Exploiting Hollywood 1980 Chapter 885

  Chapter 885 Master or liar?

  Warner Bros.'s studio at 4000 Warner Boulevard in Burbank is filming the action movie "Above the Law," starring Stephen Segel.

  The script of this movie was tailor-made for Siegel. It tells the story of an American soldier named Nick who once served in the Vietnamese special forces, and later went to Japan to seek in-depth research on the real martial art "Aikido".

  He returned to China after studying and was recruited by the CIA as a special operator. Later, he couldn't get used to the CIA's torture of prisoners. After leaving the CIA, he worked as a police detective in Chicago and got married.

  During the fight against drug traffickers with his new partner, he discovered that the criminal was sheltered by the CIA and killed the priest of the church. In the end Nick fought back, no longer caring about the provisions of the law, he became a revenge fighter, killed the bad guys above the law, and protected his family.

   "All are according to my design, all are the same..."

  Siegel is a tall and lanky man. On the set, he is preparing to shoot a scene where he fights many criminals alone, and uses Aikido to knock them down one by one.

  Although the director of the movie is someone else, the action scenes are designed and shot by Segel himself. All the stunt personnel on the scene had to obediently perform the qigong issued by him with the magical "Aikido", and they were beaten so badly that they fell to the ground.

"Here's Warner Bros.'s traditional soundstage in Los Angeles, the biggest one. The previous TV show 'Kung Fu' and the Spielberg movie 'The Goonies' were filmed here. This time 'Above the Law' The scenes in the Vietnamese jungle are set here.

  Put on your visitor badge, we'll go in here, and Mr. Siegel is in there directing the action scenes. "

  A Warner Bros. on-site manager led Ronald and his party into the shooting scene. The two bodyguards raised their hands to take the visitor card from her and handed it to Ronald and Richard the agent.

   "You guys are so thoughtful as bodyguards, it makes me feel like a king...hahaha", Ronald was very comfortable being served by Jean-Claude and Lundgren, two actors who had been professional bodyguards, and immediately expressed his thanks.

   "This is our job", Jean-Claude reacted a little faster and flattered him first.

   "After you go in later, don't follow me, there is no danger inside. You have time to see how Siegel shoots action scenes, and you will need it when you make movies in the future."

  Ronald told them to learn more, because Ronald didn't know much about how to shoot this kind of fighting scene, and it was up to them how much the two of them could learn.

   "Let's go in..." The on-site manager opened the side door of the studio and let Ronald go in to have a look.

"Lebel, what the **** are you doing? How many times have I told you to follow my plan, I grab your wrist and you're about to fall, this isn't fighting, this is filming ,do you understand?"

  As soon as Ronald came in, he heard Segel with a ponytail training a stuntman loudly.

"Mr. Siegel, it's not that I didn't follow your plan. It's just that if I fall like this, my center of gravity will be in the opposite direction from the direction you threw me. There is no mat on the ground, and it's all hard ground. I can easily get hurt. You can't change the direction of my fall, so that I can fall more beautifully."

   "Fuck, are you the lead actor or me, eh? You can fall as I tell you to, are you not convinced? We can practice alone..."

  Siegel rushed over, head-to-head against the stuntman named Lebel, threatening him to get out if he didn't fall to the ground according to his own fall.

   "No no...Mr. Siegel, I'll just follow your request..." Lebel was reluctant to part with the high salary of a stuntman, so he gave in.

   "Pay attention to his attire, and the aura that seems to be competing in a gymnasium..." Ronald praised Steve Segel's style in his heart. Quickly let the two bodyguards pay attention to stealing teachers.

  Siegel was wearing a black Taoist uniform with dangling ponytails. He had a serious face when bullying others. With a tall man, he looked like the kind of fighting master imagined by Americans.

   "OK, let's do it again..."

  Siegel stared at Lebel until he gave in, and then told the cameraman to turn on the phone, and he had to rehearse the action scene.

   "Action!"

   Siegel yelled, and then the stand-ins stepped forward one by one, assuming a posture of rushing forward to fight him desperately.

"Ha...ha...ha..." Segel's aikido is a combination of Taijiquan and Chinese wrestling that Ronald saw in Huaguo. The main point of force is to grab the opponent's wrist with a grappling technique. , and then use the opponent's momentum to make the opponent lose his balance. After losing his center of gravity, he fell heavily to the ground.

  Each stuntman rushed towards him in a different direction, fell in a different direction after being caught by him, and fell out in a different posture after losing his center of gravity.

  Siegel's well-designed fight is similar to an aikido performance. Each opponent rushes up one by one according to the choreography, and there is never a situation where two people fight together.

  Aikido's skills are more about seeing the big from the small, and Segel's own movements are very subtle, with little range. There are more than a dozen of them, and they have a sense of dance rhythm.

