Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 384 Guerrilla Shooting

Saturday morning at 05:30, an hour before sunrise. The "Night of the Comet" crew is already waiting to film in Bunker Hill, Los Angeles.

A light was turned on to show the staff the way.Everyone is doing their part and is preparing for the magic time shooting in the morning.

There are a small number of office buildings and commercial buildings in the Bangkeshan neighborhood that companies have settled in, and they usually go to work at nine o'clock in the morning.Today is the weekend, and even fewer people come to work overtime early in the morning.

In order to capture the deserted city, Ronald specially chose Saturday morning to shoot this part of the shot.They had to get the key shots right before the overtime workaholics came.

"Thank you, I troubled you to seal the road so early." Ronald shook hands with the two police officers, and handed over the tip in his palm.

The older one of the two police officers felt that the cash in his hand was not thin. Looking at it through the light, it was a few folded Andrew Jackson.He quickly changed his smiling face, and chatted enthusiastically with the young director.

"Assisting the film crew in filming is also the duty of LAPD. Besides, there are no people here on weekends. We just follow the rules to take a look."

"What kind of movie are you shooting? There seems to be a shootout yesterday?" The younger police officer was very interested in filming.

"It's a sci-fi movie, where a comet kills people or mutates them into zombies, and then two valley girls save Los Angeles."

"Oh, I like Dawn of the Dead very much. Do you have zombies like that in your movies? Can I watch them? That kind of zombies are very exciting." The young police officer is still a fan of zombie movies. Zombie movies are exciting.

"Did you know? We still have a scene today. The heroine dreams that two traffic policemen have turned into zombies. If you are interested, you can also make a guest appearance."

"Oh yeah? Can we really do a movie? Seriously?"

"Make up, take the two of you to try on the zombie headgear, and if they can wear it, sign an extra contract with them."

Ronald was very happy in his heart, saving two extras, they also have their own uniforms to wear, and they can borrow their police cars to take some shots.Presumably they wouldn't mind if the filming took a little longer.

"Ah... ah" Kelly Maroney yawned and got out of the RV parked on the side of the road. She should start to put on makeup.

Ronald is very good to actors, although small productions may not have any good treatment, but she and Catherine Mary Stuart share an RV, and Ronald often asks them to sleep more during their breaks a while.

"Kelly, are you awake? I'm about to ask my assistant to call you, and I'm almost ready to put on makeup." Ronald said to Kelly Maroney, "Where's Catherine?"

"Catherine is making coffee."

"Makeup, where is the person who made up the two heroines?" Ronald began to yell again.

"The make-up artist is gone, and no one answered her home calls. Someone heard yesterday that she seemed to say that the salary of the big crew is higher." The first assistant director came over and explained the situation clearly in a few words.Small crews often have people who suddenly work halfway through, get a better job and run away.

"Ask who knows how to put on makeup, and help me." Ronald covered his face.A small-budget production is like a guerrilla. If something is wrong, it will be done in a simple way. It is impossible for a crew to stop and wait for a makeup artist.

"Director, I can do my own makeup, which we do on daytime soap operas." Catherine Mary Stuart heard about the make-up artists' doves.

"Can you draw Kelly Maroney too?"

"Uh...Of course." Catherine didn't expect Ronald to climb the pole so fast, and was taken aback for a moment.

In this scene, the two sisters had a heart knot. They heard that the radio was still playing songs, so they went to the radio to find survivors, and accidentally saw another survivor, Hector, who came along the radio.The next day both sisters wanted to go out with him, so they quarreled.

"Action!"

The camera focuses on the two sisters on the balcony, pushing down the close-up.The younger sister, Samantha, is still wearing a cheerleading costume, with two long legs and blonde hair, which is very sexy.Clothes provided Kelly Maroney with two identical outfits for her to change.

she asked her sister Regina.

"So, did you have sex with him last night?"

"Who? What?" Regina replied.

"Who else, that handsome and humorous man."

"My God, is that why you ignored me this morning?"

"Cut! Cut! Cut!"

"Who the hell called Cut!" Ronald was angry, and finally found the magic light time in the morning, filming this scene where the two sisters open up their hearts and improve their relationship. The two heroines played very well, no Know which idiot called a stop and ruined everything.

"It's me, Ronald."

Ronald looked back and saw that it was the producer Wayne Crawford, who quickly swallowed the swear words he was about to blurt out, "Wayne, why did you stop?"

The producer pointed anxiously at the office building opposite Ronald and behind the two actresses, "There is a glass-cleaning worker over there."

Ronald looked up and saw a cleaner, hanging from the window of the opposite skyscraper, cleaning the glass.Today is Saturday, and the office building is not working, which happens to be the time for them to clean the glass curtain wall.

Ronald hurriedly leaned behind the camera and looked over, only to see the upper end of the viewfinder, just in time for the cleaner to slide down one layer from the top and enter the background frame.

