Exploiting Hollywood 1980 - Chapter 751

   After two more days, Patrick Swayze’s ankle basically didn’t prevent him from shooting dance scenes.

   And Ronald’s budget also began to dry up, the dance hall built in the hot spring resort hotel finally ushered in the last dance scene.

   Dr. Hausman’s anger towards his youngest daughter, baby, has not subsided. On the last day of the Kellerman Resort Hotel, when the family attended the farewell party, the baby was sitting alone in the corner, and Dr. Haussman didn’t pay much attention to her.

  baby didn’t speak, and looked at her sister Lisa who was participating in the chorus on stage.

   Lover Johnny has been fired, and his dancer friends have also been deprived of participating in every farewell party, and they have the opportunity to perform on stage and can only watch from the back row of the ballroom.

  baby was sitting at the corner of the round table, alone, gloomy. Only her mother, the attentive Mrs. Hausman, looked at her status from time to time.

   “Summer is coming to an end, autumn is about to begin,

   Tonight, the memories will come up again, and they will appear in my heart…”

   Ronald went on to shoot a few shots, the doctor’s eldest daughter Lisa, and the hotel owner’s son, sang the final song of the holiday on stage.

   is the theme song of the Kellerman Hotel in the script, “Kellerman’s Happy Hour”. The chorus of guests and staff sang very badly, especially Lisa, which sounded like the cry of a hen when she was killing a chicken.

   “Very good, your performance is very good.”

   Ronald gave special thanks to Jane Brook who played Lisa. She herself has a good voice, and can act like a tone-deaf girl, thanks to the solid foundation she has laid on Broadway.

   After the filming, Ronald became more and more fond of these Broadway actors. The basic skills are solid, and the supporting roles can also be played very well. And not afraid to play an unpleasant character. In their philosophy, it is not because a role is not good-looking, it will not be played seriously.

   So these actors can really do every supporting role and convince the audience.

   “Prepare for the next scene”

  The camera turned and swept across the faces of the staff who played the hotel one by one, and everyone gave a close-up of a second and a half.

  This is a scene that is not in the script, and Ronald added it to show everyone’s reluctance to send off guests this year.

   Of course, the real reason is actually that Ronald wanted to give these little supporting roles who played the green leaves a chance to show his face.

   All of their previous scenes were on the side of the scene, wearing waiter costumes serving tea and pouring water. Even if there are close-up shots, the focus of the audience’s eyes will not stay on them, but the protagonist’s story.

   But these off-Broadway, off-Broadway actors, even with human backgrounds and dragon roles, played very diligently and meticulously. The audience will never see a play that they don’t feel like a waiter.

  In order to thank these dedicated supporting roles, Ronald decided to give them a little reward when the filming ended.

   “cut!”

   “Good acting, thank you… I like your smile very much, thank you… I’ll have to cooperate with you in the last dance scene later, it will be filmed very late…”

  Ronald shook hands with them one by one and thanked them, making them very moved. …

  Who doesn’t know the value of a faceless shot? To be able to have a close-up on screen, to be able to appear in the final credits. In the future, when the agent helps him find a new job, he can add a line of qualifications for filming on the resume behind the audition photo.

  “a!” Shooting continues

   The waiter who played Penny pregnant and later hooked up with Vivian, the wife of a wealthy businessman, walked in through the gate.

   Dr. Hausman, Jerry Auerbach, stood up, stopped him, took a check from his jacket pocket, and handed it to him.

   “Good luck in medical school, my boy.”

  Dr. Hausman is a good man who believes in and practices the philosophy of President Kennedy.

   “Don’t ask what your country has done for you, ask what you have done for your country?”

   So Dr. Hausman saw this waiter, saved up the tuition, and was finally able to go to Yale Medical School, which I appreciate very much. Wrote a check to help with the child’s tuition.

   “Thanks, I also wanted to thank you for helping me with Penny. She messed us all up.”

  The waiter knew that it was Dr. Hausman who helped with Penny’s surgery.

   “What?” Dr. Hausman paled in shock, his brows furrowed, and his expression changed from admiration to doubt within a second.

“Ah?” The waiter didn’t expect that Dr. Hausman didn’t know, “I thought baby told you, ah, I’m not really sure that it was… You know a woman like Penny, and everyone possible……”

  Doctor Hausman’s expression changed from doubt to disgust again.

   He slid the check that the other party hadn’t had time to put in his pocket, put it back in his pocket, and sat back in his seat.

   “cut!”

  Ronald enjoyed watching it next to him. These veteran Broadway-trained actors can play this kind of play with a piece of cake. They are natural and smooth, and the audience will like this role very much.

   Each group started to move their devices, and the focus turned to the entrance of the ballroom.

  The story is filmed here, the story of the protagonist has sunk to the bottom, and the audience has to wait for a big explosion.

   The shot below represents the beginning of the big turning point at the end. Ronald had to be careful.

