Exploiting Hollywood 1980

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"By the way, Chris, what did you just say, there was a problem with the editing?"

Putting down the phone, Ronald asked the guest Chris Columbus.

Columbus has wrapped up his shooting schedule in Toronto, Canada, and has also returned to Los Angeles to begin editing.

His first time as a director, he didn't follow Ronald's advice and took a few weeks off, for fear that he wasn't working hard enough.

In fact, vacation is good, it can make the director forget the details of the shooting, so that when editing, you can have a more objective perspective on each shot.

Editing and directing have inherently different ideas. When a director sees a shot, he may remember how difficult it was to shoot and how many shots were taken to get a satisfactory shot.

The editor treats all shots as equals, and sometimes the unintentional test shot is the most suitable for use in a certain place.

So it is no surprise that Columbus did not go through the process of forgetting on vacation. He fell into a thinking trap when editing, and quarreled with the editor for a week or two before he found the feeling of editing.

After adjusting from the director's way of thinking, Chris Columbus discovered a big problem that had to be solved by Ronald nodding. So he rushed to Ronald.

"I missed a few shots."

"what?"

Ronald shouted.

This is a low-level error, how could this happen?

“Our shoot in Toronto went well, but in Chicago, we only applied for a full day of access to the skyscraper. At 11 p.m., the Screen Actors Guild representative forced me to end filming.

The shooting plan was too late to complete, and there was an important villain's ending that was not well explained. I just snapped an ending before the filming time was over.

But Disney's production director refused to agree to make up the next day. I can be fine with the ending, but the editing effect is not good, and there are splits everywhere. "

"Uh..." Ronald said after listening to the details of what Columbus said, and he said that it was the "credit" of the Screen Actors Guild again.

For every extra day of filming, you have to pay for an extra day of work and venue rent. Disney is a poor studio.

Under Eisner, he was more concerned about the cost of the film and would not agree to add an extra day to the shooting schedule, especially since there were only a few shots in this shoot, but he had to pay an extra day of rent for the skyscraper location.

If it wasn't for the Actors Guild's 11:00 pm time, no minors would be allowed to shoot after that. Originally, this plot had to work overtime and the filming would have been finished on the same day.

"What did Disney say?"

"They said they wouldn't pay for reshoots..."

"I'll go to the editing room with you tomorrow."

Ronald said in his heart, this is a waste of money, and I don't want to pay it.

...

This is where the babysitter, Chris Parker, rescued the girl Sarah by rope from the outer wall of the high-rise building.

The villain who chased here and wanted to kidnap the girl Sara, no one pulled him in the end, he was helpless on the steep glass outer wall, and he was left there abruptly.

The next day, Columbus pointed to Ronald what was on the monitor.

That's where the editing difficulty lies, an ending the writers have given the bad guy trapped on the narrow perimeter of the glass façade. One step forward and he fell off a skyscraper, and no one came back to help.

When the audience sees this, they are really relieved.

But on the other hand, this is a side story. To achieve this effect of letting the audience relieve their hatred, there must be some foreshadowing in front.

Otherwise, nanny Chris Parker, who has rescued all the children, will drive the children back to their rooms to sleep a few minutes before the adults go home, and then take the magazine and make it look like nothing happened tonight.

This villain's ending can't be inserted directly after the main ending. Otherwise the audience will somehow not be able to connect.

"What do you want to make up for?" Ronald also felt that it was really difficult to do.

"I wanted to add some shots of him struggling on the outer wall of a skyscraper, and his accomplices came to save him, but in the end there was no way, only

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Good police, good people rescued him, and caught the thief by the way. "

"Well, that's a good idea."

Ronald nodded.

"Nanny Adventures" was originally a light comedy, with adventures and a love story with the heroine. This arrangement is actually very suitable for the atmosphere of the whole film.

"But it's going to cost you a lot of money for reshoots like this. You have to recall the cast and crew. They've been on vacation for weeks, and it's even less likely that Disney will pay."

"So what?" Columbus knew that there was no hope for reshoots.

"Using the footage you have, think about how to cut it together."

"This...", Chris Columbus adjusted his glasses, "I've been thinking a lot these days, but it's impossible for the audience to cut the ending of the main villain smoothly without the drama."

