"Which court am I on? Number three?" Daniel put on Sakura's headband and walked into a sub-field.
"Why is that man kneeling there?" Daniel's opponent has arrived on the field. He has his back to Daniel and is kneeling on the ground as if he is meditating.
"have no idea."
"Don't you know anything you can tell me?" Daniel felt more and more that Master Miyagi was really unreliable. In fact, it was a battle ceremony of the opponent's school.
"Go ahead, you can score with your hands and feet."
Daniel walked onto the field fearfully.
"Cut!" Ronald was on a big crane, and the director of photography, Karabu, personally watched the shooting situation.
"No, do it again. Ralph, you have to go faster. Say one, two, one silently."
It’s still the long shot of the three masters and apprentices entering the scene, this time it was shot from an overhead shot. Maybe it was because Ralph Mazio was a little tired, and he still couldn’t meet the requirements after taking it more than a dozen times.
But after all, he was the highest-paid actor in the crew, so Ralph Mazio nodded and started to get emotional again.
"action!"
"Go ahead, you can score with your hands and feet."
"cut!"
At the end of this shooting, the director of photography finally nodded to Ronald. Ralph Mazzio went to the ground. The continuous emotional preparation and output made him exhausted.
The manager hurriedly came up and gave him a glass of water and an energy bar. Ronald noticed that those were not Coca-Cola products. I don’t know why Ralph Mazzio was particularly resistant to advertising in movies. Last time, he was asked to take a picture of his hand.
The shot of drinking soda from a cup with the Sprite logo took a long time to ink.
"Have a good rest, the rest will be your shots." After Ronald told Ralph, he walked to another field, where there was action assistant Daryl Vidal.
Vidal was also wearing a karate uniform and was preparing to fight Ron Thomas.
This shot was originally for Chad McQueen, but he is still trying to wake himself up.
"Ha!" Ron Thomas, the second-generation star, used all his strength to rush towards Vidal and punch him.
Vidal squatted down to avoid the punch, then turned around and kicked the opponent in the chest.
"Score!" The referee next to him raised his hand.
"Cut!" Ronald was particularly satisfied with this shot. Vidal's posture was graceful, and he looked like a practitioner at first glance. On the other five fields, real karate competitions were taking place, and more than half of the audience were relatives and friends of real players.
, In this way, everyone is watching the competition of their own players, and there is no situation where the whole audience is staring at the camera.
The effect of this shot is very much like Daniel and others participating in a real karate competition.
"Continue!" Vidal had another opponent here, who was also a player from the Cobra Gym. He was very big, like a mountain of meat.
"action!"
Vidal turned around and kicked, hitting his opponent with one kick. His movements were graceful and smooth, making the audience applaud him.
"cut!"
"Pfft", Pat Johnson and several real karate masters from the dojo behind him couldn't help laughing.
"Sorry." Pat knew he shouldn't laugh, but he couldn't help it. In order to look good, Ronald had already ignored the basic principles of martial arts. It would be easy for him to just turn around in front of the enemy and use his back kick to score.
The opponent seizes the weakness and attacks.
Moreover, in order to have a beautiful posture, Vidal deliberately performed the back kick very slowly to make it enjoyable for the audience.
After the filming here was completed, Ronald immediately called William Zebka.
The Johnny he played was the previous champion and the number one player in the Cobra Dojo. The moves Ronald designed for him were crisp and fierce.
"action!"
The opponent in the first round was a young man who looked pretty good. Johnny was calm and even made his preparations casually.
The opponent was frightened by the strength of his defending champion and threw a tentative punch.
Johnny ignored the opponent's temptation and caught the opponent's punch with one hand. Then he raised his right foot and hung on the opponent's right arm. He flicked his calf and hit the opponent's head.
"Pa", hit the opponent's head, get three points, and eliminate the opponent with one move.
When the camera swept away, the trio of Daniel, Ali, and Miyagi who were watching the battle clearly understood the offensive style of the Cobra Dojo.
