Exploiting Hollywood 1980

John McTiernan was angry. He felt that the two producers, Ronald and Joel Silver, were deliberately working against him. This kind of character would interfere with the director's arrangements even if he speaks random German. Maybe there will be some problems during the final editing.

Ronald did not expect that his opinions for the sake of international box office would be misunderstood as interfering with the director's work. As the crew continued to watch filming, he could clearly feel McTiernan's anger towards him.

The position is different, and Ronald's thoughts are also different. If his "working girl" had a producer who made irresponsible remarks about his director, he might also feel this way about anger. Of course, given Ronald's box office performance, no one from 20th Century Fox would be stupid enough to say anything, and Ronald is also one of the producers.

McTiernan showed his anger by deliberately not shooting the main shot that explained the entire scene, and instead used close-up reaction shots and mid-shot front and back shots to show the dialogue and interaction between the characters. In this way, the producers can do much less in the editing room.

Ronald, who knew full well, just watched from behind the camera and said nothing. His purpose is not to point fingers and replace the other party's director's work.

Another thrilling action stunt shot today. A close-up of Alan Rickman falling off the building at the end.

Just like the first scene of filming, the scene with Bruce Willis, the rooftop on the top floor was cleared by the crew again. Alan Rickman's body was hanging outside the railing, hung by a safety rope. The camera fixed above with a bracket was changed to a close-up shot, facing Rickman's face from top to bottom. The cameraman hung on it, operating this big machine, which looked very funny.

A stuntman grabbed Rickman's hand while McTiernan talked to him. "When the time comes, I will count one, two, three. When I count to three, Mike will let go of his hand and you have to make a surprised expression. Then it will be OK."

"Okay, no problem." Alan Rickman wiped his hands on his body. It was the first time he filmed such an action scene, which made his heart beat faster as an actor in a Shakespeare play.

The stuntman named Mike also explained their protective measures to Rickman. "You don't have to worry. This safety rope can withstand impacts that are ten times greater than your weight. There is also an airbag insurance underneath. Bruce Willis's shot on the first day was not protected by a safety rope. It was no problem just relying on the airbag.

Don't hold your hand too hard, I will pull you hard. When the director counts to three and gives the signal, I will let go, so that the fall will be more natural. We've been doing this simple stunt for many years, many actors have tried it, it's very simple. "

Alan Rickman was relieved by what he said and signaled to the director that he was ready.

For this kind of shot, the most important thing is whether the actor is ready. If you are not afraid mentally, you can often succeed in the first time. But if you are afraid that you are not prepared, the actor may be under pressure to perform unnaturally every time he dances, and the filming will be endless.

“Attention all departments, we have started filming.

a! "

Director John McTiernan gave the order from behind the camera.

"One, two..."

Before the count reached three, McTiernan secretly sent a signal to the stuntman, and Mike, who grabbed Rickman's hand, immediately let go.

"ah……"

Alan Rickman was shaken unexpectedly. His face was full of panic and fear caused by subconscious conditioned reflexes. He screamed and fell from the top.

"Did you get it?" McTiernan asked director of photography John de Bont.

De Bont scratched his hair and nodded in confirmation. The effect of this close-up shot is very good. The look of horror on Rickman's face is something no performance in any genre can achieve. This is completely a human instinctive reaction.

"Damn...damn director, I want to complain." came Alan Rickman's curse. This time, he was so frightened that he was waiting with all his concentration. Suddenly, he let go ahead of time, scaring him so much that he broke into a cold sweat.

"Forget it, it's all for filming..." Alan Rickman saw Ronald coming down to see him, and suddenly he no longer wanted to complain to the Screen Actors Guild. Although he is a member of the British Screen Actors Guild, he automatically enjoys all the rights of the American Screen Actors Guild.

There are still many differences between film performances and theater performances. Although this method is damaging, the final effect is definitely good.

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After watching the more dangerous shots, Ronald's affairs in Los Angeles were settled, and he flew back to New York. The actors have gathered together to start reading and rehearsing the script.

"Working Girl" is a movie that relies on plot and performance to advance the plot, with a high degree of drama. So before filming begins, the actors read through all the scenes based on their characters, so that they can understand the intensity of the emotions in each scene.

Everyone is an actor with a background in theater, and Alec Baldwin and Joan Cusack are very familiar with this form. Melanie Griffiths is a child star who has been acting since she was a child and comes from an acting family. After reading it for two consecutive days, I already have my own understanding of where the plot should be.

However, the absence of Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver prevented the actors from doing a final overall script reading. In other words, each character rehearses their lines without interruption from beginning to end according to the plot.

