Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Fame, let you win people's favor

Fame, make it hard to swallow

Fame, makes you all empty

Fame, it's not sanity, it's fire

Fame, Fame, Fame, Fame..."

"Crack", Alan Parker pressed the stop button of the dual-card loudspeaker recorder, "What do you think?"

"Fame is a good name. Our film is about the process of young people's impact on fame, and about the difficulties and failures in the middle."

David Da Silva nodded, "How did you come up with the idea of ​​using this song by David Bowie and John Lennon as a new movie title?"

"Hmph, it was suggested by Ronald."

"He was very funny. He didn't come to me directly, but played it to the kids in the rehearsal room. When I went to ask them for a recommendation for a new title, a lot of kids suggested the name of the song."

David cleared his throat. "I'm going to hire Ronald as set coordinator, mainly to keep Gene in check. If you don't object."

"I haven't had time to live with a young man." Allen pressed the eject button of the tape recorder and took out the tape.

"Gene is an unpolished diamond, and it is possible to become a black-skinned John Travolta. He and Irene Cara, who is also black, can continue to act together in movies in the future, and act in many movies for young people." Wei made his plans.

"But right now, he's so hot-tempered that only Ronald can control him. I don't want to see him on set smashing a set with a fire extinguisher again."

Allen nodded, "Gene did listen to Ronnie. Her mother doesn't sell goods on the set anymore. She sells it outside the school every day. She's very interesting."

Saying that, Allen shook the tape on David's hand.

"We still need a few more powerful songs like this Fame for interludes, have you found the right one? My Midnight Express collaborator George Moroder is writing a song for Donna Summer's new album and has turned down The soundtrack for the new film.”

"Michael Gore (not related to screenwriter Christopher Gore). He's the younger brother of the original chart-topping diva Leslie Gore. I've listened to his work, it's good, and am going to hire him Compose music."

"Very good, he can join the crew when we turn on the camera, and write songs while watching the filming." Allen waved his hand, indicating that he doesn't care about David's personnel arrangements, as long as there is one outcome.

"Has your lucky T-shirt been sewn? It's going to start the day after tomorrow."

"I've already handed over the costume, and I'll definitely be able to catch up with the boot."

"Fame, you like limousines

Fame, you enjoy like there is no tomorrow

Fame, what you spend now is borrowing from the future

Fame, let's blind, let's sin

Fame, Fame, Fame, Fame..."

The rehearsal for the play has ended. I don't know which group performer turned on the dual-card loudspeaker recorder again. David Bowie's voice resounded in the rehearsal room.

"Hey... change the rhythm." The students shouted, this funk-style song obviously did not suit the appetite of the actors who had just finished rehearsing. What they need now is relaxation, what they need is disco.

"For Donna Summer's 'Hot Stuff'. One student couldn't wait to put in the tape he brought.

Ronald started listening to the disco again, and after three months of being in the top ten on the charts, his ears were getting calluses.

"Peng, clap, peng, clap," the disco rhythm sounded.

"Got to have some hot love, baby, just tonight

I need something hot, baby, just tonight

I want something hot, baby, just tonight"

The lyrics made many American parents uncomfortable,

Some conservative newspapers have called for the song to be banned, but it is extremely popular among young people. The actors all started to disco.

The group performances and actors, which were mainly composed of art school students, began to enter the center of the dance floor one by one at the rhythm, and each of them tacitly allocated dozens of seconds to show their time. Just like a peacock courting in the animal world, proudly showing his body in front of the opposite sex.

Ronald was already very familiar with the repertoire that ended with rehearsals every day, and was about to walk away. Gene jumped into the circle, shouting "You're next, Ronald!"

The crowd roared for a while, and they had a good impression of the young man who brought them air conditioners and ice-cold Coke. Gene also knew that Ronald danced well and gave him a chance to show off to the pretty girls.

Ronald, who could not refuse, jumped off the court, first pointing his right hand at a 45-degree angle to the sky, posing a classic pose by John Travolta in the movie "Grease".

He then circled his hands like a boxer preparing to punch, then pointed at each girl with his left hand, and twisted his hips in rhythm with his right hand on his hips. Slightly outdated old-fashioned disco action that made the actors laugh out loud.

Ronald pointed to Antonia's spot, and grinned as she was laughing at his cliché. I stopped dancing and ran to the refrigerator, wanting to get a bottle of Coke to cool myself down.

The rehearsal room refrigerator was out of Coke, and Ronald remembered that the producer had one, and ran to the office.

The new assistant in the clothing department is sobbing softly in the office. Holding a few pieces of cloth in both hands, I don't know what happened.

"What's the matter with you? Did something happen?"

"Ah, I'm fine." The assistant wiped away tears and began to pick up the cloth and put it on the table to try to stitch it together.

"It's the director's lucky T-shirt," said another costume assistant.

"Every time he shoots a movie, he cuts some from the costume and sews it into his T-shirt, which Allen thinks will bring him good luck shooting."

"That one was worn when he was filming the first movie, and it was already rotten. Today when we patched it up for him, it was completely cracked. As a result, when she went to tell the director about it, she was scolded by the director. , limit her to make up for it today, or she will be fired."

"This?" Ronald picked up the scraps of cloth on the table, all faded fabrics, and some had a hole in the middle. "These fabrics seem to have been washed hundreds of times?"

"Yes, Allen asked the clothing to be as close to reality as possible. The clothing we purchased is now all rolling in the washing machine, and the bright colors are washed away. Make a real feeling." The clothing assistant said.

"The fabric on this T-shirt was cut and assembled from the movie costumes he shot in the past. Allen insisted on wearing only lucky T-shirts during the filming. There are four pieces in total, and the broken one is the oldest one. ."

Ronald looked at the rags on the table and at the costume assistant who had stopped sobbing and was trying to stitch together, and thought, "Do you have to be so superstitious to be a movie director?"

"Why don't you take a white T-shirt as the base and sew these pieces of cloth on." Ronald reminded the clothing assistant.

"Thanks, I should have thought of that."

The assistant quickly took a white T-shirt, compared it with a piece of cloth, and began to sew it.