Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 7 Party A is the largest

Dudley immediately got into work mode after hearing these words and began to direct Scarlett's movements: "Pizza, go left, oh, I'm not asking you to go left, but turn the pizza a little bit."

"More to the right, oh, it's not the pizza that's spinning, it's your body! Show your jeans!"

Tang De and Jimmy were watching. In addition to outdoor advertising, they also had to shoot short commercials today. Now they were shooting short films, but it was not going very smoothly.

That Mr. Monaghan struggled for a long time over some small details, and even interrupted the filming rudely several times. He was so angry that Apollyon couldn't help but scratch his head with both hands, as if he wanted to tear out the few hairs.

The two argued back and forth several times, but in the end Apollyon gave up, not only because Monaghan was Party A, but also because he really couldn't think of any good ideas.

Tang De could tell from his habit of never calling stop every time he started shouting, that this director knew nothing about advertising, and he didn't even know much about filming.

So he couldn't help but ask Jimmy: "Tell me the truth, how did this director join Martin Scorsese's crew?"

Jimmy was also a little embarrassed and could only reveal the truth: "Well, as you know, assistant director is just a title. He was actually in charge of logistics."

"Okay, I understand." Tang De looked helpless, knowing that he shouldn't have any expectations for his good brother.

The commercial film was filmed intermittently for three hours, and Monaghan finally got the green light.

After eating pizza for lunch, everyone went into outdoor advertising shooting.

I thought that the most difficult time was over, but I never thought that Mr. Monaghan would be more demanding!
  "No, pizza shouldn't be placed on your head! It's too ugly!"

"You mean comparing it to the sun? No, it's not interesting enough! What I want is big, you know! Big enough to be visible to the naked eye!"

"In addition to being big, I also want to show speed! Now I only have bigness, which is wrong!"

"Delivering pizza on a horse? Damn it, how could you come up with such a crappy idea?"

"In addition to being big and fast, it also has to be smooth! How can people be appetizing if the pizza is not smooth!"

"It's too bad, this ad is too bad, Apollyon, if you shoot like this, I think I have to stop filming!"

Monaghan kept chattering about his opinions, which made everyone's scalp numb. By six o'clock in the evening, the commercial had not yet been filmed.

Everyone was a little tired. Tang De and Jimmy had to go back and forth to arrange the lights many times, and they were very tired.

Scarlett simply sat on the ground and watched the heated discussion between Apollyon and Mr. Monaghan.

"Mr. Monaghan, what kind of idea do you want?"

"What I want is very simple! We need to highlight the large portions of our products, have fast delivery, and make the audience look appetizing! But the current advertising creativity cannot convince me at all, and even I don't agree with it. You How can we expect customers who drive by to approve!”

"Okay, then I'll try again." Apollyon kept wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, as if the air on the set was already burning.

But Mr. Monaghan was not going to let him continue trying, and directly said harshly: "Apollyon, that's it for today! Tomorrow, I will give you one more day, just one day! If you can't shoot tomorrow, I think If you want to be creative, get out! Do you understand?"

"understand."

When the grumpy old man left with his hands behind his back, Apollyon slammed his felt hat to the ground: "Damn it! Big and fast! And it's fucking wired! FXXKYOU!"

"It's over! Today's filming is over!" He scratched his hair in distress and announced that today's filming was over.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and began to pack up their equipment.

Scarlett turned her head slightly, glanced at Tang De who was carrying the lights, then stood up and walked towards her agent.

After the two figures disappeared from the door, Apollyon and the young girl beside him half-pushed into the dressing room next to them.

About three or four minutes later, the old man came out of the dressing room holding a belt, while the young girl quickly walked out of the studio with a frown on her face.

"Jimmy!" Apollyon looked a little decadent and irritable, and waved Jimmy over.

Jimmy pulled Don over again, and the two of them came to the director's side.

"Drink with me tonight!"

"No problem!" Jimmy nodded decisively, then patted Tang De on the shoulder: "This is my good brother, Tang De." "Don De?" Apollyon glanced at Tang De up and down, shrugged with an indifferent expression: " Let’s go together, I have to drink a damn Domino’s today.”

"Damn Domino's." Jimmy echoed, and then both of them looked at Tang De.

"FXXK's Domino." Tang De added, causing Apollyon to laugh happily: "Yeah, you're right!"

After getting acquainted with the director, Jimmy and Tang De continued to move equipment.

It wasn't until after dinner at eight o'clock in the evening that Apollyon called to tell Jimmy the location of the bar.

Jimmy hurriedly arrived with Tang De. At this time, the atmosphere in the bar had begun to become intense.

"Take it off! Take it off! Take it off!"

Many men after work were rushing in front of the stripper's bar, surrounded by cigarette butts. They were shaking their bills, sniffing cheap perfume, and looking excited to get the stripper to take off more clothes.

Jimmy and Tang De walked through the crowd and walked towards the private room.

To be honest, this was the first time in Tang De's life that he had seen such a scene. Accompanied by the extremely strong music and flashing lights, it really made him feel a little drunk.

But unlike past impressions, the faces of the strippers here are hidden in thick shadows. Although their movements are wide open and close, they basically do not reveal any inappropriate content.

In the United States, strippers are a very formal profession, and clubs involving strip performances also have strict registration divisions. Those on a larger scale generally only exist in membership-based high-end consumer venues.

And if you want to experience more exciting content here, you have to spend five dollars to experience a song in a single curtain room, just like paid DLC in a stand-alone game.

However, Tang De had no interest in this. He wanted to see Scarlett gently dancing her soft waist in front of him, which would make him feel a sense of accomplishment.

When I came to the private room, I opened the door and saw smoke and mist inside, as well as the laughter of men and women and the sound of dice.

Taking a closer look, Apollyon, Dudley and others were toasting while leaning on the sofa accompanied by the girl.

Seeing Jimmy and Tang De arriving, the old man immediately picked up the bottle and poured them a glass of wine with his own hands.

"Come, drink!" Apollyon clinked glasses with Jimmy and then with Tang De. His face was red and he seemed to be drunk.

After toasting, several people drank for a while.

When everyone was a little tipsy, Apollyon seemed to remember what happened during the day's shooting, and suddenly cursed: "Shit Domino, FXXK's Monaghan. You made me lose face in front of the girl!"

Tang De raised his eyebrows. He should be talking about the young girl. It seemed that Apollyon originally wanted to take her down, but now the cooked duck flew away.

"So do you have any ideas? Any idea is fine! I have to silence that old man! If this drags on and the ad gets censored, our reputation in the industry will be ruined!"

Apollyon held a cigarette in his mouth and looked around.

But everyone lowered their heads and looked very silent, not at all as bold as when they were drinking.

Except Tang De, because a classic case suddenly came to his mind.

One of the top ten classic American pizza advertisements, it comes from a pizza advertisement of a niche brand.

It was a work with perfect creative form, using two different elements to successfully demonstrate the various advantages of the brand.

Although it is not completely consistent with the requirements of Domino's board, Tang De can use his own ideas to change it to make it meet Domino's publicity needs.

So he touched Jimmy with his knee, and Jimmy glanced at him with a frown. When the two looked at each other, he quickly understood what Tang De meant.

Jimmy raised the corners of his eyes and looked at his good brother in disbelief, making emoticons with his mouth.

"Are you serious?"

Tang De nodded, of course it is true, he can help Apollyon get this advertisement done!

That left Monaghan's grumpy old man speechless.

(End of this chapter)