Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Without the interference, the subsequent filming became smooth. Ronald's orders to the staff and actors began to be carried out without compromise, and the entire filming began to speed up.

Daniel chose to participate in the selection of the football team in physical education class. He dribbled forward and was tackled by a student from the Cobra Dojo. Daniel bravely rushed towards the opponent after getting up. The two wrestled with each other and were expelled from the stadium by the football coach.

Daniel returned home and took out the karate "secret book" he ordered from New Jersey and began to practice side kicks according to the postures in the picture. He wanted to practice karate well and defeat Johnny, Ali's ex-boyfriend from the Cobra Dojo.

Master Miyagi, a repairman, came to fix the faucet and saw Daniel kicking his legs. "Karate? Very good."

Master Miyagi, played by Morita Noriyuki, looked innocent. When he walked past Daniel, he looked at the open karate picture book and said, "Learn from the book?"

"Hey, I studied at the YMCA (YCA) for a few months," Daniel answered while enduring fatigue and pain and kicking his legs continuously. He kicked a lot and gasped for air. His center of gravity was already a little unstable, but he continued.

"What's wrong with your eyes?" Master Miyagi walked to the other side and repaired the faucet. He saw that Daniel had a black spot in his eye.

"I fell off my bike."

"Oh," Master Miyagi glanced at Daniel, "Luckily, your hand was not hurt."

"Cut!"

"Very good, let's shoot Daniel's shoulder shot in reverse." Ronald shouted. .

This was the second time Master Miyagi and Daniel met. Miyagi didn't care that Daniel didn't have a master and practiced karate blindly by following the book. He also knew that Daniel wanted to fight back after being beaten, but he didn't expose the young man.

This encounter clearly showed Daniel's hardworking character and Master Miyagi's wisdom and philosophy of not caring about fighting with karate.

If the audience watched the complete film shot at the end, at this point, most of the audience had not guessed that Master Miyagi, the repairman, was the person with the highest karate attainment in the whole film. This was Ronald's deliberate arrangement. When the two met for the third time, there was a kind of sudden enlightenment.

This shoot had a budget of eight million. With two weeks of intensive rehearsal before the start of the shoot, Ronald could carefully carve out the appearances of Daniel, Ali, Master Miyagi, and the villain Chris. Among the entire crew, only Ronald knew the important position of these shots in the finished film.

Seeing that everything was shot according to his own ideas, Ronald felt like Michelangelo sculpting David. Only in the creator's mind can there be the final appearance of the artwork, and the joy of it is difficult to tell others.

After a day of shooting, Ronald handed over the arrangements for tomorrow to the assistant director, and then walked out of the apartment where the scene was taken alone.

"Pah... Pah"

A few flashes of light made Ronald's eyes blank, and he didn't know what happened for a moment.

"Ronald! Are you and Brooke Shields a couple?" A reporter poked the recorder in front of Ronald.

It turned out that the gossip about Brooke Shields had aroused the interest of more people after being fermented by television media. The gossip tabloids in Los Angeles found out where Ronald was shooting.

"No, we are good friends." Ronald quickly took out his sunglasses and put them on. Brooke Shields's appeal to the news media far exceeded that of his other female friends.

"Do you have a chance to become a couple?" The gossip reporter refused to let Ronald go.

"We are good friends and have worked together on some projects. As for the future, I don't know." Ronald answered the question perfunctorily, walked quickly to his Saab 900, and drove back home amid the sound of reporters taking pictures.

Brooke's charm is unstoppable, and Ronald's answer was immediately tampered with into the headline of the newspaper the next Friday morning.

"Ronald, the male protagonist of Brooke Shields' scandal, is the director of Columbia's new film! He does not deny that he may become a couple with Brooke in the future."

Ronald, who still knew nothing about this, continued to shoot two key appearances the next day.

The first scene was in the cafeteria of Charles Evans Hughes Jr. High School. Daniel, whose dark circles had slightly retreated, chose in front of the dishes lined up. The food in the public schools in the Valley is much better than the high school in "Famous" which was based on the performing arts high school in Midtown New York.

Daniel picked two sausages and a pie, and asked the cafeteria lady to pick up some fried rice. Ali, who was getting food nearby, saw him, smiled happily and came over, bumped Daniel with her shoulder, "Hi!"

"Hi, there's Ali," Daniel was very happy to see the girl take the initiative to come over and touch him.

"How is life in the Valley?" Ali asked.

"Not bad, but a little boring."

"Is it more boring than New Jersey?"

"How do you know I'm from New Jersey?"

"I asked someone," Ali lowered her head shyly, indicating that she took the initiative to inquire about Daniel's background.

"Cut!" Ronald was very happy about the increasingly good chemistry between Ralph Mazzio and Elizabeth Shue. He has made so many movies, but this is the first time the shooting process has been so smooth. It seems that this method of concentrated rehearsal beforehand should be persisted if there is a chance.

"Ronald, great!"

Weintraub finally took care of his chores and returned to the set with Susan Akins. After watching this scene of Ronald, he was also happy with the state of the two protagonists.

"Hi, Jerry," Ronald hugged him happily and nodded to Susan. It seems Weintraub figured out the arrangement for the two women to coexist.

"I heard you fired associate producer Charles Okun?" Weintraub asked quietly.

