Once an actor with talent and potential finds a suitable role, the creative state he can stimulate is extremely valuable.
Ronald carefully took care of everyone's performance status. The biggest difference between the performance status of film actors and theater actors is that there is no way to get real-time feedback from the audience.
When performing a play in the theater, the audience's reaction will clearly tell the actor how he is performing today. He will adjust his performance skills accordingly.
But movie actors actually perform in front of the air. Even if a large company like 20th Century Fox shoots in New York, which has the second-best equipment in the country, you still have to wait until the afternoon of the next day to see the developed samples. At that time
When I saw something bad in the performance, it was too late to correct it.
The lighting, sound recording, and notes on the scene were all busy with their own affairs. The photographer was a little better than them. He could see the performance from the viewfinder, but he didn't know how the scene would be presented in the editing room in the end.
There is no way of knowing how well an actor performs.
Only director Ronald, standing behind the camera, is almost the only audience in the world who can see whether the actors are performing well or not.
Therefore, the main actors such as Griffiths, Baldwin, and Cusack habitually looked at Ronald after each scene. As long as they saw him smiling and nodding, and then saying "Great, today"
Their performance was great..." and the like made them feel very safe in their hearts, so much so that they didn't care too much about the meaning of "Let's change the performance method and add another insurance" that was often followed.
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"Come here, eat some baked biscuits, my aunt's secret recipe." In order to keep the actors and staff in good condition, Ronald also asked his aunt to send baked biscuits. He shared them with everyone during the breaks during filming.
For a moment, a scent filled the crew, and even the supervisory representative sent by the Screenwriters Guild couldn't help but come over to ask for a few dollars.
"I said, when will your strike plan end? What script are you writing? You can't write the script now, what will you do if you have no income?" Ronald handed the remaining cookies to the female screenwriter whose turn it was today.
The strike has entered its second week. Union members who volunteer to supervise the crew and TV stations will receive some subsidies, but now those TV crews who are writing and filming at the same time have basically stopped working.
The TV station took out some old dramas from the past to fill the most precious prime time slot in the evening. The only ones that started working were movie crews like Ronald who had already started filming. Therefore, the number of crews that needed to be supervised was also very small, with more people and fewer seats.
New people come every day.
The female screenwriter is a TV screenwriter. She swallowed the biscuit in one gulp and took a sip of hot coffee. "Before I went on strike, I had actually found a long-term job in a morning soap opera on NBC. If I continued, maybe this job would be better.
Easy work is wasted again.”
"How long do you plan to strike? I think the attitude of the Producers Union has softened. The compensation of 300 million is a bit too much. Let's sit down and discuss a number, and then we will resume happy hours. I have movies to continue shooting, and so do you.
Isn’t it great to work in a TV series?”
"Do you know? Director, it is actually illegal for you to discuss the strike with me like this. But your biscuits are delicious, so it doesn't matter if I tell you. Now we are riding a tiger," the female screenwriter said with a smile.
"Actually, I want to accept the conditions to end the strike. Rumors say that negotiator Walton wants to accept your condition of 50 million US dollars in compensation, but many members were so inspired by his previous speech that they really believe that they can
With a quota of 300 million, you can also have the right to decide on the casting and director of the script."
"Ah? I, Walton, have the right to decide whether to accept the conditions of the Producers Alliance?"
"In order to win the support of union members, he would not leave him alone until he got the best terms, and reached a private agreement, which stipulated that the union must agree with him before accepting the terms, but accordingly, he also agreed that the terms must be internally reviewed.
It just needs to be voted on."
"Oh..." Ronald touched his head. This is troublesome. The lower-level union members have been incited and really believe that they can get power in Hollywood that top directors and producers may not have. It seems that everyone
It will be impossible to reach a compromise in the short term before our energy is exhausted.
The scenes on Staten Island are being filmed here, and the set and props team, led by art director Polly Platt, is setting up the scene for Tess's new office on another floor of the World Trade Center.
Tess's colleague in the old company, the fat little manager Lutz, said that he introduced Tess to a manager in the hedging department who was looking for a new assistant. But in fact, Tess's suspicion was not wrong.
The woman the manager is looking for.
The hedging department played the most important role in last year's stock market crash. They either made big profits or lost big money. The losses and gains of hundreds of millions a day all occurred under the extreme conditions of the stock market crash. For example, the Jew Solo of Tiger Fund almost lost the fund.
I lost all my money. Later, I used the gossip about the adjustment of the Japanese yen exchange rate to get back part of my money.
These people are often perverse and violent, and their ups and downs in life make them exaggerated in the relationship between men and women. In order to seek the satisfaction of dopamine, they can do very strange things.
