Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 194 Laughing is harder than crying

   "The secret of life is hidden in genes. Genes are the basis of life and determine the characteristics of individuals..."

  The camera first aimed at Brooke Xiaosi's face and made a close-up.

  The close-up is a great test of the beauty of the actors. Brooke Xiaosi's hair was tied tightly behind her head by the hair stylist and turned into a bun. Wearing a large tortoiseshell-colored glasses on her face, the average person has long become an old school girl dressed like this.

   But Bo Ji Xiaosi is an ordinary person? The amorous eyebrows and eyes are revealed from behind the glasses, and the shiny lip color just presents a daily style of self-cultivation and self-cultivation of a big beauty. It's just that this beauty is only fifteen years old and is still memorizing the terminology of biology class.

   "Genes have two functions, one is heredity..."

  The camera team quickly pulled back the camera, and was about to move from a close-up to a close-up of the head and shoulders, and then to a medium shot of Brooke's full body.

   Bo Ji Xiaosi doesn't know how many shots she has taken, and she already knows how to cooperate with the shooting. Seeing Spike Libby's three-two-one gesture, he knew the time had come. He took the old-fashioned glasses off his face and put them on the ground, slid silently outside the frame of the camera.

   Katherine Bigelow takes her glasses off the camera and leaves quickly.

  The camera is pulled to the middle shot. It turns out that Bo Ji Xiaosi is squatting on the ground, and her feet have just been put into CK jeans. Then she fell back, her feet turned up, and her hands began to push up hard, pulling the jeans up to her long legs.

   Skinny jeans are very difficult to wear, especially the size 2 jeans were used for the shoot, which is a size smaller than the size that Brooke usually wears.

   While exerting force, Brooke Xiaosi was still reciting the noun explanation of the theory of evolution.

   "Genes ensure that individual traits are passed down from generation to generation, but sometimes, genes will mutate..."

   Brooke Shields rolled over on the ground, raised her hips, and began to pull the jeans up to her waist even harder, so much so that she was panting.

   "This mutation is causing changes in individual characteristics,..."

   Brooke Shields finally pulled the jeans up to her waist, then she buttoned them hard, changed her position and lay on her side, unbuttoned her hair with one hand, shook her head, and her thick, shiny hair fell down her shoulders.

   "Some genetic mutations can cause genetic advantages, and under natural selection, become the driving force of evolution..."

   Brooke Xiaosi lay down and pulled one foot to the opposite shoulder. She must have trained yoga or gymnastics, and her body flexibility is excellent.

   "Some mutated genes died out, while some mutated genes were better able to adapt to the environment than others, creating a new species..."

   Brooke Xiaosi turned over, supported her body with one knee and both hands, raised her other foot, and put her body in the shape of the letter "CK".

   "This is CalvinKlein, survival of the fittest."

   "AndCut!"

   "You did an excellent job, Brooke." After Ronald called Cut, he confirmed with the photographer that the shot was perfect and led everyone to applaud.

   Brooke Xiaosi stood up and gave everyone a ladylike salute, "Thank you, thank you."

   Everyone laughed, and the air was filled with a happy atmosphere for a while.

  This series of advertisements actually uses homophonic stems. The pronunciation of Gene in English is similar to jeans (Jean). It is clearly talking about genes. In fact, it is boasting that CK's skinny jeans have evolved, and they are not the same species as ordinary jeans.

  The tight fit can fully reflect the beauty of the girl's lines, so all the shortcomings that are difficult to wear because of the tight fit have turned into advantages after wearing them. In order to stand out sexy, it doesn't matter if you spend a few minutes pulling your pants hard before going out.

   However, this advertisement is still a little bit sexy, deliberately making Brooke Xiaosi recite a large number of scientific term explanations when she is wearing a small size trousers.

   Brooke's mother, Terry, reviewed the script and offered no comments. Ronald couldn't say anything, he shook his head and started discussing the next shot with the team.

   Brooke's godmother and her daughter hurried forward to give her water, the makeup room was busy with makeup, and the hair stylist started combing her hair with a big comb to prepare for the next haircut. Everyone in the studio knows what they want to do. The shooting team composed of NYU students and alumni has become very efficient after running in.

   Calvin Klein on the second floor looked at all this, nodded with satisfaction, and said to the two people next to him, "It seems that Ronald's level is good. He knows how to show the charm of women."

  A half-bald man who had lost a lot of hair, continued, "Yes, he's efficient, but he's still relying on Richard's creative script, right?"

   Another middle-aged man with glasses was Richard Avedon, who competed with Ronald for this shoot. He was originally a graphic photographer, and he wanted to enter the film and television advertising through this advertisement of a friend. He designed the script this time. However, he does not have any shooting experience. Now he is watching the scene shooting, and he also wants to know some shooting methods and use them for his own use.

   "It seems that I still need to find a professional film team. He did a good job." Richard Avedon said, "The key is in the last advertisement. Terry only cares about her daughter's exposure, so she didn't say no."

   "Let's see..." Calvin Klein continued to look down.

   Ronald's team is ready and waiting for the next shot.

  Bo Ji Xiaosi put her hair up again, this time the hair stylist made it looser, leaving a few strands of hair outside, looking mature and playful. This girl can seamlessly switch back and forth between a high school girl and a working woman, and her tall figure makes her act as a working woman very convincing.

