Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 478 Chapter 1 Flies and Divine Art

"Cut!" Ronald covered his face, suppressed the urge to laugh, and waved to the staff standing beside him, "It needs to be frozen again."

In this scene, Daniel returns to Miyagi's home and continues his basic karate training.Miyagi was continuing his daily practice of picking up flies with chopsticks.In the folk tradition of Ryukyu, a person who can catch flying flies with chopsticks can be omnipotent.

The worker opened the screens and waved away the flies.He pulled another small freezer and carefully took out a new fly from it.

This is the famous "fly shepherd" in Hollywood. As long as you shoot a scene with flies, this uncle who knows flies best in Hollywood is indispensable.He carefully released the flies, and then said, "Hurry up, the freezing slows down the movements of the flies, and it only lasts for 1 minute. After this time, they regain their vitality."

"Hurry up, get ready to shoot, Action!" Ronald hurriedly resumed shooting.

Ralph Mazio picked up a pair of chopsticks and waved them in the air, "clicking" a few times, but missed.Gradually after a minute, Daniel still didn't catch it. The fly regained its strength and buzzed away from the small coffee table he was sitting on, flying towards the camera.

"Cut!" Ronald waved his hand angrily, and knocked the fly half-dead to the ground with a snap.I've shot it many times, but I can't get it right.

"Director, do you want to die?" The prop team came over to discuss with Ronald.The poor fly flapped its wings desperately on the ground and struggled, obviously foreseeing the future fate.

The props are tied with a very thin steel wire, and then the other end is threaded into a long hollow tube, so that the steel wire slides inside to simulate the appearance of flies flying.

Ralph Mazio tried a few times, and with a "snap", he caught the fly, "Miyagi-sensei, Miyagi-sensei, I caught it, caught it..."

Master Miyagi didn't expect his apprentice to catch a fly that he had tried for many years without success, so he slapped his chopsticks on the table angrily.

"Cut! How's it going?" Ronald asked the DP.

Director of photography James Crabbe slowly shook his head at him, "This fly can only move back and forth, the range of up, down, left, and right is too small, and it doesn't look like the flight path of a normal fly at all.

"Hey..." Everyone sighed and had to come again.

The prop master thought of another way. He used a piece of black silk thread, tied it to a two-meter-long wooden stick, and the other end hung down naturally, with a thin piece of black wool tied underneath. Above, wave slightly, so that the silk thread below naturally flies back and forth, left and right, like a fly.

"This fly lacks fluff," Ronald instructed while drinking black tea.That piece of wool is very light to fly, but not as fluffy as a fly.

The prop master looked around and found Zhang Ji in a black sweater, a short, fat and cute man.

"What are you doing?" Chang Ji tried desperately to protect himself, but the prop master didn't care. He took a few handfuls from his beloved sweater, and then carefully glued the thin fluff to the end of the wool.

"Cut!" Now the director of photography made an OK gesture.

Daniel was very happy, as a novice himself, he was able to do what Master Miyagi couldn't.

Miyagi was a little displeased, and was preempted by Daniel.

He continued to let Daniel work on his home, first let him take two large sand wheels and smooth the wooden floor.Then let Daniel use it to paint the exterior walls of his yard and house.

"Pay attention to breathing, exhale, inhale...you do it first, I have something to go out."

Daniel gradually became dissatisfied with Miyagi, especially after painting the walls of the house, Miyagi still hummed a little song, and after asking him to come back to work at six o'clock the next morning, Daniel quit completely.

Daniel felt that Miyagi used his idea of ​​wanting to learn karate to let him do free work for him.After working for four days, he didn't learn any basic skills of karate, and he was so exhausted that he could barely lift his hands.

Master Miyagi noticed that Daniel's muscles were sore. He rubbed his hands to warm them up, and then massaged Daniel's body. Daniel screamed in pain, and then he realized that his activities were no longer hindered.

"Cut!"

After watching this performance, Ronald felt something was wrong.

Both Morita Noriyuki and Ralph Mazio looked at him, not knowing what they were doing wrong.

"It's none of your business, this plot needs to be re-shot." Ronald announced that he would take a half-hour break, and he wanted to rethink the plot.

"Ronald, isn't it good that we shoot according to the script? Do you have any new ideas? If the shooting schedule is delayed."

Weintraub came over to chat for a few words. The producer was most afraid that the director would have new ideas in the middle of shooting, which would often lengthen the shooting cycle and cause budget overruns.

He felt that the audience in America couldn't understand the "magic skills" of Master Miyagi anyway, so it's better to turn him into a god-man who can heal all injuries by rubbing his hands together.

Ronald didn't quite agree with this kind of treatment. He didn't notice it when he was writing the script according to his dream, but during the actual filming, the "magic skill" suddenly appeared, which was indeed very jumpy.

It may be able to lull children, but Ronald's idea is not to make him a movie that only teenagers love.

The plot of a good movie can be very simple, but the details in the movie must stand the test, so that it may be remembered for more than 20 years.

"That's right, Jerry," Ronald thought for a moment, comparing Weintraub and Susan, who came over, to the two actors, "Star Wars director Lucas, Luke Skywalker In the plot where every second is extremely precious during the escape, 1 minute was inserted, allowing the master Obi-Wan to explain the principle of the 'Force'."

Weintraub nodded frequently when he heard it. Now he watched Ronald's samples every day, and gradually trusted the young director more and more day by day.Cimino and the others always instilled a lot of theories in him every time they met. He listened to some truths, but when it came to the actual shooting, he couldn't see the good or bad based on the actual shooting.

And what Ronald said, he can understand, "Understood, Master Miyagi is Daniel Skywalker's Master Yoda, it just so happens that they speak a bit alike, and they always say inversions."

