Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 445 Ovitz's ambition
"It was a really great party, Mary. I hope it's a really great birthday, too."

"Oh, it's my last birthday. I'm tired of living."

A man dressed in a black robe with only a white neckline as a priest helped an elderly woman with white hair upstairs.

Ronald is at home watching his recorded TV series, and ABC TV is showing the four-episode miniseries "The Thorn Birds".Originally Ronald seldom watched TV series. He watched this mini-series because Richard Chamberlain was the leading actor. He played the leading role in the TV series "The General" led by Ovitz before and won the Golden Globe and Emmy Awards. .

Of course, what attracted Ronald even more was the white-haired woman, the most famous actress in Old Hollywood, and perhaps the best actress among the actresses who hadn't won an Oscar.Or from Ronald's point of view, she is the best actress of all.

Barbara Stanwyck, the real girl with a thousand faces, can be a liar, a villain, a victim, a teenage girl, a columnist, and more.Already more than seventy years old, she is still playing an Australian manor owner on the TV screen this time.

The two walked up the stairs and were about to enter Mary's bedroom.

"Kiss me and see you later, Ralph," Barbara Stanwyck's Mary says to Richard Chamberlain's Reverend Ralph.

"Good night, and happy birthday to you." Ralph took Mary's hand, bowed his head and kissed it.

"No! Kiss my mouth, Ralph, kiss me, like we are a pair of lovers." Barbara Stanwyck's acting suddenly broke out, the emotional expression of a woman longing for a man to kiss herself, completely different Like a 76-year-old man.

Ronald was taken aback. He had never read the original novel, and he didn't know that Pastor Ralph was sent to Australia for committing a crime of adultery.

"But I'm a priest!" Ralph argued without changing his expression.

"You're not a priest, you're just a timid, impotent man! I love you, I've always loved you."

"No, you don't love me. I'm just a phantom in your memory of the past. When you see me, you think of yourself when you were young."

"Let me tell you what it's like to be old. Under this stupid skin, I'm young! I still feel! I still want! I still have dreams!" Barbara Stanwyck's eyes filled Despite the unwillingness to the past, "I still love you!"

Ronald hit the pause button on the remote and rewinded to watch it again.The performances of these old actors are superb, and the emotional progression is very rhythmic, and they met good opponents again.This kind of climax performance by Stanwyck can be said to be seen once less.

When watching it again, Ronald felt that Barbara Stanwyck's performance was not only a plot, but also a farewell to his past acting career?With the increase in experience and wisdom, if it weren't for her aging face, she would have just reached the peak of her acting skills.

After watching Stanwyck's performance several times, Ronald wrote down his experience.People always say that their acting skills are not good, so I still have to watch more performances of these old actors who have experienced the golden age of Hollywood.Anyway, I don't really want to act, but to inspire the actors' performances.

"Hey, who is this actress?" The tape continued to play, and some years later, Pastor Ralph seduced Maggie, the granddaughter of Mrs. Mary's brother.

The actress has big eyes and a refined demeanor, not like an American girl.The inner wildness of the soul and the outer weak appearance are precisely a very interesting contrast.Not really an Australian girl, is it?Only that wild land can cultivate such characters.

"Rachel Ward," Ronald noted her name.

"Have you seen the ABC miniseries 'The Thorn Birds'? Barbara Stanwyck is so good in it."

Early the next morning, Ronald arrived at the CAA office, and he came to chat with Nisita about his next film project.I haven't seen Nisita for a while, let's brag first.Ronald talked about his discovery yesterday to his two agents, Nisita and Richard.

"That's the project Mr. Ovitz promoted." Nisita smiled, "Richard Chamberlain was the male lead in Ovitz's first packaged TV project 'The General'. That was CAA's first attempt at this kind of In package form, but we're going to be able to replicate that on film right away."

"Oh, which movie is it?"

"Come with me." Nisita led Ronald into a large conference room, "On the wall are all the Hollywood projects we track, movies, TV series, talk shows, all here."

