Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Without interruptions, the next shooting becomes smoother. Ronald's orders to the crew and actors began to be carried out without compromise, and the whole filming began to speed up.

Daniel's gym class chose to participate in the football team's selection. He dribbled the ball all the way and was tackled by a student from the Cobra Dojo Gang. Daniel, who got up, bravely rushed towards the other side. The two scuffled together and were both ejected from the stadium by the football coach.

Daniel returned home, took out the karate "cheats" mailed in New Jersey, and started to practice side kicks according to the posture on the picture. He wanted to practice karate well and defeat Ali's ex-boyfriend, Johnny, at the Cobra gym. .

The repairman, Master Miyagi, came to repair the faucet and saw Daniel kicking his legs, "Karate? Very good."

Master Miyagi, played by Morita Noriyuki, looked innocent. When he passed by Daniel, he glanced at the opened karate book, "Learn from the book?"

"Hey, I studied at the Youth Association (YMCA) for a few months," Daniel replied while holding back fatigue and pain and kept kicking his legs. He kicked a lot, gasped heavily, and his center of gravity was a little unsteady, but it continued.

"What's wrong with your eyes?" Master Miyagi walked to the opposite side, repaired the faucet, and saw that Daniel's eyes were dark.

"Falled on a bike."

"Oh", Master Miyagi glanced at Daniel, "Fortunately, I didn't hurt my hand."

"Cut!"

"Fine, let's do the over-the-shoulder shot of Daniel instead," Ronald shouted. .

This is the second encounter between Master Miyagi and Daniel. Miyagi disapproved of Daniel without a master, so he practiced karate blindly with the book, and knew that Daniel was beaten and wanted to be beaten back, but he did not expose the young man.

This encounter revealed Daniel's hard-working personality, Miyagi Master's wisdom, and his disapproving philosophy of fighting with karate.

If the audience watched the final filmed complete film, when they got here, most of the audience had not guessed that the repairman, Master Miyagi, was the person with the highest karate attainments in the whole film. This was Ronald's deliberate arrangement. When they were waiting for the third fateful encounter between the two, there was a sudden realization.

With a budget of 8 million for this shooting, Ronald was able to carefully craft the appearances of Daniel, Ali, Master Miyagi, and the villain Chris during the intense rehearsal two weeks before the shooting. Of the entire crew, only Ronald knew the important positions of these scenes in the finished film.

Seeing that everything was shot the way he wanted, Ronald felt like Michelangelo sculpted David like that.

Only in the mind of the creator can the final completion of the artwork look, and the happiness in it is difficult to tell others.

After one day's shooting was completed, Ronald and the assistant director handed over tomorrow's arrangements, and then walked out of the apartment alone.

"crack...crack"

A few flashes of light blanked Ronald's eyes, and he didn't know what was going on.

"Ronald! Are you and Brooke Shields a couple?" A reporter poked the tape recorder in front of Ronald.

It turns out that Bo Ji Xiaosi's gossip has been fermented by TV media, which has attracted more people's interest. The Los Angeles gossip tabloids found out where Ronald was filmed.

"No, we are good friends." Ronald quickly took out his sunglasses and put them on. Brooke Shields' appeal to the news media far exceeds that of his other female friends.

"Then do you have a chance to develop into a couple?" The gossip reporter refused to let Ronald go.

"We are good friends and have collaborated on some projects. As for the future, I don't know." Ronald replied nonchalantly, walked quickly to his Saab 900, and drove home to the sound of reporters taking pictures.

Brooke's charisma was unstoppable, and Ronald's answer was immediately altered to be the headline of the next Friday morning's newspaper.

"Borgy Shields scandal actor Ronald is the director of Columbia's new film! He does not deny that he may develop a couple with Brooke in the future."

Ronald, who didn't know anything about it, continued to shoot two key appearances the next day.

The first was in the dining hall of Charles Evans Hughes Jr. High School. Daniel, whose dark circles had receded a little, was picking out the dishes in a row. The food in the public schools in the Valley is much better than that of the high schools in the "Famous World" in Midtown New York, which was based on the high school of performing arts.

Daniel picked two sausages and a pie, and asked the cafeteria aunt to add some fried rice. Ali, who was eating next to him, saw him, smiled happily, and bumped Daniel with her shoulder, "Hi!"

"Hey, there's a Ali," Daniel was very happy to see the girl take the initiative to come over and make physical contact with him.

"How's it going in the valley?" Ali asked.

"Yes, but it's a little boring."

"More boring than Newark, New Jersey?"

"How do you know I'm from Newark?"

"I asked someone to ask." Ali bowed her head shyly, saying that she took the initiative to inquire about Daniel's origin.

"Cut!" Ronald was delighted with the growing chemistry between Ralph Mazio and Elisabeth Sue. I have made so many movies myself, and this is the first time the filming process has been so smooth. It seems that there is a chance to stick to this method of concentrated rehearsal beforehand.

"Ronald, great!"

Gu Zhu

Weintraub finally finished his chores and returned to the set with Susan Atkins. After watching this shot of Ronald, he was also happy with the state of the two protagonists.

"Hi, Jerry," Ronald hugged him happily, nodding to Susan. It appears Weintraub has made arrangements for the two women to coexist.

"I heard you fired Associate Producer Charles Okun?" Weintraub whispered.

