Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 204 Pinch her big toe

   "Are you going to see her filming tomorrow?" Cousin Donna pointed to the mother and daughter of Brooke Shields surrounded by reporters on the TV.

   "Yeah, the director invited me to the scene to see it. He thinks that I directed Bo Ji's commercial is good, and going to the scene may inspire Bo Ji's acting skills."

   "Don't talk about commercials when Diane is here. I saw her saying that she would not shoot commercials, but it's still uncomfortable to see the heat caused by Brooke Shields' commercials." Donna told Ronald.

"I see."

   Ronald finished dinner at his aunt's house and took out the cake from Tom Cruise for dessert.

   "Well, this cake is really delicious. You can have a piece too." Donna said, marking a piece and handing it to Ronald.

"It's not bad. Tom also brought a lot of small cakes to the crew. Brooke Xiaosi's mother also said it was delicious. However, in order to control her weight, she didn't let her daughter eat more. I don't think Diane can eat it." Ronald broke a piece Cake in mouth.

   "Actually, Diane is a nice girl, but I feel bad for her because she was so competitive as an actress at such a young age," said Aunt Karen. "She's out partying again, maybe this will make her a little happier."

  Diane Lane's relationship with her father, Bert, has improved slightly, and the two sometimes talk on the phone. But if you don't talk too much, it will become noisy again, and now she still lives with Aunt Karen.

   "Actually, the popularity of Brooke's commercials is not normal. The TV station gives more time than covering the Iran-Iraq war." Ronald looked at the subtitles at the bottom of the TV to announce the upcoming special report on the Iran-Iraq war.

  Persia has not released America's hostage, and has verbally attacked the Soviet Union. Now it is actually at war with its neighbors.

   "I'm back, hey, Ronald, you're here too." Diane opened the door and walked in, "Oh, boring, war again." She said something while watching the TV, and hurried into her room.

   Ronald and Donna looked at each other, thankfully ABC had switched to war coverage.

  America's young people don't care much about international affairs. The Iran-Iraq War and the advertisements of Brooke Shields are the biggest news hotspots right now.

   One side is a hot war between two countries with a population of 10 million, and the other side is an advertisement for a pair of jeans in New York, or the fashion represented by skinny jeans, which can attract the attention of high school students.

   "Are you still going out?" Aunt Karen, now acting as a parent, asked about Diane's itinerary.

"Yeah, the next time is a school party. I'm back to change clothes, and my classmates are still waiting below." Diane put on a white T-shirt, skinny jeans and white sneakers, and walked out again. "I'll call you when I get there, Karen."

   This is an agreement between Karen and Diane. She will not interfere with Diane in social life, but she needs to report where she is.

   "Are these skinny jeans fashionable now?" Aunt Karen asked her daughter Donna. The social aesthetics have clearly shifted. Ten years ago, denim style was still popular with flared pants.

   "It's pretty, but this ad is a bit..." Aunt Karen said, looking at Ronald, a little dissatisfied that the ad he shot was too explicit.

   "Mom, didn't Ronnie say that the script didn't mean that, was the media misinterpreting it?" Donna defended him.

   Ronald nodded. When Brooke Shields was interviewed, she still said "I have nothing between Calvin and I".

   But sometimes it doesn't matter what the creator of a work thinks. After the advertisement was broadcast, the audience obviously interpreted it as other meanings. It doesn't matter what Bo Ji thinks or what she thinks.

   And the slogan of this advertisement is amazing. Before long, even many people who have not seen the advertisement know that "there is nothing between Brooke and Calvin".

   "It won't be on for a long time. I heard that the TV station is considering banning this advertisement." Ronald told everyone a message, "It's indecent."

   But this is irrelevant, the public firmly remembers this short and interesting advertisement. Calvin Klein's purpose has all been achieved.

  …

   "Will TV really ban ads for jeans?" Ronald, who was embarrassed, asked Terry, who was staring at his daughter on the outside of the set.

"It will take a month or two to get the results of the discussions on the TV station. Brooke has not been on the cover of major fashion magazines until August this year, and it has been there until now in other months. Thanks to you, Ronald, for taking Brooke It's beautiful."

