Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Lynn will need to stay in the hospital for a long time. She needs surgical treatment and a period of hospitalization for observation." On-site manager Eddie came back from the hospital and poured tap water warmed by the sun on his face for a long time.

"It's a good thing you bought insurance for everyone on the crew." Ronald took out two bottles of Coke from the refrigerator, threw one to Eddie, and then opened it with a sneer and drank it.

Medical bills are expensive, and when you add in the cost of an ambulance, the numbers on the bill can be dizzying. Fortunately, the crew bought insurance for everyone, plus Lynne's own medical insurance paid by the Screen Actors Guild. The crew didn't have to pay too much extra costs for this accident, and most of it was covered by the insurance.

"I feel that the weather in recent years has been very abnormal. I asked the hotel attendant that I could already wear a coat at this time in previous years. But it just fits the time in the movie when the story takes place in the summer."

Eddie drank the iced Coke and sighed with satisfaction, "Ronald, I think we need to recruit an on-site doctor for the crew. You still have several group scenes. If one or two actors suffer from heat stroke by then, you will be in trouble." ”

"Let's hire someone. Find one that suits you." Ronald sighed. All kinds of accidents would eventually become reasons for overspending. The reserve funds in the account are quickly being consumed by various unexpected things.

The on-site doctor, who was originally only needed for filming dangerous scenes, was actually unnecessary in this musical. But with weather approaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), people are still worried.

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"cut!"

Ronald stopped the filming.

As soon as Jennifer Gray heard the cut, she immediately turned around and walked straight to the lounge without talking to her co-star Patrick Swayze.

Ronald looked at Sweets. He shrugged and shook his head to himself, saying that he didn't know what was going on.

"What the fuck happened? Is it too hot?"

Ronald picked up a bottle of water, poured it into his mouth, and then poured some on his neck and chest.

The weather was frighteningly hot, and coupled with the baking from the indoor lights, it was a full 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius), and I was almost scorched.

It's even worse for the actors who are being roasted by the big lights. Ronald tested it with a thermometer and found it was over 110 degrees Fahrenheit (44 degrees Celsius).

After resting for ten minutes, Ronald asked his assistant to call Jennifer Gray.

"Here he comes, hey, don't bother me, don't rush me." Gray walked out of the lounge, with a don't mess with me expression on his face, and stood at the starting position angrily.

"a!"

The filming went relatively smoothly this time. After the filming, Jennifer walked up to Ronald and asked, "Director, how did my filming go?"

"Very good, very good this time. To be on the safe side, I want you to change your performance to another one, and use... to express your yearning and enthusiasm for dance."

"Okay...I'm going to rest first."

After Gray and Ronald exchanged words, he pointed the back of his head at Sweets and walked back to rest.

By noon, Ronald realized that things were going badly. The male and female protagonists only have eye contact during filming. Before and after the filming, they were unwilling to look at each other and left immediately after filming.

The scene here at Mountain Lake Villa was easy to handle, but when it came to North Carolina, there were many intimate scenes between the two of them. Such an atmosphere would never be possible.

"Is Sweets' wife gone?"

Ronald asked screenwriter Eleanor.

"Already gone, I sent you to the airport."

Sweets's song was chosen for the movie, and his wife stayed one night before heading back to Los Angeles.

"I thought Jennifer would be professional enough, eh..."

Ronald felt depressed. If I had known better, I wouldn't have let Sweets' wife send me the demo of the episode.

What to do now?

The heroine must be coaxed before the transition to North Carolina.

"How about I temporarily lift the prohibition on contact between actors and actresses?"

Ronald asked Eleanor.

"Isn't this... unfair to other actors? And what you did was too obvious."

Ronald was talking about the ban he issued on actors and actresses not to have physical contact.

The key to the success or failure of this movie lies in the chemical reaction between the dance partners when the protagonists dance the mambo. Many times, the sexual tension between men and women needs to be seen in the camera.

Both parties were in love with each other, and their hearts were full of longing, but they could not get relief. At this time, the hormones of both parties will make both parties full of desire for what is to come.

The mambo danced with this desire is the original meaning of "dirty dancing", which uses the body instead of words to flirt between men and women.

