Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 387 Who is DMK?

"Humanity was hit by the dead light of the comet, leaving only a pile of 'calcareous dust'." The female scientist played by Marie Voronoff discusses the night of the comet with colleagues at the "Underground Research Institute" set up in the studio disaster.

   "What if there were survivors? The radiation would theoretically be blocked by metal or very thick concrete, and I have no doubt there will be many survivors in LA."

   "You're right, but the survivors will be scattered all over the place, and those places have zombies from people partially contaminated by radiation."

   "How do survivors find other survivors? Where do they go? What's their first move? You know it's like a nuclear war, the first survivors will turn on the radio..."

  Mary Voronoff turned on the radio and started changing channels.

   "Attention to all Los Angeles, California, and America survivors, this is Samantha, you should come to Sherman Oaks when you hear the broadcast..."

   "A survivor has arrived at the radio station!" Audrey, played by Mary Voronoff, stood up excitedly.

   "Cut!"

   "Very good, this shot is very good." Ronald hadn't shaved his beard for a few days, it had grown all over his cheeks, and the scene in the studio was about to be finished.

   "Ronald, I read the script, who is the DMK at the beginning?" Voronov was wearing a white lab coat, dressed as a scientist, with long curly hair hanging down his shoulders, looking young, beautiful and professional. Just like the old-fashioned headmistress of "High School of Rock".

"I haven't made up my mind yet. What advice do you have?" Ronald sat down on the director's chair with his name on it, and pulled down the brim of the baseball cap on his head to block the dazzling lights. Take a break.

  Continuous high-intensity shooting, actors and crew have time to rest. Only a few people from the director's group are in continuous rotation. . Ronald also has to worry about tomorrow's storyboards and yesterday's samples after get off work every day. He only has four or five hours of rest every day.

  Rao is a wrestling trained body, and is a little tired. Sometimes he also took the time to take a nap on the set.

   "Why not add a male character? The initials are called DMK."

   "I thought about this, but at the end of the introduction a character, what is his role? To show that there are other survivors in Los Angeles, to give the audience a hope?"

"Yeah, that's it. Your movie is meant to be a light-hearted movie, and the audience knows from the very first shot that Regina will be the hero who saves the world in the end, so at the end give her and Hector a mission, Go find other survivors and unite, won't you?"

"Good idea, what else?" Ronald took off his hat and sat up. Mary Voronoff is the queen of exploitative films. She is very familiar with all the low-budget scenes. Listen to her. The idea doesn't hurt either.

   "And isn't Samantha jealous that her sister Regina is always more favored by boys? It's better to make this DMK a pair with her. In this way, the audience's expectations for the two heroines will be explained at the end."

   "Mmmm, good." Ronald had sat up completely, took out the small notebook that he couldn't leave his body, and started to write shorthand Voronov's ideas with a ballpoint pen.

   "You know what? Mary, I think you should try screenwriting.

   "Yeah? Do you think so too? In fact, when I was in the Warhol factory in New York, I wrote scripts and stories." Mary Voronoff's eyes were full of memories.

   "Andy Warhol? I saw him in New York at Christmas, isn't he the editor-in-chief of the magazine?"

"Ha, don't the young people nowadays know Andy?" Voronov smiled. "In the 1960s, his silver factory was a place where all New York geeks often go. That's where he made silk screens. He makes money by printing factories that reproduce his own paintings."

   "Oh? Didn't expect him to be the man of the year?" Ronald thought of the messy-haired Andy Warhol who drank at Club 54 with a camera without film. "

"Yeah, that's the Drag Queen in New York, trans, and a lot of weirdos, all there. Doing some of the Drag Queen's fake weddings, and some Thaadist stuff to support his factory, and I hang out there too. a few years later.

   Fortunately, I left that chaotic place and went to live in Europe for two years. Finally, I met Roger Coleman and got a normal job. "

   "Oh, no idea. What kind of person was he back then?"

   "Um...he never pays the bills..."

"Hahaha……"

   Ronald and Voronoff had a few chats and started developing the DMK story.

   He named DMK Danny Mason Keener and gave him a story. Danny was another survivor who broke Regina's sixth-place console record at the cinema that day, then returned to his home and spent the night in the basement.

   He escaped, driving an empty sports car, wandering the suburbs of Los Angeles, and meeting Regina and Samantha at the end of the movie. There is only one play, who should be cast?

  After filming that day, Ronald found a phone booth and called William Morris's agent, Ed Limato.

   "Ed, I have a character who wants Nick Cage to make a cameo, can you arrange it?"

   "Cameo? He's rehearsing on the set now, I'm afraid I don't have time."

   "I put him to audition for a new movie, and now I'm just asking him to come back for a half-day cameo role. Do me a favor, Ed."

