"Is this your final version of the script?" Ronald held his forehead with his hands to prevent his frown from being seen by his good friend Cameron Crowe.
After constant communication with Ronald over the past few months, Crowe rewrote the script of "Say Anything" several times. It was originally a romantic love story, but many fresh details were added.
But Cameron Crowe was still dissatisfied in the end and bought a lot of Billy Wilder videos that he admired most and watched them constantly at home, looking for inspiration. In the end, he drank a few glasses of light beer and smoked
After a few cigarettes, my heart changed and I re-wrote the script.
This time, Crowe no longer cared about Ronald's opinions, but moved forward indulgently according to his own inspiration and thoughts. For a time, his thoughts surged, and all kinds of wonderful plots emerged one after another. When he finished writing the last chapter on the computer in one go,
At the end of the day, it was already late at night the next day. Relieved, he slept all day and all night, and then came to see Ronald with the printed and bound script.
"Yeah, this is the version I feel most satisfied with. I wrote it all day and night without sleep, as if the story came out of my pen. My wife read the entire script while I was sleeping.
She also thinks it is the best work I have ever written."
Cameron Crowe was very happy. During these times, Ronald had been communicating with him every week, giving him a lot of advice and inspiration. Ronald promised himself that he would invest in filming for himself after the script was written.
Ronald felt it was a bit difficult to handle. There were many rough and unreasonable things in this script, even the plot of an anti-genre film. For example, the male protagonist is an ordinary high school boy who practices karate, and the object of his admiration is a high-achieving student.
, a girl with good looks and a wealthy family.
The girl has never been in love in high school (this is unlikely), and then actually accepts the love of the male protagonist (this is somewhat possible). Of course, the resistance to love comes from the woman's father, a successful investor.
The girl was persuaded by her father that such a boy who practiced karate casually and wanted to win a karate competition was ordinary in all aspects and not suitable for the girl's future. (Ronald somewhat suspected that this plot was a spoof on him.
Long Wei Boy), the girl returned the boy's gift.
The boy felt that his first love would end in vain, so he held a dual-card large-speaker tape recorder and repeatedly played the songs from the couple's love party in front of the girl's window, and finally moved the girl (this is also a bit unlikely). The girl wants to
Breaking up with his father and falling in love with a boy.
Of course, the wealthy investor father would not give up like this. He used many tricks, such as cutting off his daughter's college tuition, to let the girl see clearly the boy's mediocrity and incompetence.
How to overcome the father's obstacle in the end? Cameron Crowe used a miracle here. It turned out that the girl's father's wealth was not obtained through investment. He absorbed many people's pensions and started a business.
The Ponzi scheme was finally exposed during the stock market crash, and he was prosecuted and sent to jail.
In the end, the girl got a scholarship from the University of British Columbia. On the plane flying to London, the boy gave up his "karate career" and accompanied the girl to face unknown life challenges.
This kind of romantic love movie actually needs a certain cliché. How to arrange such obstacles, how the hero and heroine overcome the obstacles, and finally get together, this needs to be carefully arranged. Crowe's book, although it is coherent, but
The plot arrangement is not very good and the pacing is a bit inappropriate.
"Cameron, the love between these two people will go through many tests... and the final ending will be on the flight..." Ronald tried to remind the other party in less intense language. He has also written a script himself and knows
This kind of experience of inspiration from heaven is rare. And once the screenwriter has this experience, he will definitely feel that the script is favored by God, and he will not think that there are any flaws.
"Yes, I put the last note on the plane. The two of them looked at the seat belt indicator light. After a ding, they can release the seat belt. This symbolizes that the two of them have finally left the shelter of the family and officially
Entering adult society.
The girl kissed the boy and said that no one thought that the two of them could get together. My wife Nancy and I were the same way. At that time, no one thought that she, a popular rock singer, could get together with me, a screenwriter with no successful experience.
But it’s still beyond everyone’s expectation…”
Crowe's eyes shone brightly. This script was different from the "fast-paced Richmond High School" he had written for Ronald before. It included many of Crowe's own experiences and emotions. So he especially wanted to
This film serves as his directorial debut.
"This is a precious creative passion," Ronald thought to himself, and could not destroy Crowe's passion. "In the end, the father gave up interfering in his daughter's love affair because his investment scam was exposed. Isn't this a bit too tricky?
?" Ronald tended to accept the script, but he still made some comments in certain places.
"Isn't life stranger than my script? Look at those people who went bankrupt in the stock market crash. There is also the Naples movie tycoon De Laurentiis. He once made very good movies, but now he can only survive.
.”
Cameron Crowe is very excited, the muse is favoring him, and this script is the best.
Ronald was also attracted by this passion. In an industry where few people understand what movies can make money, such passion and self-confidence are very rare, so they deserve some cherishment.
