Exploiting Hollywood 1980

On the Friday afternoon of the second week of training, Ronald came to the Debbie Reynolds dance studio. In the large practice room here, there are many mats on the floor, and the mirrors on the surrounding walls are covered with cloth. Movement director Pat Johnson is coaching the boys who play Cobra gym students in boxing.

"Hey...oh...ha...hey", several second-generation stars had cloth strips tied on their heads, put on black cobra gym uniforms, and were punching hard.

"Don't you have enough to eat? Work hard!" Martin Kove, who plays the coach, is now training the students like a real coach.

"Yes, Master!" Several students agreed loudly, and then punched harder.

Pat Johnson saw Ronald and stopped training so they could put on a show for the director.

"Pause, line up, and show your skills and strength to Mr. Ronald Lee."

"Yes, Master!" Several actors answered loudly and then moved in pieces of wood.

William Zebka, who played the villain Johnny, picked up a board and held it up, facing the other actors.

"Ah...uncle"

Chad McQueen, the son of the famous star Steve McQueen, rushed forward, punched and broke a board, and then kicked and broke another. Not satisfied yet, he asked William Zebka to get some more boards for him to perform on.

Over the past week, these second-generation stars have been trained to be quite aggressive. .

Ronald watched for a while, a little worried that Pat Johnson had trained them to be too aggressive.

Johnson said they are completely within his control. William Zebka is particularly hard-working and has a little bit of foundation. He is the best player except coach Martin Kove.

"William, you're just a bitch." Seeing that Zebka refused to spar with him, Chad McQueen said angrily and walked to the end of the team.

"Chad, your training is very effective, but I hope you can respect other actors. Your training is for making movies, not street fighting." Ronald stopped him. This second-generation star inherited his big star. Father's bad temper.

"Hey, Cobra's belief is to be brave, strike first, and take no prisoners," Chad shouted, actually rushing towards Ronald to challenge him.

Ronald was not as knowledgeable as him;

He turned to Pat Johnson and said, "You have to take it easy. I don't want the actor to be injured because he was too excited during the filming."

Action instructor Johnson nodded and stopped Chad, "Cobra also believes that discipline comes first. If the master does not give orders, the apprentice is not allowed to attack. Do you understand?"

"Understood, Master!" Chad McQueen threw a look of contempt at Ronald and retreated into the queue.

Ronald turned a blind eye to the teenager's provocation. He didn't have many lines anyway, so it didn't affect the filming. Then I went to another small practice room with Pat Johnson to watch the training progress of another group of actors.

Noriyuki Morita just came out of the small room to rest. When he saw Ronald, he quickly greeted him and several second-generation stars, and went up to welcome them into another practice room.

"This useless director, hahaha..." Chad McQueen said arrogantly. Several second-generation stars also echoed him and laughed together. Only Zebka is not a second-generation star, but he respects actor Noriyuki Morita and smiles and nods to him.

"William, William, William..." Chad McQueen and several other second-generation stars saw William Zebka's actions and went up to surround him. "Do you want to be a traitor? Huh?"

Zebka is very tired of these second-generation stars, but he is a main supporting role, not an extraneous one. "Ronald is the director, and I don't want to offend him."

"Director? Huh! The producer can replace him at any time. You are such a coward." Chad McQueen smiled, let go of Zebka, and patted his cheek, "As long as you respect me, I I will protect you, even if the new director comes, your role will be fine."

Ronald, who had arrived in another classroom, saw the protagonist Ralph Mazio lying on the ground. Noriyuki Morita, who failed to take a break, obediently began to stretch his legs with the help of his assistant.

"Ouch...ah..." The two assistants helped the two actors one-on-one and began to stretch their legs and start the routine of howling like ghosts and wolves.

Ronald stood aside and watched. Ralph Mazzio, who was still playing the role of the apprentice, was more flexible, while Noriyuki Morita, who was already middle-aged, really couldn't do some actions.

"The philosophy of Goju-ryu Karate is to strike later and stop with stillness. Today we will talk about the eleventh move of Sharo, which is to take the technique."

Movement instructor Pat Johnson asked the two to stand up and began to demonstrate the use of a karate move with an assistant. When the opponent punched him, Johnson slightly rotated his upper body, externally rotated his arms to deflect the opponent's punch, and then lightly hooked his legs with his lower body, causing the assistant to fall down due to his own inertia.

"Pay attention to this approach and use outward rotation and force. You will also try it later." Pat Johnson demonstrated again to his two apprentices.

Ronald saw some clues. Pat Johnson taught the two protagonists a lot of martial arts philosophy, and then had them dismantle some moves in slow motion, telling them how to use these moves to subdue the opponent, but never trained them in basic skills.

Contrary to the many teenagers outside, the hard training there starts with basic postures and horse stances in a strict manner, but the coach does not teach the principles of martial arts.

