Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 731 The girl next door and the handsome guy with one eyelid

   "It's also a small production, your conditions are much better than mine."

   Ronald came to the preparatory office of "Adventures of the Nanny" to see the situation of Chris Columbus.

  Columbus's tongue-in-cheek way of speaking to Ronald wasn't quite open. Reported to Ronald like a superior.

   "The touchstone has helped a lot, the opening scene of the movie 'Then He Kissed Me' has bought the rights."

   "It seems that your conditions are really better than mine." Ronald is really comparing the difficulty of independent production. His music director, Danny Goldberg, has yet to secure the copyright of a song.

   "With Disney as your backing, your small productions are actually about the same as other companies' medium productions." Ronald sighed that the efficiency of spending money was higher than his own "Spicy Dance" crew.

   "It's still difficult. 'Nanny Adventures' has decided not to shoot on location in Chicago. I'll go back to Toronto, Canada next week to see the scenery. I heard that the climate and street scenes on both sides are similar."

   "Oh..." Ronald turned to the two female producers, "Chicago's Screen Actors Guild is also very strong?"

   "There are also a lot of plays there, but it's just not as famous as Broadway."

   The strikes by the Actors Union over the years have increased the wages of actors every time, guaranteed their working hours and environment, and guaranteed their remaining rights to share after their films were broadcast on TV stations or recorded on videotapes.

   But these rigid regulations also make Hollywood more and more like the London Pinewood studio across the Atlantic.

   When the time comes, you have to get off work and leave, no matter if there is just one shot and a few more things to shoot.

   All group performances must use union-registered actors as much as possible. Films shot on location in big cities like Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago have gradually become synonymous with big productions.

  Small productions had to go to a remote and backward state like Virginia to avoid the secret filming of the union, or go to Canada or Australia to shoot in places with a lot of preferential conditions, pretending that the location was New York or Chicago.

   "Your heroine's audition is on a daily rent basis, right? If you run out, I'll take your time, so I don't object."

  Ronald's "Spicy Dance", who filmed "Lightning Dance" together with director Adrian Lane, is a little interested in Ronald's project. However, his agent wanted him to shoot Michael Douglas first in "Fatal Attraction."

   Knowing that it is the salary that he can give, the attraction is not fatal enough. Ronald started saving money everywhere.

   "No problem, if you don't mind, we can give it to you tonight." The two female producers agreed.

  …

   "Tatum O'Neal, Jodie Foster, Michelle Pfeiffer, you have a lot of candidates to eliminate."

   When it was time for the audition, Ronald also sat in the audition room rented by the "Nanny Adventures" crew, looking at the heroine candidates who were eliminated in the previous rounds, making him feel as if this was a very sought-after project.

"Some of them were eliminated by us, such as Tatum. She was in poor condition. After marrying tennis star McEnroe, her...abuse became more serious." Female producer Deborah Hill explained .

   "Some were weeded out, like Michelle Pfeiffer, who said she was too skinny for the role. There were actually other projects.

   Jodie Foster is really too skinny. When she auditioned, she couldn't play the role of a nanny who could face gangsters and protect children. After she knew it, she said that she had other invitations and gave up. "

   "Now that's Elizabeth Shue, Justin Bateman, and Valerie Bertinelli."

"Isn't Justin Bateman Michael J. Fox in 'Family Bond'? Can her producer put her in the role?" The filmmakers didn't let Fox go, and finally had to sleep in the car in the transition.

"So she doesn't have much hope." Director Chris Columbus knew that Sue was from Ronald, and among all the actresses, he also liked Sue the most, the kind of character that is not afraid of anything, and fits the role the most it is good.

  The audience is also obsessed with her role as Ali in "Dragon Power Boy", which is just a good time to transfer this favor to the new role nanny Chris Parker.

   "This Valerie Bertinelli looks fresh, has she acted in any movies?"

   "A bunch of TV movies..." Female producer Deborah Hill turned over her audition and showed it to Ronald.

   "That means no movie has been made?" Ronald turned over the audition photo again, and this Valerie's face had an indescribable rustic look.

   The chin is wide and the top and bottom are short. This face shape is actually not suitable for being the protagonist.

   "So Su is basically your first choice?"

   "Valerie too, most likely to choose between them."

   "Huh?" Ronald made a strange sound. It looks like this, is it possible?

   "She's Eddie Van Halen's wife." Deborah Hill whispered in Ronald's ear.

   "Oh", Ronald saw the leader of the "Van Halen" band on the set of "Back to the Future". This band is very popular. In Ronald's first film "Fast Tempo", there are jokes about the expensive tickets of Van Halen's concert.

   "Athletic, girl-next-door, blond, the audience can accept that she can face off against gangsters..."

