Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 753 You and I Think Exactly the Same

Cynthia Rhodes became very clingy, maybe thinking that she would leave the crew tomorrow, she almost monopolized Ronald by herself and danced with him all the time.

Of course, Ronald's dancing skills are not as superb as Patrick Switz's, but fortunately, Mambo is not a very difficult dance. Under Cynthia's active leadership, the two danced very similarly.

Next to the assistant director, Emile, was carrying a video camera to the dance of Ronald Cynthia and Patrick Eleanor in the center of the crowd, and began to shoot behind-the-scenes shots.

This is an additional task that Emil takes on besides the assistant director.He also shot several shots of the details of the entire film.

The current film marketing likes to use talk shows or interview programs.With these tidbits, you can play the edited clips by the way when you are on the show to arouse the curiosity of the audience, and it is best to have some humorous passages.

"Bang... bang..." Eddie specially transported the high-quality champagne from the next city in a truck with a cold storage, and was opened one by one. Everyone danced and sang and drank, and everyone was drunk.

"Click", Ronald opened the door of his suite.Cynthia in her arms was beautiful, and the champagne-flavored breath sprayed onto her face with heat.

Ronald had long been attracted by Cynthia's natural beauty, and he didn't understand the intention of this southern beauty in the dance just now.

"Crack", Ronald turned on the light, Cynthia seemed a little embarrassed, and a natural blush climbed up her cheeks.

"Don't turn on the light".

Ronald turned off the light smoothly.Tonight at the hot spring resort hotel, turn on all the lights to celebrate the completion of filming.The light from outside seemed to leak in through the window, illuminating Cynthia's face a little.

"Um……"

Cynthia in real life does not seem to be like Penny in the movie.In other words, unlike a Hollywood actress who knows how to cater to the relationship between men and women, Ronald has found some feelings in his youth, treating him tenderly, and suddenly the two of them are in harmony.

An hour passed, and the lights outside the window finally went out, leaving only a faint moonlight shining into the window, reflecting Cynthia's white and bright back beautifully.

Ronald gently put his hand on it, and Cynthia just hummed. She was so exhausted that she couldn't even open her eyes.Ronald took advantage of the situation to hug her close to him, and the two hugged each other and fell into a deep sleep.

Early the next morning, Ronald's biological clock was still in the fighting mode for filming.He woke up naturally at five o'clock in the morning.

Seeing that Cynthia Rhodes was sleeping soundly beside him, Ronald first went to the living room to make a call and asked the kitchen to deliver all the breakfast to the room at six o'clock sharp.Put on your running shoes and go for a run.

After running and taking a hot shower, Ronald waited until the hotel delivered a full breakfast.Cynthia finally woke up.

"I don't know what you like to eat, so I ordered all of them." Ronald pushed the breakfast cart into the room, just in time to see her stretched out on the bed, her white legs were close together, tiptoes Stretch.Ballet girls are always so graceful.

"Are you always so considerate to girls?" Cynthia smiled.

"Not always, just courting pretty girls." Ronald joked.

"If there is a boy around me who is so considerate to me, I will marry him." Cynthia also smiled, and rushed into the bathroom to wash.

"Why, isn't there such a person?" Ronald asked her.

Cynthia's voice came from inside, "Yes, but he is younger than me. I don't think we will be able to grow old together in the future."

"Oh," Ronald waited for Cynthia to finish, and went to the dining table with her. Ronald also poured her a glass of milk and himself a glass of orange juice.

"Sometimes, it's not good to think too much. I also knew a ballerina girl before... It would be very rare if both of them could be moved by each other. Who can tell what will happen in the future?"

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The two said their goodbyes in the morning.Hollywood men and women, like butterflies and bees, get together when they have nectar, and go their separate ways when they are finished.

After his last day in North Carolina, Ronald and Eddie Daydream returned to Los Angeles with all the equipment and dailies.

The film negatives were shipped directly from the eastern laboratory to the Paramount film production department.

Paramount's laboratory has branches in several regions across the country.Ronald relied on his relationship with Ned Tanin to get a favorable price.Not only will it be developed at their laboratory in the southeast, but they will also end up borrowing Paramount's negative editing equipment and copy production line.

However, before that, he still had to do important work, which was to visit Walter Murch with the newly released work copy.

"That's all? Your original film is not very long."

