Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 497 One Hundred and Twenty Eight Belgian Martial Artists

   "Action!"

   Ronald called the start again.

  The camera swept to the back of the two male protagonists, Cyclone and Ma Ma. The audience was intoxicated by the wonderful dance and danced to the rhythm. Slowly approaching, the man with the hair in the black spandex bodysuit did not steal the spotlight again, but cooperated with the dance.

   "It's really ugly, but it's OK." Ronald nodded in satisfaction.

   The actor seemed to be inspired, and excitedly did a backflip and landed firmly on the ground.

   "He is also considered smart, so stealing the spotlight is not a foul, and the audience likes to watch it", Ronald pretended not to see it.

   "Cut!"

   Ronald stopped filming.

  Director of photography Hanania shouted, "Take a close-up shot below, carry it on your shoulders. Come on Bob, your arms are iron."

  The crew that rushed into the battle, did not have time to line up, and rented a camera stabilizer from Steadicam. So I chose to shoot on the shoulder.

   "Everyone take a break, the next one in twenty minutes", the assistant director shouted with a loudspeaker.

   Ronald put on his sunglasses, returned to the chair marked with his name, poured a cup of black tea from the thermos, and tasted it slowly.

   "Director", someone called him.

   Ronald raised his eyes and saw that it was the hair-haired actor Jean Claude.

"What's up?"

   "I want to ask, do you think I can be a leading role in Hollywood? I just arrived in your country and I want to find a career as an actor in Hollywood."

   "Where are you from? Hair country?" Ronald is happy to chat with an actor who is clever to express himself. To be successful in Hollywood, it is necessary to have a tenacious will and an ambition to always stand out.

   "Uh... I'm actually Belgian. I practiced karate, judo, I won the European Karate Championship, and I played full-contact karate. My record is 18 wins and 1 loss..."

"In Hollywood, you can't be a star if you can play." Ronald interrupted his self-introduction, and took a slow sip of tea, "You have to play well. If you can play, you can only be a stand-in. Good-looking to be the protagonist."

   "I can play well, look at my trick", Jean-Claude heard that Ronald was willing to communicate with him, and showed the trick that he had prepared for a long time.

   "Don't move, Director", Jean-Claude suddenly kicked up his feet and let his toes brush the tip of Ronald's nose. During the whole process, his upper body didn't move and fell steadily.

   "Fuxk! You sneak attack with shadowless feet!"

   Ronald was taken aback, he put down the hot black tea that flowed out of his hand, and then shook his hand, "You fucking, never, never... don't use this trick in front of me."

   "Sorry, director." Jean Claude quickly apologized, "Do you think my skills can stand in Hollywood?"

   "You can do it, but you still have to make up for acting classes. If you have skills, you can go to work in a karate club and take acting classes while earning money."

   "Okay, thank you, director! My full name is Jean-Claude Van Dan" Don't forget me if you have a role, "Michelle, Michael, the director told us how to get into Hollywood."

  Ronald shook his head, Hollywood is very competitive, is it possible to become famous if you have acting skills and skills? How can it be so simple.

   But this Jean-Claude's level is still good. If he was there when "Longwei Boy", he would definitely be able to play a top four player or something, and he played well.

   The second close-up shoulder shooting was completed quickly. The camera operator named Bob was very burly, and there was no shaking with the camera on his shoulders. Ronald was very happy.

   "Come on", Ronald led everyone to give a few rounds of applause, then picked up the electric horn and shouted, "We have no time to waste, move, move, hurry, hurry!"

   In the third scene, Lucinda Deitch played Kelly, who was introduced to Sabado's Cyclone by her friend Ayton. Cyclone has a crush on Kylie and pulls her off the stage to break dance with him. This arouses the jealousy of the dancers played by Falcon and Solomon next to him.

  The two of them were dissatisfied with the whirlwind's **** of the most beautiful dancer, Kelly, and the dancer played by the Latino Falcon stepped forward to challenge the whirlwind and let him end the duel.

  Falken, the strongest is robot dance (Popping). His rhythm and rhythm are very harmonious. Compared with other robot dances, he has more agility, and his whole body has a rhythm.

   This is also the kind of casting director Pamela said, a master of dancing a dance to the realm of art. Such a master was invited by Ronald to play a supporting role at a very cheap price because breakdance had a low status in the entire American society.

  Falken's fighting dance is very interesting, starting from the invitation, without saying a word, only using body language and provocative eyes, he completed the insult to the whirlwind.

   Cyclone's robot dance is actually not as good as him. In order to prevent making a fool of himself in front of Kelly, he pretended to sneer in disdain, and then took the motor and Kelly away. To the disappointment of Momo, who has been chasing him to the side.

   "Cut!"

   Ronald took the lead in applauding after the filming. He called his assistant, "You go and invite Meinahan to come."

   "What's the matter?" The fat Minahan has been staring at the crew, and he hopes this movie will turn him over. So all the supplies, the talents, he was staring at in person. His character can still supervise this kind of thing, but he is a very competent production director.