   Ronald covered his face.

  I didn't expect this Valerie to meet all the conditions that Elizabeth Sue had circled. It seems that she used all her husband's relationship and influence in this role.

  The two main candidates came in one after another and performed part of the lines selected by the producer and director.

   "Valerie and Elizabeth are doing well."

   Ronald glanced at the talking producer, and it seemed that someone behind her was also pressuring her. Valerie's face really doesn't look good on camera.

   "Are you going to organize the third round of auditions?" Representatives of the Actors Guild observed the situation on the spot. They usually had no right to speak, but would report to the guild if there were too obvious biases and black box operations.

   "Let's try the opening dance in the next round." Ronald thought about it, Valerie's performance was quite immature, and it was quite different from Elizabeth Sue's. But this kind of film insists that the acting skills are too different, and there may be gossip, so Ronald thought of a scene that would make everyone speechless to audition.

  "Ronald", after the audition, Elizabeth Shue was waiting outside.

   "There is also a third round of auditions, a dance to the 'ThenHeKissedMe' soundtrack. Shows the mood of a girl at home waiting for her boyfriend to take her to the dance for the first time..."

   Ronald explained to Elizabeth.

   "I... If I plan to succeed this time, I will drop out of Harvard and become a full-time actor." Elizabeth Sue looked at Ronald and said what she said in her heart.

   "Relax, you are ready, I have confidence in your performance."

   "Where are you going next, can I accompany you?"

   Elizabeth Sue, who is in her final year at Harvard, compares the prospects of actresses with those of her classmates who have graduated from the same major.

  Her family is not very rich and cannot go home to be a rich daughter. So make sure to seize the opportunity this time.

   Ali in "Longwei Kid" is just a supporting role to set off Daniel. And this "Nanny Adventures", the whole story is centered on Chris Parker.

   She understands the difference. In order to secure the heroine of the movie, Su didn't care.

"Comeon, we've known each other for a long time. You're the actress I discovered, and I'll definitely talk to you. You just need to concentrate on preparing the role and don't think about anything else. I won't go there later, and I will Audition for another movie."

   "Ah, then I, then I'll go back first..." Elizabeth Su couldn't take the initiative, and she didn't know whether she was happy or worried.

  …

   Looking at the producer on the other side who explained the same thing to Valerie, Ronald smiled at her and went back to the audition room.

   "Dancing Hot" screenwriter Eleanor was already waiting for him inside.

   "Is this the casting pool for the male lead?"

   "Yes." Ronald asked the audition assistant and nodded yes.

   "You promised me, Ronald. I want to see the hero." Eleanor held the pile of handsome photos in her arms and looked at Ronald innocently.

   "Of course, but we also have to consider other factors. For example, Tom Cruise wants to play." Ronald joked with the screenwriter who was a young girl.

   "Actually, Cruise is not my type. The one in my dream is the kind of black-haired, masculine-charming guy with small eyes and single eyelids."

   "Hehe..." Ronald laughed inwardly. Eleanor has never admitted that she wrote the heroine Baby based on herself.

   The him in the dream is still so specific, it's really not self-inflicted.

   "I like him, he is the man in the dream."

  Eleanor flipped through it for a while, and pulled out a photo and handed it to Ronald, very happy.

   "Patrick Switzer", Ronald had a look at it, and it really was the hero in his dream.

   "Sure enough, he has a single eyelid and black hair. With small eyes, he looks very handsome." Ronald smiled and put the photo on the table.

   "I don't mind." The representative of the trade union took this photo. It was really disgusting that the female screenwriter behaved like a little girl and acted like a **** at a lot of age.

   "He can't dance. If you insist on electing him, I will write a report to the union." The union representative smiled slightly, as if taking Eleanor's handle.

   "Can't dance?" Ronald exclaimed, how could he not dance? Dancing in Monriswitz is very professional, it can never be learned temporarily.

   "You see for yourself, he wrote it on his resume."

   Ronald took the audition and turned it to the back. Above is Patrick Schwytz's resume, and sure enough, there is a line with only two words written on it.

   "No Dancing"

   "Did something go wrong?" Ronald wondered for a while.

   "Oh, what a pity, I think he is the Johnny I imagined best." The screenwriter Eleanor didn't insist, which disappointed the union representatives.

   "Then this one looks good too, Billy Zane."

   "Well, he's called the Marlon Brando of the New Age." The union representative knew the actor.

   Ronald also leaned in to look.

   "Where is the resemblance? The eyes are dull, maybe they just look a little like them."

   Or Patrick Swayze, Ronald made up his mind to ask why Swayze couldn't dance on his resume.

   (end of this chapter)