Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Be careful not to damage the director's painting. Use special tape made by the director's company, the kind that is attached to the wallpaper. This way, when you dismantle and restore it, the four paintings and the wallpaper will not be damaged. If you damage the painting , I can’t afford to deduct all your wages.”

The filming returned to the two-story mansion, where the set crew was carefully putting the Andy Warhol paintings that Ronald bought on the walls. The leader of the set team knew that Ronald had spent a lot of money to buy it, and he began to scold the loaders who did not know the importance of it.

"Let me tell you, this is not a painting, this is a printed matter. Don't bully us for not knowing. I have worked in a printing factory before. How much does this thing cost? I think it costs up to fifty dollars a piece. It's not like a painter can paint. "An Italian set designer didn't believe it and touched it.

"Don't move, you dirty hands. Your price multiplied a thousand times is more than enough. You can't afford to lose all your wages."

"Fifty thousand dollars? Has the director been deceived? I can print dozens of copies of this thing in an afternoon." The set worker suddenly opened his hand and said, "These rich people are so stupid. They were deceived into buying this kind of garbage as a treasure." ”

…

"A!"

After Ronald started shouting loudly, Harrison Ford picked up Ronald's private collection of top-grade cigars, took a puff, puffed out expensive smoke, pointed to the green screen of the computer on his left and said, "Walls Baotai’s operating return rate should be 8%, not 6%.”

He was sitting on a modernly designed desk. The desk lamp was improved by the lighting engineer and turned into a lighting source. The smoke had a hazy effect on Melanie Griffey, who was wearing a white vest and looking at him. Si's eyes became even more confused.

"The National Communications Commission (FCC) has suspended the approval of Memphis Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Metro Radio... Your information is out of date. The FCC approved this new application last Friday, and Metro Radio's valuation increased by 30%."

Ronald stared at the performances of the two actors behind the camera. Harrison Ford still played himself as always, with a deep and masculine voice that fascinated people. Melanie Griffith looked at each other with a look on her face. I can see that my heart is rippling.

Harrison Ford also noticed something strange about the other person. A man and a woman were working overtime. Occasionally they looked at each other and understood each other's intentions. Although there was not enough time to get together right away, they knew that the other person was willing to be with him. The feeling is extremely sweet.

Such a scene was deliberately set up mainly to arouse the adult audience's yearning for beautiful love and pave the way for the subsequent sex scene.

"Let's get back to work." Harrison Ford took the initiative to stand up and pour water. If this continued, Jack and Tess would be on fire.

Melanie Griffiths touched her lips with her tongue after the other party stood up. This small gesture was in line with the heart of a secretary who wanted to change herself. If she hadn't pretended to be a manager, it would have been impossible for her to work with someone of Jack Traynor's level, no matter how great her idea was.

"Cut!" Ronald was very satisfied with Melanie Griffith's small movements that fit the character's identity, "

"Giggle, okay." Melanie Griffiths has recovered very well from the previous filming accident, and now her daily performances have returned to the pre-accident level.

"A!"

Soon, the camera switched to a close-up shot, focusing on the two actors, and filmed their scene twice.

The assistant handed Harrison Ford another cigar of similar length and asked Harrison Ford to smoke it again. Then Melanie Griffiths licked her lips at the camera, raised her chin slightly, and monologued to the camera, "I think we're ready."

This sentence is both a comment on work and a pun on the relationship between men and women.

"Cut!"

"Ronald, your cigars are really good. I rarely smoke good cigars or cigarettes on set, and I don't even prepare good props." Harrison Ford was full of praise for Ronald's cigars.

"Take it if you like it. It was given to me by Goldberg, the president of Fox." In order to ensure the accuracy of the details, Ronald used real and expensive brands for the cigarettes, cigars, and red wine and champagne in the film. People on Wall Street can't find fault.

"Ahem, don't smoke here, the director's famous painting is going to be smoked." Melanie Griffiths hit Harrison Ford's arm affectionately to prepare for the next sex scene.

