The flight landed at Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
Ronald is not very used to this flight time. Most of the time, he always travels between New York and Los Angeles. Chicago, the Midwest, and the Deep South, in fact, he comes very rarely. Ronald is most interested in these Americas.
The impression of populated places is limited to the places you look down on and fly over from an airplane.
"Put this on." Little Bud, who accompanied him here, took out a coat from his bag and put it on Ronald.
"Thanks"
The winter in Chicago is very cold, much colder than New York, let alone the warmth of Los Angeles. Ronald put on his woolen coat and exhaled a white breath.
"The latest news is that the famous Hollywood director Orson Welles died of a heart attack at his home in Hollywood. He was involved in the work of a theater director and the recording of the Merv Griffin talk show in the evening. His driver found him at home
He was already unconscious.
Orson Welles was interviewed just a few days ago, so let's take a look at footage from his last television appearance."
At the luggage carousel, Ronald and his agent Niceta were waiting for their luggage when they accidentally saw breaking news on the TV.
Ronald added his lips. This talented director with whom he had a good relationship a few years ago passed away like this.
"I really shouldn't work in Hollywood. Hollywood is a big market, and the market often works against artists. If those Hollywood producers don't like your work, then you're in trouble. You have to spend a lot of time and energy to work in my job.
For example, I spent the rest of my life trying to convince them that their feelings were wrong and that I could make films that were both artistic and marketable."
"I don't believe in compromise, I won't compromise. There is no truth in compromise, unless you are a politician. But film is an art of compromise. To a certain extent, making a film is like doing politics. You have to learn to compromise, so I
It doesn’t belong in the movie.”
Seeing these heartfelt words spoken by Orson Welles, Ronald believed that perhaps the seventy-year-old man had foreseen that he would soon die, so he told the truth.
His mood was a little affected, so he went to the counter and bought a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. He handed one to Niceta and Little Bud, and the three of them started smoking at the exit.
They are all people in the film industry, and they all regret that Orson Welles did not have a chance to display his genius.
Little Bud went to the Heard car rental counter to pick up the reserved car, and the three of them drove to the set, silently all the way.
"The Color of Money" was filmed in Highland Park in North Chicago. This is a wealthy area of Chicago, about 25 miles from downtown Chicago. Old buildings, quiet environments, and mansions abound.
There are only less than 30,000 residents in total, and it is the seat of Chicago's upper class.
Paula Wagner came out of the set and gave Ronald and Niceta each a visitor's sign.
"Be careful, Marty is not in a good mood."
Ronald put on the sign and walked into the scene with Niceta and Paula.
"cut!"
Martin Scorsese just screamed. It's still in the rehearsal stage, but he is used to directing in formal shooting terms.
"Ha..." As soon as Tom Cruise heard the call to stop, he immediately ran to the trailer, very fast, and kept rubbing his hands to keep warm.
Sitting on the trailer was his co-star Paul Newman.
"Kid, you still have a lot to learn." Newman handed him a cup of hot tea, "Did you audition in the summer to confirm the costume?"
"Ha..., yes." Tom Cruise took the hot tea and took a sip to warm up.
"Always, always remember, you have to ask when filming is going to start and what the local climate is like." Paul Newman, wearing a fur-collared coat, comfortably taught Tom Cruise.
"Hi," Ronald saw Tom, nodded to him, and then went to director Martin Scorsese.
"Marty," Ronald stepped forward and hugged Scorsese.
"Ronald" Scorsese also hugged him. His health has gotten better recently and he is not as prone to coughing in winter as before, but Scorsese still wears thick clothes.
"Did you hear about Orson Welles?"
"Yes, I saw it at the airport. Why was it so sudden?"
"Hey, I like his black and white movies best. I taught you students at New York University to watch them countless times."
"Are you here for a visit?" Scorsese finished his greetings and asked Ronald the reason for his visit.
"That's right, my producer wants to reshoot some scenes, so I'm begging you to lend Tom some time."
"What drama?"
"There are only two ambiguous sex scenes, and they will be filmed very quickly. I promise not to delay your filming."
"Oh, that's impossible."
Martin Scorsese turned down Ronald's invitation.
"My movies are all works of art, and I don't like actors to play different roles. My time is very tight, and I don't know how to shoot many places. The actors must be immersed in the characters to have a chemical reaction. Many times I count on
The two male protagonists improvise.
You know, Ronald, this kind of chemical reaction is very difficult to enter. If you ask Tom to act in an ambiguous scene, he will have to find the feeling again when he comes back. Once in and out, I will have at least three to four days to face a person.
Cruise without status.
How about you postpone it until I finish filming?"
"This?" Ronald didn't expect Scorsese to be so unkind, "Then when will you finish filming?"
"Next March."
