Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Patrick Swayze's agent received the news from Ronald, and he immediately arranged for this client who was always not popular to meet Ronald.

"Patrick, you are already 33 years old. You finally have a movie with a leading actor, and a popular director like Ronald called you. Don't give up the opportunity again."

"I didn't give up the opportunity. I just don't want to dance anymore. I don't want to limit my career to dance-related roles."

"Patrick, your idea is good, but the premise of having such a good idea is that you must have a career first."

"Why don't I..."

"I know, I know, you played in Coppola's "The Little Rascals" and John Milius's "Red Dawn". Not to mention that the box office of these two movies was not satisfactory, there was no special praise from the critics.

Even if these two movies are extremely successful, don't forget that you are only one of the four or five leading actors.

Don't hesitate, go ahead, play to your strengths, and become a big star first..."

The agent pointed out Sweets' weaknesses in a few words. It seems that he has some representative works, and some people in the industry appreciate his acting skills, but the audience still can't recognize him when they see him, let alone call his name.

"Patrick, long time no see, how are you now?"

Ronald saw Sweets and happily hugged him and greeted him.

"My wife Lisa and I have bought a five-acre piece of land on the edge of the Los Angeles National Forest. We have a house, a small ranch, and a few dogs. It was bought with my salary and Lisa's record income. It's not very big."

"Oh, I didn't expect you to be married."

"Many years ago, I knew her when I was eighteen." Sweets looked sweet when he talked about his wife.

"High school sweetheart? Huh?"

"She was a student in my mother's ballet training class when she was only fourteen years old."

"Oh? So why did you say you can't dance on your resume?" Ronald asked. I think Sweets is ready to give himself an explanation.

"It's a long story. I injured my ankle, so I can't be a professional dancer anymore..."

"Besides that, are there any other reasons?" Ronald didn't believe this reason. Sweets is an old actor who has acted in several movies. He must know that there is a lot of time to rest during the filming of the movie, and he will not do continuous movements that challenge the ankle injury.

"Well, you know, I grew up in Texas when I was a child. So it is not so friendly to boys who dance ballet there."

"Ah... then what do you do?"

"What else can I do? Just fight. They come to laugh at me, I laugh back, they fight, I fight back. I also learned wrestling to win."

"Interesting, I joined the wrestling team in high school for similar reasons."

"Oh, we have a chance to play together..."

Patrick Swayze laughed.

Ronald understood the real reason why Swayze didn't want to dance in the movie. He didn't want to evoke the memory of being laughed at by his high school classmates in Texas for being a sissy who danced ballet.

But at this point, Swayze also saw the general plot of the script, and he had no reason to refuse this job.

"Great, you will fascinate those girls in their teens and early twenties." After Ronald asked Swayze to do a few movements, he immediately confirmed that he was a professional.

"But before that, I have to take you to meet the screenwriter. I promised Eleanor that I would let her see the role before deciding on the candidate."

"Ronald, where did you find this single-eyed hunk? Didn't he say he couldn't dance?"

"I think it's easy to find him. He said he used to be a ballet dancer, but he didn't want to play a dancing role because of an ankle injury. I don't quite believe it. Why don't you try him?"

"Hi, Patrick. I'm screenwriter Eleanor." Eleanor, a middle-aged woman, actually showed a little shyness on her face.

"Dirtydang was what we called it at that time. It was actually a general term for many Latin dance moves, many knee and hip moves, and a combination of many mambo moves."

"Ma'am, I know what dirtydang means." Sweets remained polite. He knew that Ronald had already started the audition.

"Let me explain to you, maybe the Jewish dance is different from yours..."

Eleanor went forward and hugged Sweets, then put his arm around her waist, and then pressed her body tightly against Sweets, "I turn my hips like this, you turn that way, and then continue the mambo dance..."

"That's it, that's it, when I was sixteen, I danced this kind of dance with those partners in the basement. Let's do it again, this time change the moves..."

"Oh, you dance really well, my feeling is right, single eyelids, black hair men are the most handsome, the most manly..."

"Okay, okay, let Patrick go, he has been dancing with you for fifteen minutes."

Patrick Schwitz, who had been observing Eleanor's performance for a long time, took the opportunity to take advantage of him, and so far everything has been good.