"It now seems that all the scenes of his ending need to be cut out." Columbus also felt that as long as the two evils are the lesser of two evils, the ending of the bad guy should be cut out. In this way, the audience may not notice that after the protagonist escaped with the child in the movie, there is still a big villain's ending that has not been explained.

"Ordinarily, it can be obtained. The commercial film is an emotional ups and downs, and there are some flaws in the plot that the audience will not notice."

Ronald also felt that this was the only way to do it, "But you will be a little bigger next time. That rescue scene outside the skyscraper was too close to the end, and maybe many viewers will remember it.

And this kind of chasing on the outer wall of the skyscraper, and finally escape with a rope, the audience in America has not seen much, and it must be very novel and beautiful. You have a very thrilling feeling to shoot again. If you have enough budget, you should actually shoot more. "

Ronald sighed again, Columbus's directing level is academic, and he is very disciplined. But sometimes, the director needs some street smarts, and at the critical moment, he has to dare to show the spirit of self-respect.

At that time, the camera was filmed, and at most, I was fined by the Screen Actors Guild, but the camera was already available.

"Let me ask the experts for you." Finally, Ronald thought about it, and asked the masters of editing and directing to ask them how to deal with this situation.

...

"Is that so? My suggestion is not to cut this shot into the movie. The audience's thinking and attention follow the path carefully arranged by the director. Rushing in a jumping shot will destroy the audience's thinking, which is not worth the loss. ”

Sure enough, Walter Murch, didn't support the idea of ​​cutting the ending in.

"But a main villain left a tail in the climactic scene before the ending. If you don't explain it, will it be a problem?"

"A lot of times, you can't do both, Ronald. It's not something that can be solved at the editing stage. Unless you're reshooting some footage, it's better to just cut it out, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless you have Billy Wilder's screenwriting skills, you can unexpectedly reverse at the end."

"Is that so? Then I'll ask him to go."

Ronald has seen many old films directed by Wilder, and he knows that the emigrant director with a heavy Eastern European accent has an iconic directorial characteristic, that is, at the end, there are unexpected reversals and false endings.

The ending had already come naturally, but with his skillful training, he was able to add a new ending after the ending. After the audience is satisfied, there is another aftertaste.

This is his unique stunt, and few people can imitate it in Hollywood after that.

On the phone with Billy Wilder, Ronald came to visit with a remastered videotape.

"That's the situation, I don't have the money to reshoot the footage, and Disney can't get the extra production money. But the ending of the main villain, we have to find a way to add it.

I've read a lot of your classics and thought if anyone in Hollywood could help us with this, it would be you. "

Billy Wilder put on his reading glasses and watched the tape Ronald brought on TV several times. He swayed back and forth in the rocking chair.

Chris Columbus, who came with Ronald, was much more nervous than Ronald. also wear eyes

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Looking at the mirror, he nervously wiped with the mirror cloth again and again.

My debut novel was actually able to get personal instruction from a master who was admired and admired in the university. If it wasn't for Ronald, I wouldn't have dared to imagine it.

"Are you trying to make a fake ending? This is indeed a stand-up to please the critics and the awards." Billy Wilder couldn't see the all-powerful look back then, like a kind old neighbor from the neighborhood.

"If the big studio system was still there, you wouldn't have to worry about such a thing at all. Those actors and technicians are long-term employees of the studio, and it is very simple for them to come back and make some shots."

Billy Wilder recalled his feats when he filmed "Peachy Apartment". The heroine Shirley MacLean learned to gamble with a few actors from the Rat Gang. She finally demonstrated the superb skills of dealing cards to everyone on the set, and then said something classic gamblers often say, "Shut up and deal the cards. (Shutup and Deal)”

Wilder thought it was very good, so he asked the studio to bring the set back, rebuild the bedroom set that had been dismantled, and let Shirley MacLean make up the scene, which finally became the final scene of the peach apartment.

But such a false ending, coupled with the afterglow technique, still needs to be paved with.

"That's right, Ronald, Chris. The way of switching from a fake ending to a real ending requires a reversal scene between the two endings.

