Cynthia Rhodes became very clingy, perhaps because she was thinking of leaving the set tomorrow. She almost had Ronald all to herself and kept dancing with him.
Of course, Ronald's dancing skills are not as superb as Patrick Swayze's, but fortunately, Mambo is not a very difficult dance. Under Cynthia's active leadership, the two of them danced very well.
Emil, the assistant director next to him, carried a video recorder and began to shoot the behind-the-scenes footage of the two main creative pairs, Ronald Cynthia and Patrick Eleanor, who were dancing in the center of the crowd.
This is an additional task that Emil takes on in addition to being an assistant director. He also has to shoot several detailed shots of the entire movie.
Nowadays, movie marketing likes to use talk shows or interview programs. With these tidbits, the edited clips can be played during the program to arouse the audience's curiosity, and it is best to include some humorous passages.
"Bang...bang..." Eddie brought the fine champagne from the city next door in a truck with a cold storage. Bottles of the fine champagne were opened. Everyone danced, sang and drank, and everyone got high.
"Click", Ronald opened the door to his suite. Cynthia was beautiful in his arms, and her champagne-scented breath sprayed onto his face with heat.
Ronald has long been attracted by Cynthia's natural beauty. He didn't understand what this southern beauty was thinking about during the dance just now.
"Pa", Ronald turned on the light. Cynthia seemed a little embarrassed, and a natural blush crept onto her cheeks.
"Don't turn on the light".
Ronald turned off the lights smoothly. Tonight, all the lights in the hot spring resort hotel were turned on to celebrate the completion of filming. The light from outside seemed to leak in through the window, illuminating a little of Cynthia's face.
"Um……"
Cynthia in real life doesn't seem to be like Penny in the movie. Or rather, she doesn't know how to cater to men and women like a Hollywood actress. Instead, Ronald found some of the feelings of his youth and treated her gently.
The two of them were in perfect harmony.
An hour later, the lights outside the window finally went out, leaving only the faint moonlight shining through the window, which reflected Cynthia's white and shiny back beautifully.
Ronald gently put his hand on her, and Cynthia just hummed. She was so exhausted that she couldn't open her eyes. Ronald then hugged her close to him, and the two hugged each other and fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Ronald's biological clock was still in filming mode. He woke up naturally at five in the morning.
Seeing Cynthia Rhodes sleeping soundly beside him, Ronald first went to the living room to make a phone call and asked the kitchen to deliver all the breakfast to the room at six o'clock. He put on his running shoes and went for a run.
After running and taking a hot shower, Ronald waited for the full breakfast delivered by the hotel. Cynthia finally woke up.
"I don't know what you like to eat, so I ordered everything." Ronald pushed the breakfast cart into the room, just in time to see her stretching on the bed, a pair of white legs together, her toes
Girls who stand straight and dance ballet always have such an elegant posture.
"Are you always so considerate to girls?" Cynthia smiled.
"Not always, only to pretty girls." Ronald joked.
"If there is a boy around me who is so considerate to me, I will marry him." Cynthia also smiled and rushed into the bathroom to wash up.
"Why, isn't there such a person yet?" Ronald asked her.
Cynthia's voice came from inside, "Yes, yes, but he is younger than me. I don't think we may be able to grow old together in the future."
"Oh", Ronald waited for Cynthia to finish, and went to the dining table with her. Ronald also poured her a glass of milk and himself a glass of orange juice.
"Sometimes, it's not good to think too much. I used to know a ballerina girl... It's rare for both of them to be moved by each other. Who can tell what will happen in the future?"
…
The two said goodbye immediately in the morning. The men and women in Hollywood are like butterflies and bees. When they have nectar, they gather together and then go their separate ways.
At the end of his last day in North Carolina, Ronald and Eddie, who was daydreaming, returned to Los Angeles with all the equipment and samples.
The negatives for film shooting were shipped directly from the laboratories in the east to the Paramount Film Production Department.
Paramount's labs have branches in several major regions across the country. Ronald relied on his relationship with Ned Tanin to get preferential prices. Not only did they print at their labs in the southeast,
And in the end, we will also borrow Paramount’s film editing equipment and copy production lines.
However, before that, the important thing he still had to do was to visit Walter Murch with the newly released working copy.
"That's all? Your original film duration isn't very long."
In the rented editing room at Paramount, Murch, together with Ronald and assistant director Emil, moved all the films into the office. Counting the number of reels of film, it was very different from a director like Coppola.
