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Chapter 214
Chapter 214
Brother and sister Brad and Stacy; Mark Ratner, who has a crush on Stacy; Mark's good friend, Mike Damon, who made Stacy pregnant; Linda Barrett, Stacy's best friend.
The main line of these five characters is relatively close. Ronald has a plot of about 60 minutes. The plots of other characters in the novel are relatively scattered. It takes more than 20 minutes to fill up, and interact with the five main characters, it takes some thinking.
Thinking of the racial quotas for the characters in "Fame", Ronald called the author of the novel, Cameron Crowe, to discuss which characters to keep, and cut down other minor characters, leaving only a few lines.
The result of the discussion was to retain one Italian, one black, and one Jewish.
The Italian-born student character Jeff Spiccoli, who is good at surfing, has a low IQ and is kind of goofy.
A black Charles Jefferson, tall and strong, joined the high school football team, was a star player, and had the talent to play professionally.
A Jewish teacher, Mr. Hand.He teaches American history.
Italian Spiccoli is at the center of these secondary characters.
Once he and his friends smoked too much, stole a black Jefferson's car and drove on the road, crashed it, causing Jefferson to vent his anger on the opponent's offensive players in the next game, and made a zero block in a key game.
Mr. Hand was dissatisfied with Spiccoli's lateness, eating in class and other off-line behaviors, so he kicked him out of class and vowed not to let him graduate.
In the end, when Spiccoli failed history and was fined not to attend the prom, Mr. Hand went to his home to give him extra lessons, and finally gave him a C grade so that he could graduate and attend the prom.
These characters interact with the five main characters. For example, when Brad Hamilton captured the robber in the convenience store at the end, Spiccoli happened to go to the convenience store to buy something and helped Brad.
Arrange all the plots on the card solitaire, not too much and not too much just fills up the 90-minute plot.
With the plot development line and the belly draft of various details, Ronald wrote very quickly on the typewriter.
As Ronald tapped the keyboard of the typewriter, the keystrokes cast with metal letters hit the ribbon one by one, printing black letters on the manuscript paper, and lines of words formed on the manuscript paper. With a ding, the typewriter moved to the end position.
Ronald pushed the connecting rod with his hand, and the roller filled with white paper returned to its original position. The roller was pushed down to the distance of one line, and the new word appeared at the beginning of the next line of manuscript paper.
Sheets of manuscript paper were removed from the typewriter and replaced with new blank paper.The manuscript paper that was typed soon thickened little by little.
Ding!
A few nights later, with the last sentence on page 91 typed out, the first draft of the script was completed.Ronald rearranged the 91 manuscript papers and put the cover of the first page on top.
The script's name was written on it: "Fast-paced Richmond High School."
Story: Cameron Crowe.
Screenplay: Ronald Lee, Cameron Crowe.
Seeing the results of his hard work in the past few days, Ronald was very satisfied. He picked up the manuscript paper and clamped it with a big clip, flipping through it casually.
After discovering a few spelling mistakes, Ronald got up and moved his body, took the thermos bottle, and made himself a pack of Lipton black tea.
Smelling the aroma of black tea, Ronald temporarily put the tea aside.Half lying on the couch for three people, closing his eyes and meditating.Pull yourself together later, check for spelling and grammatical errors, and you're done with your first draft.
Ronald thought, after more than a month of conceiving the plot, in fact, he was also constantly thinking about the development of each character and plot. He didn't expect that after starting to write, it would be completed in one go...
After several days of high-intensity typing and revision, Ronald did not have a good rest.
Ronald, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly felt a burst of exhaustion. He felt his eyelids were heavy, and his head paused twice involuntarily.
He wanted to reach out to take a sip of black tea to refresh himself, but his hand seemed to be looking forward to rest, and he couldn't stretch it out. Ronald lay down on the sofa, and soon fell asleep.
Ronald opened his eyes in the dark, and he seemed to have come to a small movie theater again, and the familiar words "FBI Warning" appeared on the screen again.
