Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 261 Call Me Spiccoli

The time saved by    allowed Ronald to take a few more shots. Assistant Director Ai Er, as long as there are two heroines or two heroines participating in the shots that were originally allocated to be shot in the next two days, they will be as early as possible.

   "Cut!" Ronald finished shooting another segment, and after confirming with the director of photography, Ronald called for the next one.

   Didn't hear the expected answer from the assistant director, Ronald looked back. The resident representative of the trade union, standing behind him, pointed at his wrist.

   "Oh, it's almost five o'clock in the morning." Ronald suddenly realized that actors can only participate in filming for 8 hours a day, which is the iron law of the Screen Actors Union. In Los Angeles, a trade union representative will be present to supervise the filming.

   After discussing with the assistant director Al, the crew announced that the filming was over, and everyone took the notice sheet for the filming tomorrow night and began to gradually exit the stage.

   The lighting team took out a big light and illuminated the ground at the gate downstairs, so that the actors and staff who exited the stage would not trip over the steps because they could not see clearly.

   These are the methods that experienced technicians have used in other crews for night scenes, and Ronald left it to the assistant director team to coordinate.

  Ronald stared at the photography team himself, unloaded the filmed film from the machine, carefully loaded it, and locked the box, so that the full-time film maker sent it to the laboratory to be developed into a positive film. Tomorrow will be able to see the samples shot today.

  Ronald specially rented the movie theater in the mall to show the daily dailies in the first week of the show, so that every actor could see the moving images they shot yesterday.

   "Kick...Kick..." A young man in the photography team was competing with the camera. The manufacturing process of this UltraCam movie camera is really not very good, and it takes a lot of strength to disassemble the parts.

   "Be careful" The director of photography went up and pointed.

   "This is the shooting plan for tonight" The second assistant director, a female staff member handed Ronald the shooting plan for the next day.

"There's Sean Penn in the video game arcade, and Burger America, and Judge Reinhold, and Eric Stoltz." Ronald went through the shooting plan and called for a A crew assistant asked, "Has Sean Penn arrived in Los Angeles? When did he fly in from Chicago, let's check."

  All the shooting equipment has been packed up, and the personnel have gradually withdrawn from the shooting location. The props team is packing up some of the posters temporarily posted during the shooting, and the remaining second assistant director has to keep an inventory. She can get a high stipend for an hour a day for this.

   Ronald greeted Al, Matthew and several other group leaders who were organizing equipment, and then left the mall.

   A red sun is rising, the morning in Los Angeles is beautiful, and everything is a new day.

   Ronald, who had slept for five hours, showed up at the shooting office in the mall on time that afternoon. Shooting a movie is a high-intensity job, with very little sleep every day, especially for the boss-director of all the crew members.

   Only use the quality of sleep to top it, and you can take a vacation after the shooting.

   "Hello, Sean. Welcome to the crew. Your role tonight is..." Ronald handed the shooting plan to Sean Penn, who had just flown from Chicago to Los Angeles the day before.

   "Call me Spiccoli." Sean Penn said to Ronald in an exaggerated tone.

"what?"

   "My name is Spiccoli, man, I will win this year's Los Angeles Surfing Grand Prix." Sean Penn replied in the tone of the play.

   "Very good." Ronald praised that Sean Penn's acting skills were very expressive, and he described a high school student who often smoked and smoked and dreamed of winning the surfing award in a few words.

   And he looks a little silly, his brows are wrinkled deliberately, as if he is doubting life, very similar to the characters in the script.

   "Very good, Sean, keep it like this." Ronald instructed his assistant, "Let the stylist come and put on a wig to see the effect."

   Sean Penn, as if he didn't hear Ronald's words, was still immersed in the character, looking around at the decorations, "Hey man, do you have fries here?"

   "Yes, when filming, the staff of the fast food restaurant will still go to work to provide the crew with supper."

   "French fries, hahaha, delicious."

   Ronald smiled, this Sean Penn is quite dedicated.

   Soon the hair stylist walked in with two wigs, "This is a full-on type, this is a two-piece combination, with hair pieces on top and wigs around."

   "Sean, please let the hair stylist try on your makeup." Ronald was very polite to the crew, always saying please and thank you.

   Sean Penn ignored him at all, as if he hadn't heard.

   "Sean, Sean?" Ronald called several times, looked back at the hair stylist, and found that she didn't know what was going on.

   "Sean!" Ronald increased his voice and called again.

   "Call me Spiccoli, man."

   "Spicoli?"

   "Yes, what are you asking me to do?"

   "Please try these two wigs." Ronald asked tentatively.

   "AllRight!" Sean Penn sat down cooperatively, and the hair stylist worked on his head.

"The top is the wig piece that adds volume to the top of his hair, and the bottom is the wig that starts at the ears and adds the hair. This is the full cover wig to tie Sean's real hair up. "

   "Which do you feel comfortable? Sean?" Ronald thought the effects of both wigs were acceptable.

   Sean Penn showed a silly expression again and did not speak.

   "Spicoli? Which wig do you think is comfortable?"

   "This one makes my head tight, but this one is comfortable." Sean Penn pointed to the two-piece wig.

   "You take him to his dressing room, thank you," Ronald said to the hairstylist.

   Sean Penn walked out with the hairstylist.

