Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Why do you still need to reshoot? It has been shut down for two months, right?" Ronald came to the backlot of PolyGram Pictures, a woodland in the snow, where Zeffirelli was drinking wine and waiting for him.

"You'll understand just by looking at the length of the finished film. Would you like some wine?" Zeffirelli asked him to sit on the director's chair and gave him a copy of the written material.

"No, I remember when I first met you, you liked to drink espresso?" Ronald waved his hand and refused to drink during the day, and sat down to read the information in his hand. This is an application report for MPAA rating. The final length of the film is one hour and fifty minutes.

"I need alcohol when I create," Zeffirelli replied.

"Why does it seem like a lot of length was cut off?" Ronald asked. The original script was one hour and fifty-five minutes long.

"I've actually edited it and submitted it for review once, and it was rated x-rated. The passionate scenes didn't pass the test."

"Ah? Isn't this serious?" Ronald was surprised, "Scenes with this level of passion are usually R-rated." If it were rated as X-rated, the number of moviegoers would be significantly reduced. United Artists, which once wanted to make X-rated movies, suffered miserably. Now no major studio will deliberately make X-rated movies.

"PolyGram is a new production company. They originally released records." Zeffirelli took a sip of whiskey.

"At that time, I spent a lot of effort in the studio, and I had to cut all the passionate scenes shot by a stuntman. There were only a few passionate scenes, and there was a scene where Brooke leaned on the hero's shoulder and talked, and pinched her big toe. A few reaction shots.”

It seems that PolyGram, a new player in the movie industry, is still having some troubles. The new players are not very clear about the unspoken rules? You may also be caught by mpaa and try to show off your power. Ronald thought.

"Then how can I help you?"

"The MPAA rating is mainly based on this passionate scene. So I had to cut out about one minute of the scene, so the emotion of the whole movie was not enough. I had to reshoot a strong ending." Zeffirelli explained road.

"Porky spent the whole afternoon filming yesterday, but she's still not feeling full enough. I still need you to come up with a solution."

"What can I do? I won't pinch her toes again."

Ronald thought to himself that Brooke Shields' acting skills were a result of being a model since she was a child. Her mother did not find an acting coach to improve her, and it was not an option to always engage in crooked ways.

"This is also Terry's idea. She also feels that Brooke can perform better with you present." Zeffirelli handed over two more pages of the script.

This is the content of today's scene.

Ronald took the script and went over to say hello to Terry who was at the door of the trailer.

"Ronald, I'm so glad you're here. Zeffirelli wanted a very emotional ending to the shot, and yesterday's shooting was not going well, so I was thinking of you."

"Closer view:

Jade looked at David behind the iron bars of the mental hospital window, and the two lovers said goodbye to each other heartbroken.

The camera zooms in to a close-up:

Jade felt that the most precious love in her heart was broken, and there would never be another person to love her like David. A tear fell from her eye. "

"The script isn't difficult, isn't it? Isn't Brooke good at crying scenes?" Ronald didn't know what the problem was.

"Zeffirelli asked not to cry directly, but to have a process of emotional brewing, turning, and explosion. Brooke is still a child, and we cannot use the standards of an adult actress. I thought Zeffirelli was of Italian origin, Will slowly guide and inspire Brooke.

However, he tried many times to no avail. Bo Ji took the initiative and told me that you were able to guide her emotions the last time you filmed a commercial, so I want to ask you to try it. There is no way to continue the stalemate like this. Bo Ji also wants to shoot a public service announcement against youth smoking. "

"It turns out that reshoots were delayed, and Terry was not satisfied," Ronald suddenly realized. "But the emotional effect of close-ups and close-ups cannot be produced, and the director will not approve it. The audience looks at such a big face on the screen. , if the expression cannot resonate, it will definitely not work.”

"Let me talk to Brooke first?"

"Brooke, it's Ronald who did your last jeans commercial." Terry opened the door of the trailer and called inside.

"Hello, Ronald." Brooke Shields sat on the stool in a depressed mood, picking up a comb and combing her hair.

"What happened?" Ronald asked.

"I couldn't perform the effect the director asked for. He asked me to think about some sad things first, and then slowly let the emotion change from loss to sadness, and then shed a tear. Not too fast, not too many."

"Did you think of something sad when you were filming an advertisement last time? You can also think about that thing this time."

"I thought about it, but when I thought about it, I felt very sad and couldn't help crying. I couldn't shed a tear slowly like that." Brooke Shields thought to herself, thinking about the time when her mother was an alcoholic and when she was alone at home. Will cry.

But this way of crying brought too many tears too quickly and did not meet the director's requirements. It would be better if I knew how to act.

"Are you still feeling sad? Don't be so sad, just a little sad." Ronald had no choice but to enlighten her.

"Um...yes." Bo Ji glanced at Ronald. It was because he didn't smile well during the commercial last time and was forced to cry by you.

Ronald paid attention to Poky's expression, and there was a process of ups and downs, and he quickly said, "Okay, just use that one, remember this emotion, let's give it a try."

Brooke Shields hummed, put on a white woolen hat, arranged her hair so that her long hair was exposed from both sides of the back of the hat, then put on a down jacket over a turtleneck sweater, and walked out of the trailer with Ronald.

