Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Cut!" Ronald covered his face, suppressing the urge to laugh, and waved to the staff standing nearby, "I have to freeze again."

This scene shows Daniel returning to Miyagi's home and continuing his training in basic karate skills. Miyagi is continuing his daily practice of catching flies with chopsticks. According to Ryukyu folk tradition, a person who can catch flying flies with chopsticks can achieve great success.

The staff member opened the window screen and waved away the flies. He pulled over another small freezer and carefully took out a new fly.

This is the famous "fly shepherd" in Hollywood. Whenever a scene with flies is filmed, this man who knows the most about flies in Hollywood is indispensable. He carefully released the flies, and then said, "Hurry, the freezing slows down the flies, and it can only last for one minute. After this time, they regain their vitality."

"Hurry up, get ready to shoot, A!" Ronald quickly resumed shooting.

Ralph Mazzio picked up a pair of chopsticks, waved them in the air, and clicked them a few times, but missed. Gradually a minute passed, but Daniel still didn't catch it. The fly regained its strength and buzzed away from the small coffee table where he was sitting, flying towards the camera.

"Cut!" Ronald waved his hand angrily, and with a snap, the fly fell half-dead to the ground. I've taken pictures many times, but I just can't clip them.

"Director, do you want to die?" The prop team came over to discuss with Ronald. The poor fly flapped its wings desperately on the ground and struggled, obviously foreseeing its future fate.

The prop is tied with a very thin steel wire, and then the other end is inserted into a long hollow pipe, so that the steel wire slides inside to simulate the flying appearance of a fly.

Ralph Mazio tried several times and caught the fly with a click, "Master Miyagi, Master Miyagi, I caught it, I caught it..."

Master Miyagi didn't expect that his apprentice would actually catch the fly he had been trying to catch for many years without success. He was so angry that he slapped his chopsticks on the table.

"Cut! How about it?" Ronald asked the director of photography.

Director of photography James Crabb slowly shook his head at him, "This fly can only move forward and backward, and the range of up, down, left and right is too small, and it is not like the flight path of a normal fly at all.

"Hey..." Everyone sighed and had to do it again.

The prop master came up with another idea. He used a piece of black silk thread and tied it to a two-meter-long wooden stick. The other end hung naturally, and a thin black woolen thread was tied at the bottom. He then used the wooden stick to hold it up to the camera. Above, wave slightly, like this

"This fly is missing a little fluff," Ronald instructed while sipping his black tea. That piece of wool is very light when flying, but not as fluffy as a fly.

The prop master looked around and spotted the short, fat and cute man wearing a black sweater.

"What are you doing?" The manager tried his best to protect himself, but the prop master ignored him and took a few handfuls from his beloved sweater, and then carefully glued the thin fluff to the end of the wool.

"Cut!" This time the director of photography made an OK gesture.

Daniel was very happy that he, a novice, was able to do something that Master Miyagi could not do.

Miyagi was a little displeased that Daniel had taken the lead.

He continued to let Daniel work on his home, first asking him to use two large sand wheels to smooth the wooden floor. Then he asked Daniel to paint the exterior walls of his yard and house.

"Pay attention to your breathing, exhale, inhale...you do it first, I have something to do when I go out."

Daniel gradually became dissatisfied with Miyagi. Especially after painting the walls of the house, Miyagi still hummed a tune and asked him to come back to work at six o'clock the next morning. After that, Daniel stopped working completely.

Daniel felt that Miyagi was taking advantage of his desire to learn karate and letting him work for him for free. He worked for four days, but he didn't learn any basic skills of karate. His body was so exhausted that he could hardly lift his hands.

Master Miyagi noticed Daniel's muscle soreness. He rubbed his hands to warm them up, and then started massaging Daniel's body. Daniel screamed in pain, and then he realized that it was no longer hindering his activities.

"Cut!"

After watching this performance, Ronald felt something was wrong.

Noriyuki Morita and Ralph Marzio both looked at him, wondering where they were acting wrong.

"It's none of your business. This plot needs to be reshot." Ronald announced that he would take a half-hour break to rethink the plot.

"Ronald, wouldn't it be great if we filmed according to the script? Do you have any new ideas? If it delays the shooting schedule."

Weintraub came over to chat for a few words. Producers were most afraid that the director would come up with new ideas during filming, which would often prolong the filming cycle and cause budget overruns.

He felt that the American audience couldn't understand Master Miyagi's "magic skills" anyway, so why not make him a magic man who could heal all injuries by rubbing his hands together.

Ronald didn't agree with this treatment. He didn't notice it when he was writing the script based on the dream, but during the actual filming, the "magic power" suddenly appeared, which was indeed very jumpy.

It may be able to coax children, but Ronald's idea is not to make it into a movie that only teenagers will like.

The plot of a good movie can be very simple, but the various details in the film must stand the test, so that it can be remembered for more than twenty years.

"That's right, Jerry," Ronald thought for a moment, and compared it to Weintraub, Susan, and the two actors who came over, "Lucas, the director of Star Wars, Luke Skywalker in the early stages of the movie In the plot of escape, where every second is extremely precious, a minute was inserted for Master Obi-Wan to explain the principle of 'The Force'."

Weintraub nodded frequently. He now watches the samples shot by Ronald every day, and gradually trusts the young director more and more day by day. Cimino and the others always fed him a lot of theories every time they met, which made sense to him, but when it came to the actual shooting, he couldn't tell whether it was good or bad based on the actual shooting.

And he could understand everything Ronald said, "Understood, Master Miyagi is Daniel Skywalker's Master Yoda, and they just happen to talk a bit alike, always saying inverted sentences."

