Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 383 Submachine Guns and Motorcycles

"Did you see that earring go through?" Gail Hurd went to Ronald's rented screening room today to watch the daily dailies with him.

"I see, it was worn by my stepmother Doris. In the first two days of filming, it should have been two scenes before and after, but she wore two different earrings." Ronald nodded and whispered to Gail.

The record level of the small crew is not high, so I forgot this detail.

"However, I don't plan to re-shoot. The theater audience may not notice these details. If I re-shoot, the budget will be overrun again."

"You are the director, you have the final say." Gail stopped talking.

There is no night scene today, and after watching the daily samples in the evening, Ronald has no shooting tasks.Gail drove Ronald to Jim Cameron's studio.

Working more than ten hours a day, Gail was afraid that Ronald would get into an accident driving by himself, so he came here to pick him up to see the progress of the special effects photography.

"Jim" Ronald took a nap in the car, but after arriving at the special effects photography studio, he regained some energy. "How is the comet's special effects done?"

"Ronald, you're here," Cameron was fiddling with the mechanical equipment in front of him, a few wires and rails, with a tiny camera on it.Seeing Ronald coming, he quickly stood up and wiped his hands on the canvas overalls.

"This mobile control camera system will accurately repeat the trajectory of each camera movement. Lucas invented a good thing for shooting 'Star Wars'. In this way, we only shoot one special effect each time, and then use the special effect printer to print each shot The film is composited together."

Ronald himself was busy with filming, and Cameron was handed over to Cameron for the opening special effects.

Cameron is worthy of self-studying all the special effects photography courses in the UCLA library. He designed a plan that can take a shot of a comet approaching the earth without spending too much money.

The special effects camera is pointed at the comet model and will take three shots.

The first time was a comet model moving in a fixed orbit.

The second time, the comet was replaced by a light model, moving on the same orbit, and when it was more than halfway through, it began to emit a dazzling dark red light.

The last time was a model of the Earth at a particular location, spinning on its axis.

During these three shots, the trajectory of the model and the trajectory of the camera will be repeated exactly.In the end, when they are combined together, it is a comet that is extinct, returning to the solar system from afar, and when it reaches the side of the rotating earth, it begins to emit a dark red death light.

"Thank you, Jim. You two are still looking for financing for 'Terminator', and I'm asking you to shoot this special effects shot for me." Ronald finished watching the progress of the filming, hugged Cameron, and patted him hard Thank you for your back.

"It's nothing, it only takes two days in total. After this scene, you need special effects for the title of the film, so you need to find a special effects subtitle machine to do it. This thing is very expensive, and it will cost you a few seconds. The price is more than tens of thousands of dollars." Cameron said.

"No way, I want the title to present a sci-fi effect, with dark red three-dimensional fonts, which can give the audience a hint that this is a sci-fi theme."

Cameron was responsible for the special effects, so he didn't have to worry about it. The next day Ronald switched to the street.

In the morning, the two sisters took out their father's weapons and began to practice shooting, preparing to deal with zombies.Ronald applied for two days of closed shooting time. On the first day, he concentrated on street shooting and motorcycle stunt shooting.

"This is a MAC-10 submachine gun. When you raise the gun and shoot, I will empty the bullet."

The firearms expert specially invited by the producer explained the knowledge of firearms to Kelly Maroney and Catherine Mary Stuart.

"Hold it with one hand, open the safety, and then press the trigger. He fires a Balabam pistol. The center of gravity of the whole gun is relatively balanced, and the recoil is not strong. Women and children can easily operate it."

Ronald looked at the firearms expert and whispered to the producer, "Didn't you agree to get an Uzi submachine gun? Why did you change it to this one?"

"Ronnie, I'm sorry, now several big factories are shooting shootout movies, and most of the Uzi submachine guns are borrowed by them. I finally found this firearms expert. He said that the MAC-10 is similar to the Uzi submachine gun. Anyway, the audience Not many know the difference."

"It's okay, I just think the Uzi looks better."

"Steady, load, and fire." The firearms expert gave a final demonstration to the two leading actresses.The two tried firing a few rounds.

"Okay, we're ready to start filming."

Catherine Mary Stuart's Regina is more of a tomboy who has a lot of gun practice with her father, an officer.But the younger sister Samantha, played by Kelly Maroney, doesn't shoot much. This plot is mainly about the older sister teaching her younger sister to protect herself.

"Action!"

There were no people on Bunker Mountain in the morning, and a deserted area after the scene was cleared was used for shooting scenes.

Regina handed her sister Samantha the loaded MAC-10 submachine gun.Samantha squatted with both legs, gripped the submachine gun with both hands, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang bang bang... bang bang..."

Kelly Maroney fired a shuttle, a puff of smoke came out of the muzzle, and then, it jammed.

"Cut! Fuck".Ronald cursed, "Where's the firearms expert? What's going on?"

The budget was already tight, and a good shot was wasted because of a bullet jam.

"It's stuck, director. This is the weakness of the MAC-10 submachine gun. It was originally a miniature submachine gun with a modified pistol design. Because the shot was fired with blank ammunition, sometimes the recoil distance after the ammunition is fired is not enough, it will Causing a jam."

"I don't understand these, how can I not get stuck?"

"Two solutions, use real bullets, or when firing, don't kill the trigger all at once, fire a few bullets and then release the trigger, and fire a few more rounds."

