Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 390
"Caterina, don't look at the camera, just make your quiche as usual." Ronald smiled at a fat middle-aged Italian woman and taught her how to perform for the camera.

Catalina held an egg in her hand, knocked on the edge of a large bowl, and poured the egg white and yolk into the bowl, "Is that all?"

"Very good, very good," Ronald hinted at the photographer and started shooting at her, "just crack eggs one by one."

Caterina is the real mother of Cindy Lauper. She is of Italian origin, and she also has a kindness unique to middle-aged Italian women.

In order to save as much as possible, Ronald made a very economical plan for the MV shooting of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".Cindy came to play the protagonist of the MV, a girl who hangs out.Her mother is the mother of the main character in the MV.

Cindy's biological father and stepfather were both divorced from her mother, so the father role needed an actor.Attorney Hoffman cast another of his clients, professional wrestler and WWF nickname "The Colonel" Lou Albano, to play her father.

"Colonel" Albano has retired from the front line, mainly as a manager. He is obese, has a long and messy beard, and wears a tattered vest, but he and Cindy's mother look like a low-level middle-aged couple.

The two chatted in the kitchen, as if they were worried about their daughter not coming home overnight, but they were actually discussing the next time Cindy and her mother went to cheer on "The Colonel" at a WWF match.

"Cut!" Ronald on the side saw that they were chatting vigorously, and had already captured the necessary pictures.The secret to dealing with amateur actors is not to tell them that shooting has started, otherwise it will be difficult to avoid the nervousness of amateur actors facing the camera. .

"You are really amazing, Ronald. Amateur actors can be trained so well. I think the filming can be completed in two days." Hoffman, a lawyer with a beard who looks like Detective Polo, accompanied the whole filming process. He told Ronald I really admire the ability to save money. With just such a small amount of money, I just grab some people and shoot them. It seems to be well-organized.

"As long as I'm a professional." Ronald smiled. In fact, film and television shooting is very tricky, as long as one of the multiple shots meets the standard, it's fine, unlike a drama that has to be performed in its entirety to have a chance to be on stage.

"Girls, it's your turn."

After Ronald took the shot of the kitchen, he waved his hand again, and eight ordinary girls of different ethnicities rushed up to the makeup artist and hair stylist to start makeup and hair styling.

There is a plot in this MV, the protagonist Cindy Lauper calls eight of his friends, and then comes to the house to have a party.

A group performer like this earns close to a thousand dollars a day, which is not cheap.When Ronald was preparing to shoot, he and lawyer Hoffman went to Portrait Records to borrow a group of female secretaries to appear on the scene.

"Choose slowly, a pair of sunglasses for each person, and I will make a small gift for you after the shooting." Ronald went up to chat with each secretary, told a joke, and said a few flirting words to make them relax.

Among the eight secretaries, there is one Chinese, one Japanese, two black, and Latino, and the rest are white.Anyway, what the MV pursues is a plausible plot. Ronald picks some from each ethnicity, so that the young audience feel that they are also rebellious girls like them.

"Do you know how to make the action of wearing glasses very sexy?" Ronald stepped back a few steps, and let a female makeup artist come forward and teach them how to wear glasses.

Cindy Lauper took the lead, and nine beauties were photographed in a row, one by one putting on sunglasses with one hand.Black, white, pink, shades of various colors and shapes, selected by the hair stylist, all match the hairstyles of the secretaries, making them more sexy and beautiful.

Including Cindy, the nine women began chatting about makeup and sunglasses accessories, and Ronald applauded them, "We will go through the rehearsal, and the camera will take close-ups of you, from left to right, everyone is shot When you see it, give me a sexy look. Think about your boyfriend, husband, or any male star you like."

"Ronald, I wonder if you can do it." A secretary boldly called out to Ronald.

"It's up to you, as long as it makes you happy, I don't mind being your fantasy object for a while." Ronald had been with these secretaries for a long time, and knew that they were very popular in private chats.

Hearing what they said, Ronald knew that they were relaxed and satisfied, and he took off his coat and did a biceps pose.

"Oh, come to Mom." Another secretary with a slightly higher position even took out a banknote and wanted to put it in Ronald's belt.

"Keep this state, I also want to see you so coquettish in the actual shooting, Minty." Ronald continued to bicker with her, and gestured to the photographer with one hand.

The photographer understood, turned on the camera, and began to shoot quietly while the actors, who were filled with secretaries, were relaxing in rehearsal.

"Cut!" Ronald turned back to discuss with the photographer, "Very well, thank you for your appearance."

"What? You were filming just now?" The secretary named Minty was surprised that her appearance just now was captured by the camera, and came over persistently to ask Ronald to delete her scene.

"Don't worry, Minty, your performance just now was very beautiful. I suspect that if you don't work in a record company, you have a future in Hollywood."

