Exploiting Hollywood 1980

At the Universal Studios on New York Street, one of the largest studios, the crew that Diane Lane was part of was setting up the scene, and director and producer Walter Hill was working on supervising it.

After Diane's introduction, Ronald met this director who had excellent box office results. He has made two blockbuster movies in the past few years: 1979's "The Gang" and 1982's "48 Hours."

Walter Hill is also a director who started out in exploitation films. His "Warriors" tells the story of gangs on the streets of New York. He also admired Ronald's "fast pace" and took Ronald and Diane to visit.

CAA greeted him in advance, and Walter specially took Ronald to visit the sets in the three studios. With them, there were two newspaper reporters, interviewing together and recording the conversations between the two directors.

"This is the venue where Ellen Ann, the female rock singer played by Diane, holds a concert." The two walked to a small studio, where the carpenters were working on the stage. . "Two live concerts will be filmed here, and the set alone will cost a million dollars."

There was a wooden stage with a few old-fashioned microphones and a worker installing neon tubes in the background. There is a large audience area underneath, with seats in the front row, but the style is also very old, much like a cinema in the 1960s.

"This is really a big production, very impressive." Ronald looked envious. He could make a movie with only one set.

"Please come over here, this is the café of the protagonist Tom's sister." The scenery of the café has been prepared in a smaller studio next to it. In this way, several studios can start shooting at the same time, which can save a lot of shooting time.

"This is the largest studio in the world. We will use it to build the night view of Chicago and reconstruct a Chicago subway station and urban area." Walter Hill was very proud, and the group walked to the last studio, the largest studio. Introduced to Ronald.

The soundstage was only slightly smaller than the one he'd seen on London's Pinewood set where "Supergirl" was being filmed. "Day for night?" Ronald asked. It seems that this movie has a lot of night scenes.

Day to night is a film shooting technique that uses lights indoors to simulate night scenes. Movie film is not very good at exposing low light, so when shooting indoor scenes during the day with low light, it will appear the same as at night on film film. The crew's night scenes were shot this way.

"No, that's not real. I will put a big tent outside this big studio to block all the light and shoot real night scenes.

"Walter Hill proudly introduced.

"Oh", Ronald was so excited that he could not speak. This kind of lavish spending was really a waste of money. Who asked Walter Hill to find a good partner? Producer Joel Silver just got a production budget of 15 million from Universal.

"At that time, we will invite a costume design master to customize costumes for Diane's concert."

The two chatted happily and both asked about each other's background. Walter Hill worked as an editor and screenwriter before becoming a director. His experience is similar to Ronald's, and the two have a lot in common.

The two reporters recorded some details nearby so that they could go back and write the article.

"Ronald, this is our hero, Michael Pare." Walter introduced a middle-sized man to them.

"Bonjour, hello Diane." Parr is a muscular man with the appearance of a decadent young boy. He seems to have shaved his eyebrows and applied eye shadow. His voice had a harsh, uncomfortable tone to it.

"Ah, oh" Diane was pulled into his arms with a warm hug, then hugged her tightly, and finally wanted to kiss her.

Diane hid twice, but finally was not kissed on the mouth. After breaking away from Parr's hug, he introduced to him, "This is Ronald, my good friend and a film director." Then he hid in Rona. The position at the back next to Germany.

"Ronald, eh?" Pal raised his chin towards him as a greeting.

"Hello, Michael." Ronald knew that some actors would enter the role in advance. What Michael Pare showed now might be the character of the male protagonist in the play, but he didn't take it seriously.

"You are also a director, huh?" Parr took out a butterfly knife, a type of knife passed down from the Philippines, with two movable long handles on the handle.

Parr made a trick with the butterfly knife in his hand, and snapped the handles together, revealing the sharp blade. Then with another dazzling movement, he folded the blade and put it away.

"Oh, you have good knife skills. Which Chinese restaurant are you working as a chef in?" Ronald thought the other party was a bit naive, who were you trying to scare?

"...Restaurant in New York, where I worked as a chef for three years." Parr began to brag about his experience again, how he admired Marlon Brando since he was a child, how he was discovered by a talent scout in the restaurant, and how The role was obtained through the relationship of actress Nancy Allen.

