Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Ronald, are you there?"

Ronald was going to the set the next morning to give the leading actors some time to rehearse before filming started immediately. Suddenly he heard someone calling his name outside the apartment.

"I'm here," Ronald opened the door and looked, "Hi, you are, Tom. Hello, Rebecca, Paula."

Standing at the door was Tom Cruise, intertwined with a blonde girl wearing sunglasses. It was Rebecca De Mornay, his co-star in "It's Crazy". Together they come to find Ronald. Followed by agent Paula Wagner.

"I brought you some cake." Tom raised his hand and took out a bag. "You were not in Los Angeles during the New Year. I originally wanted to send it to you."

"Oh, thank you." Ronald took the cake and ate one. "It tastes very good. I'll take it to the set to eat."

"Your new movie? What is it about?"

"Break dancing, have you seen anyone else do it?" Ronald put the cake in the car, "Do you want to make a guest appearance?"

"Yeah? Is that okay?" Tom Cruise's baby fat gradually faded away, and his facial lines became tougher. He still wanted to work with Ronald, his noble man.

"Tom..." Paula Wagner quickly stopped, "I'm sorry Ronald, Tom's current acting career is a feature film by a famous director, and it is not convenient for him to appear in a low-cost production."

"It doesn't matter, I'm just a suggestion." Ronald looked at Paula who was like a hen protecting her chicks and felt a little interesting.

Tom Cruise's "It's Crazy" stayed in theaters for a total of 15 weeks and grossed 63 million at the box office. He and his girlfriend Rebecca De Mornay quickly became famous, and they were no longer satisfied with making commercial films. They wanted to find a famous director to cooperate with and enter the Oscars.

His other new film, "Step by Step" with Leigh Thompson, has just been released and has received a mediocre response. Although it contains nude scenes of him and Thompson, it has attracted many female fans to go to the theater to watch those two seconds again and again. Shot of the clock.

The two chatted for a while, and Tom and his girlfriend also wanted to send cakes to other important people to maintain their relationship. This is a way that Paula Wagner came up with to enhance his connections. He distributes cakes to his friends every Christmas and New Year to remind them to remember him.

"Hey...seriously, are you really dating Brooke Shields?" before parting,

Tom Cruise still couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked Ronald.

"No comment," Ronald laughed, drove his Saab 900 and rushed to the rehearsal site.

"Should we really find a star to make a cameo? This would also be good for the marketing of this kind of exploitation film." Ronald thought, stroking his beard.

"What's your real name?" A few hours later, Lucinda Dickey asked the black boy Boogaloo Prawn during a break in rehearsals. "How can anyone be called Prawn like that?"

"It's the kind of thing that only a few people can call names." The Boogaloo prawn made a disgusted expression. He was very dissatisfied with Lucinda's dancing ability. She could never practice the basic break dance styles well, so she wore a hat when dancing. It has a distinct feel of jazz dance and gymnastics.

"Uh..." Lucinda was a little embarrassed when she didn't expect to be choked. She felt that she and the two male protagonists were basically fighting against each other. Boogaloo Prawn may simply be dissatisfied with her dancing skills, but Sabado is more provocative.

"His name is Michael Chambers. Boogaloo Shrimp is his street dance name. They all have a nickname in the break dance circle. You can also choose one, called Smiling Lucinda or something." Ronald Helped her out.

Lucinda's new haircut was very short, and her bangs and top hair were styled high with mousse styling gel, giving her the look of an independent woman. However, her character was on the weak side, and Ronald had no choice but to let her face two break dancing masters alone to make her stronger.

"Yeah, then my name is Smiling Lucinda." Lucinda Dickey came from a lower-class background. She saved money by babysitting the children of rich people and studied dancing, which inspired her to be strong. Gradually, I became less afraid of being bullied by Da Xia and Xiang Badu.

Sabado and Boogaloo prawns continued their dance, and Smiling Lucinda continued her clumsy studies. Ronald didn't have much time. He couldn't give the three of them too much time to rehearse. Seeing that they were almost done, he asked them to come over later. Ronald first went to Venice Beach to check the layout of the first shot of the film.

An avenue lined with palm trees leads directly to the edge of Venice Beach. The weather is very warm today, and there are people surfing in bikinis in the distance.

Ronald got out of the Saab 900 and saw Minahan on the terrazzo ground by the beach, where the dancing scene was filmed, and hurriedly walked over.

"You trash, trash, you can't even handle the Screen Actors Guild." Minahan, wearing a T-shirt and big sunglasses, was scolding an assistant.

"What's going on? Where are the extras? I'm going to shoot the first scene this afternoon." Ronald stepped forward to question.

It turns out that the "Break Dance" crew, in order to be released in North America, had to register its script and shooting plan with major labor unions.

After the Screen Actors Guild learned about it, they sent a special commissioner to supervise this small production. After learning that all the extras had not signed contracts in the union's standard format, they immediately banned actors from the film union on the grounds that less than 65% of the actors registered with the union were less than 65%.

Those extras who were union members, or who wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to join the union, obeyed the union commissioner and left the set.

For other low-cost film crews, generally speaking, you can bribe the correspondent and then start shooting in two days. But this is a movie that’s racing against time, so we can’t wait.

Minahan is also very worried. He wants to save some money. His assistant failed to communicate and coordinate well with the union at the beginning. Now even if he comes to apologize, he will be left alone for a while to let them deepen their memory.

"It would be great if we didn't shoot in Los Angeles. We should shoot in Israel." Minahan stomped his feet angrily.

"It's useless to talk about it now." Ronald took off his sunglasses and looked around. "The union people are gone, won't they be back today?"

