Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 750 Accidental Injury
Not far from the Scout camp is Lake Lure.

This morning, Ronald and the camera crew came here very early.

The props team has already built a wooden bridge for the two protagonists to practice dancing.

Ever since "Longwei Kid", Master Miyagi waxed the car, painted the fence, and taught Daniel to learn karate with strange tricks.Many screenplays add a similar didactic gimmick to the plot.

The screenwriter Eleanor is no exception, adding a scene where Johnny teaches Baby to dance on a single-plank bridge made of logs.

There is a special movement in Mambo, which is to lift the knees and then lower the feet.With the swing of the buttocks, it looks very good.Kind of like a combination of rumba and tango.

But the movement requires great physical coordination, and a slightly more adventurous spirit than other dances.

So Johnny pulled Baby and forced her to practice on the single-plank bridge, forgetting all the fear of stepping on her male partner, and only thinking about the rhythm, and she will soon be able to learn this dance step.

"Action!"

The single-plank bridge was erected on a stream by the lake, and Patrick Switz stood on it, with his arms outstretched, balancing like those performing acrobats.

Jennifer Gray was on the other side of the single-plank bridge. She looked very scared and sat on the bridge, not daring to stand on it.

"Now, the most important thing is balance. You have to remember to keep your balance." Patrick Switz stood barefoot on the log, with his hands spread out, looking confident.

Ronald was distracted again.The celebrity acrobatic show on the TV station invited Brooke Shields to perform trapeze.But even a girl like Brooke, who practiced gymnastics since she was a child, dare not try tightrope walking.

For laymen, the balance of tightrope walking is difficult to grasp, and it is also a watershed that distinguishes real acrobats from ordinary people.

"Oh oh oh..."

Patrick Switz does a gymnastics move, jumps up and then falls back down on the plank bridge.

He lost his balance and almost fell off the bridge.Then he felt shaking from side to side, looking for balance, and finally stopped after turning around once and adjusting it many times with small steps.

"Cut!"

Ronald quickly asked the staff to help him down and handed him a blanket.

Today's weather is very cold. Perhaps because the temperature has affected the coordination of muscles, Switz almost failed a simple movement.

But it was a blessing in disguise, the desperate effort to maintain balance just now unexpectedly became a very interesting episode of this teaching.Ronald was going to be used in the final film.

"Let's use a stand-in for the next shot," Ronald said to Switz.Eleanor also wrote a scene in which Johnny wants to turn 180 degrees in a vertical jump and land firmly on a log.Show Baby that as long as you focus on the rhythm, you'll be fine.

"I'll do it myself. I practiced ballet since I was a child. It's all trivial." Switz insisted.

"Pat, that's not necessary. We can have the double do a leg-jump spin-landing shot and then cut to your panorama. He's registered with the stunt union."

"No, I can have it."

When Switz heard that Ronald wanted a stuntman to perform, he became even more hormonal, saying that he was unwilling to let a stand-in perform this not very difficult action on flat ground.

Ronald persuaded him a few words, seeing that he was so stubborn, it was fine.

When it comes to a man's face, many actors have similar problems.

"Action!"

"It's about balance," Switz said, before jumping off the log barefoot.

"Oh oh..." When he landed, he encountered the same problem again.

This action is really not difficult on flat ground.But first, this time he was barefoot without dancing shoes.

Second, the log was soaked by light rain and it was slippery. It was not so easy for him to stand firmly.

"Snapped……"

Seeing that something was wrong, Switz jumped off the single-plank bridge.

After falling to the ground, Switz held his ankles and squatted there for a long time without getting up.

"What's wrong? Doctor!"

Seeing that something was wrong, Ronald immediately called the doctor who was on the scene.This time it was a dangerous action shooting registered with the stunt union. The union stipulated that a doctor must be present, otherwise the stunt personnel could refuse to shoot.

"It's okay, it's an old injury I got when I danced before."

Switz is still saying he's fine.

But the doctor's face was obviously not right, he let Switz sit down, and then looked at the ankle that was swollen.

"There is effusion in the ankle joint. Your actor has been engaged in dance training for a long time, so the synovial membrane is severely worn. The sprain just now has aggravated the problem. He can no longer continue filming."

"Then what? Is he seriously injured? How long will he be recuperating?"

Ronald couldn't understand the medical jargon and asked directly about the severity of the injury.

"It's not very serious, as long as you lie down, you can return to normal in a week."

"Hiss..." Ronald grinned, he didn't have a week to waste.

The following are Thwitz's big plays, and if the crew stopped to wait for him for a week, they would seriously overrun again.

"Doctor, I can use a needle to draw out the effusion." Switz grinned, obviously in great pain.In his dancing career, he often encountered knee and ankle injuries, but he actually knows more about treatment methods.

"Are you sure? This is very painful. And it will affect your dancing career," the doctor confirmed to Switz.

"I don't have a dancing career anymore, what I want to keep now is my acting career."

