Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 651 The Image of a Star

"Boom, boom... boom, boom..."

"Cut!"

Ronald stopped the filming, "Tomita, come here." He stretched out his hand and called the heroine Tomita Tan Ling, who was wearing a white shirt and overalls, and looked dazed after being stopped.

Since the confrontation with Ralph Mazio's manager, the two newly promoted stars played big names in the filming, and there were a lot fewer things asking for various treatment.Ronald's shooting progress gradually began to speed up.

However, in today's filming of Kumiko played by Tan Ling Tomita teaching Daniel to dance a traditional Japanese dance, he encountered a lot of obstacles.

"What kind of person do you think Kumiko is?" Ronald knew that this girl had no experience in filming, and she might not realize where her problem was, so he had to guide slowly.

"I think he is a typical Ryukyu girl, very motivated, and wants to go to America by herself to pursue ballet studies."

Tomita Tan Ling was a little embarrassed, this was the third time she had been stopped from dancing.The voice of speaking is also much lower.

"You understand well, but I don't think Kumiko is a typical Ryukyu girl. A typical Ryukyu girl doesn't have the dream of pursuing ballet. Are you right?"

"Well... Director, you are right, I didn't think of it."

"Actually, you and Kumiko have similar backgrounds. You came to America from Ryukyu and then pursued an acting career. If you hadn't been influenced by American culture, you wouldn't be so independent and free to bravely pursue your dreams. Am i right?"

Ronald felt that Tomita's understanding of acting was a bit astray, so he had to teach her slowly.I am not an acting coach, not to mention that I can't teach deep things, and I haven't learned them myself.

Fortunately, as a bystander, Ronald saw Tomita's problem clearly.This is a common mistake beginners make.

"What you need to pay attention to in performance is the opponent's reaction. You can't fix your attention on your own heart. How can I play this role well.

But to combine the character with oneself, pay attention to the expressions, thoughts, and lines of the opponent actors, just like in our daily life, the attention is also outside the body. "

"Director, you're right. I understand what you mean." Tomita Tan Ling has a high level of comprehension, and she understands that she is thinking too much.

"It's more about expressing your own characteristics, rather than trying to play Kumiko. A little less the conservativeness of Japanese girls, and a little more independence and freedom of American girls. Kumiko is you, you are Kumiko, understand?"

"Action!"

After shooting again, Tomita Tan Ling's performance was much more natural.Once she got rid of the mental pressure, she was very relaxed. In some scenes, she even compared with Ralph Mazio who played Daniel next to her.

Ralph Mazio also felt this, and he also strived to exert greater kinetic energy in his performances. In this virtuous circle, the quality of the two's rivalry began to improve each time.

"Boom...boom, boom...boom...boom" Kumiko danced to the rhythm. This kind of Japanese dance, the body turns left and right, and the hands make various clapping movements by the side, which has a unique charm.

Ronald watched from behind the camera. It was rare that the screenwriters hired by Weintraub could connect Daniel San's trick in the second film, Dragon's Way Kid, with this kind of dance.Using the rotation of the waist to eliminate and hit, it can make ordinary audiences understand the beauty of this trick.

"Cut!"

The crew moved to a road on Oahu Island, and had already found an electrical store in advance.On both sides of the road, people have already stopped the car, and the flow of people on the road is all performed by group actors.

"Action!"

"I'll show you my dream." Kumiko dragged Daniel to the door of the electronics store.

"Do you want to be a salesperson?"

"No, I'll show you my dream."

The salesperson in the electronics store spoke a few words of Japanese to Kumiko, and then put the "Fame" videotape into the machine.

"Is this your dream? To be a dancer?"

"Yes."

The camera shoots from the middle of the two protagonists. Their backs sandwich the TV in the window, and they gradually move forward. The dancing posture of Antonia Franceschi in it is gradually enlarged, and then occupies the entire screen. .

Ronald looked at the past from behind the camera, full of memories of his youth.

"Ronald," DP James Crabbe called softly, but the director didn't respond.

This scene has been filmed, do you want the two of you to do an impromptu performance?Crabbe rubbed his chin and thought that many directors would deliberately not stop and let the actors continue to do some impromptu performances, so that the lines forced out would sometimes be more realistic.

