Chapter 284 Buy a Golden Globe, Choose an Oscar

  Jane Fonda wore a simple sweater and jeans, her hair was blown high on top and fell in curls around her ears. American stars have been trending this hairstyle since last year.

   "It's great to have you, Ronald. Hi Diane. Hi, you must be Bruce's daughter, Laura."

   After exchanging pleasantries, Ronald sat down with the two little girls, looked at Jane, and waited for her to tell her about inviting him.

   Jane Fonda has more wrinkles on her forehead than the last time Ronald saw her. The state of the whole person is not very good, and occasionally there is a trace of sadness in the eyes.

"I invite you here for one thing. My father, Henry, is in poor health and has been recuperating in the hospital for several months. I specially bought the original copyright of the movie 'Golden Pond', please let him filmed together.

  Henry never won an Oscar in his life. Last year when the Academy honored him with a lifetime honor, I was in the audience when he gave his speech. I don't believe this is the highlight of his career, he deserves an Oscar.

   Now the nominations for the Oscars are about to start. I decided to ask each of my friends and my father’s friends to vote for Henry. I don’t want him to have any regrets.

  My agent reminded me the day before yesterday that you are also a member of the academy, Ronald, so..."

   "My vote goes to Mr. Fonda."

  Ronald has been busy with his own movies recently, and he hasn’t watched much of other people’s movies. He only has time to go to the cinema these few days and watch Golden Pond, which has just been released for a month.

  Henry Fonda is worthy of being a veteran star, and he played an old father who has a bad relationship with his daughter very well. His performance is worthy of an Oscar winner.

  Anyway, I haven't watched any other movies. If the Oscar nominated Henry Fonda for the best actor award, of course I would vote for him. After all, Jane Fonda gave herself the first chance and sold the first script, and a series of subsequent opportunities all started from here.

   "Presumably Jane Fonda is very sure that his father will be nominated." Ronald thought to himself, Henry Fonda has been in Hollywood for decades, and stars such as James Stewart are his close buddies. A nomination is presumably unquestionable.

  The nomination of the Oscars is more complicated, and members of each academy can only nominate people of their own category. Ronald could only nominate directors and writers, Jane Fonda could only nominate actors, and Walter Murch could only nominate editing and sound editing.

   As for the award, it depends on the voting results of all members, no one can say for sure. After the nomination list is announced, all members can vote across categories, so Ronald can also vote for the actor candidate.

  An actor's network is limited to his own profession. If he can get some votes from other categories of members, then he can be insured for this award at the last moment of Henry Fonda's life.

  After talking about the most important thing, Ronald began to chat with Jane Fonda about the trivia during the filming of "Golden Pond".

  “The most difficult shot was the close-up scene where my father Henry and I played against each other by the lake. You know that Henry is an old academic, and all lines can’t be changed, and he can’t improvise on the spot, otherwise he will criticize me.

   So I deliberately saved his close-ups for the last shot of the day. I shook his hand and improvised a line that wasn't in the script. 'I want to be your friend', that's the moment he was moved, and then I saw a twinkle in his eye, and he put his head down, put his hat down, and looked away. "

   As he spoke, Jane Fonda became emotional.

   "Oh, I can't say this, every time I say it, I cry."

  Ronald hurriedly offered a few words of comfort.

   "Mr. Fonda will be fine, how is he doing now?"

   "He is in the hospital, and his condition has stabilized a lot now. I have been with him all the time, and I haven't even participated in the marketing of Golden Pond."

"Golden Pond" is now being screened in major cities. I think the distributor Universal is also learning from the previous "Deer Hunter". After the film is nominated for the Golden Globe and Oscar, it will take advantage of the news to take advantage of the audience's interest in the Oscar-nominated blockbuster. Expand the scale of the show.

   Ronald saw Diane eager to try, so he asked her, "Do you have anything to ask Jane, Diane?"

   "You took the shot by the pond so well, how did you do it." Diane really wanted to steal the actress' acting skills.

"It's a long story. My close-up shot was taken right after Henry's shot. But I've exhausted all my emotions in the last shot. This is the worst situation for an actor. You should know it." Jane said Looking at the two little actors Diane and Laura.

  "My heart was empty, I didn't have any emotions, and I didn't know what to do, so I had to say to the director, I have to turn my back to you to brew the emotions, and when the emotions are right, when I come back, you can turn on the phone and shoot at me.

  Actually, I don’t know if turning my back can show emotions, but I can’t help it. At this time, I saw Katharine Hepburn lying in the bushes, out of the camera's reach. She saw that I was exhausted and came to encourage me.

   She clasped her hands in front of her chest and mouthed to me, 'Jane, you can do it. ’ All of a sudden I found the source of emotion, and I played that close-up very well. "

  The two little girls, Diane and Laura, were very excited when they heard how these superstars stimulated their acting skills during filming. Diane Lane's eyes lit up, and she wished she had such a level.

