Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Didn't you say that Diane Lane has been selected? Why do you need other actresses to audition?"

After Ronald returned to the studio, he heard Coppola's evaluation of Diane, thinking that the actress's audition was over.

But Coppola still asked him to continue filming audition videos for the remaining actresses tomorrow, which made him feel a little strange, and blurted out.

"Looking is not necessarily suitable. Don't you want to know how to solve the problem of consistency in actors' performances? Just start by shooting me a casting video. You know that when Roger Coleman asked me to wash his car, I can't Didn't ask why a car wash helps being a director."

"Uh, alright." Ronald knew Coppola wanted the right person to help him with the audition chores.

Perhaps the actors cooperate with each other tacitly, and the performance is more consistent. Coppola's casting is known for the actor's fit to the role. "The Godfather" was praised as the best casting of all movies in history. Ronald decided to talk less and listen more.

"Go on, one more day of auditions. We'll move on to the next mix of auditions tomorrow."

"No problem, director." Ronald made an ok gesture, "But Mr. Coppola, Mr. Coleman asked you to wash the car. Is it related to being a director?" Hermann's character.

"Of course, and then he asked me to take his car for a drag racing scene. How can I shoot without wiping it down?"

The next day Ronald saw many familiar faces again. He also saw Catherine Mary Stewart, the heroine of Minahan Golan's blockbuster "Apple."

In the evening, Ronald and other audition assistants brought all the audition videos to Coppola for review. Ronald and Coppola, the casting director, sat down to watch audition tapes.

"This is C. Thomas Hall." The casting director pointed to a boy with big glasses on the TV.

Coppola ticked off a note, "Who do you think you look like?"

"Like Johnny, the boy who was bullied, and the friend of the protagonist Ma Zi." The girl who got the position of trainee director replied.

"What about you, Ronald?"

"Boss, Johnny is strong and assertive. The actor Hauer has innocent eyes more like Boys." Ronald replied, and now Coppola doesn't take the initiative to speak without asking.

Coppola nodded, gesturing to continue.

"This is Matt Dillon.

"

"For whom?" Coppola asked again.

"Dali, that outsider from a good background, but hangs out with the oil head gang. This actor looks like a gangster at first glance, but girls don't hate him," the girl answered quickly.

"Ronald?"

"I agree."

...

After several rounds, Coppola had to wait for Ronald's opinion before proceeding.

"This is Tom Cruise."

"Johnny, this one looks like Johnny. He looks quite assertive." The trainee girl answered quickly.

Coppola looked at Ronald.

"I'm not sure, several roles are possible."

"Very well, I hope you can give me your opinion, don't take my opinion as the final answer. George Lucas often argued with me on the set, but he also had a lot of good ideas. Each of you can come up with a good idea every day , then pay your wages and earn.”

Ronald nodded, he felt that Coppola's words were sincere, and maybe he really needed some young people's opinions.

"Rob Lowe?" This is a very handsome boy, not handsome, but beautiful. But it's not feminine and beautiful, it's very masculine.

"Second brother soda?"

"Dennis Quaid?" PJ Saul's husband, very masculine.

"Brother?"

...

Actors were selected one by one, and several young people gave the roles they thought were suitable. According to Coppola's secret code, the casting director filled in the appropriate role names for these actors in the casting notes.

After a long time, it was the turn of the actress again, and Coppola also watched every audition video.

"Kate Capshaw? Twenty-eight years old, still young." Ronald briefly introduced the actor.

"The mind is a bit mature, Cherry is a bit naive girl." The trainee girl was commenting.

"Catherine Mary Stuart?"

"How about this?" Coppola asked the trainee girl again.

"A bit soft, probably better suited for Cherry's friend role."

"Boji Shields?"

"She's perfect, a boy's dream all over America." Isn't Cherry a very pretty girl? The reason for the fight between the two gangs is that Ma Zai and Johnny said a few more words to her, which aroused her boyfriend's jealousy.

"What do you think, Ronald?" Coppola asked.

"I think... she is indeed pretty enough. Her beauty and popularity seem to be able to make up for the possible lack of acting skills."

"Helen Slater is next." The casting director pressed the play button.

Ronald looked at the blue-eyed girl and couldn't help but smile.

"It's also a bit pretty, but the temperament is not like a beautiful girl in the country, she is an uptown girl." The trainee girl's evaluation of the actress is more sharp, unlike the male actor, she still has a little reservation. Several actors had good things to say.

"Is it okay? The temperament of a big city is not very heavy. Her mother is an environmental protection lawyer and usually wears second-hand clothes." Ronald said good things for Helen Slater.

"The next one is Diane Lane." The casting director found a videotape of Diane auditioning alone.

This was the first time Ronald had seen Diane's audition tape.

"Diane fell in love in high school?" Ronald watched Diane shyly and cheerfully talk about his first love on the TV screen, which seemed to be a real performance.

"Why didn't I hear about it from Donna? Which lucky bastard was it? He stole the girl's heart?"

"This doesn't seem pretty enough." The trainee girl commented.