"The dance just now was world-class," Ronald said softly to Minahan, "Today, together with the shot of the hand man in the back, you should develop a working copy as soon as possible, and we will cut it out as we shoot. A trailer, or maybe send it to some cable station and let them play it for free, that's really good marketing."

   "So good?" Minahan was a little disbelieving when he heard the world-class level. He stayed to feast his eyes.

   "Quick, quick, let's move to the venue by the beach." Ronald began to mobilize the crew's mechanics to move all kinds of equipment to another terrazzo venue suitable for hip-hop.

   This place is closer to the beach than the roadside venue just now. This scene was a jump shot, and an exploitative film didn’t have the luxury to shoot in the order of the script. Ronald asked his assistant to arrange the scenes shot in one place as closely as possible.

   Soon a new scene was built under the urging and supervision of Minahan and the concerted efforts of the crew.

  “Action!” The camera is aimed at a concrete road coming from the beach. The whirlwind played by Sabadell dragged Kelly with one hand and walked into the venue from the road.

  This plot is two-thirds of the way in the movie, Kelly, played by Lucinda, was harassed by the original jazz dance coach and asked her to be friendly with herself, otherwise she would not be recommended to participate in the dance competition.

  The whirlwind and the motor were not unexpectedly troubled by the white coach and refused to be outside the dance competition. The whirlwind saw Kelly lost and dragged her to watch the original intention of the dance performance.

   Here is a young man with poliomyelitis and disabled feet, who still dances breakdance, and is the first person in this street dance field.

   "Cut!"

  Ronald's lips were slightly upturned after he stopped, revealing his mood.

  Sabadu said that he didn't forgive Lucinda, but in his heart he wanted the white beauty Lucinda to be able to make excuses for him. And Lucinda is often picky, teased, and disliked by Sabad. It was only because Sabadell was the set male protagonist that he had to pretend to be in admiration.

   This is very close to the relationship between the whirlwind and Kelly in the movie plot. The two people's dissatisfaction with each other, shown on the film, is actually very similar to the sexual confrontation between young men and women.

  Some so-called happy friends are just like this tormenting each other and liking each other.

   "Cut!"

  The camera was relocated to the venue, and Handyman Eddie Rodriguez walked in with a cane.

   "Eddie, give them a good look." Ronald patted him on the shoulder.

  Handman Eddie is not nervous about making movies, dancing is his favorite thing. Because of his disability, he is good at floor dancing (Breaking).

   "Action!"

The   hand man put on the hood of the off-road jacket and zipped up the zipper. He leaned on the ground with a cane, used the cane to perform a Thomas full rotation, and then a series of gymnastic pommel horse movements such as climbing a pommel horse. One last handstand and start spinning like you're on stilts with your hands.

   Kelly, played by Lucinda Deitch, was excited to watch him let go of himself, full of confidence and unaffected by his physical disability.

   She began to gradually let go of her troubles about not being able to participate in the dance competition.

"Cut!" Ronald stopped. Lucinda Dickey's performance was very layered. This had something to do with her experience in gymnastics. Seeing the movements of the hand man, she knew how difficult it would be to do these movements with both hands. . Therefore, my opponent is very admired.

  Then the camera moves a little closer, and Ronald looks through the framing, which just covers the terrazzo floor dance field.

   He walked over to the hand man, "It's up to you, this is your performance time."

   "Action!"

  The man in hand, Eddie Rodriguez, nodded and walked to the center of the arena with a happy smile on his face. He suddenly let go of his hands and the two crutches fell to the ground.

   He fell to the ground, ready for a preparatory position, and he started to rotate from slow to fast with a force of both hands.

   Started with the hands as the center, then the back, then the shoulders, then the head, a handstand, with the legs thrown up and spinning like the blades of a helicopter.

"Look at him and see how he dances." Shabaduo played the whirlwind, pretending to teach Kelly next to him, "Did you see this child? He's still dancing, Kelly, dancing is for the pleasure of himself and himself. audience."

   Kelly's face was heavy, as if she was very dissatisfied with her withdrawal, and then she was gradually infected by the dance of the hand man and began to smile.

  The camera zooms slowly to the far end, and in the audience is a curly-haired girl in a silver bikini, dancing to the rhythm with a pair of sunglasses, occupying a large part of the frame.

   "Cut!"

  Ronald still remembers the teachings of Roger Coleman. When the plot is a little didactic, let the audience's eyes eat ice cream.

   Soon, other people's reaction shots, and the dialogue shots with Kelly and Cyclone were also shot. Ronald watched as the director of photography removed the film.

   "Just here today, everyone come to me to get tomorrow's shooting schedule." The assistant director began to distribute his personal schedule in the sunset.

   "Meinahan, rush the printing, I can get a piece of it in the editing car tomorrow."

"Really? I'll **** it to the lab in person, and I'll get it in the morning." Minahan admires Ronald's shooting ability very much now. Put the camera in there and say to the actors, just dance.

   (end of this chapter)