NOVEL NEXT Exploiting Hollywood 1980.
Chapter 60
Chapter 60
"Director Parker, this is what I wrote these days..."
After receiving a few fragments written by Ronald in just a few days, Alan Parker opened and read suspiciously.
At lunch time in the cafeteria, someone beat the drumbeat on the table with a drumstick, and then someone played the piano.Then students spontaneously joined the ensemble with various instruments.
Then students from the dance department also joined in. Ballet, jazz, and various dances were integrated into one, dancing on the table in the cafeteria.
Allen's eyes lit up. This is very suitable for the film's title "Hot Lunch", and it can be used as a theme song scene.
Then look on...
The shy mixing genius is unwilling to publish the music he has produced, and the father drives a taxi and plays his son's creation on the speaker, attracting all the students in the school to run to the street, dancing to the music?
"They rushed down the stairs, out of the school gate, stopped the car, climbed on the roof of the car, and there they started dancing..."
Another scene of genius, giving shy Bruno a turnaround.
"Crack..." Allen closed the script and stopped reading.
It took only a few days to write a script outline of this level, which greatly exceeded my expectations.
"Tell me, Ronald, how did you come up with these two scenarios?"
It seems that copying the original works well, Ronald secretly pleased.
"When I came back from Los Angeles, I met a father who drove a taxi at the airport. He loved his daughter so much that he shut down his business and waited for her daughter to go back to New York at the airport."
Ronald started making things up.
"Bruno, the shy mixing genius in the play, needs an opportunity to break through himself. I want to use my father's love to help him break through. Taxi can't drive into the school. I want to use the loudspeaker on the street to play what my son doesn't want to publish. Music, and having students dance is also good."
The making up is getting more and more proficient.
"As for the hot lunch scene, I saw the school band and cheerleaders eating in the cafeteria when I was in high school. When they got interested, they practiced impromptu in the cafeteria. I was very envious. I think the audience would like it too. kind of improvisation."
In order to find a suitable reason for plagiarizing the plot in his dream, Ronald even exposed the fact that he peeked at the beautiful cheerleaders in high school.
The plots are well-founded and have good writing ideas. Alan Parker no longer suspects that Ronald plagiarized other people's scripts.
"These two scenes are great, and I can imagine what they'll look like when they're shot, and the teens are going to love them. Keep it up at this level and you can think a lot about how the main characters end up."
"I don't have much inspiration for this part. I was on the wrestling team in high school, and I am not familiar with literary clubs. Without details, it is difficult for me to write anything."
"It doesn't matter, you observe slowly, if necessary, you can sneak into the acting arts college and go undercover to observe." Allen affirmed Ronald's script and asked him to continue writing.
Without the revelation in the dream, Ronald turned back into a novice in screenwriting, trying slowly.He looked around for opportunities to observe some details of the life of art school students.
Like Meg's sleeping position?
People who practice ballet all the year round will involuntarily straighten their toes when they lie down. This is a very different characteristic from ordinary people.
I couldn't help but test it out to see if it can still stay straight even when disturbed by external forces.Crack, opened by Meg with a slap.
Inexperienced Ronald, the writing progress began to slow down.For two weeks, I could only type one or two pages a day, rub it out, and start over.
Work as a driver and assistant to the director during the day.In contrast, writing every night has become a distressing thing.
Fortunately, getting together with Meg every day can relieve some anxiety.This made his writing progress slow, but not completely stagnant.
Meg's learning of acting was very smooth.
According to Meg, Lee Strasberg is a Ukrainian acting master who first learned from Stanislavsky and learned a whole set of experiential acting skills (The System) in drama performances.
Afterwards, he developed it and came up with The Method, which is suitable for film shooting.He also mentored Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe.
When the first class started, Lee Strasberg came to the class in person and told them the two magic weapons of the method school: the method of emotional memory and improvisation.
Meg was about to learn the method of emotional memory.
"After learning it, you can instantly mobilize your emotions and cry in one second. It's really amazing. Lee Strasberg even gave us a live demonstration." Meg said.
"Really? Then his acting skills are really amazing."
Director Parker flew to Los Angeles to audition, and Ronald simply wrote the script full-time at home.
The apartment is full of artists, Ronald brought food and drinks, and had a conversation with almost everyone, hoping to learn more about the details of the life of art students.
But there are few results. Most of the people who live in the artist's apartment are the youngest over 25 years old.Most of the memories of the art school have been worn down by life, and I can no longer recall my dreams back then.
Or people who still have dreams, also bury her deeply in their hearts.Don't show it to others easily.
