Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Turning the clock back several months ago, Ronald became Coppola's special assistant in order to learn how to train actors' acting skills. The performance in "Fast Times" is not very realistic, and he took the initiative to steal from the set of Coppola's "The Kid".

He happened to meet Diane Lane and her father Bert, who were chosen to play the heroine Cherry, at the airport. They both flew from various places to Tulsa, a small town in Oklahoma, to film "The World". Outside naughty boy".

This is the hometown of Se. Hinton, the original author. She studied in high school here and wrote "The Naughty Boy" when she was fifteen. Then after a year of revision, it was published when she was sixteen and became best seller.

“Tulsa Grand Hotel.”

Ronald saw the sign and knew it was the hotel booked by the crew, so he went to check in with several actors in the car.

"See you later, Ronald." Bert said goodbye to Ronald and went to find a room in another hotel first.

Bert was worried about his daughter this time and came to Tulsa specifically to accompany her daughter during the filming. However, he is not an official member of the crew and has to find a hotel to stay on his own.

Hinton helped find the hotel where the crew stayed. In fact, there is no need to look for it. There is only this big hotel near the filming location that can accommodate all the members of the crew.

There is a large fountain at the entrance of the hotel, and in the middle there is a cheap replica of an ancient Greek sculpture, standing there in a nondescript manner. The water in the pool is relatively clean, which contrasts sharply with the dust on the sculpture. Perhaps it was temporarily changed to meet the great director Coppola.

The main building of the hotel is a five-story building. Some of the technical staff from the early stage have already moved in with various equipment, props, costumes, etc. The actors and creative staff who arrived today all arrived at about the same time and are checking in noisily at the front desk. .

A group of young actors, who play two of the movie's teenage gangs, are waiting to get their room keys. The first assistant director started calling people with the room assignment list.

Tom Cruise, 104; Patrick Thwaites, 105; Emilio Estevez 110;

Matt Dillon 202;

Diane Lane 305; Michelle Melink 306;

Leif Garrett 503; Darren Dalton 504;

"Everyone has half an hour to rest,

Then go to Room 101 to collect today's pocket money. "

Ronald himself lived on the first floor, in the far corner room. He opened the door, put down the package, and rested for a while.

I wonder if this room arrangement was decided by Coppola, which is interesting.

The actors who play the wealthy gangsters all live in suites on the fourth and fifth floors. The actors who play the poor gangsters are all in the low-end rooms on the first floor. The middle floor was occupied by several teenage actresses, including Diane Lane.

They are all teenage actors. In the movie, they play two opposing gangs, and Diane plays Cherry, who causes the war between the two gangs. She happens to live on the third floor in the middle.

"Ronald, come and help me." The first assistant director saw Ronald getting ready to go out and immediately pulled him in to work.

"This is the script. Please help me bind it with an iron ring."

Ronald stepped forward to help with the binding, checked the page numbers of the copied scripts, added a plastic cover, then punched holes with a punch, threaded them through with iron rings, and stacked them on the table in his room. .

"Why are your scripts different?" Ronald finished his pile of scripts and began to help other assistants with their scripts.

This pile of scripts are made of different binding materials. Instead of using cheap iron rings after punching, they are threaded with copper rings. They are also covered with cowhide, with the movie title and everyone's name gilded on it. Hold it in your hand. It feels good inside, like an old-fashioned hardcover book.

"This is for the actors from the Gongzi Gang."

"Even the script needs to be treated differently?" Ronald was a little surprised. Director Coppola even considered this detail? "why is that?"

"You still have a lot to learn, Ronald. Come here now." Francis Coppola walked in to check on the situation, happened to see Ronald, and called him to his room.

"Ronald, you know that the budget of this movie is very high. We need to save some money from Warner. I can only give you 10% of the advance salary now."

"No problem. I told my agent that even if I pay, I will come to the set to learn from you. If there is anything, please just ask." Ronald heard that he was a little nervous about money and quickly said that he didn't care.

Coppola's Peep Show Company, except for some financial problems. But Ronald is here to learn how to coach actors in acting, so these are all minor issues.

"I don't want you here to do work, but because I need your opinion, Ronald." Coppola was actually not very satisfied with his offer to help with chores. Coppola had as many assistants as he wanted to do such chores.

"It turns out that when George was on my crew, he had to give me advice every day, whether something was wrong here or something wrong there. If you could give me a useful advice like him every day, I would be satisfied."

Did George Lucas have so many opinions on Coppola every day when he was Coppola's little brother? Ronald overheard some gossip.

"Okay, I may not have more opinions than Mr. Lucas, but one opinion a day is not a big problem."

"Good boy. Now you go and help the camera crew prepare for tomorrow's rehearsal." Coppola patted Ronald on the shoulder.

It turns out that I still have to be a handyman, but a handyman who can give advice.

