Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Why don't you have a room? Didn't you tell your assistant about this?" Ronald pulled Ralph Mazio into the room, gave him a towel, and asked him to wash his face with hot water.

"This was requested by Director Coppola. The character Johnny I played came from a very poor family in the Oil Head Gang. His parents fought all day long and ignored their children. That's why he was stabbed to death later. The plot of Bob from the Gongzi Gang.”

Ralph is already twenty years old and is the only one of the boys, along with Patrick Thwaites, to be over twenty as an adult actor.

"So he wanted me to feel the feeling of not having a home to go back to. I can get five dollars a day and solve the problem of eating and sleeping by myself. Today I didn't find a place to spend the night, so I slipped in while the front desk was not paying attention."

"You can't sleep on the street," Ronald handed him a glass of water. "How about you sleep with me tonight. I'll talk to Francis tomorrow, and you can sleep with me from now on."

"It's okay, Ronald. It's for show." Ralph Marzio declined Ronald's offer. "I wanted to play Johnny when I auditioned, so Coppola asked me to play someone else." When I was playing the role, I just pretended to be dead and acted randomly. I didn’t want him to think that I could play other oil gangsters.”

Ronald laughed. At that time, Coppola mixed up everyone's identities and put them together for the audition, which made everyone very nervous. It was rare that Mazio could think so deeply.

"You can sleep here tonight. I think Coppola just wants you to experience the feeling of being so poor that you don't even have a home. Sleeping in someone else's room can also help you fully appreciate this embarrassment.

Besides, you are always walking outside, and the old house is not soundproof. I guess many people will be woken up by you like me. "

"Okay, but I'll sleep on the floor."

Ronald knew that Mazio wanted to experience the role, so he stopped persuading him. He took out the extra sheets from the cupboard and spread them on the floor for Mazio, letting him sleep all night.

"Francis, I don't think this is good, right? Mazio has nowhere to go, so he is just wandering outside. If he hasn't found a family to stay with him tonight, should he be asked to find a newspaper about who is out there?"

The next day, Ronald approached Coppola for advice. It seems like it’s too much to let actors experience life this way.

"And if Mazio catches a cold, it won't delay the crew's rehearsal progress even more." Seeing Coppola's indifference, Ronald found another reason.

"Yeah, we have to find a place for Mazio to sleep. But the production director doesn't have any room left.

"Coppola finally reacted.

"How about letting him sleep in my room?"

"No, let him sleep in my room. I'll sleep at home. I'll drive here every day from now on." Hinton couldn't stand such things. They were all about the suffering that happened around her when she was a child. Now Mazio is a moderately accomplished actor. , there is no reason for him to share a room with the special assistant.

Coppola nodded, seeing that he didn't need to find the production director anymore and could solve the problem by paying for an extra room, so he didn't care.

"You have to give more artistic advice in the future, Ronald. I didn't ask you to be a non-staff producer."

On this day, the crew began formal rehearsals. Ronald carried a Sony betacam video recorder, and the two of them took relay videos of the rehearsal.

The conference hall in the hotel was arranged as a rehearsal room, with various chairs used as props. The actors rehearsed scene by scene in the order in the script.

"Ronnie!" the director of photography called Ronald and winked. He ran out of camera tape.

Ronald picked up his camera.

"How do I know if this red hair is natural? Is she the same color as your...ah...ah...eyebrows?" Matt Dillon sat on the chair, flipping Diane's hair in front of him with his hand. , and then smell her neck.

"Put your feet off my backrest and shut up!" Diane Lane hid for a moment, then scolded.

"Cut! Good. Diane, remember this is teasing, but not in a bully kind of way. Dillon keep your attitude."

"I know," Diane agreed while chewing gum, then popped the gum in Dillon's direction.

She was actually disgusted with Di Lung's acting style, which was almost like harassment. But the director said yes, so she had no choice but to agree.

"continue……"

After the rehearsal ended in the afternoon, Ronald watched all the rehearsal tapes with Coppola and the trainee director arranged by the Directors Guild.

