Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Talented and potential actors, once they find the right role, the inspired creative state is invaluable.

Ronald carefully took care of everyone's performance status. The biggest difference between the performance status of film actors and theater actors is that there is no way to get real-time feedback from the audience.

When performing a drama in a theater, the audience's reaction will clearly tell the actor how he is performing today.He will adjust the technique of acting accordingly.

But movie actors actually perform against the air. Even if a big company like [-]th Century Fox shoots in New York with the second-best equipment in the country, it will have to wait until the next afternoon to see the printed samples. I saw that there was something bad in the acting, so I didn't have time to modify it.

The lighting, recording, and scene notes on the scene are all busy with their own affairs. The photographer is a little better than them, and can see the performance from the viewfinder, but he doesn't know how the scene will be presented in the editing room in the end. There is no way of knowing how well the actors performed.

Only the director, Ronald, stands behind the camera, and he is almost the only audience in the world who can see whether the actors are performing well or not.

Therefore, Griffiths, Baldwin, Cusack and other main actors habitually look at Ronald after a scene, as long as he smiles and nods, and then says from his mouth "Great, today Your performance is great..." and other praises, they feel very safe in their hearts, so that they don't care much about the meaning of "let's change the performance method and add another insurance" that often follow. .

"Come on, have some baked cookies, my aunt's secret recipe." In order to keep the actors and staff in good condition, Ronald also asked his aunt to send baked cookies.When taking a break in the middle of shooting, share it with everyone.

For a while, a scent filled the crew, and even the supervision representatives sent by the screenwriters union couldn't help but come over to ask for a few dollars.

"I said, when will your strike plan end? What kind of script are you writing? You can't write a script now, what should you do if you don't have any income?" Ronald handed the remaining biscuits to the female screenwriter whose turn it was today.

The strike has reached its second week, and the union members who volunteered to supervise the crew and TV station will have some subsidies, but now those TV crews who are writing and filming basically have stopped working.

The TV station took out some old dramas from the past to fill the most precious evening prime time, and only the film crews like Ronald who had already started filming were left to start work.Therefore, the number of crews that need to be supervised is also very small, with many people and few positions, and new people are rotated every day.

The female screenwriter is a TV screenwriter. She swallowed the biscuit and took a sip of hot coffee, "Before I went on strike, I actually found a long-term job in a morning soap opera on NBC. If I continue, it might be a good job." Easy jobs are going to waste again.”

"When are you going to go on strike? I think the attitude of the Producers Union has softened. The compensation of [-] million is a little bit more. Everyone sits down and talks about a figure, and then the happy hour resumes. I have movies to continue shooting, and so do you." TV work, isn't it great?"

"Did you know? Director, it's actually against the rules for you to discuss the strike with me like this. But your biscuits are delicious, so it's okay if I tell you, now we're in trouble," the female screenwriter said with a smile.

"Actually, I want to accept the terms to end the strike. The gossip says that negotiator Walton wants to accept your $5000 million compensation terms, but many members were so encouraged by his previous speeches that they really believed that they could With a quota of [-] million, you can also have the right to decide the casting and director of the script."

"Ah? I, Walton, have the right to decide whether to accept the conditions of the Producers Union?"

"In order to win the support of the trade union members, he will not leave him alone until he gets the best conditions, and reached an agreement in private, stipulating that the union must agree to accept the conditions, but correspondingly, he also promised that the conditions must be internal. It has to be voted on.”

"Oh..." Ronald touched his head, this is troublesome, the low-level trade union members are incited, and they really believe that they can get the power that top directors and producers do not necessarily have in Hollywood. It seems that everyone Before the energy is exhausted, there is no way to reach a compromise in the short term.

Filming the Staten Island scene here, the sets and props crew, under the leadership of art director Polly Pratt, are setting up the scene of Tess's new office on another floor of the World Trade Center.

Tess's colleague in the old company, the little fat manager Lutz, said that he introduced a manager of the hedging department to Tess, and he wanted to find a new assistant.But in fact, what Tess suspected was not wrong, it was just the object of hunting for the manager.

The hedging department played the most important role in last year's stock market crash. They either made a lot of money or lost a lot. Wins and losses of hundreds of millions in a day all occurred under the extreme conditions of the stock market crash.For example, the Jewish Solo of the Tiger Fund almost lost the fund.Later, I used the gossip on the adjustment of the yen exchange rate to pay back part of the book.

These people are often perverse and violent, and this kind of ups and downs in life makes them exaggerated in the relationship between men and women.In search of dopamine satisfaction, they can do very strange things.

