Helen discovered that she had always had a misunderstanding. Paying too much attention to the effect of her performance would make the audience keenly aware of traces of your "acting".
She was very happy and started practicing with Ronald that night.
The two people kept looking at each other, conveying affection with their eyebrows, and then repeated what the other person had just said, paying attention to the feeling between the lines.
Sure enough, when you focus on the other person, your own body will give a better reflection. The other person picks up this body's reflection and gives another reflection. In a virtuous cycle of going back and forth, the two of them feel better than usual.
a lot of.
However, long-term acting skills and habits require professional training to correct. After two days of partying with Ronald, Helen Slater still couldn't help it, so she went to Xinwen to sign up for an acting training class with her best friend.
Helen Hunt and Helen Hunt went to practice their acting skills together.
Ronald is single again, and the main time these days is still allocated to the screenwriter of the dream movie "The Bride and the Wolf", John Patrick Shanley.
Shanley is from New York and came to Los Angeles this time to discuss film shooting with Ronald.
He is a handsome, meticulously dressed man in his thirties, with blue eyes that are common among Irish people, and a bit melancholy.
As soon as the two chatted, they discovered that their backgrounds and experiences were very similar.
Like Ronald, Shanley also came from a poor background. He grew up in the Bronx, a neighborhood where black people lived, not far from Bud's original house.
Shanley's mother is a telephone operator and his father is a worker in a meat processing plant. Growing up in an environment full of gangsters, Shanley knows some street smarts.
He had joined the Marine Corps, and after he was discharged, he went to college through the GI Bill. He was an alumnus of Ronald and a graduate of New York University.
However, he had better grades than Ronald and graduated with an honors degree in drama.
Before this, Shanley had been writing Broadway scripts. He was lucky. In 1982, his script was picked up by an Off-Broadway (off-Broadway performance venue, usually a venue for newcomers) performance company, and he began his career as a screenwriter.
But his luck improved after that, and his plays kept spinning off-Broadway, but none of them was well received by critics and had a chance to be promoted to Broadway.
Shangli began to transform, and slowly began to try to write movie scripts, thinking of trying his luck in the Hollywood circuit.
Similar growing experiences made Ronald and Shanley hit it off immediately. They found an Irish restaurant, drank beer, and started eating potato stew while talking about the filming of the script.
"You are of Irish descent, why don't you write the story of an Irish family instead of an Italian one?"
Ronald and Shanley drank for three rounds, and when they drank enough, they began to talk about some core topics.
As the author of the first movie script, most screenwriters will write about stories around themselves. So Ronald had to ask the other party how he found the inspiration for this script that did not write about things around him.
In this industry, all kinds of deception and betrayal happen all the time. Ronald doesn't want an author to pop up after he starts filming and claim that Shanley stole his script idea.
"Hahaha, actually this is very interesting. I have lived in an Irish community since I was a child, and my classmates are either Irish, Italian, or black. A road away from our block is an Italian community.
My parents and I live here, and our neighbors are all typical Irish families, a small family composed of an older father, a mother who is many years younger, and a group of children.
The Italians on the other side of the road are much more interesting than us.
First of all, they are all very good at making delicious food. The whole family stays together. It seems that every Italian mother can cook a lot of delicious food. Moreover, they often live with their grandparents, and the whole family eats together.
Very lively."
"Hahaha, Italians do have more big families." Ronald remembered that the great director Coppola also invited him to his home for dinner. It was indeed a big family dinner around him.
"Yes, I feel that their mothers know a lot. It is easy to distinguish between Italian and Irish children. Italian children's clothes are all ironed very well by their mothers or grandmothers. In our Irish family, the clothes are
I often see unwashed liquor stains." Shanley became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke, and winked at Ronald.
Ronald let go of his worries, and after analyzing his creative process and ideas in this way, the possibility that he came up with it himself was very high.
"So I have always longed for a big Italian family. After school, I always went to my classmates' houses. They all called me half Irish and half Italian." Shanley continued, and Ronald, who is from Hollywood,
It is a great pleasure for the winning director to discuss creation.
"When I became a drama major, I wanted to write a movie that reflected Italian people. I wanted to write the food that I longed for as a child, the warmth of a big family, comfortable clothes, and a little bit of superstition into the story.
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But the more sweet memories I hold in my heart, the harder it is to write them out. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I completed the first draft. But my agent pitched it to many film companies, but they were all rejected.
Because now in Hollywood, when people hear Italians, they think of gangster movies (The Godfather), dance movies (Saturday Night Fever), and participating in gangster dance parties, which has become the stereotype of Italians.
I'm not saying that the characters I wrote were not stereotyped, but the studios didn't want to risk disappointing the audience by making a movie that reflected the life of an Italian-American family.
They feel that a movie that reflects Italian life and doesn't see Chicago typewriters splashing water on the streets or handsome guys like Travolta dancing passionately is like committing fraud."
Ronald nodded. This kind of operation by the studio is really normal. No matter how good the quality of your script is, the marketing department doesn't know how to advertise such a script.