  The fighting in the movie is different from the real street fighting. What is important is to fight well. This Aikido master certificate holder is very proficient in this kind of performance, because when they open the gym, they have to perform this kind of wrestling with their apprentices, so that the students can enjoy watching it, so they will sign up.

  Ronald nodded while watching, this guy Segel is a little crazy, but the level of action design in filming movies is still very good.

  A few stuntmen were thrown into a mess, but everyone followed the plan, so this level is nothing.

   Everyone in front fell down, and finally it was Lebel's turn to talk back just now.

"what…"

   This time, Siegel made a bad move. Instead of throwing Lebel in the direction designed, he unexpectedly changed the direction and exerted force. Lebel was pushed hard by him, and the momentum of rushing forward with all his strength for the sake of looking good just now was changed in one direction, and he rushed towards the brick wall beside him.

   "Ah..." Lebel wanted to find his center of gravity and brake hard, but he didn't expect that after Siegel sent him to the direction of the brick wall, he searched gently under his feet. This time, Lebel almost tripped and fell, and after losing his balance, he slammed his head against the brick wall.

   "Ah..." Lebel covered his face, the impact was severe, and a strand of blood flowed from his fingers.

   "Are you okay, Lebel..." Several members of the same stunt team as him went up and helped him down.

   "It's nothing, it's nothing..." Lebel knew that he had been fooled by Siegel, and deliberately made him hold back.

   "Hey, why didn't you fall in the direction you designed?" Seeing that he was bleeding, Lebel couldn't help being angry, and blamed Siegel.

   "Can you do it? Stunt actors can't fall? If I use any strength, you will go in the wrong direction. During the actual shooting, aren't you deliberately wasting film?" Siegel pointed at him and cursed.

  There were more than 20 stuntmen on the scene, who didn't know that Segel deliberately made a show of power, and let Lebel fall hard when people were not paying attention.

   "I..." After being deliberately dropped and accused, Lebel felt a little dizzy when he saw blood on his hands, and didn't know how to refute this villain.

"You, Kane, and you, Quedros, do you also want to be like Lebel?" Siegel pointed at the companion who was supporting Lebel, his eyes flashed fiercely. These stuntmen refused to accept themselves on the set. We must rectify it until we are convinced.

"Honey, you're really good...can you teach me aikido?" A beautiful woman with blond hair and big eyes couldn't figure out the situation at all. Seeing that Siegel fell to the ground with his stunts, he came up and put his arms around Siegel. Earl's arm began to act coquettishly. She plays the wife of Siegel's character in this movie.

   Isn't this the same Sharon Stone who played the female lead in the Cannonball knockoff Indiana Jones movies?

Ronald recognized this woman, she had a big problem in her head, and heard from Cassandra Peterson, the heroine of "Ecstasy", that this person urinated in the cannibal's prop vat and made There was a stench on the set. He also has a big mouth to promote his "record" everywhere.

   "Puchi..." Thinking of this, Ronald couldn't help laughing.

"Who? Who is making noise on the set? It's you again? Who are you, dare to come to my set and act wild?" Siegel recognized Ronald as the one who "seduced" his wife at the premiere last time Kelly LeBrock that young man?

   "I'm just here to visit..." Ronald shrugged, saying that he didn't come to find fault, "Well, where is the doctor on site? Shouldn't the stuntman be bandaged?"

   "Doctor, doctor", everyone came to their senses and called the doctor to bandage Lebel.

   "Honey, you're the most manly guy on set..."

  Steve Siegel was touched by Sharon Stone's chest, and his glory suddenly rose.

   "That is, Honey, I have the final say here." He wrapped his arms around Stone's waist and slapped his butt.

   "Hmm... who is that person? He doesn't seem to listen to you... By the way, it seems a bit familiar." Sharon Stone provoked for fear of chaos. Stasu, who went to college, is said to have a high IQ, but her problem is that she only thinks about how to let everyone know her high IQ.

   "Hey, hey, what about you, who are you? Get out of my studio..." Siegel's male hormones soared, and he came up to Ronald, trying to push him with both hands.

   "Stop", the two bodyguards realized that Siegel was about to make a move, and came up from left to right to block Ronald.

   "Where did the trash come from?" Siegel looked at the tall bodyguard, a bit like the villain in Stallone's "Rocky IV". Go up and push him.

   Lundgren and Jean-Claude, both champions of the European Karate Championships, reacted quickly.

  Longel dodged and dodged Segel's push sideways, then he took a quick step back to open the distance, and kicked Segel's **** firmly with a sweeping kick.

   "Pfft..." Siegel was caught off guard. He didn't expect that the opponent didn't follow the rules designed by Aikido, and suffered a big loss when he came up. He fell to his knees, as if begging Ronald for mercy.