Are you dreaming?Could "Fast-paced Richmond High School" be the third movie I dreamed of?
The words "Universal Family Video" lit up on the screen, and two lines of subtitles appeared on the screen: "Fast-paced Richmond High School, 15th Anniversary Edition".
Sure enough, this movie. "Huh? The commemorative version of the movie came out on a videotape 15 years later?" Ronald felt in a daze. Didn't this perfectly match his dream?A film that will be seen 20 years later.
The screen went black, then came back on, and a background of stars was moving quickly, and an earth appeared on it.A line of LOGO "Global" appeared on the earth, and below it was a line of small characters, a company under MCA.
The music started, and the title "Fast-paced Richmond High School" once again appeared on the screen.
Ronald struggled to open his eyes and watch the details of the film carefully.Is it the episodes that were filmed?Is it the same as his script choice?Which actors were chosen?What shooting techniques did you use?
But the feeling of sleepiness made his eyes close again involuntarily.
Hearing vaguely that the movie was still playing, Ronald struggled to open his eyes. Two children wanted to buy tickets to a Van Halen (Van Halen) concert, and they walked up to a man who looked like a scalper.
"I heard that you have tickets for Van Halen's concert? How much do the seats in the first ten rows cost?"
"$20 each."
"The original price is only 12 yuan and 5 cents."
"Then you go buy it?" The scalper replied stiffly.
"Forget it, I heard that tickets in other places are sold out, so let's buy it from him, after all, it's Van Halen's concert."
"Okay, here are two."
This scalper is a child from a poor family, Mike Damon who is a scalper earning living expenses, right?The actor they chose is really good, and he has the temperament of a poor child from the first look.
Ronald thought about it, and fell asleep again.
After an unknown amount of time, Ronald was woken up by the sound. There seemed to be someone arguing on the screen. An old man who looked like a teacher asked a stunned young man who had just entered the classroom seriously.
"Why are you late for history class this time?"
The camera pans to the student, and Ronald realizes he knows the actor.When casting for "Blue Coral Reef", although the temperament is very similar to Tarzan in all aspects, but he is not tall enough to play with Brooke Shields, what is the name of the abandoned actor?
"I just can't make it on time, Mr. Hand."
"You mean, you can't, or you won't?"
"I don't know... there are long queues at places to buy food."
There was a burst of laughter from below, and someone was saying, "This kid has been smoking stupidly since the third grade."
"Eat something, take it back to your home and eat it, don't eat it in my class." The teacher named Hande was obviously angry, and he continued:
"Why are you always late to history class, Mr. Spiccoli? Why are you always wasting my time so shamelessly?"
Spiccoli was stunned for a while, "I don't know!"
"That's great, Mr. Spiccoli." The history teacher Hand was stunned by Spiccoli's stupid appearance, "This answer is very good. You can ask me in the future, Mr. Hand, can I pass the history class? I You can also answer, I don't know! Mr. Spiccoli."
Is this the actor who plays Mr. Hand, a Jewish teacher, and Spiccoli, an Italian student and surfer?
They did a great job, especially the one who played Spiccoli, Ronald trying to remember his name.He didn't seem to be acting, but the whole person became a silly Spiccoli.
what do you say that is?By the way, it seems to be Sean Penn.
Ronald remembered the name of the actor who conveyed very strong emotions to the audience in this performance—Sean Penn.
This memory seemed to have exhausted Ronald's remaining energy. He felt very sleepy and fell asleep again.
The videotape was played for a long time, and Ronald saw many scenes in a daze, but he was in a half-dream and half-awake state without leaving any memory.
He just felt a little cold and reached for the cover.
"Wow! Plop!" It seemed that someone was diving into the swimming pool.
Ronald also seemed to feel the coolness. He opened his eyes, and a tall man dressed as a pirate appeared on the screen.