According to Ronald's friend Bannon, these people are more chaotic than Hollywood.
Bob Spike's manager in the script was such a character. The casting director, Julia, finally found an actor who played a recurring supporting role in a prime-time soap opera. Such soap operas often have characters with facial makeup.
He plays a pervert.
After the weekend, the new week's filming moved to Manhattan, and Ronald received bad news. Because the Writers Guild's strike continued into the third week, the "Television and Radio Artists Association" of the two major actors' unions, because of the TV series script
With no scenes to film during the break, actors are encouraged to take a vacation or seek a second career.
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His plot needs to be written more. Guest actors can also become permanent supporting characters.
The general strike by the Writers Guild has completely bankrupted this filming model, but TV drama actors still have contracts, and they don’t want to be stuck in a TV series that can’t be filmed, and unable to find other livelihoods.
The Producers Union did not want the other two of the three major unions and the Writers Guild to force themselves to make concessions. The two sides hit it off immediately, and each TV station announced that actors could take a leave of their own choice and return to filming after the writers' strike was over.
For a time, all the TV drama actors from the three major public television stations ran away. Some went to the theater stage, some went to film abroad, and many more started to work part-time, teaching drama to children in schools or communities.
The actor chosen by Ronald and Julia Taylor was a British man. He happened to get a supporting role in a soap opera in his hometown through connections. He threw away Ronald's guest role here and ran back to work.
Ronald, who is sitting here, quickly called for Julia Taylor. "Do you have anyone else who is suitable to play the role of a pervert? There is a fire here, hurry up..."
"How about that Kevin talking about stand-up comedy in the bar? Kevin Spacey?"
"Spacey?" Ronald thought of the actor chatting with Alec Baldwin and Alan Rickman next to the Candy Box Theater on Broadway. He openly flirted with the waitress in the bar, which was okay in appearance.
of.
"I'll tell him directly what his phone number is." The anxious Ronald didn't even call Kevin Spacey's agent and directly called the actor himself.
"Guesting as a hedge investment manager? I'm very interested. But I'm currently preparing for a play, and the shooting time..." Spacey heard that there was nothing he wouldn't do if he was offered a role in a movie. He is currently preparing to rehearse a new Broadway play.
, I’m afraid I won’t be able to spare the time.
"It will only take half a day. I will ask my driver to pick you up and bring you the script. Just tell your agent and let him help you sign the contract." Ronald said without waiting for Spacey to speak.
Finalize the casting.
This scene was shot in a car, a rented stretch limousine, prepared on Long Island. The purpose of renting a stretch limousine was not only to show the luxury of the hedging department, but also to facilitate the placement of the camera.
We chose Long Island, which is relatively affluent and quiet, because there is less traffic here and is suitable for repeated driving. If we shot this scene in Manhattan, I am afraid that the drivers of other vehicles would have to yell at them not to block the road, making it impossible to shoot.
"Cameron, this is your pass." When filming the location, Ronald called Cameron Crowe to the scene to come up with ideas.
Today is an outdoor shooting, so Ronald is not afraid of being arrested by the Writers Guild. The Writers Guild, which has been on strike for more than two weeks, has not yet reached an agreement. Those who took the initiative to supervise the crew at the beginning have begun to become discouraged. Today, they will go on location.
Didn't follow.
"This paragraph needs to be modified for the lines of the manager Bob Spike. I need a particularly marginalized character. He is the kind of manager who the audience will know will do obscene and inappropriate things. You can follow the instructions of Tiger Fund
Make it up like Luo."
After changing the actors, Ronald decided to let Crowe rewrite the lines to be more suitable for a well-dressed pervert like Kevin Spacey. Unlike the soap opera actor, he looked gentle on the surface, but it was not until he opened his mouth that he realized that he was a well-dressed pervert.
Pig.
"If it's a pig, you have to hump it..." Cameron Crowe was inspired and wrote a paragraph in pencil on his writing pad and handed it to Ronald.
"Hahaha, just do it like this..." Ronald was very satisfied.
The luxury car was already in place, and the two cameras were set up inside the luxury car. The recording and lighting were ready. The recorder took out a small slate and tried to record some close-ups and close-ups in the car.
The slate is specially made, and the actors have to make it themselves. Although the interior of the luxury car is larger than an ordinary car, after the camera crew and sound crew are crammed into it, there is no room for another slate.
Everything is ready, only actor Kevin Spacey hasn't arrived yet.
"Bud, where have you been?" Ronald was anxious and found a phone to call his driver.
