Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 472 Chapter 103 The smooth feeling of an artist

  Without distractions, the next shooting became 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 physical education class chose to participate in the selection of the football team. He dribbled the ball forward and was tackled by a student of 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. .

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

  Miyagi master 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, we'll do Daniel's over-the-shoulder shot 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 reveals Daniel's hard-working personality, his wisdom with Master Miyagi, 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.

  This filming had a budget of 8 million, and during the two weeks of high-intensity rehearsal before shooting, Ronald could carefully craft the appearances of Daniel, Ali, and Master Miyagi, and the villain Chris. Of the entire crew, only Ronald knew the important positions of these scenes in the finished film.

   Seeing 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 finishing the day's shooting, Ronald and the assistant director handed over the arrangement for tomorrow, and then walked out of the apartment where the shooting was done by himself.

   "Clap clap... clap"

   A few flashes made Ronald's eyes go blank, 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 turned out that Bo Ji Xiaosi's gossip was fermented by TV media, which 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.

  Borgy's allure was unstoppable, and Ronald's answer was immediately altered into the headline of the next Friday morning's newspaper.

   "The rumored actor Ronald of Brooke Shields 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 scenes the next day.

   The first scene 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, one pie, and let the cafeteria aunt put 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 was your life in the valley?" Ali asked.

   "Yes, it's just a little boring."

   "More boring than Newark, New Jersey?"

   "How do you know I'm from Newer Town?"

   "I asked someone to ask." Ali bowed her head shyly, indicating 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!"

   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 and nodded 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...you're inconvenient to attend. 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, they just wanted to put a little pressure on me to choose 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 the scene on Friday, 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 has already written both scripts. "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. After learning that Ronald found his feelings, 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. Donna 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 and they said that you were making a movie and it was inconvenient to disturb you, so I didn't look for you at the first time."

   "My crew stopped filming over the weekend," Ronald replied, "No, why am I in love with Brooke? 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 phone calls to inquire about news, and called Ronald back, "You don't have to worry. Inside Columbia, the airborne team sent by Coca-Cola wanted 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 go to 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 dormitory, and the roommate who answered the phone 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.

  Do you want to have a word with Brooke? She has gone to bed, and there is a morning shift program to get up early tomorrow, 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, so he put down the phone.

   "Ring, bell, bell..." 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 was inexplicable.

"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."

   "What, I have to prepare for next week's shooting."

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

   (end of this chapter)