   "Puff..." Those stuntmen couldn't help laughing when they saw Segel deflated.

   "Ah... I'm going to kill you..." Siegel was so humiliated that he stood up and rushed to fight back.

   "Uncle..."

   Now it was Jean-Claude's turn to show. He jumped with both feet in the air, and then switched feet in the air, which was a back kick in the air... The soles of his feet were against Siegel's face, and his control was still so precise.

  Siegel only felt a gust of wind slipping past his nose, stopped instinctively, and then raised his hands in front of his eyes to defend.

   "Puchi..." Everyone laughed again, and Segel seemed to be fooled by two bodyguards and two karate moves.

   "Who is making noise here?" A woman wearing glasses, who looked like a production director on the set, was dozing off in the break room, awakened by laughter, and came to see what was going on.

   "It's okay, it's okay, we're just sparring among martial artists..." Ronald stepped forward with a smile, signaling to everyone that his two bodyguards were just sparring with Segel.

   "Ah...okay...you go ahead" The woman who looked like a production director saw Ronald, turned around and ran back like a mouse seeing a cat.

   Ronald was a little baffled by her action, he turned around and extended his hand to Siegel.

   "Sorry to interrupt your filming, let's go first."

  Siegel quickly shook hands with Ronald, and took the opportunity to quickly walk down the steps from the embarrassing situation.

   "Hello, hello, I welcome you to my crew...you are..." Siegel said shyly, narrowing his eyes, watching Ronald plan to find out about this person's background, and then get back to the scene later.

   "My name is Ronald, Ronald Lee, you remember this name." Ronald turned his head and signaled to the two bodyguards that he had finished reading what he needed to see, and it was time to go.

   "Let's continue, continue..." Siegel began to issue orders to the stuntmen.

  But with this episode, these stuntmen are not so obedient to Siegel.

   "Are you saying he is an Aikido master, or a liar?"

   "Who knows? I heard that his teacher's certificate was obtained after marrying the master's daughter."

   "Hey, it's just bullying our stunts, it's really not that good in a fight..."

  The bodyguards, Richard and others surrounded Ronald out of the studio and got into the car.

   "Good job." Ronald praised the two temporary bodyguards.

   "Thank you..." The two protected Ronald today and showed off their fighting abilities. They are very grateful to Segel, an idiot who doesn't even know Ronald.

   "Did you see anything on the set?" Ronald then asked the two of them. Although Siegel is a terrible person, he still has a few skills in action movies.

  "Action movies need tricks, so it looks good to fight. I think Segel's real level is average, but those stuntmen arranged to rush up one by one. He didn't move there, and the audience looked like a master."

  Longel was really enlightened today. Whether a person plays well or not is actually closely related to the cooperation of the opponent.

   "I think the setting off of the atmosphere is also very important. Siegel looks very stylish in his aikido uniform. In fact, our karate uniform is also very good-looking."

   "Hahaha, it seems that you guys really understand. In the next script, I will find someone to start with these two aspects, so that the plot can set off your fighting skills."

   Several people were daydreaming, Ronald told them to rest, and called the script assistant David Simkins himself, asking him to find a capable screenwriter Gunner to tailor the script for the two bodyguards.

   "Ronald..." After waiting for Ronald to finish his work, Richard found a chance to wink to Ronald, indicating that he had something important to tell him.

   "What's wrong?" The two entered Ronald's office and closed the door. Ronald threw him a bottle of Coke.

   "Do you remember that woman who came out of the lounge and came to ask you something?" Richard asked.

   "What's wrong with her?" Ronald asked blankly. This woman looks very ordinary, and I don't have any impression.

  “The secretary in Rick's (Nisita's) office who was suspected of leaking the script of 'Working Girl' and then disappeared, I think she looks a lot like her.”

   "Huh? Are you sure?" Ronald's voice was an octave higher.

"I'm not 100% sure. She changed her hairstyle and her outfit as a secretary, but her movements and speaking postures are very similar." Richard was always behind Ronald, and the woman left quickly. For a moment he wasn't sure. After a while he went looking again, but he couldn't find anyone again.

   "Go to Rick and ask him to go to the studio to recognize her? I think she seems to have a high-level pass for the production director of the crew?" Ronald became suspicious. This secretary obviously didn't know that he would go to the set, so Richard recognized him.

  If she is the secretary who leaked the secret, coming here as the production director is likely to be the reward for her from the mastermind behind the scenes. With so many crews in Hollywood, she didn't know which one she would go back to work for.

   "I'm afraid that when Rick passes by, she will run away again." Richard regretted that he didn't bring an instant camera.

   "Run? Run, that is also a kind of confirmation..."

  (end of this chapter)

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