Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Once talented and potential actors find the right role, the creative state they inspire is very valuable.

Ronald carefully nurtures everyone's performance state. The biggest difference between the performance state of movie actors and drama actors is that they cannot get real-time feedback from the audience.

When performing a play in a theater, the audience's reaction will clearly tell the actor how he is performing today. He will adjust his performance skills accordingly.

But movie actors are actually performing to the air. Even if a large company like 20th Century Fox shoots in New York, which has the second best equipment in the country, they have to wait until the afternoon of the next day to see the printed sample film. At that time, if they see that there are some bad performances, it is too late to modify them.

The lighting, recording, and script recorders on the scene are all busy with their own things. The photographer is a little better than them and can see the performance from the viewfinder, but he doesn't know how this scene will be presented in the editing room in the end, and he has no way of knowing whether the actor's performance is good or bad.

Only director Ronald, standing behind the camera, is almost the only audience in the world who can see whether the actor's performance is good or bad.

Therefore, Griffith, Baldwin, Cusack and other main actors habitually looked at Ronald after performing a scene. As long as they saw him smile and nod, and then say "Great, today's performance is great..." and other praises, they felt very safe in their hearts, so they didn't care much about what the following "Let's change the way of acting, and add another insurance" meant.

"Come on, have some baked cookies, my aunt's secret recipe." In order to keep the actors and staff in good condition, Ronald also asked his aunt to send baked cookies. During the break in the middle of the shooting, he distributed them to everyone.

For a while, a fragrance filled the crew, and even the supervisor representative sent by the Writers Guild couldn't help but come over to ask for a few pieces.

"I say, when will your strike plan end? What kind of scripts do you write? You can't write scripts now, what should you do if you have no income?" Ronald handed the remaining cookies to the female screenwriter whose turn it was today.

The strike has reached the second week. The union members who volunteered to supervise the crew and TV station will receive some subsidies, but now those TV crews that write and shoot at the same time have basically stopped working.

The TV station used some old dramas to fill the most precious prime time in the evening, and only the film crews like Ronald who had already started filming were working. Therefore, the number of crews that need to be supervised is also small, with many people and few positions, and new people are rotated every day.

The female screenwriter is a TV screenwriter. She swallowed the biscuits in one gulp and drank a sip of hot coffee. "Before I went on strike, I actually found a long-term job in a morning soap opera of NBC. If I continue, this hard-earned job may be wasted again."

"How long do you plan to strike? I think the attitude of the Producers Association has softened. The compensation of 300 million is a bit too much. Let's sit down and talk about a number, and then resume happy time. I have movies to continue shooting, and you also have a TV job. Isn't it great?"

"Do you know? Director, you are actually violating the rules by discussing the strike with me like this. But your cookies are delicious, and it doesn't matter if I tell you. Now we are in a dilemma," said the female screenwriter with a smile.

"Actually, I want to accept the conditions to end the strike. Rumor has it that the negotiating representative Walton wants to accept your $50 million compensation, but many members were so inspired by his previous speech that they really believe that they can get $300 million and have the right to decide on the casting and director of the script."

"Ah? I thought Walton had the right to decide whether to accept the conditions of the Producers Guild?"

"In order to win the support of the union members, he did not leave him out before getting the best conditions. He reached an agreement privately, stipulating that the union must agree to accept the conditions with his consent, but in return, he also agreed that the conditions must be voted on internally."

"Oh..." Ronald touched his head. This is troublesome. The grassroots union members were inspired and really believed that they could get power that top directors and producers in Hollywood might not have. It seems that before everyone's energy is exhausted, there will be no compromise in the short term.

Here, the scenes on Staten Island are being filmed. The set and props team, led by art director Polly Pratt, are setting up the scene of Tess's new office on another floor of the World Trade Center.

Tess's colleague in the old company, the fat manager Lutz, said that he introduced a manager of the hedge department to Tess, and he was looking for a new assistant. But in fact, Tess's suspicion was correct. This was just a hunting target for the manager.

The hedge department was the most important role in the stock market crash last year. They either made a lot of money or lost a lot. The winnings and losses of hundreds of millions a day all occurred under the extreme conditions of the stock market crash. For example, the Jewish Solo of Tiger Fund almost lost all his funds. Later, he used the gossip about the adjustment of the Japanese yen exchange rate to get back part of his capital.

These people are often perverse and violent. This kind of ups and downs in life makes them also exaggerated in their relationships with men and women. In order to seek the satisfaction of dopamine, they can do very strange things.

According to Ronald's friend Bannon, these people are more chaotic than Hollywood.

