Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 472 Chapter 1 An artist-like smooth feeling

Without interference, the next shooting became smoother.Ronald's orders to the staff and actors began to be carried out without compromise, and the entire shooting also began to speed up.

Daniel's physical education class chose to participate in the selection of the football team. He took the ball all the way forward and was tackled by a student from the Cobra Dojo.Daniel got up and bravely rushed towards each other. The two wrestled together and were both expelled from the stadium by the football coach.

After returning home, Daniel took out the karate "cheats" mail-ordered in New Jersey, and began to practice side kicks according to the posture in the picture. He wanted to practice karate well and beat Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny in the Cobra Gym .

Master Miyagi, a repairman, came to fix the faucet and saw Daniel kicking his legs, "Karate? Very good."

Master Miyagi, played by Morita Noriyuki, looked innocent. When he walked past Daniel, he glanced at the open karate book, "Learn from the book?"

"Hey, I studied at the YMCA for a few months," Daniel replied, kicking his legs while resisting fatigue and pain.He kicked a lot, gasped for breath, and his center of gravity was already a little unstable, but he continued.

"What's wrong with your eyes?" Master Miyagi went to the opposite side, repaired the faucet, and saw that Daniel's eyes were black.

"I fell off a bicycle."

"Oh." Master Miyagi glanced at Daniel, "Fortunately, I didn't hurt my hand."

"Cut!"

"Fine, let's do the over-the-shoulder shot of Daniel instead," Ronald yelled.

This is the second time Master Miyagi and Daniel met. Miyagi didn't take it seriously that Daniel didn't have a master, and he practiced karate blindly with the book. He also knew that Daniel was beaten and wanted to beat him back, but he didn't expose the young man.

This encounter undoubtedly reveals Daniel's hardworking character, Master Miyagi's wisdom, and his philosophy of not taking karate fights seriously.

If the audience watched the final film, by the time they got here, most of the audience hadn’t guessed that Master Miyagi, the repairman, was the person with the highest karate attainment in the entire film.This was Ronald's deliberate arrangement. When the two meet for the third time, there is a kind of joy of sudden enlightenment.

With a budget of 800 million yuan for this shoot, and the high-intensity rehearsals two weeks before the shoot, Ronald was able to fine-tune the appearance of Daniel, Ali, Master Miyagi, and the villain Chris.Among the whole crew, only Ronald knew the important position of these shots in the finished movie.

Seeing everything shot the way he wanted it made Ronald feel like Michelangelo sculpted David.Only in the mind of the creator, there is the final appearance of the artwork, and the joy in it is difficult to tell others.

After the day's filming was completed, Ronald and the assistant director handed over tomorrow's arrangements, and then walked out of the apartment where the scene was filmed alone.

"Crack...crack"

A few flashes blinded Ronald's eyes, and he didn't know what happened.

"Ronald! Are you and Brooke Shields a couple?" A reporter stabbed the tape recorder in front of Ronald.

It turned out that Brooke Shields' gossip was fermented by the TV media, which aroused more people's interest.The gossip tabloid in Los Angeles found out where Ronald was filming.

"No, we are good friends." Ronald quickly took out his sunglasses and put them on.Brooke Shields' appeal to the news media far exceeds that of his other female friends.

"Then do you have a chance to develop into a couple?" The gossip reporter refused to let Ronald go.

"We are good friends, and we have cooperated on some projects. As for the future, I don't know." Ronald responded perfunctorily, walked quickly to his Saab 900, and drove back home amidst the sound of reporters taking pictures.

Brooke's charm was unstoppable, and immediately Ronald's answer was doctored into a headline in the next Friday morning newspaper.

"Ronald, the rumored actor of Brooke Shields, is the director of Columbia's new film! He doesn't deny that he and Brooke may develop into a couple in the future."

Ronald, who still didn't know anything about it, continued to shoot two key scenes the next day.

The first was in the cafeteria at Charles Evans Hughes Jr. High School.Daniel, whose dark circles receded a little, chose in front of the dishes lined up in a row.The food in the public schools in the valley area is much better than the high schools in the "Famous" high school modeled on the performing arts college in Midtown New York.

Daniel picked two sausages, a pie, and asked the cafeteria aunt to pick up some fried rice.Ali, who was cooking next to him, saw him, smiled happily, and bumped Daniel with her shoulder, "Hi!"

"Hey, there's Ali, who's here," Daniel was very happy to see the girl take the initiative to make physical contact with him.

"How's life in the Valley?" Ali asked.

"Not bad, but a little boring."

"Is it more boring than Newark, New Jersey?"

"How do you know I'm from Newark?"

"I asked someone." Ali lowered her head shyly, expressing that she took the initiative to inquire about Daniel's background.

"Cut!" Ronald was very happy with the growing chemistry between Ralph Mazio and Elizabeth Sue.I have shot so many movies myself, and it is the first time that the shooting process has been so smooth.It seems that if there is an opportunity, we must stick to this method of concentrated rehearsal beforehand.

"Ronald, great job!"

Weintraub finally finished his chores and returned to the set with Susan Eakins.After watching this shot of Ronald, he was also happy with the state shown by the two protagonists.

"Hi, Jerry," Ronald hugged him happily and nodded to Susan.It appears that Weintraub has nailed the co-existence of the two women.

