Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 327 Necessary Conditions for Dreams

"It was wandering in the depths of the universe when the solar system was formed. Its elliptical orbit is so long that the last time it visited the earth was 500 million years ago, which happened to be the era when the dinosaurs became extinct.

But now, in the last twenty years of the twentieth century, it's back. "

A clear dream came unexpectedly again, and Ronald saw a hand put the video tape into the machine and press the play button.

Then a red star appeared on the TV, flying towards the audience, accompanied by this scary narration.

The lens turns.

On TV, a beautiful woman in a movie theater uniform is talking to the boss.

Ronald discovered that it was played by Catherine Mary Stewart whom he met at the reception.

The heroine Regina, played by Catherine Mary Stewart, is an employee of a movie theater. While she was playing a game console, several customers came to buy tickets to enter.

The boss is selling them a comet headgear that can be hung on the head, with a long tail behind a small ball. Today is the day when comets visit the earth. The audience can watch the comet in the sky after watching the movie.

Regina is a game console whiz, and she breaks high score records.The boss asked her to go on tour.

There are many movie theaters in America, but the quality of the audience is actually very poor.They often deliberately litter food and garbage, and some hyperactive teenagers will cause some damage in it, tearing down a chair is not a problem.

This often requires the employees of the cinema to patrol the venue with a flashlight.

But the light of the flashlight will disturb the audience watching the movie and make them dissatisfied. Some people just throw things at the patrolmen.

Regina was very unhappy with the job, so she reluctantly took the flashlight to go round the set, then walked into the back projection room, and complained to her boyfriend who was a projectionist.

Boyfriend is making some movie prints and throws the rest of the footage in the trash.

"What is this for?" Ronald didn't understand. The projectionist is not an editor. Why is this projectionist cutting the film with scissors like an editor?

"It's 'From Space', how much do you pay for a copy? One hundred dollars, hey, this is a 3D movie, one hundred dollars is insulting me. 110? Okay, just 110." Dealers negotiate prices for pirated copies.

"This bastard made a pirated copy for $110 and sold it to underground dealers. This copy can be shown in theaters for at least a year. How much money will the studio lose? How much will us directors lose?" Rona De was so angry that he wanted to curse the character in his dream.

The tape moves on.

Regina was calling her sister Samantha, and the stepmother of the two wanted to go out to see the comet, so she slapped the disobedient sister Samantha, Samantha hit back, and the stepmother punched Samantha's mouth bleeding , and then went out to see the comet by himself.

This slap seems to be very realistic.Ronald thought that the actor who played the younger sister was also an acquaintance, Kelly Maroney, the cheerleader in "Fast-paced Richmond High."She finally played the leading role in this movie?
The older sister, Regina, spent the night with her boyfriend in the screening room, while the younger sister slept at home to heal her injuries.Their stepmother went out to watch the comet with the neighbors.An old man still said that in 1910, he saw Halley's Comet. At that time, it was said that anyone who saw a comet would die.

Suddenly a comet came, and bursts of light like lightning illuminated everyone's faces.

Then there was another burst of very bright red light, and comet watchers let out a yelp, and then the TV flickered to a pale red sun in the sky.

The sky is very red, it seems that the dust stirred up by the comet hit the earth was lifted into the sky?
There were a few shoes and clothes on the ground, with some red dust on them, and people were all evaporated.

"This video is wrong, what about the comet hitting the earth in the middle? It was too violent and cut out?" Ronald thought.

Regina's boyfriend opens the door and goes out in the morning.

Suddenly, a horrible zombie rushed over and hacked him to death with a wrench.

"Is this a zombie movie? Isn't it a science fiction movie?"

Ronald recognized the gray-faced, muffled zombie makeup from the low-budget exploitation flick Dawn of the Dead four years earlier.After that, a batch of follow-up exploitation films were all about humans vs. zombies.

Regina killed the zombie and drove home on her boyfriend's motorcycle.Except for his sister Samantha, everyone in the family was reduced to ashes.

The sisters heard that the radio station was still playing, and the two went to the radio station.Another surviving man, Hector, is found.

The station played timed tapes.Sister Samantha improvised as a DJ, playing pop music to the survivors and calling them to meet on the radio.

The two sisters casually changed into beautiful clothes in the mall, and with the accompaniment of a nice song, they entertained themselves with a fashion show.

The song is nice, but the lyrics are a bit unrestrained, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"

Who knows that the broadcast did not attract survivors, only a group of robbers.Fortunately, the father of the sisters is a military officer, and they have been shooting in the shooting range since they were young.They picked up a short submachine gun and fought the robbers, eventually defeating them.

