Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 927

"Oh, I'm home, I'm home..."

Sigourney Weaver rejoined the shoot, wearing a cashmere coat over a cashmere turtleneck, cashmere gloves and a white plush headband.

Speaking of the plot of this line, Catherine played by her returned home. After opening the door, Weaver used a very exaggerated movement, leaning on a crutch with a white leather support under his arm, and tiptoed one foot , jump forward quickly.

"Oh, my God..." Catherine rushed into the bedroom to change.

The camera lens is still facing the door, and Melanie Griffiths follows in. She is the one who wants to call God.

Holding a Louis Vuitton suitcase in each hand, a small lady's bag on his body, and a briefcase under his armpit, the gorilla plush toy that Ronald personally chose was lying on his back. on her back.

"Huh..." Melanie Griffiths walked in, put down the two big bags, and then unloaded the gorilla on the chair, and sat down with a sigh of exhaustion on the chair.

This is the moment when Tess transforms from princess back to Cinderella, and over time the beautiful decorations and clothes are transformed into pumpkins, and the prototype is revealed.Tess changed back to the black and white vertical striped woolen coat, and inside was a cheap black suit and white shirt.

Only her blonde hair was cut short by her friend Xin, and she still kept the look she had when she was pretending to be a manager.

Tess's boss, Catherine, is a person who is very good at controlling others with words. When she was in the car, she called her boyfriend Jack Trainor to ask him to come to the house, and said half-actingly that she would not accept him.

She treated Tess in the same way. She immediately turned Tess, who was still immature as a working woman, into her own personal maid. Using her broken leg as an excuse, she was used as a coolie, and Tess Do this and that.

"Crackling", the first thing Catherine did when she got home was to turn on the computer.She remembered that she wrote down her plan to embezzle Tess on the memo software of the computer, and then wrote down the words that Tess should not know.

"When you came here before, did you happen to see these?" Catherine is very skillful in manipulating people's hearts. She waited for Tess to sit down and take a breath, and immediately asked the other party if she had looked at her computer to test other side.At this time, most people are not prepared.

"What's that?" Of course Tess knew what she was talking about, and decisively acted stupid.

"You know what? I was jotting down your thoughts, checking them for the final time, and preparing to send them to Jack Trainor. But now it seems that the words I wrote down at the time read as if they were my thoughts.

The problem is, Jack had a trouble once where he was accused of stealing the company's ideas, so he was very careful about where the ideas came from afterward.If I told him that the idea came from a co-worker, he wouldn't even consider collaborating...let alone a secretary. "

Sigourney Weaver naturally read the letter while making up nonsense.Playing a bitch as a penetrating three-pointer.

Catherine judges others by herself, Tess must have read this memo, what she has to do now is to use the art of words to deceive this ignorant secretary, so as not to ruin her own affairs.

"What am I talking about? If you saw it, you would definitely ask me what happened...Trust!"

Round up the matter with clumsy lies, and then beat Tess again. Catherine, a workplace animal, can justify herself in this way.

Sigourney Weaver's line skills are the best among the three leading actors. She completes this long line in one go. At the end of each sentence, she immediately takes the next sentence without giving her opponent a chance to answer.If it weren't for being wary of her, ordinary people could easily be led into her thinking.

Then Sigourney Weaver turned around and walked into the bathroom on crutches, "Oh, I need help when I change clothes and take a shower."

In the next shot, the camera is on Melanie Griffiths, capturing her reaction to this passage.

Seeing that Melanie was still breathing, she couldn't stand the boss's shameless behavior, so she rolled her eyes and let out a snort.

"Cut!"

Seeing that the director instructed this scene to pass, the two beautiful actors both let out a sigh of relief, and they didn't want to do this kind of scene any more.Melanie has to carry so many boxes, and Sigourney has to pretend to be a cripple and hop around fast, which is a very physical act.

The two looked at each other, "Puchi...", hugged each other and laughed.

Acting in a movie is not talking, but listening to the opponent's actors.Acting is the reaction after seeing the other party's lines and movements.If the acting skills of two people differ too much, there will be a situation where the signal sent by one actor cannot be picked up by the other actor.

Only two opponents who are evenly matched can perform well.One person's performance can inspire another, and another's reaction, which in turn can inspire the first actor.

The rivalry between Melanie and Sigourney made the actors very enjoyable.One is the boss of Bichi, and the other is a scheming subordinate. The two women fight each other, which makes them very happy.

"Sigourney's bed scene is going to be performed next, you guys get ready. Let's wait for Harrison to start." Ronald commanded the lighting team to start lighting for the next scene.

"Ronald later...you have no problem with him, right?" Sigourney Weaver was whispering to Melanie, she knew that Melanie was almost fired.

"Ronald is a good director, the past is over..." Griffiths didn't want to say too much.

"It's really good. He is an actor's director. Many times, he lets us figure it out by ourselves, and doesn't rigidly stipulate how we should act... For example, the gorilla, I saw your scene, and I figured out that Ronald idea."

