Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Why don't you have a room? Didn't you tell your assistant about this?" Ronald pulled Ralph Mazzio into the room, gave him a towel, and asked him to wash his face with hot water.

"This is what Director Coppola asked me to do. The character I played, Johnny, is from a very poor family in the Greaser Gang. His parents fight all day and ignore their children. That's why he stabbed Bob from the Young Master Gang to death with a knife."

Ralph is already 20 years old. He is one of the only two adult actors over 20 among all the boys, along with Patrick Swayze.

"So he wanted me to feel what it's like to have no home to go back to. I can get five dollars a day, and then I can solve my own food and sleep problems. I couldn't find a place to stay today, so I sneaked in when the front desk wasn't paying attention."

"You can't sleep on the street," Ronald handed him a glass of water, "or you can sleep here tonight, I'll talk to Francis tomorrow, and you can sleep here from now on."

"It's okay, Ronald. This is for performance." Ralph Mazzio rejected Ronald's kindness, "I wanted to play the role of Johnny when I auditioned, so when Coppola asked me to play other roles, I played dead and acted randomly. I didn't want him to think I could play other oil-headed gangs."

Ronald laughed. At that time, Coppola mixed up everyone's identities and put them together for audition, which made everyone very nervous. It was rare that Mazzio could think so deeply.

"Sleep here tonight. I think Coppola just wants you to experience the feeling of being poor and having no home. Staying in someone else's room can also help you fully experience this embarrassment.

Besides, you are always walking outside. The old house is not soundproof. I guess many people will be woken up by you like me."

"Okay, but I sleep on the floor."

Ronald knew that Mazzio was trying to experience the role, so he stopped persuading him. He took out the extra sheets in the cupboard, threw them to Mazzio and spread them on the floor, letting him sleep all night.

"Francis, I don't think this is a good idea? Mazzio has nowhere to go, so he wanders outside. If he hasn't found a family to stay with him tonight, should he look for someone in the newspaper outdoors?"

The next day, Ronald found Coppola to give his opinion. It seems a bit too much to let the actors experience life like this.

"And if Mazzio catches a cold, it will delay the rehearsal progress of the crew." Seeing that Coppola was indifferent, Ronald found another reason.

"Yes, we have to find a place for Mazzio to sleep. But the production director has no extra rooms." Coppola finally reacted.

"How about letting him sleep in my room?"

"No, let him sleep in my room. I'll sleep at home and drive here every day." Hinton couldn't stand such things. They all wrote about the sufferings that happened around her when she was a child. Now Mazzio is an actor with some achievements. There is no reason for him to share a room with a special assistant.

Coppola nodded. Seeing that he didn't need to find the production director again and could solve the problem by paying for an extra room, he didn't care.

"You have to give more artistic suggestions in the future, Ronald. I'm not asking you to be an extra-curricular producer."

The crew started formal rehearsals that day. Ronald carried a Sony BetaCa video recorder and took turns with the director of photography to shoot the rehearsal video.

The conference room in the hotel was arranged as a rehearsal room, with various chairs serving as props. The actors rehearsed scene by scene according to the order in the script.

"Ronnie!" The director of photography called Ronald and winked. His camera tape was used up.

Ronald carried his own camera to connect.

"How do I know if this red hair is natural? Are her eyebrows the same color as yours?" Matt Dillon sat on the chair, using his hand to lift Diane's hair in front of him, and then sniffed her neck.

"Put your feet off my backrest and shut up!" Diane Lane dodged for a moment, then spoke to reprimand.

"Cut! Very good. Diane, remember that this is a kind of teasing, but not the kind of bully. Dillon, keep your attitude."

"I know," Diane agreed while chewing gum, and then spit the gum in Dillon's direction.

She actually disliked Dillon's acting like this, which was almost like harassment. But the director said yes, so she had to agree.

"Continue..."

After the afternoon rehearsal, Ronald watched all the rehearsal tapes with the trainee director arranged by Coppola and the Directors Guild.

