Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 462 Eat fat, lose weight!

On the Friday afternoon of the second week of training, Ronald came to the Debbie Reynolds dance studio.In the large practice room here, many cushions are spread on the floor, and the mirrors on the surrounding walls are covered with cloth.Action director Pat Johnson is directing the punches of the boys who play Cobra Gym students.

"Hoo...ho...ha...hey", the second generation of stars tied cloth strips on their heads, put on black Cobra Gym uniforms, and punched hard.

"Aren't you full? Use your strength!" Martin Cove, who played the role of the coach, is now training the students like a real coach.

"Yes, master!" Several students agreed loudly, and then punched harder.

Pat Johnson saw Ronald and called off practice so they could do a bit of acting for the director.

"Pause, line up, and show Mr. Ronald Lee your skills and strength."

"Yes, master!" Several actors answered loudly in unison, and then moved a piece of wood.

William Zebuka, who played the villain Johnny, picked up a wooden board and held it up, facing the rest of the actors.

"Ah...uncle"

Chad McQueen, the son of superstar Steve McQueen, lunged forward, smashed one board with his fist, and broke another with a kick.He wasn't getting enough of it yet, and William Zebka was going to fetch some more boards for him to perform.

After a week, these second-generation stars have been trained to be quite aggressive.

Ronald watched for a while, wondering if Pat Johnson was training them too aggressively.

Johnson said they were completely within his control, and William Zebka was particularly hardworking, with a little foundation, and he was the best player outside of coach Martin Cove.

"William, you're a bitch." Seeing that Zebuka refused to practice duel with him, Chad McQueen said angrily and walked to the end of the team.

"Chad, your training is very effective, but I hope you can respect other actors. Your training is for making movies, not street fighting." Ronald stopped him, and the second generation of stars inherited his big star Father's bad temper.

"Hey, Cobra's belief is to be brave and fearless, to strike first and take no prisoners," Chad yelled, and rushed to Ronald to challenge him.

Ronald was not as knowledgeable as he was, and turned to Pat Johnson and said, "You have to take it easy, I don't want to get hurt because the actors are too excited during the filming."

The action director Johnson nodded and stopped Chad, "Cobra also has a belief that discipline is the first. The master does not give orders, and the apprentice is not allowed to attack. Understand?"

"Understood, master!" Chad McQueen threw a contemptuous look at Ronald and retreated into the queue.

Ronald turned a blind eye to the teenager's provocation. Anyway, he didn't have a few lines, which didn't affect the shooting.Turn around and go to another small practice room with Pat Johnson to see the training progress of another group of actors.

Morita Noriyuki just came out of the small room to take a rest. When he saw Ronald, he quickly greeted him and a few second-generation stars, and went up to welcome them into another practice room.

"This useless director, hahaha..." Chad McQueen said arrogantly.Several second-generation stars also echoed him and laughed together.Only Zebka is not a second-generation star, and he respects the actor Morita Noriyuki, and smiles and nods to him.

"William, William, William..." Chad McQueen and several other second-generation stars, seeing William Zebuka's movements, went up to surround him, "Are you trying to be a traitor? Hmm?"

Zebuka is very tired of these second-generation stars, but he is the main supporting role, not like an extravagance, "Ronald is the director, I don't want to offend him."

"Director? Humph! The producer can replace him at any time, you are such a coward." Chad McQueen smiled, let Zebuka go, and patted him on the cheek, "As long as you respect me, I It will cover you, and your role will be fine even if the new director comes."

Ronald, who had already arrived in another classroom, saw the protagonist Ralph Mazio lying on the ground.Morita Noriyuki, who had failed to take a break, obediently began to stretch his legs with the help of his assistant.

"Ah...ah..." The two assistants helped the two actors break their legs one by one, and started the routine howling.

Ronald stood by and watched. Ralph Mazio, who was still playing the apprentice, was more flexible, while Morita, who was already a middle-aged man, really couldn't do some movements.

"The philosophy of Goju-ryu karate is to strike late and stop with stillness. Today we will talk about the No. 11 move of Susha, which is to use skills."

Movement director Pat Johnson got the two of them up and began to demonstrate the use of a karate move with an assistant.When the opponent punched him, Johnson slightly rotated his upper body, swung his arms outwards, parried the opponent's punch, and then hooked his legs lightly, and the assistant fell down due to his own inertia.

"Pay attention to this entry, you have to rotate outwards and use force. You can try it later." Pat Johnson demonstrated to the two apprentices again.

Ronald saw a little way.Pat Johnson taught the two protagonists a lot of martial arts philosophy, then had them disassemble some moves in slow motion, showing them how to use them to subdue each other, but never trained them in basic skills.

Contrary to the group of teenagers outside, the hard training there is to practice from the basic posture and horse stance, but the coach does not teach the boxing theory of martial arts.

