The plane landed in Tel Aviv, Israel's second largest city. Minahan was very anxious. The people he sent picked up Ronald, pulled him into a jeep, and drove him to the Negev Desert in the south.
This desert occupies nearly half of Israel's land. It is usually very hot, only slightly better in winter. The "Sahara" crew shot scenes in the Sahara Desert here.
The car drove to the hotel in Beersheba, a city in the northern desert. Ronald jumped out of the car and saw Minahan waiting for him at the door of the hotel from a distance.
"You are finally here, Ronald. If you don't come, I will use extraordinary measures to deal with this annoying bitch."
"Who?"
"Teri, Brooke's mother."
The two chatted while walking, and it turned out that the plot of "Sahara" was about Dale, played by Brooke Shields, who disguised herself as a man and participated in the Paris-Dakar Rally in place of her father who died in an accident.
But Brooke Shields' mother, Terry, always believed that Brooke should not be allowed to wear a fake beard and pretend to be a man. This would be a great harm to her screen image.
She also had other strange disputes with the original director, and finally had to bring in Minahan to resolve the conflict.
In order to retain Brooke Shields, Minahan had no choice but to fire the director and serve as director himself. However, the beard issue finally annoyed Terry, who was determined not to allow Minahan to film a close-up of Brooke with a beard.
The filming had been in a stalemate for a long time, and many shots could not be shot. Minahan was not able to handle it, so he had to invite Ronald to negotiate an agreement.
"Why did you listen to Terry?" Ronald was puzzled. This kind of dispute over makeup could usually be resolved through coaxing and coaxing during the filming, and it would not lead to such a confrontation.
"Fuxk, in order to sign a contract with Brooke, I promised Terry to be the producer, gave her tens of thousands of dollars in remuneration, and gave her the power to decide on the filming of my daughter."
"fuxk"
Ronald also cursed, "Minahan, a layman, dared to sign such terms. It seemed that he was doing whatever it took to get Brooke Shields to star."
"I can only try, I can't guarantee anything."
Ronald walked into the hotel and completed the check-in formalities. Without putting his luggage, Minahan urged him to go up and knock on the door of Brooke and her daughter's room.
"Ronald, come in." Terry was not drunk. Seeing it was Ronald, he immediately pulled him into the door, looked around, and closed it carefully.
"I have to be careful. The previous director was a very scoundrel and wanted to let Brooke shoot a scene with a beard without my consent. Isn't this going to end my daughter's acting career?"
"Ah? Why?" Ronald opened his mouth, unable to understand for a moment.
"Don't you understand? Ronald, this is asking my daughter to play a man. How can she play a girl after using words like this? You are also a director, so you must support me less in this matter."
"Hey..." Ronald looked at Brooke, wanting to ask her what she thought.
But when he turned his head, he saw Poky looking distressed, with her brows furrowed and the corners of her mouth turned down, as if she was about to cry.
"Terry, I just arrived in Israel, and I still need to get to the time difference. In this way, I will take the script and read it first, and then communicate with Minahan." After finishing speaking, Ronald gave Brooke a wink and wrote on the outside of the room card.
The paper with the room number was deliberately left on the sofa, and then he said goodbye and left the room.
Ten minutes later, Brooke went to Ronald's room and knocked on the door. Inside, Ronald and Minahan were talking about beards.
"Poor Ji, I think your mother seems a little excited? What's going on?"
Brooke hugged Ronald first, and then looked at Minahan, as if she was a little embarrassed.
"My mother is a bit obsessed. I don't know who told her that if an actress's image is stereotyped, subsequent audiences will not be able to escape this image. So she is very opposed to me wearing a fake beard."
"If I understand correctly, you play a girl in the movie who disguises herself as a man and takes the place of her father in a rally, right? Just like Mulan?"
"Hua who?"
"Don't worry about those details. What I mean is that when the audience sees you dressing up as a boy, they actually know that you are playing a girl. In the movie, a woman dresses as a boy, right?"
"Yes, that's it. The audience won't think of you as a boy, they will just think that you are a girl, play the role of a boy, and then bang! People still can't find out that you are a girl. Isn't this a good display of acting skills?
"Minahan was anxious to convince Brooke.
"Ah? What do you mean?" Bo Ji didn't understand and looked at Ronald.
"I can't explain it all at once, how did your mother let you out alone?"
"Oh, I said I wanted to buy some Coke. The climate in the desert is too dry, and all the Coke in the hotel room has been drunk."
"Okay," Ronald took out two bottles of Coke from the small refrigerator in his room and handed them to Brooke. Minahan and I will go meet you and your mother in the evening to see if we can explain the truth clearly.
"Oh, you are always very resourceful. I'll go first, Ronald." Brooke Shields walked out with two bottles of Coke in her hand.
"Ronald, you already have a solution, don't you? Haha, I was right. You can solve this problem when you come. First, tell me, how do you plan to convince her? I have been trying for many days, and...
