Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1230 Less comedy, more reality

"Action!"

"Good morning Mr. Garfield, good morning Mr. Garfield..."

Tom Hanks came to the location of Building 7 of the World Trade Center, where Ronald once filmed "Working Girl". This time the filming of "Other People's Money" was welcomed by the management of the World Trade Center.

The fashionable clothes of "working girls" have now become the object of imitation by many workers on Wall Street. Ronald's crew is back again, and the office workers are very enthusiastic about the crew.

What I liked most about Ronald were the secretaries. "Working Girls" is a movie made to vent their anger, and many people are willing to work as extras for free.

This is the scene where Tom Hanks' Mr. Garfield comes out, and when they get to the office, all the employees are very afraid of this boss. It wasn't until he spoke to everyone and asked everyone to go to work that he hurried to his work station.

This fully shows that Garfield is the person who has the absolute final say in the company, and those subordinates do not dare to refute what Garfield says, and they are all tool men.

Garfield is a poor kid from the Bronx. He does whatever it takes to succeed and has very strict requirements for work. He usually works between home and office. He is a person who has no life, only money.

On the surface, this is exactly the opposite of Jorgensen at the New England Cable Factory. Jorgensen talks about being for workers and the community, but in fact he is also an entrepreneur who has the final say. New England Cable's two opportunities to block Garfield's takeover were squandered because of Jorgensen's stubborn adherence to community values.

When they arrived at the office rented by the crew and faced the view of Lower Manhattan outside the window, Tom Hanks read the opening lines of the movie again.

"Action!"

It was already evening when this scene was shot, with Tom Hanks facing the glass wall and playing with a toy spring in his hand. The sound of sizzling, sizzling was recorded on the tape by the recording stick.

The light outside the window has dimmed, but with the compensation from the indoor lighting, some faint outlines can still be seen. The camera looked over and saw several skyscrapers on the opposite block.

"I love money, I love money even more than the things she can buy."

Tom Hanks slowly turned around and faced the camera. He was wearing a tailor-made suit, and no matter how he moved his hands, there was no wrinkle on his shoulders. Hanks half-smiled and continued his lines.

"Money, she doesn't care if I'm good or not, doesn't care if I snore while sleeping, doesn't care if I pray to that god..."

The camera slowly advanced on the track, gradually turning the medium shot into a close shot, and finally settled on Hanks' ordinary face.

"There are only three things in this world that can accept you unconditionally, dogs, donuts, and money...and money is the best of the three...do you know why? Because money will not make you fat, nor will it make you fat." Will poop on your carpet..."

These words are very majestic and humorous. Under the lighting configuration with the main light coming from the top, Tom Hanks's face gives people the feeling of a typical Wall Street banker.

In the close-up of this speech, Ronald specifically referenced the characteristics of Warren Buffy's speech. Not too much sensationalism, not too much exaggeration, just some truths, but giving people a very philosophical feeling.

It makes sense when you listen to it, but after watching the movie, you may not have much memory.

"Cut!"

Ronald stopped filming. Tom Hanks' line skills are very good, and his accent also has the exaggerated tone of Wall Street. For such a character, Wall Street will definitely not question it, saying that such a person is not Like a banker.

The scenes shot here were put together and Diane joined the filming the next day.

"Action!"

"If you want, we can go to court, apply for an injunction, all kinds of court arguments, all kinds of expert witnesses and accusations, and your time is wasted."

Diane also wore a handmade suit, a white shirt, the cuffs protruded half an inch from the black jacket, and the collar was embroidered with handmade lace. The skirt is below the knee, with two slender legs sticking out from the middle. It is paired with black stockings and is decorated with high heels to make it very sexy.

She was holding official documents in her hands and spoke unhurriedly, with a sense of calm unique to lawyers. This is also the style of a female lawyer that Diane imitated after following Lindsay Dole for two weeks.

Lawyers have special rules for how they walk, stand, and speak. They must be seen as a trustworthy professional. All the sexiness must be hidden in the details of various clothing and accessories. You can't use low-cut short skirts and other Hollywood star styles.

