The crew came to the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The northeastern part of the island facing the sea is called the "windward side". The daily sea breeze is very strong and typhoons often visit, so the rocks facing the sea here are all rugged.
"Senator Daniel Inouye ordered that all houses, manors, and private lands here can be used for filming."
This is the mansion of a wealthy man on Oahu, who is also of Japanese descent. America's only Japanese-American senator, Daniel Inoue, is from Hawaii. When Hawaii joined the federation, Inoue was a federal representative.
After being entrenched for many years and being re-elected, although the one-armed senator does not have much say in Washington, his influence is deeply rooted in the local area. This time the sequel was filmed in Hawaii, Inoue instructed his campaign manager to come first to set up the front station, and all the filming, food and accommodation,
As well as the group performances, he solved them all with just one sentence.
Ronald sent the director of photography, James Crabbe, who had the same position in the first film, to the Ryukyus and Hawaii respectively to view the scenery.
Due to the existence of the US military base, the scenery of the local rural areas in Ryukyu has undergone tremendous changes. Most of the villagers no longer engage in agriculture and fishery, but instead serve the US military base by selling things to the base or providing services to the base.
The income is much higher than farming and fishing.
But as a result, the original Ryukyu features in the script are nowhere to be found.
After consulting with Bud, who had served in the military in both places, Ronald decided to place the main location in Oahu, Hawaii.
The Japanese rich man gave the manor to the crew. In order to create the Ryukyu fishing village described in the film, the set department arrived early and built seven replicas of real Ryukyu-style houses and planted more than three acres of rice.
and vegetables.
After Ronald arrived, he first took a look at the scenery. He climbed up the hillside and looked at the scenery below with a viewfinder. The farmers in the rice fields were wearing Ryukyu-style clothes and hats, looking relaxed and leisurely.
50 Hawaii residents born in Ryukyu have also been recruited as film extras. They are now engaged in the occupation of their ancestors, farmers.
Every day I wait in the fields for filming, or pretend to be a fisherman on a boat.
"Thank you so much for Senator Inoue's help." After inspecting all the locations and extras, Ronald was very satisfied. The Chinese and Japanese extras here were very happy to help.
Ronald's first film "The Dragon King" spread Japanese culture to all parts of America. Nowadays, Japanese people in Hawaii often encounter people who "crane kick" them when they go to work in the country.
action.
It used to be that Japanese people were often nicknamed "the little japs", but now more and more people are called Miyagi, or Morisai (Master).
The widespread dissemination of a movie can even change a country's perception of an ethnic group.
Ronald knew that Chinese Americans also benefited from Bruce Lee's kung fu movie craze, and their social status rose rapidly in the 1970s. However, all this disappeared with his sudden death.
Nowadays, Chinese Americans are beginning to be naturally regarded as those who open Chinese takeaways or dry cleaners. They are waiting for the next superstar to bring them out of this stereotype.
Just like what Noriyuki Morita is doing to Japanese Americans now.
In the evening, Ronald and the main members of the crew came to a bar on Oahu to celebrate. He was wearing a Hawaiian floral shirt and a lei presented to him by a beautiful woman.
"Aruha!"
"Aruha!"
Ronald nodded to the beauty. The girl looked like a Chinese.
When the two chatted, it turned out to be true. In fact, there are a lot of Japanese and Chinese people on Hawaii Island. Together with Filipinos, they account for nearly 40% of the total population. Here you can see the faces of Asians.
That's the most normal thing.
In addition to Noriyuki Morita, there is also a celebrity among Asians in the islands this year, a Chinese girl Kelly Hu, who won the title of Miss Teen USA. This is the first time that an Asian has won the title of Miss Teen USA in a national beauty pageant.
The descendant won the championship.
Kelly Hu, who represented the state of Hawaii, suddenly became famous. This summer, many more boys came to vacation, all wanting to meet the Hawaiian girls who are said to be so beautiful.
"Ah ha ha ha ha..."
Ronald frowned, and Noriyuki Morita was drinking in the bar again, hugging two beauties and teasing him. Not only had he gained a little weight, but he had also been intoxicated for a long time, and the bags under his eyes were also much deeper.
Ralph Mazzio over there didn't drink much and was quite restrained. However, his manager was very annoying and tried to instill in him "the treatment that stars deserve on set", which was very annoying.
