Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ned Tanin sent an assistant to accompany Ronald to Chicago.

The two end up at Glenbrook North High, a defunct public high school where John Hughes' "The Breakfast Club" was filmed.

The number of births in America has continued to decline since Ronald first entered the industry. The interior decoration and facilities of this Glenbrook North High School are still very new, but the lack of students still beats it.

The library, which is about to be demolished, has become the main filming location for John Hughes.

The movie "The Breakfast Club" is very strange, and the story takes place in this library. Five middle school students were locked up for different reasons. On Saturday morning, five people who usually do not communicate with each other were forced to write examinations together.

During this long day, they went from hating each other, to getting to know each other, and finally to close friends and lovers, but maybe after the weekend, they will return to high school social circles and become strangers again.

The John Hughes movie is actually the story of such a day.

"Hi Ronald, welcome."

John Hughes was lying on the ground next to the camera director.

His previous commercial production "Sixteen Candles" was ok at the box office, but this movie was actually what he wanted to make the most, so the level of investment was much deeper than before.

"Hi, John," Ronald stepped forward to greet him. Seeing that he couldn't get up, he simply squatted down and talked to him.

"Are you used to sitting on the floor? Why didn't your assistant prepare a chair for you?" Ronald looked around and didn't see a chair, which was the first Roger Coleman movie secret.

"It's more convenient for me to sit on the floor and watch the actors perform." Hughes didn't care. He didn't have the air of a director at all, and he was like friends with those actors.

"Hi, John."

Hughes' darling and muse, the red-haired Molly Ringwald, plays a wealthy "princess".

Like good friends, they sat on the ground and chatted about pop music.

"After the Beatles went solo, do you think that song is the best?"

"It was undoubtedly John Lennon's 'imagination'"

Then came Anthony Michael Hall, who played a "nerd," who, like Ringwald, was sixteen, the only two of the five actors, who were actually in high school.

This kind of rapid classification of characters in teenage movies by labeling is the first time that it was used in Ronald's "Fast-paced Richmond High School". Because of its good effect, the audience can immediately understand who is who. , so now teen movies are widely used.

"Allie, Emilio," Ronald saw two actors coming from behind, one was Emilio Estevez who played the wrestler, his old acquaintance.

The other is Allie Sheedy. Ronald has a relationship. She is the girlfriend of Eric Stoltz, who was fired from "Back to the Future", and used to eat in Ronald's "Longwei Kid" crew.

Emilio plays the "athlete" and Ellie plays the "neuropathy". One of them is strong and good at sports, and the other is beautiful but has no family warmth. The whole person is autistic and sloppy. In the end, after the role played by Ellie was beautified by the "princess", she amazed everyone and became a couple with the "athlete".

Last in line was Judd Nelson, who played the "criminal," the kind of guy who gets into trouble so often and is seen as a thorn by his teachers.

"Okay, everyone is here, let's start." Director John Hughes saw that the five main actors had arrived and ordered the machine to start.

The scene of this movie is limited. After a few days of shooting, the lighting team only needs to continue the previous plan, and the photographer has no place to be creative. It takes a medium shot of the five people and watches them improvise their lines with each other.

"A!" John Hughes lay down on his side again, watching the five people begin to perform.

Ronald glanced left and right, but couldn't see the chair, so he had to sit down with his legs crossed and watch the camera crew and the recording crew start moving.

"Hey, still inexperienced." Ronald shook his head.

John Hughes had already made his second film, and he still forgot to let the recorder hit the board, and the scene was in vain.

Ronald resisted the desire to speak out. On the set, the director's authority needs to be carefully maintained. Even if he is wrong, he can only discuss it individually later.

Judd Nelson's "criminal" is the most rambunctious, wriggling around in Molly Ringwald's "Princess" and constantly messing with him.

"Stop making trouble." Molly Ringwald turned her head and snarled.

"The reaction is very realistic," Ronald thought. It seems that Hughes still has some ability in directing performances.

He looked at Judd Nelson, an actor who might also be a methodist, and was deeply involved in the play.

"Cut!" John Hughes called off the shoot.

