Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"This time, you have to sit in the same position and make the same body posture as last time, because this is related to the visual effects of the ghost's upper body. Ubi, don't make any improvisations... Our technology can't support yours yet. Improvisation…”

"Okay, okay, how did I sit when I ended the last article? Like this, or like this?" Whoopi Goldberg wore a golden gaudy costume and sat on a room with antique furniture. room where the main scenes of her second act are performed.

After contacting Sam, he was so noisy by him singing a very unpleasant "Henry VIII" that he had no choice but to go to see Molly. The psychic Odme suddenly really gained the psychic ability inherited from her family. Now her small room is filled with clients who come to see her as a psychic, and a room full of ghosts waiting to communicate with their families.

In the next scene, a black ghost named Orlando wants to communicate with his living wife, and his wife just wants to ask where the deceased wife's life insurance policy is. Next to her is an estate lawyer who she hooked up with.

"Okay, let's start...!"

After Van Fleet carefully measured the position of Whoopi Goldberg's hands and feet, Ronald began shooting the visual effects.

The lens was very carefully restored to its original position, and the camera operator from Industrial Light and Magic repeated the movement of the lens from the last shot on a special track machine.

Only with two identical shooting scenes and the same camera movement can the shots taken several times be repeatedly exposed to one sample using Industrial Light \u0026 Magic's film printing machine.

"Cut!" Ronald looked at Odmei rolling her eyes as if she had fallen asleep. His acting skills were very good.

"Substitute, everything must remain unchanged..."

Ronald gave the order, and the first assistant director began to loudly urge everyone to restore everything quickly. The black man who played Orlando jumped towards the chair where Whoopi Goldberg was sitting just now, and then sat firmly in her position, making a similar posture to Odme's just now.

"Cut!"

Ronald waved, and everyone was busy again, returning to their original state again.

"Otisa, is that you? Where are you, I can't see..."

Whoopi Goldberg's acting skills are excellent, and his accent can be easily transformed into the characteristics of a middle-aged black man. His movements and expressions make him look like he is really the actor who plays Orlando.

"Orlando? Is that you?" The actor who played his wife had short red hair and became excited.

"Yes, yes, this is Otisa, she is here." The estate lawyer who came with her wife next to her became excited. They came to the psychic to ask what happened to the life insurance policy Orlando bought, which was a lot of money.

Whoopi Goldberg's facial muscles changed rapidly, and his eyes widened.

Ronald beside him couldn't help but marvel. With such a close-up of her face, although everyone could tell that she was a woman, the expression on her face really looked like a man's.

Maybe this scene will get her nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress... Ronald was thinking behind the camera that the supporting actors in the movies he directed were all very outstanding, and four or five of them were nominated.

Whoopi Goldberg was now Ghost Orlando. Her eyes widened and she suddenly seemed to see the other person's face clearly. She was shocked and asked, "Otisa, what did you do to your hair?"

"Ah, Orlando, do you like it? I specially asked a hairstylist to cut it. It's called the Autumn Dawn Hairstyle..."

"Cut!"

After Ronald stopped, Demi Moore, who was watching their filming next to her, couldn't hold it in anymore, "Hahahaha, you did it on purpose, Ronald."

"What's the purpose? I don't understand what you're talking about?" Ronald deliberately suppressed his laughter.

"Hahahaha..." Patrick Schwytz, who knew the inside story, also burst out laughing. This was a reappearance of Ronald's surprised look when he saw Demi Moore cut off her long hair privately before filming started. .

"Pfft, hahaha, I can't do it anymore..." Demi Moore also burst into laughter, squatting on the ground and rubbing her belly constantly. "

Shooting requires some small adjustments, especially ghost films and romance films, which require repeated shooting of one shot for a long time, and accurate emotional outbursts in high-pressure environments. The accumulated pressure and resentment of everyone are not affected. Small.

Such timely pranks and jokes helped relieve everyone's stress.

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After that, everyone got used to the visual effects shooting process, which was nothing more than shooting a scene twice. After shooting the scene where the ghost takes possession of Odme, we shot the scene of Whoopi Goldberg stretching in pain while sitting in a chair, and the scene of the actor in Orlando jumping up from the chair and rolling out.

Later, in the special effects workshop, using the advanced computer PhotoShop, the mask function was used to overlap the two parts of the image, and with the outline light, the special effects of the ghost getting on the body and being bounced away from the psychic medium Odmee were achieved.

After adapting to these novel special effects shooting, the shooting progress became very fast again. Ronald could get home from get off work on time every day and have dinner with Diane.

After four weeks, the scenes at Paramount Studios were completed very well. The entire crew moved to New York and began filming indoor scenes with street scenes and several outdoor scenes.

