Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 433 Singer's Pose

Hearing what Clint Eastwood said, Ronald inexplicably had a feeling of "that's amazing".A big star can threaten the producer face-to-face like this, and when he has gained a certain status in Hollywood and has become a box office guarantee for a certain type of film, he can act according to his own wishes.

"Huh..." Weintraub, as the producer of the concert of big-name singers like Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, didn't care about this level of threat at all.

"I think it's better to find a professional actor to play this Danny. Susan, you go to draft a young actor who has become famous in recent years. We will come one by one. John, now you can choose slowly. Everyone will look at you."

"Susan, call Steve McQueen's widow and ask his son to audition for the supporting villains in Cobra Dojo."

Weintraub arranged the next audition in a few clicks.He has completely turned the corner. The second generation of these stars can only play some supporting roles, and the main roles still have to be professionally selected according to the circumstances of the roles.

In this way, the fame of the stars can be borrowed and the media will be interviewed, without destroying the development of the whole story.

Ronald went home and took a hot shower.All aspects of this movie are on the right track, and I can start thinking about my next director project.

Ronald, who was brushing his hair, wanted to call Nisita to make an appointment to talk about the new film.He helped screen several teen films from the invitations of various companies, many of which were medium-sized productions from major studios.

The message red light on the phone was on again, indicating that someone had left a message, and Ronald pressed the playback button.

"drop……

Ronald, I'm Marlene, Marlene Jahan.do you remember me?The material you helped me write to prove that I was a stand-in in 'Lightning Dance' got me an official casting contract. I played a supporting role in 'Streets of Rage'. I want to call and thank you.

Well, then, your friend Diane Lane is also here, and the filming here is very slow, everyone is a bit bored, if you have time, you might as well come and visit the set.Yes, it is like that. "

Ronald scratched his head, "Streets of Rage" has already started filming, it sounds like the filming is not going well.Diane has also worked hard, so I went to visit the set by myself to see how her new film is doing.

……

"Did you forget to tell Ronald to call to confirm the visit time yesterday?" Diane Lane, wearing a T-shirt and jeans, was sitting and letting the hairstylist do her hair.Next to her is Marlene Jahan, who plays a supporting role in the film as a bar girl.

"You care about him so much, why don't you call him directly?" As a Chinese with hair, Ma Lin couldn't understand Diane's mentality. "It's the custom of you American girls not to call boys?"

Diane waved her hand, and the hair stylist left knowingly.

"No, you don't understand, Ronald is a very special man. Unlike everyone else."

"Others? Like Michael Pare?" Marlene laughed.The leading actor of the crew, Parr, has recently fallen in love with Diane and sent him flowers every day.Pal is also of Chinese origin, but Marlene thinks he is handsome.

"Uh...vomit..." Diane made a gesture of vomiting, "this guy is very annoying, he makes a rattling noise with his folding knife every day."

"Hahaha", Marlene laughed together with her.This former chef relied on a woman to get his position, but he was actually a very shallow person.

Hair, makeup, focus, and then a long wait for the lighting to finish.

Diane sat in the lounge and listened to music, still using the Sony Walkman that Ronald had given him.

Today is the first day of filming the concert scenes. Director Walter Hill hoped that the leading actors could concentrate on rehearsing their positions and singing in sync.He decided to use a special lighting method to shoot the plot of this concert with an unparalleled sense of explosion.

In addition to the special arrangement on the lighting, he also hired a fashion designer to design a sexy rock singer costume for the heroine played by Diane, Alan Ann.

Of course, neither of these are in place today, mainly to let Diane, the hero Michael Pare, and the villain Willem Dafoe do a rehearsal, this kind of live song and dance performance on stage, since the golden age of musicals passed away Since then, no one has photographed it for many years.

He would rather spend a little more time to let the actors get familiar with the movement of the stage, rather than making adjustments while filming.Most of the technicians who can make musical films are retired, and the new team also needs rehearsals to get used to it.

"Diane, please come here, we can start rehearsing." Director Walter Hill took out the microphone and asked Diane to come to the stage in front of the studio and start rehearsing.

Sitting in the corner of the stage is the film's musical director, Jim Steinman.He took the pre-recorded singles of his band and put the tapes into the recorder.

A burst of rousing drums kicks in, followed by the sound of keyboards, and finally an electric guitar solo joins in.

