Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 594 The height problem of the boot photo
"No, no, no, this is not the Charlie I want, you dress her up as one, one..." Ronald looked at three expensive hair stylists, costume stylists, and makeup stylists, and spent two hours putting her The image of Kelly McGillis dressed up repeatedly denied it.

"A what? It's the latest fashion trend, isn't it?"

The hair stylist came from New York. He once did hair for Molly Ringwald, the heroine of "Sixteen Candles". A short red hair style would cost more than 2000 US dollars.

"Like a street girl," Ronald couldn't help it. "What I want is an intellectual woman, a lecturer who can give lectures to fighter pilots with various doctoral and master's degrees."

"Okay, let's change another set." The costumer pulled the clothing rack and began to choose intellectual style clothes.

"Also, how many inches does this high heel have to be? It's too high, lower it."

"Intellectual women can also love beauty," McGillis protested wearing red high heels and twirling twice.

"Okay, try again."

The two leading actors, Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, walked in and put on the uniforms of the navy pilots. The photographer sent by Paramount to shoot stills for the crew saw the three leading actors and pressed dozens of times. shutter.

Soon a piece of news about the start-up of the "Top Gun" crew was published on the seventh page of the "Hollywood Report".Accompanied by a group photo of the three leading actors.

On Monday, the crew pulled up to Miramar Naval Base, where they will be filming the main scenes on the ground.

In the first scene, Ronald arranged a classroom scene. On the first day the Lone Ranger arrived at the Top Gun flight school, he and Iceman and other students of the same period listened to the instructor's call sign "Joker".

Playing the Joker is Michael Ironside, who was born with the face of a bad guy.When I was an instructor, I was also bad.

"Our Navy, during North Korea, the exchange ratio was twelve to one. We shot down twelve opponents, and we shot down one. In Vietnam, it became three to one. Many pilots are so dependent on missiles, they forget the dogfighting Skill.

At Top Gun School, you are here to learn advanced aerial combat techniques, commonly known as dogfighting.You are all in the top one percent of the navy, and the one with the highest score here will get the Top Gun trophy. "

"Cut!" Ronald smiled. For the first shot, he deliberately chose a simple one, and the camera just pointed at the clown.The students below include Tom Cruise's Lone Ranger and his partner Goose.Over there is Fon Kilmer as Iceman, and two other main supporting characters, Barry Tabb as the werewolf, and Rick Rossovich as the slider.

This kind of shot allows everyone to quickly warm up and enter the state, without being too difficult and affecting the confidence of the actors.

The crew began to prepare for the next scene. The clown introduced the school director "Viper" and the reactions of the students when they heard the clown's words.

The curtains were drawn, and the setting sun slanted through the blinds.Each group is arranged quickly.

Ronald took advantage of the rest to observe the status of several actors.Tom Cruise, wearing headphones, is still reciting his lines.Val Kilmer looked at Tom with disdain, and the two had officially met on the set.

"...the top one percent elite, the one with the highest score here, will get the Top Gun trophy."

The clown, half bald on the top of his head, read his lines again with his back to the camera, this time capturing the students' reactions.

Barry Tubb, who plays the werewolf, is a handsome boy with a baby face. He speaks obscene words to the camera, and he also has a childish and innocent childishness, which is very attractive to women.

"Don't flirt with me", next to Rick Rossovich who plays the slider, he is another extreme, he looks very dull with Eastern European descent, but his muscular body is also a favorite of some female audiences.

"Cut!"

Ronald's filming is approaching methodically.This kind of high-concept film doesn't require much acting skills, and these actors are not newbies, and this level of shooting is a piece of cake.He just deliberately chose to shoot in the evening, and the magic light shines into the room, which looks very beautiful.

The first day of shooting was over quickly.Tom Cruise came to say hello. He didn't live with the rest of the crew. Paula picked him up, handed him a tape of his lines for the next day, and the two drove to a hotel with better conditions.

Val Kilmer, another star who stayed at a solo hotel, didn't pick up Tom Cruise's, but went with his manager to a hotel in a small town in the other direction.

"Okay, lads, we can go to the bar and have a beer. Wednesday and Saturday are base pilot nights, and we can go to the bar at other times." Ronald slapped twice, shaking the group of men with excess hormones. The actor rushes to the bar.Instead of letting them binge in a hotel, drink some beer in a controlled manner.

Ronald didn't participate in the beer drinking party. He returned to the hotel by himself, took a magazine shot by Bruce Weber from the room, and read it in the lobby bar of the hotel.

Ronald ordered a cocktail and drank slowly while watching.This Bruce Weber's magazine is full of photos of shirtless men, from various angles and in various poses, which are the favorites of boudoirs and wives.

In this issue of photos, there is a group photo of three people, one who looks like Tom Cruise and one who looks like Val Kilmer, the three of them are posing by the pool, with the sun reflecting off their bare upper bodies, It looks very muscular.

"How was this filmed? Why are the muscles so obvious?" Ronald took a sip of his wine and said to himself.He is studying how to make the male stars look sexy and win the love of female audiences.

"They were all painted with olive oil. I have some of Julia's classmates who took pictures like this." The heroine Kelly McGillis walked over wearing a pair of high heels and saw Ronald looking at these magazines In the photo, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Do you usually read these magazines to relax?"

