Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Two days later, Patrick Swayze's ankle basically did not hinder him from filming dance scenes.

Ronald's budget began to run out, and the dance hall built in the hot spring resort hotel finally ushered in the last series of dance scenes.

Dr. Hausman was still angry with his youngest daughter Baby. On the last day of the Kellerman Resort Hotel, when the family attended the farewell party, Baby was still sitting alone in the corner, and Dr. Hausman didn't pay much attention to her.

Baby didn't say anything, looking at her sister Lisa who was singing on the stage.

Her lover Johnny had been fired, and his dancer friends were also deprived of the opportunity to perform on stage at every farewell party and could only stand in the back row of the ballroom to watch.

Baby sat in the corner of the round table, feeling depressed, and only her mother, the attentive Mrs. Hausman, checked on her from time to time.

"Summer is about to end, and autumn is about to begin.

Tonight, memories will rise again, floating in my heart..."

Ronald continued to shoot a few shots, and the doctor's eldest daughter Lisa and the hotel owner's son sang the last song of the holiday on the stage.

It was the theme song of the Kellerman Hotel in the script, "Kellerman's Happy Hour". The chorus composed of guests and staff sang very badly, especially Lisa, who sounded like a hen when a chicken was killed.

"Very good, you performed very well."

Ronald especially thanked Jane Brooke, who played Lisa. She has a good voice and can deliberately act as a tone-deaf girl, thanks to her solid foundation on Broadway.

After filming this movie, Ronald liked these Broadway actors more and more. They have solid basic skills and can play supporting roles very well. And they are not afraid of playing an unpleasant role. In their philosophy, they will not not act seriously just because a role is not good-looking.

So these actors can really make every supporting role convincing to the audience.

"Prepare for the next scene"

The camera turned and swept through the faces of those who played the hotel staff one by one, giving each person a half-second close-up.

This is a shot that was not in the script. Ronald added it to show everyone's reluctance to send off the guests during this year's holiday season.

Of course, the real reason was that Ronald wanted to give these supporting actors who played very good supporting roles a chance to show their faces.

All their previous scenes were at the edge of the scene, wearing waiter costumes and serving tea and water to people. Even if there were close-up shots, the focus of the audience's attention would not stay on them, but on the story of the protagonist.

However, these actors from Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway, even if they were human backgrounds and extras, acted very diligently and meticulously. The audience would never see them and think that they were not like waiters and were out of the play.

In order to thank these dedicated supporting actors, Ronald decided to give them a little reward at the end of the filming.

"Cut!"

"You acted very well, thank you... I like your smile very much, thank you... I will need you to cooperate with the last dance scene later, and it will be filmed very late..."

Ronald shook hands with them one by one and thanked them, which moved these extras very much.

Who doesn't know the value of a shot showing their faces? Being able to have a close-up on the screen can appear in the final subtitles. In the future, when agents help me find new jobs, they can add a line of film experience on the resume behind the audition photo.

"Ah!" The shooting continues

The waiter who played the role of getting Penny pregnant and then hooking up with Vivian, the wife of a wealthy businessman, walked in from the door.

Jerry Orbach, who played Dr. Hausman, stood up, called him, took out a check from his jacket pocket and handed it to him.

"Good luck in medical school, my child."

Dr. Hausman is a good man who believes in and practices the philosophy of President Kennedy.

"Don't ask what your country has done for you, ask what you have done for your country?"

So when Dr. Hausman saw this waiter, who had saved up tuition and could finally go to Yale Medical School, he admired him very much. He wrote a check to help the child's tuition.

"Thank you, and I also want to thank you for helping me with Penny's matter. She made a mess of us all."

The waiter knew that it was Dr. Hausman who helped solve the problem of Penny's surgery.

"What?" Dr. Hausman was shocked, frowning, and his expression changed from appreciation to doubt in a second.

"Ah?" The waiter didn't expect Dr. Hausman didn't know, "I thought Baby told you, ah, actually I'm not sure that it was... You know, a woman like Penny could be with anyone..."

Dr. Hausman's expression changed from doubt to disgust.

He grabbed the check that the other party hadn't put into his pocket yet, put it back into his pocket, and sat back in his seat.

"Cut!"

Ronald was enjoying watching it next to him. These old actors trained in Broadway were a piece of cake for this kind of play, and it was natural and smooth. The audience would like this role very much.

All groups began to move the equipment, and the focus turned to the entrance of the ballroom.

The plot was filmed here, and the story of the protagonist had sunk to the bottom, and the audience had to wait for a big explosion.

Don't be careful.

If it is filmed well, the audience can be pushed to the climax of the drama immediately.

"A!"