"Where did you learn ballet?"

"There are no ballet schools on Ryukyu Island."

"Oh, this is really bad."

Ralph Mazio and Tomita Tanling, knowing that the director didn't call to stop, didn't dare to look back to see what happened, so they had to continue to babble some lines.But what the two of them said was quite interesting, fully expressing the thoughts of a Ryukyu girl.

"Huh? Cut!" Ronald suddenly reacted, lost in memory, and forgot to call stop.Fortunately, the lines improvised by the two were not bad.

……

The filming continued for many days, and the two new stars have been fairly obedient.Although they can no longer be as involved as they were in the first film, they used a video recorder to take all the rehearsal scenes, and then disassembled and figured it out piece by piece.

But after the baptism of the first part, the images of the two have become household names in America.And the two have been playing these two roles in and out of life for a year.So although Ronald is not very satisfied, he also feels that the performance has achieved eight or nine points.

The two stars are of course different from the actors who debuted at the beginning of the year.What the star thinks is not the drama and the overall effect, but to deepen his own image in the minds of the audience.

Ronald also knew that this was a necessary compromise.Sometimes the filming is not perfect, and when he wants to do it all over again, he would silently say in his heart, "Anyway, this is a sequel, anyway, this is a sequel, just make money, just make money. Long live eighty, long live eighty. "

On this day, I took pictures of Daniel just coming to Ryukyu.

The big villain of the movie, the karate master named Changshan, was sent by Master Miyagi's childhood brother Sato to pick them up as a taxi driver and test the two of them by the way.

"Welcome to Ryukyu", played by the Japanese-American actor Yuji Yiben who plays Changshan.

He stretched out his hand, took Ralph Mazio's hand, and then shook it firmly, "I hope your journey in Ryukyu will be a pleasant journey."

In the close-up, Yuji Yiben's arm muscles are very well lined, and it can be seen that he has been exercising all year round.

"Cut!"

Seeing Ralph Mazio shaking his hands, Ronald was pinched severely.

"Ronald, I want to talk to you alone." Ralph Mazio looked for Ronald with a serious face.

"Okay, you come with me." Ronald was discussing the following close-up with the director of photography Crabbe. Seeing Mazio's serious face, he knew that he was busy, and the two went to chat in his trailer.

"I have to remake this one, it doesn't match Daniel's image." Seeing Ronald close the door, Ralph Mazio immediately pointed out his dissatisfaction.

"What do you mean?" Ronald was a little annoyed, why Marzio also began to try to direct his own shooting.

"I'm referring to the image of Daniel. He was a counterattack kid in the first part, and he has been practicing karate with Mr. Miyagi. It is impossible to reach the second part. He is still a rookie who can't stand shaking hands. After all, he has Champion of the All Valley Karate Championships."

"But have you ever thought about it? The championship is actually a game for a group of high school students in America to entertain themselves. On the island of Ryukyu, Changshun is a karate master who is really fighting for the final battle. The core of Longwei Boy's drama is Daniel's counterattack. If he is not allowed to face a master whose strength exceeds his own, how can he realize the ultimate move and use the last move to defeat the enemy?"

The two discussed the issue of Daniel's image for a long time, but they couldn't reach a consensus.

"Ronald" Ralph Mazio lowered his head, "I have always been very grateful for your support. This is the first movie I can become famous for."

Then he raised his head firmly again, "I can't take the scene where Daniel is punished too badly, Ronald. My entire career is based on this role. My agent found it for me." In the new film, the character is also an electric guitar enthusiast, learning along the way, and finally defeated the electric guitar master in the industry.

For the sake of my image, for my future, and for the sake of getting more similar roles, I can't shoot the scene of Daniel's miserable failure. He can fail, but he can't be like this, being pinched hard by Changshun, so painful Can't stand it. "

"I hope you can understand the plight of an actor, if you insist on filming..."

"If I insist, how about you?" Ronald looked at Ralph Mazio to see what he could say.

"I will let the manager raise an objection to the crew, and use the terms of my contract to deny that this scene will appear in the final film."