The male lead in the script is a man who is very confident in dancing, and the female lead Baby is a female client who is not very good at dancing but has great potential. Johnny treats Baby in this way. He despises her dancing ability and wants to teach her, but he also respects the clients of the resort and is afraid of angering her and losing his job.

Ronald deliberately said that Eleanor has a lot of power in casting. This scene is similar to Johnny's mood in the script. So far, Patrick's performance has been very good.

He saw that Eleanor didn't want to get off Sweets and felt that it was almost time, so he stopped the interview.

"Patrick, I fell in love with your photo at first sight. You said you can't dance, but it made me sad for a long time. You have to compensate me."

"Oh, Darling, you flatter me." Patrick kissed her on the face and quickly separated from Eleanor.

"Are you satisfied? Eleanor, now we need to select the female lead and the second female lead." Ronald said to Sweets, "You need to cooperate. I want to see your chemistry with the female lead Baby, and your feeling with your dance partner. You need to be in sync with each other in dancing. You will have a long rehearsal afterwards."

"Ok, I will be there on time."

...

For the last round of female lead auditions, Ronald still went to the venue of "The Nanny Adventures". There are also advantages to auditioning with two crews.

The number of roles in "Dirty Dancing" is much more than that in "The Nanny Adventures". The Nanny Adventures is actually just an adventure of a family from 6 pm to midnight, and there are at most ten people in each scene.

In addition to several large-scale dances, "Dirty Dancing" also has many group scenes in resorts, all involving many supporting roles. Ronald picked up several supporting roles from the actors eliminated by Touchstone.

The audition room was covered with carpet, a bed was moved in, and several hangers were added. This is the opening scene of "The Babysitter" brought to the audition room.

"Then he kissed" rang out with a penetrating voice. Valerie Bertinelli started the performance first.

She wore a red T-shirt and lip-synced to this song about a girl looking forward to her boyfriend.

Ronald looked funny. She had a strong body and a thick chin. If there was anything that matched the movie character Chris, it was that she would definitely dare to fight with gangsters.

But movies are not reality. This chin deducted a lot from her, and she lost a lot of the soft lines of women. However, if he and Eddie Van Halen had a son, he would definitely inherit this chin. If it was a boy, it would be the foundation of a handsome guy.

"What do you think?" The female producer looked over and asked Ronald's opinion.

"She sings and dances well, what do you think, Chris?" Ronald handed the right to ask questions to director Columbus.

"Um, Valerie, your role is a girl next door. She has no concert or live training, so she is just a little girl imitating Madonna, using the bed board at home as a stage, the bedpost as a microphone, and the curtain as a wedding dress.

You act too much like a professional rock singer, do you understand what I mean?"

"Oh, I understand," Valerie Bertinelli looked at the female producer eagerly.

"Do you want to do it again?" Ronald simply spoke up to help her. It seems that Valerie's understanding is not very good, and doing it again will not affect Elizabeth Shue.

"Thank you, I don't need to rest."

Valerie calmed down and did it again. It was better than the first time, but the audience couldn't feel that they liked her immediately. This is the important role of the opening scene.

"We will notify your agent if there is any news, next one." Chris Columbus decisively called Elizabeth Shue in.

"Please start," the producer went to rewind the tape and replayed the episode.

"He came up to me and asked if I wanted to dance.

He looked nice, so I said I could try.

When he danced, he held me tight.

When he walked me home that night, all the stars were shining.

Then he kissed me."

When Elizabeth Shue played the girl who dominated, her charm was extremely powerful. The way she danced at home was even crazier than Tom Cruise's imitation show in "Good Boys".

She jumped on the bed board and held the bedpost as if she was really imitating a singer in a concert. When she jumped down with a curtain wedding dress and a photo of a man on the table, her movements were also in place.

The audience must think that she is Chris Parker, a beautiful girl from the neighbor's house who came to work as a nanny.

"What do you think?" Ronald looked at Sue after the music stopped, and then asked the female producer Deborah Hill.

"The performance says it all."

"Yeah?"

Elizabeth Shue seemed to understand what the producer meant, but she was still a little unconvinced.

"Go back and wait for the agent to call." Ronald smiled and gave her a wink.

Sue jumped out.