The audience's emotions are lifted to a climax by the fake ending, and suddenly switching to the real ending will make them emotionally ride on a roller coaster twice, which is not a good idea.

So you need to set up a slow-paced scene between the two endings, in which the protagonist's success seems less successful, and he paid a huge price for this ending. Just when the audience felt sorry, let the real ending come in.

The original regret is made up by the real ending, which is like giving people two climaxes, and finally can transfer to the third ending, giving people a lingering rhyme.

This shot of yours is like the end of the third afterglow.

It's like in "Peachy Flat," where Shirley MacLean comes back after the fake ending, sees Jack Lemon popping champagne at home, and thinks he shot himself. After this real ending, the two officially confirmed their relationship while playing cards. This is the correct use of this shot. "

"Yeah, just like Marlene Dietrich in "Prosecution Witnesses", who saw her husband and lover walk out of the courtroom, and finally stabbed to death the murderer who was finally rescued in court. The lawyer, played by Charles Laughton, finally said he was going to give Dietley another defense. "

Chris Columbus is excited, the opportunity to teach in person by the master is hard.

Ronald almost laughed when he saw it. Columbus was really an academic. Seeing the real knowledge ahead, he could forget his own problems.

On the other hand, Ronald, who was at the bottom of the crew, knew it was over as soon as Wilder said that.

For this multiple ending, there must be a relief after the fake ending, so that the audience's psychological rhythm can also be put down. The current material can't be cut at all.

It seemed that Billy Wilder's trick was the result of careful arrangements after thorough consideration, not an idea that came out of nowhere. "The Nanny Adventures" still had to cut the villain's ending.

"Hey, no, he just wants a slow rhythm, not necessarily a plot to ease it."

Ronald suddenly had an epiphany:

"Mr. Wilder, Chris, how about I put this villain's finale after the end credits?"

"Behind the end credits?"

Billy Wilder adjusted his glasses and said, "This is a practice in TV dramas before, and no one has ever done it in a movie. It should be possible in theory, after the audience passes the end credits and kills some emotions in the ending. , you can insert the ending of this lingering rhyme."

"Yes, at the end the heroine Chris Parker, the nanny, was pursued by a handsome college student. The audience's excitement for the nanny's love, after being rushed by the subtitles for more than a minute, is indeed suitable for joining this villain ending. Make them smile again."

"It's just that many viewers can't wait for the subtitles to end. This is not a TV series. Many people leave after seeing the subtitles." Wilder has a deep understanding of the audience's psychology.

"That's it, no more

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Good way too. "

Ronald felt that doing so was already the optimal solution under the existing conditions.

"At that time, it can also be a gimmick in publicity. To watch the film in its entirety, you must read the subtitles."

"It makes sense," Chris Columbus was excited again, "Like Mr. Wilder's prosecution witness, in the final subtitle, there is a subtitle asking the audience not to spoil the ending to their friends, although this does not prevent this from happening. This is a spoiler, but it has caused some discussions and indirectly let more people watch the movie.

Right? Mr Wilder. "

"Actually, I wanted the audience to avoid spoilers, but it didn't work out. Instead, more people knew the ending. It's a good thing for the box office, but it's not in the habit of appreciating movies."

...

"What a great idea! It's like giving the audience another cookie after the end credits."

The Disney marketing manager was also very happy to see such an editing method. Disney is not going to spend too much money on the promotion of "Nanny Adventures". There is a gimmick for the audience to spread, which is a very good box office accelerator.

"End-credits cookie? That's a good name, very good, so let's do it."

Ronald is happy to have solved the film's problems, and maybe a little more at the box office.

He went back to his editing room.

The whole film of "Moonlight Sultry" has almost been edited.

"I'm still not involved in the final assembly work."

After such an episode, Ronald also has some new ideas about the assembly of his own film.

Directors always tend to keep the shots that they worked so hard to get. Only editors can look at the whole film with an objective attitude, and consider which shots should be removed from the rhythm, even if they have spent a lot of hard work on the filming.

And Walter Murch is a connoisseur, so give him the movie and you'll be fine.