In general, mainly a few games. One is the scene where Sam and Molly move into the apartment and hang a sculpture from the window, allowing the audience to understand the character traits of Sam, Molly, and the villain Carl.

Second, Sam and Molly went to see a play on Broadway. On their way home, the two were grappling with major issues in their intimate relationship. When Sam didn't say I love you, and Molly felt insecure, a robber came over. Rob them, and in order to protect Molly, Sam is stabbed to death.

Third, after Sam turned into a ghost, Molly did not believe that what he had heard from the psychic Odmee was true. One day by chance, I saw a ghost on the subway who could move beer, so I pestered him to teach me how to do it. In the end, the unpleasant "Henry VIII" episode was used again to coerce Odmee to find Molly again, and moved the lucky coin with her mind in front of Molly's eyes, making Molly believe that her ghost still had something to say to her.

"Have a nice weekend, Ronald."

"Have a nice weekend, see you in New York on Monday..."

Several stars went home for the weekend. Ronald said goodbye to Diane in a hurry and flew directly to New York on the evening flight. He still had a lot of preparation work to do. He first had to make sure that the location in New York met the requirements.

"Oh, is this a one-to-one replica of the home of the installation artist Michel Oka Donner?" A beautiful blonde and blue-eyed woman asked, holding Ronald's arm.

"Yes, exactly the same..."

Ronald took out a lot of photos and slowly inspected the set accompanied by art director Polly Platt and art director Jane Muskie who came in advance. Sure enough, with the hard work of a top Hollywood professional team, all the sets and studio interior decorations were exactly the same.

Outside is the lower Manhattan neighborhood near Broadway, and not far away is the scene of the outdoor dance scene in "Famous", the first New York movie that Ronald participated in.

"As long as you pass the inspection, I have to go back to spend time with my children. Jane is also going to meet her husband Tony..." Polly said nothing to Ronald. After she and Ronald explained the matter, she took Ronald Nader reached the corner of the room.

"Don't make Diane sad..."

Polly Platt knew that the person who was accompanying Ronald now was his female companion Helen Slater in New York. Because she was abandoned by the famous director Bogdanovich, she was very sensitive to this kind of thing. , not like a Hollywood person.

"Hey... I won't..." Ronald knew that this matter could not be completely in line with the world's perspective.

"Don't make Helen sad either...don't let them be like me..." Polly Platt gave Ronald a look of pride, then said goodbye to him and left.

Previously, because of her husband Bogdanovich's transference, she fell in love with Sybil Shepard, the all-round Hollywood heroine. Polly Platt once had a stressful day when she couldn't find a job and raised her daughter alone. When she was crying at home, it was Roger Coleman who reached out to help her and gave her a position to get through the difficulty.

She has always admired Ronald, the spiritual successor of Roger Corman, and she will definitely not be as indifferent to the women around her as Bogdanovich.

"What are you and Polly talking about?" Helen came over and took Ronald's arm again. The two hadn't seen each other for a while. In the first few days of getting together, they seemed to stick together like honey mixed with oil.

"She said she wanted me to spend more time with you..." Ronald said with a smile.

Helen Slater and Patrick Dempsey co-star in the college comedy comedy Nora Ephron's directorial debut, which has been filmed. Efron even called him specifically to ask him to come over to watch the samples and give him some tips on editing techniques.

Ronald refused them all. He didn't want to see Helen acting as a couple with other handsome guys on the screen... no matter it was a project he invested in...

"Where are we going at night?" Helen didn't care about this, she just wanted to be with her lover. Anyway, it was unpleasant for the two of them to discuss acting skills, so no one mentioned those performances at all.

“Who are you going to vote for in this year’s mayoral election?”

"Does this matter?" Helen was surprised, "I don't want to vote for anyone."

"It's okay if you're not a die-hard Dinkins fan. We're having dinner with another candidate Rudy tonight. I'm going to ask him to help me shoot some exterior scenes in the subway for my movie."

"Huh? What's for dinner?"

"Japanese cuisine, recommended by Oga-san from Sony."

"That's more like it. I forgive you for being with the leader of the Xiang Party. You know my mother is a die-hard Donkey Party..."

…

"Mr. Rudy, thank you for taking the time to meet with me during your busy campaign..." Ronald and Helen greeted Rudy at the steps of the luxurious Japanese restaurant.

"Hello, Ronald, this is our honor. People in our discipline department all like your movies, unlike those who make movies that are incomprehensible. This movie is very related to the security of New York. , of course we want to support it.”

Rudy and Ronald shook hands vigorously, and they took off their shoes together and entered the tatami-covered room.

"I hope you won't be biased against me, Miss Helen Slater." After greeting Helen, Rudy took the initiative to mention his campaign affairs.

