Chapter 59 Heroines who are mirror images of each other
"This movie of yours has an old Hollywood feel." The production manager sent by Twentieth Century Fox to the crew was responsible for various logistical services. His name was Robert Greenhart. He was very careful and handled every detail.
Very appropriate, he was brought in by the boss of Fox to help Ronald.
"What should I say?" Ronald sat on the director's chair with his name written on it. It was filming at noon today and he was taking a rest.
"The biggest star in your movie is Harrison Ford, and the second biggest star is Sigourney Weaver, but one-third of the filming has already been done, and they haven't appeared yet. This is very similar to the big studio era.
In movies, at that time, stars were assigned roles on the set, and there was no need to appear from the beginning."
"Hahaha... You are right. This movie is not a purely commercial film. I am trying to tell a complete and interesting story."
This person's subtle flattery made Ronald's fatigue disappear. As of today, everything went very smoothly. Sigourney Weaver actually also has experience on the theater stage. She also respects the director on the set and everything is in accordance with
Film the script.
Next is the scene where the two heroines meet for the first time. Tess arrives at the new office on her first day. This office is decorated according to the office layout of an old investment bank on Wall Street. Catherine, played by Sigourney Weaver,
·Parker, the office is in the corner, the best office on the first floor.
Tess's office is just outside her office, working together with other managers' secretaries.
Compared with the messy internal layout of Tess's original company, this company is obviously much more successful. The interior uses beige walls and walnut-colored wooden doors as the main colors. Even the secretary's seat is very spacious.
The interior decoration of Catherine's office is even more luxurious. There are windows facing the street on both sides, with light-colored curtains, a desk spanning the entire office area, and a state-of-the-art computer in one corner. The props group and the scenery group are arranged through the class
Due to the relationship between farmers, the interior decoration details of Goldman Sachs were almost moved over intact.
"Action!"
Sigourney Weaver walked into the frame of the camera from a distance. She was wearing a black and white plaid woolen suit, a white cashmere turtleneck sweater, and a thin pearl necklace hanging on it. It was also very accurate to Wall Street.
Powerful outfits commonly worn by female executives.
The upper body downplays femininity and highlights competitiveness, while the lower body wears a one-step short skirt, which makes it swaying when walking and highlights female charm. Let them take advantage of both.
Sigourney Weaver's coat was unbuttoned and hung on her shoulders. She walked like a boss. She walked to Tess's secretary's desk.
"Hi, I'm Catherine Parker, and you must be Tess." As she said this, Sigourney handed the brown Hermès leather briefcase to her left hand, then took off the Gucci suede glove on her right hand and stretched out her hand.
"Uh huh..." Melanie shook hands with her and let out a nervous, awkward and unnatural laugh. She had reason to laugh like this. Tess also wore a strong suit today, but it was in the basement of the World Trade Center Mall.
A bargain, a black ordinary knitted turtleneck sweater, a thin gold necklace, a black ordinary white-collar coat, the only brand mark is her belt buckle, a cheap small brand ESPRIT made in Asia, exaggerated belt buckle
The pattern is too fancy compared to Catherine's.
"Aha, you have a stuffed toy here." Sigourney Weaver behaved like a very scary executive. She picked up the little rabbit stuffed toy on Tess's desk and spoke in a tone of voice.
It's like finding fault.
"Uh-huh, I usually don't put stuffed animals on the table. My friend gave me this for my birthday a few days ago." Melanie Griffiths reacted very well and was greeted by a
The boss, who was full of power, was critical, so she explained anxiously.
"Are you kidding? I have my birthday next Tuesday too." Sigourney Weaver's reaction was also very good. The character of Catherine's self-centered temperament is reflected in these two lines of dialogue.
Very fully, "How old are you?"
"Thirty", Tess spoke more and more quietly, being shocked by Catherine's upper-class temperament from head to toe.
"Really? I'll be thirty next week, and we're almost twins."
"Giggle...except I'm a little older," poor Tess was already starting to speak incoherently.
