Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 282 Reshoots
The winter surfing spot on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, a lot of filmmakers came today, and the teenagers who are still surfing in winter are very excited, because they have the opportunity to be background actors, and several top players will have the opportunity to appear on camera.

Thanks to surfing legend Jack O'Neill's invention of the Wet Suit, surfers can finally hit the beaches of the West Coast for winter surfing.This kind of clothes made of foamed neoprene can also maintain the temperature of the human body in an environment with water.

"We only took three shots of the seaside today, looking for a curly wave to take a panoramic view of Sean Penn's surfing, then a shot of him running with a surfboard in his hands, and finally a shot of him walking up from the sea."

Ronald was communicating with the filming crew on set.

It turned out that the director of photography and the first assistant director, who cooperated with each other tacitly, had already found new jobs, and it was impossible to come back and shoot the surfing competition again.

Cooperating with the temporarily formed team today, many things require Ronald to confirm all the details with the team members one by one.

"Sean, how are you?" Ronald asked Sean Penn, who flew in from Chicago for reshoots.He's out of the method trance of asking directors and crew to call his characters by their first name, Spiccoli.

"I'm ready." Sean Penn, wearing a wet surfing suit, had been warming up by running on the spot for a long time.The water is still a bit cold in this weather, so you must be fully prepared to warm up.

"Okay, let's start." Ronald ordered to start.

Sean Penn himself is a surfing enthusiast. Although he does not have the level of those real professional players, he still looks decent while holding a surfboard and running on the beach.

"Yeah...huh..." Sean Penn yelled, threw the surfboard coated with cold water wax into the sea, then jumped into the water and swam towards the surfboard floating on the sea.

"Cut!"

Although he was wearing a wet surfing suit, Sean Penn was still shivering from the cold wind.Ronald glanced at the unresponsive assistant, so he had no choice but to pick up the blanket and rush to cover Sean Penn.

"Suppose... Ronald." Sean Penn, who was shivering from the cold and couldn't speak clearly, got into the RV on the side of the road and recovered in the heater.

"Next time, remember to give him a blanket as soon as I tell him to stop." Ronald turned around and explained to his assistant.

The assistant who just graduated from university smiled embarrassedly.Grab another blanket and prepare it on the side.

"Fortunately, we only took one afternoon." Ronald himself tightened his jacket because of the cold wind.It’s almost the end of January in Los Angeles, and it’s still a bit cold in the seaside environment.

"Action!"

After Sean Penn rested, he plunged into the sea again, then stood up straight from the sea, brushed his hair, and walked up from the water step by step with a smile on his face.

"Cut!"

The assistant rushed up to put a blanket on him.Sean Penn seemed to have exhausted all of his energy suddenly, and kept shaking while holding the blanket.

"Dry first, then go to the RV to warm up."

Sean's professionalism cannot be doubted, he tried his best to hold his breath, put on a happy look and took the landing shot, and then began to shiver with cold.

But when I opened the door of the RV just now, an unpleasant smell wafted out.It was only now that Ronald was sure who was smoking something that shouldn't be smoked in the crew.Sean Penn is a guy who hides really well.

The last shot is a long shot of Spiccoli surfing in the sea. Ronald personally directs with an electric horn, and let the professional surfers who usually surf here go into the water together and make various background actions.

"Let's shoot a scene without Sean now, so let's show what unique skills you have. After he enters the water, you all take it easy to highlight Sean's level."

Ronald shouted to them that most of these surfers who have to go into the water in winter are good players who have participated in professional competitions, and it would be difficult for Sean to surf among them and overwhelm them.The only way these people can let him down is a little bit.

"Director, our surfing skills are very high, when will we be the protagonists and make a movie?"

"A package of 400 million US dollars is released, from the script to the one-stop service of filming." Ronald also joked with them.

"Hahaha……"

While they were happy, Ronald picked up the electric speaker again and said, "Whoever wants to show off their skills too much at that time, I will cut off your pictures. Supervise each other, just listen to me, and I will give You have a shot to show yourself."

"No problem, Director."

"who do you think You Are?"

There are people of all kinds of mentality in the crowd, but Ronald doesn't care about it. Anyway, it's a long-term prospect. If it doesn't work, just cut it short, and the audience won't be able to see it.

"Cut!" The last shot of Spiccoli surfing in the sea was also finished, and the whole group began to pack their things, and then moved to the studio of Universal Studios to shoot the cameo shots of Brooke Shields and David Letterman.

The motorcade drove to a studio in the middle of Universal Studios, where the scene of the talk show had been set up in advance, and they were waiting for the two guest stars to play with Sean Penn.

"Boji Shields, do you think she can be on my show? My talk show will soon turn from morning to night." David Letterman came to the studio early in the morning, saw Ronald walking in, and chatted with him stand up.

"Her work is arranged by her mother Terry, you can talk to her. But Terry is not an easy negotiating opponent, you have to think about it."

"It would be great if we could find Brooke Shields for the first premiere."

"I know she was on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, your..."

"Yeah, the ratings. It's definitely not as good as Carson's. But I'm after his show. Some viewers will stay on NBC to watch."