Many problems that were not discovered during intermittent reading often become apparent at this stage.

"Director, before we start shooting, do we have to do another round-up after Harrison arrives?" Melanie Griffiths asked Ronald in a husky but sexy voice.

"No, you, Harrison, and Sigourney's scenes will not be rehearsed in advance. I need a sense of strangeness. You have filmed Jonathan Demme's "Shot", so you should not be familiar with this method. strangeness."

Ronald had never planned for them to rehearse beforehand. The two key things for this movie to be successful are the couple feeling between Melanie's Tess and Harrison Ford's Jack Traynor's character. and a battle scene between two fully competitive women, Tess and Catherine.

The supporting roles in the movie are all played by veterans, and Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver are also stars with distinctive styles. If they are chosen as the protagonists, corresponding updates will be made in the script to make the characters closer to their star images.

In this way, movies that everyone is familiar with often fall into a perfunctory problem. Everyone has played similar roles dozens or hundreds of times, but when it comes time to actually start shooting, they get stuck in technique and inertia and cannot act out that natural reaction.

Tess and Jack fell in love at first sight, well, isn't it similar to Han Solo's first meeting with Princess Leia in Star Wars? Tess and Catherine compete for careers and men. That Hollywood actress over thirty has not played ten or twenty similar roles? Experience can hinder these veterans and stars from performing the kind of sincere emotion.

Just like Laurence Olivier, who has performed hundreds of Shakespeare plays and is known as the best actor in Britain, he will be nervous every time before he goes on stage, for fear of encountering overly familiar problems and making the audience dissatisfied with his performance.

Ronald asked directors he knew well about this issue. To solve this dilemma, Hollywood directors generally have three methods.

The first method was taught to him by Peter Bogdanovich. It is to choose a novice who has just learned acting and let her stimulate the other veteran actors. Use fresh and unpredictable novices to give the veterans a sense of freshness and stimulate their natural reactions.

Bogdanovich's recent films have not been very good, but he has a lot of experience and is familiar with all the stars and directors of the golden era. He has interviewed them and written several biographies.

His own famous work "The Last Picture Show" also found Sybil Shepherd, who had just debuted, and then paired it with several veteran actors.

But this method is also an old method from the golden age. In those days stars were permanent employees of the studios, so this approach could work. Today, movies need stars to sell tickets, and Ronald can't do that.

The second method is taught by Martin Scorsese. Just like Stanislavsky's drama theory, grind it slowly.

When doing the first part, veteran actors have a lot of craftsmanship. If they don't meet the requirements, they will continue filming. By the time the tenth and twentieth scenes were filmed, all the ingenious performances had been performed more than once.

The actor will be bored, angry, or even break down, and begin to wonder why he always fails to let the director pass, whether his acting skills have deteriorated, or whether he is simply not suitable for the role.

But as long as the director continues, it will be Article 25 or Article 30. All the shackles of the actor's past acting experience will be completely eliminated. At this time, they are thinking about acting and must come up with something different and something they have never tried before. This brings the same excitement as novice actors.

But this method is not suitable for this movie. Scorsese is facing Tom Cruise, who has just become popular. Tom himself also respects these famous directors and is willing to learn from them. And Paul Newman, who plays opposite him, is the most humble among the many stars in Hollywood, respects the director the most, and regards himself as an ordinary actor.

What Ronald faced was Sigourney Weaver, who had a tight schedule, and Harrison Ford, who was showing off as a big name before filming even started.

So he decided to use the third method, which was taught to him by Jonathan Demme. Important scenes were never rehearsed until the filming started, and the protagonists did not have their first dialogue.

Humans are animals that are very sensitive to hypocrisy. Only when they cooperate for the first time, the reactions of the actors, whether they are novices or veterans, are the most original and natural, and the ones that the audience likes the most.

Just like when Alan Rickman fell, it was a completely pure natural reaction that cannot be performed by any acting genre.

Therefore, in the early rehearsals, the most important thing is to prevent the three most important protagonists from feeling familiar. Maintaining that sense of strangeness is the most important thing.

"Well, I'm looking forward to filming with him..." Melanie Griffiths is indeed a nymphomaniac type of actress. She is just as emotional in life as she is in filming. people.

"Alec, I still don't understand some lines very clearly. Can you talk to me tonight?"

It's a pity that I couldn't meet the handsome and charming Harrison Ford. Melanie Griffiths then thought that Alec Baldwin, who played her ex-boyfriend, was also very handsome. In particular, he has a wide chin similar to Harrison Ford, and he is a man among men at first glance.