The actors began to discuss from their chairs.

"I think the reaction I just acted was okay."

"The moment you were frightened by Judd, you responded well."

Two sixteen-year-old actors are discussing each other. They both acted in the director's last film, "Sixteen Candles," and were considered a little gang.

"Yeah," Ringwald's hair was pulled by Judd Nelson.

She turned around and hit Judd.

"Sure enough, Judd Nelson, the kind of Sean Penn, Eric Stoltz-style method, who stayed in the role after the shutdown." Ronald smiled.

"Okay, let's do it again." Hughes didn't talk to them, and called the second one directly.

"No," Ronald put out his hand and put it down again. Hughes didn't follow the director's routine, so let's do another one like this? Don't you talk about the pros and cons of acting?

And he didn't hit the board.

Ronald reminded himself that he must say it next time, otherwise it would be a small waste of film, and it would be troublesome to waste the performance, and the actors may not be able to do the same performance again.

"Cut!" Hughes stopped the second item, still letting the actors discuss their own play.

Ronald found that the actors spoke different lines in the two shoots, and they were still discussing what the characters should say to fit their personality.

"John, did you forget to hit the board?" Ronald couldn't help but whispered in Hughes' ear.

"I don't want to hit the board. When they hit the board, they will play it according to the script. If you don't hit the board, you can just shoot directly to catch their improvisation." Hughes changed his posture and said to Ronald, "Sometimes I don't tell them to turn it on, so the reaction is the most believable."

"This……"

Ronald hesitated a bit.

Hughes no doubt had a method of his own, where the actors mostly improvised rather than copied the lines from the script.

Ronald also saw the effect of this directing method. It was unexpectedly very real, and it was more in line with the habits of high school students than the lines written in the script.

This method of improvisation requires good actors and tacit cooperation.

Ronald felt that the whole film was so improvised that he couldn't make it by himself.

But here in Hughes, the effect is not bad?

That's the way of shooting, and finally editing, to find out which scene this shot belongs to, or where the shot of which scene is, but it's going to die.

"I think your performance is surprisingly good like this, John."

Ronald took advantage of the interval to chat with Hughes.

"I'm learning your method. Every scene is shot in the order of the script. After my 'Sixteen Candles' lost to you, I specially studied your shooting method."

Hughes replied with a smile.

Shooting in this order is not expensive, because most of the scenes in the whole film are in one place. And the actor can better understand the character's reaction, and the intensity of the emotion. Ronald understood.

"What I want to say is, how will you edit it then?"

"Clip?"

Hughes had no experience in operating the editing machine himself, he let the editor cut the combination he wanted. I never thought that film without a board would be a nightmare when editing in post.

"Okay, I'll figure out a way." Ronald felt that it was inappropriate to change Hughes's creative method rashly, but after filming like this, I'm afraid even Hughes himself couldn't remember it clearly, so he wouldn't be able to start editing. Can't even find film.

Ronald walked out of the filming location, found a phone number, and called Ned Tanning.

"Congratulations, Ned, you've uncovered a directing talent. Yes...yes...he did a great job...but you'll have to send in the editor ahead of time."

Ronald explained the situation here. This kind of shooting is unpredictable. Don't try to correct the creation of genius. Just send an experienced editor to assist Hughes and make marks for each scene.

"Oh, why did you hit me?"

"You fuck... it's you..."

Ronald, who returned to the shooting venue, saw a few actors who had been good just now, and suddenly there was a conflict.

Emilio Estevez, and Judd Nelson, two actors, surrounded John Kellers, who played the cleaner, and were beating up.

"Why did you beat me, I only said a few words for your own good", John Kellers was beaten inexplicably, "Oops..."

Seeing that Emilio Estevez gave him a hard blow, his scalp was bleeding.

"Stop, stop fighting."

Ronald rushed up, struggled to separate a few people, and then dragged John Kelles, who was covering his head, out of the circle.

"What's the matter? Why did you hit him?"

"You let this son of a bitch speak for himself!" Estevez pointed at Kellers and scolded the other person's nose with one finger.

