Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 650 Senator Inoue's Care

  The crew came to Oahu, Hawaii. The northeastern part of the island faces the sea, which is called the "windward side". The daily sea breeze is very strong, and typhoons are frequented, so the seaside here is full of strange rocks.

   "As instructed by Senator Daniel Inoue, all houses, manors, and private lands here can be used for filming."

  This is the mansion of a millionaire on Oahu, who is also of Japanese descent. America's only Japanese-American senator, Daniel Inoue, is from Hawaii. When Hawaii joined the Union, Inoue was a member of the House of Representatives.

   has been entrenched for many years and has been re-elected. Although the one-armed senator has little say in Washington, his local influence is deeply rooted. This sequel came to Hawaii to shoot, and Inoue instructed his campaign manager to come to the front station first. All the filming, accommodation, and group performances were solved by him in one sentence.

   Ronald sent a director of photography in advance, James Crabbe, who served as a colleague in the first film, to go to Ryukyu and Hawaii to take pictures.

Due to the existence of the U.S. military base, the local rural scenery in Ryukyu has undergone tremendous changes. Most of the villagers are no longer engaged in agriculture and fishing, and instead serve the U.S. military base, relying on selling things to the base, or providing services to the base, such as Income is much higher than farming and fishing.

   But in this way, the original Ryukyu features in the script are nowhere to be found.

  After consulting Bard Jr., who had served in both places, Ronald set the main location on Oahu, Hawaii.

  The Japanese rich man took out the manor for the crew to use. In order to form the Ryukyu fishing village described in the film, the set department, which arrived early, built seven replicas of houses with real Ryukyu characteristics and planted more than three acres of rice and vegetables.

  When Ronald arrives, let's see the scene first. He climbed up the hillside and used the viewfinder to look at the scenery below. The peasants in the rice fields were wearing Ryukyu-style clothes and hats, and they looked relaxed.

  50 Hawaiian residents born in Ryukyu were also recruited as extras for the film. Are doing what their ancestors did, farmers.

  Waiting for filming in the fields every day, or pretending to be a fisherman on a small boat.

   "Thank you Senator Inoue for your help." After inspecting all the locations and group performances, Ronald was very satisfied. The Chinese and Japanese ensembles here are very happy to help.

   Ronald's first "Longwei Kid" spread Japanese culture to all parts of America. Today's Hawaiian Japanese people often encounter people who do "crane kick" to them when they go to work in the local area.

  It turns out that Japanese people are often nicknamed "Little Japs", but now more people are called Miyagi, or Sensai (Master).

   The widespread dissemination of a film can even change the perception of a nation on an ethnicity.

  Ronald knew that Chinese Americans also took advantage of Bruce Lee's kung fu film boom, and in the 1970s, their social status rose rapidly. But all of this vanished with his sudden death.

   Now Chinese people are starting to be regarded as people who open Chinese food delivery or dry cleaners. Waiting for the next superstar to bring them out of that stereotype.

   Just like what Morita Noriyuki did to the Japanese.

  In the evening, Ronald and the main members of the crew came to a bar on Oahu to celebrate. He wore a Hawaiian flower shirt and a garland presented to him by beautiful women.

   "Aluha!"

   "Aluha!"

   Ronald nodded to the beautiful girl, who looked like a Chinese.

   The two chatted, and it really did. There are actually a lot of Japanese and Chinese people on the island of Hawaii. The two, plus Filipinos, make up nearly 40 percent of the population. Seeing Asian faces here is the most normal.

   In addition to Morita Noriyuki, there is also a celebrity among Asians in the archipelago this year, a Chinese girl Kaili Hu, who won the title of Miss Teen USA (MissTeenUSA). This is the first time an Asian-American has won a national beauty pageant.

  Hu Kelly, who played on behalf of the state of Hawaii, became famous all of a sudden. There are many more boys coming to vacation this summer, and they all want to meet Hawaiian girls who are said to be beautiful.

   "Ahahahaha..."

   Ronald frowned, Morita Noriyuki was drinking in the bar again, and teasing with two beauties in his arms. Not only has he gained a little weight, but he has also become a lot deeper under the eyes after being infatuated with money for a long time.

  Ralph Mazio over there didn't drink much, and he was restrained. However, his manager is very annoying, and he is very annoying to instill in him some "the treatment that stars deserve on the set".