"Are you really not going to play a cameo role in the movie?" Producer Deborah had just placed a photo of Ronald on the dressing table as a boyfriend photo. If Ronald could come to play the heroine's ex-boyfriend, a two-timing villain, it would definitely add a lot of topics to the movie.

"No, I have two projects in progress. 'Dirty Dancing' is the project I invested in. It's hard to find a director now. Maybe I have to direct it myself. I may not have time." Ronald declined the invitation to guest star.

Adrian Ryan liked the script very much. He said it was not an ordinary musical, but a movie that reflected the trend of the times. It was very cutting-edge even today.

But when it came to the salary, Adrian Ryan could not compromise. In the "Fatal Attraction" crew, the high salary was given.\u003e What's more, Ronald's proposal to reduce the salary and give him a share of the director's share seemed a bit like a liar in this film project that was not released by the seven majors.

"Our big company's process will be longer. You may have finished your movie, and we have just started. Come and see when the time comes. Maybe you can just guest star in a role." Producer Deborah is still working hard. If she can't play the scumbag boyfriend, she can play someone else.

"Okay, I'll go back to Toronto to visit the set. Columbus, you have to relax with me when the time comes. I'm still a novice in film acting."

"The Nanny Adventures" has confirmed the heroine, and the next step is a long preparatory period, including determining the set, stunt plan, etc.

After they left, Ronald quickly called his staff to come in.

Put away the beds and hangers, and move in a few large mirrors, and arrange the audition venue to look like a dance studio.

Although "Dirty Dancing" is a small project, there is no shortage of actresses to audition when selecting the heroine.

As a Jewish story, the heroine Ronald can't let other ethnic groups play Jews.

On the one hand, they don't have the typical Jewish nose, and on the other hand, Ronald is afraid that the Jewish gang will gossip again.

In the Hollywood entertainment industry, many Jewish girls, who look ordinary, are full of confidence and feel that they can try to enter the entertainment industry under the care of Jews.

So many girls with big noses came.

Many people have a good foundation in dancing, and many have even performed in Broadway musicals.

But Ronald was not here to select the next Barbara Streisand. He didn't want Barbara who was good at singing and dancing, but a girl who didn't know how to dance, was well-educated, but was very interested in the "dirty dance" that only teenagers who were "bad" in her father's eyes danced.

"Next."

Ronald sighed and sent the big-nosed girl away under the gaze of the union representative.

"Go in, be good."

"I'm a little nervous, Dad. I see that they are all good dancers, but I can't dance, and you didn't teach me when I was a child."

"Go, you are my daughter, and you must have a good talent for dancing. I don't teach you because dancing is too hard, and I don't want my daughter to follow my path again.

And I know through my connections that the protagonist of this movie is not a good dancer, and you might be just the right person."

"Okay, then I'll go."

"Who's next?" Screenwriter Eleanor looked at the audition list, "The next one is Jennifer Grey."

"Here I come..." Jennifer Grey said goodbye to her father and walked in through the door.

"She is Baby," screenwriter Eleanor whispered in Ronald's ear.

"Why?" Ronald was puzzled. He had dreamed of the clips played by Gray, and Eleanor seemed to be more confident than him.

"The Baby I wrote is the father's good girl. She was sent by her father just outside the door, and she looked at her father when she entered the door. The mood of the character is very similar."

"Hello, Jennifer." Ronald greeted Gray.

"Hello, Ronald... No, I mean Mr. Li." Jennifer Gray raised her hand to wave to Ronald, but put it down when she felt it was inappropriate.

"Very good, and Baby's personality is too similar." Eleanor began to whisper again.

Ronald asked Gray to shoot a few scenes, and then said to her,

"Okay, stop here today, we will notify you if we have news."

"Why, don't you like her? She is really suitable." Eleanor is still trying hard to promote.

"In fact, I have been convinced by you to select her for the second round. The main thing is to see her chemistry with the male lead."

"The second round is to audition with the male lead, right? Who are the candidates?" The union representative came over and asked Ronald.

"There are Patrick Swayze and Billy Zane. I know the rules." Ronald patted the union representative on the shoulder.

Ronald's next round of auditions, Swayze, the first choice for the male lead, and Zane, the backup, came together. The union rules still had to be followed.