Chapter 119 Weird Understanding Ability

Minahan is Jewish, but on Christmas Day, he will be taken to see it soon. But Ronald had to spend the holidays with Aunt Karen and Donna and put on airs and talk about Christmas.

During the day on Christmas Eve, several shareholders of the leg warmer company, neighbors Theresa and David, as well as friends from the aunt's Veterans Club and Mrs. Davidson, little Bud's mother, all came to the house to congratulate her.

Teresa's child is a boy, now two years old. Mrs. Davidson's son, Little Bud, will end his overseas service next year and return home from the army. Ronald promised to find him a job, and Mrs. Davidson was filled with gratitude.

Aunt Karen, as the actual person in charge of the leg warmer factory, issued dividend checks to all shareholders. Everyone had a happy Christmas.

In an instant, Ronald felt that the sense of accomplishment in doing business and distributing money to shareholders was no less than that of making a movie that was successfully released and well-received by the audience.

Early the next morning, Minahan drove his car and waited at Ronald's door. When Ronald went out to take the newspaper for a walk, he suddenly jumped out and wanted to pull Ronald into the car.

"Wait for me to say something to my family." Ronald laughed out loud when he saw his pitiful and aggrieved look. I went home and talked to Aunt Karen, then took two packs of biscuits baked by my aunt and went out to hand them to Minahan who was smoking in the car.

"Try it, my aunt baked it. Bring the other package to your child."

Minahan started the car, opened a package and ate a cookie, "Oh, this is the best cookie I've had since I came to America."

"Yeah, my aunt's secret recipe." Ronald was very happy to hear Minahan's praise. Of course, the so-called secret ingredient is probably just adding more butter and honey.

The two arrived at a small second-run movie theater. Minahan paid to book the place, gave the projectionist a few bills as a tip, and played "Sahara," which he actually directed and starring Brooke Shields.

"Ah, hahaha..." Bo Ji's bright face appeared on the screen. She drove a car like a racing driver and flew on the test track.

"It's so beautiful...she looks like she did in the 1980s." Ronald saw a close-up of Brooke's face on the big screen. Her face looked masculine and heroic, retaining the innocence of her childhood.

"Huh?" Ronald suddenly saw the editing change, and the scene cut to the second floor of the mansion. Brooke's face turned upside down, and when she looked down from the spiral staircase, her expression changed. A middle-aged man walked in and told the father of Dale Gordon, played by Brooke,

The owner of the racing car factory passed away suddenly.

Ronald couldn't help but cover his face. Is this Minahan a classic movie scene thief?

Here he stole a bit of the composition of Hitchcock's classic film, and there he stole a bit of Indiana Jones's racing scene. Classic clips of different types, eras, and styles were used by him to pay homage (plagiarism) at random, and then ignored them as a whole. differences, clipped together.

After the rally began, Dale, played by Brooke, was with the prince of the Arab tribe again, fighting back against the evil tribesmen who were seeking military aid from the Germans. Soldiers from the two tribes fought with machine guns in the desert, with camels and horses beside them.

"Lawrence of Arabia" Ronald added another classic to his mind.

Brooke then bathes under the waterfall in her white one-piece bathing suit. The righteous tribal prince, wearing an Arab robe, stood beside him like a gentleman and was passed by.

"Isn't this a copy of the Blue Coral Reef?" Ronald turned back to look at Minahan. He was giggling, and he probably thought he had taken a good shot.

"At least make this waterfall bigger. Such a thin flow of water is like a sewer." Ronald complained again.

The Germans drove tanks made of thin iron welded together with machine guns to attack the righteous tribes. Brooke bravely rushed forward to face the machine gun fire and placed a stick of dynamite in the sand.

Obviously Bo Ji's calculation was accurate. The tank was paralyzed when it happened to pass through the land mine.

"This... John Ford's "Fit" in 1939 is more exciting and reasonable than his battle scenes.

Resisting the urge to burst into laughter, Ronald watched until the end. The female racing driver played by Brooke finally kissed the Arabian prince, and the two rode a horse and slowly walked into the sunset.

The picture finally freezes with two people and a horse riding in the desert under the sunset, turning into a silhouette.

"Quack..." Minahan was very excited. "How about this ending? Is it worthy of an Oscar for Best Cinematography?"

"Hey..." Ronald patted him on the shoulder, "Let's put another one on."

"Hey, are you more interested in the other one?" Minahan went to the back screening room to negotiate, and the projectionist started showing the second movie.

