Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 547 Can't Shoot Like This?

"Why didn't you turn on the lights?" Ronald and Brooke Shields, who finished the opening ceremony, sneaked back to the hotel.

"Sir, the balloon that was released for the opening ceremony fell on a utility pole, causing a major power outage in Los Angeles. Our hotel switched to a backup generator, so the lights in the lobby were not fully turned on."

"This...? It's really telling the people of the city that the Olympics has opened, but it's in an unexpected way." Ronald protected Brooke, and the two sneaked into the elevator.

"Hmm..." Brooke was going to the Bahamas the next day, and the two of them hurriedly stepped out of the elevator.Entered the room kissing.

"I'm going to be spoiled by you." Early the next morning, Brooke was lying on the bed, eating the brunch that Ronald brought over, contented.

"The first gold medal in this Olympic Games was awarded to Xu from Huaguo...he won the championship in the 50-meter pistol competition. This is also the first time an athlete from the Eastern mainland has won an Olympic gold medal."

"Hey?" Ronald turned on the TV and the first news was an accident. Didn't it say that Hua Guo's strengths were in women's volleyball and gymnastics?
After sending Brooke to the airport, after the plane took off, Ronald came to the "Back to the Future" set in Burbank.

During the opening ceremony yesterday, Ronald received Spielberg's favor and made a big advertisement for his movie "Breakdancing" in front of hundreds of millions of TV viewers around the world watching the opening ceremony.

Spielberg was anxious to get home with his girlfriend and son before he went back to shoot "The Purple," and Ronald happened to return him a favor by going to the set to see how Zemeckis was filming as his commissioned representative.

"Robert is an old friend of mine, and I have great trust in his ability. The publisher Universal wants me to submit a report on the progress of the filming, so I won't go, you can go and see for me." Spielberg didn't take it seriously So, Ronald also took the place of Amberlin's big boss to come and visit Helen's class by the way.

Filming had been going on for a few weeks, and it happened to be a watershed moment.The production team with tacit cooperation should have fully run-in by this time period, and the engine has reached the maximum output power.

As for the production crew full of contradictions, at this point in time, the actors are becoming more and more uncomfortable with other actors, holding their breath and tripping each other every day, and they are on the verge of collapse.

"Back to the Future" seems to belong to the former. In the small town where it was filmed, everything is in order.

"This is a space-time shuttle modified from DeLorean's DMC-12 sports car." Director Zemeckis personally accompanied Ronald on a tour of the set. People who are shooting progress still pay attention to it.

"We bought a total of four cars for different purposes." Zemeckis pressed the door and opened the door. This purebred American sports car has been discontinued due to poor sales, but this one is like a swan wing. The doors are still nice.

Ronald wanted to sit in, but the instrument panel in the front cabin was equipped with a few diode digital display devices, which acted as a display device for traveling through time and space.The tall and burly Ronald couldn't fit into the narrow driver's seat at all.

"It was also difficult when Stoltz was filming." Zemeckis scratched his head. He chose DeLorean to promote American manufacturing. Perfect for little ones under six feet, no wonder it broke the bank.

We continued to visit the studio, which has been arranged like a street in the 50s. Except for the DeLorean, the rest of the road is also an old car from the 50s.

Ronald looked around, still admiring Zemeckis.All the sets have been verified, and they are all in the style of the 50s, and the costumes of the actors are all in accordance with the styles at that time. At least Ronald can't see any problems.

It seems that today's report is easy to write, "Zemeckis is a genius, everything is very good!" It's over.

"Ronnie," a beautiful woman approached and called him, was Helen Slater.

Seeing this, Zemeckis walked away to go about his own business.

Ronald raised his hand to greet her.Although there is no role in the plot of the shuttle to the 50s, Helen still insists on coming to the scene to learn every day.In fact, there is nothing to complain about her hard work, but sometimes she is too persistent, and even became depressed after her hope of becoming famous as a "superwoman" was shattered.

"How are you doing here?"

"Very good, the lead actor Eric Stoltz is a very good actor, and it's a pleasure to play with him." Helen talked about how to play with method actors.

"He doesn't allow people to call his name Eric now. He will only agree if we call him Marty. Said it will keep him in the state of the role."

Ronald nodded. This should be because the little brother learned something wrong with Sean Penn when he was filming "Fast Pace".But in front of Helen, it's hard to criticize this as a boring and superfluous trick.

"Hi Jennifer, it's been a long time since I saw you."

Eric Stoltz, wearing a jacket, jeans and a pair of running shoes, passed the pair to say hello to Helen Slater.He called Helen by her character's name in the movie, Jennifer, and what he said was also a line in the plot.

"Didn't we just meet yesterday? Why do you look at me like you haven't seen me for a year." Helen also responded with the words in the lines.