Ronald gave him a sideways look, "Do you think my actors can shoot short bursts like a soldier? Or are you not afraid of death standing diagonally across from a submachine gun with real bullets to be a camera operator?"

Ronald glanced at the producer again. He shrugged and said that there was nothing he could do if he didn't have enough money.

"Come on, Kelly. If you get stuck again, you pull the bolt to eject the shell, keep acting, don't stop."

"Okay, Ronald. I'm more familiar with it." Kelly Maroney is not tall, small and exquisite, and it is really difficult for her to use a submachine gun.

"Okay, clear the scene, record? Camera? Action!"

"Bang bang bang bang..." The MAC-10 submachine gun jammed again without accident, and Kelly Maroney pulled the bolt, "Bang bang bang..." It jammed again.

"Cut! Cut!" Ronald quickly stopped shooting.

"Damn it, can't you think of something?" Ronald breathed out, greeting the producer and the firearms expert.

"No way, director. How about borrowing the Uzi submachine gun, the reliability of that thing is much better." The firearms expert spread his hands, and he had no choice.The MAC-10 made by the Britons was originally a cheap weapon, and with the blank cartridges used for shooting movies, it performed really poorly.

Ronald took the shooting schedule from his assistant. There were still a lot of motorcycle scenes to be filmed in the afternoon, and there was no time to reshoot.

"It doesn't matter, Kelly, Catherine." He called the two leading actresses to him.

"I know that you often shoot daytime soap operas, and you all have the ability to improvise. This MAC-10 often jams. If there is another problem during this filming, you can adapt to the situation. I can't do it for this The play is delayed any longer."

"Okay, director. No problem, director." Catherine and Kelly nodded in agreement, and went to prepare.

Samantha, played by Kelly Maroney, is still wearing the same style of cheerleading uniform, with two long legs separated under the short skirt, showing a horse stance.Then she pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang bang bang... bang bang..." It got stuck.

Samantha handed the submachine gun to Catherine, "Here".

Regina took her sister's gun and handed her the other.

Ronald screamed in his heart, originally it was the elder sister who trained the younger sister, so it is normal for the gun to be jammed and handed to the elder sister.

Samantha flipped the safety on and kept firing.

"Bang bang bang..." I got stuck again.

"Brilliant!" said Kelly Maroney, sarcastically improvising. "See, that's the problem. If Dad was around, he'd be making it for us." Two Uzis."

Regina, played by Catherine Mary Stuart, covers her ears with one hand and holds a submachine gun in the other, "but the car doesn't know the difference between the two guns."

"Cut!" Ronald yelled, and the two soap actors improvised really well.Fooled the stuck accident.

"Okay, let's take another shot and drive that broken car over."

Ronald directed the driver to drive over a dilapidated second-hand car and parked it on the side of the road.

"It's up to you now. I'm going to smash that car to pieces."

The firearms expert puts on dark glasses, and earmuffs.Then the firearm was checked again.

"Action!"

"Bang bang bang... bang bang... bang bang bang"

The firearms expert fired a few bursts, and a parallel bullet hole appeared on the pre-installed explosion point on the door of the broken car.Then the hubs of the two wheels were also blown out, and fell to the ground with a clang.

"Cut!"

The whole rhythm is very suitable, Ronald stopped the shooting and announced that the gun part was completed.

The filming continued in the afternoon with Regina, played by Catherine Mary Stuart, driving home on a motorcycle after killing the zombies after coming out of the movie theater.

Stunt double Debbie Evans is about the same size as her, in costumes and wigs, and the stunt double can't be distinguished in the distance.

"Let's try it!" Ronald picked up the electric horn and shouted to Debbie Evans in the distance.

Debbie Evans can do a handstand on a motorcycle, but Regina is just a tomboy, so she just needs to do normal driving.

"Ronald, it's very simple, why don't you let me do it myself?" Catherine Mary Stuart leaned over and asked him.

"The first rule, let the stunt double shoot the action. I don't want you to sprain your ankle and take a two-week break or something."

"OK", Catherine obediently stood by and watched how the stunt double performed.

"Action!"

Only a back of Debbie Evans appears in the movie lens, and the large fans on both sides blow out a burst of smoke. In the dark red filter, Regina is riding a motorcycle farther and farther away.

In the empty city, in the dark red field of vision, there are bursts of ashes of the human body burned by the comet radiation, and the whole picture presents a strange beauty, with a sense of cruelty of the end of the world.

"Cut!"

"Drive the pickup truck over here." Ronald seized the time to complete as many shots as possible within the scheduled shooting time.

"It's your turn, Catherine."

The motorcycle that Debbie Evans was riding was loaded into a large pickup, and Catherine Mary Stewart climbed into the pickup and rode on it.The camera is fixed on the opposite side of her, shooting close-ups of her.

"Move the car." Ronald sat in the next car and gave orders.

The pickup started to move slowly.

"Sound, camera, Action!"

Catherine was sitting on the stationary motorcycle, holding the handlebars with both hands, her long hair was blown by the electric fan, making it look like she was riding a motorcycle.

The pickup truck below started to move, and the street scenes on both sides kept receding. No flaws could be seen in the narrow viewfinder captured by the camera.

"Cut! Let's get another one." Ronald shouted from the car next to him.

(End of this chapter)