Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 350 Chapter 301 What a wonderful feeling

  The next filming started smoothly. Jennifer Beers was a top student who was admitted to Yale University by herself, and her comprehension was outstanding. Adrian Lane explained the background, character, and behavior of her characters, and she performed them well.

   For example, Alex works as a female welding worker in a steel mill, and Jennifer Beers puts on a tooling, helmet, and protective goggles to weld a workpiece with a welding torch.

  Westinghouse just demolished their turbine plant in Pittsburgh, which the crew just rented out as a steel mill interior.

  Bears picked up the welding gun, turned the camera on her helmet, which had Alex written on it, and steam and loud noise began to fill the set.

   "Action!"

  Beers tapped the welding torch on the workpiece, and a spark came out. She didn't know how to maintain the proper distance between the welding torch and the workpiece, so that the welding rod could melt evenly and stably. The magnetic force always pushed her electrodes to one side, shutting off at every turn.

  Bears is very smart. She continued to poked the workpiece with the electrode, so that the current could be continuously passed, and a lot of sparks popped out of the electrode.

   "Cut!"

   Ryan made a nice gesture. The audience can't see the difference anyway, and the point of the film isn't to depict the work of the welding women.

   Ronald and the staff applauded and congratulated the successful shooting of the camera. In addition to the newly filmed scenes of forklift trucks, tipping buckets, and employees banging on pipes with inexplicable meaning, the editing is like a heavy metal scene in a steel factory.

   "Why should such an advanced factory be demolished?" Ronald chatted with the Westinghouse staff after the filming was completed.

   "The local trade unions are too powerful now, and they plan to stop producing turbines locally and instead purchase OEM products from Toyo Mitsubishi Heavy Industries."

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   "Ugh..." The hydraulics of the dump truck sent out a huge force, pushing the dump bucket over its head and overturning it. The close-up shot of the dump truck is very majestic. Jennifer Beers took off the welding mask, tossed her hair from side to side, and let out a long breath.

   The next day, Ronald sat down with director Adrian Lane and producer Don Simpson to watch the demo again.

  The recorder plays the theme song produced and recorded by singer Joe Esposito for "Lightning Dance". "What A Feeling (WhatAFeeling

  The melody is very nice. Ronald had heard it in his dreams. He began to imagine how to edit these pictures taken by Director Ryan to match the rhythm of the music.

   "This scene needs to fill two bars of music, then cut to the scene where the heroine is welding, then the scene where the pipe is tapped, and finally when the melody of the music is accumulating energy, cut to the scene where Bills shakes his hair..."

   "Ronald, Ronald?"

   Ronald came to his senses. Don Simpson was asking him a question.

   "Ronald, what do you think? There is some mismatch between this theme song and the picture, what do you think?"

Director Adrian Lane asked Ronald for his opinion sincerely. He now regards Ronald as an artist who is comparable to him. Sometimes even though he has an idea, he still wants to ask Ronald's opinion. Opinion.

   "Doesn't it match?" Ronald listened carefully. The lyrics were different from what he had dreamed of. The lyrics in the dream were more from a woman's point of view, explaining his journey of pursuing his dream.

   "Maybe we should rewrite the lyrics to tell the story from the heroine's point of view..."

   "That's right, why don't you do it?" Don Simpson replied, "Adrian, Ronald was the lyricist for the best original song at the Oscars."

   "This..." Ronald didn't want to copy other people's works this time. "This is a song from a female perspective. We may find a female to fill in the lyrics. There are some subtle differences in the emotional expression of men and women."

   "That's right, why don't we find a female singer to sing the song again?" Director Ryan took the opportunity to express his thoughts, "What do you think? Ronald, Don?"

   "A female singer is a good idea." Ronald nodded in agreement, of course.

   "Female singer, we may have to find a mezzo-soprano." Don Simpson looked at Ronald, "Do you have a candidate?"

   "You should have seen the theme song of 'Famous Around the World'?" Ronald thought of his old friend Erin Cara.

   "That's the 'Same (Fame)? Hahaha, of course I've heard of it. That black girl is really a good candidate, you call her and ask her to submit a demo"

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"Ronald... long time no see... what, there is a movie theme song... um, melody you play for me... rewrite the lyrics?... female perspective... I understand, I'll go to the studio right away. "

   received a call from Ronald, and Erin Kara was very happy. I have been singing my song "Fame" for two years, and I desperately need a new song, otherwise the TV station will not let me on the show.

   She grabbed the notebook of the original lyrics that Ronald dictated over the phone, rushed out of her New York apartment, stopped a taxi, and headed for the recording studio. In the back seat of the taxi, she took out a notebook and pencil and corrected it.

   "Alone, I'm already crying

  Silent tears, full of pride

  In a world of steel

   Well, I heard the music

  Close my eyes and feel the rhythm

   Surround, hold my heart

  What a wonderful feeling

  To exist is to believe

  I could have it all and now I'm dancing for my life"

   Half an hour later, Erin Kara, who arrived at the recording studio, grabbed the phone and dialed to Pittsburgh.

   "Ronald, I've written new lyrics, listen..."

   "What do you think?"

