Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 464 Shooting Rehearsal

  Diane Lane asked her agent to talk show time with David Letterman. She went to dinner with Ronald and Donna herself.

   At the dinner table, Diane shared some of her recent experiences.

   "Rage Street" was over, and the two sets of glamour costumes designed by Armani were also owned by Diane, which made her very happy.

  When the crew was tossing around, Diane had to study high school courses by herself, reluctantly passed the high school exam, and got the graduation certificate and graduation ring when she was in the crew.

   "Look, this is my graduation ring." Diane held out her hand to Donna to see. She envied Donna very much. She got good grades and could go to university. As an actress, she has a bit of a natural inferiority complex here and feels that she is not smart enough academically.

   "It's only you and me with high school diplomas now." Ronald said with a smile.

   "Huh..." Diane gave Ronald a sideways glance.

   "By the way, Karen asked me to tell you that after filming, you must remember to finish your studies at New York University." Donna remembered her mother's instructions and hurriedly beat Ronald.

   "Uh..." Now it was Ronald's turn to be embarrassed.

   Then Diane talked about Coppola's new film. Coppola had already agreed with Diane in private, and she was the heroine.

In order to play the role of a singer at the Cotton Club in the 1920s, Diane had to cut her shoulder-length hair into short ear-length hair, practice jazz songs and dance hard, and eat a little fat to fit her 20s. age aesthetics.

   "Why? The audience didn't care much about the aesthetics at that time, they care about the aesthetics now." Ronald thought it was a bit strange, Coppola always liked to shoot some niche subjects.

"I think you don't know much about acting. Playing a period drama, of course, you want to bring your image closer to the image at the time?" Diane repeated what Coppola taught her, but she immediately thought of Luo Luo today. Nader was his own hero, so he stopped talking.

   Ronald didn't follow up either, he thought about the relationship between the actor's acting skills and the film as a whole. A movie that highlights an actor's acting skills throughout the film is not necessarily a good movie. Movies should use acting skills to show the characters in the most critical places.

"Thank you, Ronald. My agent said that David Letterman's show has more teens watching, and I'm a guest for ten minutes, which is good for the film and my own exposure. "After dinner, Diane was going to go with the agent first, and at the door of the restaurant, she sincerely thanked Ronald.

   "It doesn't matter, Letterman and I are old acquaintances, and it's a good thing that he can invite you."

   "Thank you", Diane hugged Ronald and kissed him.

   Ronald thought it was a goodbye kiss on the cheek, but Diane found his lips and kissed it hard.

   "The lipstick got on your lips", Diane smiled happily and carefully wiped Ronald off with his hands.

   "Goodbye, Donna." Diane and Donna also hugged and said goodbye, and left with their manager first.

   Ronald took Donna back home.

   opened the door and turned on the light. Donna suddenly asked Ronald, "I haven't asked about you and life, but you and Helen..."

   "Helen went back to New York to recuperate. She said she would... suspend for a while. I didn't have more energy to deal with this matter, so I just made two phone calls to ask."

   "How is she?"

   "Gerald sent her to Long Island to recuperate, and she should recover well." Ronald knew that Helen's parents were also divorced, so he didn't stay in the two restructured families for long.

"I've always wanted to ask you something, Ronnie." Donna adjusted her posture and said seriously, "I always feel that every time you have a girlfriend, you are eager to establish a stable relationship with each other, and even ask marry."

   "What's the problem with that?" Ronald didn't expect Donna, who will only go to college next year, to discuss love and marriage with himself.

"But now, many young people in America are not rushing to get married. Many people have a phobia of marriage. The divorce rate is so high now, not to mention that you are in the entertainment industry now. I see that many celebrities have a lot of segments. Marriage and children."

"Isn't this contradicting my pursuit? There are also couples in the entertainment industry who have been together for a lifetime, such as... well, Paul Newman, and Joanna Woodward." Ronald thought for a long time before thinking of this pair of best actors and actresses couple.

   "No, Paul Newman was also married twice."

   "How did you know? Really?" Ronald also saw Paul Newman being interviewed on TV before, and the reporter asked him if he was tempted by beauties in the entertainment industry. Newman replied that he didn't have to go out for a hamburger when he had a good steak at home. "

"Paul Newman and Joanna used to live on Staten Island, my mom said. She went to get autographs. Joanna was his second wife..." Donna wentssip, "I just think , Every time you want to get married and go out with girls, you will scare away a lot of girls. Sometimes girls can't think so far."

   "You seem to know more about love and marriage than I do, Donna, what kind of husband do you want in the future."

   "I don't want to be a housewife, but I also want to have a career. I hope my future husband can understand me and support my career." Donna spoke her mind firmly.

   Donna, who had completed the campus tour, returned to New York, and Ronald also returned to the crew. The preliminary karate training had been completed, and he began to let the main actors of the crew begin to rehearse.

  In the dance classroom, several tables and chairs were set up, and the main actors began to use their imagination to imagine those tables and chairs as various scenes, and began to rehearse each scene according to the sequence of the script.

  Randy Heller, who is only fifteen years older than Ralph Mazio, plays Lucille, Daniel's single mother.