"Alright, you wait for me to cut it and then watch it as a finished film. The effect is better." Walter Murch also felt that it was better. He already fully understood the content and rhythm that Ronald wanted to express, and finally controlled the overall control. When the time comes, it is better to decide the effect of one person alone than to discuss it with two people.

Ronald let go of Murch's final rhythm.

He took time out on his own to go to Tom Cruise to talk about the script he wanted him to direct.

Scientology's Technology Center, in the Guarantee Building at Hollywood Reach.

When Ronald arrived, he felt as if he had entered a physics laboratory for middle school students. Many people walked around with audit instruments like multimeters.

Ronald greeted the beauty at the front desk and went to the reception room, where Tom Cruise was listening to the tape.

"Ronald, you came just in time. This is the script I was talking about. Mr. Ovitz pushed for it. He said that if I played it, I would have a good chance of being nominated for an Oscar."

When Cruise saw Ronald come in, he quickly got up and handed him the script, and he put down his headphones with the script tape Mimi Rogers recorded for him.

"RainMan?"

Ronald thought the name was a good one, it was catchy when he heard it, and it also made people curious to know what Rain Man was.

Of course, Ronald knew. He had heard of the script, and Rain Man was actually a name for the mentally retarded protagonist.

His name is "Rayn", because of a slight mental retardation, his pronunciation is not accurate, and it has become "RainMan (Rain Man)".

"Hey Ronald, you're here." Mimi Rogers came in from outside at this time, "This is a script recommended by Mr. Ovitz, and it was originally intended for Dennis Quaid and his brother Randy to play together. Brothers in the script.

Later, Mr. Ovitz believed that the script had the potential to win the Oscar, so he urged CAA clients Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray to star. He knew that Tom didn't get a nomination for "The Color of Money" at the Oscars this time, so he was specially invited to participate. "

"It's very nice that you brothers make it together, if you want."

Mimi Rogers talked about how the script went to Tom Cruise.

"I have to read

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, to give you an answer. Ronald nodded and accepted the script.

"Would you like to visit the Scientology Technology Center, there is an upgraded version of our teachings, we don't show it to ordinary people, it must be audited to a certain level, but Ronald, you have Confucius Educational literacy, our president David Miskevich promised to make an exception to show you."

"Uh, I won't watch it. I'll read the script first." Ronald rejected Mimi Rogers' enthusiastic wooing.

"Sorry, Ronald, he's not interested in this. I want to accompany Tom too." Mimi went back and reported the situation to President David Miskevich.

"You concentrate on staying with Tom, I have prepared an actress for him to guide him."

...

Ronald heads to CAA with the script.

He took the script and asked Nisita, "Isn't this book prepared last year? Why is it still in the preparation stage, and the stars have changed several times."

"Rain Man is Ovitz's lead project, I can't participate," Nisita shrugged, "Tom Cruise got it recently, and Bill Murray before him hesitated for a long time and refused.

It's Dustin Hoffman, who hasn't had a successful movie since My Fair Lady, and now he really needs this movie to turn around so that he can continue to get paid $5 million. "

Nisita introduced the general situation. This movie is very interesting. Many stars fall in love with the script as soon as they see it, but after a long time, they will start to shrink back. So did the original Dennis Quaid brothers.

"Oh?", Ronald is more curious about this script, is it so magical?

"By the way, who was the director candidate before? It's impossible for Ovitz to only look for stars and not directors, right?"

"Steven Spielberg, and Sidney Pollack were serious preparations, but after a while, they both quit."

"Oh?" Ronald was even more curious. These two are heavyweight directors. Spielberg did not mention that Sidney Pollack won the best director for "Out of Africa" ​​the year before.

but……

"Looks like Ovitz still put me in a lower-level movie director position?" Ronald said half-jokingly. "Or are they all Jewish?"

"Half and half, you have a look first, if you are interested, I will arrange a meeting between you and Ovitz." Nisita also smiled. This observation is accurate, both directors, along with Dustin Hoffman, are Jewish.

If they hadn't given up, it wouldn't have been Ronald and Cruise's turn.

"Okay, I'll go back and have a look first."

Ronald didn't know if this movie was worth directing by himself. He went back on vacation to relax, and tried to dream of a finished film as a reference.

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