Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 270
The progress of the crew is very fast, the school, the shopping mall, the scenes at Stacy's house, and almost all the exterior scenes have been filmed.The rest of the scattered scenes were performed in Universal's studio.

For example, in Spiccoli's house, there is only a dialogue in the script where he is sleeping on the bed and is woken up by his brother.For such a scene, there is no need to find a real location, and it is cheaper and more efficient to set up the scene in the studio.

The studio is a large building without any pillars under the roof, just like a factory building.In the corner near one side, there is a simple wooden house, which has been renovated into a bedroom set.This is the bedroom that Universal's woodworkers remodeled from sets from other movies.

A crude wooden bed covered with Playboy posters.

"Are we going to pay for these?" Ronald asked, pointing to the largest poster.It was a poster of the sadly deceased model and actress, Dorothy Stratten.

"Yes, in theory, you have to pay for this clear portrait." Producer Lin Sen replied, but Hugh Hefner, the founder of "Playboy" magazine, was happy to see his centerfold girl in the movie, expanding influence of his magazine.So we will reach a symbolic price agreement with him. "

Ronald stared at Stratten's youthful body, and she smiled sweetly at himself on the poster, which had already passed away.

"Let's just commemorate this model who has a relationship with me." Ronald continued to inspect the set with producer Lin Sen.

"I heard that your family will visit the studio today?"

"Yeah, my aunt and cousin, they've never seen a movie being made, I've booked today, the shooting schedule isn't that tight."

"I heard that Sean doesn't like having outsiders around when he's filming?"

"It's okay, I'll hide them where he can't see them."

After watching the scene, Ronald expressed his satisfaction. Dan, the art director, came to prepare several interior scenes a week in advance.

Spiccoli's bedroom is small, befitting his modest family background.There are a lot of surfing-related equipment and magazines in the room, which are also in line with his interests.

"It's time to start lighting." Ronald said to the director of photography Matthew.

The lighting in the studio generally adopts the traditional Hollywood method. When the camera shoots from an angle, the lighting needs to be set once.

Taking advantage of the long lighting time, Ronald went out to wait for his family to arrive.

This was the first time Aunt Karen and Donna came to Los Angeles, and I couldn't pick them up at the airport, nor did I have time to take them to the tourist attractions in Los Angeles.

Fortunately, Aunt Karen and Donna understood him very well, knowing that this was the first directing job that was crucial to Ronald, they found someone to take them for a day, and they came to the studio today to watch Ronald work.

"Hi, Auntie, Donna." Ronald saw his family getting off the taxi from a long distance away.

After hugging them warmly, Ronald showed them around the studio and the scenes to be shot.

"Are you directing movies here?" Donna asked.

"Yes, this is Universal's studio, where the movie 'International Airport' was filmed. The bigger studio next door was where 'King Kong' was shot.

Actors would perform in this fake house and be caught on camera.The long pole with the hairy head is used for recording. What the actors say will be recorded, and then synthesized together in post-production, which is what you see on the screen. "

"Actors perform, photographers shoot, and recording is also in charge of. So what do you do as a director? Just watch from the sidelines?" Donna is a bully in elementary school. She doesn't quite understand why some people have their own duties, and why do you need a director?

"Director, which T-shirt will Spiccoli wear? This white long-sleeved one, or the green short-sleeved one?" When the costume saw Ronald enter the studio, he hurried up and asked him.

"White long-sleeved ones are worn inside, and green short-sleeved ones are worn outside. Surfers often wear them like this." Ronald pointed out Spicoli's outfit in his dream to the costumer.

"I don't do anything, I just make decisions." Ronald answered Donna's question.

"It will take another two hours to set up the lighting. I'll take you around. There are other crews filming here. When we go, don't make any noise to affect other people's filming."

Ronald took Aunt Karen and Donna out of the studio and walked towards a larger studio next to it.

"Here's Dolly Parton's crew filming, she... she's playing a Southern bartender."

It was difficult to explain the play in front of Donna, so Ronald put it another way.

"And I will always love you

I will Always Love You
you

my dear you. "

Just entering the greenhouse, Dolly Parton's iconic country music came. This is the song "I Will Always Love You" she released in 1974, which she used again in this film. Made an episode of "Texas' Best Chick House."

