Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 650 Senator Inoue's Care
The crew came to Oahu, Hawaii.The northeast of the island faces the sea, which is called the "windward side". The daily sea breeze is very violent, and typhoons are frequent, so the seaside here is full of strange rocks.

"Senator Daniel Inoue ordered that all houses, manors, and private land here can be used for filming."

This is the mansion of a millionaire on Oahu who is also of Japanese descent.America's only Senator of Japanese descent, Daniel Inoue, is from Hawaii.When Hawaii joined the Union, Inoue was a member of the Federal Representative.

He has been entrenched for many years and has been re-elected. Although the one-armed senator has little say in Washington, his local influence is deeply rooted.This time the sequel came to Hawaii for filming. Inoue instructed his campaign manager to come to the front station first. All the filming, board and lodging, and group performances were all settled by him with one sentence.

Ronald sent a director of photography in advance, James Crabbe, who served as a co-worker in the first film, went to Ryukyu and Hawaii to set up scenes respectively.

Due to the existence of the U.S. military base, the local rural landscape in Ryukyu has undergone tremendous changes. Most of the villagers no longer engage in agriculture and fishery, but instead serve the U.S. military base by selling things to the base or providing services to the base. The income is much higher than farming and fishing.

But in this way, the original Ryukyu style in the script is nowhere to be found.

After consulting Bud Jr., who had served in both places as a soldier, Ronald decided to set the main location on Oahu, Hawaii.

The rich man of Japanese descent gave the manor to the crew for use.In order to form the Ryukyu fishing village described in the film, the set department, which arrived earlier, built seven replicas of real Ryukyu-style houses and planted more than three acres of rice and vegetables.

When Ronald arrives, let's take a look at the scene first.He climbed up the hillside and looked at the scenery below with the viewfinder. The farmers in the rice fields wore Ryukyu-style clothing and bamboo hats, looking relaxed and leisurely.

Fifty Hawaiian residents born in Ryukyu were also recruited as extras for the film.are doing what their ancestors did, farmers.

Every day is spent waiting to be photographed in the fields, or pretending to be a fisherman in a small boat.

"Thank you Senator Inoue for your help." After inspecting all the locations and group performances, Ronald was very satisfied.The Chinese and Japanese ensemble performers here are very willing to help.

Ronald's first "Longwei Boy" spread the Japanese culture to all parts of America.Nowadays, when the Japanese descendants of Hawaii go to work in the native land, they often encounter people making "crane kick" movements to them.

It turns out that Japanese people are often nicknamed "The Little Japs", but now more and more people are called Miyagi, or Sensai (Master).

The widespread dissemination of a movie can even change a country's perception of an ethnic group.

Ronald knew that Chinese Americans also borrowed Bruce Lee's kung fu movie craze, and their social status rose rapidly in the 70s.But all of this disappeared with his sudden death.

Now the Chinese are starting to be naturally regarded as those who open Chinese food delivery, or open dry cleaners.Waiting for the next big star to take them out of that stereotype.

Just like the current Morita Noriyuki did to the Japanese.

In the evening, Ronald and the main members of the crew came to a bar on Oahu to celebrate. He was wearing a Hawaiian floral shirt and a garland presented to him by a beautiful woman.

"Aruha!"

"Aluha!"

Ronald nodded to the beauty, who looked like a Chinese.

As soon as the two chatted, it was true.In fact, the island of Hawaii has a very large number of Japanese and Chinese.The two together with Filipinos make up close to 40.00% of the total population.It is the most normal to see Asian faces here.

In addition to Morita, there is also a celebrity among the Asians in the archipelago this year, a Chinese girl Hu Kaili, who won the title of Miss Teen USA (Miss Teen USA).This is the first time an Asian-American has won a national beauty pageant.

Hu Kaili, who represented the state of Hawaii, became famous all of a sudden, and many boys came to vacation this summer. They all wanted to meet the Hawaiian girl who was said to be as beautiful as a cloud.

"Ahahahaha..."

Ronald frowned, and Morita Noriyuki drank indiscriminately in the bar again, and made fun of the two beauties with his arms around them.Not only has he gained a little weight, but he has also had a lot of bags under his eyes due to his long-term luxury.

