Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The electrician was called.

The pottery's turntable needs to be turned down to prevent mud from splattering, ruining the close-up.

The person who went up to try out the shots was Ronald, who had participated in the training with Demi Moore. He was the only person present who knew how to knead clay.

"Pfft..."

Ceramics with reduced rotational speed significantly increase the technical challenges. With just a little more force on the hand, the whole pottery collapsed and turned into a weird and ugly thing.

"Hey, I can't. Isn't Dai Yang here yet?"

Ronald picked up a wet cloth and wiped his arm, but the good thing was that the mud didn't splash on his face.

"I'm here. What needs to be solved? Why did you slow down the rotation speed?" Dai Yang was quickly invited. As soon as she entered the studio, she knew that the rotation speed of the ceramic turntable had been slowed down.

Ronald spread his hands, pointed to the cloth jacket he put on, and then pointed to his face, saying to Dai Yang: "I need close-ups and close-ups. My face and neck must be very clean, but my body must be very clean." , arms, and upper body, the dirtier the mud, the better..."

"Oh...that looks very sexy..." Dai Yang understood Ronald's intention. Deliberately getting your body dirty is also a way to show sexiness on screen. In old-school B-movies, many old directors use it.

But after all, this technique is a bit... so it is rarely used in large-scale productions. As for the movie Ghost, getting your body dirty is a natural arrangement that fits the plot... Who made the heroine a potter?

"What do you need specifically?" Dai Yang approached, picked up the kettle and added some water to the clay to help shape it better.

"I need an object that Demi Moore can shape with her elementary pottery skills. Try to get her arms and chest as dirty as possible, but keep her face and neck clean..."

"Your three requirements are contradictory to each other..." Dai Yang shook his head. Easy-to-use utensils are often made of softer clay and used at a faster speed, which makes it easier for novices to control the shaping. But if you put in a lot of water and the speed is fast, the mud will be thrown out and your neck will be stained...

"That's why I came to you..." Ronald asked Dai Yang. In addition to paying a high consulting fee, he also promised to give her a movie role.

"Let me think about it...your shots don't need to be consistent all the time, right?"

…

Early the next morning, when Demi Moore came to the studio, she had already discovered Dai Yang who had been working here late last night.

"Dai? Why are you here?"

"I'll be your substitute..." Dai Yang said, pointing to the tall pile of clay on the pottery turntable.

"Huh?" Demi Moore turned around and started looking for Ronald. Didn't she agree that she would star in the whole show?

"Demi, you're here?" Ronald was directing the camera crew to set up the camera. He heard Demi Moore's concern that using hand substitutes would give a bad impression to the critics, "It's not the kind of hand substitutes you understand." …”

"Can we start?" Ronald asked the lighting team if the light was ready. After receiving a positive answer, he motioned Dai Yang to come over... "Start..."

Demi Moore changed into a new white dress. She had dozens of the same costumes to meet the needs of being splashed with mud during filming.

She noticed that the camera was not turned on and the camera assistant was still measuring the focus, while Dai Yang had already started shaping the pottery amidst the music playing on the spot.

"Is it a vase?" Demi Moore quickly discovered that Dai Yang made a tall vase with a slender body that expanded in the upper third. It was a special shape.

"Okay..." Dai Yang worked out the shape and wiped the mud with a towel.

"Go and try it. Put your hand into the vase and don't knock it over..." Ronald motioned Demi to step forward.

"Oh..." Demi Moore carefully put her hand in and gently touched the blank of the vase.

“Oops…

Demi exerted a little more force, and the shape of the vase was changed. Her fingers turned the rapidly rotating vase from a smooth and elegant curved surface into a rough, asymmetrical, and slightly skewed one.

But after all, she had more time to practice than Ronald, so she immediately changed her intensity to avoid the vase from falling over.

"Very good, right?" Ronald looked at Dai Yang.

"It's really good..." Dai Yang saw that Demi didn't break the vase, and felt that she was a bit good.

Anyway, what the audience sees is not the final appearance of the vase. In fact, they can’t tell whether Molly, played by Demi Moore, modified the work in a better-looking direction or in the opposite direction...

