Ronald is in Washington, D.C., in the office of Mrs. Graham, the owner of the Post. Here you can overlook the Post's office building and printing plant. During the period of the previous leadership of Jimmy, the Washington Post also encountered serious crises.
Strike crisis. But since the current old Ronald came to power and the economy has developed, such large-scale strikes have rarely been seen.
"After the ultimatum is issued, the Grand Commander will re-send special commissioners to mediate. This is the biggest strike in the Grand Commander's term since the airport air traffic controllers went on strike in his first term. The Grand Commander hopes that the beginning will end well and a good outcome will be left.
He made a good impression on his American people." Mrs. Graham told Ronald some of her own personal experience. Dealing with a strike requires patience and courage, just like a hunter waiting for the opportunity to hunt.
"So, what should be done to end the strike as soon as possible?"
"Now your focus is on those writers who are dissatisfied with the union, threatening to quit, and filing charges with the National Labor Relations Board. As long as their proposal to invalidate union rules that prohibit them from returning to work during a strike can be passed,
Hollywood’s dilemma will be lifted.”
Ronald thought thoughtfully, the key to this kind of thing is to invalidate the union leadership that can organize pickets. The matter has reached this level, everyone is actually already tempted, and the key resistance to mediation comes from negotiator Wo
Newton, and several public television stations.
"But this shouldn't be something you think about, little Ronald. You'd better think more about how to convince me to lend you the Post Office building to make a movie. Last time they wanted to use it to film our reporters exposing the Watergate scandal.
I didn't even agree to the movie." Mrs. Graham deliberately acted arrogant, asking Ronald to convince her before she would lend the office of the best newspaper in America.
"Haha... our movies are different..." Ronald smiled, "There won't be dwarfs in our movies, they will all be handsome guys and beauties. I will also be on hand to supervise and let the sun shine in through the window. The most beautiful part of the day."
What a wonderful time to shoot. This way the Post will appear as the true 'America's conscience' to the people."
Mrs. Graham is talking about "All the President's Men", a movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. Due to the needs of the plot, the entire drama is dark and obscure.
The Wall Street Journal office is like a prison.
Ronald is going to film the romantic drama "Chances Are", so of course he wants to film the Post in the best possible way. In the interior scenes of the Post, the male protagonist is played by Robert Downey Jr.
The scene where he and Ryan O'Neal, two handsome guys, come to apply for a job can make all young people who are interested in becoming Post reporters feel that this is a place worth coming to.
"Hahaha..." Mrs. Graham felt very comfortable with the compliment. This young man knew his own thoughts very clearly. Dustin Hoffman's dignified appearance as a Post reporter would scare away fresh blood.
The crew of "Chances Are" finished shooting scenes in Maryland (where the cost is cheaper) and came back to DC to shoot the last two scenes. The filming in Maryland went so well that during this period, Luo
Nader has received no requests for his intervention.
Emil Adolino was very involved during this period, and his mustache looked a little tired. When Ronald told him that he had taken care of borrowing the Post's office, he cheered and clenched his fists to encourage himself.
Watching the director gradually become more confident, Ronald was also very happy and hugged him to celebrate.
"Also, I also got the Smithsonian National Museum of History, and they agreed to lend it to us for half a day to shoot the auction scene."
"Hahaha..." Director Emil Adolino was even happier now. Many American children visited here when they were children. The character of Sybil Shepherd in the play is in this national museum.
A curator called the First Ladies Museum.
Here are collections of wax figures of previous first ladies, as well as personal items given by each first lady. The most famous one is undoubtedly a pair of earrings belonging to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Ronald contacted the current first lady Nancy, who was considering making a wax figure for the museum and donating some personal items. Ronald proposed that she and her husband go to Hollywood to give lectures after retirement. So this rental
The museum's request was quickly resolved with Nancy's "concern".
The crew had a great time filming in Maryland. This news made them very happy and they all cheered. Being able to film in a real historical building was a very good encouragement for the actors.
"Mary, how are you feeling?" Ronald asked Mary Stuart Masterson, who plays his daughter, the youngest actor in the play.
