Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 466

A group of people came to New York with filming equipment.Here, the props group of the crew found a Chevrolet SUV that was more than ten years old but had been carefully maintained by a mechanic, as a moving tool for the protagonist La Russo's family.

Ronald's agent Eddie contacted the RV used by the actors and crew, and drove to the small town of Harris, New Jersey together, waiting for the sunrise the next morning to shoot.

Ronald did not follow, but took time to deal with private affairs.He visited Aunt Karen, brought the portion of "Night of the Comet" to Douglas Jr., and then made another trip to Long Island, where Helen Slater recuperated at her mother's house.

"Helen, Ronald is here." Her mother knocked on the door of the guest bedroom at home and let Ronald in.

Ronald saw Helen standing in front of the window wearing cotton pajamas at a glance.After more than a month of recuperation, she did not maintain her 120-pound figure, but gradually returned to the level before filming "Supergirl".

The two looked at each other for a while, then suddenly smiled at the same time.

Helen came up and hugged Ronald, "I'm glad you came to see me, Ronnie." Like friends, the two talked a lot about their separation.

In addition to the anorexia of binge eating and vomiting cycle, Helen was diagnosed with mild depression by the doctor. After a period of psychological treatment, her mood is now much more stable.What she needs most now is the company of family and friends, but her parents are divorced, so she can only live in two reorganized families for a period of time.

"Supergirl" producers Salkind and Sons don't appear to have given up on trying to find a distributor willing to release the film.For this reason, they are willing to cut some shots, leaving only 8 minutes in length.

Helen's shots have been reduced a lot, but after treatment by a psychiatrist, she doesn't seem to care so much about it now.

The two chatted for more than half an hour, and Helen's mother knocked on the door, reminding Helen that it was time to go out to exercise.

"Okay, that's all for today." Ronald was about to leave, he rubbed Helen's hair. "So, we're still on hiatus?"

"Yeah, I think this is very good. I need some time to recover, and our conversation today, like a close friend, made me relax a lot." Helen still said in a soft voice.

Ronald saw that he was still a little worried, and turned around and walked out the door.His hand touched the doorknob, and he turned around and asked, "Helen, since you said we are friends, can you answer me a question honestly?"

Helen raised her hand, motioning for Ronald to speak.

"Before we...did I put pressure on you? Donna said that every time I chatted with my girlfriend, it was as if I was about to take out the ring and propose."

"Hahahaha..." Helen burst out laughing, "That's a very accurate description. You do look like good husband material, Ronnie. But we only dated for a while, especially when we were in Los Angeles, and you always let me I felt as if I was already a married housewife.

Starting a family was a difficult decision for me.So let's keep it like this, and my pressure will be relieved a lot. "

Helen's parents divorced, and Ronald's yearning for family life revealed on weekdays made her a little nervous, and sometimes it became her source of stress.Helen felt that she was just an ordinary American girl, and she just wanted to relax. She didn't want to start thinking about whether the two of them would maintain their relationship in the future, or whether they would end up in a divorce like her parents.

"Now let's not put any pressure on the other party to make promises..." Helen told Ronald her thoughts on love and marriage again.

"Okay, let's continue to pause." Ronald didn't like this kind of American young people who used theories in love books and gossip magazines to guide their love life. He felt a little tired, so he left .

"Helen, you haven't smiled as happily as you did just now for a long time." Helen's mother held her arm, and the two of them walked and chatted under the autumn tree-lined avenue.

Ronald found agent Eddie and asked him to drive him to Harris, a small town in New Jersey.

"Do you know? Ronald, you should let go of the burden. Many people enter the entertainment industry just to have fun and date female stars, such as your friend Douglas Jr. You don't have to care about it."

Eddie persuaded Ronald on the drive.

"Yeah, you're right." Ronald only wanted to make a good movie now, and don't think too much about the future.It might be better to let nature take its course when it comes to girlfriends.It's not from Aunt Karen's time, when marriage was the same as being in love now.Divorce is like changing girlfriends.

After all, Ronald did not really go through the era of hippies. He felt that his thoughts also had to accept the baptism of free spirit. He didn't have to be as open as hippies, but he didn't have to be too conservative. Young people only think about the happiness in front of them.

"Tell me something that makes you happy, that ex-girlfriend of yours, Meg Tilly." Seeing that Ronald still didn't smile, Eddie thought about it and said again.

"What's up with her?"

"She was fired by the director from 'Mozart'."

"Why?" Ronald knew that Meg's husband, Kinneman, worked very hard to make Meg a star, so he shouldn't be bullied.

"She was on the set in the Czech Republic. She played football with local children the day before filming started and broke her leg. Now the director, Milos Forman, is looking for a replacement all over the world. Even my client has received an audition notice."

"Hehe..." Ronald wanted to laugh a little.Fate always plays a joke on you when you are not paying attention.The latest masterpiece of the Oscar-winning director, Kinneman must have given Meg a lot of effort to get the role, but he kicked a crappy football and ruined it.

The next morning the genius was bright, at the junction of Franklin Road and Hamilton Street in the small town of Harris (many towns on the east coast are named after the founding fathers), Ronald and the director of photography James Crabbe were lying together On top of the tallest building.There are rows of small houses next to it.In front of the building is a row of parking spaces, with densely packed cars parked there.

Randy Heller, who played mother Lucille, and Ralph Mazio, who played Daniel LaRusso, sat in the Chevrolet SUV parked in the downstairs parking space, getting ready.

The light-colored Chevrolet was weather-beaten, and there was an obvious dent in the back of the rear that showed it was an old car.Any car enthusiast will recognize this as a model from a decade ago.On the roof is a Mongoose [-]/[-] speed bmx bike, which is Daniel LaRusso's vehicle.