"He has to find a way to treat them, otherwise he will not be able to show the state of the first movie." Ronald thought, tonight is the time for everyone to be happy, starting tomorrow, they should gather together and put them and the island's people together. Fans are separated.

   "My friends, it's nice to see you."

Early the next morning, Pat E. Johnson, the karate coach who trained the actors in the first movie, and the part-time referee actor, brought together Morita Noriyuki and Ralph Mazio to start the karate review before the start every morning. .

   "Pat, we already learned those skills in the first part, and now we don't need to train again." Ralph Mazio is now starting to learn to play big. His agent instilled him every day that stars don't actually need to know how to do it themselves, just leave it to a stand-in for difficult ones.

   "Gentlemen, I'll leave the difficult moves to the stand-in." Ronald arrived immediately and pushed out Miyagi's stand-in, Daryl Vidal.

"Your mission is to restore flexibility in the shortest possible time. In this sequel, Mr. Miyagi has the footage of four or five Ryukyu karate masters alone, and Daniel has to fight the villain 'Jangshan' in a final battle. It's not a competition, it's a real ring."

   "Oh..." The faces of the two protagonists collapsed. In the first part, the most painful part of the practice was pulling the ligaments.

   "Don't be like this, I also found a companion for you guys, so don't beat her."

   "Director, hello. Mr. Morita, hello, Mr. Mazio."

   Tomita Tan Ling, who plays the heroine Kumiko, greets all seniors politely. Dressed in her cardio training outfit, she hopped into the field and bowed to Coach Pat at the end.

   "Let me see, after a year and a half, how much of your karate magic is left, and whether you can come up with a beautiful crane kick." Coach Pat Johnson grinned.

   "Ah..., ah..."

   Ronald listened to the screams of the two pulling the ligament, smiled and turned away. With the little girl Tomita Tan Ling there, the two actors must not be too lazy, so as not to be incomparable to a little girl.

   And with such high-intensity lower legs, it is estimated that they don't have much energy to hang around in bars, and they can't think about the unprecedented treatment of teenage actors.

   "Attention, let's do it as a whole. Everyone should remember the route they took, and don't mess up. Listen to my password."

   Ronald started filming two days later. Today is a long shot. Not long after Miyagi returned to Ryukyu, he met his father for the last time, and also joined his old lover Yuuki. Daniel and the little girl Kumiko had a hot fight.

  The love life of the old and the young is quite rich.

At this time, they went to the street to chat with their old neighbors, only to discover that Sato, Miyagi's childhood friend who studied art together, bought almost everyone's land by relying on his background as a landlord and providing various services for the US military base. , became a great landlord.

  This shot involves the logical relationship of multiple characters. Ronald was not at ease. He personally directed the group performance and rehearsed the two male protagonists twice before starting to call the first one.

   "Daniel-san" who played Miyagi's Morita Noriyuki walked out of the room. His belly was much fatter than the first one. The clothes put him on a singlet, and the outside was a gray shirt, which finally covered it up a bit.

   "Come on" Ralph Mazio also ran out of it, "This seems to be a forgotten town."

  Ronald is across the road, on a pre-paved rail, a group of coolies are pushing the camera hard.

  The two male protagonists walked forward along the dirt road.

  Between them and the camera, on the near side of the road, several group performers, wearing hats, squatted on the ground and waited on the rice. On the far side of the road, behind Miyagi and Daniel, a woman in a kimono pulls a trailer with a rope, on which is an old-fashioned second-hand TV.

   "Hi..." Miyagi greeted her, and the two chatted in Japanese.

   At this moment, the camera pauses the push and takes a still shot.

   "It's my classmate" Miyagi explained to Daniel-san, and the two continued to walk forward.

   Director of photography James Crabbe made a gesture, and the coolies began to push the camera again, following the two actors forward.

   On the roadside on the near side, as the camera moves laterally, several more farmers are added to the painting. The old woman pulled the TV and left the screen again from the right side.

   This is a shot specially designed by Ronald, very much in the style of an ancient painting he saw in the Forbidden City, "Along the River During Qingming Festival".

  Scenery and people, enter the painting from one side, and then exit the picture we are concerned about on the other side.

   "Didn't you say this is a fishing village? Why didn't you see fishermen." Daniel asked Master Miyagi curiously. He had long heard that his family was a fishing village, and the Miyagi family only did two things, fishing and practicing karate.

