Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Caterina, don't look at the camera, just make your omelettes as usual." Ronald smiled at a fat middle-aged Italian woman and taught her how to act for the camera.

Catalina held an egg in her hand, knocked it on the edge of a large bowl, and poured the egg white and yolk into the bowl, "Is that it?"

"Very good, very good," Ronald hinted at the photographer, who began to take pictures of her, "just crack the eggs one by one."

Catalina is Cyndi Lauper's real mother. She herself is of Italian descent and has the unique kindness of a middle-aged Italian woman.

In order to save as much as possible, Ronald made a very economical plan for this v shoot of "girlsjtwanttohavefun". Cindy plays the protagonist of V, a girl who goes out to play at home. Her mother plays the mother of the protagonist in v.

Cindy's biological father and stepfather were both divorced from her mother, so an actor was needed for the father's role. . Attorney Huffman found another client of his, a professional wrestler, to cheer for his game.

"Cut!" Ronald on the side saw that they were chatting enthusiastically and had already taken the necessary pictures. The secret to dealing with amateur actors is not to tell them that filming has started, otherwise it will be difficult to avoid amateur actors’ nervousness in front of the camera.

"You are really amazing, Ronald. Amateur actors can be trained so well. I think the filming can be completed in two days." Hoffman, the lawyer with a beard that looks like Detective Polo, accompanied the whole filming process. He said to Ronald I really admire my ability to save money. With just a small amount of money, I just grab random people and take pictures.

"As long as I am a professional, it will be fine." Ronald smiled. In fact, film and television shooting is very tricky. As long as one of the multiple shots meets the standards, it is not like a play where all the scenes must be performed to have a chance to be on stage.

"Girls, it's your turn."

After Ronald took the shot of the kitchen, he waved his hand again, and eight ordinary girls of different ethnic groups rushed up to the makeup artist and hairstylist to start putting on makeup and fixing their hair.

There is a plot in this v. The protagonist Cyndi Lauper calls eight of her friends and then comes to her house to have a party.

The salary for a group performance like this is close to a thousand dollars a day, which is not cheap. When Ronald was preparing to shoot, he went to Portrait Records with lawyer Hoffman to borrow a group of female secretaries to appear in the photo.

"Choose slowly. Each person has a pair of sunglasses. I will make a small gift for you after the shooting." Ronald stepped forward to chat with each secretary, telling a joke and a few flirting words to make them relax.

Among the eight secretaries, there is one Chinese, one Japanese, two blacks, and Latinos, and the rest are white. Anyway, V is pursuing a specious plot. Ronald just picks some from each ethnic group to make the young audience feel that they are rebellious girls like them.

"Do you know how to make wearing glasses sexy?" Ronald stepped back a few steps and asked a female makeup artist to come forward and teach them how to put on glasses.

Headed by Cyndi Lauper, the nine beauties were photographed in a row, each wearing sunglasses with one hand. Black, white, pink, sunglasses of various colors and shapes are selected by hairstylists to match the hair styles of the secretaries, making them look more sexy and beautiful.

Including Cindy, the nine women started chatting about makeup and sunglass accessories. Ronald applauded them, "Let's go through the rehearsal, and the camera will take close-ups of you. From left to right, everyone is photographed. When you take the photo, give me a sexy look. Think of your boyfriend, husband, or any male celebrity you like."

"Ronald, I wonder if you can do it." A secretary boldly shouted to Ronald.

"It's up to you. As long as it makes you happy, I don't mind being your fantasy object for a while." Ronald has been with these secretaries for a long time and knows that they are very popular in private conversations.

Hearing what they said, Ronald knew that they were relaxed and very satisfied. He even took off his coat and made a bicep gesture.

"Oh, come here, mom." Another secretary with a slightly higher position even took out a bill and wanted to put it into Ronald's belt.

"Keep it like this. I also want to see you so coquettish during the actual shooting, Mindy." Ronald continued to bicker with her and gestured to the photographer with one hand.

The photographer understood, turned on the camera, and started filming quietly while the actors, who were filled with secretaries, were relaxing in rehearsal.

"Cut!" Ronald turned back to discuss with the photographer, "Very good, thank you for showing up."

"What? Were you filming just now?" The secretary named Mindy was surprised that her appearance was captured by the camera, and came over reluctantly to ask Ronald to delete her scene.

