Ronald was going to the set the next morning to give the leading actors some time to rehearse and then start shooting immediately. Suddenly he heard someone calling his name outside the apartment.
"I'm here," Ronald opened the door and looked, "Hi, you are, Tom. Hello, Rebecca, Paula."
Standing at the door was Tom Cruise, intertwined with a blonde girl wearing sunglasses. It was Rebecca De Mornay, his co-star in "It's Crazy" who he fell in love with.
Together they came to find Ronald, followed by agent Paula Wagner.
"I brought you some cakes." Tom raised his hand and took out a bag. "You were not in Los Angeles during the New Year. I originally wanted to send it to you."
"Oh, thank you." Ronald took the cake and ate one. "It tastes very good. I'll take it to the set to eat."
"Your new movie? What is it about?"
"Break dancing, have you ever seen anyone else do it?" Ronald put the cake in the car, "Do you want to make a guest appearance?"
"Yeah? Is that okay?" Tom Cruise's baby fat is gradually fading away, and his facial lines have become tougher. He still wants to work with Ronald, his noble man, once again.
"Tom..." Paula Wagner quickly stopped, "I'm sorry Ronald, Tom's current acting career is a feature film by a famous director, and it is not convenient for him to appear in a low-cost production."
"It doesn't matter, I'm just a suggestion." Ronald looked at Paula who was like a hen protecting her chicks and felt a little interesting.
Tom Cruise's "It's Crazy" stayed in theaters for a total of 15 weeks and grossed 63 million at the box office. He and his girlfriend Rebecca De Mornay quickly became famous and began to
Not satisfied with making commercial films, I want to find a famous director to work with and enter the Oscars.
His other new film, "Step by Step" with Leigh Thompson, has just been released and has received a mediocre response. Although it contains nude scenes of him and Thompson, it has attracted many female fans to go to the theater to watch those two seconds again and again.
Clock shot.
The two chatted for a while, and Tom and his girlfriend went to deliver cakes to other important people to maintain their relationship. This was a way Paula Wagner came up with to help him increase his connections. He distributed cakes to friends every Christmas and New Year.
This reminds the other person to remember you.
"Hey...seriously, are you really dating Brooke Shields?" Before parting, Tom Cruise still couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked Ronald.
"No comment," Ronald laughed, drove his Saab 900, and rushed to the rehearsal site.
"Should we really find a star to make a cameo? This would also be good for the marketing of this kind of exploitation film." Ronald thought, stroking his beard.
"What are your real names?" A few hours later, during a break in rehearsal, Lucinda Dickey asked the black boy Boogaloo Prawn, "How can anyone be called Prawn like that?"
"It's the kind that only a few people can be called by names." Boogaloo Prawn made a disgusted expression. He was very dissatisfied with Lucinda's dancing ability. He could never practice the basic break dance styles well, so he wore a hat when dancing.
It has a distinct feel of jazz dance and gymnastics.
"Uh..." Lucinda was a little embarrassed when she didn't expect to be choked. She felt that she and the two male leads were basically fighting against each other. The Boogaloo prawn might simply be dissatisfied with her dancing skills, while Sabado was
More provocative.
"His name is Michael Chambers. Boogaloo Shrimp is his street dance name. They all have a nickname in the break dance circle. You can also choose one, called Smiling Lucinda or something." Ronald
Helped her out.
Lucinda's new haircut was very short, and her bangs and hair on top were made high with mousse styling gel. She looked like an independent woman. However, her personality was weak, and Ronald had no choice but to make her hair high.
She faced two breakdancing masters alone to become stronger.
"Yeah, then my name is Smiling Lucinda." Lucinda Dickey was born in a lower class. She saved money by babysitting the children of rich people and studied dancing. She was inspired to be strong. Gradually, she became less afraid of prawns.
I was bullied by Shambad.
Sabado and Boogaloo prawn continued their dance, and Smiling Lucinda continued to study clumsily. Ronald didn't have much time, so he couldn't give the three of them too much time to rehearse. Seeing that they were almost done, he asked them to catch up later.
Come on, Ronald goes to Venice Beach first to check out the layout of the first shot of the entire film.
The avenue lined with palm trees leads directly to Venice Beach. The weather is very warm today, and there are people surfing in bikinis in the distance.
Ronald got off the Saab 900 and saw Minahan on the terrazzo floor by the beach, where the dancing scene was filmed, and hurriedly walked over.
"You trash, trash, you can't even handle the Screen Actors Guild." Minahan, wearing a T-shirt and big sunglasses, was scolding an assistant.
"What's going on? Where are the extras? I'm going to shoot the first scene this afternoon." Ronald stepped forward to question.
It turns out that in order for the "Break Dance" crew to be released in North America, they had to register their scripts and shooting plans with major labor unions.
After the Screen Actors Guild learned about it, they sent a special commissioner to inspect this small production. When they learned that all the extras had not signed contracts in the union's standard format, they immediately banned the film on the grounds that less than 65% of the cast members were registered with the union.
Guild actors star.
Those extras who were members of the union, or who wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to join the union, obeyed the union commissioner and left the set.
For other low-budget film crews, generally speaking, you can bribe the correspondent and then shoot in two days. But for this movie, which is racing against time, we can't wait.
Minahan is also very worried. He wants to save some money. His assistant failed to communicate and coordinate well with the union at the beginning. Now even if he comes to apologize, he will be left alone for a while to let them deepen their memory.
"It would be great if we didn't shoot in Los Angeles. We should shoot in Israel." Minahan stomped his feet angrily.
"It's useless to talk about it now." Ronald took off his sunglasses and looked around, "The union people are gone, won't they be back today?"
