Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ronald returned home and began to weave the story of the previous Rocky Horror Show into Doris' script.

Jewish girl Doris. Shy and shy by nature, her mother is a strong mother who manages him in every way. Even her mother brought her to the art high school for an interview.

Doris, who has no self-confidence, although her singing is moving, she is always unable to break through her psychological barriers and perform in front of everyone.

Until Ralph Garcia, a Latina student in the acting class, invited her to the movie Rocky Horror Show, Doris discovered that many members of the Rocky Horror Show club had not received any professional vocal training.

But they had the courage to show themselves, rushed to the stage and started singing, and they achieved very good results, and there were many audience applauding.

Doris took off her coat and rushed to the stage to sing with them, finally breaking through her psychological barrier.

Ronald tore the letter from the typewriter and read it aloud. It seems to be a little unsmooth.

It seems that being a singer is not easy to have mental obstacles, but there are more obstacles to performing in public. In addition, when interviewing for admission, shy actors can be seen by others by their looks and body, but how can singers be admitted if they can't sing?

Besides, I have to ask Gene and Antonia to write life scenes into the script. Ronald is now cautious, especially since they are all actors who have already joined the group.

It was Lucy's metaphor, which she had agreed to use in the script.

It can be put in the scene where Hillary and Leroy are jealous and arguing during dance practice.

Hillary: "I love his black ass. (to Leroy)"

: "Go to other places to pry men, Leroy is already famous."

Hillary: "Don't be so confident. My dear."

: "I'm not your dear, fuck my dear (Fuck My Dear)

Hilary: "Thank you, then I'm welcome." (pun intended at Leroy).

: "Impossible, Leroy doesn't like white girls."

Hilary: "Occasionally changing the flavors and skipping blackberries is fine."

: "The darker the blackberry, the sweeter the juice, sweetheart."

Hillary: "That's right, but who wants to have diabetes?"

"How on earth did you come up with this girl bickering dialogue? Ronnie?"

Director Alan Parker saw this passage and was full of praise, "If you want me to say you are a genius at writing dialogues."

"Ah? I didn't come up with it. I heard it from others. I brought it over and assembled it."

"What about the ending of Doris? Why didn't you see the passage where Doris broke through the barrier and sang bravely?" Alan Parker was still more concerned about the plot of Doris.

"Honestly I hit a bit of a logical hurdle, Director Parker. I'm still trying."

"Okay, more snacks."

Ronald ran to the producer Da Silva again, "Mr. Da Silva, 'Hot Lunch' is really a bit wrong, someone has taken the shot..."

"I've said it many times, let professional people take care of professional things, Ronald, you don't understand movie distribution, don't show off your poor knowledge."

Eileen Carra's success has made the producer so complacent that Ronald feels he's not as patient with him as he used to be.

"Well, maybe he's right, let the professionals in charge of distribution consider it. I just made a distribution business by accident. I don't know how the box office will be and whether I can get a share."

Alan Parker, after getting the girl's dialogue written by Ronald, immediately asked his assistant to make dozens of copies on blue colored paper, replacing the white paper in the original script.

This is a kind of rule for British people to make movies. If the script has been finalized, if it needs to be revised. The page numbers that need to be modified on the original white copy paper will be taken away.

Then change to a different color of copy paper and put the revised page numbers in it.

In this case, the actors are also clear at a glance, where changes have been made, and the lines need to be recited. The management of the staff on the set is also more convenient, because the director may be on the set at any time and temporarily modify the script, so that the version is marked with different colors, and the version will not be messed up.

There are more and more characters Ronald handles screenwriting, including Gene's story, Hillary's story. s story. The key plot of the characters modified by Ronald accounts for just over one-third of the entire protagonist. If you add that Doris' full story hasn't been changed, it's close to half.

Not to mention that Ronald's revisions are all about the key plot, the plot that turns the characters, and the ending plot of the characters after that.

The script with the latest version of the dialogue is replaced, and it will be sent to the hands of the actors and assistant directors. The smell of the copier had not gone away, and the imprint of the rebinding was clearly visible. The scripts of the books were sent to the actors by the assistants.

"Antonia, this is yours."

"Gene, this is yours."

"Antonia, what does it say? Have my lines changed?"

"Pfft..." Antonia couldn't help laughing when she saw the dialogue between two women fighting for one man written by Ronald.