Is this Brad Hamilton, the main character who works on "Captain Hook's Fish and Chips"?
Ronald just wrote that Brad was fired from Burger King, went to work at the Captain Hook fish fast food fast food restaurant he hated in order to pay off the car mortgage, and dressed in a pirate-style costume to deliver food. This is probably the actor who played Brad up.
"Stacy, do mom and dad know you're throwing a party at the house?" Brad asked the girl in the water.
"It's okay, Mark and Mike, they are all my classmates."
Sure enough, it was Brad and Stacy siblings.
"Hi, Linda," Brad greeted another girl across the pool.This is Stacy's best friend, Linda.
The camera cuts to Linda, a girl with black hair and big eyes, wearing a big red bikini swimsuit appeared on the screen, waved and greeted Brad, "Hi, Brad."
"Can you keep your voice down? I still have homework to do." Brad said to Linda, lifted the curtain and entered the room.
As soon as the camera turned, Brad entered the room, opened the window secretly, and stared at Linda standing by the pool. It turned out that he had a crush on his sister's friend Linda.
He began to imagine the scene of himself and Linda falling in love.Linda poked her head out of the swimming pool water, water drops fell from her beautiful face, she smiled, and said affectionately to Brad, "Hi, Brad."
"Did you know I always thought you were handsome?"
Speaking of which, Linda climbed up from the swimming pool while holding the handrail. It was not known whether it was raining lightly or someone was pouring water into the sky. .
The girl looked at Brad affectionately, with her hands stretched out to her chest...
Suddenly the image on the screen jumped, followed by a second of blank horizontal white stripes.The voice also stopped suddenly.The screen jumps to Linda kissing Brad, who is wearing a high-quality fabric suit.
"No, what's going on here, why does the video tape seem to be broken at the critical moment?"
"what……"
In a panic, Ronald fell off the sofa.
"Ah...Ah Choo"
Ronald woke up from the dream and found that he had a cold because he was sleeping on the sofa without a quilt.
(End of this chapter)
Brother and sister Brad and Stacy; Mark Ratner, who has a crush on Stacy; Mark's good friend, Mike Damon, who made Stacy pregnant; Linda Barrett, Stacy's best friend.
The main line of these five characters is relatively close. Ronald has a plot of about 60 minutes. The plots of other characters in the novel are relatively scattered. It takes more than 20 minutes to fill up, and interact with the five main characters, it takes some thinking.
Thinking of the racial quotas for the characters in "Fame", Ronald called the author of the novel, Cameron Crowe, to discuss which characters to keep, and cut down other minor characters, leaving only a few lines.
The result of the discussion was to retain one Italian, one black, and one Jewish.
The Italian-born student character Jeff Spiccoli, who is good at surfing, has a low IQ and is kind of goofy.
A black Charles Jefferson, tall and strong, joined the high school football team, was a star player, and had the talent to play professionally.
A Jewish teacher, Mr. Hand.He teaches American history.
Italian Spiccoli is at the center of these secondary characters.
Once he and his friends smoked too much, stole a black Jefferson's car and drove on the road, crashed it, causing Jefferson to vent his anger on the opponent's offensive players in the next game, and made a zero block in a key game.
Mr. Hand was dissatisfied with Spiccoli's lateness, eating in class and other off-line behaviors, so he kicked him out of class and vowed not to let him graduate.
In the end, when Spiccoli failed history and was fined not to attend the prom, Mr. Hand went to his home to give him extra lessons, and finally gave him a C grade so that he could graduate and attend the prom.
These characters interact with the five main characters. For example, when Brad Hamilton captured the robber in the convenience store at the end, Spiccoli happened to go to the convenience store to buy something and helped Brad.
Arrange all the plots on the card solitaire, not too much and not too much just fills up the 90-minute plot.
With the plot development line and the belly draft of various details, Ronald wrote very quickly on the typewriter.