Ronald walked to find the camera crew's room. When he passed the door, he saw a large group of actors gathered at the door of the first assistant director's room on the first floor to receive the day's pocket money.

Huh? Ronald, who was watching the excitement at the door, discovered different treatment.

Several of the actors in the Gongzi Gang are teenage idols. They are accompanied by managers and have a lot of pocket money. The actors in Youtou Gang are not accompanied by managers and only have two dollars of pocket money every day. In this remote and backward town, they can only buy some snacks.

Ronald stroked his beard, Coppola was really interesting.

On the first day of reporting, he started training the actors? By giving different treatments to actors who play different roles, does this mean that they want them to experience the life of their characters?

"Ronald? Nice to meet you." The director of photography pulled Ronald over. "Rehearsals will start tomorrow. Francis asked us to all record. The camera crew has not all arrived yet. If there is a need for multi-camera shooting, you can also help. Use a VCR."

"No problem." Ronald tried the Sony betacam video recorder in the room, which he was already familiar with during the audition. Having spent a lot of time on the crew, it was no big deal for him to work part-time as a cameraman using a video recorder.

Ronald walked out of the room and planned to go for a walk in the town. He happened to see Tom Cruise and a very handsome guy going out together. Ronald recognized Rob Lowe who played "Soda Pop", the second brother of the protagonist "Ponyboy".

"Hi, Tom, Rob." Ronald happened to be out with their car.

"Where are you going? Ronald, we're going with you."

"I haven't been to Tulsa either, but I know the original author, Ms. Hinton, and she is a local. Have you seen her? You can ask her."

Several people found the author Hinton who was also staying in the hotel. The fat Hinton enthusiastically hugged several actors and Ronald.

"Do you want to go shopping in the town? There are cinemas and restaurants. By the way, the cinema is the one I wrote about Ma Zai coming out of after watching the movie at the beginning. It has not changed in decades."

Ronald took the lead and it seemed that this town had few entertainment facilities.

"Hey, you guys. Are you going to have dinner with us?" Leif Garrett, the youth star who played Bob, who was stabbed to death in the Gongzi Gang, smiled strangely at the actors here, "But you guys My pocket money is not enough, hahaha.”

"Oh, shxt." Tom Cruise looked at the two dollars in his hand and put the money in his pocket in anger.

Rob Lowe also rolled his eyes, "How can I survive these two months?"

"It's okay, I have money." Ronald took out a few twenty-dollar bills from his pocket

Thanks to the reminder from his agent Niceta, Ronald brought a lot of cash to the backward town of Tulsa. There is no entertainment here and no place to spend money. There is a small shop in the hotel where you can buy some snacks and coke, and the department stores in town don't sell much.

But now if you have money, you can eat delicious food.

"I don't want to eat with those young men, so let's buy some Cokes and snacks here." Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe walked into the hotel's shop and picked out some cakes, Cokes and snacks. Forget it. He counted the money and threw back the other snacks.

"It's okay, come to Hinton's mother, I have delicious food here." Seeing all this, the fat author Hinton quickly greeted Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe to come in and eat what she had prepared. delicious.

"Is this trick very useful?" Ronald couldn't help but admire him.

Just put the two actors in hotel rooms of different grades, use scripts with different bindings, and give pocket money according to the grades, and they will automatically regard themselves as different categories.

There is no cost to do this, but the results are amazing. Two gangs of teenage actors were already at odds with each other on day one.

"Ronald, you come too."

Ronald also walked into Hinton's room. She secretly took out a large bag of snacks and opened them for several actors to choose from.

"Oh, you still have this here." Tom and Rob were both happy, "Thank you, Mother Hinton."

"Don't worry, if you have any questions, just come to Mother Hinton."

Ronald found it funny. Hinton liked these actors to perform her works very much. She also named herself as a screenwriter on the crew and would play a guest role as a nurse. In fact, she came to pamper these beautiful little actors.

There was positive differential treatment, and Hinton was asked to give them some conveniences. The crew is composed of teenage actors, and it is estimated that the two gangs will really take shape among the actors soon.

The old house of the hotel is made of wood. The carpet in the upstairs corridor is very worn and the sound insulation effect is very poor.

Ronald slept in his room until midnight when he was woken up by the sound of thumping.

I picked up the watch beside the bed and saw that it was still only two o'clock in the morning. Ronald was so disturbed that he couldn't sleep, so he got up to see what was going on.

A thin figure, wearing a vest and jeans, kept walking in the corridor with his arms folded.

"Who is it?" Ronald shouted.

"It's me, Ralph. Ralph Mazzio."

It turned out to be Ralph Marzio, who plays the protagonist's friend, Ponyboy. Although he is 20 years old this year and is considered older among many young actors, he still looks like he is not open and looks smaller than Tom Cruise and others.

"Why don't you sleep and walk here?" Ronald asked strangely when he saw him walking around.

"I don't have a room."

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