Lights... Camera... ACTION!!: A Hollywood Quest

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Hi Magoose here one of the guys helping Duke.

So we have some bad news.

The quest has been canceled as duke does not want to write it anymore.

I'm going to ask if I can take over for it, because I like this quest, and it would be a shame to kill it
TBF, Mags, you have been doing a lot of the heavylifting for the quest, so this will be in good hands. :)

To be clear to everyone, this is just me burning out on imagination of the quest, since my muse has been hitting me over the head a lot with so many different ideas that I just can't find myself too interested in this.

I'll still hang out here, though, since this still does have a sepcial place in my heart.

I'd like to thank you all for making this a wonderful experience while it lasted.

I'd also like to thank @Magoose, @Fluffy_serpent, and @Martin Noctis for doing so much to help prepare and write this quest. I couldn't have done it without you all. :D

I'll see you all around.

With so many regards, Duke William Of.
 
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A Change in the winds Turn 18 Results (December 1972)
-[X]The Enormous Happiness of Alan: Alan was happy you came back, but he also wants to work with you on… other things. DC: 30 Rolled:D100 => 25

There was something that was wrong because Alan was trying to meet with you, but than, at the last minute, unprompted, and frankly, worryingly enough, he canceled at the last minute to try and talk to you.

Something felt wrong, but he left you a note that felt very wrong.

And made you realize it was happening again.

"Seizing control. We're going to need to take control of production if we're going to get this done properly." The note said.

You made sure to destroy the letter at home.

Failure.

Seems that CBS or someone from another network is trying to kill the show again. Though this time, by not having good enough directors to actually shoot the episodes.

Alan, and company, have a great plan… Direct the episodes yourselves to prevent bullshit.

You have no legal evidence to prove anything, as it seems Alan is doing some digging and kissing ass to get the truth.
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-[X]Wayne's Hatchet: Wayne is coming back, to bury the Hatchet. It seems that everything that happened stemmed from something. Well, he better say it. DC:60 Rolled:D100 => 60

Wayne was calmly waiting as he sat down nearby. He was trying his best to be a comfortable distance from you to talk again.

It was starting to become almost intense as he waited for you to speak. "I'm starting to think these assholes are trying to sabotage the show again."

"Are they trying to get sued again?" You asked. "Cause last I checked, they lost a lot of money."

There was a chuckle. "You know, when I first started working here, I thought you were the worse person here. Greenhorn likes you who was strutting around like you owned the place. I totally misread you… Thought you were going to be the problem, and not my own attitude… and our producers." He smiled as he watched a suit saunter around. "And never doubt stupidity and a Grudge."

He sighed. "I was wrong. I was foolish and an idiot, and let it blind me to real problems." He sighed. "I'm not asking you to forgive me for what I did."

"But we're in this together now?" You snorted.

"Unfortunately." He responded. "All I want to do is make things better… Make this show what it deserves to be. With you in it."

You nodded. "Fair enough. Though I've heard a rumor from Alan that they aren't bringing in directors, and they have all the scripts ready."

You saw Wayne Smile. "Out of the Frying Pan?"

Reward: You and Wayne have buried the Hatchet. For now.

Chemistry Rolls between the two of you increase by +10 for this season.
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-[X]Work on your Comedy: This, looking at the first draft of the scripts, is a comedy series. And while you are a good actor, you know you are not good at comedy, even if your timing has gotten better. DC: 40 Rolled:D100 => 6

It was going to be a long season because your attempts to be funny were not good at all.

Failure.

-5 to SP.
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-[X]Long Distance and Long Loves: A Long Distance relationship was never something that could work. But by god, you hoped that you would make Carrie's life a little better with a call or a letter. DC: ??? Rolled:D100 => 92

The Letter Came, and you could feel tears and emotion in the words written.

