Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 195 There is nothing between me and Calvin

   "No, it has nothing to do with them." Brooke Xiaosi glanced at the director and slowly stopped sobbing. Mother Terry also came over and hugged her tightly to comfort her.

   "Make-up artist, where's the make-up artist? Emergency!" Ronald saw that the situation didn't get worse, and immediately arranged for the make-up artist to deal with it.

   Crying not only ruined the makeup, but also caused Brooke's eyes to be slightly red and swollen. The makeup artist dealt with it urgently, but also waited for Brooke's eyes to return to normal before continuing to shoot.

   "Half an hour break." After Ronald announced loudly, he began to discuss countermeasures with the team.

"What's the problem?"

   "Ronald, Brooke is a child model and she's used to it," Spike said.

"Yes, she's very good at giving the smile you want, 100%, 80%, 50%, very skilled. But that's for stills, moving images need real emotion-driven smiles. She didn't Training, not very good." Katherine added.

   "So I wanted to use a joke to make her laugh, but I didn't expect it to be counterproductive," Ronald said helplessly, "I understand that the joke is not funny, what's the reason for crying?"

   "Do you have a younger sister?" Spike thought for a while and said, "If you are strict with them and they can't meet them, there will be a lot of pressure."

   "I noticed she looked her mother Terry twice before she cried," Katherine said. "Will there be some mother-daughter conflict?"

   "Okay, I'll discuss it with Terry first," Ronald said.

"Ronald, sometimes being a director needs to be unscrupulous. I don't think you can just encourage and guide actors. Just like a child needs some encouragement." Spike Lee took Ronald and stretched out his finger to do it. A slow twitching gesture.

   "What do you mean?" Ronald was puzzled.

   At the same time, the three men watching the filming on the second floor were also chatting about this cry.

"It looks like the young director screwed things up. Calvin, as I said earlier, art is secondary, creativity is important, you should have let Richard try it." The bald man said to Calvin Klein said.

   "What do you think, Richard?" Calvin Klein asked the silent photographer Richard Avedon.

"I don't understand why Brooke is crying?" Richard Avedon is a long-established master of portrait photography. Since he didn't shoot this commercial from the beginning, it was the first time he tried moving image shooting in his life, and he also Disdain to take over the mess of young Ronald, "It's not easy to make people cry quickly."

   "Ha", Calvin Klein laughed, "What do you think? David?"

  The half-bald man is David Geffen, who just came back from retirement. Diagnosed with a terminal illness in 1977, he announced his retirement from his own company, Shelter Records, and taught music classes at Yale for a time.

   During the follow-up visit this year, the hospital using the new equipment declared that the previous diagnosis was a misdiagnosis. Geffen, who was declared healthy, made a quick comeback from retirement to start Geffen Records.

   The first artist to sign was black disco singer Donna Summer. And let her new album, and the best hits of old songs from Casablanca Records, won the competition of Summer against Summer on the charts, and thus became famous.

   He and these fashion people often socialize together, attracting the attention of a large number of musicians. He also urged several real estate developers to close down Club 54 after everyone was jailed, to re-create a shrine for New York artists.

  The social life has brought him great rewards. The former Beatles frontman John Lennon has a good impression of him, and more importantly, his Eastern wife Yoko Ono also recognized him.

   Lennon will soon be signed to release his long-awaited new album, although Lennon, a convert to mysticism, refuses to let any record company hear the full album before signing.

  Geffen looked at the crowd walking down below, "Maybe Richard is right, the young director seems to have figured out a way."

  Ronald temporarily rejected Spike's offer, arranging for someone to tickle in the back. Let's talk to Terry first.

   "Terry, what kind of jokes does Brooke usually laugh at?"

   Brooke's mother, Terry, was a little anxious. Her daughter went to the dressing room to touch up her makeup, and she took a few more sips.

   "She laughs a lot with her classmates, and calls her godmother's daughter for a long time."

   "I think I saw her godmother and daughter just now?" Ronald asked.

   "They're over there." Terry pointed to the two mother and daughter in the corner.

   "I have to ask them a favor."

   Half an hour later, Bo Ji Xiaosi, who had returned to normal, sat on the floor again.

   "Borgy, you're still holding this Walkman, and I've recorded some jokes. If you feel like laughing, just throw the headphones away, and the close-ups we shoot won't put the headphones in.

   You don't need to think about the camera, we'll just do it as a rehearsal, okay? "

   Ronald explained a few words to Brooke. Then let the recording and photography begin to prepare.

"If you don't think the joke is funny, raise your hand to me, now let's experiment... well, if I see you raising your hand like that, stop filming. If you feel any discomfort, raise your hand to me too. ."

   Ronald was afraid that Brooke Shields would fall into that sad mood again, so he spoke carefully and gently to him.

   "Okay, I'll pay attention to laughing." Brooke Xiaosi nodded in agreement.

   "No no, Brooke, don't think about laughing. What we want to photograph is your natural state." Ronald stared at Brooke Shields, "Do you trust me, Brooke?"

   "Of course" Brooke nodded.

   "You don't need to make any smiles, as long as you are in a natural state at all times, pay attention to the content of the recording, laugh if you are funny, don't laugh if you are not funny. You are the most beautiful in your natural state, okay?"

   Brooke Shields saw the sincerity in Ronald's eyes, "Okay, if the joke is not funny, I won't laugh." After speaking, she felt that this sentence was rather funny, and giggled.

   "Just stay like this, don't think about any performances, just focus on listening to the recording." Ronald gestured behind his back to signal the recording and filming to start, and then exited the camera range.

  Bo Ji Xiaosi pressed the play button, picked up the earphones and put them to her ears. It was Ronald's bad grammar joke at first, and Brooke didn't want to laugh at all.