Sister Samantha's broadcast is heard by government scientists in an underground bunker.They sent a helicopter to take the sisters to the scientific research center in the bunker.

"Hey, isn't this female scientist Mary Voronov?" Ronald recognized another actor he had worked with, who played the staid female principal in "Rock High School".

Surprised, Ronald woke up.

"Gu... Gu..." Ronald went to the bathroom to get a glass of water for himself, and drank it with a straight neck.

The dream scene this time is relatively clear, and the time is relatively long.Ronald sat at the table and began to think about why he dreamed of this movie.

This movie is not quite like the big production that Ronald had in mind.There are very few actors in it, and the scenes that use extras are all close-ups and close-ups, so that there is no need to hire many extras.

But on the other hand, the investment in the film seems to be huge.The red sky, the empty city, if it is a scene, the cost should be in the millions.If it is a real shot, then the cost of the application process alone is not low, and the favor of a major studio is needed to ask the government to cooperate.

Is there any footage of a comet hitting the earth?There are many coincidental scenes between this movie and the script I wrote, but there are also some differences.All of a sudden Ronald couldn't make up his mind.

Still think about why you dream of movies.

Ronald listed on paper what he had done.

Tennis, meditation, aerobics, these sports and dream time are a bit out of sync.

Is it because I happened to write a comet-related script, with motorcycles, shopping mall clothes for nothing, radio broadcasting news, etc.?
Not quite right, I have been writing the outline of the plot for several days, why did I dream it today?
Maybe it was because I met Catherine Mary Stewart, who played the leading role?
possible.

Think back to "Rock and Roll High School", "Fame", "Fast-paced Richmond High School", and "The Urchin of the World" in which I dreamed about the clips. I saw or wrote the plot of the script, and then Meet the actors who played the leading roles in the movies.

Maybe having read/written the script, plus knowing the actors who participated in it, are the necessary conditions for dreaming of a movie?

Maybe I need to exercise by myself, or sleep more deeply after drinking, and have more dreams.

Also, maybe you have to remember the movies you watched in your previous life.

Ronald looked at the four points he summed up. In the future, he would know more and more people in the industry. After his status rose, he would be invited to direct more and more scripts. Wouldn't it be possible to dream of more movies?

Ronald felt that his future was bright.Immediately turned on the computer, and began to write the script of Comet from memory.

What's your name?

"The night the comet came?"

"A comet hit the earth?"

Ronald was dumbfounded, it's better to keep it simple. "Fast-paced Richmond High School" is often simplified as "fast-paced" because the name is too long. If you want the audience to spread word of mouth, a short and easy-to-remember name is the most convenient.

It's called "Night of the Comet"

Ronald typed out the title, and then started typing.At the beginning, the comet hit the earth had to add a big scene to make the audience happy.

In the final ending, the base was breached by zombies, and the sister was polluted by zombies and left with the zombies. The sister and Hector left together, looking for other survivors to jointly deal with the zombies.

The sun shone into the bedroom, and Ronald pressed the save button to save the written script to a floppy disk.The floppy disk began to squeak.

"I still need to buy a more advanced computer. The one used by Hinton on the 'Outside the World' crew is fine."

Ronald thought that the monitor of this Commodore computer was a TV, and it was too tiring to stare at it for a long time.

With a "click", the floppy disk stopped making sound.

Ronald knew that the file was saved, and then he pressed the print shortcut key, and the dot matrix printer began to creak, tapping quickly on the ribbon line by line, and printed out a sheet of manuscript paper.

"Richard," Ronald sorted out the script and went to the copy shop to make a copy.Then pick up the phone and hang up with the agent. After the first draft is finished, send a copy to CAA first, and ask them to help pass it on in the studio circle.

Although this method of writing a script by oneself and asking the studio to read it does not comply with the regulations of the screenwriters union, but as long as it is a screenwriter with a famous work, the studio does not object to this operation.Sometimes the screenwriter's intuition may be sharper than the studio's.

"Ronald, do you know too?" Richard answered the phone and said to Ronald.

"What do I know? My first draft of the script is ready to be mailed to you."

"So fast? That's a good thing.

No, I'm talking about the plagiarism of Spielberg's ET Alien script.Your teacher Scorsese has publicly spoken out in support of Bangladeshi director Rey. "

"Ah? Why did he do that? Could it be plagiarism?"

"Go and buy a 'Star Weekend Magazine', which has detailed research. Ronald, Steven is in trouble now, can you contact Mr. Scorsese first?"

It was Nisita who was on the other end of the phone. It was obvious that they were having a meeting to discuss and wanted to gain some benefits from it.

(End of this chapter)