"That's it." Ronald felt that using Star Wars as a metaphor was a good way for everyone to understand. "Have you ever heard of the concept of 'Qigong'? I'm at the 'Asia Pacific Museum' in Pasadena, I met Chaoli, a Chinese Tai Chi instructor, and he talked about the concept of Qigong. Injecting Qi into acupuncture points on the human body can treat injuries. "

Ronald took some of the things from the boxing manual that the Chinese coach Chao Li had given him and picked out some easy-to-understand words for Morita Noriyuki to listen to.

"Acupuncture points are points on the meridians of the human body... Anyway, just hold on to this point and pretend to input energy into it."

"The Force?" Noriyuki Morita also used the concept in Star Wars as an analogy.

"A!"

Valley

Master Miyagi made the starting gesture of Tai Chi, the sky is round and the earth is flat, the virtual spirit is pushing hard, then he opened Daniel's arm, quickly tapped a few acupuncture points on the arm, and then used the grabbing technique to rub up and down to quickly unblock it. Several meridians.

"What happened? Daniel turned his arm and found that the pain accumulated for four days was gone, and now he could use his arm freely again.

"This is called Qigong, a secret technique passed from China to Ryukyu."

"How is this done? Can I learn it?" Daniel's curiosity began to take over again.

"Shut up!" Miyagi shouted violently, making Daniel frightened and concentrated. This was exactly the Zen method of giving a wake-up call.

"Daniel-san, give me some waxing and polishing."

Daniel squatted down and pretended to be waxing.

"Oh...oh..." Teacher Miyagi realized that the child was stupid again, "Stand up straight and do it."

"Wax, polish, wax, polish" Daniel did it casually a few times.

"Waxing!, glazing! Pay attention to your breathing, inhale...exhale..." Mr. Miyagi corrected him and asked him to do it properly and forcefully.

"Ah!, ah!" Miyagi suddenly punched Daniel.

"Ah...ah..." Daniel was like a clockwork machine, automatically using waxing and polishing methods to block Miyagi's punches.

"Now do sand pose."

"Ah...ah..." Miyagi made two low blows, but Daniel defended them with instinct.

"Paint the wall style."

"Ah...ah..." This time Daniel even blocked Miyagi's kick.

"Ah...ah...ah...ah..." Miyagi struck out with a mixture of fists and kicks. Daniel relied on the basic Karate Goju-ryu skills he learned by washing the car and the sand to resist his mixed attacks.

"Daniel-san, come back at six o'clock tomorrow morning." Miyagi bowed to Daniel.

"Hey..." Daniel also bowed deeply. He felt very magical. He could master the basic skills of karate just by working.

"Alas... alas..." Miyagi pulled Daniel up and said, "Always look at the other person's eyes. Even when bowing, don't look elsewhere."

"Sayonara", Miyagi looked directly into Daniel's eyes and said goodbye to him.

"Shayo Nala", Daniel began to be convinced by this master.

"It's very good." Susan Aikins watched the samples that were developed that day in the screening room. She was already confident in Ronald's ability. She was very excited to see Miyagi's acupuncture and tendon techniques.

"Very good, I'll go to the Chatsworth Reservation tomorrow." Weintraub was also very satisfied.

Chatsworth is a large lake near the San Fernando Valley. It and adjacent wetlands form a large piece of undeveloped land that is a designated reservation by the California government.

This used to be the Chatsworth Reservoir, but during the geological survey after the California earthquake in the 1970s, it was discovered that it was located on a fault zone. In order to prevent earthquakes, after the overloaded water in the reservoir was drained, it became a large lake with beautiful scenery.

"A!" Ronald, wearing a sun hat and sunglasses, picked up the electric horn and issued the order to start filming.

On the quiet Lake Chatsworth, some wild ducks are calling. On the right side of the camera, Daniel, played by Ralph Mazzio, is rowing desperately and slowly sailing in from outside the camera. After a long time, Ralph Mazzi Otto was almost exhausted when he rowed, and then Ronald shouted:

"Cut! Change to a closer shot."

This shot of Ronald is to give the audience’s eyes some ice cream to eat. After a long period of narration and lyricism, there is such a very literary scene of rowing. The audience can relax their emotions and prepare for the upcoming third act of the karate championship showdown.

"Stand on the edge of the boat, practice the basics, pay attention to your breathing... Uh, don't scare my fish away." At the other end of the boat, Master Miyagi sat and threw out the fishing rod, "Balance is the key. If you have a good balance, karate is good. If you don't have a good balance, you might as well go home and not practice."

Daniel practiced "waxing style", "sand style", and "painting wall style" while asking Miyagi if he often fought when he was a child.

"I fought a lot, but Miyagi doesn't like fighting."

"Why? Didn't you learn karate for fighting when you were a child?"

"There are people who are better than you." Miyagi smiled at Daniel, "Did you learn karate for fighting?"

"No, I learned it to avoid fighting."

"Okay, Miyagi is watching you."

"When can I learn to punch?" Daniel began to be curious again and was unwilling to continue practicing basic skills.

"To punch, you should practice being soaked first." Miyagi shook the boat hard, and Daniel didn't master the balance and fell into the water.

"Ahaha, Daniel-san, you're really still wet behind your ears."

"Why are you like this, are you crazy?" Daniel cursed in the waist-deep lake, and then climbed onto the boat shivering with cold.

"I'll remind you of the importance of balance." Miyagi took out a blanket and covered him.

"Cut!" Ronald gave an order, and Ralph Mazzio's manager hurried up and wrapped him in a cotton coat. The water in Chatsworth Lake in late autumn was already very cold, and Ralph Mazzio didn't even need to act, but he was shivering with cold.

The director of photography made an OK gesture, and Ronald quickly asked Ralph Mazzio to go to the trailer to change clothes.