   "Huh..." Ronald let out a long sigh, this Sean Penn, I'm afraid he used his method to send too deep into the play, and he was stunned? He was also not allowed to be called by his real name on the set, but by the character's name.

  If other technicians perform poorly, they can use the authority of the director, and they can make dictatorial decisions on whether to criticize or replace them.

  Only the actors, the movie needs their performances. If you mess with them and don’t act or act randomly, it will be difficult to handle. Actors are sensitive and fragile creatures, and sometimes they must be coaxed to perform well.

   "The name of this dressing room is wrong, my name is Spiccoli."

   Ronald heard Sean Penn's voice again and walked out of the office to take a look. Sean lost his temper at the door of the dressing room, tore the paper with "Sean Penn" printed on it, and then made one himself, wrote "Spicoli" with a pen, and stuck it on the door.

   "Hey", Ronald covered his face and sighed. It's not a big problem anyway, let him make trouble.

   It was finally time to shoot at night. Today's shooting scene was in the video game hall on the third floor of the mall. It's filled with kids and teens, and everyone is having fun and playing games for free.

   "Camera is on this Missile Command game, Sean, no, Spiccoli takes off his shirt and sees kids with change playing here."

   "Missile Commander" is an arcade game developed by Atari and is very popular now. As the missile commander, the player has to fight back against the USSR nuclear missiles flying in the sky. As the game progresses, there are more and more incoming missiles, and in the end there is only the ending of destruction.

   Ronald specially picked this most popular game to appear.

   "O...K..." Sean Penn replied in that prolonged tone.

   "You pull him from behind and ask him to pay back the 25 cents that Spiccoli borrowed you." Ronald said to the young actor who was opposite Sean Penn.

   "Then you, Si... Piccoli, pointed at his chest as if to threaten him, and then made a joke with him. You are a poor man, not a villain who bullies elementary school students. OK?"

  “O…K…”

   "Recording? Camera? Action!"

The    recording rod stretched out and recorded the music of the arcade game and the explosion of the player blasting the incoming nuclear missile.

   Sean Penn's performance is real. When the child pulled him from behind, his reaction was natural. He was surprised at first, then wanted to have a seizure, and finally saw that it was a child, and returned to a state of indifference, which made Ronald very satisfied.

   "Very good, this one is printed, let's do it again."

   "Spicoli, another way of acting."

   Sean Penn made an OK gesture to indicate receipt.

This time his performance was different. When he was pulled by the child, he still looked down at the screen of the game console and didn't care much. He saw that it was the child who "borrowed" a coin by himself, and he showed a little bit of inconsistency. Kind demeanor.

   Then he pointed his finger at the child's chest, making a threatening gesture, and finally moved his finger up, pressed the other person's nose, and then ruffled the child's hair with his hands.

The    child actor's reaction was brought out by him, and while smiling, he said to him reluctantly, "Hi, Comeon" put his hand on Spiccoli's hand and prevented him from rubbing it.

   "Cut!" Ronald was more satisfied with this one.

   "These method actors have many quirks, but they can perform new ideas every time."

  The actor mainly performs his own reaction according to the reaction of the opponent's actor. If you follow a certain formula every time, every time after the first time, the reaction will be more and more deviated from reality.

   Because you have already predicted what the opponent will do.

  Spicoli... No, the great thing about Sean Penn is that he can perform a different feeling in every line, and it also stimulates the natural reaction of the actors who play against him.

  The audience is very sensitive to unnatural and contrived performances. Ronald is very satisfied with this kind of actor who can perform natural reactions. Every time he gives him an extra piece, he also thinks about adding more dramas to him in the future.

   "Very good, everyone rested for 10 minutes, the camera team re-set up the machine, let's take a close-up of the screen of the game console."

  Ronald gave the order, and today's shooting progressed smoothly.

   "Clap clap clap..." Everyone applauded.

   seems to be inspired by yesterday's applause, and now the staff and actors will spontaneously applaud and congratulate each time a high-quality shot is completed.

  Because this is very encouraging, the actors who have finished filming feel that they have accomplished something amazing, and they are more confident and relaxed about their performances. Ronald also did not intervene, which became a routine for "fast-paced" crews.

   "Recording? Camera? Action!"

   set up the camera, Ronald called the power-on command again.

   Sean Penn started to play the game against the game console, and the camera started to shoot his game screen from the side and rear.

   "Cut!"

   Sean Penn stopped.

   "What's the problem? Spiccoli?" Ronald popped out from behind the camera.

   "Who is that? I can't see unrelated strangers when I'm filming."

   "Sorry, Sorry, I just wanted to come and watch the movie." A security guard at a mall apologised and withdrew from the crowd.

   "I'll make arrangements for other scenes next time. You leave first." Ronald was still kind to the security guards in the mall.

   "Clear, Spiccoli, there are no strangers now, can you start?"

  “O…K…”

   Ronald shook his head, these methods send actors with great ability and quirks. Sean Penn is pretty good, no matter what.

  These quirks of him are also for the purpose of entering the play. It's easy to play with unrelated people present. People are not allowed to call him his real name, but also to enter the state of Spiccoli at any time.

   These innocuous quirks, Ronald can tolerate.

   "Recording? Camera? Action."

  Spicoli started playing "Missile Commander" again, and the game console made the sound of BiuBiuBiu.

   "Cut!"

   This time, the director of photography, Matthew, called a temporary stop.

"what happened again?"

   (end of this chapter)