"Why do you still need to reshoot? It has been shut down for two months, right?" Ronald came to the PolyGram Pictures backlot, a woodland in the snow, where Zeffirelli was drinking wine and waiting for him.
"You'll understand just by looking at the length of the finished film. How about some wine?" Zeffirelli asked him to sit on the director's chair and gave him a copy of the written material.
"No, I remember when I first met you, you liked to drink espresso?" Ronald waved his hand and refused to drink during the day. He sat down and read the information in his hand. This was an application report for MPAA rating. Finally
The final film length is one hour and fifty minutes.
"I need alcohol when I create." Zeffirelli replied.
"Why does it seem like a lot of length was cut off?" Ronald asked. The original script was one hour and fifty-five minutes long.
"I've actually edited it and submitted it for review once, and it was rated x-rated. The passionate scenes didn't pass the test."
"Ah? Isn't this serious?" Ronald was surprised. "Sexual scenes with this level of passion are usually R-rated." If it were rated
United Artists, which produces X-rated films, has suffered miserably. Nowadays, no major studio will deliberately produce X-rated films.
"PolyGram is a new production company. They originally released records." Zeffirelli took a sip of whiskey.
"At that time, I spent a lot of effort in the studio, and I had to cut all the passionate scenes shot by a stuntman. There were only a few passionate scenes, and there was a scene where Brooke leaned on the hero's shoulder and talked, and pinched her big toe.
A few reaction shots taken.”
It seems that PolyGram, a new player in the movie, is still in a bit of trouble. The new player doesn't know the unspoken rules very well? He might also be caught by MPAA and try to show off his power. Ronald thought to himself.
"Then how can I help you?"
"The MPAA rating is mainly based on this passionate scene. So I had to cut out about one minute of the scene, so the emotion of the whole movie was not enough. I had to reshoot a strong ending." Zeffirelli explained.
road.
"Porky spent the whole afternoon filming yesterday, but her mood is still not full enough. I still need you to come up with a solution."
"What can I do? I won't pinch her toes again."
Ronald thought to himself that Brooke Shields' acting skills were a result of being a model since she was a child. Her mother did not find an acting coach to improve her, and it was not an option to always engage in crooked ways.
"This is also Terry's idea. She also feels that Brooke can perform better with you present." Zeffirelli handed over another two pages of the script, which is the content of today's scene.
Ronald took the script and went over to say hello to Terry at the door of the trailer.
"Ronald, I'm so glad you could come. Zeffirelli wanted a very emotional ending to the scene. The shooting didn't go well yesterday, so I thought of you."
"Closer view:
Jed looked at David behind the iron bars of the mental hospital window, and the two lovers said goodbye to each other heartbroken.
The camera zooms in to a close-up:
Jade felt that the most precious love in her heart was broken, and there would never be another person to love her like David. A tear flowed from her eyes."
"The script is not difficult. Isn't Brooke good at crying scenes?" Ronald didn't know what the problem was.
"Zeffirelli asked not to cry directly, but to have a process of emotional brewing, turning, and explosion. Brooke is still a child, and we cannot ask her to meet the standards of an adult actress. I thought Zeffirelli was of Italian origin,
Will slowly guide and inspire Brooke.
But he tried many times to no avail. Bo Ji took the initiative to tell me that you were able to guide her emotions when she was filming a commercial last time, so I want to ask you to try. Continuing the stalemate like this is not the answer, Bo Ji.
I also have to shoot a public service announcement against youth smoking."
"It turns out that reshoots were delayed, and Terry was not satisfied," Ronald suddenly realized, "but the emotional effect of close-ups and close-ups cannot be produced, and the director will not approve it. The audience looks at such a big face on the screen.
, if the expression cannot arouse resonance, it will definitely not work.”
"Let me talk to Brooke first?"
"Brooke, it's Ronald who did your last jeans commercial." Terry opened the door of the trailer and called inside.
"Hello, Ronald." Brooke Shields was sitting on a stool in a depressed mood, picking up a comb and combing her hair.
"What happened?" Ronald asked.
"I couldn't perform the effect the director asked for. He asked me to think about some sad things first, and then slowly let the emotion change from loss to sadness, and then shed a tear. Not too fast, not too many."
"Did you think of something sad when you were filming an advertisement last time? You can also think about that thing this time."
"I thought about it, but when I thought about it, I felt very sad and couldn't help crying. I couldn't shed a tear slowly like that." Brooke Shields thought to herself, thinking about the time when her mother was an alcoholic and when she was alone at home.
will cry.
But this way of crying brought too many tears too quickly, and it didn't meet the director's requirements. It would be better if I knew how to act.
"Have you ever been sad? Don't be so sad, just a little sad." Ronald had no choice but to enlighten her.
"Um...yes." Bo Ji glanced at Ronald. It was because you didn't smile well during the commercial last time and you made him cry.
Ronald paid attention to Porkie's expression, and there was a process of ups and downs, and quickly said, "Okay, just use that one, remember this emotion, let's give it a try."
Brooke Shields hummed, put on a white woolen hat, arranged her hair so that her long hair was exposed from both sides of the back of the hat, then put on a down jacket over a turtleneck sweater, and walked out of the trailer with Ronald.