"Miranda is smarter than any other character I've played, you know, I usually play the street-smart urchin, pregnant, barefoot." Masterson is happy with the role, no longer the rebellious tomboy image he once had.
, but a wealthy and talented girl who went to Yale University.
"I heard that you performed very well. Emil always praised you to me."
"Hey, hey, the high school I went to was very much like Yale. It was also like a pressure cooker." Masterson and Deyi, although they did not go to Yale, are very experienced in that kind of fierce competition.
"Uh...", Ronald thought to himself, if you had gone there, you wouldn't have said that. Yale is a relatively free place. It doesn't have the same unified values as Harvard, and it doesn't have as much pressure as MIT. It's a place where
A school where you can work hard and be flat.
"Oh oh oh...Mom is here..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Ronald saw the heroine Sybil Shepherd. When she was filming, two eight-month-old twins were on the set every day.
Two nannies were specially hired to take care of her, one to look after the other. Of course, they were all paid for by Ronald's daydream.
In order to make her different from the image in the TV series "Blue Moonlight Detective Agency", the crew specially hired a top hairstylist to shorten Sybil's hairstyle by a few inches and make it more conservative.
The costume designer also specially customized several sets of Chinese and Italian fashions for him, mainly black. This is the main color that Sybil Shepard has never tried before, and combined with his conservative hairstyle, it is unexpectedly dignified and sexy.
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"Where's Robert?" Ronald asked the actor.
"He's been late a lot recently, but he's still very energetic when shooting." Masterson came over and told Ronald.
"Talented actors often have their own preparation methods..." Ronald saw that Masterson did not complain deliberately, but was a relatively naive girl.
"oh……"
On the second day, when the official filming began, it turned out that Robert Downey Jr. was late. As a result, Sybil Shepard went back to be with the twins first. They were still reluctant when they were called out.
The children are so cute that I don’t want to leave them for a moment.
"Every unit is ready..." Director Emil Adolino gave the order, and Sybil Shepard, as the director of the First Lady Museum, walked out slowly... surprising everyone present. This close to four
The actress is still so charming.
Even Robert Downey Jr. was stunned and obviously stunned for a moment. However, this was obviously more in line with the character's setting, and he remembered things from his previous life.
"Cut..." Emil Adolino communicated with director of photography William Fleck, "This print has passed."
"Wow wow wow...", amidst everyone's applause, Ronald came over to chat with the director of photography, Fleck.
"What technique did you use? Why does the light on Sybil seem to sparkle?"
Ronald was a photographer, and he knew very well that it was not the sudden burst of charm of Sybil Shepard, but some innovations in the lighting arrangement that he had never seen before, which created an enhanced Rembert on Sybil's face.
Lang style lighting.
This lighting method first invented by classical oil painters is usually a close-up of the protagonist's face to highlight a dramatic effect and focus the audience's attention on the protagonist's eyes.
But William Freke's technique is stronger than ordinary Rembrandt light, as if her eyes were black gems in the water, gentle and demure.
"This is a little invention of mine. When I was shooting a L'Oreal commercial for Sybil a few years ago, the manufacturer kept asking me to give clearer eye highlights. The way I came up with it, I only used a little
Improved light path, and some reflective arrangements... haha... what do you think?"
William Flake was a cool technology geek. His proud invention was discovered by Ronald, and he happily explained it to Ronald.
"After you finish shooting this movie, you can go to My Daydream with your personal lawyer to find Eddie, the general manager. We Daydream work with many people, such as editor Walter Murch, your invention patent
If you license it to us, you can get patent fees and sales dividends."
Ronald liked this kind of little invention very much. Daydream collected a lot of these little things that could add color to movies, and became a relatively famous special effects equipment sales and rental company in Hollywood.
"Hey? Do you think anyone will buy it?" William Flake didn't know that such a small invention could be patented and sold for money.
"No problem. If you don't know how to do it, go consult a lawyer. These expenses can be reimbursed as long as you sign a contract with Daydream to authorize production." Ronald took out a business card with his company's phone number and handed it over.
give him.
