Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 204 Pinch Her Big Toe

"Are you going to watch her filming tomorrow?" Cousin Donna pointed to Brooke Shields and her daughter surrounded by reporters on the TV.

"Yeah, the director invited me to watch the scene. He thought I directed Brooke's commercials well, and going to the scene might inspire Brooke's acting skills."

"When Diane is here, don't talk about commercials. I think she said she won't shoot commercials, but seeing the enthusiasm caused by Brooke Shields commercials is still uncomfortable." Donna told Ronald.

"I see."

After dinner at his aunt's, Ronald took out a cake from Tom Cruise for dessert.

"Well, this cake is really delicious. You have a piece too." Donna said as she scratched a piece and handed it to Ronald.

"That's right. Tom also brought a lot of small cakes to the crew. Brooke Shields' mother also said it was delicious. But in order to control her weight, she didn't let her daughter eat too much. I guess Diane can't eat too." Ronald broke off a piece Cake in mouth.

"Diane is actually a nice girl, but I feel sorry for her because of the tough competition as an actress at such a young age," Aunt Karen said. "She's partying again, maybe it will make her happy."

The relationship between Diane Lane and her father Burt has improved slightly, and the two sometimes talk on the phone.But they will quarrel again after a while, and now they still live with Aunt Karen.

"Actually, the popularity of Brooke's commercials is abnormal. The TV station gives more time than reporting on the Iran-Iraq War." Ronald looked at the subtitles at the bottom of the TV, announcing the upcoming special report on the Iran-Iraq War.

The hostages held by Persia in America have not yet been released, and they verbally attacked the Suweier Alliance, and now they are actually caught in a war with their neighbors.

"I'm back, hey, you're here Ronald." Diane opened the door and walked in, "Oh, it's boring, it's war again." She watched the TV and said something, and hurried into her room.

Ronald and Donna looked at each other. Fortunately, ABC had switched to war reports.

Young people in America don't care much about international affairs.The Iran-Iraq War and the Brooke Shields ad are the biggest news stories right now.

A hot war between two countries with a population of tens of millions, and an ad for a pair of jeans in New York, or the fashion of skinny jeans, can attract the attention of high school students.

"Are you still going out?" Aunt Karen, now playing the role of parent, asked about Diane's schedule.

"Yeah, the next one is a school party. I'll come back and change clothes, and my classmates are still waiting below." Diane put on a white T-shirt, skinny jeans and white sneakers underneath, and went out again. "I'll call you when I get there, Karen."

This is an agreement between Karen and Diane. She will not interfere with Diane in social life, but she needs to report where she is.

"Is this kind of skinny jeans popular now?" Aunt Karen asked her daughter Donna. Social aesthetics have changed significantly. Ten years ago, flared jeans were still popular.

"It's pretty good, but this ad is a bit..." Aunt Karen said and glanced at Ronald, a little dissatisfied that the ad he shot was too explicit.

"Mom, didn't Ronnie say that the script didn't mean that, and the media was misinterpreting it?" Donna defended him.

Ronald nodded.When Brooke Shields was interviewed, she still said "There is nothing between me and Calvin", which is an ordinary sentence, expressing an intimate relationship with Calvin.

But sometimes what the creator of a work thinks doesn't count.After the ad was broadcast, the audience obviously interpreted it as other meanings. It doesn't matter what Brooke thinks or what she thinks.

Moreover, the spreading power of this slogan is astonishing. Before long, even many people who have never seen the advertisement knew that "there is nothing between Brooke and Calvin".

"It won't be on for a long time. I heard that the TV station is considering banning this ad." Ronald told everyone, "It's indecent."

But it doesn't matter anymore, the public firmly remembers this short and interesting advertisement.Calvin Klein's goals have all been achieved.

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"Will TV stations really ban jeans commercials?" Ronald, with an embarrassed face, asked Terry, who was staring at his daughter outside the set.

"The efficiency of the TV station's discussions will take another one or two months to come out. Brooke has not been on the cover of major fashion magazines only in August this year, and she has been in other months until now. This is thanks to you Ronald, who took Brooke's photos It's beautiful."

