Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Cut!"

On the set of Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall helplessly shouted to stop, Julia Roberts failed again. This was a common occurrence on the set every day.

"Sorry, sorry, I promise I won't do it next time..." The heroine Julia Roberts was so anxious that she almost burst into tears. She apologized repeatedly to the hero Richard Gere and the staff, and finally came over pitifully to say goodbye He asked Garry Marshall, who was old enough to be his father, to intercede.

"Relax, Julia, you work best when you're relaxed..." Garry Marshall shouted to the crew, "Let's take a thirty-minute break..."

"Ronald, why are you here?" When he turned around, Garry Marshall saw Ronald standing quietly ten feet behind, as if he had been observing for a while.

"Let's talk somewhere else..." Ronald nodded to him, and the two of them walked to the lounge.

"I'm done, I'm done, Ronald is here, he must change roles..." Julia Roberts became nervous and incoherent. The actor next to her, Richard Gere, hugged her shoulders and whispered softly. Comfort: "Don't be nervous, you're doing very well, it's not easy to change roles in a movie..."

"Mr. Katzenberg said that the progress of the crew is a bit slow. Is it because the heroine is not good at acting?" In the lounge on the other side, Ronald closed the door and discussed business with director Garry Marshall.

"You saw the sample, and her performance is very good. I rarely see an actress who is so attractive in such close-ups..."

"I trust your judgment. Julia is too nervous. Is he under any pressure? From the male protagonist?" Ronald clearly felt that when Julia Roberts was performing, her whole body seemed to be on the verge of disconnection and she could control it at any time. If I can't hold back, I feel so nervous that I feel like I'm going to faint.

When she was filming "Steel Magnolias", director Herbert Ross often scolded her for not being able to act, which triggered a boycott from other female cast members. It seems that Herbert Ross just has a bad temper and a bad talk, but there is nothing wrong with his judgment of actresses.

"There is no such thing as the chemistry between the two of them is top-notch. I think there is a tendency to pretend to be real..."

"Hey, but she is so nervous, how can she film a movie? I think her scenes in Steel Magnolias are sincere and emotional, but Vivian is not the rich southern girl in Steel Magnolias. She is a completely different character..." Ronald also felt that filming could continue like this. ,have some problem.

"But the character Vivian, doesn't she have this kind of emotion? She was accidentally invited by Lewis to get into the car on the street to ask for directions. As a result, she got a US$3,000 escort fee. She must have been extremely nervous, fearing that she would inadvertently turn this into a good thing. The business was lost..."

"Do you really like Julia (Roberts)?" Ronald stared at Garry Marshall for a few seconds, feeling that this was a director's appreciation of the actor.

"I have directed the most screen-ready actresses..."

"Okay, I trust your judgment. But you have to find a way to make Julia relax. I saw her speaking her lines, and even her Southern Dixie accent came out." Ronald watched Julia Roberts' performance and felt that she had taken the filming seriously. The routine of Steel Mulan was brought here. This person's acting skills are really very stiff.

"Then add some lines to her and explain that she is a southern girl, so it's okay to have an accent..."

"You really like her...but this is a good idea..." Ronald felt that this idea was actually very practical. Since Julia Roberts has no acting skills and has difficulty playing a role, in a short period of time, the reasonable choice is to modify some unimportant backgrounds and try to make the character just like her.

Before arriving, he watched the demos Garry Marshall had shot in the screening room. I have to say that Julia Roberts and Richard Gere do have a very well-matched chemistry in their close-ups on the screen.

Richard Gere doesn't have much expressive ability, and he wears a stereotyped smile most of the time. Julia Roberts, on the other hand, seems to just smile with her mouth wide open and her eyes shining brightly.

But the close-up editing does give people a very comfortable aesthetic feeling. It seems that a woman's silly smile has become the kind of innocence that stands out among women on the street; and a man's stiff smile can easily be interpreted as a powerful businessman who has everything under control, regaining the innocence of the past.

Garry Marshall's preference for Julia Roberts, and even a kind of pampering between elders and younger ones, may be due to his lack of success in film and television dramas for many years, and his joy in suddenly finding the best actress to take photos.

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"Everyone, everyone knows Ronald. He is welcome to the set..." After the break, Garry Marshall dragged Ronald to the set to say a few words to everyone to increase their confidence.

"Gary asked me to come and watch the on-set shooting and said that he had never filmed such an excellent romantic drama. To be honest, I didn't believe it. I have also filmed love themes, but when I got to the set, I found that it was true. Julia, Richard , you are all the best partners, I want to apply for bonuses to the casting director and Gary...