The amount of material is smaller than that of Ronald.
"Yes, I used a new method this time. Many shots were started at the same time during rehearsal. Often the first time the effect is better than the actual shooting, so it is very rare to shoot more than ten times for one shot. Overall
I also saved some film.”
Ronald opened a large bucket bag that he brought and took out the "Merch Super Cut Tape" that Little Bud brought specially from the small factory in Staten Island.
Today's new editing tapes are all produced by the small factory that Ronald and Murch cooperate with. Even Murch himself has to ask Ronald to get the goods.
The response of this kind of tape is very good in Hong Kong. Jackie’s demonstration effect there is very good. Once he used this kind of tape, many studios also discovered that using this new type of tape, the edited copy can be directly screened without any need.
Make a new copy, which can save the cost of a copy, so they all spend money to buy it.
There is more demand, so Ronald can let those workers start working every day, slowly produce, and store it in the warehouse during the off-season. When the amount of filming increases, he can ship more to sell.
In this way, the daily start of work, the purchase of raw materials, labor costs, etc. will also be reduced. The average cost can be reduced a lot. When the cost is reduced, there is room to reduce prices, so the sales volume in the local market of America will also improve.
In America, the retail price of Ronald's tape has gradually reached only twice that of old-fashioned tape, and the wholesale price can be lowered to even lower when sold to production companies like Roger Coleman.
Many studios that shoot low-budget productions have also begun to use this kind of tape because they want to save money on a copy.
Slowly, the reputation of "Merch Super Editing Tape" was not limited to a few high-level directors in America. Gradually, all practitioners began to purchase this tape.
"The quality of the products produced by your factory is indeed good and very stable. It's a little worse than the ones I brewed by hand, but it's better in stability. If I didn't let that friend make it, the quality would be much worse." Walter Murch picked up the product.
I got several large rolls of tape and put them on the editing table.
"This year's dividend will be good, just think of it as my Christmas gift to the children," Ronald said with a smile, "Ah, this is not it, this is what I brought back from the crew. They use tapes of different materials to stick to the scene.
.It works very well. This time I was in two major locations and it didn’t cost me any money.”
Ronald put back several pieces of tape with other uses.
Walter Murch shrugged, put the first reel of tape on the editing machine, and began to compare it with his own chart of estimated shot times before shooting began.
"You seem to have exactly the same idea as me. The shooting time I estimated in advance is very similar to your final filming time."
Walter watched for a while and suddenly said to Ronald.
"Really?" Ronald also became interested and looked at the duration of more than a dozen shots. As expected, it was very close to Murch's estimate.
"Maybe you are deeply influenced by Coppola's genre. I have been working with them for a long time, and I also use their method to estimate the length of the shots."
"Maybe." Ronald thought to himself, if he learned the thinking of editing, would it in turn affect his work as a director? After all, some of his editing skills were taught by Mochi.
After spending two days with Murch, the two went through all the materials. After looking at them all, it turned out that there was a big gap between the dance scenes at the beginning and climax of the climax shot by Ronald and Murch's estimate.
"I didn't expect you to be able to shoot like this." Murch was surprised. "Your dance scenes are very different from your 'break dancing'. They are a bit different from the original western cowboy movies and the fight scenes in Xiangjiang action movies."
similar.
What's important is tacit cooperation to show the beauty of the dance itself. In addition, the chemical reaction between the two protagonists is visible to the naked eye, and this is also a technically good film."
"Why are you also watching Xiangjiang movies?" Ronald laughed. He didn't think so when he was filming. Maybe he subconsciously used some methods from those movies.
"Many people are watching it. They think their route is very interesting and very different from that of Hollywood. Many people say that the person named Jackie is very similar to Buster Keaton in the early silent film period of Hollywood."
"Jackie? That's my buddy." Ronald laughed, "He's also the agent of our tape over there. I'll introduce you to him if I have a chance."
"I will synchronize the audio and video first, and then prepare the sound design. When you come back from vacation, we will start editing together." Murch nodded and said to Ronald.
"You can rough cut it first. You don't have to wait for me to come back. You taught me all my editing techniques. Besides, you also said that our ideas are similar. You can make fine adjustments when I come back."
With Murch at the helm, Ronald was happy and free. He left his assistant Emil in the editing room to study, and went on vacation to relax.