Terry thanked Ronald with his mouth, and his eyes were still fixed on the actor Martin Hewitt.

This is the only shot in today's shooting session where the male and female protagonists are in the same frame. It is a passionate scene.Watching her daughter film a passionate scene with his mother, Ronald was at a loss for words.

"Quiet!" Director Zeffirelli ordered, "Everyone get ready, all irrelevant personnel will leave."

After a loud slap, the camera far away from the hero and heroine rang very slightly, and the film winding motor started to start.

The scene in the studio became the living room of a wealthy Long Island family, and the fire in the fireplace beside it became the only light source.

The brightness of the firewood is not enough to ensure the shooting. The lighting engineer installed a light source behind the fireplace in advance, and the light shines through the fire, which not only ensures the brightness, but also gives a feeling of swaying firewood.

This is a close-up shot with a fixed-focus lens with a long focal length. The advantage is that it is far away from the actors, which is convenient for them to mobilize their emotions.After all, facing a big camera and lens on the face, the performance of many actors will be compromised.

The disadvantage is that the range of shooting is relatively narrow, and if the actor moves a little too much, he will go out of the viewfinder frame.

But it's called a passion scene, but it's actually just Brooke talking on Martin Hewitt's shoulder.There was no big move, and Ronald felt that there was no problem technically.

The problem was Brooke Shields.

"My eyes are flawed, they are too close together, you see..." Brooke Shields said the lines while gesturing the distance between her eyes with her hands.

"Cut!" Another filming was stopped midway.

Zeffirelli was already a little pissed off. He rushed up and yelled at Brooke Shields on the bed, "This is not a CK jeans ad, put down your high-pitched show off. A lover's conversation, lover! Find something you can talk to your boyfriend a feeling of.

Remember, your parents are upstairs, gently, whisper, don't let them hear. "

Brooke Shields was robbed by director Zeffirelli for a while, and her expression became sad on the spot. Her two thick flat eyebrows turned upside down towards her temples, showing another bitter look.

The poor girl didn't know what she did wrong, and the 15-year-old girl's voice was in a period of change, and some high-pitched voices were beyond Brooke's control.

"Oh, I thought Zeffirelli was an elder and would treat Brooke like his own daughter." Terry left a complaint, stepped forward to hug her daughter, and gently comforted her.

Brooke Shields got rid of the embarrassing situation, felt the warmth of her mother's embrace, her emotions fluctuated, and she cried.

"Oh, God. Make up, make up. Pause for 10 minutes." Seeing Brooke crying, Zeffirelli knew that she had to rest and wait for her eyes to recover. After announcing the suspension of filming, he found a bottle of whiskey and drank it angrily. stand up.

"Ronald, tell me, is there anything you can do?" Zeffirelli came over to complain to Ronald while drinking, "I don't know how to guide her. That girl, Meg Ryan's."

"I haven't met her. Is she acting well?" Ronald asked.

"She needs to have a lot of aura, and I don't need to say much during the audition. She can act beautifully and have first-class imagination. It's a pity that she was recruited by 'Rich and Famous'. How lucky is Cook old man."

"Old Nightmare in Qionglou" was also one of the victims of the actors' union strike. The original director Robert Mulligan was annoyed by the two leading actresses who went on strike on the first day of filming.MGM had no choice but to find the 81-year-old famous Hollywood director George Cukor (George Cukor) to take over.

Cook is still young, and he caught Meg Ryan with a glance and asked her to play the heroine's daughter.

This old director who once won the Oscar for Best Director with "My Fair Lady" is very good at discovering and training beautiful actors. In addition to Audrey Hepburn, he also directed Ingrid Bergman and won the Oscar for "Under Gaslight". Oscar queen.

"What's the problem, Franco?"

"She doesn't know how to act. I explained to him many times, how to substitute the mentality of the character, how to use the substitution method, and imagine Martin as her boyfriend, but she just can't act in the state of whispering between lovers. .”