"He's always going against me on set and I can't work properly. You know, Jerry, once the director loses the trust of the crew, it's not going to go on. If every shot has someone to express himself Views……"

"I know, I know... it's just that your firing doesn't fit with the studio's workflow. You know, Okun and his co-star Michael Cimino stabbed this thing to Columbia. I have to do something official Dismissal procedures."

"Sorry for the inconvenience, but I have no other choice."

"That's okay, but Columbia's new president, David Purnant (the one who kicked out Frank Price), sent a high-level man to deal with this, and he offered to see you this week. Take a sample and make a decision.”

"Okay, when is he going to watch it? On the weekend, I'll go to the screening room." Ronald is confident in his dailies.

"No...it's not convenient for you to be there. Don't worry, I'll take care of everything, Ronald. This matter involves the old film gang in the upper echelons of Columbia, and the fight against the new owner, the Coca-Cola gang.

I invested in this movie and they just wanted to put a little pressure on me to take sides, you understand? I'll take care of this, and next Monday morning, you'll continue to come on set as director. "

"Okay, then I'll take a break for the weekend." Ronald understood the implication.

After filming Friday's scene, Ronald went straight home. He started calling friends, chatting about the recent situation, and spitting out the bitterness in his heart. In fact, how much power a director has in a crew led by a big studio is still won by his own performance. He called Cameron, who understood his distress best.

Jim Cameron just got out of his hectic script writing, and both scripts have been written. "Alien 2" was well-received and went straight into Twentieth Century Fox's library of scripts to shoot.

"First Blood 2" is the same as Ronald's first draft. Stallone refuted it as worthless, saying that he would have to find someone to revise it from scratch, but they still paid according to the rules.

Cameron asked about the shooting of Ronald's new film, and after learning that Ronald found the feeling, he expressed his eagerness to look forward to it. The casting of his new film has been completed, just wait for Schwarzenegger to finish filming "Conan the Destroyer" and start shooting next year.

The second call was to her cousin Donna, who answered the phone and asked herself, "Are you really in love with Brooke Shields? You are so amazing, the boyfriend of America's number one girl."

"Huh? No, she and I are just friends."

"Don't lie to me. I saw that you admitted it in the newspaper today. I called your agent. They said you were filming and it was inconvenient to disturb you. I didn't find you immediately."

"My crew stopped filming over the weekend," Ronald replied, "No, what is Brooke and I in love? Where did you hear that? Didn't she clarify?"

"You really didn't? Hmm..." Donna asked back, "But I read today's gossip newspaper, didn't you say that you can't rule out becoming a couple in the future? I thought you two really became a couple. Well, actually Bo Ji's first beauty is also a bit fake..."

Feeling a little bad, Ronald put down the phone and called his agent.

"You're in the headlines again, Ronald." Nisita said with a smile on the phone, "Listen... Brooke Shields' scandalous actor Ronald is the director of a new Columbia movie! He admits that he may develop with Brooke in the future. couple."

"They put your new film into the report, and we don't think it's necessary to deny it right away... Yes, Brooke will officially deny it. It's not a big deal in the entertainment industry, after all, you're not really a couple either. . Terry will have a tacit understanding of this matter."

"I..." Ronald was speechless, he really couldn't be regarded as Brooke's official couple.

"Also, there is an executive in Colombia who wants to see my demo, can you ask." Ronald informed Nisita about Weintraub's statement again.

The two discussed it for a while, and Nisita made a few more calls to inquire about the news, and called Ronald back, "You don't have to worry. Inside Columbia, the Airborne team sent by Coca-Cola wants to bring Columbia's distribution department, and CBS, HBO's integration, forming a joint venture to distribute films domestically from three studios. They're here to put pressure on Weintraub, so you can shoot on Mondays and take a vacation on weekends. But... On Brooke's side, you'd better make a phone call, this time it was your interview that involved her."

"Oh yes," Ronald immediately called Brooke's dorm, and the roommate who answered said she had returned home to New Jersey.

The call went to Brooke's house again, and her mother Terry answered the call, "Ronald, Brooke will be on NBC's Today show tomorrow to officially respond to this. Well, it's okay, not this one. Gossip, she hasn't appeared on TV's morning show for a long time.

Would you like to have a word with Brooke? She has gone to bed, and tomorrow there is a morning program to get up early, I will tell her. angry? No, it won't. We know that gossip newspapers are scrambling for sales in pursuit of sales. The Today Show is the most-watched daytime talk show in the nation, and they couldn't have been better if they helped Brooke to clarify. "

In desperation, Ronald forgot the three-hour time difference between the east and west coasts, and put the phone down.

"Ring, ring, ring..." The phone rang again, and Ronald picked it up.

"Ronald, it's me, Diane, will you come and play with my crew tomorrow?"

"Diane? What crew? Isn't your 'Street of Rage' filming over?" Ronald asked inexplicably.

"Donna told me that you didn't catch Brooke Shields, anyway, your crew stopped filming on the weekend. Why don't you come to my crew to see, I'm shooting a few more scenes in the 'Street of Rage' crew, it just ends tomorrow, and it's still tonight. There's a packing party."

"Then what, I have to prepare for the shooting next week."

"I'm in the original studio, come if you want." Diane hung up the phone.