Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 86 Superstition

  "Fame, let you win people's favor

  Fame, makes it hard to swallow

  Fame, let you be empty

  Fame, it's not sanity, it's fire

  Fame, Fame, Fame, Fame…”

   "click", Alan Parker pressed the stop button of the dual-card loudspeaker recorder, "What do you think?"

   "Fame is a good name. Our film is about the process of young people's impact on fame, and tells about the difficulties and failures in the middle."

  David da Silva nodded, "How did you think of using this song by David Bowie and John Lennon as a new movie title?"

   "Hmph, Ronald suggested it."

   "He was very funny. He didn't come to me directly, but played it to the children in the rehearsal room. When I asked them for a recommendation for a new title, many children suggested the name of the song."

  David cleared his throat, "I'm going to hire Ronald as the set coordinator, mainly to keep Gene in check. If you don't object."

   "I haven't had time to live with a young man." Allen pressed the eject button of the tape recorder and took out the tape.

"Gene is an unpolished diamond, and it is possible to become a black-skinned John Travolta. He and Irene Cara, who is also black, can continue to act together in movies in the future, and act in many movies for young people." Wei made his plans.

   "But right now, he's so hot-tempered that only Ronald can control him. I don't want to see him on set smashing a set with a fire extinguisher again."

   Allen nodded, "Gene did listen to Ronnie. Her mother doesn't sell goods on the set anymore. She sells it outside the school every day. It's very interesting."

   said that Allen shook the tape on David's hand.

"We still need a few more powerful songs like this Fame for interludes, have you found the right one? My Midnight Express collaborator George Moroder is writing a song for Donna Summer's new album and has turned down The soundtrack for the new film.”

"Michael Gore (not related to screenwriter Christopher Gore). He's the younger brother of the original chart-topping diva Leslie Gore. I've listened to his work, it's good, and am going to hire him Compose music."

   "Very good, when we turn on, he can join the crew and write songs while watching filming." Allen waved his hand, indicating that he doesn't care about David's personnel arrangements, as long as there is one outcome.

   "Has your lucky T-shirt been sewn? It's going to start the day after tomorrow."

   "I've already handed over the costume, I'll definitely be able to catch up with the boot."

   "Fame, you like limousines

  Fame, you enjoy like there is no tomorrow

  Fame, what you spend now is borrowing from the future

  Fame, let us blind, let us sin

  Fame, Fame, Fame, Fame…”

  Theatrical rehearsal has ended. I don't know which group performer turned on the dual-card loudspeaker recorder again. David Bowie's voice resounded in the rehearsal room.

   "Hey...change the rhythm." The students shouted, this funk-style song obviously did not suit the appetite of the actors who had just finished rehearsing. What they need now is relaxation, what they need is disco.

   "For Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff". One student couldn't wait to put in the tape he brought.

  Ronald started listening to this disco song again, and it has been in the top ten for three months, and his ears are almost calloused.

   "Peng, cha, ping, cha," the disco rhythm sounded.

   "Got some hot love, baby, just tonight

   I need something hot baby tonight

  I want something hot, baby, just tonight"

  This lyrics made many American parents uncomfortable, and some conservative newspapers have called for the song to be banned, but it is extremely popular among young people. The actors all started to disco.

  The group performances and actors, which were mainly students from the art school, began to step into the center of the dance floor one by one, and each person tacitly allocated dozens of seconds to show themselves. Just like a peacock courting in the animal world, proudly showing his body in front of the opposite sex.

   Ronald is already very familiar with the repertoire that ends every day of rehearsal, and is about to walk away. Gene jumped into the circle, shouting "You're next, Ronald!"

  The crowd cheered for a while, and they had a good impression of the young man who brought them air-conditioning and ice-cold Coke. Gene also knew that Ronald danced well and gave him a chance to show off to the pretty girls.

   Ronald, who couldn't refuse, jumped off the court and pointed his right hand at a 45-degree angle to the sky, posing a classic pose by John Travolta in the movie "Grease".

   Then circle your hands like a boxer preparing to punch, then point at each girl with your left hand, and twist your hips in rhythm with your right hand on your hips. Slightly outdated old-fashioned disco action that made the actors laugh out loud.

  Ronald pointed to where Antonia was, and saw that she was also laughing at his old-fashioned movements, and he grinned too. I stopped dancing and ran to the refrigerator, wanting to get a bottle of Coke to cool myself down.

   The rehearsal room refrigerator was out of Coke, Ronald remembered that the producer still had one, so he ran to the office.

  The new assistant in the clothing department is sobbing in the office. Holding a few pieces of cloth in both hands, I don't know what happened.

   "What's the matter with you? Did something happen?"

   "Ah, I'm fine." The assistant wiped away tears and began to pick up the cloth and put it on the table to work hard to stitch it together.

   "This is the director's lucky T-shirt." Another costume assistant said beside him.

   "Every time he shoots a movie, he cuts some from the costume and sews it on his T-shirt, which Allen thinks will bring him good luck for the shoot."

"That one was worn when he was filming the first movie, and it was already rotten. Today, when we patched it up for him, it was completely cracked. As a result, when she went to tell the director about it, the director scolded her. , limit her to make up for it today, or she will be fired."

   "This?" Ronald picked up the scraps of cloth on the table, all the faded fabrics, and some had a hole in the middle, "It seems that these fabrics have been washed hundreds of times?"

   "Yes, Allen asked for the clothes to be as close to reality as possible. The clothes we purchased are all rolling in the washing machine, and the bright colors are washed away. Make a real feeling." The clothing assistant said.

"The fabric on this T-shirt was cut out and put together from the movie costumes he shot in the past. Allen insisted on wearing only lucky T-shirts during the filming. There are four pieces in total, and the broken one is the oldest one. ."

  Ronald looked at the rags on the table, and at the costume assistant who had stopped sobbing and was trying to stitch together, thinking, "Do you have to be so superstitious to be a movie director?"

   "Why don't you take a white T-shirt as the base and sew these pieces of cloth on." Ronald reminded the clothing assistant.

   "Thanks, I should have thought of that."

The assistant    quickly took a white T-shirt, compared it with a piece of cloth, and began to sew it.

   (end of this chapter)