"The sentence that the eyes are too close is to act like a baby to your boyfriend, not to pretend to belittle yourself between girls, but to show off your beauty in disguise." Zeffirelli stretched out his other hand that was not holding the wine bottle, with his five fingers close together, in Luo Nader rolls his eyes for emphasis.

Ronald looked at Brooke Shields, who had stopped crying under the comfort of her mother.Terry was like a female beast, lovingly stroking the child's hair.But for the men who dare to covet Brooke, they don't make excuses.

The actor Martin Hewitt, who was lying on the bed, wanted to go up to comfort Brooke, but was separated by Terry, who always protected her daughter very well.

When Ronald saw this scene, it seemed that someone suddenly shot a light into his mind.

"What if she doesn't have a boyfriend?"

"What did you say?" Zeffirelli asked.

"I said what if Brooke Shields doesn't have a boyfriend? Does it mean that she doesn't have the corresponding emotional experience and doesn't know how to replace it with her own feelings, so she can't act well."

"Is she almost sixteen? Never had a boyfriend?" Zeffirelli, who is of Italian descent, was a little unconvinced.

"Remember her nickname? America's Last Virgin Sweetheart." Ronald didn't really believe it, as Brooke Shields often appeared in the media with some popular male stars.

But the strength of Terry's personal protection, no man can succeed, right?Maybe those photos are just for news heat?Those male celebrities are just being used.

The two men stood side by side and looked on together. Under Terry's cold eyes, Martin Hewitt had to put on his pajamas and leave the bed where the filming was taking place.

"Damn it, you might be right, I'll try another way!" Zeffirelli handed the bottle to Ronald, and stepped forward to talk to Brooke.

"Boji, can you sing the latest pop song 'Romeo and Juliet'?" Zeffirelli said to Brooke who had just wiped away her tears.

"That song, Romeo, you make my heart beat faster? I love you like a star in the sky forever?" Brooke Shields hummed a few words.

"Yes, let's do it again. You forget what I told you before this time, don't think about the plot, and don't try to use your own emotions to substitute, just sing this song silently in your heart, and then watch Martin's Eyes, say your lines, okay?"

Under Zeffirelli's persuasive guidance, Brooke Shields glanced at her mother, and then nodded vigorously.

For her who has not received professional acting training, acting is like playing a big game. This kind of precise expression of inner emotions really makes her difficult.

Although there is no real emotional experience, the heart of a girl is always poetry. In the Shakespeare class in high school, Brooke also read Romeo and Juliet, and she also had yearning and imagination for the pure love between the two.

After the break, the resumption of filming went smoothly.

Brooke Shields is wearing an off-the-shoulder top, leaning on Martin Hewitt's arms.In this way, when shooting with a long focal length lens, only the position above the shoulders is captured, giving people a feeling of the two cuddling each other after the passion.

"If I'm old and not pretty, you'll be empathetic." Brooke Shields' eyes traveled back and forth between Martin Hewitt's eyes and chest, and her loving eyes were actually asking the man The main character David's answer.

"No, don't say that, I will always love you."

The lover's answer was perfect, and Jed, played by Brooke, kissed him.

"Cut!"

This time Zeffirelli was happy.It is effective to figure out how to use songs to guide imagination. Brooke completely forgot how to project emotions, and just used a silently humming song to guide a very natural performance.

"This is a print." After discussing with the director of photography, Director Zeffirelli made a decision, "The scene will be cleared next, let's shoot a passionate scene, double, where is the double?"

After that, the leading actor David and Jed, played by the leading actor Martin Hewitt, had a passionate scene.Brooke Shields is under the age of 16, and Terry agreed in the contract that all parts of the naked body should be performed by doubles.

Zeffirelli is a gentlemanly person. Although he is an ordinary stand-in, he still insists on clearing the scene. Except for the director of photography, lighting, and makeup personnel, everyone else leaves the scene.

Ronald also went out with the Brooke mother and daughter.

"Yo, Brooke."

A handsome guy with shawl and long hair came up and greeted Brooke with a Brooklyn accent.Brooke's mother Terry also stepped forward to hug him happily. Her strategy of letting her daughter Brooke and various celebrities appear on the same occasion is still working very well, and it has attracted many media pages.