"You have to do better, I live in the court." Tom Hanks put on an expression that I guess he is not afraid of. Garfield fell in love with Kate Sullivan at first sight, but when it came to professional matters, business had to be done.

If a banker gives in when threatened by a lawyer, how can he still gain a foothold in a dog-eat-dog place like Wall Street?

"Tap, beep, beep..." Kate, played by Diane, has a very small opening in the skirt, so when she walks, her stride is restricted, making her swaying and very sexy. However, the whole body is only in black and white, and the hairstyle is also a very ordinary bun. It focuses on a kind of sexiness that only those who know the goods can appreciate.

"Well, then I won't love you anymore..."

Kate Sullivan, a girl working hard on Wall Street, couldn't see that Garfield was interested in her. With a half-joking remark, she immediately caught the other's weakness. If you don't agree to suspend the acquisition of New England Cable stock, Kate will no longer represent Cable Company, and Garfield will not have the opportunity to date her.

"Two weeks pause..."

"Suspension of payment contract..."

"Both sides stopped acquiring chips..."

"For two weeks, you are not allowed to buy..."

Diane knelt down, picked up the briefcase, and walked out with a bang, a bang, a bang.

"Oh oh oh...we have finished talking about your things, but we haven't talked about mine yet?"

"What's the matter with you?" Kate, played by Diane, thought Garfield had other businesses that wanted to hire her, so she stopped and stared at the other person and asked.

"You and I, sweating passionately between my satin sheets and quilt..." Tom Hanks also fully expressed the dirty taste of Wall Street bankers.

"Garfield, put your hand between your legs..."

Kate, played by Diane, has been in the money world controlled by men like Wall Street for so many years. She has no problem dealing with this kind of harassment. She still used the cold tone when speaking to the judge and gave Garfield a hard lesson verbally.

"Cut!" - Hanks is a comedian. During a break in filming, he immediately acted up and hid behind art director Polly Platt. Then he glanced at Ronald.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Polly Platt was confused by him and hit him twice.

"I was avoiding the director and I just flirted with his wife..." Tom Hanks pointed at Ronald.

"Pfft...hahahaha..." Everyone burst out laughing.

"Huh?" Ronald, who happened to be chatting with Diane, was a little baffled by the laughter. Seeing that it was Hanks who was making trouble, he couldn't laugh or cry. He took a donut and threw it at him.

"Well..." Tom Hanks took a bite, "It seems that the scale is quite good."

"Tom..." Ronald couldn't stand the comedy star anymore, so he put his arm around his neck and pulled Hanks out of the filming room as if he wanted to settle a score with him. "Tom, you have a little problem. Let's talk alone..."

Ronald took him to the adjacent lounge and closed the door.

"Huh? It's not really the scene between me and Diane..." Tom Hanks was still making fun of it,

"I need you to adjust the ratio of comedy and drama..." Ronald stopped being weird with Hanks and directly stated his thoughts.

"Proportion?" Tom Hanks frowned slightly. Since his debut, he has actually played comedy roles, or roles with comedy elements. This has always been his acting method, and it was naturally adopted in this movie.

"Yes, although this movie has elements of comedy and stage drama, it is a business war drama after all. The most important thing is to make the audience feel real."

Ronald asked a little performance question.

Tom Hanks' previous performances have always been more comedy-oriented. That kind of performance method uses exaggeration and distortion to make the audience laugh. If many of the performances in comedies were taken out individually and put into other movies, the audience would not accept them.

Although Hanks has deliberately reduced this performance method, it will still emerge from his subconscious when he is not intentional.

"I'm not asking you to give up all sense of comedy. This character needs some sense of comedy, but it cannot bring out the feeling that Garfield does not belong on Wall Street but belongs on Broadway."

Ronald knew that Hanks had a very good understanding and the intensity of his performance was also very good. He himself might not be able to provide specific guidance, so he just suggested the necessary directions and let Hanks adjust himself.

"People on Wall Street..." Hanks pondered for a moment, "I think bankers like Bannon usually make some cheap jokes."

