"What do you want her to look like?" makeup artist Ellen D'Angelo asked Ronald, pointing at the heroine Melanie Griffiths.
"As a secretary in the first half, I want to be a typical blue-collar Wall Street guy. Full of fighting spirit. He still has dreams for the future at the age of 30, but he has no good aesthetics and can only follow the trend. Leather jacket, the taller the better, the hair should be a little yellower... ..." Ronald said to Allen.
"Giggle..." Melanie sat on the chair and let out a nervous laugh. She didn't know what she would become. She has filmed two consecutive movies that were praised by critics but failed at the box office. In real life, she has just turned 30, so she has high hopes for this movie.
"Let's see how we can dress her up."
Ellen D'Angelo is an Italian who quickly transformed Melanie Griffith's hairstyle into the most popular style among secretaries today, the high perm. The upper part is fixed with styling gel, so it can stand firm even in the strong winds of New York winter. The four sides hang down and can be styled into a shawl or tied up for work.
On the one hand, secretaries like to dress themselves up. Many of them do not want to be professional women all their lives, but they want to work for a few years to meet a boyfriend, get married and take care of the family. On the other hand, the work pressure on Wall Street is very high, so they like this kind of hairstyle that can be maintained with only a small amount of time every day.
"Very good, very good," said Ronald, who liked the look and issue so much that he had a custom photo taken.
"What do you want as a manager?" Allen D'Angelo continued to ask.
"I want a traditional Hollywood blond beauty, mysterious, sexy, and smart. It's hard for me to describe it to you, but I will know the good and bad once you make it. I'm looking for a...a..." Luo Nader really doesn't know much about women's hairstyles, but he still knows the good ones when he sees them.
"The Hitchcock girl?" Ellen D'Angelo asked.
"That's the feeling." Ronald thought, isn't it Hitchcock's famous blonde style?
"No problem, I'll give you the hairstyle of the heroine in 'The Birds' or 'The Thief'. It just so happens that the heroines in those two movies are also secretaries." Ellen D'Angelo lifted Mei Lan with his hand Griffiths's hair, I started thinking about design.
"Giggle..." Griffith laughed again.
"What, honey, don't you like it? I have to bleach your hair a little bit and tie it up. Your hair is perfect for an updo. It will definitely make you sexy." Ellen D'Angelo Griffiths disliked the style and began to explain his own design.
"No, Ellen, the heroine in the Hitchcock movie you like is Melanie's mother." Ronald knew that her mother, Tippi Hedlund, was the heroine in those two movies. main character.
"God, it turns out you are her daughter. I said you have the same sense of mystery as your mother..." Ellen D'Angelo was so happy that she called an assistant and started washing Melanie's hair. Get ready to do your hair next time.
"Melanie, have you seen 'Pygmalion'?" Ronald stood behind Griffiths and watched the assistant carefully remove her makeup.
"Of course, director. I've seen it many times."
"I'm not talking about the Broadway musical, or the Audrey Hepburn movie adaptation of 'My Fair Lady,' I'm talking about the original 1938 film. To be Tess, you have to look and make up. , you must first become her. Your appearance will have two states, secretary and manager, which is the key to the success of the movie."
"Giggle... don't worry, I've actually watched it many times. My mother collected a lot of video tapes of old movies, and she would record them when they were shown on TV."
Ronald waved his hand, these actors' families have been influenced by them since childhood, and they have really passed on a lot of acting knowledge, which he can't even compare to.
The movie "Pygmalion" is actually about a street flower girl who is adopted by a professor and teaches him everything about upper class conversation, accent, makeup, and clothing, and finally turns the flower girl into a A lady.
The Greek name Pygmalion refers to a sculptor who created an ivory statue based on his ideal female image and fell in love with his work. Finally, the gods gave her life. Later it was also called the Pygmalion effect in psychology.
Specifically, it means that if you want to become someone, you must first imitate them in appearance. This is exactly Tess's journey in the movie. She always wanted to be a manager but failed, and finally met the female boss Catherine. She unconsciously imitated each other in details such as speech, clothing, and distribution, so that she could deceive the banker Jack Traynor.
"Director, what do you want to do with my hair?" Sitting next to her was Joan Cusack, who plays Tess's best friend and secretary Cynthia.
"What are you going to do about it?" Ronald asked Allen D'Angelo.
"I plan to make Joan beautiful and fashionable..." Ellen D'Angelo picked up Cusack's hair again, touched it with his fingers, and felt her hair texture.
"Haha... Oh, thank you." Joan Cusack is a Chicago theater actress. She is not very beautiful, and her chin is a bit protruding. She was a little excited when she heard that the makeup and hair director wanted to make herself beautiful.
"What do you mean? Jersey girl? I'm going to turn you into a Jersey girl..."
