Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The crew of "Top Gun" added a production budget. Ronald and the photography team, props team, and makeup team all went to Chicago and rented a studio of a Chicago TV station.

Two scenes were built as quickly as possible. One was Charlie's home. Based on the stills at the time, a replica of the bedroom of the house on the seaside outside Los Angeles was built exactly.

The other scene was Charlie and the Lone Ranger, who met in the elevator of Miramar Base the day after they broke up after a date at home, and the two rekindled their interest in each other.

By the weekend of the second week, everything was ready. Ronald came to the scene early and directed the crew to prepare for a full day of reshoots.

"Ronald, what do I need to prepare?" Tom Cruise rushed over from Highland Park. He had just finished a scene with Paul Newman last night, and today he had to play a completely different role and shoot a passionate scene with Kelly McGillis.

After working with Martin Scorsese more, Tom Cruise began to try to consider his acting skills more before each scene. Scorsese and Paul Newman were experienced and gave him a lot of inspiration.

"Today, there is no requirement for your acting skills. You just need to show your masculine charm as much as possible. Let your feelings carry you forward."

"Okay, this is not difficult for me." Tom laughed heartily, showing his neat white teeth.

After becoming famous, his teeth were completely renovated by the most expensive dentist in Hollywood, and he has become a standard American smile.

"Remember the bathroom scene? The scene where you and Val Kilmer played against each other?" Ronald asked Cruise.

"Of course I remember."

"Well, this scene is also after the shower, and you meet Charlie again in the elevator. I need wet hair to cover up your hairstyle so that the audience will not notice that your hairstyle has changed a lot."

"No problem, I'll take a shower now."

The hairstylist visited Scorsese's crew a few days ago and observed and experimented for a long time. Perhaps inspired by Ronald's letting Kelly McGillis wear a baseball cap, he came up with an idea to let Tom Cruise take a shower and comb his hair back to dilute the impression of the length of his hair.

"Kelly," Ronald turned around and called McGillis.

"This is great," Ronald adjusted McGillis' baseball cap, and pushed a few strands of blonde hair from the cap.

McGillis showed a rare shyness. She was a little uncomfortable with such intimate actions in front of everyone. But she also enjoyed Ronald's care and couldn't control her laughter.

"Remember this feeling, and the scene in the elevator will be like this."

"Yes, sir." McGillis laughed even more happily.

"A!"

Everything was ready, Ronald hurried to start shooting. Scorsese only gave one day.

The camera started shooting at the small room built like an elevator.

McGillis was inside, wearing a black baseball cap.

Tom Cruise wore a tight vest, revealing his muscular upper body, a towel around his neck, and his hair was still wet and combed back. He walked into the elevator from the side and back of the camera. Then faced the camera.

The Lone Ranger saw Charlie was there too, and smiled knowingly, as if he saw someone he liked.

Charlie also saw the Lone Ranger, and was moved by his smile, so he smiled too.

Ronald made a gesture, and the props team pulled the fake door of the elevator with a rope. With a woosh, the door was closed.

"Cut!"

Ronald was very satisfied with this shot. The smiles of the two protagonists were like a man and a woman who failed their first date, but still had a good impression of each other the next day and met eyes again.

"Restore, restore," the props team shouted, and opened the fake elevator door. The camera switched to a close-up shot and continued to shoot the two protagonists.

Later in the editing room, these two shots will be edited together. In this way, when the audience sees the conversation between the two people in the shot again, they will naturally think that they are talking after the elevator door is closed.

"Ah!"

As soon as the door closed, the Lone Ranger turned around and smiled at Charlie.

"It looks like you need to take a shower." Charlie teased.

"Yeah." Tom Cruise's smile was a little shy. Six months have passed, and now he is no longer single. Cher has come to meet him privately whenever he has the chance. When he plays this kind of scene, he is still thinking of Cher. His sweet expression will be very popular with female audiences.

"Puff", Kelly McGillis smiled. She also knew about his relationship with Cher. He and Cher had a half-hour long-distance call before starting work.

"I just want to tell you that although the data of MiG-28 is very important to me, but..." McGillis sighed and spit it out forcefully. It seems that he said something that made her very embarrassed.

"I usually don't invite male students to my house." Charlie seemed to have made a great decision, "You are..."

The Lone Ranger walked closer and closer, with a serious expression. Male hormones began to spread in the air, and Charlie felt oppressed, "Please understand that MiG's data is very important to me."

"Ding!" The props team used an electric bell to simulate the elevator bell.

Several other set staff opened the fake door.

An officer walked in.

The Lone Ranger and Charlie suddenly separated. After a while, wait for the officer to get off the elevator. As soon as the false door closed, the Lone Ranger approached Charlie and smiled into her eyes.

"I'm glad we've made it clear."

That said, but Cruise's eyes told another story, he stared at Charlie motionlessly.

Charlie was moved by his gaze, and turned back to look at the Lone Ranger's lips, his eyes moving up and down.

"Cut!"

Ronald was very satisfied.

Tom Cruise's acting skills have obviously improved significantly after Scorsese's training. Kelly McGillis was originally a formal Broadway actor, and this kind of ambiguous and complex role is exactly her strong point.

The two said that they invited him to their home because of work.

But the way they looked at each other and their body movements undoubtedly told another story. This is the most comfortable, expectant and eager stage for two men and women who have been separated for a long time, who appreciate each other, but have not yet officially started a relationship.

