Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 330 Experience Life and Mischief
"Why don't you have a room? Didn't you tell the assistant about it?" Ronald pulled Ralph Mazio into the room, gave him a towel, and asked him to wash his face with hot water.

"This was requested by Director Coppola. The Johnny I played was a very poor family in the oil gang. His parents fought all day long and ignored the children. That's why he was stabbed to death later. The plot of Bob from the Young Master Gang."

Ralph was twenty years old, the only boy actor over twenty, along with Patrick Thwaites.

"So he asked me to feel the feeling of having no home to go back to. I can get five dollars a day, and then solve the problem of eating and sleeping by myself. Today I didn't find a place to stay overnight, so I sneaked in while the front desk was not paying attention."

"You can't sleep on the street." Ronald handed him a glass of water. "Or you can sleep here tonight. I'll talk to Francis tomorrow, and you can sleep here from now on."

"It's okay, Ronald. It's for acting." Ralph Mazio rejected Ronald's offer, "I wanted to play Johnny when I auditioned, so Coppola asked me to play other When I was in the role, I just pretended to be dead, and I didn’t want him to think that I could play other oil-headed gangsters.”

Ronald laughed. At that time, Coppola confused everyone's identities and put them together for an audition, which made everyone very nervous. It's rare that Marzio can think so deeply.

"You can sleep here tonight. I think Coppola just wants you to experience the feeling of being poor without a home. Sleeping in someone else's room can also help you fully experience this embarrassment.

Besides, you are always walking outside, and the old house is not soundproof. I guess many people will be woken up by you like me. "

"Okay, but I'll sleep on the floor."

Ronald knew that Mazio wanted to experience the role, so he stopped persuading him.He took out the extra sheets in the cupboard, threw them to Marzio and spread them on the floor, and let him sleep through the night.

"Francis, I don't think this is okay? Marzio has nowhere to go, so he just wanders outside. If he hasn't found a family to stay with him tonight, should he find a newspaper and sleep outdoors?"

The next day, Ronald approached Coppola for advice.It seems a bit too much for actors to experience life in this way.

"And if Marzio catches a cold, it won't delay the rehearsal progress of the crew even more." Seeing that Coppola was indifferent, Ronald found another reason.

"That's right, we have to find a place for Marzio to sleep. But the production director has no spare room." Coppola finally reacted.

"How about letting him sleep in my room?"

"No, let him sleep in my room. I'll go to sleep at home, and I'll drive here every day." Hinton can't see such a thing. The novels are all about the suffering that happened around her when she was a child. Now Marzio is a little successful As an actor, there is no reason for him to share a room with a special assistant.

Coppola nodded, seeing that he didn't need to find the production director, and the problem could be solved by paying an extra room, so he didn't care.

"In the future, you should give more artistic opinions, Ronald. I didn't ask you to be a non-staff producer."

On this day, the crew began the formal rehearsal.Ronald carried a Sony BetaCam video recorder, and the director of photography relayed the video of the rehearsal.

The conference hall in the hotel was arranged as a rehearsal room, with various chairs acting as props, and the actors rehearsed scene by scene according to the order in the script.

"Ronnie!" the director of photography called out to Ronald, winking.He ran out of camera tape.

Ronald carried his own camera and connected.

"How do I know if this red hair is natural? Is she the same color as your... ah... ah... ah... eyebrows?" Matt Dillon sat on the chair and brushed Diane's hair in front of him with his hand , go smell her neck again.

"Put your feet off my back, shut up!" Diane Lane hid for a moment, and then scolded.

"Cut! Good. Diane, remember this is teasing, but not bully, Dillon keep your attitude."

"I see," Diane agreed while chewing gum, and then spit the gum in Dillon's direction with a puff.

She actually disliked Dillon's acting, which was almost harassment.But the director said yes, and she could only agree.

"continue……"

After the afternoon rehearsal, Ronald watched all the rehearsal tapes with the trainee director arranged by Coppola and the directors union.