Unlike Europe, whose aesthetics tend to be feminine, America's aesthetics for men still remains in a relatively primitive and normal range. Here, the male star has a broad chin, which is very popular with female viewers.

The two camps have been in a cold war for decades. Among the major countries, only America and China and Japan in East Asia still have masculine charm as their main aesthetic. The traditional man with sharp edges and corners is still the mainstream aesthetic.

But this situation is slowly changing. In big cities, men with overflowing male hormones are gradually being labeled as blue-collar workers. Men with thin chins, male celebrities who are mainly beautiful and feminine, are gradually becoming more popular.

Especially action stars like Stallone and Schwarzenegger can't play smart men. This trend is more obvious in Europe and Japan. Femininity is becoming more and more obvious among the new generation of male celebrities.

"Sorry, Melanie, I have something else to do." Alec Baldwin declined the other party's invitation.

"Don't get me wrong, Alec, I just want to talk about lines with you..." Melanie Griffiths is now dressed as the elite beauty, not the ugly secretary in the first half. She wears those red glasses and speaks softly. She is really a heart-warming beauty.

As she spoke, Melanie Griffiths was still gently stroking the back of Baldwin's hand with her fingers.

"On, Melanie." Alec Baldwin spread his hands and was very unfazed by Melanie's blatant seduction. He actually kind of despises Melanie Griffiths. This woman's beauty was limited, and she was addicted to alcohol. She was just thirty, and her muscles were already sagging a bit.

"I don't date the actresses on the set. This is not in line with professionalism. If we were dating, some scenes of breakup and mutual dislike would not be played. Sorry, this is my principle." Alec Baldwin The reason is that it comes as soon as you open your mouth. He has been rejected countless times.

"Oh, Alec, Alec, you are so cute. Are you sure we can't try an intimate relationship first... This is also a..." Melanie turned her hand and went to touch Baldwin's face.

"Sorry, I have other things..." The well-informed Baldwin also wanted to run away, which was really too much for this kind of nymphomaniac.

"Oh..." Melanie Griffiths covered her face with her hands. It was really embarrassing to be directly rejected by a man like this.

After sorting out her thoughts, Melanie Griffiths began to pack up her broken pieces. Scripts, notebooks, glasses, lipstick, mouthwash, and some small plastic packages were slowly put into the bag. She turned around and saw director Ronald still sitting there, chatting with screenwriter Kevin Wade.

Yeah, Ronald is so handsome. He has dark golden hair that shines in the sun, a broad chin, and a cute little dent. He has a deep voice when he talks to the screenwriter. He is so talented. It's really fascinating. .

"Ronald, I still have some lines for Tess..." Melanie Griffiths stepped forward.

"Don't overdo it...Melanie. I need you to relax and use your talents when filming."

Ronald looked back at her. Whether he really didn't know or pretended not to know Melanie's nymphomaniac personality, he decisively rejected her temptation.

He stretched out his finger and pointed firmly at the cover of Melanie Gerryface's script, "What I need now is a relaxed Melanie."

"Melanie, Ronald is right. Now don't analyze the character too hard. After filming starts, we will slowly find a feeling. I have watched your first few movies. You are a talented actor and don't worry about this. If If you want to talk to someone about Tess’s psychology..."

Screenwriter Kevin Wade looked at Melanie, and he immediately felt that this Hollywood actress was very beautiful, and her movements had the charm of a thirty-year-old professional woman, with some tenderness that is rare in professional women. On the contrary, I have a secret relationship with Tess, who is a secretary. I also have a lot of experience in character analysis, and I can share it with her slowly in the evening.

"Thank you, Kevin, I'd better listen to director Ronald and relax first, haha..." Melanie Griffith looked at Kevin Wade, her chin was not wide enough...not masculine enough, It doesn't give myself a sense of security, and it doesn't have the natural charm that makes people's hearts beat and their legs tighten.

While thinking about it, Melanie Griffiths took out a small notebook from her bag and called the Wall Street investment manager, Liam Dalton, the manager who gave her M\u0026A course. His chin is also very wide!

"Liam, as for the legal provisions on mergers and acquisitions you mentioned last time, why does foreign capital's acquisition of media in America require congressional approval?... Well, I still don't understand. Can you come over and explain it to me tonight?"

"She's not your type...Kevin, or not yet." Ronald slapped screenwriter Kevin Wade on the back, "Focus on the script and change it to suit Harrison Ford. , you will soon have other stars asking you to tailor scripts for them..."