"We are stuck on the road and it will take about twenty minutes." Little Bud replied on the car phone.
"Twenty minutes, you said twenty minutes just now. Hey, hey..." Ronald gave up on the traffic in Manhattan.
"I'm about to enter the East River Tunnel. I'll call you back later." Little Bud's intermittent voice came, and then completely stopped.
Ronald didn't know if the traffic jam would extend to Long Island, so he walked around the set anxiously. This kind of temporary change of actors was really annoying. The staff on the set were a little afraid to speak. This was the first time since filming started.
It was the first time I saw Ronald so angry.
"Director, don't worry, should we make another backup plan?" Today, only Melanie Griffiths came to shoot with the crew, and everyone else was on vacation. Only she, an actor on the crew, dared to come up and persuade her.
"Backup plan?" Ronald repeated her words, but the anxiety in his heart had not faded away. "Cameron, you come to act, I remember you were an actor?" Ronald looked around, only
Cameron Crowe, who came to the rescue to change the script, has never appeared on screen, and his appearance matches the image in the script.
"Me? I did become an actor." Cameron Crowe saw Ronald actually mentioning his name. He didn't dare to say that he had only been an actor in the university drama club, and his subsequent career as an actor was a complete failure.
In order to save the scene, he couldn't say more. He couldn't help but have a wonderful fantasy about the profession of director. He decided the fate of everyone on the set. As a screenwriter, if he was chosen by him, he could act.
"That's good, I won't tell you about the play. You wrote the script yourself, and you will definitely act it. Costume, costume, come and try on Cameron's costume!" Ronald called the costume designer, Crowe's figure
It's a bit taller than Spacey's, so I need to get a new one.
"This one won't work, Mr. Crowe is too tall." After a while, Crowe fixed his hair, put on his clothes, and came out to show Ronald. The costume designer looked at the effect and found that this suit didn't look that good on him at all.
The feeling of a powerful person.
"Go buy it, borrow it, see if there are any boutiques around." Ronald was anxious, and time was passing by little by little.
"Squeak..." There was an urgent brake, and Kevin Spacey, whom Little Bud picked up, finally arrived.
"Sorry, sorry, I just finished rehearsal. There was a traffic accident in Manhattan today. We were stuck in traffic for a long time."
Kevin Spacey quickly apologized to Ronald and the rest of the staff. He came today to do Ronald a favor. It would be bad if it caused trouble instead.
Ronald didn't say anything. He pointed at the suit that the costumer had just taken off Crowe and asked Spacey to put it on.
The makeup artist and hairstylist rushed over to put makeup on Spacey. On the other side, Ronald handed over a two-page script and asked him what he wanted to ask.
"Everything is OK." Spacey quickly read it and made a no problem gesture.
"Working Girl Scene
.She picked up the clapperboard, typed it at the camera, and then put it under the seat.
"What qualities do you think a good hedging and arbitrage investor needs?" Tess said to manager Bob.
"Well, we went to the hotel room to discuss that." Kevin Spacey lay half-lying, and then twisted the wire on the champagne bottle cap.
"Hotel room?" Tess realized that she was not a real interview assistant. Melanie's tone was a little disappointed.
"Yes, the company has a long-term private room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. When there are no customers, we can go there... party... oh wow..."
Kevin Spacey was very explosive. With a strange scream, he shook the champagne cork and jumped out with a bang. He deliberately pushed the champagne foam forward and fell on Melanie's clothes.
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"Ahh..." Melanie's reaction was also great. Her decent dress was soaked by champagne... But she couldn't blame the other party, so she could only quickly sweep away the foam with her hands.
"Oh, sorry, sorry." Kevin Spacey's dramatic actor's ability to improvise came into play. He helped Tess' character start to exhale those bubbles. He then put his hand on Melanie's abdomen.
, and then like a fat pig, he pushed it up with his mouth.
"Bob!" Tess yelled, which was beyond the limit.
Seeing that Melanie was about to have an attack, Kevin Spacey quickly let go of his mouth, then brought the champagne bottle to his mouth and took a sip, then immediately went back to the words "Sorry, you know, hedging arbitrage"
The department has made a simple introductory textbook for training business school graduates. Why don't I play the videotape if you have any questions..."
"That's good..." Tess thought to herself, maybe Bob was just a little impatient and still wanted an assistant...
"Ah...ah...", the videotape that Spacey put into the car TV began to jump out of the screen. It was not a hedging arbitrage textbook at all, but a confession video, in which a man and a woman had sex in an outdoor swimming pool.
