Diane Lane asked her agent to talk to David Letterman about being on the show. She went to dinner with Ronald and Donna.
At the dinner table, Diane talked about some of her recent experiences.
After the filming of "Streets of Rage" was completed, the two charming costumes designed by Armani himself also belonged to Diane, which made her very happy.
While the crew was moving around, Diane had to study high school courses on her own, barely passed the high school exam, and received a diploma and graduation ring in the mail while on the crew.
"Look, this is my graduation ring." Diane stretched out her hand to show it to Donna. She was envious of Donna because she had good grades and could go to college. As an actress, she had a natural inferiority complex here and felt that she was not smart enough academically.
"Now you and I are the only ones with high school diplomas," Ronald said with a smile.
"Humph..." Diane glanced sideways at Ronald.
"By the way, Karen asked me to tell you that after filming the movie, you must remember to go to New York University to complete your studies..." Donna remembered her mother's instructions and quickly hit Ronald.
"Uh..." Now it was Ronald's turn to be embarrassed.
Then Diane talked about Coppola's new film. Coppola had already privately agreed with Diane that she would be the heroine.
In order to play the role of a singer at the Cotton Club in the 1920s, Diane had to cut her shoulder-length hair into ear-length hair, work hard on practicing jazz songs and dances, and also eat a little fat to fit in with her 20s.
The aesthetics of the era.
"Why? The audience doesn't care much about the aesthetics of that time, they care about the aesthetics of today." Ronald found it a bit strange. Coppola always liked to shoot niche subjects.
"I think you don't know much about acting. When you play a period drama, of course you have to bring your own image closer to the image of the time?" Diane repeated what Coppola taught her, but then she thought of Luo Luo today.
Nader is his own hero, so I’ll stop talking about it.
Ronald didn't respond. What he was thinking about was the relationship between the actor's acting skills and the movie as a whole. A movie that highlights the acting skills of one actor throughout the movie is not necessarily a good movie. The movie should use acting skills to make the characters in the most critical place.
appear.
"Thank you, Ronald. My agent said that David Letterman's show will be watched by more teenagers, and as a guest, I can appear for ten minutes, which will be good for the film and my own exposure.
"After dinner, Diane was about to leave with her manager. At the door of the restaurant, she sincerely thanked Ronald.
"It doesn't matter. Letterman and I are old acquaintances. It's a good thing that he can invite you."
"Thank you", Diane hugged Ronald and kissed him.
Ronald thought it was a kiss on the cheek as a farewell gesture, but unexpectedly Diane found his lips and kissed him hard.
"The lipstick got on your lips," Diane smiled happily and carefully wiped it off with Ronald's hand.
"Goodbye, Donna." Diane and Donna also hugged each other goodbye, and left first with their agent.
Ronald took Donna back home.
Opening the door and turning on the light, Donna suddenly asked Ronald, "I haven't asked about you and life, but you and Helen..."
"Helen went back to New York to recuperate. She said she wanted to... pause for a while. I didn't have any more energy to deal with this matter, so I just made two phone calls to ask."
"How is she?"
"Gerald sent her to Long Island to recuperate, and she should recover well." Ronald knew that Helen's parents were also divorced, so she could not stay in the two reorganized families for long.
"I've always wanted to ask you something, Ronnie." Donna adjusted her posture and said seriously, "I always feel that every time you have a girlfriend, you are eager to establish a stable relationship with her, and even want to
marry."
"What's the problem?" Ronald didn't expect that Donna, who would only go to college next year, would actually discuss love and marriage with him.
"But now many young people in America are not rushing to get married. Many people have a phobia about marriage. The divorce rate is so high now, not to mention you are in the entertainment industry now. I see that many celebrities have many paragraphs.
Marriage and children.”
"Isn't this inconsistent with my pursuit? There are also couples in the entertainment industry who have been together for a lifetime, such as...well, Paul Newman, and Joanna Woodward." Ronald thought for a long time and thought of this pair of actor and actress.
couple.
"No, Paul Newman was married twice, too."
"How do you know? Really?" Ronald had seen Paul Newman being interviewed on TV before. The reporter asked him if he was attracted to the beauties in the entertainment industry. Newman replied that he had a good steak at home and there was no need to go out.
Eat burgers.”
"Paul Newman and Joanna used to live in Staten Island, my mom said. She even went there to get an autograph. Joanna was also his second wife..." Donna said some gossip, "I just think
, if you think about getting married and dating girls every time, you will scare away many girls. Sometimes girls don’t think so far.”
"You seem to know more about love and marriage than I do. Donna, what kind of husband do you want in the future?"
"I don't want to be a housewife, but I also want to have a career. I hope my future husband can understand me and support my career." Donna stated her thoughts categorically.
After completing the campus tour, Donna returned to New York, and Ronald also returned to the crew. The preliminary karate training has been completed, and he has started rehearsing with the main actors of the crew.
In the dance studio, several tables and chairs were set up. The main actors began to use their imagination to imagine those tables and chairs into various scenes, and began to rehearse each scene according to the order of the script.
Randy Heller, only fifteen years older than Ralph Marzio, plays Daniel's single mother Lucille.