The manager of Bob Spike in the script is such a character. Casting director Julia finally found a male actor who played a regular supporting role in a prime-time soap opera. This kind of soap opera often has stereotyped characters, and he played a pervert.

After the weekend, the new week's shooting moved to Manhattan, and Ronald received bad news. Because the strike of the Writers Guild lasted for the third week, the "Television and Radio Artists Association", one of the two major actor unions, encouraged actors to take a vacation or seek a second job because there was no drama to shoot due to the interruption of TV scripts.

American TV series are generally filmed and broadcast at the same time, and the scripts will be fine-tuned and modified according to weekly audience feedback. If a character is popular, write more of his plot. Guest actors can also become regular supporting roles.

The strike of the Writers Guild has completely bankrupted this shooting model, but TV actors still have contracts. They don't want to be entangled in TV series that cannot be filmed and can't find other livelihoods.

The Producers Guild does not want the other two of the three major unions and the Writers Guild to force them to make concessions. The two sides hit it off immediately, and each TV station announced that actors could choose to take a vacation and come back to film after the writers' strike was over.

For a time, all the TV actors of the three major public TV stations ran away. Some went to the theater stage, some went to film abroad, and more began to work part-time, teaching drama to children in schools or communities.

The actor that Ronald and Julia Taylor decided on was a British man. He happened to get a supporting role in a soap opera in his hometown through connections. He threw away Ronald's guest role and ran back to make money.

Ronald, who was sitting on the wax here, quickly found Julia Taylor. "Do you have anyone else who is suitable to play a pervert? There's a fire here, hurry up..."

"How about Kevin who talks about stand-up comedy in the bar? Kevin Spacey?"

"Spacey?" Ronald remembered this actor who chatted with Alec Baldwin and Alan Rickman next to the Broadway Candy Box Theater. He openly flirted with the waitress in the bar, and his image was acceptable.

"What's his phone number? I'll tell him directly." An anxious Ronald didn't even look for Kevin Spacey's agent, but called the actor himself.

"Guest appearance as a hedge investment manager? I'm very interested. But I'm preparing a play recently, and the shooting time..." Spacey heard that there was a movie to act in, and there was nothing he didn't like. He was preparing to rehearse a new Broadway play recently, and he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to spare the time.

"Half a day will do. I'll ask my driver to pick you up and bring you the script. Just tell your agent and ask him to help you sign the contract." Ronald didn't wait for Spacey to speak, and he quickly finalized the performance.

This scene was shot in a car, a rented stretch luxury car, prepared in Long Island. Renting a stretch luxury car is not only to show the luxury of the hedge department, but also to facilitate the placement of the camera.

The reason for choosing the relatively wealthy and quiet Long Island is that there is less traffic here, which is suitable for repeated driving and shooting. If this scene was shot in Manhattan, I'm afraid that the drivers of other vehicles would have to yell and scold them not to block the road, and it would be impossible to shoot.

"Cameron, here's your pass." When filming the exterior scenes, Ronald called Cameron Crowe to the scene for advice.

Today was an exterior scene, so Ronald was not afraid of being caught by the Writers Guild. The Writers Guild, which had been on strike for more than two weeks, had not yet reached an agreement, and those who had taken the initiative to come to the crew to supervise at the beginning had begun to lose heart. They did not follow the exterior scenes today.

"This section needs to modify the lines for manager Bob Spike. I need a particularly marginalized character. He is the kind of manager that the audience knows will do obscene and outrageous things at a glance. You can write it like Tiger Fund's Solo."

After changing the actors, Ronald decided to let Crowe rewrite the lines to be more suitable for Kevin Spacey's well-dressed pervert. He is different from the soap opera actor. He looks gentle on the surface, but you know he is a pig when he opens his mouth.

"If it's a pig, you have to push it..." Cameron Crowe got inspiration and wrote a paragraph in pencil on the notebook and handed it to Ronald.

"Hahaha, just like this..." Ronald was very satisfied.

The luxury car was already in place, and two cameras were already installed inside the car. The recording and lighting were ready, and the script supervisor took out a small clapperboard and tried to hit it in the car. The clapperboard for close-ups and close-ups was specially made, and the actors would have to hit it themselves. Because although the interior of the luxury car is larger than that of an ordinary car, after the camera and recording crews were stuffed in, there was no room for another script supervisor.

Everything was ready, except actor Kevin Spacey.

"Bud, where are you?" Ronald was anxious and found a phone to call his driver.

"We are stuck in traffic, and it will take about 20 minutes." Little Bud replied on the car phone.

