Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 502 Do you want a kiss scene?

  The camera is aimed at a brick wall, and the Bogalo prawns use a can of spray paint that has been sprayed, and press the spray head against the wall.

   "Chi..." The spray paint can with very little internal pressure did not make much noise, and the radio microphone above continued to approach down.

"Zoom, zoom," the camera controller urged the follower to slowly zoom the part of the viewfinder in the safe area of ​​the red frame, and gestured to the recording team again, "You can't go down with your microphone, or you'll have to wear it. "

   "Cut!"

  Director Ronald finally stopped filming. This part is the last shot of the whole movie, which is the opening subtitle part. Ronald decided to use a special effect machine in the later stage and add a layer of finely written handwriting, so that everyone's subtitles seemed to be sprayed out of a spray paint can.

   "I announce that the filming of 'Break Dance' is packed, Mr. Minahan Golan has arranged a party for you, and you can go by bus."

  "Ow..." A bunch of hip-hop boys, when they heard there was a party, pressed the dual-card four-speaker recorder as a prop on the spot, and sang and danced to IceT's rap song "Reckless".

   Ronald ignored them, and several of the main cast members of the crew had already left. Boogaloo and Falcon went to Michael Jackson to start designing and improving the jumps for the spacewalk.

   He said goodbye to Minahan, got himself into the editing van, and started working with the two editors.

   This busyness lasted until dawn, Ronald yawned and got up to go home. All the audio and video synchronization, and camera segmentation have been completed, and then the official editing can be done.

   Ronald went back home and slept all day. In the evening, he seemed to have suddenly remembered something important in a dream and sat up straight.

   "Forgot to ask Walter Murzy to buy his special tape for editing." Ronald jumped out of bed, found the phone number of Murzy, his editing mentor, and dialed it.

   "Going to England? Anthracene... His 'Return to Oz' has finally begun preparatory preparations? Congratulations." It was Mrs. Merzy's Angie who answered the phone. After back-and-forth arguments, Merzy finally got the green light from Disney at the end of last year. Recently he'd been out in the English countryside, looking for locations.

   "Me? I'm calling to buy some Walter's special tape for editing. Yes, I want a little more this time. I have two movies waiting to be edited. Well, I'll send you a check."

   Ronald hung up the phone, called Minahan again, and began editing "Break Dance" in Cannon's editing room next Monday.

  Cannon's office was still a mess, Ronald deliberately chose a larger editing room and occupied it by himself. Two editors, four editing assistants, and Minahan often came to check on the situation.

  Cannon Films is a European capital, so their equipment is the most advanced horizontal editing machine in West Germany. Unlike the Moviola brand vertical editing machine produced locally in America, this West German imported editing machine is more like a video recorder.

   Each roll of film was about ten minutes long, and several editorial assistants loaded it, and Ronald went inside to find the shots he needed. Sometimes when he was looking for the needed shots back and forth, new ideas would pop up in Ronald's mind, thinking of another way of editing.

   Relatively speaking, this kind of editing machine is more conducive to the inspiration of the editor. Of course, this requires a master-trained character like Ronald, who also has to stand and edit in order to have a steady stream of inspiration.

   "Just cut it here, Ronald." Minahan looked at it for a while, and began to offer his opinion.

   Ronald turned a deaf ear, he was now full of new inspiration.

   "Here, here, oops, that place just now was a wonderful editing point, the same as the one in Lightning Dance..."

   "Crack..." Ronald pressed the stop button, and then wrote down the time in his notebook.

  The filming of this film was very rushed, so there was no more material to choose from. That is to say, the original film shot, except for the number of repetitions, is almost ninety minutes long when cut. If the filming of that section is not good, and the editing cannot be connected before and after, it will be miserable, and we can only continue to cut some content to further shorten the duration.

  The main actors have all gone to MJ's place, and it is impossible for him to make up.

   "What does this place mean?" Minahan pointed to the freeze frame on the monitor. It was the first dance fight in the basement, when Ma and Cyclone were defeated by their opponent's team of two men and one woman because of the lack of a female partner, Kelly, and they left in frustration.

   "This is the stopping point of the whirlwind mood," Ronald replied casually without looking at Minahan. Here is the time when the whirlwind was better than the other in dance, but no female dancer was forced to fail. This kind of depression started from being declared defeated by IceT, and was panting violently until the close-up shot was pushed up. Five seconds later, the audience The mood also came to the end together with the whirlwind.

"What? Emotional point?" Minahan didn't understand Walter Murkey's modern editing theory at all, and began to argue endlessly, "But I think if it was a little later, just when he turned and left, it would not be more complete. ?"

"No, no matter how long the audience is, the audience will blink." Ronald knew what Minahan meant. The classic Hollywood editing theory pursues every action of the characters, echoing back and forth. Here he turns to go out, and the next shot drives away. Only in this way can the actions of the characters be explained before and after echoing.

But after the New Wave of Hairstyles, Hollywood has gradually begun to learn European theories. As long as the emotions of the characters are complete, some details in the middle, such as turning around and going out, do not need to be explained at all. The next scene whirlwinds away, and some of the audience in the middle can make up their own minds. Filled out, it feels very smooth.

   "Blink? What do you mean?" Minahan asked, blinking.

   "That's it, it's a complete thought. If it is longer, the audience will have to think about other things, and their attention may not be on the movie."

   "What? Can you accurately predict the audience's thoughts? To the point of accuracy?" Minahan didn't believe it at all. Even an old editor with years of experience can't do it, not to mention Ronald's young age...

   "Let's make a bet that if I can stop on the same square every time, you'll stop talking."

