Unlike Tom Cruise, who is more superstitious about Hoffman, who has been nominated for the Oscar five times and won the Oscar for Kramer and his wife. Niceta has been immersed in the industry for a long time and knows that Hoffman is actually a very troublesome cooperation.

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He is a typical method actor. In order to get into the role, he can constantly torture the director and fellow actors on the set. When playing the role of Mr. and Mrs. Kramer, in order to increase believability, he improvised and threw a glass against the wall, breaking the shards.

The face of her co-star Meryl Streep was scratched and almost disfigured.

As for all kinds of strange behaviors on set for acting, such as when he once played a marathon runner, he forced himself not to sleep for 72 hours, which almost made his co-star Laurence Olivier almost exhausted. Such things are commonplace.

Ronald has never been truly recognized by film critics, nor has he won an Oscar, or even a lesser directing award from the Directors Guild or the Film Critics Association. If Cruise had played the leading role, the two could still have a positive interaction.

, if Dustin Hoffman plays the role, might something happen on the set?

The two reached an agreement and continued to look for a movie script that was more suitable for Ronald.

"Your directing style is more like Frank Capra in the golden age. You can always dig out the touching American spirit in ordinary people's characters. We will select more scripts in this direction in the future.

This kind of script relies on weak intelligence to highlight dramatic conflicts..."

"It may not be suitable for me, right?" Ronald answered.

In fact, directors all have their own strengths, and Ronald really prefers stories about ordinary people. Those very dramatic stories that are far away from ordinary people, such as growing up to be a monster, having low intelligence, or having mental illness, or

A born criminal, he actually doesn't have much interest or enthusiasm.

Since my friend Cruise doesn't play a role that is easy to win awards, there is no need for him to challenge himself.

At the same time, in Ovitz's large office, he called Dustin Hoffman.

"Dustin, I have convinced Tom that the role of brother Raymond is still yours. In addition, they came up with an idea to make Raymond not a real intellectual disability, but an autistic person who is said to be autistic.

Some people have extremely high IQs. What do you think? Is it more difficult to act?"

"Let me think about it, is what you said true? I will go to the Autism Patients Association to observe."

Dustin Hoffman has returned to the ranks of the highest-grossing male stars since "My Fair Lady". His salary in 1982 was US$5.5 million.

The salary inflation caused by Stallone and Schwarzenegger in the past two years has allowed Dustin to charge higher prices.

And Cruise doesn't have that much influence yet. In Top Gun, he has just entered the ranks of male stars and still has a lot of potential to grow.

This is also the real reason why Ovitz prefers Dustin Hoffman to play this mentally handicapped character who is more likely to win awards, so that he can get more money.

After coming out of CAA, Ronald remembered the countermeasures he had discussed with Niceta.

Ovitz values ​​​​Dustin Hoffman, who is of the same race, and is sure that most mentally retarded roles will be played by him. He can gradually withdraw, showing his weakening interest every time, and explain it to Cruise when the time is right.

Given the situation, it would be very difficult for Cruise to quit this movie, and it would be hard to win an award.

Film projects come and go, and Ronald is not the first successful director to quit anyway. The two previous great Jewish directors, Spielberg and Sidney Pollack, did not stick to the end and both quit midway.

No.

He drove to his Daydream Film Company. The employees here were more down-to-earth and everyone discussed matters. The distribution work of "Dirty Dancing" was going on in a busy and orderly manner. Every time Ronald saw them, he felt more at ease.

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"I am Ronald's friend. We attended a gathering of top entrepreneurs there together in Japan. You must pass it on. I'm not lying to you. My project is very important to Ronald. Don't delay.

Your boss’s important business.”

A sound of arguing came from the front desk.

Ronald heard what happened at the front desk and seemed to be stopping a man from coming in. The man's voice insisted that he was his friend.

"Isn't that Bannon here?" Ronald opened the door in the office and stuck his head out, "What's wrong? What happened? Who is it?"

"Ah ha, Ronald. I'm so happy to see you. It's nothing. Your front desk is very responsible. I just forgot to make an appointment for you."

"Ah, it's you..."

Ronald thought of Bannon, the Wall Street banker he met outside the door when the presidents of Kadokawa Publishing House and Johnny & Associates treated him to high-end cuisine when he was in Tokyo.

With his big head and thick neck, wasn't he the same person who was scolding his enemy, the former Vice President of Universal, Tom Mount, whom he always had trouble with?

"Hello, Mr. Bannon?"

"Call me Steve, Ronald."

Bannon behaved like every Hollywood banker, pretending to be very familiar with Ronald and calling him by his name affectionately.

"How is your family? I'm going to visit your aunt on Veterans Day."

Ronald was not averse to this kind of familiarity. Bankers relied on this to make a living.

Moreover, their approach was different from Hollywood's overly enthusiastic and fake approach. Although Ronald was not familiar with him, Bannon actually knew that his aunt was a veteran's widow.

"How do you know my aunt?"

After entering the small office and asking the front desk to bring him coffee, Ronald asked curiously.

"I did my homework." Bannon took a sip of the coffee poured from the coffee machine and made no comment.

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"That's right, I didn't get a large amount of financing in Japan, but my cooperation with Tom Mount will continue. This man is a waste, and I can only rely on myself.

I found some old friends on Wall Street and finally got the funds to shoot my first movie, and now I want to..."

As he spoke, Bannon looked into Ronald's eyes, anticipating his reaction.

"Our company doesn't have extra funds to shoot other movies now." Ronald also picked up the coffee and took a sip. The cheap coffee machine didn't taste as good as instant coffee.

"No, I don't need your funds. The money I got from Wall Street is enough to film this movie called 'Boy Rent Girl'. I came here to find a distribution company. Our movie has no stars, so the distribution company wants to

I’m looking for your help. I heard that you have a good relationship with Disney’s Touchstone. Can you recommend me..."

"Boy rents girl?" Ronald heard the weird name of the script, reached out and took the script handed over by Bannon, opened it and read it quickly.

"This script is very well written."

Twenty minutes later, Ronald closed the script.

It's a very interesting teen romance.

The male protagonist is a nerd Nerd, whose name happens to be Ronald. He falls in love with Cindy, the most popular cheerleader in the school. By chance, Nerd pays to rent Cindy, the cheerleader, to be his fake girlfriend and teach him how to do it.

Only then can you be popular among girls.

After a series of coincidences, Nerd finally changed his appearance and became a very popular boy. Finally, his fake relationship with Cindy came true.

Ronald felt that, regardless of the fact that other parts were a bit immature, there was a concept in the script that Ronald liked very much. That was the plot of the male protagonist, the ugly duckling, turning into a swan.

This kind of scene where teenagers suddenly become mature and become more popular often happened to the heroine in the past. Just like the "Wonderful" movie that Ronald just finished.

But this script is just the opposite, with a boy changing his appearance to make a girl fall in love with him. There must be many boys in America who don't have girlfriends and would like this kind of plot.

Thinking of this, Ronald looked up and looked at Bannon, "You said you did your homework?"

"What?" Bannon was a little confused.

"If you have really done your homework, you should know that my daydream is also involved in the distribution business. My new film will be released in about a thousand stores during the summer. If your film can satisfy me

, I can also distribute your movie, you don’t have to ask Disney.”

"That's my dereliction of duty. I didn't do my homework well. Of course I'm very interested." When Bannon heard that it was showing in a thousand theaters, he knew that Ronald had invested a huge amount of money in distribution. At least for this movie,
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