Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 252
Ronald's phone started to get busy again, whether it was in the office, in the rented apartment, or through a broker.

The earlier call requests were mainly for agents who knew me, and they were the ones with the best information.Now it was calls from some unknown managers, various past partners, celebrity parents, and some impatient actresses themselves.

Kelly Preston, who Ronald had met in other crew auditions before, her agent approached Nisita to test the possibility of "single audition", hoping to get a promised role.

The photographer who took her around to audition has been fired by her and replaced by a more radical agent.

Ronald firmly remembered his mistakes when filming "Fame", and Julia Taylor's teaching, when there is no full control of the crew, don't get involved with the actress who competes for the heroine, so that Nisita rejected the agent Because of the "kindness" of others, she was directly asked to participate in the first round of auditions.

Elizabeth Sue, who had filmed a chewing gum commercial for Ronald, also found her own phone and asked for news.Su's birthday is in October, and he will be 18 years old when the filming starts, so there is no problem in filming.

But her parents found out about it, and Shuangshuang called and asked Ronald not to audition for her.Because Elizabeth Sue was admitted to Wesleyan Women's College, the shooting time happened to be the second month of school.

If you don't want to be an actor full-time, it's really not appropriate to take a break from school in the first grade. If you take advantage of this summer vacation, or ask for leave to film in the third and fourth grades, that would be better.

Gerald Slater, vice president of PBS, put the call directly to Nisita of CAA.After a little understanding, he decided to give up this opportunity for his daughter Helen.

Helen's birthday is in December, so she will encounter many problems of working time constraints when shooting in a small production crew.However, Ronald privately believes that the real reason for Gerrard's refusal may be that the two heroines have frontal nudity shots.

At night, Ronald was typing on his Commodore computer at home:

"Using a nuclear explosion as a time machine that can travel back in time is ambitious, but it is very difficult to realize on the screen. It is recommended to use a kind of machine around you and use electric energy, which can significantly reduce the shooting budget."

Ronald auditioned during the day and evaluated scripts for Spielberg at night.The Commodore computer is not bad to use, this kind of machine with the name of computer, many children buy it as a game console when they take it home.

There is a card slot on the right side of the keyboard, which can be inserted into various game cassettes and connected to the handle to play games.In this way, you will not be disgusted by your parents like buying an Atari game console, and you can also learn to use a computer and use BASIC programming as an excuse.

However, Ronald's computer does not have any games plugged in, but a CP/M operating system card is plugged in, and the WordStar software is plugged into the floppy drive for writing.

WordStar is more convenient than the Wang word processing computer produced by Wang An Company in the Global Office.There are two advantages. First, what you see is what you get. What you see on the screen is the final output of the printer.

Second, it has various shortcut keys, which can define a piece of text, copy it after selection, or move it to other places, which is very convenient.Just Ctrl + C, hey, no, this shortcut key is useless.

The copy is Ctrl + K + C, Ctrl + K + V, Ronald took out the manual and compared it again.Wait a minute, what's the shortcut key for moving?Ronald simply took out a classification card and copied all the frequently used shortcut keys on the card.

Save is Ctrl + K + S... Ronald copied the card and taped it next to the monitor with scotch tape.

"Ring ring ring ring..."

"Hi, I'm Ronald."

"Ronnie, I'm Demi, I heard you're the director of Universal's new film now."

"Ah? Demi, I'm casting now. Does your husband agree with you to act in a movie?" Ronald seemed to hear other men talking on the phone.

"Demi, who are you calling?" Freddie's voice came from the receiver.

"It's Ronald, who took my audition photos and is now the film director."

"Ronald, I'm Freddie, Demi wants to be in a movie right? Any nudity?"

"What are you doing, Freddie, give me the receiver..."

"Let's discuss it first, this scene has frontal nudity."

With a snap, the phone was hung up.

Ronald was startled by the sound, and accidentally pressed his hand on the DEL key, deleting a large block of text that was just selected.

Ctrl + Z, Ctrl + Z, why didn't it work?Ah... Ronald is going crazy.Open the manual, why is there no shortcut key to cancel the operation?

"Use a nuclear explosion as a time machine that can travel back in time..." Ronald wanted to cry but had no choice but to start again...Ctrl + K + S to save a disk first.

The next day, Ronald came to audition again.Heikelin must have also received a lot of calls, but she is a woman, and the real relationship should be yet to come.

Today's actresses are lackluster, and there are many beautiful and photogenic, but they lack basic acting skills and expressive skills.

The acting industry is inherently unfair to women. Cary Grant and Roger Moore, in their 60s, can still have sex with young women on the screen.But there are very few actresses over the age of 30 who still act in love scenes with young men.Jane Fonda can only play middle-aged love.

A large number of young and beautiful young women competed for roles that were not many, resulting in a situation where there were many low-level actresses in the audition.

Fortunately, "Fast-paced" has a large demand for female ensemble performances. Many scenes require girls to be behind the scene. Ronald has sent notices to many actresses who are photogenic. If they are willing, they can come to do ensemble performances .

Several days passed, and finally it was time for more capable actors to participate in the second round of auditions.Ronald's relationship, Sean Penn, also auditioned.

This round of actors will not only introduce themselves, but also read some script fragments, so that the director and producer can make better choices.

"With another six months' installment payment, this beautiful blue four-door luxury car will belong to me..."

Sean Penn held up a page and read this Brad Hamilton line.

Ronald frowned slightly, and Sean Penn read this line a little stunned.

Brad is a hard-working, disciplined, 12th grader whose eyes only sparkle when he talks about the car he bought.