According to Ronald's friend Bannon, these people are more chaotic than Hollywood.

The manager of Bob Spike in the script is such a character.The casting director, Julia, ended up finding an actor who was a regular supporting role on prime-time soap operas, which often had a profiling character, and he was playing a lecher.

After the weekend, the new week of filming shifted to Manhattan, and Ronald received bad news.Because the screenwriters union's strike continued into the third week, the "TV and Radio Artists Union" in the two major actors' unions encouraged actors to take vacations or seek second jobs because of the outage of TV drama scripts.

TV dramas in America are generally filmed and broadcast at the same time, and the script will be fine-tuned and revised based on weekly audience feedback.Whichever character is popular, write more about his plot.Guest actors can also become recurring supporting roles.

The general strike of the screenwriters' union completely bankrupted this filming mode, but TV drama actors still have contracts, and they don't want to be entangled in TV dramas that cannot be filmed and cannot find other livelihoods.

The Producers Union, on the other hand, did not want the other two of the three major unions and the Screenwriters Union to force itself to make concessions.The two sides hit it off immediately, and the TV stations announced that the actors could choose to take vacations and return to filming after the screenwriters' strike ended.

All of a sudden, the TV drama actors of the three major public TV stations all ran away.Some went to the theater stage, some went abroad to film, and more started to work part-time, teaching drama to children in schools or in the community.

The actor that Ronald and Julia Taylor settled on was a Briton. He happened to get a supporting role in a soap opera in his hometown through his relationship.

Ronald, who's waxing over here, get Julia Taylor here. "Is there anyone in your place who is suitable to play a pervert? There is a fire here, hurry up..."

"How about that Kevin in the bar talking about stand-up comedy? Kevin Spacey?"

"Space?" Ronald thought of the actor chatting with Alec Baldwin and Alan Rickman next to Broadway's Candy Box Theater.He openly flirted with the waitress in the bar, which is acceptable in appearance.

"What's his phone number, I'll tell him directly." The anxious Ronald didn't even look for Kevin Spacey's agent, and directly called the actor himself.

"A cameo role as a hedge investment manager? I'm very interested. But I'm preparing for a play recently. In terms of shooting time..." When Spacey heard that there was a movie to play, he had no reluctance.He is preparing to rehearse a new Broadway play recently, and he is afraid that he will not be able to find time.

"It will take half a day. I will ask my driver to pick you up and bring you the script by the way. Just talk to your agent and ask him to help you sign the contract." Ronald did not wait for Spacey to speak, and simply said Finalize the acting.

The scene was shot inside a car, a rented stretch limousine, set up on Long Island.Renting an extended luxury car is not only to show the luxury of the hedging department, but also to facilitate the placement of cameras.

I chose Long Island, which is more affluent and quiet, because there is less traffic here, which is suitable for repeated exercise and shooting.If this scene was filmed in Manhattan, the drivers of other vehicles would probably have to shout loudly to stay out of the way, and it would not be possible to shoot.

"Cameron, here is your pass." When shooting the location, Ronald called Cameron Crowe to come to the scene to give an idea.

Today is filming on location, so Ronald is not afraid of being caught by the screenwriters union.The screenwriters union, which has been on strike for more than two weeks, has not yet reached an agreement, and those who took the initiative to supervise the crew at the beginning have begun to lose heart.They didn't follow us when we went on location today.

"This paragraph needs to be modified for the manager Bob Spike's lines. I need a particularly marginal character. He is the kind of manager who the audience knows will do dirty things. You can follow Tiger Fund's request. Make it up like Luo."

The actors were replaced, and Ronald decided to ask Crowe to rewrite the lines to better suit the dapper pervert of Kevin Spacey.He was different from that soap opera actor, he looked gentle on the surface, but he didn't know he was a pig until he opened his mouth.

"If it's a pig, you have to arch it..." Cameron Crowe was inspired, wrote a paragraph with a pencil on the notebook, and handed it to Ronald.

"Hahaha, that's it..." Ronald was very satisfied.

The luxury car was already in place, the two cameras were installed in the luxury car, the recording and lighting were ready, and the director took out a small clipboard and tried to type it in the car.The slates for close-ups and close-ups are specially made, and the actors have to make the slates themselves.Because although the interior of a luxury car is larger than an ordinary car, after the camera crew and recording crew are stuffed into it, there is no room to stuff another scene into it.

Everything is ready, only actor Kevin Spacey is yet to arrive.

"Bud, where have you been?" Ronald was anxious, and found a phone to call his driver.

