Exploiting Hollywood 1980

After putting down the phone, Ronald was still upset and walked around the room, trying to calm down his mood.

The "fast-paced" film is full of problems such as actors' inconsistent acting skills and mismatched emotions. When he thought about it, Ronald felt extremely embarrassed and wanted to call the actors and crew back to reshoot.

The mismatch in emotional intensity of the same character before and after is actually not the most serious problem of the film. After all, most viewers only watch the movie once and are not as sensitive as professionals. The plot between the two appearances of the actors will also dilute this feeling of mismatch.

Ronald felt very lucky when he thought that one character's plot had someone else's plot inserted into it. "Fast Pace" is an ensemble drama with multiple protagonists. In this case, each person's plot is only one-sixth of the entire movie, making it harder for the audience to find problems.

If your first film is a traditional story with one protagonist as the main character, or a romantic comedy with two protagonists opposite each other, then the wrong intensity of emotions before and after will make the audience feel that something is obviously wrong.

Just imagine, if the entire movie is about the story of Stacey and the nerdy Mark, then on the first date, Stacey will be more excited than when the two kiss for the first time. This will obviously make the audience immediately have fun. .

But now the two-date scene between the two is interrupted by the stories of seven or eight other characters. The audience can't see any problems if they watch it in order.

The really serious mistakes occurred in some scenes shot indoors.

For example, when nerd Mark and Stacey had their first date in an Italian restaurant, in order to ensure shooting efficiency, all frontal shots of Mark and Stacey were shot in two days.

Doing this can save a lot of lighting time, because each lighting session takes more than two hours.

We shot all Mark's scenes together, and then the next day we turned the camera back on Stacey opposite, re-lit, and shot Stacey's scene in one go.

Due to the different states of the actors over the two days, it is impossible for the actors to accurately recall and reproduce their emotions at a certain moment yesterday. When the two actors spoke to the camera respectively, their emotional intensity was not at the same level.

The dialogue shots shot over two days were edited together, and the faces of the two people were continuously switched, and the audience could immediately spot the inconsistencies.

As for Ronald himself, since he already knew the ending of the two people's story, he already had the fixed image and subsequent development of the two characters in his mind, but he did not discover this error during editing.

After being told the truth by director Coppola,

Ronald is really embarrassed no matter what he thinks now. The interior shots of the entire movie are full of holes from beginning to end.

Fortunately, when shooting in a department store, the director of photography Matthew used a special lighting system so that the dialogue shots shot from different sides did not need to be relit.

So fortunately, a lot of the interior scenes in the mall in the first ten minutes and the over-the-shoulder shots of the two people talking were all shot on the same day. The actor can still remember the intensity of the performance when the scene was shot just now, so the problem of emotional dissonance is less serious.

Otherwise, the audience will start running away absentmindedly as soon as the show starts.

Unable to think of a solution, Ronald had to go to bed and started sighing as soon as he lay down.

"Hey...hey..."

Half an hour later, Ronald was still thinking about something. When he was filming "Rock of Ages" in New Century, Jim Cameron was smarter than himself. He followed the directors every day to see how the directors directed the performances. He must have noticed this problem purposefully at that time.

I actually participated in all technical aspects and learned all the professional knowledge that directors need to know when making movies. However, there are still opportunities for remedial learning of this professional knowledge. The director arranges and guides the performance, but the method of unifying the emotions in the later stage is not so easy to learn.

Where can I find a director to learn on the spot?

Huh?

Ronald Gulu jumped out of bed. Didn't Coppola agree that the Directors Guild would send an apprentice director to follow him? This time I must seize the opportunity and learn from him.

Coppola wanted to shoot Se. Hinton's "The Outsiders." Ronald remembered that Diane Lane had given him a set of Hinton's collection as a gift.

I squatted on the ground and rummaged through the unpacked cardboard boxes for a long time, and finally found this book. He turned it out and read it attentively, feeling a youthful atmosphere coming to his face.

Half an hour later, Ronald finished flipping through the pages in a hurry and lamented: "What the hell is all this?"

The plot is not complicated.

In the small town of Tulsaly, Oklahoma, there are two rival teenage gangs. The "greasers" are composed of poor Italian children, and the "greasers" are composed of wealthy Angsa white children.

The Young Master Gang has a car to drive and ice cream to eat. The Oil Head Gang could only take a few cents from their trouser pockets and go out to watch an old movie. For some ridiculous reason, the two gangs were on the same page and started fighting each other as soon as get out of class was over.

There is an orphan named "Ponyboy" who belongs to the Oil Head Gang in the town. He has a second brother named "Sodapop" and their eldest brother is called Darry.

