Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Cynthia Rhodes became very clingy, maybe thinking of leaving the crew tomorrow, she almost monopolized Ronald and kept 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 active leadership of Cynthia, the two danced very much like that.

The assistant director Emile next to    carried the video camera to the dance of Ronald Cynthia and Patrick Eleanor, who were 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.

  The current movie marketing, I 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 cold storage truck, and was opened by the bottle. Everyone danced, sang and drank, and everyone was having a good time.

   "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 by 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 off the lights. 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 on it gently, Cynthia just hummed, she was so exhausted that she couldn't 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 next to 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, just courting pretty girls." Ronald joked.

   "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 if both of them could be moved. Who can tell what will happen in the future?"

  …

  The two said goodbye immediately 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 the Paramount Film Production Department.

  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, 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 had brought from the small factory in Staten Island.

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

The response of this tape in Hong Kong is very good, and 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 tested directly 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 those few workers start work every day, produce slowly, store them in the warehouse during the off-season, and ship more when the filming volume increases.

   In this way, the work starts every day, and the procurement of raw materials and labor costs 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. …

   Locally in America, Ronald's tape has gradually doubled the retail price of old-fashioned tape, and the wholesale price for production companies such as Roger Coleman can be reduced.

  Many studios that shoot 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. 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 shrugs, puts the first reel of tape into the editor, and starts comparing it to a 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, and after looking at the length of a dozen shots, 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 approach to estimate the length of the shots."

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

   accompanied Murkey for two days, and the two went through all the materials. Looking at them all, it is the dance scenes that Ronald shot at the beginning and the first part, 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.

   is about tacit cooperation to show the beauty of 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, they think their line is very interesting, very different from Hollywood. Many people say that the jackie or something, very similar to Buster Keaton in Hollywood's early silent film days."

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

   "I'll do the sound and picture 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, my editing skills are taught by you. 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 to relax. He left his assistant Emil in the editing room to study and went on vacation to relax.