Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The plane landed in Tel Aviv, Israel's second largest city. Minahan was very anxious, and the man he sent picked up Ronald, pulled him into a jeep, and drove south to the Negev desert.

This desert occupies nearly half of Israel's land and is usually very hot, only slightly better in winter. The crew of "Sahara" filmed the scenes of the Sahara Desert here.

The car drove to the hotel in Beersheba, a city in the northern desert. Ronald jumped out of the car and saw Minahan waiting for him at the entrance of the hotel from a distance.

"You're here at last, Ronald, and if you don't come, I'll have to deal with this nasty bitch with extreme measures."

"Who?"

"Borgy's mother Terry."

The two chatted while walking. It turned out that the plot of "Sahara" was about Dale, played by Brooke Shields, who disguised herself as a man to replace her father who died unexpectedly and participated in the Paris-Dakar Rally. .

But Brooke Shields' mother, Terry, always believed that Brooke should not wear a fake beard and pretend to be a man. This is a big damage to her screen image.

She also had other bizarre disputes with the original director, and finally had to bring Minahan to deal with the conflict.

In order to keep Brooke Shields, Minahan had to fire the director and acted as the director himself. But the issue of the beard finally provokes Terry, who is determined not to allow Minahan to take a close-up of Brooke with a beard.

The shooting has been in a stalemate for a long time, and there are many scenes that have not been able to be shot.

"Why do you want to listen to Terry?" Ronald was puzzled. This kind of makeup controversy can usually be resolved by coaxing and deceiving during the filming period, so as not to cause such a confrontation.

"fuxk, in order to sign with Brooke, I agreed to Terry as a producer, gave her tens of thousands of dollars in compensation, and gave her the right to decide to shoot on her daughter's camera."

"fuxk"

Ronald also scolded, Minahan, a layman, dared to sign such terms, it seems that he did anything to get Brooke Shields to play.

"I can only try, I can't guarantee anything."

Ronald walked into the hotel, went through the check-in formalities first, and didn't leave his luggage.

He was urged by Minahan to knock on the door of the mother and daughter Brooke.

"Ronald, come in." Terry was rarely drunk. Seeing Ronald, he immediately pulled him into the door, then looked left and right, and closed it carefully.

"I have to be careful, the previous director was very rascal, and wanted to let Brooke shoot the scene with the beard without my consent. Wouldn't this end my daughter's acting life?"

"Ah? Why?" Ronald opened his mouth wide, unable to understand for a moment.

"Don't you understand? Ronald. This is asking my daughter to play a man. How can she play a girl after this word? You are also a director. You must support me less on this matter."

"Hey..." Ronald looked at Brooke and wanted to ask her what she thought.

But when he turned his head, he saw Brooke looking distressed, frowning tightly, and the corners of his mouth curved down, as if he was about to cry.

"Terry, I just arrived in Israel, and I still need to get into the jet lag. In this way, I'll take a look at the script first, and then communicate with Minahan." After speaking, Ronald gave Brooke a wink and wrote on the outside of the room card The room number paper was deliberately leaked on the sofa, and then he left the room.

Ten minutes later, Brooke went to Ronald's room and knocked on the door, where Ronald and Minahan were chatting about the beard.

"Borgy, your mother seems a little excited to me? What's going on?"

Brooke first hugged Ronald, then looked at Minahan, as if a little embarrassed.

"My mother is a little obsessed. I don't know who told her that if the image of an actress is stereotyped, the audience will not be able to jump out of this image. So she is very opposed to me wearing a fake beard."

"If I'm not mistaken, you're playing a girl disguised as a man in the movie, right? Just like Mulan?"

"Flower who?"

"Don't worry about the details, I mean, when the audience sees you dressed as a boy, they actually know you're a girl. In the movie, women are dressed as men, right?"

"Yeah, that's it, the audience won't treat you as a boy, they'll just think you're a girl, play the boy, and bang! Everyone still can't find out that you're a girl, isn't this a good show of acting? "Meinahan desperately tried to convince Brooke.

"Ah? What do you mean?" Brooke didn't understand and looked at Ronald.

"I can't tell right away, how did your mother let you out alone?"

"Oh, I said I'm going to buy some Coke, the desert climate is so dry, the hotel room has run out of it."

"Okay," Ronald took out two bottles of Coke from the small refrigerator in his room and handed them to Brooke. Meenahan and I went to see you and your mother tonight to see if we could explain the truth.

"Oh, you always have a way. Then I'll go first, Ronald." Brooke Shields walked out with two bottles of Coke in her hands.

"Ronald, you already have a solution, don't you? Haha, I didn't think wrong, you can solve this problem when you come. Tell me first, how are you going to convince her? Talking about this is going to be a fight with Terry."