   She looked at the young director, indicated that she was not amused by him, and made an innocent expression, indicating that the other party's laughter was completely inconsistent with her own. It was not that she did not work hard, but that the joke was too bad.

   Then suddenly, surprise crept up her eyebrows, and the voice of her godmother's daughter came on the tape. They often use the phone to share little secrets and jokes that they find funny. The familiar voice of the godmother's daughter came, telling the funniest jokes in the two's daily collection, the jokes that the girls made fun of a certain boy and that outsiders could not understand.

   They were in the studio, and Brooke Shields found the godmother and her daughter in the distance, and waved to them vigorously. When the mother went to the alcohol rehabilitation center to rehabilitate, it was the godmother and her daughter who moved into her house and took care of her for a period of time. The two sisters also became the closest friends.

Another secret joke that only two people know, came from the earphones, Bo Ji couldn't bear it any longer, dropped the earphones, burst out a burst of laughter "Giggle...", and then the sitting body began to lean back and forth. .

  The photographer raised his head from behind the camera and raised his thumb to Ronald, who was looking over, indicating that the shooting was very successful and met his requirements.

  The recording engineer also nodded, and the live recording was perfect.

   "Huh..." Ronald let out a long breath, and the laughing scene was finally completed.

   Calvin Klein on the second floor also smiled, and Ronald's ability to grasp the shooting made him very satisfied.

"Ronald, I have a new script here, you can take a look." After a while, while the team was preparing for the next scene, Calvin called Ronald up and handed him a A thin two-page script.

   "What is this?" Ronald was a little strange. This kind of temporary addition is not very common.

   "This is an idea proposed by Mr. Avedon. We think it is very good. I hope you will try it out."

  Ronald watched the script carefully under the light, except for a few storyboards, there were only two monologues from Brooke Shields.

   "This is Mr. Avedon's idea?" Ronald frowned deeply. Richard Avedon and David Geffen, who had left the studio, had no way to ask him face-to-face.

   "Yes, do you have any objections?"

   "Does Terry know?" Ronald asked. "Can I show her the script?"

   Then Ronald stared into Calvin Klein's eyes, trying to see something.

   "Of course, let's go down together."

  There was nothing in his eyes, but Ronald couldn't believe that Calvin didn't know what was inside.

   "Terry, this is Calvin's newly submitted script, we can discuss it if you don't want to."

   Ronald handed the script to Brooke Shields' mother, then pulled over his manager Eddie and discussed it in a low voice.

   "If I refuse to shoot this shot, can I still get paid?"

   "The contract doesn't specify which shot, only the number of commercials to shoot. You have to consult a lawyer for specific legal disputes. What's wrong with you, Ronald? Is there any problem with the new script?" Eddie found something wrong.

   "These two lines are very problematic, and the puns are somewhat implicit. No, it's not the kind of implication of the genetic evolution theory. It's close to being explicit. I guarantee that all high school students can understand it."

  Terry's expression of clenched eyebrows also indicated that she understood the pun on the lines, but she did not refuse to shoot.

   "There is no problem with this, we can shoot normally, and there is no problem in replacing the original political science."

  "Terry", Ronald pulled her aside, "This ad will cause a huge uproar, if you refuse..."

   "No, there's nothing wrong with that. Brooke is a pure girl. The audience in America knows this. They just laugh it off and don't blame her."

   "Okay, that's none of my business, but maybe you can get them to change the word, the Come and Cum puns are very uncomfortable."

   "No, it's nothing, Brooke needs to be talked about. With this strike, she hasn't received an invitation to shoot a magazine cover or any talk show for a month."

  It turned out to be for exposure, and bad news is better than no news.

After consulting with Eddie, Ronald and Eddie quickly wrote a consent form, "Okay, Terry, since you insist, I want you to sign this informed consent. I've aired some of the filming. The risks are clearly written on it.”

   "It's nothing." Terry signed the consent form, "Tell me about the drama for Brooke, the effect of your last one on her is very good."

   "Borgy, can you whistle?...Okay, after you whistle, you can say these two lines."

   "Want to know what's between me and Calvin? (DoyouknowwhatcomesbetweenmeandCalvins?)

  Nothing (Nothing)”

   Brooke Xiaosi read it twice, indicating that she remembered it.

   Ronald looked at the fifteen-year-old girl who was called "Virgin America Sweetheart" by the media, and felt a little unbearable in his heart, and said, "If you don't like the pun on this line..."

   "What pun?" Brooke stared at Ronald with wide eyes.

   Ronald leaned in and explained it in her ear, which actually implied she was wearing nothing in her jeans.

   "Why would any normal person think about that, Director? You're just like the boys in our high school, thinking about vulgar jokes all day long."

   Is this really naive? Or don't take this kind of thing seriously?

   Ronald recalled some of the advertisements he had seen shot by Brooke Shields, which were more or less related to her image of "Virgin America Sweetheart".

   Innocent and intellectual, tall and young, Catholic faith in chastity before marriage and all kinds of **** sex, all kinds of contradictory characteristics are added to Brooke Xiaosi alone, so that her image has such high commercial value.

   "Everyone's mother agreed, what am I worrying about?" Ronald shook his head.

  “Action”

  Bo Ji Xiaosicha sat on the ground, and the camera followed the instructions of the storyboard, from her legs along the CK skinny jeans, gradually rocked to the crotch, and then the upper body.

   Waiting for the camera to focus on her face, she stopped whistling and said charmingly to the camera

   "Want to know what's between me and Calvin? (DoyouknowwhatcomesbetweenmeandCalvins?)

  Nothing (Nothing)”

   "Cut! Good, we can call it a day."

   (end of this chapter)