Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 592 This Movie Should Be Accompanied by Rock Music
Grumman engineers modified the cockpit of an F-35A Tomcat a second time with a Super 14 camera.Ronald sat in the radar officer's seat behind the cockpit, turned his body from side to side, and took a small slate to hit the Super 35's camera.

The results of the experiment were very satisfactory. The actors turned on and off the camera by themselves, and it was possible to shoot pictures from the subjective perspective.

Ronald pushed open the cockpit cover. He was just tall enough to sit down. Anyone who was taller would not be suitable to fly an American fighter jet.I heard that Soviet fighter jets are very compact and are only suitable for small pilots.If the movie was shot by the Eastern camp, then the actors can only choose Tom Cruise's height.

Kimball, the director of photography, was left behind to continue testing the performance of the camera at high altitudes at the Miramar base of the Navy, including F-14A, and F-28 fighter jets pretending to be Soviet MiG-5s.Ronald drove back to Hollywood by himself.

A Navy liaison, Pete Pettigrew, conveyed the Pentagon's opinion to the producers.They didn't want any official call signs of Soviet fighters to appear in the movie.So the MiG-21 written in the original script was changed to MiG-28.

Ronald also thoughtfully chose an even-numbered model. As we all know, the MiG fighters of the Suvir Alliance all end in odd-numbered models, such as MiG-19 and MiG-25.Even if in the future, or the alliance has created a new type of fighter that is unknown to America, it will not occupy this fictional MiG-28 model.

The actors will begin their first non-stop script reading this afternoon.After reading each scene separately in the first two days, the actors have basically understood what each scene is about to shoot, and then read the script without stopping, so that they can grasp the performance of each scene at a global level. strength.Make the emotional intensity consistent before and after, so that the audience does not seem to be out of play because of the emotional imbalance of the actors.

In particular, "Top Gun" will not adopt the method of filming in the order of the script as Ronald's previous director "Longwei Kid", and the actors must have a better understanding of each scene.

"Jerry, where's Don?" Ronald looked at the producer Bruckheimer. Today he came to discuss the soundtrack of the film with the two producers.

In fact, Ronald also proposed to the two producers to adopt the method of sequential shooting, which can make the actors' performances more realistic.But Bruckheimer had a calculation for him.

The Department of the Navy gave Paramount a favorable price (in fact, mainly because Ronald asked the deputy commander to call the Secretary of the Navy), a fixed fee of 180 million US dollars, and rented four F-14A Tomcats to the crew, and four F-5S fighters are used for air combat shooting.

The Secretary of the Navy, John Raymond, saw that Ronald was the director, and thoughtfully raised his pen. He specially approved two "Sidewinder" air-to-air missiles on the application documents, so that the crew could film the missile launch and hit the target drone. .

"Let the lads take pictures more excitingly and show the style of the navy", these are the original words of Mr. Minister.

Of course, this is just a fixed cost. If you want to rent a fighter jet, you must also rent a fighter pilot to participate in the filming. Otherwise, it is impossible for the crew to find a civilian pilot who can fly the F-14.

The Navy offered a rental price of $[-] an hour for pilot plus fuel maintenance.If you want to shoot shots of fighter jets taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier, you have to rent the entire combat readiness team of a crew.The Navy offered a "friendly price" of $[-] an hour.

And they noted in the contract that the crew must not interfere with the execution of the aircraft carrier's mission, the actors and staff must obey the command of the naval officer on board, and must not film parts of the aircraft carrier that need to be kept secret, and the captain's order must be the highest level when filming.

Thinking of the flying shots, which are scattered throughout the script, if they were shot in sequence, even doubling the 500 million shooting budget would not be enough.

Therefore, we can only focus on shooting different parts of the shots according to the location.Ronald has decided to concentrate the shots related to air battles and aircraft carriers in a week or two, and put them behind the actors' other roles.

"Accordingly, he should be here," Bruckheimer looked at his watch, "I won't wait for him, let me introduce you to George Moroder, our composer."

There are still many questions that need to be finalized in the script that the Navy initially approved. For example, in the opening air battle, Ronald arranged for the Lone Ranger to scare away two Cuban pilots alone, and in the final air battle, he shot down three North Korean Air Force planes.From the Navy's point of view, these are very provocative content, and further research is needed to see whether specific country names can appear in the movie.

But the general structure has been completed, so Ronald proposed to introduce the lyrics and composition of music first.Since this movie is said to be an MV, it should be accompanied by some nice music.

Anyway, the story is very simple, and the audience also came to watch the movie for those hormone-filled shots.Ronald once had an Oscar for the best theme song, and he knew that with the right music, the audience's hormones can be multiplied by the combined effect of music and pictures.

"Hi, George," Ronald shook hands with Italian-born composer and record producer Giorgio Moroder.

"Actually, I have seen you," Giorgio Moroder said with an Italian accent.

"Huh?" Ronald thought to himself that he had indeed gained some fame in Hollywood, no, everyone started to draw ties with him as opening remarks.