It is true that Diane looks a bit darker and thinner than Helen Slater and Brooke Shields, but she looks very well dressed.

"She is very beautiful after makeup. I recently filmed her mv. Playing the lead singer of a rock punk band is very photogenic."

"Boji, Helen, Diane, and those... Ronald, which one should I choose?" Coppola patted Ronald on the back.

"I don't know..." Ronald froze for a moment, how did Coppola ask himself. Maybe you want to test yourself, or maybe you want to hear how young men feel?

Looks are not necessarily suitable, Ronald remembered what Coppola said before.

"Maybe let them pair up with the male actors?" Ronald squeezed out.

"Well said, let them all come tomorrow, let the boys come too, and we will mix and audition on the spot."

...

When it came time to mix and audition, Ronald set up the camera on one side, and three rows of chairs were messily placed in the middle of the studio, just to try out the scene that Ronald had dreamed about, in which Dali molested cherries in the drive-in theater.

All the actors, male and female, sit in a circle along the corner. Ronald greeted Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Helen, Brooke, and Diane who he knew.

"Helen Slater as Cherry, C. Thomas Hall as Pony, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, you guys as Johnny and Dudley."

"Wow..." The actors suddenly made a noise. How can there be such an audition?

In general auditions, everyone waits outside, and when they are called, the audition actors go in. In this way, if they audition in front of everyone, won't they be seen by others? And with so many competitors watching from below, how much psychological pressure is there?

"Quiet." Ronald called, "I heard the name come up." Then he gave Helen a "reassuring" look.

"Look, there's a red-haired beauty here." Rob Lau pulled Helen's hair and sniffed it under his nose.

"Sorry, I can't act, wait for me to brew it." Rob Lowe also lost his composure, how do you act in a scene of molesting a girl in public? I can't let go. The scene is not the staff, but the competitors.

"It's okay, you and Tom Cruise switch roles."

"Look, here's a red-haired beauty." Tom Cruise put the script down, still memorizing his lines. Then I acted out this scene with my usual serious attitude.

"This isn't flirting, it's like a confession." Ronald touched his nose secretly and looked at Helen in the front row.

Helen felt his gaze, smiled, and signaled that she was fine.

"Tom Cruise, get down and put Dennis Quaid on," Coppola said.

"Did I act badly?" Tom came down and pulled Ronald to talk.

"Actors who have not auditioned, please retreat to the wall and do well, and don't interfere with other actors." Coppola said to this side.

"It's okay, you did a good job." Ronald said softly, pointing to the empty space in the corner.

"Helen comes down, Brooke comes on."

After several rounds of actors, Coppola called Brooke Shields onto the stage.

"How do I know if this red hair is natural? Is she the same color as your eyebrows?" Dennis Quaid, who plays Dali, said his lines.

It's still the wrong age, and I can't act like that little ruffian. Ronald shook his head secretly, pj Sols's husband has little chance this time.

"Get your feet off my back and shut up!"

Brooke Shields scolded him sternly.

Brooke also doesn't act like a beautiful country girl, which is a bit like a good girl in the city. Brooke's acting skills are not good enough as usual.

"Come down, Dennis Quaid, and replace Matt Dillon and Emilio Estevez."

This is another actor Ronald is familiar with. He once saw the image of Emilio Estevez in the discarded film of "Apocalypse Now", but it was not edited into the finished film.

"This is the star of 'Apocalypse Now', Martin Sheen's eldest son," the trainee girl said in Ronald's ear, "he looks very handsome."

"Is there?" The beauty of American girls is sometimes very strange. Some girls think that this slightly hunched Latino boy is very handsome.

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

Ronald felt that Emilio's performance was okay, but it was still a little worse than Matt Dillon in his dream.

"Emilio, you play Johnny, Matt, you play Dali. Brooke, you change with Diane."

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

"Put your feet off my back, shut up!" Diane Lane hid for a long time, and then reprimanded her.

"Tsk." Ronald secretly admired, this is the chemical reaction between the actors, right?

Some actors are in perfect harmony in the camera, and the audience loves to watch them act together. The emotions, strength, and how to act are all in place, and the consistency is also very good. It is no problem to start acting in any scene at any time.

Ronald began to gradually understand that Coppola can achieve the emotional consistency of the drama before and after. The first key point is casting, not whether a single actor is similar to the role, but more importantly, the cooperation between the actors.

Sometimes it is not necessarily the actor who is most like the character who is the most suitable, but several actors together can match the appropriate emotions. This is the so-called chemical reaction.

"Emilio, come down and put Ralph Marzio in."

Coppola called another dark, skinny actor to play Matt Dillon. Ralph Mazio was Latino, and although he was twenty-one, he looked as if he hadn't grown up.

...

After a long time, Ronald also saw some clues. No matter how he changed, C. Thomas Hall, who played the horse boy, did not change. It seems that Coppola gradually has a favorite candidate in his heart.

"Okay, Matt Dillon, you can go." After trying this one, Coppola let Matt Dillon go.

"Next, let's change the scene of Ma Zai and the two elder brothers. You can change the arrangement of the chairs."

