Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 261 Call Me Spiccoli
The time saved allowed Ronald to take a few more shots.Assistant Director Al, for the shots that were originally assigned to be shot in the next two days, as long as there are two heroines or two male protagonists participating, try to advance as much as possible.

"Cut!" Ronald finished shooting another segment, and after confirming with the director of photography, Ronald called the next one.

Not hearing the expected answer from the assistant director, Ronald looked back.It was the resident representative of the trade union, who stood behind and pointed to his wrist.

"Oh, it's almost five o'clock in the morning." Ronald suddenly realized that actors can only participate in filming for 8 hours a day, which is the iron law of the actors' union.Filming in Los Angeles will be supervised by union representatives.

After discussing with the assistant director Al, the crew announced that the filming was over, and everyone took the notice sheet for tomorrow night's filming and began to gradually leave the scene.

The lighting team took out a headlight and illuminated the ground at the gate downstairs, so that the exiting actors and staff would not trip because they couldn't see the steps clearly.

This is the method used by experienced technicians in other crews shooting night scenes, and Ronald left it to the assistant director team for coordination.

Ronald stared at the photography team by himself, unloaded the finished film from the machine, carefully packed it, and locked it on the box, so that the full-time film runner would send it to the printing factory to be developed into a positive film.Tomorrow you will be able to see the samples taken today.

During the first week of the filming, Ronald specially rented a movie theater in the shopping mall to show daily samples, so that every actor can see the moving images he shot yesterday on the spot.

"Crack...crack..." A young man in the photography team was struggling with the camera. The manufacturing process of this UltraCam movie camera is really not very good, and it takes a lot of strength to disassemble the parts.

"Be careful" the director of photography went up to give pointers.

"This is the shooting plan for tonight." The second assistant director, a female staff member, handed Ronald the shooting plan for the next day.

"There is Sean Penn in the video game hall, and the scene of Hamburg across the United States, as well as Judge Reinhold, and Eric Stoltz." Ronald browsed through the filming plan, and called a A crew assistant asked, "Has Sean Penn arrived in Los Angeles? When did he fly from Chicago, go check it out."

All the shooting equipment has been packed, and the personnel have gradually withdrawn from the shooting location. The prop team is cleaning up some posters that were pasted during the shooting, and the remaining second assistant director has to stay for inventory.She gets a hefty stipend of one hour a day for it.

Ronald greeted Al, Matthew and other team leaders who were sorting out the equipment, and then left the mall.

A red sun is rising, the morning in Los Angeles is beautiful, and everything is a new day.

Ronald, who had slept for five hours, showed up in the shooting office of the shopping mall on time that afternoon.Shooting a movie is a high-intensity job, and there is very little sleep time every day, especially for the boss of the crew-the director.

The quality of sleep can only be used to top it off, and you can still take a vacation after the filming is over.

"Hello, Sean. Welcome to the crew. Your role tonight is..." Ronald handed over the filming plan to Sean Penn, who just flew to Los Angeles from Chicago the day before yesterday.

"Call me Spiccoli." Sean Penn said to Ronald in an exaggerated tone.

"what?"

"My name is Spiccoli, man, and I will win this year's Los Angeles Surf Grand Prix." Sean Penn replied in the tone of a character in the play.

"Very good." Ronald praised, Sean Penn's acting skills are very vivid, a high school student who often smokes and gets high, dreams of winning the surfing award all day long, can be portrayed in a few words.

And he looks a little silly, his brows are deliberately frowned, as if doubting life, very similar to the characters in the script.

"Very good, Sean, keep it like this." Ronald told his assistant, "Let the hairdresser come and put on a wig for him to see the effect."

Sean Penn seemed not to hear what Ronald said, and was still immersed in the role, looking around at the surrounding decorations, "Hey, buddy, do you have french fries here?"

"Yes, during filming, the staff of the fast food restaurant will still go to work and provide supper for the crew."

"French fries, hahaha, delicious."

Ronald smiled, this Sean Penn is quite dedicated.

Soon the hair stylist came in with two wigs, "This is a full-wear type, and this is a combination of two pieces, with a hair piece on top and a wig around it."

"Sean, please ask the hair stylist to try on your makeup." Ronald was very polite to the crew, always saying please and thank you.

Sean Penn ignored him at all, as if he didn't hear.

"Sean, Sean?" Ronald called out several times, then looked back at the hairdresser, and found that she didn't know what was going on.

"Sean!" Ronald called again, louder.

"Call me Spiccoli, man."

"Spicoli?"

"Yes, what do you want me to do?"

"Please try these two wigs." Ronald asked tentatively.

"All Right!" Sean Penn sat down cooperatively, and the hair stylist worked on his head.

"This one has a wig on top to increase the volume of his hair on top, and the bottom is a wig starting from the ear and extending the hair. This is a fully covered wig to tie up Sean's real hair. "

"Which do you find comfortable? Sean?" Ronald felt that the effect of the two wigs was acceptable.

Sean Penn showed a silly expression again and remained silent.

"Spicoli? Which wig do you find comfortable?"

"This one makes my head tied very tightly, but this one is still comfortable." Sean Penn pointed to the two-piece wig and said.

"You take him to his dressing room, thank you." Ronald said to the hairstylist.

