Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 390 Specialty Saving Money Shooting

   "Caterina, don't look at the camera, just make your quiche as usual." Ronald smiled at a fat middle-aged Italian woman and taught her how to act in front of the camera.

   Katarina held an egg in her hand, knocked on the edge of a large bowl, and poured the egg white and yolk into the bowl, "Is that so?"

   "Very good, very good", Ronald hinted that the photographer started to shoot at her, "Just like this one egg after another."

  Caterina is the real mother of Cindy Lauper, she herself is Italian, and she has a kind of kindness that is unique to middle-aged Italian women.

   In order to save as much as possible, Ronald made a very economical plan for the MV shooting of "GirlsJustWanttoHaveFun". Cindy came to play the protagonist of the MV, a girl who went out to play. Her mother plays the mother of the protagonist in the MV.

  Cindy's biological father and stepfather are divorced from her mother, so the role of father needs an actor. Attorney Hoffman approached another of his clients, professional wrestler Lou Albano, nicknamed "The Colonel" in the WWF League, to play her father.

   "Colonel" Albano has retired from the front line, mainly as a manager. He is fat, has a long and messy beard, and wears a tattered vest, but he and Cindy's mother look like a middle-aged couple from the bottom.

  The two were chattering in the kitchen, as if they were worried about their daughter not coming home overnight. In fact, the two of them were discussing that next time Cindy and her mother went to cheer for the "Colonel" in the WWF game.

   "Cut!" Ronald, who was on the side, saw that they were having a good chat, and he had already taken the necessary pictures. The secret to dealing with amateur actors is not to tell them that filming has started, otherwise it is difficult to avoid the nervousness of amateur actors facing the camera. .

"You're amazing, Ronald. Amateur actors can be trained so well, I think they can finish filming in two days." The beard looks like Detective Poirot's lawyer Hoffman, who accompanied him throughout the filming. He told Ronald The ability to save money is very admirable. With such a little money, I just grab someone and take pictures. It seems to be well-intentioned.

   "As long as I'm a professional." Ronald smiled, in fact, film and television shooting is very tricky, as long as one of the multiple shots meets the standard, it's not like a drama that has to be performed in its entirety to have a chance to go on stage.

   "Girls, it's your turn."

  Ronald waved his hand again after filming this scene of the kitchen. Eight ordinary girls of different ethnicities rushed up to the makeup artist and hair stylist to start makeup and hair styling.

   There is a plot in this MV where the protagonist Cindy Lauper calls eight of her friends and then comes to the house to have a party.

   For a group performance like this, the salary is close to a thousand dollars a day, which is not cheap. When Ronald was preparing to shoot, he went to Portrait Records with lawyer Hoffman and borrowed a group of female secretaries to appear.

   "Choose slowly, each person has a pair of sunglasses, and I will give you a small gift after shooting." Ronald stepped forward to chat with each secretary, told a joke, and said a couple of flirtatious words to make them relax.

   Among the eight secretaries, there are one Chinese, one Japanese, two blacks, and Latinos, and the rest are whites. Anyway, what the MV pursues is a specious plot, Ronald picks some from each ethnicity, so that the teenage audience can feel that they are rebellious girls like them.

   "Do you know how to make the action of wearing glasses sexy?" Ronald stepped back and asked a female makeup artist to come forward and teach them the action of wearing glasses.

  Cindy Lauper started, and nine beauties posed in a row, one by one wearing sunglasses with one hand. Black, white, pink, sunglasses of various colors and shapes, selected by the hair stylist, all match the hairstyles of the secretaries, and wear them to make them more **** and beautiful.

Including Cindy, the nine women started chatting about makeup and sunglasses accessories, Ronald applauded them, "We rehearsed and walked, the camera will take close-ups of you, from left to right, everyone is shot by the camera When you take pictures, give me a **** look. Think about your boyfriend, husband, or any male star you like."

   "Ronald, I think you can do it." A secretary boldly shouted to Ronald.

   "Whatever you want, as long as it makes you happy, I don't mind acting as your fantasy object for a while." Ronald has been with these secretaries for a long time, knowing that they are very hot in private conversations.

   Hearing them say this, Ronald knew that they were relaxed and satisfied, and took off his jacket and made a biceps pose.

   "Oh, come here to Mom", another secretary with a slightly higher position even took out a bill and put it in Ronald's belt.

   "Keep it like this, I also want to see you so coquettish in the real shoot, Mindy." Ronald continued to quarrel with her, gesturing at the photographer with one hand.

  The photographer understood, turned on the camera, and began to shoot quietly while the actors with the full number of secretaries relaxed and rehearsed.

   "Cut!" Ronald turned back and discussed with the photographer, "Very well, thank you for your appearance."

   "What? Are you filming just now?" The secretary named Mindy was surprised that his appearance was captured by the camera, and came over to ask Ronald to delete her footage.