Matt Dillon froze on the spot, and the other actors looked at him pitifully.

"fxck!" Dillon cursed in a low voice, turned and walked towards the door.

"Don't be discouraged, it might be a good thing." Ronald gave him a gentle tug when he walked by, and told him.

"Don't comfort me." Dillon patted Ronald's arm and walked away.

"Val Kilmer, Mickey Rourke, go up to play Mazi's eldest brother and second brother."

"You two change."

"Dennis Quaid, Patrick Swayze, you two are the eldest brother and the second brother."

In this way, this kind of gladiator-style audition made all the actors very nervous, and many of them performed abnormally and their voices trembled. But there are also actors who do better under pressure.

After several days of high-intensity gladiator auditions, I finally completed all the audition shoots.

"Papa", Coppola clapped his hands twice, and said to everyone with a smile, "You all stay for dinner today, and I will cook myself, and I will give you a taste of the Italian chef's skills."

Everyone returned to Coppola's temporary apartment in Los Angeles. He cooked himself, prepared some Italian dishes, opened two bottles of red wine from his own estate, and filled them up for everyone.

"Thank you for your hard work, let's settle the main characters."

"Notify Matt Dillon that Dali is his, and let him start reading the script early."

"Why? Didn't you let him leave early?" The trainee girl was surprised.

"You tell her why." Coppola pointed to Ronald.

"Because he doesn't have to try again, and the later auditions have little to do with Dali's role, and he doesn't need to stay in the show. It's different from C. Thomas Hall in the role of Ma Zi."

"Oh." The trainee girl nodded, and she found that Ronald still understood Director Coppola's mind very well.

"So, this is the second time that Matt has played the leading role in the film adaptation I wrote." Author Hinton laughed beside him.

"He is really suitable for taking pictures of you." Ronald raised his glass. Dillon had a natural naughtiness that suited a teenager of Hinton's type.

"Patrick Swayze is the big brother, Rob Lowe is the second brother Soda Pop. Diane Lane is the cherry. Emilio Estevez is the 'bitch'." Coppola assigns roles , casting director Fred recorded on the sidelines.

"Ralph Marzio as Johnny..." Coppola went on to assign.

Seeing that Tom Cruise's name hadn't been called yet, Ronald had some ideas. Paula Wagner called him several times asking for help.

"Where's Steve from the Greasy Gang?" The casting director clicked on the roles. There are many male characters in this movie, and Coppola, a supporting actor from the Greasy Gang, didn't mention it.

"How's Tom? Tom Cruise, the blond boy who always pushes a little bit too hard, and Steve's kind of personality."

"Just him." Coppola nodded, and then took the hand of the teenage girl next to him, teasing her to play.

"Ring, ring, ring..." The doorbell rang at this moment.

"Sophia, answer the door, it's your cousin Nick."

The little girl went to open the door, and it was Nicholas Coppola who walked in.

No, the stage name should be Nicolas Cage now.

"Nick, come here." Coppola let Nick sit next to him, "This time I have reserved a supporting role for you, so you play it well. If you perform well, you will have the chance to play a more important role in the next one."

"Last time, thank you, I gave Nick a Screen Actors Union card." Coppola turned around and thanked Ronald.

"It's nothing, Nick will always succeed with your support."

"But you were always the one who gave him the first chance, Ronald. We Italians know how to be grateful."

After drinking and eating enough, Ronald bid farewell, he still has a date.

"Which girl is it? Oh ho ho ho..." Coppola smiled and sent him out the door.

"Helen, have you been waiting for me for a long time?" Ronald came to the shopping mall where the "fast-paced" scene was filmed, and found Helen Slater in a movie theater here.

"It's okay, I know Director Coppola is looking for you. I don't know..."

Ronald shook his head, "I'm sorry, Coppola chose Diane Lane."

"It's okay, I know he's a famous on-set dictator. I still have 'Once Upon a Time in America'."

"Didn't you say 'Once Upon a Time in America' has been chosen?" Ronald handed over a cup of Coke and caramel popcorn.

Ronald bought two movie tickets. This is the old movie "Chariots of Fire" released last year. Director Hugh Hudson also competed with himself for the right to direct a chewing gum commercial. The story of a group of British people winning the gold medal in the Olympics actually earned 50 million box office in America.

"You don't know. John Belushi, who was originally scheduled to play the male lead, died suddenly at home. Director Leon is considering re-editing the heroine's age to match the new male lead. So we have to recast the role."

"How did he die?"

"I heard it was drug abuse."

"So you have another chance?" Ronald and Helen walked into the screening room together.

This time he wanted to take his time with Helen Slater and go through the dating process of American men and women.

The lights in the screening hall have been turned off, and pre-screening advertisements have begun. This is a new promotion model that some movie theaters came up with last year. The box office is not enough, and all kinds of income are needed to subsidize the theater.

Helen grabbed Ronald's arm, "Yes, I have another chance." She will go back to New York to audition for the leading actress of the ABC TV series arranged by her father, and if she has the chance, she will stay with Ronald for a while.

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