"Huh..." A chill hit her, and Brooke Shields exhaled a stream of white air.
"She found an emotional memory, try it?" Ronald walked up to Zeffirelli and said. Brooke Shields is naturally beautiful, and she is at the age before white girls gain weight. Brooke, who is wearing very simple clothes, only wears
A white hat can be very beautiful.
"Each department, let's do it once." Zeffirelli cheered up and called the filming team to prepare.
The camera covered Brooke's upper body, and then the coolies pushed the camera forward along the track laid on the snow.
Ronald stood behind the camera, watching Brooke Shields' performance. Her expression slowly became a little painful, then her eyebrows raised, her facial features began to distort, and she was about to cry.
"What kind of memory does Brooke have in mind? The mood matches the requirements of the script very well." Ronald thought.
"Ronald is such a bastard. He always said that I laugh unnaturally." Brooke Shields tried her best to recall her emotions on the day of filming the commercial. "Then I heard my sisters' jokes, and everything went smoothly."
The memory quickly appeared on her face, and Brooke Shields, who should have cried, smiled.
"cut!"
"The beginning part is good, but you will cry in the later part. Think about that memory again, Brooke." Zeffirelli felt that it was much more real than the previous crying method of turning on the faucet. Ronald was quite good at guiding the little girl.
The actor's emotions.
"Cut, finally cry, Brooke."
"Cut, just a little bit, just one tear is enough."
…
After doing it several times in a row, Zeffirelli became anxious again. He was in a good mood before, but why couldn't he cry at the last moment?
"Ronald, go pinch her and make her cry." Zeffirelli asked Ronald to pinch Brooke Shields again.
"I won't go, you go by yourself, Franco." Ronald refused.
"It's useless for me to pinch you, you have to pinch me."
"What difference does it make?"
"I'm going to discuss it with Terry." Zeffirelli walked to Terry and murmured with her for a while.
"Ronald, go pinch Brooke, otherwise we won't be able to finish the filming." Terry actively asked Ronald to pinch her daughter.
"Ronald will be careful. This is just to let Brooke feel a little physical pain, not really to make her cry." Zeffirelli was still explaining at the side.
"No, no mother would let someone pinch her daughter." Ronald was unwilling, "Franco, why don't you pinch it yourself? Or let Terry do it, she knows the severity."
"This is not a matter of severity, Ronald. I will discuss it with Brooke, and she is willing to do it." Terry hurried to the trailer to discuss with her daughter.
She walked very fast, thinking along the way: "Zeffirelli also said just now that only when young men pinch her will Brooke show the inseparable expression between young male and female lovers. This play
The character in it burned down her home and even indirectly caused her father's death, but she still loved him and couldn't bear to leave him."
Zeffirelli on the other side looked at Ronald with a smirk on his face and thought, "It depends on whether you want to pinch him or not. I told Terry that as long as Ronald pinches him, he can probably get through two."
. Sometimes the hormones between young men and women will automatically complete everything, and what they show are very real emotions."
"Then I pinch you?" Ronald saw that Brooke Shields also agreed. Indeed, mother and daughter needed to finish filming quickly and rushed to shoot the anti-smoking public service announcement. "That's it, you can feel the pain and remember
If something painful happens, just tell me and I will use this much force."
Ronald tested his strength, then squatted behind Brooke Shields, raised his hands and pinched her waist.
Zeffirelli exchanged glances with the director of photography, and after knowing that Ronald was completely outside the viewfinder, he called out the command to start.
Ronald squatted on the ground, pinched lightly, and Brooke Shields started performing in front of the camera.
He hid behind Poji, not knowing what was going on in front of him, so he could only maintain this awkward posture and pinch Poji. The smell of the young girl came over, and Ronald maintained his posture, his whole body stiffened.
"cut!"
Ronald, relieved, sat on the ground, then got up again, "How is it? Can the lens be used?"
Seeing Zeffirelli's raised thumb, Ronald breathed a sigh of relief and said to Brooke Shields, "Brooke, I didn't pinch you, did I?"
Poji smiled and said, "No, it's just a little feeling that helps me find the painful feeling. Ronald, I feel like filming with you is like playing a game, it's not troublesome at all."
When Ronald heard this, he said seriously: "Brother, do you like acting? If you want to continue to advance in your acting career, it's time to find an acting coach."
"But my mother said that I was still a little girl and not yet ready to act like an adult actress, so she always picked kind old directors for my roles, hoping that they would treat me like their granddaughter."
Well, her mother had already planned and didn't want Brooke to learn acting skills too early. In fact, for Brooke Shields, in order to maximize profits, it would be better to make more commercials and movies that don't require much acting skills.
At least that's the case for her mother. She systematically studied acting and had more choices, but she wasn't necessarily as obedient as she is now.
"I heard that New York TV stations are going to ban the advertisement for that pair of jeans. Is it true?" Seeing Terry coming over, Ronald stopped talking to Brooke and instead asked Terry a question.
"Ha, yes. They thought this would kill Brooke's popularity. In January this year, Brooke appeared on the cover of a fashion magazine. Anyway, other cities are still airing this advertisement."
Ronald dealt with Terry for a moment, then turned back to chat with Zeffirelli, "When will the movie be released?"