Your lighting, photography, sound recording...each team is the most outstanding crew I have ever seen...

Okay, don’t say much, otherwise Gary will protest that I took away his microphone for too long..."

Ronald's compliments really made the staff happy. Such praise from a great director can be included in your resume in the future... and the various delicacies Ronald sent today, he is really the best producer in the eyes of the staff.

Julia Roberts looked at Ronald with tears in her eyes. Her agent told her that Disney might have complained about her delaying the filming schedule. She didn't expect Ronald to come this time to support her...

"Ah..." She was so moved that she almost cried and quickly covered her mouth with her hands. Last time on the set of "Steel Magnolias", it was Ronald who supported her in front of the annoying director Herbert Ross...

In order to repay Ronald's appreciation, Julia Roberts worked harder on the set. The result is conceivable. The harder an actress who performs close to her true nature works, the further away she is from relaxing, and she can't act at all.

"Cut!" Garry Marshall stepped forward to explain, "Relax, relax, this is a very simple scene. Although Vivian is a streetwalker, she still has the innocence of a normal girl in her heart, so when she sees old comedy TV series, she will laugh like a little girl..."

"Okay, I will try my best..."

"Don't try hard, just be yourself..."

"Well, I will definitely not try hard..."

"Hey, you find the feeling..."

"A!" Garry Marshall felt that directing these two male and female protagonists is an art of waiting. When the two of them are stopped enough times, they will naturally forget the key points of acting and return to their normal true colors. At that time, it is a performance that can be adopted, and it will be excellent. After all, two handsome men and beautiful women naturally talk about love on the screen, which is also very pleasing to the eye. I'm just afraid that they will try too hard to perform...

"Cut!"

"Director... I..." Julia Roberts became nervous again.

But this time it was not her problem.

"Richard, you don't need to act too much, just respond to Julia's actions and behaviors normally..."

"But I think that when Lewis sees Vivian laughing innocently at the 'old-fashioned comedy', he will think of his previous girlfriends. They all graduated from prestigious schools and have high IQs, but they lack the ability to relax him..."

I'm not afraid that bad actors can't act, I'm afraid that they will start to act seriously.

Ronald almost laughed out loud when he watched from the side, so he had to lower his head and turn around to get the thermos cup to cover it up.

In fact, Richard Gere's role in "Pretty Woman" is very similar to Harrison Ford in "Working Girl". They are responsible for giving the center of the drama, the heroine, a love object.

In other words, this kind of movie can be seen as shot from the psychological perspective of the heroine. The audience's heart rises and falls for the heroine, worrying about their fate, and looking forward to the ending of their love with the hero...

As for the hero, it is actually similar to the heroine in traditional Hollywood romantic love dramas... a tall and exquisite vase.

Sure enough, Garry Marshall pulled Richard Gere aside and wanted to tell him the truth. This famous handsome guy with average acting skills would be much better if he didn't work hard.

However, he didn't seem to have figured out his situation yet, and was still arguing with Garry Marshall about the performance method. Garry Marshall had to turn around and look at Ronald, asking him to go over and help...

"Ahem... Richard, you did a good job, but Gary was talking about something on another level. I'm an outsider, and maybe I saw some situations from an outsider's perspective..."

"Please go ahead..." Richard Gere thought it might be better to have someone communicate from a different perspective, so he made a gesture to Ronald to say please go ahead.

"Ahem... Let's put it this way, there are two protagonists in this movie, one is the one who takes the initiative when encountering choices, and the other is passive. Which one do you think you are playing?"

This is the most interesting part of this Pretty Woman. The male protagonist Lewis is a Wall Street tycoon, and the female protagonist Vivian is just a low-level streetwalker. But every time they encounter a problem, Lewis is often the conservative, silent one who waits for his opponent to make a move, while Vivian is the brave one who takes the initiative and uses her enthusiasm to improve the situation...

The psychological dynamics of their two characters and their social status are actually the opposite...

"Daxn it, no one can explain it more thoroughly than you..." Richard Gere woke up as if from a dream, and he understood the dramatic tension designed by screenwriter Lawton.

"I understand, please let me do another one, I have already thought about how to act..." People like Richard Gere rely on intuition to make a living. After analyzing and analyzing, it is still a simple question that makes them understand.

Garry Marshall secretly gave Ronald a thumbs up, or you can teach actors...