Ralph Mazio over there didn't drink much, and he was quite restrained.But his manager is very annoying, and he is very annoying to instill in him some "the treatment a star deserves on the set".

"We have to find a way to deal with them, otherwise he won't be able to come up with the state of the first movie." Ronald thought to himself, tonight is when everyone is happy, and starting tomorrow, we must gather together and bring them and the people on the island together. Fans separated.

"Good to see you guys."

Early the next morning, Pat E. Johnson, the karate coach who trained the actors in the first film and the part-time referee actor, gathered Morita Noriyuki and Ralph Marzio together to start the karate review every morning before starting the machine. .

"Pat, we have already learned those skills in the first film, so we don't need to train again now." Ralph Mazio is now also learning to play big cards.His agent instilled in him every day that celebrities don't need to know it by themselves, just leave the difficult tasks to a substitute.

"Gentlemen, I will hand over the difficult moves to the substitute." Ronald arrived immediately and pushed Miyagi's substitute, Darryl Vidal, out.

"Your task is to restore flexibility in the shortest possible time. In this sequel, Miyagi-sensei has a shot of fighting four or five Ryukyu karate masters alone. Daniel will have a decisive battle with the villain 'Chang Shan' at the end. This is not a competition, but a real arena."

"Oh..." The faces of the two protagonists collapsed. In the first part, the most painful part of the practice was pulling the ligaments.

"Don't be like this, I also found a companion for you, you should not be inferior to her."

"Director, hello. Mr. Morita, hello, Mr. Marzio, hello."

Tan Ling Tomita, who plays the heroine Kumiko, greets all seniors politely.Dressed in her aerobics attire, she hopped into the field and bowed to Coach Pat at the end.

"Let me see, one and a half years later, how much of your karate magic is left, and whether you can still come up with a beautiful crane kick." Coach Pat Johnson grinned.

"Ah..., ah..."

Listening to the screams of the two people pulling the ligament, Ronald turned away with a smile.With the little girl Tomita Tan Ling around, the two actors must not be too lazy, lest they can't even compare with a little girl.

And with such a high-intensity kick, they probably don't have much energy to hang out in bars, and they can't think about the unprecedented treatment of young actors.

"Attention, let's do it as a whole. Everyone must remember the route you take, and don't mess it up. Listen to my password."

Ronald started filming two days later.Today is a long shot. Not long after Miyagi returned to Ryukyu, he met his father for the last time and caught up with his old lover Yuuki.Daniel has a hot fight with the little girl Kumiko.

The love life of the old and the young is quite rich.

At this time, they went to the street to chat with old neighbors, only to find out that Sato, Miyagi’s childhood friend who studied art together, bought almost everyone’s land by relying on his background as a landlord and providing various services for US military bases. , became a big landlord.

This scene involved the logical relationship of multiple characters. Ronald was worried, and he personally directed the group performers and rehearsed with the two leading actors twice before calling the first one.

Morita Noriyuki, who played the role of Miyagi in "Daniel-san", came out of the room. His belly was much fatter than in the first film. The costume put a sweater on him, and a gray shirt outside, which finally covered it up.

"Come on." Ralph Mazio also ran out from inside, "This seems to be a forgotten town."

Ronald is across the road, on the pre-paved guide rails, a group of coolies are pushing the camera hard.

The two male protagonists walk forward along the dirt road.

Between them and the camera, on the near side of the road, several group performers wearing bamboo hats squatted on the ground to serve the rice.On the far side of the road, behind Miyagi and Daniel, a woman in a kimono is pulling a trailer with an old second-hand television on a rope.

"Hi..." Miyagi greeted her, and the two chatted a few words in Japanese.

At this moment, the camera paused and took a still shot.

"It's my classmate." Miyagi explained to Daniel-san, and the two continued to walk forward.

At a gesture from DP James Crabbe, the coolies start pushing the camera again, following the two actors forward.

On the nearby roadside, as the camera moves horizontally, a few more farmers appear in the picture.The old woman pulled the TV and left the screen from the right side.

This is a shot specially designed by Ronald, which is very similar to an ancient painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" that he saw in the Forbidden City.

Scenery and characters enter the painting from one side, and then exit the picture we pay attention to on the other side.

"Didn't you say this is a fishing village? Why didn't you see any fishermen?" Daniel asked Master Miyagi curiously. He had heard that his family was a fishing village. The Miyagi family only did two things, fishing and practicing karate.

