"Diane, not... Dean, Madam Dean." Ronald called the hotel where Diane, who was still in the country, was staying.
"Hey, Ronald, it's you. The Chinese people like our 'Cotton Club' very much and invite us to participate in many salon activities." Diane received the call in the room.
"Did you have a good time in the country? Come back soon, Diane. Lucas is going to make a new movie. You need to be good at acting. I recommend you."
"Hmm... um... you invite me back to attend the Oscars? Okay, I'll buy the tickets right away."
"What, the international long-distance noise is too loud. I heard everything wrong." Ronald put down the phone and went to Miramar Airport with Little Bud to prepare for today's takeoff shooting.
"What, you want to go back? Why don't you stay here for a few more weeks? You can speak French, and the people here like you. We can continue to go to bars in the evening. There is also a 'Cotton Club' here in Paris. It suits you just right.
New clothes, and a lot of handsome guys from the Chinese film industry to meet."
Another actress in the movie "Cotton Club", Lonette, pulled Diane and wanted her to continue to accompany him. "I heard that many Chinese male stars are also going."
"No, now I have a rare opportunity to go to the Oscars. I will book the tickets right away." Diane carefully guarded the secret of Lucas' casting brought by Ronald and did not let any actress on the crew know.
"Then I'll go by myself. I'll go with Kaibo from the crew. He can also speak French and can be my translator." Lonette McGee was very eager to try. He heard that Christopher Lambert was coming to the club tonight.
Especially the current popular young boy in the country, who is very handsome.
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"What do you call this action?" Ronald was in the lounge of the base, watching pilot "Idiot" and former top gun school instructor and current naval consultant Pete Pettigrew demonstrate with a model aircraft.
Flying movements in real air combat.
"This is a barrel roll. The F-14 has strong power. The barrel roll has advantages over the MiG. An experienced pilot can use the barrel roll to lure the opponent forward and use the complexity of the compound maneuver to prevent the opponent from effectively aiming."
"Yes, in your script, Iceman escaped several enemy cannons before the Lone Ranger came to support him. He relied on this barrel roll. The top gun instructor can use it to lure you into continuous pursuit.
But it just can’t be locked.”
"This action seems rather dull, but let's go up and give it a try."
Three planes filled the sky with this, the stupid F-14A at the front, the MiG-28 simulated by F-5s in the middle, and the last one was an F-5s with a modified camera gun. Ronald
Get in the back seat and see for yourself what kind of shots you can get.”
"How's it going? Are you dazzled? Bozo's flying skills are very good, but the plane behind him couldn't lock on to him even though he tried hard."
After coming down, Pettigrew was very satisfied with the pilot's dogfighting level. The pursuit and escape in tandem were also top-notch in a real top gun school.
Ronald didn't say anything. The barrel roll is really a very boring action. The rolling radius of the fighter jet as it moves around the spiral is too large. If you take a closer shot, it will always move in and out of the camera.
If you are far away, you cannot capture the details on the fuselage. The fighter jet looks too small on the screen, and there is no sense of oppression at all on the anamorphic wide screen.
"Here it comes." A few hours later, the quickly developed samples were loaded into the projector.
"Oh, this is a disaster."
Ronald looked at the shots on the screen, and it was exactly what he thought. The F-14 Tomcat was photographed like a toy airplane, with no texture. It was difficult to see any good effects from the barrel roll maneuvers on the screen.
"How can this be a disaster? Bozo flies so beautifully. Two more fighter jets can't catch him."
"I mean it's a disaster for the audience. I believe those Oklahoma parents, they don't understand barrel rolls, compound maneuvers, and dog fights at all. They know that this action is too ugly. I will never shoot something so ugly.
Maneuvers. You have to think again, Pete, Navy planes can certainly do some nice maneuvers."
"Okay." Pettigrew scratched his head. These young people in Hollywood have tortured themselves to death. They want to look good, not easy to use.
While the air combat was being designed, several actors who had completed parachuting training were taking turns taking turns to take off and sit in the back seat to shoot shots in the cockpit.
"vomit……"
Most actors still can't get used to this kind of high-g fighter maneuver. Barry Tubb, who played the "Wolfman", staggered off the plane with his vomit bag full. He slipped and fell to the ground.
I felt nauseated again and lay on the ground vomiting.
The assistant of the production crew quickly went up to help him, put him aside, washed his face with hot water, and slowly his blood color returned.
"Although this experience is very exciting, I really vomited violently. In order not to dirty the cockpit, I didn't wear an oxygen mask. I vomited too much. I'm sorry, director."
Barry Tubb also came over to apologize.
Seeing his pitiful appearance, Ronald was too embarrassed to blame him, so he could only comfort him that it was okay.
"Do all fighter pilots have to wear oxygen masks?" Ronald asked the "idiot bozo" next to him.
"That's the order, but generally everyone doesn't wear it. It interferes with radio communications and it's hard to tell when wearing a mask. We usually wear it on one side and expose our mouth, and then buckle it up when we really need to maneuver at high altitudes."