This desire will be captured in the camera. When the audience sees it on the screen, the special instincts of young men and women will make them immediately discover the unusual ambiguity in the process. That’s one of the movie’s big selling points.

All people, especially young people, crave romantic love and physical involvement.

All actors and actresses are allowed to have this sexual tension in order to be in front of the camera.

On the one hand, Ronald agreed and even encouraged that every night, all the actors had a dance party and disco in the hall, accumulating the attraction between men and women.

But on the other hand, he strictly prohibited any contact between men and women, including hugging and kissing.

The hormones that are aroused by the dance every day will gradually accumulate in the body, but they cannot be released. Finally, they reach a peak and are released in the dance shots.

However, there is a knot between Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze. Ronald is worried that they have not been able to get along well by the time of the transition, so he wants to take advantage of the time to temporarily relax the ban on them and let them regain the intimate feeling during the audition.

"Your idea is good, but too direct. This is a natural process. If you do it too deliberately, it will be difficult for Jennifer to regain her feelings with Patrick in public."

Screenwriter Eleanor understands girls' minds very well, especially Jewish girls. They grew up in a slightly conservative and closed environment, and they are more reserved about such things.

"What you said makes sense. Let's watch while shooting."

Ronald put the annoying things aside and continued to direct the shooting.

"All guests, please spread out and leave the center for Patrick and Cynthia. They will show the highest skills of ballroom dancing. All actors must leave enough space for them to perform. Please look at the signs on the ground."

Ronald sat on the big jib and directed the scene with the director of photography.

Johnny and Penny were hired by the resort hotel to dance with people in theory. They not only have to show fun dances to make guests interested. They also have to be their dance teachers. For guests who are particularly generous, they have to dance with them and be professional male or female dancers.

The scene shot tonight is the first time the two showed their abilities in front of Houseman and other guests.

"Dong... Dongdong..."

The unique rhythm of the mambo dance sounded, and the guests were chatting in groups. The actor who played the hotel owner was introducing the two performers to everyone.

The camera moved along the line of sight and began to shoot the professional dancing of Sweets and Cynthia, while taking in the lively scene in the lobby of the resort villa.

This is the first big scene after the opening, and it is also a scene that sets the tone of the movie. It is also a scene that makes Baby discover the charm of dancers and has the idea of ​​replacing Penny and becoming Johnny's partner.

"Who is that?" Jennifer Grey plays Baby, and her partner is the son of the owner of the resort hotel.

"Ah, the dancers. They are here to make the guests happy."

"Cut!"

After filming the scene where Baby secretly looks at Johnny, Jennifer Grey immediately turns her head back and doesn't look at Schweitzer.

"Make way for a circle..."

Ronald didn't have time to solve Grey's problem. He directed all the extras to form a circle and make room in the middle for Patrick and Cynthia to perform.

Cynthia Rhodes wore a specially made dance costume, pink, with some thin straps tied on the back.

The two danced very well. Schweitzer's steps were powerful, and Cynthia's high heels, driven by the knee movements, were like a model's catwalk, very powerfully inserted into the ground.

A hook-hand spin, the skirt fluttered. Then a show-off high leg lift, the guests who were also dancing the mambo in a circle around her exclaimed.

"Cut!"

Ronald called Sweets over, "Turn down the difficulty a bit. Johnny, who you play, has not received professional dance training. He is a wild artist and can't dance as well as you."

"Okay," Sweets made an OK gesture, then raised his hand to ask Cynthia to continue. The two tried to dance for a while, and Ronald nodded to indicate that it was okay.

"Why don't you ask Cynthia to turn down the difficulty too?" Sweets looked at Ronald and joked.

"Beautiful girls are not bound by constraints," Ronald smiled and nodded to Cynthia.

What a joke, he still had to rely on Cynthia's charming figure to sell tickets.

"Well..." Cynthia Rhodes' eyes shone. The movie "Dragon Flying and Phoenix Dance" in which she played the leading role before did not earn her resources. Although she was the second female lead this time, she got this opportunity to show herself to her heart's content.

"A!"

The two continued to dance the Mambo. The camera was aimed at them, and the crowd automatically dispersed, forming a circle around them.

All the audience, the focus of their attention, would be gathered on them.