Murch moved all the footage into the office in the rented Paramount editing room, along with Ronald and assistant director Emile.Counting the number of film discs, compared with directors like Coppola, Ronald has less material.

"Yes, I used a new method this time. Many shots are turned on at the same time during rehearsal. Often the effect of the first time is better than that of the actual shooting, so it is very rare to shoot a piece more than a dozen times. The film also saved some."

Ronald opened a large bucket bag he brought, and took out the "Murch Super Clip Tape" that Bard Jr. brought from the small factory on Staten Island.

The current new editing tapes are all produced by the small factory that Ronald and Murch cooperate with, and even Murch himself has to ask Ronald for the goods.

This kind of tape has a very good response in Xiangjiang. Jackie Chan’s demonstration effect there is very good. Once he used this kind of tape, many studios also discovered that with this new type of tape, the edited copy can be tested directly. There is no need to make a new copy, which can save the money of a copy, so they have to pay for it.

There is a lot of demand, so that Ronald can let those workers start working every day, produce slowly, and store them in the warehouse during the off-season. When the number of filmings increases, they will ship more to sell.

In this way, starting work every day, the purchase of raw materials, labor costs, etc., are also reduced.The average cost can be reduced a lot.When the cost is reduced, there is room for price reduction, so that the sales in the local market of America are also improved.

In America, the retail price of Ronald's tapes has gradually become twice that of old-fashioned tapes, and the wholesale price for production companies like Roger Coleman can be reduced even lower.

Many studios that shoot low-cost productions have also begun to switch to this tape because they want to save money on a copy.

Gradually, the reputation of "Murch Super Editing Tape" was not limited to a few high-level directors in America, and gradually all practitioners began to purchase this tape.

"The quality of the factory over there is really good and stable. It's a little worse than what I made by hand, but it's more stable. If I don't ask that friend to make it, the quality will be much worse." Walter Murch picked up Several large rolls of tape were placed on the editing table.

"This year's bonus will be good, just treat it as my Christmas present for the children," Ronald said with a smile, "ah, no, this is what I brought back from the crew. They used tapes of different materials on the scene .It worked great, and this time I was on two major locations, and it didn't cost me money."

Ronald put back a couple of tapes that he had used for other purposes.

With a shrug, Walter Murch put the first reel of tape on the editing machine and began comparing it to his chart of estimated shot times before shooting began.

"Your thinking seems to be exactly the same as mine. The shooting time I estimated in advance is very similar to your final filming time."

Walter looked at it for a while, then suddenly said to Ronald.

"Really?" Ronald was also interested. After looking at the duration of more than a dozen shots, it was indeed very close to Murch's estimate.

"It may be that you are deeply influenced by Coppola's genre. I have worked with them for a long time, and I also use their method to estimate the length of the shot."

"Maybe." Ronald thought to himself, could it be that his own thinking of learning editing will also affect the director's work in turn?After all, Murch taught me some of my skills in editing.

After staying with Murch for two days, the two went through all the materials.Looking at it all, the dance scenes at the beginning and climax of several climaxes shot by Ronald are quite different from Murch's estimated time.

"I didn't expect you to be able to shoot like this." Murch was very surprised. "Your dance scenes are very different from your 'break dance'. It's a bit different from the original western cowboy movies and the fighting scenes in Xiangjiang's action movies." similar.

What is important is to cooperate tacitly to show the beauty of the dance itself.Coupled with the fact that the chemical reaction of the two protagonists is visible to the naked eye, this is also a good film technically. "

"Why are you watching Xiangjiang's movie?" Ronald laughed. When he was filming, he didn't think so.Perhaps subconsciously, I used some of the practices of those movies.

"A lot of people are watching it, and they think their route is very interesting, which is very different from Hollywood. Many people say that Jackie is like Buster Keaton in Hollywood's early silent film period."

"Jackie Chan? That's my buddy." Ronald laughed, "It's also the agent of our tape over there. I have the opportunity to introduce you to each other."

"I will first synchronize the audio and video, and then prepare the sound design. When you come back from vacation, we will start editing together." Murch nodded and said to Ronald.

"Rough editing first. Don't wait for me to come back. You taught me all my editing techniques. Besides, you also said that our ideas are close. When I come back, I will make fine adjustments."

With Murch at the helm, Ronald was happy to be at ease.He left his assistant Emile in the editing room to study and went on vacation to relax.

(End of this chapter)