Accompanied by the rumbling editing machine, the editing of "Rock and Roll High School" gradually came to an end.
Two weeks later, on February 20, the editing of the entire film was announced. The next step was the mixing work, dubbing all the lip-syncing songs in the film with the audio tracks on the record.
No assistant was needed for mixing. Ronald's work on the "Rock High School" crew was completed and he became unemployed.
Ronald did not think of ways to join the new crew, but was waiting for the college admission results to come out. In addition to running and exercising every day, catching up on sleep, and watching TV series. After two days, he felt very uncomfortable and was not used to this kind of situation.
After a routine rest life, it seems that I still need to find something to do.
Go and talk to Cameron? Cameron is in the stage of enthusiasm for a new job. He works late into the night every day, and sometimes even lives in the stunt factory. As expected, he and his wife Sharon fell out again.
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Ronald had to think of something to do on his own.
I first hung up the phone with Demi Moore and asked about the situation. She has been signed by Elite Model Agency, and some graphic modeling jobs are waiting for her. However, her acting career has not picked up yet, and she doesn’t know when she will be able to enter the industry. Now with me
I asked my boyfriend to learn how to write lyrics for rock music.
Demi also told Ronald that Natasha Kinski had already returned to her country to continue filming "Tess". She didn't know when she would be able to see her on the screen in the United States.
Ronald felt a little empty, and his daily life was too dull compared to the stories in the movie. On the shooting scene and in the editing room, he was dealing with drama every moment.
After finishing a movie, Ronald was a little unaccustomed to the dullness of daily life. It seemed as if he had escaped from this ordinary world.
Film shooting and post-editing are so colorful. Along the way, Ronald is a newcomer. After breaking into the film industry, he is climbing the mountain every step of the way. He works hard to climb and finally reaches the top. But after the top, it is flat ground.
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Now this kind of ordinary life is just flat ground. Once you are used to climbing mountains, then walking on flat ground, it seems that you suddenly feel weightless. In fact, most people's lives are not as dramatic as the world on the screen. Ronald is still adapting to the normal rhythm of life again.
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Ronald drove around Venice aimlessly.
When the city was being planned, Venice Beach was planned as a cultural center by the Los Angeles municipal government. The lower working class could not engage in high art, so Venice became a surfing and roller skating center.
The municipal company has built roller skating venues on many roadsides. It is called a venue, but it is actually a circular ground paved with cement, which is quite crude. The original intention may be that people can play roller skating in it, just like the ice skating rink in Ronald's hometown of New York.
But now, the venue has been occupied by skateboarders who challenge the difficulty of tricks. Instead of using roller skates, they use skateboards to try difficult tricks on pools, railings, stairs, etc.
Ronald asked someone to borrow a skateboard and gave it a try. He soon discovered that he was too tall to do any fancy moves. After watching other people's wonderful performances for a while, he was extremely envious, and he was also jealous of what he could do.
If you don’t want to go out, you’d better leave and go see other fun things.
There is also a surfing club on Venice Beach, where surfers wearing swimming shorts and tanned bodies are challenging the waves. They seem to be able to master the fragile balance on the wave and stay swaying without falling.
There are even some brave ones who try to challenge the waves that are more than 5 meters high and walk through the waves. The audience can only see a small person on the beach, disappearing and appearing in the huge waves. Although most of them end in failure, but occasionally
A successful one emerged from the huge waves, and the beach burst into cheers.
Ronald also enjoyed watching it and couldn't help but want to play it.
I found the surf club business office on the shore, paid the deposit, happily went into the changing room, changed into swimming shorts, took the newly rented surfboard, and plunged into the sea.
"Pfft, bah, bah, bah." Ronald was knocked over by the waves and returned to the shore in embarrassment.
It seems that I am still not suitable for these extreme sports.
Then let's play wrestling. Ronald tried to find a wrestling gym to recover his skills. But he drove around Venice for a long time and couldn't find it.
An enthusiastic citizen pointed out that there is a martial arts gym on the corner.
"A martial arts school might as well be a good idea," Ronald thought.
Walking into the martial arts hall at the intersection of two streets, the smell of shoes came to him. Ronald frowned, and there were more than ten pairs of shoes neatly placed in the entrance. It turned out to be a karate club, and you had to take off your shoes when entering.