Minahan said, looking at Ronald with bright eyes, hoping that he could tell the secret.

"It's a question of trust, Minahan. You can see what I say tonight, I'm going to rest, and I've been flying for two long distances. I'm exhausted." Gu Lan

"Don't, don't, tell me first..."

"Are you trying to convince Terry to let Brooke play the boy? Think? Then now, you fuck me out." Ronald shoved Minahan away, feeling like taking a shower and sleeping.

When you are in jet lag, you need to stop dozing off like this, and sleep when you really want to sleep. This way, when you wake up, you can overcome most of the jet lag.

Ronald fell on the bed, picked up the "Sahara" script and read it.

Brooke plays Dale, the father of a race car driver and automaker owner who tragically dies while testing a race car after inventing his own. In order to keep the company, Dale disguises herself as a man and participates in a rally.

After she crossed the starting line, she took off her wig and beard to reveal her real gender to the rest of the race.

"Well, there's nothing wrong with this. Anyway, I wear it for a while and then take it off."

Ronald fell asleep.

When he woke up, it was already evening. After Ronald had slept enough, he went out to find Menahan to convince Terry together.

"Terry, look at this script. Before Brooke played Dale, did she appear as a girl and was known to the audience?"

Ronald turned to the first few pages to show Terry and Brooke.

"Yes, that's the case." Bo Ji helped.

"And then when Dell's father died and the company was facing bankruptcy, she pretended to be a man and secretly glued a fake beard to save the company?"

Terry nodded.

"In this case, what the audience sees is actually a girl, dressed as a man in the movie, and no one can recognize her identity. In this case, the audience will not misunderstand that Brooke is a man, but will see her as a man. Zuo's acting skills are superb, and other people in the movie can't recognize it.

Didn't Bo Ji want to transform into an actress with acting skills? That's a good start. And Brooke is going to go to Princeton soon. Before suspending her acting career, it's good to give her a good impression of her acting skills.

Besides, you see, this scene is actually very short, and the audience will remember those scenes of him as a woman more clearly. "

"So audiences won't remember her playing a man because of her makeup?"

Ronald looked at Minahan, meaning it was time for you, the director, to give a guarantee.

"Of course, Terry. I promise, Brooke will be very handsome even in men's clothing, and the audience will only remember her as a beauty in men's clothing."

Terry and his daughter have been in Israel for a long time, and they experienced a quarrel with the original director and changed directors. The two lonely mothers and daughters in the desert in a foreign country have become a little nervous.

Coupled with Meinahan's rushing character, it inevitably resulted in the loss of mutual trust. In this way, no matter how much they say, the other party will suspect that the other party is trying to deceive them, deepening their beliefs.

Only Ronald, who had just flown in from the outside world, used to have a basis of trust with Brooke and Terry, so Terry's suspicions were solved in a few words.

We can resume filming tomorrow, Minahan is very happy and takes Ronald to eat and drink.

"I said, did you make an exploitative film starring Faye Dunaway?" Ronald ate a lot of pita bread, a specialty of Israel. Remembering Donnaway who scolded Minahan in London, he asked the client. .

"Yeah, it's filmed. Faye Dunaway had a problem with the shutdown last June, here..." Minahan pointed to his head, "She's sucking too much."

"When I went to London, she scolded you in front of me, saying that you added a lot of erotic scenes to the movie, and she was very dissatisfied."

Minahan spread his hands, "You are also a film director, how can you sell this kind of production without adding some good looks? Faye Dunaway is a choice for financing. We took a fancy to her previous resume, and I didn't let her off... …”

"Okay, don't talk about it, that's it." Ronald probably knew about Meinahan's ways. He used stars to attract investment, and then let the supporting characters undress. With Meinahan's directorial style, he didn't want to know more. details.

After dinner, Ronald picked up the script of "Sahara" and read it again, but the Sandman quickly attacked and he fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Ronald came to the Negev desert to watch Minahan director Brooke filming. The temperature is lower when shooting earlier, and the actors and crew can be more comfortable.

It was Ronald's first time in the desert.

People who go to the desert for the first time will be surprised by the quietness of the desert. No plants, no animals, and if you take a professional recording microphone, you won't hear the slightest bit of background noise.

This kind of silence makes people feel a little strange, as if some monster jumped out of the background.

Ronald shook his head, pushing the strange thought out of his mind.

He saw the props team push over a racing car modified from an old car. Brooke Xiaosi dressed up as a man, got in the car, and was ready to start shooting.

"Wait a minute!" Ronald looked at the distance that Minahan let the camera put a panoramic view, and he was about to issue a password to start shooting, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop it.

"You don't need a stand-in for this racing scene? How can you let Bo Ji take it herself?"

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