"You know, people in the arts are very sensitive. If you tell others about your dreams, even family and friends, they will be hit. When the dreams have not been realized, they accidentally say a word or two, and you will feel that they Targeting you, I feel uncomfortable for two or three days."
"Thank you for talking to me about this, I know it's hard, and I'll be scripting some of your shared experiences, and of course, will remain anonymous."
Ronald got up and shook hands, handed the other party a bottle of red wine and a pack of sausages, and then sent the interviewed painter away.
He typed out the summary of today's conversation on the typewriter, then tore off the typed letter paper, picked up the pencil again, and corrected it.
In this way, after playing and changing, after changing and playing again, the sky gradually darkened.
"Hey, why hasn't Meg come back yet?" Ronald called Meg's roommate in the apartment and found that she hadn't returned to his apartment either.
Feeling worried, Ronald hurried downstairs and drove to Lee Strasberg Drama Training School.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
As soon as I entered the door, I heard a bunch of actors crying loudly in the teaching hall.Ronald thought something unfortunate had happened.
Some were wailing, tears streaming down their cheeks.Some are hugging each other and crying, comparing each other's misery.Some simply lie on the ground, rolling and crying freely.
What's going on?Are you collectively insane?
Ronald looked for Meg worriedly, and finally found her in a corner.
Meg wept terribly, her eyes were swollen, and her throat was incapable of crying, but she was weeping silently and ceaselessly.She hugged her knees and hid in the corner, covering her figure with the shadow of the wall.
No wonder it took me a long time to find it.
"Meg, what's the matter with you? Are you okay?" Ronald asked softly, taking out a handkerchief and carefully wiping away her tears.No sooner had they been wiped than Meg wept again, and the handkerchief was soaked.
"Meg, Meg?" Ronald shook Meg's shoulder lightly, but she seemed to be immersed in sadness and didn't respond.
"Hey, who are you, please go away. Don't interfere with the students' retrieval of emotional memories." A teacher-like person approached with shy steps, raised an orchid finger, pointed at Ronald, and criticized him aloud.
Ronald turned around impatiently, stretched out his hand and pushed the sissy staggeringly: "Fxck you, don't fucking come near me, you devils, this is how actors are trained?"
Ronald squatted down and whispered in Meg's ear:
"Meg, I'm Ronnie, look me in the eyes, I'm your Ronnie, do you recognize me?"
Meg seemed to have a reaction, her dull eyes found focus, and she nodded slightly.
"I'll take you home, okay?"
Meg nodded again.
Ronald wraps Meg's hands around his neck, grabs Meg in his arms with one hand, and walks towards the entrance of the drama academy with her in his arms.
The sissy didn't dare to stop him, but she was still scolding Ronald for destroying the performing arts.Ronald stared at him, causing him to back away with a cry.
Open the rear door and let Meg lie down on the back seat.Ronald began to wonder who could help him.Looking for a psychiatrist?But Meg's situation is caused by learning acting skills, and ordinary psychiatrists may not know what's going on.
By the way, the last time Julia Taylor from the casting studio mentioned that there is an acting guidance expert at New York University, Stella Adler.Probably she understands the situation better.
Finding a pay phone, Ronald called Julia Taylor.
"Julia? This is Ronald. I have something urgent to ask for your help."
After briefly explaining the situation to Julia Taylor, Julia was surprised:
"Didn't I tell you to go to Stella Adler? Why does this happen? Stella doesn't teach emotional memory, only that old bastard Lee Strasberg..."
"What? Did your Meg take his lessons? Why his acting lessons?"
"It was Meg's own decision, and she followed her sister's."
"You take Meg away from that place immediately, and come to the casting studio first, and I will ask an expert to help." Julia finished speaking and hung up the phone.
Ronald carried Meg to the front seat and fastened her seat belt.After driving the car to the casting studio, Julia was already waiting for them at the door.
Ronald carried Meg to the inner sofa again, and Julia hugged Meg and whispered comfort in her ear.
Soon a middle-aged woman came to the studio, she is Stella's apprentice, named Irene.Stella is 78 years old, it is inconvenient to trouble her.
Irene walked over to hold Meg's hand, asked Julia to fetch a towel, and gently wiped Meg's forehead.
Ronald also stepped forward and took the time to ask Irene:
"Is Meg all right?"
Irene stood up and glared at Ronald, "You're not going out, you're here, can the girl be okay?" After speaking, she pointed at the door, signaling him to get out quickly.
Ronald didn't know why, he looked at Meg, and seemed to have regained his sanity, so he stepped out of the room and waited.
"is it him?"
"No, it won't be him. Ronald is a gentle person, and he wouldn't treat women like this." Julia shook her head, denying Irene's guess.