"We have to find a way to treat them, otherwise he won't be able to show the same state as in the first movie." Ronald thought to himself, tonight is when everyone is happy, and starting tomorrow, we must gather together to treat them and the people on the island.
Fans are spaced apart.
"Friends, I'm so happy to see you."
Early the next morning, Pat E. Johnson, the karate coach who trained the actors in the first film and a part-time referee, gathered Noriyuki Morita and Ralph Mazzio together to start karate review every morning before starting the movie.
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"Pat, we already learned those skills in the first part, so we don't need to train again now." Ralph Mazio has also begun to learn how to play big names now. His agent instills it in him every day.
, celebrities don’t actually need to know how to do it themselves, they can just leave the difficult tasks to a stand-in.
"Gentlemen, I will leave the difficult movements to my stand-in." Ronald arrived immediately and pushed Miyagi's stand-in, Darryl Vidal, out.
"Your mission is to restore flexibility in the shortest possible time. In this sequel, Mr. Miyagi has footage of four or five Ryukyu karate masters alone. Daniel finally has to fight a decisive battle with the villain 'Nagazen'.
This is not a competition, this is a real arena."
"Oh..." The faces of the two protagonists dropped. In the first part, the most painful part of the practice was pulling the ligament.
"Stop being like this, I've even found a companion for you. Don't be inferior to her."
"Director, hello. Hello Mr. Morita, hello Mr. Mazzio."
Tam Ling Tomita, who plays the heroine Kumiko, politely said hello to the seniors. She jumped into the venue wearing aerobic training clothes and finally bowed to Coach Pat.
"Let's see, after a year and a half, how much of your karate magic is left and whether you can still come up with a beautiful crane kick." Coach Pat Johnson showed a sinister smile.
"Ah..., ah..."
Ronald listened to the screams of the two people pulling their ligaments, turned around and left with a smile. With the little girl Tomita Tan Ling here, the two actors must not be too lazy, lest they can't even compete with a little girl.
And with such high-intensity lowering, they probably don’t have much energy to hang out in bars, and they can’t think about the unprecedented treatment for young actors.
"Attention, let's do this as a whole. Everyone must remember the route they are taking and don't mess around. Listen to my commands."
Ronald started filming two days later. Today was a long shot. Not long after Miyagi returned to Ryukyu, he met his father for the last time and also hooked up with his old lover Yuuki. Daniel had a fight with the little girl Kumiko.
fiery.
The love lives of the two of them, one old and one young, are quite rich.
At this time, they went to the streets to chat with their old neighbors, only to discover that Sato, Miyagi's childhood friend who had learned art with him, actually bought almost everyone's land by relying on his background as a landowner and providing various services to the US military base.
, became a big landowner.
This shot involved the logical relationship between multiple characters. Ronald was worried and personally directed the extras to rehearse with the two male protagonists twice before starting the first shot.
"Daniel-san" Noriyuki Morita, who plays Miyagi, walked out of the room. His belly was much fatter than in the first part. The costume put him in an undershirt with a gray shirt on the outside, which finally covered it up.
"Here we come." Ralph Mazzio also ran out of it, "This seems to be a forgotten town."
Ronald was across the road, on a pre-paved guide rail, and a group of coolies were pushing the camera hard.
The two male protagonists walked forward along the dirt road.
Between them and the camera, on the near side of the road, several extras wearing bamboo hats squatted on the ground to serve the rice. On the far side of the road, behind Miyagi and Daniel, a woman in a kimono pulled a trailer with a rope.
, above is an old second-hand TV set.
"Hi..." Miyagi greeted her, and the two chatted a few words in Japanese.
At this moment, the camera stopped pushing and shot a still shot.
"He's my classmate," Miyagi explained to Daniel-san, and the two of them continued walking forward.
Director of photography James Crabb made a gesture, and the coolies began to push the camera again, following the two actors forward.
On the roadside on the near side, as the camera moved laterally, a few more farmers entered the picture. The old woman pulled the TV and left the picture from the right.
This is a shot specially designed by Ronald. It is very similar to the style of the ancient painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" that he saw in the Forbidden City.
Scenery and characters enter the picture from one side, and then exit the picture we pay attention to on the other side.
"Didn't you say this is a fishing village? Why didn't you see any fishermen?" Daniel asked Master Miyagi curiously. He had long heard that his family was a fishing village. The Miyagi family only did two things, fishing and practicing karate.
