Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1017 The Moment of Truth
Soon, Ronald knew what the problem was.

On the evening news, major TV stations reported that at Dukakis’s campaign headquarters, a black female campaign deputy director Donna Brazel (the campaign department in charge of exchanging votes with voters on the spot) suddenly appeared in a large crowd In front of TV and newspaper reporters, a huge scandal was revealed.

This Donna Brazile, blatantly exposing the hypocrisy of the white politician's affair with his longtime secretary, Jennifer Fitzgerald.And in a harsh tone.

"George needs to come clean, the people have every right to know if Barbara will share a bed with his husband in the White House."

This is like stabbing a hornet's nest.In the history of America, there are countless candidates for the general, and even the generals, who had extramarital affairs with women from all walks of life.But the media all default to an unspoken rule that the general must also be a role model for America in terms of morality. It is enough for the political circles and the press to know these things, and they must never be reported to the general public.

The revelation of this rumor dealt a heavy blow to George Sr.'s campaign.The previous campaign ad that Ronald helped write featured him as a model husband and the most reliable of the candidates.The most recent ad is in the tone of Jeb's wife again, saying that he is the best father-in-law and grandpa.

In addition, before Barbara, she really fought with this secretary, Jennifer Fitzgerald, for a long time, and several ultimatums did not drive her away from her husband.In the end, the time bomb was sent away because George Sr. was going to run for president.

Unexpectedly, this time bomb finally exploded.

The middleman that Old George asked to negotiate was Ted Kennedy, a well-known senior senator from Massachusetts and the younger brother of President Kennedy.He and Old George are old acquaintances, have cooperated with the Sowell Alliance in the nuclear disarmament negotiations, and both are political families.On the other hand, he was very close to Governor Dukakis of Massachusetts.

The news of Ted's negotiation back was also shocking.Dukakis himself was unaware of this.Such attacks on white men are not doing him any good.He has always liked to associate with women in the entertainment industry, and he doesn't want to start a mud wrestling on this topic.

"It's all about Jesse Jackson, that bastard!"

Dukakis, who launched an internal investigation, quickly came to a conclusion.

The Donkey Party is more organized than the Elephant Party.After Dukakis was nominated at the National Convention, many of the campaign managers who participated in the primary election and contributed to other candidates gathered under Dukakis and worked for him.

And this Donna Brazel, who acted privately without reporting to the campaign headquarters, is a black man who works for Jesse Jackson, a pastor and politician and leader of the black affirmative movement.

The fat black man pushing the female manager may not be thinking about Dukakis's campaign, but to open up a gap for black politicians so that Jesse Jackson will be more popular with non-black voters in the next general election. achieve better support.

Now under the halo of white male politicians, it is not so easy for a black man to rise to power.Maybe Donna Brazile is not aiming for short-term wins and losses, but for the long term.

"Damn, are you messing with me?"

Michael Dukakis was also very angry. It was obvious that he was attacked by his opponents three ways and took full moral advantage.Being teased by this fat black girl seemed to make her feel wronged.How can this happen?
"Immediately issue a statement, refute rumors, deny, expel..."

Dukakis was thrilled.Now he has a great advantage in the election. Although the opponent's plan to attack him in environmental protection and felons going home for the weekend is very fierce, in the major swing states, his support rate still shows signs of rising.Voters on both coasts in the north, many people think that is a slander from Dixie in the south, which just exposes their lack of IQ.

But such a counterattack of lying on the ground and rolling on the ground actually lowered his own level.

"We're going to have a press conference tomorrow and let him ferment tonight. Also, you can't fire Donna Brazile right away, it's going to be low-key."

Dukakis's campaign advisers expressed tactful disapproval.Had Donna Brazile been fired right away, the racial element would have been all too obvious.

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"I heard that the spokesperson of Dukakis denied the old George's scandal." A woman pushing a clothing cart was chatting with a makeup artist next to her.