(End of this chapter)
"Director Parker, this is what I wrote these days..."
After receiving a few fragments written by Ronald in just a few days, Alan Parker opened and read suspiciously.
At lunch time in the cafeteria, someone beat the drumbeat on the table with a drumstick, and then someone played the piano.Then students spontaneously joined the ensemble with various instruments.
Then students from the dance department also joined in. Ballet, jazz, and various dances were integrated into one, dancing on the table in the cafeteria.
Allen's eyes lit up. This is very suitable for the film's title "Hot Lunch", and it can be used as a theme song scene.
Then look on...
The shy mixing genius is unwilling to publish the music he has produced, and the father drives a taxi and plays his son's creation on the speaker, attracting all the students in the school to run to the street, dancing to the music?
"They rushed down the stairs, out of the school gate, stopped the car, climbed on the roof of the car, and there they started dancing..."
Another scene of genius, giving shy Bruno a turnaround.
"Crack..." Allen closed the script and stopped reading.
It took only a few days to write a script outline of this level, which greatly exceeded my expectations.
"Tell me, Ronald, how did you come up with these two scenarios?"
It seems that copying the original works well, Ronald secretly pleased.
"When I came back from Los Angeles, I met a father who drove a taxi at the airport. He loved his daughter so much that he shut down his business and waited for her daughter to go back to New York at the airport."
Ronald started making things up.
"Bruno, the shy mixing genius in the play, needs an opportunity to break through himself. I want to use my father's love to help him break through. Taxi can't drive into the school. I want to use the loudspeaker on the street to play what my son doesn't want to publish. Music, and having students dance is also good."
The making up is getting more and more proficient.
"As for the hot lunch scene, I saw the school band and cheerleaders eating in the cafeteria when I was in high school. When they got interested, they practiced impromptu in the cafeteria. I was very envious. I think the audience would like it too. kind of improvisation."
In order to find a suitable reason for plagiarizing the plot in his dream, Ronald even exposed the fact that he peeked at the beautiful cheerleaders in high school.
The plots are well-founded and have good writing ideas. Alan Parker no longer suspects that Ronald plagiarized other people's scripts.
"These two scenes are great, and I can imagine what they'll look like when they're shot, and the teens are going to love them. Keep it up at this level and you can think a lot about how the main characters end up."
"I don't have much inspiration for this part. I was on the wrestling team in high school, and I am not familiar with literary clubs. Without details, it is difficult for me to write anything."
"It doesn't matter, you observe slowly, if necessary, you can sneak into the acting arts college and go undercover to observe." Allen affirmed Ronald's script and asked him to continue writing.
Without the revelation in the dream, Ronald turned back into a novice in screenwriting, trying slowly.He looked around for opportunities to observe some details of the life of art school students.
Like Meg's sleeping position?
People who practice ballet all the year round will involuntarily straighten their toes when they lie down. This is a very different characteristic from ordinary people.
I couldn't help but test it out to see if it can still stay straight even when disturbed by external forces.Crack, opened by Meg with a slap.
Inexperienced Ronald, the writing progress began to slow down.For two weeks, I could only type one or two pages a day, rub it out, and start over.
Work as a driver and assistant to the director during the day.In contrast, writing every night has become a distressing thing.
Fortunately, getting together with Meg every day can relieve some anxiety.This made his writing progress slow, but not completely stagnant.
Meg's learning of acting was very smooth.
According to Meg, Lee Strasberg is a Ukrainian acting master who first learned from Stanislavsky and learned a whole set of experiential acting skills (The System) in drama performances.
Afterwards, he developed it and came up with The Method, which is suitable for film shooting.He also mentored Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe.
When the first class started, Lee Strasberg came to the class in person and told them the two magic weapons of the method school: the method of emotional memory and improvisation.
Meg was about to learn the method of emotional memory.
"After learning it, you can instantly mobilize your emotions and cry in one second. It's really amazing. Lee Strasberg even gave us a live demonstration." Meg said.
"Really? Then his acting skills are really amazing."
Director Parker flew to Los Angeles to audition, and Ronald simply wrote the script full-time at home.
The apartment is full of artists, Ronald brought food and drinks, and had a conversation with almost everyone, hoping to learn more about the details of the life of art students.
But there are few results. Most of the people who live in the artist's apartment are the youngest over 25 years old.Most of the memories of the art school have been worn down by life, and I can no longer recall my dreams back then.
Or people who still have dreams, also bury her deeply in their hearts.Don't show it to others easily.
