Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ronald hugged Diane sweetly. He felt very relaxed when he was with Diane. They hugged each other and fell asleep.

"Buzz..." Two Tomcats flew through the air. Ronald clearly felt that he was dreaming again.

An F-5s painted black with a clear five-pointed star on its wing appeared in the dream. Then, with a buzz, another F-5s, also pretending to be a MiG-28, cut in from the angle outside the camera. The two planes were side by side, giving people a silent sense of oppression.

The pilots of the enemy planes all wore oxygen masks and never showed their faces, giving people a sense of power.

"There are four of them, four... No, five." Iceman and Slider shouted on the F-14, and soon their wingmen Hollywood and Werewolf were shot down by missiles fired by MiG.

"Let the Lone Ranger take off and go to the rescue."

This is the last air combat shot. The original director edited it really well.

"Hmm..."

Diane was grabbed by Ronald's nervous hand and woke up. Seeing that Ronald loved her so much, she happily kissed him on the face again.

"Hey? It's dawn?" Ronald felt that he had the best sleep last night recently, but it was a pity that he didn't watch the air combat shots completely.

But it didn't matter. Pete Pettigrew came up with several good maneuvers. He should be able to achieve similar effects by combining his dreams with his ideas.

He left Diane in the hotel to prepare for the audition and went to the naval base himself.

Looking at the actor who played the temporary radar officer of the Lone Ranger, Tim Robbins, who was nearly two meters tall, could not pull up the cockpit cover no matter how he adjusted his body.

Ronald wiped his sweat, "If it doesn't work, let's shoot all his shots on the ground."

Fortunately, Cameron was asked to build a cockpit on the ground in advance, because aerial shooting often has problems. Robbins is too tall to sit in it. And Barry Tubb was scared and his face turned pale, and there was no shot that could be used. Not to mention Val Kilmer, who didn't even dare to get on a plane.

"No more airplane scenes in the future," Ronald cursed.

Big machinery is very difficult to maintain and often breaks down. It can be regarded as the second most difficult means of transportation to shoot in movies, second only to trains.

Cameron's model has been approved by the producer, and the real shooting equipment is being debugged. A huge circular track was erected in a huge studio, and a front projection device was placed next to it.

The one-to-one simulated F-14A cockpit was set on the circular track. With a gentle push by hand, it rocked left and right on the track like a cradle.

"Very good, both sides can be carried out at the same time. Let Tim Robbins try it first."

Tim Robbins put on his flight suit, put on his oxygen mask, and sat in the special effects cockpit. The cockpit was specially enlarged for him to accommodate his giant body.

"Let's take a test shot."

"Are you crazy? Lone Ranger, go back and help Iceman!"

Robbins is a little actor, and he said the lines of the final air battle in a serious manner.

"I feel wrong now, I can't enter the battlefield," Tom Cruise acted beside him.

The front projector projected the blue sky and sea images taken in the air onto the screen behind the fake cockpit, and another small projector projected the cockpit reflection image taken on the F-14A Tomcat onto the glass of the fake cockpit cover.

"Cut!"

"I want to try it too!" Cruise became interested and sat in the fake cockpit to try the circular track.

"Just say something, I didn't prepare your scene today." Ronald said, this time he wanted to experiment with Cameron's toy effect.

"Ronald, you should also take a jet pilot license with me in the future, and we will fly together."

"Then you have to act well, jet planes are very expensive, and my money depends on you to help me earn it."

"Hahaha, bring me my orange juice."

Cruise took off his oxygen mask and took a sip.

"Tower, tower, request clearance." Cruise started to talk nonsense again.

"Cut", Ronald saw that the film was almost finished, so he stopped shooting and sent it to the printer.

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The fake cockpit on the ground was good, and Val Kilmer's scenes could start shooting. Ronald handed this part of the character to the second camera group and asked the second group director to direct it. He ran back to Miramar Air Force Base to personally control the actual shooting part.

This part is still the most real and shocking image. He boasted in front of Paramount President Mancuso that he would let the audience see unprecedented wonders. It depends on how to edit these scattered air combat shots into a reasonable story.

"Very good, let's keep this distance. I want a relatively still shot of the fighter behind."

Ronald watched the shooting on the ground and picked up the radio to give orders.

An F-14A flew towards the base from the sea. In the low-altitude and high-humidity environment, the vortex formed on the wing pulled out two very beautiful white clouds, wrapping the fighter.

"This shot is worth a million dollars, well done." Ronald praised the stunt plane with a camera in front of him on the radio.

"Oklahoma..." The consultant next to him, Pettigrew, would automatically answer.

"It looks good, everyone will think it is a sonic cloud that broke the sound barrier."

Pettigrew shook his head. These Hollywood people want everything to look good.

A true sonic cloud is a type of cloud and mist produced when an aircraft breaks the speed of sound, accompanied by a very loud explosion.

It's too fast, so it's hard to get good-looking shots in the air. Director Ronald actually used the vortex that the wings would pull up when flying at low speed over the sea in this high-humidity weather. However, the clouds and mist condensed by water vapor in the slow vortex are really beautiful.

