Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 610 Barrel Roll and Roll

"Diane, not... Dean, Madame Dean." Ronald called the hotel where Diane was still staying in Hair Country.

"Hey, Ronald, it's you. The Chinese people like our 'Cotton Club' very much, and they invited us to participate in many salon activities." Diane received the call in the room.

"Did you have a good time in Hair Country? Come back soon, Diane. Lucas is going to make a new movie, and he needs to be good at acting. I recommend you."

"Uh...uh... You invited me back to the Oscars? Okay, I'll buy the tickets right away."

"What, the noise from international calls is too loud, so I can't hear it." Ronald put down the phone, and went to Miramar Airport with Bud Jr. to prepare for today's take-off filming.

"What, you want to go back? Don't you stay here for a few more weeks? You can speak French, people here like you, and we can continue to go to bars at night. There is also a 'Cotton Club' here in Paris. It's just right for you New clothes, and there are a lot of handsome guys from the film industry in China to get to know."

Another actress in the movie "Cotton Club" Lonnet pulled Diane, wanting her to stay with him, "I heard that many Chinese male stars are also going."

"No, it's a rare opportunity for me to appear at the Oscars now, so I'll book a ticket right now." Diane carefully guarded the secret of Lucas's casting brought by Ronald, and didn't let any actress in the crew know.

"Then I will go by myself. I will go with Kai Bo from the crew. He can also speak French and can be my translator." Lonnet McKee was very eager to try. Hearing that Christopher Lambert, who was coming to the club tonight, Especially now that the hair country is a popular niche, very handsome.

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"What do you call this action?" Ronald was in the lounge of the base, watching the pilot "Idiot" and the former Top Gun school instructor, and the current crew's naval consultant Pete Pettigrew, demonstrate with a model aircraft Flying action in real air combat.

"This is a barrel roll. The F-14 has strong power. The barrel roll has an advantage over the MiG. Experienced pilots can use the barrel roll to lure the opponent forward, and use the complexity of compound maneuvers to prevent the opponent from effectively aiming."

"Yes, in your script, the Iceman escaped the machine guns of enemy planes several times before the Lone Ranger came to support him, and he relied on this barrel rolling operation. Top Gun's instructor, you can use it to lure you to keep chasing, But it just can't be locked."

"This action seems rather dull, but let's go up and try."

The three planes are very clear in the sky. The stupid F-14A in the front is followed by the MiG-5 simulated by the F-28S in the middle, and the last one is the F-5S with a modified camera gun. Ronald Take the backseat and see for yourself what kind of shots you can get. "

"How about it, are you dazzled? Bozo's flying skills are very good, but the plane behind him struggled and couldn't lock him."

After coming down, Pettigrew was very satisfied with the dogfighting level of the pilots. The pursuit and escape in tandem were also top-notch in a real Top Gun school.

Ronald didn't speak, the barrel roll was really a very boring action.The tumbling radius of the fighter jet moving around the helix is ​​too large. If you shoot close, it will always come in and out of the camera.

It is far away, and the details on the fuselage cannot be captured. The fighter jet looks too small on the screen, and there is no sense of oppression on the anamorphic widescreen.

"Here we come", after a few hours, the sample film that was quickly developed was loaded into the projector.

"Oh, this is nothing short of a disaster."

Ronald looked at the camera on the screen, and it was exactly what he thought. The F-14 Tomcat was photographed like a toy plane, with no texture, and it was difficult to see any good effect because of the barrel roll on the screen.

"How can this be a disaster? Bozo flies so beautifully, two more fighter jets can't catch him."

"I mean it's a disaster for the audience. Believe those Oklahoma moms and dads, they don't know anything about barrel rolls, compound maneuvers, dog fights, and they know that this action is ugly. I will never shoot such ugly Maneuvers. You've got to think again, Pete, the Navy's planes sure can do some nice maneuvers."

"Okay," Pettigrew scratched his head. These young people in Hollywood have tortured themselves to death.Look good, not easy to use.

While designing the air battle, several male actors who have completed skydiving training are taking turns to take off, sitting in the back seat to shoot shots in the cockpit.

"vomit……"

Most actors still can't get used to this kind of high-G fighter maneuver.Barry Tabb, who played the "Werewolf", had his vomit bag full and staggered off the plane. He stumbled and fell to the ground. He felt sick again and lay on the ground vomiting.

The assistant of the film crew hurried up to help him up, pushed him aside, washed his face with hot water, and slowly recovered his blood.

"Although this experience was very exciting, I really vomited badly. In order not to dirty the cockpit, I didn't wear an oxygen mask. I vomited too much. I'm sorry, director."

Barry Tubb came over and apologized.

Seeing his pitiful appearance, Ronald was too embarrassed to blame him, so he had no choice but to comfort him.

"Do fighter pilots have to wear oxygen masks?" Ronald asked the "stupid Bozo" beside him.