Switz also joked, "Come on, hurry up, I can recover the day after tomorrow."

Ronald patted Switz on the shoulder. This disaster was originally caused by his insistence on going his own way to save face, but now it is considered to be a remedy for the past, and the impact on the shooting should be minimized.

The crew had to stop filming for a day, because Thwaites' scenes were carried through the rest of the filming, and there was not much benefit in shooting other scenes earlier.

Ronald took a long time to shoot and finished shooting all the shots that could be shot in advance, so he had no choice but to take a vacation.

"Fortunately, the placement advertisement made by Procter & Gamble's acne products is the best," Ronald and Eddie, the general manager of Daydream, calculated their accounts in the room for a while.

"Fortunately, Switz has a lot of experience. When he jumped, he was prepared to cushion the impact of landing. If the injury is serious, I'm afraid you have to stop filming for more than a month. In terms of finance, this 'Dirty Dancing' is Disaster."

By the third day, the swelling in Switz's ankle finally subsided.Although still a little sore, he offered to resume filming.

After all, the production team was waiting for him alone, so he couldn't bear the invisible pressure.

Ronald hurriedly advanced the scene in the lake, and Switz and Gray went to the nearby Lure Lake with the crew.

"I arranged this lifting scene in the lake. Your ankle is not fully healed yet, so shooting this scene will put less pressure on your ankle. After all, it will be a dance scene with multiple stages."

"Okay, I'm fine." Switz agreed with a nod, which was considered to have disrupted the shooting sequence especially for his physical condition.

"Ugh..."

A gust of cold wind blew up, and Jennifer Gray, who had just got off the car to the lake, shivered and wrapped the blanket tightly around her body.

"so cold……"

"It's really strange." Ronald also felt that luck was too bad.

While at the mountain lake house in Virginia, it was so hot that the actors suffered from heat stroke.Turning to North Carolina, here is early autumn, and the wind is actually very cool.

After testing the temperature of the water with his hand, Gray showed embarrassment.It must be freezing enough at this temperature, maybe the lines will not be able to speak smoothly.

"What's the weather forecast for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?" Ronald also tried the water, took off his socks, and went into the water to try it himself.

It may be tolerable for men, but it must be reluctant to let Jennifer Gray go down.

"It seems that there is cold air passing through, the temperature will drop, and there will be strong winds."

"Why is the weather so strange! It seems that there is no autumn." Ronald couldn't help but turned to look at Gray.

"I'll try, Director Ronald. But you have to prepare me against the cold."

Jennifer Gray looked at Ronald's embarrassed face, and knew that she couldn't postpone the filming for another three days.Otherwise, the crew may go bankrupt before the filming is finished.

For the sake of art, for the box office of the movie, and for my future acting career, I will fight!
"You know, the best place to practice lifts is in the water."

Switz spoke the lines in the script and stopped in a half-squat in the lake.

Jennifer Gray wore a white dress and trousers, let Switz support her waist, and then jumped up slightly.

She was lifted up by Svitsto.

Switz stood up from the water, was blown by the wind, shivered, and almost missed Jennifer.Fortunately, his upper body strength is very strong, and he managed to save him again.

Seeing that Switz had stopped, Jennifer immediately opened her arms and made a movement of spreading her wings and flying.

"Speak the lines." Ronald was in a hurry, and repeatedly signaled to Switz.

"Very good, very good..." Switz was shivering from the cold, and he managed to control his abdominal muscles so that he could not hear the trembling feeling in his lines.

"Keep this position, don't move, don't move."

"Ah..." Jennifer Gray was also shaken by the wind. She couldn't keep her balance, so she jumped over Switz's head.

Both fell into the lake.

"Haha...ha...haha..."

Both of them tried their best not to let their own trembling voices be recorded in the simultaneous recording.

If you wipe all the water off your hair, you won't feel so cold anymore.

"Continue!" Ronald ran to the opposite side of them, waved his hands and made a gesture to them, indicating that he would not stop shouting.

Anyway, with the energy of the two of them, it would probably take a long time to get back to normal after taking one shot, so I just didn't stop the machine, and took a long shot to the end, and used it as much as I could.

Both actors are very professional, they also understand what Ronald means, and they don't look at the camera in the middle.

"Continue, one two three..."

It was another lift, and then it was frozen into the movement of spreading wings and flying, and finally couldn't support it again, and fell into the water together.

"Cut!"

Ronald was the first to rush up and put the blanket on Jennifer Gray.

"Whiskey" Ronald took the spirits handed over by his assistant and let the actors take a sip.

Another four assistants carrying a stretcher carried the two leading actors wrapped in blankets into their respective RVs.

The air conditioner inside has been turned on for a long time, and there is a hot bathroom, allowing them to quickly return to normal body temperature.

As the sun rose by the lake, Ronald hurriedly directed them to take some empty shots for editing.

"How was it?" Ronald asked the DP.

"Very good, you'll have enough material to edit."

(End of this chapter)