Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 226 You pinch her again

   "Why do you still need to reshoot? It's been two months since the shutdown?" Ronald came to the location of Polygon Films, a woodland in the snow, and Zeffirelli was waiting for him with a drink.

   "You'll understand when you look at the length of the film, would you like some wine?" Zeffirelli seated him in the director's chair and gave him a copy of the text.

   "No, I remember you liked espresso when I first met you?" Ronald waved his hand and refused to drink during the day, sat down and read the information in his hand. This is an application report for MPAA grading, and the final length of the film is one hour and fifty minutes.

   "I need alcohol when I create," Zeffirelli replied.

   "Why does it seem to have cut a lot of length?" Ronald asked. The original script was an hour and fifty-five minutes.

   "In fact, I have already cut it, submitted it for review once, and was rated as X. Passionate shots are not enough."

   "Huh? Isn't that so?" Ronald was surprised, "A passion movie of this level is usually rated R." If it is rated X, then the number of viewers will be greatly reduced. Lianyi, which once wanted to make X-level big productions, lost a lot. Now no major studio will deliberately make X-level productions.

   "Polygram is a new production company, they used to release records." Zeffirelli took a sip of whiskey.

"At that time, I spent a lot of effort in the studio, and I had to cut all the passionate scenes shot by the stand-in. There were only a few passionate scenes, and there was a scene where Brooke was leaning on the hero's shoulder and talking, and pinching her big toe. A few reaction shots."

   It seems that the new player in the movie Poly Gold is still a little troublesome, and the new player has not understood the unspoken rules? It may also be caught by the MPAA and have a slap in the face. Ronald thought.

   "Then how can I help you?"

"MPAA's rating is mainly based on this passionate scene. So I had to cut out about a minute of the scene, so that the whole movie was not emotional enough. There must be a strong ending." Zeffirelli explained. road.

   "Borgy filmed for an afternoon yesterday, and she was still not full of emotions. You still have to think of a way."

   "What can I do? I'll pinch her toes if she doesn't see her."

  Ronald thought, Brooke Xiaosi's acting skills were developed as a model when she was a child, and her mother didn't ask her to find an acting coach to improve her.

   "This is also Terry's idea. She also thinks that Brooke can play better with you present." Zeffirelli handed over two pages of the script, which is the content of today's scene.

   Ronald took the script and went over to greet Terry at the trailer door.

   "I'm so glad you're here, Ronald. Zeffirelli wanted a very emotional end to the shot, and the shoot didn't go well yesterday, so I thought of you."

  "Close up:

  Jed looked at David behind the iron railing of the window of the mental hospital, and the two lovers said goodbye to each other heartbroken.

  The camera zooms in to a close-up:

  Jade felt that the most precious love in his heart was broken, and there will never be such a person who loves her like David. A tear fell from her eye. "

   "Isn't the script difficult? Isn't Brooke good at crying scenes?" Ronald didn't know what the problem was.

"Zeffirelli asked not to cry directly, but to have emotional brewing, transitions, and outbursts. Brooke is still a child, so she can't be demanded by the standards of an adult actress. I thought Zeffirelli was Italian, Will slowly guide and inspire Brooke.

   But he tried many times to no avail. Bo Ji took the initiative to tell me that when you filmed an advertisement last time, it was very able to guide her emotions, so I would like to invite you to try it. This old stalemate is not the way to go, and Brooke has to shoot public service advertisements against teenage smoking. "

"It turned out that the reshoots delayed the time, and Terry was dissatisfied," Ronald was stunned, "but the emotional effects of close-up and close-up could not come out, and the director would not agree to pass, the audience looked at such a big face on the screen. , if the expression doesn't resonate, it definitely won't work."

   "Let me talk to Brooke first?"

   "Borgy, it's Ronald from the last ad for you jeans." Terry opened the trailer's door and called inside.

   "Hello, Ronald." Brooke Shields sat sullenly on the stool, picked up a comb and combed her hair.

   "What happened?" Ronald asked.

   "I couldn't perform the effect the director asked for. He asked me to think about some sad things first, and then slowly let the emotions turn from loss to sadness, and then shed a single tear. It can't be fast, and it can't be too much."

   "Did you think of something sad when you were shooting an advertisement last time? You can also think about that this time."

"I thought about it, but when I think about it, I'm very sad. I can't help crying. I can't shed a tear slowly like that." Brooke Xiaosi thought to herself, thinking about when her mother was drinking and when she was alone at home will cry.

   But this way of crying tears comes too quickly and too much, it does not meet the director's requirements, if only I knew how to act.

   "Do you have any sad times? Don't be so sad, the kind that is a little sad." Ronald had to enlighten her.

   "Well... yes." Brooke glanced at Ronald, it was because the last commercial shoot was not good-looking, and you forced him to cry.

  Ronald paid attention to Brooke's expression, there was a process of transition and transition, and quickly said, "Okay, just use that, remember this emotion, let's try it."

  Borgy Xiaosi hummed, put on a white woolen hat, tidied her hair so that the long hair was exposed from the back of the hat, then put on a down jacket over the turtleneck sweater, and walked out of the trailer with Ronald.

   "Huh..." A chill came, and Brooke Xiaosi spit out a white breath.

