Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The latest website: Weintraub recruited the senior brother of Chuck Norris Tang Sate Club, Pat Johnson, to serve as a martial arts instructor and train actors.

Pat Johnson is slightly bald, with a moustache and hair on his exposed arms, which looks like a strong male hormone.

After Ronald met him, he told him about the concepts of the two karate styles in his script. One is Chris's preemptive strike, leaving no prisoners and eliminating the opponent's ability to fight back. Another kind of Miyagi-sensei does not use martial arts to bully others, but only uses it to defend himself.

Pat Johnson praised and shared Ronald's philosophy, "Ronald, I have a lot of students in Hollywood, and you're the first person I've met in the film industry who understands the philosophy of martial arts. Listen. Saying that you have practiced, why don't we try it out."

"Okay," Ronald started to play with the opponent a few times. The first two times were dropped by the opponent at one time, and the third time he might let Ronald win.

Ronald saw that he was more powerful than Vidal, and he was not as obsessed with his own ideas as Chuck Norris. He was an enlightened martial artist. He quickly chatted with him about the movement design of the two genres and how to make the audience alike. You can tell the difference by looking.

It turns out that Pat Johnson is a professional caster. He was originally a black belt in karate, and he followed Norris just to take advantage of his fame.

"My idea is that as soon as the disciples of the two genres appear, the audience should be able to see the obvious difference. The students of the glasses dojo are intimidated by the coach, and everything remains an unnecessary aggression.

On the other hand, Teacher Miyagi's firmness and softness are kind to others. Usually, he can't see that he is a master of martial arts, and he only shows his edge at critical moments. . "

"Then your actors, do you have a foundation in karate or other martial arts?"

"Except for Coach Chris who has practiced karate and wrestling with the protagonist's opponent Johnny, the other actors probably don't have any martial arts training."

"Well, I will carefully design two training methods so that they are separated from each other when they start training, and they can't see each other's training content, so that they can connect with karate with the concepts I instilled in them."

"That's a good way," Pat Johnson's idea, reminded Ronald of Coppola. During the filming of "Urchin", he let several young people deliberately prank Diane Lane, so that they can maintain a relationship similar to the characters in the movie in their lives.

"My request is that after they finish training, they will agree with the fighting concept of their characters in the movie script, so that when they are filming, they will act in their true colors, and the confrontation will appear real."

"It's no problem, I need a month, five days a week, and in four weeks they'll be able to make a movie."

"I have a friend Daryl Vidal, who is also a karate coach. Let him cooperate with your teaching. Do you need anything else in motion design?" Ronald likes this kind of professional talent. He couldn't beat him either, and this level of professionalism was reassuring.

"I think you might need some professional stuntmen, karate is different from other martial arts. If it's boxing, any stuntman can do two strokes. But a karate stuntman, if you're not a professional, can't make a good move. They The difference between fighting in Europe and America is not small.”

"Do you have a team?" Ronald trusts an opponent who can simply knock himself down.

"I'm not like Chuck's team, he has his own business to do. I recommend a karate master from the East, Fumio Demura, who has a big dojo in California."

Wennan Demura is a real Dongying, and he is the fifth dan of karate. He was one of the first people in America devoted to the promotion and teaching of karate.

Interestingly, he himself has learned the Ryukyu Ryukyu Ryukyu Ryukyu style and the Ito style of the Eastern Ying. He knows exactly two genres that Ronald wrote.

Weintraub was full of praise after meeting with his team. It happened that out of the village and Morita Noriyuki, who played the role of Miyagi's master, were both small, and by the way also signed a stand-in contract to let him take Morita's place to shoot those fighting scenes.

With the action team in place, Ronald set about getting Weintraub to sign all the main actors and get them to LA as soon as possible to train. He himself and art director Cassidy, began to set in Los Angeles.

"How's this apartment?" Art Director Cassidy asked Ronald, pointing to a location he found.

"Like the apartment Daniel's mother lived in."

This Venetian apartment has three palm trees at the door, a dry swimming pool inside, and is surrounded by three-story low-rise buildings on three sides.

Ronald thought it was interesting, kind of like the apartment he had just lived in in Los Angeles. The swimming pool in the middle was built by the developer, but due to the high maintenance cost, the residents were unwilling to share it evenly.

Daniel's mother, Lucille, found a job as a secretary in a computer company and could afford such an apartment with maintenance workers, but she couldn't afford any more expensive ones.

"Is there a maintenance room?"

The two found the maintenance room of the apartment, which was very small inside. Ronald felt that the framing wasn't enough.

"Unfortunately, we had to find another maintenance room for framing. It would be nice if there was a big room here, because the shots here are concentrated and shooting in different places, it will cause confusion," Ronald said.

