Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 329 Days of Studying with Coppola

   Rewinding the clock to a few months ago, Ronald became Coppola's special assistant in order to learn how to train an actor's acting skills. The performance in "Fast Rhythm" was not very real, and he took the initiative to steal from Coppola's "Old Boy" crew.

He and Diane Lane, who had been chosen to play the heroine Cherry, and her father, Bert, happened to meet at the airport, flying from various places to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to shoot "The World" Outlander".

This is the hometown of SE Hinton, the author of the original novel. She studied in high school here. At the age of fifteen, she wrote "The Worldly Urchin". After a year of revision, it was published at the age of sixteen. a bestseller.

   "Grand Hotel Tulsa."

   Ronald saw the signboard and knew it was the hotel reserved by the crew, and went to check in with a few actors in the same car.

   "See you later, Ronald." Bert said goodbye to Ronald and went to other hotels to find a room first.

  Bert was worried about his daughter this time and came to Tulsa to accompany his daughter to shoot. However, he is not an official member of the crew and has to find a hotel by himself.

   The hotel where the crew stayed was helped by Hinton. In fact, there is no need to look for it. Only this big hotel can hold all the members of the crew near the filming location.

  The entrance to the hotel is a large fountain with a cheap replica of an ancient Greek sculpture in the middle, which is nondescript. The water in the pool is still relatively clean, in stark contrast to the dust on the sculpture, perhaps it was temporarily changed to meet the great director Coppola.

The main building of the hotel is a five-story building. Some technicians in the early stage have already checked in with various equipment, props, costumes, etc. The actors and creators who came today have arrived at about the same time and are busy checking in at the front desk. .

   A group of young actors who play the two teenage gangs in the movie are waiting to get their room keys. The first assistant director started calling people with the room assignment list.

  Tom Cruise, 104; Patrick Thwaites, 105; Emilio Estevez, 110;

  Matt Dillon 202;

   Diane Lane 305; Michelle Melink 306;

  Rive Garrett 503; Darren Dalton 504;

   "Everyone has half an hour to rest, and then go to Room 101 to collect today's pocket money."

   Ronald himself also lived on the first floor, in the one on the farthest corner of the corner, opened the door, put down the package, and rested for a while.

   I don't know if this room arrangement was decided by Coppola, it's very interesting.

   The actors who played the rich boy gang lived in the suites on the fourth and fifth floors. The actors who play the poor oil head gang are all in the low-end rooms on the first floor. On the middle floor lived several teenage actresses, including Diane Lane.

   They are all teenage young actors. In the movie, they play two opposing gangs, and Diane plays Cherry, who happens to live on the third floor in the middle.

   "Ronald, come and help me." The first assistant director saw Ronald tidy up and went out, and immediately pulled him in to work.

   "This is the script, you help me bind it with iron rings."

Ronald stepped forward to help with the binding, checked the page number of the copied script, added a plastic cover, then punched holes with a hole punch, fastened with iron rings, and stacked the books on the table in his room. .

   "Why are your scripts different?" Ronald finished his own pile of scripts and started helping other assistants with their scripts.

This pile of scripts is made of different binding materials. After punching the holes, instead of cheap iron rings, copper rings are used to wear them. In addition, the cowhide cover has the name of the movie and everyone's name in gold foil, and hold it in your hand. It feels good inside, like an old-fashioned hardcover book.

   "This is for the actors of the Gongzi Gang."

   "Even the script should be treated differently?" Ronald was a little surprised, did Director Coppola even take into account the details? "why is that?"

   "You still have a lot to learn, Ronald. Come over here now." Francis Coppola came in to check the situation, just saw Ronald there and called him to his room.

   "Ronald, you know that the budget for this movie is not high. We need to save a little bit of Warner's money. I can only give you 10% of the advance salary now."

   "No problem, I told the agent that even if I pay, I will come to the crew to learn from you. If there is anything, please let me know." Ronald was a little nervous when he heard the money, and quickly said he didn't care.

  Coppola's diorama company had some financial problems. But Ronald is here to learn and direct the actors' acting skills, and these are all minor issues.

   "I don't want you to come here for work, but for your opinion, Ronald." Coppola was actually not very satisfied with his initiative to help with chores, and there were as many assistants as Coppola for chores.

   "It turns out that when George was on my crew, he gave me advice every day. It's not right here, it's not right there. If you can give me a useful advice every day like him, I'll be satisfied."

   So when George Lucas was Coppola's younger brother, did he have so many opinions on Coppola every day? Ronald overheard some gossip.

   "Okay, maybe I don't have as many opinions as Mr. Lucas, but one a day isn't too much of a problem."

   "Good boy. Now you help the camera crew prepare for tomorrow's rehearsal." Coppola patted Ronald on the shoulder.

   Originally, he wanted to be a handyman, but he was a handyman who could give advice.

