"Why don't you have a room? Didn't you tell your assistant about this?" Ronald pulled Ralph Mazio into the room, gave him a towel, and asked him to wash his face with hot water.
"This was requested by Director Coppola. The character Johnny I played came from a very poor family in the Oil Head Gang. His parents fought all day long and ignored their children. That's why he was stabbed to death later.
The plot of Bob from the Gongzi Gang.”
Ralph is twenty years old, and among all the boys, along with Patrick Swayze, he is the only adult actor over twenty.
"So he wanted me to feel the feeling of not having a home to go back to. I can get five dollars a day, and then I can eat and sleep by myself. Today I didn't find a place to spend the night, so I slipped in while the front desk was not paying attention."
"You can't sleep on the street," Ronald handed him a glass of water. "How about you sleep with me tonight, and I'll talk to Francis tomorrow, and you can sleep with me from now on."
"It's okay, Ronald. This is for show." Ralph Marzio rejected Ronald's offer. "I wanted to play the role of Johnny when I auditioned, so Coppola asked me to play someone else.
When I was playing the role, I just pretended to be dead and acted randomly. I didn't want him to think that I could play other oil gangsters."
Ronald laughed. At that time, Coppola mixed up everyone's identities and put them together for the audition, which made everyone very nervous. It was rare that Mazio could think so deeply.
"You can sleep here tonight. I think Coppola just wants you to experience the feeling of being so poor that you don't even have a home. Sleeping in someone else's room can also help you fully appreciate this embarrassment.
Besides, you are always walking outside, and the old house is not soundproof, so I guess many people will be woken up by you like me."
"Okay, but I'll sleep on the floor."
Ronald knew that Mazio wanted to experience the role, so he stopped persuading him. He took out the extra sheets from the cupboard, threw them to Mazio, spread them on the floor, and let him sleep all night.
"Francis, I don't think this is going to work, right? Mazio has nowhere to go, so he is just wandering outside. If he hasn't found a family to stay with him tonight, should he be asked to find a newspaper who is out there?"
The next day, Ronald came to Coppola for advice. It seemed like it was too much to allow actors to experience life.
"And if Mazio catches a cold, it won't delay the crew's rehearsal progress even more." Seeing Coppola's indifference, Ronald found another reason.
"Yes, we have to find a place for Mazio to sleep. But the production director doesn't have any extra room." Coppola finally reacted.
"How about letting him sleep in my room?"
"No, let him sleep in my room. I'll sleep at home. I'll drive here every day from now on." Hinton couldn't stand such a thing. The novels were all about the suffering that happened around her when she was a child. Now Mazio is somewhat successful.
As an actor, there is no reason for him to share a room with a special assistant.
Coppola nodded, seeing that he didn't need to find the production director anymore and could solve the problem by paying for an extra room, so he didn't care.
"You have to give more artistic advice in the future, Ronald. I didn't ask you to be a non-staff producer."
On this day, the crew started formal rehearsal. Ronald carried a Sony betacam video recorder, and the two of them took over the rehearsal video with the photography director.
The conference hall in the hotel was arranged as a rehearsal room, with various chairs serving as props. The actors rehearsed scene by scene according to the order in the script.
"Ronnie!" the director of photography called Ronald and winked. He had run out of camera tape.
Ronald picked up his camera.
"How do I know if this red hair is natural? Is she the same color as your...ah...ah...eyebrows?" Matt Dillon sat on the chair, flipping Diane's hair in front of him with his hand.
, and then smell her neck.
"Put your feet off my backrest and shut up!" Diane Lane hid for a moment, then scolded.
"Cut! Very good. Diane, remember this is a kind of teasing, but not in a bully way. Dillon, keep your attitude."
"I know," Diane agreed while chewing gum, and then spit the gum in Dillon's direction with a pop.
She was actually very disgusted with Ti Lung's acting style, which was almost like harassment. But the director said yes, so she had no choice but to agree.
"continue……"
After the rehearsal ended in the afternoon, Ronald watched all the rehearsal tapes with Coppola and the trainee director arranged by the Directors Guild.
