Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Hi, how are you?" Ronald finished shooting for the day and called Diane at home. It was late in New York, but she hadn't slept yet.

"Ronnie, it feels weird that you're calling me to ask me these questions. It's like Burt is calling me." Diane was listening over there. "I'm fine. Director Coppola is going to let me cut my hair short soon. I'm a little reluctant. You don't have to call me every day in the future."

The two chatted for a while, Diane yawned a few times, and Ronald hung up the phone and began to prepare for tomorrow's shooting.

The breaking news came from the TV again. The President gave a speech at the airport in the afternoon when he took Marine One (helicopter) to Air Force One (presidential plane) to California.

The President walked down the Marine Corps in a dark suit, and his wife Nancy wore a white shirt and black skirt. The two walked hand in hand to the podium. "First of all, we condemn the fighter jet's shooting at a civilian airliner. This is barbaric. The Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan in the past few years, which shows that they have no intention to stop this barbaric behavior..."

"Well... this is a bit strange. Why do fighter jets attack civilian airliners? If you have the guts, you can fight with American fighter jets..." Ronald thought.

The next night, the progress reached the plot where several second-generation stars played Cobra Dojo disciples bullied Daniel.

Several dojo disciples drove Honda motorcycles on the dirt road in the mountains, and Daniel was also on this road alone on a BMX.

Johnny saw Daniel, who was eating with Ali in the cafeteria, next to him, and stepped on the accelerator, letting his companions pass by Daniel one by one. .

Frightened Daniel was squeezed out of the dirt road and rolled down the hillside. He fell all over, and the BMX was also deformed.

"Cut!" Ronald stopped the filming. The stand-in was wearing the same sportswear as Ralph Mazzio and rolled very well.

Then Mazzio also lay on the ground and took a close-up of a tumble, so that when the film was edited together later, the audience would not find that this part was shot by a double.

The filming went smoothly, Ronald slightly restrained his edge, and the progress began to speed up again.

Daniel carried the BMX bike back home, and his face was cut by the dirt road. He was very angry that he could not confront Johnny and his gang head-on, and threw the broken BMX bike into the trash can.

His mother Lucille was very distressed, but Daniel was very angry at his own incompetence and had to go back to sleep. However, Master Miyagi secretly saw it and repaired Daniel's bike.

Master Miyagi returned the repaired bike to Daniel and taught Daniel to trim potted plants. He should think about what he needed first and then do it. Daniel gradually began to admire and get close to Master Miyagi. Such a father role was exactly what he lacked in his life.

Halloween soon came, and Daniel had nowhere to go. He went to Master Miyagi's house and saw Miyagi cutting Halloween pumpkin lanterns. Miyagi persuaded Daniel to go to school more often for the Halloween party, but Daniel said he didn't have the right makeup.

Miyagi helped Daniel fulfill his wish of painting a "dress that no one could see" and used copper rings and curtains to make a "showering person" look.

Daniel came to the party with a shower look, but was recognized by Ali, who was in tune with him, and laughed. She got into Daniel's shower, danced with him, and expressed her disgust for Johnny in her words.

Daniel went to the bathroom and happened to see Johnny rolling grass in the squat toilet. Thinking of Ali's words, he also wanted to play a prank on Johnny, so he connected the faucet with a water pipe and secretly poured water on Johnny.

Johnny was furious, and he found three second-generation stars who played the disciples of the Cobra Gym to chase Daniel. They all wore the same Halloween costumes of skeletons and chased Ralph Mazzio all the way to Daniel's apartment.

"Cut!"

After shooting the shot of one escape and three chases, the first real martial arts scene of the movie was about to begin. Daniel ran to the wire fence outside the apartment, but failed to climb over it. He was caught and beaten by Johnny and others. He was about to faint, but Master Miyagi came down from the sky, beat the guys from the Cobra Gym away, and saved Daniel.

This turning point is about one-fifth of the total length of the film. In terms of drama theory, it is the turning point when the first act of the film is completed and the second act begins.

It turned Master Miyagi from a repairman into a karate master, and also gave Daniel the idea to learn karate from Miyagi to prevent Johnny and his gang from continuing to beat him.

Ronald found Morita Noriyuki's stand-in, the real karate black belt master Fumio Demura. This is the first time Master Miyagi showed his true face.

"After we finish shooting the scene where Johnny and others beat Daniel, you will climb up the wire fence from the back, then fall from the sky, beat them up, and finally do the karate preparation posture in front of the camera, so that the audience can see that you are a karate master."

Fumio Demura is like Miyagi in the story. He is a real Japanese who doesn't speak English very well. Ronald explained the requirements of the filming in simple language, and then began filming.

It was an outdoor filming at night, with headlights arranged in a row, trying to create the light of the street lamps at the door of the apartment at night.

"Recording? Ready"

"Camera? Full speed"

"A!"

William Zebka and three second-generation stars wore Halloween costumes with skulls painted on their faces, and even Ronald couldn't tell who was who.

Several people surrounded Daniel, played by Ralph Mazzio, and began to push him around, and finally one of them kicked him.