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The two of them sat on the left and right sides of the stool, as if this was Lucille's second-hand Chevrolet SUV.
"Daniel, push, push hard!" Randy called Ralph Mazzio's character's name, "Okay, okay, come up."
This is the scene at the beginning of the movie when Daniel and his mother drove from New Jersey to Los Angeles. Lucille had little money and the car broke down halfway. Daniel had to push from behind to start the car.
Ronald stood nearby, always looking at the viewfinder of the Sony camera, with several large spare batteries hanging on his body. He acted as a guest photographer and took pictures of all the rehearsal footage. He watched it again in the evening and recorded the discovered performances.
Write down the coordination problems and then think of ways to solve them.
"Very good. The next scene was at an apartment with palm trees. Lucille was very happy and asked her son to sing together. But Daniel was still thinking about his friends in New Jersey and was a little sad." Ronald felt that these two casting choices
It's great, Ralph and Randy have great chemistry.
Daniel is a somewhat sad child. Only this mother, who is full of optimism and coaxes her son, can educate Daniel to make progress with her meager income.
"What follows is the romantic encounter between Daniel and Alli." This is a scene at the beach. Daniel goes to the beach to play beach soccer with his new Latino friend from the apartment, and sees Alli, who is also swimming there in a bathing suit.
The two fell in love at first sight and had a good impression of each other. Daniel also taught Ali to play football.
"start!"
Ronald focused the camera lens on Ralph Mazio and zoomed to a close-up. Ralph was worthy of being a disciple taught by Coppola. He looked at Elizabeth Sue without blinking, as if he had been hit.
Received the Immobilization Mantra.
Ronald turned the camera lens to Elizabeth Sue again.
"Well...pause for a moment." Elizabeth, come with me.
Ronald discovered a big problem: Elisabeth Shue could not play the affectionate role of Ralph Mazio.
"What's wrong with you and Ralph?" Ronald asked Sue.
"Is there any problem?" Elizabeth Su looked at her feet.
"Then why is there no love in the way you look at him? This is the scene where the two protagonists meet for the first time. The romantic encounter (meet cute) determines the audience's first impression of the two people."
Ronald knows that this first impression is very important. Only when the audience can accept that they fell in love at first sight will they think from the perspective of Daniel and Ally and regard Johnny as the villain. Instead of conversely thinking that Daniel is trying to steal love.
.
When Ralph Mazio and Elisabeth Sue auditioned together before, there was clearly a spark in their eyes, but why was it completely missing during rehearsal?
"I...I don't have any feelings for him." Elizabeth Su hesitated for a moment, but still told Ronald what was in her heart.
It turns out that Elizabeth Su also participated in karate training in the past two weeks. With her football and gymnastics skills, she got started very quickly. With good strength and flexibility, Elizabeth Su quickly surpassed Ralph Mazzi in training.
profound.
The idea of an athlete is very simple. If you can't beat me, you are not as good as me. Elizabeth Su soon developed a subconscious feeling of contempt for Ralph Mazio. A boy who is as dry as a chicken is not as good as me.
It's impossible to attract a sports girl like Su.
This problem became serious, and Ronald scratched his head. If there is such a thing as chemical reaction, it is there, and if it is not there, it is not there. It is impossible for two actors without chemical reaction to perform an effect that convinces the audience on the screen.
"What should we do now? I don't think they will fall in love." Susan Akins stayed after rehearsal every day and watched the day's rehearsal video with Ronald and others. She also learned from Ronald
I learned concepts such as romantic encounters, chemical reactions, etc., and I felt a little anxious.
"Don't worry, we still have time. This is what I think. Su is an athlete. The main problem is that Ralph's strength is not good. He can't beat Ali in karate fighting.
But he is Latino and can play football naturally. I will let him practice some football dribbling movements again during this period. Then, he will have a common language with Elizabeth Sue, who has played football since childhood. This way he can cope with the movie.
Filming was no problem.”
Ronald watched today's rehearsal video, wrote down all the problems he found in his notebook, and went home to think of solutions. He pressed the exit button and handed the videotape to Susan.
Susan Aikins is not a flower girl, she works very hard to learn everything about film shooting.
Now that Susan is on the set, she is not only the eyes and ears of Weintraub, but also the housekeeper of Ronald and the set. She can find a solution to any problem.
Susan took the videotape and carefully wrote the date and session of the rehearsal on the label next to it. She put the videotape into her big bag and drove home alone.
"Honey, surprise!"
When Susan returned home, she was pleasantly surprised to see Weintraub setting up a candlelight dinner at home.
Under Susan's persuasion, Weintraub did not have a showdown with his wife Jane Morgan. He truly loved Susan and his wife. So he could only come to Susan's apartment every now and then to talk to her.
Be gentle.
Susan took out Ronald's videotape, put it on the VCR, pressed the button, and made a copy of the tape while watching it. This was for her archives.
"Is this a rehearsal video from today?" Weintraub asked as he looked at the video. "It seems like they have no chemistry." He saw Elizabeth Sue's loveless eyes.
"Ronald said he had a way," Susan told Weintraub about Ronald's idea.
"Well, you can make another copy and I'll take it home and have a look."
"Then take this tape and go." Susan put the video tape into Weintraub's briefcase.