You're going to have a fight with Terry when you talk about this."
Minahan said, looking at Ronald with piercing eyes, hoping that he could tell him the secret.
"This is a question of trust, Minahan. You see what I say tonight. I'm going to rest. I've been flying two long distances in a row and I'm exhausted." Gu Sui
"No, no, please talk to me first..."
"Do you want to convince Terry to let Brooke play a boy? Yes? Now, get the fuck out of here." Ronald kicked Minahan away and took a shower to sleep.
When you are suffering from jet lag, you need to stop dozing off like this and go to sleep when you really want to sleep. This way you can overcome most of the jet lag as soon as you wake up.
Ronald fell on the bed, picked up the script of "Sahara" and started reading it.
Brooke plays Dell, whose father was a racing driver and car manufacturer owner. After inventing his own racing car, he unfortunately died during a test drive. In order to save the company, Dell disguised himself as a man and participated in a rally.
After she crossed the starting line, she took off her wig and beard to reveal her true gender to the other participants in the race.
"Well, that's no problem. You can take it off after wearing it for a while."
Ronald fell asleep.
It was already evening when he woke up. After Ronald had had enough sleep, he went out to find Minahan and went to persuade Terry together.
"Terry, look at this script. Before Dale, played by Brooke, disguised herself as a woman, had she already appeared as a girl and been recognized by the audience?"
Ronald turned to the first few pages and showed them to Terry and Brooke.
"Yes, that's the case." Bo Ji supported beside her.
"Then when Dell's father died and the company faced bankruptcy, she disguised herself as a man and secretly put on a fake beard in order to save the company?"
Terry nodded.
"In this case, what the audience sees is actually a girl who is disguised as a man in the movie, and no one can recognize her identity. In this case, the audience will not misunderstand that Brooke is a man, but will see her as a man.
His acting skills are so superb that other people in the movie couldn't recognize him.
Doesn't Brooke want to transform into an actress with acting skills? This is a good start. And Brooke is going to Princeton soon. Before suspending her acting career, it would be good to leave an impression of her progress in acting.
Besides, you see, this scene is actually very short, and the audience will remember more clearly the scenes of him as a woman."
"So audiences won't remember her playing a man because of her makeup?"
Ronald looked at Minahan, meaning it's now up to you, the director, to give assurance.
"Of course, Terry. I guarantee that Brooke will be very handsome even if she is dressed as a man. The audience will only remember her as a beauty dressed as a man."
Terry and her daughter stayed in Israel for a long time. They had a quarrel with the original director and changed directors. The two lonely mother and daughter were already a little nervous in the desert of a foreign country.
Coupled with Minahan's impetuous personality, it inevitably caused a loss of mutual trust. No matter how much they talked, the other party would suspect that the other party was trying to lie to them, which further deepened their belief.
Only Ronald, who had just flown in from the outside world, had a foundation of trust with Brooke and Terry before, so he cleared Terry's suspicions in a few words.
Minahan was very happy that we could continue filming tomorrow and took Ronald to have dinner and drinks.
"I asked, did you make an exploitation film starring Faye Dunaway?" Ronald ate a lot of pita bread, a specialty of Israel, and remembered Dunaway who scolded Minahan in London, so he asked the client
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"Yeah, shot. The phone was shut down last June. There's something wrong with Faye Dunaway. Here..." Minahan pointed to his head, "She sucked too much."
"When I went to London, she scolded you in front of me, saying that you added a lot of erotic scenes to the movie. She was very dissatisfied."
Minahan spread his hands and said, "You are also a film director. How can you sell this kind of production without adding something good-looking? Faye Dunaway was chosen for financing. We were interested in her previous resume, and I didn't let her go...
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"Okay, stop talking, that's it." Ronald probably knew Minahan's method, using stars to attract investment, and then letting the supporting actors take off their clothes. With Minahan's director style, he didn't want to know more
of details.
After dinner, Ronald picked up the script of "Sahara" and started reading it again, but the Sandman soon attacked and he fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Ronald came to the Negev Desert to watch Minahan's director Brooke filming. Shooting earlier would make the temperature cooler, so the actors and crew would be more comfortable.
This is Ronald's first time in the desert.
People who go to the desert for the first time will be surprised by how quiet it is. There are no plants or animals. If you use a professional recording microphone, you won't hear any background noise.
This kind of quietness makes people feel a bit strange, as if some monster is jumping out of the background.
Ronald shook his head to get this strange thought out of his mind.
He saw the props team rolling over a racing car modified from an old car. Brooke Shields, dressed as a man, got into the car and was ready to start filming.
"Wait a minute!" Ronald saw that Minahan had set the camera at a panoramic distance and was about to issue a command to start shooting, so he quickly stepped forward to stop him.
"Don't you need a stunt double for this racing scene? How do you let Bo Ji shoot it by herself?"