"Yes, that's the feeling. Garfield is not a character living in a comedy." Ronald asked Hanks to tone down the exaggeration of the comedy, at least not beyond the scope of a normal banker. It is very appropriate for Hanks to use those cheap jokes as a threshold to measure the intensity of his performance.

During the filming in the next few days, everyone noticed that the actors' performances became more and more outstanding, and the chemical reactions between the main actors became more and more harmonious.

Diane and Hanks have a history of cooperation, and they also imitated professionals on Wall Street for two weeks, so they have specific characters to refer to. The staff at the scene all felt that this movie was becoming more and more accurate in simulating the Wall Street workplace. Maybe there would be another time in the professional field of mergers and acquisitions, but at least those people's feelings were right.

Fast forward to the weekend, and the crew was filming in New York and did not dare to work overtime under the supervision of the union. Toward the end of the year, a chapter of the Screen Actors Guild in New York, which focused on Broadway actors, began planning another strike.

These actors belong to the New York International Theater Stage Employees Union. Because their contracts have expired and they are dissatisfied with the new contracts, they are planning a one-day strike.

Ronald was haunted by the film and television actor's strike a few years ago and was very scared of this. They are basically cooperative with the arrival of the trade union. They also hired many of their members to act as extras.

As soon as Friday morning's filming ended, Ronald announced that the crew would begin cooperating and would go on strike until twelve o'clock tonight.

Ronald and Diane went back to the hotel together, and Ronald stared at Diane's clothes on the way. Today she was wearing a brown plaid suit. It was the kind of skirt that looked elegant and dignified but looked very sexy when she walked.

Diane, who became a mother, has long since regained her slender waist through yoga exercises, but the size from the waist down has increased by another dimension, which is very eye-catching.

"Hi..." Diane felt proud, but she still had to rely on various costumes to attract Brother Ronnie's heart.

"It is estimated that this weekend's box office of The Ghost Story will fall out of the top three." Richard still waited in the hotel every day to report to Ronald.

"It's almost there. It has been released for eighteen weeks." Ronald said with a smile. It would be impossible not to fall again.

"The Love of Ghosts" has been in theaters for a long time. It has been shown in 1,700 theaters and has never fallen out of the top three. The number of theaters and the number of screenings shows that this is a movie that attracts a special audience.

In other words, there are some viewers (according to the survey, most of them are couples, regardless of young or old...) who are always watching this movie. Seeing that the single theater box office dropped below $2,000 last week, Ronald also found Paramount and did a joint promotion.

Any couple who comes to watch a movie can receive a voucher for a movie after next year's Oscars. If they are still a couple by then, they can use this exchange coupon to exchange for two movie tickets.

With this promotional method, the box office rebounded last week, but after this promotion plan is removed this week, it is estimated that it will fall back to less than 2,000 per venue.

Fortunately, there are still some die-hard fans of this movie who watch it over and over again, and it is estimated that it will remain in theaters on a small scale for a few months. The total box office this week has exceeded 190 million. As these release periods slowly accumulate, it is estimated that the domestic box office will exceed 200 million. It will be a matter of course.

“Next week is Thanksgiving weekend and Dances with Wolves is finally getting a big release.”

Richard continued his report. "Dances with Wolves" has been in small-scale release for three weeks. Audiences in various places can only hear the good reviews of the film but cannot buy movie tickets. Their anxiety has been very high.

Next week, Disney will finally have a free schedule, and together with the distribution theater chain signed by Daydream itself, it will be released in 1,400 theaters.

"Hmm... um..." Diane was already a little tired of listening to Richard's report, and she uttered some words of unknown meaning to remind Ronald.

"Let's stop here today." Ronald signaled to Richard that it was okay.

"Okay, I'll come back on Monday morning." Richard left with a smile and closed the door.

"Well...you did a good job..." Diane smiled and put her hand between Ronald's legs. "Let's sweat together on the satin sheets..."

"Hmm..." Ronald couldn't resist the charm of this working girl from the inside out. He immediately picked up Diane's legs, picked her up, walked into the bedroom and threw her in the oversized on the bed.

(End of this chapter)