Spielberg's expectations for "Empire of the Sun" are very high. The country has just opened its doors to filmmakers from all over the world, and he and Bertolucci were the first two Western directors to come here to shoot on location.

Hollywood sometimes pays attention to fashion. In the past two years, everyone has vaguely felt that movies set in the scenery here will be the next hot spot.

Not only the American people are queuing up to travel and appreciate the scenery of the ancient country, but the Oscar judges also want to film movies here. The one who tries it first is most likely to become the favorite for various Oscar awards.

"Empire of the Sun" and "The Last Emperor" are both epic movies that reveal the transformation of a great era from one character.

The Oscar awards are based on a voting system. Now everyone in Hollywood is pursuing foreign styles. The best-selling "Crocodile Dundee" has also deepened this love for foreign styles. This year, two movies were shot in the ancient East, and

It fits the American audience’s enthusiasm for a glimpse of the scenery.

Spielberg, who has always been good at catching fashion trends, really wanted to win the best director statuette he had dreamed of for a long time with this movie. Last time for "The Color Purple", the Oscar judges deliberately did not give him a nomination for the director award.

, which made Spielberg specially criticized in an interview on the TV station. Now everyone feels a little guilty about him, maybe his dream will come true.

Spielberg also told Ronald that this was the first time he filmed a story about children bidding farewell to their innocence and growing up as adults. He abandoned his previous best method of filming innocent emotions in children because he wanted to break the convention.

Find a breakthrough for yourself.

Seeing that Spielberg was so focused on the movie, Ronald said goodbye to the crew and stopped disturbing him.

After the visit, Ronald invited his partner Lao Yan to have a meal again. He had been researching some new inventions recently, but to no avail. His son Xiao Yan, after accompanying Spielberg this time, accumulated some knowledge.

If you have the qualifications, you can start your study abroad career in America next year.

"I'll leave my son to you, Xiao Luo. Son, when you get there, you have to listen to your brother Luo. He can beat you on my behalf, you know?" After drinking some rice wine, Lao Yan officially entrusted his son to

Ronald.

"That's it for my whole life. You have to live up to your expectations and work hard there." Lao Yan poured a glass of wine for his son and drank with him.

"I think Lao Yan, you also have the opportunity to go to America. Now that you are working, I can invite you to visit there. When you retire, you can also travel there, settle down or something." Ronald

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit sad, he tried to persuade Lao Yan.

"Yes, Director Luo is there to take care of you, and Xiao Yan is also working hard. You will enjoy the blessings from now on, Lao Yan." Director Huang was also invited to have dinner with Ronald. Among the few of them, even Ronald is here

I'm a close friend next to you.

"Your movie 'Human Ghost Love' is a specially made video tape. I will take it to Hollywood to see if anyone is willing to introduce it. After all, this is a Chinese movie, and it talks about an opera that American audiences are very unfamiliar with. Maybe

The best result is that it will be released on a small scale in some theaters in Chinatown."

"I understand, and I would be very happy to have the opportunity."

Ronald and Director Huang talked about her going to Hollywood for further study. Now that they want to go abroad, they still need an invitation letter from the foreign party and approval from the leadership.

Ronald planned to send the videotape of this film to Gale to see if their Hollywood Women Practitioners Club would be interested in extending an invitation to the female director who made this outstanding female film to come and communicate.

Finally, Ronald went to the Minhang Lightning Lamp Factory to have a look. The exported long-arc halogen lamps had good quality stability. In addition, the city government paid attention to it and it was close to the countryside. Various supporting non-staple food and light industrial products were sufficient.

, the workers’ enthusiasm is very good.

Ronald finally took the workshop director and other cadres and took a group photo together in the factory director's office, under the certificate of "Export Model Unit for Foreign Exchange Earning" on the wall.

…

"Hello, Mr. Li, the plane is about to land." The middle-aged flight attendant in business class woke Ronald up. It was another long flight, and he brought the fine wolfberry and tea that Director Xu helped to buy.

, returned to Los Angeles.

Little Bud drove to the airport to borrow him, and along the way his manager Richard took the time to report on what happened during his absence.

"The news from Paramount is that Top Gun's box office performance can continue, and the company has decided to speed up the release of the video.

Pepsi-Cola thinks that the commercial you shot for their Diet Pepsi-Cola was very effective, and they want to know if you can re-shoot the Top Gun commercial yourself and put it on the video tape. They are willing to pay a lot of money."

"I'm out of time. I'm about to start working on 'Moonlight'. Besides, are they not satisfied with the commercials shot by Kathryn Bigelow?" Ronald asked.

"No, they are quite satisfied. It's just that Michael J. Fox starred in the commercial, and they also thought about letting Tom Cruise also shoot one."

"Did you talk to Paula?"

"She is not very willing. Tom Cruise now tries his best to find famous directors and excellent scripts when choosing roles. He does not want to settle on a role like a fighter pilot."

"Then pass," Ronald replied.

"At MGM, Mr. Weintraub did not return my call. There are some rumors in the industry that he and his boss Kerkorian had some conflicts. It seems that Kerkorian did not honor the stock options he had promised."

"Ah? It won't affect my movie preparations, right?"

"No, I have contacted Mr. Kerkorian's secretary. She said that Mr. Kerkorian also attaches great importance to MGM's first film when it resumes production, and she also wants to meet you."