All rehearsals were filmed, and Ronald didn't quite understand the need for this. This is equivalent to shooting the movie first with a low-quality Sony camera. What are the benefits of this?

"What do you think of this scene?" Coppola pointed to the scene in which Tillon's Dali flirts with Diane's Cherry in a drive-in movie theater.

"I think it's good, the emotion is very strong." The girl who got the internship position of the Directors Guild began to express her opinion.

Coppola looked at Ronald.

"The pacing and the interaction between the actors are good, but the intensity of the emotions?"

Coppola nodded but did not express his opinion.

"Does he have other tricks? Save them for actual shooting?" Ronald suppressed the doubts in his heart, quietly took out his notebook, and wrote down his doubts.

"I'm going to die."

"I'm about to die."

Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe, two handsome guys said goodbye to each other in front of the hotel. Today they will be sent to a real Youtou Gang family to eat, sleep in their home for a while, and experience life.

"Don't be afraid, Moretti is the prototype of a gang member in the Oil Head Gang. He is the big guy who knocked out other people's teeth in fights. They and his wife are both very good people." Hinton comforted them with a smile.

The two of them looked at each other and became even more afraid of their evening guest trip.

"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Moretti."

The two handsome guys gingerly knocked on the door of the family that Hinton had contacted them.

"Oh, you must be Tom and Rob." Moretti was a tall man, and he hugged the two actors warmly. His wife, who was also Italian, brought out the prepared meals and put them on the table.

"Hinton told us that you want to come and experience the family situation of the Oil Head Gang. I never thought that it would finally be made into a movie today by Mr. Coppola, the director of 'The Godfather'. We Italians all respect him. .”

Tom and Rob looked at each other, as if this big man was not as scary as the book said.

"Do you know Ponyboy and the Soda Pop family in the book?" Tom Cruise asked the question while eating dinner.

"Of course, we are good friends."

"Then the Oil Head Gang and the Young Master Gang were really sworn enemies like that back then, and they started fighting whenever they met?" Rob Lowe also discovered that the big man Moretti was actually very enthusiastic and started asking questions.

Moretti put down his knife and fork, "Hey, actually, many of the Gongzi Gang kids and I are teammates on the rugby team. We call them Gongzi Gang (SOC), but actually they are not much richer than us Greasers.

Tulsa is a coal mining town, and the oilmen in the south are Italian miners. Many young men in the north are just accountants, cashiers, technicians, etc. in coal mining companies. Their lives are better than ours, but how much better can they be?

We fought with each other for some inexplicable reason, and now we are stuck in this small town, and we can't go there. However, there are a few smart kids like Ma Zai who left the small town and went to California, New York, and Chicago. They are the successful ones who have escaped from this poor land. "

Moretti, who was the gangster of the Oil Head Gang when he was young, looked at his children on the table and looked at them lovingly, "You little brats, please listen to me. If you want to go out in the future, don't stay." In Tulsa.”

"The Soda Pop in me seems to be very pitiful. My girlfriend also dumped her and ran away with someone else. How is Soda Pop doing in the end?"

Rob Lowe saw that the Greasy Head Gang were also people with flesh and blood and feelings, and that they respected Hinton children like himself, so he boldly asked about the current situation of his character, the second brother of the protagonist Ma Zai, Soda Soda.

"Well, he was drafted and died in Vietnam."

Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise stopped talking, and the future of young people in this place was really hopeless at the time.

They asked about the current situation and life details of other character prototypes, and gradually gained a deeper understanding of the characters they played.

After the two of them finished eating, they lay in the Youtou Gang's house for an hour. In the small shotgun room, two male actors slept on the same bed, and the two gained a deeper understanding of the living environment behind the characters' various behaviors.

The two slept for a while and then came out to say goodbye to the gangsters. They had many children at home, and if they continued to sleep, there would be no place for other people's children to sleep.