  Terry thanked Ronald, and his eyes were still fixed on the hero Martin Hewitt.

   This is the only scene where the male and female protagonists are in the same frame in today's filming session. It is a passionate scene. Watching her daughter film a passion scene with his mother, Ronald has nothing to say.

   "Quiet!" Director Zeffirelli gave the order, "Everyone get ready, and all unrelated people will leave the stage."

   After a loud banging sound, the camera far away from the hero and heroine rang very slightly, and the film winding motor started to start.

  The interior of the studio was set up as the living room of a wealthy family in Long Island, and the fire in the fireplace beside it became the only light source.

   The brightness of the firewood is not enough to guarantee the shooting. The lighting engineer installed a light source behind the fireplace in advance, and the light shines through the fire, which not only ensures the brightness, but also has a feeling of the firewood swaying.

   This is a close-up shot with a long focal length prime lens. The advantage is that it is farther away from the actors, which is convenient for them to mobilize their emotions. After all, facing a big camera and lens in the face, the performance of many actors will be discounted.

The disadvantage of    is that the shooting range is relatively narrow. If the actor moves a little bigger, it will go out of the viewfinder.

   It's just called a passion scene, but it's actually just Brooke talking on Martin Hewitt's shoulder. There were no big moves and Ronald felt technically okay.

   The problem is with Brooke Shields.

   "My eyes have flaws, they are too close, you see..." Brooke Xiaosi said the line, and gestured the distance of her eyes with her hand.

  “Cut!” Once again, the shooting was stopped halfway through.

Zeffirelli was already a little furious, he rushed up and yelled at Brooke Shields on the bed, "This is not a CK jeans commercial, put away your showy high notes. Lover's dialogue, lover! Find you to talk to your boyfriend. a feeling of.

   Remember, your parents are upstairs, softly, in a low voice, don't let them hear. "

   Brooke Xiaosi was robbed by director Zeffirelli for a while, and her expression became sad on the spot. The two sturdy flat eyebrows turned upside down and slanted towards the temples, and a bitter look appeared again.

   The poor girl doesn't know what she did wrong, and the 15-year-old girl's voice is in a period of voice change, and some of the high-pitched sounds are beyond Bo Ji's control.

   "Oh, I thought Zeffirelli was an elder and would treat Brooke like his own daughter." Terry dropped a complaint, stepped forward to hug her daughter, and gently comforted her.

   Brooke Xiaosi got rid of the embarrassing situation, felt the warmth of her mother's embrace, her mood fluctuated, and she cried.

"Oh, God. Make up, make up. Pause for ten minutes." Seeing Brooke cry, Zeffirelli knew she had to rest and wait for her eyes to recover. After announcing that filming was suspended, Zeffirelli found a bottle of whiskey and drank it. stand up.

"Ronald, tell me, is there anything you can do?" Zeffirelli came over and complained to Ronald, drinking, "I don't know how to instruct her. If I knew this, I would have insisted on using the audition later. That girl, Meg Ryan's."

   "I haven't seen her, does she act well?" Ronald asked.

"She has to have a lot of aura. She can act very beautifully and has a first-class imagination without me having to say much during the audition. It's a pity that she was found by 'Richand Famous', what a lucky old man Cook. ."

   "Qionglou's Old Dreams" was also one of the victims of the Screen Actors Guild strike. The original director Robert Mulligan was shot on the first day of filming and the two leading actresses went on strike. MGM had to hire 81-year-old Hollywood director George Cukor to take over.

   Cook's sword was not old, and he fell in love with Meg Ryan and asked her to play the daughter of the heroine.

The old director, who once won the Oscar for best director with "My Fair Lady", is very good at discovering and training beautiful actresses. In addition to Audrey Hepburn, he also directed Ingrid Bergman, who won the award with "Under the Gaslight". Oscar winner.

   "What's the problem? Franco?"

"She doesn't know how to act. I explained to him many times, how to get into the character's mentality, how to use the substitution method, and imagine Martin as her boyfriend, but she just can't act the whispered state of lovers. ."

