Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ronald and Helen arrived first. After a short rest in the house on Fifth Avenue, Ronald went to change clothes. Helen saw the photo of Ronald and his wife at Demi Moore's wedding on the table outside, and picked it up to look at it for a while.

"What do you think of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's marriage?" Helen turned around and asked Ronald who had changed his clothes.

"I'm happy for them." Ronald glanced at Helen. Why did he bring up this topic?

"I mean, how do you feel about marriage...? I mean, do you think they really love each other?" Helen was a little flustered under Ronald's gaze.

"I think so. Look at their smiles. I believe it's true love." Ronald picked up the photo of himself and the newlyweds and pointed it to Helen.

Demi in the photo looked at Bruce with spring in her eyes and one hand on her husband's shoulder. Bruce smiled happily and put one hand around Demi Moore's waist.

"Marriage without love is immoral." Helen Slater looked at the photo of the two and blurted out, "If marriage is for something other than love, there will definitely be problems."

"It's difficult, isn't it? When people travel in the world, they are always surrounded by various factors, such as wealth, passion, children, or something else. The kind of love you are talking about may only exist in Hollywood movies."

"Don't say that. I think there must be pure love between men and women to get married. Recently, newspapers have been saying that Demi married Bruce for his star status of 5 million in salary, calling him a gold digger."

"That's unfair, Demi Moore is still missing a movie."

"Humph..." Helen's temper as a girl from Upper Manhattan who likes to talk nonsense came up, "What about Harrison Ford and his ex-wife? Didn't he divorce her after starring in Star Wars? I don't think they had real love at that time."

"We don't know what his relationship with his ex-wife was like at that time." Ronald felt that Helen was a little abnormal today. Whether Harrison Ford loves his ex-wife is a personal privacy, but he has two children. Now he only pays child support.

"Let's take another example. What about George Lucas? His ex-wife Martha was an editor. She edited many parts of Star Wars. Didn't they get divorced?"

"This..." Ronald knew the inside story. It was Martha Lucas who cheated.

"All men are like this. At that time, they liked their girlfriends because they were beautiful, or they had something to ask of them. What happened after ten years? The woman is not beautiful anymore, or the resources are no longer useful to him. Your friend Cameron is the same."

"Uh..." Ronald thought to himself that this was true, "but they loved each other very much when they got married."

"That's what I said. We need real love. This short-term passion is not real love." Helen began to use her own logic, "But people who take advantage of the opportunity to be in love don't know if it is real. So my point of view is that it is better for people not to get married, because you can't understand what real love is."

Ronald secretly wiped his sweat. It would be good if he didn't force marriage. "I think you're right. Can we have dinner now?"

"Hahaha..." Helen saw that Ronald was still very patient with her after all the nonsense she had said, and her mood suddenly improved. "How about we go eat Italian food?"

The two of them tacitly stopped talking about this matter and went to the building

While eating, Helen was still thinking about the phone conversation she overheard when she went to her father Gerald's place. They were discussing the possibility of Helen marrying Ronald and letting Ronald accept Jewish doctrine. Although her father immediately refused, she was very uncomfortable with such words that regarded her as a bargaining chip.

Fortunately, Ronald did not see her like this. Helen laughed at Ronald again.

Ronald was puzzled. What did he say that was good and bad at the same time? What he didn't know was that there was a large group of Jews behind Helen who were considering the possibility of recruiting him.

The Jews in Hollywood were still very concerned about Ronald's appearance. Such a non-Jewish genius director and producer was undoubtedly a threat to the Jewish control of the entertainment media industry.

Ronald had a production and distribution company, so he had the possibility of breaking away from the seven major studios and doing it himself. Although Jews have gradually taken control of the few remaining major studios and distribution channels, even Disney, which has always been the most anti-Semitic, has gradually opened up the situation in it.

But it is unpredictable about movies. How many movie studios can rise because of a movie. Jews do not want this situation, which has been hard to come by after struggle, to have any accidents. It takes a lot of resources to suppress Ronald, and it is also not good for supporting Jewish star actors.

After all, Ronald's "Dirty Dancing" has brought up the rare Jewish actress Jennifer Grey. Now the circle is piling resources on this rare beautiful and popular actress. After Barbara Streisand reduced the production of movies, Jews have not had a female star for a long time. The biggest obstacle for this race to dominate the entertainment industry is that women are not good-looking.

If Ronald can be recruited to be the husband of a Jewish girl, and then through some operations, he can convert to Judaism, then the problem of him not being one of their own can be solved at the lowest cost.

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Helen, who let go of her knot, had a good rest with Ronald at night. Ronald slept soundly until dawn.

Proper sex makes men full of energy. Ronald came to the office where the film was being prepared very early.

