Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 399 Brooke Shields' Beard

The plane landed in Tel Aviv, Israel's second largest city.Minahan was very anxious. The people he sent picked up Ronald, put him in a jeep, and drove to the Negev Desert in the south.

This desert occupies nearly half of Israel's land, usually very hot, only slightly better in winter. The crew of "Sahara" filmed scenes in the Sahara Desert here.

The car drove to the hotel in Beer-sheba, a city in the northern part of the desert. Ronald jumped out of the car and saw Minahan waiting for him at the entrance of the hotel from a distance.

"You're finally here, Ronald, if you don't come, I'm going to use extreme means to deal with this annoying bitch."

"Who?"

"Terry, Brooke's mother."

The two chatted while walking. It turns out that the plot of "Sahara" is about Dale, played by Brooke Shields, who disguises herself as a man to replace her father who died in an accident, and participates in the Paris-Dakar Rally.

But Brooke Shields' mother, Terry, always believed that Brooke should not be allowed to wear a fake beard to pretend to be a man.This is a big disservice to her screen image.

She also had other weird disputes with the original director, and finally had to bring in Minahan to resolve the conflict.

In order to keep Brooke Shields, Minahan had to fire the director and acted as the director himself.But the beard problem finally provoked Terry, who insisted that Minahan not take close-ups of Brooke with a beard. .

The shooting has been deadlocked for a long time, and there are many shots that have not been able to be shot, and Minahan is not easy to handle, so we can only invite Ronald to make a deal.

"Why do you listen to Terry?" Ronald was puzzled. This kind of makeup dispute can usually be resolved during filming even with coaxing and deceit, so it would not lead to such antagonism.

"Fuxk, in order to sign a contract with Brooke, I promised Terry to be a producer, paid her tens of thousands of dollars, and gave her the right to decide to shoot her daughter's camera."

"Fuxk"

Ronald also scolded, Minahan, an amateur, dared to sign this kind of clause, it seemed that he was doing whatever he could to get Brooke Shields to play the role.

"I can only try and can't guarantee anything."

Ronald walked into the hotel, went through the check-in formalities first, and was urged by Minahan to knock on the door of Brooke's mother and daughter without putting his luggage away.

"Ronald, come in." Terry, who was not drunk, saw that it was Ronald, and immediately pulled him into the door, looked around, and closed it carefully.

"I have to be careful. The previous director was very rogue. He wanted to let Brooke shoot a scene with a beard without my consent. Isn't this going to end my daughter's acting life?"

"Ah? Why?" Ronald opened his mouth wide, unable to understand for a while.

"Don't you understand? Ronald. This is asking my daughter to play a man. How can she play a girl after this word? You are also a director. You must support me less in this matter."

"Hey..." Ronald looked at Brooke, wanting to ask her what she thought.

But when he turned his head away, he saw Brooke looking distressed, her brows were furrowed, and the corners of her mouth were bent down, as if she was about to cry.

"Terry, I just arrived in Israel, and I still need jet lag. In this way, I will take the script and read it first, and then communicate with Minahan." After speaking, Ronald gave Brooke a wink, and wrote on the outside of the room card. The room number paper was intentionally left on the sofa, and then he left the room.

After 10 minutes, Brooke went to Ronald's room and knocked on the door. Inside, Ronald and Minahan were talking about beards.

"Boji, I think your mother seems a little excited? What's going on?"

Brooke first hugged Ronald, then looked at Minahan, as if a little embarrassed.

"My mother is a bit obsessed. I don't know who told her that if the image of an actress is stereotyped, later audiences will not be able to jump out of this image. So she is very opposed to me wearing a fake beard."

"If I understand correctly, in the movie you play a girl who disguises herself as a man and takes her father's place in the rally, right? Like Hua Mulan?"

"Flower Who?"

"Never mind the details, I mean, when the audience sees you dressed as a boy, they actually know that you're playing a girl, and you're dressed as a man in a movie, right?"

"Yeah, that's how it is, the audience won't see you as a boy, they'll just think you're a girl, play a boy, and bang! People still can't figure out that you're a girl, isn't that a good show of acting? ’ Minahan was anxious to convince Brooke.

"Ah? What do you mean?" Brooke didn't understand, and looked at Ronald.

"I can't tell at once, why did your mother let you out alone?"

"Oh, I said I want to buy some Coke, the climate in the desert is so dry, I've run out of the hotel room."

"Okay." Ronald took out two bottles of Coke from the small refrigerator in his room and handed them to Brooke. Minahan and I will meet you and your mother at night to see if we can explain the truth clearly.

"Oh, you are always very resourceful. Then I'll go first, Ronald." Brooke Shields walked out with two bottles of Coke in her hand.

"Ronald, you already have a solution, don't you? Haha, I'm not wrong. You can solve this problem when you come. Tell me first, how do you plan to persuade her? I've been trying for many days. Talking about it means getting into a fight with Terry."

