Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ronald's phone was busy again, whether it was in the office, in the apartment he was living in, or through an agent.

The earlier calls were mainly to get to know their agents, who were the most well-informed people. Now, some unknown agents, various past partners, celebrity parents, and some impatient actresses are calling themselves.

For Kelly Preston, whom Ronald had previously auditioned for on other crews, her agent approached Nisita to test out the possibility of a "solo audition" for a promised role.

The photographer who had taken her around for auditions had been fired by her and replaced with a more aggressive agent.

Ronald firmly remembered his own mistakes, and Julia Taylor's teaching, when there is no complete control of the crew, not to have entanglements with the actresses who are competing for the heroine, so that Nisita rejected the agent's "kindness" and directly Put her in the first round of auditions.

Elizabeth Sue, who filmed a chewing gum commercial for Ronald, also found her phone and asked for news. Su's birthday is October, and she will be 18 when the shooting starts, so there is no problem with the shooting.

But her parents knew about it, and they both called to ask Ronald not to admit her. Because Elizabeth Shue was admitted to Wesleyan Women's College, the shooting time happened to be the second month of school.

If you don't want to be a full-time actor, it's really not appropriate to take a break from school to participate in acting in the first year. If you take this summer vacation, or take time off to film during the third or fourth grade, it will be better.

Gerald Slater, vice president of PBS, put the call directly to CAA's Nisita. After a little understanding, he decided to give up this opportunity for his daughter Helen.

Helen's birthday is in December, so she will encounter a lot of work time constraints when filming in a small production crew. However, Ronald privately believes that the real reason for Gerrard's refusal may be that both heroines have frontal nudity shots.

At night, Ronald typed on the Commod computer at home:

"Using a nuclear explosion as a time machine that can travel back to the past has a grand setting, but it is very difficult to realize on the screen. It is recommended to use a nearby machine, using electricity, which can significantly reduce the shooting budget."

Ronald auditioned during the day and evaluated the script for Spielberg at night. Commod computer is not bad to use, this kind of machine with the name of the computer, many children buy it home and use it as a game console.

There is a card slot on the right side of the keyboard, which can be inserted into various game cartridges and connected to the handle to play games. In this way, parents will not be disliked by parents like buying an Atari game console, and you can also learn to use a computer and use BASIC programming as an excuse.

However, Ronald's computer was not plugged into the game, only a CP/M operating system card was plugged in, and the WordStar software was plugged into the floppy drive for writing.

WordStar is more convenient than the Wang word processing computer produced by Wang An Company in Universal Office. There are two advantages. First, what you see is what you get. What you see on the screen is what the printer will print out at the end.

Second, he has various shortcut keys, you can define a piece of text, select it and copy it, or move it to other places, which is very convenient. As long as Ctrl+C, hey, no, this shortcut key is useless.

The copy is Ctrl+K+C, Ctrl+K+V, Ronald took out the manual and checked it again. Wait a minute, what's the shortcut key for moving? Ronald simply took out a classification card and copied all the frequently used shortcut keys on the card.

Save is Ctrl+K+S... Ronald copied the card,

Stick it next to the monitor with clear tape.

"Ring, bell, bell..."

"Hello, I'm Ronald."

"Ronnie, I'm Demi, I heard that you are now the director of Universal's new film."

"Ah? Demi, I'm casting right now, does your husband agree to you in the movie?" Ronald heard what seemed to be other men talking on the phone.

"Demi, who are you calling?" Freddie's voice came from the receiver.

"It's Ronald, who took the audition for me, and is now the director of the film."

"Ronald, I'm Freddie, Demi wants to be in a movie, right? Is there a nudity scene?"

"What are you doing, Freddie, give me the receiver..."

"Let's discuss it first, this scene has frontal nudity."

With a snap, the phone was hung up.

Ronald was startled by the sound, and accidentally pressed his hand on the DEL key, deleting the large block of text he had just selected.

Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Z, why is it useless? Ah... Ronald is going crazy. Open the manual, how come there is no shortcut key to cancel the operation?

"Using a nuclear explosion as a time machine that can travel back to the past..." Ronald, who wanted to cry without tears, had to hit again... Ctrl+K+S to save a disk first.

The next day, Ronald came back to audition. Hecklin must have also received a lot of calls, but she is a woman, and the real relationship should still be behind.

Today's actresses are lackluster, there are many beautiful and photogenic, but they lack basic acting skills and expressive skills.

The acting industry is inherently unfair to women, and Cary Grant, Roger Moore, in their 60s can still flirt with young women on screen. But few actresses over the age of 30 still act in love scenes with younger men. Jane Fonda can only play middle-aged love.

A large number of young and beautiful young women are competing for roles that are not many, resulting in a lot of low-level actresses in auditions.

Fortunately, "fast pace" has a large demand for female group performances. Many scenes require girls to be the background. Ronald sent notices to many actresses who were on camera. If they want, they can come to do group performances. .

Several days passed, and finally it was time for more powerful actors to participate in the second round of auditions. Ronald's relationship, Sean Penn, also auditioned.

This round of actors not only introduced themselves, but also read some script fragments, so that directors and producers can make better choices.

"Another six-month installment, this beautiful blue four-door limousine, is mine..."

Sean Penn held a page and read this Brad Hamilton line.

Ronald frowned slightly, this line was a bit stunned to read by Sean Penn.

Brad is a hard-working, disciplined, 12-year-old student who only has a bright eye when it comes to the car he's bought.