All the rehearsals were filmed, and Ronald didn't quite understand the necessity of doing so. This was equivalent to using a low-quality Sony camera to shoot the movie once in advance. What's the benefit of this?

"What do you think of this scene?" Coppola pointed to the scene where Dali, played by Dillon, flirted with Cherry, played by Diane, in the drive-in theater.

"I think it's good, and the emotions are very strong." The girl who got the trainee position of the Directors Guild began to express her opinions.

Coppola looked at Ronald.

"The rhythm and the interaction between the actors are good, but the intensity of the emotions?"

Coppola nodded, but did not express his opinion.

"Does he have other tricks? Save them for the actual shooting?" Ronald suppressed his doubts in his heart, quietly took out a notebook, and wrote down his doubts.

"I'm going to be finished."

"I'm going to be finished."

Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe, two handsome guys said goodbye to each other in front of the hotel. Today they will be sent to a real Youtou Gang family to eat, sleep in their home for a while, and experience life.

"Don't be afraid, Moretti is the prototype of a gang member in the Oil Head Gang. He is the big guy who knocked out other people's teeth in fights. They and his wife are both very good people." Hinton comforted them with a smile.

The two of them looked at each other and became even more afraid of their evening guest trip.

"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Moretti."

The two handsome guys gingerly knocked on the door of the family that Hinton had contacted them.

"Oh, you must be Tom and Rob." Moretti was a tall man, and he hugged the two actors warmly. His wife, who was also Italian, brought out the prepared meals and put them on the table.

"Hinton told us that you want to come and experience the family situation of the Oil Head Gang. I didn't expect that it would finally be made into a movie today by Mr. Coppola, the director of 'The Godfather'. We Italians all respect him. ”

Tom and Rob looked at each other, as if this big man was not as scary as the book said.

"Do you know Ponyboy and the Soda Pop family in the book?" Tom Cruise asked the question while eating dinner.

"Of course, we are good friends."

"Then the Oil Head Gang and the Young Master Gang were really sworn enemies like that back then, and they started fighting whenever they met?" Rob Lowe also discovered that the big man Moretti was actually very enthusiastic and started asking questions.

Moretti put down his knife and fork, "Hey, actually, many of the Gongzi Gang kids and I are teammates on the rugby team. We call them Gongzi Gang (Soc), but actually they are not much richer than us Greasers.

Tulsa is a coal mining town, and the oilmen in the south are Italian miners. Many young men in the north are just accountants, cashiers, technicians, etc. in coal mining companies. Their lives are better than ours, but how much better can they be?

We fought with each other for some inexplicable reason, and now we are stuck in this small town, and we can't go there. However, there are a few smart kids like Ma Zai who left the small town and went to California, New York, and Chicago. They are the successful ones who have escaped from this poor land. "

Moretti, who was the gangster of the Oil Head Gang when he was young, looked at his children on the table and looked at them lovingly, "You little brats, please listen to me. If you want to go out in the future, don't stay." in Tulsa.”

"The Soda Pop in me seems to be very pitiful. My girlfriend also dumped her and ran away with someone else. How is Soda Pop doing in the end?"

Rob Lowe saw that the Greasy Head Gang were also people with flesh and blood and feelings, and that they respected Hinton children like himself, so he boldly asked about the current situation of his character, the second brother of the protagonist Ma Zai, Soda Soda.

"Well, he was drafted and died in Vietnam."

Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise stopped talking, and the future of young people in this place was really hopeless at the time.

They asked about the current situation and life details of other character prototypes, and gradually gained a deeper understanding of the characters they played.

After the two of them finished eating, they lay in the Youtou Gang's house for an hour. In the small shotgun room, two male actors slept on the same bed, and the two gained a deeper understanding of the living environment behind the characters' various behaviors.

The two slept for a while and then came out to say goodbye to the gangsters. They had many children at home, and if they continued to sleep, there would be no place for other people's children to sleep.