In a high-end apartment on New York's Upper West Side, the staff of "When Harry Met Sally" were also discussing the sudden scandal in private.

"Who knows? I don't think it surprises me that these people have lovers." The makeup artist is also a woman, and she doesn't like the hypocrisy of old George very much.

"Ahem... When can we get it done?" Ronald was dissatisfied with everyone's focus on gossip, and the makeup and costumes on the scene were slow.

"Director, tear stains take a lot of time, and you don't want to create the effect of a B-movie, do you?"

"Okay, hurry up..." Ronald didn't blame these professionals too much. They are all top Hollywood teams. Today is Meg Ryan's crying scene. It is necessary to show the crying naturally. It's up to these experienced women's teams.

"Director, do you use this or this for the stickers on the refrigerator?" Props came over to ask Ronald for his opinion.

"Well, this one is a little more elegant, which fits Sally's personality." Ronald thought for a while, and chose a log-colored sticker, which was a weekly planner.

Sally is a reporter for a major newspaper, and with such an identity, she lives in the best Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York.Although he couldn't afford a house, the reporter's social connections were very good. It was not a problem for Sally, a senior reporter, to find a high-end apartment with rent control.

The decor is of very good quality.Ronald has to consider the integrity of the character.

"Do Kleenex wipes need to be on the table?"

"Hmm..." Ronald took a few steps back and gestured a few times with the viewfinder, "It's still too in the way in the camera, I'll let Meg mention it in the lines. You put it on the bedside table in the bedroom Bar."

Kleenex is a placement ad that Michelle Cannold of Daydream found, and needs a second shot.But it doesn't conform to common sense to put a tissue in the hallway in the living room, and it's very distracting in the camera.After thinking twice about the case, I decided to let Meg Ryan mention the brand name, and then give another shot in the sex scene.Keeping paper towels on your bedside table makes perfect sense.

"Ronald," Meg Ryan stepped out in white pajamas and socks.

"Meg", Ronald nodded to her. Today is a crying scene, which requires a coherent emotional outburst. Meg Ryan has been preparing emotionally before, and coming out now means that she is ready.

Billy Crystal and all the staff stopped talking immediately, and everyone backed away, carefully making way for Meg Ryan. This scene needs to go into her outburst, and don't disturb the emotions that are finally brewing.

Harry and Sally had been friends for several months.Both of them have not yet come out of the emotional pain.In the previous scene, Harry and Sally went to the wedding store to find wedding gifts for Mary and Jess.

In the store, Harry met his ex-wife Helen, who was very sweet with her current tax accountant.This situation broke Harry. All along, he thought that Helen would be unhappy if he left him. What he saw on his ex-wife's face was a sweet and satisfied smile.

Harry insisted that there was something wrong with his ex-wife and was just pretending that everything was fine in front of him.This wishful thinking leads him to a gaffe at the new home of his friends Jess and Mary.In the end it was Sally who came to comfort her.

And Sally also has her own fate, that is, her ex-boyfriend Joe who she has been with for more than five years and broke up at the beginning of the year.

Although Joe had already broken up with her, Sally, who was more traditional in her bones and yearned for romance, broke down and cried bitterly at home after receiving a call from Joe.

After just a few months, Joe decided to marry a recent graduate paralegal at the law firm.This made Sally so sad that she had no one to talk to but Harry.

After receiving Sally's distress call, Harry immediately came to Sally's house, borrowing the shoulder of his good friend to be a good listener.

Seeing that Meg Ryan made a good expression, and nodded to himself as a signal, Ronald did not call "Action" loudly, but gestured to the recording and photography teams with his eyes, and immediately turned on the machine.

"Crack", the white apartment door opened, and Meg Ryan tried to force a smile, welcoming Harry who came here to comfort her, "Come in... woo..."

