Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Exploiting Hollywood 1980 ()"!

"You didn't get picked, and Coppola gave the apprenticeship that the Directors Guild paid for to a relative at the top of Warner Bros. You have to understand him, Ronald. Coppola's financial situation isn't great right now. The movie turned over. It was impossible for him to refuse a request from the top Warners."

Ronald heard the bad news from his agent Nisita the next day, and he had to settle for the next best thing:

"Okay, I understand. Rick, can you contact Director Coppola for me, I want to ask him in person about the consistency of the actors' performances, I only delay him for half an hour. I know you help him finalize Coppola would agree to a distribution deal for the new film.

can you do me a favor? when i owe you once? "

"Hahaha", Nisita's serious face suddenly burst into laughter, "Although that position is not given to you, Coppola wants you to help the crew and be his special assistant. Because of financial constraints, he can only give it to you. The minimum wage is paid after the machine is turned on.

So he asked me to ask you, he knew that you had already directed a feature film, and he was afraid that you would not accept this basic salary position. "

Ronald was overjoyed, "It doesn't matter, it's okay if you don't give it, I can post it upside down."

As long as you can see closely how the big director handles the performance consistency problem, you can arrange it any way you want. There is no place to spend money to learn it.

"This is the work place, the studio for the diorama, remember to help Tom Cruise, and the other signed actors of CAA." Nisita handed over a list.

The list of actors that CAA signed up to participate in the audition is listed above, and there are more than a dozen of them. The clients of Nisita and Paula are specially marked with asterisks.

Ronald, who happily accepted the job, came to the "Diorama" company's studio in Los Angeles to report the next day.

"Coppola was very busy today, and he asked me to teach you how to use this new toy, and then start filming the audition."

The speaker is Fred, the casting director who has worked with Coppola for ten years. He was responsible for the casting of the Godfather.

Ronald picked up a camera on the table. It had a black appearance and exquisite metal processing. It had the logo "SONY" of Dongying's manufacturer on it, and the words "BetaCam" below the logo.

"It's made by the same manufacturer as the Walkman." Ronald thought to himself, picking up the machine and carrying it on his shoulders.

"The zoom of the lens is here,

Here is the clip for installing the microphone. After it is installed and next to the lens, the radio effect within five meters is very good. "

"Here's the record button... Hey, have you ever used this little toy?" Fred, the audition director, saw Ronald found the record and stop buttons, and skillfully buckled the viewfinder's hood on his right eye, and couldn't help but feel surprised.

"No, it's my first time, but he has the same button design as the VCR, and it's in the right place." Ronald put the Betacam down over his shoulder.

"There's a tripod underneath, and then you're in charge of auditioning for that position," Fred pointed to a corner of the studio, where there was a small "room" surrounded by wooden boards.

"Here is the video tape. Each disc can record 30 minutes of picture and sound. When it is about to end, there will be a red light warning, you remember to replace it. This is the audition log, you remember to write down the name of each audition actor and other information .

Then ask them to give their name, age, height, and which side of their face is more photogenic when they audition. Then you ask them some character related questions, here is the list of questions. By the way, actresses are not allowed to wear makeup. "

"I understand."

Ronald turned on the Betacam, sat across from the camera, and began, "My name is Ronald Lee, I'm twenty-two, six-foot-two, and I don't know that half of my face is more photogenic."

The audition director Fred pressed the stop button, then connected the camera to the TV, "My name is Ronald Lee..." Just now Ronald shot his own picture and it was shown on the TV.

"Camcorder?" This Betacam can not only shoot, but can also be connected to a TV. It's a really good toy, but it's a bit too big to take out to play with. Although he is much smaller than today's general purpose cameras.

"How much does this thing cost?"

"It has not been officially listed yet. This is a sample sent to Coppola by Sony Corporation of Dongying."

Ronald set up his tripod and cameras in his makeshift audition room surrounded by wooden boards. Then lay the audition log flat on the table with a list of questions and ask Fred, "How many actors are auditioning today?"

"All America's actors under thirty-five are here."

It seems that the appeal of director Coppola is still very strong, although there is only a budget of less than 10 million, the scale of actors who come to audition is similar to that of Leon's 30 million-dollar blockbuster.

Sony's BetaCam is still a little faulty. Its three color channels are not quite equal, and the shot shot is a little green, which is a little different from the color in the real world, with some sci-fi feeling.

