Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 195 There is nothing between me and Calvin
"No, it has nothing to do with them." Brooke Shields glanced at the director, and slowly stopped sobbing.Mother Terry also came over and hugged her tightly in her arms to comfort her.

"Makeup artist, where's the makeup artist? It's an emergency!" Ronald saw that the situation didn't get any worse, and immediately arranged for the makeup artist to deal with it.

Not only did the crying ruin the makeup, but Brooke's eyes were slightly red and swollen.The makeup artist dealt with it urgently, but he had to wait for Brooke's eyes to return to normal before continuing to shoot.

"Half an hour rest." After Ronald announced loudly, he began to discuss countermeasures with the team.

"What's the problem?"

"Ronald, Brooke was born as a child model, and she's used to this kind of acting," Spike said.

"Yes, she is very good at giving the smile you want, 100%, 80%, 50% smile, very skilled. But that is for still photos, moving images need real emotion-driven smiles. She has not passed Not too good at training," Catherine added.

"So I wanted to use a joke to make her laugh, but I didn't expect it to have the opposite effect," Ronald said helplessly. "I understand that the joke is not funny. Why did you cry?"

"Do you have any younger sisters?" Spike thought for a while and said, "If you have strict requirements on them and they can't meet them, there will be a lot of pressure."

"I noticed she looked at her mother Terry twice before she cried," Catherine said. "Is there any mother-daughter conflict?"

"Okay, I'll discuss it with Terry first." Ronald said.

"Ronald, sometimes you need to be unscrupulous as a director. I don't think you can just encourage and guide actors blindly. It's like a child needs some encouragement." Spike Lee grabbed Ronald, stretched out his finger and did A slow hook gesture.

"What do you mean?" Ronald was puzzled.

At the same time, the three men watching the filming on the second floor were also talking about the crying.

"It seems that the young director messed things up. Calvin, as I said earlier, the artistic technique is secondary, and the important thing is creativity. You should have let Richard try it." The bald man said to Calvin Klein said.

"What do you think, Richard?" Calvin Klein asked the silent photographer Richard Avedon.

"I don't understand why Brooke is crying?" Richard Avedon is a long-established master of portrait photography. Disdain to take over the young Ronald's mess, "It's actually not an easy thing to make people cry quickly."

"Ha," Calvin Klein laughed, "What do you think? David?"

The half-bald man was none other than David Geffen, who had just returned from retirement.Diagnosed with a terminal illness in 1977, he announced his retirement from the Shelter Records label he founded and taught music at Yale for a while.

During the follow-up consultation this year, the hospital that adopted the new equipment announced that the previous diagnosis was a misdiagnosis.Geffen, who was declared healthy, made a quick comeback from retirement to start Geffen Records.

The first signed artist was black disco singer Donna Summer.And let her new album compete with the selection of old songs released by her owner, Casablanca Records, and she won the competition from Summer to Summer on the charts, so she became famous.

He socialized frequently with these fashion figures, attracting the attention of legions of musicians.He also urged several real estate developers to sell the 54 Club, which was closed because everyone was in jail, and recreate a sanctuary for New York artists.

Social life has brought him great rewards. Former Beatles lead singer John Lennon has a good impression of him, and more importantly, his Japanese wife Yoko Ono also recognized him.

Immediately signed Lennon to release his long-prepared new album, although Lennon, a convert to mysticism, refused to let any record company hear the full album before signing.

Geffen looked at the crowd walking below, "Maybe what Richard said is right, the young director seems to have figured out a way."

Ronald temporarily resisted Spike's offer to arrange for someone to tickle his back.Or communicate with Terry first.

"Terry, what kind of jokes does Brooke laugh at?"

Brooke's mother, Terry, was a little anxious. She had a few more drinks when her daughter went to the dressing room to touch up her makeup.

"She often laughs with her classmates, and often has long phone calls with her godmother's daughter."

"I seem to have seen her godmother and daughter just now?" Ronald asked.

"They're over there." Terry pointed to the two mother and daughter in the corner.

"I've got to ask them for a favor."

Half an hour later, Brooke Shields, who had returned to normal, sat on the floor again.

"Boji, you still hold this Walkman, I recorded some more jokes. If you feel like laughing, put the earphones aside, we will not shoot the earphones in the close-up.

When the time comes, you don't need to think about the camera, let's just treat it as a rehearsal, okay? "

Ronald explained a few words to Brooke.Then let the recording and photography begin to prepare.

"If you don't think the joke is funny, just raise your hand and let me test it out now... well, if I see you raise your hand like this, stop filming. If you feel any discomfort, raise your hand and let me know .”

Ronald was afraid that Brooke Shields would fall into that sad mood again, so he spoke to him carefully and gently.

"Okay, I will pay attention to laughing." Brooke Shields nodded in agreement.

"No no, Brooke, don't try to laugh. What we want to photograph is your natural state." Ronald stared at Brooke Shields, "Do you trust me, Brooke?"

"Of course" Brooke nodded.

"You don't need to make any smiles, as long as you are in a natural state at any time, pay attention to the content in the recording, laugh if it's funny, and don't laugh if it's not funny. You are the most beautiful in your natural state, okay?"

Brooke Shields saw the sincerity in Ronald's eyes, "Okay, if the joke isn't funny, I won't laugh." After she finished speaking, she felt that the sentence was funny instead, and giggled.

"Just keep it like this, don't think about any performances, just focus on listening to the recording." Ronald secretly gestured to the back to signal the start of recording and filming, and then exited the camera range.