"What do you want to do? All the extra agency agencies are their members, and we can't find an agency willing to temporarily recruit people for us." Minahan reminded Ronald that the union's control is very strong in Los Angeles. In-depth.

"Who said I was looking for them?"

"Hey guys," Ronald put his hands around his mouth and shouted to the men and women surfing on the beach, "Does any of you want to make a movie?"

"Making a movie?" The men and women shouldered their surfboards and walked towards the crew. Who in Los Angeles doesn't want to make a movie?

"One, two, three, four..." Ronald counted, there were seventeen in total, all wearing bikinis or shorts and swimsuits. Surfers all have good bodies, and their buttocks and breasts are very impressive.

"It's not enough, who else can you use?" Ronald said to Minahan. This crew is relatively streamlined, and there are not many staff members who can fill it in and pretend to be the audience.

"Only two extras didn't leave, and they came back. I heard they were from China and didn't understand the secrets of labor unions. They just wanted to appear in Hollywood movies."

"People from China, that's okay," Ronald asked them to get ready.

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It was still not enough. Ronald thought it would be better if he was in New York. Calling Eddie and recruiting people from fraternities in various universities would be enough. He didn't have many connections here in Los Angeles.

"Find someone first. If not, bring your cannon staff here..." Ronald took out the director's viewfinder and looked at the beach and palm trees.

The secret to shooting quickly is not to do too much camera movement. The more the camera moves, the longer the shots, the more complex the actors’ choreography, the higher the chance of making mistakes again.

The principle that Ronald set for himself was to keep the camera as still as possible, poke it there, and then let the actors start jumping!

"Hey", Ronald found that there seemed to be many people under the building next to the palm tree.

"Who are they?" Ronald asked Minahan.

"Tramps, they are all homeless people who usually wander here. In order to take pictures, I asked them to leave for a while and gave them a few dollars each."

Ronald looked again through the viewfinder, "Bring them back."

Standing on the terrazzo floor and looking at a dozen homeless people, Ronald knew something. When filming "Night of the Comet", he came into contact with homeless people. Some people fell into the trap due to misfortune, and some were unable to pay alimony and mortgage due to divorce.

He left those that didn't look like substance abuse, then turned to the costume designer, "Clothes, clothes, find fifteen sets of sweatshirts!"

"Let these homeless people take a shower, put on their sweatshirts, and act as spectators behind the crowd. Don't give them any money. Each person has two meals and two cans of Coke. Then they can wear their own clothes and buy some food stamps." Rona De asked his assistant to deal with it.

"Don't save money like this in the future, Minahan, otherwise it will delay things too much?" Ronald turned around and said.

Soon Lucinda Dickey, Sabado, and Prawn's RV arrived. Ronald asked them to put on their costumes, put on their makeup, and get ready for their first seaside dance scene.

This is the first time that the audience is shown break dancing, a very rhythmic and novel dance, just a few minutes into the movie.

Ronald gets ready to show Sabado, Shrimp, and their dance-fighting opponents Falcon and Solomon.

Boogaloo Prawn is good at moonwalking and floor dancing, and the one with the highest level of robot dancing is not Sabado, but his opponent Falcon.

It was arranged that both of them would have a solo, and then Falcon would challenge Sabado with a solo in front of Kelly, played by Lucinda Dickey.

The homeless people were dressed and still clapped in a loose circle around the terrazzo floor. The surfers were wearing bikinis, and Ronald arranged for them to stand in the inner circle. The two girls with great figures got the opportunity to show off themselves.

"Does everyone understand?" Ronald asked all the extras.

"Understood."

"I say it again, no one is allowed to look at the camera. Anyone who looks at the camera will be cut off, and the food and clothes will be taken back. Do you hear me?"

"learn!"

"Okay, let's start shooting right away."

The actors began to stand still while the camera crew measured their exposure and focus. After everything was ready, Ronald started filming.

"recording?"

"alright!"

"camera?"

"full speed!"

"Breaking dance number one, snap," the scorer wrote.

"!"

Sabado and Boogaloo prawns began to dance vigorously in front of the camera.

A beauty in a bikini comes up from behind and the camera shows her butt for a second, then she walks away, giving the view back to the two dancers.

The camera used a zoom lens and slowly focused in. Sabado and Prawn's dance moves were very powerful, and the dual-card large-speaker recorder on the ground next to them played enthusiastic music.

This was Ronald's arrangement after discussing with the director of photography. A fixed-focus lens is too rigid, and the sliding rail needs to be rehearsed repeatedly. Simply use a zoom lens. If the position is wrong, just zoom in and frame the actor in the center.

The surrounding audience is carefully selected. The surfers are all masters of music rhythm, and they begin to twist their bodies in accordance with the rhythm of the music.

And then there are the two Japanese actors who were willing to disobey the union and stay in the show. One of them was wearing a one-piece spandex body suit and had a very good figure. They were bigger than the surfers, so Ronald placed them behind the bikini surfers, making a jagged human flesh background.

"Very good, keep going down," Ronald was secretly satisfied. This way of shooting without moving the camera and allowing the actors to express themselves was very fast.

"Huh?" Ronald frowned, and the Chinese actor squeezed to the left, then to the right, and squeezed to the front from between the two extras next to him. Then he jumped greatly to the music.

"Fuxk! cut! cut! cut!"

Ronald rushed in front of him, "Who the hell do you think you are? Who asked you to steal the spotlight?"

The Chinese man scratched his head in embarrassment and said in English with a strong Chinese accent, "My name is Jean Claude, and this is my friend Miguel. We don't mean any harm, we just want to show ourselves."

"I'll give everyone a chance to show you, don't do it on your own, okay?"

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