Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 11 Good helper? (ask for a recommendation ticket)

  Prisoned on the same day forever?

   Repeatedly feeling everything you already know?

  You want to change, but have no choice?

   After briefly imagining Roland's current situation, David shuddered.

   "Is it me and Ganetti, did you hurt you?"

  David returned to his seat with a guilty conscience. He just wanted to help Roland get back to normal.

  If he had known earlier that Roland's transformation had nothing to do with his deceased parents, but was all caused by predicting the future, then he would definitely not have consulted a psychiatrist indiscriminately, but would have directly sent Roland to Arkham.

   What a joke! Ghosts believe that you can predict the future!

  If Roland hadn't directly put the evidence in front of David, if David hadn't taken the initiative to throw out the proof that he trusted Roland the most, Sarah Connor, who was fed medicine every day, might be Roland's fate.

  Of course, Roland didn't know that David was only superficial.

  If he could perceive David's brain hole, he would definitely be more relaxed than now.

  Using plots in film and television dramas for communication analogy?

  The two of them have a common language!

   "It's not really harmful."

   "Although, without this item, I wouldn't be in the time loop."

   "But getting in is better than not getting in, what do you think?"

  "The time loop can make me stronger, although at the same time, it will also bring me endless troubles."

  Roland jumped off the sofa, opened the seat by the table, and wanted to communicate with David face to face.

   "In the previous time loop, you helped me collect a lot of information."

   "One of them is the key to hindering me from getting that role."

   "Project producer John Hughes has actually selected the leading actor for the film, and this audition is just a formality."

   "With the default setting, I can't leverage this role at all."

   "In the previous cycle, every time I auditioned, John Hughes didn't talk to me at all."

"do you understand?"

   After so many years of struggling in the business field, how could David not understand the meaning of Roland's words?

  It is really troublesome to make this kind of thing by default.

but-

   "It's troublesome, but there must be a solution, right?"

   "Otherwise, we definitely wouldn't take the audition as a breakthrough to leave the time loop."

   "Since this is the case, then we must first determine the target. Who is this breakthrough?"

"Although the producer is the person in charge of the crew under the Hollywood film industry system, they can't leverage the investor; if it is an overseas investor, of course they can cheat and deceive the other party, but what he is facing now is Fox, what do you think? Does John Hughes dare to blatantly deceive Fox? Fox, which is backed by News Corporation, has countless ways to punish him."

Although David has always disliked seeing his wife let their children film, but for the sake of his two lovely daughters, he did a detailed research on the local Hollywood—he knew that Hollywood is a producer-centered system, He also knows that there are countless unknown tricks in the Hollywood crew.

  Producers are indeed the bosses in a film project, but they are also working for investors.

  Nubi’s producers can indeed sit on an equal footing with investors, and even ask for money by slapping tables, but in the end, the guy who can lead a project is still an investor.

  The "Avatar" of the later generations has a scary high investment cost. Even James Cameron paid for the shares out of his own pocket, but what? In the end, the knife for dividing the money was still in the hands of Fox. Fox entrusts its parent company, News Corp., and Fox Television Network to carry out print media, offline advertisements, and cable television network announcements. Isn’t this behavior telling the world clearly that Lao Tzu is in the left hand and right hand? Fox alone has the final say on the announcement and distribution fee, and the producer and director James Cameron got far less money than the paper split, but—has anyone yelled?

No.

   "Harry Potter" is the same.

   You all want to share?

no problem.

  The contract will still be signed by you.

   Regardless of the box office, it will end up with a paper loss anyway.

What?

   You said there is something tricky?

  Speak with evidence!

   Unless Warner wants to get back the operating rights of New Line, otherwise, how could it be possible to expose the fraudulent box office revenue of the "Lord of the Rings" series? No matter how bold the producers and directors are, it is impossible to fight these film companies openly and aboveboard. In the end, Peter Jackson just took advantage of the trend to ask for money. How could Warner, which owns a majority stake, continue to cooperate with him on "The Hobbit"?

   Such things as default do exist in Hollywood.

  But for local investors, this is actually very ridiculous.

When James Cameron was filming "Titanic", he quarreled with Fox more than once because of whether to use Leonardo. Before Tom Cruise got "Mission: Impossible", Nicolas Cage, May Earl Gibson and George Clooney are actually on the producer's invitation list. If Tom hadn't invested 12 million from his own pocket, Paramount would have directly kicked out the original team. It's not clear whose role this is.

   "In Hollywood today, how many people can tell investors that this role is for everyone?"

   "Anyway, John Hughes will not appear in this big list."

   "Unless John Hughes guarantees that the project will make money and signs a betting contract with Fox, or promises Fox to make up for the final shortfall after the project fails, otherwise, there will be no 100% default."

  “The reason why Fox invests is to make money. The producer is in control of the overall situation, but that doesn’t mean he can mess around.”