"I can't help you with this..."

"It's nothing, I'm just saying, CAA helped me find Bill Murray as a guest for my first show."

Letterman was curious. He watched the lighting team work on the lighting and asked some questions.Finally, Ronald asked him to sit still on the sofa, and asked the camera assistant to measure the focal length.

"Is this going to be filmed? I'm here to interview him?"

"Yeah, it's like your talk show. But the movie isn't licensed, so we're doing it a little bit differently than your morning show."

"Understand, understand."

After several rehearsals, Ronald called the official start of shooting, "Action!"

"Spicoli, you not only won the Los Angeles station of the International Surfing Grand Prix, but also saved the award presenter Brooke Shields, how do you feel?" David Letterman showed a signature smile, facing Sean Penn opposite speak.

"Cut!"

Ronald stopped, "Very well, let's take another shot. It's Letterman's question."

"Why, don't you guys film his answers?" Letterman made a movie for the first time, and he was not familiar with the process. He thought that movies were similar to TV, and asked and answered in order.

"No, it takes a lot of time to set up the lighting. We will shoot your part first, and then we will shoot Spiccoli and Brooke Shields' answer. Just edit it together at the end."

The camera focused on Letterman again, and he glanced at the assistant who was prompting on the opposite side and said, "Boji, what did you think when you were rescued by him?"

"Cut!"

Ronald checked with the cinematographer, "David, your solo scene has been filmed. Wait for Brooke to come, and then shoot a main shot."

"Okay." Letterman's enthusiasm has not yet passed. He sat on the sofa and leaned against the table to feel it. "Your arrangement is very good. I'll let them make such a set in the studio."

While talking, Brooke Shields and her mother Terry walked in.Her hairstyle today is made into big waves, the hair on the top of her head is blown high, and a gray and white checked men's coat makes her look very capable.

"Hi, Ronnie." Brooke greeted Ronald.

"Pocket, let me introduce you. This is Sean, and he plays Spiccoli. This is David Letterman, guest host, his old line."

"Hi David, I saw your morning show."

"Hi Brooke, my talk show is going to the evening slot, when are you free to come on my show?"

"My mother handles everything for me. I love your show. Were you there when I went to the Johnny Carson show last time?"

"Yeah, I was still writing for Johnny at the time."

Ronald asked them to sit down, and while they were putting on makeup, he told Brooke about the play.

"You play yourself, a teenage idol, to present a prize to the winner of the Surfing Grand Prix, Spiccoli. You accidentally fell into the sea, and Spiccoli jumped into the sea to save you. Then you went to Letterman's together. talk show.

Letterman will ask you what you thought when Spiccoli rescued you.Just look at him affectionately and say..."

"With him by my side, I feel at ease and safe." Brooke read the lines in advance and recited them.

"Yes, do you usually have someone standing next to you to make you feel at ease? Just imagine Spiccoli as him, and then act according to the feeling of ordinary life.

For example, your mother, does it make you feel more at ease when she is standing next to you?Find out how you feel, and if necessary, I'll ask Terry to stand next to you during close-ups. "

"No, I can do it." Brooke waved her hand to signal not to invite her mother over. Recently, Terry's drinking problem has been well controlled, but standing next to him, it's good that Brooke doesn't feel nervous.

"Okay, let's try it right away."

"Recording? Camera? Action!"

"Boji, what did you think when Spiccoli rescued you?"

Brooke Shields glanced at the camera, and Ronald stood behind the cameraman watching her.Brooke felt a little relieved.She herself knew that her acting skills were terrible, and the rare two times when she performed well, it was Ronnie who guided her on the spot.No, it was four times, and I was pinched by him twice.

"With him by my side, I feel very at ease and safe." Brooke said his lines to the camera.

"Cut!" Ronald said after confirming, "Very good, Brooke, you played very well!" It seems that Brooke is a little enlightened?

"Next is a main shot, let's go over the conversation just now."

"Action!"

Letterman started asking the same question again, "Pocky, what did you think when Spiccoli rescued you?"

"I feel very at ease, very safe." Brooke Shields looked at Sean Penn's Spiccoli.

Ronald felt strange. This time, Brooke's expression was not as natural as last time, but fortunately, it was a panoramic view, and it was enough to insert the clip into the close-up just now.

"What do you think, Spiccoli?"

"Okay!" Spiccoli showed a silly signature smile, and giggled.

"Cut!"

After taking a few more shots, Ronald stopped.Today's catch-up shot is complete, just wait for it to be developed and added to the unfinished copy to make a complete working copy, which can be used to make a copy that can be played in front of the audience without the editing bayonet and popping sound up.

"Thank you, Brooke. Thank you, Mr. Letterman." Ronald stepped forward to thank them.

"I talked to my mother, and she agreed with me to start studying acting and transform into an actor." Brooke Shields shared her recent trends with Ronald in a low voice.

"Congratulations, you must have received a lot of audition invitations, right?"

"There are quite a few, and I will pick them out with my mother. Goodbye, Ronald." Brooke waved goodbye to him with her big wavy hairstyle.

(End of this chapter)