On the Friday afternoon of the second week of training, Ronald came to the Debbie Reynolds dance studio. In the large practice room here, there were many mats on the floor, and the mirrors on the surrounding walls were covered with cloth. Movement instructions
Pat Johnson is instructing the boys who play Cobra Gym students in boxing.
"Hey...hey...ha...hey", several second-generation stars had cloth strips tied on their heads, put on black cobra gym uniforms, and were punching hard.
"Don't you have enough to eat? Work harder!" Martin Kove, who plays the coach, is now training the students like a real coach.
"Yes, Master!" Several students agreed loudly, and then punched harder.
Pat Johnson saw Ronald and stopped the training and asked them to put on a show for the director.
"Pause, line up, and show your skills and strength to Mr. Ronald Lee."
"Yes, Master!" Several actors answered loudly and then moved in pieces of wood.
William Zebka, who plays the villain Johnny, picks up a board and holds it up, facing the other actors.
"Ah...uncle"
Chad McQueen, the son of the famous star Steve McQueen, rushed forward, punched and broke a board, and then kicked and broke another. Not satisfied yet, he asked William...
Zebka went to get some more wooden boards for him to perform on.
After a week, these second-generation stars have been trained to be very aggressive.
Ronald watched for a while, a little worried that Pat Johnson had trained them to be too aggressive.
Johnson said they were completely within his control. William Zebka was particularly hard-working and had some basic skills. He was the best player besides coach Martin Kove.
"William, you're just a bitch." Seeing that Zebka refused to spar with him, Chad McQueen said angrily and walked to the end of the team.
"Chad, your training is very effective, but I hope you can respect other actors. Your training is for making movies, not street fighting." Ronald stopped him. This second-generation star inherited his big star.
Father's bad temper.
"Hey, Cobra's belief is to be brave and fearless, strike first and take no prisoners," Chad shouted, actually rushing towards Ronald to challenge him.
Ronald didn't share his common knowledge, so he turned to Pat Johnson and said, "You have to take it easy. I don't want the actor to be injured because he was too excited during the filming."
Action instructor Johnson nodded and stopped Chad, "Cobra also believes that discipline comes first. If the master does not give orders, the apprentice is not allowed to attack. Do you understand?"
"Understood, Master!" Chad McQueen threw a look of contempt at Ronald and retreated into the queue.
Ronald turned a blind eye to the teenager's provocation. Anyway, he didn't have many lines, so it didn't affect the filming. He turned around and went to another small practice room with Pat Johnson to watch the training progress of another group of actors.
Noriyuki Morita just came out of the small room to rest. When he saw Ronald, he quickly greeted him and several second-generation stars, and went up to welcome them into another practice room.
"This useless director, hahaha..." Chad McQueen said arrogantly. Several second-generation stars also echoed him and laughed together. Only Zebka was not a second-generation star, and he was very interested in the actor Noriyuki Morita.
He was more respectful and smiled and nodded at him.
"William, William, William..." Chad McQueen and several other second-generation stars saw William Zebka's actions and went up to surround him, "Do you want to be a traitor? Huh?"
Zebka is very tired of these second-generation stars, but he is a main supporting role, not an extraneous one. "Ronald is the director, and I don't want to offend him."
"Director? Huh! The producer can replace him at any time. You are such a coward." Chad McQueen smiled, let go of Zebka, and patted his cheek, "As long as you respect me, I will
I will protect you, even if the new director comes, your role will be fine."
Ronald, who had already arrived in another classroom, saw the protagonist Ralph Mazio lying on the ground. Noriyuki Morita, who failed to take a rest, also obediently started to do leg stretching with the help of his assistant.
"Ouch...ah..." The two assistants helped the two actors one-on-one and began to stretch their legs and start the routine of howling like ghosts and wolves.
Ronald stood aside and watched. Ralph Mazzio, who was still playing the role of the apprentice, was more flexible, while Noriyuki Morita, who was already middle-aged, really couldn't do some actions.
"The philosophy of Goju-ryu Karate is to strike later and stop with stillness. Today we are going to talk about the eleventh move of breaking, which is to take the technique."
Movement director Pat Johnson asked the two of them to stand up, and began to demonstrate with an assistant the use of a move in karate. When the opponent punched, Johnson slightly rotated his upper body, used his arms to externally rotate, deflected the opponent's punch, and then lowered himself
With a slight hook of his leg, the assistant fell down due to his own inertia.
"Pay attention to this approach. You need to rotate outward and use force. You will try it later." Pat Johnson demonstrated again to his two apprentices.
Ronald saw something. Pat Johnson taught the two protagonists a lot of martial arts philosophy, and then asked them to dismantle some moves in slow motion, telling them how to use these moves to subdue the opponent, but never trained them in basic skills.
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Contrary to the many teenagers outside, the hard training there starts from basic postures and horse stances in a strict manner, but the coach does not teach the principles of martial arts.