   "Since we have determined before, taking this role is the key to your leaving the time loop."

   "Then there must be a solution to this matter."

   "Don't be in a hurry, let's go downstairs to have breakfast first. During the meal, I will ask Ganetti to ask you for news."

David looked at Roland very confidently, without any doubt at all. The cooperative analysis Roland said was actually the result of his own efforts, and Roland was even more relaxed after seeing David's calm expression. Take a breath.

  He felt that David might be his good helper.

  Although he has memories of his previous life, he has never been in Hollywood after all.

  He can rely on his memory to judge the success of a project, but if he digs deep into the shady scene, there will definitely be no natives who are good at it.

   What's more, David is a businessman after all.

  In a world where profit is a priority, his way of thinking must be different from that of Roland in his previous life, who played around.

   Maybe it was a clear goal, or maybe it was David's response that rekindled Roland's hope. In short, when faced with the same meal, Roland still ate with gusto.

   At the dinner table, David also asked Ganetti about the project overview.

   Facing this sudden question, Garnett's eyes were also darkened, and he didn't know anything.

   "Honey, our original goal was not to let Roland join the filming team."

   "We just want to use this method to let him relax."

  Looking at the slightly puzzled wife, David did not explain, but said with a smile: "But, Roland is now interested in filming."

  "Since he has a goal, of course we must fully support him."

   "So, you go to ask them again?"

   Seeing that her husband didn't intend to joke, Ganetti glanced at Roland who was full of expectations, and then nodded knowingly.

   "Then you guys go to the audition first."

   "The guy who revealed the news to me is the director of "Full House". When Ashley and Mary go to film later, I can just ask him. If there is any news, will I tell you tonight?"

  Hearing this, David and Roland looked at each other, and they didn't have any objections.

  Anyway, Roland has plenty of time, so if he didn't say anything today, he can continue tomorrow.

  In addition to getting up every day, I have to explain to David again what state I am in.

  Other aspects, it seems that there is nothing that requires him to bother too much.

   After breakfast, I habitually came to the Fox studio.

  Under Roland's recommendation, David met his 'old friend', Leslie.

When David revealed the identity of the father of the Olsen sisters, the middle-aged woman who didn't want her son to communicate more with other people suddenly changed her attitude 180 degrees and decided to try Roland, who skipped Macaulay, also heard about Leslie's audition content from Leslie's mouth.

   "They first asked me to introduce myself."

   "Then asked me if I like watching movies and TV. I said yes, and they asked me what TV and movies I like and what skills I have."

  “I said I could play the violin, and they found me a violin.”

   "After I finished pulling, they asked about my family situation, and then let me come out."

  Hearing this, Roland raised his eyebrows, "You mean, only those two aunts communicated with you during the audition?"

   "Yes, the other two uncles didn't speak." Leslie nodded decisively with a frustrated expression on his face.

  After hollowing out the other party, David, who had been listening all the time, turned to the right and asked, "How is it? His process is the same as yours?"

   "Yes, even the question is the same." Roland shook his head with a wry smile.

   "Assembly operation? Mechanized questioning? It seems that this quota has really been determined by default."

   David touched his chin, feeling something was wrong.

  Audit audition, don't even face the camera?

  That’s a fart audition!

  Although I wanted to vomit, I still held back.

  When it was Roland's turn, even though he changed his answer, the result remained the same.

  The suffocating operation made the two guys a little bit helpless.

  However, this dull mood did not last long.

When they returned to Universal Studios to pick up the Olsen sisters who had already left the show, Ganetti, who got into the car, threw an envelope to her husband in the driver's seat, "Looking at you like this, you should Is it a failure?"

   "Don't be depressed, because this project has problems."

Note: ①Although Hollywood is a producer-centered system, the person in charge of the project still depends on the fist. Some investors like to take care of things (the investors mentioned here do not include those overseas investments that are not in the United States. Fang, overseas investors are all taken advantage of, and Harvey Weinstein, who raised funds overseas, has deceived so many people, so that Xiaogangpao publicly sprayed him as a liar), when casting "Titanic", Fox I wanted to choose Matthew McConaughey (the protagonist of "Interstellar" later), but Cameron disagreed, so he broke up with Fox directly. ②The "Mission: Impossible" series was not taken over by Tom Cruise at the beginning. At that time, Paramount hired Reza Badiyi, the director of the old "Mission: Impossible" series in the 1960s, to make this movie, but in the end, Ah Tang intervened as a producer, and directly kicked the other party. The budget of the first film was only 40 million to 50 million at the beginning. The production team felt that the money was not enough, and then Ah Tang took the opportunity to let his film company Cruise /WagnerProductions invested, then others would naturally be unable to compete with him, and the budget was also achieved by Ah Tang to 62 million, and the final cost was raised by him to 80 million.

  (end of this chapter)