Minahan said, looking at Ronald with piercing eyes, hoping that he could tell the secret.

"It's a matter of trust, Minahan. See what I say tonight. I'm going to rest. Two long-distance flights in a row exhausted me."

"Don't, don't, tell me first..."

"Do you want to convince Terry to let Brooke play a boy? Yes? Then you now, you get the fuck out of me." Ronald shooed Minahan away, feeling like he was taking a shower and going to sleep.

When you are jet lagged, you need to not doze off like this, and sleep when you are so stiff that you really want to sleep.This way you can beat most jet lag as soon as you wake up.

Ronald fell on the bed, picked up the script of "Sahara" and read it.

Brooke plays Dale, whose father, a racing driver and automaker owner, died tragically while testing his race car after inventing it.In order to keep the company, Dell disguises himself as a man and participates in a rally.

After she crossed the starting line, she removed her wig and beard to reveal her true gender to the rest of the race.

"Well, there's nothing wrong with that, anyway, I took it off after wearing it for a while."

Ronald fell asleep.

It was evening when Ronald woke up, and after getting enough sleep, Ronald went out to find Minahan to persuade Terry together.

"Terry, look at the script. Before Brooke's Dale disguised herself as a woman, did she appear as a girl and be recognized by the audience?"

Ronald turned to the first few pages and showed them to Terry and Brooke.

"Yes, that's right." Brooke chimed in.

"Then when Dell's father died and the company was facing bankruptcy, she disguised herself as a man and secretly put on a fake beard in order to save the company?"

Terry nodded.

"In this way, what the audience sees is actually a girl who is made up as a man in the movie, and no one can recognize her identity. In this way, the audience will not misunderstand Brooke as a man, but will see her The acting is superb, and other people in the movie can't recognize it.

Isn't Brooke trying to transform into an actress with acting skills?That's a good start.And Brooke is going to Princeton soon, so it would be nice to give her the impression that her acting skills are improving before suspending her acting career.

Besides, you see, this scene is actually very short, and the audience will remember more clearly the scenes of him as a woman. "

"So audiences don't remember her playing a man because of her makeup?"

Ronald looked at Minahan, meaning that it's up to you, the director, to give a guarantee at this time.

"Of course, Terry. I guarantee that Brooke will be very handsome even in men's clothing, and the audience will only remember her as a beauty in men's clothing."

Terry and her daughter stayed in Israel for a long time, and experienced a quarrel with the original director halfway, and changed the director. The two lonely mother and daughter were already a little nervous in the desert of a foreign country.

Coupled with Minahan's rushing personality, it inevitably caused a loss of mutual trust.In this way, no matter how much they talk, the other party will suspect that the other party is trying to lie to themselves, which deepens their own beliefs.

Only Ronald, who just flew in from the outside world, had a foundation of trust with Brooke and Terry before, so Terry's suspicion was resolved in a few words.

The filming can continue tomorrow. Minahan was very happy and took Ronald to eat and drink.

"I said, did you make an exploitation film starring Faye Dunaway?" Ronald ate a lot of pita bread, a specialty of Israel, and remembered Dunaway who scolded Minahan in London, so he asked the person .

"Yeah, I did. It was shut down in June last year. Faye Dunaway has a problem. Here..." Minahan pointed to his head, "She sucked too much."

"When I went to London, she yelled at you in front of me, saying that you added a lot of pornography to the movie, and she was very dissatisfied."

Minahan spread his hands, "You are also a film director, how can you sell this kind of production without adding something good-looking? Faye Dunaway chose it for financing. We took a fancy to her previous resume, and I didn't let her take off... ..."

"Okay, don't talk about it, stop here." Ronald probably knows Minahan's way, using stars to attract investment, and then let supporting actors undress, with Minahan's director style, he doesn't want to know more details.

After dinner, Ronald picked up the script of "Sahara" and read it again, but the sleep demon soon struck him and he fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Ronald came to the Negev Desert to watch the filming of Minahan director Brooke.The earlier the shooting temperature is lower, the actors and crew can be more comfortable.

Ronald was in the desert for the first time.

People who come to the desert for the first time will be surprised by the tranquility of the desert.There are no plants, no animals, and if you take a professional recording microphone, you can't hear a little background noise.

This kind of silence makes people feel a little strange, as if some monster will jump out of the background.

Ronald shook his head to get the strange thought out of his mind.

He saw the props team pushing over a racing car modified from an old car. Brooke Shields dressed up as a man got into the car and was ready to start shooting.

"Wait a minute!" Seeing that Minahan had put the camera at a panoramic distance, Ronald was about to issue a password to start shooting, and hurried forward to stop it.

"You don't need a stand-in for this racing scene? How can you let Boji take it by herself?"

(End of this chapter)