If a man were the boss, maybe Tess's makeup and dress would still make people like her, but such a female boss who is better than herself in all aspects makes Tess feel inferior in every aspect, and...
"I've never worked for a lady, geez... or anyone younger than me." Melanie Griffiths played Tess's bewildered look very well.
"Well, there's a first time for everything." Sigourney Weaver also played Catherine's condescending manner, "Wouldn't this be a problem?" What Catherine thought about most was herself.
"No, of course not."
"Very good", Sigourney Weaver turned to enter the office. She felt that it was very good to deal with a secretary like this. "Why don't you go make a cup of coffee and then come into my office? I want light roast, no."
Put some sugar." She entered the office and slammed the door.
"Cut!"
After Ronald stopped, Sigourney Weaver opened the door and came out of the office to hear Ronald's opinion on her performance.
"Here, take..." Ronald opened the drawer of Tess's prop desk, took out a plush doll from it, and handed it to Sigourney.
"So cute..." Sigourney Weaver also likes this kind of toy. Just now she picked it up and looked at it for herself during the plot, and she almost burst out laughing. This kind of toy is naturally attractive to women.
It's very relaxing on my hands.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I like it very much, so I will give this to you."
Ronald turned around and went to explain to the camera crew about the next shoot, leaving the two actresses talking there.
"It means he likes your performance." Melanie Griffiths said quietly to Sigourney Weaver.
"So, this is Director Ronald's way of expressing his appreciation?" Sigourney quietly put the stuffed toy away and put it in her bag. Although this was much smaller than the gorilla toy he gave her a few days ago,
But this kind of reward for outstanding performance makes Sigourney like it even more.
"Isn't that right? He will also give you cookies baked at home, if he likes your performance."
"He is really a very reserved director, but there are not many directors who can think about actors like this. It's very difficult."
Unaware of his unintentional move, he gained the sincere love of the two heroines. Ronald and the director of photography were discussing the arrangements for the next shot.
"I hope to make a contrast. Here is Catherine, refined, wealthy, and privileged, and over there is Tess, rough, poor, and grassroots."
"Then I will give them a contrasting light. In addition, I need to find a prop with symbolic meaning."
"Props?" Ronald snapped his fingers and called the person in charge of the props, and explained the requirements.
"What do you think of this?" After searching for props for a while, he brought two ceramic coffee cups from the tea room. The coffee cups were separated by a line in the middle, one side was gray and the other side was black, which happened to be Tess and Catherine.
People's clothing colors.
"Very good, just use this."
Ronald exclaimed in his heart and put the two cups into Melanie Griffith's hands.
"Action!"
The camera in Catherine's office was facing the door, and there were two knocks on the door.
"Come in"
Tess held two cups of coffee in both hands and entered the office cautiously.
One cup was handed to Catherine, and the other cup was placed on his side of the desk. The elegant gray one was facing Catherine, and the black one was facing him.
"Tess, let's talk about the basic rules first..." Catherine was not very satisfied with Tess, so she wanted to set rules for her.
"...I think the two of us are a team, so we also have a team slogan: simple, elegant, and error-free." After talking about a lot of her requirements, Catherine began to use a seemingly polite, but actually very rude
criticized Tess's dress.
"...Wear superficially and what they see is clothes. Dress elegantly and they see women, as Coco Chanel said."
On the one hand, Melanie Griffiths felt that her dressing sense had been severely criticized and she felt a bit humiliated. On the other hand, she felt that Catherine had great taste and what she said made sense.
"What do you think of what I'm wearing now?" Tess carefully asked her boss's opinion.
Sigourney Weaver had tilted her head towards the computer on the side of her desk. She did not look at Tess, intentionally or unintentionally putting some pressure on her:
"You look good, but maybe you'd like to pay attention to your (exaggerated) jewelry."
Melanie Griffiths looked embarrassed. She was criticized for her dress by a female boss who was younger than herself. She felt that she lacked a lot of knowledge about dressing. She quickly put her hands on her knees and covered her clothes.