"Joe Esposito collaborated with me on his last record. I happened to meet you when he recorded the theme song of 'Longwei Kid'."

"Ah, is Joe okay?" Ronald saw that he was from an acquaintance network, and he was half relieved.It seems that he is a talent who understands film soundtracks.

George Moroder worked with the Simpson/Bruckheimer combination on "Beverly Hills Detective", but the soundtrack requirements of that comedy detective film are completely different from "Top Gun".

"We need a lot of hormones in our movies, so we need rock music." Ronald mentioned his thoughts.

"Specifically, what you need is a pop-rock album." George Moroder felt Ronald's pulse as soon as he opened his mouth.

Pop rock is to add a lot of pop melody and format to rock to make it more acceptable to the audience.

"Do you have any songs in your mind that can be put into the movie as the soundtrack? After I read the script, I can contact you first, and then I can match the new song."

Giorgio Moroder has no prejudices and does not intend to create an all-original soundtrack for the film.

Ronald was overjoyed. This kind of soundtrack engineer really thinks about the overall effect of the movie. It seems that Bruckheimer has a good vision.

Bruckheimer gave him a reassuring look.

Ronald pondered for a while, "I think Bruce Springsteen's music is good." He thought of the song "Dancing in the Dark", which was originally reserved for Diane to appear in the MV. The melody and rhythm are very suitable.

"Born in the USA? That's very suitable. I understand what you mean." George Moroder kept nodding, indeed this patriotic song is very suitable for the theme of your movie.

"Um, that song is also good. I think there must be a song about romantic love, which is used when the hero and heroine are in love. In addition, air combat also needs an intense song that makes people secrete a lot of adrenaline."

"Don't worry, George will take care of it for you, let me read the script first." George Moroder seemed confident, he said goodbye to Ronald and others, and went back to writing.

"Where's Don? Why haven't you come yet?" Ronald also left after seeing the soundtrack. Don Simpson didn't always attend such key meetings. It would be bad if he missed any good ideas.Don Simpson often has some whimsical but reasonable suggestions.

"I asked my assistant to look for it. Did he go to Paramount for another delay?"

Ronald shook his head, and walked into the large conference room, where all the actors with lines were already in place, and the non-stop script reading was about to begin.

"Lone Ranger, it's not about your flying skills, it's about your attitude. The enemy in the sky is dangerous, but you are more dangerous than the enemy." Val Kilmer stared at Tom Cruise and read this line.

This is a tit-for-tat conversation between the two as they compete to win the "Top Gun" flight school.On one side is the theoretical Iceman who keeps calm, and on the other side is the intuitive lone ranger who believes in his intuition and impulse.

However, when the actors read their lines, they also seemed a little too emotional.Ronald made a note here in the script that the emotional intensity needs to be adjusted later.

"Yeah, I'm... dangerous" When Tom Cruise read this line, he leaned forward from his chair, faced Val Kilmer, showed his wicked smile, and then bared his teeth. Val Kilmer provoked.

"Hey!" Val Kilmer was irritated by this action. Instead of following the script, he also leaned forward, raised his head, and provocatively pointed at Tom Cruise with his chin.

"Hehe..." Kelly McGillis next to her laughed silently. Such a crew is so interesting. Before the filming started, the two rival actors were already in the mood.

"Ahem..." Ronald could only clear his throat, and pretended to take a sip of black tea. He didn't want the two male protagonists to continue to increase their hormone secretion, but he couldn't interrupt the reading of the script, so he had to remind him .

The two leading actors smiled disdainfully and leaned back in their chairs.

Val Kilmer obviously hasn't played enough, and he has to improvise a line after putting down the script.

Tom Cruise is eager to see what wonderful lines the other party can say.

Kelly McGillis looked at the two big boys, smiled slightly, and raised her hand to cut her shawl blond hair behind her ears, revealing a sexy neck.

Ronald frowned, trying to stop her from adding fuel.

"boom!"

Suddenly there was a loud noise outside the window.

Then there was a softer sound of rattling.

"What happened?" Ronald took the opportunity to interrupt the tense atmosphere around the reading, and he went out to check the situation.

Standing at the exit of the porch, Ronald could only see a Porsche 911 sports car in the parking space outside. Very long one.

The man sitting in the cab bumped his head into a big white airbag, and a seat belt strangled him.

There were obvious bloodstains on the airbag, and Ronald felt that this man was not very good.Although the law passed last year included airbags in the car's safety regulations, but with such an impact, the speed of this person must be scary.

And why didn't he step on the brakes when he was about to stop?

"Oh, Shxt", Jerry Bruckheimer also heard the voice and rushed out. He recognized the driver with blood on his face as his partner Don Simpson.

"Don, Don...how are you doing?"

Ronald was startled, this driver is Don Simpson?He won't be killed, will he?
"Call 911 and call an ambulance!" Ronald went over and stopped Bruckheimer who wanted to move Simpson. "I have learned first aid, so don't move him at this time. We will let a professional emergency doctor handle it."

(End of this chapter)