   "She found an emotional memory, try it?" Ronald said as he walked over to Zeffirelli. Brooke Shields is naturally beautiful, and she is the age before white girls gain weight. Bo Ji, who wears very simple clothes, can be very beautiful with just a white hat.

   "All departments, let's come once." Zeffirelli cheered up and called the shooting team to prepare.

  The camera covered Brooke's upper body, and then the coolies pushed the camera forward along the track laid on the snow.

  Ronald stood behind the camera, watching Brooke Xiaosi's performance, her expression gradually became a little painful, and then her eyebrows raised, her facial features began to distort, and she was about to cry.

   "What kind of memory does Brooke want? The mood and script requirements are very compatible." Ronald thought.

   "Ronald is such an asshole, he always says I laugh unnaturally." Brooke Shields tried her best to recall her emotions on the day of the commercial shoot, "Then I heard the sister's joke and everything went well."

   Memories quickly appeared on his face, and Brooke Xiaosi, who should have been crying, showed a smile.

   "Cut!"

"The first part is very good, the later part is going to cry, and then think about that memory, Brooke." Zeffirelli felt that the crying method was much more real than the previous way of opening the faucet. Ronald was quite good at guiding the little girl. the actor's emotions.

   "Cut, cry at the end, Brooke."

   "Cut, it's almost, a tear is enough."

  …

   After NG several times in a row, Zeffirelli became anxious again. The mood in the front is very good, why can't you cry at the end?

   "Ronald, go pinch her and make her cry" Zeffirelli asked Ronald to pinch Brooke Shields again.

   "I'm not going, you go, Franco." Ronald refused.

   "It's useless for me to pinch, you have to pinch."

   "What's the difference?"

   "I'm going to discuss with Terry." Zeffirelli walked to Terry's side and muttered to her for a while.

   "Ronald, go and pinch Brooke, otherwise it won't be finished." Terry took the initiative to ask Ronald to pinch her daughter.

   "Ronald will be careful, this is just to make Brooke feel a little bit of physical pain, not really make her cry." Zeffirelli was still explaining.

   "No, how can a mother let someone pinch her own daughter." Ronald was unwilling. "Franco, why don't you pinch yourself? Or let Terry come, she knows the importance."

   "It's not a matter of importance, Ronald. I'm going to discuss it with Brooke, and she herself is willing." Terry hurried to the trailer and discussed with her daughter.

She walked quickly, thinking all the way: "Zeffirelli also said just now that only when a young man pinches her, Brooke will show that kind of inseparable expression between young men and women lovers. This play The character in the movie burned her home and even indirectly caused her father's death, but she still loved him and was reluctant to leave him."

On the other side, Zeffirelli looked at Ronald with a wicked smile and thought to himself, "It depends on whether you are willing to pinch. I told Terry that as long as Ronald pinch, it is estimated that two can pass. "Sometimes the hormones between young men and women will do everything automatically and show very real emotions."

"Then I'll pinch?" Ronald agreed to see Brooke Xiaosi, and indeed their mother and daughter also needed to finish filming quickly, and rushed to shoot the non-smoking public service advertisement, "Just like this, you can feel the pain and recall the memory. If something painful, just tell me, and I will use so much energy."

  Ronald tried his strength, then crouched behind Brooke Xiaosi, raising his hand to grab her waist.

  Zeffirelli and the director of photography exchanged glances, knowing that Ronald was completely outside the frame, and called out the password to start.

   Ronald squatted on the ground and pinched gently, and Brooke Shields started performing for the camera.

   He hid behind Bo Ji, not knowing what was going on in front of him, so he could only hold Bo Ji in this awkward position. The smell of the young girl came over, Ronald kept his posture, and his whole body was stiff.

   "Cut!"

  Relieved Ronald sat on the ground, then got up again, "How is it? Can the camera work?"

   Seeing Zeffirelli's raised thumb, Ronald heaved a sigh of relief and said to Brooke Xiaosi, "Broke, did I pinch you?"

   Brooke said with a smile, "No, it's just a little feeling, which helps me find the pain. Ronald, I feel like filming with you is like playing a game, and it's not troublesome at all."

   Ronald heard this and said seriously: "Borgy, do you like acting? If you want to move forward in your acting career, it's time to find an acting coach."

   "But my mother said that I was still a little girl, and it wasn't time to act like an adult actress, so she chose a kind old director for me, hoping they would treat me like a granddaughter."

   Well, my mother had a plan and didn't want Bo Ji to learn acting too early. In fact, for Bo Ji Xiaosi, in order to maximize profits, it is better to shoot more commercials and movies that don't require any acting skills.

   At least for her mother, systematically learning acting skills, with more choices, but not necessarily as obedient as now.

   "I heard that the TV station in New York is going to ban the ad for that pair of jeans, is that true?" Ronald saw Terry coming over, he stopped talking to Brooke, and asked Terry a question instead.

   "Ha, yes. They thought this would kill the popularity of Brooke, who was on the cover of fashion magazines in January this year. Other cities are still showing this ad anyway."

   Ronald perfunctory Terry, turned around and chatted with Zeffirelli, "When will the movie be released?"

   "July if all goes well."

   "I wish you a great movie sale."

   (end of this chapter)