Chapter 44 Only by keeping improving can you make big money
"I, Bruce Willis, take you, Demi Moore, to be my lawfully wedded wife, to have and hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death doth
We are separated...
I, Demi Moore..."
"Amen, now the groom can kiss the bride.
In a small church in Los Angeles, Bruce Willis, who was still filming "Die Hard", and Demi Moore, who was two months pregnant, officially became husband and wife.
Ronald is below, as a relative and friend of the bride, witnessing the wedding. The relationship between Demi Moore and her biological mother is not good. Her biological father abandoned their mother and daughter when she was a few months old. Only her stepfather Gain
Si treated little Demi very well, but unfortunately he has passed away long ago.
As one of the few friends of Demi Moore, Ronald came to attend the wedding, which can be regarded as adding an important figure to Demi's family and friends.
"I've got to be honest with you, if it weren't for the filming, I would be flying to Europe with Demi right now for our honeymoon." Bruce Willis came over to say hello to Ronald. His "Die Hard"
Shooting is still going on, and action scenes are shot at a slower pace than other types of films.
"The bride's wedding, the bride's honeymoon, hahaha" Ronald stepped forward and hugged the two newlyweds.
"You have to see the dailies we shot. Let me tell you, this movie is really exciting. Every time I watch the dailies, I get so excited that I can't believe I shot it." Bruce Willis said to himself in
He was very happy with the heroic performance in the movie, and he had a feeling that this movie would be different.
"Honey..." Demi Moore, wearing a white wedding dress, came up and hugged her newlywed husband.
"You have to drive..." Ronald laughed loudly and sent the two of them out of the church. There was a convertible car parked outside. The license plate on the back of the car read "Just Married" and was towed with a rope.
Several Coke cans are waiting for the newlyweds to arrive.
This is an American wedding custom. They believe that honeymoons are very precious. Newlyweds should not waste time on gatherings with relatives and friends, but should start their sweet days immediately.
Although Willis still had unfinished filming, the crew allocated a weekend for him to spend a honeymoon with his wife.
"Well, this was a nice wedding. When my husband and I got married, it wasn't as exciting." Also standing on the side of the bride's guests were Sigourney Weaver and her good friend Jamie Lee Co.
Tice, was exchanging wedding experiences with Ronald's personal attorney, Lindsay Dole.
Sigourney Weaver came to Los Angeles specially to meet Ronald, who wanted to check on her preparations. Jamie Lee Curtis and her husband Guest were vacationing in Los Angeles, and they happened to meet their old husband.
My friend Sigourney Weaver happened to have a wedding, and they all came as guests of the bride's party to earn face for Demi Moore.
They are all Hollywood actresses. They know that the larger the guest card that appears at this kind of wedding, the more important the bride's status is. Although the newlyweds may not care, relatives and friends of both parties like to gossip about it.
"How was the filming in Toronto? Is it over?" Ronald asked Jamie Lee Curtis' husband, British actor Christopher Guest. This man is also the eldest son of the Baron Guest family with a serious title.
, I like acting by nature, so I do some supporting roles in Hollywood and often write my own scripts.
"My scene has ended. This director is very good. I feel a bit like filming with Bob Reiner." Guest is a good friend of Robert Reiner whom Ronald knew. He and Curtis are Bob Reiner.
We were introduced by Na.
Last year, he finished filming the box-office success "The Princess Bride" directed by his friend Renner, but there was nothing to film this year. Fortunately, Guest was also very satisfied with supporting roles. By chance, he was spotted by Kathryn Bigelow and played the role of Helen S.
Leiter's "Sticky Fingers."
"We are discussing the wedding, Ronald, where do you want to hold the wedding in the future? Is it also a church?" Weaver, Curtis, and the lawyer lady came over to greet Ronald.
"I haven't thought about it..." Ronald had not planned a place to get married. "I thought maybe it would be in the church that my aunt often goes to, the one on Staten Island." Ronald looked towards
Lindsay Dole, seeing her smiling, seemed to be getting married to her partner in the law firm.
"Staten Island? If you get married there, I'm afraid the entertainment reporters will go crazy and run to the country." Several actresses burst into laughter.
"That's right, let them squeeze into the ferry..."