Ma Zi and Soda Water are not their nicknames, but their real names given by their illiterate father. Don't laugh, Oklahoma was such a backward place at that time, and the father didn't even have the ability to name his son.

After paying a middle school teacher to give his eldest brother a decent name, his father started drinking heavily and randomly named the second and third eldest children.

It is written with Ma Zai as the protagonist. The Youtou Gang they belong to, and a girl nicknamed "Cherry" from the Gongzi Gang were watching a movie at the drive-in theater. Ma Zai and Cherry had communication.

After the Gongzi Gang discovered this, they beat Ma Zai and his friend Johnny while they were alone, and even drowned Johnny in the fountain.

Johnny stabbed a member of the Young Boys Gang to death with a knife. Ma Zai and Johnny, with the help of another young man from a good background but hanging out with the Oil Head Gang, Dally (not Ma Zai's brother), took refuge in an abandoned church out of town.

Then the church caught fire, and Johnny rushed into the church to save the child. He was severely burned and died in the hospital.

Ma Zai felt that he had to obey Johnny's last words and rush out of this place with no future and serious involution. He began to write, and so he wrote the book "The Naughty Boy".

Ronald turned to the back cover of the book, which read "First printing, April 1967."

No wonder the plot in it is so strange. It turned out to be Hinton's work when he was a teenager in high school. America at that time was still America, a young man in a small town. The values ​​of young people in small towns are the values ​​promoted by the official and Hollywood.

Hinton is a member of the baby boom generation. At that time, many young people from small towns flocked to big cities to find jobs, starting the largest wave of urbanization in American history.

The material poverty of young people in small towns, the loyalty of buddies, and the world background of resource allocation determined by force have gradually become unfamiliar to the current generation of young people.

In the years since this book was published, the baby boom was officially over. The average number of children in the new generation's families has dropped significantly. Many children born in white middle-class families in the suburbs are already very far away from the jungle society-like youth ecology.

They are more familiar with chatting on the phone and being sorted by interest in school than by birth. Sufficient demand for fast food jobs and a relatively small number of young people of working age have allowed wages to rise high enough. Working hard can even out some of the economic gaps caused by family background.

It is now 1982, and the first generation of children after the baby boom are about to graduate from high school. Will these new generations of teenagers still resonate with the scene Hinton described back then?

Anyway, this is not a problem that Ronald has to worry about.

I heard Niceta say that Coppola valued this movie very much and considered it to be a girl's version of "Gone with the Wind" and a boy's version of "The Little Godfather". It has the potential to be as box-office success as the two-part "Godfather" movies were.

Maybe it was because he just watched the passionate plot in "The Naughty Boy" that Ronald didn't feel sleepy at all. He, who had always had good sleep quality, actually suffered from insomnia.

Ronald wanted to get up and do some exercise. After his body was tired, he could fall asleep. But there was no gym for him to exercise in the middle of the night, and he was a little worried about safety when he went out for a run in the middle of the night in Los Angeles.

Ronald inspected the equipment in the room and suddenly discovered the video tape given to him by Jane Fonda.

"Jane Fonda Rhythm?" Ronald looked at Jane Fonda who was in excellent shape on the cover, opened the box, found the video recorder, and stuffed it in.

Several beauties wearing ballet training uniforms and leg warmers performed various stretching movements in the practice room. The camera slowly moved back, revealing a beautiful woman on the far right, none other than Jane Fonda.

"Are you ready for some fucking?" Jane Fonda yelled into the camera.

All the beauties replied “Yeah!”

"Let's start with simple movements. Stretch your feet slightly wider than your shoulders, raise your head, lift your chest, and tighten your abdomen... Then start stretching your head, left... one or two, behind... three or four, right... five or six …”

Ronald was also on the floor in his pajamas stretching his neck in the style of Jane Fonda.

"one two three four."

One, two...three, four, it’s not difficult. Ronald felt that this was a bit easy for him, so he picked up the remote control and fast-forwarded half an hour.

"Let's kneel down first, bring our knees together, lift one knee, and make the leg parallel to the body, one, two, three, four, two, two, three, four..."

This was okay. Ronald thought it was interesting to do this kind of action on his own, but it became quite tiring after a long time.

"Then it's stretching. Spread your legs as far as possible, hold your ankles with both hands, and then squat down with your knees parallel to the ground. Stretch your inner thigh muscles, one, two... three, four..."

"Oh, shxt, I will definitely have soreness in my inner thighs tomorrow." Ronald followed the video for forty-five minutes and finally couldn't help it anymore. Women are better at this type of aerobic exercise than long-distance runners.

I'm a wrestling practitioner who focuses on explosive power, but I'm not good at it, I'm not good at it...

"The last step is to organize activities. Hold your ankles with both hands, head down as far as possible, inhale...exhale...inhale...exhale..."