"Patrick, are you here? You and Demi try it together, and then we will shoot it..."

…

Ronald was very satisfied. Anyway, the focus of the audience's interest was still on the love affair between the two protagonists. As for what a potter should do and whether Demi Moore was a professional artist, I'm afraid very few viewers understood, so they could simply ignore it. .

"A!"

The camera begins exclusively with Demi Moore fixing a vase, then a shirtless Patrick Schwytz walks into the frame from the darkness behind.

This is a drama about the relationship between two people. The two of them had some conflicts before because Sam was not interested in living with Molly.

Molly said "I love you" to Sam, but didn't get the expected "I love you too" reply. She heard Sam say the reason was because Sam had encountered misfortune when he was a child. When encountering such good things, he was always unwilling to pay too much attention to fear that happiness would slip away.

But being a woman is always uncomfortable. Unable to sleep late at night, she simply went to the basement to make pottery.

At this time, Sam woke up without Molly and came down to find her. The two staged a touching scene. It's also a move consistent with Sam's philosophy - it's not about what you say, but what you do.

This is the key reason why there is always a crack in the intimate relationship between the two lovers. At this point, the audience understands that they love each other so much, but they also have common troubles that couples have.

Patrick Schwytz said from behind, "What are you doing?"

"I can't sleep..." Demi tilted her head back slightly, indicating that she noticed her boyfriend coming.

"I fell asleep without realizing it..." Patrick Schwytz stepped forward and sat behind Demi Moore. "what time is it now?"

"Two o'clock in the middle of the night..."

Because of the small disharmony between the two, Molly didn't want to talk too much to Sam. But Sam came up and quietly put his hand on Molly's waist.

The flirting between lovers made Molly feel itchy. When my hands shook, large lines appeared on the porcelain, which needed to be corrected again.

Demi Moore played the role of a girl who can't bear the harassment and her body reacts involuntarily very well.

She glanced at Patrick Schwytz, dipped her hands in water, and began to correct the shape of the vase.

Patrick Schwytz felt very relaxed, and Demi Moore's relaxation also promoted his acting skills. He slowly touched the back of her hand from behind, stroking the skin on the back of her hand gently and vaguely, feeling the connection between the two with his heart.

"Pfft..."

The vase was already a little unstable due to Demi Moore, so it suddenly broke in the middle, and the large-diameter part above fell off.

Ronald was a little annoyed. Originally, the front and back of this shot were very smooth, and the performances of the two actors were also very good...

He glanced at Dai Yang beside him, wanting her to make a new vase for Demi Moore, but found that Dai Yang's eyes were still staring ahead.

"Huh?" Ronald looked back and saw that neither Demi Moore nor Patrick Schwitz had stopped performing because of this accident. They were both very good actors and they continued to act as their emotions flowed.

"Hahaha, I hope this isn't a masterpiece..." Patrick Schweitz laughed, making a quick face at the camera and resting his chin on Demi's shoulder.

"At least not yet..." Demi Moore also smiled, then took the broken vase blank off the turntable, put it aside, and picked up a pile from the raw material basin next to it. Put the clay on the turntable, then scoop some water from the basin and put it on top.

"Can I help?" Seeing that Ronald didn't stop, Patrick Schweitz continued to act.

"Of course, put your hands here, wet them with some water, and then let them pass between your fingers, feel them with your fingers..."

Acting is like that, one actor reacts and can convey the emotion of the improv to the other. The other person feels the emotion and has a new reaction, and can gradually move on.

The two of them kept rubbing the clay with their hands until there was a lot of mud on their hands and arms, and on Demi Moore's white clothes. In the end, Demi Moore couldn't bear to be disturbed, so she simply put down the clay, turned around and kissed Schwytz.

"Cut!"

"Very good. This section is very good. Don't change clothes. Let's continue with the close-ups of hand movements."

Ronald was very excited. This kind of performance was much smoother than the one set in advance, and it could better convey the intimate love between lovers to the audience. Especially Demi Moore, the kind of emotional change where she was a little cold towards her boyfriend at first, then felt itchy, helpless when he ruined her work, and finally joined hands in making pottery with him, her acting was extremely natural.