"How is your German?" At the wedding party, everyone was looking for some drinks. Ronald asked about Sigourney Weaver's homework.
"Hast du ihnen gesagt, wer ich bin?", Sigourney Weaver opened her mouth and said, "Did you tell them who I am?"
"Naturlich bist du Sigourney Weaver (Of course, you are Sigourney Weaver)", Lindsay Dole, who was educated at Harvard, immediately answered Weaver in German.
"What are you talking about?" Ronald didn't understand any German, so he had to ask Weaver.
"The line, that sentence in the line. Catherine was going to Europe for skiing, but Tess didn't book a suite for her. She personally called the hotel in Europe to ask if they knew who she was and why they didn't give her a big room.
live alone."
"Hmm..." Ronald thought about Weaver's pronunciation. Although he didn't understand it, he could tell from her pronunciation that the aristocratic flavor was not that strong. Here, Ronald hoped that the audience could understand the pronunciation and accent.
, I can tell from the tone that Catherine, played by Weaver, is a rich lady who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her speech has a smooth flavor unique to the upper class.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Where did you learn German?" Ronald asked Weaver.
"My father, he is very good at French and German. We have also spoken in German at home since we were young."
Ronald nodded. Sigourney Weaver's German sounded like a child's skill. However, "I have to find a German coach for you. I need someone who is smooth, smart, and social in the upper class."
language."
"Okay, help me find an accent coach." Sigourney Weaver was actually very happy when she saw that Ronald was so attentive to details about such a small accent. The actor is not afraid of the director telling him how to act.
I'm afraid that the director will mess things up.
"Do you have to pay attention to these small details when making a movie? The audience can't see it, right?" The lawyer lady was very confused.
"Dear, this is a special request that only great directors have. They pay great attention to every supporting role, every prop, the actor's expression, movement, and accent. Although not all audiences will notice it, there is always some understanding.
Audiences who understand the background of the story will be moved by this creative attitude."
"Yes, Lindsay. That's how making movies is. Movies are a dream machine. You definitely don't want your boyfriend who is a partner lawyer in a New York law firm to speak with a Texas accent..." Ronald
Two explanations were given.
This is actually a detail that Ronald has only recently begun to pay attention to. In the first few movies, he did not have enough energy and budget to realize these things. From the beginning of making large-scale productions worth 20 million, Ronald was able to
Mobilize resources to try to do your best.
In this "Working Girl", Ronald was determined not to let the most basic scenery and props have any flaws that could be seen at a glance.
He rented a large office in the World Trade Center and prepared for on-site filming. After the stock market crash, many offices in the World Trade Center lost their tenants, so Ronald was able to rent it for short-term filming at a cheap price.
Sigourney Weaver plays Catherine, who lives in a mansion. Art director Polly Platt found an old two-story mansion built of stone before World War I on Morton Street in Manhattan.
Catherine's residence in the movie. The landlord is a low-key rich man who agreed to lend the house to the film crew.
In order to bring out the wealthy background of Catherine's family, Polly Platt also bought a large crystal chandelier for the homeowner to replace. On the stairs from the first floor to the second floor, Ronald also placed the owner of the record company,
David Geffen selected the Andy Warhol paintings that were not based on Marilyn Monroe and lent them to the crew to hang in the corner of the corridor.
In addition, the protagonist Tess’s house is located in the dock area in the north of Staten Island. It is an old house built with old wood, the kind that makes a creaking sound when walking.
In short, with a budget of more than 20 million, and probably being overseen by Polly Platt, probably the most powerful art director in Hollywood, Ronald enjoyed the treatment of a great director for the first time.
The best team brings peace of mind to the director. Many times, art directors, photography directors, hairstyling, makeup and other professionals are top candidates in the industry. The opinions they give are inherently excellent, and Ronald does not need to
Just like before, with an inexperienced team, everything had to be done by oneself.
"Thank you, director. I'm going to reshoot the footage this time. Thank you very much for letting me go." Sigourney Weaver made an appointment with a German accent coach, made an appointment on the phone for a practice time, and turned around to see Ronald specifically.
grateful.
In "Gorillas in the Mist," which she filmed last year, some of the actual footage shot in Kenya went wrong and required reshoots. It was a film about gorilla researcher Dian Fossey. Director Michael Apted
I called personally, hoping that Ronald could let Weaver go to Kenya for another week of filming.
