Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Not far from the    Boy Scout Camp is Lake Lure.

   This morning, Ronald and the camera crew came here very early.

   The props team has already built a wooden bridge for the two male and female protagonists to practice dancing.

  Since "Longwei Kid", Master Miyagi used to wax the car, paint the fence, and so on, after the strange tricks taught Daniel to learn karate. Many scripts include a similar pedagogical trick into the plot.

   Screenwriter Eleanor is no exception, adding a story where Johnny teaches Baby to dance on a log bridge.

  The mambo dance has a special movement, which is to raise the knees and then push the feet down. With the swing of the hips, it is very beautiful. Kind of like a combination of rumba and tango.

   But this movement requires great physical coordination and a slightly more adventurous spirit than other dances.

   So Johnny pulled Baby and forced her to practice on the single-plank bridge, forgetting all fears of stepping on the male partner, and only focused on the rhythm, and soon he was able to learn this dance step.

  “A!”

  The single-plank bridge was erected over a creek by the lake, and Patrick Thwaites stood on it, his hands spread out, balancing like those acrobats.

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   "Right now, the most important thing is balance. You have to remember to keep your balance." Patrick Switz stood barefoot on the log, his hands spread, and he looked confident.

   Ronald lost his mind again. In the star acrobatics show on the TV station, Brooke Xiaosi was invited to perform trapeze. But even a girl like Bo Ji, who has practiced gymnastics since she was a child, would not dare to try to walk a tightrope.

  For the layman, the balance of walking on a tightrope is not easy to grasp, and it is also a real acrobat, which is a watershed difference from ordinary people.

   "Ooooooooo..."

  Patrick Switz in a gymnastic move, jumping up and then falling back down a single-plank bridge.

   He didn't keep his balance and nearly fell off the bridge. Then he felt swaying from side to side, trying to find balance, and finally, after turning around once and adjusting in small steps many times, he stopped.

   "Cut!"

   Ronald quickly asked the staff to help him down and handed him a blanket.

   The weather is very cold today. Perhaps because the temperature has affected the coordination of his muscles, he almost failed a simple movement.

   But it was a blessing in disguise, the look of trying to maintain balance just now unexpectedly became a very interesting episode of this teaching. Ronald intends to use it in the final film.

   "Let's use a stand-in for the shot below," Ronald said to Switz. Eleanor also wrote a scene where Johnny wanted to make a vertical jump 180 degrees and land firmly on a log. Show Baby that as long as you focus on the rhythm, you'll be fine.

   "I'd better do it myself, I've been practicing ballet since I was a child, it's all trivial." Swayitz insisted.

   "Pat, there's no need for that. We can have the stand-in take a shot of the legs jumping, spinning, and landing, and then cut to give you the panorama. He's registered with the stuntmen."

   "No, I can get it."

  Switzer had a hormonal explosion when he heard that Ronald wanted a stuntman to act, and he didn't want to let a stand-in perform this action, which was not very difficult to do on the flat ground.

  Ronald persuaded him a few words, and seeing him so stubborn, let it go.

   It is related to a man's face, and many actors have similar problems.

  “A!”

   "Balance is what matters," Switz said, before jumping barefoot on the log.

   "Oh oh oh..." When he landed, he encountered the same problem again.

   This action is really not difficult on flat ground. But first, this time he was barefoot and without dancing shoes.

  Second, the log was soaked by the light rain, and it was relatively slippery. It was not so easy for him to stand firm.

"Snapped……"

  Thwaites saw that something was wrong, so he jumped off the single-plank bridge.

After    fell to the ground, Swayze clutched his ankle and squatted there for a long time, unable to get up.

   "What's the matter? Doctor!"

   Ronald saw that something was wrong, and immediately called the doctor who was in place at the scene. This time it was a dangerous action filming that was registered with the stunt union. The union stipulates that a doctor must be present, otherwise the stuntman can refuse to film.

   "It's okay, it's the old injury I got from dancing before."

  Thwaites was still saying he was okay.

   But the doctor's face was obviously wrong, he let Switz sit down, and then looked at the swollen ankle.

   "Ankle effusion. Your actor has been engaged in dance training for a long time, so the synovial membrane is severely worn, and the sprain just aggravated the problem, and he can no longer continue shooting."

   "Then what? Is he seriously injured? How long will he rest?"

   Ronald couldn't understand the medical terms and asked directly about the severity of the injury.

   "It's not very serious, as long as you lie down, you can return to normal within a week."

   "Hush..." Ronald grinned, he didn't have a week to waste.

   The following is a series of dramas by Swayze. If the crew stopped and waited for him for a week, it would be a serious overrun.

   "Doctor, I can use a needle to extract the effusion." Swayze grinned, obviously in pain. In his dance career, he often encountered knee and ankle injuries, and actually knows more about the treatment methods.

   "Are you sure? It hurts a lot. And it affects your dancing career," the doctor confirmed to Switz.