"Cobra's belief, take no prisoners." Johnny grabbed Daniel and shouted wildly, venting his anger at his ex-girlfriend being robbed.

"Take no prisoners", Chad McQueen, the second-generation star, was the most enthusiastic and shouted the loudest.

Ronald grinned, it must be very interesting to shoot like this.

He raised his hand to the stand-in Fumino Demura behind the wire mesh.

Fumino Demura wore Miyagi's repairman clothes, put on a wig and a fake beard, climbed up the wire mesh in a few steps, and then fell from the sky.

"Ha!, ha!..." Fumino Demura was like a god descending from heaven. After jumping off the wire mesh, he beat several actors headed by Chad McQueen to the ground in a few steps.

"Ah...ah...it hurts..." Ron Thomas's leg was stuck by Demura and he screamed.

"Ah..." Chad McQueen was next. He was thrown to the ground by Chucun's back shot and begged for mercy.

"Help..." The last second-generation star was Rob Garrison. Seeing his two companions being thrown so badly, he simply ran towards the camera.

"Cut! Cut!" Ronald hurriedly called a halt, "What's going on? What's wrong with you? Why don't you follow the previous moves?"

"Director, Chucun's beating hurts too much. I can't stand it." Ron Thomas had the best martial arts foundation among the three and had practiced before. But even he couldn't stand Chucun's heavy hands.

"No, don't you want to be stars? How can you not stand this little pain?" Ronald was so angry that he threw his hat to the ground. The effect of this shot was very good at the beginning. If they had endured it for another ten seconds and lay still on the ground, this shot would have been completed successfully.

"Director, Mr. Demura's kick is really heavy." William Zebka also came over and complained to Ronald in a low voice, "The kick just now, even with protective measures, it didn't work. He kicked my crotch and it hurt." Zebka rubbed the inside of his thigh with his hand, and his voice changed a little.

"Ah?" Ronald looked at Zebka's protective measures. This is a magic weapon passed down from Hollywood Westerns. The actors who were kicked in the crotch would use a rope to tie their ankles tightly, and pass the trouser legs in the middle to tighten the rope.

This kick looks like a kick in the crotch, but it actually kicks the rope, but it can protect the testicles.

Demura's hands and feet are so powerful that even with the rope, Zebka is still scared.

"What should we do? Can you be gentler, Mr. Demura?" Ronald walked towards Demura, who stood there and didn't know what happened. Ronald talked to him for a few words, but didn't get the point, so he had to call Morita Noriyuki to translate for Demura.

"Hi, hi..." Morita Noriyuki communicated well with Demura Fumio, and said to Ronald, "Demura said he was already very light. If it was any lighter, it would not have the effect of hitting, and it would affect the reputation of karate."

"This?" Ronald touched his head, "Is there such a thing?"

"Hi..." Morita Noriyuki translated to Ronald, "Mr. Demura suggested that his disciples play this scene. He guaranteed that it would be successful in one go. Anyway, the audience can't recognize who you are with your skeleton costumes."

"What do you think?" Ronald looked at the three second-generation stars and Zebuka. Before the filming, they still clamored that they were karate masters, unlike Morita, who had to use a stunt double for all the action scenes.

"I, let's let Mr. Demura's disciples do it."

After suffering a few iron fists, they obediently took off their costumes and waited for Demura's disciples to come.

"A!"

Demura Fumio jumped down from the wire mesh again, "Hi!, Hi!,..." He immediately pressed down the head of a skeleton man who was about to hit Daniel. Then he kicked them down with two kicks.

After that, he found Chad McQueen's double, caught the opponent's kick with both hands, kicked him in the crotch, and then hooked his other foot on the ground, and the opponent fell to the ground obediently. Demura went up and stepped on his crotch again to make sure that he had lost his fighting ability.

Finally, Demura found Zebka's double, "Hey!", and knocked him to the ground with a back shot.

"Cut!" Ronald called a halt happily. Only a professional karate master like Demura and his disciples could shoot such a beautiful fight.

"Are you convinced?" Ronald turned his head and looked at the second-generation stars.

"I am convinced, I am convinced", Chad McQueen's eyes almost popped out of his head, and he couldn't help but protect his crotch with his hands in fear. If there was no double, those two kicks would have hit his crotch.

"Arigato!" Ronald went over to thank Fumio Demura. Such a wonderful fight would add a lot of color to the movie. What's rare is that Demura and his disciples cooperated well and finished the filming in one go without rehearsal.

"Hi!..." Demura said a lot of Japanese, and then stood still.

"It's done, Mr. Demura, you can rest. You've finished filming today." Ronald asked him to rest in the RV.

"Hi..." Demura said a lot of Japanese again.

Or one of his disciples couldn't stand it anymore, and came over and said to Ronald in English, "My teacher's crotch is torn. He tore it when he exerted force. The seam of this costume is one-sided, not very strong."

"Okay, costume, costume, get a pair of pants for Mr. Demura... um, get a blanket."

Ronald held back his laughter and quickly let Demura go over to rest.