Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 464 Shooting Rehearsal
Diane Lane Asks Agent to Talk to David Letterman About Showtime.She herself went to dinner with Ronald and Donna.

At the dinner table, Diane talked about some of her recent experiences.

After the filming of "Streets of Rage", the two sets of Armani's glamorous costumes also belonged to Diane herself, which made her very happy.

When the crew was changing, Diane had to study high school by herself, barely passed the high school exam, and received a graduation certificate and a graduation ring when she was on the crew.

"Look, this is my graduation ring." Diane held out her hand to show Donna.She is very envious of Donna, who has good grades and can go to college.As an actress, she has a bit of a natural inferiority complex here, feeling like she's not academically smart enough.

"It's just you and I with high school diplomas now," Ronald said with a smile.

"Hmph..." Diane gave Ronald a sideways look.

"By the way, Karen asked me to tell you to remember to go to New York University to finish your studies after filming the movie." Donna remembered her mother's instructions, and hurriedly hit Ronald.

"Eh..." Now it was Ronald's turn to be embarrassed.

Then Diane talked about Coppola's new film. Coppola had already agreed with Diane privately that she must be the heroine.

In order to play a singer in the Cotton Club in the 20s, Diane had to cut her shoulder-length hair into short hair that reached her ears, practice jazz songs and dances hard, and eat a little fatter to fit the 20s. aesthetic.

"Why? Audiences don't really care about the aesthetics at that time, they care about the aesthetics of the present." Ronald felt a little strange, Coppola always liked to shoot some niche subjects.

"I think you don't know much about acting. To act in a period drama, of course you want to get closer to your image at that time?" Diane repeated what Coppola taught her, but she immediately thought of Luo Nader is his own hero, so stop talking.

Ronald didn't pick it up either, what he thought of was the relationship between the actor's acting skills and the movie as a whole.A movie that highlights the acting skills of one actor is not necessarily a good movie.Movies should use acting skills to make the characters stand out in the most critical places.

"Thank you, Ronald. My agent said that David Letterman's show has more teens watching it, and that I, as a guest, can appear for a dozen minutes, which is good for the film and my own exposure. "After dinner, Diane was going to leave with her agent first, and she thanked Ronald sincerely at the restaurant entrance.

"It's okay, Letterman and I are old acquaintances, it's a good thing he can invite you."

"Thank you," Diane hugged Ronald and kissed him.

Ronald thought it was a farewell kiss on the cheek, but Diane found his lips and kissed him hard.

"The lipstick got on your lips." Diane smiled happily, and carefully wiped it off for Ronald with her hands.

"Goodbye, Donna." Diane and Donna also hugged goodbye and left with their manager.

Ronald took Donna back home.

Open the door, turn on the lights.Donna suddenly asked Ronald, "I haven't asked about you and life, but you and Helen..."

"Helen went back to New York to recuperate. She said that she would... suspend it for a while. I didn't have more energy to deal with this matter. I just made two phone calls to ask."

"How is she?"

"Gerald sent her to Long Island to recuperate, and she should recover well." Ronald knew that Helen's parents were also divorced, so he couldn't stay in the two reorganized families for long.

"I've always wanted to ask you something, Ronnie." Donna adjusted her posture and said seriously, "I always feel that every time you have a girlfriend, you are eager to establish a stable relationship with her, and even marry."

"What's the problem?" Ronald didn't expect that Donna, who was only going to college next year, would actually discuss love and marriage with him.

"But now many young people in America are not rushing to get married. Many people have phobias about getting married. The divorce rate is so high now, not to mention you are in the entertainment industry now. I see that many celebrities have many paragraphs. Marriage and children."

"Is this not contradictory to my pursuit? There are also couples in the entertainment industry who have joined hands for a lifetime, such as...well, Paul Newman, and Joanna Woodward." Ronald thought for a long time, and thought of this pair of actor and actress couple.

"No, Paul Newman was also married twice."

"How do you know? Really?" Ronald had seen Paul Newman being interviewed on TV before, and the reporter asked him if he was tempted by beauties in the entertainment industry.Newman replied that he didn't have to go out for a burger because he had a good steak at home. "

"Paul Newman and Joanna used to live on Staten Island, my mom said. She even asked for an autograph. Joanna was his second wife too..." Donna wentssip, "I just think , every time you want to get married and go out with girls like this, it will scare away many girls. Sometimes girls can't think so far."

"You seem to know more about love and marriage than I do, Donna, what kind of husband do you want in the future?"

"I don't want to be a housewife, but I also want to start a career. I hope my future husband can understand me and support my career." Donna stated her thoughts firmly.

Donna returned to New York after completing the campus tour, and Ronald also returned to the crew. The early karate training had been completed, and he began to let the main actors of the crew start rehearsing.

In the dance classroom, several tables and chairs were set up, and the main actors began to use their imagination to imagine those tables and chairs into various scenes, and began to rehearse each scene following the order of the script.

Randy Heller, just 15 years older than Ralph Mazio, plays Daniel's single mother, Lucille.

The two sat on the left and right sides of the stool, as if this was Lucille's used Chevrolet SUV.

