Exploiting Hollywood 1980

LATEST WEBSITE: On the afternoon of the first day of main shooting for "Longwei Kid" in Los Angeles, the crew arrived at Rio Carrillo State Beach in Malibu. Weintraub got permission to shoot. Clear out the state beach for the crew to shoot.

On the beach in autumn, the wind was already a little cool, and Ronald gave an order for the assistant director to start organizing the extras.

Ralph Mazio, in a tank top and barefoot, plays beach football with a gang of Latinos in his new apartment. Daniel, played by Ralph Mazio, begins to show off his dribbling skills, scrambling left and right in a crowd of Latinos, dribbling the ball forward, and everyone can't break his ball.

Suddenly he took the ball forward a little longer, and his friends rushed to fight. You and I are fighting for each other, stirring up countless sands on the beach.

The sand rose and splashed onto the girls who were sitting in a circle. Daniel suddenly became immobilized, and he stared at the girl in the middle, motionless.

"cut!"

Ronald stopped the filming, Ralph Mazio's acting skills are trustworthy, and he played the appearance of a middle school student who fell in love at first sight very well. DP James Crabbe gave a thumbs up that the shot was over.

Next up is the reverse, a shot of Ali, played by Elizabeth Shue. .

While waiting for the camera crew to arrange the shooting positions, Ralph Mazio came over and had a chat with Su.

He threw the football down and began to juggle it with his feet and knees. "Look, it's very simple, just like this, one or two... one or two... keep the ball within the range you can catch."

Elizabeth Su looked at Ralph Mazio, who was teaching seriously, with a smile in her eyes. She stepped forward and squeezed at Ralph who was like a dry chicken, grabbed the ball, and quickly took it away.

"Hey..." Ralph Mazio lost face when the girl snatched the football, but he was embarrassed to go up and grab it back.

Ronald, who was watching next to him, covered his face, how could he be so weak.

"Hehehe..." Elizabeth Su looked at his innocent look and laughed out loud, "I have been on the school girls' football team since I was a child."

"Oh?" Ralph Mazio put his hands on his hips,

"Director Ronald asked me to practice."

"I know", Elizabeth Sue glanced at Ronald standing in the distance, and kicked Ronald with the football.

Ronald, who was relieved to see the two resume talking and laughing, was almost knocked down by a football. He glanced at Elizabeth Sue and said with a smile, "Go get ready, it will be your turn later."

This is the third scene in the entire movie, after LaRusso and her son arrive in Los Angeles. Daniel goes to the beach to play football with his Latin friends in the apartment and sees Ali who is in love at first sight.

In order to ensure the acting skills of the actors, Ronald basically shot all the scenes according to the sequence in the script.

The camera position was quickly transferred, and Elizabeth Su did her makeup and wore a blue and white striped one-piece swimsuit, revealing her white and tender skin. She lost some weight, but still retained some baby fat.

Ronald looks through the camera's viewfinder, and Elizabeth Shue is smiling at the camera with a headband in the same blue as her swimsuit.

"!"

Shooting for the next shot.

Elizabeth Shue looked sideways in the direction of the camera for the close-up shot.

Standing behind the camera, Ronald, who was watching the actor's performance, couldn't help nodding secretly. Elizabeth Sue seemed to have regained her chemistry with Ralph Mazio, and the two showed interest in each other.

The sun that was about to set came from behind the camera, Elizabeth Su squinted her eyes, and a halo was found on her blond hair.

She looked at the camera, looked at the ground a little embarrassed, and then suddenly blinked her left eye with a smile on her lips, raised her head and made a face behind the camera.

"cut!"

"Very good, your wink just now was very good." Ronald immediately went up to compliment a few words, the girl was attracted, and then responded, which was a very good improvisation, "But I believe you can do better …”

"Let's do it again..."

This time Ronald stepped back several steps behind the camera, watching the overall composition and the actor's body movements.

Elisabeth Shue looked at Ralph Mazio behind the camera, grimaced again, and smiled.

"Cut!" Ronald felt that this treatment seemed to be a little worse than the last shot. It was always like this when shooting a movie. Generally speaking, the first shot is full of emotions.

"The third scene, the second mirror, the first article."

After filming the close-up of Elizabeth Shue, the crew immediately moved to the next shot.

The sun was about to go down soon, Ronald hurry up, instead of applauding and congratulating everyone on the completion of the shot, he immediately moved on to the next one.

Elisabeth Sue sat there, the football ran into her hands, she took it and threw it to Ralph Mazio.

