Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 621 Three Applause
For the test screening in Los Angeles, Don Simpson recruited an audience of mainly teenagers as the audience for the test screening.

"Where did you find so many teenagers?" Ronald also conducted a trial screening. With so many teenagers, it is difficult to find them by calling the movie theater.

"I went to the university to recruit. There were fighter jets firing missiles and flirting with beautiful teachers with Tom Cruise. They signed up very quickly. Anyway, I paid for their movie tickets with my own money."

Ronald admired Don Simpson's ability to act very much. Fighting with fighter jets and missiles, plus falling in love with a beautiful teacher, so to speak, is simply the most beautiful love story for college boys.

"But our target audience is not only teenagers, so will we not get real results?" Ronald was a little worried.

"Ronald, at this time, you don't want to have the sympathy of this woman. If you don't get the best audience evaluation, how much marketing budget do you think Mancuso will give us?" Don Simpson pulled him to Aside, said in a low voice, pointing to Mancuso sitting in front.He came to see the Los Angeles preview in person.

"To achieve the goal is also unscrupulous," Ronald added another comment to Simpson.But he was right, since it was a battle between two sides, don't blame yourself for shooting out all the ammunition available.

Paramount's factory logo flashed, and two large characters "Top Gun" in metallic gray appeared on the screen.At the time of the test screening, the subtitles were not fully matched.Behind it is the theme song, the shot of fighter jets taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier on Chaoyang.

"Ow..."

The audience of college students was adrenaline-fuelled by the two beautiful music MVs at the beginning.Immediately afterwards, in the Western Pacific, two MiG-28s used overlapping tactics to attack the aircraft carrier formation.

They were stacked close together so that on the radar, only one signal was shown.

Two fighter jets, the Lone Ranger and the Jaguar, were sent to intercept.

The Jaguar was shaken by the overlapping tactics of the MiG-28, and was stared at by one.The Lone Ranger ignored him and drove away another MiG.

When the Lone Ranger played by Tom Cruise came back, he threatened the MiG 28 chasing the Jaguar with an upside-down flight. The MiG pilot was scared and fled.

A burst of intense applause broke out in the auditorium.Against the powerful and ruthless opponents of the Souville Alliance, any action that can make them deflate, even if it is fake on the screen, makes the young people very excited.

"It seems that my arrangement at the beginning is very good." Ronald sat on the back seat, looked at the applauding college students, and his heart was half relieved.

"Isn't this the young Amish woman in the witness?" Two male college students were chatting about McGillis, who was swaying in the airport classroom wearing silk stockings.

"Oh, I didn't expect her to be so..." The two looked at each other and whistled.They have all seen the "witnesses" before, but they didn't expect that the pious and pure young woman would turn into a teacher with flaming red lips.

Whistles sounded one after another, but Ronald was still very happy.Male college students always have a special affection for sexy female teachers.

When it comes to the scene where the pilot plays beach volleyball, it's the female college student's turn to swallow her saliva.

As the story progresses, Lone Ranger and Goose go to the Top Gun Naval Flying Technical School.On the training ground, the Lone Ranger was closely pursued by the instructor "Joker". He had a whim and wanted to play a big one.Suddenly pulled up the F-14 Tomcat, put the F-5S driven by the instructor behind it in front, and then returned to the original altitude, one locked the other side with the missile radar.

"Damn! What a lunatic." The clown cursed in the front cockpit.

The young cadets beat the instructors and delighted the college audience, who applauded a second time.

The plot continued to move forward. When competing for the trophy with the top score of Top Gun, Iceman's plane kept the front attack position and kept waiting for the perfect attack position without firing.The Lone Ranger urged from behind, and he had no choice but to pull up the plane and leave.

The Lone Ranger and Goose, who were very close, were sucked into the wake of the engine of the Iceman aircraft. The two engines stopped in the air one after another, and the Lone Ranger's fighter jet fell into a horizontal spiral.

The stupid goose pulled the ejection lever, and there was a burst of explosion, and the drop-shaped canopy was blasted and flew up.However, the plane caught in a horizontal spiral did not continue to move forward, but circled in place.The goose, which ejected first half a second later, hit the canopy where it should have been left behind.

Half a second later, the pilot Lone Ranger was also ejected, and the canopy had been knocked away by the goose. He opened his parachute unscathed and fell on the sea.

"Oh..." The audience exclaimed. The audience did not expect that this radar officer who had a sense of humor, loyalty, and a happy family with a wife and son died so unexpectedly.

Fortunately, Ronald didn't immerse the audience in this emotion for a long time. The Lone Ranger and the instructor "Viper" chatted about his father who disappeared on the Vietnam War battlefield.It turned out that he was besieged by MiG-21 and landed in Vietnam to cover several comrades including the "Viper".

In order not to expose the tragedy caused by using the wrong map, the American government did not give the Lone Ranger's father a death certificate, and let his orphan, the Lone Ranger, bear the rumor that his father might defect all his life. Several opportunities for promotion were skipped.