"There's no rush. You need to find Weintraub first and I'll have a chat with him."

After dealing with the accumulated matters, Ronald thought about break dancing again and said to Richard, "Please help me contact Minahan from Cannon. I have something to discuss with him."

…

Minahan Golan's body has gained some weight, and his belly protrudes a lot more than when he last saw him.

"Ronald, quack quack. You came just in time. I was about to go to the screening room to watch two copies of the movie. Come along and we'll talk while watching."

"Of course, I'm here to talk to you about break dancing." Ronald knew that Minahan was now the president of a large company, and his work was not as busy as before.

"Break dance? What, are you willing to make a third part? I'll invest in it!"

Minahan jumped up more than a foot and happily patted Ronald on the back, "As long as we cooperate, we will definitely make a hit movie."

"No, I went to the other side of the Pacific and they decided to introduce 'break dancing', so I came to you. Can you give them a low price then?"

"No problem. This movie has basically been sold all over the world. In a few years, we will be able to enter emerging markets that are difficult for Hollywood to enter. This is a good thing."

Minahan has a good intuition about the international market. His movies always do well at the box office in Britain, and there is also a Cannon fan club there. You must go see any new Cannon film.

"This is the new movie we asked Stallone to shoot. Yoram, Yoram, and Ronald are here. Let's watch it together. Projectionist, projectionist starts."

Minahan's voice was still loud, his head moved rapidly from side to side, and he greeted everyone present loudly.

There was also a person from the production crew who probably brought the edited copy to the court today. They stood up and said hello to him respectfully.

"Everyone sit down, everyone sit down. Let's watch Stallone's new movie 'Over the Top' first, and then I'll watch yours."

The Cannon logo flashed across the screen, and the subtitles for "Over the Top" began to appear.

This movie was directed by Minahan Golan, written by Stallone himself, and starred in it. The main story is about a divorced truck driver father, Lincoln. After his ex-wife fell ill and was hospitalized, he drove the truck with his son and participated in arm wrestling in bars everywhere.

Competition, and finally participated in the national arm-wrestling competition and won the championship, and also improved the relationship with his son.

As soon as Ronald saw the titles of director and screenwriter in the title sequence, he felt a sense of disaster coming to his face.

Sure enough, the movie parodied the storyline of "Rocky" by changing the boxing match into a bizarre arm-wrestling match and changing the girlfriend's emotional journey into improving her relationship with her estranged son.

Different story plots, but using the same structure, the film has a very comedic feel.

It took a lot of effort for Ronald not to laugh at the arm-wrestling sessions in various weird bars.

In the end, when the scene where Stallone arm-wrestled with a big guy who was two heads taller than him, and was about to lose, he turned defeat into victory by looking at his son with magical power, Ronald couldn't help but break the move, poof.

He burst out laughing.

"Hahaha, isn't this ending very good? I specially invited the Italian Giorgio Morodel to compose the music. After he composed the soundtrack for your 'Top Gun', the price more than tripled."

"Haha... yes, this soundtrack is really good. If I close my eyes and imagine the battle on the screen, I will feel excited." Ronald really had nothing to praise, so he could only praise the soundtrack.

stand up.

He didn't say that if he opened his eyes, he would definitely laugh again.

Minahan Golan continued to praise himself, and his cousin Yoram pointed to his watch to remind him that time was tight.

Minahan waved his hand behind him, indicating that he should start putting down the movie.

"Who is that? Don't you have a document you want me to sign? Hurry up and bring it." Minahan called the waiting assistant to come up, took the document, and began to sign.

The name that appeared on the screen was "Alan Quartermaine and the Lost City of Gold," and Ronald recognized the actor as Richard Chamberlain, a knock-off of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" with Sharon Stone.

Sequel to "King Solomon's Treasures".

"This copycat is very uncreative, even the naming rules are copied." Ronald rubbed his chin and thought, this Minahan is really thorough in his work.

Starting from the second film of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford, has been included in the title of the film, forming the protagonist's method of exploring treasures. This is a complete plagiarism by Minahan.

As soon as the movie started, Ronald couldn't sit still, and this sequel was so painful that he almost closed his eyes in embarrassment.

All the scenes have no special effects, they are just improvised. Let the protagonist Richard Chamberlain use his revolver to fight dozens of enemies with machine guns. In other words, only when the enemies are stupid can he win.

It’s unknown how much money Minahan invested in the film and how much was embezzled.

Is Minahan filming so many movies now that he can't manage it anymore? If he had watched the crew during the time when he was breakdancing with him, there would be no way he would have ended up like this.

The performance of the heroine Sharon Stone was also extremely exaggerated. Ronald felt that even Helen Slater, whose acting skills were ten times worse, could not play the role of the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus in the primary school drama festival.

so.

"Hey...bah..."

Ronald heard in the corner that an actress also hated the heroine's acting skills just like him.

They felt the same way, so Ronald and her looked at each other and smiled.

After finally enduring the terrible movie for more than an hour, Ronald stood up and wanted to leave first. Watching another movie like this again would make my stomach hurt.

Minahan stood up and called the director, "What are you filming? Didn't I tell you, these queens are either ugly or not? Why did you make them look so beautiful? They are all beauties."
To be continued...