Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"The electric film winder seems to be stuck." Director of photography Matthew checked the camera and whispered to director Ronald next to him.

"This broken camera should have been replaced long ago." Ronald cursed in his heart. Cheap products are not good. It is indeed the junk left by Universal for the low-cost crew of "Fast and Furious".

"What's the problem?"

"Maybe there is a problem with the electric motor."

"Can it be fixed?"

"It's hard to say. I don't think it needs to be fixed. Replace the spare film box and take it to Universal tomorrow and let the manufacturer fix it. Ensure the shooting first."

"Okay, be careful next time. I am always worried about this camera."

The movie needs to expose 24 frames of film per second. The film is placed in the film box and driven by the electric motor to pass through the shutter at a uniform speed of 24 frames per second. After the motor failed, the film winder could not roll the film. A roll of 11 minutes of film was stuck in the box and could not move.

"Fortunately, I have replaced the shot I just took, and I just replaced this new roll of film."

"Okay, we'll start after you replace the spare box."

After replacing the spare parts, Ronald finally completed the shot of the game hall. The crew moved to the All-American Burger.

Here we will shoot Sean Penn and his little brother, played by Eric Stoltz, going to the All-American Burger for dinner.

The male protagonist Brad, played by Judge Reinhold, is the foreman at the All-American Burger, and his subordinate is played by Nicholas Coppola.

Ronald finally gave Nicholas a chance to play a minor role and let him get a membership card of the Screen Actors Guild.

"Spicoli, you come in with the younger brother played by Eric Stoltz, take off your shirt when you get to the table, and then everyone pool their money to buy hamburgers."

"Director, can you be like Spicoli and not call me Eric, but the name of my character in the movie?"

Eric Stoltz and Sean Penn are familiar with each other and admire Sean's acting method. He is just an adult, and after having an idol, he wants to learn everything.

"You don't have a name in the script, so you are called Spicoli's younger brother. I will call you Spicoli's younger brother in the future?" Ronald said to Stoltz unhappily.

"Well, okay, I thought he would have a name." Eric Stoltz was a little unhappy.

"It doesn't matter, younger brother, as long as you find the right way, you will be a successful actor." Sean Penn was preaching to Stoltz.

Nicholas Coppola on the other side was also making preparations.

"Hi, Brad."

"Hey, Brad."

"Hello, Brad."

Nicholas was practicing different tones for this line.

"Nick," Ronald pulled him aside, "I know you don't want to humiliate the name of Coppola, but we are a small production, you don't need to practice so repeatedly.

Save your energy and desire to perform, I will give you some positive shots in the later plots, then it will be your time to explode, okay?"

"Thank you, Director Ronald." Nicholas Coppola really stopped practicing his lines, and took out a small mirror from his pocket and began to comb his hair carefully in front of the mirror.

"Now go back and say your line." Ronald patted his shoulder.

What kind of drama lunatics did you choose? This is just a low-cost youth exploitation film. Do you want to act like "The Godfather"?

Ronald smiled silently. In any case, it is a good thing for an actor to have a strong enterprising spirit. As long as it is within the scope of his own control, there is no problem.

Two hooligans played by Sean Penn and Eric Stoltz entered the American Burger where Brad worked. They had to pool their money for a long time to buy burgers.

In order to be cool and show their personality, they took off their T-shirts and talked in the burger shop with bare chests.

Their classmate Brad, wearing the uniform of a part-time foreman, came out from the back, pointed to the sign in the store, and told the students that bare chests were not allowed in this store. He also taught them a lesson and told them to find a part-time job and earn their own money so that they would not be unable to afford burgers.

After Brad left, Spicoli and his brothers loudly imitated Brad's tone of teaching them and began to laugh at Brad's seriousness.

After returning to the counter, Brad greeted the clerk played by Nicholas Coppola, "Hi, Brad."

"Cut!"

Ronald stopped filming. These few shots were well shot and there were no more problems with the camera. Everyone began to switch to film the high school cheerleaders and several shots in the mall.

"Hi, Pamela" novelist Cameron Crowe greeted a cheerleader.

"Do you know her?" Ronald asked Crowe after he arrived.

"She's an acquaintance of my girlfriend. She's quite famous. She's Pamela, the sister of rock star Bruce Springsteen."

"Oh," Ronald knew that Crowe had been a columnist for rock magazines for many years, and he was familiar with all the people in the rock circle.

It just so happened that he didn't care much about the casting of extras and minor supporting roles, so Crowe stuffed in a few acquaintances in the rock circle.

"Are you interested in her? Let me introduce you to each other." Crowe smiled. "Everyone in the rock circle seems to be in a movie. Pamela also mentioned you to me and said that she had seen your film "Rock of Ages"."

"I didn't shoot it, I was just a director on the second team." Ronald shook his head and rejected Crowe's kindness.

"She's a buck-toothed girl, not my cup of tea." Ronald smiled and noticed that the cheerleader next to him had a better figure and he didn't know what his name was.

"What's that girl's name?" Ronald asked the assistant next to him.

"Oh, Kelly Maroney. National Shakespeare Company. She used to do Shakespeare."

Still playing Shakespeare. Forget it, this kind of actress is usually very ambitious. You may not be able to afford the price they ask for.

"Hi, my name is Spicoli, what's your name?"

It was Sean Penn who fell in love with Pamela Springsteen and went over to strike up a conversation with her. I don’t know if he struck up a conversation with his own identity, or if he was playing Spicoli?

During the filming period, the actors, actresses and staff were away from their families and worked overtime and night shifts as a matter of fact. There are actually quite a few flirty couples on the set.

After the filming was over, everyone went their separate ways. When we meet again, we will still be friends if we smile at each other. This is the modern romance story between men and women in the film and television industry.

"Get ready for the next scene." Ronald motioned to the assistant director to speak.

Stop flirting and get down to business first.

Today's shooting was a little slower than yesterday's. In addition to not having two locations taking turns to set up lighting for shooting, the photography team was slower than yesterday.

Ronald found that Matthew, the director of photography, was extremely nervous. Before each shooting, he would repeatedly check the camera's film magazine to avoid film jams.

Being so cautious made the entire photography team very cautious, but it still slowed down the overall shooting progress.

Slowly moving forward, I finally captured the last few shots of tonight.

Ronald asked the cheerleaders to lean against the end of the escalator and film a few reaction shots of them and Brad looking up to him to earn money.

"Recording? Camera? a!"

Pamela Springsteen and Kelly Maroney pose for one of their few frontal shots in the movie. "

"cut!"

Matthew called a halt, and the film jammed again.

Ronald stepped forward, furious as he looked at the heavy camera.

What is "ultraca"? I think it is "ultraja"