"I heard you fired associate producer Charles Okun?" Weintraub asked in a low voice.

"He's always on the set and contradicting me in public, and I can't work properly. You know, Jerry, once the director loses the trust of the crew, it's impossible to shoot. If every shot has someone to express themselves Views……"

"I know, I know . . . it's just that your firing doesn't fit the studio's workflow. You know, Okun and his partner, Michael Cimino, brought this up to Columbia. I have to fulfill an official Dismissal procedure."

"Sorry for the inconvenience, but I have no other choice."

"That's okay, but Columbia's new president, David Pnant (the same guy who kicked out Frank Price), sent a high-level guy to deal with it, and he offered to see you this week. Take samples, and then make a decision.”

"Well, when is he going to watch it? Is it the weekend? I'll go to the screening hall then." Ronald was full of confidence in the samples he shot.

"No...you are not convenient to attend. Don't worry, I will take care of everything, Ronald. This matter involves the struggle between the original film gang in the upper echelon of Columbia and the new owner, the Coca-Cola Gang.

I financed this movie and they just wanted to put a little pressure on me to choose sides, you know?I'll take care of this, next Monday morning, you continue to come to the set as director. "

"Okay, then I'll take a break on the weekend." Ronald understood the implication.

After filming Friday's scene, Ronald went straight home.He started calling his friends, talking about the recent situation, and vomited the bitterness in his heart.In fact, how much power a director has in a crew dominated by a big studio is still won by his own performance.He called Cameron, who understood his distress best.

Jim Cameron just got off his screenwriting hustle and has written both scripts. "Alien 2" was well received and directly entered the [-]th Century Fox's script library to be filmed.

"First Blood 2" was the same as Ronald's first draft, which was criticized by Stallone as worthless, saying that someone had to find someone to revise it from scratch, but they still paid the money according to the regulations.

Cameron asked about the shooting of Ronald's new film, and after learning that Ronald had found the feeling, he expressed his impatient expectation.The casting of his new film has been completed, and it will start next year after Schwarzenegger finishes filming "Conan the Destroyer".

The second call was made to her cousin Donna. Donna answered the phone and asked herself, "Are you really in love with Brooke Shields? You are really amazing, the boyfriend of the first girl in America."

"Huh? Nothing, she and I are just friends."

"Don't lie to me. I saw that you admitted it in the newspaper today. I called your agent. They said that you were filming a movie and it was inconvenient to disturb me. That's why I didn't call you immediately."

"My crew stopped filming on the weekend," Ronald replied, "No, why am I in love with Brooke? Where did you hear about it? Didn't she clarify?"

"You really haven't? Well..." Donna asked back, "But I read today's gossip newspaper, didn't you say that you would not rule out becoming a couple in the future? I thought you really became a couple. Well, actually Bo Ji's number one beauty is also a bit fake..."

Feeling a little bad, Ronald put down the phone and called his agent.

"You're in the headlines again, Ronald." Nisita said with a smile on the phone, "Listen... Ronald, the rumored actor of Brooke Shields, is the director of Columbia's new film! He admitted that in the future, he may develop into a couple."

"They also included your new movie in the report, we don't think it's necessary to deny it right away... Yes, Brooke will officially deny it. This is not a big deal in the entertainment industry, after all, you are not a real couple Terry will deal with this matter tacitly."

"I..." Ronald was speechless, he really couldn't be regarded as Brooke's official lover.

"Also, there is an executive in Columbia who wants to see my sample, can you inquire about it." Ronald informed Nisita again of Weintraub's statement.

The two discussed for a while, Nisita made a few more phone calls to inquire about the news, and called Ronald back, "You don't have to worry. Inside Columbia, the airborne team sent by Coca-Cola wants to transfer Columbia's distribution department, and CBS, HBO's coming together to form a joint venture to distribute movies domestically from three studios. They're here to put pressure on Weintraub to shoot on Mondays and take weekends off. But... Brooke, you'd better make a phone call, this time your interview got her involved."

"Oh yes", Ronald immediately called Brooke's dormitory, and the roommate who answered the phone said that she had returned to her home in New Jersey.

The call went back to Brooke's house, and her mother, Terry, answered the phone, "Ronald, Brooke will be on NBC's Today show tomorrow to address this formally. Well, it's okay, not this one." Gossip, she hasn't appeared on the TV morning show for a long time.

Would you like to speak to Brooke?She has already gone to bed, and there will be an early morning show tomorrow, so I will tell her.angry?No, no.We know that gossip newspapers are chasing after sales.The Today Show is the most-watched daytime talk show in the United States, and they couldn't have done a better job of clarifying Brooke. "

In desperation, Ronald forgot the three-hour time difference between the east and west coasts, and he put down the phone.

"Ring ring ring..." The phone rang again, and Ronald answered it.

"Ronald, it's me, Diane, will you come and play with my crew tomorrow?"

"Diane? What crew? Isn't your 'Street of Rage' finished filming?" Ronald was puzzled.

"Donna told me that you didn't catch Brooke Shields. Anyway, your crew stopped filming on the weekend. Why don't you come and see my crew. I'm shooting a few more shots on the crew of 'Streets of Rage'. There's a pack party."

"Then what, I still have to prepare for next week's shooting."

"I'm at the original studio, come if you want." Diane hung up the phone.

(End of this chapter)