"Famous paintings?" Harrison Ford looked at the four paintings beside the stairs. His expression was strange, as if he was asking Ronald why he bought such prints.

"I bought this at a charity auction. It's just right for the setting..." Ronald didn't want to look at the painting he bought from David Geffen, which made him bleed a lot, and quickly changed his words, "Get ready, wait. Next time we go to the bedroom to film the sex scene.”

"Do you want us to have a glass of champagne?" Harrison Ford looked at Melanie and asked.

"I don't need that." Melanie Griffith smiled provocatively, as if to say, I can shoot a sex scene with America's biggest male star without having to brew emotions, and then asked: " Do you want it?"

"Oh, then I don't need to either."

In the next room, the director of photography had asked the lighting team to set up the lights in advance. After a while, the two actors in pajamas entered the bedroom.

In addition to lighting, sound recording, and Ronald, as well as the director of photography Ballhaus who personally took the shots, and the managers of the two actors, the scene was still cleared.

Seeing that there were no extra people on the scene, Ronald raised his hand and said to the two actors: "Please..."

Harrison Ford took off his pajamas first. He was only wearing a pair of underwear. He took protective measures and wrapped his lower body with a blanket.

Melanie Griffith was even more bold. She took off her pajamas and walked to the big bed on the scene. She did not hesitate to lift the quilt, then got in, and then half-draped the quilt over her body.

"You are in great shape today," Melanie's manager Phyllis Carlisle gave her a thumbs up.

"Ms. Griffith", Harrison Ford's manager was personally selected by his wife, and came over to signal Melanie to pull the quilt up a little.

Melanie Griffith's carefully designed trick was now discovered, and she looked at Ronald behind the camera. This is an R-rated film. If she can have a performance that is talked about in the sex scene with Harrison Ford, she will become a long-term topic. Phyllis Carlisle has already calculated with her.

"Please..." Ronald also made a gesture of pulling up, then stretched out his finger to Phyllis Carlisle and shook it, "No tricks..." Finally, he waved her over and whispered a few words in her ear.

"No, no, I promise there won't be any tricks... She didn't notice just now," Phyllis agreed immediately, and went up to help Melanie tuck in the quilt, so that only her shoulders and upper back were exposed.

"Harrison's wife specifically told me to do it..." Phyllis Carlisle explained to her client Melanie. Harrison Ford's wife is watching very closely. This is not only a matter of jealousy, but also involves a big star like Harrison Ford, who cannot act in any indecent scenes.

If he had exposed his nipples, even if it was Melanie Griffith, the actress who was acting opposite him, it would be hyped by the media, so he would never allow it to appear, and such a scene would not even pass the inspection of the distributor.

"A!"..

The door was opened, and Harrison Ford, with a blanket wrapped around his waist and takeaway in his hand, walked in with a somewhat ridiculous pace. He put the takeaway down and then kissed Melanie, who was lying on the bed, deeply.

His two hands were very gentlemanly on both sides of Melanie's head, like a standard push-up posture. The kiss between the two was also very restrained, and they only kissed briefly. But both eyes were full of emotion at the same time, and the control of professional actors could make people feel at ease.

The two kissed for several seconds, then separated, and Melanie Griffith put a finger on Harrison Ford's chin.

"Why do you have a scar here?" Melanie Griffith improvised.

Ronald clearly saw a flash of surprise in Harrison Ford's eyes.

"In Detroit, someone took out a knife and hit me..." The scar was not made by a makeup artist, but Harrison Ford's real scar, on his chin. I guess in real life, many women have asked him this question.

"Really?" Melanie Griffith played this kind of easily deceived woman who didn't have much social experience, which was really realistic. The surprised expression on her face was obviously a natural reaction after hearing Harrison Ford's nonsense.

Ronald quickly gestured to the staff on the scene not to stop, as this opportunity for real performance was rare.

