Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 90 Hot Lunch

   "Bang!" Two slices of bread jumped out of the toaster.

  Ronald took the buttered and toasted slices of bread, sandwiched with thawed bacon from the supermarket, sliced ​​cheese, a few slices of pickled cucumbers, and sliced ​​tomatoes. Eat a homemade sandwich while drinking milk.

   Made a few thousand dollars, Ronald improved his life, and America's appliances were always for lazy and busy people. Eating while watching ABC's "Good Morning America"

  "An astonishing scene took place yesterday at the Major League Baseball game at Commiss Park in Chicago.

   During halftime of the Chicago White Sox-Detroit Tigers replay, thousands of disco records were poured into the center of the field, doused with gasoline, and set on fire.

   According to Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl, who started the movement, it is time to destroy this black and **** music. This immoral dance and lyrics discredited Amelica and brought shame to God.

  Steve is on his 97.9WLUP-FM channel, calling on the audience to bring a disco record into the venue, collect it by the staff during the intermission, and then destroy it on the spot.

   He claimed that he was irresponsible for the loss of control of the scene, when thousands of spectators rushed into the venue and set fire to records until they were driven away by the police.

  Due to the persistent smoke and the dangerous behavior of the audience, the referee declared the game to end early and the Detroit Tigers, who led at halftime, won. "

   This news does not seem to have much impact in New York. The restaurant was still playing disco music, and the actors on the set danced disco as usual between the lighting crews.

  America is big enough, and the boycott of disco by small-town residents of conservative forces in the central and southern regions has not affected young people in big cities on the east and west coasts for the time being.

  …

  Due to the use of leg warmers, the dancers wore dance clothes with thinner and more transparent fabrics, which were not easy to sweat, so the shooting progress was accelerated.

  The crew will shoot the dance scene in the restaurant of the art school today. This is also the scene of the original theme song "Hot Lunch", but because the movie was renamed "Famous in the World", this song was downgraded to an episode.

  Woodworkers have remodeled the original restaurant of Harlan High School according to the requirements of the production design. The small canteen was stuffed into two old pianos and a set of drums.

   This is the first big scene of the filming. There are more than 30 dancers, more than 10 musical instruments, and Erin Kara sings songs.

  The composition of the film, Michael Gore was also on the scene, still scrutinizing his lyrics.

   "High school students in art schools hate canteen food, but the prices provided in the canteen are low enough, so they have a love-hate relationship with the canteen."

   "Hey, what do you eat in your high school cafeteria?" Michael Gore looked at Ronald passing by and suddenly asked him.

   "What?" Ronald turned his head. "Me? High school was all those mixed dishes, you know, what's cheap. It's either stew or gooey, or carrots with salmon."

   "Well, the ingredients for the dish are cheap." Gore went back to record some inspiration.

   "It's filming today, do you still change the lyrics? Is it too late?" Ronald asked involuntarily.

   "Huh? It doesn't matter, I only filmed Erin Kara sing part of the lines today, and I have to change the other parts."

   "That's it." Ronald shook his head and sat down when he saw that he was immersed in changing the lyrics again.

   "Dong dong, dang dang, ding ding, dang dang." Gore began pressing the melody on the piano.

   "Today I ate gooey stew and carrot salmon. No, it's not smooth."

   "If it's blue, it's a stew, if it's yellow, it's gooey."

   Ronald hummed the dreamed lyrics softly along the tune.

   "What? Sing aside what you just hummed!" Gore couldn't hear it clearly.

"If it's blue, it's a stew, if it's yellow, it's gooey," Ronald said. Colors distinguish what is a bad dish today."

   "Very good, this sentence is very good, what's your name?"

   "Ronald Lee."

   "I'm the crew composer, Michael Gore."

   "Dong dong, dang dang, ding ding, dang dang." Michael continued to play his melody.

   "Macaroni and Salmon,

   Our favourite dish.

   She had a hot lunch,

   is true for everyone. "

  Ronald hummed again involuntarily.

   "What? What? You sing again." Michael Gore was excited again.

   Ronald sang again, "The best thing for lunch is salmon or macaroni, but usually only once or twice a week. So you have to rush to the cafeteria that day."

   "Service eldest sister, meal eldest sister,

   Don't mess with her,

   she will take every penny

   One lunch a day for you

   She is good to everyone

   One hot lunch per person”

   "If it's blue,

   That must be a stew,

   If it is yellow,

   That is gooey. "

   "Macaroni and Salmon,

   Our favourite dish.