Dolly Parton, in an old Southern dress, was rehearsing, her singing was playing on the radio, and she lip-synced as she performed.

This movie is a musical, and Dolly Parton has to do a lot of dance moves, which will affect the breathing of the singing, so the filming is lip-syncing.

After the song was played, Dolly found Ronald, "Oh, Ronald, you are welcome."

"This is my aunt Karen, and this is Donna. I don't need to introduce this famous lady."

"Hi Dolly, oh, it's really nice to see you in real life."

"Hi Karen, your Ronald makes me jealous."

"What's up with him?"

"He won me at the Oscar, and I have to force him to give me back one in the future." Dolly Parton was born in hardship and knew how to communicate with people like Aunt Karen. Donna laughed coaxingly.

"I've advertised you for free in my movie, Dolly."

Ronald also joked, "I won't bother you anymore, we're going back too."

"Goodbye, honey. I'll see your movie later."

"Dolly Patton doesn't have the airs of a superstar at all, she is very nice." My aunt sighed.

"Yes, I've dealt with her a few times, and sometimes she'll drop by my house while she's waiting for the lighting.

A group of people returned to the studio of the "Fast-paced" crew.

"You will wait in this corner later, so that the actors can't see you. The actors are not used to having people who are not from the crew present when they are performing, and it will hinder them. After the filming is finished and the computer is turned off, I have two weeks of vacation. I have time to talk to you. Let's go around Los Angeles together."

Ronald pointed to the outside of the house, out of view from Sean Penn's angle, and told Aunt Karen and Donna to sit down in their own chairs.

The first assistant director Al knew that they were relatives of Ronald, and told them the main points of watching the filming, and then gave them a plate of snacks.

"Leave us alone, go and do your work." Aunt Karen waved him to work.

Ronald gave a few instructions, then went to sit in the director's chair, waiting for the teams to come over, asking him various questions for him to make a decision.

"Recording? Camera? Action!"

Ronald gave the order.

The door of the prop house was opened, and a little actor walked in and said to Spiccoli, "Get up, Dad said you have to get up, otherwise you will be late again today."

Sean Penn is lying on the prop bed, covered with a quilt.He seemed to be still dreaming, and was very unhappy to be woken up. He reached out to pick up something from the table and threw it towards the door.

"Dad, Dad, Jeff threw something at me." The little actor dodged the thrown object, blocked it with the door, and yelled to find his father.

"Cut!"

"This is a print, the main shot is here, and the over-the-shoulder shot is taken below." The camera moved behind the child actor.

There were only a few shots in Spiccoli's house, and Ronald couldn't focus on shooting, so he had to shoot one in this way and change the direction.

"Is there a stranger here today?" Sean Penn took two breaths and asked Ronald.

"Yes, my family came to see me, and I put them out of your sight so that it doesn't bother you, Spiccoli."

"But I can smell it, it smells like a stranger." Sean Penn muttered a few words.

"Let's go first, Ronnie, I'll wait for you at the hotel." Aunt Karen and Donna, like most ordinary viewers watching the filming, quickly became bored.Lighting for two hours, shooting for 2 minutes.

"I'll ask the driver of the crew to take you off."

"No, we have friends in Los Angeles, and she takes us to various tourist attractions."

Ronald sent his family away and continued filming in the studio.

After two days of shooting in the studio, the last shot of the film was completed.Ronald managed the shooting progress very well, and finally shut down the machine two days earlier than planned.It took seven weeks and four days in total.

The crew moved to Universal's ballroom to hold a shutdown packing party.Cast and crew also bring family or friends to celebrate the end of filming.

Cameron Crowe is joined by girlfriend Nancy Wilson, who makes a cameo as a sports car-driving beauty.

Sean Penn won't let anyone call him Spiccoli anymore, and he's dating Pamela Springsteen from the show.

Heeklyn's husband appears with an ex-boyfriend, and they remain friendly.

Phoebe Cates' boyfriend also came from New York, he was a modeling agent.

Jennifer Jason Leigh, like her character Stacy, wants to ask out extra actor Eric Stoltz.But Stoltz's real girlfriend, Ally Sheedy, was also at the party and kept him under control.

She turned to look at Director Ronald, only to see him with his family, ready to leave.