"Ha, no..." Harrison Ford's expression suddenly changed. Women like to hear all kinds of stories. This tough character seems to be unbelievable to Melanie, so let's change to a rebellious one.

"I had a girlfriend before. She wanted to pierce my ears, but it was so painful that I passed out and fell into the bathtub and broke my chin."

"Well, haha..." The character of Tess just didn't have the opportunity to get along with rich and socially prominent men, so she was a little naive, but she was not stupid and immediately realized that this was another story.

The two laughed for a while, and Melanie Griffith licked her lips again and cleared her throat, "Well... I have something to tell you."

Melanie Griffith swallowed her saliva in front of the camera, and she licked her lips nervously, which made the image of a woman who wanted to tell her lover that she was a secretary and was particularly nervous vivid.

"Dududu..." At this moment, the phone next to her rang.

The two looked at each other, and Jack got up to pick up the phone when he saw that Tess didn't say it immediately.

"Hello... Hi... I know... I can't wait, I'll pick you up when you come back..."

The voice coming from the phone was a woman's. Melanie Griffith was on the side, and she raised her chin to the camera. According to the plot, Tess heard that it was a woman calling, and bitter emotions climbed onto Tess's face.

"Me too, bye..." Harrison Ford put down the phone, looked at Melanie Griffith's disappointed face, and wanted to kiss her again.

Melanie Griffith raised her head, and before she went to kiss him, she got emotional again, so she turned over and buried her head in the pillow.

"Cut!"

"Oh, Shxt!" Ronald cursed inwardly, not knowing whether Melanie Griffith did it on purpose or Harrison Ford's push-ups were very strenuous and messed up the quilt. In the end, when Melanie Griffith turned over, she still briefly exposed one side.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't do it right..." Melanie Griffith immediately apologized to the director and Harrison Ford, and her tone was full of nervousness. Her improvisation had brought out Harrison Ford's excellent rivalry, but the final intentional or unintentional turn.

Harrison Ford pouted, he actually wanted to keep this part, which was a rare burst of his acting skills in this movie. This plot is very similar to his own personality, a handsome guy who is very popular with women, has a cowboy personality, and likes to brag, just like Han Solo in Star Wars.

"Harrison, this is an honest mistake... Melanie and your chemistry will make the audience fall in love on the screen. I will keep this one. If you don't mind, I will keep the long shot. This is very difficult. The shot that is swept by the God of Movies may only appear once or twice in a movie."

"Well, actually I don't mind that much. I also think the acting is good. If you want, I will agree to keep it." Harrison Ford doesn't mind this kind of scene that is less than half a second. As long as the plot is reasonable and not deliberately showing off, such a shot will not meet the R rating. Besides, it's not self-exposure.

"Let's continue..."

Ronald waved his hand to let the two continue to pose.

"Well, there is a woman, and I have actually broken up with her. Well, technically, I haven't broken up yet. I was going to break up with her, but she broke her leg when she went skiing. I think in this case, I can't add insult to injury."

Melanie Griffith half raised her head. The more she listened, the more wrong it was. Why is this plot so familiar?

"She actually works in the same company as you, in the same department. You mentioned her name when we first talked on the phone."

"Oh, Catherine..."

"Yeah, Parker"

Tess, played by Melanie Griffith, turned her head and buried it in the pillow. She didn't expect that her partner was actually her boss Catherine's ex-boyfriend, well, technically not an ex-boyfriend.

"What were you going to say just now?" Jack, played by Harrison Ford, remembered what Tess was going to say before answering the phone.

"Hey..." Tess, who buried her head in the pillow, sighed, "Oh... nothing, not important."

"Cut!"

Ronald gave the two actors a thumbs up. The two got up and put on their pajamas, and laughed happily.

Actors actually don't have a very accurate feeling about whether they are filming well on the spot. Ronald's reaction undoubtedly tells them that they are acting well.