Whether it's a movie star, a business tycoon, an aristocrat, a pop singer, or a painter, as long as Brooke and them always appear together, the media will report Brooke's dates in detail, and sometimes they can make four out of just one photo. One-quarter story.

Ronald also knew the male star this time.It was Matt Dillon, a young New York actor who met at a Jane Fonda party.

"Hi, Matt." Ronald came up to greet him afterwards.

"Hi, Ronald, I didn't expect to see you here. It's been a long time." Matt Dillon really followed the boast and came to visit Brooke Shields through the introduction of his agent.Maybe he wants to try his luck too, dating America's hottest teenage star.

The two chatted. Matt Dillon returned to New York this time mainly to prepare his new movie. I heard that the new movie is an adaptation of a best-selling novel. The author came to New York this time to negotiate a reprint contract with the publishing house.I had a chat with Matt Dillon, which was sort of an interview.

The author wants to see the protagonist candidates before deciding whether to sell the film adaptation rights to Disney.

After a while, the stand-in passion scene was filmed.Shields was called in again for her solo close-up.

Although Martin Hewitt was born as a bartender and valet, it was actually a part-time job. His first job was as a Shakespeare actor.This kind of actor's income is not high, and it is a very common choice to do odd jobs to subsidize himself.

With Shakespeare's acting skills, the shooting speed of the scenes between him and the double was very fast.

But he was also a little embarrassed to see Terry and Matt Dillon having a good time talking.Terry clearly prefers his daughter to be with the already famous Dillon.And physically separate him from Brooke.

"Ronald, Ronald." Director Zeffirelli shouted, interrupting the chat between Ronald and Matt Dillon.

He hurried into the cleared studio.Shooting again encountered difficulties.

This time, Brooke Shields was lying on her back on the bed, and the camera focused on her face for a close-up.This is a reaction shot to a passion scene, with a close-up inserted amidst the tumbling scenes of Martin Hewitt and his stand-in.

It gives the audience a very harmonious feeling of the joy of fish and water of the hero and heroine.

Brooke encountered the problem of not being able to enter the show again, but this time Ronald was helpless.

Brooke obviously has no experience in this area, unable to grasp the moment when pain and joy alternate, facial expressions and emotions.

Zeffirelli had already tried several times and had to call Ronald in to discuss.

Ronald was very shy when she saw Brooke Shields. She felt a little ashamed when she did not meet the director's requirements when filming this kind of scene.

Ronald stepped forward to give a few words of comfort, but was pulled aside by Zeffirelli to discuss.

"Do you have any tricks?"

"This?" Ronald couldn't think of a way without any relevant experience or material to imagine, "Should I find the novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'?"

"I can't do it, I can only resort to tricks. Go squat in front of the bed and pinch Brooke's big toe." Zeffirelli told Ronald.

"What? Big toe pinching?"

"Yes, the mixed feeling of pain and itching is reflected on the actress's face, which is very similar to the expression of the joy of fish and water. This is the secret of Italian filmmaking."

"Why don't you go?" Ronald felt embarrassed.

"I'm almost 60, and my waist is bad, so hurry up." Zeffirelli said.

"This?"

Reluctantly, Ronald looked at the director of photography and the radio operator in the studio, and everyone else was cleared.

"Boji, Ronald will squat here and gently pinch your big toe. You and him try the strength." Zeffirelli told Brooke without waiting for Ronald to agree.

"Okay." Brooke's cheeks were a little flushed, "Let's try first."

Zeffirelli, who was looking into the viewfinder behind the camera, saw Ronald half-kneeling, head averted from the camera, one hand holding Brooke Shields' foot, and the other hand on her big toe, ready to pinch. Going down, the whole person did not enter the viewfinder frame.

"Very good, Action!"

"Ah", Brooke cried out in pain after being pinched, her brows furrowed, Ronald's hand made her feel itchy again, and at the same time she wanted to laugh.

"Very good, Ronald, use a little more force!" Zeffirelli directed.

(End of this chapter)