"No, it has nothing to do with them." Brooke Shields glanced at the director and slowly stopped sobbing. Mother Terry also came over and held her tightly in her arms to comfort her.
"Makeup artist, where's the makeup artist? It's an emergency!" Seeing that the situation didn't get worse, Ronald immediately arranged for the makeup artist to handle it.
Crying not only ruined her makeup, but also caused Brooke's eyes to become slightly red and swollen. The makeup artist dealt with it urgently, but had to wait for Brooke's eyes to return to normal before they could continue filming.
"Take a break for half an hour." After Ronald announced loudly, he began to discuss countermeasures with the team.
"What's the problem?"
"Ronald, Brooke is a child model, she is used to this kind of performance." Spike said.
"Yes, she is very good at giving you the smile you want, 100%, 80%, 50% smile, very skilled. But that is for still photos, moving images require a real emotion-driven smile. She has not gone through Not very good at training," Catherine added.
"So I tried to make her laugh with a joke, but it had the opposite effect," Ronald said helplessly. "I understand the joke is not funny, but why did she cry?"
"Do you have a sister?" Spike thought for a moment and said, "If you have strict requirements for them and they fail to meet them, there will be a lot of pressure."
"I noticed that she looked at her mother Terry twice before crying." Catherine said, "Is there any mother-daughter conflict?"
"Okay, I'll go discuss it with Terry first," Ronald said.
"Ronald, sometimes being a director requires unscrupulous means. I don't think it's enough for you to just encourage and guide actors. It's like a child who needs some encouragement." Spike Lee grabbed Ronald and stretched out his fingers. A slowly moving gesture.
"What do you mean?" Ronald was confused.
At the same time, three men watching the filming on the second floor were also talking about crying.
"It seems that the young director has messed up things. Calvin, I have said before that artistic techniques are secondary, and the most 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. Since he did not take charge of this advertising shoot from the beginning, it was his first time to try moving image photography. Disdainfully taking over young Ronald's mess, "It's actually not easy to make someone cry quickly."
"Ha", Calvin Klein laughed, "What do you think? David?"
The half-bald man is David Geffen, who has just come out of retirement. He was diagnosed with a terminal illness in 1977, announced his retirement from Asylum Records, which he founded, and taught music courses at Yale for a period of time.
During the re-examination this year, the hospital that used new equipment announced that the previous diagnosis was a misdiagnosis. Geffen, who was declared healthy, came out of retirement and founded Geffen Records.
The first artist signed was black disco singer Donna Summer. She also let her new album compete with a selection of old songs produced by her owner Casablanca Records, and won the competition between Summer and Summer on the charts, thus becoming famous.
He often socialized with these fashionable people, attracting the attention of a large number of musicians. He also urged several real estate developers to take over the 54 Club, which was closed due to the imprisonment of the owner, and rebuild a sacred place for New York artists.
The social life brought him great rewards. Former Beatles lead singer John Lennon had a good impression of him. More importantly, his Japanese wife Yoko Ono also recognized him. Lennon was soon to be signed to release his long-prepared new album, although Lennon, a convert to mysticism, refused to let any record company hear the complete album before signing him.
Geffen looked at the crowd walking below, "Maybe Richard is right. The young director seems to have thought of a way."
Ronald temporarily declined Spike's offer to arrange for someone to tickle his attention from behind. It’s better to communicate with Terry first.
"Terry, what kind of jokes does Brooke usually find funny?"
Brooke's mother Terry was a little anxious. Her daughter went to the dressing room to touch up her makeup, and she took a few more sips.
"She usually laughs a lot with her classmates, and she often talks to her godmother's daughter on the phone for a long time."
"I thought I saw her godmother and daughter just now?" Ronald asked.
"They're right over there." Terry pointed at the two mother and daughter in the corner.
"I have to ask them for a favor."
Half an hour later, Brooke Shields, who had returned to normal, sat on the floor again.
"Brother, you still hold this walkman while I record some more jokes. If you feel like laughing, put the earphones aside. The earphones will not be captured in the close-up we shot.
But in the end, you don't need to think about the camera. Let's just treat it as a rehearsal, okay? "
Ronald told Brooke a few words. Then let the recording and photography begin.
"If you don't think the joke is funny, just raise your hand to let me know. Now let's try it... Okay, if I see you raising your hand like this, stop filming. If you feel any discomfort, also raise your hand to 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'll be careful about laughing." Brooke Shields nodded in agreement.
"No, no, Brooke, don't even think about laughing. What we want to shoot is your natural state." Ronald stared at Brooke Shields, "Do you believe me, Brooke?"
"Of course" Brooke nodded.
"You don't need to make any smiles. Just be in your natural state at all times and listen carefully to the content of the recording. If it's funny, you'll smile. If it's not funny, you won't smile. You are the most beautiful in your natural state, okay?"