  Ronald went to find the room of the camera crew, and when he passed the door, he saw a large group of actors gathered at the door of the first assistant director's room on the first floor to collect the day's pocket money.

Huh? Ronald, who was watching the excitement at the door, found a different treatment.

The actors of   Gongzi Gang are all teen idols. They are accompanied by managers and have more pocket money. The Youtou Gang's actors are not accompanied by managers, and they only have two dollars a day in pocket money. In this remote and backward town, it is only enough to buy some snacks.

  Ronald touches his beard, Coppola is so interesting.

   On the first day of the report, he began to train actors? By treating actors who play different roles differently, is this asking them to experience the character's life?

"Ronald? Nice to meet you." The director of photography pulled Ronald, "Tomorrow will start rehearsals, Francis asked us to record everything, the camera crew has not yet arrived, if there is a need for multi-camera shooting, you will also help Use a video recorder."

   "No problem." Ronald tried the Sony BetaCam recorder in the room, which he was already familiar with by the time he auditioned. He has spent a lot of time in the crew, and it is not a big problem to be a part-time photographer with a video camera.

   Ronald, who went out of the door, was going to go shopping in the town, and happened to see Tom Cruise and a handsome guy who was very handsome also going out together. Ronald recognizes Rob Lowe of Soda Soda, the second brother of the main character, Horse Boy.

   "Hi Tom, Rob." Ronald happened to be out with them.

   "Where are you going? Ronald, we're going with you."

   "I've never been to Tulsa, but I know Ms. Hinton, the author of the original novel. She's a local. Have you seen her? You can ask her."

   Several people found the author Hinton, who also lived in the hotel. The fat Hinton warmly hugged several actors and Ronald.

   "Are you going to go shopping in the town? There is a movie theater, a restaurant, by the way, that movie theater is the one that I wrote at the beginning of the novel, and it hasn't changed for decades."

  Ronald took the lead, this town seems to have no entertainment facilities.

"Hey, oil heads. Are you going to dinner with us?" Leif Garrett, the teenage star who played the last stabbed Bob in the Boys Gang, gave the actors a weird smile, "But you guys Not enough pocket money, hahaha.”

   "Oh, Shxt." Tom Cruise looked at the two dollars in his hand and pocketed the money angrily.

  Rob Law also rolled his eyes, "How did you endure these two months?"

   "It's okay, I have money." Ronald took a few twenty dollar bills out of his pocket.

  Thanks to the reminder from the agent Nisita, Ronald brought a lot of cash to the backward town of Tulsa. There is no entertainment here, and nowhere to spend money. There is a small shop in the hotel where you can buy some snacks and coke, and there are not many things for sale in the department store in town.

   But now there is money to eat.

"I don't want to go and eat with the gang of boys, just buy some cokes and snacks here." Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe walked into the hotel shop, picked some cakes, cokes and snacks, forget it Calculate the money and throw the other snacks back.

"It's okay, come to Mother Hinton, I have delicious food here." The fat author Hinton, seeing all this, hurriedly greeted Tom Cruise warmly, and Rob Lowe came in to eat what she prepared delicious.

   "This trick works well?" Ronald couldn't help but admire.

   Just divide the two actors into different grades of hotel rooms, use scripts with different bindings, and then give them pocket money by grades, and they will automatically see themselves as different categories.

   It costs nothing to do this, but it works surprisingly well. The two gangs of teenage actors were already hostile to each other on day one.

   "Ronald, you come too."

   Ronald also walked into Hinton's room, she secretly took out a large bag of snacks and opened it for several actors to choose.

   "Oh, you still have this here." Tom and Rob were very happy, "Thank you, Mother Hinton."

   "Don't worry, if you have any problems, just come to Mother Hinton."

  Ronald is funny. Hinton likes these actors to interpret her own novels. She is also named as the screenwriter of the crew and will make a cameo role as a nurse. In fact, she is here to spoil these beautiful little actors.

   had positive different treatment, and asked Hinton to give them some convenience. The crew is all teenage actors, and it is estimated that soon the two gangs will be able to really take shape in the actors.

  The old house of the hotel is made of wood, the carpet in the corridor upstairs is very worn out, and the sound insulation effect is poor when stepping on it.

   Ronald, who slept in his room until midnight, was awakened by the sound of dong dong dong.

   Picked up the watch beside the bed and saw that it was only two in the morning. Ronald couldn't sleep because of the noise, and got up to take a look.

  A thin figure, wearing a vest and jeans, walked in the corridor with arms crossed.

   "Who is it?" Ronald shouted.

   "It's me, Ralph. Ralph Mazio."

   It turned out to be Ralph Mazio, who played the protagonist's friend. At 20 years old this year, although he is considered the oldest among many teenage actors, he still doesn't look open. Instead, he looks younger than Tom Cruise and others.

   "Why don't you sleep and walk here?" Ronald asked strangely, watching him walk around.

   "I don't have a room."

   (end of this chapter)