In the next few days, Ronald relied on constant permutations and combinations to basically determine the role of the most important heroine, Stacey, and cut off many details of her plot, leaving only her relationship with other characters.
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Stacey is Brad's sister and a student at Richmond High School.
Stacey works at Perry's Pizza in the Richmond Mall, where the main menu is New York-style pizza with chicken wings.
The shop assistants all wore dresses with red and white arrow stripes, white aprons, and red hairpins in their hair to look very clean.
Stacey's good friend Linda Barrett, who works together, is an outgoing and beautiful girl. She has an out-of-town boyfriend who is older than her, so she knows many dating secrets than Stacy.
Linda encouraged Stacy to ask for the phone number of a handsome dining customer. The handsome man was a 26-year-old audio salesman, and he took the initiative to ask Stacey out.
The next day, Stacey told Linda that she just felt uncomfortable, and Linda reassured her that she would feel better and better in the future.
The handsome guy later stopped dating Stacey. Stacey mistakenly thought that she was not attractive enough and was not like the girls on the cheerleading team who could play tricks.
Linda taught on the spot in the cafeteria and attracted whistles from the male players of the opposite football team. Linda reassured her that the handsome guy was just a salesman and she was not going to marry him.
Stacey is dating Mark Ratner, a classmate who works as a ticket collector at the Richmond Mall Cinema. Mark is a shy boy who secretly likes Stacey. Mark goes to Stacey's house for a date and meets Stacey.
After the kiss, Stacey felt very nervous and anxious and left Stacey's house.
Stacey and Mark's friend, Mike Damon, a boy from a poor family, expressed his feelings for Mark. Mike Damon made a living by reselling concert tickets and being a scalper, and he was very good at talking. Stacey mistakenly thought that Mike Damon
If you like yourself, invite him to your home.
The two had a relationship, but it turned out that Mike was just bragging, and he ended it soon.
Unexpectedly, Stacey found out that she was pregnant a month later and forced Mike Damon to pay half of the money for surgery...
Ronald wrote Stacey's plot and faxed it to Cameron Crowe.
It was already very cold in New York in late November. The lowest temperature reached 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4-5 degrees Celsius), coupled with drizzle and strong winds. Ronald wrapped up his clothes tightly and got out of the car in three steps at a time.
Apartment stairs.
The janitor's daughter had just entered high school and was the same age as Stacey in the script. The janitor introduced Ronald to his daughter. Knowing that Ronald was a movie screenwriter, the little girl smiled and asked him when she could see his movie released.
"The movie 'Famous' that I wrote has been released for a long time, haven't you seen it?"
Ronald greeted the little girl with a smile.
"It was an R-rated film. My father didn't have time to take me to see it, and it was released later." The little girl still felt a little regretful.
"Well, you can go to Staten Island to watch it in the future. Old movies are always shown there."
Ronald climbed up the stairs and suddenly stopped. He felt as if he had forgotten something important.
For a moment, Ronald couldn't remember what he had forgotten, so he continued to start the screenwriting project. The plot cards were arranged in the first row from left to right, and then in the second row from right to left. All the plots were like a long snake.
, meandering and swinging, and finally exceeded the red line drawn by Ronald by more than twenty photos.
It was still longer, so Ronald started the permutation and combination game again, taking away a few pieces to see the overall effect, then taking away a few more pieces, and then putting the original ones back, and kept experimenting.
"Ring, ring, ring..." The phone rang, it was my cousin Donna calling.
"Ronnie, guess what happened?"
"What?"
"That fat boy director you hate, his new movie was released two days ago."
"Ah? Heaven's Gate is finally released?"
Ronald felt a little queasy. He hadn't heard from Michael Cimino in a long time. The film "Heaven's Gate" was finally finished.
"Don't you want to go take a look?" Donna said on the phone.
"A friend of Kathryn Bigelow's who participated in the movie said that the story of the movie is very dull. Why don't you go see it yourself?"
"It's R-rated, I can't watch it myself. I'd better go find my mom." Donna hung up the phone.
R-rated? This movie can still be rated R, probably because there will be fewer viewers. Ronald gloated.
"Wait, R-rated?"
Ronald realized that this was the important thing that he had been unable to remember just now.