Sean Penn's reading underscores that complacent mood, but it's a bit wild. It seems that he is a person who is usually flamboyant, and does not fit the role of Brad.

"Can you take back a little smugness, and do it again? Sean." Ronald asked

"Of course." Sean Pan adjusted his body posture and came again.

Ronald frowned again, then released it quickly. As a director, it is best not to show his expression. He looked at Hecklen, wanting to hear what she had to say.

Heckling placed her hand flat under the table and shook him twice, indicating that it wasn't quite right.

Ronald had no choice. This kind of audition video had to be sent to the two producers at Universal to see it. It was hard to convince them.

However, this performance of Sean Penn is a bit like another character, the dazed Italian-American student Spiccoli...

"Ronald." Cameron Crowe, who had not spoken much because of his inexperience, said, "I think he is more like Spiccoli."

"I think so too," Heckling added. "If he wears a wig, he's more like a skater. Can he read Spiccoli's lines?"

Ronald told Sean Penn about the trio's ideas, hoping that he would try another role.

Sean Penn took Spiccoli's line, mulled it over for a while, and began to read it.

"Sorry, I'm late, I'm confused about this new version of the timetable."

"So, Mr. Spiccoli?" Casting director Don, acted as his opponent.

"Hey, man. What's wrong with you, why did you tear up your student card?"

"you are late."

"You Dick!" Sean Pan cursed in a very aggressive tone.

"Okay, that's it." Ronald stopped the audition. "We'll contact your agent with further news."

Sean Penn walked out of the room.

Heckling said, "This guy is a good fit for Spiccoli, and if Brad he plays B, he can get A+ for Spiccoli."

Ronald looked at Cameron Crowe.

"This guy is really similar to the original character in my book, Li Spicoli, and I can't see any traces of acting. If he hadn't just read Brad's lines, I would have thought he was such a person in his life. "

"We'll keep both of his auditions, and then we'll have a meeting with the producer to decide." Ronald set his tone, "Next."

Cameron Crowe didn't understand what he meant, or he understood, but he was reluctant to give up letting Sean Penn play Spiccoli. Such a role with a strong sense of reality will add a lot to the electricity.

But in this case, Ronald will have one less card in his hand, and among those who compete for Brad's role, "Ronald's man" will be one less.

Met a few more male actors, the next one was a competitive one called Judge Reinhold.

"Hello, Judge," Hecklen said.

"Good morning."

Is this Judge from Hecklen?

"Please read this line into the camera," Ronald said.

"Another six-month installment, this beautiful blue four-door limousine, is mine..."

"Huh?" I don't know if it's because Judge Reinhold himself has a similar temperament to Brad, or because of his excellent acting skills. In short, he read it very well. The momentum show came.

"Best Brad so far," Hecklin said after the cast left, then looked at Ronald.

"It's really good, but I'm a little older. I'm 24 this year, not like a high school student." Cameron Crowe delivered an assist at the right time.

"Let's see if there are more suitable ones in the future," Ronald said.

This Judge Reinhold is actually more suitable for the role of Brad if it is not "Hecklin's person".

But Crow is right, age does matter. Although youth films often play big and small, it would be inappropriate if Stacey's actor looked too different in age from him.

"Next"

In the afternoon, another of Ronald's affiliates came.

"My name is Nicholas Coppola."

"Is that the Coppola we know?" Heckling asked in surprise.

"If you refer to the director Francis Coppola, he is my uncle." Nicholas was a little impatient, "but my acting has nothing to do with him..."

"Of course, you read us Brad's line." Ronald handed over the script.

Nicholas Coppola looked at the lines carefully, then closed his eyes. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes, and without the script, he acted Brad to show off to his classmates.

"Another six-month installment, this beautiful blue four-door limousine, is mine..."

"What do you think?" Ronald asked the three for feedback after he went out.

"Acting skills are very good. To be honest, when I was undercover in high school, Brad's prototype speech was like that. He was smug, and he was afraid that others would know that he was smug." Crow replied.

"He is just 18 years old this year, which is close to the age of the character." Casting director Tang added the background information of the actor.

"Coppola's nephew... The acting is good. But it's a bit dark." Hecklin picked up a little fault.

"Let's put him in the candidates too.

Ronald was certain that this role was still in his own hands.

Jump out the audition video of several candidates, transcribe it to the video tape, hand it over to the producer, wait for a later meeting to make a decision, Nicholas said his last name in the audition video, so that the producer will always sell a few copies face.

Next, I interviewed a few nerdy students, Mark, nicknamed "Rat," and actors who were his friend, the scalper Mike, and picked out a few candidates.

"Next is the female role." Hecklin looked at the audition list in her hand, "There are a lot of famous actors here today."

"Yeah, a lot of acquaintances." Ronald was also looking at the list.

Except for Kelly Preston, who passed the first round of auditions. And Melanie Griffiths, who previously auditioned for "Endless Love," Ronald remembers as the daughter of Hitchcock girl Tippy Hedren.

In addition, Tatum O'Neal, who has won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, has not had a good star luck recently. Because she can't play a child actress anymore, she hopes to transform in a youth film, so she has participated in many youth film auditions.

Finally, there's Princess Leia from Star Wars, Kelly Fisher. Apart from being a little older, her acting skills are not bad.

"Let's get started," Ronald ordered his assistant.

The assistant opened the door and was about to call someone in.

Ronald, Crow, Hecklin and the others who were sitting inside heard a sudden quarrel outside.

"You Bichi..."

"Fxckyou! What kind of saint do you think you are? Bitchi..."

Ronald and everyone looked at each other.