"Good morning, Ronald." The assistant was surprised to find that he had not arrived earlier than Ronald.

"Good morning, just like yesterday, you help to watch the door, and give me a warning time when someone from the Writers Guild comes." Ronald made good progress in the morning and wrote several scenes. Until a phone ring interrupted him.

"Hello, Ronald is talking." Ronald picked up the phone.

"Hello, Ronald, do you remember me? This is Cameron."

"Oh, God, Cameron, why did you call me, we haven't seen each other for two or three years, right? Are you okay?" Ronald heard that this was Cameron Crowe, the screenwriter of his first movie and the original author of the novel "Fast and Furious Richmond High School".

Since the two finished filming the movie, Crowe later wrote "Wild Wild Life", which was not as good at the box office as Fast and Furious. Later, he worked as a screenwriter doctor for director Joe Schumacher and revised the script of "St. Elmo's Fire".

Ronald turned around and filmed the low-budget "Night of the Comet" and "The Karate Kid". The two rarely met after that.

"I wrote a TV series for Universal Television, which is a spin-off of "Fast and Furious". They have the rights to adapt it. But the ratings in 1986 were not high, and the eighth episode was cancelled. Even Claudia Wells, the heroine of Back to the Future, couldn't be saved...hahaha."

No wonder Ronald hasn't heard Cameron Crowe's name appear in Hollywood recently. He didn't find an opportunity to be a director, and then turned to TV series. After the failure, he was basically abandoned by Hollywood.

After the TV adaptation of "Fast and Furious" was cancelled, his girlfriend Nancy Wilson, who was a rock star, ushered in a career explosion. The Heart Band formed by Nancy and her sister released two consecutive albums that ranked first on the charts, both of which sold millions of copies.

The two got married in 1986, and after marriage Cameron Crowe basically became Nancy's househusband. However, starting this year, Nancy reduced her musical output and began to rest. She also encouraged Crowe to continue trying his favorite film career.

"So, you are the helper Rick (Nicita) found for me?" Crowe called, it was arranged by Nicita.

"Yeah, I think there is no better way to return to Hollywood than this, as long as you still recognize my screenwriting ability." Cameron Crowe was the first one on the list that Nicita took a fancy to.

"I have to be honest with you, Cameron. I can't sign you, and I can't pay you. We have to do it secretly, and you can't tell anyone that you helped me. When the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild reach an agreement, I will compensate you from other places."

"No problem, we are old acquaintances." Cameron Crowe readily agreed.

"This job requires working until very late. I will fax you the scripts I need to rewrite every day as soon as possible. You must revise them immediately. No matter how late it is at night, you must give me a satisfactory revised draft. I will slip it under the actor's door at night so that they can get familiar with it before filming the next day."

"I know the rules." Cameron Crowe also cherishes this opportunity. I have agreed with Nancy that she will support me.

"That's great. I am very confident in your level. But we have to be careful. You can call my assistant later. I will sneak out and find a place to talk to you. The strike may be inevitable. They will occupy the set at that time. These people will stare at me every day when they have nothing to do."

"It doesn't matter. I have been with Nancy for the past two years. I haven't paid the membership fee of the Writers Guild. My current membership is suspended. They won't care too much about me..."

Nicita also called Ronald later to ask him how the interview with Crowe went.

"I have decided to use him. This is not a job interview. I just need someone I have worked with before. He is the most suitable."

"I have worked with you before. Since you like him, let's make it happen. I will arrange for him to fly to New York and rent a hotel."

Cameron Crowe took the earliest flight to New York that day. During the journey, he revised the script that Ronald faxed to him. After staying in the hotel, he discussed the plot with Ronald in the hotel.

"Very good, very good, you are still the genius screenwriter. The Harrison Ford you wrote is very good." Ronald read the plot revised by Crowe. While letting Harrison Ford show his charm, he also made the supporting roles of other characters very good, which did not affect the overall plot conflict.

"Nancy is his fan, and I have watched a lot of videotapes." Crowe is very familiar with Harrison Ford's star image, so Jack Traynor in his writing has Harrison's usual temperament.

"Very good, that's it. I'm sorry that I can't invite you to the crew to communicate with the actors. Today, the Writers Guild officially announced that it would start a full-scale strike. Let's keep this private communication, and no one in the crew will know that you are here to help me."

"No problem, but I don't know what food is here." Cameron Crowe breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Ronald was satisfied with his work.

"Call this number," Ronald took out the door card of his Fifth Avenue apartment, which had the housekeeper's phone number on it. "This is the serviced apartment where I live, in the building, you can order whatever you want. If you get tired of eating, you can go somewhere else to change your taste.

Well, why don't you just live in my place, it's more private, and the annoying people from the Writers Guild can't get in."

"That's great, thank you."