The two classes of players trained in this way have completely different understandings of karate.In the minds of Morita Noriyuki and Ralph Mazio, karate is an idea, while Chad McQueen and others think karate is a group of techniques similar to boxing.

In this way, the actors on both sides are misled and get closer to their roles in the movie.Ronald was very satisfied. When the training was over, the audience would probably be able to tell the difference as soon as the people on both sides of the camera came on stage and put on a pose.

"By the way, where's Elizabeth Su? Why didn't I see her?" Ronald remembers arranging Su to observe the training and staying together every day to cultivate a tacit understanding.

"I'm here..." A girl in a large T-shirt and long shorts ran in from another small door of the practice room, holding a large bag of chocolate biscuits in her hand.

"You are..." Ronald was caught by the small sunny door on the street, and couldn't see the other person's face clearly. He covered his forehead with his hands and looked carefully.

"My God..." Ronald finally saw clearly that the fat girl who came in was Elizabeth Sue.

"How come you've gotten so fat in less than two weeks?" Ronald exclaimed angrily, "How can you still be filming like this? How did Ali fall in love with Daniel at first sight when she's so fat?"

"I...I...I have nothing to do here, and they don't take me to play." Elizabeth Su felt a little flustered after being robbed.She is an athletic girl who has practiced gymnastics since she was a child and is also a member of the school football team.

When I arrived in Los Angeles, I was bored in the dance classroom for two weeks, and I didn't know what to do.I can only watch Ralph and Morita begin to train the magical karate, but she has no one to teach.

Watching the two of them do Lajin every day, I couldn't help but start eating all kinds of snacks, and it finally got out of hand.

"Starting today, you will eat a healthy diet, and then practice karate with Coach Pat Johnson." Ronald lost his temper at Su with a straight face.

Then he turned around and said to the action director Pat Johnson, "You have to add another female apprentice, if this continues, my Ali will be fat and rejected by Daniel and Johnson at the same time.

Pat Johnson nodded, one more person is also teaching.

"You may have to teach her by the standards of those people outside. Sue is a sports girl. If she doesn't exercise enough, she will gain weight quickly."

"Okay, no problem." Pat Johnson couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"It's okay, I won't fire you. But you have to stop eating snacks from now on and train hard. This is your screen debut, don't mess it up." Ronald reached out and took the chocolate biscuit in Su's hand, Tear open the package and throw it in your mouth.

It's delicious.

"Let's take a break." Morita Noriyuki couldn't stand the amount of exercise again, so he proposed to take a break again.

Elizabeth Su ran over and smiled at Pat Johnson, "How do we practice?" She had long wanted to start practicing this miraculous oriental martial art together, just Ralph Mazio's athletic cells, her own Definitely beat him to the ground in practice.

Morita walked outside. At his age, he was originally a comedian, but he had never been in the habit of exercising. This kind of high-intensity stretching was simply unbearable for him.

"Mr. Morita."

As soon as he ran outside to take a lazy rest, Morita Noryu was stopped by William Zebka.Zebka is a bit out of touch with the group of the second generation of stars, and he is always here alone when he is resting.

"Hello, William. Don't be angry with those boys. As long as you make this movie well, you will become famous. I have a feeling that Ronald is a very good director, and he may really make you famous in one fell swoop." Morita Zezhi saw that the second generation of Star was a little rude to Zebuka just now, so he comforted him casually.

"I..." William Zebka had just turned over, half-convinced by this statement. "But I heard from Chad McQueen that Ronald could be replaced at any time."

"What did he say?" Morita Noriyuki pays more attention to the gossip of the crew. Having been in the TV industry for more than ten years, he knows that sometimes, the gossip is often ahead of the official announcement.

In the small classroom, Ronald watched Elizabeth Sue take off her shoes, and practiced basic karate postures with Pat Johnson.Sure enough, the athletic cells of this athletic girl are much stronger than that of the dry chicken Ralph Mazio and the skinny monkey Morita.

"Oh, practice hard." Ralph Mazio even whistled to cheer for Su.

"When I finish practicing, you will definitely not be my opponent." Elizabeth Su returned a look of disdain. "Ah" a kick, very standard.

"Ronald-san, please come here." Morita Noryu walked into the classroom silently and said to Ronald.

Morita Noriyuki was introduced to Weintraub by Ronald himself, and he absolutely does not want Ronald to be replaced.Usually everyone in the crew will be branded as "someone's person".If Ronald is replaced and the new director doesn't appreciate him, there are a hundred reasons why he should be replaced.

"I'll talk to Weintraub, don't worry, keep training."

Ronald thought of the senior counselor who often advised Weintraub. Could it be that this person is his "spare tire"?Weintraub, a Jew, really likes to make backup plans.

(End of this chapter)