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"Hahahaha...that's the wrong video, unless of course you want to see this..." Spacey's frantic borderline temperament came into play, and the serious financial elite who was just now turned into a pervert in an instant.
"Bob, you don't really want an assistant, do you?" Melanie Griffith's tone made the audience feel that this was not the first time she had encountered this kind of harassment.
"Well... not now, but I will always open the door to those who are hungry, as long as they are willing..." The Bob played by Spacey is indeed suitable for his own temperament, he can talk nonsense, and he is very
Make people believe in him.
"Bob, I'm very horny, but not that kind of horny..." Tess doesn't want to exchange her body for opportunities. If she is willing, it's not like she has never done so before. She wants to truly be a manager and be able to do a good job.
The kind of position, rather than a vase of attachment to a man.
"I'm sorry, can you please pull over here?" Griffiths said to the camera. When the audience sees this scene, they will feel that she is talking to the driver.
Then Griffiths picked up the champagne and shook it vigorously several times. Champagne foam spurted out and sprayed all over Spacey's face.
"Hahaha, your party, Bob."
"Cut!" Seeing Spacey's embarrassment, Griffiths was about to open the door and go out, but Ronald stopped.
The two actors performed this scene very well. Ronald didn't want to shoot it again because Spacey's suit was soaked and his hair and makeup were ruined by champagne. It would take a lot of time to shoot it again.
"Thanks, Kevin, today's show was great."
"I had a great time playing the role. I'll give him a bigger role next time..." Kevin Spacey laughed. It's always good to let Ronald owe a favor.
Ronald owed more than one favor, and the actress originally scheduled for the next scene also gave up and left. Ronald immediately had to ask his old friend, Olympia Du, who played his mother in "Moonlight".
Kakis asks for help.
Dukakis was in Boston, heard the call, and without a word came to play a guest role as an employment agency manager.
"Why are you in Boston? I thought you were in Los Angeles for public relations?" Ronald was very puzzled that she did not continue to publicize the Oscar-winning actress and came to the east.
"Didn't you read the newspaper? My cousin Michael, the governor of Massachusetts, has announced his candidacy for the office of governor. I'm here to give him a platform and gain some space."
"Huh? Oh," Ronald really didn't know about this. In fact, this cousin Michael Dukakis is not the kind of cousin who is close to Olympia. Michael Dukakis is the All-American
The second descendant of Greek immigrants to become governor.
After he took office in 1983, the Massachusetts economy experienced a strong recovery. The unemployment rate dropped from more than 12% in 1975 to less than 3%. Tax revenue also increased due to the incubation of high-tech enterprises at Harvard and MIT.
There has been great growth.
But unlike Deputy Commander George, his cousin is the governor of the Donkey Party.
"Whatever, I won't let go of any exposure opportunity now. I would rather overdo it than regret it." Olympia Dukakis understands very well that this may be the best opportunity in her life to win the statuette.
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"It's hard to say Oscar, but you have my vote." Ronald was still very satisfied with the actor.
"Tess, Tess, Tess, you don't get a promotion by calling the manager a pimp." Olympia Dukakis's makeup is completely different from that of the housewife in "Moonlight", who is dressed up
Her hair is light blond and has a very professional hairstyle. Two black gemstone earrings set in gold, paired with light lipstick and light spots, and a white shirt with large lapels are another typical strong and professional attire.
Women's favorite.
"But he is just a pimp." Griffiths felt that he was wronged.
"Look, this is the third time in six months that I've found a job for you." Dukakis acted like a senior manager of an employment agency.
"I'm thirty years old. I spent a long time getting a night school diploma. I can do this job well. Ask my previous managers, or even Lutz, can they say that Tess made a mistake at work?"
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"I don't think they will say anything good for you." Dukakis shook his head slightly. The character of Tess is very interesting. Although she is thirty years old, she is still very childish in some places.
She looked at the computer on the other side and pretended to type a few keys, "There is a job here. The manager has just been transferred from Boston. The M&A department is called Parker. He will work on Monday."
"Thanks"
"Tess," Dukakis handed over the information, and then emphasized, "You go home and calm down. This is the last time I can help you. If you mess up again this time, you will strike out."
Already."
"Cut!" Ronald was really satisfied with the performances of these theater actors. As long as they were familiar with how to perform in front of the camera, it was very smooth.
"Hahaha, I will vote for you." Melanie Griffiths and Dukakis have a great sense of acting together, and their reactions to each other are great regardless of time and emotional intensity. "You want to
Please order some biscuits, the director’s secret recipe is delicious.”
"Oh, that's right. Last time I filmed for him, they didn't have this." Olympia Dukakis ate several cookies that Ronald brought.