Brooke Shields saw the sincerity in Ronald's eyes, "Okay, if the joke is not funny, I won't laugh." After saying that, she felt that this sentence was actually funny and giggled.
"Just stay like this, don't think about any performance, just focus on listening to the recording." Ronald gestured secretly behind his back to signal the recording and photography to start, and then exited the camera range.
Brooke Shields pressed the play button, picked up the headphones 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 person's laughter was completely inconsistent with hers. It was not that she did not try hard, but that the joke was too bad.
Then suddenly, surprise crept up on her eyebrows. The voice on the tape was that of her godmother's daughter. They often share little secrets and funny jokes over the phone. The familiar voice of the godmother's daughter came, telling the funniest jokes that the two of them had in their daily collection, those jokes that girls made fun of a boy and that outsiders couldn't understand.
They were in the studio, and Brooke Shields spotted her godmother and her daughter in the distance and waved to them vigorously. When her mother went to an alcohol rehab center, it was her godmother and her daughter who moved into her home and took care of her for a while, and the two sisters became the closest friends.
Another secret joke, known only to the two of them, came from the earphones. Bo Ji couldn't bear it anymore, threw away the earphones, burst out a burst of laughter, "Giggles...", and then her seated body began to lean forward and back. .
The photographer raised his head from behind the camera and raised his thumb high at Ronald, who was looking over, indicating that the shooting was 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. He was very satisfied with Ronald's ability to grasp the shot.
"Ronald, I have a new script here, please 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 strange. This kind of temporary addition was not very common.
"This is an idea proposed by Mr. Avedon. We think it is very good. We hope you will take a picture and try it out."
Ronald read the script carefully under the light. Apart from a few storyboards, there were only two monologues by Brooke Shields.
"Is this Mr. Avedon's idea?" Ronald frowned deeply. Richard Avedon and David Geffen had already left the studio and could not 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 discern 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 into the hands of Brooke Shields' mother, then pulled over his agent Eddie and discussed it in a low voice.
"If I refuse to shoot this shot, will I still get paid?"
"The contract does not stipulate which shot, only the number of commercials shot. You have to consult a lawyer for specific legal disputes. What's wrong with you, Ronald? Is there something wrong with the new script?" Eddie noticed something was wrong.
"These two lines are very problematic. The pun is a bit subtle and sexually suggestive. No, it's not the suggestion of genetic evolution. It's close to explicit. I guarantee that all high school students will understand it."
Terry's frowning expression also indicated that she understood the pun in the line, but she did not refuse to be filmed.
"There is no problem with this. We can shoot normally. There is no problem in replacing the one originally scheduled for political science."
"Terry," Ronald pulled her aside, "this ad is going to cause an uproar. If you refuse..."
"No, there is no problem. Brooke is a pure girl. Audiences all over America know this. They will just laugh it off and won't blame her."
"Well, it's none of my business, but maybe you can get them to change the word. Come and cum are puns that make people uncomfortable."
"No, it's nothing. Brooke needs to be talked about. With this actor's strike, she hasn't received invitations to shoot magazine covers or any talk show invitations for a month."
It turns out it’s all about exposure, and bad news is better than no news.
After Ronald and Eddie discussed it, they quickly wrote an informed consent form, "Okay, Terry, since you insist, I hope you can sign this informed consent form. I have already broadcast some of the filming The risks are clearly written on it.”
"It's nothing." Terry signed the consent form, "Tell Brooke the drama. Your last one was very effective in telling her drama."
"Poor Ji, can you whistle?...Okay, after you finish whistling, you can say these two lines."
"Do you know what comes between me and calvins?
nothing”
Brooke Shields read it twice and said she remembered it.
Ronald looked at this fifteen-year-old girl who was called "Virgin America's Sweetheart" by the media. He couldn't bear it, but he still said, "If you don't like the pun of this line..."
"What pun?" Brooke looked at Ronald with wide eyes.
Ronald leaned in and explained in her ear, which actually implied that she was wearing nothing under her jeans.
"How could any normal person think of that, director? You are just like those boys in our high school, thinking of vulgar jokes all day long."
Is this really naive? Or don't you take this kind of thing seriously?
Ronald recalled that he had seen some advertisements shot by Brooke Shields, which were more or less related to her image of "virgin American sweetheart".
Innocence and intellectuality, tallness and youth, the Catholic faith of chastity before marriage and the alluring sexiness, all these contradictory qualities are added to Brooke Shields, which makes her image have such a high commercial value.
"My mother agreed, so what am I worried about?" Ronald shook his head.
"action"
Brooke Shields was sitting cross-legged on the ground, and the camera followed the instructions of the storyboard, from her legs down her CK tight jeans, gradually panning to her crotch, and then her upper body.
When the camera focused on her face, she stopped whistling, and then said seductively to the camera
"Do you know what comes between me and calvins?
nothing”
"Cut! Very good, we can call it a day."
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