"Twenty minutes, you just said twenty minutes. Hello..." Ronald had no hope for the traffic in Manhattan.

"I'm about to... enter... the East River Tunnel, and I'll call you back later." Little Bud's intermittent voice came, and then it was completely cut off.

Ronald didn't know if the traffic jam would extend to Long Island, so he walked around the set anxiously. This kind of temporary change of actors is really annoying. The staff on the set were a little afraid to speak. It was the first time since the filming started that Ronald was so angry.

"Director, don't worry, should we make another backup plan?" Today, only Melanie Griffith and the crew came to shoot, and everyone else was on holiday. As an actor, she was the only one in the crew who dared to come up and persuade her.

"Backup plan?" Ronald repeated her words, but the anxiety in his heart had not subsided. "Cameron, come on. I remember you were an actor?" Ronald looked around. Only Cameron Crowe, who came to the rescue to change the script, had not appeared in the scene, and his appearance matched the script. image of.

"Me? I did become an actor." Cameron Crowe saw Ronald actually mentioning his name. He didn't dare to say that he had only been an actor in the university drama club, and his subsequent career as an actor was a complete failure.

In order to save the scene, he couldn't say more. He couldn't help but have a wonderful fantasy about the profession of director. He could decide the fate of everyone on the set. If he was chosen by him as a screenwriter, he could act.

"That's good, I won't tell you about the play. You wrote the script yourself, and you will definitely act it. Costume, costume, come and try on Cameron!" Ronald called the costume designer, Crowe's figure It's a little taller than Spacey's, so I need to get a new one.

"This one won't work. Mr. Crowe is too tall." After a while, Crowe fixed his hair, put on his clothes, and came out to show Ronald. The costume designer looked at the effect and found that this suit didn't look like that on him at all. The feeling of a powerful person.

"Go buy it, borrow it, see if there are any boutiques around." Ronald was anxious, and time was passing by little by little.

"Squeak..." There was an urgent brake, and Kevin Spacey, whom Little Bud picked up, finally arrived.

"Sorry, sorry, I just finished rehearsal. There was a traffic accident in Manhattan today. We were stuck in traffic for a long time."

Kevin Spacey quickly apologized to Ronald and the rest of the staff. He came today to do Ronald a favor. It would be bad if it caused trouble instead.

Ronald didn't say anything, but pointed at the suit that the costumer had just taken off Crowe, and asked Spacey to put it on.

The makeup artist and hairstylist rushed over to put makeup on Spacey. On the other side, Ronald handed over a two-page script and asked him what he wanted to ask.

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"Everything is OK" Spacey quickly finished reading and made a no problem gesture.

"Working Girl Scene . She picked up the clapperboard, typed it at the camera, and then put it into the seat

"What qualities do you think a good hedging and arbitrage investor needs?" Tess said to manager Bob.

"Well, we went to the hotel room to discuss that." Kevin Spacey lay half-lying and then twisted the wire on the champagne bottle cap.

"Hotel room?" Tess realized that she was not a real interview assistant. There was a hint of disappointment in Melanie's tone.

"Yes, the company has a long-term private room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. When there are no customers, we can go there... party... oh wow..."

Kevin Spacey's explosive power was so strong that he let out a strange scream and the champagne cork jumped out with a bang when he shook it. He deliberately pushed forward the champagne foam that sprayed out, and it fell on Melanie's clothes.

"Ahh..." Melanie's reaction was also great. Her decent dress was soaked by champagne... But she couldn't blame the other party, so she could only quickly sweep away the foam with her hands.

"Oooh, sorry, sorry," comes Kevin Spacey's thespian's ability to improvise, as he helps Tess' character start blowing those bubbles. He put his hand on Melanie's abdomen, and then like a fat pig, he used his mouth to push it up.

"Bob!" Tess yelled, which was over the line.

Seeing that Melanie was about to have an attack, Kevin Spacey quickly let go of his mouth, then brought the champagne bottle to his mouth and took a sip, and immediately went back to the words, "Sorry, you know, hedging arbitrage The department has made a simple introductory textbook for training business school graduates. Why don't I play the videotape if you have any questions..."

"That's good..." Tess thought to herself, maybe Bob was just a little impatient and still wanted an assistant...

"Ah...ah...", the videotape that Spacey put into the car TV began to jump out of the screen. The above is not a hedging and arbitrage textbook at all, but a confession video, in which a man and a woman are having sex in an outdoor swimming pool...