Hold the big gold bracelet on your wrist and try to keep it still to prevent the big earrings from making a jingling sound.
"I want you to give me your opinion. We are a two-way street, and I also want to see your diligence. Have I made it clear enough?" Sigourney Weaver turned her eyes back and treated her like this.
She learned the attitude of servants from her parents' attitude towards domestic servants, which was to alternate between beating and being kind. She looked at a photo on the table, which was a photo of her with her father, a successful man, and her mother, a socialite.
.
Melanie Griffiths played a secretary of ordinary background who was at a loss when being squeezed by her boss. She cleared her throat:
"That's very clear, Catherine."
Sigourney Weaver smiled, Tess could now work hard. She stood up and said, "Finally, you can call me Catherine." She shook hands with Melanie Griffith again.
shake hands.
Different from the handshake in the aisle just now, when Catherine and Tess were still passers-by, this handshake in the office completely positioned the relationship between the two as that of boss and secretary.
"Cut!" Ronald came out from behind with a smile. It was a very good thing to have the leading actress Melanie Griffiths in the state. Sigourney Weaver was brought into the state by her.
, the rivalry between the two today progressed step by step and was very exciting, with every expression and tone of voice correct.
"Very good, very good, I like this scene very much..." Ronald immediately praised her again. Today is Sigourney Weaver's first official day of filming. This kind of positive feedback has a great influence on her.
Status is important.
"What, no stuffed animals?" Sigourney Weaver smiled and stretched out her hand.
"Ah? I didn't prepare so much. We'll talk about it later." Ronald was confused as to why he wanted to do it.
"It seems like the director wasn't happy with the scene?" Sigourney asked Melanie quietly.
"No, Ronald would never directly criticize or say something bad. He always said very gentlemanly, the scene just now was very good and I liked it very much. In order to achieve the best effect, can we try a different approach?
Do it again?" Melanie Griffiths smiled and imitated Ronald's speech.
"It seems that it has not exceeded his expectations..."
"What about props? Go to that store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and buy some stuffed animals. Some of different animals. I found that actresses particularly like them. Their mood will be much better if they have stuffed toys."
Ronald also asked him to continue to buy props. It seemed that the two heroines liked this interaction of giving out prizes if they performed well.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Next, the main scene is the rivalry between the two heroines in the office.
Catherine wanted to organize a lunch party and invite various clients to come over for dinner, hoping to reverse the poor performance of the previous M&A department. She asked Ginny from the public relations company to come over to organize it, and asked Tess to come over and take the minutes of the meeting.
Tess wanted to express herself. She remembered that Catherine said it was a two-way passage, so she suggested that she find a restaurant in Chinatown to provide a Cantonese dim sum cart. Catherine gave it a high look and passed the preliminary test.
At the luncheon, Catherine kept a group of male customers in a circle, and Tess was treated as a coolie by her, pushing the dining cart and asking the guests if they wanted some snacks. Catherine robbed all the limelight.
Tess was very envious of Catherine's social skills, and she was constantly learning from Catherine's style. In the following shots, her dress, hairstyle, and makeup were getting closer and closer to Catherine's.
Tess thought about her idea and took the initiative to talk to Catherine about it. Teske Corporation is a media group. They are looking for mergers and acquisitions to strengthen their assets and better prevent malicious mergers and acquisitions from Japanese competitors in the capital market.
Tess heard some of Teske's ideas. She had an idea. Teske should not acquire those expensive TV networks, but should first acquire a radio network. The valuation of radio stations is low, and the merger and acquisition will not be too big.
This can boost the stock price. At the same time, radio and television networks are also protected by the American Communications Commission, and any acquisitions from foreign countries need to be approved by them.
In this way, a safety net can be laid between Tesco and its Japanese competitors, so that their mergers and acquisitions will encounter other resistance besides price.
Catherine did not expect that her secretary, Tess, would have such business knowledge besides making snacks. She confirmed again and again that Tess came up with this idea by herself, and did not hear it in the elevator, nor was it told to her by others.
