Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 133 The Famous Italian Director with Some Situations
"The former governor of California, the former famous movie star, announced his participation in the next presidential election." CBS TV is looking back on the acting career of this Hollywood star with the same name as Ronald, and his career in politics.

Ronald put down the pen in his hand, simply stood up and stretched, read the news, and took a rest.

On CBS's political talk show, two guests are arguing over the prospect of a presidential election.After all, California is the base of the entertainment industry, and neither of them is very optimistic that the former governor of California can gain popular support outside of California and win the primary election of the Elephant Party.If a movie star can be the leader, wouldn't the other elites in America be ashamed to the end.

A guest is optimistic about the political star of the Xiang Party, the former ambassador to the United Nations, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.Another guest was partial to the donkey party, emphasizing that it is extremely rare for an incumbent commander-in-chief to lose his re-election.

Listening to the political commentary program, Ronald was actually waiting for the old movies in classic theaters.During this period of time, Ronald didn't spend much energy on other courses except classic movie appreciation. Anyway, his usual performance was enough to pass.

After watching dozens of classic films from the golden age of Hollywood, and then borrowing the scripts of several of them from Julia Taylor, Ronald compared the final film with the content of the script one by one, and gained some perceptual knowledge of how to write a script .

All the content written in the script must be filmed in a way. You can't write a sentence "Adam saw the pocket watch left by his father and couldn't help but think that he was a kind person." The camera can only capture Adam's expressions, His thoughts and memories cannot be directly photographed.Even if flashbacks are used to express memories, it is impossible to photograph what is called a kind person.

There is a golden saying in Hollywood: "Show, Don't tell." This is the basic principle of script writing.To show a person's kindness, you can film him giving some money to a beggar, or helping an old lady cross the road, all of which should be written in the script.

In Scorsese's class, Ronald likes Billy Wilder's movies the most. Not only are the plots fascinating, but there are often several reversals at the end, which is very enjoyable to watch.It's a pity that his film was shot early, and the casting studio didn't have a script to compare with. Ronald was deeply regretful.

So after Ronald watched the movie, he started writing the synopsis.Summarize the plot of the entire movie in a few hundred words.This is also a way to train your own screenwriting skills.

Scorsese played Orson Welles' famous work "Citizen Kane" two days ago.This movie has long been forgotten, and it has only been strongly promoted by director Peter Bogdanovich in recent years, making people in the film industry realize his value again.

Ronald was very involved. "Citizen Kane" told a suspense story. A newspaper tycoon died and said a word "rose stamen" before he died. The movie tried to understand the meaning of this word from different people. true meaning.

It was announced in the newspaper that CBS will show another Orson Welles movie "Touch of Evil" tonight. In addition to the regular video, Ronald also intends to have a sneak peek.

"Ring, ring, ring..." the phone rang.

It's Julia Taylor from the casting studio.

"Ronnie, Endless Love has been taken over by Polygram, Casablanca Records is out, they've signed Franco Zeffirelli, an Italian director, and he's coming tomorrow to talk about casting, You come too."

The original producer, Keith Barish of Casablanca Records, did not bring in Paul Schrader to direct the film after all.PolyGram saw that they couldn't even handle a new director who had turned from a screenwriter, so they simply invested and bought the filming rights of Casablanca Records, and then kicked them out and became the production company themselves.

PolyGram's idea is very simple and crude. Since this is a Romeo and Juliet-style teenage love story, then find Franco Zeffirelli, who directed the 1968 version of "Romeo and Juliet", to shoot.

The rich and powerful Polygram spent money on the Italian director. In addition to directing some movies adapted from classic Shakespeare plays, his main job is to be an opera director.This is the first time directing a modern drama.

Although the story of the novel takes place in Chicago, Polygram plans to put the main shooting location in a studio in New York and a house in Long Island for on-site shooting.So Julia Taylor's New York casting studio still got the deal.

Ronald promised that Julia would be at the casting studio tomorrow morning.Putting down the phone, the CBS commercial just ended and the classic theater program began.

The beginning of "Beautiful Woman" is very attractive. When the opening music is played and the subtitles are flowing upwards, the plot is also unfolding.A man put a time bomb in the trunk of a car and gave a close-up set for 3 minutes.

Then the car starts to move slowly among many pedestrians. The protagonist, a Mexican police detective, and his newly married American wife also walk around the car.Time passed slowly, the music gradually stopped, and the subtitles came to the end. Suddenly, with a bang, the bomb exploded, killing the owner of the car and the beauties in the car.