   She had a hot lunch,

   is true for everyone. "

   "Wait a minute, I'm going to sing it to Erin Kara's manager. I'll use this word today." Michael Gore took the newly revised lyrics and ran to discuss it with everyone.

   "It's the original lyrics anyway, it doesn't matter if you give it to him in advance, right?" Ronald thought, and began to sit down and observe the choreography to design the movements for each dancer.

   This scene is a big scene. It’s okay to play various musical instruments. The camera will assign fixed shots. But the dance group performers had to fight on their own. They were still in the rehearsal stage, and they had already begun to occupy each other's positions.

   There may be a big war then. Ronald thought he should discuss it with the producers first.

Michael Gore, who rushed back, interrupted his train of thought, "Hey Ronald, let your agent come, Erin Kara's agent is very happy, the producer said to make you sign half of the words author."

   "I don't have an agent yet, I'll call my lawyer."

   "I graduated from Dwight-Englewood School of Music, which music school are you from?"

   "I never went to music school."

   "Then you are still a genius lyricist, why don't you have an agent for such a talent?"

   "Actually, I'm studying directing, and I'm going to enroll in a few months."

   calls attorney Lindsay Dole to handle the lyricist contract, and Ronald starts watching dance rehearsals again.

  Dancers began to deliberately collide with each other, knocking each other out of the camera's field of view, and stumbling and stepping on their toes.

   "Ah..." A girl cried and pulled up her pants and ran outside the house. It turned out that her pants were ripped off.

   Over there, Lucy leaned against Jean, and was choreographed to arrange a dance in a fixed position, so that she didn't have to worry about her appearance time.

  The crew is actually a group of monkeys. The powerful monkeys divide the power range. The powerless monkeys either find a backer, or they can only compete on their own.

"David, you have to look at the competition of dancers. We have to draw a line for them. Competition can only be limited to the scope of dance skills. You can't use bad tricks like stepping on your toes and pulling your pants. Big trouble." Ronald approached the producer David and offered his opinion.

   After a while, the choreographer announced a new discipline, and the competition was limited to fighting dances, whoever danced brilliantly got more camera time. Although it can't completely eliminate out-of-the-box tricks, it's much better than just now.

"Ronald, you graduated from a public high school, right? Why do you have so many skills? You can take pictures, write scripts, and write lyrics." Ronald's personal lawyer, Miss Lindsay Dole, negotiated The wording contract was handed to him.

   "I can't explain it." Ronald began to look at the contract.

   "Okay, here is your signature, ranking second to the lyricist, and here is your share. After the movie is released, they have a plan to release the soundtrack album simultaneously. You can get some lyricist's dividends (Residual)."

   "How is the dividend calculated?"

   "A tiny fraction of total sales. You'll get a check every quarter as long as the record sells above a certain number."

   Ronald signed the contract and handed it to the lawyer.

   "Also, although I can help you with these things, you'd better find a broker who can get you new business in addition to the contract."

   Broker? Ronald touched his ears, it seemed he had to find an agent.

   "Record, camera, shoot!"

   "If it's blue, it's a stew, if it's yellow, it's gooey." Erin Carla sat at the piano and sang the lyrics Ronald wrote to the music. The dancers began to jump on the piano, on the dining table, dancing hard, hoping the camera would stay on them for a few more seconds.

  Gene and Lucy's roles are guaranteed, and they dance happily too.

   Even the two extras who were recommended by the audition studio to play the canteen aunt were very happy and twisted their thickened waists. They also had a frontal shot.

   "Cut! Very good, this one is printed. The afternoon scene is over." Alan Parker announced that the lunch scene in the cafeteria was over, and all the actors shouted out happily.

  Eileen Kara has the most frontal shots in today's scene. She is very happy to thank Ronald. She likes the witty lyrics and sings very comfortably.

   "Everyone, today is my birthday, I invite everyone to come to my house for the party!" After the filming ended, Gene sent an invitation to all the actors.

   "Okay, I'll go." The voice was a group performer girl, but she was quickly pulled by a companion next to her and whispered, "Jean is from Harlem, how dare you go?"

  The silent scene made Jean very embarrassed. Everyone left the scene in silence. With a single force, Gene smashed a plastic prop drinking glass to the ground.

   "Wow..." Water splashed on the ground, just like his mood.

  After everyone left, Ronald stepped forward and asked Gene: "It's a good thing to invite everyone on your birthday, but why did you invite them to your house? Instead of looking for a restaurant, like the four of us did last time?"

   "I...I want to show those rascals in the neighborhood."

   (end of this chapter)