"Oh..." At this time, the actor Robert Downey Jr. yelled, then tripped his right foot with his left foot and fell to the ground.
"What's wrong?" Everyone came forward and saw that he was lying on the ground with a very painful expression. His manager rushed up, took off his shoes, and helped him up.
"Downey had to wear these shoes for these close-up scenes, so he got blisters on his feet..."
"Oh." After hearing the news, Ronald immediately called his assistant and helped Downey to rest. Robert Downey Jr. was only five feet and seven inches. When he was acting opposite the tall beauty Sybil Shepard,
You must wear shoes with increased height to avoid exposing any flaws.
Because Sybil Shepard had bigger cards than him, he couldn't let the actress stand in a dug hole like Tom Cruise did on the set.
"You can't go on like this, Downey. You must stop immediately after filming this movie. Otherwise, I will tell Sarah (Jessica Parker)." The manager helped Downey to the trailer.
After closing the door, we started talking about Downey. This man's alcoholism and drug abuse have reached the point of addiction. If he hadn't been so clever today, the seriousness of it would have been exposed to the producer.
"It doesn't matter, I know..." Downey sniffed, "I'll talk about it after I finish filming."
"Why……"
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After solving some of the filming difficulties for the crew, Ronald is going back to Los Angeles.
Things got complicated after those in the Writers Guild issued an ultimatum to the union's negotiators.
The commander-in-chief appointed a former friend in Hollywood as a special commissioner to mediate the strike. Ronald, as an important representative of small studios, was also visited by the special commissioner, asking him to use his influence to end the strike as soon as possible.
"What can I do?" Ronald shook his head, he didn't want to get involved in this mess.
"This is Nancy's request. She was also a Hollywood star before and she doesn't want to see Hollywood shut down anymore."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Well...since it is the first lady's wish...", Ronald agreed in person.
The special correspondent was very busy and began to visit some board members of the Eastern Writers Guild.
Ronald called his agent Niceta to learn about the situation.
"Should I make some phone calls and ask them if they can reconcile?"
"You can call the William Morris actors..." Niceta laughed, and he half-jokingly asked Ronald to recruit people.
"You guy..." Ronald hung up the phone and called a few suitable people.
"Michael, do you think we can do something?" Ronald called Michael Douglas. This is the eldest son of the Jewish leader in Hollywood. His presence is much more useful than his own. Just follow him.
Anyway, the writers of the Writers Guild are starving to death, and ending the strike is just a matter of a few more weeks or a few less weeks.
"You called at the right time. We are about to organize a charity sale to raise some temporary relief for those screenwriters who dare to resist."
Michael Douglas is not talking about the die-hard unionists who dare to rebel against the Producers Alliance (he also has a production company and is a member of the alliance), but the screenwriters who stand up to resist the union.
The key to breaking the situation now is those screenwriters who threaten the union negotiators and want to quit the union and return to work at the TV station. The voices of these people are gradually beginning to be recognized by the majority of union members.
As long as they continue to persevere, they will be able to gather more and more voices. Moreover, they are going to work for the three major wireless TV stations, so the TV stations will not be unhappy. Seizing these more than 20 senior screenwriters is the solution
The starting point of the strike.
The most important thing now is to let these people hold on for a longer time. So we need to raise some funds for them so that they can continue to attack the chief negotiator Walton.
On the 23rd, formal negotiations resumed under the auspices of a federal mediator.
But the negotiator is still unwilling to give up his terms, which is the basis for his ability to continue to gain a foothold in the union.
On the 30th, the negotiations broke down, and the Hollywood production union threatened not to negotiate further, but to abandon cooperation with screenwriters and concentrate on producing non-union scripted works.
Ronald, who has returned to Los Angeles, has begun preparations for Cameron Crowe's new film "Into the Heart."
At this moment, Michael Douglas sent an invitation. The charity sale for the Writers Guild was going to be held on the weekend. The other party asked him if he had any exhibits that could be included in the auction.
"I have a few Andy Warhol paintings, but they're not worth much."
"It doesn't matter, everyone is doing their best. Just take some pictures of other people's things when the time comes."