  If it is shot well, it can immediately push the audience to the ** part of the play.

  “a!”

   Two hours later, with an order, Johnny and Penny, as well as all the dancers, all appeared at the door in the long shot.

   “Prepare for the next game”, waved his hands to stop everyone from applauding, and began to turn the camera to the door of the hall.

   I am afraid that the next big scene will take a long time, so Ronald will not make these polite applause, and seize the time to shoot the following scenes.

  The interior was brightly lit, with several headlights shining on the two gates.

   A black shadow appeared outside the gate, imprinted on the ivory curtain that covered the part of the glass on the gate.

The door slams open, and Johnny, played by Patrick Thwaites, reappears in the Kellerman Hotel.

The dancers standing at the back of the hall were all dancers who had been deprived of their right to play. They greeted Johnny one by one. The fat girl was still smiling. Everyone knew that Johnny and the baby were lovers. They were very happy to see him come back. . …

   “cut!”

  Ronald is very happy that this shot was shot according to his own design. This is also how he imitated the appearance of the bad guy played by Willem Dafoe in “Street of Fire”.

  The audience has a hope, hoping that Johnny and the baby’s lover will eventually get married, and there is a shadow appearing on the door, which is a pre-indication.

  Then the bottom line came out, and the audience’s emotions pressed down by the previous picture of the two parting began to rise rapidly after this ingenious turning point.

   All the beginnings and turns in the movie are for the final ** service. This is the most rewarding for the audience.

   Wearing a black leather jacket, the very handsome Johnny looked around and finally found the baby in the corner.

   He walked over and stood by the table.

  baby found out that his sweetheart had gone and returned, with a look of joy on his face.

   “cut!”

  The crew began to rearrange the camera, ready to push close-ups and close-ups.

   While the lights were being re-lit, Patrick Swaytz came over and said he wanted to talk to Ronald alone.

   “What’s the matter?” Ronald asked.

   “I think this line is a bit unspeakable.”

   “What can’t you say?”

  Ronald knew what Switz was saying “nobody  putbabyintheer”

   “Don’t you think this sentence is too naive? It seems to be something a middle school student said to his prom partner.”

   Ronald backed away, not expecting Patrick Thwaites waiting for him here.

   In fact, he was right, this sentence was imitating the tone of those middle school students with excess hormones at the prom.

“Johnny is a mature and sophisticated dancer, and it’s very offensive for him to say that. I think he should be a man who can say something a little more mature, like ‘baby, so you’re here.’ “

  ”Eleanor”, Ronald didn’t argue with him, and turned to call the screenwriter Eleanor. See how she convinces her favorite single-eyed actor.

   In fact, Swayze’s dilemma, Ronald understands very well.

   This sentence is indeed very similar to the naive language spoken by ninth graders, but this movie was originally meant to be a cool movie for teenage women. Isn’t this confession just right into their hearts?

  Patrick Switz may be afraid that this iconic line will be very viral, and this line may follow him for a long time in the future. Already in his thirties, if he said this naive ninth grade language was remembered by the audience, how would he get a role in a serious production in the future?

“Patrick, you don’t understand the minds of our women. Especially the minds of girls graduating from high school. This sentence is better than any love words. After the lover left, he couldn’t let himself go, and he came back and invited himself to the last dance, and said Who can resist a moment like this and make yourself the center of attention at the dance?”

  Eleanor is in a hurry, how can she change her lines with her own girly dream, this is the most important sentence in all the lines. Wasn’t her dream of being a girl back then that her sweetheart would save her and become a prom queen?

   “But, I can’t say this.” Patrick Swayze is also thirty-four after all, this kind of line is really…

   “Let’s do this, take one shot according to Eleanor’s idea, and another one according to your idea, and let’s see which one is better.”

   Ronald came out and muddled.

   This trick is a small trick often used by directors. Actors are a group of emotional people, and sometimes their emotions are dictated by their emotions. They will be obsessed with a certain idea on the spot, and it is difficult to persuade them on the spot.

   But over time, they can often understand why the director at the time asked them to do it.

   But Ronald couldn’t wait until Switz figured it out himself, so all he had to do was coax him into taking two shots. When it comes to the later stage, which one to use is up to the editor.

   An actor of Switz’s stature would never go into the editing room to see his own footage.

   “Okay, I’ll try them all.”

   “No one can keep the baby in the corner.” Johnny said rhetorically to the baby, then raised his hand and invited him to dance with him.

   “You…” Dr. Hausman was about to have a seizure when he saw Johnny ignoring that he was still next to his daughter.

  Johnny and baby walked to the stage together. Dr. Hausman also stood up and wanted to go up to stop it.

   Fortunately, Mrs. Hausman found out that the two were only going to dance, not to elope. He also got up and grabbed her husband.

   “cut!”

  Ronald laughed. Although Switz was embarrassed when he said it, as if he had eaten something unpalatable, from a bystander’s point of view, the effect was very good. Teenage female audiences will love it.