"cut!"
Continuous filming of Johnny defeating the enemy with one move has produced two semi-finalists.
"Ralph, how are you?" Ronald asked Ralph Mazio's condition. After more than a dozen times, he could still concentrate and continue shooting action scenes.
"I have to take another break." Mazio said truthfully, and the manager brought him an exclusive lunch.
Ronald announced lunch to the crew, and he also queued up to get one, and sat down next to Noriyuki Morita and Elizabeth Sue to eat together.
"Coca-Cola?" Noriyuki Morita did not appear out of character, but still used the broken Japanese tourist English.
"Yes, I like it very much. I even bought some of their stocks."
"Morita, if you don't make much money, buy some stocks." Noriyuki Morita was still being cute.
"Is this stock good? I want to buy some too. The salary offered by the crew is not much." Elizabeth Su also asked next to her.
"I don't know, I just think they pay very good dividends, four times a year, which is enough for my living expenses." Ronald shrugged. The salary of the two actors is indeed not high compared to that of Ralph Mazzio, especially Noriyuki Morita.
, only a measly US$30,000.
"Would you like some sushi?" Morita opened his lunch box, and inside was a loving lunch made by his wife Yuki Morita.
"Ah, it's so cute." Elizabeth Su also came over. The sushi was made into a cute cartoon pattern. She picked up a piece and ate it.
"Hahaha", Ronald also took a piece. To be honest, it tasted very good. Noriyuki Morita was a blessed husband.
After lunch, rest is over.
Seeing that Ralph Mazio's concentration was gradually returning, Ronald was ready to start filming his journey to promotion.
In the first game, Daniel still had a lot of fear in his heart. On the one hand, he had never competed with anyone, and on the other hand, Master Miyagi did not understand the rules of the tournament, which made him a little confused about Miyagi's game strategy.
Do not believe.
"Hey..." When the other party saw that he was cowering, he thought that Daniel was weak, so he kicked Daniel in the chest.
Glutinous rice
Daniel had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and subconsciously used the "waxing style" to defend the kick. However, due to the opponent's explosive force, he was kicked back repeatedly and went out of the sideline.
Master Miyagi supported him, then winked and asked him to go up.
Ali kept encouraging her, "Be strong, Daniel, go up and kill him."
An operator who came all the way from the motion stabilizer Steadicam company held a camera and pointed it at Daniel's head, turning it 360 degrees, giving a clear view of his uncertain mentality.
"Start!" The referee made a chop from the side, indicating for both sides to continue.
Then the opponent made another improvement and hit Daniel in the face. As long as such a weakling punches or kicks in the face, they will cry. The opponent is full of contempt for Daniel.
Daniel began to back away again.
Master Miyagi went up to hold his back and cheer him up, "Remember, defend first, concentrate all your strength on punching, pay attention to balance, and fight well."
Daniel gained confidence from his master and stood on the field again to face his opponents.
"cut!"
The Steadicam photographer indicated that he had captured the necessary footage.
"Go on, prepare for the second scene." Ronald quickly deployed the camera. This time, the action scene between the two did not use a Steadicam, but a static camera.
"Attention, if you go out of bounds for the third time, I will penalize you by losing one point." The referee played by Pat Johnson said to Daniel. This is his old profession. Originally, Pat was certified in karate and Tangate.
Senior Referee.
"Both sides are ready, let's start!" Pat gave the space for the battle to the two players.
The opponent still charged directly, and Daniel was finally no longer afraid. With his extraordinary balance, he swayed to the left, just like when he was practicing on a boat, and avoided the opponent's punch.
He quickly moved to his opponent's side and kicked him in the chest.
Due to the momentum of the opponent's charge, this kick did not exert much force, but it caused a lot of damage to the opponent.
