Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 468 Beach Bonfire

   On the afternoon of the first day of "Longwei Kid" main filming in Los Angeles, the camera 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, Ronald ordered 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 a 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 kicked the ball forward a little longer, and his friends rushed to fight. You scrambled for each other, stirring up countless sands on the beach.

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

   "Cut!"

  Ronald stopped 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 is the reverse, taking shots 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 started tossing 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 face and laughed loudly, "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 who was standing in the distance, then picked up the football and kicked Ronald.

   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 of the whole movie, after LaRusso and her son arrived 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 in the order in the script.

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

  Ronald looked through the camera’s viewfinder, and Elizabeth Shue was smiling at the camera with a headband in the same blue as her swimsuit.

   "Action!"

   The next shot starts.

   Elizabeth Sue 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 recovered 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 actors’ physical movements.

  Elisabeth Shue looks at Ralph Mazio behind the camera, who makes another grimace and then smiles.

   "Cut!" Ronald felt that this process 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 the most emotional and 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 going 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 the football, and threw it to Ralph Mazio.

  Ralph Mazio catches the ball with his thigh, then starts to juggle with his leg and foot.

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

   Seeing that Ralph was about to flip the ball, a Latino group performer 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 companions.

   "Hills (the rich people who live in Beverly Hills)."

   "On the mountain?"

   "It's the rich," the Latin companion told Daniel.

   A few 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.

  Especially 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 go 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.

   "Are you telling the truth? Ronald's girlfriend is really Brooke Shields?" Elizabeth Shue and Ralph Mazio walked back from the camera and 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 Sue 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 was encouraged by his Latin friends and bravely went to meet Ali with a blue hairband. A friend even directly assisted, picked up the football and kicked it over the bonfire.

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

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

   "Cut!"

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

  Elizabeth Sue 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 a small argument.

   "Why don't we 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.

   In addition, if you have different opinions, you can raise them when watching the demo, and don’t challenge my authority in the crew. "

   Ronald was very dissatisfied with the behavior of Charles Okun pointing fingers at him on the set, 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 decide for themselves 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, he just had 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 associate 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?" Ronald was taken aback, how did he and Brooke get to the crew, "Did Ralph tell you? He was 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 Sue looked funny at Ronald's eager denial, is 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 find you anyway."

   "Director, look at this angle." Director of photography James Crabbe asked him to go over and determine the position of the camera.

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

   "Action!"

   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 while.

   "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 two feet will be used when you are proficient..."

  Daniel bends his knees and alternates the ball with both thighs.

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

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

  The two of them began to practice the ball deliberately, and the other deliberately practiced the ball.

   "You start this way, 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, 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, today's progress has been filmed.

   Only Associate Producer Charles Okun didn't applaud, and he crossed his arms across his chest as if he was going to have an opinion.

   "Hi, everyone, to celebrate the successful completion of today's shooting, I have prepared barbecue and beer." Producer Weintraub walked in and brought 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 eating some barbecue and beer, Ronald, Weintraub, Charles Okun, and Susan Akins and others came to a screening room in Columbia and looked at the quick-printed samples.

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

  The screen flashed Ronald LaRusso's mother and son leaving home in New Jersey, and the car broke down at the gate of Princeton, and the two pushed 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. 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 tinge of helplessness for his eternally optimistic mother, who is 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 will be tricked by Ronald here. 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, took out his own notes, cleared his throat, and was ready to start talking about Ronald's shortcomings and shortcomings.

   Weintraub put his arms around Susan, and the two sat in the back, watching the sample footage 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 Atkins, as if stunned, then put his hands on his face, bowed his head, his shoulders shrugged silently.

   (end of this chapter)