Brooke Shields pressed the play button, picked up the earphones and put them to her ears.It started with Ronald's bad grammar joke, and Brooke didn't want to laugh at all.

She looked at the young director, indicating that she was not amused by him, and made an innocent expression, indicating that the other party's laughter was completely inconsistent with her own, not because she didn't work hard, but because the joke was too bad.

Then all of a sudden, surprise crept up her eyebrows, and it was her godmother's daughter's voice on tape.They often use the phone to share little secrets and jokes they find funny.The familiar voice of the godmother's daughter came, telling the funniest jokes in the two people's daily collections, those jokes that the girls made fun of a certain boy, and outsiders couldn't understand.

They were in the studio, and Brooke Shields spotted the godmother and her daughter in the distance, and waved vigorously at them.It was the godmother and daughter who moved into her home and took care of her for a while when the mother went to the rehab center, and the two sisters became the closest friends.

Another secret joke that only the two of them knew came from the earphones. Brooke couldn't bear it any longer, threw the earphones away, and burst into a burst of laughter, "giggle...", and then the sitting body began to lean forward and backward. .

The photographer raised his head from behind the camera and raised his thumb high to Ronald who was looking at him, expressing that the shooting was very successful and met his requirements.

The sound engineer also nodded, and the live recording was perfect.

"Huh..." Ronald let out a long breath, and the laughing scene was finally completed.

Calvin Klein on the second floor also smiled, and he was very satisfied with Ronald's ability to control the shooting.

"Ronald, I still have a new script here, take a look." After a while, while the team was lighting and preparing for the next scene, Calvin called Ronald up and handed him a script. A thin two-page script.

"What is this?" Ronald was a little surprised. This kind of temporary addition is not very common.

"This is an idea proposed by Mr. Avedon. We think it's very good. I hope you can take a picture and try it out."

Ronald read the script carefully under the light, except for a few storyboards, there were only two lines of Brooke Shields' monologue.

"This is Mr. Avedon's idea?" Ronald frowned deeply.Richard Avedon and David Geffen had already left the studio, and there was no way to ask him face to face.

"Yes, do you have any objections?"

"Does Terry know?" Ronald asked. "Can I show her the script?"

Then Ronald stared into Calvin Klein's eyes, trying to see some clues.

"Of course, let's go down together."

He didn't see anything in his eyes, but Ronald didn't believe that Calvin didn't know the key.

"Terry, this is Calvin's newly submitted script. If you don't want to, we can discuss it again."

Ronald handed the script to Brooke Shields' mother, then pulled over his agent Eddie, and discussed in a low voice.

"If I turn down this shot, will I still get paid?"

"The contract doesn't specify which shot to shoot, only the number of commercials to shoot, and you have to consult a lawyer for specific legal disputes. What's wrong with you, Ronald? Is there any problem with the new script?" Eddie noticed something was wrong.

"These two lines are very problematic. The puns are somewhat cryptic. No, it's not the hint of the genetic evolution theory. It's close to explicit. I guarantee that all high school students can understand it."

Terry's furrowed eyebrows also showed that she understood the puns in the lines, but she didn't refuse to shoot.

"There is no problem with this, we can shoot normally, and there is no problem in replacing the one originally planned for political science."

"Terry," Ronald pulled her aside, "this ad is going to cause quite a stir, and if you say no to..."

"No, there's nothing wrong with it. Brooke is a pure girl. The audience all over America knows this. They just laugh it off and don't blame her."

"Okay, that's none of my business, but maybe you can get them to change the word, the puns on Come and Cum are very easy to make people uncomfortable."

"No, it's nothing, Brooke needs to be talked about. This strike, she hasn't had a magazine cover or a talk show for a month."

It turns out that it is for exposure, and bad news is better than no news.

After discussing it with Eddie, Ronald quickly wrote a consent form, "Okay, Terry, since you insist, I hope you can sign this consent form. I have put some filming on the air The risks are clearly written on it."

"It's nothing." Terry signed the consent form, "You can tell Brooke a play, the effect of your play telling her in the last article is very good."

"Boji, can you whistle?...Okay, after you whistle, you can say these two lines."

"Do you know what comes between me and Calvins? (Do you know what comes between me and Calvins?)
Nothing (Nothing)”

Brooke Shields read it twice, expressing that she remembered it.

Ronald looked at this 15-year-old girl whom the media dubbed "Virgin America Sweetheart", feeling a little unbearable, and said, "If you don't like the pun in this line..."

"What pun?" Brooke stared at Ronald with wide eyes.

Ronald leaned closer to explain in her ear, which actually implied that she was wearing nothing under her jeans.

"How can any normal person think of that, director? You're like the boys in our high school, thinking of vulgar jokes all day long."

Is this really naive?Or do you not take this kind of thing seriously?

Ronald recalled some of the advertisements shot by Brooke Shields that he had seen, which were more or less related to her image of "Virgin America Sweetheart".

Innocence and intelligence, tall and young, the Catholic belief in chastity before marriage and all kinds of sexy, all kinds of contradictory characteristics are added to Brooke Shields alone, which makes her image have such a high commercial value.

"My mother agreed, so what am I worrying about?" Ronald shook his head.

"Action"

Brooke Xiaosi sits on the ground, and the camera pans from her legs along the CK skinny jeans, gradually to her crotch, and then her upper body, as indicated in the storyboard.

She stopped whistling when the camera was on her face, and said charmingly to the camera
"Do you know what comes between me and Calvins? (Do you know what comes between me and Calvins?)
Nothing (Nothing)”

"Cut! Great, we can call it a day."

(End of this chapter)