Ralph Mazio caught the ball with his thigh, then with his legs and feet, began to juggle the ball.

Elizabeth Su looked at the ball and pretended to be interested.

Seeing that Ralph was about to flip the ball, a Latino group actor rushed up as promised and broke the ball with his head, "Don't show off here."

"Who is that in the blue swimsuit?" After Daniel apologized to Ali, he caught up with his companion.

"Hills, referring to the rich people in Beverly Hills)."

"On the mountain?"

"Just the rich," the Latin companion told Daniel.

Several girls sitting on the ground over there all stood up and went to swim in the sea. Ali, played by Elizabeth Sue, stood up last, pulled her swimsuit, and walked into the sea. She also looked back at the distant camera, and then again.

"cut!"

Ronald is very satisfied. Both shots achieve the desired effect in one shot. A scene on the beach is the first time the hero and heroine meet, and they both have a strong interest in each other. This makes a good first impression in the minds of the audience.

In particular, Elizabeth Sue, the scene of looking back twice, played a girl's curiosity about the boy she met for the first time, and her emotions of wanting to know more about the relationship very well.

"It seems that Ralph Mazio's skills have been recognized by her." Ronald was very satisfied with his moves.

"Everyone goes to the tent to rest, we will wait for the rest of the content after dark." The first assistant director picked up the loudspeaker and began to notify everyone.

"Is it true? Ronald's girlfriend is really Brooke Shields?" Elizabeth Shue and Ralph Marchio, walking back from the camera, put on bathrobes. It's really cold in the sea this day.

"Didn't you see it too? The National Enquirer published their photos." Ralph Mazio also whispered, "At Princeton, Brooke Shields also invited our crew members to dinner. Probably It was photographed by the paparazzi at night when Ronald took her back to campus."

"Really?" Elizabeth Su looked back at Ronald, who was discussing with the assistant director and others, and became more and more curious about him. Unexpectedly, Brooke Xiaosi was also captured by him. What's so special about Ronald?

Soon the sun began to go down, and the props team brought a lot of firewood and lit a bonfire. The crew began filming the evening scene.

Here, Daniel, encouraged by his Latin friends, bravely went to meet Ali with a blue headband. A friend even directly assisted, picked up the football and kicked it over the bonfire.

With a snap, the football fell to the ground, and the girls picked it up and handed it to Ali, the most independent and assertive.

Elizabeth Shue picked up the ball and walked towards the camera.

"cut!"

Gu Yan

Ronald directs the camera to change positions, and the next is the scene where the two male and female protagonists formally introduce each other.

Elizabeth Shue went to Ronald after receiving makeup on the spot.

She was wearing a white cashmere sweater with the blue headband on her head, and saw Ronald talking to an old man.

She didn't know that it was the crew's associate producer, Charles Okun, only to hear that Ronald and him seemed to have had a small argument.

"Why not give Ali a slow-motion close-up? Don't we just need to render the atmosphere of her and Daniel's love at first sight?" The old man Charles Okun said with his hands spread.

"First of all, Ali and Daniel did not fall in love with each other at first sight. Daniel has an obvious affection for Ali, but he has no confidence in pursuing a rich girl. Now Ali is just curious about Daniel, and then he is for himself and his ex-boyfriend Johnny. It was only after a battle that Ali really admired him.

Also, if you have a different opinion, you can raise it while watching the demo, don't challenge my authority on the set. "

Ronald was very dissatisfied with Charles Okun's behavior on the set to point fingers at him, but he pointed out his problems in public and had to fight back quickly. Otherwise, if the staff sees that they can't convince the public, many people will have distrust of themselves as the director.

This will cause a lot of problems in the follow-up shooting. If everyone comes to their own decision and has to explain it, then don't be a director. So Ronald quickly made a clear threat to Charles Okun.

Charles Okun shrugged, expressing his innocence and just having some ideas to share.

Ronald waved and told him to back off. Then he turned back and saw Elizabeth Su standing beside him, as if he had something to ask himself.

"What? Do you have any questions about the next scene?"

"No no, I know how to act. I'm actually here to confirm a rumor to you." Elizabeth Sue saw Ronald scolding the assistant producer just now, and she thought that this was the one who could get Brooke Shields.

"What rumor?"

"You... Are you Brooke Shields' boyfriend?" Elizabeth Sue looked at Ronald, as if to see from his face whether he was lying.

"What? I didn't, I didn't, who did you hear that?" Ronald was startled, how did he and Brooke spread to the crew, "Did Ralph tell you? He's talking nonsense. Yes, Brooke and I are just friends, and I directed one of her commercials, just like you directed your chewing gum commercial."