"Does Ronald have a girlfriend?" Jennifer asked Phoebe Cates, who had become a good friend and best friend.

"I don't know, why, are you interested in him?" Phoebe asked with a smile.

"I just asked, and after the movie was done, I realized he wasn't much older than us."

"Yeah, I heard from my boyfriend that he is a genius. The script was picked up by Jane Fonda, sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and won the Oscar for Best Original Song."

"Hey, who's that new girl? Is it Ronald's girlfriend?" Jennifer suddenly saw a brown-haired girl walking in to join Ronald and his family.

"It seems to be a movie actor too, maybe the heroine of his next movie?"

"Hi, Diane. I didn't expect you to be with Karen and Donna these two days, thank you." Ronald said to Diane Lane who walked into the party.

It turned out that the tour guide Aunt Karen mentioned was Diane who had just finished filming a racing movie in Los Angeles.

"It doesn't matter, Karen is just like my mother. It just so happens that my film is finished, and the new film has not yet entered the group, so I will play with them."

"Oh, Bert has a new film for you again?"

"It's a TV movie about a beauty pageant winner."

Finally getting rid of the role of a child, Ronald looked at Diane, who seemed to have grown a little taller, and his face was also a little baby fat.Among the white girls in America, Diane Lane belongs to the late development.

"By the way, why hasn't your last movie 'Washing the Lead' been out yet? It's been a long time since you finished filming, right?"

"It's now called 'Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fantastic Stains'. The director is Lou Adler, the record label boss. He doesn't seem to have filmed enough material, and now the ending can't be cut."

"Pfft..." Ronald spit out the champagne with laughter. Now that the record company is making a lot of money, they all want to imitate RKO's boss, Sterwood, and make money in movies across borders.

But this Adler didn't trust professionals and wanted to end it himself, so he couldn't even finish the movie.

"What should I do?"

"Who knows, maybe there will be a reshoot? Add an ending clip at the end."

"Ronald, are you going to edit too?" Donna cut in and asked Ronald about his schedule.

“No, it takes two weeks to pre-daily, to sync the recording to the film, which is the job of the editorial assistant, and then I will take over. Anyway, I will take a vacation, and I will not take over the official work until the Christmas and New Year holidays are over. Editing work."

"Well then, you're going back to New York to spend Christmas with us?"

"Yes, I will go back to New York to rest for a while. I need some other things to dilute the memory of my filming, and then I can look at the content of my filming objectively, and I won't be reluctant to cut the scissors."

……

All the films taken have been developed and printed, and Universal's laboratory has developed a special set of films for the negatives. Each frame has a number on it, which is called a working positive film.

This set of film is used for editing. All the editing will be recorded with the number of the film, and finally sent back to the printing factory to cut the negative according to the number.

Universal's small screening room, Jennifer Jason Leigh's father, Vic Morrow, and a high-ranking man in a suit and tie, have seen all the special segments.

He's the Jewish executive at Universal, Ned Tanen.He privately adjusted the work sample, and after watching it with Vic Morrow, he said to him:
"Vic, to be honest, Ronald didn't mess around, and Jennifer wasn't forced to shoot any bad nudity scenes. There are many more messy shooting methods in the industry. He is very disciplined."

"I don't want my daughter Jennifer on screen...can you step in?"

"This is out of order..."

"But Jennifer is a Jewish girl..."

Tanin was silent. Jews have a huge network in the film industry. It is true that Jewish girls want to enter the industry, no more than white girls of other races, and do not need to make sacrifices like this.If this trend is opened, what advantage does a Jewish girl have?

"It's a teen movie, and Jennifer approves of it herself, Vic."

"Then keep the shot of the black-haired girl."

"I can't do that, Vic, Phoebe Cates' father is one of his own."

"But her mother is of mixed Chinese descent..."

"Well, I'll mention it at the launch meeting, but I can't promise anything. Have you signed up for rehab, Vic. You've just come back from TV to movies and into Spielberg. Do not waste this opportunity if you are leading the project."

Tanin regarded himself as the protector of the Jews in the film industry, and began to remind Moreau during his speech.

"I know," Vic Morrow waved his hand, "you help me get this done, Ned, and I owe you one."

(End of this chapter)