"Huh..." A chill came over her, and Brooke Shields exhaled a stream of white air.

"She found an emotional memory, try?" Ronald walked to Zeffirelli and said. Brooke Shields is naturally beautiful, and she is the age before white girls gain weight. Brooke, who is dressed very simply, looks very beautiful with just a white hat.

"Each department, let's do this once." Zeffirelli cheered up and called the filming team to prepare.

The camera covered Brooke's upper body, and then the coolies pushed the camera forward along the track laid on the snow.

Ronald stood behind the camera, watching Brooke Shields' performance. Her expression slowly became a little painful, then her eyebrows raised, her facial features began to distort, and she was about to cry.

"What kind of memory does Brooke have in mind? The mood matches the requirements of the script very well." Ronald thought.

"Ronald is such a bastard. He always said that I laugh unnaturally." Brooke Shields tried her best to recall her emotions on the day of filming the commercial. "Then I heard the sister's joke, and everything went smoothly."

The memory quickly appeared on her face, and Brooke Shields, who should have cried, smiled.

"cut!"

"The beginning part is good, but you will cry in the later part. Think about that memory again, Brooke." Zeffirelli felt that it was much more real than the previous crying method of turning on the faucet. Ronald was quite good at guiding the little girl. The actor's emotions.

"Cut, finally cry, Brooke."

"Cut, just a little bit, just one tear is enough."

…

After calling it several times in a row, Zeffirelli became anxious again. The emotions were so good before, but why couldn't I cry at the last moment?

"Ronald, go pinch her and make her cry." Zeffirelli asked Ronald to pinch Brooke Shields again.

"I'm not going, you go by yourself, Franco." Ronald refused.

"It's useless for me to pinch you, you have to pinch me."

"What difference does it make?"

"I'm going to discuss it with Terry." Zeffirelli walked to Terry's side and murmured with her for a while.

"Ronald, go pinch Brooke, otherwise we won't be able to finish the filming." Terry took the initiative to ask Ronald to pinch her daughter.

"Ronald will be careful. This is just to let Brooke feel a little physical pain. It's not really about squeezing her to tears." Zeffirelli was still explaining at the side.

"No, no mother would let someone pinch her daughter." Ronald was unwilling, "Franco, why don't you pinch it yourself? Or let Terry come, she knows the severity."

"It's not a matter of severity, Ronald. I'll discuss it with Brooke, and she's willing to do it." Terry hurried to the trailer to discuss it with her daughter.

She walked very fast, thinking along the way: "Zeffirelli also said just now that only when young men pinch her will Brooke show the inseparable expression between young male and female lovers. This play The character in it burned down her home and even indirectly caused her father's death, but she still loved him and couldn't bear to leave him."

Zeffirelli on the other side looked at Ronald with a smirk on his face and thought, "It depends on whether you are willing to pinch him or not. I told Terry that as long as Ronald pinches him, he can probably get through two." . Sometimes the hormones between young men and women will do everything automatically, and what they show are very real emotions."

"Then I pinch you?" Ronald saw that Brooke Shields also agreed. Indeed, mother and daughter needed to finish filming quickly and rushed to shoot the anti-smoking public service announcement. "That's it, you can feel the pain and remember If something painful happens to you, just tell me and I will use this much force."

Ronald tried his strength, then squatted behind Brooke Shields, raised his hands and pinched her waist.

Zeffirelli exchanged glances with the director of photography, and after knowing that Ronald was completely outside the frame, he called out the command to start.

Ronald squatted on the ground, pinched lightly, and Brooke Shields started performing in front of the camera.

He was hiding behind Po Ji, not knowing what was going on in front of him, so he could only maintain this awkward posture and pinch Po Ji. The smell of the young girl came over, and Ronald maintained his posture, his whole body stiffened.

"cut!"

Ronald, relieved, sat on the ground and then got up again, "How is it? Can the camera be used?"

Seeing Zeffirelli's raised thumb, Ronald breathed a sigh of relief and said to Brooke Shields, "Brooke, I didn't pinch you, did I?"

Poji smiled and said, "No, it's just a little bit of feeling that helps me find the feeling of pain. Ronald, I feel like filming with you is like playing a game, it's not troublesome at all."

Ronald heard this and said sternly: "Brother, do you like acting? If you want to continue to advance in your acting career, it's time to find an acting coach."

"But my mother said that I was still a little girl and not yet ready to act like an adult actress, so she chose kind old directors for my roles, hoping that they would treat me like their granddaughter."

Well, my mother had already planned it and didn't want Bo Ji to learn acting skills too early. In fact, for Brooke Shields, in order to maximize profits, it is better to make more commercials and movies that do not require much acting skills.

At least that was the case for her mother. She studied acting systematically and had more choices, but she might not be as obedient as she is now.

"I heard that New York TV stations are going to ban the advertisement for that pair of jeans. Is it true?" Seeing Terry coming over, Ronald stopped talking to Brooke and instead asked Terry a question.

"Ha, yes. They thought this would kill Brooke's popularity, and Brooke appeared on the cover of a fashion magazine again in January this year. Anyway, other cities are still playing this ad."

Ronald dealt with Terry for a moment, then turned back to chat with Zeffirelli, "When will the movie be released?"

"July if all goes well."

"I hope your movie will be a hit."

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