"Please tell me your name, age, height." Ronald turned on the video button and asked the first actress to audition to introduce herself.

"Kate Capshaw, I'm five-foot-seven, a little more." The actress raised her hand in a "little" gesture.

Capshaw has curly blond hair and looks like she is close to thirty years old. She is trying to use playful movements to make herself look younger. Looking at Ronald's smile, knowing that her little trick has been seen through, she is embarrassed. laughed.

"What is the age range for the roles you think you can play?" Ronald knew that she deliberately didn't talk about age, but he had to ask himself clearly, so he used a less hurtful method.

"Ah, that's a very good question." Capshaw bowed his head sadly. He was over twenty-eight years old and had not yet had the chance to make a famous movie.

The heroine of this "Ultimate Boy" is only sixteen years old, and the agent is still urging him to try it again and again, "What if Coppola likes the way you look?" This is the agent's original words.

She sorted out her emotions, then looked up at Ronald behind the camera and said, "I think twenty...", she looked at Ronald's eyes and adjusted her answer, "Twenty one... ..., twenty-one to... thirty? What do you think?"

Ronald felt that the actress was about to cry, "You answered very well. When Director Coppola has seen everyone's audition, he will let you know."

"Next person……"

The actresses shot the audition video, as the audition director said, all Hollywood and Broadway, actors under the age of 35 came. Ronald and another audition assistant were in charge of a video recorder that filmed actresses' auditions.

At the other end of the studio were two video cameras filming the actor's audition.

"Hi Ronald! What are you doing here?"

Ronald looks up from behind the camera, a long-lost acquaintance, "High School Rock" star PJ Sowers.

"Hi, PJ. I'm working as an audition assistant for Director Coppola, are you coming to audition too?"

Ronald couldn't help but sighed at the charm of director Coppola. PJ Sols, who was thirty-two years old, also came to join in the fun as a high school student.

"I'll give it a try. In fact, I'm here with Dennis." Sauls' husband, Dennis Quaid, is twenty-eight this year, but he looks young, and the eldest brother who plays the protagonist Ma Zai may have a play.

"Okay, you introduce yourself to the camera." Ronald wrote PJ Sols' name on the audition log, and asked another audition assistant to operate the camera.

"Out of tape," Ronald reminded the audition assistant.

"How did you change this?"

Ronald picked up a blank tape and helped him put it on. The two exchanged places again.

"Next person……"

This time, it was a beautiful woman, a well-known youth idol in the country, and the camera assistant froze on the table without saying a word.

"My name is Brooke Shields, I'm sixteen, and I'm six feet tall."

"Hey? Brooke, you're here too." Ronald stuck his head out from behind the camera.

"Huh, Ronald. Is that your director? How did my mom say it was Francis Coppola?"

"I'm just his assistant." Ronald quickly denied, "Let's do it again, you say to the camera."

Ronald rewinds ten seconds and resumes recording.

"My name is Brooke Shields, I'm sixteen, and I'm six feet tall."

"Have you ever had the experience of falling in love with someone?" The audition assistant stuttered and asked the audition question when she saw Brooke Xiaosi a little excited.

"Well, never really fell in love with anyone, if you mean romantic love. But I love my mother, and I love my classmates, and my fans.

You know, I've done 'Endless Love' and 'Blue Reef' and I can play girls in love on screen. "

"Okay, thank you, Brooke. Director Coppola will be watching the auditions together, and your mother, Terry, will be notified."

Ronald shook his head secretly, although he didn't know why Coppola asked this question, but the heroine "Cherry" in the novel is a girl in a relationship, and Brooke's audition did not show a state of love.

Brooke's acting skills were always a problem, although her appearance was perfect for the role, and her fame helped the movie's marketing, simply by dyeing her hair a tinge of reddish blonde.

"You know Brooke Xiaosi? Can you ask me for an autographed photo?" The audition assistant smiled and came up to beg.

"You can ask her yourself, her mother is also there, and she is willing to ordinary fans."

The audition assistant ran out.

"Next person……"

"Please introduce your name, age, and height..." Ronald looked at the screen at the camera and aimed at the chair, then semi-automatically said the opening remarks of each audition.