Sigourney Weaver felt that she understood that the gorilla was a symbol of the intimidation and appropriation of subordinates brought about by power in the office.

There is a metaphor in English that there is a monkey on its back.This is a metaphor for a problem encountered by a person, which cannot be shaken off like a monkey.

The monkey on Tess' back is Catherine's misuse of her time, letting an office assistant do everything, even the parts that don't belong to her, and intimidating with the art of words.

Gorillas are also monkeys, very powerful ones.

……

Discussing Ronald's "excellent channeling skills", Sigourney Weaver changed her clothes, she was wearing high-end similar underwear, over a low-cut silk pajamas, and when she was ready, she heard Harrison Ford voice, so she went out.

"You look so beautiful today, Sigourney."

"You're handsome too, Harrison."

The two stars greeted each other and prepared to shoot the next scene, a traditional Hollywood slapstick sequence.

Catherine lay in bed, powdering her breasts to cover the freckles that white women often get.

While forcing Tess to keep getting concealer and perfume, she dressed herself up beautifully.He also ostentatiously told Tess that his partner, Jack Trainor, was coming soon.

Tess didn't want to meet Jack under the circumstances, citing a doctor's appointment to leave.

Catherine also ordered her to go to the pharmacy to buy contraceptives. Today she will have a reunion after a long absence, explaining the matter of Jack's marriage proposal. The art of words is what she is best at.She directly said that the doctor could come later, and handed over five dollars and a prescription.

It's always Catherine's style to always be self-righteous and not take other people's time seriously.

Melanie Griffiths exits and Harrison Ford's Jack enters the room.

Sigourney Weaver used various methods to create romance, let Jack smell her perfume, let him go to the refrigerator to get champagne, and so on.

Jack Trainor, who was about to break up with Catherine, still had a natural fear of facing this woman.When Catherine said that he was going to propose to her, Jack completely broke out. How could there be such a self-righteous person?

"Catherine, now is really not the time to chat." Harrison Ford tried to get away with an exaggerated smile.

At this time, Tess bought back the pills and peeked through the crack of the door outside the room.She wondered if Jack, like Catherine, played her for a fool?
When Sigourney Weaver heard it, she misunderstood it completely. She approached Harrison Ford, and then put her hand under his body, "You are right, now is not a good time to talk, isn't Big Jack Can I come out and get some air? Katie is lonely..."

Harrison Ford's face changed, such a direct performance? "no no……"

"Jack, what's the matter with you?" Catherine's face changed, she always had this way of making others feel guilty.

Jack, played by Harrison Ford, also has an expression that feels like he is in the wrong. He finally made up his mind and said that sentence, "I have another person..."

"Another person?" Sigourney Weaver repeated, like a middle school teacher berating her students.

"I mean, there is another important person, the client... I have an appointment with me, we can't delay, I will talk to you later, goodbye..." Jack kissed Catherine, and then took advantage of her inconvenient legs, Fei also It seems to have escaped.

Originally, it was time for Jack, Tess, and Mr. Tusker to hold a meeting with Metro Broadcasting to discuss the merger and acquisition plan, but Jack left in a hurry.

"Huh..." Tess, who was eavesdropping behind the door, smiled... She saw Jack go out, and waited for a while, pretending to have just bought medicine... "Here we come..."

"Cut!"

Ronald is quite satisfied with the results of the scheduling, and this kind of plot is often seen in classic comedy farces in old Hollywood.The two heroines, one in the light and the other in the dark, create various misunderstandings and coincidences through the door and other scene settings to push the plot closer.

However, the "working girl" in modern dramas can't use this kind of old plot too hard. Ronald just used it here, and the audience didn't think of the complaint of "another old plot" and already it's over.

"Here, here is your medicine..." Melanie Griffiths took out her notebook from her cheap purse, reached in and took out a handful of change , placed on the table.

"I have to go, the doctor's going to be late," and then Tess, like Jack, turned and ran away before Catherine could react.

Tess also hurried to the meeting.

Catherine propped her chin with her hand to think, what happened today was so strange, everyone rushed away.She felt something was wrong in her heart, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Tess, you forgot your notebook?" Catherine noticed that Tess was leaving in a hurry and forgot her notebook. At this time, there was the sound of Tess going downstairs and closing the door, and it was too late.

Sigourney Weaver, with a puzzled look on her face, picked up Tess' notebook...

People are curious, just like Tess was curious and peeked at Catherine's computer memo, now it's Catherine's turn to peek at Tess's notes.

Tess wrote down in her notebook her schedule for working with Jack Trainor, meeting with Mr. Tusk, and the next Monday for meeting with the media assistant to make a proposal.

Catherine flipped through the pages, and her face suddenly changed, "This slut, this hateful little secretary!" She jumped off the bed and rushed into the bathroom.

"Cut!"

These few scenes were shot very well. It can be seen with the naked eye that the rivalry between the two female protagonists is much more exciting than Harrison Ford's performance.

However, Ronald did not mention this matter. He invited the two heroines and Ford to taste a high-end Japanese sushi. The ingredients and chefs were all airlifted from Dongying.