"We are stuck on the road, and it will take about 10 minutes." Little Bud replied with his car phone.

"Two and ten minutes, just now you said twenty and ten minutes. Hey, hey..." Ronald gave up hope on the traffic in Manhattan.

"I'm... going into... the Donghe Tunnel right now, and I'm calling you back later." Little Bud's voice came intermittently, and then stopped completely.

Ronald didn't know if the traffic jam would continue to Long Island, so he walked around the set anxiously.This kind of temporary replacement of actors is really annoying.The staff on the set were a little afraid to speak, and it was the first time seeing Ronald so angry since the filming started.

"Director, don't worry, should we make another backup plan?" Today, only Melanie Griffiths and the crew came to shoot together, and everyone else was on vacation.She was the only actor in the crew who dared to persuade her.

"Backup plan?" Ronald repeated her words, and the anxiety in his heart had not faded. "Cameron, come and act. I remember you were an actor?" Ronald looked around. Only Cameron Crowe, who came to save the scene and changed the script, had never appeared in the scene, and his appearance fit the script. image of.

"Me? I have indeed been an actor." Cameron Crowe saw that Ronald actually called his name. He dared not say that he only worked as an actor in the university drama club, and his career as an actor failed completely.

In order to save the scene, he couldn't say more. He couldn't help but have a wonderful fantasy about the profession of director. He decides everyone's fate in the crew. As a screenwriter, if he chooses him, he can act.

"That's good, I won't tell you about the play. You will write the script yourself, and you will definitely act it. Costumes, costumes, come and try on Cameron's costumes!" Ronald called the costumer, Crowe's figure It is a little taller than Spacey, so I have to change it again.

"This one won't work, Mr. Crowe is too tall." After a while, Crowe got his hair done, put on the suit, and showed it to Ronald. The feeling of a powerful person.

"Go buy, borrow, and see if there are boutiques around." Ronald was in a hurry, and time was passing by little by little.

"Squeak..." There was a burst of urgent brakes, and Kevin Spacey, who was picked up by Bud Jr., finally arrived.

"Sorry, sorry, I just finished rehearsal, there was a traffic accident in Manhattan today, we were stuck in traffic for a long time."

Kevin Spacey hurriedly apologized to Ronald and the rest of the staff. He came here today to do Ronald a favor. It would be bad if it caused trouble instead.

Ronald didn't speak, and pointed to the suit that the dressmaker had just pulled off Crowe, and asked Spacey to change it on.

Makeup artist and hair stylist, hurried over to make up Spacey, and Ronald handed over two pages of the script and asked him what he wanted to ask?

"Everything is OK." Spacey quickly read it and made a gesture of no problem.

"Working Girl Scene X, Article [-]," Melanie Griffiths, wearing a mock mink-style sweater, Tess's best, in the back of a stretch limousine .She picked up the clapperboard, tapped it at the camera, and put it under the seat.

"What qualities do you think a good hedging and arbitrage investor needs?" Tess said to the manager Bob.

"Well, we went to the hotel room to discuss that." Kevin Spacey lay half-lying, and then twisted the wire on the champagne cap.

"Hotel room?" Tess realized that it was not a real interview assistant.There was a bit of disappointment in Melanie's tone.

"Yes, the company has a long-term private room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. When there are no customers, we can go there... party... oh..."

Kevin Spacey's explosive power was very strong. With a strange cry, he shook the champagne cork and jumped out with a bang.The champagne foam that came out, he deliberately pushed forward and fell on Melanie's clothes.

"Ahh..." Melanie's reaction was also great, her decent dress was soaked in champagne... But it's not to blame the other party, so she could only quickly wipe off the foam with her hands.

"Oh, sorry, sorry," comes Kevin Spacey's ability to improvise as a theatrical actor, and his hand-on-hand Tess character starts puffing those bubbles.Taking advantage of the situation, he put his hand on Melanie's abdomen, and then arched it up with his mouth like a fat pig.

"Bob!" Tess yelled, over the line.

Seeing that Melanie was about to explode, Kevin Spacey quickly let go of his mouth, then took a sip of the champagne bottle close to his mouth, and immediately searched back in words "Sorry, you know, hedging arbitrage The department made a simple introductory textbook for training business school graduates, why don't I play the videotape, if you have any questions..."

"That's good..." Tess thought, maybe Bob was just a little anxious, and still wanted an assistant...

"Ah... ah...", the video tape that Spacey put on the car TV began to jump out of the screen.It's not a hedging and arbitrage textbook at all, but a confession video, a man and a woman in an outdoor swimming pool...