Gu Jia
The two classes of players trained in this way have completely different understandings of karate. In the minds of Noriyuki Morita and Ralph Mazio, karate is a concept, while people like Chad McQueen believe that karate is a concept.
Many boxing-like techniques.
In this way, the actors on both sides were misled and closer to their characters in the movie. Ronald was very satisfied. After the training was over, the audience would be able to tell the difference once the people on both sides of the camera took the stage and posed.
"By the way, where's Elizabeth Su? Why didn't you see her?" Ronald remembered that he arranged for Su to come to observe the training, and they spent time together every day to develop a tacit understanding.
"I'm here..." A girl wearing a large T-shirt and long shorts ran in from another small door of the practice room, holding a large bag of chocolate biscuits in her hand.
"You are..." Ronald was caught by a bright light from the small door facing the street, and could not see the other person's face clearly. He covered his forehead with his hand and looked carefully.
"Oh my god..." Ronald finally saw clearly that the fat girl who came in was actually Elizabeth Sue.
"How come you've become so fat in less than two weeks?" Ronald shouted angrily, "How can you film a movie like this? Why did Ali fall in love with Daniel at first sight when he's so fat?"
"I...I...I have nothing to do here, and they don't let me play." Elizabeth Su was robbed and felt a little panicked. She is an athletic girl who has practiced gymnastics since she was a child and is also a member of the school football team.
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When she arrived in Los Angeles, she stayed in the dance studio for two weeks, not knowing what to do. She could only watch Ralph and Morita start training the magical karate, but she had no one to teach her.
I was bored watching the two of them stretching every day, and started eating all kinds of snacks involuntarily, and finally it got out of hand.
"Starting today, you are going to eat a healthy diet and practice karate with Coach Pat Johnson." Ronald lost his temper at Sue with a straight face.
Then he turned back to action director Pat Johnson and said, "You have to add another female apprentice. If this continues, my Ali will be so fat that both Daniel and Johnson will dislike her.
Pat Johnson nodded, one more person is also a teacher.
"You may have to teach her according to the standards of those outside. Su is an athletic girl. If she doesn't exercise enough, she will gain weight quickly."
"Okay, no problem." Pat Johnson couldn't help laughing.
"It's okay, I won't fire you. But you have to stop eating snacks from now on and train well. This is your screen debut, don't mess it up." Ronald reached out and took the chocolate biscuit in Su's hand.
He tore open the package and threw it into his mouth.
It's quite delicious.
"Let's take a break." Noriyuki Morita couldn't stand the amount of exercise again and asked to take a break again.
Elizabeth Sue ran over and smiled at Pat Johnson, "How do we practice?" She had long wanted to start practicing this magical oriental martial arts together. With Ralph Mazio's athletic ability, she
You will definitely beat him to the ground during practice.
Morita walked outside. Given his age, he was originally a comedian and had never been in the habit of exercising. This kind of high-intensity stretching was simply unbearable for him.
"Mr. Morita."
As soon as he ran outside to take a lazy break, Noriyuki Morita was stopped by William Zebka. Zebka didn't fit in with the group of second-generation stars, and he was always here alone during breaks.
"Hello, William. Don't be angry about those boys. As long as you make this movie, you will become famous. I have a feeling that Ronald is a very good director, and he may really make you famous in one fell swoop." Morita
Zezhi saw that the second generation Xing was a little rude to Zebka just now, so he comforted him smoothly.
"I..." William Zebka had just turned eighteen and was dubious about this statement. "But I heard from Chad McQueen that Ronald may be replaced at any time."
"What did he say?" Noriyuki Morita pays more attention to gossip about the crew. Having been in the TV industry for more than ten years, he knows that sometimes gossip is often ahead of formal notices.
In the small classroom, Ronald watched Elizabeth Sue take off her shoes and practice the basic postures of karate with Pat Johnson. Sure enough, this athletic girl's motor cells were much stronger than those of fuck-boy Ralph Mazzio.
and Slender Monkey Morita Noriyuki.
"Oh, practice hard." Ralph Mazzio also whistled to cheer Su.
"When I practice well, you will definitely not be my opponent." Elizabeth Su returned the look with disdain. "Ah" a kick, very standard.
"Ronald-san, please come here." Noriyuki Morita walked into the classroom silently and said to Ronald.
Noriyuki Morita was first-hand introduced to Weintraub by Ronald, and he absolutely did not want Ronald to be replaced. Usually everyone in the crew will be branded as "someone's person." If Ronald
If he is replaced, the new director doesn't appreciate him, so there are a hundred reasons why he should be replaced.
"I will talk to Weintraub, don't worry, continue training."
Ronald thought about the senior consultant who often gave Weintraub advice. Could this person be his "spare tire"? Weintraub, a Jew, really liked to make backup plans.