People in America generally don't know the difference between Chinese and Japanese people.
They also call Bruce Lee’s Kung Fu Karate (Karate). They also call Japanese Karate and Judo Kung Fu.
Anyway, it is a mysterious martial art from the East. As soon as "uncle" makes a move, the enemy will be killed.
There were only a few children in the hall, wearing white karate clothes and belts.
"Hey, hoo, hi, hoo" he was doing punches, up and down blocks, and other basic moves.
Ronald followed the rules, took off his shoes, and walked into the club. The venue was small, with creamy yellow tatami covering the entire floor. There were no decorations around, and it was quite simple. There were some slogans written in Japanese on the wall opposite.
, and there is a pennant, which seems to be the championship flag of a certain championship.
The coach of the guild hall saw an adult coming and came up to talk to him. The business of the karate guild hall was not good, so from the looks of his body shape, he looked like a trainer. Did he come to compete in the gym?
Ronald introduced himself and expressed that he wanted to find a wrestling venue. The guide pointed him here and said that the coach here has real skills.
The coach looks to be a mixed race of rice and Japanese, in his 20s, and he learned authentic Ryukyu karate. After Bruce Lee passed away, the business of Eastern martial arts has not been easy to do, and now he still relies on recruiting some children to support him.
The coach didn't have any special knowledge. Seeing that Ronald was good at wrestling, he said he wanted to fight him twice. The two asked the students to stop and fight on the tatami.
Karate pays attention to inch stop, which means to stop until the point is reached. If the instructor's fist hits Ronald's face an inch, he will win.
Ronald was not used to this, so he stepped forward and grabbed the coach's wrist, twisted it hard, and threw him to the ground.
He hurried forward to apologize, but the coach had no intention of continuing the fight. Instead, he chatted with Ronald about this wrestling method. Various martial arts schools have similar techniques. Ronald also learned some karate throwing techniques.
Before parting, the two exchanged business cards. The coach said that he had also practiced Wing Chun and Filipino stick fighting. Ronald was welcome to come and try his skills when he had time. He had some good friends who could also fight in practice.
Ronald looked at the name on the business card, Darryl Vidal, and it turned out to be an American name.
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Ordinary life lacks excitement. Maybe he lacks a girlfriend? Ronald thought to himself.
How about having a Chinese meal to celebrate? Ronald drove to Chinatown in Los Angeles to try the Chinese cuisine there.
After passing Sunset Boulevard and heading north for a short distance, Ronald saw the bronze statue of Mr. Sun Yat-sen and the tall archway with the words "Luo Zhi Qinghua" written on it.
My whole body relaxed. Although I had no memory of my previous life, I still felt a natural sense of intimacy with the Chinese style houses, various Chinese plaques, and bilingual street signs.
I randomly found a restaurant and ordered a portion of Yangzhou fried rice, plus a portion of barbecued pork, stir-fried vegetables, and soup. Ronald's tongue and stomach were all at ease. It relieved him a lot from the boredom of McDonald's every day.
I should come more often. Ronald patted his belly, put down the excessive tip, and got up to go home.
After taking a hot shower to wash away his fatigue, Ronald thought of the idea of finding a girlfriend again. How about finding the two "dance stars" from Van Nuys High School tomorrow?
Sitting on the sofa in the living room in a daze, Ronald turned on the TV. It happened to be CBS-2, a local TV station in Los Angeles, which was broadcasting the nominations for this year's 51st Academy Awards.
The two popular movies I saw in the daily variety show newspaper some time ago, "The Return" and "The Deer Hunter" won 8 and 9 nominations respectively. And they both included Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor and Actor.
Major awards in the category.
Another strong contender for the award is the comedy film "Heaven Can Wait", which was produced, directed, written and starred by Warren Beatty himself, which also received 9 nominations.
Warren Beatty is a famous playboy in Hollywood. Since his starring role in "Bonnie and Clyde" became a box office legend a few years ago, his power in Hollywood has been increasing day by day. There are constant rumors about his relationships with various female stars.
Scandal, and none of his rumored girlfriends have bad words to say about him.
Ronald actually envied him for being a promiscuous man and maintaining a good reputation. He was much better than the other two famous playboys in Hollywood, Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando.
The host is still constantly analyzing the probability of winning various nominations, interspersed with various entertainment gossips and interviews with the parties involved.