"I can initiate a project and I will invest in this movie, but the audition of the male and female protagonists requires my consent. After all, the most important thing in a romantic drama is the chemical reaction between the male and female."
"Of course, even if you don't tell me, I still want you to choose. Your vision is the best. The love between men and women is as matched as Dirty Dancing. Who would have thought that Patrick Schwytz can also play a couple with Jennifer Gray. They are in Red
Hated each other so much at dawn."
Ronald and Crowe agreed that Daydream was expected to invest five million US dollars in filming funds, and then prepare a reserve fund of one million. The distribution side began to look for a distributor. If the film only had Daydream's
It would be a pity for low-end theaters.
"This script doesn't seem to be very good?" David Simkins, the manager in charge of the production, raised some objections. The film's script was flawed and it seemed that it would be more suitable to be shot as a low-budget film.
"A script is a script after all, and a movie is a movie after all." Ronald waved his hand, indicating that the other party didn't understand. After all, Simkins has no experience in directing, and many movie scripts are not very good, but there are directors who can turn them into
The pictures and the actors have given wonderful acting skills. It can be said that after many wonderful movies have been made, it is impossible to tell that the script is so mediocre.
David Simkins had a kind of blind admiration for Ronald's vision. Seeing that Ronald was so determined, he stopped arguing and went to make plans with colleagues in the production department.
Ronald was actually not very sure that this movie would be successful. But Cameron Crowe's determination and ecstasy moved him, as if Crowe had already seen the wonderful finished film, and the entire movie
The images and sounds were already in his mind. Just like he dreamed of making the film, it was worth giving a chance. Besides, five million US dollars is not a lot.
However, the new director Crowe must be paired with an experienced producer. Ronald thought to himself that he would be the most suitable candidate, but he might not be able to find time to stay on the crew as he still has many films to make.
focus on.
Well, Ronald flipped through the business card box and saw the name of Polly Platt, the art director of "Working Girl" and Bogdanovich's ex-wife. If Polly helped him watch this movie,
I no longer have any worries.
"This script is very interesting and unconventional." Polly Platt, who accepted the invitation, read Crowe's script in Ronald's office. She admired the innocent love and bravery of the male and female protagonists.
The attitude towards facing unknown life.
"I'm glad you like it. I want to ask you to be the producer of this movie, Polly. You promised me that if there is a movie you like, you will be the producer for me, right.
Bar?"
Ronald quickly climbed up the pole and took out the words Polly promised half-jokingly at the time, so that she could share her worries.
"I remember what I said at the time was, there will also be a fat check." Polly Platt asked for her salary with a smile.
"Of course, I won't let you suffer." Ronald wrote down a salary that exceeds 30% of the market price on a piece of paper, and also included a small share of the box office share and the share of the video tape. He folded it and handed it over.
passed.
"Deal!" Polly Platt saw the number on the note and immediately stood up and shook hands with Ronald, for fear that the other party would regret it.
"Hahaha, I finally got some good news these days." Ronald stood up and hugged the old lady, then asked his secretary to print out the contract and send it to the lawyer for review.
"I think you are a little troubled, Ronald." The old lady noticed that Ronald was troubled and wanted to give him some relief.
"Hey, it's not about the new film Steel Mulan." Ronald picked up a newspaper from the document basket on the table and handed it to Polly.
"John Malkovich and his wife Glenn Headley are in a cold war... The husband is suspected of being cheating"
Below the title is a still of Malkovich's slightly bald "Dangerous Liaisons", and then introduces some filming conditions of the film, and Malkovich's wife, also the actress Glenn Headley, was seen in and out of the famous divorce
Photo of lawyer's office.
"Love on the set?" Polly Platt was not happy about this kind of thing. The same goes for her ex-husband Peter Bogdanovich, who fell in love with the heroine Sybil Shepherd on the set, and later
Abandoning his wife and children has made him miserable.
"I can't tell you who it is, but because of this incident, the new film Steel Mulan that I invested in encountered a lot of trouble in the casting."
After all, Polly is a person behind the scenes and is no longer active on the front lines of Hollywood. Recently, rumors and gossip have spread everywhere in the industry.
It is said that there was originally a local Los Angeles gossip newspaper that wanted to use a special feature to publish the affair between Michelle Pfeiffer and Malkovich. It included interviews with many crew members and the partners of Malkovich and Pfeiffer.
some stories.
However, Pfeiffer's agent Limato, a partner of the old Italian William Morris Agency, has been monitoring the news in this regard. After getting the tip from the newspaper's insider, he took a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, he contacted the newspaper's owners
To carry out public relations, on the other hand, measures were taken against Pfeiffer and Malkovich.
