about the profession of acting. In Britain, it was originally a profession that was only pursued by gentlemen who graduated from aristocratic public schools and Oxbridge and spoke with a West End accent. Peter O’Toole, Laurence Olivier and others
Nothing less than that.
A few actors who are not of that type, such as Michael Caine, who was born in the East End slums, deliberately retained the "Cockney" accent of the East End manual workers, just to inspire later working-class actors to think
You can also succeed.
But let’s not forget that actors in Hollywood really like this drama that exposes the dark side. This film Burning Mississippi was invested and distributed by Orion Pictures, which has a strong ability to win Oscars.
Yes, it is estimated that it will also be a strong contender for next year's Oscars.
But in terms of audience box office, this kind of movie is much weaker. It relies entirely on winning Oscars to arouse the audience's interest and enter the cinema. With "Working Girl" shot by Ronald, satisfying the needs of the audience is more important than winning awards.
The previous approach was just the opposite.
However, Gene Hackman's face really has no ability or necessity to attract the audience. He doesn't have any hope for this, he just wants to win another Best Actor statuette to add honor to his acting career.
, joining the ranks of the few actors in history who have won two Oscars.
However, this ordinary-looking actor has won the favor of the Japanese-American Miss Arakawa. Before he divorced his first wife, the two were already living together, which made Hackman's ego expand again.
Men always have to appear omnipotent in front of their girlfriends.
After returning to Los Angeles, Ronald and Niceta chatted behind closed doors for two hours. He said nothing, but Niceta could see that his client was unhappy inside. Not to mention the continuous production of high-box office movies.
, this time he has been nominated for the best director, but he is still looked down upon as a young man. Ronald must be very unhappy.
The agent's first priority is to find a way to satisfy the client's wishes. Niceta encouraged Ronald to continue investing resources in "Silence of the Lambs", even if he couldn't grab the movie, at least Hackman
His wishful thinking was spoiled.
They still have time to wait for changes in the project. After all, no screenwriter dares to go against the trend and secretly adapt it into a script. And such a best-selling novel with the adaptation rights that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to acquire must be a big star to ensure profitability.
.
After all, no matter who plays the lead roles of Hannibal and Clarice, at least one of them must be a star to arouse the audience's desire to go to the cinema. Ronald does not believe in a washed-up actor like Hackman.
Really one person can decide the fate of this popular adaptation.
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Walter Murch has basically completed the final details of "Working Girl". Ronald and he were very excited after watching the entire copy. The master spent a lot of thought on the details in the final assembly. The entire movie
The rhythm is much better, and every time the camera is moved, the focus of the audience's thinking is taken care of.
For example, after Tess saw her boyfriend having an affair, she wandered around the ferry terminal on Staten Island in depression, looking at the Manhattan skyscrapers opposite in trance on the terminal. The next shot cut to her sitting in the office, and changed to
Dressed as a manager, he prepares to pretend to be Catherine's colleague and start his final adventure.
But there are some problems with this switch. The audience was still feeling sorry for Tess's injustice, but it suddenly switched to the office, and Tess changed her outfit again. Audiences who are used to watching Hollywood commercial movies will feel that several years have passed.
The illusion that Tess got her wish and climbed to a high position.
Murch is a master of intuition in this kind of place. He keenly discovered the problem and inserted a shot of Ronald's aerial photography of the ferry docking. This shot coincides with Tess's experience in the opening scene, evoking the
From the audience's memory, they know that Tess was just taking the ferry to work, and the time on the screen did not suddenly accelerate.
Adjustments such as these give the audience fewer opportunities to act out while watching. The entire movie plays smoothly, with multiple climaxes echoing back and forth, so they probably have less chance to go to the bathroom.
"After your adjustments, this movie has a touch of Lubitsch's touch." Ronald applauded and thanked Walter Murch who was sitting next to him.
Lubitsch was a very special Hollywood director. At that time, everyone was making movies, but no one could make the movies as popular with the audience as he did. You could tell at a glance that it was Lubitsch's work.
In the words of his apprentice Billy Wilder, he always does not tell you the results directly, but uses a plot twist to let the audience find out for themselves the remaining 20% of the answers that are not directly shown in the film.
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For example, Billy Wilder once explained to Cameron Crowe that he wanted to film a husband who was cold and carefree with his wife. The screenwriter wrote four pages to express this plot. Lubitsch tore up the script and just ordered
Added a top hat to my husband.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When this husband and his wife entered the elevator together, they did not take off their hats (this was the understanding at the time, when meeting a lady, a man should take off his hat to show respect. But when they reached the upper floor,
When a blonde beauty walked in, the man immediately took off his hat and saluted.
