Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Ralph Mazzio, wearing shorts, walked into the waves to practice his balance. He struggled to keep his balance as the waves crashed against the shore.

"Basic skills, basic skills, pay attention to breathing, keep balance." Master Miyagi on the shore began to shout to him, asking him to practice the three basic skills against the waves.

The dark waves, illuminated by the sun in the backlight, shine like dragons and lins.

Daniel gradually gained a firm foothold in the dots of golden light and started practicing again.

Ronald, who was behind the camera on the shore, thought of the past when he was filming "Rock and Roll High School" and shot a set of backlit shots that were too artistic and ended up not being able to fit into the plot, and the effects were terrible during editing.

Five years have passed, and now Ronald is finally at the helm of an eight-million-dollar blockbuster. His aesthetic taste, which he acquired through repeated training when he was a portrait photographer, is just right for showing off in this movie.

Fumio Demura and his disciples have left the crew and returned to Northern California to open a karate gym. Filmmaking is like this, except for the director and the protagonist, everyone else comes and goes.

The filming has entered the second month. The temperature in Los Angeles in late autumn is okay, but the water is quite cold. Ralph Mazzio also worked hard for the shooting effect.

"cut!"

As soon as Ronald shouted stop, Ralph Mazio's manager rushed over and threw a blanket over him to keep him warm.

Noriyuki Morita and Elizabeth Su envied this the most. Ralph Mazzio was paid $200,000 for "The Kid" and was the only actor on the cast who had a personal manager.

The next scene shows Master Miyagi supervising Daniel's practice in the waves. Standing on a wooden pile on the beach, he also began to practice the unique skill of Ryukyu Goju-ryu karate - "Crane Kick".

This time, Ronald's friend and action assistant Darryl Vidal put on a wig.

Vidal is also very short. Except that his skin is darker, when he puts on a wig and looks at it from a medium shot, he looks almost the same as Noriyuki Morita.

In order to prevent blurring and improve the beauty of the lens, Ronald used a backlit lens.

under sunlight,

Master Miyagi was surrounded by a halo of golden light. He opened his arms and raised them high by his shoulders, and then started to kick with his left foot.

At the moment Vidal stopped, everyone unexpectedly saw him take off with his right foot, kick forward high with his right leg, and then land with his right foot.

He raised his hands high like a crane, and gestured with his left foot to attack. Two consecutive fake movements attracted the opponent's attention to his left side. No one expected that his right foot, which was used as a supporting foot, could still lift his leg.

"cut!"

"What kind of move is this? Why did you end up kicking out with your right foot?" Weintraub, who came to watch the filming of the "Trick", was greatly surprised.

"In Wing Chun, a southern martial art in China, this is called shadowless kick, because in this case, the opponent's attention is on both hands and left foot, and they could not have expected that the right foot can still be used here. ." Ronald explained.

Daryl Vidal received Ronald's request before the filming of the movie started and began to carefully consider the method of playing this trick. He looked for a lot of martial arts moves, and finally found the shadowless kick move in the ancient Wing Chun book, and then combined it with Ronald's romanticized Tai Chi move, White Crane Wings, to create He used this extremely beautiful trick - Crane Kick.

"!" The camera continued filming.

Daniel was draped in a blanket, with Master Miyagi's back to the sea. Under a circle of light emitted by the backlight, their heads, shoulders, waist, legs, and their bodies slowly appeared on the horizon, toward the horizon. The camera comes.

Daniel asked Miyagi, "What is the name of the move you just practiced?"

"The crane kicks, and the white crane spreads its wings."

"Is this a trick? Does it work?"

"If used correctly, invincible." Miyagi replied.

"can you teach me?"

"First learn to stand, then learn to fly."

The two walked to the car. At this time, two white people who discriminated against Japanese Americans were leaning on a car in Miyagi, drinking beer, and casually placed the beer bottle on the hood of the car.

When Miyagi politely asked them to leave with the beer bottles placed in the car, the two white men spoke racially slurs:

"Here comes a little Japan. If you have the ability, just take it yourself."