All rehearsals were filmed, and Ronald didn't quite understand the need for this.This is tantamount to shooting the movie first with a poor-quality Sony camera.What good is that?

"What do you guys think of this scene?" Coppola points to the scene where Dillon's Dali teases Diane's Cherry in a drive-in movie theater.

"I feel good, strong emotions." The girl who got the director's union trainee position began to express her opinion.

Coppola looked at Ronald.

"The rhythm and the interaction between the actors are good, but the emotional intensity?"

Coppola nodded without expressing his opinion.

"Does he have other tricks? Save it for real shots?" Ronald suppressed the doubts in his heart, quietly took out his notebook, and wrote down his doubts.

"I'm screwed."

"I'm about to die."

Tom Cruise, and Rob Lowe, two handsome guys finished talking to each other at the door of the hotel.Today they will be sent to a real oil head gang's family for dinner, and they will sleep in their home for a while to experience life.

"Don't be afraid, Moretti is the prototype of a gang member in the novel, the big guy who knocked out other people's teeth in a fight. Both of them are very good people." Xin Dun comforted them with a smile.

The two looked at each other, and they were even more afraid of the night's guest trip.

"Mr. and Mrs. Moretti, hello."

The two handsome men tremblingly knocked on the door of the family that Hinton contacted them.

"Oh, you must be Tom and Rob." Moretti was tall and warmly embraced the two actors. His wife, who was also Italian, brought out the prepared meals and put them on the table.

"Xinton told us that you want to experience the family situation of the Oil Head Gang. I didn't expect that the novel of the year would finally be made into a movie today. It is still Mr. Coppola, the director of 'The Godfather'. We Italians respect it very much. he."

Tom and Rob looked at each other, as if this big man was not as scary as the book said.

"Do you know the horse boy in the book, and the Soda Pop family?" Tom Cruise asked the question while eating dinner.

"Of course, we were good friends."

"Then you back then, the Oil Head Gang and the Young Master Gang, were you really rivals like in the novel, and you would fight as soon as you met?" Rob Lowe also found that the big man Moretti was actually very enthusiastic, and began to ask questions.

Moretti put down his knife and fork, "Hey, actually, many of the boys and I are teammates on the football team. We call them Socs, but they're not much richer than Greaser.

Tulsa is a coal mining town, and the oil heads in the south are miners of Italian descent.Many sons in the north are nothing more than accountants, cashiers, technicians, etc. in coal mining companies. They live a little better than us, but how much better can they be?

We got into fights with each other for some inexplicable reason, and we're all stuck in this small town, and that's not going to work either.There are a few smart kids like Ma Zi who left the small town to go to California, New York, and Chicago. They are the successful ones who escaped from this poor land. "

When he was young, Moretti, who used to be the big boss of the oil head gang, looked at his children on the table, and looked at them lovingly, "You little bastards, listen to me, you are going out in the future, don't leave In Tulsa."

"I read that the soda pop in the novel seems to be very pitiful. His girlfriend also dumped him and ran away with other people. How did the soda pop live in the end?"

Seeing that the Oil Head Gang is also a flesh-and-blood and emotional person, and respects himself, the children of Hinton, Rob Law boldly asked about the current situation of the character he played, the second brother of the protagonist, Ma Zi, soda pop.

"Well, he was drafted and died in Vietnam."

Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise stopped talking, the place was hopeless for young people at the time.

They asked about the current situation and life details of other character prototypes, and gradually gained a deeper understanding of the roles they played.

After the two finished their meal, they lay down at the home of the Youtou Gang for an hour.In the small shotgun room, two male actors sleep on the same bed, and the two have a deeper understanding of the living environment behind the various behaviors of the characters.

The two slept for a while, and came out to say goodbye to the boss of the crude oil head gang. They have a lot of children in their family, and if they continue to sleep, other people's children will have no place to sleep.

