Brother and sister Brad and Stacey; Mark Ratner, who has a crush on Stacey; Mark's good friend, Mike Damon, who got Stacey pregnant; Stacey's best friend Linda Barrett.
The main plots of these five characters are relatively close. Ronald arranged a plot of about 60 minutes. The plots of other characters in the novel are relatively scattered. How can I select a few characters with more plots and add them to the rest?
It takes more than 20 minutes to fill up, and to interact with the five main characters, it takes some thinking.
Thinking that there were racial quotas for the characters in "Famous," Ronald called the novel's author, Cameron Crowe, to discuss which characters should be retained, and other minor roles should be eliminated, leaving only a few lines.
The result of the discussion was to retain one Italian, one black, and one Jewish.
The Italian-born student character Jeff Spicoli is good at surfing, but has a low IQ and is a bit silly.
A black man, Charles Jefferson, was tall and strong. He joined the high school football team and was a star player with the talent to play professional games.
A Jewish teacher, Mr. Hand. He teaches American history.
Spicoli, who is of Italian descent, is at the center of these secondary characters.
Once he and his friends smoked too much, stole the black Jefferson's car, raced on the road, and crashed it. Jefferson vented his anger on the opponent's offensive players in the next game and kept a clean sheet in a key game.
Mr. Hand was dissatisfied with Spicoli's tardiness, eating in class and other off-line behaviors, so he kicked him out of class and vowed not to let him graduate.
In the end, when Spicoli failed history and was fined from attending the prom, Mr. Hand went to his home to give him extra lessons and finally gave him a C grade so that he could graduate and attend the prom.
These characters interact with the five main characters. For example, when Brad Hamilton captured the robber in the convenience store at the end, Spicoli happened to go to the convenience store to buy something and helped Brad.
Arrange all the plots on the card solitaire, not too much, not too much, just enough to fill up the 90-minute plot.
With the plot line and various details in mind, Ronald wrote quickly on the typewriter.
As Ronald tapped the keyboard of the typewriter, the keys of the cast metal letters hit the ribbon one after another, printing black letters one by one on the manuscript paper. Lines of words were formed on the manuscript paper. With a ding, the typewriter
Moved to the end position.
Ronald pushed the connecting rod with his hand, and the roller containing the white paper returned to its original position. The roller was pushed down exactly one line, and the new words appeared at the beginning of the next line of manuscript paper.
One by one, the manuscript paper was taken off the typewriter and new white paper was put on it. Soon the typed manuscript paper became thicker bit by bit.
Ding!
A few nights later, as the last line of the sentence on page 91 was typed, the first draft of the script was completed. Ronald rearranged the 91 sheets of manuscript paper and placed the first page cover at the top.
On it was the title of the play: "Fast-Pace Richmond High."
Story: Cameron Crowe.
Screenplay: Ronald Lee, Cameron Crowe.
Looking at the results of several days of hard work, Ronald was very satisfied. He picked up the manuscript paper, clamped it with a big clip, and flipped through it at will.
After discovering a few spelling errors, Ronald got up, moved his body, took a hot water bottle, and made himself a pack of Lipton black tea.
After smelling the aroma of the black tea, Ronald put the tea aside for the time being. He lay half-ly on the three-person couch and closed his eyes to rest. After a while, he would gather his energy and check for spelling and grammatical errors, and then he could complete the second chapter.
One draft.
Ronald thought, after more than a month of conceiving the plot, he was actually constantly thinking about the drafts of each character and plot development. Unexpectedly, after he started writing, he actually completed it in one go...
After days of intensive typing and revision, Ronald never had a good rest.
Ronald, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly felt exhausted. His eyelids felt heavy and his head paused twice involuntarily.
He wanted to reach for the black tea and take a sip to refresh himself, but his hands seemed to be looking forward to rest and could not reach out. Ronald lay down on the sofa, and soon fell asleep.
When Ronald opened his eyes in the darkness, he seemed to be in a small movie theater again, and the familiar words "FBI warning" appeared on the screen again.
Are you dreaming? Could it be that "Fast-paced Richmond High" is the third movie in your dream?
The words "Universal Home Video" lit up on the screen, and two lines of subtitles appeared on the screen: "Fast-paced Richmond High, 15th Anniversary Edition."
Sure enough, it was this movie. "Huh? This movie actually had a commemorative video tape released 15 years later?" Ronald felt something vaguely. Wasn't this a perfect fit for his dream? A movie that would still be released twenty years later.
Movies watched by people.
The screen went dark, then lit up again. A starry sky background was moving quickly, and an earth appeared on it. A line of logo "Global" appeared on the earth, and below it was a line of small characters, a company owned by mca.
The music started playing, and the title "Fast-paced Richmond High" appeared on the screen again.
Ronald wanted to struggle to open his eyes and look carefully at the details of this movie. What plots were filmed? Are they the same as his script? Which actors were selected? What filming techniques were used?