Two hours later, at a command, Johnny, Penny, and all the dancers appeared at the door in the long shot.

"Get ready for the next scene", waved his hand to stop everyone on the scene from clapping, and began to turn the camera to the door of the hall.

The next big scene might take a long time to shoot, so Ronald did not make these polite clappings, and took the time to shootnbsp;The lights in the room were bright, and several headlights were shone on the two doors.

A black shadow appeared outside the door, printed on the ivory curtain used to cover the glass on the door.

The door was suddenly opened, and Johnny, played by Patrick Swayze, appeared in the Kellerman Hotel again.

Standing at the back of the hall were dancers who were deprived of the right to perform. They greeted Johnny one by one, and the fat girl was still smiling. Everyone knew that Johnny and Baby were in a relationship, and they were all happy to see him come back.

"Cut!"

Ronald was very happy that this shot was shot according to his design. This was also his way of imitating the appearance of the villain played by William Dafoe in "Streets of Fire".

The audience all had a hope that Johnny and Baby would be lovers and finally get married. Now a black shadow appeared on the door, which was a foreshadowing.

Then the truth came out, and the audience's emotions, which had been suppressed by the previous scene of the two people's separation, began to rise rapidly after this clever turn.

All the ups and downs in the movie are for the final climax. This is the best way to reward the audience.

Johnny, who was wearing a black leather jacket and very handsome, looked around and finally found Baby in the corner.

He walked over and stood next to the table.

Baby found that her sweetheart had returned and was very happy.

"Cut!"

The crew began to reorganize the camera and prepared to push in for close-ups and close-ups.

While re-lighting, Patrick Swayze came over and said he wanted to talk to Ronald alone.

"What's wrong?" Ronald asked.

"I feel like this line is a little hard to say."

"What's so hard to say?"

Ronald knew that Sweets was talking about the line "Nobody put baby the er"

"Don't you think this is too childish? It sounds like something a middle school student would say to his prom partner."

Ronald stepped back, not expecting Patrick Sweets to be waiting for him here.

In fact, he was right. This line was said in imitation of the tone of those middle school students with excess hormones at the prom.

"Johnny is a mature and sophisticated dancer. It's very inappropriate for him to say this. I think he should be a man who can say something more mature, like 'Baby, you're here.'"

"Eleanor," Ronald didn't argue with him. He turned around and called the screenwriter Eleanor. Let's see how she convinces this single-eyed actor she loves.

In fact, Ronald understands Sweets's dilemma.

This sentence is indeed very much like the childish language of a ninth-grade student, but this movie is originally a cool movie for teenage girls. Doesn't this kind of confession just hit their hearts?

Patrick Swayze may be afraid that this iconic sentence will be very contagious, and this line may follow him for a long time in the future. He is already in his thirties. If he says this childish ninth-grade language and is remembered by the audience, how can he get the leading role in a serious big production in the future?

"Patrick, you don't understand the minds of us women. Especially the minds of high school graduates. This sentence is better than any love words. After the lover left, he couldn't let go of me and came back to invite me to dance the last dance. He also said this, making me the focus of the ball. Who can resist this moment?"

Eleanor was anxious. How could she change the lines of this girlish dream she had? This is the most important line of all the lines. Wasn't her girlish dream back then that her sweetheart would come to save her and become the queen of the ball?

"But I can't say that." Patrick Swayze is 34 after all, and this line is really...

"Let's do this, shoot one according to Eleanor's idea, and then shoot one according to your idea, and let's see which one works better."

Ronald came out to smooth things over.

This is a trick that directors often use. Actors are a group of emotional people. Sometimes they are emotional and they will stick to a certain idea on the spot, which is difficult to convince on the spot.

But as time goes by, they can often understand why the director wanted them to do this at the time.

But Ronald couldn't wait until Swayze figured it out before shooting, so he had to coax him to shoot two times. At that time, which one to use in the later stage will be decided by the editor.

An actor of Swayze's status can't go into the editing room to see his own shots.

"Okay, I'll try both."

"No one can keep baby in the corner." Johnny said to baby with bold words, and then raised his hand to invite baby to go up and dance with him.

"You..." Dr. Hausman was about to get angry when he saw Johnny ignoring that he was still next to his daughter.

Johnny and Baby walked toward the stage together. Dr. Hausman also stood up and tried to stop them. Fortunately, Mrs. Hausman realized that the two were just going to dance, not elope. She also stood up and held her husband back.

“Cut!”

Ronald laughed. Although Sweets was embarrassed when he said it, as if he had eaten something disgusting, from the perspective of an observer, the effect was very good. Teenage female audiences will definitely like it.