Ronald and Sigourney Weaver met with her agent to discuss. This movie is one that Sigourney Weaver values very much. She hopes to win awards with this movie. Her agent repeatedly promised
, the re-shooting time will not be extended and will return to New York on time to participate in the shooting of working girls.
Ronald asked his lawyer to work with Fox's legal department to sign an agreement with many clauses and buy enough insurance before agreeing to release him. He also added a special clause that Sigourney Weaver should not be too tan. Otherwise, a Kenyan
The skin tone of an expert who is camping in the wild to study gorillas and a pampered Wall Street career woman are completely different.
…
After leaving the wedding, Ronald went to the Fox Tower again. The filming of "Die Hard" was still in progress, and the scenes without Bruce Willis were filmed in the past two days.
Ronald found producer Joel Silver. He was behind the monitor, watching the director direct Alan Rickman and a bunch of supporting actors played by tough men, filming the kidnapper scene.
"Are they Germans? Where did you find a group of gangsters with such 'Germanic' looks?" Ronald did not look at the black and white flashing screen, but stood directly behind the camera and looked at the actors opposite.
.
The actors who played the gangsters were all blond, blue-eyed, and tall. They looked very similar to the image of the "German bad guys" in the minds of American audiences. These people were all muscular men. Eight or nine of the twelve gangsters were
All are over six feet tall.
"No, in fact many of them are Europeans. Their face shapes are a little different from ours. The audience can tell the difference, but they can't tell which country they are from. So only three or four are of German descent, and the others are from the Netherlands, Switzerland, and
Some Nordic actors." Joel Silver explained. It is difficult for Hollywood to find so many Germans at once, and there are not many Germans in this industry. But the others have blond Germanic images, and the audience will recognize them.
.
They stood together, holding a walkie-talkie, talking to the gang leader played by Alan Rickman on the other side. Alan Rickman is not tall, but his acting skills are really good, and he still feels like a university professor when he is acting.
.The image of the bandit leader, who is a gentle and scumbag, is played very well.
Ronald listened to the live recording. Alan Rickman's line skills were very good. The audience felt that he was a well-educated bad guy who has gone astray. His tone of voice was extremely smooth, but not too Shakespearean.
Causing the audience to act out. This kind of mastery of scale is undoubtedly the result of many years of hard work on the theater stage.
"It's really great, it's really great. Ronald, the villain you introduced is simply the biggest surprise." After the director stopped, Joel Silver began to praise Ronald.
Rickman's casting decisions.
"After this one, let's move on." Director John McTiernan called the next one.
"Wo werden wir spielen? (Where are we going to play later?)" a blond gangster said into the walkie-talkie.
"Hier gibt es gutes Eis (The ice cream provided by the crew is really good)" Hans, played by Alan Rickman, replied in German to the camera.
"This is really good, really good." Ronald felt that the German spoken by Alan Rickman was the style he thought Sigourney Weaver spoke in "Working Girl". It was obviously highly educated.
Education, speaks eloquently, has a smooth tone, and has an aristocratic accent.
The director stopped the filming, and changed the angle of the next scene and turned on the lights to shoot front and back. The crew rested in place for two hours.
Ronald went up and hugged Alan Rickman, "Very good, very good. Your German is admirable, as if it were spoken by a German aristocrat. If you hadn't been filming, I would have invited you."
Go teach my heroine."
"Actually, I only studied German for one semester in middle school. I just asked the actor who played my younger brother to copy down the lines I wanted to say, and I knew them by heart." Alan Rickman was very happy to talk to Ronald
Let’s talk. This movie looks interesting. Maybe I can really break into Hollywood.
"Ah? That's even more surprising." Ronald didn't expect that Rickman actually learned it on the spot and could speak it so well that he, who didn't understand German, could feel the character of the character. This acting skill was indeed very strong.
"What are you talking about? Are you discussing how to kill John McClane?" Ronald began to guess the meaning of the lines, just like the audience watching the movie live. Although they didn't understand, they could guess the general meaning.
.
"Haha, the guy said it was because the ice cream provided by the crew tastes good." Alan Rickman laughed.