"You know, I did not run in the name of the Elephant Party, but I am more consistent with some of the Elephant Party's political views than the Donkey Party, such as ensuring the safety of Manhattan. This year, with our strong crackdown, the crime rate finally dropped. If people with policies like Dinkins come into power, I'm afraid we're going to see a repeat of the Central Park runner case."

This brings us to what Helen is most concerned about. Although he agrees with the Donkey Party on other matters, the law and order in Manhattan has recently deteriorated to the point that even the wealthy areas have begun to panic.

Although the verdict of the Central Park Five case has been announced, the mayoral candidate of the Donkey Party is making a big fuss about it, claiming that it is a conspiracy against black and Latino people of color.

It's not wrong to say that what he said was completely unreasonable. The five people who committed violent attacks in Central Park were all black and Latino. But the solution to the problem is obviously not to bring in more black people near Central Park in Manhattan, right?

Dinkins’ so-called kaleidoscope policy is to introduce many public housing projects in Manhattan, where property taxes are expensive, to allow the cultures of various ethnic groups to blend with each other. He believes that this is the best way to achieve racial reconciliation and public security issues. .

Everything else was bearable, but Helen and Ronald experienced being violently attacked in Central Park. The black kid almost stabbed his lover.

We can support anything, but this is absolutely not acceptable. Helen and Rudy chatted about politics for a while. Not to mention, his concept of governing Hollywood with strict laws and protecting the poor and middle class from being exploited by rogue tycoons on Wall Street is still in line with the values ​​of a traditional donkey party.

"Mr. Rudy, you convinced me, I think you won my vote. It makes sense that you don't run as an Elephant Party. Although I really like your strategy of improving public security, pursuing fairness, and severely punishing bugs, but if Asking me to put a check mark on the ballot for someone whose name is followed by the letter R (Elephant Party) is still a bit of a mental disorder."

"You're absolutely right, Miss Slater. My campaign consultant told me so."

Rudy was very patient with Helen and had many political conversations with her.

Of course, this was all for Ronald's sake, otherwise he would have no interest in talking so much to a second-rate Hollywood actor.

The plot of Ronald's movie fits Rudy's campaign philosophy very well. Due to the poor security in the city, street robberies can occur even near the iconic Broadway, and the actor is stabbed to death in the end.

The NYPD is dedicated to its duties, but because there are too many vicious cases, they do not have the resources to investigate and solve them.

In the end, the bad guys were punished. Karl, who had done bad things, exploited legal loopholes in Wall Street banks, and laundered money, was also asked to transfer the stolen money to the nuns in the church and donated it to women and children in disadvantaged groups.

These plots are very consistent with Rudy's campaign demands, safety, fairness, a golden age of New York!

Ronald's film shoot was a perfect match as a campaign assistant. Just send a few news that Ronald's new film was shot with the cooperation of the NYPD, and then send a few more news to talk about the plot of the movie.

To be honest, who is a female fan of Patrick Schwytz who wants to see her idol die? What male fan of Demi Moore wouldn't be heartbroken to see the unconscionable banker Carl trying to steal her away?

A film shoot with its own media coverage theme can easily generate topics that are beneficial to your election campaign. Let’s see how Dinkins can cope with it then.

Because of this busy schedule, the donation from Ronald's friend Douglas Jr., and their influence on Staten Island, Rudy readily agreed to all of Ronald's filming requests.

The NYPD specially isolated a block near Broadway for him to film the scene of Sam's assassination, and sent real NYPD officers to participate in the filming to maintain order.

He also proposed to lend Ronald the NYPD's Manhattan South District office to allow him to film on location.

He also handled the filming application in the subway. After the Manhattan Line Festival ends, the platform can be lent to them for a night to shoot.

…

"I didn't expect the Xiang Party people were not so unreasonable. I thought they were all like those evangelicals..."

Helen passed the dinner and was very impressed with Rudy who paid Ronald. This man was a top student and had also served as deputy attorney general. He was different from the Elephant Party politicians in her impression who watched evangelical TV stations every day.

Even though New York is the center of the universe, there are many evangelical pastors and Elephant Party politicians who are opposed to the theory of evolution entering schools, and there are many who demand that creationism be taught in the same way. Helen, a child who grew up in a liberal family, couldn't stand it.

Turn on the TV, and there are many missionary TV stations located in black areas such as the Bronx and Brooklyn, all of which require public high schools to teach creationism.

"It's so scary..." Helen tuned into a well-known evangelical TV station, "Trinity Television Network (TBN)", where the pastor Paul Crouch preached creationism.

"Fortunately, our children will not go to this kind of high school." Ronald thought to himself that his children would definitely go to a private high school.

"Our child? Hehe, it will take a while, I am at the peak of my career now..." Helen thought Ronald was specifically referring to "our child".

"Okay, I'll get the security measures..."

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