Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 17 Watch the demo

   Samples are the results of daily shooting, which are printed. Ungraded, unedited original look. At this moment, a slate appeared on the screen and slapped it. This is Jenny playing the board, Ronald thought to himself.

   The first scene was shot by directors Allen and Joe. In the end, no one called to stop for a long time. Day Yang looked at the camera in a playful manner, and Ronald shouted Cut! The voice was also projected.

Immediately after that, Ronald took the second shot. After a slap of the board, the picture was similar to the previous one. It was Kate played by Day Young. When the football team passed by, he was scared half back by the muscular man. step, the expression is also more real.

  It wasn't just Ronald feeling good about himself, he heard Julie, the proprietress in the front row, say, "The second rule is better."

  The next is the principal, threatening the students to kill the chickens to show the monkeys, and everyone ran away.

After the    down-motion filming, it was played at normal speed, and the group performers quickly fled the playground in a weird motion like the silent film actors in the early days, colliding and dodging in the middle, and some screamed.

   "That's a good one." Director Joe Dante was speaking. Roger in the front row turned back and asked, "Is this what you came up with, or did Alan set it?"

   "It was Jim's idea to downgrade, and I came up with making them run in the opposite direction," Ronald replied.

   "Oh, that's interesting..." Roger wanted to continue, and with a thud, he began to play the third line. Everyone looked back.

  …

   In the dark screening room, Ronald couldn't see everyone's expressions, but from the low voice, it seemed that the feedback was not bad.

  In the scene of the two beauties dancing, the Jerry Zack yelled "Whoa" and then whistled loudly.

  Roger turned back and asked, "This is what I saw yesterday? These two dancing girls are very photogenic and dance well."

   "This is Siana, the dance finger. I found it from the group performance of Van Nuys High School. I think they have a good image, so I gave them a close-up shot, and there is a side medium shot of the two of them in the back."

  The next one is the shot of the actor Tom coming out of the building and walking all the way to the dining table in the crowd to eat breakfast. Roger Coleman couldn't sit still anymore, and turned his head and said, "This is really a genius shot. The loneliness in the crowd directly conveys a feeling of alienation. How did you do it?"

   "I kept the hero Vincent in the center of the picture, but deliberately walked half a beat slower, not at the same pace as the others..."

  …

   The demo was shown very quickly. After the shot of Liv Randall and Kate Rambo walking towards the grass together in the sunset, the screening room cut off the screen and turned on the overhead light again.

  Roger Coleman looks in a good mood. Joe Dante came over to hug Ronald on purpose, "Good shot, good boy." He patted him on the back.

   "Thanks, Joe."

   "Which university's film school did you graduate from, Ronald? Your name is Ronald, right?" That Jerry also came over and asked.

   "Me? I didn't go to film school, I graduated from high school." Ronald was a little strange, why Jerry would talk to him.

"What? Graduated high school, you must be kidding. Was your high school art teacher Spielberg? Or did you get Francis Coppola's sister in high school? Or was your grandfather John Ford? "

   Jerry Zucker named all the famous directors. Ronald didn't know for a moment whether he was jokingly complimenting him or sarcastically.

   "I'm joking." Jerica explained when Ronald was most embarrassed, and then began to say the joke:

   "To be honest, did your dad buy you a Super8 camera? You've been making small movies since the 8th grade? Let the cheerleader from the school go to your house to shoot? Hahahahaha."

  Super8 is a home camera produced by Kodak, which uses Kodak's film film. Not counting the camera, a roll of film cost $5, and Aunt Karen couldn't afford it.

   Ronald replied "No, I didn't..."

"Hahaha, I see, your house must have a movie theater, and you sell tickets at the door. Two tickets, two Pepsi, a bucket of popcorn, salty, five dollars and fifty-eight, your change, sir ." Jerry Zucker is very good at grabbing the conversation, making jokes, if you feel that you are offended by him, just come and say I'm joking.

   Ronald was interrupted a few times when he was about to speak, feeling a little blood rushing up. Jerry Zucker not only retreated sharply, but also had a buck tooth. He walked up to Ronald and threw another joke.

Ronald became annoyed and didn't want to talk to him anymore, but Jerry got more and more excited, and he bowed his back with a smile, "Hahaha, you know, I'm going to tell you a funny thing, hahaha... ", saying that he was going to hook Ronald on the shoulder.

  Ronald felt a humming sound, and the blood rushed to the top of his head through the dynamic pulse behind his ear. He instinctively reached out to block Jerry's hand, and then stepped in and gave him a hard blow.

   Fortunately, reason prevailed and the wrestler's instincts were controlled. Others only saw Ronald holding Jerry's hand, not letting him hook his shoulders. Only Ronald's ears turned red.

  The proprietress Julie Coleman couldn't stand it anymore, came over to make a clearance, and separated him and Jerry. "The filming is very good. I haven't seen such a great new director for a long time. The last time I was a producer for Martin Scorsese, when I filmed "The Human Torch". He is like you. It's a beautiful storyboard."

   Ronald was a little embarrassed by Julie's praise, and said quickly, "Thank you, Mrs. Coleman. You are too good."

   "When we finish watching the rest of the demos, come to the president's office and Roger wants to talk to you." Julie whispered.

   Julie glanced at Roger Coleman, who was whispering to the producer again. Julie patted Ronald on the shoulder and motioned for him and Jim to go out first, as they were still discussing the dailies taken two days ago. These discussions were inconvenient for Ronald and Jim to sit in.

  Ronald and Jim, opened the door of the theater and walked out. Gail sneaked out too, turned around and jammed the door with his feet, and whispered, "Ronnie, Julie likes you very much. If you want to put your name on the subtitles, her opinion is very important."

   Ronald made a gesture of thanks, and Gale turned back in. Ronald looked at Jim and touched his chin: "It seems like our dailies are not bad?"

"Yeah, I think it's very good," Jim nodded. "I didn't expect that in the picture you took, an ordinary main shot could also convey a kind of emotion to the audience. I have to think about it. Kubrick back then That’s how the movie shocked me.”

   "Roger seems to be very satisfied with the two of us, maybe let us do some new jobs", the two walked out of the office together and chatted in the yard.

   "Have you decided what to do?"

   "I have always been interested in film stunts, and I like to think about the stunt shooting method of '2001 A Space Odyssey'. I heard that director Kubrick built a Ferris wheel to shoot the weightless scene."

Jim said here, suddenly turning to a very small voice and saying: "Gail told me that Roger might be making a big sci-fi film next year, and he was stimulated by the success of 'Star Wars'. I want to go to that group. stunt design."

   "Really? Does the movie have an eye for it?" Ronald was very happy for Jim, his dream was to make a science fiction movie.

   "I heard that it is a sci-fi version of the 'Seven Samurai', which remakes the story of Akira Kurosawa into a Star Wars background."

   "Kurosawa Akira? Seven Samurai?" Ronald looked blank.

Jim looked at him and knew that he had not seen this classic film by a famous Dongying director, "Have you seen 'Magnificent Seven'? The theme song of the Marlboro cigarette commercial was used in this film. "

   "I've seen this one. Pep-puff, pee-puff, pee-pump-pump-pump-puff." Ronald hummed the theme song.

   "Yes, the heroic seven dragons are the remake of the Seven Samurai, and we will also make a remake." Jim took out a cigarette and lit it, "Would you like one too?"

"no, thank you."

   "What about you? Have you decided what to do?"

   "I will be the stills photographer for the Rock High School crew first. The stills I take can be placed in my photography studio in the future."

   "Okay, then we'll take a photo together and call Gale."

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