Dear Bruce,

I Don't really think that there is much to say through a letter, but I honestly don't think that I could have come with such an interesting turn of events. When we arrived, Mom was very clearly putting her foot down when it came to all the reporters that tried to swarm us, and than, she found a way to get away with some help from this very strange man that just swooped her off her feet.

Seems your dad is really good at that, as he got our luggage to some old beater and than took us to that bar you told us about, and he treated us like family.

He was a gentleman in all the things he did. And your mother is a fantastic chef. Her delicacy and those strange noodles of stringy leaks and potatoes were amazing.

Though I wish Todd was a little less picky, and he just had some potatoes and a burger.

It was wonderful the hospitality that your family showed us, and We appreciate the warm welcome to the city.

From, Carrie​



-[X] Call your parents: You need to call mom and dad, and see how they are doing. DC: 10 (You call your parents and see what they are doing) Rolled:D100 => 99

You smiled at the receiver as you said. "Did they like the first impression?

"Finally, we'll get her hitched to you when she turns 18 so we can have many grandchildren!" Your mother said embarrassingly.

"Mom!" You said, red approaching your face.

Reward:

Your Parents have met Carrie and her family, and they made one helluva good impression.

The Reynolds/Fisher Family thoroughly enjoy the company and the friends they made.

Your mother wants you to get married to her quickly, before she gets away so she can have more grandchildren.
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-[X]George's Trouble: He's got a problem that he can't do alone. He said he needed money again. This time for a movie that you think might not be able to work. But then again, after THX got screwed over? You were going to help him through this. He was your friend. DC: 10/20/50/60 Rolled:D100 => 93+40=133

When you arrived at George's home, you were quickly surprised to see his wife there as well. Which was something you should have expected, though, did not really know about. "Hello uh… Maria?" You said her name with hesitation. As you saw that you had arrived just a few hours into Christmas Day

She recognized you almost immediately, and she had a small smile. "Oh, hello Bruce, George is expecting you."

There was a small moment of silence before she let you in and took a breath. "Thank you for coming at short notice, George has been, under a lot of stress."

"I've realized that." You replied as you looked at the house. "Nice place."

"Thanks." She replied, clearly a little weary from the situation that George is in.

And you saw him on his couch, with two very different screenplays. "Oh, hey Bruce, good to see you again."

He then took a breath as he looked at the script he had. "This is it." He replied as he looked at it.

You then read the title. "American Graffiti?" You asked.

"Yeah, been a bit of trouble with the name, see, Francis offered to serve as a producer, but he's away doing something else… said something that they wanted to make a sequel… And well." He took a breath again. "I need money. I need help…"

He looked at you. "Sweet Jesus I need friends that I can count on. Steve's busy working on some other film and doesn't have time to help out. So I need to do a lot of things myself."

He then took a breath. "Sorry, I'm rambling."

You had finished reading a few pages of the script, skimming through them as you said. "How much money do you need?"

George had several pieces of paper with math on it. "750,000 dollars."

You frowned. "You couldn't get anyone else to work with you?"


"After Warner screwed me over, I thought everything was going to go down badly, then universal offered a lifeboat. Not telling me that I'm on my own for funding, besides distribution, as well as marketing it. And a written contract telling me it will have a full theatrical release."

George then looked at you. "I need help Bruce."

What do you say?:

[]Write in

How Much of a Financial Commitment do you wish to make for the film?:
[]25% of the Budget
[]50% of the Budget
[]75% of the Budget
[]Write in the Amount (Write it into percentiles Please)

Do you ask to Star in it?:
[]Yes
[]No
[]Make a small Cameo.

As Producer do you want to make any creative decisions that will affect the Movie?:
[]Yes
[]No

Do you want George to try and recruit other Producers for the Movie?:
[]Yes
[]No.

AN: Enjoy and plan format please.
 
Do you ask to Star in it?:
[JK]Make a small Cameo.
-[JK] Drag George into cameoing as well.

