Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 404 Angry Street

   In one of the largest studios at Universal Studios on New York Street, the crew that Diane Lane participated in was setting up the set, and director and producer Walter Hill was rushing to supervise.

   After Diane's introduction, Ronald got to know the director with outstanding box office performance. He made two blockbuster films in the past few years: "The Warriors" in 1979, and "Forty-Eight Hours" in 1982.

  Walter Hill is also a director who started out by shooting exploitative films. His "Warrior Gang" tells the story of gangs on the streets of New York. He also appreciates Ronald's "fast pace" and takes Ronald and Diane to visit together.

  CAA helped him to greet him in advance. Walter specially took Ronald to visit the sets in the three studios. Along with them, there were two newspaper reporters who interviewed and recorded the dialogue between the two directors.

   "This is the venue where Diane plays the rock star Ellen Ann, the concert venue." The two walked to a small studio, where the woodworkers were rushing to make the stage. "Two live concerts are filmed here, and the set alone would cost a million dollars."

   A wooden stage with several vintage microphones and a worker in the background installing neon tubes. Below is a large audience area with seats in the front row, but the style is also very old, much like a movie theater in the 1960s.

   "It's really a big production, it's amazing." Ronald looked envious. With one set, he could make himself a movie.

   "Come here, please, this is the cafe of the male protagonist Tom's sister." The set of the cafe has been set up in a smaller studio next to it, so that several studios can shoot at the same time, which can save a lot of shooting time. .

   "This is the largest studio in the world. We will use it to build a night view of Chicago and rebuild a Chicago subway station and urban area." Walter Hill was satisfied, and the group walked to the last, the largest studio. Introduce to Ronald.

   This studio is only a bit smaller than the one he saw on the London Pinewood set for "Supergirl". "DayForNight? (DayForNight Ronald asked, it seems that the movie has a lot of night scenes.

Day and night is a film shooting technique. Using lights to simulate night scene shooting indoors, the exposure of film film to low light is not very good, so shooting indoor scenes with low light during the day will look the same on film film as it is at night. This is how the crew's night scenes were shot.

   "No, that's not real. I'll put a big tent on the outside of this big studio to block all the light and shoot the real night scene." Walter Hill proudly introduced.

  "Oh", Ronald has been so excited that he can't speak, this kind of big money is really spending money, who asked Walter Hill to find a good partner? Producer Joel Silver (Joel Silver) literally got a production budget of 15 million from Universal.

   "At that time, we will invite a costume designer to order Diane's costumes for the concert."

   The two chatted happily, and both asked each other's background. Walter Hill did editing, screenwriting, and then directing. Similar to Ronald's experience, the two have a common language.

  The two reporters recorded some details next to them, so that they can go back and write the manuscript.

   "Ronald, this is our hero, Michael Parr." Walter introduced them to a medium-sized man.

   "Good day (Bonjour), hello Diane", Parr is a muscular man with a decadent appearance, as if he has trimmed his eyebrows and wiped his eye shadow. His voice had a harsh tone that made it uncomfortable.

   "Ah, sigh" Diane was pulled into his arms by a warm hug, then hugged tightly, and finally kissed her.

Diane dodged twice, and finally was not kissed on the mouth. After breaking away from Parr's embrace, he introduced to him, "This is Ronald, my good friend, and a film director." Then he took advantage of the opportunity to hide in Rhona The back position next to De.

   "Ronald, huh?" Parr raised his chin at him as a greeting.

   "Hello, Michael." Ronald knew that some actors would enter the role ahead of time, and Michael Parr may be showing the character of the hero in the play now, but he didn't care.

   "You're also the director, eh?" Pal took out a butterfly knife, this kind of knife shape from the Philippines, the handle is two movable strip handles.

  Par played the butterfly knife with a knife flower in his hand, and snapped the handle together, revealing the sharp blade. Then there was another dazzling movement, and the blade was folded and put away.

   "Oh, your knife skills are good. Which hair country restaurant did you work as a chef?" Ronald felt that the other party was a little naive. Who was he to scare?