After hearing Tess say that it was entirely her own creation, Katherine got an idea. Tess wanted to participate in the project, and Katherine would endorse her, so that she would have a strong recommendation to be competitive for future promotions.
Catherine thought this idea was amazing. She unexpectedly achieved the same goal as acquiring a TV network through an outdated radio station that no one had thought of, and a law that no one had looked at for many years, so she wanted to take this idea as her own.
However, she still told Tess that she would give her the treatment she deserved. After all, the two of them were a two-way channel and a team!
In fact, what Catherine wants to do is to find her long-cherished bachelor Jack Traynor, a very successful merger and acquisition broker on Wall Street, and work together to sell this merger to the president of Tesk Corporation.
This kills two birds with one stone, not only solving the business problem, but also making Jack Traynor determined to marry him.
Tess, who was still in the dark, was determined to imitate everything about Catherine. By the third scene in the office, she had put on the same white shirt with a stand-up collar as Catherine, a black skirt, stockings and high heels.
, highlighting the long legs of the two heroines.
However, Catherine did not promote Tess to a real "team member" because of this good idea, but asked her to do all the chores. Catherine, who was about to go to Switzerland for a ski vacation, asked Tess to kneel on the ground to change her ski boots.
See if it fits.
"Have you reserved a room for me?" Sigourney Weaver asked condescendingly to Melanie Griffiths, who was helping her buckle her ski boots below.
"I called a few days ago and they said they could give you a suite in the new building."
Sigourney Weaver turned around and looked at Tess, her face showing a kind of criticality and impatience, "Have you told them that I want to make the decision?" Catherine was very blaming.
elegant.
"Oh...I said your name, Parker."
Catherine had an expression on her face that said, "Let me teach you how to do it." She picked up the phone and dialed the number of the ski hotel. Then she spoke in very elegant German with aristocratic pronunciation.
"They knew it was me and they gave me the best room in the old building with a wood-burning fireplace and everything was perfect. You know what? I have a boyfriend who's also in New York and he said he'd come to me
Say something very important, I think he will ask that question."
"Do you think so? What if he doesn't propose?" Tess couldn't understand why Catherine was so sure, as if everyone wanted to revolve around her.
"Because all other options are invalid..." Catherine said proudly, she was talking about Jack Traynor, and then she taught her secretary a lesson:
"Tess, you can't just wait for something to happen. If you just sit and hope that something good will happen, it will never happen. You have to make it happen. Look at me and learn from me!"
"Cut!" Ronald was very satisfied with the two people's performance this time. The camera was condescending when speaking, which hinted at the two people's positioning towards each other.
"One for each of you." Ronald was now fully stocked and took out two giraffe plush toys and gave them to the two of them.
"Thank you, so cute." The two heroines exchanged glances. Today they received another award from Ronald. He is a very sincere director who understands subtle communication.
In the plot, Catherine will break her leg while skiing and need to recuperate. She calls Tess and asks her to come to her home to supervise the work of the cleaning lady and gardener, and tidy up the room for herself.
Then Tess discovered Catherine's recorded memo and discovered that Catherine wanted to take her idea as her own. Tess was very disappointed, thinking about Catherine's words to fight for herself and make good things happen, so she decided to assume Catherine's identity.
Go find Jack Trainor and make the merger happen.
Finally, in the third and a half weeks of filming, shooting of Harrison Ford's scenes was finally about to begin.
Now, the expressions of the people in the crew are obviously different. The clothes many people wore on the crew have become more tasteful, and some ladies' makeup has also become more refined. He is really a very charming male star.
"Cousin, just let me go to the set and have fun. I have never seen Harrison Ford alive."
Even my cousin Donna called me after hearing the news and wanted to come to the set to meet the big star.
"Okay, come on, I'll prepare a visitor's sign for you. Be careful not to disturb Harrison, and don't go up to ask for autographs or photos during the break. Harrison doesn't like doing these things with fans. I'll give an introduction.