"Don't worry, Mindy, your performance just now was beautiful. I suspect you have a future in Hollywood if you don't work in a record company."

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The dance coach is a guest dancer from Cyndi Lauper's team. Cindy didn't have many resources for promotion, and the backup dancer was one of her sisters who had traveled with her.

"I want to create a three-by-three matrix first, with Cindy in the center, and then the three rows of people shake their heads to the left and right respectively." Ronald discussed with the dance coach and took this shot first.

Eight secretaries surrounded Cyndi Lauper, swaying left and right in each row to the beat of the music. Then in behavioral units, the swing continues.

“Cut!”

It was the old way, not telling them that they were already filming. When they were filming, the girls immediately became stiff and their movements became distorted, but Ronald still encouraged them and always said that they did a good job.

After taking close-ups of the girls answering Cindy's phone calls, Ronald waved to them, "Girls, go practice your dance first, and we'll see you later."

"Ronald, goodbye." Everyone waved goodbye to Ronald. Mindy even came over and hugged him. Gu

"Colonel, I want Cindy Lauper to give you a grappling move."

Ronald turned to Lou Albano, the wrestler who played Cindy's father, and discussed the effect of the wrestling move with him.

"A!"

Cindy looked at the colonel, and the two of them looked at each other head to head. Lou Albano stretched out a finger and pointed at Cindy one by one in accordance with the rhythm of the lines in the music.

"In the middle of the night, the phone rang.

My father yelled, how are you going to treat your own life!"

The lyrics were just right.

Cindy grabbed the colonel's hand, then pulled back and pinned his arm behind his body, and pushed forward, and the colonel was caught and his body was pressed against the wall.

"Oh, dad, you are still the Nanbawan of the family,

but the girl wants to have some fun."

The colonel, who played the role of the father, was caught by his daughter, and walked to the kitchen to cry to his mother with depression.

The wrestlers of f don't need to train to act in movies, you are all born performers. "Ronald praised.

"You are not bad, kid. I saw that you coached Cindy's two grabs, which were very professional. You went directly to f. This kind of wrestling match is actually a performance, which is quite interesting to watch, but it was very hard to fall, and he didn't want to try it.

"Next dance scene." Ronald called a group of extras, this time all the employees of the record company, including Cindy's manager, Cindy's brother Butch, and the lawyer Hoffman with a distinctive beard.

"Everyone follow the rhythm of the dance instructor. Just like in a disco, you form a train and follow the rhythm of the locomotive. Okay, everyone, show me your moves first."

"One, two, three, four, two, two, three, four," Ronald watched everyone perform freely, making it like a group of demons dancing wildly.

However, the plot of this section is that Cindy's friends, friends of friends, and neighbors in the apartment building dance together. They are not bound by rules and do not pursue professionalism in dance, but dance like ordinary people.

"Oh, oh, what is this? You need to practice more, Mr. Lawyer." Ronald saw that the stingy lawyer Hoffman danced with his hands and feet in a clumsy way.

"Teach Mr. Lawyer well." Ronald whispered to the dance instructor. This lawyer is also a stingy old man who wants to save money on everything. Ronald felt that he was still a little taken advantage of by him, and he used his expertise in saving money for filming.

In order to "retaliate" a little, he specifically asked the dance instructor to teach Hoffman an "impressive" dance step.

"a!"

"The girls just want to have some fun,

have some fun!"

The rhythm started, Cindy started, and the group of actors behind started to dance. As expected of people from the record company, everyone danced well.

Lawyer Hoffman in the middle, even though he was trained by the dance coach, did not solve the problem of his dancing with the same hands and feet.

The coach simply taught him the duck dance, with the front hand in front making a duck mouth, and the back hand behind the buttocks making a duck buttocks, so that he could keep up with the rhythm of everyone by dancing with the same hands and feet.

"The girls just want to have some fun,

have some fun!"

Lawyer Hoffman followed the rhythm, stretching and retracting his front hand, and his neck also stretched and retracted, with his mustache curled up, just like a duck walking.

"Cut!"

"Hahahaha..." Ronald was very satisfied with this dance posture. After calling a halt, he sat in the director's chair and laughed non-stop. The image of Lawyer Hoffman in the finished film is absolutely wonderful.