"How do you want us to act?" Demi Moore and Patrick Schwytz also felt the incomparable chemistry just now. It's like two characters, Sam and Molly, suddenly became two actors.

At this moment, it was not that they were acting, but a real thing that happened to Molly and Sam.

As an actor, having that feeling is incredibly valuable. Demi Moore seemed to realize that the god of luck was on her side today, and she wanted to take as many shots as possible before this feeling that she didn’t know where it came from slipped away again.

"I really like the lingering feeling you had just now, like two people dancing with their bodies... Next, you should also remember this feeling and dance again with your hands..."

Then he quickly adjusted the camera, aimed at the two people's fingers, and took another close-up shot.

It started with Demi Moore's fingers on top of the clay, gently shaping it, and then Patrick's fingers joined in.

The two people's fingers were wrapped in thick mud. Their fingers were intertwined and they wiped the mud off each other. New mud was constantly attached to them. Although there was a dirty feeling, it was extraordinarily dirty. gentle.

The muse, the god of inspiration, is shy, and the staff on set held their breaths to prevent her from being scared away by God's presence on the set at this moment.

Although only two people's fingers were entangled in the close-up, Ronald's mouth began to dry up. He kept licking his lips, but he didn't dare to make a sound to ruin this precious shot.

"Hmm..." Demi Moore couldn't stand the heat. She hummed softly and her fingers opened uncontrollably.

"Hmm..." Patrick Schwitz was aroused by the hum. He stretched out his fingers involuntarily and inserted them between Demi Moore's open fingers. Both of their bodies shook, and then their fingers intertwined, tightly clasped together, and then separated...

Patrick's fingers were finally pushed away by Demi, and his hand continued to gently stroke the back of Demi's hand.

Finally, Demi couldn't stand it anymore, so she took the initiative to step forward and hold his arm. This time, their fingers intersected in the air again, and Demi Moore turned back and asked Schwitz for a kiss. At the same time, their ten fingers were still rubbing...

"Cut!"

This time, Ronald didn't call for a stop until Demi Moore was embarrassed and didn't know how to continue.

The set was quiet. Except for Ronald's call for a stop and the low-frequency noise of the camera motor, there was no sound on the scene.

After the call for a stop, the staff didn't turn off the machine immediately. After a second, everyone swallowed their saliva at the same time, and it came together to form a loud sound.

Then the camera operator started to shut down normally, and the recording staff holding the live sound recording rod also took back the microphone and relaxed his arm.

"Another top shot..."

From above, Ronald took another close-up of the two people's fingers intertwined on the clay. Ronald felt that he might have broken a record and was the first director in Hollywood to use fingers to shoot passionate scenes.

Demi Moore and Patrick Schweitzer, the chemistry between the two in front of the camera was incredible. Ronald didn't know how long this state could last, because there was another intimate scene between the two in the bedroom.

He decided to strike while the iron was hot and temporarily adjust the shooting plan. He took advantage of the brief moment when the muse descended in the past few days to shoot all the passionate scenes that the two needed.

…

The next scene was the scene where Molly and Sam felt a strong attraction to each other. The shooting moved to the set of the master bedroom.

After a brief chemical reaction, the two had some minor conflicts again. A large part of the passionate scene was a close-up shot of the two kissing.

This involved the question of who would leave the better half of their face for the camera.

Most actors have one side of their face that is better than the other. In most close-ups, they would try to give the camera lens their better side.

But there is a problem, that is, the better half of the two may conflict, at this time, it depends on the position order and the director's decision.

"Each of you half, you can change positions with a hug..."

Ronald encountered this situation and made a quick decision.

Both stars have audience groups. There must be audiences who come specifically to see Patrick Schweitzer naked, and put themselves into the imagination, as if Sam is the female audience hugging him.

There must be male audience members who came for Demi Moore and put themselves into the person embracing her.

In this scene, the two actors are evenly matched.

In this case, Ronald gave the fans of both actors the same close-up time.