   "Don't worry, Mindy, your performance just now was beautiful. I suspect you're not working in a record company, and you have a future in Hollywood."

   "How do you want to shoot the dance scene in the room below?" The dance instructor came up and asked Ronald.

The    dance coach is a backing dancer from Cindy Lauper's team. Cindy didn't have many resources to promote, and the dancer was one of the sisters who traveled around with her.

   "I'm going to create a three-by-three matrix first, with Cindy at the very center, and then the three rows of people shaking their heads to the left and right." Ronald discussed with the dance coach and took this shot first.

   Eight secretaries surrounded Cindy Lauper, and with the beat of the music, each row made the appearance of shaking left and right. Then, in behavioral units, continue to swing.

   "Cut!"

   is still the old way. Don't tell them that they are already filming. During the real filming, the girls immediately start to stiffen and deform their movements. However, Ronald still mainly encourages and always says that they are doing a good job.

  After filming the close-ups of the girls answering Cindy's phone alone, Ronald waved to them, "Girls, go practice dancing first, we'll see you later."

   "Ronald, goodbye." Everyone waved goodbye to Ronald. Mindy came over and gave him a special hug.

   "Colonel, I want Cindy Lauper to give you a grappling move."

   Ronald turned to Lou Albano, a wrestler who played Cindy's father, to discuss the effect of his wrestling moves.

  “Action!”

  Cindy faced the Colonel, and the two looked at each other head to head. Lou Albano stretched out a finger, pointing at Cindy one by one in line with the rhythm of the lines in the music.

   "At midnight, the phone rang.

  My dad yelled, what the **** are you going to do with your own life! "

The    lyrics fit the occasion.

  Cindy grabbed the Colonel's hand, then stepped back, pinned his arm to the back of his body, and pushed forward again, and the Colonel was caught and his body was against the wall.

   "Oh, Daddy, you are still Namba Wan in the family,

   It's just that the girl wants to have some fun. "

The father played by Colonel    was held by his daughter and strode to the kitchen depressed to cry to his mother.

WWF's professional wrestlers are all veterans who are proficient in acting. At first, they accused Cindy of anger, and then was caught by Cindy and pushed against the wall. Ronald trains and plays very well.

   "Cut!"

  Ronald was very satisfied with the performance of the two. Cindy Lauper was a little crazy, and she was quite comfortable in front of the camera. She also played the image of a daughter who was dissatisfied with family rules and insisted on having a party all night long.

   "You know, I think you WWF wrestlers don't need training to act in movies, you are all born performers." Ronald praised a few words.

   "You're not too bad, kid. I see you instructing Cindy on those two grapples. It's very professional, and it's okay to go straight to the WWF wrestling ring."

  "Hahaha" Ronald hugged the Colonel. WWF wrestling competitions are actually performances. It was quite interesting to watch, but the fall was so hard that he didn't want to try it.

"The next dance scene." Ronald called a group again, this time it was all the record company employees, including Cindy's manager, Cindy's brother Butch, and the bearded man Features Attorney Hoffman.

   "Everyone follows the rhythm of the dance instructor. You are like in a disco, you form a train, follow the rhythm of the locomotive, and play by yourself. Well, let me see everyone's movements first."

   "One, two, three, four, two, two, three, four", Ronald watched everyone play freely, making it like a dance of demons.

   But the plot of this paragraph is about Cindy's friend, who brought her friend's friend, and danced with the neighbors in the apartment building. It was originally eclectic, not pursuing the professionalism of dance, but dancing like an ordinary person.

   "Oh oh oh, what is this? You have to practice more, Mr. Lawyer." Ronald saw the stingy lawyer Hoffman and danced with the same foot.

   "You should teach Mr. Lawyer well." Ronald whispered to the dance instructor, this lawyer is also an old scumbag, and he has to save money on everything. Ronald felt that he was still a bit taken advantage of by him, and used his expertise in saving money to shoot.

   For a little "revenge", he specifically asked the dance instructor to teach Hoffman an "impressive" dance step.

   "Action!"

   "Girls just have some fun,

   Have some fun! "

  The rhythm is the same, Cindy begins, and a series of group performances begin to dance. As expected of someone from the record company, everyone danced decently.

The lawyer Hoffman in the middle of   , even if he was well trained by the dance coach, did not solve the problem of his dancing with the same hands.

  The coach simply taught him the duck dance. The front hand is in front of the duck's mouth, and the back is behind the buttocks to form the duck's buttocks, so that he can dance with the same hands and feet, and he can keep up with everyone's rhythm.

   "Girls just have some fun,

   Have some fun! "

  Attorney Hoffman followed the rhythm, stretching and shrinking his forehand, even his neck, and upturned mustache, just like the feeling of a duck walking.

   "Cut!"

   "Hahahaha..." Ronald was very satisfied with this dance. After calling it off, he sat in the director's chair and laughed non-stop. After the film was completed, the lawyer Hoffman's image was absolutely wonderful.

   (end of this chapter)