"You know, people in the arts are very sensitive. If you tell others about your dreams, even family and friends, they will be hit. When the dreams have not been realized, they accidentally say a word or two, and you will feel that they Targeting you, I feel uncomfortable for two or three days."
"Thank you for talking to me about this, I know it's hard, and I'll be scripting some of your shared experiences, and of course, will remain anonymous."
Ronald got up and shook hands, handed the other party a bottle of red wine and a pack of sausages, and then sent the interviewed painter away.
He typed out the summary of today's conversation on the typewriter, then tore off the typed letter paper, picked up the pencil again, and corrected it.
In this way, after playing and changing, after changing and playing again, the sky gradually darkened.
"Hey, why hasn't Meg come back yet?" Ronald called Meg's roommate in the apartment and found that she hadn't returned to his apartment either.
Feeling worried, Ronald hurried downstairs and drove to Lee Strasberg Drama Training School.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
As soon as I entered the door, I heard a bunch of actors crying loudly in the teaching hall.Ronald thought something unfortunate had happened.
Some were wailing, tears streaming down their cheeks.Some are hugging each other and crying, comparing each other's misery.Some simply lie on the ground, rolling and crying freely.
What's going on?Are you collectively insane?
Ronald looked for Meg worriedly, and finally found her in a corner.
Meg wept terribly, her eyes were swollen, and her throat was incapable of crying, but she was weeping silently and ceaselessly.She hugged her knees and hid in the corner, covering her figure with the shadow of the wall.
No wonder it took me a long time to find it.
"Meg, what's the matter with you? Are you okay?" Ronald asked softly, taking out a handkerchief and carefully wiping away her tears.No sooner had they been wiped than Meg wept again, and the handkerchief was soaked.
"Meg, Meg?" Ronald shook Meg's shoulder lightly, but she seemed to be immersed in sadness and didn't respond.
"Hey, who are you, please go away. Don't interfere with the students' retrieval of emotional memories." A teacher-like person approached with shy steps, raised an orchid finger, pointed at Ronald, and criticized him aloud.
Ronald turned around impatiently, stretched out his hand and pushed the sissy staggeringly: "Fxck you, don't fucking come near me, you devils, this is how actors are trained?"
Ronald squatted down and whispered in Meg's ear:
"Meg, I'm Ronnie, look me in the eyes, I'm your Ronnie, do you recognize me?"
Meg seemed to have a reaction, her dull eyes found focus, and she nodded slightly.
"I'll take you home, okay?"
Meg nodded again.
Ronald wraps Meg's hands around his neck, grabs Meg in his arms with one hand, and walks towards the entrance of the drama academy with her in his arms.
The sissy didn't dare to stop him, but she was still scolding Ronald for destroying the performing arts.Ronald stared at him, causing him to back away with a cry.
Open the rear door and let Meg lie down on the back seat.Ronald began to wonder who could help him.Looking for a psychiatrist?But Meg's situation is caused by learning acting skills, and ordinary psychiatrists may not know what's going on.
By the way, the last time Julia Taylor from the casting studio mentioned that there is an acting guidance expert at New York University, Stella Adler.Probably she understands the situation better.
Finding a pay phone, Ronald called Julia Taylor.
"Julia? This is Ronald. I have something urgent to ask for your help."
After briefly explaining the situation to Julia Taylor, Julia was surprised:
"Didn't I tell you to go to Stella Adler? Why does this happen? Stella doesn't teach emotional memory, only that old bastard Lee Strasberg..."
"What? Did your Meg take his lessons? Why his acting lessons?"
"It was Meg's own decision, and she followed her sister's."
"You take Meg away from that place immediately, and come to the casting studio first, and I will ask an expert to help." Julia finished speaking and hung up the phone.
Ronald carried Meg to the front seat and fastened her seat belt.After driving the car to the casting studio, Julia was already waiting for them at the door.
Ronald carried Meg to the inner sofa again, and Julia hugged Meg and whispered comfort in her ear.
Soon a middle-aged woman came to the studio, she is Stella's apprentice, named Irene.Stella is 78 years old, it is inconvenient to trouble her.
Irene walked over to hold Meg's hand, asked Julia to fetch a towel, and gently wiped Meg's forehead.
Ronald also stepped forward and took the time to ask Irene:
"Is Meg all right?"
Irene stood up and glared at Ronald, "You're not going out, you're here, can the girl be okay?" After speaking, she pointed at the door, signaling him to get out quickly.
Ronald didn't know why, he looked at Meg, and seemed to have regained his sanity, so he stepped out of the room and waited.
"is it him?"
"No, it won't be him. Ronald is a gentle person, and he wouldn't treat women like this." Julia shook her head, denying Irene's guess.
(End of this chapter)
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