"Fast-paced Richmond High" has a small amount of nudity and some foul language, which are all factors that qualify it as an R-rated movie.
Now that I think about it, Stacey's casting turned out to be a very important issue. How do you deal with the casting of actors in youth films?
What are the specific union regulations? Ronald himself is not a member of the Screen Actors Guild and does not have access to the manual. And the crew's handling of the shooting scene may not be in full compliance with the manual.
Originally, these filming matters had nothing to do with the screenwriter. But Ronald decided to demand himself as a director. If he were a director, how should he solve this kind of casting problem?
Ronald called his advertising agent Eddie. Some time ago, Ronald took the time to shoot an advertisement for cling film. Eddie continued to contact him for advertising shoots for daily necessities. It didn’t take much brainpower and he could still make money.
Point some money.
"In the advertising industry, there are indeed time regulations. Children of different ages have limits on the hours they can work every day. Especially in places like New York and Los Angeles where unions are strong, there will be staff to supervise.
I don’t know much about the film industry, I think it’s about the same. Why don’t you ask the little girl who lives in your house about the actress?”
"Diane? She is still filming in Canada, so I can't contact her."
"That's right. Nowadays, many film crews go to Canada to shoot, especially youth movies, which can circumvent the ubiquitous labor union supervision."
After hanging up the phone, Ronald felt that he still needed to ask someone knowledgeable in the industry.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! How about asking Brooke Shields' mother Terry about the filming regulations? Her daughter has already filmed two movies, "The Blue Lagoon" and the one she is currently filming.
"endless Love".
I hung up the phone and went to Brooke Shields' house. Terry answered the phone.
"Oh, Ronald. Do you want to know the shooting regulations for actors in youth films? In fact, it is a limited shooting time every day. It cannot be earlier than seven in the morning and cannot be later than nine-thirty in the evening.
There is a limit to the total shooting time per day, which varies according to age, and then there must be tutoring courses.”
"What if we don't shoot in America? Will the regulations be relaxed?"
"Theoretically, you need to abide by the regulations wherever you go to shoot, Ronald." Terry answered in a bureaucratic tone, but in fact he had already told Ronald the answer.
"Mom, who is Ronald? Is he the director of the CK commercial? Why not ask him to go to the skating rink with us." Brooke Shields heard Terry's call and asked.
Terry held down the phone with one hand and said to her daughter, "Brookey, your date today is Leif Garrett."
Leif Garrett is a child actor and teenage singer who was once very popular. He and Brooke Shields appeared in the headlines of entertainment news at the same time in 1978.
Now that Leif Garrett has returned after training, he has become very popular. Terry has the idea of letting Brooke appear with him again.
"Okay, I get it." Brooke Shields waved her hand.
Terry picked up the receiver again and said, "Ronald, do you have any more questions?"
"I would like to know what the Screen Actors Guild's rules are for shooting scenes like the Blue Coral Reef?" Ronald asked.
"Why do you want to know this?"
"I'm adapting a young adult novel into a screenplay, and there's a character in it who looks a bit like Brooke in The Blue Lagoon, so I wanted to ask someone with actual filming experience for advice," Ronald explained.
"This kind of scene cannot be shot head-on, otherwise it will be rated X.
The upper body is wider, but for the image of Brooke, I always ask to use a stand-in. After all, Hollywood is not an art film like Europe..."
After thanking Terry, Ronald hung up the phone.
After thinking for a while, he called the leader Roger Coleman again.
Coleman happened to be at the company and answered his call.
"Mr. Coleman, I found a problem when I was writing the script..."
Roger Corman told him that the usual approach in Hollywood is to find an older actor to play the role.
"For example, when the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" starring Judy Garland was filmed, an adult actor played the protagonist Dorothy.
This is not only due to the restrictions of union rules, but also the instability of young actors' acting skills. Child star talents like Shirley Temple are rare to see.
Most young actors sometimes fall into a sudden depression during filming and are unable to complete the filming. For cost reasons, Hollywood still adopts the method of playing big and small on a large scale."
"Thank you, Mr. Coleman." Ronald knew how to make a teen movie.
It seems that we need to find a young actress to play Stacey. Ronald wrote in his notebook.