"The sentence that the eyes are too close is to act like a spoiled brat to your boyfriend, not to pretend to belittle yourself between girls, but to brag about your beauty in disguise." Nader shook his head for emphasis.

   Ronald looked at Brooke Shields, who had stopped crying under the comfort of her mother. Terry was like a female beast, lovingly stroking the child's hair. But for men who dare to covet Brooke, they are not shy.

  The actor Martin Hewitt, who was lying on the bed, wanted to go up to comfort Brooke, but was separated by Terry's turn. She always protected her daughter very well.

   Ronald saw this scene, as if someone suddenly shot a light into his mind.

   "What if she doesn't have a boyfriend?"

   "What did you say?" Zeffirelli asked.

   "I said what if Brooke Xiaosi didn't have a boyfriend? Does she have no corresponding emotional experience and doesn't know how to use her own feelings instead, so she can't act well."

   "Is she almost sixteen? Never had a boyfriend?" Zeffirelli, who is Italian, is a little unconvinced.

   "Remember her nickname? America's last virgin sweetheart." Ronald didn't really believe it either. Brooke Shields often appeared in the media with some popular male stars.

   But with the strength of Terry's personal protection, no man can succeed, right? Maybe those photos are just for news? Those male celebrities are just being used.

  Two men stand side by side, watching together under Terry's cold eyes, Martin Hewitt had to put on his pajamas and leave the bed for the filming.

   "Fuck, you might be right, I'll try another method!" Zeffirelli handed the bottle to Ronald, and stepped forward to talk to Brooke.

   "Borgy, will you sing the recent pop song 'Romeo and Juliet'?" Zeffirelli said to Porgy, who had just wiped away her tears.

   "That one, Romeo, you make my heart beat faster? I love you like a star in the sky forever?" Brooke Shields snorted.

"Yes, let's do it again. This time you have forgotten what I told you before, don't think about the plot, and don't want to use your own emotions to substitute, just sing this song silently in your heart, and then watch Martin's Eyes, say your lines, okay?"

  Under Zeffirelli's good manners, Brooke Shields glanced at her mother and nodded vigorously.

  She has not received professional acting training, acting as if she is playing a big game. The precise expression of her inner emotions really embarrassed her.

  Although there is no real emotional experience, the girl's heart is always poetry. In the Shakespeare course in high school, Brooke has also read Romeo and Juliet, and has longed and imagined the pure love between the two.

   After the break, the restart of the shooting went smoothly.

   Brooke Shields in an off-the-shoulder top, leaning against Martin Hewitt's arms. Shooting with a long focal length lens in this way only captures the position above the shoulders, giving people a feeling that after the passion, the two are cuddling with each other.

"If I'm old and not beautiful, you'll be empathetic." Brooke Shields's eyes wandered back and forth between Martin Hewitt's eyes and her chest, and her loving eyes were actually asking the man. The main character David's answer.

   "No, don't say that, I will always love you."

   The lover's answer was full, and Jade, played by Brooke, kissed him.

   "Cut!"

   This time Zeffirelli was happy. The method of using songs to guide the imagination was effective. Bo Ji completely forgot how to project emotions. She just used the silently humming song to lead a very natural performance.

   "This one is printed." After discussing with the director of photography, director Zeffirelli made a decision, "The next stage is to clear the scene, we will shoot a passion scene, double, where is the double?"

  The passionate play of David and Jade played by the leading actor Martin Hewitt. Brooke Shields is under sixteen years old, and Terry agreed in the contract that all the scenes with exposed parts of the body should be played by a stand-in.

  Zeffirelli is a gentleman. Although he is an ordinary stand-in, he insists on clearing the scene. Except for the director of photography, lighting, and makeup, everyone else leaves the scene.

   Ronald also went out with Mother Brooke.

   "Yo, Brooke."

   A handsome guy with shawl and long hair came up and greeted Brooke in a Brooklyn accent. Brooke's mother, Terry, also happily went up to hug him. Her strategy of letting her daughter Brooke appear on the same occasion with various celebrities is still working well, and it has attracted a lot of media coverage.

