Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 338 Helping each other
"Boom boom, boom boom... boom boom, boom boom"

The heavy drums began to beat, and Ronald, who was lying on the bed, tried to open his eyes. Could it be that he drank too much champagne at the party and forgot to turn off the TV?
A skeleton warrior made of silver-white metal jumped out of the TV, only two eyes were red, and he held a thick gun in his hand.

"Biu Biu Biu..."

What shoots out of the gun is not a bullet, but a laser.Huge helicopters, robots, and humans in military uniforms.

"Huh, dreaming again?" Ronald was refreshed. Which actor did he see today that triggered the dream?

"The computer that controls all these robots, Skynet, sent two Terminator, through time and space, from the future back to our time..."

A somewhat deep female voice narration came in.

"It's Jim's Terminator?" thought Ronald. "The Terminator is still being made, so we'll have to see it."

Under the bluish background light, a burst of lightning intertwined, and a naked muscular man appeared.

"Isn't this the bodybuilding champion? It seems that the muscles exploded when I took Mr. Olympia before." No wonder I dreamed that the Terminator robot was played by Schwarzenegger.

The Terminator entered the bar, grabbed someone's leather jacket and boots, and took a shotgun.

There was another burst of lightning, this time a handsome naked man who was unlucky and fell next to a police car. He knocked the policeman out with a punch, then put on his police uniform, got into the police car and drove away.

"This is probably a human resistance soldier." Ronald watched with gusto, Jim's director level is very good.

The Human Rebels found the address of the leader of the Rebels, John Connor, a ten-year-old boy through the laptop in the police car.

"The script changed?" Ronald thought, the script he read was to kill his mother.But there is still a children's play in this way. Jim seems to be really high-level. It is difficult to direct children's actors.

After a moment of trance, the camera turned to the street.

The Terminator played by Schwarzenegger drove a Harley motorcycle on the street looking for John Connor. He found Connor riding a small motorcycle on an elevated road, and the speeding car began to chase.

At the same time, the human resistance fighters who found the address also started to look for them. The two saw John Connor playing a game console in the mall almost at the same time.

The Terminator drew a shotgun and aimed it at Connor in the aisle, and the Rebel fighters on the other side of the aisle also drew a small pistol and pointed it at the Terminator.

"Get down," the Terminator yelled, and then took the first step, hitting the rebel fighter with a single shot.

"Huh?" What kind of plot is this?Killed the human protagonist not long after the opening?
The "Rebel Soldier" paused after being hit, then stood up straight, and continued to walk forward. A large hole in his body was struck by the bullet and began to repair and restore.

"Ah, I..., this is a robot." Ronald thought to himself.The suspense is set well. At first, I thought it was the human resistance army, but I didn't expect it to be another robot terminator, the liquid metal robot that can transform into tens of millions.

But is the script magically changed or what?Why are the two robots fighting each other?Take credit?
After another trance, John Connor took the opportunity to escape from the mall, got on his little motorcycle and ran away.

The two Terminator continued to chase, and the liquid metal robot grabbed a large truck to kill Connor. The Terminator played by Schwarzenegger appeared in a Harley, grabbed Connor with one hand and put him on his motorcycle, and then Fancy loading the shotgun with one hand and blasting the truck's gas tank backwards.

There was another trance, and Ronald was a little confused. Why didn't the Terminator kill Connor after saving him, and took him to save his mother Sarah Connor?
John Connor asked the Terminator the purpose of saving himself. It turned out that he was a robot recoded by the Rebels, sent by the old Connor to protect his young self.

In a battle in the mental hospital, the two rescued Sarah, and the Terminator told the origin of Skynet.The three decided to kill the designer of the Skynet chip, change history, and prevent mankind from falling into a nuclear war.

The liquid metal robot arrived and killed the black chip designer in the shootout.The two sides are chasing down the street again, and the liquid metal robot can't kill him no matter what, he will repair it by himself.

In the end, the helpless people drove the car to the steel factory. In the steel blast furnace, the liquid metal robot was finally wiped out.And the last human chip that can evolve Skynet is in the brain of the Terminator played by Schwarzenegger.

For the future of mankind, he voluntarily self-destructed.

"Boom, boom, boom... boom, boom" The heavy drums began to beat again, and the actor who played Sarah Connor had a man's jaw. She told the audience in a low-pitched narration that in the original history Skynet Awakened On that day, nothing happened, they have changed history.

"what!"

Ronald yelled, awakened by himself.

Why is it so beautiful?Why are the special effects so realistic?

There is no flaw in the liquid robot transforming into the image of other people.Also, he was frozen on the ground by liquid nitrogen, and after encountering the high temperature of the explosion, he returned to a liquid state. Countless mercury-like droplets gathered together and recovered into a robot. How did this shoot?

Is the gap between people really that big?
Even George Lucas and Spielberg couldn't make this kind of scene.

Ronald fell into deep self-doubt.

"Jim, congratulations, you wrote a great screenplay."

Two days later Ronald found Gail Hurd's apartment and handed over his script revisions to Jim Cameron.

Ronald finally figured it out. What he dreamed about might not be the Terminator, but the sequel to the Terminator.

The Terminator robot played by Schwarzenegger in the first film is the villain, which is why Sarah Connor ran away as soon as she saw him in the mental hospital.