Discovering the true meaning of saving each other at all costs among comrades-in-arms, the Lone Ranger soon recovered.

At the graduation ceremony, Iceman won the No.1 trophy.However, the warning came out of the blue, and the five call-in letters recalled the three crews of Iceman, Hollywood, and Lone Ranger, and returned to the aircraft carrier in the Caribbean Sea to fight against the MiG 28 that came to harass the malfunctioning minesweeper.
The MiG 28 took out the stunt of overlapping and concealment again. The radar signals of three MiG 28s were found on the aircraft carrier, which was actually a formation of six aircraft.The two crews of Iceman and Hollywood attacked, but they were surrounded by six crews unexpectedly.The Hollywood F-14A was immediately shot down by a MiG-fired missile.

The Lone Ranger attacked together with the temporary radar officer Wizard. During the dogfight, he accidentally fell into the wake and horizontal spiral again, but fortunately he recovered quickly.Holding the metal dog tag of the stupid goose in his hand, the Lone Ranger overcame the psychological barrier and rushed into the battlefield again.

"Ow...Ow..."

This passionate two-on-six scene quickly aroused the enthusiasm of the audience, and they started screaming strangely again.

The Lone Ranger used a sudden pull-up tactic to let go of the trailing MiG-28, and shot down the opponent with a missile.

"Huh, huh, huh..." The young man couldn't stand this kind of heroic behavior, and started applauding again.

Iceman was rescued by the Lone Ranger, who also shot down a MiG-28.Under his restraint, the Lone Ranger used his superb flying skills to bite two MiGs and shot them down respectively.

Finally, on the sea, two F-14A Tomcats shot down four MiG-28s and lost one.Seeing that they were invincible, the two remaining MiG-28s pulled the joystick and fled.

"Aw, ow..." The audience began to scream again, so that they won more with less, saved their companions, and shot down the enemy's ending, which made them feel comfortable.

In the end, the Lone Ranger did not choose to continue serving on the aircraft carrier, but returned to Top Gun Flight School and became an instructor.He and Charlie were reunited at the bar, where they kissed to "Take My Breath Away."

"Dude, when's it coming out? Next year? Awesome, so by next summer we're the only people in Los Angeles who've seen the movie? Cool! My roommate won't listen to me, he'll regret it to death of."

"This is the best movie I've ever seen, absolutely!" The audience lined up to fill out the evaluation form at the Paramount staff at the door.

"Yeah, are you still playing it in Los Angeles? It's so good. I want to watch it again."

"A+, A+, A+ again," the staff in charge of statistics began to scream after receiving all the scoring sheets, "My God, I've never seen this kind of test screening rating."

"A+? Really?" Mancuso was in the VIP lounge and got the score from the on-site statistics.This shows that there are not many viewers, giving a score below A+.

"Has every audience filled in? There are no mistakes in the statistics?" After carefully asking the team a few questions, Mancuso took off the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Okay, you guys go out first."

He pinched the base of his nose and felt a sore feeling.

How can this be?

Even if Don Simpson played tricks and found an audience that was too concentrated among young people, the ratings were not faked after all.

Taking a step back, even if the ratings were faked, the three applause, whistles and shouts during the screening cannot be faked.

"According to the one-to-one production cost, match the marketing budget." Mancuso only felt bitter, but he had to give the most generous marketing budget for such a film with feedback from the test screening.

"I'm leaving first. You can discuss the marketing plan with the producer and director." Mancuso felt that he couldn't understand the audience. After he ordered Ned Tanin, he left the cinema silently.

Instead of going home, he went to the house of his son, Frank Mancuso Jr., and when he reached the driveway in front of his son's house, he got out of the car, sent the driver back, and walked to the door alone.

"Daddy," son Frank Jr. was about to leave the house.He inherited his mantle and worked as a producer for Paramount, "My 'April Fool's Day', can I find a good schedule next year? Is it possible to have a summer schedule?"

"You should release it in March, the summer file...the summer file will be reserved for a great movie."

"Well, Mira is inside watching TV, and she knows Big Daddy will be happy to see him."

Mancuso Sr. walked into the room and saw his granddaughter Mira lying on the bed watching her favorite MTV channel, which was playing "We Are One Family" narrated by Jane Fonda.

"Sweetheart, why do you like to watch the MTV channel?"

"Big Daddy!" Mila stretched out his hand to hug Old Mancuso, "I just like to watch it!"

Mancuso held his granddaughter in his arms, "Can you tell Big Daddy why you like this channel?"

"Hmm... this is pretty good, but other channels are too slow." While getting close to her grandpa, the granddaughter was still staring at the TV intently, and began to applaud MJ on TV. When she was at home, one person could watch two For three hours, the MV program is played repeatedly.

"Too slow..."

Mancuso put his granddaughter down, looked at his watch, and silently counted the shots.On average, every two or three seconds, one shot is cut, which is indeed much faster than the movies he made. "

"Hey!", he sat down on the chair slumped, maybe the next generation will be the world.

(End of this chapter)