   "I don't have a dancing career anymore, what I want to keep now is my acting career."

  Switz also made a joke, "Come on, it's better to be better, I can recover the day after tomorrow."

  Ronald patted Swayze on the shoulder. This calamity was originally caused by him trying to save face, but now this is a remedy to minimize the impact on the shooting.

  The crew had to stop filming for a day, because Swayze’s part was throughout the filming, and there was no great benefit to shooting other scenes earlier.

   Ronald took a long time to shoot and finished all the shots that could be taken in advance, so he had no choice but to take a holiday.

   "Fortunately, there are ad placements made by Procter & Gamble's acne-removing products." Ronald and Daydream's general manager, Eddie, settled for a while in the room.

"Fortunately, Swayze has a lot of experience. When he jumps, he is ready to cushion the impact of the ground. If the injury is serious, I am afraid that you will stop filming for more than a month. Financially, this 'hot dance' is Disaster."

   By the third day, Switz's ankle was finally swollen. Although it still hurts a bit, he offered to resume shooting.

   After all, the crew was waiting for him alone, so he couldn't bear the invisible pressure.

   Ronald hurriedly brought forward the scene in the lake, and Swayze and Gray went to the nearby Lake Lure together with the crew.

   "I arranged the lift scene in the lake. Your ankles are not fully healed yet. When filming this scene, there is less pressure on your ankles. After all, it's all dance scenes."

   "Okay, I'm fine." Switz nodded and agreed, this was especially because of his physical condition, disrupting the shooting sequence.

   "Woo..."

   A gust of cold wind blew, and Jennifer Gray, who had just got off the car to the lake, fought a cold fight and wrapped the blanket tightly around her body.

"so cold……"

   "It's really weird." Ronald also felt bad luck.

  At the Mountain Lake Villa in Virginia, it was so hot that the actor suffered from heat stroke. Transfer to North Carolina, where it entered the late autumn ahead of time, and the wind was actually very cool.

  I tested the water temperature with my hand, and Gray's face was embarrassed. At this temperature, it must be freezing enough, and maybe the lines are not easy to say.

   "What's the weather forecast tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?" Ronald also tried the water, took off his socks, and tried it himself.

   may be tolerable for men, but it must be reluctant to let Jennifer Gray go down.

   "It seems that there is cold air passing through, the temperature will drop, and there are strong winds."

   "Why is the weather so weird! It seems that there is no autumn." Ronald couldn't do anything and turned his head to look at Gray.

   "I'll try, Director Ronald. But you'll have to prepare me for the cold."

  Jennifer Gray looked at Ronald's embarrassed face and knew that she couldn't postpone the shoot for three more days. Otherwise, the crew may go bankrupt before the filming is over.

   For the sake of art, for the box office of the movie, and for the sake of my own acting career in the future, I worked hard!

   "You know, the best place to practice lifts is in the water."

  Thwaites said the lines in the script, and stopped half-squatting in the lake.

  Jennifer Gray wore a white dress and pants, let Switz support her waist, and then pushed up slightly.

   She was lifted up by Switzto.

  Switz stood up from the water, shivered by the wind, and almost didn't hold Jennifer. Fortunately, his upper limbs were strong, and he was barely saved.

  Seeing that Swayze stopped, Jennifer immediately opened her arms and made a movement of spreading her wings and flying.

   "Speak the lines." Ronald was in a hurry and signaled to Swayze again and again.

   "Very good, very good..." Swayze was so cold that he only shivered, and he managed to control his abdominal muscles so that the lines could not hear the trembling feeling.

   "Keep this position, don't move, don't move."

   "Ah..." Jennifer Gray was also shaken by the wind. She couldn't keep her balance and leaped over Swayze's head.

   Both fell into the lake.

   "Haha...ha...haha..."

   Both of them tried their best to keep their voices shivering and shivering.

   Remove all the water from your hair and you won't feel so cold.

   "Go on!" Ronald ran across from them, waving his hands and making a gesture to them, indicating that he would stop shouting.

   Anyway, the energy of the two of them will probably take a long time to return to normal after taking one shot.

   Both actors are very professional, they understand what Ronald means, and they don't look at the camera in the middle.

   "Go ahead, one two three..."

   is another lift, and then freezes into an action of spreading wings and flying. Finally, it can't support it and falls into the water together.

   "Cut!"

   Ronald rushed up first and threw the blanket over Jennifer Gray's body.

   "Whiskey" Ronald took the spirits handed by his assistant and let the actors take a sip.

   is another four assistants carrying stretchers, carrying the two leading actors wrapped in blankets into their respective RVs.

   The air conditioner has been on for a long time, and there is a hot bathroom, so they can quickly return to normal body temperature.

  The sun was rising by the lake, and Ronald quickly directed them to take some empty shots for editing.

   "How?" Ronald asked the director of photography.

   "Very good, you'll have enough footage to edit."