Stoltz didn't seem to see Ronald, nor did he come to say hello, and went to rest in the trailer.

"That's how he is. He is all on the show. Sometimes we use lines like this to test each other's on-the-spot reactions." Helen explained.

Ronald frowned, this kind of crooked method really made him uncomfortable.And I was the first director to support him, even if I was immersed in the role, wouldn't I want to say hello?

"Hello, Ronald. It's great to see you. I went to see your break dance and Longwei kid. It's a genius work. Elizabeth Sue looks very good in it."

Unlike Stoltz, Lea Thompson, who plays Marty's mother Lorraine, has a lot of respect for Ronald.The debut Burger King commercial, and the real heroine of this movie, were all recommended by Ronald.

"Nice to meet you too, how are you feeling here?"

"Pretty good, much better conditions than the last 'Red Dawn'. John Milius is really training guerrillas, asking us to camp, and there's at least one trailer here." Lea Thompson Heard Today, a big shot sent by the producer came to inspect, but I didn't expect it to be Ronald.

"That's different. It's a realistic movie that changes the timeline. This is a light-hearted movie. It's science fiction in name, but it's still a light comedy in essence."

"Light comedy?" Lee Thompson felt that Ronald's words made sense. In fact, there are not many sci-fi elements in this movie. It's just the theme of time travel, which is rubbed into the plot.Many scenarios, such as charging with lightning energy to return to the 80s, are also quite far-fetched.

"Light comedy? Who said that?" Before filming today's scene, while waiting for the lighting, Lea Thompson, Helen Slater, and Eric Stoltz sat together for a break and talked about Luo When Nader made this comment, Eric Stoltz became dissatisfied.

"Isn't this a light comedy?" Li Thompson was a little surprised, what did Stoltz think?

"Of course not, it's a tragedy."

"Tragedy? How do you understand it?" Helen Slater was very interested in Stoltz's statement. They all said that the core of comedy is tragedy. Does Stoltz have any high-level arguments?
"Look, Marty traveled back in time and changed history. His parents are no longer submissive, but successful people. When he comes back, will his parents still be the same?

Is that girlfriend Jennifer, Marty who fell in love with, or the original Marty?All the people have the same appearance, but the inside is completely different. When Marty comes back, only he remembers everyone's original appearance. He is the loneliest person in the world. Isn't this a tragedy? "

"That makes sense." Helen nodded.

"Stop it," Li Thompson saw Ronald walking over with Zemeckis, afraid that they would hear Stoltz's words.Ronald is a well-known commercial film machine. In his eyes, he doesn't know what to think of this kind of "high theory".

Ronald did hear this "high theory", and he was a little disgusted.These actors always take the display of their acting skills as the highest goal, don't they care about the overall temperament of the movie?
This was originally a light-hearted commercial movie. Everyone accepts the assumption that you can go back to the past, then leads to some stories, and finally solves the big problem. The protagonist also returns to his time, corrects the mistakes of his parents, and has a relationship with his girlfriend. Take it a step further.

Narrowly missed, the good guy wins and the bad guy is defeated.

At this time, if you want to play Shakespeare's tragic performance, it is simply superfluous.

"Cut!"

Ronald finishes watching a shot of Zemeckis.He wanted to report that everything went well, but he felt a little hesitant.

In this scene, Marty just went back to the past. He saw the clothes and scenes of the 50s on the street. He didn't know where he was, and he showed a look of surprise and bewilderment.

Stoltz's performance, you can't say that his performance is unqualified, but he always acts in the direction of film noir.That kind of surprise and bewilderment, it looks like he just killed someone, and he feels like he is in constant panic.

"Wrong casting", Ronald had a thought in his mind.

Actors have their own qualities. Some are better at acting and can cover roles with different temperaments, while some are more suitable for roles that match their temperament.

The protagonist, Marty McFly, should be the kind of optimist who is a little bit cowardly. We all had such a classmate when we were in school. He was very nice and got along well with everyone, but he didn't dare to turn his face against the bad guys who bullied him. .

Stoltz is obviously far from this kind of temperament. In fact, Zemeckis's initial choice, Michael J. Fox, is the most suitable candidate.

Stoltz's so-called methodism is from the inside out, first identifying himself as a person like the character in his heart, and then replacing the character's reaction with his own natural reaction.

But if the actor's interpretation of the role is wrong, it will be a big problem.

"I want to see the dailies after shooting." Ronald pulled over Zemeckis and told him gently.

"Is there any problem?" Zemeckis raised his eyebrows, didn't he say it was a good time to go through the motions?
"I don't know yet, so I need to see the swatches."

"You, take Mr. Li." Zemeckis pointed to an assistant and asked him to take Ronald to the church in the town set, which is also where the crew watched the sample.