The first few scenes were deliberately set up by Cameron.This made the audience mistakenly think that Schwarzenegger was still the villain robot this time, so in the first half hour, he rescued John Connor. This was the first major reversal of the plot, which just revived the audience's curiosity rise.

Ronald was relatively confident that what he dreamed of was a sequel movie.

Because the special effects inside are clearly ahead of the current film industry.Lucas' Star Wars special effects, I don't know the details of the production method, but I can always think of a general idea.

And those liquid metal robot deformation lenses in the dream didn't even have a thought.Although Cameron is a genius in special effects and can produce good effects at a very low cost, Ronald does not believe that he can shoot that kind of shot now.

Maybe there will be some new technology in the future to make that kind of special effect possible.

"Ronald, do you have an idea?" Seeing Ronald's visit, Cameron hurriedly took Ronald's revised opinion and looked at it.

"What budget are you going to find for this movie?"

"Gail and I estimate eight to ten million dollars."

"That's impossible. I marked some scenes that are too expensive to realize. You can handle the special effects. I just have doubts about the effect of some shots, such as the liquid robot. The current technology will only feel fake. .”

Cameron frowned and found that the plot of the liquid metal robot had been deleted.

"Any more?" he asked.

"You have too many scenes, Jim." Ronald pointed to the form he had listed, "So many scenes, the cost of setting, lighting, and the total time accumulated for shooting can make you bankrupt .”

Ronald pointed to the scene in the script and carefully analyzed it for Cameron.

"These scenes can be merged together, so you don't need to make too many transitions, each transition is troublesome, wastes time, and increases labor costs...

These scenes can be shot in night scenes, mostly shopping malls, parking lots, and streets, so that you can directly use the lights in these scenes without artificial lighting...

Believe me, when I was filming 'fast pace', the progress of the mall scene was more than twice as fast as other scenes...

And these scenes are merged into one shot, you can also save rehearsal time, so that when you shoot the dialogue shots of the actors, you don’t have to wait for the lighting time, arrange them to be shot on a day, and the emotions can be matched when editing... ..."

The doubt in Cameron's eyes gradually turned into a sudden realization.

Everyone has worked for Roger Coleman. Needless to say, there are some things that need to be said. This modification of the script is completely based on the economic point of view of filming. Try to shoot more economically without destroying the picture and drama. .

"It's roughly like this. When shooting, you will find that spending money every day is like running water, so on the whole, you are not afraid that some scenes will be difficult to shoot, but that some scenes will be difficult to shoot. If the shooting plan is delayed by one more day, your expenditure will be reduced. uncontrolled rise."

"In addition, I suggest that you secretly shoot some scenes and don't report them. Otherwise, the cost of LAPD dispatching to clear the scene will be a lot of money, and there is a strict time limit. Of course, if you can persuade the seven major studios, take To big budgets above $1000 million, that's another story."

Ronald recalled the past when filming "Fame", the NYPD dispatched to block the road, and it was not allowed to shoot more than one minute.

Cameron looked at the proposal and recalled Ronald's words, "Ronnie, this is the best suggestion I have ever heard since I wrote this script. I have to calculate it carefully and change it like this. Gail's chances of getting an investment are much higher."

"This is your script." Jim took out a copy of Ronald's "Night of the Comet" script from the drawer and handed it over, which was filled with Cameron's notes.

"The actor's makeup problem, you can solve it like this...

The main characteristics of zombies are bluish complexion and enlarged eye sockets. If you don't need rubber and plaster, you don't need special effects makeup, and let regular makeup solve it...

The ashes of people evaporated by comets don’t need to use Hollywood’s popular paint powder, but can be replaced by an ordinary building material…

There is also the red sky, if you shoot Coleman, you can actually be lazy and get it done with a little trick, but this requires redesigning some shots, so that the audience will not be too dramatic...

What is difficult to solve is this empty city. I have thought about it for a long time, but there is no way to save money and ensure the viewing effect of the audience. "

Ronald read the annotations carefully, and Jim made detailed annotations on many special effects makeup and special effects models.

But the scene of the empty city, Ronald didn't want to compromise.

There are three or four concentrated scenes before and after the plot. If they are deleted or replaced with small scenes such as schools and shopping malls, it will be impossible to bring the audience into a sense of reality of the end of the world, and the overall appeal of the movie will be greatly reduced.

Ronald didn't really want to make a Roger Coleman-style exploitation film, the kind of film that costs 30 million in the new world, the audience is with a kind of "I know you are a bad movie, I just come to see it" Beauty and plasma attitude come.

Ronald would have made this kind of movie a long time ago, and if he continued to make it, he would not improve. The mainstream movie circle might just forget about himself.

Counting Jim's ideas for himself can save a lot of expenses.The cost of this Night of the Comet seems to be filmed without 200 million yuan.In this way, plus the 50 investment promised by Roger Coleman, I still have a funding gap of more than 100 million to attract investment.

Ronald couldn't help being envious of Cameron. He had his girlfriend Gail to help with investment and distribution, so he could only concentrate on artistic creation.

"Jim, I'll add your name to the screenwriter. These edits have helped me a lot."

"Help each other, and I'll add your name to the Terminator writers too."

Ronald has more experience in directing, coordinating, and editing, and Jim also has experience in special effects makeup and special effects models.A friend who is also a director helps each other and gives advice, which is of great help to both of them in their creation.

(End of this chapter)