In the frame of the camera, squeezed into a figure, quite tall, wearing a turtleneck sweater, brown hair a little blond in the camera, shawl loose, and a little disheveled.

"My name is Helen Slater, I'm five-foot-eight, eighteen years old,"

Ronald smiled and asked the audition question, "Have you ever fallen in love with anyone?"

"Yeah, I feel that love is the first feeling, a kind of fire, a kind of lightning..." Helen said to the camera with her big blue eyes.

Ronald felt that Helen seemed to be talking about love in an orthodox Shakespearean accent. Did she study drama in the high school of acting?

"Okay, Director Coppola will have watched the audition video, but I will inform your agent."

"Also, Helen, do you have any plans for noon? Let's go have a cup of coffee?"

"Ronald?" Helen Lu covered her mouth with her hand, showing a surprised smile. Then she stared at Ronald with big eyes and asked, "Are you asking me out?"

"You wait for me to audition and play the last few before noon. Let's go to the cafe next door. Didn't you say you came to Los Angeles to interview for a big project? I thought it was Leon's 'Once Upon a Time in America'."

"I will also go to 'Once Upon a Time in America'. It was recommended by the agent my mother found. This 'The World's Urchin' was recommended by the agent my father found. They are all works of great directors, and they are here today. How many hundreds?"

"There's a lot more tomorrow," Ronald busy recording Helen's audition record.

Helen saw Ronald lowering his head to write the interview log again, changing the videotape, "I'll go out and wait for you first, and come to the door when you're done."

"Okay, just wait for me."

Ronald auditioned for a few more actresses, and by the midday break, Coppola came to see him audition.

"A total of ... actresses were interviewed in the morning, do you want to continue at one o'clock in the afternoon?" Ronald reported the situation.

"Well done, we'll start mixed interviews after the primaries in these two days." Coppola looked at his watch, you go to lunch first, Ronald, we'll start on time in the afternoon.

Ronald hurriedly went out to find Helen. The appointment time was less than an hour, and he was a little nervous. "What do you mean by mixed interviews? Could it be Coppola's secret? His 'Godfather' casting was perfect, and he had to learn from it himself."

Picking up Helen Slater at the entrance of the studio, the two went to a nearby cafe for a light meal.

"Your parents found you an agent?"

"Yeah, my father's agent always restricted me from casting roles. There were some exposed scenes in 'Once Upon a Time in America'. He didn't let me go, saying it was my father's will. But my mother was very open-minded, she recommended Another agent in my office helped me get in touch."

"Isn't your mother a lawyer? How do you know an acting agent?"

"It's interesting to say that the agent was also supportive of environmental protection and anti-war, and participated in activities organized by my mother. He also discovered Christopher Reeve who played Superman..."

"Have you graduated from the performing arts high school in New York?"

"Yeah, I told you that the classmates there liked your script's 'Famous in the World'. Now the TV version has been broadcast on MGM TV in New York, and the role of Leroy in the movie version is still the original version. The actor...but Irene Cara who is playing is no longer..."

"That's Gene Ray, I didn't expect him to go back and play the TV version of the same character..."

Ronald Los Angeles rarely has acquaintances to chat with. He felt that the quality of this light meal was very good, and he seemed to be fully charged.

...

"Bert and his daughter Diane are here," casting director Fred, meanwhile, told Coppola in the diorama studio.

"It's the noon break at this time, and Ronald hasn't come back yet." Coppola looked at his watch. "It's okay, let her audition. I'll operate the camera for her."

"My name is Diane Lane... um, Diane Lane, seventeen years old..." Diane was a little nervous, mispronounced the accent of her name. Coppola is the director of "The Godfather", and his father, Bert, has instilled a lot in him, knowing that this opportunity is rare.

"Have you ever fallen in love with anyone?" casting director Fred asked.

"Did you fall in love with someone else? Yes, in high school." Diane lowered her head a little shyly, then raised her eyes, "Hmmm... The most important thing in falling in love with someone is the first time you feel that way. You know Yes, um..." She laughed nervously.

"It's that he peeks at him when he's not paying attention, and prays that he will look over, look over. But when he does look over, you avoid his eyes. Hehe..."

One of Diane's eyebrows was raised in a look that was a mixture of cuteness and shyness.

Casting director Fred quietly stabbed Coppola, "What do you think?"

"I think Cherry is her."

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