Being polite in such a sad situation fits Sally's role as America's ideal "sweetheart".Meg Ryan didn't know whether it was because she had a similar character or was emotionally prepared. Ronald was very satisfied with the performance.

"Sorry for calling you so late... woo...", Meg Ryan's performance of not forgetting politeness in the midst of extreme sadness was successful again in the following shots.

"Ugh... I want Kleenex tissues." After being polite, Sally became sad again when she saw Harry. She rolled up a ball of used tissues, threw them aside, and ran into the bedroom Got new tissues.You can't burst into tears when you're sad, it's not good for others to see.

"He started calling, like he always does, asking me how I was doing. And then he got a big case, blah blah . . . "

Billy Crystal was sitting on the bed. He saw the Kleenex tissue box under the quilt, picked it up, held it up, and handed it to Sally so that she could take it.It seemed that before she came, Sally was crying on the bed.

Slap, Meg Ryan quickly took out a Kleenex tissue, then wiped her eyes, then her nose, and threw it aside.

"I was listening to the phone, and I said to myself, I don't miss him anymore, and I'm not interested in hearing him say this.", Meg Ryan walked to the TV with her back to the camera, crying Twitching and twitching, the whole person seemed to be arched.

Ronald cheers from behind the camera.When people are very sad, they often don't like to face anyone, even if this is a good friend who comes to listen to you, it's the same.Moreover, when a person is crying very sadly, the person is affected by the breath, and will become bent like this.

Ronald looked behind the camera, and when Meg Ryan turned around, her whole back was hunched, as if she were hunchbacked.

"Then, then he said that he was getting married, and they just met! She works in his law firm as an assistant! What's her name, Kimberly..."

Billy Crystal hands over the tissues.

Meg Ryan snapped another card, wiped it and dropped it on the floor.

"He just knew her, she should be a transitional role, she shouldn't be that person!" Meg Ryan's right hand hit her left hand heavily, emphasizing.

Another tissue, which Sally took to wipe her tears and threw it on the ground.

This performance is very good, it is almost impossible to find, it expresses the mentality of a woman who has not waited for her boyfriend to propose marriage.Ronald felt very lucky that the right time, the right place and the right combination of circumstances allowed him to capture such a contagious shot.

It's just... the scene for the Kleenex tissue is too long, several times longer than the time agreed in the contract.Should pay more...

Ronald expelled these boring thoughts from his mind. It is best to complete this long shot in one go, and the editing after the event will inevitably reduce the appeal.

Sally, played by Meg Ryan, spent too much emotion on the previous accusation. She was tired from crying, so she walked to the bed and sat beside Harry.

"I've always wanted to convince... Tell myself that Joe doesn't want to get married... Huh..." Meg Ryan's mood eased a little, and normal people are like this in life. You can start talking rationally.

"But the truth is, he just doesn't want to marry me..." In the close-up of Meg Ryan's face, Sally didn't have too much accusation and grief, but when it came to the moment of truth, she saw clearly what Joe had done to her. Feel.

"Woo... woo...he doesn't love me..." Sally no longer felt sad for Joe, but shed tears for herself, "Woo..."

"Then if you could ask him to come back to you, would you like to?" Harry stroked Sally's back and asked the most important question.

"Ugh...don't! Heh..." Sally, who was dumbfounded by Harry's question, threw her head on the pillow, "Why doesn't he marry me? What's wrong with me?"

"You don't have any problems..." Harry also fell down, stroking Sally's hair.

"I'm difficult..." Meg Ryan began to list Sally's shortcomings.

"Challenging...", Billy Crystal consoled.

"I'm too rigid and close myself off."

"In a good way."

"No, no, I drove Joe away...I'm going to be forty soon..." Sally, played by Meg Ryan, couldn't bear this kind of Harry who said good things about herself, and sat up from the pillow again .

"When?"

"One day..."

"There are still eight years..."