“Ninja 3 – Possession (ninja iii: the )”

Ronald looked at the movie title on the screen, "Is this the movie you asked Chuck Norris to star in?"

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"Yes and no," Minahan said. "Chuck refused to wear a ninja mask and appear in the movie. He asked to appear in the movie, so we prepared another script for him. Here he only has a cameo at the beginning."

Ronald continued to watch. Chuck Norris played a storyteller. His poor line skills gave the story a strange feeling. Legend has it that Japanese ninjas have a secret technique. After death, the soul can possess other people, so that they can continue to walk in the world, and the possessed people will inherit all the fighting skills of the ninja.

A man dressed as a Japanese ninja was killed by his enemies. His soul came to the street. A female worker wearing jeans and a hard hat climbed up a wooden telephone pole and began to repair the phone lines.

A gust of wind blows and the female worker is possessed by a ninja. Her behavior became more and more strange, and she became a master of fighting, and finally began to seek revenge on the enemies in front of the ninja. In the end, the ninja's revenge was avenged, and the female workers found themselves again.

The same shocking plot, the same plagiarized scenes from classic movies, this movie has copied many fighting scenes from Bruce Lee's movies. But on a low-budget exploitation film like this, whatever feels right is appropriate.

"Why don't you distribute this movie?" Ronald asked Minahan. "You can make a lot of money with this kind of low-budget movie even if you don't go through MGM."

"But how could I possibly get an Oscar nomination if it wasn't distributed through MGM?" Minahan said bitterly.

"Yes, this Minahan usually doesn't have anyone in the circle to play with. He often takes other people's ridicules and jokes seriously."

Ronald shook his head, "Minahan, we're friends, and I might have to say something that other people in Hollywood wouldn't say to you."

"You said, you said..." Minahan pretended to be listening.

"Wake up, your exploitation films are very good, why don't you continue this promising career? The Oscars are waiting for you to make a lot of money and then find a famous director to make them. As a producer, you can also win the most. Great movie.”

"Are you saying that my directing skills are not good?" Minahan asked anxiously, "Why on earth is MGM not interested in my movies? What's wrong with me?"

"Everywhere is bad." Ronald wanted to say this.

However, he still tactfully said, "I'm not saying that your director level is poor, but that you don't understand American audiences. If you like classic Hollywood movies, you often select classic scenes from them and repeat them in your movies..."

Minahan nodded happily, and Ronald finally got the idea. After all, unlike MGM, he can see his intentions.

"But it's not okay to repeat it like this. These movies include westerns, epics, youth movies, and romance movies. If you cut them together, isn't it nondescript?"

Minahan looked at him in confusion. Putting a classic together like this, it will become a classic soon?

"When the audience comes to the cinema and pays for the ticket, it is equivalent to signing a contract with the director. For example, when they watch John Ford, they know that there will be a western cowboy dueling. When they watch David Lean, they know that there are epic scenery and heroes. Narrative. Seeing Brooke Shields..."

Ronald paused, "I knew it was a movie that showed the beautiful body of youth."

"You put them together, and the audience sees everything but sees nothing."

Minahan blinked twice. He seemed to understand, but he seemed not to understand.

Ronald was amused by him, "I think in this 'Ninja 3', the audience knows very well that they will see ninja fighting, as well as many weird oriental legends, which are standard features of this kind of exploitation film. They are just here to have fun with the bluffing part."

"You might as well just release this one. 'Sahara' is really not suitable for the North American market."

"Not suitable for the North American market?" Minahan reacted. "You mean, he may be suitable for the European and British markets?"

"Well..." Ronald thought to himself, you are really good at making connections, "Maybe, I don't know."

"No, you know clearly, you are right, I want to premiere this movie in Britain." Minahan jumped up happily, "Ronald, you are really a genius, the British people just love to watch their American cousin. Failure, their beauties were taken away by Arab princes, and their cause in Africa was thwarted by the British Empire.”

"Moreover, Mrs. Thatcher's son disappeared for two weeks while participating in the Paris-Dakla Rally last year, and troops were sent to find him. The British audience is interested in the Desert Rally..."

Ronald was dumbfounded by Minahan's ability to understand.

"Okay, do whatever you want. But this ninja movie is good, and the actress is quite talented."

"You mean Lucinda Dickey?" Minahan said the heroine's name.

"Ronald is optimistic about it. Then we have to find her back and sign a long-term contract with her. I thought she had no talent, so I asked her to go back to Arizona to work as a nanny."

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