Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Helen discovered that she had always had a misunderstanding. Paying too much attention to the effect of her performance would make the audience keenly aware of the traces of your "acting".

She was so happy that she started practicing with Ronald that night.

The two people kept looking at each other, conveying affection with their eyebrows, and then repeated what the other person had just said, paying attention to the feeling between the lines.

Sure enough, when you focus on the other person, your own body will give a better reflection. The other person picks up this body's reflection and gives another reflection. In a virtuous cycle of going back and forth, the two of them feel better than usual. a lot of.

However, long-term acting skills and habits require professional training to correct. After spending two days together with Ronald, Helen Slater still couldn't help it, so she went to a new acting training class to practice her acting skills with her best friend Helen Hunt.

Ronald is single again, and the main time these days is still allocated to the screenwriter of the dream movie "The Bride and the Wolf", John Patrick Shanley.

Shanley is from New York and came to Los Angeles this time to discuss film shooting with Ronald.

He is a handsome, meticulously dressed man in his thirties, with blue eyes that are common among Irish people, and a bit melancholy.

As soon as the two chatted, they discovered that their backgrounds and experiences were very similar.

Like Ronald, Shanley came from a poorer background. He grew up in the Bronx, a neighborhood where black people concentrated, not far from Bud's original house.

Shanley's mother was a telephone operator and his father was a meatpacking plant worker. Having grown up in an environment full of gangsters, Shanley knows some street smarts.

He had joined the Marine Corps, and after he was discharged, he went to college through the GI Bill. He was an alumnus of Ronald and a graduate of New York University.

But he had better grades than Ronald, graduating with an honors degree in drama.

Shanley had been writing Broadway plays before this. He was lucky. In 1982, his script was picked up by a performance company off-Broadway (a performance venue outside of Broadway, usually a venue for newcomers), and he began his career as a screenwriter.

But his luck improved after that, and his plays kept spinning off-Broadway, but none of them was well received by critics and had a chance to be promoted to Broadway.

Shangli began to transform, and slowly began to try to write movie scripts, thinking of trying his luck in the Hollywood circuit.

Similar growing experiences made Ronald and Shanley hit it off immediately. They found an Irish restaurant, drank beer, and started eating potato stew while chatting about the filming of the script.

"You're an Irishman. Why don't you write about an Irish family? Why don't you write about an Italian family?"

Ronald and Shanley drank for three rounds. After drinking enough, they began to talk about some core topics.

As the author of a first movie script, most screenwriters write about stories around them. Therefore, Ronald had to ask the other party how he found the inspiration for this script that did not write about things around him.

In this industry, all kinds of deception and betrayal happen all the time. Ronald didn't want an author to come out after he started filming and claim that Shanley had stolen his script idea.

"Hahaha, this is actually very interesting. I have lived in an Irish community since I was a child, and my classmates are either Irish, Italian, or black. A road away from our block is an Italian community.

My parents and I live here, and our neighbors are all typical Irish families. An older father, a mother who is many years younger, and a small family composed of a group of children.

The Italians on the other side of the road are much more interesting than us.

First of all, they all know how to cook delicious food. When the whole family is together, it seems that every Italian mother can cook a lot of delicious food. And they often live with their grandparents, and the whole family eats together, which is very lively. "

"Hahaha, Italians do have more big families." Ronald remembered that the great director Coppola also invited him to have dinner at his house. It was indeed a big family dinner around him.

"Yes, I feel that their mothers know a lot. It is easy to distinguish Italian and Irish children. Italian children's clothes are ironed very well by their mothers or grandmothers. In our Irish family, the clothes are You often see unwashed liquor stains." Shanley became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke, and winked at Ronald.

Ronald let go of his worries. After analyzing his creative process and ideas in this way, the possibility that he came up with it himself was very high.

"So I have always longed for a big Italian family. I always go to my classmates' houses after school. They all call me half Irish and half Italian." Shanley continued, and Ronald and Hollywood people It is a great pleasure for the winning director to discuss the creation.

"When I became a drama major, I wanted to write a movie that reflected Italian people. I wanted to write the food that I longed for as a child, the warmth of a big family, the considerate clothes, and a little bit of superstition into the story. .

But the more sweet memories I hold in my heart, the harder it is to write them down. I didn’t finish the first draft until a few years ago. But my agent pitched to many film companies, but they were all rejected.

Because now in Hollywood, when people hear Italians, they think of gangster movies (The Godfather), dance movies (Saturday Night Fever), participating in gangsters and dancing, which has become the stereotype of Italians.

I'm not saying that the characters I wrote were not stereotyped, but the studios didn't want to risk disappointing the audience by making a movie that reflected the life of an Italian-American family.

They felt that a film about Italian life that didn't see a Chicago typewriter splashing water on the street or a handsome guy like Travolta doing a passionate dance would be like committing fraud. "

Ronald nodded, this kind of operation by the studio is normal. Regardless of the quality of your script, the marketing department doesn’t know how to advertise such a script.

