Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 502 Do you want a kiss scene?
The camera is aimed at a brick wall, and Boogaloo prawn uses a can of spray paint that has been sprayed, and presses the nozzle against the wall.

"Chi..." The spray paint can with very low internal pressure could not make a loud sound, and the microphone on it continued to move closer.

"Zoom, zoom", the camera operator urges the follower, slowly zooms the part in the safe area of ​​the red frame of the viewfinder, and gestures to the recording group again and again, "Your microphone can't be down anymore, or you will be ruined. "

"Cut!"

Director Ronald finally called a halt to filming.This part is the last shot of the whole movie, which is the opening subtitle part.Ronald decided to use a special effects machine in the later stage and add a layer of handwriting written by art, so that everyone's subtitles seem to be sprayed out of a spray paint can.

"I announce that the filming of 'Breakdance' is packed, and Mr. Minahan Golan has arranged a party for you, and you can go by bus."

"Oh..." A group of hip-hop boys heard that there was a party, and they pressed the dual-card four-speaker recorder as a prop on the venue on the spot, singing and dancing to Ice T's rap song "Reckless".

Ronald ignored them, and the main actors of the crew had already left.Boogaloo and Falcon went to Michael Jackson and began to design and improve the moonwalk jump for him.

He said goodbye to Minahan, jumped into the editing van, and started working with the two editors.

This busy work lasted until dawn, Ronald yawned, got up and went home.All audio and video synchronization, and camera segmentation have been completed, and then the official editing can begin.

After returning home, Ronald fell asleep all day. In the evening, he seemed to suddenly remember something important in his dream, and sat up straight.

"I forgot to ask Walter Murzy to buy his special tape for editing." Ronald jumped out of bed, found out the phone number of his mentor Murzy on the clip, and dialed it.

"Going to England? Anthracene... His 'Back to Oz' has finally started the preparatory work? Congratulations." It was Angie, Mrs. Murch, who answered the phone.After repeated arguments, Murch finally got the green light from Disney at the end of last year.Recently he went to the countryside in England, looking for locations.

"Me? I called and wanted to buy some of Walter's editing tape. Yes, I need a lot this time. There are two movies waiting to be edited. Okay, I'll send you a check."

Ronald, who hung up the phone, called Minahan again, and the editing of "Breakdancing" will officially start in the editing room of the Cannon next Monday.

Cannon's office was still messy, so Ronald deliberately chose a larger editing room and occupied it by himself.Two editors, four assistant editors, and Minahan often come to check on the situation.

Cannon Films is the capital of Europe, so their equipment is the most advanced horizontal editing machine in West Germany.Unlike the Moviola brand vertical editing machine produced locally in America, this editing machine imported from West Germany is more like a video recorder.

Each roll of film is about ten minutes long, and several editing assistants loaded him, and then Ronald looked for the shots he needed.Sometimes when looking for the needed shots back and forth, new inspiration will appear in Ronald's mind and he will think of another editing method.

This kind of editing machine is relatively more conducive to the editor's inspiration.Of course, this requires a character like Ronald who has been trained by a master, and he must stand and edit in order to have a steady stream of inspiration.

"Just cut it here, Ronald." Minahan looked at it for a while and began to put forward his own opinions.

Ronald turned a deaf ear, his head was now full of new inspiration.

"Here, here, oops, that place just now is a wonderful editing point, it's the same as the one in Lightning Dance..."

"Crack..." Ronald pressed the stop button, and then wrote down the time in his notebook.

The film was shot in such a rush that no further material was shot to choose from.In other words, the original film shot, except for the number of repeated strips, is about 10 to [-] minutes long when cut.If there is a bad shot and the editing can't be connected, it will be miserable, and we can only continue to cut some content to further shorten the duration.

The main actors have all gone to MJ's place, and it is impossible for me to make up shots.

"What does this place mean?" Minahan pointed to the freeze frame on the monitor.That was the scene of the first dance fight in the basement, when Ma Da and Cyclone were defeated by a team of two men and one woman because of the lack of a female partner, Kelly, and left in frustration.

"This is the stopping point of the whirlwind emotion," Ronald replied casually without looking at Minahan.This is the whirlwind, although the dance skills are better than the opponent, but no female dancer is forced to fail. This kind of frustration starts from being declared defeated by Ice T, and has been panting violently. After the close-up shot is pushed up, five seconds later The emotions of the audience also came to the end together with the whirlwind.

"What? Emotional point?" Minahan didn't understand Walter Murzi's modern editing theory at all, and began to argue endlessly, "But I think if it was placed later, just when he turned and left, it wouldn't be a more complete explanation ?"

"No, the audience will blink their eyes any longer." Ronald knew what Minahan meant. The classic Hollywood editing theory pursues that every action of the character echoes back and forth. Turn around and go out here, and drive away in the next shot. Only in this way can the actions of the characters be explained back and forth.

However, after the Chinese New Wave, Hollywood gradually began to learn European theories. As long as the emotions of the characters are complete, some details in the middle, such as turning around and going out, do not need to be explained at all. After making it up, I still feel very smooth.

"Blink? What do you mean?" Minahan blinked and asked.

"That is to say, it is a complete thought. If it is longer, the audience will have to think about other things, and the attention may not be on the film."

"What? Can you accurately predict the audience's thoughts? Accurate to one grid?" Minahan didn't believe it at all. How could anyone have this ability?It is impossible for an old editor who has accumulated many years, not to mention Ronald is young...

"Let's make a bet, if I can stop on the same square every time, you will stop talking."