"I didn't think there was something behind the character of Soda Pop..." Rob Lowe told Tom Cruise.

The two entered the hotel lobby while chatting, and walked to their room.

"Ronald, I don't want to stay here any longer."

The two suddenly found that at the corner at the end of the aisle, a red-haired girl was hugging special assistant Ronald, and seemed to be crying.

"It seems to be Diane, our cherry?" Rob pulled Tom, and the two exchanged glances at the corner, "What's going on? It seems interesting."

Ronald gently patted Diane in his arms, comforting him slowly.

After calling Ronald just now, Diane rushed down, hugged Ronald at the door and began to complain.

"Scared me."

"Don't worry, I'm here. Did someone play a prank on you?" Ronald felt that Diane's body was shaking, as if he was terrified.

This girl is quite bold, and it's not easy to be scared like this.

Ronald took Diane upstairs, and saw Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe at the corner, "Hey, why are you here too, come up together, Diane was teased enough, let's help her clean up .”

"First, my doorknob was coated with a lot of Vaseline, and I couldn't turn it around." Diane pointed at his door.

Ronald stretched out his hand to touch it, and there was still some residue, so the handle would slip as soon as he turned it. The person who made this prank is really a genius.

"Then I went to the bathroom and this was written on the mirror."

Diane let the three boys into the room, and the words "Go to hell, bitch" were written on the mirror in the bathroom with lipstick.

"I was so angry that I used the shower head to water it and tried to wipe it off, but the shower head in the shower also broke and sprayed my face."

Diane pointed to the shower head and showed them that it had been violently damaged by someone, and water would spray out from the side when it was boiling.

"I was so angry that someone smeared honey on the toilet seat."

"Puchi..." Both Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise couldn't help laughing.This prankster really understands human psychology.After finishing so many things, Diane must be angry, just sit down like this, isn't it all...

Ronald also laughed. He turned on the hot water, moistened the towel, and wiped off the honey on the toilet seat.

"Is there any more? I don't think you will be so scared like that." Ronald said, looking at Diane whose hair was dyed dark red.

"And then my bed."

Diane led the three boys to the bedside. The sheets on the bed were cut off by someone. When they lay down and rested and stretched their feet, they would come across some plush toys that had been placed there in advance, and they would be startled.

"And here it is," Diane pulled back the pillow, and there was a patch of red ink.She leaned on the pillow and was startled by the toy on the bottom of her feet, and then the ink that was added in the plastic bag in advance was sprayed out, which scared people enough.

This set of serial pranks made Diane Lane quite miserable.Just finished a day of rehearsal and wanted to rest early. When encountering this, Ronald probably would be so angry that he would find out the perpetrator and beat him up.

"They also left a note on my bed," Diane handed over a piece of paper.

Ronald took a look, and it said, "We'll be back tomorrow."

I don't know if it was a prank done by the actors of the gang?Maybe there's something for both sides?
Ronald had a guess in his mind that Coppola might just want to create this disgusting situation and let the actors put their emotions into it, in order to achieve the final effect of true emotional expression.

The cherry played by Di An originally belonged to the girlfriend of the Gongzi Gang. She was beaten by her boyfriend, so she got close to the boy of the Oil Head Gang.

Because Ma Zai talked to a woman from the son's gang, it caused a war between the two gangs.In the end, Johnny and Ma Tsai were bullied by someone in the pool, almost suffocating, and then there was a scene where Johnny stabbed Bob to death, and the two fled.

Is this to make Diane feel the feeling of being rejected by both gangs?It happened that she lived in the middle of the two gangs.

But it’s fine as a prank, it’s a bit too much to do so.

"What's your schedule today? Is there no one in the room?" Ronald asked Diane.

"First breakfast, then go to rehearsal, and then come back for lunch..." Diane said.

"What about tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow will be about the same."

Ronald thought about it, "Tom, I have the paint for the painting set in my room by the art team, go and get a bottle."

(End of this chapter)