Chapter 478 Chapter 109 Flies and magic skills

   "Cut!" Ronald covered his face, suppressed the urge to laugh, and waved to the staff standing beside him, "It needs to be frozen again."

   This scene is Daniel returning to Miyagi's home and continuing the training of basic karate skills. Miyagi was continuing his daily practice of picking up flies with chopsticks. In the folk tradition of Ryukyu, a person who can catch flying flies with chopsticks can be omnipotent.

  The worker opened the screen and waved away the flies. He pulled another small freezer and carefully took out a new fly from it.

   This is the famous "fly shepherd" in Hollywood. As long as you shoot a scene with flies, this uncle who knows flies best in Hollywood is indispensable. He released the flies carefully, and said, "Hurry up, the freezing slows down the movements of the flies, and it only lasts for a minute. After this time, they regain their vitality."

   "Hurry up, get ready to shoot, Action!" Ronald quickly resumed shooting.

  Ralph Mazio picked up a pair of chopsticks, waved them in the air, and "clicked" a few times, but missed. Gradually after a minute, Daniel still didn't catch it. The fly regained its strength and buzzed away from the small coffee table he was sitting on, flying towards the camera.

   "Cut!" Ronald waved his hand angrily, and with a snap, knocked the fly half dead to the ground. I've shot it many times, but I can't get it right.

   "Director, do you want to die?" The prop team came over to discuss with Ronald. The poor fly flapped its wings desperately on the ground and struggled, obviously foreseeing the future fate.

  The props are tied with a very thin steel wire, and then the other end is threaded into a long hollow tube, so that the steel wire slides inside to simulate the appearance of flies flying.

  Ralph Mazio tried several times, and with a "snap", he caught the fly, "Miyagi-sensei, Miyagi-sensei, I caught it, caught it..."

  Master Miyagi did not expect his apprentice to catch a fly that he had tried for many years without success, and slapped his chopsticks on the table angrily.

   "Cut! How's it going?" Ronald asked the director of photography.

  Photographer James Crabbe slowly shook his head at him, "This fly can only move back and forth, and the range of up, down, left, and right is too small, which is not like the flight trajectory of a normal fly at all.

   "Hey..." Everyone sighed and had to come again.

The prop master thought of another way. He used a piece of black silk thread, tied it to a two-meter-long wooden stick, and the other end hung down naturally, with a thin piece of black wool tied underneath. Above, wave slightly, so that the silk thread below naturally flies back and forth, left and right, like a fly.

   "This fly is a little less fuzzy," Ronald instructed while drinking black tea. That piece of wool is very light to fly, but not as fluffy as a fly.

  The prop master looked around and found a short, fat and cute man in a black sweater.

   "What are you doing?" Chang Ji tried to protect himself, but the prop master ignored him and grabbed a few handfuls from his beloved sweater, and then carefully glued the thin fluff to the end of the wool.

   "Cut!" Now the director of photography made an OK gesture.

  Daniel was very happy. As a novice, he was able to do what Master Miyagi could not.

   Miyagi was a little displeased, and was preempted by Daniel.

  He continued to ask Daniel to work on his home, first let him take two large sand wheels and smooth the wooden floor. Then let Daniel use it to paint the exterior walls of his yard and house.

   "Pay attention to breathing, exhale, inhale...you do it first, I have something to go out."

  Daniel gradually became dissatisfied with Miyagi, especially after painting the walls of the house, Miyagi still hummed a little song, and after asking him to come back to work at six o'clock the next morning, Daniel quit completely.

  Daniel felt that Miyagi used his idea of ​​wanting to learn karate to let him do free work for him. After working for four days, he didn't learn any basic skills of karate, and he was so exhausted that he could barely lift his hands.

  Master Miyagi noticed that Daniel's muscles were sore. He rubbed his hands together and massaged Daniel's body.

   "Cut!"

  After watching this performance, Ronald felt something was wrong.