If it's a gangster shootout movie, it can be said to be the new "Godfather." If it's a dance movie, it can be said to be the new "Saturday Night Fever." But how do you recommend this movie to your friends?
The new one...well...you know, it's a romantic love story about a big Italian immigrant family, with parents and children at different stages of their lives, and a sense of humor...
"Italian, is it a gangster love story?" Often a friend can choke you to death with just one sentence.
So when Ronald took over the film and bought the rights to shoot it, he had no choice but to take another path. That was to market it through celebrities.
Ronald plans to discuss with various distribution companies to see if he can sign a distribution contract. Then he can find a big star like Cher to star.
Among the three giants of director, leading actor, and leading actress, Ronald, a blockbuster director, is already involved. Next, as long as we find a female star of Cher's level, we can guarantee the blockbuster.
At that time, the marketing of the seven major studios can say, "Go and watch the love story directed by Ronald Lee and starring Cher."
"So, we have been able to promote it to distributors?" Shanley was very excited when Ronald confirmed in person that he wanted to direct the film himself.
"Well, actually we still need a heroine. And..."
"What?"
"The name of the movie needs to be changed. The names of Bride and Wolf are too ordinary, and the audience doesn't have much expectations for the story after watching it."
"Then what are you going to call it?"
"How about moonstruck? Just like you wrote in the script, there is a big, bright moon, and when it appears, people fall in love."
"Well, very good. You are right." Shanley took a sip of beer, "Who are you going to invite as the heroine?"
"What do you think? When you wrote the script, did you keep any actor's image in mind and write accordingly?"
Ronald knows this little trick of writing scripts. If you write a script with a certain star as the target, then the character's speech and behavior will inevitably be replaced by the image of that star.
In this way, if someone changes to play this role, some of her details will have to be adjusted to fit the new star's performance style.
"I actually had Sally Field in mind when I wrote it," Shanley said.
"Huh? Her acting skills are okay, but the first thing I thought of was Cher. What do you think?" Ronald didn't expect that the script was based on Sally Field, a double-actor.
"She is very beautiful. Her black hair and eyes fit the image of an Italian. Is she Italian?" Shanley is no stranger to Cher. She debuted as a pop group with her first husband Sonny. But they divorced
After that, Cher gradually tried acting. Not only did she act in a movie that was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, but she also performed in a Broadway musical.
"No, she is of Armenian descent, but she looks very Italian, right?"
"Yes, but Sally would be a good candidate too, wouldn't she?"
"She seems a little not Latin enough," Ronald thought for a long time, "but I will also invite her to audition."
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"Shanley said he based the script he wrote on Sally Field, and we would like to invite her to try it out. I still prefer Cher, and Sally is not Italian enough. Do you think there is any suitable candidate?" That day
In the evening, Ronald went to meet his agent Niceta.
"A middle-aged woman, sexy, who can play an Italian, isn't that the usual suspects?"
Niceta heard about the outcome of the discussion between Ronald and Shanley, and also gave Ronald some advice.
"Which suspects?"
"In addition to Field, and your beloved Cher, actors who can generally play middle-aged beauties include Sigourney Weaver, who is said to have performed well in the Alien sequel. Diane Keaton, she and Al Pa
Sino has worked with The Godfather and understands Italian culture, and his appearance and acting skills are both passable.
Katherine Turner, she is very beautiful, suitable for middle-aged people and can also charm her younger brother. Like her, there is Kim Basinger. But she is a little younger. Like her, there is Dai
Bola Winger, she has black hair, but the problem is that she is a little younger like Basinger.
By the way, there’s also Woody Allen’s new film, ‘Hannah,’ in which Dianne Wiest plays the middle sister, and Barbara Hershey plays the younger sister.”
"What, can't I play the role of the eldest sister?" Ronald asked casually.
"Mia Farrow is not sexy enough," Niceta said.
In fact, none of the people he recommended were the most suitable actress for the role of Loretta Castorini in the new movie script that Ronald bought.
But the ones he recommends are all those that have won Oscars, been nominated for Oscars, have high demand for nominations, and some that are extremely popular and well-known right now.
This romantic comedy, which reflects the love story of middle-aged people, still needs some stars to reduce the difficulty of publicity.
Ronald also fully understood, "In this way, you can message them privately and ask if they are interested in making a romantic comedy with me. If you have an idea, just send a part of the script. If they are interested, send it to Qi
Big sales pitch.”
"Well, Cher's script can be given in full." Ronald added, he still hopes to maintain the original characters in the dream. After all, chemical reactions are still very mysterious, and he wants to use proven methods.
Feasible coordination.
"Where's the hero? What do you think? Do you want to ask Tom?"
Niceta closed her notebook and asked Ronald if he wanted Tom Cruise to play Ronny Camarelli.
"Ask Paula for her opinion." Ronald also felt that if Cruise wanted to star in a movie with his girlfriend, there seemed to be no reason for him to refuse.
The star attracts the audience, and he is a couple with the heroine, so they have a chemistry. But he is a bit too handsome and does not fit in well with Ronnie, who bakes bread with a hand disability in this script.