"Oh, fuck it." Ronald cursed. How could there be workers cleaning glass walls in the last days?This goof was too big and had to be reshot.

He picked up the electric speaker, "Hey, hey, my friend across the way, can you go up for a while? We are shooting a movie, you are out of the bag."

"Huh? Are you talking to me?"

"Yes, it's you, can you wait up first? We'll finish this shot right away."

After a while of fuss, the cleaners finally slid up a few floors to give the crew some time to shoot.

"Action!"

"Well, listen, I didn't 'do' him last night, why are you always so sad?" Regina looked helplessly at this younger sister who was always trying to destroy her romantic relationship.

"Why sad? My sister has always caught the eye of every boy I've ever known, and now she's going to catch maybe the last man in Los Angeles!" Samantha rushed forward and gave Regina a push.

Regina showed a startled expression, and then took a step forward to look at her sister.The opposing emotions of the two are subtly expressed in the picture.

The two girls face off against each other in Kevin Costner's The Last Man in L.A.

On the balcony railing behind them, there is a Pepsi can and a MAC-10 submachine gun, two symbols of the capitalist world - consumerism to satisfy one's own desires, and high-tech weapons to protect one's property.

"Hahahaha..." The two finally couldn't hold back their laughter.

"Cut!"

The camera was quickly moved downstairs, and a dark red filter was installed.Then take a look-up shot upwards.The two sisters still stood where they were, relatively silent.Compared with looking at the contradictions of the same boy, it is obviously more important to support each other to survive in this last world.

In the zoomed-out shot, there are only skyscrapers and streets.An empty space represents the last point of persistence of the two valley girls in the empty city of Los Angeles in the last days.

The next shots went relatively smoothly. Ronald borrowed two LAPD police cars and let Catherine Mary Stuart ride a motorcycle to check for survivors next to the police cars.

Under the dark red sky, the prop crew used a blower to blow up the red powder produced by grinding the red bricks bought by the crew. Regina was riding a motorcycle, sitting alone, and there were only two sets of clothes in the police car. The police officer Has been reduced to ashes.

This means that the last line of order in the city has collapsed, and the next step is to fight on your own.

"Lunch time! Take a break for half an hour. The actors eat first, and then the staff." After shooting all the shots in the morning, the first assistant director began to arrange lunch.

Ronald put on his sunglasses. The red powder just now was Cameron's idea.Although it is very cheap, it blows up and falls on people's heads and bodies.Wear sunglasses to keep the powder from getting in your eyes.

He wiped his hands, walked to the front of the RV where lunch was served, and lined up to pick up the food.Everyone eats the same small production. The hamburger is wrapped in tin foil and heated, and a glass of Coke that is refilled on the spot is added.

"Who are these people? They're not from our crew, are they?"

One of the duties of the second assistant director is to count the heads of people who are eating.Many young actors in the entertainment industry have little money, and they will flock to the movies where the actors they know participate in to make a living.Some wealthy crews didn't care much, so the lunch was sent out.

However, "Night of the Comet" is a small production, and the number of people for lunch is also very tight. Ronald and the producer don't want dozens or hundreds of people to come to lunch every day.

"Aren't you giving out charity lunches here? Last time the church gave out free lunches in such a caravan." An elderly man wearing a woolen cap and in tatters came out and asked Ronald and the others.

"We are here for filming lunches, not charity." The second assistant director stepped forward to stop more than 20 homeless men who lined up to collect them, "I'm sorry."

At a glance, Ronald saw that they were all shabby homeless men, weak in health, and some of them were very thin from hunger.Men, women, young and old, of all ethnicities.And they are not begging for money, but for a lunch, I think they are really unfortunate people.

Although the current economic momentum is good, the unemployment rate is still very high. Many old and weak people who have no value for exploitation and no family to take care of them are abandoned by the big machine of capitalism after losing their jobs. They have no social security and cannot eat a hot meal.

Ronald had some compassion, and asked the first assistant director who had dealt with all kinds of teachings, "Gordon, who usually takes care of them? What do they usually eat, and do they have a place to live?"

"Don't mind your own business, Ronald. These people are usually run by churches and charities, and they're either white or Latino, and they don't even get government handouts.

While some people are indeed miserable because of divorce, or unemployment and bankruptcy, there are also many people who abuse illegal drugs, or bad gambling.If you show any compassion, they'll just hang around the crew and make trouble if they don't get paid. "

"At least give them a hot meal. I will pay for the lunch money of these 20 people. Anyway, after we finish filming this scene, the location will be almost done. I won't be in charge of their affairs tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll go talk to the producer."

Afterwards, each homeless man got a lunch, opened the steaming tinfoil packet, and began to gobble it up, with several women in tears.

"Call the church?" Ronald said to the assistant. "Move these poor people over and keep them out of the frame. We have to continue filming."

(End of this chapter)