Director John McTiernan did not rely entirely on the script when filming. According to the situation on the scene, he often wrote improvised scripts, revised them on the spot and asked the actors to perform them. This was also one of the reasons that slowed down the filming. The actors did not prepare a day in advance.
Familiarize yourself with the lines and plot in the evening.
"What?" Ronald frowned, are you all talking nonsense in German?
"Yes, they are all meaningless words. The director said that the audience would not understand them anyway. They are all meaningless lines."
"Joel...Joel..." Ronald felt very bad and waved the producer Silver over.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Joel Silver was chatting with the crew when he was summoned by Ronald. Seeing the expression on his face, he knew something serious was going on and immediately became serious.
"John McTiernan..." Ronald felt something was wrong and closed his mouth, "Let's go to the office and talk." On the shooting scene, the producer must respect and protect the director's authority, and if he curses, he must find someone.
Swear out of earshot of the staff and actors.
"McTiernan, this SOB, this Bitch, this retard... why did he let the actors make up German? Just a few lines of dialogue, couldn't you find someone who understands German to write it?" Ronald was furious and faced Joel.
·Silver just scolded and focused his firepower on the director.
"Ronald, are you too sensitive? Only a few percent of American audiences understand German. Anyway, they can roughly guess from the actors' expressions that they just need to discuss how to proceed. This is a commercial film, and details are required.
It doesn’t have to be so high.”
Joel Silver looked at Ronald and wondered if it was a sequelae of his paying great attention to details in pursuit of winning an Oscar? In fact, commercial films mainly have celebrity beauties and hot action, and the rest is more or less enough.
"You..." Ronald was so angry that he poured the mineral water on the table. "Let me ask you, when you saw the sample, did you think the quality of this movie was good? We hope to make a lot of money?" Ronald
Moral question.
"Of course, although it is unlikely to be nominated for an award, judging from the samples taken now, this is a new type of action movie that is completely different from Stallone's action movies in the past. I like this movie very much..." Joel West
Wolf looked at Ronald with a confused look on his face, making an expression that said, "What do you want to say?"
"Then tell me, Joel. Do you want to make big money or make bigger money?" Ronald didn't react when he saw the other party. "Want to make bigger money, right? Of course the audience in the North American market will not be too big."
I care, but if we want to make more money, we have to sell the movie to Europe. How can those audiences not hear that the actor is talking about eating ice cream, or nonsense that is not even German?"
"This..." Joel Silver touched his fat chin, this was something he didn't expect.
"It was mentioned in the script before that these gangsters are German. Germans don't speak German? Isn't it just a low-cost exploitation film? It looks very bad... and is it sold to TV stations for broadcast? How do they add subtitles?
Also, the income from movies and video tapes is very high these days. Those viewers can buy them home and watch them over and over again. Wouldn’t they know that those lines are nonsense?”
"Damn it, McTiernan is an idiot," Joel Silver also reacted. He and the director are too used to making movies for domestic audiences. This kind of small detail may not have been important before, but
This kind of film, which has the potential to be a blockbuster movie, must take into consideration the European audience.
"Ronald, you saved me again. I'll ask him to retake it."
"You have to rewrite the dialogue in German and have it translated into German, real German," Joel Silver announced his decision.
"Hey, Ronald, is that necessary? Who cares about the little details of a few seconds of dialogue?" Director John McTiernan was called in and after hearing Joel Silver's words, he
Not very convinced. Such small details must be the thoughts of Ronald, who is new here today.
"This is the final decision between the two of us. It's actually not troublesome, right?" Ronald looked at him. He knew that the director put all his energy on action scenes and would not say anything to this kind of film critic.
I just let go of the good words.
"Okay, okay... damn..." McTiernan felt that he was wasting time and went out cursing.
"You fucking know nothing." Joel Silver cursed from behind and slammed the door. He turned to Ronald, "Before we finish filming, we still have to let him perform..."
"Hurry up and make sure you don't make stupid mistakes like this again." Ronald nodded in agreement. McTiernan focused his energy mainly on action scenes, which is also a good thing. To achieve success, people in key positions must
Must also be able to get big benefits from the project. He can tolerate McTiernan in small places.
However, if this affects the box office in Germany and Northern Europe, and even future video sales, there is no need to discuss it.