"Ahhh..." the voice of the chorus singer came to mind.

"Now!" Director Walter Hill gestured, and Diane came up from the edge of the stage.

"in your bed, on a saturday night

You're sweating profusely, not even hot.

but your brain has got the message
it's sending it out
to every nerve and muscle of yours"

A deep and passionate female voice began to sing the opening episode of the movie.

Diane held the old-fashioned stage microphone, frowned tightly, and pretended to lip-sync.

"Very good, it seems that you have memorized the lyrics." The director said with satisfaction, and motioned Jim Steinman to turn off the recording.

Walter Hill was about to continue to instruct Diane, the actor Michael Pare was playing with his butterfly knife in one hand and a large bouquet of flowers in the other, and ran up from the other side of the stage, "Diane, you are singing today Very good."

Diane gave him a supercilious look, then took the bouquet and threw it into the trash can beside her.

"Puchi" Marlene Jahan couldn't help laughing, "Hey, brother, don't waste this bouquet."

"Move your ass to the auditorium." Director Walter Hill cursed at Parr angrily and helplessly.

"Okay." Michael Pare looked decadent. He was actually not afraid of the director. His lover was the executive producer of the film. As long as he didn't make too much noise, the director couldn't do anything to him.

"Oh, it's coming again." Willem Dafoe, who played the villain's supporting role, covered his face. He also had a scene here, that is, after singing this song, he rushed up from the audience to kidnap Alan Ann played by Diane. Snatch it on your shoulders.

And this Parr, who played the leading role of Cody, had no role today.But he was like a bull in heat in the crew, and he had already picked up several actresses in the crew.Only the heroine, Diane, was honest with him, but this aroused his interest, and he came to attack every day.

This kind of behavior, together with the few actresses he met, made Diane jealous, and then the other admirers of these actresses were also very dissatisfied. The whole crew was a bit smoky, and everyone was fighting openly and secretly.

"Hey, Walter, didn't I bother you?" Ronald and his manager Richard saw that the crew had finished rehearsing, so they walked in from outside, holding a bouquet of flowers in their hands, and handed them to Diane.

"I wish you a smooth shooting," Ronald hugged Diane. Today she is still wearing a T-shirt and jeans, without the appearance of a rock star.

"Why, haven't your costumes arrived yet? When can you dress like a rock singer?" Ronald and Diane joked.

"The designer has let me try it on, and he said that the dress still needs some adjustments. I wear it very nicely." Diane quietly took Ronald's arm and said with a smile.

"Oh, there is already a bouquet of flowers here?" Ronald found a large flower in the trash can, which was much bigger than the one he sent.

"I just like what you sent." Diane was happy, and turned around to take the flowers from Ronald into the lounge.

"Do you want me to order another one for you? Just like the one you gave Helen?" Richard the manager reminded from the side.

"Hmph!" Diane put away the bouquet, and when she heard about Ronald sending flowers to Helen, she felt a sense of irritability.

Diane ducked into the lounge, closed the door, threw the bouquet on the table, and started packing her makeup bag.Lipstick, powder, mirror, walkman... Throw them into the bag one by one.

Seeing the Walkman, Diane poked the bag on the table again, and gave the table a "boom-dong" blow twice.

A sense of grievance welled up in her heart, Dian buried her head deeply in her arms, and lay down on the table for a while.

Then she stood up, rearranged her hair, and the stubbornness of a New York taxi driver's daughter reoccupied Diane's chest.

Diane was surrounded by a group of outstanding actors in the "Outdoor Urchin" crew, "Betta Fish" crew, and even the current "Rage Street" crew, and everyone wanted to pursue the Queen.

"It's time to wake up." Diane looked at her youthful face in the mirror, then ran to the stage, and said to director Walter Hill, "We can start doing it again."

Walter Hill, is exchanging some shooting skills of musical films with Ronald.He knew that there were similar singing and dancing scenes in the movies made by Ronald, and Ronald had also written the script for musicals such as "Grease 2".The two chatted about how to run the camera.

Hearing Diane's "command", director Hill made a slight difference, and then snapped his fingers at music director Jim Steinman.

"You have so many dreams

you don't know where to put them
so you better get some of them out

There's a feeling in your body that it's starting to rust

You better make it work, use it"

Diane sang loudly into the microphone, and a slightly hoarse female voice popped out of the speaker very powerfully.