"The... restaurant in New York, where I worked as a chef for three years." Parr began to brag about his own experiences, how he worshipped Marlon Brando since he was a child, how he was discovered by a scout in the restaurant, and how Got the role through her relationship with actress Nancy Allen.

   "What a cook, no wonder his neck is so thick." Ronald licked his ears and turned to look for Walter Hill.

"That's it, don't forget to mention my good friend Ronald Lee, his new work 'Night of the Comet' will be released soon." Walter Hill also saw that Parr was long-winded and quickly Call reporters to take pictures of them.

   "Walter, I've read Diane's script, why is the movie's script so thin? It doesn't seem to have a name yet?" Ronald and Walter Hill, director, chatted casually after sending the reporter off.

"That was a shared idea between me and producer Joel Silver. We thought that what was important for this film was the atmosphere, the song and dance, the use of light, and the color, but the story wasn't that important. We just decided on the name. Come down and call 'Streets of Fire'"

   "Rage on the Street?" Ronald thought to himself, this kind of plot where a war hero liked by teenagers comes back to save his ex-girlfriend, and his ex-girlfriend is the coolest rock actress, Diane is actually a good choice. Maybe it's just that I haven't seen this movie before, so I didn't dream about it.

"Yes, it's a high-concept movie, we asked a lot of young people to investigate what they thought was the coolest scene in the movie, custom sports car, kissing in the rain, neon lights, train at night, crash at high speed, Fights, rock music, motorcycles, leather jackets, and fighting for honor."

  "Oh" Ronald thought to himself that this was a new method, which he had never tried before. "Are you going to start filming next month?"

   "Yeah, we'll start filming on the fifteenth of next month, but we still haven't found the actor of the big villain. There are not many actors of this type in America."

   "Oh, what do you need?" Ronald became interested, not knowing what type of actor Amelica was rare.

   "He should be a femininist villain, smart, thoughtful, cold and caring towards his subordinates. People will know at first sight that he is an evil villain, but he doesn't hate him."

"You know what? I've seen an actor recently, maybe you can try him." Ronald thought of Willem Dafoe, the hero of Catherine Bigelow's debut, who was a natural villain, but he Very smart look.

   When Ronald took out the "Loveless" poster from the box behind the motorcycle and showed it to Walter Hill, the director stared at it for a long time, and he really had the temperament of the villain in the movie.

  He took the poster and went to discuss it with producer Joel Silver.

   Ronald stayed in the studio and stared at it for a long time. It is estimated that his next movie will be able to get a big production. This kind of splurge for the artistic effect in his mind is really cool.

   "Ronald, Ronald." Diane ran over, "You agreed to go to the movies with me."

   Ronald turned his head and saw that the actor Michael Parr was waving his butterfly knife again to pester Diane.

   "Yeah, let's go talk to the director and leave." Diane stretched out his arm and the two went to the director to say goodbye.

   "Shxt!" Pal shouted, turning the butterfly knife with a screeching sound, and flying forward with one knife, with this dashing movement, he vented his anger for a small setback in his invincible fight against girls.

   "Dang bang..." The butterfly knife flew out backwards and hit the wooden wall, but was knocked crooked and fell to the ground.

   "Shxt!" Pal ran over to pick it up again. He checked it distressedly for a long time, and wiped it carefully with his clothes.

   "I'll take you back to the hotel, Bert is still waiting for you." Ronald handed Diane the red helmet and rode his motorcycle first.

   "Didn't you go to the movies?" Diane also stepped up, hugged Ronald in the back, and complained.

"Haha, aren't you trying to get rid of that Pal's harassment? Maybe he's more involved in the play? Next time you come to shoot, remember to ask Bert to come with him, he won't dare to make trouble." De and Parr get in touch and know that he's just a cool little white face.

   "Okay, but don't forget to go to the concert with me in two days."

  "Unforgettable", Ronald stepped on the start lever, turned the accelerator, and the motorcycle drove forward.

   "Dududu..." The sound of the motorcycle engine was low and irritable. Ronald blocked the cold early spring wind in front of him, leaving only a little gentle breeze, which bypassed his body and blew on Diane behind him.

  A few strands of Diane's long hair came out of the helmet and were blown up by the breeze, leaving a trace of warmth.

   (end of this chapter)