"Last night, Yuki told me that Sato's father imported a robotic fishing boat from America. Within two years, he had caught all the fish in the offshore area, and he had crushed all the small fishing boats in the village. Now the village In addition to growing food, vegetables and fruits, there is only his family’s cannery, which supplies the US military base.”

Master Miyagi took Daniel and pointed to a factory in the distance.

When Ronald was paying attention to the performance, he also took a look at the coolies of the camera crew. Those Japanese coolies were very reliable, pushing the camera steadily and quickly.

The camera was pushed from a track parallel to the dirt road to a curved track, and slowly approached the backs of the two actors, pushed down the close-up from the middle ground, and finally stopped on the backs of the old and the young, the master and the apprentice, like an audience His gaze passed them, and as the focus changed, he stopped at the factory.

A feeling of uneasiness began to accumulate with the scheduling of the camera.It's a method Ronald and Crabbe devised, using the camera to manipulate the audience's emotions.

"Cut!"

Ronald put the actors and machines back in place and took two more shots.The director of photography, Crabbe, is very satisfied with this long shot. All the extras are in good shape, even if they only take pictures of their squatting hats, and the group actors without facial shots, they are also in good shape.

The next night, these quick prints made Ronald like it too.The work attitude of these Asians is really not picky.

"Do you have so many talented actors in Hawaii?" Ronald asked, the second assistant director who is a native of Hawaii.

"The theater in Hawaii has always been very developed. We have a tradition of rehearsing and performing dramas. And this is Ronald Sang speaking out for us Asians. We will do our best and give [-]% of our strength.

Senator Inoue's office manager has privately asked all the extras and staff. Ronald Sang is a Hollywood director who is very friendly to Asians. How can we not fully cooperate?
Since the release of the first Long Wei Kid, our Hawaiian Asian actors, on Broadway in New York, have gradually begun to have some supporting roles to fight for.There is also Hollywood, which has also released a lot of karate or martial arts follow-up films, and all the films must have an Asian master. "

"Ah, hahaha..." Ronald was very happy to hear that.

"Ronald, can we talk?"

Ralph Mazio's manager over there, come get Ronald.

"What's the matter?" Ronald ignored him, sat on the chair, picked up the thermos, poured a cup of wolfberry black tea, and took a sip slowly.

"Daniel and I felt that his character, in this shot, did not reflect his characteristics. Can you reshoot this shot?"

"Huh?" An alarm sounded in Ronald's heart, and the star came just now?

"You 'feel'? Do you know how much it costs us to shoot for a day? These extras, these sets, and the strict shooting plan, and the shooting cycle, you want to reshoot? You talked to Mr. Weintraub ? You might as well ask him to see if he will make you sober.

Ralph's shot is excellent, I don't understand what you mean by 'feeling' embodying his qualities?Do you fucking know that trait is the one I fucking wrote, the first one I fucking directed that gave Ralph the trait.

The reason I asked you to do the dailies is because Ralph Mazio is the star of the show, so he needs someone else's services.If your service is to talk nonsense here and mislead the directors, then you will not come here in the future. "

Ronald turned back and told the second assistant director, "Remember, starting from tomorrow, manager Ralph Mazio's right to watch the samples will be cancelled."

"Me?" The manager's face flushed red, but he didn't have much bargaining power. His client Ralph, after all, was popularized by Ronald, so he might not be on his side this time.After all, it was because I didn't expect such a simple temptation to cause such a big reaction from Ronald.

Ten minutes later, Ralph Mazio's mother, who was co-produced by the name crew, came over to apologize and explain to Ronald.

"This is all a private request from the manager. Ralph is a good boy and he doesn't know it."

"Madame Marzio, I think so too. I don't have a problem with him personally. He's even a good manager and considerate of his clients. But he knows too little about filming, so I'll let Ralph do it himself." After watching the sample, if there are any acting concerns, we can discuss it directly."

"Ronald, hey, I think Daniel San's role seems to be underperformed in this scene." Ralph Mazio came over by himself. After chatting with his mother, he knew that now is not a challenge Ronald time.

"It's okay, the next scene is all your performance." Ronald replied with a smile.

(End of this chapter)