The two arrived at Fifth Avenue, and Ronald opened a long-term rental room for Crowe in the hotel.

"The conditions here are great, very quiet, I will be very efficient," Crowe said with a smile. He turned on the TV, which happened to be replaying the footage of the Writers Guild announcing the strike.

Brian Walton, the plenipotentiary negotiator for both writers unions, announced the start of the strike on television. The two major unions in the East and West, with a total of more than 9,600 screenwriters, will refuse to write new scripts for Hollywood movies, TV series, scripted live reality shows, and TV commercials from now on.

He vowed to help screenwriters get the power they deserve.

"The first is a total of $300 million in arrears. This is owed to all screenwriters by producers in Hollywood and New York TV over the past three years. Nick Coonter, president of the Producers Guild, proposed $50 million The dollar compensation amount is an open insult to screenwriters, who have long been exploited by alliances centered around producers and directors.

Not only do we need to get the full amount of the money, we also need to reach a new dividend ratio and continue this residual dividend model.

Then, the screenwriters also need to have enough say over the director and starring actors. American audiences have had enough of watching actors who have been forced by producers. "

Brian Walton has a good image on TV. He speaks with a British accent and a gentle tone, but the content is very tough:

"We will never give in this time. We will use our screenwriters as volunteers to supervise the Hollywood crews that have already started shooting, and the talk show TV shooting set supervisors. No one can violate the regulations. Otherwise, we will follow the rules The law has the power to prohibit it.

This time is different from two and a half years ago. We know that the Directors Guild and the Producers Guild have reached an agreement in advance, but we will not give up because of this unfair agreement that obviously favors directors and discriminates against screenwriters. We will unite and work together to achieve success. to the final victory.

Finally, I would like to warn the directors and producers of the show that you'd better not play any tricks. We will catch those who want to cheat. "Finally, Brian Walton pointed at the TV camera.

"Fortunately, I got it done first." Ronald thought to himself, this strike may not end so easily. The negotiator's movements seemed to be pointing at himself outside the TV.

Having solved a major concern, Ronald returned to the preparation office. As soon as he reached the door, he was surrounded by a large group of people.

"My name is Mona Mangan of the Writers Guild News Writers Division, and my team and I are responsible for supervising the strike on the Working Girl crew."

The leader of those people was a woman, who came up and introduced herself to Ronald.

"Okay, how do you want to supervise? I hope it won't affect our shooting." Ronald shrugged helplessly.

"Of course, you are also a member of the Screenwriters Guild. As long as you cooperate with the union's collective actions, we will get along well.

Look over there, it’s our protest team. Several screenwriters will come to the filming site every day to protest, but they will not disturb your filming. Do not enter the core area of ​​​​your shooting. This is the kind of coverage we're fighting for in the media, and I hope you understand. "Union woman Mona Mangan was very professional.

"As long as it doesn't affect the shooting, it doesn't matter. I understand."

"Very good. That's our inspection team over there. Everyone entering and exiting the set needs to register their name and identity with them. We will assist with inspections every day."

"You talk to my production assistant and don't embarrass the crew and actors, especially the actors. They are very sensitive. If they are stopped by your people, they may lose their status."

Mona Mangan discussed with her staff for a while, "That's no problem, but we need to get your crew pass list and check the photos."

Hurry up and negotiate the terms, and Ronald will send these annoying union people away.

The crew had begun to talk a lot. Ronald went up to call everyone together and assured them that the crew's script had already been written, the dialogues and scenes had been refined, and would not be disturbed by the Writers Guild's strike. Please cooperate with the union's work. .

The staff and actors also asked a lot of questions, and Ronald answered them one by one, and then they left with peace of mind.

Ronald took a deep breath, looked at his watch and saw that it was already evening, and hurried back. When I was going out, I was stopped by the union inspector, who let me go after seeing clearly that it was Ronald.

"What a mess, the union has made a lot of noise..." Ronald returned to his house and was still complaining after taking a shower.

Turn on the TV and it's David Letterman's late night show.

"Our first guest tonight is... No, there are no guests today..." David Letterman, who had not shaved his beard, said feebly to the camera, "The writer is not here, and we can't invite guests. . We can't do anything. The senior officials are negotiating urgently. What do you want to see today?"

"Dongdong...dong..." The band also played a soundtrack often used in movies to express helplessness.

"How about I show you how I shave? Uh-huh..." David Letterman took out the electric razor and started shaving. The assistant promptly brought a makeup mirror, and after Laitman finished hanging it, he took a photo in it.

Then the scene cut away, and Cher's last interview with ex-husband Sonny Bono, the most-watched episode, was replayed to save the day.

Ronald used the remote control to change several channels, and the late-night talk show was basically on reruns.

It's really a big deal now.