For a job opportunity on the West Coast, the mother and son packed all their belongings into a car and drove down the interstate.That's why America is called the country on wheels.

"camera?"

"full speed."

"Boy Longwei, the first scene, the first shot"

"Action!" Ronald called out the order with a portable loudspeaker, and the filming of "Longwei Boy" officially started.

The shot of this scene was shot from a distance above, and there was no live recording.Ronald had already negotiated a good show with the two actors in advance, waiting for the magic light time after sunrise to shoot.

Randy Heller said her lines, started the car, turned the steering wheel and drove out of the parking space.

"Cut! Cut!" Ronald stood up and shouted to stop.Residents of the small town get up early every morning. Several early-rising housewives and children saw Ronald and others on the roof. They had never seen a movie being filmed, and they all came to watch. A naughty child took the lead and rushed into the building. viewfinder frame.

"Tell them to move away, don't get into the camera... yes, don't get into that line" Ronald yelled on the roof, making gestures, asking the assistants below to help drive people away.

The assistant managed to get them out of the circle, and Ronald started filming again.The scene ends when Lucille drives the SUV up Hamilton Street and straight on to Franklin Road.

"Cut! Cut!" The housewives obeyed the rules, but they couldn't bear to look at the children. When they saw the camera above, they couldn't wait to come out and surround the car, yelling at Ronald.

In a small town where life is boring, it is rare for residents to see how a movie is made.For them, being able to have a good time and show their faces in front of the camera is an anecdote that can be said for several years.

"Damn it, if you were in Los Angeles, passers-by would just take a look and leave. What's so interesting about a crew with no stars." Ronald walked to the edge of the roof cursing, and slowly descended the maintenance stairs climb.

"Please be quiet, do you want to appear in the movie?" Ronald walked in front of the housewives and children.

"Hee hee hee..." The children laughed happily, and the housewives also nodded.

"Okay, then you will be by the car, wave to the actors in the car, and say goodbye." Ronald knew that it would be too difficult to persuade these residents to hide their faces, so he simply modified it on the spot, asking them to play a guest role as a neighbor and highlight Lucy. The Er family is well-connected in the local area.

"Remember, no one is allowed to look at the top. If anyone secretly looks at the camera above, I will cut out the lens of that person."

The children were secretly laughing.

"Do you want to tell your friends that I'm in the movie? If you want to, just be obedient." Ronald touched the back of the head of the naughtiest kid who took the lead, and gave him a piece of chocolate, and he quickly calmed down.

The filming started again, and several children were happily lying on the window of the Chevrolet SUV, calling Daniel's name and waving goodbye to him.

Randy Heller, who plays the mother Lucille, turned a corner and drove onto Hamilton Street. The children did not follow, and were held back by the mothers, and then waved goodbye to the car collectively.

"Cut!" Ronald stopped and looked at the sky, which happened to be still in good light.The director of photography indicates that the shot meets the requirements.

"It's time to call it a day."Ronald yelled.The child reluctantly came over and wanted to take some more shots.

In order to shoot several scenes of moving, the crew had to shoot scenes separately from New Jersey, Arizona, and Los Angeles, and the broken car was also transported to various places non-stop. With a standard production scale of $800 million budget, Ronald enjoyed the treatment of not saving money for the authenticity of art for the first time.

Everyone got into the RV, the assistants loaded the equipment onto the truck, and the crew's convoy continued on its way to Princeton, where the century-old school is located.Here, Ronald wants to take a few shots of the gates to make a footnote to the journey of the mother and son.

The point of this montage is to find a few locations that are familiar to all viewers so they can understand what the montage is about, mother and son crossing the country, moving from New Jersey to California for a better new life.

As the sun goes down, Ronald is across from the gates of Princeton, filming a drive-by shot of Lucille.The old car had problems after a long trip.Lucille and Daniel pushed the car with its doors open, left and right.

Suddenly, the car started to start, and the mother and son jumped into the car from the left and right sides and drove forward.

"Haha, you are really great, Daniel." Mother Lucille was always very optimistic, and in this case, she did not forget to praise her son.

"Cut!"

After shooting a few pieces, the filming of the crew in the small town of Princeton was also completed.Today I booked a room in a hotel next to Princeton, so that everyone can have a good night's sleep. Tomorrow, I will go to Arizona to shoot several giant rocks that are often seen in western movies.

The opening shot is well shot, and the cast and crew relax as they hang out on the Princeton campus, getting ready to go to dinner.

"Hey, someone here is playing football."

Ralph Mazio saw some girls playing football on the lawn, and happily went up to show their hands.He is different from those girls who rely on their bodies to play football. He runs in small steps and sways with the ball from side to side. The girls can't grab his ball no matter what.

"Almost, don't get hurt. You haven't warmed up enough." Ronald was very satisfied with Ralph's skills.But he thought of Meg Tilly who was injured while playing football, and he didn't want his hero to be injured too.

"Okay", I just want to show you my skills.Ralph Mazio is also happy with himself.

"Ronald?!" A crisp female voice came from behind, "Why are you here?"

"It's you, Brooke." Ronald turned around and saw a tall girl behind him, wearing jeans and sunglasses, trying his best to hide his beauty.

"I'm here to shoot a scene and make a movie."

"Is it Brooke Shields?!" Several crew members saw that it was Brooke, and immediately gathered around to sign.Even Ralph Mazio was on the verge of making a move.

"Let's go to another place to talk, there are many people here." Brooke looked around and many people came to look around, although the college students in Princeton were very polite and didn't watch her much.But there are also many experiences of being politely asked for autographs and group photos, which makes her very distressed.

"We're going to dinner, do you have any recommendations?"

"Come with me." Brooke adjusted her sunglasses, and walked out wearing Ronald and the crew.

(End of this chapter)