Warren Beatty is a handsome guy, and he went out of his way to say good things about his movies during interviews.
"'Into the Wrong Heaven and the Wrong Birth' is not a simple remake of the 1943 'Taixu Taoist'. It is not a simple farce. It incorporates thoughts about modern America and what kind of life we want to live.
Thoughts on life, and it’s essentially a romance film.”
Ronald listened to what he said and thought for a while, but didn't understand what the handsome guy meant.
The scene cut to "The Deer Hunter", and the movie's most famous star, Robert De Niro, was defending the film, stating that "The Deer Hunter" is the best movie this year.
Then came the director Michael Cimino. He is a greasy fat man, with exaggerated speech, exaggerated movements, and a bit of a megalomaniac. The host introduced that he started in advertising, and "The Deer Hunter" is his directorial debut.
Two feature films.
However, this time he was criticized by many film critics and progressives. In Michael Cimino's three-hour film, there are some whimsical plots, such as American prisoners of war being forced to risk their lives by North Vietnamese officers.
Several prisoners gambled with a revolver. There was only one bullet in the revolver. The North Vietnamese officer turned the revolver, and then the prisoners took turns to shoot themselves in the temple. This was the so-called Russian roulette. Many people criticized him for talking nonsense.
, saying that nothing like this had ever happened in the Vietnam War.
When Michael Cimino was interviewed, he spoke plausibly:
"I served in the Green Berets of the US Army. When I first joined the army in 1968, I served as a medic in the Green Berets and witnessed the entire spring offensive. I can only say that many things are beyond your imagination.
.People who understand will naturally understand what I mean. If you don’t understand, I can’t reveal more. I can only tell you that a lot of the content of this movie can be said to be autobiographical.”
Ronald looked at the greasy fat man on the TV and said, "That's not right. He enlisted in the army and was sent to Vietnam in 1968, so isn't he only about 30 years old this year? This fat man looks like he is 40, right?"
The scene turned to the heroine of "Return", Jane Fonda, being interviewed. Jane is the daughter of Henry Fonda, a veteran acting actor in the golden age. She won the Oscar for the movie "Klute" in 1971. Yes.
A big star with both beauty and acting skills. She has always stood on the left and advocated world peace. During the Vietnam War, she called on the American commanders to stop bombing civilians in the north.
This time, Jane Fonda was attacked by conservatives. On the screen, the character she played had an affair with her high school idol, who is now a disabled soldier. During the affair, her character was still wearing a wedding ring, and
My real husband is still fighting on the battlefield in Vietnam.
This aroused dissatisfaction among many veterans and religious figures. They all accused Jane Fonda of being immoral. They also used the nickname "Hanoi Jane" that caused public outrage when she visited North Vietnam.
But Jane Fonda defended her film as reflecting the real situation of Vietnam veterans.
"Did you know? We shot the scenes in the veterans' hospital at the beginning of the film in real life. Those lines are the daily conversations of Vietnam War veterans. Anyone with a conscience should watch this movie 'Homecoming'. It's really
To understand the trauma that the Vietnam War brought to our country, instead of sitting in a room imagining the brutality of the Vietnamese."
Ronald's uncle died on the Vietnam battlefield. There are also many disabled Vietnam War veterans in Staten Island and New York. He knows that what Jane Fonda said is actually very true.
Gossip reporters seized the opportunity:
"Jane, are you implying that 'The Deer Hunter' isn't really a reflection on the Vietnam War? Were those Russian Roulette plots imaginary?"
"No, I'm not criticizing a certain movie, but I'm criticizing a bad trend in Hollywood that doesn't dare to face the truth. As for 'The Deer Hunter' you mentioned, I think our movie 'The Return' is better.
The one that better reflects the true face of that war."
"Jane Fonda once again expressed her stance on the Vietnam War. Can her new film win the favor of the judges? The photo of her sitting on a North Vietnamese People's Army anti-aircraft gun in 1972 has not been forgotten by the American public." The host began to summarize.
The famous photo appeared on the TV screen.
Ronald was getting sleepier and sleepier. He turned off the TV and prepared to go to bed. It seems that this year's Oscar hot spots are all about the Vietnam War movies. No, there is also the Warren Beatty movie, what's the name of that movie...