Michelle Pfeiffer has been given a gag order. This kind of relationship gossip, the more people talk about it, the more it will heat up. What is needed now is to bite the bullet and refuse to admit it, no matter how exaggerated rumors are spread in the industry, hide behind
The family never leaves the house and never says a word to anyone.
Pfeiffer's husband, Horton, was also a client of William Morris. He was promised a lot of benefits, and he also knew that a big scandal with a big star like Pfeiffer might not be good for his future, so he also filmed movies on the TV station honestly.
, any reporter who asked Pfeiffer about the scandal was completely refuted.
But in fact, the two have already started talking and decided to break up amicably. They have also begun to seek help from lawyers to divide their property. Michelle Pfeiffer has developed much better than Holden in recent years. This divorce is actually a good thing for her.
Wife Pfeiffer has to pay alimony to Holden.
If both parties could handle it coldly, there would be no problem. But the other party in the extramarital affair, John Malkovich, had a big problem.
Malkovich seemed to be truly moved. He was cut off from all contact with Pfeiffer, and all calls were rejected. CAA's Ovitz, who had originally hoped that he would make more noise, had to accept this former man and woman.
A male celebrity with a bad relationship reputation suddenly turned into an innocent man!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Both Michelle Pfeiffer and John Malkovich seem to be cursed by the drama "Dangerous Liaisons".
In the play, Count Valmont was also a bad guy, and he was able to seduce women from all walks of life. Marie de Touvel (played by Michelle Pfeiffer), known as a chaste woman, was finally moved by him and started a relationship with him.
Although Valmont was moved by the love of a chaste woman, he was also moved by his true feelings.
I don’t know if the love reaction in this play is too immersive, and both actors have symptoms of the characters in the play. Madame de Tourville finally returned to her family, while Valmont was obsessed with love, and finally died in the duel.
John Malkovich had some symptoms of Valmont. After filming the film, he returned to America, and he soon discovered that Michelle Pfeiffer was avoiding him. Unwilling to lose the beauty's favor, he continued to launch offensives, but always received a rejection.
.
Malkovich, who could not see his lover, developed severe depression and even cried in front of his wife, calling Mrs. Tuvel. His wife Glenn Headley thought at first that something was wrong with him because of filming, and took good care of him. Later, he took good care of him.
After peeking through the letter he wrote to Pfeiffer, I learned that he was dumped by the beautiful woman Pfeiffer, which made him so sad.
Glenn Headley was furious, moved out of the house, and sought help from a divorce lawyer. Although rumors spread and after being exposed by the media, she received threats and benefits from CAA and never said a word to reporters again, but Marco
Vicki's problems did not get better.
Now Malkovich's wife is divorced, his lover is ignoring him, and he is crying at home alone every day. CAA's agent saw that the problem was serious and had to hire a psychiatrist for treatment.
Malkovich's depression had reached the clinical stage. When he went to see a doctor, when the psychiatrist mentioned Pfeiffer's name, he burst into tears and couldn't hold a conversation at all. He could only postpone the conversation until the next treatment session.
However, Markovich's behavior remained the same during the next session of treatment, and the psychiatrist had to notify CAA of the severity of his symptoms.
Although the psychiatrist abides by the privileges of a doctor and patient and does not disclose it to unrelated people, CAA is not a place where secrets can be kept. Soon, rumors spread that Malkovich was in tears every day because of the beautiful woman he played opposite.
Go. It made both him and Pfeiffer very stressed.
Whenever he goes to see a psychiatrist, he is surrounded by reporters. And Michelle Pfeiffer is also implicated and cannot go out. Everyone is waiting for an opportunity. As long as Malkovich breaks down in public, they can get the appropriate treatment.
reasons, and seek Pfeiffer's explanation head-on.
I couldn't go out, meet with director Herbert Ross, and discuss the script with Ronald. Gradually, Herbert Ross also got excuses and kept raising the idea of changing the starring role.
But for this kind of movie project, the production rights do not entirely belong to Ronald. The screenwriter also has an investment. Ronald knows that he must resist at this time, otherwise Herbert Ross will continue to interfere after he gets the heroine.
Other casting choices.
But it's not an option for Pfeiffer to continue avoiding the media like this, which makes it a little difficult for him.
"Ha... some women are like this. All the men in the whole crew are fascinated by her. It's hard to avoid falling in love with the characters in the play." Polly Platt patted Ronald.
"But it usually ends after filming. I originally thought Sybil (Shepard) and Peter (Bogdanovich) were like that, but they obviously had real feelings for each other."
Only by waiting for time to extinguish the passion, the shortest is six months, the longest is a year and a half, they will always fade away from the passion."
"Six months?", Ronald covered his face. In six months, my "Steel Mulan" will be lost. The screenwriter still has the production rights of this movie. If he is still unable to start work, by then
It is common practice in Hollywood for him to find someone else (such as Herbert Ross) and kick him out.