"And what if you can't?"

"Then I will refer to your opinion."

"Okay!" Minahan himself was the one who edited the films he directed himself, so he wouldn't believe this.If Ronald hadn't really been better at directing than him, he would have pushed him away with his big ass and yelled "cut scissors scissors!"

Ronald found a sharpie, marked the space, and turned the knob to rewind the film.Press the play button again.

Cyclone looked at the cheerful trio of opponents, and felt uncomfortable in his chest. He only had Kelly on his side, but first, Kelly could not break dance, and second, she looked down on herself a bit and turned a blind eye to her hints.

Various emotions surged up, his chest heaved and gradually became bigger, and his eyes were full of unwillingness.

"Now!" Ronald snapped the stop button again.

Minahan rushed up to check the gap in the exposed film, and there was a mark on that film, which was the letter V that Ronald had just drawn, his middle initials.

"How did you do it?" Minahan muttered, "Coincidence?"

Ronald glanced at him, rewinding and playing again, and he didn't check after pressing the button.This time the feeling is very good, it must be on the same grid.

This time, the two editors went up to check first, and they looked at each other, as if they had seen a ghost. Who would know this technique if they haven't heard of it?

"Old Hollywood editors know it. I trained with Walter Murray." Ronald explained lightly, "Trust me, Minahan, I won't cheat you."

"Hahaha, I'll make you coffee." Minahan laughed, this is a treasure, he turned around quickly, and went to the coffee machine in a hurry.

"I want espresso, double," Ronald called from behind.

The editing work continued smoothly, Ronald's inspiration was endless, and the editing progress was very fast.The four editing assistants were moving the film and making editing records when they had nothing to do.Seeing that the unedited pile of film is getting smaller and smaller, the pile of edited film is getting higher and higher.

"Have some lunch." Minahan knew that Ronald didn't like Chinese food packaged in pagodas, and disliked him for being too oily.Every time I go to buy a sandwich or pizza in person and send it to the editing room.

"What, is there a problem?" Minahan asked the editor beside him as he watched Ronald frowning and looking at the monitor.

"It's not a technical issue, Ronald was hesitant to keep the hug and kiss scene between Kelly and Cyclone."

Ronald cuts to the final trio winning the championship, and the emotions of the three reached a climax. There should have been a scene hinted at before closing, so that Kelly and Cyclone finally recognized each other's affection, embraced warmly and then kissed. of.

"What's the matter, Ronald?" Minahan asked him.

"I'm not sure how much the current audience can accept this interracial love." Ronald looked at the camera repeatedly.

"Nowadays, America seems to be a lot more tolerant of these things. I heard that the laws prohibiting interracial marriages have been abolished."

"No, America is a country with outstanding state rights." Ronald knew that the Israeli had once again used Los Angeles to represent the entire country. "Every place has a different view. Some southern states even prohibit dancing."

Ronald remembered the "Full Body" he almost directed, which was based on real events from a few years ago.

"There is another place where Kylie's friend introduced him to Ayton of Whirlwind and Motor. He is a cover." An editor also put forward his opinion.

"If you think interracial love is too much, then same-sex intimacy is more controversial. In particular, it is now rumored that the super...is spread among men, and it is against immoral behavior God's punishment."

"What disease?" Ronald couldn't understand.

"It's what they call male... disease."

"Oh, then let's delete them all." When Minahan heard that it might affect the thoughts of some viewers, he urged to delete all these scenes.

"But in this way, there will be no emotional climax." Ronald stroked the short beard on his chin, pondering.

"Don't leave any positive results at all, just some hints, so that audiences who can accept it will naturally see it, and audiences who don't accept it will feel that it didn't work out in the end."

"That's good!" Minahan now thinks that whatever Ronald says is an advanced move.

In the end, Ronald's love affair with Kelly and Cyclone only reserved some ambiguous space, allowing the audience who felt his hint to retain a hope, and the audience who did not notice slipped past quietly.

The editing was over, and Ice T and some strong music were added to the soundtrack. Anyway, their music licenses are not expensive, and Ronald took care of them one by one.

In the final working copy, some ambiguous plots were deleted, and only 87 minutes were left in the end.

"Exactly, with the end credits, we can make up nine and ten minutes. It just meets the requirements of the theater." Ronald stretched.

"The subtitles take more than a minute? Why? Isn't one minute enough?" Minahan didn't understand.

"How can I play it in one minute?" Ronald didn't understand either.

"Producer, director, starring, and then the main technical types of photography director, art director..., and the main supporting roles." Minahan counted with his fat fingers.

"The casting director, the members of the various technical teams, and the extras? For example, Eddie Rodriguez..." Ronald also felt strange that these people were all gone.

After communicating for a while, Ronald finally understood that, unlike the Hollywood union situation, Israeli and European films usually only include the list of the main creative personnel, and ordinary staff members are not on the list.

"That's not okay," Ronald insisted on putting everyone's name on the list. He remembered the feeling when he saw his name on the subtitles for the first time.All these staff, when watching a movie, will stare at the subtitles.

"Also, MJ would like to give special thanks. He is not an actor, and the guest appearance of friendship can only be included in the special thanks. Hand man must also be on the list. Without him, I would not propose to shoot this movie."

"It's up to you." Minahan agreed to all the conditions.

Low-budget productions do not have the money to hold a trial screening, so film critics from all over the country are invited to watch an internal trial screening.Ronald simply asked Minahan to go to a university in Los Angeles to recruit a group of students, and to directly test the results as an audience.

(End of this chapter)