"Daniel, push, push hard!" Randy called Ralph Mazio's character name, "Okay, okay, come up."

This is the scene where Daniel and his mother drive from New Jersey to Los Angeles at the beginning of the movie. Lucille has no money, and the car breaks down halfway, and Daniel can only push the car behind to start the car.

Standing by, keeping his eyes on the viewfinder of the Sony camera, with a few large spare batteries hanging from his body, Ronald was a cameo cameraman, taking all the rehearsal shots.Watch it again at night, write down the performance and coordination problems you find, and then try to solve them.

"Very well, the next scene is when we arrive at the apartment with palm trees. Lucille is very happy and asks her son to sing together. Daniel is still thinking about his friends in New Jersey, a little sad." Ronald felt that the two castings Very nice, Ralph and Randy have great chemistry.

Daniel is a somewhat sad child. Only this mother who is full of optimism and coaxes her son can use the meager income to educate Daniel very well.

"What follows is a romantic encounter between Daniel and Ali." It's a seaside scene.Daniel goes to the beach to play beach soccer with his new Latino friend from the apartment, and sees Ali, who is also swimming there in a bathing suit.

The two fell in love at first sight and had a good impression of each other. Daniel also taught Ali to play football.

"start!"

Ronald turned the camera on Ralph Mazio, zooming in close-up.Ralph was worthy of being a disciple taught by Coppola. He looked at Elizabeth Sue without blinking, as if under a fixation spell.

Ronald turned the camera lens to Elizabeth Sue again.

"Hmm... Pause for a moment" Elizabeth, come with me.

Ronald found a big problem. Elizabeth Sue couldn't play the kind of affectionate feeling for Ralph Mazio.

"Do you have any problems with Ralph?" Ronald asked Sue.

"No problem?" Elizabeth Su looked at her feet.

"Then why do you look at his eyes without any love? This is the first time the two protagonists meet. The romantic encounter (Meet Cute) determines the audience's first impression of the two."

Ronald knew that this first impression was very important. Only when the audience could accept that they fell in love at first sight would they think from the standpoint of Daniel and Ali, and regard Johnny as the villain.Rather than conversely feel that Daniel is taking love with a knife.

During the joint audition between Ralph Mazio and Elizabeth Sue, there was clearly a spark in the eyes of the two, but how did it disappear during the rehearsal?

"I...I don't have any feelings for him." Elizabeth Su hesitated for a moment, but still spoke her mind to Ronald.

It turned out that Elizabeth Su also participated in karate training in the past two weeks. She has football and gymnastics skills, and she got started very quickly.With good strength and flexibility, Elizabeth Sue quickly surpassed Ralph Mazio in training.

The idea of ​​an athlete is very simple, if you can't beat me, you are not as good as me.Elizabeth Sue soon subconsciously felt contempt for Ralph Mazio.A boy who is like a dick can't attract a sports girl like Su.

This problem is serious, Ronald scratched his head.There is such a thing as a chemical reaction, if it is there, it is there, and if it is not, it is not.It is impossible for two actors without chemistry to perform convincingly on the screen.

"What should I do now? I also don't think they will fall in love." Susan Akins also stayed after rehearsals every day, and watched the rehearsal video of the day with Ronald and others.She also learned concepts such as romantic encounters and chemical reactions from Ronald, and she was a little anxious.

"Don't worry, we still have time. This is what I think. Sue is an athlete. The main problem is that Ralph's strength is not good enough, and he can't beat Ali in karate fighting.

But he's Latino and a natural football player.I will let him re-practice some football dribbling moves during this time, and then he will have a common language with Elizabeth Su, who played football since childhood.In this way, it is not a problem to deal with the filming of the movie. "

Ronald finished watching today's rehearsal video, wrote down all the problems he found in his notebook, and went home to think about solutions.He hit the eject button and handed the tape to Susan.

Susan Eakins is not a vase, she is working very hard to learn all things about filmmaking.

Now that Susan is on the set, she is not only the eyes and ears of Weintraub, but more like the butler of Ronald and the set. She can find a way to solve any problems.

Susan took the tape and carefully wrote the rehearsal date and session on the label next to it.She put the videotape in her big bag and drove home alone.

"Honey, surprise!"

When Susan returned home, she was pleasantly surprised to see that Weintraub had arranged a candlelight dinner at home.

Weintraub, persuaded by Susan, did not have a showdown with his wife Jane Morgan.He really loves Susan, and also loves his wife.So I can only come to Susan's apartment every now and then, and have some tenderness with her.

Susan took out Ronald's videotape, put it on the VCR, pressed the button, and watched it while making a copy.This is what she uses for archiving.

"Is this today's rehearsal tape?" Weintraub asked looking at the tape. "It doesn't look like they have chemistry." He caught Elizabeth Shue's loveless eyes.

"Ronald said he has a way," Susan said to Weintraub about Ronald's thoughts.

"Well, make another copy, and I'll take it home to have a look."

"Then you take this tape and go." Susan put the tape into Weintraub's briefcase.

(End of this chapter)