Exploiting Hollywood 1980

In the next few days, Ronald relied on non-stop arrangement and combination to basically determine the role of the most important heroine, Stacey, cut off many of her minor details, and only left and other characters. The key part of the interaction.

Stacey is Brad's sister, 15 years old, a tenth grader at Richmond High School, and a teenage girl when the story begins.

Stacey works at Perry's Pizza in Richmond Mall, a New York-style pizza with chicken wings. The clerks all wore red and white arrow striped dresses with white aprons, and had to wear red hairpins in their hair, as if they had replaced the black of the church clothes with red to wear them as uniforms.

Stacey's good friend, Linda Barrett, who works with her, is an outgoing and beautiful girl. She has an out-of-town boyfriend who is older than her, so she knows a lot more about things between men and women than Stacey. Dating tips.

One day, Linda persuaded Stacey to ask for a phone number from a handsome dining guest. Handsome, a 26-year-old audio salesman, offered to ask Stacey out. Stacey lied that she was 19 and the two had sex on a baseball bench.

The next day, Stacey told Linda that she only felt sick, and that it was still painful to be in such a place for the first time. Linda reassured her that she would feel better and better in the future.

After the handsome man stopped dating Stacey, Linda reassured him that the handsome man was just a salesman, not to marry him.

Stacey mistakenly thought she wasn't attractive enough to play tricks like those cheerleading girls. Linda used a carrot to teach live in the cafeteria and attracted the whistle of the male football team opposite.

Stacey and her classmates date Mark Ratner, who works as a ticket inspector at the Richmond Mall movie theater. Mark is for the shy boy who secretly likes Stacey. Mark went to Stacey's house on a date, and after kissing Stacey, he was very nervous and anxious and left Stacey's house.

Stacey and Mark's friend Mike Damon, a poor boy, said how he felt about Mark. Mike Damon makes a living as a scalper by reselling concert tickets and is very talkative. Stacey mistakenly thought that Mike Damon liked her, and invited him to the house.

The two had a relationship, it turned out that Mike was just bragging, and he ended up quickly.

Who knew that a month later, Stacey found out that she was pregnant and forced Mike Damon to pay half of the money for the operation...

Ronald wrote Stacy's plot and faxed it to Cameron Crowe.

It was already cold in New York in late November. With a low of 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4-5 degrees Celsius) and drizzle and strong winds, Ronald wrapped his clothes tightly, got out of the car in three steps and jumped up the steps of the apartment.

The janitor's daughter is only 15 years old,

The same age as the screenplay Stacey. The janitor introduced Ronald to his daughter. Knowing that Ronald was a screenwriter, the little girl asked him with a smile when he could see his film released.

"The movie 'Famous in the World' written by me has been out for a long time, haven't you seen it?"

Ronald greeted the little girl with a smile.

"It was R-rated. My dad didn't have time to show me it, and it was released later." The little girl also felt a little regretful.

"Well, in the future you can go to Staten Island to watch, there's always old movies there."

Ronald stumbled up the stairs and stopped suddenly, feeling as though he had forgotten something important.

For a while, he couldn't remember what he had forgotten, and Ronald resumed his screenwriting project. The plot cards fill the first row from left to right, and the second row from right to left. All the plots are like a long snake, winding and swaying, and finally more than twenty pictures beyond the red line drawn by Ronald.

It was still too long, Ronald started to play the game of permutation and combination again, took out a few cards to see the overall effect, then took out another few cards, put the original ones back, and kept experimenting.

"Ring Ling Ling Ling..." The phone rang, and it was my cousin Donna who called.

"Ronnie, guess what happened?"

"what?"

"The fat director you hate, his new film was released two days ago."

"Ah? Heaven's Gate finally came out?"

Ronald was a little nauseous and had not heard from Michael Cimino in a long time. That "Heaven's Gate" was finally cut.

"Don't you want to go and see?" Donna said on the phone.

"A friend of Katherine Bigelow said that the story of the movie was dull. Would you go see it yourself?"

"It's R-rated, I can't see it myself. I'll go find my mother." Donna hung up.

R-rated? This movie can still be rated R, I am afraid that the audience is less. Ronald gloated.

"Wait, R-rated?"

Ronald came to his senses. This was the important thing that he couldn't remember just now.

"Fast-paced Richmond High School" has a few nudity scenes, erotic scenes, and some foul language, which are all proper R-rated factors.

But Stacey is only 15 years old in the film. American white girls are more likely to mature prematurely, and the physical appearance of 15-year-old and 18-year-old will be much different.

