Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Patrick Switz's agent received the news from Ronald, and he immediately arranged for his unpopular client to meet Ronald.

"Patrick, you are thirty-three years old. It's hard to have a movie with a single male lead. It's still a blockbuster director like Ronald calling. Don't give up the opportunity."

"I didn't give up the opportunity, I just didn't want to dance. I didn't want to limit my career to dance-related roles."

"Patrick, your idea is good, but the premise of such a good idea is that you have a career first."

"Why didn't I..."

"I know, I know, you played Coppola's 'Occult Boy' and you played John Milius' 'Red Dawn', not to mention that those two films didn't do well at the box office, and there was no particular review respected by the world.

Even if these two films are extremely successful, don't forget that you are only one of four or five leading actors.

Don't hesitate, go ahead, use your strengths, and become a big star first..."

The agent pointed out Swayze's weaknesses in a few words. It seems that he has some masterpieces, and some people in the industry appreciate his acting skills, but the audience still can't recognize him when they see him, let alone call him by name.

"Patrick, long time no see, how are you now?"

Ronald saw Swayze and hugged him happily.

"My wife, Lisa, and I now buy a five-acre lot on the edge of the Los Angeles National Forest, with a house, a paddock, and a couple of dogs to live with. It was my paycheck and Lisa's record earnings. .not very big."

"Oh, I didn't expect you to be married."

"For many years,

I have known her since I was eighteen. ' Thwaites said of the sweetness on his wife's face.

"High school sweetheart? Huh?"

"She was in my mother's ballet class when he was fourteen."

"Oh? So why did you say on your resume that you couldn't dance?" Ronald asked. I think Switz is also ready to give himself an explanation.

"Long story. I hurt my ankle so I can't be a professional dancer anymore..."

"Apart from that, is there any other reason?" Ronald didn't believe this reason. Swayze was an old actor who had acted in several movies. He didn't know that when the movie was filmed, there was a lot of time to rest, and he wouldn't continuously do moves that challenged the ankle injury.

"Well, you know, I grew up in Texas when I was a kid. So it wasn't so friendly to ballet boys there."

"Ah...then what do you do?"

"What else can I do, just fight. When they come to laugh at me, I laugh at me back, and when they do, I fight back. I also learned to wrestle in order to win."

"Interesting, I joined the wrestling team in high school for a similar reason."

"Oh, there's a chance we'll play together..."

Patrick Switz laughed.

Ronald sees that the real reason Thwaites doesn't want to dance in the movie is that he doesn't want to evoke memories of being a ballerina sissy in Texas when his high school classmates made fun of him.

But at this point, Switz has also seen the general plot in the script, and he has no reason to refuse this job.

"Great, you're going to captivate girls in their teens and early twenties." Ronald asked Swayze to do a few moves, and immediately confirmed that he was a professional.

"But before that, I have to show you the screenwriter, and I promise Eleanor I'll show her before deciding who to choose."

"Ronald, where did you get this single-eyed shovel, didn't you say he can't dance?"

"It's easy for me to find him. He said that he used to dance ballet, and he didn't play dance roles because of an ankle injury. I don't believe it, you go and try him?"

"Hello, Patrick. I'm Eleanor, the screenwriter." Eleanor, a middle-aged woman, showed a little shy expression on her face.

"Dirty dancing was what we said at that time. In fact, it was a general term for many Latin dance movements, many knee and crotch movements, and a lot of Mambo movements."

"Ma'am, I know what it means to dance hot." Swayitz remained polite, knowing that this was Ronald's audition.

"Let me explain to you, maybe the jewish dance is different from yours..."

Eleanor stepped forward and hugged Swayze, then wrapped his arms around her waist, and then pressed her body tightly against Swayze, "I'll turn around like this, you turn over there, then pick up Man The dance steps of the wave..."

"That's it, that's it, that's what I did in the basement with those dance partners when I was sixteen, let's do it again, this time with a different move..."

"Oh, you dance so well, my feeling is really right, men with single eyelids and black hair are the most handsome and manly..."

"Okay, okay, let Patrick go, he's been dancing with you for fifteen minutes."

I watched the performance of Patrick Schwytz, who Eleanor took the opportunity to wipe out for a long time. So far, everything is good.