"I had no idea what was going on behind the Soda Soda character..." Rob Lowe told Tom Cruise.

The two of them entered the hotel lobby and walked to their rooms while chatting.

"Ronald, I don't want to stay here any longer."

The two suddenly discovered a red-haired girl coming out of the corner at the end of the aisle, hugging Special Assistant Ronald, and seemed to be crying.

"It seems to be Diane, our cherry?" Rob pulled Tom, and the two exchanged glances at the corner, "What's going on? It seems very interesting."

Ronald gently patted Diane in his arms and slowly comforted her.

After calling Ronald just now, Diane rushed down, hugged Ronald at the door and started complaining.

"Scared me."

"Don't worry, I'm here. Did someone play a prank on you?" Ronald felt that Diane's body was shaking, as if she was scared.

This girl is quite brave, it is not easy to be scared like this.

Ronald pulled Diane upstairs, and saw Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe at the corner, "Hey, why are you here too? Come up together. Diane has been teased so much, let's go help her clean up." .”

"First, my doorknob was smeared with Vaseline and it couldn't be turned." Diane pointed to her door.

Ronald stretched out his hand and touched it. There was still some residue, so it did slip when he turned the handle. The person who pulled this prank was really a genius.

"Then I went to the bathroom and saw this written on the mirror."

Diane let the three boys into the room, and the words "Go to hell, Bichi" were written in lipstick on the bathroom mirror.

"I was so angry that I used the shower head to water it and tried to wipe it off, but the shower head was also broken and it sprayed all over my face."

Diane pointed to the shower head and showed them that it had been violently damaged and water spurted out from the side when it was boiled.

"I was so angry that the toilet seat was smeared with honey."

"Pfft..." Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise couldn't help laughing. This prankster truly understands human psychology. Having just finished so many things, Diane must be very angry, just sitting down like this, isn't it all...

Ronald also smiled. He turned on the hot water, moistened the towel, and wiped the honey off the toilet seat.

"Is there anything else? I don't think you will be so scared just by looking at this." Ronald said looking at Diane, whose hair was dyed dark red.

"Then my bed."

Diane led the three boys to the bed. The sheets on the bed had been cut off. When they lay down to rest and stretched their legs, they would bump into some stuffed toys that had been placed there, and they were startled.

"Then here." Diane opened the pillow, revealing a patch of red ink. She was leaning on the pillow and was startled by the toy on the bottom of her feet, and then the ink that had been put in the plastic bag in advance spurted out, which was quite frightening.

This series of pranks made Diane Lane miserable. He had just finished a day of rehearsals and wanted to take a rest early. When he encountered this trick, Ronald would probably be so angry that he would find out the perpetrator and beat him up.

"They also left a note on my bed," Diane handed over a piece of paper.

Ronald took it and looked at it. It said, "We will come again tomorrow."

I wonder if it's the gang's actors who are playing a prank? Maybe both sides have a share?

Ronald had a guess in his mind that Coppola might have wanted to create this disgusting situation and let the actors be involved in their emotions, in order to achieve the final effect of truly revealing their emotions.

Dai An plays Cherry, who originally belonged to the Gongzi Gang's girlfriend. She was beaten by her boyfriend, so she got close to Ma Zai, a kid from the Oil Head Gang.

Because Ma Zai was talking to a woman from the Gongzi Gang, another fight broke out between the two gangs. In the end, Johnny and Ma Zai were pushed into the pool and bullied, almost suffocating, and then there was a scene where Johnny stabbed Bob to death and the two escaped.

Is this to make Diane feel the feeling of being rejected by both gangs? It just so happened that she lived between the two gangs.

But forget it as a prank, it was a bit too much to do it like this.

"How did you arrange your time today? Is there always no one in the room?" Ronald asked Diane.

"First have breakfast, then go to rehearsal, then come back for lunch..." Diane said.

"What about tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow will be about the same."

Ronald had a plan in his mind, "Tom, there are paints for painting scenes that the art team put there in my room. Go get a bottle."

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