As Ronald tapped the keyboard of the typewriter, the keystrokes cast with metal letters hit the ribbon one by one, printing black letters on the manuscript paper, and lines of words formed on the manuscript paper. With a ding, the typewriter moved to the end position.
Ronald pushed the connecting rod with his hand, and the roller filled with white paper returned to its original position. The roller was pushed down to the distance of one line, and the new word appeared at the beginning of the next line of manuscript paper.
Sheets of manuscript paper were removed from the typewriter and replaced with new blank paper.The manuscript paper that was typed soon thickened little by little.
Ding!
A few nights later, with the last sentence on page 91 typed out, the first draft of the script was completed.Ronald rearranged the 91 manuscript papers and put the cover of the first page on top.
The script's name was written on it: "Fast-paced Richmond High School."
Story: Cameron Crowe.
Screenplay: Ronald Lee, Cameron Crowe.
Seeing the results of his hard work in the past few days, Ronald was very satisfied. He picked up the manuscript paper and clamped it with a big clip, flipping through it casually.
After discovering a few spelling mistakes, Ronald got up and moved his body, took the thermos bottle, and made himself a pack of Lipton black tea.
Smelling the aroma of black tea, Ronald temporarily put the tea aside.Half lying on the couch for three people, closing his eyes and meditating.Pull yourself together later, check for spelling and grammatical errors, and you're done with your first draft.
Ronald thought, after more than a month of conceiving the plot, in fact, he was also constantly thinking about the development of each character and plot. He didn't expect that after starting to write, it would be completed in one go...
After several days of high-intensity typing and revision, Ronald did not have a good rest.
Ronald, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly felt a burst of exhaustion. He felt his eyelids were heavy, and his head paused twice involuntarily.
He wanted to reach out to take a sip of black tea to refresh himself, but his hand seemed to be looking forward to rest, and he couldn't stretch it out. Ronald lay down on the sofa, and soon fell asleep.
Ronald opened his eyes in the dark, and he seemed to have come to a small movie theater again, and the familiar words "FBI Warning" appeared on the screen again.
Are you dreaming?Could "Fast-paced Richmond High School" be the third movie I dreamed of?
The words "Universal Family Video" lit up on the screen, and two lines of subtitles appeared on the screen: "Fast-paced Richmond High School, 15th Anniversary Edition".
Sure enough, this movie. "Huh? The commemorative version of the movie came out on a videotape 15 years later?" Ronald felt in a daze. Didn't this perfectly match his dream?A film that will be seen 20 years later.
The screen went black, then came back on, and a background of stars was moving quickly, and an earth appeared on it.A line of LOGO "Global" appeared on the earth, and below it was a line of small characters, a company under MCA.
The music started, and the title "Fast-paced Richmond High School" once again appeared on the screen.
Ronald struggled to open his eyes and watch the details of the film carefully.Is it the episodes that were filmed?Is it the same as his script choice?Which actors were chosen?What shooting techniques did you use?
But the feeling of sleepiness made his eyes close again involuntarily.
Hearing vaguely that the movie was still playing, Ronald struggled to open his eyes. Two children wanted to buy tickets to a Van Halen (Van Halen) concert, and they walked up to a man who looked like a scalper.
"I heard that you have tickets for Van Halen's concert? How much do the seats in the first ten rows cost?"
"$20 each."
"The original price is only 12 yuan and 5 cents."
"Then you go buy it?" The scalper replied stiffly.
"Forget it, I heard that tickets in other places are sold out, so let's buy it from him, after all, it's Van Halen's concert."
"Okay, here are two."
This scalper is a child from a poor family, Mike Damon who is a scalper earning living expenses, right?The actor they chose is really good, and he has the temperament of a poor child from the first look.
Ronald thought about it, and fell asleep again.
After an unknown amount of time, Ronald was woken up by the sound. There seemed to be someone arguing on the screen. An old man who looked like a teacher asked a stunned young man who had just entered the classroom seriously.
