Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 592 This movie will be accompanied by rock music

  Grumman's engineers, for the second time, refitted the F-14A Tomcat's cockpit with a Super 35 camera. Ronald was in the radar officer's seat behind the cockpit, turned his body from side to side, and took a small slate to punch in front of the Super 35's camera.

The results of the    test were very good. The actor switched on and off the camera by himself, and it was possible to take a picture from a subjective perspective.

  Ronald pushed open the cockpit cover. He was just tall enough to sit down. Anyone taller would not be suitable for an American fighter jet. I heard that the Soviet fighter jets are very compact and are only suitable for small pilots. If the movie was made in the Eastern camp, then the actor can only choose Tom Cruise's height.

  Leaving the director of photography, Kimball, to continue to test the performance of the camera at high altitude at the Naval Miramar Base, including the F-14A, and the F-5 fighter posing as the Soviet MiG-28. Ronald drove himself back to Hollywood.

   Navy liaison Pete Pettigrew, who relayed the Pentagon's comments to the producers. They didn't want any official callsigns of Soviet fighter jets in the movie. So the MiG-21 originally written in the script was changed to the MiG-28.

   Ronald also thoughtfully chose an even-numbered model. As we all know, the MiG fighters of the Solvay Alliance all end with odd-numbered models, such as MiG-19 and MiG-25. Even if in the future, or if the Alliance has built a new type of fighter aircraft unknown to America, it will not occupy this fictitious MiG-28 model.

  The actors will start their first non-stop script reading this afternoon. After reading each scene separately in the first two days, the actors have basically understood what each scene was shot, and then read the script without stopping, so as to be able to grasp the performance of each scene at a global level. strength. Make the emotional intensity before and after the same, so that the audience does not appear to be acting because of the emotional imbalance of the actors.

  Especially "Top Gun", will not use the method of shooting according to the script sequence like Ronald's previous director "Longwei Kid", it is necessary to let the actors know more about each scene.

   "Jerry, where's Don?" Ronald looked at the producer Bruckheimer. Today he came to discuss the film's soundtrack with the two producers.

   In fact, Ronald also proposed to the two producers that they should use the method of sequential shooting, which can make the actors' performances more realistic. But Bruckheimer did the math for him.

The Department of the Navy gave Paramount a favorable price (actually mainly because Ronald asked the Deputy Commander to call the Secretary of the Navy), a fixed fee of $1.8 million, and rented four F-14A Tomcats to the crew, Used for aerial combat shooting with four F-5S fighters.

Secretary of the Navy John Raymond saw that Ronald was the director, and raised his pen thoughtfully, and specially approved two "Sidewinder" air-to-air missiles on the application documents, so that the crew could shoot the missiles launching and hitting the target drone. .

   "Let the boys take a better picture and show the style of the navy", these are the original words of Mr. Minister.

   Of course, this is only a fixed cost. If you want to rent a fighter jet, you must also rent a fighter pilot to participate in the shooting, otherwise the crew will not be able to find a civilian pilot who can fly the F-14.

  The Navy offered a rental price of $7,800 an hour for pilots plus fuel maintenance. If you want to shoot fighter jets taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier, you have to rent an entire crew of combat readiness groups. The Navy offered a "friendship price" of $25,000 an hour.

   And they remarked in the contract that the crew must not affect the performance of the aircraft carrier's mission, the actors and staff must obey the command of the naval officer on the ship, and must not shoot the part of the aircraft carrier that needs to be kept secret, and the captain's order must be the highest level during filming.

  Thinking of the flying scenes, which are scattered throughout the script, if they were shot in sequence, even doubling the 15 million shooting costs would not be enough.

   So we can only focus on different parts of the shot according to the location. Ronald has decided to focus the aerial combat and aircraft carrier-related shots in a week or two, behind the rest of the cast.

   "He's supposed to be here," Bruckheimer looked at his watch, "don't wait for him, let me introduce you to George Moroder, our composer."

   There are still a lot of questions that need to be finalized in the script that was initially approved by the Navy. For example, in the opening air battle, Ronald arranged for the Lone Ranger to scare off two Cuban pilots alone, and in the final air battle, he shot down three North Korean Air Force planes. These are very provocative content in the view of the Navy, and further research is needed to see whether specific country names can appear in the film.

   But the general structure has been completed, so Ronald proposed to introduce music composition and composition first. Since this movie is said to be an MV, it should be accompanied by some nice music.

   Anyway, the story is very simple, and the audience is also watching the movie for those hormone-filled shots. Ronald has a trophy for the best theme song at the Oscars, and he knows that with the right music, the audience's hormones can be multiplied by the combined effect of music and pictures.

   "Hi George," Ronald shook hands with Italian-born composer and record producer Giorgio Moroder.

   "Actually I have seen you," said Giorgio Moroder in his Italian accent.

   "Huh?" Ronald thought to himself that he did have some false fame in Hollywood, but no, everyone started to have a relationship with him as an opening remark.

   "Joe Esposito's last record was with me. I happened to meet you when he recorded the theme song of "Longwei Kid"."