This plot was perfectly borrowed by Billy Wilder in his own movie "The Flat". The elevator lady played by Shirley MacLean used a carry-on makeup mirror to talk to her in the elevator.
The male protagonist Baxter, played by Jack Lemmon, goes from liking each other to discovering the truth that the elevator lady is his boss's lover.
"I got your check this time, and my second son's college tuition has almost been paid. When I solve the family financial problem, I can do something I want to do." Walter Murch took Ronald
The check, which was twice as high as the usual price, was bounced and put into his pocket.
"Don't you still have the third and fourth children?" Ronald laughed. Murch's film and sound editing were both Oscar-nominated. He saved me a lot of trouble. If you give more, you will be rewarded. Murch gave him
It is not just a job, but a masterpiece that is completed with an artist's creative attitude and effort.
I called someone from Twentieth Century Fox, who agreed to arrange a test screening. Ronald continued his vacation.
"Hi, Ronald. It's great to see you."
Ronald came to the office of "Back to the Twilight Zone". Director Emil had basically confirmed all the actors. The final role of Sybil Shepard's daughter and Robert Downey Jr.'s girlfriend was still based on
Emile's idea was given to Mary Stuart Masterson.
Masterson was John Hughes's project "some kind of wonderful", the one who helped Eric Stoltz woo Ben Lily Thompson and ended up marrying his childhood sweetheart neighbor.
actress.
She still has short hair, which is now dyed blond. She is an actress who has a very unique energy all over her body. Among typical girls in America, it is rare to see such an actress who is a tomboy on the outside but gentle and sensitive on the inside.
Masterson was deeply impressed that Howard Deutch was able to retain the director's position and that Eric Stoltz was not replaced by the key actor Ronald again after "Back to the Future".
After working in Hollywood for several years, Masterson has gradually come to understand that there are very few directors who can give actors extra opportunities. So when he saw Ronald coming, he felt very happy.
"Ah ha, Mary, it's nice to see you. How long have we not seen each other? Not since The Wonder came out in 1987?" Ronald hugged her happily. This actor is already twenty-two years old.
, and can also play an 18-year-old girl, which is rare among white Americans.
"What happened to our old friends?" Ronald asked about the actors in "The Big Show." Leigh Thompson was in trouble after starring in Lucas's Howard the Duck, which became a box-office bomb. Eric S.
Toltz missed out on Back to the Future, and director Howard Deutch was almost cut off by John Hughes...
A bunch of frustrated people got together to make a "wonderful" photoshoot, only to achieve a small success, and it didn't bring them any good luck after that.
"Leigh (Thompson) and Howard (Dutch) were dating, and they got to know each other while the movie was being announced. Howard's career was going better than Leigh, directing a comedy starring John Candy.
Eric is still the same, I haven't seen him for a long time. Now maybe my fortune has turned around. The last time I saw you on the set, I kept my starring position."
Now Masterson is no longer the little girl who just entered the industry, and she also has a relationship with Ronald.
"Lee doesn't have to worry about her stardom," Ronald laughed. "As long as she goes back to the future and makes a sequel, she will be on the female star list again."
"Will it? Is there going to be a sequel?" Masterson is also a fan of Back to the Future.
"It's possible, I heard it's a possibility. Now that the writers are on strike, Michael J. Fox's evergreen TV series may also end. I heard Steven (Spielberg) mention it, saying that Zemeckis
The director may relent and come back to make a sequel."
What Ronald is talking about is the shooting problem of the new film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" directed by Zemeckis. This film is also a combination of live action and animation. The idea is a good idea, but when it comes to implementation
, the technical difficulty far exceeded expectations.
Spielberg's Amber Lin and Touchstone Pictures both participated in the production, and Disney had to add an additional filming budget of nearly 30 million, bringing the total budget to just over 45 million. It is considered the most expensive in recent years.
a movie.
Moreover, Disney has also licensed famous animated characters such as "Bugs Bunny", "Daffy Duck" and "Piggy" to appear in the movie for free. If these copyright fees are included, the production cost will be over 50 million.
Shockingly expensive.
Even Disney Chairman Eisner is having a hard time on the board of directors.
Now within Hollywood, everyone is calling this movie "Robert Rabbit", comparing it to Lucas' Waterloo and the live-action and animated movie "Howard the Duck". Many people have begun to invest big money in Zemeckis and Amber Lin's
Spielberg had doubts.
Under this pressure to recoup his capital, Zemeckis had no choice but to put aside his pride and start filming the sequel to the hit movie Back to the Future.
"Oh, that's great. Li's movies are all B-level movies now. Her new movie is called 'Sexuality', which is not very good. She is my idol. I hope she can be better than her boyfriend.
Dutch also wants a big star."
Masterson still retained some innocence, and Ronald liked her very much. He had lunch with her and was concerned about Masterson's career development. There are not many suitable roles for an actor with such a temperament in Hollywood.