"This won't work, I don't have time. This movie was originally scheduled to be released in May. I have to re-edit, cut the negatives, test screen, revise, and then make more than a thousand copies. It's too late."
"This is your problem!" Scorsese's face dropped, "Paula, Paula..."
Paula Wagner came running over quickly.
"I don't agree with Tom's cross-acting. You said that Tom wants to be a real actor. Is this how he treats this career?"
Paula's face looked ugly and she pulled her husband over to discuss it.
Ronald's face was also very ugly. It was supposed to be filmed for two or three days, but why did Scorsese seem so unreasonable?
"Let's wait for a while, Paula said that Marty has been in a bad mood recently."
"Oh..." Ronald followed Niceta's persuasion, and the two of them found a place to sit down at the filming location. Ronald poured two cups of wolfberry black tea, and the two drank slowly while waiting.
It was getting dark, and Ronald saw Scorsese announcing that today's rehearsals were over, so he stepped forward to talk to him.
"Ronald, are you still there?" Martin Scorsese patted his arm.
"I'm sorry, I was in a bad mood just now. My blood pressure rises when I think that no one will invest in the movie I want to make, so I have to make do with a sequel to an old movie from decades ago."
"Hey, I understand." Ronald waved his hand, took out a Marlboro and handed it over.
Scorsese, who usually suffers from bad lungs, accidentally took one and lit it on the match handed over by Ronald.
"Ahem..." Scorsese coughed twice and slowly puffed away with Ronald.
"You know, teacher. I saw the video of Orson Welles's last interview at the airport today."
"Oh, what did he say?"
"He said he regretted it. He had no talent for compromise. His movie must be made according to his intention. If he compromised, it would fall from a masterpiece to a third-rate bad movie. He hoped that he could compromise with the producers and help them.
Make a few blockbuster movies, and then make the masterpiece you want to make."
"Hey..." Scorsese sighed, "We artists all face this problem."
The mood of the two people calmed down, and Ronald did not mention the matter of borrowing Cruise. The master and apprentice started chatting.
It turns out that what Martin Scorsese wanted to make most was a movie about Jesus Christ that he had been preparing for a long time. However, because of the controversial subject matter and story, no one was willing to invest in it.
Since his last movie "The King of Comedy" failed miserably at the box office, Scorsese has even been reduced to filming a few episodes of a TV series.
Finally, through the relationship between Nicita and Paula, the agent sent this movie, which stars Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, a collaboration between old and new generations of stars, to Michael Eisner, and got the touchstone and the screen.
Fund investment.
This is equivalent to him making an unprecedented compromise as a director. In order to film the story of Jesus that he wanted to film, he first helped the production company to shoot a commercial film.
"You know, Ronald. I'm Italian, my father owned a laundromat, and I grew up next to my mother's and relatives' electric irons. They told me stories from the Bible. I grew up as a
Catholic, but I'm not that religious and I've been divorced several times."
"I understand that this story about Jesus is the movie you dreamed of." Ronald understood that this was the obsession of his teacher Scorsese since his childhood.
"Yes, you still understand me. Directors and stars are not the same thing as directors and actors. Even Paul Newman is very difficult to deal with. You will soon have a taste of this. I am not in a good mood.
,so……"
Ronald said nothing. Scorsese seemed to want to tell him something, but felt a little awkward.
"Actually, there are other reasons for my bad mood, related to Isabella."
It turns out that Scorsese's ex-wife, Isabella Rossellini, quickly entered the modeling circle after divorcing him, debuting at the "advanced age" of thirty years old. She resembled her mother, Ingrid Bergman.
Her temperament quickly attracted the attention of many big brands, and she immediately became the spokesperson of Lancôme.
Not only that, she also found a model Widman and gave birth to a daughter, Ingrid. Later, she broke up with Widman and recently fell in love with director David Lynch.
As a Catholic, Scorsese did not let his ex-wife make his own movies. Who knew that after the divorce, Isabella became prosperous, gave birth to children, worked as a model, and made movies, doing things that Scorsese had not allowed her to do before?
Everything is done well.
"Recently Lynch approached her to shoot a movie, Blue Velvet, in which she played a very controversial dancer, with a lot of nudity and... scenes. I called her, but she refused to listen.
.”
Ronald curled his lips, he couldn't interrupt in this kind of thing. On the one hand, he was his university teacher, and on the other hand, he and Isabella were also friends.
"Listen to me, Ronald, never let your girlfriend do a nude scene in the future, or worse yet, find her to star in another director's movie. You won't like this feeling."
Scorsese thought for himself, threw the cigarette on the ground, and stamped it out with his foot.
"I can ask Tom to reshoot your movie, but I can only give you one day. You put it on the weekend and don't take up my time."
"No problem", Ronald happily threw away the cigarette, "One day at a time."