"ah!"

Miyagi made a side chop, and the wine bottle broke in the middle.

The wine bottle was cut off with a diamond by a prop in advance, and Morita was able to capture it with his hands.

"How did you do it? Break all the wine bottles at once." After Daniel got in the car, he asked Miyagi in surprise. He felt that this teacher often gave him surprises.

"I don't know, it's my first time too."

Miyagi still looked full of humor. He didn't want Daniel to be too ambitious, so he still concentrated on preparing for the karate championship.

"cut!"

"Come and take a photo, Daryl," Ronald pulled Daryl Vidal. Both he and Noriyuki Morita were dressed as Master Miyagi. Ralph Mazzio, as well as Ronald himself, Weintraub and others, posed for photos at sunset.

"The filming here is finished. Remember, you followed me during the championship. In addition to being a guest player, I also need you," Ronald told his good friend Vidal, and then returned to film the remaining scenes.

The next shot was of Daniel secretly practicing crane kicks on a wooden pile, and of him standing on a boat alone to practice balancing. At the beginning of practice, the shadowless foot was always difficult to use, and Ralph Mazio almost fell down several times. After many times of proficiency, Ralph Mazzio managed to kick it out.

Ronald captured all the shots of him from being unfamiliar to being proficient, from which he was able to select suitable shots and use montage to explain the process of Daniel practicing the unique skill Crane Kick and gradually getting better.

The championship is coming soon, and Miyagi starts special training with Daniel. He put on baseball catcher's gear, got a piece of armor on his chest made of stringed bamboo strips, and asked Daniel to punch with all his strength.

"Harder, harder!" Miyagi taught Daniel how to punch, and after specially training him on how to maintain balance and the basic skills of blocking, Miyagi finally began to teach Daniel how to punch.

"Very good, continue like this." Miyagi drew a bull's-eye on the bamboo armor to facilitate Daniel's positioning. He admired Daniel's understanding. Gudian

"Yeah, yeah, steps like a butterfly, punches like a bee." Daniel began to imitate the butterfly steps of boxing champion Ali, spinning around Miyagi. Now that Master Miyagi praised his punches, he felt like he was invincible.

This frivolous behavior made Miyagi angry. He fell to the ground and placed his right foot on Daniel's leg. "Focus! Focus! Daniel. The championship is coming soon. If you don't want to get beaten up, just concentrate."

After practicing, Daniel hoped that Miyagi would teach him some more moves. Just punching and kicking was not very satisfying. Could he use some unique moves like the Crane Kick?

"Quality is better than quantity. If you practice these moves together with the basic skills, they are enough to be used in the championship." Miyagi still has the attitude of trying to learn to run before you learn to walk.

The crew then moved to a mansion borrowed by Weintraub on the edge of Mulholland Park not far from Sinoe. This is not a luxury area in Beverly Hills, but many upstarts in the film industry like to buy homes here.

The neoclassical mansion looks very grand with its columns and arches. Ronald arranged for the camera crew to set up several people. The particularly large living room on the first floor can hold dance parties. Opening the two back doors is the kitchen, which serves food to guests all night long.

Daniel put on his nice red and white clothes and made an appointment with Ali to pick her up at her house for a date. But when they arrived at Ali's mansion, they found her dancing with Johnny in her arms.

It turns out that Ali's parents wanted to get her and Johnny together. When the two were forced to dance, Johnny wanted to forcefully kiss Ali, but Daniel walked in and saw him.

Daniel had an inferiority complex, turned around and ran away, just in time to bump into the servant who was delivering the meal, with baked beans scattered all over his clothes. All the guests laughed.

Ali slapped Johnny for kissing her, then turned around and saw Daniel running away, and couldn't catch up with him.

Daniel returned to Master Miyagi's house in despair, and found that Miyagi was as lost as himself, drinking alone.

Master Miyagi pointed out a photo to Daniel and told him that this was what Mrs. Miyagi looked like when she was young. He asked him if Mrs. Miyagi was a beauty.

"She is beautiful, where is she now?"