Jokes aside, we honestly didn't do too badly than we could have. The comedy and Alan fails suck, but we managed to barely bury the hatchet between us and Wayne, and the Carrie and Lucas rolls went amazingly.
 
Seems that CBS or someone from another network is trying to kill the show again. Though this time, by not having good enough directors to actually shoot the episodes.

..At least we'll have more Directing Experience and the gang just experimenting the different camera shots we can do on set..and I'm guessing the Script writers, Editors, and Camera people are on our movement?
 
As my gut feeling I think we should go for 75%, star in it (could be our ride to movie stardom) and leave the production up to Lucas like OTL.
 
George then looked at you. "I need help Bruce."

What do you say?:

[]Write in

How Much of a Financial Commitment do you wish to make for the film?:
[]25% of the Budget
[]50% of the Budget
[]75% of the Budget
[]Write in the Amount (Write it into percentiles Please)

Do you ask to Star in it?:
[]Yes
[]No
[]Make a small Cameo.

As Producer do you want to make any creative decisions that will affect the Movie?:
[]Yes
[]No

Do you want George to try and recruit other Producers for the Movie?:
[]Yes
[]No.

[X] Budget: Overdrive
-[X] "You've just got yourself someone who paid their cinema ticket earlier."
-[X] 100% of the Budget (We can afford it)
-[X] Make a Small Cameo (A small Cameo will show our support for the movie and allow other people to become the stars of the film too.)
-[X] No. (Let us allow George to have full creative direction of his own movie, we can offer what we thing/advice when he asks for help.)
-[X] No. (No need to go overbudget on that one, instead we help out when George needs help.)
 
[X] A Good Deal
-[X] 100% of the Budget
-[X] Yes
-[X] No
-[X] No

Imma put it out there, not at least trying to use this movie to break open Hollywood is a monumental waste. Bruce has the talent, and this movie would finally stop Hollywood from fucking with us. Right now we're a tv actor whose network hates us. We're small fry. We want them to stop coming after our friends? Our family? We need to crack open Hollywood.

We came to be a movie star. Let's be a God Damn movie star
[X] Make a Small Cameo (A small Cameo will show our support for the movie and allow other people to become the stars of the film too.)
Why would we want for someone else to be the star?

Why?

We are an actor too. We want to star in movies too, why would we want to allow others to take a part we arguably need right now?
 
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As Producer do you want to make any creative decisions that will affect the Movie

Well... I like the movie but here are some stuff that I think we can improve

Diversity (they all white, middle-class teenagers, but I suppose it was ok in 1973), more depth to female characters (they kinda were sidelined pretty heavily, only serving as love interests/sidekicks) a more nuanced portrayal would be cool.

Pacing wise, it was a bit slow, I felt that it really showed during Curt's search for the blonde girl. Tighter editing or restructuring of that narrative could help with the pacing of it, and particularly this section.

Hmm, also if I'm not mistaken, George's original vision for the movie, was to open it with the blonde in the white T-bird driving through an abandoned drive-in theater, passing through the screen like a ghost but it was ultimately cut due to budget constraints. BUT it's a really cool image, and It says all kinds of stuff to me.

The symbol of the unattainable haunts the wreckage of entertainment. That's the point of the film, a nostalgic window into a bygone era that can never be fully experienced or understood in the present, but can be partially recaptured through the magic of cinema.

Also, I'm pretty sure that it is responsible for more than a few accidents, because it kinda glorifies underage drinking and reckless driving, but if we tone it down we need to do it in a way where we still preserve the film's fun-loving spirit.

That's just my two cents tho.
 
[X] Budget: Plus Ultra
-[X] "You've just got yourself someone who paid for their cinema ticket early."
-[X] 133% of the Budget (We can afford it 1 million.)
-[X] Yes. (We are paying for it so why not?)(Can we choose to take our "pay" in partial ownership? It is a thing that happens in Hollywood during this timeframe. Looking at you the Blob. Too bad that actor didn't take those options.)
-[X] No. (Let us allow George to have full creative direction of his own movie, we can offer what we thing/advice when he asks for help.)
-[X] Leave it up to Lucas. (He has extra budget so he has options here.)
 