"Daniel, good job, do it again!" Ali cheered from below. Her former boyfriend Johnny was the defending champion, so Ali knew the rules of karate and would also tie a black belt for Daniel.
According to the rules of this Valley Championship in California, kicking the opponent in the chest is worth two points. In this way, as long as Daniel scores again, no matter how many points, he can get three points and win the game.
The opponent rushed over in anger, but Daniel struck back and dodged with a flower cloth made from the sea waves, and hit the opponent's arm in a circle.
Daniel didn't use force, so it didn't hurt, but it caused his opponent to fall to the ground and he was eliminated.
"Cut!" Ronald changed the camera position again,
This time Daniel's opponent is a big black man. Ronald always pays attention to balancing the races in the movie. With the Latino friend Daniel met at the beginning of the movie, and the game before the end, Ronald will not forget to arrange a black opponent for him.
"Hi!" Daniel's confidence grew. He spotted the gap between the opponent's kicks and kicked his front leg faster than the opponent.
"Ah", the black player fell to the ground and shouted wildly.
"cut!"
"This trick makes some sense." Pat Johnson said to Ronald. Daniel is a thin boy, agility and balance are his strengths, but strength is not. This kind of late strike, using dodge and agility, concentrates strength to break through the opponent's defense
The style of play also makes sense in the real world.
"But Daniel's level cannot defeat him."
"Hahaha, we are making a movie. It looks similar, and an expert can say it makes sense." Ronald turned the camera and asked the photographer to focus on several people in the Cobra Dojo, including Johnny, Dutch, and their
Master Chris.
They also noticed Daniel's success and began to really take this thin boy seriously.
The last game to enter the semi-finals was Daniel vs. the Dutch.
After calming down for several hours, Chad McQueen finally stopped having red eyes and seemed to have regained consciousness.
"Can you?" Ronald went up and asked.
"I can do it," Chad McQueen was eager to give it a try. He seemed to have forgotten his excessive impulsiveness.
Weintraub came over and held Ronald's shoulders from behind, "His father is the late tough guy Steve McQueen. We also need to rely on his father's legacy to promote the movie.
"
"Okay, get ready." Ronald also knew the purpose of recruiting these second-generation stars to play supporting roles, so that they would be knocked to the ground one by one by Daniel. Young audiences loved watching this kind of counterattack drama.
"action!"
Chad McQueen was extremely excited and kept jumping around, as if he was imitating the movements of his childhood idol Bruce Lee. He walked quickly backwards with small steps, sometimes with his left foot in front, and sometimes with his right foot in front.
Bit.
"Uncle, uncle!" He imitated Bruce Lee's signature voice, and then pushed his hips forward.
"Cut!" Ronald was furious and stepped forward to give Chad McQueen a slap on the back of the head. "What the hell are you doing! You're wasting everyone's time and film."
Chad McQueen was about to have an attack, but when he saw it was Ronald, he remembered the tragic situation of being subdued by him just now, and he shrank back.
"I can't help myself."
"What are you talking about?" Ronald discovered the reason why Chad stretched out his crotch. The boy had stuffed something in his crotch, which made it look bulging.
"It's a sock. My father said that as long as you tuck it in like this, you will look very masculine and charming on the screen."
"Okay, come on." Ronald shook his head. This second-generation star still thought he was the protagonist.
"action!"
"Ah...ah..." Chad McQueen stopped calling uncle. He stepped forward and kicked Daniel in the face.
Daniel used the prepared move to dodge to the left.
Chad McQueen got excited and kicked his foot back to the other side.
"ah!"
This move was not performed according to the pre-rehearsed move. Ralph Mazio was kicked in the nose. He covered his nose and squatted down.
His manager rushed up, "Ralph, are you okay?"
"I'm fine," said Ralph Mazio, who was kicked so hard that he shed tears.
He stood up and waved his hands, indicating that he had no big problem.
"You've got blood." Ronald noticed that Ralph Marzio's nose was broken. "Doctor, doctor!"