Ronald was very surprised by this song, as if someone sang it live.The singing has a three-dimensional sense and a sense of penetration, which makes him feel that the sound is immersive.He couldn't help looking at Diane, trying to see if Diane was singing live.

When I re-shooted "The Magical Stains" for her, she didn't seem to be able to sing very well?

Ronald looked carefully again to make sure that it wasn't Diane who sang it live.Although her brows were tightened, and she grasped the old-fashioned floor-standing microphone with both hands, her core and abdomen were loose. She didn't use the power of her dantian to sing, and she definitely couldn't sing such a powerful singing voice.

"What do you think?" Walter Hill waited for Diane to finish singing, and asked Ronald next to him by the way.

"It's a really good song." Ronald looked at Jim Steinman, the music director next to him, who responded with a smile.

"I'm asking about Diane's performance," said director Hill.

"Uh", Ronald thought for a while, but he still said it bluntly. He also hoped that Diane could improve his acting skills and act like who he was.

"I think it's very good, but there is still some room for improvement. Her singing posture is still a bit short of Sissy Spacek, who won the Oscar two years ago.

"How much do you know about singers?" Diane choked on hearing Ronald's words.

Then Diane walked quickly to the music director, took a guitar from behind him and handed it to Ronald, "Don't you know how a singer should perform? Come, show me a demonstration!"

Ronald looked at the angry Diane, and felt a little regretful in his heart. After all, he was a girl who had just turned [-]. His tone of speech might not be very good, which hurt Diane's self-esteem.

"I actually don't understand..."

"I think you understand it quite well. If there is anything wrong, just say it."

Ronald thumped in his heart, knowing that Diane had an opinion about him.He had to take the guitar and hang the strap over his shoulder.

Just a casual sweep of the strings, all in good tune.

Then Ronald covered the strings to stop the sound, and then he strummed the strings and began to sing the song, which was originally taught by John Fogarty himself, "Who'll stop the rain" Stop The Rain)”

"It's been raining for as long as I can remember.

Mysterious clouds poured over the ground, bewildering.

Good men throughout the ages have tried to find the sun

I wonder, I still wonder, who can stop this rain? "

"Bravo!" Jim Steinman, the music director, was the first to applaud. This song really has seven or eight points of the original singer Fogarty.

"Bravo!" Director Hill, Willem Dafoe, and Marlene Jahan, who played the villain, all applauded.

Diane looked into Ronald's eyes angrily, and slowly turned soft, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Actually, your performance is already very good. I'm just talking about a small detail from the singer's point of view." Seeing that Diane had returned to normal, Ronald continued,

"Have you seen Sissy Spacek's 'Coal Miner's Daughter'? She actually sang in the movies, you can look for it. When she sings, her voice is loose, but the lower abdomen position They are all very tense, which is a common characteristic of professional singers, breathing in the abdomen and exerting force in the dantian."

"Is that so?" Diane began to ponder and learn.

"Yes, go a little further." Ronald looked at Diane's posture and said a few words.

"Is there anything else? Any other suggestions?" Diane looked up at Ronald with sparkling eyes.

"Anything else? Let me think about it. Sissy is playing a country singer, and you are playing a female rock singer. The rock style should have a sense of anger, and you can't pay attention to relaxation like the country."

Ronald searched his brain for some suggestions, and saw that Diane was still touching his abdomen, as if he couldn't find the right position, Diane raised his head and looked at Ronald, as if asking for help.

"That's right here." Ronald took Diane's hand and placed it gently on the lower abdomen.

"Slap!" Diane slapped Ronald hard on the arm.

"Oh," Ronald whispered, touched his arm with his hand, and asked, "What's wrong? Am I wrong?"

"Didn't you say you should be angry?" Diane slapped Ronald hard on the arm a few more times.

"Uh..., that's right, that's it." Ronald felt that Diane had found the feeling, and quickly avoided it.Her father, Burt, didn't know what kind of acting he was, so beating someone hard like this was really effective in finding anger.

"Huh," Diane walked to the center of the stage again, motioning to Jim Steinman to play the recording again.

When the prelude sounded, Diane looked back at Ronald, "Will you come to see me tomorrow? Tomorrow I will put on the costume and officially shoot this scene."

"Uh... ok, I will come." Ronald touched his arm, it seems that this is Diane's main scene, she is still a little unconfident, she should come and cheer.

(End of this chapter)