  The two sat on the left and right of the stool, as if this was Lucille's second-hand Chevrolet SUV.

   "Daniel, push, push hard!" Randy called Ralph Mazio's character name, "Okay, okay, come on up."

   This is the scene where Daniel and his mother drive all the way from New Jersey to Los Angeles at the beginning of the movie. Lucille has no money and the car breaks down halfway through, so Daniel can only push it in the back to start the car.

  Ronald stood by, staring at the viewfinder of the Sony camcorder, with several large spare batteries hanging from his body, cameo cameraman, and took all the rehearsal shots. I watched it again in the evening, wrote down the performance and cooperation problems I found, and then tried to solve it.

"Very good, the next scene is to go to the apartment with palm trees, Lucille is very happy, let his son sing along. And Daniel is still thinking about his friends in New Jersey, a little sad." Ronald felt that these two castings Very nice, Ralph and Randy have great chemistry.

  Daniel is a sad child. Only this mother who is full of optimism and coaxing her son can use her meager income to educate Daniel to be very motivated.

   "Next is the romantic encounter between Daniel and Ali." This is a scene at the seaside. Daniel goes to the beach to play beach football with his new Latino friends at the apartment and sees Ali, who is also swimming there in her swimsuit.

   The two fell in love at first sight and had a good impression of each other. Daniel also taught Ali to play football.

"start!"

   Ronald turns the camera on Ralph Mazio and zooms to a close-up. Ralph was worthy of being a disciple taught by Coppola, and he looked at Elizabeth Shue without blinking, as if he had been hit by an immobilization spell.

  Ronald turned the camera back to this Elizabeth Shue.

   "Um... pause for a moment" Elizabeth, come with me.

  Ronald found a big problem, Elisabeth Shue couldn't play Ralph Mazio with that affectionate feeling.

   "Do you have any problems with Ralph?" Ronald asked Sue.

   "Is there any problem?" Elizabeth Su looked down at her feet.

   "Then why do you look at his eyes without a hint of love? This is the first scene where the two protagonists meet for the first time, a romantic encounter (MeetCute), which determines the audience's first impression of the two."

   Ronald knew that this first impression was very important. Only when the audience could accept that they were love at first sight would they think from the standpoint of Daniel and Ali, and regard Johnny as the villain. Instead of the other way around, I feel that Daniel slashes love.

   When Ralph Mazio and Elisabeth Sue auditioned together before, there was a spark in their eyes, why did they disappear completely during rehearsal?

   "I...I don't have any feelings for him." Elizabeth Su hesitated for a while, but still spoke to Ronald.

   It turns out that Elizabeth Su has also participated in karate training in the past two weeks. She has a background in football and gymnastics, and she gets started very quickly. With good strength and flexibility, Elisabeth Shue quickly surpassed Ralph Mazio in training.

The idea of ​​   athletes is very simple, if you can't beat me, you are not as good as me. Elisabeth Shue quickly subconsciously felt contempt for Ralph Mazio. A boy who is like a dry chicken can't attract a sports girl like Su.

   The problem was serious, Ronald scratched his head. There is a chemical reaction, there is it, and there is no such thing. It is impossible for two actors without chemistry to perform on the screen to convince the audience.

   "What now? I also don't think they will fall in love." Susan Atkins also stayed after rehearsal every day, watching the rehearsal video of the day with Ronald and others. She also learned the concepts of romantic encounters, chemistry, etc. from Ronald, and she was also a little anxious.

   "Don't worry, we still have time. I think so, Sue is an athlete, the main problem is that Ralph's strength is not very good, and he can't beat Ali in karate fighting.

   But he’s Latino and born to play football. I will let him re-practice some football dribbling movements during this time, and then he will have a common language with Elizabeth Sue, who has played football since childhood. This is not a problem to cope with the filming of the film. "

  Ronald watched today's rehearsal video, wrote down all the problems he found in his notebook, and went home to try to solve it. He pressed the exit button and handed the tape to Susan.

  Susan Atkins is not a vase, she is working very hard to learn all about filmmaking.

   Now Susan is on the crew, not only Weintraub's eyes and ears, but more like Ronald and the big housekeeper of the crew, she can find a solution if there is any problem.

  Susan took the videotape and carefully wrote the date and time of the rehearsal on the label next to it. She put the tape in her large bag and drove home alone.

   "Honey, surprise!"

   Susan, who came home, was pleasantly surprised to see Weintraub had set up a candlelight dinner at home.

  Weintraub did not have a showdown with his wife Jane Morgan under the persuasion of Susan. He really loves Susan, and also loves his wife. Therefore, I can only come to Susan's apartment every other day and spend some time with her.

  Susan took out Ronald's videotape, put it on the VCR, pressed the button, watched and copied one. This is what she used to archive.

   "Is this today's rehearsal video?" Weintraub looked at the video and asked, "It seems like they don't have any chemistry." He saw Elizabeth Sue's unloving eyes.

   "Ronald said he had a way," Susan reiterated Ronald's thoughts to Weintraub.

   "Well, you make another copy and I'll take it home to see."

   "Then take this tape away." Susan put the tape in Weintraub's briefcase.

   (end of this chapter)