"I had no idea what was going on behind the Soda Soda character..." Rob Lowe told Tom Cruise.

The two of them entered the hotel lobby and walked to their rooms while chatting.

"Ronald, I don't want to stay here any longer."

The two suddenly discovered a red-haired girl coming out of the corner at the end of the aisle, hugging Special Assistant Ronald, and seemed to be crying.

"It seems to be Diane, our cherry?" Rob pulled Tom, and the two exchanged glances at the corner, "What's going on? It seems very interesting."

Ronald gently patted Diane in his arms and slowly comforted her.

After calling Ronald just now, Diane rushed down, hugged Ronald at the door and started complaining.

"Scared me."

"Don't worry, I'm here. Did someone play a prank on you?" Ronald felt that Diane's body was shaking, as if she was scared.

This girl is quite brave, it is not easy to be scared like this.

Ronald pulled Diane upstairs, and saw Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe at the corner, "Hey, why are you here too? Come up together. Diane has been teased so much, let's go help her clean up." ”

"First, my doorknob was smeared with Vaseline and it couldn't be turned." Diane pointed to her door.

Ronald stretched out his hand and touched it. There was still some residue, so it did slip when he turned the handle. The person who pulled this prank was really a genius.

"Then I went to the bathroom and saw this written on the mirror."

Diane let the three boys into the room, and the words "Go to hell, Bichi" were written in lipstick on the bathroom mirror.

"I was so angry that I used the shower head to water it and tried to wipe it off, but the shower head was also broken and it sprayed all over my face."

Diane pointed to the shower head and showed them that it had been violently damaged and water spurted out from the side when it was boiled.

"I was so angry that the toilet seat was smeared with honey."

"Puff..." Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise couldn't help but burst out laughing. This prankster really understands people's psychology. Diane must be angry after doing so many things. If she just sits down like this, isn't it all...

Ronald also laughed. He turned on the hot water, wet the towel, and wiped off the honey on the toilet seat.

"Anything else? I don't think you'll be so scared just by these." Ronald said to Diane, whose hair was dyed dark red.

"Then my bed."

Diane led the three boys to the bed. The sheets on the bed were cut off. When she lay down to rest and stretched her legs, she would touch some stuffed toys that had been placed there in advance and be startled.

"Then here," Diane pulled open the pillow, and there was a piece of red ink. She leaned on the pillow and was startled by the toys under her feet, and then the ink that had been added to the plastic bag in advance sprayed out, which scared her enough.

This series of pranks made Diane Lane very scared. Having just finished a day of rehearsal, Ronald wanted to rest early. If he encountered this, he would be so angry that he would find the perpetrator and beat him up.

"They also left a note on my bed," Diane handed over a piece of paper.

Ronald took it and saw that it said, "We will come again tomorrow."

I wonder which gang's actors played this prank? Maybe both sides were involved?

Ronald had a guess in his mind that Coppola might want to create this disgusting situation and let the actors put themselves into the emotions in order to achieve the effect of true emotional expression in the end.

Cherry, played by Diane, was originally the girlfriend of the Young Master Gang. She was beaten by her boyfriend, so she approached the young gangster of the Oil Head Gang.

Because the gangster talked to the women of the Young Master Gang, a war between the two gangs broke out. In the end, Johnny and the gangster were bullied in the pool and almost suffocated, which led to the scene where Johnny stabbed Bob of the Young Master Gang to death and the two escaped.

Is this to make Diane feel the feeling of being disliked by both gangs? It just so happens that she lives in the middle of the two gangs.

But let's forget about the prank, it's really too much to do this.

"How did you plan your schedule today? Has no one been in the room?" Ronald asked Diane.

"First breakfast, then rehearsal, then back for lunch..." Diane said.

"What about tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow will be about the same."

Ronald had a plan in mind, "Tom, there are some paints for painting scenery in my room that the art team put there, go get a bottle."