Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Cynthia Rhodes has become very clingy, maybe thinking of leaving the set tomorrow, she almost monopolizes Ronald and has been dancing with Ronald.

Ronald's dancing skills are of course not as superb as Patrick Swayze's, but fortunately, Mambo is not a very difficult dance. Under the initiative of Cynthia, the two danced very much like that.

The assistant director Emile next to him, carrying the video camera, faced the dance of Ronald Cynthia and Patrick Eleanor in the center of the crowd, and began to shoot the backstory.

This is an additional task that Emil has undertaken in addition to the assistant director. He also shot a number of detail shots for the entire film.

Now the film marketing, like to use talk shows, or interview programs. With these tidbits, you can play the edited clips while you are on the show, arouse the audience's curiosity, and preferably have some humorous paragraphs.

"Bang... bang..." Eddie brought the best champagne from the city next door on a special trip with a truck with a cold storage, and was opened by the bottle. Everyone danced, sang and drank, and they all drank.

"Click", Ronald opened the door of his suite. Cynthia in her arms was beautiful and moving, and the champagne-flavored breath sprayed onto her face with heat.

Ronald has long been attracted to Cynthia's natural beauty, and he didn't understand the mind of this southern beauty in the dance just now.

"Crack", Ronald turned on the light, Cynthia seemed a little embarrassed, and a natural blush climbed up her cheeks.

"Don't turn on the lights."

Ronald turned the lights off. Tonight at the spa resort, turn on all the lights to celebrate the completion of the filming. The light outside seemed to leak in through the window, illuminating a little bit of Cynthia's face.

"Um……"

Cynthia in real life doesn't seem like Penny in the movie. In other words, unlike a Hollywood actress who knows how to cater to men and women like a Hollywood actress, Ronald has found some of the feelings of his youth, treated him gently, and suddenly the two of them were in perfect harmony.

An hour later, the light outside the window finally went out, leaving only a faint moonlight shining into the window, reflecting Cynthia's white and bright back beautifully.

Ronald put his hand up gently, and Cynthia just hummed, exhausted and unable to open her eyes. Ronald also hugged her close to him, and the two embraced each other and fell asleep.

The next morning, Ronald's biological clock was still in the struggle mode of filming. He woke up naturally at five in the morning.

Seeing Cynthia Rhodes sleeping soundly beside him, Ronald first went to the living room to make a call and asked the kitchen to deliver all the breakfasts to the room at 6 o'clock. I put on my running shoes and went for a run.

After taking a hot shower, Ronald waited for a full breakfast from the hotel. Cynthia finally woke up.

"I don't know what you like to eat, so I called everything." Ronald pushed the breakfast cart into the room, just in time to see her stretched out in bed, her white legs together and her toes Straighten. Girls who dance ballet are always so graceful.

"Are you always so considerate to girls?" Cynthia smiled.

"Not always,

Only courteous to pretty girls. "Ronald made a joke.

"If there is a boy around me who is so considerate to me, I will marry him." Cynthia also smiled and rushed into the bathroom to wash.

"Why, isn't there such a person yet?" Ronald asked her.

Cynthia's voice came from inside, "There is, but he is younger than me. I don't think we will be able to grow old together in the future."

"Oh", Ronald waited for Cynthia to finish, and made it to the table with her. Ronald poured her a glass of milk and a glass of orange juice himself.

"Sometimes, it's not good to think too much. I used to know a ballerina girl... It would be very rare to be able to both be moved. Who can tell what will happen in the future?"

...

The two said their goodbyes in the morning. Hollywood men and women, like butterflies and bees, have nectar, they get together, and they go their separate ways when they are finished.

After his last day in North Carolina, Ronald returned to Los Angeles with Eddie, who was daydreaming, with all the equipment and dailies.

The film negatives were shipped directly from the eastern laboratory to Paramount Film Productions.

Paramount's laboratory has branches in several regions across the country. Ronald relied on his relationship with Ned Tanin to get a good price. Not only will it be developed at their lab in the Southeast, but eventually they will also borrow Paramount's film editing equipment, and copy production line.

However, before that, the important work he still has to do is to visit Walter Murch with the newly released working copy.

"That's all? Your original film isn't very long."