"What a cook, no wonder his neck is so thick." Ronald picked his ears and turned back to Walter Hill.

"That's it. Don't forget to mention my good friend Director Ronald Lee. His new film 'Night of the Comet' will be released soon." Walter Hill also noticed Parr's verbosity and hurriedly Call reporters to take pictures of them.

"Walter, I've read Diane's script. Why is the movie's script so thin? It doesn't seem to have a name yet?" Ronald and director Walter Hill chatted casually after sending the reporters away.

"That was the idea that producer Joel Silver and I had together. We thought the important thing about this movie was the atmosphere, the song and dance, the lighting, and the colors, but the story was not that important. We just decided on the name. Come down and call 'streets of fire'"

"Streets of Rage?" Ronald thought that it was a good idea. This kind of plot where the war hero that teenagers like comes back to save his ex-girlfriend, and the ex-girlfriend is the coolest female rock star nowadays, Diane's choice is actually not bad. Maybe I just haven't seen this movie before, so I didn't dream about it.

"Yes, this is a high-concept movie. We asked many young people about what they think are the coolest shots in the movie, customized sports cars, kissing in the rain, neon lights, trains at night, high-speed crashes, Fighting, rock music, motorcycles, leather jackets, fighting for honor, etc.”

"Oh" Ronald thought to himself that this was a new method that he had never tried before. "You will start filming next month, right?"

"Yeah, we'll start filming on the 15th of next month, but we haven't found the actor for the big villain yet. There aren't many actors like America."

"Oh, what do you need?" Ronald became interested, not knowing what type of actor America was rare.

"He should be a kind of feminine villain, smart, thoughtful, ruthless and caring towards his subordinates. People will know he is an evil villain at first sight, but they won't hate him."

"You know what? I've met an actor recently. Maybe you can give him a try." Ronald thought of Willem Dafoe, the leading actor in Kathryn Bigelow's debut novel. He is a natural villain, but he also Very smart.

When Ronald took out the "Loveless" poster from the box on the back of the motorcycle and showed it to Walter Hill, the director stared at it for a long time, and he really looked like the big villain in the movie.

He took the poster and went to discuss it with producer Joel Silver.

Ronald stayed alone in the studio and stared for a long time. His next movie was probably going to be a big one. It felt really good to spend so much for the artistic effect in his mind.

"Ronald, Ronald." Diane ran over, "You agreed to go to the movies with me."

Ronald turned around and saw the leading actor Michael Pare coming over to pester Diane again, wielding his butterfly knife.

"Yeah, let's go and talk to the director and leave." He stretched out his arm for Diane to hold, and the two of them went to say goodbye to the director.

"Shxt!" Pal yelled, spinning the butterfly knife with a bang, and flew forward with the knife. With this cool action, he vented his anger on a small setback in his all-conquering battle to pick up girls.

"Clang..." The butterfly knife flew out upside down and hit the wooden wall. Instead, it was knocked crooked and fell to the ground.

"shxt!" Parr ran over and picked it up again, checked it distressedly for a long time, and wiped it carefully with his clothes.

"I'll take you to the hotel. Bert is still waiting for you." Ronald handed the red helmet to Diane and got on the motorcycle first.

"Aren't you going to see a movie?" Diane also moved up, hugging Ronald from behind, and complained.

"Haha, don't you want to get rid of that Parr's harassment? He may be more involved in the drama, right? Next time you come to shoot, remember to ask Bert to come to the scene with you, so that he won't dare to make mistakes." Rona De and Parr came into contact and found out that he was just a cool boy.

"Okay, but don't forget to go to the concert with me in two days."

"I can't forget." Ronald stepped on the starter lever, turned the accelerator, and the motorcycle drove forward.

"Beep, beep, beep..." The sound of the motorcycle engine was low and violent. Ronald blocked the cold early spring wind in front, leaving only a little bit of warm breeze, which went around his body and blew to Diane behind.

A few strands of Diane's long hair came out of the helmet, and were blown by the breeze, leaving a ray of warmth.

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