"What do you want to do? All the extra agency agencies are their members, and we can't find an agency willing to temporarily recruit people for us." Minahan reminded Ronald that the union's control is very strong in Los Angeles.
In-depth.
"Who said I was looking for them?"
"Hey guys," Ronald put his hands around his mouth and shouted to the men and women surfing on the beach, "Does any of you want to make a movie?"
"Make a movie?" The men and women shouldered their surfboards and walked towards the crew. Who in Los Angeles doesn't want to make a movie?
"One, two, three, four..." Ronald counted, there were seventeen in total, all wearing bikinis or shorts and swimsuits. The surfers all had good figures, and they also had two extraordinary buttocks and breasts.
"It's not enough, who else can you use?" Ronald asked Minahan. This crew is relatively streamlined, and there are not many staff members who can fill it in and pretend to be the audience.
"Only two extras didn't leave and came back. I heard they were from China and didn't understand the mysteries of labor unions. They just wanted to appear in Hollywood movies."
"People from China, that's okay," Ronald asked them to get ready.
Gu Chu
It was still not enough. Ronald thought it would be better if he was in New York. He could just call Eddie and recruit people from fraternities in various universities. He didn't have many connections here in Los Angeles.
"Find someone first. If not, bring your cannon staff here..." Ronald took out the director's viewfinder and looked at the beach and palm trees.
The secret to shooting quickly is not to make too many camera moves. The more the camera moves, the longer the shot, the more complicated the actor's scheduling, and the higher the possibility of making mistakes again.
The principle that Ronald set for himself is to keep the camera as still as possible, poke it there, and then let the actors start jumping!
"Hey", Ronald found that there seemed to be many people under the building next to the palm tree.
"Who are they?" Ronald asked Minahan.
"Tramps, they are all homeless people who usually wander here. In order to take pictures, I asked them to leave for a while and gave them a few dollars each."
Ronald looked through the viewfinder again, "Bring them back."
Standing on the terrazzo floor and looking at more than a dozen homeless people, Ronald knew what he knew. When filming "Night of the Comet", he had come into contact with homeless people. Some of them were homeless due to misfortune, and some were due to divorce payments.
No alimony or mortgage payments.
He left those that didn't look like substance abuse, then turned to the costume designer, "Clothes, clothes, find fifteen sets of sweatshirts!"
"Let these homeless people take a shower, put on their sweatshirts, and act as spectators behind the crowd. Don't give them any money. Each person has two meals and two cans of Coke. Then they can wear their own clothes and buy some food stamps." Rona
De asked his assistant to handle it.
"Don't save money like this in the future, Minahan, otherwise it will delay things too much?" Ronald turned around and said.
Soon Lucinda Dickey, Sabado, and Prawn's RV arrived. Ronald asked them to put on their costumes, put on makeup, and get ready to start the first seaside dance scene.
This is the first time that the audience is shown break dancing, a very rhythmic and novel dance, just a few minutes into the movie.
Ronald gets ready to show Sabado, Jumbo, and their dance rivals Falcon and Solomon.
Boogaloo Prawn is good at moonwalking and floor dancing, and the person with the highest level of robot dancing is not Sabado, but his opponent Falcon.
Arrangements were made for both of them to dance solo, and then Falcon challenged Sabado with a solo dance in front of Kelly, played by Lucinda Dickey.
The tramps got dressed and still formed a loose circle around the terrazzo ground. The surfers were wearing bikinis, and Ronald arranged for them to stand in the inner circle. The two girls with great figures got the opportunity to show off themselves.
.
"Does everyone understand?" Ronald asked all the extras.
"Understood."
"I say it again, no one is allowed to look at the camera. Anyone who looks at the camera will be cut off, and the food and clothes will be taken back. Do you hear me?"
"learn!"
"Okay, let's start shooting right away."
The actors began to stand still while the camera crew measured their exposure and focus. After everything was ready, Ronald started filming.
"recording?"
"alright!"
"camera?"
"full speed!"
"First line of the first breakdancing scene, bang", the scorer wrote.
"action!"
Sabado and Boogaloo prawns began to dance vigorously in front of the camera.
A beauty in a bikini comes up from behind, and the camera shows her buttocks for a second, then she walks away, giving the view back to the two dancers.
The camera used a zoom lens and slowly focused in. Sabado and Prawn's dance moves were very powerful, and the dual-card large-speaker tape recorder on the ground next to them played enthusiastic music.
This was Ronald's arrangement after discussing with the director of photography. The fixed-focus lens was too rigid, and the sliding rail required repeated rehearsals. So we simply used a zoom lens. If the position was wrong, just zoom in and frame the actor in the center.
The surrounding audience was carefully selected. The surfers were all masters of music rhythm and began to twist their bodies according to the rhythm of the music.
Then there were the two Japanese actors who were willing to disobey the union's orders and stay in the show. One of them was wearing a one-piece spandex tights and had a very good figure. Their bodies were larger than those of the surfers, so Ronald arranged to wear a bikini
After the surfer, make a jagged human flesh background.
"Very good, keep going down," Ronald was secretly satisfied. In this way, the camera didn't move and the actors were allowed to show their full potential. The filming was very fast.
"Huh?" Ronald frowned, and the Chinese actor squeezed left and right, squeezing his way to the front from between the two extras next to him. Then he jumped up greatly along with the music.
"fuxk!cut!cut!cut!"
Ronald rushed in front of him, "Who the hell do you think you are? Who asked you to steal the spotlight?"
The Chinese man scratched his head in embarrassment and said in English with a strong Chinese accent, "My name is Jean Claude, and this is my friend Miguel. We have no ill intentions, we just want to show ourselves."
"I'll give everyone a chance to show you, don't do it on your own, okay?"