"I've thought about it for a long time. Come and see." Art director Cassidy took him to the back of the first floor.

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"Is this a garage?" Ronald saw a large space, the size of two apartments, which could park four cars side by side. Most of the tenants of this apartment are low-income, so there are not many cars to buy, so the garage is not big.

"Yes, let the set surround this place on three sides and make it a maintenance room where Master Miyagi works, and one side here can be used for cameras."

"Very good, Susan, what do you think?" Ronald looked at Susan who was following.

"You all said yes, then let's settle down."

Then there is the venue of the Cobra Karate Hall. Ronald and art director Cassidy, again on the Miracle Mile next to Museum Row in Los Angeles.

This is a commercial street with the highest population density in Los Angeles, most like New York, with many old buildings. There is a street shop, the current owner is going to give up the lease.

Pushing open the door, a large space appeared in front of you. Ronald measured the open space back and forth and thought it was okay. Cassidy reminded him to look outside, which happened to be a street scene from the Miracle Mile.

Ronald, who was very satisfied, asked Susan if he agreed, and after getting her consent, the selection of another location was completed.

"When will this place be renovated? Our actors are still waiting to train," Ronald asked art director Cassidy.

"I'm afraid it won't be anytime soon. Negotiations with the landlords will take a little while, and on top of that, their leases won't expire in two weeks."

"That won't work, we have to start karate training as soon as possible."

"I know there's a place." Susan followed them on location for a few days, and also admired Ronald's efficient work attitude. She remembered the female star she met at the party before.

"This is the dance studio you said Princess Leia opened?" Ronald came to the place Susan introduced. A large dance studio with mirrors and handrails for practice.

"No, it's Carrie Fisher's mother, Debbie Reynolds. She's going to open a dance studio now."

"That means it hasn't opened yet?" Ronald thought to himself. That's not bad. The rent could be cheaper. He walked around the wall, and these mirrors could be covered with a cloth so they wouldn't interfere with training. There is also a small classroom next to it, just enough to separate two groups of people for training.

Debbie Reynolds made her debut in musicals. Her debut film is the famous "Singing in the Rain", a cow dancer who danced on the sofa with the king of dance, Jim Carrey. Now she is no longer as beautiful as she used to be, or she has never been the kind of glamorous type.

"Hello Debbie, I've always been a fan of yours."

"The director is so young now. When I was making movies, the directors were middle-aged." Debbie Reynolds hugged Ronald and kissed him, "Thank you, dear, for having this Compared to the rent, I can start advertising for admissions.”

It turns out that Debbie Reynolds is still waiting for the money to run the dance studio.

All the actors also signed contracts with Weintraub, and all the actors with action scenes were called to Los Angeles to start a month of intensive training.

Weintraub's funds began to flow out like water. All actor training hours are also paid according to the union minimum wage. There are also rentals of various venues and equipment, and the cost of filming in Los Angeles is getting more and more expensive.

Ronald stuffed Vidal into the training team and reported his progress to himself every day. In the time I have freed up, I am busy with other exterior scenes and the choice of interior scenes.

Action director Pat Johnson does have two hits. He immediately saw that Martin Cove had real skills, and he freed him to serve as the coach's deputy.

For Kov and his disciples, including William Zebka, and the second generation of Yiganxing, the training is very strict. Squat and bench press every day, making these young actors moan.

Fortunately, there are a lot of karate training contents, kicking the target and hitting the plank every day, which allows the teenage boys to brag to their friends, so they practiced very seriously, which made Ronald a lot at ease.

On the other side of the training class, there are only two trainees and one audience. The trainees are Morita Noriyuki and Ralph Mazio. Their training content is completely different from that of the Cobra class, and they practice all kinds of flexibility and coordination. The audience was Elizabeth Shue, who took a semester off from Harvard to shoot, and she also spent every day with Ralph Mazio to cultivate a tacit understanding.

The idea of ​​action coach Pat Johnson is that since it is a late attack, it must have more flexibility than the opponent, can avoid the opponent's punches, and then attack from the opponent's weak link on the side.

Therefore, two practitioners, one old and one young, were made to cry and howl every day when doing Lajin. But instead of being asked to do a lot of strength training, they listened to Johnson telling the origin story and philosophy of karate.

So the three of them are full of a favorable impression of karate. In their view, karate is a martial art with more philosophical thinking than practical training.

"I think it's very interesting. When will you come and see? Both sides are training karate, but the effect is completely different. I think it is very similar to what you want to show in your script." Vidal called Ronald again at night to report. , report the training progress.

"Okay, Friday is the last day of training for the first week, I'll go check it out."

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