If you ask an adult actor over 18 to play Stacey, the audience will not feel like it on the outside. If you are looking for underage actors who are around 15 years old to play, then there will be legal provisions to protect minors.

Now that I think about it, Stacey's choice of actors turned out to be a very important issue. How do underage actors deal with exposed scenes in R-rated films?

What are the specific union rules? Ronald himself was not a member of the Screen Actors Guild and had no handbook to look up. The handling of the filming site by the crew may not be completely in accordance with the manual.

Originally, these shooting matters had nothing to do with the screenwriters. But Ronald decided to claim himself as a director. If you are a director and encounter this kind of casting problem, how should you solve it?

Ronald called Eddie, his advertising agent. Some time ago, Ronald took the time to shoot a commercial for plastic wrap. Eddie continued to contact him for some commercials for daily necessities. some money.

"In the advertising industry, there are indeed time regulations. Children of different ages have limited working hours per day. Especially in places with strong labor unions in New York and Los Angeles, there will be staff to supervise.

I don't know much about the film industry, and I think it should be about the same. Why don't you ask the little girl actor who lives in your house? "

"Diane? She's still filming in Canada and can't be reached."

"That's right, now a lot of film crews are going to Canada to shoot, especially teen films, to bypass the ubiquitous union supervision."

Hanging up the phone, Ronald felt that he still needed to ask someone who knew the industry.

Why don't you ask Brooke Shields' mother Terry about the filming regulations? She's also 15 and has already shot two partially nude films, "Blue Reef," and is now filming "Endless Love."

After hanging up the phone and going to Brooke Shields' house, Terry answered the phone.

"Oh, Ronald. Do you want to know the filming rules for actors under 16? It's actually a limited time every day, no earlier than seven in the morning, no later than 9:30 in the evening. There is a limit to the total length of filming per day. , depending on the age, and then there must be tutoring classes for tutors.”

"What if we're not shooting in America? Will the rules be relaxed?"

"Theoretically, you need to abide by the rules wherever you go to shoot, Ronald." Terry replied in an official tone. In fact, he had told Ronald to go abroad to shoot, as long as the child's parents agreed to be accommodating.

"Mom, which Ronald? Is it the director of the CK commercial? Why not ask him to go to the ice rink together." Brooke Shields asked when she heard Terry's call.

Terry put one hand on the microphone and said to his daughter, "Borgy, your date today is Leif Garrett."

Leif Garrett, a child star and teenage singer, used to be very popular. He and Brooke Shields appeared in the headlines of entertainment news at the same time in '78.

Now that Leif Garrett is back after training, he has a great momentum for a while, and Terry has the idea of ​​​​letting Brooke appear with him again.

"Okay, I see." Brooke Xiaosi waved her hand.

Terry picked up the receiver again. "Ronald, do you have any questions?"

"I would like to know what the Screen Actors Guild rules for nudity of underage actors," Ronald asked.

Of course, regulations are regulations, and Ronald wants to know more about how the crew operates under normal circumstances. Is there a way to bypass the rules?

"Why do you want to know this?"

"I'm adapting a youth novel into a script, and there is a character who is 15 years old and has some frontal nudity scenes, so I want to ask someone who has actual shooting experience." Ronald explained.

"Full frontal nudity is prohibited for minors under the age of 16, and adults who do this level of nudity will also be rated X.

The nudity of the upper body is wider, but for the image of Bo Ji, I always ask to use a stand-in. After all, we in America are not the kind of art films in Europe..."

After thanking Terry, Ronald hung up.

After thinking about it, he called Roger Coleman, the leader.

Coleman happened to be at the company and answered his call.

"Mr. Coleman, I found a problem while writing the script..."

Roger Coleman told him that the usual Hollywood practice is to find an older actor to play a minor under the age of 15.

"For example, in the 1939 classic "Wizard of Oz," the protagonist Dorothy was a 13-year-old girl, and the lead actor Judy Garland was 17 when she was filming, and her developed body was obvious.

This is not only because of the restrictions of laws and rules, but also very difficult to train young actors, and it is rare to see a child star genius like Shirley Temple. Most of the fourteen- or fifteen-year-old actors will suddenly fall into emotions during filming and cannot film. For cost reasons, Hollywood still adopts the method of playing the small with the big on a large scale. "

"Thank you, Mr. Coleman." Ronald understood the actor's age.

It seems that I have to find a small actress to play Stacey. Ronald jots it down in his notebook.