……

"Last night's dinner was really wonderful..."

On the second day, the scene where Tess was exposed was filmed. The filming location was very classic, with an old-fashioned round table, allowing the two M&A teams, the buyer Tusk Enterprises, and the seller Newtown Broadcasting, to sit down on an equal footing.

Tess and Jack's outfits, both inherited from yesterday's shoot, met in the foyer and started talking.

"I'm going to sing solo today?" Tess became more and more confident in herself.

"Of course, no problem." Jack was very satisfied with his partner's progress. "Tusker and Armstrong are over there. Let's wait to see what color smoke is coming out of their chimneys?"

This sentence is an allusion from the Holy See. Every time the Pope changes, a meeting is held in the Vatican to decide the candidate, and the ballots are burned every day, and the people can see the smoke in the chimney.

If no candidate is selected, the straw will be burned together, and it will be black smoke.When the next office is elected, only the votes are burned, which is white smoke.The last time the Pope was replaced by this method of burning smoke was Paul II, who was born in Poland.

Jack uses this as a metaphor for the outcome of a buyer-seller conversation.

"My colleague has a new M&A idea, would you like to look at it?" Melanie Griffiths asked Harrison Ford while waiting for the M&A meeting to start.She also wanted to make sure that Catherine was telling the truth.

"Of course, if you ask me to help, I will," Jack said of course no problem.

"Is there no moral concern? For example, if others plagiarize..."

"Of course not, I've been very careful, and this kind of thing has never happened."

"What's wrong with you, why do you ask?"

"I'm just a little nervous."

"You'll be fine..."

The two were talking, and the two heavyweights over there had already drawn the result.

Everyone sat down for a meeting, and Armstrong announced the sale of Metro Broadcasting to Tesco Enterprises for $6850 million.

"boom……"

There was a loud noise, and Catherine jumped in on crutches, "Thank God I'm here, this woman is a liar, she stole my idea." Then she raised her crutches, pointed to Tess and said:

"This woman is my secretary, she is not a manager at all, Jack, you have been cheated."

"What are you talking about? Tess can't be your secretary." Jack Trainor saw that Tess' wit and tenacity contributed to Teske's interest in the transaction, how could it be a secretary.

"Then you ask her? Is she my secretary? Tess?"

"I can explain...this is my idea." Tess was very embarrassed after being exposed, so she had to speak in a low voice.

"My God, you are really her secretary", Jack Trainor also found something wrong.

"This woman, taking advantage of my broken bone, plagiarized my idea and pretended to be my colleague. This is my idea, my project!" Catherine sat down carelessly, confident of winning.

"That's my idea!" Tess cried, "I can explain, Jack, that she did the lying." Melanie's voice became smaller and smaller, and she knew it was difficult to speak clearly in a short time, full of embarrassment and shame In her heart, Tess who didn't know what to do all of a sudden stood up and walked out.

"Well, the name of the game is that we finalize the details of the merger and acquisition." Harrison Ford had a bewildered expression on his face. He opened the thick merger and acquisition contract and continued to work.

"Cut!"

Ronald stopped the filming and led the applause.

After the filming of this scene, only the final ending remained, and some exterior scenes that had nothing to do with the main line were handed over to the second group for re-shooting.

"Excellent, let's go to have a Chinese dinner today..."

……

After dinner, several celebrities went to enjoy the weekend.

Ronald has to continue working, watching yesterday's dailies, and preparing for the finale shooting that will start next Monday.

He picked up the phone and chatted with Cameron Crowe, "I don't think the ending is strong enough, do you have any good ideas?"

"Do you want a more powerful ending?" Crowe has been in the apartment, communicating with Ronald every night, revising the script below. It has been several weeks, and he has become accustomed to this way of working.

"The previous scenes are too exciting. The scenes with several actresses will make the audience's appetite very high. I am worried that the original ending will not be able to hold back."

"It's a classic Hollywood twist, why aren't you satisfied? Tess proves she's the original creator of the plan to buy radio broadcasting, Tusk believes her, Catherine gets fired, and finally Tess and Jack Kissed together, classic Hollywood ending."

"I always feel that it is not possible. We have revealed enough information before, and the audience will more or less guess the ending. We have to give them something that they didn't expect..."

Ronald deeply felt that if the previous filming was too exciting, it would cause the structure of the script to be unbalanced, and the latter had to be suppressed, so that when the audience walked out of the cinema, they were still thinking about the plot and recommended it to their friends.

"Okay, I'll figure it out, at this point, you need a Billy Wilder-esque twist ending..." Cameron Crowe scratched his head, wondering who is best at this kind of powerful ending , It has to be his idol, the famous director and screenwriter in the 50s, Billy Wilder.

"Well, do you have any inspiration? So... the production team will rest tomorrow, let's have an interview, no, those supervisors from the Screenwriters Union are still monitoring me. I have to think of a good place to get rid of them. In this way, I have arranged for your phone."

(End of this chapter)