Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"No, it has nothing to do with them." Brooke Shields glanced at the director and slowly stopped sobbing. Mother Terry also came over and held her tightly in her arms to comfort her.

"Makeup artist, where's the makeup artist? It's an emergency!" Seeing that the situation didn't get worse, Ronald immediately arranged for the makeup artist to handle it.

Crying not only ruined her makeup, but also caused Brooke's eyes to become slightly red and swollen. The makeup artist dealt with it urgently, but had to wait for Brooke's eyes to return to normal before they could continue filming.

"Take a break for half an hour." After Ronald announced loudly, he began to discuss countermeasures with the team.

"What's the problem?"

"Ronald, Brooke is a child model, she is used to this kind of performance." Spike said.

"Yes, she is very good at giving you the smile you want, 100%, 80%, 50% smile, very skilled. But that is for still photos, moving images require a real emotion-driven smile. She has not gone through Training, not really,” Catherine added.

"So I wanted to make her laugh with a joke, but it had the opposite effect," Ronald said helplessly. "I understand the joke is not funny, but why did she cry?"

"Do you have a sister?" Spike thought for a moment and said, "If you have strict requirements for them and they fail to meet them, there will be a lot of pressure."

"I noticed that she looked at her mother Terry twice before crying." Catherine said, "Is there any mother-daughter conflict?"

"Okay, I'll go discuss it with Terry first," Ronald said.

"Ronald, sometimes being a director requires unscrupulous means. I don't think it's enough for you to just encourage and guide actors. It's like a child who needs some encouragement." Spike Lee grabbed Ronald and stretched out his fingers. A slowly moving gesture.

"What do you mean?" Ronald was confused.

At the same time, three men watching the filming on the second floor were also talking about crying.

"It seems that the young director has messed up things. Calvin, I have said before that artistic techniques are secondary and the important thing is creativity. You should have let Richard try it earlier." The bald man said to Calvin Klein said.

"What do you think, Richard?" Calvin Klein asked the silent photographer Richard Avedon.

"I don't understand why Brooke is crying?" Richard Avedon is a long-established master of portrait photography. Since he did not shoot this advertisement from the beginning, it was his first time to try moving images. Disdainfully taking over young Ronald's mess, "It's actually not easy to make someone cry quickly."

"Ha", Calvin Klein laughed, "What do you think? David?"

The half-bald man is David Geffen, who has just come out of retirement. He was diagnosed with a terminal illness in 1977, announced his retirement from Asylum Records, which he founded, and taught music courses at Yale for a period of time.

During the re-diagnosis this year, the hospital that used new equipment announced that the previous diagnosis was a misdiagnosis. Geffen, who was declared healthy, came out of retirement and founded Geffen Records.

The first artist signed was black disco singer Donna Summer. She also let her new album compete with a selection of old songs produced by her employer Casablanca Records, and won the competition between Summer and Summer on the charts, thus becoming famous.

He often socialized with these fashionable people, attracting the attention of a large number of musicians. He also urged several real estate developers to take over the 54 Club, which was closed due to the imprisonment of the owner, and rebuild a sacred place for New York artists.

His social life brought him great rewards. Former Beatles lead singer John Lennon was very fond of him, and more importantly, his Japanese wife Yoko Ono also recognized him. Lennon was about to be signed to release his long-prepared new album, although Lennon, a convert to mysticism, refused to let any record company hear the complete album before signing him.

Geffen looked at the crowd walking below, "Maybe Richard is right. The young director seems to have thought of a way."

Ronald temporarily declined Spike's offer to arrange for someone to tickle his attention from behind. It’s better to communicate with Terry first.

"Terry, what kind of jokes does Brooke usually find funny?"

Brooke's mother Terry was a little anxious. Her daughter went to the dressing room to touch up her makeup, and she took a few more sips.

"She usually laughs a lot with her classmates, and she often talks to her godmother's daughter on the phone for a long time."

"I thought I saw her godmother and daughter just now?" Ronald asked.

"They're right over there." Terry pointed at the two mother and daughter in the corner.

"I have to ask them for a favor."

Half an hour later, Brooke Shields, who had returned to normal, sat on the floor again.

"Brother, you still hold this walkan while I record some more jokes. If you feel like laughing, just put the earphones aside. The earphones will not be captured in the close-up we shot.

But in the end, you don't need to think about the camera. Let's just treat it as a rehearsal, okay? "

Ronald told Brooke a few words. Then let the recording and photography begin.

"If you don't think the joke is funny, just raise your hand to let me know. Now let's try it...Okay, if I see you raising your hand like this, stop filming. If you feel any discomfort, also raise your hand to let me know." ”

Ronald was afraid that Brooke Shields would fall into that sad mood again, so he spoke to him carefully and gently.

"Okay, I'll pay attention to laughing." Brooke Shields nodded in agreement.

"No, no, Brooke, don't think about laughing. We want to shoot your natural state." Ronald stared at Brooke Shields, "Do you believe me, Brooke?"

"Of course," Brooke nodded.

"You don't need to make any smiles, just stay in a natural state at all times, listen carefully to the content of the recording, laugh if it's funny, and don't laugh if it's not funny. You are the most beautiful in your natural state, okay?"

Brooke Shields saw the sincerity in Ronald's eyes, "Okay, if the joke is not funny, I won't laugh." After saying that, she felt that this sentence was actually very funny and giggled.

"Just stay in this state, don't think about any performance, and focus on listening to the recording." Ronald secretly gestured behind him, indicating that the recording and filming had started, and then withdrew from the camera range.