"What about you, Laura? You can ask me any questions." Jane Fonda rarely saw the children of her brother Peter's best friend. "Peter's daughter, Brigitte, is a few years older than you. She also wants to enter the film industry." , but no luck yet."

   Ronald smiled beside him. The granddaughter of Henry Fonda and the niece of Jane Fonda, there must be no shortage of audition opportunities. It should be that there is no chance of a good heroine, so she has not debuted for the time being.

  Laura Dunn also asked a few questions, and Jane Fonda answered them one by one.

   "Are you here to be Miss Golden Globe at the Golden Globe Awards?" Jane Fonda discovered Laura Dern's new role at the Golden Globe Awards this time.

   "Yes, I will work at the awards show." Laura Dern's parents, the popularity is a level worse than Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda. So use this method to make my daughter debut.

   "Golden Globes, oh, I will go too. They will give Henry the best actor award if they promise me to go."

  Although they are all insiders, Ronald was still a little uncomfortable when he heard Jane Fonda expose the background of the Golden Globes so directly, and twisted twice on the sofa. He himself has won the Golden Globe.

"Pia Zadora's husband invited the judges of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to a luxury resort hotel today. He wants to buy a best new actress for his wife. I heard that there are many delicious ones." Law La Dunn has revealed another inside story.

   "Although they all said to buy the Golden Globes and choose the Oscars, this is too much. The broadcaster NBC will not be happy." Jane Fonda has worked in Hollywood for many years and knows a lot of inside information.

  It turned out that the Golden Globe Awards had been exposed before the scandal of buying prizes. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) suspended the NBC live broadcast of the awards dinner for seven years on the grounds that the winners were determined before the awards. It was not resumed until 1975.

  But the organizing committee of the Golden Globes relies on the broadcast ratings to make money. In order to attract more stars to the awards ceremony, they will continue the operation of exchanging the star's attendance for the award.

  Seeing that Jane Fonda was a little tired, Ronald offered to leave.

   "By the way, let me show you this." Jane Fonda took out a video tape and handed it to Ronald, "This is the Jane Fonda fitness video I shot."

"Oh," Ronald took the video, which showed Jane Fonda in a high-fork yoga suit and leg warmers. This is the cover of the new edition, and there is a number next to it, "The choice of a hundred thousand people. You That's fine too."

   "Is the leg warmer business okay? I haven't cared about it for a long time." Ronald remembered that he and Jane Fonda supplied and cooperated in mail order leg warmers. She is also a major customer of her own factory.

   "About one in ten customers will buy an extra leg warmer, which is not bad."

   So 10,000 people bought leg warmers? Ronald was quite happy in his heart. The inspiration he copied from his dream had already sold well. Even if the market segment is not big, it can be regarded as a good deed to improve the living standards of my aunt's family and dozens of families of Vietnam War veterans.

   Several people walked through the huge living room of Jane's house, and Ronald suddenly remembered the script "My Brother's Protector" he had written for Jane Fonda.

   "By the way, Jane. How's the script? Seems like the two-year deadline is approaching? Has Columbia pitched?"

   "No, I just want to spend more time with Henry now. This is the closest time I have had with him in decades." Jane Fonda shook her head, expressing that she would not appear in the movie during this time.

"And don't you know? After Columbia was acquired, Frank Price, the president who made the decision to buy the script, was severely impacted by the executives sent by the new owner. He has no energy and no interest to promote this project. project."

   "Is that so?" Ronald felt that he needed to call his agent to see what would happen to the script in the end. If his "fast-paced" new film sold well at the box office, he could also advance the project.

   "By the way, I forgot to ask you, how is the new film you directed?" Jane Fonda said goodbye to Ronald and the two little girls, and remembered Ronald's directorship in the porch.

   "The negatives have been edited, and the audience will be invited to test screenings immediately. If there are no problems, it will be released in six months, at the end of July and early August this year."

"Ah, waiting for the first movie is always hard, you remind me of my first movie, waiting every day, waiting for a year to see myself on the screen. After that Someone took the initiative to send the script."

   "Yeah, I'm now hoping it will be released tomorrow."

   Ronald left.

   "Ronald, if you were the director, would you really be able to cut the ending of 'Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fantastic Stains'?" Diane asked Ronald.

  Diane Lane and Laura Dern, also waited a long time for that movie to come out. The two of them didn't explode in their first movie like Jane Fonda did. Now there are no new scripts delivered to the door, and they have to go to various crews to audition.

   If Ronald could cut "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fantastic Stains" and release it theatrically, it might be a hit.

   "Of course. Your director is a novice. He used to run a record company. Professional things should be left to professionals like me."

  (end of this chapter)