   "Ah, is Joe all right?" Seeing that he was in the network of acquaintances, Ronald let down half of his heart. He seems to be someone who understands film scores.

  George Moroder worked with the Simpsons/Bruckheimer combination on "Beverly Hills Detective", but the soundtrack requirements for that comedy detective film are completely different from "Top Gun".

   "We need a lot of hormones in our movies, so we need rock music." Ronald mentioned his thoughts.

   "Specifically, what you need is a pop rock album." George Moroder felt Ronald's pulse as soon as he opened his mouth.

  Pop rock is to add a lot of pop melodies and formats to rock to make it more acceptable to the audience.

   "What song do you have in mind that can be used as a soundtrack in the movie? After I read the script, I can contact you first, and then I can match the new song."

  George Moroder has no prejudices and does not intend to be the soundtrack in all original films.

  Ronald is overjoyed, this kind of music composer is really thinking about the overall effect of the movie. It seems that Bruckheimer has a good vision.

   Bruckheimer gave him a look that I do things, you are relieved.

   Ronald pondered for a while, "I think Bruce Springsteen's music is good." He remembered the song "Dancing in the Darkness", which was originally reserved for Diane's MV. The melody and rhythm are very suitable.

   "Born in the U.S.A.? That's a good fit. I see what you mean." George Moroder kept nodding, and indeed this patriotic song fits the theme of your film.

   "Uh, that song is also good. I think there should be a song about romantic love. It should be used when the hero and heroine are in love. In addition, aerial combat also needs a tense song, which will make people secrete a lot of adrenaline."

   "Don't worry, George will do it for you, let me read the script first." George Moroder seemed very sure, he and Ronald and others said goodbye and went back to writing.

   "Where's Don? Why hasn't he come yet?" Ronald also left when he saw the soundtrack. Don Simpson doesn't always participate in such key meetings. It would be bad if he missed any good ideas. Don Simpson often has some whimsical, yet sound advice.

   "I asked the assistant to look for it. Did he delay going to Paramount again?"

   Ronald shook his head and walked into the large conference room, where all the actors who had lines were in place, and the non-stop script reading was about to begin.

"Lone Ranger, it's not about your flying skills, it's about your attitude. The enemy in the sky is dangerous, but you are more dangerous than the enemy." Val Kilmer stared at Tom Cruise and read this sentence.

   This is a tit-for-tat conversation when the two were competing for the victory of the "TopGun" flight school. On one side is the theoretical Iceman who has always kept his cool, and on the other is the intuitive lone ranger who believes in his own instincts and impulses.

   However, when the actor read the lines, he seemed a little too emotional. Ronald made a mark here in the script, and the intensity of the emotions needs to be adjusted later.

"Yeah, I'm... very dangerous." When Tom Cruise read this line, he deliberately leaned forward from his chair, looked at Fang Kilmer, showed his wicked smile, and then bared his teeth. Provoked by Fang Kilmer.

   "Hey!" Fang Kilmer was irritated by this action. He didn't follow the script, but he also stepped forward, raised his head, and made a provocative gesture at Tom Cruise with his chin.

   "Hehe...", Kelly McGillis next to him laughed silently, this kind of crew is so interesting, before filming started, the two rival actors have entered the state.

"Cough cough..." Ronald only cleared his throat and pretended to drink a sip of black tea. He didn't want the two leading actors to continue to increase hormone secretion like this, but it was not easy to interrupt the script reading, so he had to remind him aloud. .

   The two leading actors laughed disdainfully and leaned back in their chairs.

  Fong Kilmer obviously hasn't had enough of it, so he improvised a line when he put down the script.

  Tom Cruise is eager to see what good lines the other person can say.

  Kelly McGillis looked at the two big boys, smiled slightly, raised his hand and tucked his shawl blond behind his ears, revealing a **** neck.

   Ronald frowned, trying to stop her from adding fuel to it.

"boom!"

   Suddenly there was a loud bang outside the window.

   And then there was a lighter movement.

   "What happened?" Ronald took the opportunity to interrupt the tense atmosphere of the reading, and he went out the door to check the situation.

Standing at the exit of the porch, Ronald only saw a Porsche 911 sports car in the parking space outside. It was hit with pulp, parts and a smashed hood, broken glass, etc. It was brought out by inertia and scattered on the ground. A very long one.

  The man sitting in the cab rammed his head into a large white airbag, and a seat belt restrained him.

   There was obvious blood on the airbag, and Ronald felt that the man was not very good. Although the law passed last year included airbags in the safety regulations of automobiles, the speed of this person's racing speed must be very scary.

   And why didn't he hit the brakes when he was about to stop?

  "Oh, Shxt", Jerry Bruckheimer also heard the voice and rushed out, he recognized that the **** driver was his partner Don Simpson.

   "Don, Don... how are you?"

   Ronald was taken aback, this driver is Don Simpson? He won't be killed, will he?

   "Call 911 and call an ambulance!" Ronald grabbed Bruckheimer, who wanted to move Simpson, "I've learned first aid, don't move him at this time, we'll let a professional emergency doctor handle it."

   (end of this chapter)