"How do you shoot the dance shots in the room below?" the dance instructor came up and asked Ronald.

The dance instructor cameoed as a back-up dancer on Cindy Lauper's crew.Cindy doesn't have a lot of resources to do publicity, and the backup dancer is one of the sisters she's been on the road with.

"I want to start with a three-by-three matrix, with Cindy in the center, and then three rows of people shaking their heads left and right." Ronald discussed with the dance coach and took this shot first.

Eight secretaries surrounded Cindy Lauper, shaking left and right in each row according to the beat of the music.Then continue to swing in units of behavior.

"Cut!"

It’s still the old way, don’t tell them that they are already doing real shooting. During the real shooting, the girls will immediately start to stiffen their bodies and deform their movements. However, Ronald still mainly encourages them, always saying that they are doing very well.

After taking close-ups of the girls answering Cindy's phone call alone, Ronald waved to them, "Girls, go practice dancing first, and we'll see you later."

"Goodbye, Ronald." Everyone waved goodbye to Ronald.Minty came over and gave him a special hug.

"Colonel, I want Cindy Lauper to give you a grappling move."

Ronald turned to wrestler Lou Albano, who played Cindy's father, to discuss the effects of his wrestling moves.

"Action!"

Cindy faced the colonel, and the two met head to head.Lou Albano stretched out a finger and pointed at Cindy in line with the rhythm of the lines in the music.

"In the middle of the night, the phone rang.

My dad yelled, what on earth are you going to do with your own life! "

The lyrics fit the situation perfectly.

Cindy grabbed the colonel's hand, then turned back and pinned his arm to the back of his body, and then pushed forward, the colonel was caught and his body was pushed against the wall.

"Oh, Daddy, you are still Namba Wan at home,
Just girls wanting to have some fun. "

The father, played by the colonel, was caught by his daughter, and strode depressed to the kitchen to cry to his mother.

WWF professional wrestlers are all veterans who are proficient in acting. At the beginning, they accused Cindy of anger, and later he was caught by Cindy and pushed him against the wall. The helplessness shown in the back running towards the kitchen is unnecessary. Ronald trained, and he acted very well.

"Cut!"

Ronald was very satisfied with the performances of the two. Cindy Lauper was a bit crazy, quite comfortable in front of the camera, and also played the image of a daughter who was dissatisfied with family rules and insisted on partying all night.

"You know, I think you WWF wrestlers don't need to be trained to act in movies. You are all natural performers." Ronald praised a few words.

"You're not bad, kid. I saw you coaching Cindy's two tackles. It's very professional. It's no problem to go directly to the WWF wrestling ring."

"Hahaha" Ronald and the colonel hugged. WWF wrestling competitions are actually performances. It's quite interesting to watch, but the wrestling is so hard that he doesn't want to try it.

"The next dance scene." Ronald called another group of extras, this time all the employees of the record company, including Cindy's manager, Cindy's brother Butch, and the bearded Features Attorney Hoffman.

"Everyone follows the rhythm of the dance coach. You are like a discotheque, forming a train, following the rhythm of the locomotive, and performing yourself. Well, let me show everyone's movements first."

"One, two, three, four, two, two, three, four," Ronald watched everyone play freely, like a group of demons dancing wildly.

However, this episode is about Cindy's friends, bringing friends of friends, and dancing with the neighbors in the apartment building. It is not stick to one pattern, it does not pursue the professionalism of dancing, but dances like ordinary people.

"Oh, oh, what is this? You need to practice more, Mr. Lawyer." Ronald saw the stingy lawyer Hoffman, and he danced with his hands and feet.

"Teach Mr. Lawyer well." Ronald whispered to the dance coach. This lawyer is also a picky guy, and he wants to save money on everything.Ronald felt that he was still a little taken advantage of by him, using up his expertise in saving money for shooting.

For a little "revenge", he specially asked the dance coach to teach Hoffman an "impressive" dance step.

"Action!"

"Girls just wanna have fun,
Have some fun! "

The rhythm was the same, Cindy started, and a group of performers began to dance.As expected of people from the record company, everyone danced decently.

The lawyer Hoffman in the middle, even if he was trained by the dance coach, it still didn't solve his problem of dancing with the same hands and feet.

The coach simply taught him the duck dance. The front hand made the shape of a duck's beak, and the back hand made a duck's buttocks behind the buttocks. This way, dancing with the same hands and feet can keep up with everyone's rhythm.

"Girls just wanna have fun,
Have some fun! "

Lawyer Hoffman followed the rhythm, stretched and retracted his front hands, and stretched and retracted his neck. His mustache was upturned, just like a duck walking.

"Cut!"

"Hahahaha..." Ronald was very satisfied with this dance, and sat in the director's chair laughing non-stop after calling a stop. The image of lawyer Hoffman is absolutely wonderful after the film is completed.

(End of this chapter)