All the rehearsals were filmed, but Ronald didn't quite understand the need for this. It was equivalent to shooting the movie first with a shoddy Sony camera. What's the benefit of that?
"What do you think of this scene?" Coppola pointed to the scene in which Tillon's Dali flirts with Diane's Cherry in a drive-in movie theater.
"I think it's good, I feel very strong." The girl who got the internship position of the Directors Guild began to express her opinion.
Coppola looked at Ronald.
"The rhythm and the interaction between the actors are good, but the intensity of the emotions?"
Coppola nodded but did not express his opinion.
"Does he have other tricks? Save them for actual shooting?" Ronald suppressed the doubts in his heart, quietly took out his notebook, and wrote down his doubts.
"I'm going to die."
"I'm about to die."
Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe, two handsome guys said goodbye to each other in front of the hotel. Today they will be sent to a real Greaser Gang family to have dinner and sleep in their home for a while to experience life.
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"Don't be afraid, Moretti is the prototype of a member of the Oil Head Gang in the novel. He is the big guy who knocks out other people's teeth in fights. They are both very good people." Hinton comforted them both with a smile.
The two looked at each other and became even more afraid of their evening trip.
"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Moretti."
The two handsome guys gingerly knocked on the door of the family that Hinton had contacted them.
"Oh, you must be Tom and Rob." Moretti was a tall man, and he hugged the two actors warmly. His wife, who was also Italian, brought out the prepared meals and put them on the table.
"Hinton told us that you want to come and experience the family situation of the Oil Head Gang. I didn't expect that the novel of that year would finally be made into a movie today, and it would be Mr. Coppola, the director of 'The Godfather'. We Italians all respect it."
he."
Tom and Rob looked at each other, as if this big man was not as scary as the book said.
"Do you know Ponyboy and the Soda Pop family in the book?" Tom Cruise asked the question while eating dinner.
"Of course, we are good friends."
"Then the Oil Head Gang and the Young Master Gang were really sworn enemies like in the novel, and they would fight whenever they met?" Rob Lowe also discovered that the big man Moretti was actually very enthusiastic, and began to ask questions.
Moretti put down his knife and fork, "Hey, actually, many of the Gongzi Gang kids and I are teammates on the rugby team. We call them Gongzi Gang (SOC), but actually they are not much richer than us Greasers.
Tulsa is a coal mining town. The oilmen in the south are miners of Italian descent. Many young men in the north are just accountants, cashiers, technicians, etc. in coal mining companies. Their lives are better than ours, but
How much better could it be?
We fought with each other for some inexplicable reasons, and now we are stuck in this small town, and we can't go there. However, there are a few smart kids like Ma Zai who left the town and went to California, New York, and Chicago.
They are the ones who have succeeded in escaping from this poor land."
Moretti, who was the leader of the Oil Head Gang when he was young, looked at his children on the table and looked at them very lovingly, "You little brats, please listen to me. If you want to go out in the future, don't stay."
In Tulsa.”
"I read that Soda Pop in the novel seemed very pitiful. Her girlfriend also dumped her and ran away with someone else. How was Soda Pop's life in the end?"
Rob Lowe saw that the Greasy Head Gang were also people of flesh and blood and had feelings for them, and that they respected Hinton children like himself, so he boldly asked about the current situation of his character, the second brother of the protagonist Ma Tsai, Soda Soda.
"Hey, he was later drafted and died in Vietnam."
Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise stopped talking. The future of young people in this place was really hopeless.
They asked about the current situation and life details of other character prototypes, and gradually gained a deeper understanding of the characters they played.
After the two of them finished eating, they lay down at the Oil Head Gang's house for an hour. In the small shotgun room, the two actors slept on the same bed. The two of them had a better understanding of the living environment behind the characters' various behaviors.
Deep understanding.
The two of them slept for a while and then came out to say goodbye to the gang leader. They had many children at home, and if they continued to sleep, there would be no place for other people's children to sleep.