She pointed to the revised part and explained it to Gene. Gene took a pen and marked the phonetic symbols that only he knew under the words he didn't know.

"Hahaha, do you girls really talk like this?" Gene asked with a smile.

"Almost, the rich girls in my class all speak in this tone."

Antonia thought back to the "Hillary" in the ballet class, and burst out laughing again. Ronald's words are too damaging, and they reflect the faces of these characters very realistically.

Ronald went into the rehearsal room and started handing out Cokes.

"Brother, your line is really good, I don't want to get diabetes, hahaha, I'm dying of laughter." Gene ran and shoved the script to Ronald, "How did you come up with it, Man?"

"I just put what I heard and put it back together."

Ronald smiled and picked up the script, flipping through it casually.

In the script, a lot of paper has turned blue, and some are pink. The pink paper indicates that this part has been changed twice.

Ronald closed the script, and that's where the movie started. All the scenes, shots, characters, dialogues, actions, are marked in the script. The pictures and sounds that finally appeared on the screen were all based on this thick script.

Through the joint action of the director and the actors, the text was captured by the camera lens, the light fell on the film, some wonderful chemical reactions occurred, and finally interacted with the silver powder, leaving a beautiful dynamic picture.

The cover of the script is a slightly thicker yellow cardboard, with a large "hot lunch" on top and a small print below it: the title of the film.

In the lower right corner is a few lines of small characters: "The content of this script is confidential to the crew, and the copyright belongs to MGM, and may not be reproduced without permission."

In the middle is the words "final draft", and the name of the playwright is marked next to it according to the labeling format.

Original screenplay: Christopher Gore.

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"No, there is no harmony, why is my name not in the signature column?"

"Why isn't my name in the byline?"

Ronald put the script on the table and pointed to the cover to ask director Parker.

"It's not up to me, Ronald, you can ask David."

"Did you get inspiration for Doris' script?"

"I'm still thinking, director, I've encountered some difficulties and I'm trying to figure out how to get around."

Ronald went back to find producer David Da Silva.

"Why isn't my name in the script's byline? Mr. Da Silva?"

Ronald asked the producer, pointing to the byline on the cover.

"I remember you didn't sign a screenwriting contract with us, right? Modification is one thing, but signing is another. Allen also modified a lot of script content, but he didn't sign it."

"But I had a verbal agreement with the director, Mr. Parker, and he promised me that if I wrote it well, he would add my name to the list of screenwriters."

"Then you have to confirm with Alan. Signing is a very serious matter, and the writers' union is responsible for it. You'd better ask Alan to give you a written confirmation." Producer Da Silva sent Ronald again. Find a director.

"Mr. Director, Mr. Da Silva said that my signature must be confirmed by you before it can be put on the screenwriter column. You promised me at the time that as long as what I wrote was accepted, you would let me sign the script. ."

"Yes, yes, I promised. It's probably just a typo, and they'll be corrected soon. I'll have my assistant follow up on this, and you'll be added to the next script."

"I'm very busy right now, Ronald. You see, dance rehearsal, and the next play rehearsal, I have a lot of work to do. You better think about how to write Doris's plot? How to make her overcome her own insecurities. Those who dared to sing on stage were shy and shy, and became daring to perform in front of everyone."

Do you perform? You two don't do well. Ronald's heart gradually cooled down.

Final Draft is written on the cover of the script. After the final draft, Ronald's revisions were all replaced with colored cardboard. The previous revisions were simply re-copying a set.

That said, there is no next draft.

Based on Ronald's experience on "High School of Rock", the studio would distribute the final list of film shoots to various trade unions. The list of actors is sent to the Film Actors Union, and actors who have a salary payment record can get the Actors Union card. The list of directors is sent to the directors' union, and those who meet the requirements will be invited to join the union.

If the same is true for the Screenwriters Guild, then the final draft will be sent to the Guild. Without him on the screenwriters list, it would be impossible for him to enter the Screenwriters Guild with the script of this movie.

This makes no sense. In the Rock High School crew, there are two writers' signatures on the cover of the script. It can be seen that the writers' union does not require a movie to have only one writer's signature.

It doesn't make sense, why can't you add your own name?

"Mr. Parker, as you may not know, I've worked in Hollywood before, and this is the final script. Why not put my name in the writer's signature?

Ronald asked bluntly.