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We are an actor too. We want to star in movies too, why would we want to allow others to take a part we arguably need right now?

Do you want to handle all that headache right now? Getting the Paparazi out of our home, buying a plot in Scotland as out real home just so robbers would break into a decoy home, we haven't even developed much in our skills to have consistent performances (example: comedy), and we need to establish more character than the mask whos face is a clown.

To always get to somewhere, we need a stable founding and skill set to have consistent performances into a new standard. Nothing comes from nothing, why bother become nothing faster than breaking the Sound Barrier?

We must focus on our relationships and ourselves, if connectivity/networking isn't also a skill used in Hollywood, I don't know what is.

Also don't want to seem like someone who is taking advantage of him, and we need a touch of experience in being a character directed by Lucas so we can offer insight later when we audition in his later films.
 
Why would we want for someone else to be the star?

Why?

We are an actor too. We want to star in movies too, why would we want to allow others to take a part we arguably need right now?
Completely agree

[X] Budget: Plus Ultra

It would be cool if we did use that to change some stuff, from all that things I wrote the most pressing issue in my opinion is the "flatness" of the female characters, I think if we make them more nueanced it would be better not only character-wise but also plot-wise
 
[X] Budget: Plus Ultra

Edited to Plus Ultra, thought that Overdrive was the one to initially have us take a role.
 
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[X] Plan: Plus Plus Ultra Budget, Excelsior Edition
-[X] "Geez, George, what am I, your bank account?" You jokingly respond.
--[X] Raise your hands in mock defense before quickly replying, "Bad jokes aside, you, my friend, have just got yourself someone who paid for their cinema ticket early."
-[X] 133% of the Budget (We can afford it.)
-[X] Yes (This could be Bruce's big break into movies, and George can save even more budget by having us star instead of having to pay for an extra actor. We'll probably make back our money from this film if it does well enough.)
-[X] Yes (George will definitely not mind if we have some control over the creative decisions, especially since we're basically funding the whole thing. We just don't need to meddle too much.)
-[X] Leave it up to Lucas. (He has extra budget so he has options here.)
 
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Do you want to handle all that headache right now?
Yes.

Yes I want to do what we came here to do. I want to use the skills we do have to act our heart out and get a role we need.

If the Paparazzi was an issue for Bruce then he shouldn't have come to Hollywood to be a movie star. That's basically part of the job, if you can't handle that, don't come to Hollywood on the first place. He's also been involved in massive controversy already, if reporters weren't asking him about the mass CBS lawsuit then I don't know what to say, if they weren't talking about him being involved with the daughter of a famous actress and actor even a little I also don't know what to say.

Because that would draw at least a little attention.

Every time Bruce has acted he's usually set a damn high standard, dude was nominated for an Emmy for best supporting actor! And had a great performance as Goose in Fists of Fury!

With how much Hollywood hates us, we either need to actually train our acting, which we haven't really done much for the last several turns, until we're impossible to deny, or actually act on opportunities when they come.

The whole 'we aren't good enough yet' rings absolutely hollow, because if it was a skill issue? Why have we wasted so much time on boxing, modelling and other endeavours instead of training? Isn't this an actor quest?

Overall, I find the points put forward to be somewhat weak. Bruce has the talent, he has the capability, he has the opportunity, so take it.

The only point with real bite to it for me is the 'taking advantage one' but even then, Lucas is basically offering it to us. Maybe someone will make comments? But overall, as long as it gets our foot in the door? Who cares.
 