  Noriyuki Morita and Ralph Mazio both looked at him, not knowing what was wrong with him.

   "It's none of your business, this episode needs to be re-shot." Ronald announced a half-hour break, and he wanted to rethink this episode.

   "Ronald, isn't it good that we shoot according to the script? Do you have any new ideas? If the shooting schedule is delayed."

   Weintraub came over to chat for a few words. The producer was most afraid that the director would have new ideas in the middle of shooting, which would often lengthen the shooting cycle and cause budget overruns.

  He felt that anyway, the audience in America couldn’t understand the “magic skills” of Master Miyagi, so it’s better to turn him into a god-man, and he can heal all injuries by rubbing his hands together.

  Ronald didn’t quite agree with this treatment, and he didn’t notice it when he was writing the script according to his dream, but during the actual filming, the “magic skill” suddenly appeared, which was indeed very jumpy.

  It may be able to coax children, but Ronald's idea is not to make him a movie that only teenagers love.

  The plot of a good movie can be very simple, but the various details in the movie must stand the test, so that it is possible to be remembered for more than 20 years.

"That's right, Jerry," Ronald thought for a moment, comparing Weintraub and Susan, who came over, to the two actors, "Star Wars director Lucas, Luke Skywalker In the plot where every second is extremely precious during the escape, a minute was inserted, allowing Master Obi-Wan to explain the principle of the 'Force'."

   Weintraub nodded frequently when he heard it. He now watches the samples shot by Ronald every day, and gradually trusts the young director more and more day by day. Cimino and the others always instilled a lot of theories in him every time they met. He listened to some truths, but when it came to the actual shooting, he couldn't see the good or bad based on the actual shooting.

  And what Ronald said, he can understand, "Understood, Master Miyagi is Daniel Skywalker's Master Yoda, it just so happens that they also speak a bit alike, always talking backwards."

"That's it", Ronald thought it was a good way to use Star Wars as a metaphor, and everyone could understand, "Have you heard the concept of 'Qigong'? I'm at the 'Asia Pacific Museum' in Pasadena, I met Chao Li, a Chinese Taijiquan instructor, and he talked about the concept of Qigong, in which "Qi" can be injected into the acupuncture points of the human body to heal the pain."

  Ronald picked out some easy-to-understand words from the boxing score given to him by the Chinese coach Chaoli and told Morita Noryu.

   "Acupoints are the points on the meridians of the human body... Anyway, you just hold on to this point and pretend to input energy into it."

   "The Force?" Morita Noryu also used the concept in Star Wars as an analogy.

   "Action!"

Master Miyagi made a gesture of Taijiquan, the sky is round and the ground is round, and the spirit is strong. Then he pulled Daniel's arm away, quickly tapped a few acupuncture points on the arm, and then used the grasping technique to rub up and down to quickly dredge the acupuncture points. Several meridians.

   "What happened? Daniel turned his arm and found that the pain accumulated in the four days was gone, and now his arm can be used freely again.

   "It's called Qigong, and it's a secret technique that was passed down from Huaguo to Ryukyu."

   "How is this done, can I learn it?" Daniel's curiosity began to gain the upper hand again.

   "Shut up!" Miyagi yelled violently, frightening Daniel and concentrating very much, which is exactly the way of Zen Buddhism.

   "Daniel-san, give me some waxing and glazing."

  Daniel crouched down and made a waxing gesture.

   "Ah... ah..." Miyagi-sensei realized that the child was stupid again, "Stand up straight and do it."

   "Waxing, glazing, waxing, glazing" Daniel did a few strokes casually.

   "Waxing!, glazing! Pay attention to breathing, inhale... exhale..." Mr. Miyagi corrected and wrote down for him, asking him to do everything properly and powerfully.

   "Ah!, ah!" Miyagi suddenly punched Daniel.

   "Ah... ah..." Daniel was like a clockwork machine, automatically waxing and glazing, sealing Miyagi's punch.