"This is an aerial scissors tactic. Five MiG-28s are chasing the two F-14As in front. The easiest way to catch them is for the predators to do a cross pursuit, just like a pair of big scissors, cutting towards Prey ahead.”

Pete Pettigrew took two model fighter jets and made a cross gesture.

"In this way, there will always be an aircraft that can catch the weak point of the prey in front, and we can lock on and fire."

"Very good, let's film according to this."

"Oklahoma moms and dads are going to love this, especially this cross-cutting scissor of multiple planes. Looking back from the plane in front, it's like... how to describe it, it's like you see four or five planes... It’s like spinning around your ass, it’s very spectacular.”

"Very good, it seems like you can find a job in Hollywood in the future, Pete."

"God bless me, I hope I don't get scolded to death by my old colleagues."

A special reconnaissance camera gun was installed on the back of an F-14A, and then a movie camera and film box were added after modification.

"It's up to you, remember to fly more smoothly." Pettigrew handed over this mission to the bozo with the best flying skills.

"Remember to do a few rolls, the audience loves to see that."

"Oh!" Pettigrew closed his eyes. What's the request?

The F-14A is a twin-engine heavy fighter. When rolling, the pointing stability of the nose is not as good as that of the single-engine F-5s. It has to roll and be stable at the same time, which is a great test for the pilot's skills.

"No problem, just look at mine."

Bozo knew that his days of flying fighter jets in the navy were numbered. In the future, he would not have the chance to do these fancy jobs if he went to fly passenger planes in civil aviation, or even more boring cargo planes. He agreed immediately.

"bgo!"

After seeing the film that Bozo brought and the results after printing, Ronald and Pettigrew had nothing to say. Bozo flew so beautifully, rolled very steadily, and coupled with the distortion of the wide-angle lens, four or five " "Enemy plane" was circling behind and chasing the F-14a Tomcat, and a kind of unparalleled heroic temperament rushed towards his face.

"Very good, very good. This is the spectacle that the audience wants to see." Ronald thought proudly that the shot he shot should be even more spectacular than the original version.

"Hey, that's it for today. Contact the Navy to see when the missile can be officially approved for launch."

Ronald was still thinking about the actual shots of the two air-to-air missiles promised by the Navy.

Today, Cameron and Gale will hold a small wedding in the city hall, inviting only a few friends of both parties.

Ronald rushed back to the hotel to attend with Diane.

"Congratulations!" Ronald was both a friend of the man and a friend of the woman. He hugged Cameron and Gale, who was wearing a bridal veil, and gave them gifts.

"This is a delivery coupon for a Honda Accord. Gale needs to run frequently and needs a safer car." Ronald gave Gale a gift.

The couple gave up most of their income in "Terminator" in order to become directors and producers. The cost of the special effects equipment installed for "Top Gun" last time still had to be used to maintain daily expenses, so Ronald provided a cheap and safe Japanese car for their convenience.

"Don't I have a gift?" Cameron came over and hugged Ronald.

"I attended as the representative of the bride, Jim. I also sat on the bride's side at the dinner party. Besides, Gail is the one who manages the money in your family." Ronald joked, the husband is the director and the wife is the director. Producer is the division of labor between two people.

"Congratulations," a man with a German accent and another tall, beautiful girl also came to congratulate.

"Hello, Mr. Schwarzenegger." Ronald shook hands with him.

"Hello, Ronald. This is Bridget."

"This is Diane."

The two introduced their female companions to each other.

Brigitte Nielsen is a Danish model. She is six feet tall and matches Schwarzenegger, the Austrian bodybuilding champion.

The two of them met while filming "Excalibur" and were having a heated relationship.

"Oh, you are so strong, you are even stronger than what I saw on TV." Diane couldn't help but admired when she saw the giant, "You are much stronger than Stallone."

"Ouch", Schwarzenegger made a muscle-flexing pose.

"Any enemy of Stallone is my friend." Schwarzenegger said bluntly. Now he and Stallone are the biggest competitors.

"Then we have a lot in common." Ronald laughed. He and Stallone also didn't have a good relationship.

"Ladies and gentlemen, by the authority vested in me by the State of California, and in the presence of Mr. Roger Coleman as a witness, I declare that James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd are married. couple.”

The wedding hosted by government officials was relatively simple, and Cameron and Gale became husband and wife immediately.

Ronald and Diane also picked up fireworks and fired them at them.

"In the end, Gail's parents didn't come." Ronald couldn't help sighing. Gail felt very lonely. This is why Ronald wanted to attend the wedding and try to make it lively.

"We should go celebrate."

Ronald gestured to Bud, and he went to call the rented limousine. The newlyweds and guests were going to the restaurant for dinner. "

"Thank you," Gail came over to thank Ronald. Roger Coleman was like his father, and Ronald was like his brother. Such a wedding could make up for some regrets.

"Take it," Ronald saw the opportunity and handed Cameron a modified motorcycle pick-up voucher. It was the latest Harley motorcycle. The most famous local modification shop was replacing the parts that were prone to problems with more durable Japanese goods.

Now many Harley enthusiasts have started to do this. After all, the Harley that often breaks down is beautiful, but very impractical.

"I said, you won't forget my share."

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