"Last night, Yuuki told me. Sato's father imported a robotic fishing boat from America. Within two years, he had caught all the fish in the offshore area, and all the small fishing boats in the village had been crushed by him. Now in the village In addition to growing grain, vegetables and fruits, only his family's cannery supplies the US military base."

  Master Miyagi pulled Daniel and pointed to a factory in the distance.

  When Ronald was paying attention to the performance, he also glanced at the coolies of the camera crew. Those Japanese coolies were very reliable and pushed the camera steadily and quickly.

The camera was pushed from the track parallel to the dirt road to a curved track, slowly approached the backs of the two actors, pushed down the close-up from the middle ground, and finally stopped on the backs of the old and young master and apprentice, as if the audience His gaze went past them, and as his focus changed, he stopped at the factory.

   A feeling of unease began to accumulate along with the scheduling of the shots. It's a method devised by Ronald and Crabbe to use the lens to manipulate the audience's emotions.

   "Cut!"

  Ronald put the actors and machines back in place and took two more shots. The director of photography, Crabbe, is very satisfied with this long shot. All the group performances are in very good condition. Even if they are only photographed with their squatting hats and the group performance without facial shots, they are in very good condition.

   The second night, Ronald also liked these quick prints. The work attitude of these Asians is really not picky.

   "You Hawaii, are there so many talented actors?" Ronald asked, the second assistant director of the native Hawaiian.

   "Hawaiian drama has always been very developed, and we have a tradition of rehearsing and performing dramas. And this is Ronald Sang's voice for us Asians. We must do our best, and we must use 200% of our strength.

  The office manager of Senator Inoue has already asked all the group performers and staff in private. Ronald Sand is a Hollywood director who is very friendly to Asians. How can we not cooperate fully?

  Since the release of the first Longwei Kid, our Hawaiian Asian actors, on Broadway in New York, have gradually begun to have some supporting roles to fight for. And Hollywood has also released a lot of karate or martial arts follow-up movies, and all the movies have an Asian teacher. "

   "Ah, hahaha..." Ronald was very happy to hear this.

   "Ronald, can we talk?"

   Ralph Mazio's manager over there, come and invite Ronald.

   "What's the matter?" Ronald ignored him, sat on the chair, picked up the thermos cup, poured a cup of wolfberry black tea, and took a slow sip.

   "Daniel and I both felt that his character, in this shot, did not reflect his qualities. Can you reshoot this shot?"

   "Huh?" The alarm sounded in Ronald's heart, this star is coming?

"Do you 'feel'? Do you know how much it costs us to shoot for a day? These ensembles, these sets, the tight schedule, and the cycle, you want to reshoot? You talked to Mr. Weintraub. You might as well ask him to see if he will keep you awake.

  Ralph's filming is excellent, I don't understand what you mean by 'feeling' his qualities? Do you **** know, that trait is what I **** wrote, and it was the first movie I **** directed that gave Ralph that trait.

   I asked you to participate in the demo because Ralph Mazio is the protagonist of the crew, so he needs the services of others. If your service is to talk nonsense here and mislead actors, then you will not use it in the future. "

  Ronald turned back and instructed the second assistant director, "Remember, starting tomorrow, Ralph Mazio's manager's viewing rights will be cancelled."

  "Me?" The manager's face flushed, but he didn't have much bargaining power either. His client Ralph, after all, it was Ronald was popular, and he wouldn't necessarily be on his side this time. In the final analysis, he did not expect that such a simple test would cause such a big reaction from Ronald.

   After more than ten minutes, Ralph Mazio's mother, who was named as the co-producer of the crew, came over and apologized and explained to Ronald.

   "These are all requests made privately by the manager. Ralph is a good boy, and he doesn't know it."

"Ms. Mazio, I think so too. I have no problem with him personally, he is even a good manager and knows how to think about clients. But he knows too little about filming, so I will let Ralph himself in the future. Watching the demo, if you have any concerns about acting, we can discuss it directly."

"Ronald, hey, I think Daniel San's role seems to be under-performed in this scene." Ralph Mazio came over by himself. After talking with his mother, he knew that it was not a challenge now. Ronald time.

   "It doesn't matter, the next scene is your performance." Ronald replied with a smile.

   (end of this chapter)