After asking the director of photography, Ronald announced that the elevator scene was finished.

A group of people moved to another scene, Charlie's bedroom.

"I want this strong backlight to be a little darker." Ronald saw the lighting conditions in the bedroom scene, went forward to look through the camera, and continued to give instructions to the director of photography.

In order to prevent the audience from being distracted and the hairstyles of the two from being exposed, Ronald decided to use a very dark shooting method for this abrupt passionate scene.

The curtains were tightly drawn, and only two places were left with white semi-transparent curtains to let in some outdoor light.

In fact, most of the time, such passionate scenes can only be shot as a silhouette. Ronald deliberately did not let the audience see too exciting pictures.

After all, this is a PG movie, so only a little kiss and hug can be given. The main purpose is to let the audience's imagination complete the missing part of the shooting.

The scene was cleared, and only the director of photography, Ronald, and a few necessary lighting assistants, and the recording team were inside.

"Are you okay, Kelly?" Ronald went over and knocked gently on the door of the dressing room.

"I'm fine," Kelly McGillis walked out, wearing only a long white shirt on her body.

Ronald stood a foot away from her to see the effect. McGillis was extremely sexy. The white shirt that was representative of working girls, under the dim light, actually set off the intellectual beauty of instructor Charlie.

McGillis stood on tiptoe and held Ronald's chest with both hands, "It would be great if you were the male lead, I wouldn't have to stand in the ditch."

Ronald smiled slightly, "The ditch is also necessary. It's just that I'm standing

His chest hair was slightly itchy due to McGillis's gentle movements. Looking at McGillis' eyes, he also approached McGillis gently and slightly aggressively, just like the character of the Lone Ranger.

"After the shooting, wait for me." McGillis said softly in Ronald's ear.

"Hmm..." Ronald felt a tingling sensation, rising from the waist, and the entire left ear down to the neck, as if someone had pressed acupuncture points.

"Get ready. "

Tom Cruise was already waiting in the room with his upper body naked.

The two of them aligned their positions, and the faint light shone through the curtains and backlit them, outlining a beautiful outline of light.

"A! "

The camera motor sounded slightly. The recording crew gently played "Take My Breath Away" sung by the Berlin band, making it easier for the actors to enter the scene.

McGillis and Cruise looked at each other and slowly, slowly approached each other.

The camera's viewfinder was just stuck at the position of their knees.

Below, where the camera was not shooting, the set crew had dug a trench in advance. McGillis's feet were standing in the trench, which made her several inches shorter.

In this way, in the camera's frame, Charlie and the Lone Ranger were very similar in height.

McGillis didn't have to bend down and kneel when performing this very subtle and ambiguous scene.

The two gradually approached, and finally their lips gently came together, then quickly separated, and then continued to kiss each other.

Ronald's hand grabbed his thigh. Scorsese was right, looking at the woman who was ambiguous with him It is a very bad experience for a person to shoot a passionate scene with other men.

What's worse is that Ronald is the director. He has to consider the acting skills of the two people. If the chemistry is not right, he has to be responsible for the scene.

The lips, fingertips, chins, and noses of the two people are deliberately touched lightly. There is no big problem with this scale of the scene being rated as PG.

Then the two of them lay down on the bed and continued to shoot a silhouette-like passionate scene under the backlight. Although there is no nudity, it makes people's blood boil.

"Cut!"

Finally finished shooting this scene, it was almost evening. Tom Cruise was in a hurry to leave, and Cher was about to come to Chicago to visit, so he wanted to go back to the hotel quickly.

McGillis, who stayed behind, also took advantage of the sunset to shoot a shot. He woke up alone in the afterglow and saw a plane folded with paper by the Lone Ranger at the head of the bed. It was clearly the appearance of an F-14 Tomcat.

"Cut! "

Ronald was also overwhelmed by the teasing.

After confirming that the play was fine, he grabbed McGillis's hand and walked outside.

McGillis staggered when he was pulled, "My shoes."

"It's okay, the assistant will take care of them."

Ronald simply bent down and grabbed McGillis' waist and carried her to the car.

When the car arrived at the hotel, McGillis took the initiative to hug Ronald. The two avoided the eyes of the waiter in the lobby and walked quickly into the elevator until they reached the room on the executive floor.

Ronald opened the door with the door card and walked in.

McGillis came in from behind and turned on the light. She stood on tiptoe barefoot. She was wearing a thick windbreaker and no shoes.

"Snap!" Ronald turned off the switch.

As the lights of the high-end area of ​​Chicago shone through the window at night, Ronald hugged McGillis and the two hugged each other tightly.

McGillis gently brushed Ronald's face with her fingertips.

There was another tingling feeling, and Ronald also put his hand into the windbreaker and wrapped it around her waist. She was still wearing the white shirt.

Wow, the windbreaker was squeezed out of McGillis' body by Ronald and fell to the ground.

Ronald also stroked McGillis' waist and back with his fingertips, and then his lips gently touched her neck and cheek.

"Hmm...ah..." Now McGillis also felt the electric shock-like feeling of skin separation.

Their lips pressed tightly together.

Ronald pressed the electric switch on the wall of the high-end hotel, and the curtains were slowly drawn.

There was only a dim floor lamp in the room, and two men and women kissing each other passionately.

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