Murch was in the rented Paramount editing room, along with Ronald, assistant director Emile, moving all the footage into the office. Counting the reels of film, Ronald has less material than a director like Coppola.

"Yes, I used a new method this time. Many shots are turned on at the same time during rehearsal. Often the first time the effect is better than the actual shooting, so there are very few shots for a dozen times. film and some savings.”

Ronald opened a large bucket bag he had brought and took out the "Murch Super Clip Tape" that Bud Jr. brought specially from the small factory in Staten Island.

Now the new type of clip tape has been produced by the small factory that Ronald and Murch cooperated with. Even Murch himself has to ask Ronald to get the goods.

The response of this tape in Hong Kong is very good. Jackie's demonstration effect there is very good. As soon as he uses this tape, many studios have also discovered the use of this new type of tape. The edited copy can be directly tested without Remake a new copy, which saves money for a copy, so they pay for it.

There is a lot of demand, so Ronald can let the workers start work every day, produce slowly, store them in the warehouse during the off-season, and ship more when the production volume increases.

In this way, the daily work starts, the procurement of raw materials, labor costs, etc., are also reduced. The average cost can be reduced a lot. With the cost reduction, there is room for price reduction, so that the sales in the local market of America are also improved.

In America, Ronald's tapes are gradually being sold at twice the retail price of old-fashioned tapes, and the wholesale prices for production companies like Roger Coleman can be reduced.

Many studios shooting low-budget productions have also switched to this tape because they want to save money on a copy.

Slowly, the reputation of "Murch's Super Editing Tape" was not limited to a few high-level directors in America, and gradually all practitioners began to purchase this tape.

"The quality produced by your factory is really good, very stable, a little worse than my hand-made, but it is stable. If I didn't let that friend do it, the quality would be much worse." Walter Murch picked up I took several large rolls of tape and put them on the editing table.

"This year's dividend will be good, just treat it as a Christmas present for my children," Ronald laughed, "Ah, this is not, I just brought it back from the crew. They used tapes of different materials on the scene. . Works great, this time I was on two major locations and I didn't lose any money."

Ronald put back some other tapes.

Walter Murch shrugged, put the first reel of tape into the editor, and began comparing it to the table of his estimated shot times before shooting.

"Your thoughts seem to be exactly the same as mine. The shooting time I estimated in advance is very similar to your final filming time."

Walter watched for a while, then suddenly said to Ronald.

"Really?" Ronald was also interested, looking at the length of the dozen scenes, and it was very close to Murch's estimate.

"It may be that you are deeply influenced by the Coppola genre. I have worked with them for a long time, and I also use their methods to estimate the length of the shots."

"Maybe." Ronald thought to himself, would his own thinking of learning editing also affect the director's work in turn? After all, a little technique in editing was taught by Murch.

After spending two days with Murkey, the two went through all the materials. Looking at all of them, it is the dance scenes that Ronald shot at the beginning and the climax of the climax, which is quite different from Murch's estimated time.

"I didn't expect you to shoot like this." Murch was surprised, "your dance scene is very different from your 'breakdance'. It's a bit different from the original western cowboy movie and the fight scene in Xiangjiang's action movie. similar.

The emphasis is on tacit cooperation to show the beauty of the dance itself. Plus the chemistry between the two main characters is visible to the naked eye, and it's technically a good movie too. "

"Why are you also watching Xiangjiang's movies?" Ronald laughed. He didn't think so when he was shooting by himself. Maybe subconsciously, I used some of the practices of those movies.

"A lot of people are watching, and they think their line is very interesting, very different from Hollywood. A lot of people say it's called jackie or something, very similar to Buster Keaton in the early silent Hollywood days."

"Jackie? That's my buddy." Ronald laughed. "It's also the agent of our tape over there. I have the opportunity to introduce you to you."

"I'll do the sound and video synchronization first, then prepare the sound design, and when you get back from vacation, we'll start editing together." Murch nodded and said to Ronald.

"You rough cut first. You don't have to wait for me to come back. You taught me all my editing techniques. Besides, you also said that our ideas are close. When I come back, I will make fine adjustments."

With Murch at the helm, Ronald is happy too. He left his assistant Emil in the editing room to study and went on vacation to relax.

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