"Ah? No, I was thinking about the beach volleyball scene later." Ronald quickly closed the magazine, and the beautiful male body was locked inside and put aside.

"Why don't you go to the bar with the lads?" Ronald asked McGillis.

"I'm not interested in those hairy guys, I like men with depth." McGillis glanced at the magazine in Ronald's hand, ordered a cocktail, and sat next to Ronald, "Don't mind it ?”

"Of course not, please sit down." Ronald asked her to sit down.

"Actually, several of our leading actors are very high-level, not just stars with a pretty face. You'll know it after you get in touch with them for a while, and besides, you have to film the scene where you are attacked by a lone ranger in a bar. , you can go to familiarize yourself with the place first."

"To be honest, these scenes don't pose any challenges to me. I agreed to Paramount because of the film contract." McGillis tapped on Erlang's legs, and the pants wrapped around his plump buttocks, shaking a few times on purpose.

"Besides, Val Kilmer actually looks a bit like the star you mentioned with only a pretty face. He can't even tell whether my object is I or me."

"Puchi..." Ronald almost spit out the cocktail, "Hahaha".

Val Kilmer is indeed quite hypocritical, and he doesn't have too much education. Although he has attended the Juilliard School for four years, he spent most of his time chasing women who are helpful to his acting career.

"Anyway, I like your directing style." McGillis clinked glasses with him, "I wish you success directing."

"I also wish you a successful performance."

Meanwhile, in a well-conditioned rehab center outside Los Angeles, Don Simpson gets his hands on the latest issue of The Hollywood Reporter.

"Damn it", he flipped to the version of "Top Gun" where the filming started, and the photos of the three leading actors came into view.

"I knew they weren't paying attention, hey... I'm going to call, listen, I'm going to call. I'm going to call the Hollywood director Ronald Lee. It's business."

Don Simpson began to cry.

A tall black nurse came over, "Mr. Simpson, you have already called this week. Our rehabilitation center allows you to give a number and make a call a week."

Don Simpson sat down helplessly. On his first day in the rehabilitation center, he called his girlfriend and asked her to come in with him.But after the girlfriend refused, the nurse refused to let him make the second call.

This is the rule of the rehabilitation center, afraid of rich customers, call someone to deliver...

Don Simpson was a little chagrined that after his meeting with Paramount CEO Frank Mancuso, he knew that the man was dead-headed and still living in Hollywood in the 50s.

After Mancuso learned about the progress of "Top Gun" and saw the choice of actors, the first question was to question Tom Cruise's height.

In his mind, a man in Hollywood should be over six feet tall, preferably like Jimmy Stewart or Gary Cooper, so that when he kisses a beautiful woman, he can match the composition of high and low.

Tom Cruise's height is his flaw, he looks shorter than Kelly McGillis, and Frank Mancuso also praised Kilmer, thinking that he is tall enough to play the leading role.

Don Simpson originally wanted to remind Ronald that he must find a way to avoid the appearance of McGillis being taller than Cruise in the stills and the simultaneous appearance of the two.

Neither Bruckheimer nor Ronald had thought of this now. Tom Cruise looked about the same height as McGillis in the photoshoot, and both of them were shorter than Von Kilmer.

When the people sent by Frank Mancuso go to the crew to check, they will definitely report this question back to him. At that time, his conservative mind will not know what will happen.

"Mr. Simpson, do you remember me?" A beautiful woman with a husky voice spoke to Don Simpson next to her.

"Aren't you the one in Ronald..."

"Demi, Demi Moore." Demi was wearing a hospital gown, "I can be discharged today. If you have any message for Ronald, I can do it for you."

Don Simpson carefully avoided the guard's sight, "Tell him, don't make Tom look shorter than McGillis, and don't make Fang Kilmer look much taller than Tom."

"That's all?" Demi asked in surprise.

"That's all. In addition, if you have a connection, bring me some... Come in."

"Mr. Ronald, your phone number" In the hotel bar, a waiter came to inform Ronald.

"Sorry," Ronald got up to answer the phone.McGillis was a good chat partner, and the two had a great chat.

"Ronnie, it's me, Demi."

"Demi? What about you? Are you done with rehab?"

"Yes, listen to me first. I'm in the phone booth and I don't have much change. Mr. Don Simpson asked me to bring you a message." Demi relayed Simpson's words.

"Thank you, I don't know how to thank you this time." Ronald thanked Demi, this information is very important, it seems that tomorrow's scene should be revised.

"You can do it now, I'm out of money and I'm stuck at a public transport stop, can you get someone to pick me up." Demi gave the address.

"You wait and don't move, I'll send someone to pick you up."

Ronald made a phone call to Bud Jr. and asked him to pick up Demi outside the rehabilitation center. She didn't want her boyfriend Emilio to know her predicament and used the excuse of going abroad for vacation.

"Do you have any change in hand? Give Demi two hundred dollars, find her a clean hotel to stay in first, and wait for the rest of the weekend."

Ronald returned to the table.

McGillis paid the bill. She stood up and ran her hands through the back of her trousers to smooth out the creases from sitting.

Ronald stared at her manicured legs in a pair of high heels.

"Why, am I smart enough to dress like this?" McGillis smiled, "I heard that you are very good at taking pictures of women's legs."

"I'm more like seeing you without heels, barefoot."

"Hahaha..." McGillis grinned, "Then you can come to my room."

(End of this chapter)