"What did you say?" Ronald looked around, only an assistant stepped forward smartly and took a towel for Kellers to cover the wound.

"I saw that they were discussing too much, and they didn't pay attention to rest at all. I kindly reminded them that when Martin Sheen was filming 'Apocalypse Now', he worked continuously because he didn't rest, and finally suffered a heart attack."

"How the hell do you dare to say that? See if I won't kill you." Estevez stepped forward and wanted to beat him.

"Oh, hey," Ronald put his hand against his chest, Estevez was playing a wrestler, not a real wrestler himself.

John Hughes turned out to be an otaku who was a creative director in an advertising agency, and he could only stare blankly when he encountered such a thing.

Fortunately, several assistants stepped forward and helped Ronald separate the crowd again.

"Mr. Kellers," Ronald said to the hapless beating, "you have to apologize to Emilio, Mr. Martin Sheen is Emilio's father. You shouldn't use him as an example."

"Ah? I don't know..." Kellers was dumbfounded. He didn't know that Martin Sheen was a stage name. Emilio, the eldest son, did not inherit Xin's stage name, but his second son Charlie used it.

"You've got to apologize to him," Ronald knew that Martin Sheen nearly died of a heart attack while filming "Apocalypse Now."

"I solemnly apologize to you!" Kellers covered his head, the blood had dyed the towel red, but he kept apologizing and begging the other party for forgiveness.

"You #, pay attention to what you say in the future." Estevez pointed arrogantly, and walked away with Judd Nelson behind, and the two kept making fun of Kellers' stupidity.

Ronald looked at John Hughes. This kind of hooliganism in the crew requires the director to stand up to distinguish right from wrong and let the perpetrators restrain themselves, otherwise the crew will be in chaos in the future.

Hughes shrugged. "His character in the movie is a person who uses his body to solve problems."

Of the two young actresses, Molly Ringwald threw her red hair, and she turned away.

"Director Ronald Hughes is more about getting into the play and improvising."

An acquaintance, Allie Sheedy, came over and tried to explain.

"I understand, every director has a different approach." Ronald looked at the beauty, wearing black eyeshadow and dressing to hide her beauty.

"I'm sorry about Eric." Ronald told Siti about what he had caused Stoltz to be fired.

"It's okay, we're not together anymore. He's in love with the heroine Cher in the last movie." Allie Siti waved her hand, saying that she couldn't talk to herself.

"Cher?" Ronald was taken aback, "She debuted in the 1960s, and now she's in her 40s?"

"It's almost forty." Seeing that Ronald seemed to be calculating Cher's age, Allie Sheedy laughed.

"Okay, be careful yourself, don't conflict with Emilio, his fist is quite heavy." Ronald felt that this kind of actor who did not agree with him still had to be careful, so he reminded the other party.

"It's okay, I know how to deal with people like him. Ringwald is the director's muse, and he doesn't dare."

In the evening, Ronald saw the editor sent by Ned Tanning.

"Why did it startle you, Ms. Allen?"

Ronald was also surprised to see the woman with the large tortoiseshell glasses.

Diddy Allen is a veteran Hollywood editor. She has edited "Hands and Hers", which pioneered new Hollywood, and Sydney Lumet's "Hot Afternoon". She also edited Warren Beatty and won best director. Award for "Red Molecule".

Her mentors were also editor of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" and "West Side Story" director Robert Wise.

Ronald watched her edits a lot in his college classes.

"Didn't you say that this is a work of genius and needs an experienced editor to cooperate? I am very interested in genius."

Didi, a very kind lady, communicated with Ronald about Hughes' shooting method.

The next day, Didi watched Hughes' filming of the chaos and the performance of actor Jing Cai, and was also shocked.

"You've got to get me a Sony camera, and I'll have to follow along, or no one can find out where the footage is."

Didi quickly got the camcorder that Ronald bought, and she shot at the place where the actor was, Hughes shot, she also shot, and used a slate to make a slate, and recorded every improvised line in the film. on the notebook.

"It's truly a work of genius, but the director is a complete asshole!" Rao is a veteran of Didi Allen, who was also bewildered by Hughes' approach to filming.

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