"Kalala..." The last reel of sample film finished its screening, and the projector was idling, and the editing mark composed of black and white characters flashed on the screen.

"Tsk..." Ronald was a little embarrassed.

In the samples accumulated over the past few weeks, Eric Stoltz's acting skills are actually very good. Mask", his acting skills have made a great breakthrough under the training of Bogdanovich.It is several grades better than when I directed him "fast-paced".

But the problem also arises from this. In that movie, his character is a child with a facial deformity.Wearing a big headgear, you can only rely on your eyes and body movements to convey emotions.The face is expressionless.Ronald also saw some shots in his "mask" in the film library, which Zemeckis saw when he used it for casting.

This kind of acting is indeed very suitable for his method, every move is initiated from the heart, so that the audience can feel his acting skills.

But on the whole, this kind of performance is rather deep, and Stoltz did not adjust it, and directly copied it to "Back to the Future".It's like in a light comedy, there is a protagonist who is still playing a tragic role with bitter hatred.

No matter how good the acting is, it is negative for the overall standard of the film.

"How would you write a report, Ronald?"

Zemeckis, who had finished filming for the day early, grew increasingly uneasy about Ronald's request to see dailies.

"I don't know, I want to hear your opinion." Ronald signaled the projectionist to start showing Stoltz's Marty again.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with his acting."

"Come on! For God's sake, of course I know he's good at acting. But this is a commercial, not Shakespeare's King Lear."

"Hey... what do you want me to do?" Of course Zemeckis knew about Stoltz's problem, but the filming had already started for several weeks.In the shooting of commercial films, it is impossible to stop and change people, or suspend the entire crew, waiting for Stoltz to find the status.

"This is your brainchild, Robert. I know you went through a lot of trouble to make 'Back to the Future', and to prove yourself with 'Emerald' in order to gain the trust of the major studios. Don't you want the movie to be as good as your original intention?"

Ronald also felt that things were tricky, but when it came to a dilemma, no matter how he chose, he had to bear it.

"Of course I know, Michael J. Fox is the best choice, but that son of a bitch 'Family Ties' producer Goldberg disagrees, we can't get Fox to play it, so we settle for the next best thing Got Stoltz."

"Well, Robert," Ronald said after thinking for a while, "I will report the situation to Steven and see what he says. If he thinks there is no problem, that's of course the best.

If he feels the need to change, then we will sit down and figure out a solution. It’s almost the weekend, why don’t you stop shooting and wait for him to make a decision? "

"That's the only way." Zemeckis watched Stoltz's performance on the screen.After being punctured by Ronald, he was no matter how glaring he looked.It really doesn't fit the whole movie.

"Shxt!" Zemeckis picked up a bottle of Coca-Cola and slammed it on the ground.

"Wow..." The glass bottle shattered to the ground.The staff quickly came to clean it.

"What's the matter?" The actors outside were still resting and eating, and heard the sound in the church.

After a while, the staff poured out the broken glass?

"Is this a fight?" Everyone looked at each other.

"Have you heard? Helen Slater was introduced by Ronald to play the vase."

"Today Ronald said the movie should be a light comedy, and Stoltz slammed it."

"Oh, I've seen him and Helen both call each other by character names."

"Helen," Lee Thompson held the angry Helen back, "Let's go over there and ask, don't get angry with these extras. Ronald is a person who puts professionalism first. I was in love with Dennis at the time, and Dennis's His ex-wife is his good friend, and Ronald didn't make things difficult for me, and gave me very positive recommendations, so I got my first leading actress."

"Is he really jealous because of me and Stoltz?" Helen looked at the broken glass on the ground, and memories of the past surged in her heart.

"Is nothing wrong? We heard the noise outside." Li Thompson asked Ronald and Zemeckis who walked out of the church.

"It's okay, there was a little accident." Ronald smiled at them.

"We need to make some changes to the set. Ronald made a good suggestion, so we will have a temporary holiday starting tomorrow, and you can come back next week." Zemeckis didn't want to cause confusion to the crew, so he made an excuse
"Okay, director." Li Thompson was quite happy. Her boyfriend Dennis Quaid was filming in Germany, so they could just take advantage of the holiday to reunite.

"Ronnie, I..." Helen stared at Ronald with wide eyes.

"If you have nothing to do these two days, just follow me. I need your help with something." Ronald looked at Helen, who was five feet eight inches tall (1.73 meters), and Stoltz was just right. Cheng Michael J. Fox, about five feet four inches (1.62 meters) tall and she is not easy to play with.

I still have to help Gerrard to the end with what I promised Gerrard, and if I change people, I have to find a protagonist for Helen.

"Oh..." Helen replied, and took a peek at Ronald, not knowing what she was thinking.

(End of this chapter)