Sean Penn walked out with his hair stylist.

"Huh..." Ronald heaved a long sigh. This Sean Pan, maybe he used methods to get into the drama too deeply, and he was dazed?On the set, people are not allowed to call him by his real name, but by his character name.

If other technicians perform poorly, they can use the authority of the director, and they can make dictatorial decisions about whether they should be criticized or replaced.

Actors are the only ones. Movies need their performance.Actors are sensitive creatures, and to get them to perform well they sometimes have to be coaxed.

"The name of this dressing room is wrong, my name is Spiccoli."

Ronald heard Sean Penn's voice again, and walked out of the office to have a look.Sean lost his temper at the door of the dressing room, tore off the paper with "Sean Penn" printed on it, then got a piece of paper, wrote "Spicoli" with a pen, and pasted it on the door.

"Hey", Ronald covered his face and sighed.Anyway, it's not a big problem, let him make trouble.

Finally it was time for the evening shoot.Today's shooting scene is in the video game hall on the third floor of the shopping mall.It's filled with kids and teenage extras, and everyone's having fun and playing games for free.

"Camera to this game of Missile Command, Sean, no, Spiccoli takes off his shirt, watch the kid with change play here."

"Missile Commander" is an arcade game developed by Atari that is very popular right now.As the missile commander, the player has to counterattack the USSR nuclear missiles flying in the sky. As the game progresses, more and more incoming missiles are coming, and in the end there is only destruction.

Ronald specially picked this most popular game to appear.

"O...K..." Sean Penn still replied in that drawn-out tone.

"You pull him from behind and ask him to return the 25 cents that Spiccoli lent you." Ronald said to the young actor who played with Sean Penn.

"Then you, Si... Piccoli, point your finger at his chest as if threatening him, and play a joke on him. You're a poor man, not a villain who bullies schoolchildren. OK?"

"O...K..."

"Recording? Camera? Action!"

The recording rod stretched out and recorded the music of the arcade game and the explosion of the player exploding the incoming nuclear missile.

Sean Penn's performance is very real.When the child pulled him from behind, his reaction was very natural. He was surprised at first, then wanted to attack, and finally saw that it was a child, and returned to the state of indifference, which satisfied Ronald.

"Very good, print this one, let's do it again."

"Spicoli, play another way."

Sean Penn made an OK gesture to indicate acceptance.

This time his performance was different. When he was pulled by the child, he still looked down at the screen of the game console, not paying much attention to it. When he saw that it was the child who had "borrowed" a coin, he showed a little disdain. A good-hearted demeanor.

Then he pointed to the child's chest, making a threatening gesture, and finally moved his fingers up, pressed the other's nose, and then messed up the child's hair with his hands.

The child actor's reaction was brought out by him, and while smiling, he said to him relentlessly, "Hi, Come on" and put his hand on Spicoli's hand to prevent him from rubbing it.

"Cut!" Ronald was more satisfied with this one.

"These method actors, although they have many eccentricities, can perform new ideas every time."

Actors mainly act out their own reactions based on the reactions of their counterparts.If you perform according to a certain formula every time, every time after the first time, the reaction will be more and more deviated from reality.

Because you have already predicted what the other party will do.

Spiccoli... No, the great thing about Sean Penn is that he can perform different feelings in each line, and it also stimulates the natural reactions of the actors who play with him.

The audience is very sensitive to unnatural and contrived performances. Ronald is very satisfied with this kind of actor who can perform natural reactions.

"Very good, everyone rests for 10 minutes, and the photography team re-sets up the machine. Next, we will take a group of close-ups on the screen of the game console."

Ronald gave instructions, and today's filming progressed smoothly.

"Papa..." Everyone applauded.

It seems to be inspired by the applause yesterday, and now every time a high-quality shooting is completed, the staff and actors will spontaneously applaud and congratulate.

Because it boosts morale, the actors who have completed the filming feel that they have done a great thing, and they feel more confident and relaxed about their performance.Ronald didn't intervene, which became a practice of the "fast paced" crew.

"Recording? Camera? Action!"

After setting up the camera, Ronald called the start command again.

Sean Penn started to play the game against the game console, and the camera started to take pictures of his game from the side and rear.

"Cut!"

Sean Penn called a stop.

"What's the problem? Spiccoli?" Ronald popped from behind the camera.

"Who is that? I can't meet unrelated strangers when I'm filming."

"Sorry, Sorry, I just wanted to come and see the filming." A mall security guard exited the crowd while apologizing.

"I'll arrange it for other shows next time, so you step back first." Ronald still had a pleasant expression on the mall's security guards.

"Clear, Spiccoli, there are no strangers now, can you start?"

"O...K..."

Ronald shook his head. These methods send actors with great ability and quirks.Sean Penn is not bad, and he must satisfy his request no matter what.

These quirks of his are also for the sake of getting into the show.It is easy to get out of play when there are irrelevant people present.Forbidding people to call him by his real name is also to enter Spiccoli's state at any time.

Ronald tolerated these innocuous eccentricities.

"Recording? Camera? Action."

Spiccoli started playing "Missile Commander" again, and the game console made the sound of Biu Biu Biu.

"Cut!"

This time it was Matthew, the director of photography, who called for a temporary stop.

"what happened again?"

(End of this chapter)