Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 399 Bo Ji Xiaosi's Beard

  The plane landed in Tel Aviv, Israel's second largest city. Minahan was very anxious, and the man he sent picked up Ronald, pulled him into a jeep, and drove south to the Negev desert.

  This desert occupies nearly half of Israel's territory, and it is usually very hot, only slightly better in winter. The crew of "Sahara" filmed the scenes of the Sahara Desert here.

   The car drove to the hotel in Beersheba, a city in the northern desert. Ronald jumped out of the car and saw Minahan waiting for him at the hotel entrance from a distance.

   "You're finally here, Ronald, if you don't come, I'm going to use extreme measures to deal with this nasty bitch."

   "Who?"

   "Terry, Brooke's mother."

  The two chatted while walking. It turns out that the plot of "Sahara" is about the story of Dale played by Brooke Shields, who disguises herself as a man to replace her father who died unexpectedly and participates in the Paris-Dakar Rally.

   But Brooke Shields' mother, Terry, always believed that Brooke should not wear a fake beard and pretend to be a man. This is a big damage to her screen image.

   She also had other strange disputes with the original director, and finally had to bring Minahan to deal with the conflict.

   In order to keep Brooke Shields, Minahan had to fire the director and acted as the director himself. But the issue of the beard finally provokes Terry, who is determined not to allow Minahan to take a close-up of Brooke with a beard. .

  The shooting has been in a stalemate for a long time, and there are many shots that have been unable to shoot.

   "Why do you want to listen to Terry?" Ronald was puzzled. This kind of make-up controversy can usually be resolved by coaxing during the filming, so it won't cause such a confrontation.

   "Fuxk, in order to sign with Brooke, I agreed to Terry as a producer, gave her tens of thousands of dollars in remuneration, and gave her the right to decide to shoot on the scene of her daughter."

   "Fuxk"

   Ronald also scolded, Minahan, a layman, dares to sign such terms, it seems that he is doing anything to get Brooke Shields to play.

   "I can only try, can't guarantee anything."

   Ronald walked into the hotel, checked in first, and before leaving his luggage, Minahan urged him to knock on the door of the mother and daughter Brooke.

   "Ronald, come in." It was rare for Terry not to be drunk. Seeing that it was Ronald, he immediately pulled him into the door, looked left and right, and closed it carefully.

   "I have to be careful. The previous director was very rascal and wanted to let Brooke shoot the scenes with beards without my consent. Wouldn't this end my daughter's acting life?"

   "Huh? Why?" Ronald opened his mouth wide, unable to understand for a moment.

   "Don't you understand? Ronald. This is asking my daughter to play a man. How can she play a girl in this way? You are also a director. You must support me less on this matter."

   "Hey..." Ronald looked at Brooke and wanted to ask her what she thought.

   But when he turned his head, he saw Brooke looking distressed, frowning, and the corners of his mouth curved down, as if he was about to cry.

"Terry, I just arrived in Israel, and I still need to get rid of the jet lag. In this way, I will read the script first, and then communicate with Minahan." After speaking, Ronald gave Brooke a wink and wrote on the key card. The room number paper was deliberately leaked on the sofa, and then he left the room.

   Ten minutes later, Brooke went to Ronald's room and knocked on the door, where Ronald and Minahan were chatting about the beard.

   "Borgy, I see your mother is a little excited? What's going on?"

   Brooke hugged Ronald first, then looked at Minahan, as if a little embarrassed.

   "My mother is a little obsessed. I don't know who told her that if the image of an actress is stereotyped, the audience will not be able to jump out of this image. So she is very opposed to me wearing a fake beard."

   "If I understand correctly, you are playing a girl in the movie who disguised herself as a man and went to a rally instead of her father, right? Like Mulan?"

   "Flower Who?"

   "Don't worry about those details, I mean, when the audience sees you dressed as a boy, they actually know that you are playing a girl. In the movie, women are dressed as men, right?"

"Yeah, that's it, the audience won't treat you as a boy, they'll just think you're a girl, play the boy, and bang! Everyone still can't find out that you're a girl, isn't this a good show of acting? "Meinahan anxiously tried to convince Brooke.

   "Huh? What do you mean?" Brooke didn't understand and looked at Ronald.

   "I can't tell right away, how did your mother let you out alone?"

   "Oh, I said I'm going to buy some Coke, the desert climate is so dry, the hotel room has run out of it."

  "That's right", Ronald took out two bottles of Coke from the small refrigerator in his room and handed them to Brooke. Meenahan and I went to see you and your mother tonight to see if we could explain the truth.

   "Oh, you always have a way. Then I'll go first, Ronald." Brooke Shields walked out with two bottles of Coke in her hands.

"Ronald, you already have a solution, don't you? Haha, I didn't think wrong, you can solve this problem when you come. Tell me first, how are you going to convince her? Talking about this is going to be a fight with Terry."