Allen D'Angelo said to another assistant next to him, and he explained a lot of details.
Jersey girl is a popular term that represents the fashion trend of girls from middle- and upper-class families in New York. It sounds similar to the "Valley Girl" that was popular in Los Angeles a few years ago.
Similar to the upper-middle class Valley Girls in Los Angeles, many wealthy people in New York also choose to buy property in New Jersey, live in large houses in the suburbs, and commute to get off work every day.
They are often trendy, out there, and are fans of Madonna. The disadvantage is that she is not very good at dressing up, and her popular makeup is more extreme than that of Valley Girls. The advantage is that Jersey girls generally go to private schools or high-level public schools supported by property taxes. The East Coast tends to reserve literature, drama and other courses, and their accents are completely passable, not as ridiculous as Valley girls.
"Dangdang..."
Without having to re-dye her hair, Joan Cusack's look was quickly completed, a very high-end blue eyeshadow that gave her the look of a Madonna fan. The specially selected large earrings of the same color can also show the influence of New York, a fashionable city, on her.
"That's the ticket for this role..." Ronald was very satisfied.
Two hours later, Melanie Griffith's hair was dyed a light blonde color and was tied up, leaving a few strands beside her ears. Putting on a pair of red glasses and CK's ready-made clothes, he appeared in front of him looking like a Wall Street elite.
"Oh, my beauty." Joan Cusack also looked at Melanie Griffiths with admiration. Just now, they were like colleagues, but now they have completely transformed and become her boss.
"You are really a statue made by Pygmalion now." Cusack looked at Griffith and then at Ronald. With such a classic creation, the director wouldn't be like Pygmalion, right?
Melanie Griffiths stood up and walked for two movies, completely swaying. She was in the most mature and charming stage of a woman. She adjusted her glasses with her hands and tilted her head to look at Rona, who was looking at her. Virtue. "Is it true that Ronald is interested in me?"
"Very good, very good..." Ronald called Allen D'Angelo, "Very good, the manager's image is exactly like this, you can get more of these glasses, the same props as Joan's earrings . The image of a secretary, um... the hair could be a little higher."
"Is it still higher?" Allen D'Angelo set up a position. If it were higher, the distance from the hair to the eyebrows would exceed the distance from the eyebrows to the chin..."
"No problem, the higher the better..." Ronald stood a few steps away and continued to look. This kind of secretary works far away from the boss, and has an exaggerated hairstyle, which also helps them be discovered by the boss. Especially an ambitious secretary like Tess needs to be taller.
"Ronald, can I call you Ronald?" Melanie Griffiths's mind was filled with Pygmalion. Being naturally full of emotions, she felt more and more that Ronald's vision was not all about the character. appreciate.
"Of course, Melanie, Joan, come here, I will introduce you to a teacher." Ronald saw the assistant next to him and brought in a handsome guy in a suit and ties with a wide chin. Waved for Griffiths and Cusack to come over.
"Hello, Mr. Li. I am Bannon's former employee and now work at Bear Stearns Investment Bank."
"Hello, Liam." Ronald shook hands with the visitor. This is the banker teacher recommended by Bannon to the crew. Ronald asked him to give lectures to several major actors, telling them what cross-border mergers and acquisitions are, as well as some "terminology" often used by Wall Street managers.
"Let me introduce to you, this is Liam Dalton, the banker." Ronald introduced them to each other. After Liam Dalton gave the two of them his business cards and introduced his financial management business as if they were familiar, Ronald pulled him aside:
"Sigourney Weaver will come in two days, but her father is an executive and has been exposed to a lot of financial knowledge on a daily basis. These two beauties are Melanie and Joan... They have been in the theater industry, There are some things you have to explain to them."
"Understood, I am a very good salesman myself. Letting clients understand our investment methods is my specialty." Liam Dalton is handsome, speaks well, and knows how to deal with this kind of thing. , "I heard that Harrison Ford..."
"He is on vacation now. You have to wait until next month to see him. Whether he needs financial management services is beyond my control." Ronald and Bannon made it clear that this kind of class is free. , in exchange for giving Liam Dalton, the investment director of Bear Stearns, the opportunity to get in touch with wealthy celebrities.
"You are the boss, and I will listen to you." Liam Dalton is very sensible and knows that he needs to exchange good service for the opportunity to meet celebrities.
"Oh, this banker is going to teach us two idiots about cross-border mergers and acquisitions." Joan Cusack joked with Melanie Griffiths from the side. According to the genre classification, this movie will be a romantic comedy. But unlike ordinary romantic comedies, it is also a professional drama, and the performance must conform to the perceptions of Wall Street bankers.
"Oh, what about mergers and acquisitions? Look at Liam, how handsome he is..." Melanie felt that Ronald was not interested in her, but this banker... looked as good as in some movies A star.