"Why are you late for history class this time?"
The camera pans to the student, and Ronald realizes he knows the actor.When casting for "Blue Coral Reef", although the temperament is very similar to Tarzan in all aspects, but he is not tall enough to play with Brooke Shields, what is the name of the abandoned actor?
"I just can't make it on time, Mr. Hand."
"You mean, you can't, or you won't?"
"I don't know... there are long queues at places to buy food."
There was a burst of laughter from below, and someone was saying, "This kid has been smoking stupidly since the third grade."
"Eat something, take it back to your home and eat it, don't eat it in my class." The teacher named Hande was obviously angry, and he continued:
"Why are you always late to history class, Mr. Spiccoli? Why are you always wasting my time so shamelessly?"
Spiccoli was stunned for a while, "I don't know!"
"That's great, Mr. Spiccoli." The history teacher Hand was stunned by Spiccoli's stupid appearance, "This answer is very good. You can ask me in the future, Mr. Hand, can I pass the history class? I You can also answer, I don't know! Mr. Spiccoli."
Is this the actor who plays Mr. Hand, a Jewish teacher, and Spiccoli, an Italian student and surfer?
They did a great job, especially the one who played Spiccoli, Ronald trying to remember his name.He didn't seem to be acting, but the whole person became a silly Spiccoli.
what do you say that is?By the way, it seems to be Sean Penn.
Ronald remembered the name of the actor who conveyed very strong emotions to the audience in this performance—Sean Penn.
This memory seemed to have exhausted Ronald's remaining energy. He felt very sleepy and fell asleep again.
The videotape was played for a long time, and Ronald saw many scenes in a daze, but he was in a half-dream and half-awake state without leaving any memory.
He just felt a little cold and reached for the cover.
"Wow! Plop!" It seemed that someone was diving into the swimming pool.
Ronald also seemed to feel the coolness. He opened his eyes, and a tall man dressed as a pirate appeared on the screen.
Is this Brad Hamilton, the main character who works on "Captain Hook's Fish and Chips"?
Ronald just wrote that Brad was fired from Burger King, went to work at the Captain Hook fish fast food fast food restaurant he hated in order to pay off the car mortgage, and dressed in a pirate-style costume to deliver food. This is probably the actor who played Brad up.
"Stacy, do mom and dad know you're throwing a party at the house?" Brad asked the girl in the water.
"It's okay, Mark and Mike, they are all my classmates."
Sure enough, it was Brad and Stacy siblings.
"Hi, Linda," Brad greeted another girl across the pool.This is Stacy's best friend, Linda.
The camera cuts to Linda, a girl with black hair and big eyes, wearing a big red bikini swimsuit appeared on the screen, waved and greeted Brad, "Hi, Brad."
"Can you keep your voice down? I still have homework to do." Brad said to Linda, lifted the curtain and entered the room.
As soon as the camera turned, Brad entered the room, opened the window secretly, and stared at Linda standing by the pool. It turned out that he had a crush on his sister's friend Linda.
He began to imagine the scene of himself and Linda falling in love.Linda poked her head out of the swimming pool water, water drops fell from her beautiful face, she smiled, and said affectionately to Brad, "Hi, Brad."
"Did you know I always thought you were handsome?"
Speaking of which, Linda climbed up from the swimming pool while holding the handrail. It was not known whether it was raining lightly or someone was pouring water into the sky. .
The girl looked at Brad affectionately, with her hands stretched out to her chest...
Suddenly the image on the screen jumped, followed by a second of blank horizontal white stripes.The voice also stopped suddenly.The screen jumps to Linda kissing Brad, who is wearing a high-quality fabric suit.
"No, what's going on here, why does the video tape seem to be broken at the critical moment?"
"what……"
In a panic, Ronald fell off the sofa.
"Ah...Ah Choo"
Ronald woke up from the dream and found that he had a cold because he was sleeping on the sofa without a quilt.
(End of this chapter)
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