The rhythm of Jane Fonda's teaching movements became slower and slower. Ronald felt sleepiness coming over him, so he quickly took a shower and jumped into bed.

"Breathe in... breathe out... breathe in... breathe out..." Ronald, who was lying on the bed, was still breathing according to Jane Fonda's rhythm. Slowly, his heart became calmer and calmer, as if he had reached a place where there was no trace of anything. A space for living things to sleep sweetly.

There seemed to be someone talking to me in my sleep. Ronald vaguely saw someone placing a shiny, round plastic object with a hole in the middle on a saucer like a cup holder, and then pressing a button, the cup holder retracted with a click.

Then a screen like a computer monitor appeared in the field of vision, but on it was a picture of colorful blue sky, white clouds and green grass. With a beeping sound, a picture similar to the video recorder panel appeared on the screen, including play, pause, fast forward, etc.

There was a ticking sound, a white arrow clicked on the triangular play button, and a picture popped up.

A piece of melodious music played, and a nice male voice sang in the background.

"Seize that moment, long ago

One breath goes by and you'll be there

so young and carefree

you will see again

That place in time is so golden. "

An old photo that seemed to have faded appeared on the screen. It showed six young people with shiny oily hair. The picture was shrouded in a golden color like the sunset, and the title of the film appeared on the screen from right to left.

"the outsiders"

"Damn, I really dreamed about it." Ronald talked in his sleep.

Along with the golden color of the sunset, the film titles and various cast and crew credits began to appear. But the list was in white, and it was hard to see clearly on the golden background. Only the last director's name occupied the entire screen. Ronald could see it clearly, it was "Francis Coppola."

The opening music gradually stopped, and a boy wearing a hoodie and jeans walked out of the cinema. A group of "gongzi gang" in cars chased him and wanted to beat him.

The boy in the hoodie ran away desperately, crossing the railway crossing and coming to an obviously poorer area. Several boys from the "Youtou Gang" came out and helped the boy fight off the Gongzi Gang who were riding in the car.

"This is the beginning of the plot of 'The Naughty Boy'." Ronald grinded his teeth and discovered that he knew the two actors from the Oil Gang Boys. One is Tom Cruise and the other is Matt Dillon.

There are two other actors who also look familiar, but I don’t know where I’ve seen them before. What roles are they playing?

It seemed like a movie had been playing for a long time in a daze, and Ronald discovered another familiar person. In the drive-in movie episode, Matt Dillon keeps messing with a girl sitting in front of him and playing with her hair:

"How do I know if this red hair is natural? Is she the same color as your...ah...ah...eyebrows?"

Finally he pissed the girl off, and the girl turned around and cursed, "Put your feet down from my backrest and shut up!"

A close-up of the face was shown. It's Diane Lane!

Ronald felt as if Diane's makeup had been specially processed to make her appear a little older than her actual appearance.

The two continued their entangled conversation, and Ronald saw that something was wrong.

Matt Dillon and Diane Lane spoke in perfect harmony. With each person's words, the emotions gradually increase. Dillon kept escalating his tactics to provoke Diane, and Diane's reaction ranged from not wanting to care, to boredom, to finally breaking out, and then being made laugh by Dillon again.

The two people's over-the-shoulder and close-up shots switch back and forth, and the emotional escalation is very consistent.

Ronald wanted to go back and watch it again. How was this filmed? Why does Coppola capture the emotions so rightly?

He tried to reach for a screen, but couldn't. The scene moved on and turned into night again.

People from both the "Youhead Gang" and the "Gongzi Gang" lined up one after another, preparing to have a group fight to decide who is the righteous party. The people on both sides may be good friends or teammates on the football team, but they are divided into two sides because of their origins and hairstyles.

At the command, people on both sides rushed to catch each other and fight.

Ronald was anxious. This kind of shot is easy to shoot. What he wanted to see was the conversation shot just now. Why was it so emotionally compatible? He wanted to read the study again.

After struggling to reach out to touch the screen again, Ronald suddenly felt like everything was empty...

"ah!"

He fell off the bed again.

"Mr. Coppola, how did you shoot it? Why are the emotions of all the dialogue shots so unified? Did you shoot all the shots of this scene in order regardless of cost? Or was there any special method?" Ronald Get up from the ground and shout immediately.

Well, Ronald woke up and was still in his room. It seemed like I had another dream, and I dreamed of several scenes from the finished movie "The Kid".

Ronald went to the kitchen to boil water, made himself a cup of black tea bag, and calmed down.

I will call Niceta tomorrow and try to contact the original author Ms. Hinton. I must go to the crew of "The Outlander" to learn how great directors solve the problem of consistency in performances.

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