Brooke Shields pressed the play button and picked up the headphones and put them to her ears. At the beginning, it was still Ronald's bad grammar joke, and Brooke didn't want to laugh at all.

She looked at the young director, indicating that she was not amused by him, and made an innocent expression, indicating that the other party's sense of humor was completely inconsistent with hers. It was not that she did not work hard, but that the jokes were too bad.

Then suddenly, surprise climbed up her eyebrows. The voice of her godmother's daughter came from the tape. They often shared some little secrets and funny jokes on the phone. The familiar voice of the godmother's daughter came, telling the funniest jokes in the two's daily collection, those jokes that girls made fun of a boy, and outsiders couldn't understand.

They were in the studio. Brooke Shields found the godmother and her daughter in the distance and waved to them vigorously. When her mother went to the alcohol rehabilitation center to quit, it was the godmother and daughter who moved into her house and took care of her for a while. The two sisters also became the closest friends.

Another secret joke that only the two of them knew came from the headphones. Brooke couldn't help it anymore. She threw the headphones and burst into laughter "Hehe...", and then her sitting body began to sway back and forth.

The photographer raised his head from behind the camera and raised his thumbs high to Ronald who was looking over, indicating that the shooting was very successful and met his requirements.

The sound engineer also nodded to indicate that the sound recording on the spot was very perfect.

"Huh..." Ronald breathed a sigh of relief, and the laughing shot was finally completed.

Calvin Klein on the second floor also smiled, and he was very satisfied with Ronald's ability to control the shooting.

"Ronald, I have a new script here, take a look." After a while, while the team was lighting and preparing for the next shot, Calvin called Ronald up and handed him a thin two-page script.

"What is this?" Ronald was a little surprised. This kind of temporary addition was not common.

"This is Mr. Avedon's idea. We think it's very good. I hope you can try it too."

Ronald carefully read the script under the light. In addition to a few storyboards, there were only two monologues of Brooke Shields.

"Is this Mr. Avedon's idea?" Ronald frowned deeply. Richard Avedon and David Geffen had already left the studio, so there was no way to ask him in person.

"Yes, do you have any objections?"

"Does Terry know?" Ronald asked, "Can I show her the script?"

Then Ronald stared into Calvin Klein's eyes, trying to see some clues.

"Of course, let's go down together."

He didn't see anything in his eyes, but Ronald didn't believe that Calvin didn't know the tricks.

"Terry, this is the new script submitted by Calvin. If you don't want to, we can discuss it again."

Ronald handed the script to Brooke Shields' mother, then pulled his agent Eddie over and discussed it in a low voice.

"If I refuse to shoot this shot, can I still get paid?"

"The contract does not stipulate which shot it is, only the number of advertisements to be shot. You still have to consult a lawyer for specific legal disputes. What's wrong with you, Ronald? Is there any problem with the new script?" Eddie found something wrong.

"These two lines are very problematic. The puns are somewhat sexually suggestive. No, not the kind of hints about genetic evolution, but close to explicit ones. I guarantee that all high school students can understand them."

Terry's frowning expression also showed that she understood the puns in the lines, but she did not refuse to shoot.

"There is no problem with this. We can shoot normally. It is no problem to replace the original political science line."

"Terry," Ronald pulled her aside, "This ad will cause an uproar. If you refuse..."

"No, there is no problem. Brooke is a pure girl. The audiences all over America know this. They will just laugh it off and will not blame her."

"Well, this is none of my business, but maybe you can ask them to change a word. The homophonic pun of e and cu can easily make people uncomfortable."

"No, there is nothing. Brooke needs to be talked about. Because of this actor strike, she has not received any invitations to shoot magazine covers or any talk shows for a month."

It turns out that it is for exposure. Bad news is better than no news.

After discussing with Eddie, Ronald quickly wrote an informed consent form, "Okay, Terry, since you insist, I hope you can sign this informed consent form. I have already broadcast some of the filming The risks are clearly written on it.”

"It's nothing." Terry signed the consent form, "Tell Brooke the drama. Your last one was very effective in telling her drama."

"Poor Ji, can you whistle?...Okay, after you finish whistling, you can say these two lines."

"Do you know what's between me and Calvin? (doyou know what's beeen and calvs?)

Nothing (nothg)”

Brooke Shields read it twice and said she remembered it.

Ronald looked at this fifteen-year-old girl who was called "Virgin America's Sweetheart" by the media. He couldn't bear it, but he still said, "If you don't like the pun of this line..."

"What pun?" Brooke looked at Ronald with wide eyes.

Ronald leaned in and explained in her ear, which actually implied that she was wearing nothing under her jeans.

"How could any normal person think of that, director? You are just like those boys in our high school, thinking of vulgar jokes all day long."

Is this really naive? Or don't you take this kind of thing seriously?

Ronald recalled that he had seen some advertisements shot by Brooke Shields, which were more or less related to her image of "virgin American sweetheart".

Innocence and intellectuality, tallness and youth, the Catholic belief in chastity before marriage and the alluring sexiness, all these contradictory qualities are added to Brooke Shields, which makes her image have such a high commercial value.

"My mother agreed, so what am I worried about?" Ronald shook his head.

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Brooke Shields was sitting cross-legged on the ground, and the camera followed the instructions of the storyboard, from her legs down her CK tight jeans, gradually panning to her crotch, and then her upper body.

When the camera focused on her face, she stopped whistling, and then said seductively to the camera

“Do you know what’s between me and Calvin? (doyou know what’s beeen and calvs?)

Nothing (nothg)”

"Cut! Very good, we can call it a day."