"Hahahaha...that's the wrong videotape, of course, unless you want to watch this too..." Spacey's crazy and borderline temperament came into play, and the serious financial elite just now turned into a pervert in an instant.

"Bob, aren't you really looking for an assistant?" Melanie Griffith's tone made the audience feel that this was not the first time she had encountered such harassment.

"Um...not now, but I will always open the door to those who are hungry, as long as they are willing..." The Bob played by Spacey really suits his temperament, and he can speak nonsense, and it is very Can make people believe him.

"Bob, I'm very horny, but not that kind of thirst..." Tess doesn't want to exchange opportunities with her body. If she wants to, it's not like she hasn't done it before. She wants to be a real manager and has the ability to do a good job. The kind of position, not a man's vassal vase.

"Excuse me, can you step aside here?" Griffiths said to the camera, and when the audience saw this segment, it felt like she was talking to the driver.

Then Griffiths picked up the champagne, shook it vigorously several times, the champagne bubbles gushed out, and sprayed all over Spacey's face.

"Hahaha, your party, Bob."

"Cut!" Seeing Spacey's embarrassed face, Griffiths was about to open the door to go out, but Ronald stopped.

The two actors played very well in this part. Ronald didn't want to do it again, because Spacey's suit was wet, and his hair and makeup were ruined by champagne. It would take a lot of time to do it again.

"Thanks, Kevin, today's show was great."

"I had a great time playing it, next time I'll give it a bigger role..." Kevin Spacey laughed, and it's always good to let Ronald owe a favor.

Ronald owed more than one favor, and the actress who was originally scheduled for the next scene also let go.Ronald had no choice but to ask his old friend, Olympia Dukakis, who played his mother in "Moonlight" for help.

Dukakis was in Boston. When he heard the call, he came to play a guest role as an employment agency manager without saying a word.

"Why are you in Boston? I thought you were doing public relations in Los Angeles?" Ronald was very puzzled that she didn't continue to publicize the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and came to the East.

"Didn't you read the newspaper? My cousin Michael, the governor of Massachusetts, has announced his candidacy for the presidency. I'll stand for him and grab some pages by the way."

"Ah? Oh", Ronald really didn't know this.In fact, this cousin, Michael Dukakis, is not the kind of cousin who is close to Olympia.Michael Dukakis is the second governor of the United States who is a descendant of Greek immigrants.

After he took office in 1983, Massachusetts' economy experienced a strong recovery. The unemployment rate dropped from more than 1975% in 12 to less than 3%. a great growth.

But unlike Deputy Commander George, his cousin is the governor of the Donkey Party.

"Whatever, I won't let go of any exposure opportunities now. I'd rather go too far than regret it." Olympia Dukakis knew very well that this might be the best chance in her life to get a statuette .

"Oscar is hard to say, but you have my vote." Ronald was still very satisfied with the actor.

"Tess, Tess, Tess, you can't get promoted just because you called the manager a pimp", Olympia Dukakis's makeup is completely different from that of the housewife in "Moonlight" His hair is light blonde and has a very professional hairstyle.Two earrings inlaid with black gemstones in gold, paired with light lipstick and light-colored spots, and a white shirt with a large lapel, is another typical strong dress, the favorite of professional women.

"But he's a pimp." Griffiths felt wronged.

"Look, this is the third time I've found you a job in six months." Dukakis acted like a senior manager of an employment agency.

"I'm 30 years old, I took a long time to get my evening school diploma, I can do this job, you ask my previous managers, even Lutz, can they say that Tess made a mistake at work? "

"I don't think they will say good things for you." Dukakis shook his head slightly. The role of Tess is very interesting. Although she is 30 years old, she is still very naive in some places.

She looked at the computer on the other side, and pretended to type a few times, "There is a job here. The manager has just been transferred from Boston. The M&A department, named Parker, will go to work on Monday."

"Thank you"

"Tess", Dukakis handed over the information, and then emphasized, "You go home and calm down, this is the last time I can help you, if you mess up again this time, you will be out gone."

"Cut!" Ronald was really pleased with the performances of these theater actors, as long as they are familiar with how to perform in front of the camera, it is very smooth.

"Hahaha, I will vote for you." Melanie Griffiths and Dukakis have a great sense of acting together, and the reactions they give to each other are great regardless of time and emotional intensity. Don't order some biscuits, the secret recipe of the director's family, it's delicious."

"Oh, that's right. The last time I filmed him, he didn't have this." Olympia Dukakis ate several of the cookies Ronald brought.