"The regulations are like this, but people generally don't wear them. It hinders radio communication, and it's hard to tell when wearing a mask. We usually wear one side to expose our mouth, and then buckle it up when we really want to maneuver at high altitude."

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"Next time the pilot takes the actors to fly, don't do such a big maneuver." After watching the printed samples, Ronald greeted several flight instructors from the Top Gun Flight School at Miramar Base who participated in the filming.

"Please have pity on my actor. Look at Barry Tubb. His face. Look at his face. It's blue. I've heard people with heart attacks look like him. Ronald said, pointing to Barry's face on the screen.

Several flight instructors exchanged glances. It is true that some actors are really impatient with flying and close their eyes when doing stunts.

"Today, only Tom Cruise is getting more and more used to flying, but after all, high G is a specialty of fighter pilots. As a rule, there are actors in the back seat, and no stunts exceeding 4G are allowed." Peter Pettig Lu also came out to order, and the actors in the past two days have been tortured enough.

"Then what else can we fly? Can we defeat enemy planes by level flight?" The pilots were also dissatisfied with the film's inability to show real air combat.

"I learned a little bit about Hollywood, let me tell you, do you know what parents in Oklahoma are..." Pett Pettigrew took the high salary of the crew, and he had already "betrayed" to Hollywood Here, he is the most suitable person to explain to his former colleagues that the movie is not real.

"Attention all departments, start shooting."

On the second day, Ronald sat in the back seat of the two-seater F-5S fighter jet, went up to the sky and took shots of the air battle.He gave instructions into the radio.

"Got it, Hollywood. Tommy feels fine with me."

The pilots were a little dissatisfied with Ronald not letting them do combat maneuvers, so they gave him the call sign "Hollywood", which happened to be the same call sign as a pilot in the movie, which meant teasing him for not understanding and pointing fingers.

"Got it, take it easy and don't do anything over 4G." Ronald couldn't argue with these bold, Ego super-big pilots, so he had to accept the nickname "Hollywood".

"Less than 4G..." The pilot with the call sign "Horseman" was very dissatisfied, what maneuver is there?He had to pull the joystick, and there was a roll.

This kind of maneuver that rolls around the axis of the fighter itself has no effect in combat. It can be regarded as the most elementary maneuver. The only advantage is that the load is small.

"Oh, what kind of action is this? 'Viper', why didn't you tell me earlier." Ronald was very excited in the plane behind, and he called out the call sign of consultant Pete when he was serving.

"That's not a maneuver, Hollywood. It's of no value in combat. Also, next time you call my callsign, bring your own for easy identification, over."

"But, this one is really nice. Anyway, Oklahoma..."

"Oklahoma moms and dads love it!" Pettigrew recited.

"Well, it's very good. This roll is very good. We need to take more shots. Give me a few shots of each aircraft's air combat shots."

After seeing the printed samples, Ronald was very satisfied.How exciting is this roll?Coupled with the special effects of the MiG-28's cannon firing in the later stage, approaching the air-to-air missile, and being dodged by the F-14A with a roll, the audience must be very excited to watch. "

"Okay, you have the final say here, Hollywood." Advisor Pettigrew has lost his eyesight, just like this roll, the rear fighter jets don't need to adjust the cannon, and a long burst will kill the front plane.

"Okay, okay, this is the biggest achievement of our recent filming. If you think about a few more beautiful stunts, I'm leaving early today to pick up people at the airport."

Pettigrew patted his eyes, "Okay, I'll pick a few good-looking ones, which Oklahoma's parents like to watch... I'll say this is the result of my hard work , otherwise the director would still want the F-14A to kick out the crane kick."

"Brother Ronnie, do you really want to recommend me to audition in Lucas's crew?" Diane sat in Ronald's Mercedes. The first thing you need to do when you see Ronald is to make sure. "

"Didn't you say go to the Oscars?" Ronald joked with her.

"Well, well, you know, I have other actresses in my place, and I don't want them to know."

The two arrived at the reserved hotel room, and Diane waited for Little Bard to close it, then hugged Ronald, "Brother Ronnie, why are you so nice to me this time? You don't recommend anyone else, Just recommend me."

Then she kissed Ronald several times.

"Is it because you think I'm good at acting?" One of Diane's eyebrows began to raise again, making a friendly face at Ronald.

"Go take a shower first and take a rest, you must be tired from the journey."

"Well, I want to hear you say that I'm good at acting."

Ronald stroked her hair, which hadn't completely faded to a light blonde.

"You actors always put acting skills in the most important position. In fact, when a film director chooses a role, the first thing to look at is whether you and the character's temperament match, and then look at your chemical reaction with other characters, and finally consider Acting."

"Ah?" Diane looked surprised, "What you said is true? I always thought they said that to prevent us from being too sad when we were eliminated. Burt didn't say that."

"It's true. Specifically this time, it's mainly because Mr. Lucas wants to choose a female rock star. You have acted in it twice, and you look like a rock lead singer."

"Hey hey, I knew it, you like me dressed like that."

(End of this chapter)