Gu Jia

The two classes of players trained in this way have completely different understandings of karate. In the minds of Noriyuki Morita and Ralph Mazio, karate is a concept, while people like Chad McQueen believe that karate is a group of techniques similar to boxing.

In this way, the actors on both sides were misled and got closer to their characters in the movie. Ronald was very satisfied. When the training was over, the audience would be able to tell the difference once the people on both sides of the camera took the stage and posed.

"By the way, where's Elizabeth Su? Why didn't you see her?" Ronald remembered that he arranged for Su to come to observe the training, and they spent time together every day to develop a tacit understanding.

"I'm here..." A girl wearing a large T-shirt and long shorts ran in from another small door of the practice room, holding a large bag of chocolate biscuits in her hand.

"You are..." Ronald was caught by a flash of light from the small door facing the sun on the street. He couldn't see the other person's face clearly, so he covered his forehead with his hand and looked carefully.

"Oh my god..." Ronald finally saw clearly that the fat girl who came in was actually Elizabeth Sue.

"How come you've become so fat in less than two weeks?" Ronald shouted angrily, "How can you film like this? Why did Ali fall in love with Daniel at first sight when he's so fat?"

"I...I...I have nothing to do here, and they won't let me play." Elizabeth Su was a little flustered after being robbed. She is an athletic girl who has practiced gymnastics since she was a child and is also a member of the school football team.

When I arrived in Los Angeles, I spent two weeks in a dance studio, not knowing what to do. She could only watch as Ralph and Morita began to train the magical karate, but she had no one to teach her.

Watching the two of them stretching in boredom every day, they couldn't help but start eating all kinds of snacks, and finally it got out of hand.

"Starting today, you're going to eat healthy and practice karate with Coach Pat Johnson." Ronald snapped at Sue with a straight face.

Then he turned back to action director Pat Johnson and said, "You have to add another female apprentice. If this continues, my Ali will be so fat that both Daniel and Johnson will dislike her.

Pat Johnson nodded, one more person is also a teacher.

"You may have to teach her according to the standards of those outside. Su is an athletic girl. If she doesn't exercise enough, she will gain weight quickly."

"Okay, no problem." Pat Johnson couldn't help laughing.

"It's okay, I won't fire you. But you have to stop eating snacks from now on and train well. This is your screen debut, don't mess it up." Ronald reached out and took the chocolate chip cookie from Su's hand. He tore open the package and threw it into his mouth.

It's quite delicious.

"Let's take a break." Noriyuki Morita couldn't stand the amount of exercise again and asked to take a break again.

Elizabeth Su ran over and smiled at Pat Johnson, "How do we practice?" She had long wanted to start practicing this magical oriental martial arts together. With Ralph Mazzio's athletic ability, she You will definitely beat him to the ground during practice.

Morita walked outside. Given his age, he was originally a comedian and had never been in the habit of exercising. This kind of high-intensity stretching was simply unbearable for him.

"Mr. Morita."

As soon as he ran outside to take a rest, Morita was stopped by William Zebka. Zebka kind of blends in with the group that doesn’t belong to the second generation of stars, and he’s always here alone during breaks.

"Hello, William. Don't be angry for those boys. As long as you make this movie, you will become famous. I have a feeling that Ronald is a very good director, and he may really make you famous." Morita Zezhi saw that the second generation Xing was a little rude to Zebka just now, so he comforted him smoothly.

"I..." William Zebka had just turned eighteen and was dubious about this statement. "But I heard from Chad McQueen that Ronald could be replaced at any time."

"What did he say?" Noriyuki Morita pays more attention to gossip about the crew. Having been in the TV industry for more than ten years, he knows that sometimes gossip is often ahead of formal notices.

In the small classroom, Ronald watched Elizabeth Sue take off her shoes and practice the basic postures of karate with Pat Johnson. Sure enough, this athletic girl's athletic abilities are much stronger than those of the fucked-up Ralph Marzio and the skinny monkey Noriyuki Morita.

"Oh, practice hard." Ralph Mazzio also whistled to cheer Su.

"When I practice well, you will definitely not be my opponent." Elizabeth Su returned the look with disdain. "Ah" a kick, very standard.

"Ronald-san, please come here." Noriyuki Morita walked into the classroom silently and said to Ronald.

Noriyuki Morita was introduced to Weintraub by Ronald, and he absolutely did not want Ronald to be replaced. Usually everyone in the crew is branded as "someone's person". If Ronald is replaced and the new director doesn't appreciate him, there are a hundred reasons why he should be replaced.

"I'll talk to Weintraub, don't worry about it, just keep training."

Ronald thought about the senior consultant who often gave Weintraub advice. Could this person be his "spare tire"? Weintraub, a Jew, really likes to have backup plans.

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