The male protagonist in the script is a man who is very confident in dancing, and the female protagonist baby is a female client who is not very good at dancing, but has great potential. This is how Johnny treats the baby, with contempt for her dancing ability, to teach her, and respect for the client of the resort, for fear of annoyed her and lost her job.

Ronald deliberately said that Eleanor's power in the casting is very big. This scene happens to be similar to Johnny's mood in the script. So far, Patrick's performance is very good.

Seeing that Eleanor didn't want to get off of Thwaites, he felt that it was almost there, and he called off the interview.

"Patrick, I saw your photo at first sight. You said you couldn't dance, but it made me sad for a long time. You have to compensate me."

"Oh, Darling, you're flattering." Patrick kissed her on the cheek and quickly separated from Eleanor.

"Are you satisfied? Eleanor, now it's time to choose the heroine and the second female lead." Ronald said to Swayze, "You have to cooperate, I want to see you and the heroine baby. The chemistry, and the feeling of being with the dance partner, to be in tune with the dance, and then you'll have a long rehearsal."

"Ok, I'll be there on time."

...

In the last round of the heroine audition, Ronald still went to the venue of "Nanny's Adventures". It is also beneficial for the two crews to audition together.

The number of characters in "Spicy Dance" is much more than that in "Nanny Adventures". The Nanny's Adventures is actually just a family's adventure from 6:00 pm to midnight, and there are more than ten people in each scene.

In addition to several large-scale dances, "Spicy Dance" also has many group scenes in resorts, all involving many supporting roles. Ronald picked up several supporting roles among the actors who were eliminated from the touchstone.

The audition room was carpeted, a bed was moved in, and a couple of hangers were added. This is the opening scene of "Nanny's Adventures", moved to the audition room.

The penetrating singing of "then he kissed me" rang out. Valerie Bertinelli started the show first.

She was wearing a red t-shirt, and began to lip-synch this song about a girl looking forward to her boyfriend.

Ronald looked amused, she had a strong figure and a big chin. If there's one thing that fits with the movie character Chris, it's that he definitely dares to fight gangsters.

But the movie is not reality, this chin detracts too much from her, and lacks a lot of feminine soft lines. However, if he and Eddie Van Halen had a son, he would definitely inherit the chin. Put it on a boy, that's the foundation of a handsome guy.

"What do you think?" The female producer looked over and asked Ronald's opinion.

"It's good to sing and dance, what do you think, Chris." Ronald handed over the questioning to director Columbus.

"Uh, Valerie, your character is a girl next door, she has no concert or live training, so she's just imitating Madonna, using the bedboard at home as a stage, the bedpost as a microphone, and the curtains as a wedding dress just a little girl.

You're acting like a professional rocker, you know what I mean? "

"Oh, I see," Valerie Bertinelli stared at the female producer.

"Do you want to do it again?" Ronald simply said to her, this Valerie's perception was not very good, and it would not affect Elizabeth Sue if she did it all over again.

"Thank you, I don't have to rest."

Valerie settled down and started all over again. It was an improvement from the first time, but the audience couldn't feel that they immediately fell in love with her. This is where the opening scene plays an important role.

"We will notify your agent if there is any news, next one." Chris Columbus decisively called Elizabeth Sue in.

The "Start You" producer went to rewind the tape again and replayed the episode.

"He came up to me and asked if I wanted to dance?

He looked fine so I said I could try it.

He hugs me tight when he dances

All the stars were shining when he sent me home that night

Then he kissed me. "

When Elizabeth Shue played the role of a girl, she was very charming. Dancing at home looks crazier than Tom Cruise's "Crazy Boys" parody.

She jumped on the bed board and held the bedpost as if she was really imitating a singer in a concert. When she jumped down with a curtained wedding dress and a photo of the man on the table, the rhythm of her movements was also in place.

Viewers must have thought she was Chris Parker, a pretty girl from the neighbor's house who came to work as a babysitter.

"What do you think?" Ronald glanced at Sue after the music stopped, then asked female producer Deborah Hill.

"The performance speaks for itself."

"yeah?"

Elizabeth Su seemed to understand what the producer meant, but she still didn't believe it.

"Go back and wait for the agent's call." Ronald smiled and gave her a wink.

Su jumped out.