However, the feeling of sleepiness made his eyes close involuntarily.
Vaguely hearing the movie still playing, Ronald struggled to open his eyes. Two children wanted to buy tickets for a Van Halen concert and walked up to a man who looked like a scalper.
"I heard that you have tickets for Van Halen's concert? How much do the seats in the first ten rows cost?"
"Twenty dollars a piece."
"The original price is only 12 yuan and 50 cents."
"Then you go and buy it?" Scalper replied stiffly.
"Forget it, I heard that tickets elsewhere are sold out, so I'd better buy them here. After all, it's a Van Halen concert."
"Okay, here are two."
This scalper is a child from a poor family. Mike Damon is the one who earns living expenses as a scalper, right? The actor they chose is really good. He has the temperament of a poor child at first glance.
Ronald thought about it and fell asleep again.
After an unknown amount of time, Ronald was woken up by the sound. Someone seemed to be quarreling on the screen. An old man who looked like a teacher asked seriously to a stunned young man who had just entered the classroom.
"Why are you late for history class this time?"
The camera turned to the student, and Ronald found that he knew this actor. It was during the casting process for "The Blue Lagoon". Although his temperament was very similar to Tarzan in all aspects, he was not tall enough to play with Brooke Shields. What was the name of the actor who was abandoned?
Coming?
"I just can't make it on time, Mr. Hand."
"You mean, you can't, or you don't want to?"
"I don't know... there are long lines to buy food."
There was a burst of laughter below, and someone was saying, "This kid has been smoking like crazy since he was in third grade."
"If you have something to eat, take it back to your home to eat. Don't eat it in my class." The teacher named Hande was obviously angry, and he went on to say:
"Why are you always late for history class, Mr. Spicoli? Why are you always so shamelessly wasting my time?"
Spicoli was stunned for a while, "I don't know!"
"That's great, Mr. Spicoli." The history teacher Hand was stunned by Spicoli's stupidity. "This is a good answer. In the future, you ask me, Mr. Hand, can I pass the history class? I
That's the answer, I don't know! Mr. Spicoli."
Is this the actor who plays the Jewish teacher Mr. Hand and the Italian student and surfer Spicoli?
They acted very well, especially the one who played Spicoli. Ronald tried his best to remember his name. It seemed that he was not acting, but he became the silly Spicoli.
What's his name? By the way, it seems to be Sean Penn.
Ronald remembered the name of the actor who conveyed very strong emotions to the audience during this performance—Sean Penn.
This memory seemed to use up Ronald's remaining energy. He felt very sleepy and fell asleep again.
The videotape played for a long time, and Ronald saw many scenes in a daze, but they were all in a half-dream and half-awake state, leaving no memory.
He just felt a little cold and reached for the covering.
"Wow! Plop!" It seemed like someone was diving into the swimming pool.
Ronald seemed to feel the chill. When he opened his eyes, a tall man dressed as a pirate appeared on the screen.
Is this Brad Hamilton, the main character who works at Captain Hook's Fish and Chips?
Ronald had just written a plot about Brad being fired from Burger King, and to pay off the car mortgage, he went to work at Captain Hook's Fish & Fish fast food restaurant, which he hated, and put on a pirate-style costume to deliver food. Eighty percent of these actors were playing Brad.
Already.
"Stacey, do your parents know you are having a party at home?" Brad asked the girl in the water.
"It's okay, Mark and Mike, they are both my classmates."
Sure enough, they are brother and sister Brad and Stacey.
"Hi Linda" Brad greeted another girl across the pool. This was Stacey's best friend Linda.
The camera cut to Linda, a girl with black hair and big eyes, wearing a bright red bikini, appeared on the screen, waved and greeted Brad, "Hi, Brad."
"Can you please keep your voice down? I still have homework to do." Brad said to Linda, lifted the curtain and entered the room.
When the camera turned, Brad entered the room, secretly opened the window, and stared at Linda standing by the pool. It turned out that he had a crush on his sister's friend Linda.
He began to imagine the scene when he and Linda were in love. Linda poked her head out of the swimming pool, water drops fell from her beautiful face, smiled sweetly, and said affectionately to Brad, "Hi, Brad
."
"You know I've always thought you were handsome?"
As she said this, Linda pulled the handrail and climbed up from the swimming pool. It was unclear whether it was raining lightly or someone was pouring water into the sky. Thin and dense water droplets gently hit Linda in her swimsuit on her face and body.
.
The girl looked at Brad lovingly and stretched her hands to her chest...
Suddenly the image on the screen jumped, and then there was a blank horizontal white stripe for a second. The sound also suddenly paused. The screen jumped to a scene of Linda and Brad, who was wearing a high-quality suit, kissing.
"No, what's going on? Why does the videotape seem to be broken at the critical moment?"
"ah……"
Ronald became anxious and fell off the sofa.
"Ah...ah sneeze"
Ronald woke up from his dream and found that he had caught a cold because he slept on the sofa without a quilt.