Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Diane, not... Dean, Madam Dean." Ronald called the hotel where Diane, who was still in the hair country, was staying.

"Hey, Ronald, it's you, the Chinese people like our 'Cotton Club' very much, and they invite us to many salon activities." Diane received a call in the room.

"Did you have a good time in the hair country? Come back soon, Diane. Lucas is going to make a new movie, and he needs to be good at acting. I recommend you."

"Um...um...you invited me back to the Oscars? Okay, I'll buy tickets right away."

"What, the international long-distance noise is too loud, I can't hear it." Ronald put down the phone, and went to Miramar Airport with Bud Jr. to prepare for today's lift-off shooting.

"Why, are you going back? Don't you stay here for a few more weeks? You speak French, people here like you, we can continue to go to the bar at night, there is also a 'Cotton Club' here in Paris. It's just right for you New clothes, and there are many handsome guys in the hair country film industry to know."

Lonetra, another actress in the movie "Cotton Club", asked Diane to continue to accompany her, "I heard that there are many male stars in the country who are also going."

"No, I have a rare chance to appear at the Oscars now, so I'll book a ticket." Diane carefully guarded the secret of Lucas' casting brought by Ronald, and did not let any actress on the crew know.

"Then I'll go by myself. I'll go with Kyber from the crew. He can also speak French and can be my interpreter." Longnet McKee was very eager to try it out. He heard that Christopher Lamber, who was coming to the club tonight, Especially now, the hair country is a popular niche student, very handsome.

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"What do you guys call this move?" Ronald was in the lounge of the base, watching the pilot "Idiot" and former top gun school instructor Pete Pettigrew, the current naval advisor to the crew, demonstrate with model airplanes Flying action in real air combat.

"This is barrel roll. The power of the f-14 is strong, and barrel roll has an advantage over MiG. Experienced pilots can use barrel roll to induce the opponent to rush forward, and use the complexity of compound maneuvers to prevent the opponent from effectively aiming."

"Yes, in your script, before the Lone Ranger came to support the Iceman, he escaped the cannons of the enemy planes several times, and it was this kind of barrel rolling. The instructor of the top gun can use it to lure you to keep chasing, But it just can't be locked."

"This action seems to be relatively rigid, but we still go up and try it."

The three planes took the sky very far,

The f-14a of the idiot in the front, the MiG-28 simulated by the f-5s in the middle, and the f-5s with the modified camera gun in the last one, Ronald is in the back seat, and he personally sees what he can shoot. What kind of shot. "

"How is it? Are you dazzled? Bozo's flying level is very good. The plane behind him struggled, and there was no way to lock him."

After coming down, Pettigrew was very satisfied with the pilot's dogfighting level. The pursuit and escape, one after the other, in a real top gun school were also first-class.

Ronald didn't speak, and barrel rolling was really a boring-looking move. The tumble radius of the fighter jet moving around the spiral is too large, and when it is shot close, it is always in and out of the camera.

Far away, and the details on the fuselage cannot be photographed, the fighter aircraft looks too small on the screen, and there is no sense of oppression on the anamorphic widescreen.

"Come on", and after a few hours, the samples that were quickly developed were loaded into the projector.

"Oh, this is a disaster."

Ronald looked at the footage on the screen, and as expected, the f-14 Tomcat was photographed like a toy plane, without texture, and the barrel rolling maneuvers on the screen made it difficult to see any good effects.

"How could this be a disaster? Bozo flies so beautifully, two more fighter jets can't catch him."

"I mean it's a disaster for the audience. Trust those Oklahoma moms and dads, they don't know barrel rolls, compound maneuvers, dogfights, they know it's ugly. I would never shoot something that ugly. Maneuver. You gotta think again, Pete, the Navy's planes can do some nice manoeuvres."

"Okay," Pettigrew scratched his head, these Hollywood young people tortured themselves to death. Be nice, not usable.

While designing the air combat, several actors who have completed skydiving training are taking turns taking off, sitting in the back seat to shoot the shots inside the cockpit.

"vomit……"

Most actors still can't get used to this high-g fighter maneuver. Barry Tabb, who played the "Wolfman", had his vomit bag full, and staggered off the plane. He stumbled and fell to the ground. He was nauseated again, and he fell on the ground and vomited.

The assistant of the crew hurried up to help him up, helped him aside, washed his face with hot water, and slowly recovered his blood.

"Although this experience is very exciting, I really vomit badly. I didn't wear an oxygen mask in order not to dirty the cockpit. I vomited too much. I'm sorry, director."

Barry Tabb also came to apologize.

Ronald looked at his pitiful appearance, and was too embarrassed to blame him, so he had to comfort him.

"Do all fighter pilots have to wear oxygen masks?" Ronald asked the "idiot bozo" beside him.

"The regulations are like this, but people generally don't wear them, which hinders radio calls, and it's unclear when wearing a mask. We usually wear it on one side, show our mouth, and buckle it up when we really want to maneuver at high altitudes."