Master Miyagi picked up the wine glass and took a long sip. He talked about how his wife was beautiful when she was young and how she was a prodigy. They also had a child, who was the first generation of the Miyagi family to make a name for themselves in America.

In the end, Miyagi said some unintelligible words, what complications, I regret to inform you, concentration camp, 442. Then he walked into the bedroom and sat on the bed, drinking by himself.

Daniel saw a small box on the table, opened it, and found the collection that Miyagi only took out and peeked at on this anniversary every year.

Inside the box was a report of Miyagi's military exploits and medals from the 442nd Infantry Regiment in World War II. Daniel couldn't figure out what level they were.

What Ronald had the props create was the highest honor a U.S. soldier can receive—the Congressional Medal of Honor. Its blue ribbon and inscription containing the word "valor" are easily recognized by connoisseurs.

In addition to this one, Miyagi also received a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, and a Purple Heart. Underneath the medal is a letter.

Daniel picked it up and took a look. It was from the concentration camp that he was informed that his wife had unfortunately died of complications during childbirth, and both his wife and son had died. The reason was that there were no doctors inside the concentration camp and the obstetrician at the hospital arrived late.

Daniel was shocked to learn about Miyagi's tragic past. He went to see Miyagi in the bedroom.

Miyagi sat motionless on the bed, as if there was no sound. With fear in his eyes, Daniel approached quietly, wanting to observe Miyagi's breathing, and suddenly found that Miyagi was snoring.

Daniel breathed a sigh of relief, helped Miyagi to the bed and covered him with a blanket. Bowed slightly to him, closed the door and left.

"Cut!" Ronald stopped the filming, and then the props quickly began to be rearranged, and the next scene was to shoot the birthday scene of Daniel and Miyagi. The props team brought in a real cake and put candles on it.

For Daniel's birthday, Miyagi bought him a cake and candles, and the two of them wore birthday hats and blew out the candles together. This is Daniel's first birthday with a father figure. He and Miyagi both have father-son feelings for each other.

Miyagi took out a birthday gift, which was a karate uniform. It also has the logo of Master Miyagi’s favorite, bonsai.

"My wife embroidered this for herself and gave it to you."

"This is too precious, I can't have it." Daniel knew Mr. Miyagi's past.

"Alas... alas... put it on." Miyagi regarded Daniel as his godson, and gave his godson the karate uniform sewn by his wife, which was considered as fulfilling his wish.

Daniel suddenly remembered that he had to finish dinner with his mother. Of course Miyagi understood. He said that he also had a gift for him and asked him to pick one out of the cars he was cleaning and waxing in the yard as a gift and drive away.

Daniel had just gotten his driver's license and couldn't refuse, so he jumped into the convertible and drove away.

Miyagi watched Daniel drive out of the yard from behind, and the lonely old man felt a little comfort in his heart.

Daniel drove along and passed the carnival where he and Ali played together.

One of Ally's girlfriends, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, comes to Daniel and tells Daniel that Ally was forced to dance with Johnny and she slapped him.

Daniel realized that he was not dumped, and Ali was not getting back together with Johnny, so he went to find Ali to reconcile.

Daniel met Ali, who still had feelings for him, and after explaining, the two settled their differences. "I want to participate in the karate championship, and I don't have a cheerleading team yet." Daniel has become more confident now that he has his own car. He wants to invite Ali to accompany him to the karate championship.

"I can be your cheerleader." Ali just wanted to go out on a date with Daniel, and she didn't care what he did.

"I might lose the first game. "

"Then let's leave early."

"Ali!"

"Daniel!" The two hugged each other.

The two young people realized that they really liked each other's personality, not because of vanity due to being a karate champion or a rich girl.

The two kissed each other.

"cut!"

The shooting was successfully completed and everyone had the weekend off.

Weintraub came over to confirm with Ronald the final filming of the championship scenes next week. They rented the gymnasium of California State University, Northbridge, and hired more than 500 extras to serve as the audience. The success or failure of the film largely depends on whether the climax of the third act is shot well.

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