"I had no idea what was going on behind the Soda Soda character..." Rob Lowe told Tom Cruise.
The two of them entered the hotel lobby and walked to their rooms while chatting.
"Ronald, I don't want to stay here any longer."
The two suddenly discovered a red-haired girl coming out of the corner at the end of the aisle, hugging Special Assistant Ronald, and seemed to be crying.
"It seems to be Diane, our cherry?" Rob pulled Tom, and the two exchanged glances at the corner, "What's going on? It seems very interesting."
Ronald gently patted Diane in his arms and slowly comforted her.
After calling Ronald just now, Diane rushed down, hugged Ronald at the door and started complaining.
"Scared me."
"Don't worry, I'm here. Did someone play a prank on you?" Ronald felt that Diane's body was shaking, as if she was scared.
This girl is quite brave. It's not easy to be scared like this.
Ronald pulled Diane upstairs, and saw Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe at the corner, "Hey, you are here too, come up together. Diane has been teased so much, let's go help her clean up."
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"First, my doorknob was smeared with Vaseline and it couldn't turn no matter how hard it turned." Diane pointed to her door.
Ronald stretched out his hand and touched it, but there was still some residue, so it did slip when he turned the handle. The person who pulled this prank was really a genius.
"Then I went to the bathroom and saw this written on the mirror."
Diane let the three boys into the room, and the words "Go to hell, Bichi" were written in lipstick on the bathroom mirror.
"I was so angry that I used the shower head to water it and tried to wipe it off, but the shower head was also broken and it sprayed all over my face."
Diane pointed to the shower head and showed them that it had been violently damaged and water spurted out from the side as soon as it was boiled.
"I was so angry that the toilet seat was smeared with honey."
"Pfft..." Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise couldn't help laughing. This prankster really understands people's psychology. Having just done so many things, Diane must be very angry, just like that
Sit down, isn’t it all...
Ronald also laughed. He turned on the hot water, wet the towel, and wiped off the honey on the toilet seat.
"Is there anything else? I don't think you will be so scared just by looking at this." Ronald said, looking at Diane, whose hair was dyed dark red.
"Then my bed."
Diane led the three boys to the bed. The sheets on the bed had been cut off. When they lay down and rested, they would touch some stuffed toys that had been placed there, and they were startled.
"Then here", Diane opened the pillow, and there was a piece of red ink. She leaned on the pillow and was startled by the toy on the soles of her feet, and then the ink that had been added in the plastic bag in advance spurted out, scaring people.
It's quite annoying.
This series of pranks made Diane Lane miserable. She had just finished a day of rehearsal and wanted to take a rest early. When encountering this set of pranks, Ronald would probably be so angry that he would find out the perpetrator and beat him up.
Paused.
"They also left a note on my bed." Diane handed over a piece of paper.
Ronald took it and looked at it. It said, "We will come again tomorrow."
I wonder if the prank was played by actors from that gang? Maybe both parties were involved?
Ronald had a guess in his mind that Coppola might have wanted to create this disgusting situation and let the actors be involved in their emotions, in order to achieve the final effect of truly revealing their emotions.
Dai An plays Cherry, who originally belonged to the Gongzi Gang's girlfriend. She was beaten by her boyfriend, so she got close to Ma Zai, a kid from the Oil Head Gang.
Because Ma Zai was talking to a woman from the Gongzi Gang, another fight broke out between the two gangs. In the end, Johnny and Ma Zai were pushed into the pool and bullied, almost suffocating, and then Johnny stabbed Bob of the Gongzi Gang to death.
The escape scene.
Is this to make Diane feel the feeling of being rejected by both gangs? It just so happens that she lives in the middle of the two gangs.
But forget it as a prank, it's a bit too much to do it like this.
"How did you arrange your time today? Is there no one in the room all the time?" Ronald asked Diane.
"First have breakfast, then go to rehearsal, then come back for lunch..." Diane said.
"What about tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow will be about the same."
Ronald had a plan in his mind, "Tom, there are paints for painting scenes that the art team put there in my room. Go get a bottle."