Whether it's a movie star, a business man, a descendant of an aristocrat, a pop singer, or a painter, as long as Brooke always appears with them, the media will report on Brooke's dates in detail, and sometimes they can make up four A one-page story.

  The male star this time, Ronald also knows. It was the young New York actor Matt Dillon whom he met at a Jane Fonda party.

   "Hi, Matt." Ronald greeted him afterward.

   "Hey, Ronald, I didn't expect to see you here, long time no see." Matt Dillon really followed the boasted Haikou, and came to visit Borgy Xiaosi through the introduction of his agent. Maybe he also wanted to try his luck and date America's hottest teenage star.

   The two chatted. Matt Dillon returned to New York this time, mainly to prepare his new movie. I heard that the new movie is an adaptation of a best-selling novel. The author came to New York this time to discuss a reprint contract with the publisher. Asked Matt Dillon to chat, which is also equivalent to an interview.

  The author wants to see the protagonist candidates before deciding whether to sell the film adaptation rights to Disney.

  After a while, the passionate scene of the stand-in was finished. Brooke Shields was called in again for a one-person close-up of her.

  Martin Hewitt was a bartender and valet parking, but he was actually a part-timer. His job was as a Shakespeare actor. This kind of actor's income is not high, and it is a common choice to do odd jobs to subsidize themselves.

  With the foundation of Shakespeare's performance, the shooting speed of his scenes with the stand-in was very fast.

   But seeing Terry and Matt Dillon having a good time together made him a little embarrassed. Terry clearly preferred his daughter with the already well-known Dillon. And physically isolate him from Brooke.

   "Ronald, Ronald." Director Zeffirelli's shout interrupted the chat between Ronald and Matt Dillon.

   He hurried into the clearing studio. Filming was difficult again.

   This time, Brooke Shields was lying on her back on the bed, and the camera was focused on her face for a close-up. It's a reaction shot of a passion scene, inserting a close-up in the tumbling footage of Martin Hewitt and the double.

   gives the audience a love of fish and water between the male and female protagonists, a very harmonious feeling.

   Brooke encountered the problem of not being able to play again, but this time Ronald was helpless.

   Bo Ji obviously has no experience in this area, and cannot grasp the proportion of facial expressions and emotions at the moment when pain and joy alternate.

  Zeffirelli had tried several times, and had to call Ronald in to discuss it.

  Ronald was very shy to see Brooke Shields, and she felt a little humiliated that she did not meet the director's requirements for such a scene.

   Ronald stepped forward to comfort him, and was pulled aside by Zeffirelli to discuss.

   "Do you have any other tricks?"

   "This?" With no relevant experience and no material to imagine, Ronald couldn't think of a way, "Should I go to the 'Mrs Chatterley's Lover' novel?"

   "No, you can only use the means. You squat in front of the bed and pinch Brooke's big toe." Zeffirelli instructed Ronald.

   "What? Pinch the big toe?"

   "Yes, that mixed feeling of pain and itch, reflected on the actress's face, is very similar to the expression of the love of fish and water. This is the secret of Italian lead yellow film shooting."

   "Why don't you go?" Ronald felt embarrassed.

   "I'm almost 60, my waist is not good, you hurry up." Zeffirelli said.

"This?"

  The helpless Ronald looked at the director of photography in the studio who took the shots himself, and the sound engineer, and everyone else was cleared.

   "Borgy, Ronald will squat here and pinch your big toe lightly. You try the strength with him." Zeffirelli didn't wait for Ronald to agree, and first spoke to Borgy.

   "Okay", Brooke's cheeks were a little crimson, "Let's try it first."

Zeffirelli, who was looking into the viewfinder behind the camera, saw Ronald half-squatting, half-kneeling, his head out of the way of the camera, one hand holding Brooke Shields' foot and the other hand on her big toe ready to pinch Going down, the whole person did not enter the viewfinder.

   "Very good, Action!"

   "Ah", Brooke screamed in pain from being pinched, her brows furrowed, Ronald's hand made her feel itchy again, and at the same time she wanted to laugh.

   "Very good, Ronald, do some more force!" Zeffirelli commanded.

   (end of this chapter)