   "Now do Sand Pose."

   "Ah... ah..." Miyagi made two low hand swords, which were also blocked by Daniel with instinct.

   "Painted wall style."

   "Ah... ah..." Daniel even blocked Miyagi's kick.

   "Ah... ah... ah... ah..." Miyagi mixed punches and kicks, and Daniel defended against his mixed attack by washing the car on the sand with the wall and the basic skills of karate.

   "Daniels-san, come back at six o'clock tomorrow morning." Miyagi bowed to Daniel.

   "Hey..." Daniel also bowed deeply. He felt very miraculous. He could master the basic skills of karate just by working.

   "Ah... ah..." Miyagi pulled Daniel up, "Eyes, always look into each other's eyes, even when bowing and saluting, don't look at other places."

   "Sayonara", Miyagi looked Daniel in the eyes and said goodbye to him.

   "Sayonara", Daniel began to be convinced by this master.

   "Very good," Susan Akins watched the samples that were printed that day in the screening room. She was already full of confidence in Ronald's level.

   "Very good, go to the Chatsworth Reservation tomorrow" Weintraub was also very satisfied.

   Chatsworth is a large lake near the San Fernando Valley. It and the adjacent wetlands form a large undeveloped land that belongs to the reservation designated by the California government.

   This used to be the Chatsworth Reservoir, but it was found to be located on a fault zone during the geological investigation after the California earthquake in the 1970s. In order to prevent earthquakes, after the excess water in the reservoir was drained, it became a large lake with beautiful scenery.

   "Action!" Ronald put on a sun hat and sunglasses, picked up the electric horn, and issued the command to start shooting.

On the quiet Chatsworth Lake, some wild ducks are calling. On the right side of the camera, Daniel, played by Ralph Mazio, is rowing desperately, slowly driving in from outside the camera. After a long time, Ralph Mazio Odu rowed almost out of strength, and Ronald shouted:

   "Cut! Change to a close-up."

   The shot of Ronald is to give the audience some ice cream to eat. After a long period of narration and lyricism, there is such a very artistic boating shot, the audience can soothe their emotions and prepare for the upcoming turbulent third act of the final battle of the karate championship.

"Stand on the edge of the boat, practice basic skills, and pay attention to breathing... Uh, don't scare my fish away." On the other side of the boat, Master Miyagi sat and threw out the fishing rod, "Balance is the key, good balance, Karate is good, but the balance is not good, it's better to go home and not practice."

  Daniel was practicing the "waxing pose", "sand floor pose", and "painted wall pose", while asking Miyagi if he used to fight a lot when he was a child.

   "He fights a lot, but Miyagi doesn't like fighting."

   "Why? Didn't you learn karate for fighting when you were young?"

   "There are people beyond people, and there is heaven beyond the sky." Miyagi smiled at Daniel, "Did you learn karate for fighting?"

   "No, I'm here to avoid fighting."

   "Okay, Miyagi is optimistic about you."

   "When can I learn to punch?" Daniel began to be curious again, unwilling to continue practicing basic skills.

   "Punch, you practice the soaked chicken first", Miyagi shook the boat vigorously, Daniel lost his balance and fell into the water.

   "Ahaha, Daniel-san, you are really pinching behind your ears (to describe a person who is still young and inexperienced)."

   "Why are you like this, you are crazy." Daniel cursed in the waist-deep lake, and then climbed into the boat shivering with cold.

   "Remember the importance of balance." Miyagi took out a blanket and covered him.

   "Cut!" Ronald gave an order, and Ralph Mazio's manager hurried up and wrapped him in a cotton coat. The water in Chatsworth Lake in late autumn was already very cold, and Ralph Mazio didn't have to act at all, and he was shivering from the cold.

  The director of photography made an OK gesture, and Ronald hurriedly asked Ralph Mazio to change clothes in the trailer.

  (end of this chapter)