"Last night, Yuki told me that Sato's father imported a robotic fishing boat from America. Within two years, he had caught all the fish in the offshore areas, and he had crushed all the small fishing boats in the village. Now the village
Apart from growing grain, vegetables and fruits, his family’s cannery is the only one that supplies supplies to the US military bases.”
Master Miyagi took Daniel and pointed to a factory in the distance.
While Ronald was paying attention to the performance, he also glanced at the coolies on the camera crew. Those Japanese coolies were very reliable and could move the camera steadily and quickly.
The camera was pushed from the track parallel to the dirt road to a curved track, slowly approaching the backs of the two actors, moving from the mid-range to the close-up, and finally stopped on the backs of the master and apprentice, an old man and a young boy, as if they were the audience.
His eyes crossed them, and with the change of focus, he stopped at the factory.
An uneasy mood begins to accumulate as the shots are arranged. This is a method designed by Ronald and Crabbe, using the camera to adjust the audience's emotions.
"cut!"
Ronald asked the actors and the machine to return to their original positions and took two more shots. The director of photography, Crabbe, was very satisfied with this long shot. All the extras were in great condition. Even if only their squatting hats were photographed, nothing was captured.
The group acting in the facial shots was also very into the state.
The next night, Ronald also liked the samples that were quickly developed. There was really nothing picky about the work attitude of these Asians.
"Do you have so many talented actors in Hawaii?" Ronald asked the second assistant director who was a native Hawaiian.
"Hawaii's theater has always been very developed. We have a tradition of rehearsing and performing dramas. And this is Ronald Sang speaking out for us Asians. We must try our best and give 200% of our strength.
Senator Inoue's office manager has privately requested all the extras and staff. Ronald San is a Hollywood director who is very friendly to Asians. How can we not fully cooperate?
Since the release of the first Dragon Boat Festival, our Hawaiian Asian actors have gradually begun to get some supporting roles on Broadway in New York. In Hollywood, there have also been many karate or martial arts follow-up films, all of which
No movie can be complete without an Asian master."
"Ah, hahaha..." Ronald was very happy after hearing this.
"Ronald, can we talk?"
Over there, Ralph Mazio's manager, came over to invite Ronald.
"What's the matter?" Ronald ignored him, sat on the chair, picked up the thermos cup, poured a cup of wolfberry black tea, and took a slow sip.
"Both Daniel and I feel that his character in this shot does not reflect his characteristics. Can this shot be re-shot?"
"Huh?" An alarm sounded in Ronald's heart. Is this celebrity behavior coming?
"What do you 'feel'? Do you know how much it costs for us to shoot for one day? These extras, these sets, and the strict shooting plan and shooting cycle. Do you want to reshoot? You have told Mr. Weintraub
? You might as well ask him and see if he can help you wake up.
Ralph was brilliantly shot, and I don't understand what you mean by 'feeling' a quality that embodies him? Do you fucking know that that quality is what I fucking wrote and directed.
It took one film to give Ralph his characteristics.
I asked you to participate in the preview of the sample film because Ralph Mazio is the protagonist of the crew, so he needs the services of others. If your service is to talk nonsense here and mislead the actors, then you will not come here again.
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Ronald turned back and told the second assistant director, "Just remember, starting tomorrow, Ralph Mazzio's manager's right to watch the demos will be revoked."
"Me?" The manager's face turned red, but he didn't have much bargaining power. His client Ralph, after all, was promoted by Ronald, and he might not necessarily side with him this time.
After all, he didn't expect that such a simple test would cause such a big reaction from Ronald.
Ten minutes later, Ralph Marzio's mother, who was a co-producer of the film, came over and apologized and explained to Ronald.
"These are all requests made privately by the manager. Ralph is a good boy and he doesn't know about it."
"Mrs. Mazzio, I think that's the case. I don't have any personal objections to him. He's even a good manager and knows how to consider his clients. But he knows too little about film shooting. I'll let Ralph himself in the future."
Watch the samples and if you have any concerns about acting, we can discuss them directly."
"Ronald, hey, I think Daniel San's role seems to be insufficient in this scene." Ralph Mazio came over by himself. After talking with his mother, he knew that it was not a challenge now.
When Ronald.
"It doesn't matter, the rest of the show will be your performance." Ronald replied with a smile.