"Hahahaha...that's the wrong video, unless of course you want to see this..." Spacey's frantic and borderline temperament came into play, and the serious financial elite who had just been a serious financial elite instantly turned into a pervert.

"Bob, are you really looking for an assistant?" Melanie Griffith's tone made the audience feel that this was not the first time she had encountered this kind of harassment.

"Well... not now, but I will always open the door to those who are hungry, as long as they are willing..." The Bob played by Spacey is indeed and suitable for his own temperament, he can talk nonsense, and he is very Can make people believe him.

"Bob, I'm very hungry, but not that kind of hungry..." Tess didn't want to exchange her body for an opportunity. If she wanted, she had had it before. She wanted to be a real manager, capable of doing a good job, not a man's vassal vase.

"Excuse me, can you pull over here?" Griffith said to the camera. When the audience saw this part, they felt that she was talking to the driver.

Then Griffith picked up the champagne and shook it vigorously several times. The champagne foam gushed out and sprayed all over Spacey's face.

"Hahaha, your party, Bob."

"Cut!" Seeing Spacey's embarrassed face, Griffith was about to open the door and go out, but Ronald stopped.

The two actors performed very well in this section. Ronald didn't want to shoot it again because Spacey's suit was wet and his hairstyle and makeup were ruined by the champagne. If he shot it again, it would take a lot of time to do it again.

"Thank you, Kevin, today's scene was great."

"I had a lot of fun acting, give me a bigger role next time..." Kevin Spacey laughed, it's always good to let Ronald owe someone a favor.

Ronald owed more than one favor, the original actress for the next scene also stood up. Ronald had to ask for help from his old friend, Olympia Dukakis, who played the mother in "Moonlight".

Dukakis was in Boston, and when she heard the call, she came to guest-star as the manager of an employment agency without saying a word.

"Why are you in Boston? I thought you were doing public relations in Los Angeles?" Ronald was puzzled that she didn't continue to do public relations for the Oscar Best Supporting Actress, but came to the East.

"Didn't you read the newspaper? My cousin Michael, the governor of Massachusetts, announced his candidacy for the presidency, and I came to support him and get some coverage by the way."

"Ah? Oh", Ronald really didn't know about this. In fact, this cousin Michael Dukakis and Olympia were not the kind of cousins ​​who were close. Michael Dukakis is the second descendant of Greek immigrants to become governor in the United States.

After he took office in 1983, Massachusetts' economy experienced a strong recovery, with unemployment falling from more than 12% in 1975 to less than 3%, and tax revenue also increased significantly due to the incubation of high-tech companies at Harvard and MIT.

However, unlike Vice President George, his cousin is the governor of the Donkey Party.

"Who cares? I won't miss any exposure opportunities now. I'd rather go too far than regret it." Olympia Dukakis knew very well that this might be the best chance of her life to get a little golden man.

"It's hard to say about Oscar, but you have my vote." Ronald was still very satisfied with the actor.

"Tess, Tess, Tess, you can't get a promotion just because you call your manager a pimp." Olympia Dukakis's makeup is completely different from that of the housewife in "Moonlight". Her hair is tied up and has a very professional hairstyle of light blonde. Two black gemstone earrings inlaid in gold, with light lipstick and light spots, and a white shirt with a large lapel, are another typical strong outfit, the favorite of professional women.

"But he is just a pimp." Griffith felt wronged.

"Look, this is the third time I have found a job for you in six months." Dukakis acted like a senior manager of an employment agency.

"I am already 30 years old. I spent a long time to get a night school diploma. I can do this job well. Ask my previous manager, even Lutz, can they say that Tess made mistakes at work?"

"I don't think they will say anything good for you," Dukakis shook his head slightly. The role of Tess is very interesting. Although she is 30 years old, she is still very naive in some places.

She looked at the computer on the other side and typed a few times in a pretentious manner, "There is a job here. The manager has just been transferred from Boston to the M\u0026A department. His name is Parker and he will start work on Monday."

"Thank you"

"Tess," Dukakis handed over the information and emphasized, "Go home and calm down. This is the last time I can help you. If you mess up again this time, you will be out."

"Cut!" Ronald was really satisfied with the performance of these drama actors. As long as they were familiar with how to perform in front of the camera, it would be very smooth.

"Hahaha, I will vote for you." Melanie Griffith and Dukakis had a good feeling for each other. The reactions they gave to each other were great regardless of the time and intensity of emotions. "Would you like some cookies? The director's secret recipe at home is delicious."

"Oh, it's good. I didn't have this when I filmed for him last time." Olympia Dukakis ate several cookies that Ronald brought.