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Ronald opened up the career of actresses and created some films with female stars as central characters. In the eyes of these female stars, Ronald is undoubtedly the best film director.
Thinking of the Canadian gang actors John Candy and Michael J. Fox whom he had not seen for a long time, Ronald asked Richard to contact them and prepare to reunite with them.
Due to the impact of the strike, the two Canadian stars were very free, and they quickly took out time to party with Ronald.
"Ronald...this is my girlfriend, Tracy." Michael J. Fox walked into the party with a very pretty girl on his arm. She was Tracy Pollan, who played in "Family Ties"
"The friend who played Alex, Fox's character.
"Oh... isn't it Lauren? Alex's audience will be disappointed." Ronald joked. In the TV series "Family Ties", the audience's favorite is the eldest son played by Michael J. Fox
Alex.
From the time this TV series was aired in 1982 to today, the characters have all grown up. Fox's character has also reached the age of starting a family. Ellen, played by Tracy Pollan in the TV series, is a potential girlfriend of Alex. But last year
At the end of the fifth season, her character began to fade away.
Lauren, played by another actress, Courteney Cox, is becoming more and more popular with the audience and has more and more screen time.
However, in real life, Foxx's taste is exactly the opposite. He prefers to compare with Tracy Pollan. Last year, the two co-starred in a movie and officially started dating. The progress was very fast and they are already preparing for a wedding this year.
"Hahaha..." Tracy Pollan also smiled. Ronald was not the first friend to say this.
Just at this time, a loud noise came from the door. Everyone saw that it was the fat actor John Candy, who arrived with his whole family.
"Ronald, this is my wife Rosemary, this is my son Chris, and my daughter Jennifer."
Candy has recently been traveling with his whole family. He just finished filming The Great Outdoors, directed by Howard Deutch. The entire film was shot in Yosemite National Park. It was very difficult to be separated from his family for several months.
"Hahaha, it's fun to come to my place. There are Nintendo game consoles there." Ronald held Candy's son and daughter, one in each hand, and sent them in to play.
"This is salmon from the West Coast, this is butter puff pastry made with maple sugar from Canada...and there are many Japanese and Hawaiian dishes." After settling the children, Ronald came out to chat with the two big stars.
They may not care about it, but the ladies pay great attention to healthy eating, and the chef Ronald hired happened to be good at fusion cuisine, some Canadian, more Hawaiian, Japanese, and Thai.
"Wait a minute, I also found a friend. He is my partner in the movie."
John Candy didn't open a beer, but asked everyone to wait. This actress was among several studio executives with strong connections, and they all greeted her through her agent and asked her to bring Ronald's party, especially to introduce her to
Ronald knows.
"John?" A delicate voice came from outside.
"She's here..." John Candy waved to the outside, "Annette, here."
"Who is this?" Ronald looked at the person who came. He obviously had the temperament of an actress, but he had never seen her act in any movies.
"Let me introduce to you, Annette Bening, a very good actress whom I met in the movie Knives Out. By the way, she also lives in New York and has been performing on Broadway."
"Hello", Ronald looked at Bening, who was a bit mellow. This woman has a very good temperament. Being a Broadway actress is a waste.
"I'm here to help you." Annette Bening came to the restaurant, took the plate and cup from Ronald's hand, and became a waiter for everyone. It seems that she also worked part-time as a hotel waiter before, Anne
Bening quickly took care of everyone in order.
She was not as eager as a young actress. She usually stood nearby and listened quietly to Ronald, Fox, and Candy chatting.
"I recently went back to Toronto with my family, just in time for the rugby team's playoffs. The games there are not as lucrative as those in America, but the games are more intense and exciting."
Ronald smiled as he watched Candy talk about his fan story. The three of them first became familiar with each other by watching the San Francisco 49ers' playoff games.
He turned his eyes and saw Annette Bening looking over with a smile.
"Would you like another salmon sandwich?"
"Oh, thank you." Ronald took the sandwich and ate it. This feeling of being taken care of by a mature woman was very comfortable. He couldn't help but look at Bening twice.
"I read in the magazine that this kind of food is very good for men's energy." Annette Bening's eyes flashed, and she suddenly changed from a virtuous woman who knew both cold and heat to a sexy and sexy girl.
"Hmm... it tastes very good." Ronald put his hand on Bening's waist, and then continued chatting with John Candy, "You are so fanatical about your hometown team, you can consider buying it and becoming the owner."
"This is not the NFL, don't make fun of me, I can really afford it," Candy said with a smile.
"Hahaha..." Annette Bening smiled freely and relaxed, letting go of her whole body. The muscles in her waist vibrated with the laughter, which also made Ronald feel full of energy.