Chapter 261 Call Me Spiccoli

   The time saved allowed Ronald to take a few more shots. Assistant Director Al, for the shots that were originally assigned to be shot in the next two days, as long as there are two heroines or two male protagonists participating, try to advance as much as possible.

   "Cut!" Ronald finished shooting another segment, and after confirming with the director of photography, Ronald called the next one.

   Didn't hear the expected assistant director's answer, Ronald looked back. It was the resident representative of the trade union, who stood behind and pointed to his wrist.

   "Oh, it's almost five o'clock in the morning." Ronald suddenly realized that actors can only participate in filming for 8 hours a day, which is the iron law of the actors' union. Filming in Los Angeles will be supervised by union representatives.

  After discussing with the assistant director Al, the crew announced that the filming was over. Everyone took the notice sheet for tomorrow night's filming and began to gradually exit.

  The lighting team took out a large lamp and illuminated the ground at the gate downstairs, so that the actors and staff who exited the stage would not trip because they could not see the steps clearly.

  This is the method used by experienced technicians in other crews shooting night scenes, and Ronald left it to the assistant director team for coordination.

  Ronald himself stared at the photography team, unloaded the finished film from the machine, carefully packed it, and locked it on the box, and let the full-time film runner send it to the printing factory to be developed into a positive film. Tomorrow you will be able to see the samples taken today.

  Ronald specially rented a movie theater in the shopping mall during the first week of the start-up to show daily samples, so that every actor can see the moving images he shot yesterday on the spot.

   "Crack...crack..." A young man in the photography team was struggling with the camera. The manufacturing process of this UltraCam movie camera is really not very good, and it takes a lot of strength to disassemble the parts.

   "Be careful" the director of photography went up to give advice.

   "This is the shooting plan for tonight." The second assistant director, a female staff member, handed Ronald the shooting plan for the next day.

"There is Sean Penn in the video game hall, and the scene of Hamburg across the United States, as well as Judge Reinhold, and Eric Stoltz." Ronald browsed through the filming plan, and called a A crew assistant asked, "Has Sean Penn arrived in Los Angeles? When did he fly from Chicago, go check it out."

  All the shooting equipment has been packed, and the personnel have gradually withdrawn from the shooting location. The prop team is cleaning up some posters that were pasted up temporarily during the shooting, and the remaining second assistant director has to stay for inventory. She gets a hefty stipend of one hour a day for it.

  Ronald greeted Al, Matthew and several other team leaders who were sorting out the equipment, and then left the mall.

  A red sun is rising, the morning in Los Angeles is beautiful, everything is a new day.

  After five hours of sleep, Ronald appeared in the shooting office of the shopping mall on time that afternoon. Shooting a movie is a high-intensity job, and there is very little sleep time every day, especially for the boss of the crew-the director.

   Only the quality of sleep can be used to top it off, and after the shooting is over, you can still take a vacation.

   "Hello, Sean. Welcome to the crew. Your role tonight is..." Ronald handed over the filming plan to Sean Penn, who just flew to Los Angeles from Chicago the day before yesterday.

   "Call me Spiccoli." Sean Penn said to Ronald in an exaggerated tone.

"What?"

   "My name is Spiccoli, man, and I will win this year's Los Angeles Surfing Grand Prix." Sean Penn replied in the tone of a character in the play.

   "Very good." Ronald praised, Sean Penn's acting skills are very vivid, a high school student who often smokes high and dreams of winning the surfing award all day long can be portrayed in a few words.

  And he looks a little silly, his brows are deliberately frowned, as if doubting life, very similar to the characters in the script.

   "Very good, Sean, keep it like this." Ronald told his assistant, "Let the hairdresser come and put on a wig for him to see the effect."

   Sean Penn seemed not to hear what Ronald said, and was still immersed in the character, looking around at the surrounding decorations, "Hey, man, do you have French fries here?"

   "Yes, when filming, the staff of the fast food restaurant will go to work and provide supper for the crew."

   "French fries, hahaha, delicious."

   Ronald smiled, this Sean Penn is quite dedicated.

   Soon the hair stylist came in with two wigs, "This is a full-wear type, which is a combination of two pieces, with a hair piece on the top and a wig around it."

   "Sean, please ask the hair stylist to try on your makeup." Ronald was very polite to the crew, always saying please and thank you.

   Sean Penn ignored him at all, as if he didn't hear him.

   "Sean, Sean?" Ronald called out several times, then looked back at the hairstylist, and found that she didn't know what was going on.

   "Sean!" Ronald yelled again, louder.

   "Call me Spiccoli, dude."

   "Spicoli?"

   "Yes, what do you want me to do?"

   "Please try these two wigs." Ronald asked tentatively.

   "All Right!" Sean Penn sat down cooperatively, and the hair stylist operated on his head.

"This one has a wig on top to increase the volume of his hair on top, and the bottom is a wig starting from the ear and extending the hair. This is a fully covered wig to tie up Sean's real hair. "

   "Which one do you find more comfortable? Sean?" Ronald felt that the effect of the two wigs was acceptable.

   Sean Penn showed a silly expression again and remained silent.

   "Spicoli? Which wig do you find comfortable?"

   "This one makes my head tied very tightly, but this one is still comfortable." Sean Penn pointed to the two-piece wig and said.

   "You take him to his dressing room, thank you." Ronald said to the hair stylist.

   Sean Penn walked out with his hair stylist.