If it were a gangster shootout movie, it could be said to be the new "Godfather". If it were a dance movie, it could be the new "Saturday Night Fever." But how would you recommend this movie to your friends?

The new one...well...you know, it's a romantic love story about a big Italian immigrant family, with parents and children at different stages of their lives, and a sense of humor...

"Italian, is it a gangster love story?" Often a friend can choke you to death with just one sentence.

So Ronald took over the film and bought the rights to shoot it, so he had no choice but to take another path. It’s marketing through celebrities.

Ronald plans to discuss with various distribution companies to see if he can sign a distribution contract. Then you can find big stars like Cher to star.

Among the three giants of director, leading actor, and leading actress, Ronald, a blockbuster director, is already involved. Next, as long as we find a female star of Cher's level, we can guarantee the blockbuster.

At that time, the marketing of the seven major studios can say, "Go and see the love story directed by Ronald Lee and starring Cher."

"So, we have been able to sell it to distributors?" Shanley was very excited when Ronald confirmed in person that he wanted to direct the film himself.

"Well, actually we still need a heroine. And..."

"What?"

"The name of the movie needs to be changed. The names of Bride and Wolf are too ordinary. The audience doesn't have much expectations for the story after watching it."

"Then what are you going to call it?"

"How about moonstruck? Like you wrote in the script, there's a big, bright moon, and when it appears, people fall in love."

"Well, very good. You are right." Shanley took a sip of beer, "Who are you going to invite as the heroine?"

"What do you think? When you wrote the script, did you keep any actor's image in mind and write accordingly?"

Ronald knows this little trick of writing scripts. If you write a script with a certain star as the target, then the character's speech and behavior will inevitably be replaced by the image of that star.

In this way, if someone else plays this role, some of her details will have to be adjusted to fit the new star's performance style.

"I actually had Sally Field in mind when I wrote it," Shanley said.

"Huh? Her acting skills are okay, but the first thing I thought of was Cher. What do you think?" Ronald didn't expect that the script was based on Sally Field, a double-actor.

"She is very beautiful. Her black hair and eyes fit the image of an Italian. Is she Italian?" Shanley is no stranger to Cher. She debuted as a pop group with her first husband, Sonny. But after the divorce, Cher gradually tried acting. Not only did she act in a movie that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, but she also performed in a Broadway musical.

"No, she is of Armenian descent, but she looks very Italian, right?"

"Yes, but Sally would be a good candidate too, wouldn't she?"

"She seems a little not Latin enough," Ronald thought for a long time, "but I will also invite her to audition."

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"Shanley said he based the script he wrote on Sally Field, and we would like to invite her to try it out. I still prefer Cher, and Sally is not Italian enough. Do you think there is any suitable candidate?" That day In the evening, Ronald went to meet his agent Niceta.

"A middle-aged woman, sexy, who can play an Italian, isn't that the usual suspects?"

Niceta heard about the results of the discussion between Ronald and Shanley, and also gave Ronald some advice.

"Which suspects?"

"In addition to Field, and your favorite Cher, actors who can generally play middle-aged beauties include Sigourney Weaver, who is said to have performed well in the Alien sequel. Diane Keaton, she and Al Pa Sino has worked with The Godfather and understands Italian culture, and his appearance and acting skills are both passable.

Katherine Turner, she is very beautiful, suitable for middle-aged people and can also charm her younger brother. Like her there is Kim Basinger. But she is a little younger. Like her, there is Deborah Winger. She has black hair. The problem is that like Basinger, she is a little younger.

By the way, there's also Woody Allen's new film, "Hannah," starring Dianne Wiest as the middle sister and Barbara Hershey as the younger sister. "

"What, can't I play the role of the eldest sister?" Ronald asked casually.

"Mia Farrow is not sexy enough," Niceta said.

In fact, none of the people he recommended were the most suitable actresses for the role of Loretta Castorini in the new movie script that Ronald bought.

But the ones he recommends are all those that have won Oscars, been nominated for Oscars, have a high reputation for nomination, and some that are extremely popular and well-known right now.

This romantic comedy, which reflects the love story of middle-aged people, still needs some stars to reduce the difficulty of publicity.

Ronald also fully understood, "In this way, you can message them privately and ask if they are interested in making a romantic comedy with me. If you have an idea, just send a part of the script. If they are interested, then send it to Qi Big sales pitch.”

"Well, Cher's script can be given in its entirety." Ronald added, he still hopes to maintain the original cast of the dream. After all, chemical reactions are still very mysterious, and he wanted to use a combination that had been proven to work.

"Where's the hero? What do you think? Do you want to ask Tom?"

Niceta closed her notebook and asked Ronald if he wanted Tom Cruise to play Ronny Camarelli.

"Ask Paula for her opinion." Ronald also felt that if Cruise wanted to star in a movie with his girlfriend, there seemed to be no reason for him to refuse.

The star attracts the audience, and he and the heroine are lovers, so they have a chemical reaction. It’s just that he’s a little too handsome and doesn’t fit in well with Ronnie, who bakes bread with a hand disability in this script.

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