Sean Penn's reading emphasizes the complacency, but it's a little bit cocky.It seems that he is a person who is usually flamboyant, which does not fit Brad's role.

"Can you take back some complacency a little bit, and do it again, Sean." Ronald made a request

"Of course." Sean Penn adjusted his posture and did it again.

Ronald frowned again, and then quickly let go. As a director, it's best not to show his expression.He looked at Hekelin, wanting to hear her opinion.

Hekelin put her hands under the table and shook him twice, indicating that it was not suitable.

Ronald couldn't do anything about it. This kind of audition video had to be sent to the two producers of Universal for review. It was hard to convince them with this kind of performance.

However, Sean Penn's performance is a bit like another character, the stunned Italian student Spiccoli...

"Ronald." Cameron Crowe, who hadn't spoken much before due to lack of experience, said, "I think he's more like Spicoli."

"I think so too," Heklin added. "If he wears a wig, he'll look more like a skateboarder. Can he read Spiccoli's lines?"

Ronald told Sean Penn the idea of ​​the three, hoping that he would try another role.

Sean Penn took Spiccoli's lines, simmered for a while, and read it.

"Sorry, I'm late, and I'm confused by this new version of the timetable."

"So, Mr. Spiccoli?" the casting director, Don, acted as his opponent.

"Hey, buddy. What's wrong with you, why did you tear up my student card?"

"you are late."

"You Dick!" Sean Penn cursed in a very aggressive tone.

"Okay, that's it." Ronald stopped the audition, "We will contact your agent if we have further news."

Sean Penn walked out of the room.

Heikelin said, "This person is very suitable for Spiccoli. If Brad plays a B, he can get an A+ for playing Spiccoli."

Ronald looked at Cameron Crowe.

"This guy is really similar to the archetypal character in my book Rispicoli, I can't see any signs of acting, if he hadn't just read Brad's lines, I would have thought he was such a guy in life. "

"We'll keep both of his auditions, and we'll have a meeting with the producer to make a decision." Ronald set the tone, "Next."

Cameron Crowe didn't understand what he meant, or rather he understood, but he was reluctant to let Sean Penn play Spiccoli. Such a role with a strong sense of reality will add a lot to the movie.

But in this case, Ronald will have one less card in his hand, and there will be one less "Ronald's man" among the people competing for the role of Brad.

Saw a few more male actors, the next contender was Judge Reinhold.

"Hi, Judge," said Hekleen.

"Good morning."

Is this Judge from Heikelin?
"Please read this line to the camera," Ronald said.

"With another six months' installment payment, this beautiful blue four-door luxury car will belong to me..."

"Huh?", I don't know if it's because Judge Reinhold has a temperament similar to Brad, or because he has excellent acting skills. The energy show came.

"Best Brad so far," Hekleen said after the cast had left, and looked at Ronald.

"It's really a good performance, but I'm a little older. I'm 24 this year, not like a high school student." Cameron Crowe sent an assist at the right time.

"See if there is anything more suitable in the future," Ronald said.

If this Judge Reinhold is not "Heikelin's man", he is actually more suitable for the role of Brad.

But Crowe is right that age does matter.Although teen films often feature big and small roles, it would be wrong if Stacey's actors looked too different from him.

"Next"

In the afternoon, another of Ronald's contacts came.

"My name is Nicholas Coppola."

"Is that the Coppola we know?" Hekleen asked in amazement.

"If you direct Francis Coppola, he is my uncle." Nicholas was a little impatient, "but my acting skills have nothing to do with him..."

"Of course, you read Brad's line to us." Ronald handed over the script.

Nicholas Coppola read the lines carefully, then closed his eyes, opened them a few seconds later, and without a script, acted out Brad showing off to his classmates.

"With another six months' installment payment, this beautiful blue four-door luxury car will belong to me..."

"What do you think?" Ronald asked the three of them for feedback after he walked out.

"The acting skills are very good. To be honest, when I was undercover in high school, Brad's prototype speech was like that, complacent, and afraid that others would know that he was complacent." Crowe replied.

"He is just 18 years old this year, close to the character's age." Casting director Tang added the actor's background information.

"Coppola's nephew...the acting skills are good. But the acting is a bit dark." Heklin picked a little problem.

"Let's put him among the candidates, too.

Ronald was convinced that this role was still in his hands.

Jump out the audition videos of several candidates, transcribe them on videotape, hand them over to the producer, wait for a meeting to make a decision later, Nicholas said his last name in the audition video, so that the producer will always sell a few copies face.

Then interviewed a few nerdy student Mark nicknamed "Mouse", and his friend Mike the scalper, and also selected several candidates.

"Next is the female role." Heikelin looked at the audition list in her hand, "A lot of famous actors came here today."

"Yes, many acquaintances." Ronald was also looking at the list.

Except for Kelly Preston who passed the first round of auditions.And Melanie Griffiths, who had previously auditioned for Endless Love, whom Ronald remembered as the daughter of Hitchcock girl Tippi Hedren.

Also on the list is Tatum O'Neill, who has won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Recently, she has had poor star luck because she can no longer play a child star because of her development. She hopes to transform into a youth film, so she participated in many youth film auditions.

And finally there's Princess Leia from Star Wars, Kelly Fisher.In addition to being a little older, her acting skills are not bad.

"Let's get started." Ronald ordered the assistant.

The assistant opened the door and was about to call someone in.

Ronald, Crowe, and Heklin who were sitting inside heard a sudden quarrel outside.

"You bitch..."

"Fxck you! Do you think you are some saint? Bitchi..."

Ronald and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

(End of this chapter)