Cynthia turned several circles in a row, then turned her back to Sweets, and the two showed several moves.

"Switch, switch..."

Under the strong drum beats, Cynthia raised one leg high, raised it above her head, and then placed it on Sweets' shoulders.

Sweets took her leg and stepped back. This gesture made the surrounding crowd exclaim.

The drum beats started to speed up again, and the camera suddenly pushed closer to Cynthia, and the lens became a close-up of her alone.

Cynthia turned several more times and moved towards the middle of the hall. The camera captured her graceful dance tightly, and her skirt flew up like a peacock opening its screen.

She turned back again, jumped, and got on Sweets' shoulders.

Sweets held Cynthia up, letting her head hang down like a beautiful swallow, with her arms spread out like the wings of a swallow. This thrilling action caused the crowd to exclaim again.

"Cut!"

After another dance, Cynthia's forehead was already sweating, and Ronald personally brought her a towel and ice water.

"It's too hot, ask the assistant to bring more ice cubes, I'm afraid someone will get heatstroke." Ronald told his assistant Emil.

"Okay," Emil went to make arrangements.

"Ronald...director...how was my acting?" Cynthia asked Ronald.

Cynthia stopped and began to sweat. Her face was very beautiful. She didn't put on too much makeup under the sweat, but under the strong light, she was still a very outstanding beauty in the camera frame.

"Very good, you and Patrick cooperated very well. Patrick, well done."

Patrick Swayze turned his head quickly.

Ronald took a look and saw Jennifer Grey waiting to take the next shot.

Swayze was so angry with Grey's behavior that she ignored Jennifer. After taking her own shot, she turned around and left.

"Oh, shxt!" Ronald covered his head.

"Uh, Ronald, don't be angry, they just haven't grown up and are angry with each other." Cynthia came to comfort him.

"It's okay, your face is sweaty." Ronald picked up the towel and wiped her twice. He found that the action seemed too ambiguous, so he handed the towel back to Cynthia.

"Ahem, let's prepare for the next shot."

The camera was turned over, and the same music sounded, this time it was filming Baby and her dance partner, the son of the hotel owner.

"Uh, they shouldn't show off their skills. Who would buy their dance lessons if they did? They can't learn anyway." The son of the hotel owner is also a Jewish actor, with a typical Jewish nose and a very convincing businessman's words.

The camera slowly shifted over and filmed Baby next to him.

Then it slowly zoomed in.

Jennifer Grey looked at the camera, and behind her was the back of Patrick Swayze.

Her eyes flashed, and her expression seemed to have discovered something extraordinary.

Baby saw Johnny and Penny's dance, and she was envious and wanted to dance that exciting dance with Johnny herself.

"Cut!"

Ronald looked at Jennifer Grey's performance, which was very outstanding. Her expression when looking at the camera was like a girl falling in love for the first time. It was the first time she chased an idol and wanted to replace the actress next to the idol.

"It seems that there is still a chemical reaction, but she was just angry and jealous for a while and didn't want to talk." Ronald thought to himself.

"Bang", a loud noise came from behind Ronald. He turned around and saw an old lady fainted on the ground.

"Doctor, where is the doctor?"

Ronald cursed in his heart, this is another accident.

The doctor invited by Eddie, who is resident in the crew, quickly walked to the front, loosened the collar of the old lady extras, and then felt her body temperature.

"Quickly bring ice cubes..." the doctor shouted.

In such hot weather, the air conditioner cannot be turned on when filming a movie, which will disrupt the operation of the camera. The old lady has heatstroke.

"She is in good condition, but the shooting site is too hot. The lights on make the temperature on the scene feel more than 115 degrees Fahrenheit. But I have to send her to the hospital for infusion, otherwise she may develop fatal heat stroke."

The doctor sent the old lady who played a supporting role to the car and drove down the mountain.

"Put more ice cubes and more iced drinks, so that there will be no more heatstroke on the set." Ronald hurried to make up for the loss and ordered his assistants to purchase another batch of iced drinks from the hotel.

"That's a lot of money. The iced drinks in the hotel are not cheap."

Thinking of filming at night, Ronald felt a pang of pain. The filming was a bit overspent.