Ralph Mazio still said that, and then he looked away again, as if he didn't dare to meet Ronald's eyes.

"You are already a mature star," Ronald sighed in his heart. The other party disagreed, and he had nothing to do.It is impossible for American audiences to agree to changing roles.Daniel and Miyagi-sensei, the chemistry between the two actors is so good, without them, no one will come back to watch the second part.

"Really? You agreed?" Ralph Mazio let out a sigh of relief. He was under a lot of pressure to disobey the director who made him famous.

"I'm not against you, Ronald, it's just that I have my own problems to face." He quickly explained.

"It's okay, I understand." Ronald patted Mazio, he put his arms around Mazio's shoulders, and walked out of the trailer, still maintaining an image of unity in front of the crew.

"This shot is handled like this. I mainly take a close-up of Changshun's forearm, and you only shoot the hands, so that you won't be compared by the audience in the close-up. I will add a reaction shot of your face surprised .”

"That's great, but Daniel's image shouldn't be too weak."

"Don't worry, tomorrow is the time for you to show your power."

The next day, the crew went to a bar converted from a warehouse.

Daniel is here, making a bet with the guys in the bar.Teacher Miyagi wanted to help Daniel win back his tuition, so he taught him the trick to focus.

Finally, under the guidance of Mr. Miyagi, Daniel smashed three stacked ice cubes and won $[-].

"Action!"

"Ah, ah..."

Ralph Mazio spun and broke three blocks of ice at once.

"Cut!"

Very good, the props team will get some more ice cubes, let's do it again.Make more ice cracks on the ice, don't expose the gaps you made in advance.

"Ronald, can I talk to you?"

This time it was Morita Noriyuki who played Miyagi who came to find Ronald.

"In my role, I show more of Miyagi's sense of humor, but like the first part, the mysterious, powerful, and philosophical performance is a little less in the sequel."

"Why don't you..." Ronald sighed, "Forget it, tomorrow I will give you more mysterious, powerful, and philosophical roles."

"Daniel-san, this is the ancestral hall of our Miyagi family, look at this." Master Miyagi took out a rattle.

"My father used this to teach me karate when I was little. It's the Miyagi family's karate, the secret to its strength."

"This?" Daniel fiddled with the rattle twice, making a booming sound.

"Yes, you see, only the waist is turned, two drumsticks, one is always defending and the other is attacking. Then the offensive becomes defensive, and the defensive becomes offensive.

Humans have two arms, just like this rattle, which rotate left and right with the waist as the base point, so that you can always take into account both defense and offense. "

Daniel suddenly realized, turned the rattle a few more times, and then began to practice this trick by himself.

"Danielsan, come and practice with me."

The camera pulls back slowly.

Miyagi and Daniel practiced the basic techniques of Goju-ryu karate handed down from the Miyagi family in the dark room facing the two paper sliding doors that were opened.

It's just that this time the two joined the Miyagi family's secret method, and both of them can clearly see that they have back moves when they attack and defend, and they pay special attention to the rotation of the waist.

"Very well, Daniel-san. Well done."

Ronald watches from behind the camera.

In the middle of the sliding door, a white skylight came in, illuminating the two masters and apprentices practicing basic skills one by one.

The dark background inside the room was stimulated by the white skylight shining through the sliding door, and the two of them immediately seemed to be practicing in a fairyland of paradise.

……

"Oh...it's great!" Morita Noriyuki and Ralph Mazio, the two of them saw the printed samples one night later, and they were very satisfied with this shot.

Now the audience was happy, and the two masters and apprentices began the process of epiphany again.Master Miyagi was full of philosophical teachings. During the pair training, Daniel improved his skill at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Satisfied, both began to applaud.

"Damn it, I hate doing sequels. Both of them have thought too much since they became stars," Ronald said softly to producer Weintraub in the back.

"I hate sequels too, they both got more than [-] times their pay."

"It's worth it though, the audience will love it, and we'll make money."

"It will definitely make money, it will make a lot of money." Weintraub is also cheering himself up, "Tomorrow, the deputy commander's flight will stop at Oahu Island, and you will be quicker when the time comes, he will go to Japan to visit. .”

(End of this chapter)