Ronald smiled, Garry Marshall still has not worked with stars enough and lacks experience. In fact, this is still the old Hollywood routine, the lower class is passionate and righteous, the upper class is corrupt and decadent, and often the upper class saves the lower class on the material level, and the lower class needs to save it on the psychological level.

It's just that for creatures like stars, they need to use simple statements that they can understand to make them think clearly.

Soon, the filming of this section went smoothly. Richard Gere focused on playing a handsome uncle who was a step behind in everything, and occasionally showed a charming but meaningless smile. Julia Roberts liked this feeling very much, and her personal charm was naturally exuded. The chemical reaction made the atmosphere on the scene seem to have a sour smell.

Just when everyone felt that Ronald had brought a new rapport to the crew, one of Richard Gere's hairstylists sneaked out of the studio, quickly ran to a phone booth, and dialed a phone number.

"Hey, Cindy? The situation is not good. A handsome guy named Ronald came to the crew today. As soon as he came, it seemed that your Richard became very competitive and had to work hard. The shots taken today, Julia smiled ambiguously and opened her mouth wide..."

"This Bichi..., I'll be there right away..." An American girl roared from the other end of the phone...

When the hairstylist returned to the studio, he found that the last shot had already passed. Next, shots from Julia Roberts' perspective began. Wearing a blonde wig and sexy clothes, she sat on the carpet and watched reruns of the old comedy "I Love Lucy" on the TV.

This "I Love Lucy" is a sitcom starring Hollywood's first sexy bombshell Lucille Ball, who moved to TV series in the 1950s. It is a memory for a generation.

The plot of this paragraph is that Vivian comes from a small place and has not watched this comedy much. She laughed out loud at the childish and old-fashioned plot in it. It was time to serve Lewis, but she still lingered in front of the TV...

"Hahaha……"

"Cut!" Garry Marshall called out, his laughter not loud enough. Vivian is the kind of girl who has never seen the world, so much so that when facing the sponsor, she still wanted to finish the comedy.

After Garry Marshall finished explaining it, we reshot it several times, but it was still not ideal. Although Julia Roberts is a Southern girl, it is impossible for this old-fashioned comedy from the 1950s to make her laugh hysterically.

"Cut!"

After several attempts, Garry Marshall's head was getting big. This was a live recording, and there was no way to replace the comedy scenes on the TV. At this time, some acting skills were needed, and there was no way to just rely on the true character... He cast a look at Ronald for help again.

"Hey, this girl is so stupid." Ronald recalled a past incident... There was also a stupid girl who couldn't act out the feeling during the filming of the sex scene. In the end, he pinched her toes, leaving her a virgin. She performed a very good passionate scene.

"Huh?" Ronald suddenly noticed that the surroundings were very quiet. When he came back to his senses, he found that the entire crew was looking at him, and over there was Garry Marshall's look for help.

"Hey...I have an idea..."

After such an explanation, Garry Marshall looked at Ronald looking up and down for a while, this trick was really interesting.

He went over and asked Julia Roberts to sit down again, this time sticking one foot out of the frame.

"A!" The director lying at her feet gave the order to start filming. When the "I Love Lucy" scenes started to appear on the TV again, he started to tickle the soles of Julia Roberts' feet...

"Kekeke...hahahaha..."

This time, Vivian's smile finally met the requirements.

Ronald suddenly felt a little uninterested. Looking at this scene, what he saw was that when he was filming "Endless Love", director Franco Zeffirelli asked him to pinch Brooke Shields' feet. Picture of fingers.

Brooke's face is so beautiful, and her expression is so similar to the expression after passion. It gradually overlaps with the scene of the two of them at Princeton University...

Ronald didn't want to stay on the set anymore, so he walked out alone without saying hello to anyone. A gust of autumn wind blew outside, and the air on the West Coast was full of temperature. It was still different from Princeton back then...

He gradually woke up from his memories, and Ronald shook his head. Next spring, his and Diane's child would be born.

Suddenly, the figure of a tall girl flashed across the street. He was also wearing very high-quality clothes and had long flowing hair, and was walking towards him quickly. The way she walks is also like that of a stage model...

Ronald suddenly had a hallucination, thinking that it was Brooke who came to the set...

But when I looked closer, I saw that the girl had blond hair...

"Cindy, what are you doing here?"

The person who came was unexpectedly Cindy Crawford...

"Ah, Ronald..." Cindy Crawford was also startled, and then she toughened up and pushed out her chest, "Didn't you promise me that I can come to visit the crew at any time?"

There was a bug in the previous chapter and it has been corrected.