"Oh," Elizabeth Shue looked at Ronald's eager denial, funny, was he really not? But the average American boy, who has the opportunity to have an affair with Bo Ji Xiaosi, should insist on it.

"I didn't listen to him, I was... Your agent should be looking for you anyway."

"Director, look at this angle." Director of photography James Crabbe told him to go over and locate the camera.

Ronald, who was in doubt, ignored this matter and went to the camera to get busy.

"!"

Under the ingenious arrangement of the lighting engineer, a high-power lamp was hidden behind the bonfire. Generally, the brightness of the campfire is not enough, and it needs to be supplemented. This kind of light shines out like the light of a bonfire, and the audience in front of the screen can't see the flaws.

"You seem to have dropped something." Ali, played by Elizabeth Sue, held a football and said to Daniel, who had gathered up his courage.

"Yeah, I hope I didn't bother you." Ralph Mazio took the ball and continued the conversation for a moment.

"You dunk the ball," Ali made a gesture of dipping the ball with her thigh, "Can you teach me how to do it?"

"Oh, that's very simple", finally reaching his strengths, Daniel immediately explained, "You use one foot first, and then you can use two feet when you are proficient..."

Daniel bent his knees and juggled the ball with both thighs.

"And then three or four?" Ali could actually play football and deliberately found a topic to meet Daniel.

"Yes, then three or four... with the instep, it's more difficult."

The two began to practice the ball deliberately, one intentionally, and the other intentionally.

"You start like this, and then..."

Daniel, a boy who likes to show off, starts teaching Ali various tricks. And Ali got a little impatient, she just gave this stupid boy a chance to get close to her, she took football...

"And this..." He kicked the football out of the way.

"cut!"

Ronald took the lead in applauding, and he felt that the chemistry between the two protagonists was just right. Not all viewers can feel this subtle emotion. But interested audiences, or teenage audiences who have had similar experiences, can't help but smile when they see this.

Everyone applauded, and today's progress has been filmed.

Only Associate Producer Charles Okun didn't applaud, and he crossed his arms across his chest, as if to make a comment.

"Hi everyone, to celebrate today's successful shooting, I've got a barbecue and beer." Producer Weintraub came in with a lot of meat and beer.

He took off his sunglasses and had been watching for a long time just now. At least Ronald's command was light, and all the staff were convinced of him. Half of my heart was also put down. Just wait and see Ronald go to the field to shoot, and the samples shot in the morning.

After some barbecue and beer, Ronald, Weintraub, Charles Okun, and Susan Akins, among others, came to a screening room in Columbia and watched the quick-printed samples.

The advantage of a big production is here. The footage shot this morning has been printed by a special person.

The screen flashes Ronald LaRusso's mother and son leaving home in New Jersey, and the car breaks down at the gate of Princeton, and the two push the car to start.

Then the camera moved to the apartment with three palm trees at the door. Mother Lucille said to Daniel, "Aren't you happy? There is a swimming pool here. When you wake up every morning, roll to the side and you will reach the swimming pool."

"Of course" Ralph Mazio's Daniel very accurately captures that hint of helplessness for his eternally optimistic mother, still thinking of his friends in New Jersey. "

The next shot was taken by Ronald and the others in the remodeled repair room on the first floor of the apartment. For the first time, Mr. Miyagi played by Morita Noriyuki is trying to catch the flying flies with chopsticks.

Impatient that Daniel came to fix the broken faucet in the apartment.

This is Miyagi's first appearance, and the audience is here to be tricked by Ronald. Master Miyagi, a master of karate, appeared as a person who spoke without grammar, and seemed not to care much about his work as a repairman.

Associate Producer Charles Okun, taking out his own notes, cleared his throat, ready to start talking about Ronald's inadequacies and shortcomings.

Weintraub put his arms around Susan, and the two sat in the back, watching the demos affectionately.

The two of them regarded watching the demo as watching a movie, turned their heads from time to time to talk, and then kissed.

"Jerry, did my phone book fall on your car, honey." A middle-aged lady walked in from outside. Walk in the direction of Weintraub.

"Oh, shxt!"

Weintraub, who was kissing Susan, saw his wife Jane Morgan walk in quickly, and she saw her husband and secretary kissing at a glance.

Jane Morgan shrugged and walked out without saying a word.

"Jane," Weintraub chased after him.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.

Only Ronald looked at Susan Akins as if petrified, then put his hands on his face, bowed his head, his shoulders shrugged silently.

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