This bed scene is a classic, "I have a secret to tell you, but forget it" segment, which paved the way for Catherine to come back and expose Tess's identity secret later.

However, the audience doesn’t really care about this kind of old-fashioned plot if the actors can act naturally. It doesn’t matter if the plot is old, the key is to act it in a new way.

…

At noon, I had a famous Greek restaurant with them, and continued to shoot in the room in the afternoon.

After the bed scene, Harrison Ford left first. Next was Tess’s part. She also heard that Catherine was coming back.

In a hurry, she took Catherine’s custom dress that she “borrowed” to dry cleaning.

“A total of $120,” a Chinese extra, who played the owner of the dry cleaning shop, said to Tess.

“Here you go,” without questioning the expensive price, Tess opened her wallet, counted a few bills and handed them over, then took the clothes wrapped in plastic bags and ran away in a hurry.

Then she replenished the food she had eaten in the refrigerator and restored the things in the big refrigerator as much as possible.

Finally, she cleaned the room and vacuumed the dust.

Wearing a white shirt, a black skirt, and a messy hair, Melanie Griffith turned on the vacuum cleaner imported from Japan and cleaned the room in slippers.

"Cut!"

Ronald felt that the beauty in this messy state was also very sexy. When he got the right shot, he would call a halt and end today's shooting.

"Director, I don't think this scene is very real..."

Melanie Griffith came over, nervously folded her hands, swallowed her saliva, and came over to Ronald to express her ideas.

"What do you mean?" Ronald raised his eyebrows. He was a little confused. Was the bed scene of this woman really unintentional or acting to get out of the spotlight.

"I don't know what you think, but a single woman will not be dressed neatly like a maid when vacuuming at home. Usually, I vacuum in my underwear at home."

Melanie Griffith gestured and expressed her thoughts.

"Really?" Ronald touched his chin. This reason was indeed reasonable. He asked a few young women in the crew. Sure enough, they were in a different mental state when they were alone at home and when someone was at home. When you are single, you don't care about being seen at home. It is really redundant to wear work clothes to clean the house.

"Okay, do it according to your idea." Ronald was persuaded by Melanie and took another cleaning shot.

After a while, Melanie Griffith came out wearing a high-V underwear and a pair of white high heels. She was prepared. She didn't let herself show her sexiness in the bed scene just now. She also had a reasonable reason for this vacuuming shot. It should be okay.

"Hmm..." Ronald also swallowed his saliva. This outfit is really... too coquettish. The key is the high heels. It is much sexier than nothing.

"It seems that she has prepared for it, but there can't be too many scenes, otherwise it will become vulgar." Ronald touched his chin and thought, R-rated movies can have some reasonable desserts, but they can't make people look vulgar.

"I have an idea. Our camera is placed outside the door. This way, it will not invade Tess's psychological space. Just watch a little bit of Tess vacuuming outside."

Ronald quickly thought of a countermeasure. If this kind of housework in underwear is as common as Melanie Griffith said, it must be private. It will only be done by a single woman at home.

So the camera should not invade the psychological space of single Tess, so that the audience will not feel violated. Otherwise, female audiences will definitely feel uncomfortable.

"Cut!"

Several shots were taken outside the door. Melanie Griffith had no choice but to desperately make a few sexy poses with the vacuum cleaner, but it seems that the time that was finally cut in will not exceed one second.

"The director is so cunning... he just doesn't give me screen time." Melanie Griffith complained to her manager Phyllis Carlisle.

"I actually agree with Director Ronald's idea on this point. He knows very well what the audience wants to see. Compared with long shots of your sexy scenes, this glimpse will make male audiences love you more."

Phyllis Carlisle is well-informed. What really attracts male audiences to the cinema and then spreads as a topic for a long time is this kind of very short shot that will be missed if you don't remind yourself to watch it.

"I hope you are right, Phyllis. I hope the scene at the end of the third act will make me more moving."