   "What if you can't?"

   "Then I will refer to your opinion."

   "Okay!" Minahan himself was the one who edited the films he directed, so how could he believe this. If it weren't for Ronald being a better director than him, he would have pushed him away with his big **** and shouted "Cut Snip Snip!"

   Ronald got a marker, made a mark on that grid, and turned the **** to rewind the film. Press the play button again.

  Whirlwind looked at the elated opponent trio, feeling uncomfortable in his chest. He only had Kelly on his side, but firstly, Kelly couldn't break dance, and secondly, she looked down on herself and turned a blind eye to her own hints.

   Various emotions surged up, his chest heaving and growing, his eyes full of unwillingness.

   "It's now!" Ronald snapped and pressed the stop button again.

  Meinahan rushed to check the gap that exposed the film, and the mark on that film was the letter V that Ronald had just drawn, his initials for his middle name.

   "How did you do that?" Minahan muttered. "A coincidence?"

  Ronald glanced at him, and rewinded the tape again, smack, he didn't check after pressing the button. This time the feeling is very good, definitely on the same grid.

   This time, the two editors went up to check first, and they looked at each other as if they had seen a ghost. Who has never heard of this technique?

   "Hollywood's old editors will. I trained with Walter Murkey." Ronald explained lightly, "Trust me, Minahan, I won't cheat you."

   "Hahaha, I'll make you coffee." Minahan laughed, this is a treasure, he turned around quickly, and went to the coffee machine.

   "I want espresso, double." Ronald shouted from behind.

  The editing work continued smoothly, Ronald's inspiration was endless, and the editing progress was very fast. The four editing assistants are moving the film and making editing records. Seeing that the pile of unedited films is getting smaller and smaller, and the pile of edited films is getting higher and higher.

  "Have some lunch", Minahan knew that Ronald didn't like Chinese food packaged in pagodas and thought he was too oily. Every time I go to buy a sandwich, or a pizza, and bring it to the editing room.

   "What, is there any difficulty?" Minahan asked the editor next to him, watching Ronald frown at the monitor.

   "It's not a technical issue, Ronald is hesitant to keep Kylie and Whirlwind's hug and kiss scene."

Ronald cut to the last trio and won the championship. The emotions of the three reached a climax. There should have been a scene hinted at before closing, so that Kelly and Whirlwind finally recognized each other's goodwill, warmly embraced and then kissed. of.

   "What's the matter, Ronald?" Minahan asked him.

   "I'm not sure how well the audience can accept this interracial love." Ronald looked at the camera repeatedly.

   "America now seems to be more tolerant of these things. I heard that the laws prohibiting interracial marriage have been repealed."

   "No, America is a country with outstanding state rights." Ronald knew that the Israelis used Los Angeles to represent the whole country again. "Every place has different views. Some southern states even prohibit dancing."

  Ronald remembered the "Full Body" he almost directed, which was based on real events from a few years ago.

   "There's another place where Kelly's friend introduced him to Ayton of Cyclone and Motor. He's a guy." An editor also offered his opinion.

"If you think that interracial love is too much, then the intimacy between the same **** is more controversial. Especially, it is now rumored that the super... is spread between male... God's punishment."

   "What's wrong?" Ronald couldn't understand.

   "That's what they call the man... sick."

   "Oh, then let's delete them all." As soon as Minahan heard that it might affect the thoughts of some audiences, he insisted that these scenes be deleted.

  "But this way, there is no orgasm." Ronald stroked the short beard on his chin and pondered.

   "Let's just leave no positive results, only some hints, so that the audience who can accept it will naturally see it, and the audience who don't accept it will feel that it didn't work in the end."

   "That's good!" Meinahan now thinks what Ronald says is an advanced trick.

  In the end, Ronald's love affair with Kelly and Whirlwind just kept some ambiguous space, allowing the audience who felt his hint to retain a kind of hope, and the audience who didn't notice it quietly slipped past.

  The editing is over, and IceT and some strong rhythm music are added for the soundtrack. Anyway, their music licenses are not expensive, and Ronald will handle them one by one.

  The final working copy, with some ambiguous plots cut, and only eighty-seven minutes left in the end.

   "Exactly. With the end credits added, we can make up for ninety minutes. It just meets the requirements of the theater." Ronald stretched his waist.

   "Subtitles take more than a minute? Why? Isn't it enough?" Minahan didn't understand.

   "How did you finish it in one minute?" Ronald didn't understand either.

   "Producer, director, starring, then the main technical director of photography, art direction..., and the main supporting cast." Minahan counted with his chubby fingers.

   "What about the casting director, members of the various technical teams, and those extras? For example, Eddie Rodriguez..." Ronald also thought it was strange that these people were gone.

   After communicating for a while, Ronald realized that, unlike the situation in which there are many unions in Hollywood, Israeli and European films generally only list the main creative personnel, and ordinary staff members are not on the list.

   "That's not going to work", Ronald insisted on putting everyone's names on the list. He remembered how he felt when he saw his name on the subtitles for the first time. All of these staff, when watching a movie, can't take their eyes off the subtitles.

   "Also, MJ would like to give special thanks. He is not an actor, so his friendship cameo can only be put in special thanks. Hand man must also be on the list. Without him, I would not propose to shoot this movie."

   "It's up to you." Minahan agreed to all the conditions.

   Low-cost productions don’t have the money to hold a preview, and film critics from all over the country are invited to watch an internal preview. Ronald simply asked Minahan to go to a university in Los Angeles to recruit a group of students, as an audience to try the results directly.

   (end of this chapter)