"He always contradicts me in front of the crew, and I can't work normally. You know, Jerry, once the director loses the trust of the crew, it's impossible to continue filming. If someone expresses himself in every scene Views……"

"I know, I know... it's just that your firing was inconsistent with studio procedures. You know, Okun and his partner, Michael Cimino, took this to Columbia. I have to do something official. Dismissal procedures.”

"Sorry for the inconvenience, but I have no other choice."

"It doesn't matter, but Columbia's new president David Punant (the one who drove out the original president Frank Price) sent a senior executive to deal with this matter, and he offered to see you this week Take sample photos and then make a decision.”

"Okay, when is he going to watch it? On the weekend, I'll go to the screening room then." Ronald was confident in the samples he had taken.

"No...it's not convenient for you to attend. Don't worry, I will take care of all the problems, Ronald. This matter involves the struggle between the original movie gang in Colombia's top management and the new owner, the Coca-Cola Gang.

I funded this movie, and they just wanted to put a little pressure on me to take a side, you know? I'll take care of it, and you'll continue to come to the set as director next Monday morning. "

"Okay, then I'll take a break on the weekend." Ronald understood the implication.

After filming Friday's scene, Ronald went home directly. He began to call his friends to talk about the recent situation and vent the bitterness in his heart. In fact, how much power a director has in a crew dominated by a major studio is earned through his own performance. He called Cameron, who understood his troubles best.

Jim Cameron had just come off a busy writing schedule, and both scripts had been written. "Alien 2" was well received and went directly into 20th Century Fox's library of scripts to be filmed.

"First Blood 2" was the same as Ronald's first draft, which was criticized by Stallone as worthless and said that he would have to find someone to revise it from scratch, but they still paid the money according to the regulations.

Cameron asked Ronald about the filming situation of his new film. After learning that Ronald had found the feeling, he expressed his eagerness to look forward to it. The casting for his new film has been completed, and he will wait for Schwarzenegger to finish filming "Conan the Destroyer" and start shooting next year.

The second call was to her cousin Donna. When Donna answered the phone, she asked herself, "Are you really in love with Brooke Shields? You are so awesome, the boyfriend of America's number one girl."

"Huh? It's nothing. She and I are just friends."

"Don't lie to me. I saw you admitted it in today's newspaper. I called your agent. They said you were filming a movie and couldn't be disturbed. That's why I didn't call you right away."

"My crew stopped filming over the weekend," Ronald replied, "No, what about me and Brooke falling in love? Where did you hear about it? Didn't she clarify it?"

"You really haven't? Hmm..." Donna asked back, "But I read today's gossip newspapers. Didn't you say you wouldn't rule out becoming a couple in the future? I thought you two really became a couple. Well, actually, Bo Ji, the most beautiful woman, is also a bit fake..."

Feeling a little bad, Ronald put down the phone and called his agent.

"You're in the headlines again, Ronald." Niceta said with a smile on the phone, "Listen... Ronald, the actor of Brooke Shields' scandal, is the director of Columbia's new film! He admitted that he may develop into a relationship with Brooke in the future. couple."

"They also included your new movie in the report. We don't think there is any need to deny it immediately... Yes, Brooke will officially deny it. This is not a big deal in the entertainment industry. After all, you are not a real couple. . Terry will handle this matter tacitly."

"I..." Ronald was speechless. He was indeed not considered Brooke's official lover.

"Also, there is an executive in Colombia who wants to see my samples. Could you please inquire." Ronald informed Niceta of Weintraub's statement.

The two discussed it for a while, and Niceta made a few more calls to inquire about the news, and called Ronald back, "You don't have to worry. Within Colombia, the airborne team sent by Coca-Cola wants to connect Columbia's distribution department and CBS. HBO will be integrated together to form a joint venture to distribute the films produced by the three production companies in the country. They are here to put pressure on Weintraub. You can shoot as usual on Monday and treat the weekend as a holiday. But... Brooke, you'd better make a call, it's your interview that got her involved this time."

"Oh, right." Ronald immediately called Brooke's dormitory. The roommate who answered the phone said that she had gone back to her home in New Jersey.

The call came to Brooke's home again, and her mother Terry answered the phone, "Ronald, Brooke will be on NBC's Today show tomorrow to formally respond to this matter. Okay, it doesn't matter, it's not this." Scandal, she hasn't appeared on the TV station's morning show for a long time.

Do you want to have a word with Brooke? She has already gone to bed, and she has to get up early tomorrow for a morning program, so I will tell her. angry? No, it won't. We know that gossip newspapers write nonsense in pursuit of sales. The Today Show is the most-watched daytime talk show in the United States, and they couldn't be better off helping Brooke clarify. "

In his desperation, Ronald forgot about the three-hour time difference between the east and west coasts and put down the phone.

"Ring ring ring ring..." The phone rang again and Ronald picked up.

"Ronald, it's me, Diane, will you come and play with my crew tomorrow?"

"Diane? What crew? Haven't you finished filming 'Streets of Rage'?" Ronald was confused.

"Donna told me, you didn't catch Brooke Shields, and your crew stopped filming for the weekend anyway. Why don't you come to my crew to have a look, I'm filming a few more scenes on the 'Streets of Rage' crew, and it will end tomorrow. There’s a packing party.”

"What, I still have to prepare for next week's shooting."

"I'm at the original studio. If you want to come, come." Diane hung up the phone.