  Meinahan said, looking at Ronald with bright eyes, hoping that he could tell the secret.

   "It's a matter of trust, Minahan. Look at what I say tonight, I'm going to rest, and I'm exhausted after two long flights in a row."

   "Don't, don't, tell me first..."

   "Are you trying to convince Terry to let Brooke play the boy? Do you? Then now, you **** me out." Ronald kicked Minahan away, feeling like taking a shower and sleeping.

  When you are in jet lag, you need to stop dozing off like this, and then sleep when you are so stiff that you really want to sleep. This way, when you wake up, you can overcome most of the jet lag.

   Ronald fell on the bed, picked up the "Sahara" script and read it.

   Dale, played by Brooke, whose father was a race car driver and owner of an automaker, tragically passed away while testing the car after inventing his own race car. In order to keep the company, Dale disguises herself as a man and participates in a rally.

   After she crossed the starting line, she took off her wig and beard to reveal her real gender to the rest of the competition.

   "Well, there's nothing wrong with that. Anyway, I'll take it off after wearing it for a while."

   Ronald fell asleep.

   It was already evening when he woke up. After Ronald had slept enough, he went out to find Minahan to convince Terry together.

   "Terry, look at this script. Before Brooke played Dale as a man, did she appear as a girl and was known to the audience?"

  Ronald turns to the first few pages to show Terry and Brooke.

   "Yes, that's the case." Brooke helped.

   "And then when Dell's father died and the company was facing bankruptcy, she pretended to be a man and secretly glued on a fake beard to save the company?"

  Terry nodded.

"In this case, what the audience sees is actually a girl, dressed as a man in the movie, and no one can recognize her identity. In this case, the audience will not misunderstand that Brooke is a man, but will see her as a man. Zuo's acting skills are superb, and other people in the movie can't recognize it.

   Didn't Bo Ji want to transform into an actress with acting skills? That's a good start. And Brooke is going to go to Princeton soon. Before suspending her acting career, it's good to give her a good impression of her acting skills.

   Besides, look, this scene is actually very short, and the audience will remember those scenes of him as a woman more clearly. "

   "So the audience won't remember her playing a man because of her makeup?"

   Ronald looked at Minahan, meaning it was time for you, the director, to give a guarantee.

   "Of course, Terry. I promise, Brooke will be very handsome even in men's clothes, and the audience will only remember her as a beauty in men's clothes."

  Terry and his daughter have been in Israel for a long time. They have experienced a quarrel with the original director and changed directors. The two lonely mothers and daughters in the desert in a foreign country have become a little nervous.

   In addition to Minahan's rushing character, it inevitably resulted in the loss of mutual trust. In this way, no matter how much they say, the other party will suspect that the other party is trying to deceive them, deepening their beliefs.

  Only Ronald, who just flew in from the outside world, used to have a basis of trust with Brooke and Terry, so Terry's suspicions were solved in a few words.

   We can continue shooting tomorrow, Minahan was very happy and took Ronald to eat and drink.

"I said, did you make an exploitative film starring Faye Dunaway?" Ronald ate a lot of pita bread, a specialty of Israel. Remembering Donnaway who scolded Minahan in London, he asked the client. .

   "Yeah, I took it. It shut down last June, Faye Dunaway had a problem, here..." Minahan pointed to his head, "She's smoking too much."

   "When I went to London, she scolded you wildly in front of me, saying that you added a lot of **** scenes to the movie, and she was very dissatisfied."

Minahan spread his hands, "You're also a film director, how can you sell this kind of production without adding a little more to it? Faye Dunaway is a choice for financing. We took a fancy to her previous resume, and I didn't let her off... …”

"Okay, don't talk about it, that's it." Ronald probably knew the number of ways Minahan had. He used stars to attract investment, and then let the supporting characters undress. With Minahan's directorial style, he didn't want to know more. details.

  After dinner, Ronald picked up the script of "Sahara" and read it again, but the Sandman quickly attacked and he fell asleep.

   Early the next morning, Ronald came to the Negev desert to watch Minahan director Brooke filming. The temperature is lower when shooting earlier, and the actors and crew can be more comfortable.

  It was the first time Ronald went to the desert.

   Those who go to the desert for the first time will be surprised by the quietness of the desert. No plants, no animals, and if you take a professional recording microphone, you won't hear the slightest bit of background noise.

   This kind of silence makes people feel a little strange, as if some monster will jump out of the background.

   Ronald shook his head to drive this strange thought out of his mind.

   He saw a racing car converted from an old car pushed by the props team. Brooke Shields dressed up as a man, got in the car, and was ready to start shooting.

   "Wait a minute!" Ronald looked at the distance that Minahan let the camera put a panoramic view, he was about to issue a password to start shooting, and he hurriedly stepped forward to stop it.

   "You don't need a stand-in for this racing scene? How can you let Bo Ji take it by herself?"

   (end of this chapter)