...

"The next time the pilot takes the actors to fly, don't make such a big maneuver." Ronald greeted several flight instructors at the top gun flight school at Miramar Base after watching the printed sample.

"Please have pity on my actor, look at Barry Tabu, his face, look at his face, it's already blue, I heard that people who have a heart attack look like him. ' Ronald said, pointing to Barry's face on the screen.

Several flight instructors exchanged glances. Indeed, some actors were really impatient to fly and closed their eyes when doing stunts.

"Only Tom Cruise is getting more and more used to flying, but high g is the specialty of fighter pilots after all. Make a rule that with actors in the back seat, no stunts of more than 4 g are allowed." Pete Pettig Lu also came out and ordered, and the actors in the past two days have been tossed enough.

"Then what else can we fly? Can we defeat enemy planes by level flight?" The pilots were also dissatisfied with the movie's inability to show real air combat.

"I learned a little bit of Hollywood knowledge, let me tell you, do you know what Oklahoma's parents are..." Pete Pettigrew took the high salary of the crew, and his heart has "mutated" to Hollywood Here, he is the most suitable person to explain to his former colleagues that the movie is not real.

"All departments pay attention and start shooting."

The next day, Ronald sat in the back seat of the two-seater f-5s fighter jet, and personally went to the sky to shoot the aerial combat footage. He gave the order to the radio.

"Got it, Hollywood. Tommy feels good with me."

The pilots were a little dissatisfied with Ronald for not letting them do combat maneuvers, so they called him "Hollywood", which happened to be the same as a pilot in the movie, teasing him for not understanding and pointing fingers.

"Received, take your time with the 'groom' and don't do more than 4g." Ronald couldn't argue with these daring pilots with oversized egos, so he had to accept the nickname "Hollywood".

"Less than 4g..." The pilot with the call sign "Groom" was very dissatisfied. What maneuver is there? He had to pull the joystick, and there was a roll.

This kind of maneuver that rolls around the axis of the fighter itself has no effect in combat. It is the most basic maneuver. The only advantage is that the load is small.

"Oh, what's this action? 'Viper', why didn't you tell me earlier." Ronald was in the back plane, looking very excited, he called out the callsign of consultant Pete when he was serving.

"It's not a maneuver, Hollywood. It's of no value in combat. Also, next time you call me a callsign, bring your own callsign for easy identification, over."

"But, this one is really nice. Oklahoma anyway..."

"Oklahoma mom and dad love it!" Pettigrew recited it.

"Well, very good, this roll is very good, we need to take more shots, give me a few shots of each aircraft air combat."

Ronald was very satisfied after seeing the printed samples. How exciting is this roll? Coupled with the special effects of the late MiG-28 cannon firing, which approached with air-to-air missiles and was avoided by a roll of the f-14a, the audience must be very excited. "

"Okay, you have the final say here, Hollywood." Consultant Pettigrew was out of sight. With this roll, the fighter's guns at the back didn't need to be adjusted. One long burst would kill the plane in front.

"Okay, this is the biggest result of our recent filming. If you think about a few good-looking stunts, I'm leaving early today to pick up people at the airport."

Pettigrew slapped his eyes, "Okay, I'll pick a few good-looking ones, the ones that Oklahoma's parents love to see... I'll just say that this is the result of my reasonable efforts. , otherwise the director still wants the f-14a to kick the crane."

"Brother Ronnie, do you really want to recommend me to audition for Lucas's crew?" Diane sat in Ronald's Mercedes. She thought about it while sitting on the plane, but she was afraid that she had heard it wrong. The first thing you need to do when you see Ronald is to make sure. "

"Didn't you say go to the Oscars?" Ronald joked to her.

"Okay, okay, you know, I have other actresses there, and I don't want them to know."

The two reached the reserved hotel room. Diane waited for little Bud to close them, and then hugged Ronald, "Brother Ronnie, why are you being so nice to me this time? You don't recommend anyone else. Just recommend me."

Then she kissed Ronald several times.

"Is it because you think my acting is good?" One of Diane's eyebrows began to rise again, grimacing at Ronald.

"You go take a shower first, take a rest, you are tired from the journey."

"What do you say, I want to hear from you that I am good at acting."

Ronald stroked her hair, the pale blond dye that hadn't quite faded.

"Your actors always put your acting skills in the most important position. In fact, when a film director chooses a role, he first looks at whether you match the character's temperament, then looks at the chemical reaction between you and other characters, and finally considers it. acting."

"Huh?" Diane looked surprised. "You're telling the truth? I always thought they said that to keep us from being too sad when we were eliminated. That's not what Bert said."

"It's true. Specifically this time, it's mainly because Mr. Lucas wants to choose a female rock star. You have played it twice, and you look like a rock singer."

"Hey hey, I knew you liked me dressed like that."

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