"This subtitle is not very good. It just finished playing, and the time bomb should have exploded. The audience was actually hinted by the end of the subtitle and the stop of the background music. They already knew that the bomb was about to explode, and there was less suspense and shock. Ronald wrote down his analysis in his notebook.

After watching "Beautiful Woman", Ronald was ready to rest.This movie is really a bit strange. In some places, the plot and editing are skipped, and it seems that a lot of scenes have been cut.

Ronald had heard the anecdote from Scorsese.In Hollywood back then, studios owned editing rights, and directors were often not allowed to enter the editing room.Artistic quality is not considered at all. The studio boss wants speed and commercial value.Once it is cut, it will be released immediately. If it doesn’t work, it will be replaced.Warner Bros. Boss Quote "I don't want a good movie, I want it to come out next Tuesday."

Fortunately, the managers of these old studios are all old and dead, to Francis Coppola, and Martin Scorsese, Spielberg, George Lucas, these new directors Good luck, now that Hollywood respects directors' artistic pursuits very much, who makes the movies made by these directors who value art very popular?
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Franco Zeffirelli was a little old man, wearing a pair of gold spectacles with thin gold chains on the temples, which went around a scarf at the back of his neck so that he could take it off and hang it on his chest. Will not lose before.

Franco Zeffirelli has a lot of fans in America because of his extraordinary style and great artistic achievements.

Apart from "Romeo and Juliet", his most familiar work to American audiences is Shakespeare's famous "The Taming of the Shrew" starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

However, Ronald found that the little old man's eyes were a bit strange. When he looked at the photos of actors prepared by Julia Taylor, he treated actresses quite normally, but when he saw the photos of male actors, his eyes lit up, and he was still I will slowly rub the photos with my hands.

This kind of behavior regardless of the occasion made Ronald feel a chill, and he couldn't help but stay away from him.

"What do you think of the casting of the heroine?" Franco Zeffirelli didn't seem to notice Ronald's little trick, took a few photos and asked everyone's opinion.

The English of the Italians is very good, and there is no accent.Franco Zeffirelli himself said that he learned English from British nuns when he was a child, and worked as an interpreter for the rice army during World War II.

Before anyone from the casting studio could answer, another woman who was with her was the first to say, "Please Franco, we can't cast Brooke Stoudemire as the heroine, Jade. Her acting skills are not good enough for the role of Jade." For such a complicated role, Hollywood has no shortage of good young actors."

The woman who spoke was the supporting actress first decided, Shirley Knight.In the "Endless Love" movie, she will play the heroine Jed's mother Ann. This role is a complete liberal. In addition to approving her daughter's relationship with her boyfriend David when she was underage, she finally tried to seduce David. .

Shirley Knight is a veteran amphibious actress who has performed in movies, TV shows, and Broadway, and has served as a producer for many TV and Broadway.

She was the first to be finalized by PolyGram this time, and she meant to use her rich production and performance experience to help the producer watch the director.

After all, Polygram is a layman. They entered the film industry, more or less bewitched by Peter Guber, the director of the film department of the original Casablanca Records.And Peter Guber is on good terms with Shirley Knight.

"What do you recommend? Shirley?" Franco Zeffirelli actually had his own considerations about the casting of the heroine, but he was not as persistent as the male lead.

"I think there are a lot of girls in Hollywood these days, all of them have great acting skills, such as Jodie Foster as Taxi Driver, Bo Derek as Perfect, Carrie Fisher as Star Wars, and TV Debra Winger, Jennifer Jason Leigh. They can all be auditioned."

In this, it is actually not the first time that Jodie Foster, Jennifer Jason Lee, and Ronald have heard their names.In the last "Blue Coral Reef", they were also considered as heroines, but they gave up because the director insisted on acting naked, and in the end it was cheaper for Brooke Stoudemire.

Although Hollywood is big, big productions often pursue stability, so the roles of young girls come and go with these few people competing.

"We will send out audition invitations to them as soon as possible." Julia Taylor agreed, then hesitated, and asked, "Boji Xiaosi, do you need an audition invitation?"

"Send it too," Franco Zeffirelli ignored Shirley Knight's complaints about her acting, and decided to find Brooke Stoudemire to audition.

"As for the leading actor, I plan to..." Franco Zeffirelli put on his glasses, found the direction where Ronald was, deliberately looked him up and down a few times, and then said:

"It is better to do a selection audition for the society. This is the publicity strategy proposed by the CEO of Polygram Films Guber. Before the audition of the film has started, let the audience know that the film adaptation of the novel Endless Love is about to start shooting .”

　Start to adjust the update time today, it is still 9:00 in the morning, and it is adjusted to 17:00 in the afternoon.
　
(End of this chapter)