Ronald remembers this big board with the progress of all the big productions on it, where CAA's agents searched, exchanged, and tracked various opportunities.

At the bottom are the most recent releases.

Directed by Stallone and starring John Travolta, "Flying Dragon and Phoenix Dance" opened in more than 600 theaters in the first weekend, but only got 200 million box office in the end.

"Jaws 3D" received more than 300 million box office from [-] theaters.

Looking at the performance of these movies, Ronald felt amused. He might as well be able to play "Night of the Comet". If Atlantic had the marketing and distribution capabilities of blockbuster movies, these would be his own defeats.

Because there is no movie that can carry the big banner, "Night of the Comet" moved up two places slightly to No. 12, above which is "Lightning Dance", which continues to be a box office staple.

Of course, this is not the strongest nail household.

The strongest nail is Disney's colorful cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Almost every seven or eight years, Disney will re-release her, so that the younger generation of children who have never seen it will be familiar with this Disney princess.The first weekend has won more than 600 million box office.

As a color cartoon shot in [-], this achievement is really scary.

Going up the board is a film that will be released next year and has now been completed or is being produced.

"Dune" finally started, and after several painful revisions of the script, David Lynch went to Mexico to shoot this sci-fi masterpiece.

The above is John Milius' "Red Dawn (Red Dawn)". This movie tells the story of America being invaded by the Souvier Alliance and Cuban Airborne. U.S. troops join forces to save the people of America.

Almost every young Hollywood actor, including those Ronald worked with, auditioned. The screenwriter of "Apocalypse Now", John Milius personally wrote and directed "Red Dawn", which is favored by many producers.

In the upper column is the new project "Romancing the Stone" directed by Robert Zemeckis. In order to direct his own "Back to the Future", he first chose a commercial film to prove himself.Ronald saw Michael Douglas written in this column. CAA chose the film for him.

On the top is "Amadeus". Ronald saw that none of the names here had the logo of CAA, indicating that this was not a contracted client of CAA.

Director Milos Forman is the director of the former Oscar Grand Slam "Leap Over the Cuckoo's Nest".Ronald accidentally saw the name of Meg Tilly in the column of leading actress.Her husband, Kinneman, is still pretty good.

"Czechoslovakia", "Mozart" has a mark next to it, indicating that it was filmed in a foreign country.Many socialist countries in Eastern Europe will attract Hollywood movies to shoot there to earn foreign exchange.It just so happened that Milos Forman was of Czech descent.

At the top are two movies, "Beverly Hills Cop," and "Ghostbusters," which Ronald has seen.

"This is Ghostbusters", again the package that Mr. Ovitz brokered, if this movie sells, CAA will have more studios coming to us and you will have more Here's your chance, Ronald," Nisita tapped the name of the movie on the board.

"Gentlemen," said Ron Mayer, one of the founders of CAA, entering in a Hawaiian shirt. "Can you give us the conference room? Michael is here to meet important guests soon."

"Of course", Ronald, Nisita and others filed out.

"I don't know which big star Mr. Ovitz is meeting again?" Ronald thought.

Richard had opened the door of his office a crack and was peeping.

A strong figure entered the conference room under the guidance of Ovitz himself.

"It's Stallone," said Richard LeWitt.

"Stalone? He has a new movie?" Ronald thought of the script of "First Blood 2" written by his good buddy Cameron.

Behind Stallone is another man with long hair, chatting with Stallone all the way.

"It's John G. Everson!"

"Evelson?" Ronald was a little suspicious, why did they talk together again?
"What's going on?" Ronald looked at Nisita.

"It's normal. Stallone's Flying Dragons did not do well at the box office and received rave reviews from the critics. He doubted whether he would still direct his next Rocky series, 'Rocky IV', so he hired the first A Rocky director, Avelson discusses."

Both Nisita and Stallone are Italian, and he has his own news channels.

"Isn't Evelson directing the Long Wei boy I wrote?" Ronald muttered.

"So we should pay a visit to Mr. Weintraub."

(End of this chapter)