"But there it is. When a woman reaches forty, it's a dead end. Unlike men, Charlie Chaplin can have children at 73...ah..." Meg Ryan continued to cry.When it comes time for many women to realize the truth, they will always worry about their future.

"But he's too old to hold his own child..."

"Ah...haha...", Sally was dumbfounded by Harry's humorous persuasion.

"Woooo...", Sally felt embarrassed and started crying again.Harry took her into his arms and patted her on the back to reassure her, "Everything will be fine..."

"Woooo..."

"It's okay, cry, anyway, this dress is not my favorite..."

"Woo...haha..." Sally was in pain from crying and laughing, and she simply fell into Harry's arms, wiping her tears on his sweater.

"Everything will be fine," Harry hugged Sally for a while, then kissed her on the mouth, "I'll make you a cup of hot tea."

"Harry..." Sally called him, "can you hug me a little longer?"

They hugged for a while longer, then Harry pushed Sally away to get up to make some hot tea.

Sally, played by Meg Ryan, feels very happy to have a friend who can accompany her like this.

Sudden……

For some unknown reason, Sally looked up and down Harry's eyes and lips.He went over and kissed Harry on the lips.

With a light kiss, Harry froze for a moment, then responded with a light kiss.

Sally kissed again, and Harry kissed back again. The two of them suddenly felt boundless love in their hearts, and the kiss gradually escalated. They tasted each other's lips, and the kiss became more and more devoted and intense.

"Cut!"

Meg Ryan took the assistant's hot towel and wiped her eyes.Then she looked at Ronald. She was completely exhausted from such an emotional outburst. If possible, she didn't want to do it again.

"OK, this print..." After confirming with the director of photography, Ronald designated this one.He also didn't want to shoot anymore. He could get the desired effect in the first point, when the actors on both sides were most emotional and reacted most naturally, and the subsequent shooting was no longer necessary.

From the second time on, those emotional reactions will leave imprints in the hearts of the actors. When it comes to the second and third, it is acting as the mainstay, not this natural reaction.

Unless, another [-] or [-] shots are taken, and the previous imprints are exhausted and bombarded, until the actors themselves are tired of the original acting, then a different natural reaction can be produced.

"Huh..." Meg Ryan let out a long breath, and went back to rest.

Two hours later, at the re-lighting scene, Meg Ryan returned.

"Ronald, can I..."

Ronald pulled her aside, and the two chatted in low voices for a while.

More and more, Meg Ryan called her boyfriend Dennis Quaid during her break. She was also very afraid of losing this handsome boyfriend in her life, so she cared about Quaid's thoughts.

Next came the sex scenes, Meg Ryan's contract guarantees that she doesn't get nude.She had the right to use a stand-in for the first sex scene where Harry and Sally had sex.

But even if it is a stand-in, after editing, it will have a certain impact, and the audience may not know who the naked one is.

So Meg Ryan came over and wanted to talk to Ronald about not having nude sex scenes.

Ronald is not a good talker when it comes to this kind of thing.But this time, he decided to meet Meg Ryan's request.

Because he wasn't going to do any nude sex scenes in the first place.

The first intimacy between Harry and Sally was not because they were attracted by each other's body, but because ten years after their first meeting, the two found themselves mentally and found the person they wanted.It's a spiritual connection.

Ronald felt that in such a movie, it was meaningless to put nude sex scenes, but it would affect the audience's perception.

This "When Harry Met Sally" is an adult's dream come true, it is a lover who finally gets married, and the emotional satisfaction of the audience far exceeds the satisfaction of watching ice cream.

"Action!"

The camera looks down from a stand on the bed for a close-up.

Harry, played by Billy Crystal, stares blankly at the camera, topless.He didn't want to understand, how did he get along with Sally?
Next to her is Sally, played by Meg Ryan, who is full of satisfaction and can't get enough.

She didn't need to pretend to be Climax this time, and Harry didn't lie, his personal ability was indeed impressive.

(End of this chapter)