"That's it", Ronald thought it was a good way to use Star Wars as a metaphor, and everyone could understand, "Have you heard the concept of 'Qigong'? I'm at the 'Asia Pacific Museum' in Pasadena, I met Chao Li, a Chinese Taijiquan coach, and he talked about the concept of Qigong, in which "Qi" can be injected into the acupuncture points of the human body to heal the pain."

Ronald picked out some easy-to-understand words from the boxing score given to him by the Chinese coach Chaoli and told Morita Noryu.

"Acupoints are points on the meridians of the human body... Anyway, you just hold on to this point and pretend to input energy into it."

"The Force?" Morita Noryu also used the concept in Star Wars as an analogy.

"Action!"

Master Miyagi made a gesture of Taijiquan, the sky is round and the ground is round, and the spirit is strong. Then he pulled Daniel's arm away, quickly tapped a few acupuncture points on the arm, and then used the grasping technique to rub up and down to quickly dredge the acupuncture points. Several meridians.

"What happened? Daniel turned his arm and found that the pain accumulated in the four days was gone, and now his arm can be used freely again.

"It's called qigong, and it's a secret art that was passed down from Huaguo to Ryukyu."

"How is this done, can I learn it?" Daniel's curiosity began to gain the upper hand again.

"Shut up!" Miyagi yelled violently, and Daniel was frightened, and his energy was very concentrated.

"Daniel-san, give me some waxing and varnishing."

Daniel squatted down and made a waxing gesture.

"Ah... ah..." Mr. Miyagi realized that the child was stupid again, "Stand up straight and do it."

"Waxing, glazing, waxing, glazing" Daniel did a few times.

"Waxing! Polishing! Pay attention to breathing, inhale... exhale..." Mr. Miyagi corrected the notes for him, and asked him to do everything properly and powerfully.

"Ah!, ah!" Miyagi suddenly punched Daniel.

"Ah... ah..." Like a clockwork machine, Daniel automatically used waxing and glazing methods to seal off Miyagi's punch.

"Now do Sand Pose."

"Ah... ah..." Miyagi made two low-handed knives, which were also blocked by Daniel's instinct.

"Painted wall style."

"Ah... ah..." Daniel even blocked Miyagi's kick.

"Ah... ah... ah... ah..." Miyagi mixed punches and kicks, and Daniel used the wall-washing car to wash the sand, and the basic skills of karate rigid and soft style to prevent his mixed attack.

"Daniels-san, come back at six o'clock tomorrow morning." Miyagi bowed to Daniel.

"Hey..." Daniel also bowed deeply. He felt very miraculous that he could master the basic skills of karate just by working.

"Ah... ah..." Miyagi pulled Daniel up, "Eyes, always look into each other's eyes, even when bowing and saluting, don't look at other places."

"Sayonara", Miyagi looked Daniel in the eyes and said goodbye to him.

"Sayonara", Daniel began to be convinced by this master.

"Very good." Susan Akins was watching the samples that were printed that day in the screening room. She was already full of confidence in Ronald's level.

"Very good, go to the Chatsworth Reservation tomorrow." Weintraub was also very satisfied.

Chatsworth is a large lake near the San Fernando Valley. It and the adjacent wetlands form a large undeveloped land that belongs to the California government-designated reservation.

It used to be the Chatsworth Reservoir, but it was found to be located on a fault zone during the geological survey after the California earthquake in the 70s.In order to prevent earthquakes, after the excess water in the reservoir was drained, it became a large lake with beautiful scenery.

"Action!" Ronald put on a sun hat and sunglasses, picked up the electric horn, and issued the command to start shooting.

On the quiet Chatsworth Lake, some wild ducks are calling. On the right side of the camera, Daniel, played by Ralph Mazio, is rowing desperately, slowly driving in from outside the camera. After a long time, Ralph Mazio Odu rowed almost out of strength, and Ronald shouted:

"Cut! Change to a close-up."

This shot of Ronald is to give the audience some ice cream to eat.After a long period of narration and lyricism, there is such a very artistic boating shot, the audience can soothe their emotions and prepare for the upcoming turbulent third act of the final battle of the karate championship.

"Stand on the edge of the boat, practice basic skills, and pay attention to breathing... Uh, don't scare my fish away." On the other side of the boat, Master Miyagi sat and threw out the fishing rod, "Balance is the key, balance well , Karate is good, but the balance is not good, it is better to go home and not practice."

Daniel was practicing "Waxing Pose", "Sand Pose", and "Paint Wall Pose" while asking Miyagi if he used to fight a lot when he was a child.

"There were a lot of fights, but Miyagi didn't like fighting."

"Why? Didn't you learn karate for fighting when you were a child?"

"There are people beyond people, and there is a sky beyond the sky." Miyagi smiled at Daniel, "Did you learn karate for fighting?"

"No, I'm here to avoid fighting."

"Okay, Miyagi likes you."

"When will I learn to punch?" Daniel began to be curious again, unwilling to continue practicing basic skills.

"Punch, you practice the drowned chicken first." Miyagi shook the boat vigorously, but Daniel lost his balance and fell into the water.

"Ahaha, Daniel-san, you are really still pinching behind your ears (to describe a person who is still young and inexperienced)."

"Why are you doing this, you are crazy." Daniel cursed in the waist-deep lake, and then climbed into the boat shivering with cold.

"Let you remember the importance of balance." Miyagi took out a blanket and covered him.

"Cut!" Ronald ordered, and Ralph Mazio's manager hurried up and wrapped him in a cotton coat.The water in Chatsworth Lake in late autumn was already very cold, and Ralph Mazio didn't have to act at all, and he was shivering from the cold.

The director of photography made an OK gesture, and Ronald hurriedly sent Ralph Mazio to change clothes in the trailer.

(End of this chapter)