[X] Plan: Plus Plus Ultra Budget, Excelsior Edition

I'm not really for meddling in the film itself, but having the ability to do so if we choose to can't really go wrong and everything else is basically perfect as a plan IMO
 
With how much Hollywood hates us

More like Television People, to the others that we haven't encountered would just be "Meh, not much of a high actor." (Movie-goers don't count in this view)

Overall, I find the points put forward to be somewhat weak. Bruce has the talent, he has the capability, he has the opportunity, so take it

I see your points and will stick to mine while you stick to yours. I am one who sees the media as a medium to be cancelled and become forgotten, hated, and movies plummited. You see the media as cockroaches (that's the gist I got from your oppinion on the matter) and should be ignored.

Why I focus on not stirring much trouble is simply the stability of a person's mental state. We ignore the person inside the actor, and by that ignorance we can create all things nasty and yet claim it's because "They're actors, they don't care.".

Another bit to mention is Knowing is different from experiencing, I know needles hurt like a stab wound, yet when I take a vaccine it's like a pinch. If we adopt your thinking that "he knows, so he should know", knowledge is power only when we experience said knowledge, we can panic randomly at having a wave of fan girls scream the top of their lungs running at us would be a terrifying sight at first.

My points are and will be weak, we are both ends of the Actor view spectrum (Also this isn't a scientific paper.)

On a related note, can we troll robbers and what not to a decoy home while we live somewhere far from that home?
 
[X] Plan: Plus Plus Ultra Budget, Excelsior Edition

Would rather the dialogue options be edited out, or at least changed to not ruin the wholesome movie. As it's been stated before, this is an Actor Quest and American Grafitti is a great first chance to get our name spread to the wider public as a film star. With said name recognition comes bargaining power and more opportunities and open doors, not to mention any potential credit we get for producing and our creative work. We've spent a lot of actions buffing up our behind the scenes stuff, and this is literally a chance for us to apply them into action and prove to people we can make a competent movie, even if George is doing most of the heavy lifting.

We're not taking advantage of George. He approached us and is not trying to coerce us or manipulate us into anything, he's just desperate for a good movie and some redemption from the mess of THX, and he's talking with the one guy who believed in him from Day One and already spent $100,000 and what was then a greater fraction of his fortune into an experimental film. Whatever issues George has, it's not enough to prevent him from reaching out to Bruce, and so long as we're not hijacking the plot and trying to micromanage production, at the end of the day it's still George's. This is no different than him and Spielberg doing a collab except we're much younger and untested than Spielberg.

For any creative changes that do go forward, I'm fine so long as it's in the spirit of the original and it's sensible edits than vanity choices. Thinker made some pretty good suggestions and that kind of stuff is perfectly reasonable for a Producer's Input.
 
More like Television People, to the others that we haven't encountered would just be "Meh, not much of a high actor." (Movie-goers don't count in this view)
No, not really, we kicked one of Hollywood's most influential people in the balls when he tried to molest Bruce remember? Then we got outright blacklisted in the first few months in Hollywood, before we went to Hong Kong.

So it's not just TV people unfortunately.
 
[X] Plan: Plus Plus Ultra Budget, Excelsior Edition

Would rather the dialogue options be edited out, or at least changed to not ruin the wholesome movie.
Hmm... I wanted to make a little joke about George coming to us for money yet again, but upon reflection the dialogue could be better. I'd like to k ow what would you suggest, as I'd still like for there to be some joke. :)

No, not really, we kicked one of Hollywood's most influential people in the balls when he tried to molest Bruce remember?
From what I remember, he wasn't one of the most influential producers, but he definitely had enough influence to make us 'pay'.
 
From what I remember, he wasn't one of the most influential producers, but he definitely had enough influence to make us 'pay'.
Double checking, it was Darryl Zanuck, who was one of the longest serving Hollywood directors and producers ever, and also a major pervert IOTL. We caught him a year after he started his major decline, but the dude was in the business since Silent Films were a thing, and apparently was working against us and trying to Blacklist us.
 
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