   Ronald himself stepped forward, sticking behind the camera to look at the composition. Brooke Xiaosi, who put on a light-colored plaid shirt, sat on her lap and supported her chin with her backhand. The slightly thick makeup hides her childishness very well. When the two dimples are not smiling, they show a potential, which makes people want to make her laugh.

   is really a stunner, no wonder advertisers like her so much, the relaxation and expressiveness in the camera are really top-notch.

  Ronald gave up the camera to the director of photography and taught Brooke the scene himself.

"The line of this line is very simple. After you finish speaking, you have to laugh very happily, breaking the image of a professional woman, the feeling of a little girl stealing her mother's clothes and talking to herself in the mirror, and finally return to your truth. age."

   "Got it." Brooke Xiaosi looked for a feeling.

   "Recording? Camera? Action!" After Brooke Shields signaled that she was ready, Ronald announced the power on.

   "I'm the one who brought the bread home..."

   When Brooke Xiaosi became serious, there was still a hint of a smile on her face because of the dimples, which was great. Ronald was secretly satisfied.

   "I don't care who wears pants at home, as long as I wear CalvinKlein."

   This is another pun ad, the feminist movement is slowly rising in America, professional women fight for the right to wear pants, replace men to bring bread back to the family, and women do the traditional values ​​of housework.

   "Pfft..." Brooke Xiaosi laughed after reading the lines.

"Cut!" Ronald stepped forward and said to Brooke, "It's not this kind of can't help but laugh, I need a burst of laughter, like when you hear a very funny joke, hold it back until you can't hold it back. Stay and then explode."

   "Okay, Director." Brooke Shields glanced in the direction of her mother, and Terry took another sip of the strong drink, which happened to be caught by Brooke.

  Sorrow climbed up Brooke Shields' eyebrows again, Ronald frowned, why is there a bitter look? He noticed early on that Brooke sometimes took on a miserable look, perhaps appropriate for Jed, the tragic protagonist of the movie "Endless Love," but never in commercials.

   "Relax, Brooke."

   Ronald starts another shot.

   "Hahaha..." Brooke laughed after finishing her lines.

   "Cut!"

   Ronald frowned again, not only him, but Spike Lee and Catherine Bigelow also found Brooke Shields unnatural.

   "She's a little nervous, like she's worried about something?" Catherine seemed to feel something.

   "Borgy shoots print advertisements all the year round, and this smile is perfectly qualified on still images. But the images will make any ordinary person find him unnatural." Spike analyzed from a technical point of view.

   "Think of the funniest thing about you, Brooke. Let's do it again."

   Ronald decided to try again.

"Hahaha……"

   "Cut!"

   Still the same, Ronald announced a five-minute break.

"It seems that the young director has encountered some difficulties?" Among the three people on the second floor who were watching the shooting scene, the slightly bald middle-aged man said again, "He can shoot technically, but he doesn't necessarily know how to train the actors, while Richard De is known for training models..."

   "Let's keep watching..." Calvin Klein said.

   Ronald called Spike and Catherine, "We have to figure out a way to get Brooke into the scene. Do you have any funny jokes?"

   Speaking, Ronald turned around and took out his bag and Sony Walkman. "Record it if you have any. Let's listen to Brooke. Here's an editing point. We'll shoot the laughing scene separately."

  It was necessary to make a little adjustment, Bo Ji Xiaosi couldn't smile for a long time, and it was impossible to wait for the shooting to wait until she came out.

  Katherine and Spike tried their best to think about the jokes they thought were funny, then recorded them on the recording crew's equipment and transcribed them to tape.

   Ronald also thought of a joke. He knew that Brooke Shields did well in language class, so he found a language joke.

   "A rural Louisiana student got into Harvard and introduced himself to a well-dressed student in New England,

   I'm from Louisiana, where are you from? (Where do you come from?”

   "I'm from a more educated state and don't end a sentence with a preposition."

   "Okay, where are you from, bastard? (Where doyoucomefrom, Asxshole?"

   Next, I found other staff members and recorded various jokes for about ten minutes. Ronald felt that it was almost the same. Stuffed the tape into the Walkman and gave it to Brooke Shields.

   "Here are some jokes we recorded. Listen to it. When you think it's funny, take it off and hand it to me. You can laugh naturally."

   Brooke Shields put on her headphones and pressed the play button.

  Ronald motioned to the camera without calling Action. Afraid of interrupting Brooke's emotions, he turned on the camera ahead of time, ready to capture the real smile.

  Borgy Xiaosi is very embarrassed, she has always been very good at posing the expressions and poses that the photographer needs, and the shooting efficiency is very high. In this way, it is very rare that the progress of the shooting is affected by the lack of a smile.

   But the girl was most afraid of this kind of pressure. She glanced at her mother and saw that Terry's face was serious, so she quickly cleaned up and tried her best to listen to the joke.

The jokes weren't funny at all, there were black slang words she couldn't understand, there were jokes about women's rights she couldn't understand, and Ronald's grammar joke at the end reminded her of her never-ending homework .

  The girl raised her head again and looked at her mother.

  Terry just took a sip from the bottle again. She has been very stressed recently and started drinking in the morning.

   Brooke Xiaosi looked at Ronald and waited expectantly for her to laugh. The invisible pressure was overwhelming. Coupled with the fact that her mother started drinking again, she remembered the days when she was sent to a rehab center, alone and without anyone to talk to.

   A grief suddenly came to my heart...

   Brooke Xiaosi cried.

   Then the grievances doubled, and the tears could not stop flowing.

   Ronald and the two assistant directors looked at each other and said helplessly, "Cut!"

   Then turned around and said to the staff, "Who the **** did you say some nasty joke that made Brooke cry?"

   (end of this chapter)