   "Huh..." Ronald sighed, this Sean Penn, maybe he used methods to get into the drama too deeply, and he was dazed? On the set, people are not allowed to call him by his real name, but by his character name.

  If other technicians perform poorly, they can use the authority of the director, and they can make dictatorial decisions on whether to criticize or dismiss.

  Actors are the only ones. Movies need their performances. Actors are sensitive creatures, and to get them to perform well they sometimes have to be coaxed.

   "The name of this dressing room is wrong, my name is Spiccoli."

   Ronald heard Sean Penn's voice again, and walked out of the office to take a look. Sean lost his temper at the door of the dressing room, tore off the paper with "Sean Penn" printed on it, then got a piece of paper, wrote "Spicoli" with a pen, and pasted it on the door.

   "Hey", Ronald covered his face and sighed. Anyway, it's not a big problem, let him make trouble.

  Finally, it was time for night shooting. Today's shooting scene is in the video game hall on the third floor of the shopping mall. It's filled with kids and teenage extras, and everyone's having fun and playing games for free.

   "Camera on this game of Missile Command, Sean, no, Spicoli takes off his shirt, watch the kid with change play here."

   "Missile Commander" is an arcade game developed by Atari, which is very popular now. As the missile commander, the player has to counterattack the USSR nuclear missiles flying in the sky. As the game progresses, more and more incoming missiles are coming, and in the end there is only destruction.

   Ronald specially picked this most popular game to appear on the scene.

   "O...K..." Sean Penn still replied in that drawn-out tone.

   "You pull him from behind and ask him to return the 25 cents that Spiccoli lent you." Ronald said to the little actor who played with Sean Penn.

   "Then you, Si... Piccoli, pointed at his chest as if to threaten him, and then made a joke with him. You are a poor ghost, not a villain who bullies elementary school students. OK?"

   "O...K..."

   "Recording? Camera? Action!"

  The recording rod stretched out, and recorded the music of the arcade game and the explosion sound of the player exploding the incoming nuclear missile.

   Sean Penn's performance is very real. When the child pulled him from behind, his reaction was very natural. He was surprised at first, then wanted to attack, and finally saw that it was a child, and returned to the state of indifference, which satisfied Ronald.

   "Very good, print this one, let's do it again."

   "Spicoli, try another way."

   Sean Penn made an OK gesture to indicate acceptance.

This time his performance was different. When he was pulled by the child, he still looked down at the screen of the game console, not paying much attention to it. When he saw that it was the child who had "borrowed" a coin, he showed a little disdain. A good-hearted demeanor.

   Then he pointed to the child's chest, making a gesture of threatening him, and finally moved his finger up, pressed the other person's nose, and then ruffled the child's hair with his hands.

  The reaction of the child actor was brought out by him, and while smiling, he said to him perseveringly, "Hi, Comeon" put his hand on Spicoli's hand to prevent him from rubbing it.

   "Cut!" Ronald was more satisfied with this one.

  “These method actors, although they have many eccentricities, can perform new ideas every time.”

  Actors mainly perform their own reactions based on the reactions of their counterparts. If you perform according to a certain formula every time, every time after the first time, the reaction will be more and more deviated from reality.

  Because you have already predicted what the other party will do.

  Spicoli... No, the great thing about Sean Penn is that he can perform different feelings in every line, and it also stimulates the natural reactions of the actors who play with him.

  The audience is very sensitive to unnatural and artificial performances. Ronald is very satisfied with this kind of actor who can perform natural reactions. He gives him one more every time, and thinks about adding some scenes to him in the future.

   "Very well, everyone rests for 10 minutes, and the photography team re-sets up the machine. Next, let's take a group of close-ups on the screen of the game console."

   Ronald issued an order, and today's shooting is progressing smoothly.

   "Papa..." Everyone applauded.

   It seems to be inspired by the applause yesterday, and now every time a high-quality shooting is completed, the staff and actors will spontaneously applaud and congratulate.

  Because this boosts morale, the actors who have completed the filming feel that they have done a great thing, and they are more confident and relaxed about their performance. Ronald didn't intervene, which became a practice of the "fast paced" crew.

   "Recording? Camera? Action!"

   After setting up the camera, Ronald called the start command again.

   Sean Penn started to play the game against the game console, and the camera started to take pictures of his game from the side and rear.

   "Cut!"

   Sean Penn called a stop.

   "What's the problem? Spiccoli?" Ronald pops out from behind the camera.

   "Who is that? I can't meet unrelated strangers when I'm filming."

   "Sorry, Sorry, I just wanted to come and watch the filming." A security guard from a shopping mall apologized and exited the crowd.

   "Next time I will arrange for other scenes, you go away first." Ronald was still amiable to the security of the mall.

   "Clear, Spiccoli, there are no strangers now, can you start?"

   "O...K..."

  Ronald shook his head. These methods send actors with great abilities and many eccentricities. Sean Penn is not bad, and he must satisfy his request no matter what.

   These quirks of his are also for the sake of getting into the show. It is easy to get out of play when there are irrelevant people present. Forbidding people to call him by his real name is also to enter Spiccoli's state at any time.

   These innocuous eccentricities, Ronald can tolerate.

   "Recording? Camera? Action."

  Spicoli started playing "Missile Commander" again, and the game console made the sound of BiuBiuBiu.

   "Cut!"

  This time, it was Matthew, the director of photography, who called for a temporary stop.

"what happened again?"

  (end of this chapter)