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"Next time the pilot takes the actors to fly, don't do such big maneuvers." After watching the printed samples, Ronald said hello to several flight instructors from the Miramar Base Top Gun Flight School who participated in the filming.
"Please take pity on my actor. Look at Barry Tubb's face. Look at his face. It's already blue. I heard that people who have a heart attack have similar complexions to him.
"Ronald said, pointing to Barry's face on the screen.
Several flight instructors exchanged glances, and it was true that some actors were so intolerant of flying that they closed their eyes when doing stunts.
"Now only Tom Cruise is getting more and more comfortable with flying, but high-g is a special attribute of fighter pilots after all. There is a rule that actors in the back seat are not allowed to perform stunts exceeding 4g." Pete Pettig
Lu Ye came out to give orders, and the actors in the past two days were really tortured.
"Then what else can we fly? Can we defeat enemy planes by flying level?" Pilots are also dissatisfied that the movie cannot show real air combat.
"I learned a little bit about Hollywood, let me tell you, do you know what Oklahoma parents are..." With the high salary of the crew, Pete Pettigrew has "rebelled" to Hollywood in his heart.
Here, he is the most suitable person to explain to his old colleagues that the movie is not real.
"Attention all departments, let's start filming."
The next day, Ronald sat in the back seat of the two-seater F-5S fighter jet and went up to the sky to shoot footage of the air battle. He gave instructions to the radio.
"Copy that, Hollywood. Tommy feels good here."
The pilots were a little dissatisfied with Ronald for not letting them do combat maneuvers, so they gave him the call sign "Hollywood", which happened to be the same as the call sign of a pilot in the movie. It was meant to tease him that he didn't understand and still had to point fingers.
"Copy that, please be patient and don't do more than 4g." Ronald couldn't argue with these bold pilots with huge egos, so he had to accept the nickname "Hollywood".
"Less than 4g..." The pilot whose call sign was "Groom" was very dissatisfied. What kind of maneuver was he doing? He had no choice but to pull the control stick and roll.
This maneuver of rolling around the axis of the fighter itself has no effect in combat. It is considered the most basic maneuver. Its only advantage is that the load is small.
"Oh, what's this action? 'Viper,' why didn't you tell me earlier." Ronald, who was watching from the plane behind, was so excited that he called out the call sign of consultant Pete when he was in the service.
"This is not a maneuver, Hollywood. It has no value in battle. Also, next time you ask me for a call sign, you must also bring your own call sign for easy identification. Over."
"But, this is really beautiful. Anyway, Oklahoma..."
"Oklahoma moms and dads love it!" Pettigrew recited it.
"Well, very good. This roll is very good. We need to take more shots. Give me a few shots of each aircraft's air combat scene."
After seeing the printed samples, Ronald was very satisfied. How exciting is this kind of rolling? Coupled with the special effects of the MiG-28 cannon firing in the later stage, and the air-to-air missiles approaching, the F-14a rolled to avoid it.
However, the audience must be very excited to watch it.”
"Okay, you have the final say here, Hollywood." Consultant Pettigrew could no longer see it. With such a roll, the cannons of the fighters behind him didn't even need to be adjusted. One long burst of fire would kill the plane in front.
"Okay, okay, this is our biggest achievement in recent filming. You can think of a few more cool stunts. I have to leave early today to pick someone up at the airport."
Pettigrew slapped his own eyes, "Okay, I'll just pick a few good-looking ones that Oklahoma parents would like to see... I'll just say that this is the result of my hard-earned arguments.
, otherwise the director would still want the f-14a to kick out the crane kick."
"Brother Ronnie, do you really want to recommend me to audition for Lucas's crew?" Diane got into Ronald's Mercedes. She thought about it while sitting on the plane, but she was still afraid that she heard wrongly.
The first thing you need to know when you meet Ronald is check it out."
"Didn't you say you were going to the Oscars?" Ronald joked with her.
"Okay, okay, as you know, I have other actresses there, and I don't want them to know."
The two of them arrived at the reserved hotel room. Diane waited for Little Bud to close the door, then hugged Ronald, "Brother Ronnie, why are you so nice to me this time? You don't recommend anyone else,
Just recommend me."
Then she kissed Ronald several times.
"Is it because you think my acting skills are good?" One of Diane's eyebrows began to raise again, making a face to show kindness to Ronald.
"You go take a shower first and take a rest. You must be tired from the journey."
"Tell me, I want to hear you say that my acting skills are good."
Ronald brushed her hair, which had not completely faded from the light blonde dye.
"You actors always put acting skills in the most important position. In fact, when a film director chooses a role, he first looks at whether you match the temperament of the character, and then looks at your chemical reaction with other characters, and finally considers it.
Acting skills.”
"Ah?" Diane looked surprised, "Are you telling the truth? I always thought they said that to prevent us from being too sad when they eliminated us. That's not what Bert said."
"It's true. As for this time, it's mainly because Mr. Lucas wanted to choose a female rock star. You happened to have played the role twice, and you look very much like a rock singer."
"Hehehe, I knew you liked me dressing up like that."