"Aren't you really going to make a cameo role in the movie?" Producer Deborah put a photo of Ronald on the dresser just now as a photo of her boyfriend. Think about it, if Ronald can come to guest-star as the heroine's ex-boyfriend, a bad guy named Pedal and Two Boats, it will definitely add a lot of topics to the movie.

"No, I still have two projects in progress. 'Dancing Hot Body' is the project I invested in. Now it's very difficult to find a director. Maybe I have to direct it myself, maybe I don't have time." Ronald shied away. cameo invitation.

Adrian Lane really liked this script. He said that this is not an ordinary musical, but a movie that reflects the general trend of the times, and it is also very cutting-edge today.

But when it comes to remuneration, Adrian Lane can't be accommodating. Under the high remuneration given by the "Fatal Attraction" crew, he can't come to pick up "Spicy Dance".

What's more, Ronald's plan to reduce his salary and give him a director's share is a bit of a liar on this film project that has not been released by the seven majors.

"Our big company's process will be relatively long. You may have finished your film, and we have just started it. Come and see, maybe we will be able to make a cameo role." Producer Deborah is still working hard , I can't play a scumbag boyfriend, I can play someone else.

"Okay, I'm going back to Toronto to visit the class. Then Columbus, you have to relax a little bit with me. I'm still a novice in acting."

"Nanny Adventures" has determined the heroine, and the next step is the long preparatory work, including determining the set, and the stunt plan.

After they went out, Ronald hurriedly called to greet his staff to come in.

Pack up the beds and hangers, move in a few large mirrors, and set up the audition space to look like a dance studio.

Although "Spicy Body Dance" is a small project, the heroine is actually selected without worrying about not having an actor to audition.

As a Jewish story, it is impossible for the heroine Ronald to let another ethnic group play a Jew.

On the one hand, they didn't have that typical Jewish nose, and on the other hand, Ronald was afraid that the Jewish gang would gossip.

In the Hollywood show business circle, many Jewish girls are obviously ordinary and full of self-confidence. They feel that they can try to enter the show business circle under the care of Jewish people.

So many big nose girls came.

Many people have a good foundation in dance, and many of them have also appeared in Broadway musicals.

But Ronald wasn't here to pick the next Barbra Streisand. What he wants is not Barbara, who can sing and dance, but a boy who is not very good at dancing and has a good family education, but is very interested in dancing the kind of "hot dance" that only teenagers who are "bad" in the eyes of their father. girl.

"Next person."

Ronald sighed and sent off another girl with a big nose while the union representatives watched.

"Come in, it's fine."

"I'm a little nervous, Daddy. I think they can dance very well, but I can't dance, and you didn't teach me when I was a kid."

"Go ahead, you are my daughter, you must be talented in dancing. I don't teach you because dancing is too hard, and I don't want my daughter to follow my path again.

And I know through relationships that the protagonist of this movie is not a master dancer, so maybe yours is just right. "

"Okay, then I'll go."

"The next one?" Screenwriter Eleanor looked at the audition list. "The next one is Jennifer Gray."

"Come on..." Jennifer Gray said goodbye to her father, pushed the door and walked in.

"She's a baby," screenwriter Eleanor whispered in Ronald's ear.

"Why?" Ronald was puzzled. He had dreamed about the clip played by Gray. How could Eleanor seem to be more certain than him.

"The baby I wrote is my father's good daughter. She was sent by her father outside the door just now. She glanced at her father when she entered the door, which is very similar to the character's mood."

"Hello, Jennifer." Ronald greeted Gray.

"Hello, Ronald... No, I'm talking about Mr. Li." Jennifer Gray also raised her hand and beckoned Ronald, feeling inappropriate and putting it down.

"Very good, it's too similar to baby's character." Eleanor began to whisper again.

Ronald asked Gray to take a few pictures, and then said to her,

"Okay, we'll be here today, we'll let you know when we have news."

"Why, don't you like her? She's really suitable." Eleanor was still pushing hard.

"Actually, I have been persuaded by you to select her for the second round, mainly to see the chemistry between her and the male lead."

"The second round is to audition with the male lead? Who are the candidates?" The union representative came over and asked Ronald.

"Patrick Thwaites, and Billy Zane. I know the rules." Ronald tapped the union representative on the shoulder.

Ronald's next round of auditions, the first choice of the male lead, Swayze, and the substitute Zane, the rules of the union still have to pretend to abide by.