"Aren't you going to stay here?" Liam Dalton looked at Ronald as if he was about to leave.
"I have other things to do, and I believe in your professional ability. I will come back to give them exam questions at that time." Ronald patted this person on the shoulder and walked out.
"Don't worry, boss." Liam Dalton turned back with a smile and passed towards the two actresses.
He knows well that the most profitable people in the film industry are stars, especially male stars. His main public relations target on the set is Harrison Ford. The two actresses could also take the time to bond, what if the movie becomes a hit? It is also a good target for selling financial products.
Ronald walked outside the gate and whistled. Little Bud drove the car over.
They were going to a new video rental store in Manhattan to attend the launch of the "Dirty Dancing" video.
"Hi, Patrick", Ronald met the actor Patrick Schwytz, who also came to support the release of the video this time. You must know that his current autographs and photos are extremely attractive to female audiences.
"Ronald, my wife Lisa asked me to bring her thanks." Schwytz gave an inlaid horseshoe to Ronald.
"This is the first batch of Arabian horse horseshoes we bought at the horse farm in Los Angeles. Lisa said that I was able to fulfill my dream because you brought it to our family."
"Oh, it's really beautiful." Ronald accepted the gift and then looked at the photos of the ranch taken by Schwytz. There was a small stable built in the five-acre small pasture, and a beautiful stallion was playing with the Schwytz couple, looking very warm.
"This chain store seems to be opening everywhere... I have also seen many new stores opening in Los Angeles, especially in Hollywood. Walking two blocks away, you can see a new yellow and blue brand rental store." Schwytz When I arrived at the door of the video rental store, the name of the store "Blockbuster" was clearly written in a vulgar combination of yellow letters on a blue background.
"Ouch..." There were many female spectators queuing up in the store, holding the "Dirty Dancing" video in their hands, waiting for Schwytz to sign it.
Seeing the rightful owner coming in, everyone gathered around him happily. The store manager had to start to maintain order and let them line up to wait for autographs and photos. Soon the team was out of the gate and onto the street. Some women passing by saw the "Dirty Dancing" posters and gradually gathered around.
They were all fans of Schwytz, and none of them knew Ronald.
Ronald was able to chat with the female spectators in line.
"Do you all like this movie so much? The price doesn't seem cheap, it costs close to forty dollars, and renting it for a weekend only costs two dollars..." Ronald asked a woman who looked like a white-collar worker.
"No, no, you men don't understand. You can only have a copy of this kind of movie at home. Every time I feel down, I want to go watch a movie with my friends. Now that the video is available, I must buy it. of."
"I don't quite understand. I thought you women only rented movies to watch." Ronald was very satisfied with the length of the queue. It seemed that there were quite a few female viewers who bought a copy and kept it at home.
"Other movies can be rented, but this one must be bought." Another audience member who looked like a middle-aged housewife in the team took over, "My friends and I like this movie very much. I can show it to them when they come over to my house on weekends." Look. We cry every time we see it..."
"Really? So beautiful?"
"Of course, it's not good-looking. Why are you lining up here? It's really good-looking. Look at how handsome Schwytz is. If I could dance with him, I would really do anything..."
"Well, I thought only us men would drink beer, eat pizza, watch the Star Wars trilogy and so on on the weekends." Ronald became more and more happy as he chatted. Looking at the enthusiasm, he couldn't make money from the video tape. few.
"This is our Star Wars. We women like this kind of movie. This director is very good at making movies. I haven't seen a director who understands our women's psychology so well in a long time. Maybe he is a female director..."
"It's a man. Look, the director's name is Ronald..." Ronald pointed to his name on the video tape box and said to the female audience member.
"Who knows, I heard that many directors in Hollywood are nominal. This movie understands women so much. I think this Ronald might have stolen the name of a female director who actually made a movie. Hmph...man! I like to steal the most. It’s all thanks to women…” the female white-collar worker in front complained.
"Pfft, maybe..." Ronald laughed out loud.
"Ronald, the sales situation on the first day is very good. It is estimated that more than 100,000 sales will be sold during the holidays." In the evening, Michelle Cannold, the director of Daydream, called to announce the good news.
"Very good. I see a high proportion of purchases among female viewers. What I saw in Manhattan today was that the number of people who bought a box of collections was more than twice the number of people who rented it for a weekend." Ronald felt like he had won another lottery , the purchase rate of this movie's video tape is unusually high.
"This is really great. Several stores in Los Angeles have similar phenomena. How much do you think our video tapes can sell? Is it possible to exceed one million sales?"
"Is it possible? It depends on how strong the purchasing power of the female audience is. In short, the higher the better... Hahaha."
(End of chapter)