  Eileen Cara changed the lyrics on the road, then went to the studio to sing a demo, and Don Simpson and Adrian Lane heard Erin sing over the phone.

  Don Simpson closed his eyes and circled his fingers in the air, as if conducting the band to play the theme song "WhataFeeling"

   After listening to the demo, he opened his eyes, "Very good, just use your friend's version. I think this song has the potential to be a hit. When Alex goes to the ballet academy for the exam, why not just use this music?"

   Don Simpson's last words were addressed to the director.

   "It's great. It shows a girl in a steel-industrial city and her inner pursuit of dance art. How did you find the lyricist and singer?"

   Ronald was stunned, he just thought that the singer in the dream had a black voice, and he just happened to know Erin Kara. But he had to make up a reason to say that he has an artist's taste.

"Eileen Carla is a black Latino, and it's going to be a bit tougher in this industry. So she's empathizing with that? She's on her way to the studio, changing those women in less than half an hour. Perspective lyrics."

   Don Simpson and Adrian Lane who said this nodded their heads. The music scene in America has always been that local blacks provide talent, and whites are responsible for commercialization. Irene Cara, who is not reliant on both sides, does have a similar mood as the protagonist Alex.

  Alex is a welder who works in a factory. With this wild dance foundation, if he wants to enter the ballet academy, he needs to deal with the doubts of others and himself.

  Eileen Kara's soundtrack demo was made very quickly, and the crew quickly got the theme song of the theme song "What a Wonderful Feeling".

  The crew applied to the Pittsburgh government for an invitation to shoot in the morning, preparing to shoot Alex riding a bicycle to work, shuttling through the streets and alleys of Pittsburgh and the iconic Three Sisters Bridge.

  These are three steel bridges in downtown Pittsburgh, built in the 1920s when America's infrastructure was surging. The Three Sisters Bridge closely links the city center divided by three rivers, and there are also bicycle lanes for people to use.

   The Pittsburgh Police Department sent some officers to help the crew coordinate traffic.

  The recording team played the recording of "What a Wonderful Feeling" on the spot, which made the heroine Jennifer Beals more into the state.

   "DiDi..." A police officer who was sent to direct the traffic also heard the music. He began to imitate various musical instruments and performed many dance moves to direct the traffic.

   Ronald looked very interesting, and hurriedly pulled over the shoulder of director Adrian Lane. "Adrian, look at that man..."

   "What is that?" Ryan also found it interesting.

   "A cop who uses dance to direct traffic, why don't we put him in the movie? I bet this guy must be famous in Pittsburgh," Ronald said.

   "Hello, sir, can I disturb you?" Ronald greeted the policeman in the past.

   "Hello, I'm Vic Sianka, siren XXXXX"

   The dancer who directed the traffic saluted Ronald and introduced himself.

   "Is this how you usually direct traffic?"

   "Yes, traffic conductors are very boring, and the drivers in Pittsburgh are not very good-natured. I will use some dance moves to keep everyone calm and obey the order."

   "What do you think about appearing in our movie and playing yourself?"

   "Oh, may I? I have to tell my wife the good news. Thank you, sir."

   After communicating with officials sent by the Pittsburgh government. The police officer who directs traffic with dance moves is also well-known locally. He has directed traffic for more than two decades and has been featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

   He was dubbed the "Baryshnikov of the Crossroads" by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and was known to all Pittsburgh locals.

   "Very good, such a plot arrangement will increase the recognition of local audiences." Don Simpson also learned the news and agreed to add a scene.

   "You know what? I think Alex should use some movements that are not traditional ballet." Ronald explained his own thoughts and some scenes in the dream to Tang and Adrian.

   "Alex is a welder, and she learned her dance from ballet dancers on TV, so there must be a lot of informality and irregularities. It's almost impossible for such a character to be admitted to the Ballet Academy in Pittsburgh.

   We have to make the audience feel that this plot has a certain rationality, so we must add some street dances to her, such as imitating the policeman's dance steps, so that the judges of the entrance examination also feel very fresh. Her admission could also be more convincing. "

The more Ronald said, the more reasonable he felt, "Although Alex's interview for admission was won by his boyfriend Nick, the owner of the steel mill, her admission must not be the same backdoor, but should be related to Alex's own struggle. ."

"It makes sense, we can let Bills and the dance police learn a few moves, but that's not enough, what dances can we add to her?" Don Simpson felt that this improvised plot was very closely related to the original script. , so prepare to let the choreographer start working overtime.

   "What do you think of this dance?" Ronald simply took off his jacket and danced the kind of black breakdance he had seen in his dream.

   "What the **** is this dance?" Don Simpson's eyes popped out.

   "This is called spacewalking, moonwalking, this is called noodle dance, and this..." Ronald found the ground of water mill marble under the porch of a building next to him, lay down on the ground, and began to spin.

   "It's called a helicopter. I'm not very good at jumping." Ronald put away his movements and explained to the director and producer.

"It's a popular dance among black people on the east and west coasts. You can go to Los Angeles and have some real dancers try it out, Latinos and black people do it a lot. There's a show on TV that shows this dance a lot, what's it called... soul train"

   I wish all readers New Year's greetings, I wish you all a prosperous year of the Tiger and all your wishes come true.

   (end of this chapter)