Exploiting Hollywood 1980
Chapter 17 Watching Samples
Samples are the results of daily shooting, which are printed out. They are the original appearance without color adjustment or editing. At this time, a clapperboard appeared on the screen and hit it with a snap. This is the clerk Jenny hitting the clapperboard, Ronald thought to himself.
The first shot was shot by director Allen and Joe. At the end, no one called for a long time. Dai Yang looked at the camera out of character, and Ronald's voice shouting "Cut!" was also projected.
Immediately after that, Ronald shot the second shot. After the clapperboard was hit with a snap, the picture was similar to the previous one. Kate, played by Dai Yang, was frightened by the muscular man and took a half step back when the football team passed by. Her expression was more realistic.
It was not just Ronald who felt good about himself. He heard the boss lady Julie in the front row saying, "The second one is better."
Then the principal came out and threatened the students to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, and everyone ran away.
After the slow-motion shooting, the normal speed playback showed that the extras were like early silent film actors, fleeing the playground in a weird way, inevitably bumping and dodging, and some screaming.
"This one is good." It was director Joe Dante who was speaking. Roger in the front row turned around and asked, "Did you come up with this, or did Alan decide?"
"It was Jim's idea to slow down, and I came up with the idea of having them run in the opposite direction." Ronald replied.
"Oh, this is very interesting..." Roger wanted to continue, but a clapboard sounded and the third take started. Everyone turned around to watch again.
...
In the dark screening room, Ronald couldn't see everyone's expressions, but from the low voices, it seemed that the feedback was good.
The shot of the two beauties dancing was played, and Jerry Zucker shouted "Wow" and blew a loud whistle.
Roger turned around and asked, "Is this the shot I saw yesterday? These two dancing girls are very photogenic and they dance well."
"This is the dancer Siana. I found them from the group performance of Van Nuys High School. I think they look good, so I gave them a close-up shot. There is also a side medium shot of them later."
The next shot is the shot of the male protagonist Tom coming out of the building and walking all the way to the dining table to eat breakfast in the crowd. Roger Corman couldn't sit still again and turned around and said, "This is really a genius shot. The loneliness in the crowd directly conveys a sense of alienation. How did you do it?"
"I let the male protagonist Vincent stay in the center of the picture, but deliberately walked half a beat slower, not in the same step with others..."
...
The sample was screened very quickly. After the shot of Liv Randall and Kate Lanbao, two best friends, walking together towards the grass in the sunset, the projection room cut the picture and turned on the ceiling light.
Roger Corman seemed to be in a good mood. Joe Dante came over to hug Ronald, "Great job, good boy." He patted him on the back.
"Thank you, Joe."
"Which university's film school did you graduate from, Ronald? Your name is Ronald, right?" Jerry came over and asked.
"Me? I didn't go to film school, I graduated from high school." Ronald was a little surprised why Jerry would talk to him.
"What? High school graduate, you must be kidding. Was your high school art teacher Spielberg? Or did you hook up with Francis Coppola's sister in high school? Or is your grandfather John Ford?"
Jerry Zucker named all the famous directors. Ronald didn't know whether he was jokingly praising or sarcastic.
"I was kidding." Jerica explained when Ronald was most embarrassed, and then started to tell jokes:
"Tell the truth, did your father buy you a Super 8 camera? You have been making movies since the 8th grade? Let the cheerleader in school go to your house to shoot? Hahahaha."
Super 8 is a home camera produced by Kodak, which uses Kodak's movie film. Not counting the camera, a roll of film costs $5, and Aunt Karen can't afford it.
Ronald replied "No, I didn't..."
"Hahaha, I know, your family must run a movie theater, you can buy tickets at the door. Two tickets, two cups of Pepsi, a bucket of popcorn, salty, five dollars and fifty-eight cents, your change, sir." Jerry Zucker is very good at interrupting the conversation, making jokes that are not real or fake. If he feels that you are offended by him, he will say I am kidding.
Ronald was interrupted by him several times when he was about to speak, and he felt a little angry. Jerry Zack not only had a receding hairline, but also had buck teeth. He walked up to Ronald and told him another joke.
Ronald became annoyed and didn't want to talk to him anymore, but Jerry got more and more excited as he talked. He laughed so hard that his back bent. "Hahaha, you know, I'm going to tell you something funny, hahaha...", and he was about to hook Ronald's shoulder.
Ronald felt a buzzing sound, and the blood rushed to the top of his head through the arteries behind his ears. He instinctively reached out to block Jerry's hand, and then stepped forward to kick him hard.
Fortunately, reason prevailed and controlled the wrestler's instinct. Others only saw Ronald holding Jerry's hand and not letting him hook his shoulder. Only Ronald's ears turned red.
The proprietress Julie Coleman couldn't stand it anymore, so she came to help and separated him and Jerry. "It's very well shot. I haven't seen such a great new director in a long time. The last time was when I was a producer for Martin Scorsese and filmed "The Human Torch". He is also like you, he can draw beautiful storyboards."
Ronald was a little embarrassed by Julie's praise, and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Mrs. Coleman. You are too kind."
"After we finish watching the remaining samples, come to the president's office. Roger wants to talk to you." Julie whispered.
Julie glanced at Roger Coleman, who was whispering to the producer again. Julie patted Ronald on the shoulder and signaled him and Jim to go out first. They still had to discuss the samples shot two days ago. These discussions were not convenient for Ronald and Jim to listen in.
Ronald and Jim opened the door of the screening room and walked out. Gail also sneaked out, turned around and stuck the door with her foot to leave a gap, and whispered: "Ronnie, Julie likes you very much. If you want to leave your name on the subtitles, her opinion is very important."
Ronald made a gesture of thanks, and Gail turned back and went in. Ronald looked at Jim and touched his chin: "It seems that the sample we shot is not bad?"
"Yes, I think it is very good," Jim nodded, "I didn't expect that an ordinary main shot in the picture you shot could also convey an emotion to the audience. I have to think about it carefully. Kubrick's movie shocked me like this."
"Roger seems to be very satisfied with the two of us. It is possible that we can do some new work." The two walked out of the office together and chatted in the yard.
"Have you thought about what you want to do?"
"I have always been interested in movie stunts. I like to think about the stunt shooting methods of "2001: A Space Odyssey". I heard that director Kubrick built a Ferris wheel to shoot the weightless scene."
Jim said here, and suddenly changed to a very low voice and said: "Gail told me that Roger may be in a big-budget science fiction film next year. He was stimulated by the success of "Star Wars". I want to go to that group to do stunt design."
"Really? Is the movie in sight?" Ronald was very happy for Jim. His dream was to make a science fiction movie.
"I heard it's a sci-fi version of 'Seven Samurai', remaking Kurosawa's story into a Star Wars setting."
"Akira Kurosawa? Seven Samurai?" Ronald looked confused.
Jim looked at him and knew that he hadn't seen this classic work by the famous Japanese director. "Then you've seen 'Magnifit Seven', right? The theme song of the Marlboro cigarette commercial is from this movie."
"I've seen this one. Thump-thump, thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump." Ronald hummed the theme song.
"Yes, The Magnificent Seven is a remake of The Seven Samurai, and we are also going to remake one." Jim took out a cigarette and lit it, "Would you like one too?"
"No, thank you."
"What about you? Have you decided what to do?"
"I will be the still photographer of the Rock High School crew first, and the stills I take can be placed in my photography studio in the future."
"Okay, let's take a photo together then, and call Gail."
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