   "Half a day? Just half a day? Well, well, Nick is always talking about you in my ear, let him go for half a day."

"Thanks."

  The day turned around and it was the second Saturday, the last day of the film crew's shooting schedule. They came to Bunker Mountain again to shoot the location.

   This time Ronald didn't ask the police to clear the place, because on weekends, there were no people on the road.

  The cost of filming was running out, and Ronald's filming account was running out of money.

   So this time Ronald decided to take pictures secretly. The actors do their makeup in the RV, and after the camera finds a good position, they get out of the car to find a seat, return to the RV after filming, and quickly leave the scene after the camera is finished.

   "It's so interesting. If we are seen by the LAPD, will they arrest us?" Nicolas Cage was a little excited, he had never taken such undocumented street scenes.

   "No, the LAPD here is an old acquaintance of mine, it doesn't matter if you see it." Ronald was talking about the two policemen who put on zombie hoods and made cameo appearances in the movie to catch Samantha.

"When the time comes, you just have to remember to drive your sports car slowly and don't crash it. I borrowed it from Mr. Roger Coleman. No scratches are allowed." Ronald threw the keys of the Mercedes-Benz Cabriolet. To Nicolas Cage.

   "My driving skills are good, don't worry." Cage didn't expect to make a cameo role, and he could drive such a cool convertible sports car, and he would have to buy one when he had money in the future.

"Okay, I won't call Action later. You go down and stand up, and then watch my gestures to start shooting. After I stop, you will come back and get on the bus." It's easy to shoot in the daytime without the permission of the municipality. He was caught, so Ronald discussed the process with the actor in advance, and quickly evacuated when he was found in the middle.

  Ronald spoke roughly to Katherine Mary Stuart, Nicolas Cage, Kevin Costner, and Kelly Maloney, who was called in to make up the scene.

  Regina and Hector discovered the conspiracy of the experts at the base and escaped with some captured children. They formed families and adopted the orphans. Continue to live in Los Angeles.

   One morning, they took their children and waited for a red light at the street intersection. Samantha felt that her sister and brother-in-law were making a fuss. In a city without people, there was no need to obey the traffic rules.

  Regina and Hector teach their children to obey the rules even if no one is there.

   "Ugh..." A Mercedes-Benz roadster drove up, and Samantha was startled and returned to the pavement.

  A handsome guy with sunglasses turned around at the end of the road and drove to Samantha's side, "Hey, you shouldn't run a red light, it's very dangerous."

   "Did you hear that? Sister?" Regina said on the sidewalk.

   "Good car." Samantha said enviously looking at the sports car.

   "Come and sit down, I've picked up more than 30 such sports cars, do you want to go for a ride together?" Danny Mason Keener, played by Cage, invited Samantha to get in the car.

   "I'm going out for a ride with him?" Samantha slumped into the sports car and turned to her sister.

   "Remember to come back before twelve o'clock." Regina was still living the rules before the cataclysm, she didn't want to forget the normal modern life.

   "Twelve o'clock? I'll make sure she'll be back." Danny, played by Cage, stepped on the accelerator, ready to start the sports car.

   "What's his name?" Regina called to her sister Samantha, holding Hector's arm.

"What's your name?"

   "Danny, Danny Mason Keener."

   "His name is Danny, Danny Mason Keener," Samantha repeated aloud to her sister.

  The camera position at the rear of the sports car captured it all. As soon as Cage stepped on the accelerator, the sports car drove forward, revealing the three-letter abbreviation "DMK, Los Angeles, California, Gold Rush State" at the rear of the car.

   "Cut!"

With an order   , the actor hurried to the RV. The camera crew at the back was immediately dismantled to the tripod and ran to the car, and finally the recording crew carrying the recording rod.

   The sports car where Nicolas Cage and Kelly Maloney were in front of them made a U-turn, and Cage was still shouting something.

   "There's a patrolman over there."

  Ronald watched his Mercedes-Benz go in and heard him clearly.

   "You guys drive away. Meet at the studio." Ronald trumpeted with his hand and shouted at Cage.

   Then he also jumped into the RV, "Quick, quick! Run!"

  The driver put on his sunglasses, started the car, got into the driveway, and drove forward with the accelerator.

   Ronald stuck his head out on the RV, behind which seemed to be a motorcycle driven by a patrolman, patrolling slowly. The people above seem to have changed shifts, not the two familiar LAPDs. It may also be patrolled by other blocks.

   "He beckoned to Cage in the back of the RV, just follow."

  The two cars went up a slope, and the motorcycles driven by the patrol police who followed didn't seem to notice their abnormal situation, and were gradually blocked by the road and could not be seen.

   "I almost got caught." Ronald was relieved, the team finished filming the scene here and walked away.

   (end of this chapter)