Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 417

Darryl Vidal was still the same, with short curly hair, a wide nose, and dark skin. It looked like a mixture of Japanese and Southeast Asian or black blood.

Although he was still a pauper with no money, what Ronald saw in his eyes was a happy mood.

"I hope you are satisfied with the conditions here, Darryl." Ronald drove him to a motel near his apartment. Except for the slightly dilapidated decoration, the accommodation conditions here are good.

"That's nothing, the tempering of the heart is also a necessary training to become a martial arts master." Darryl Vidal went to San Francisco for a year, and his words were contaminated with the style of Bruce Lee's apprentice, and he became Somewhat philosophical.

"What I'm happiest this time is not the income, but the fact that karate can appear on the movie screens in America."

"Well, you are welcome to join." Ronald took him to his home to discuss the history and philosophy of karate.

"You already know a lot about the history of karate, Ronald. After it was passed from Ryukyu to Dongying, it has developed into four major schools in history. I learned that it is the oldest school that originated in Ryukyu, called Goju-ryu."

"Soft and soft?"

"That's right, combining strength and softness, combining elimination and attack, integrating offense and defense." Vidal demonstrated several basic postures to Ronald while speaking.

"There are a total of eighteen moves in total, which is the 'type' of Goju-ryu practice, which means shelf."

Ronald did a few of them, but it felt a bit like Hua Guo's martial arts, and also a bit like Bruce Lee fighting on the screen.

"You are right. In fact, the karate of Ryukyu was originally the Shaolin martial art that was passed down from the south of China. The actual founder of Goju-ryu, Mr. Miyagi Chojun (Miyagi Chojun), studied under a white crane boxing teacher in Fujian. , Combining the karate I learned in Naha, a martial art that has been fused.

In [-], his disciple won the championship in the All Dongying Martial Arts Competition, but he couldn't answer when asked about his school.After returning to Naha, Ryukyu, Mr. Miyagi named the martial art Goju-ryu, which means a combination of strong strength and soft skills. "

"Well, take your time." Ronald took out a pen and paper, and began to write down the secrets of these sects that Vidal said.

"The combination of hardness and softness you are talking about is about explosive power and fighting skills. So what does it mean to fight together?" Ronald listened for a while, motioned Vidal to stop, and asked.

"I learned this from the Zhenfan Martial Art Museum where Bruce Lee's apprentices taught him Jeet Kune Do and Wing Chun." Vidal stood up and demonstrated a few more Wing Chun moves.

"There is a big difference between Chinese martial arts and Western boxing, that is, when he moves, he does not distinguish between offense and defense. The offense of boxing includes straight punches, swing punches, and uppercuts, and the defense includes head protection and parry. , dodge, and dive. Offense and defense should never be confused.

But Chinese martial arts, and Ryukyu Goju-style karate, which is deeply influenced by it, each "type" is both attack and defense. "

"In this way, we may not understand what we are talking about, you might as well try to hit me with a straight fist." Darryl Vidal invited Ronald to attack him.

"Then be careful." Ronald stood up, made a boxing attack posture, and punched Vidal in the face.

Vidal raised his hand to block Ronald's jab, and rotated his wrist to gently move Ronald's jab to the side to seal the attack.

Ronald was a little unsteady, startled, and stood still.After taking a closer look, I found that after Vidal sealed his hand, the other hand had already attacked his lower abdomen, but it was "stopped" within a punch distance from him.

"I don't believe it, come again." Ronald felt that he might have been tricked by the other party, and Vidal couldn't beat him even though he was in the Los Angeles gym at the time.So he withdrew to the ready position, and then punched Vidal on the cheek.

Vidal moved his left hand to the side again, took half a step back with his left foot, and then turned around naturally on his right side. A palm slap lightly landed on Ronald's chest, knocking Ronald back halfway. step.

"It's really interesting." Ronald played against him twice, and gradually understood the meaning of the so-called continuous elimination and fighting.When Goju-ryu karate makes a move, the whole body is linked, one side rotates back, defending Ronald's attack, while releasing the force, the other side turns forward, just in time to launch an attack.

When Vidal takes the initiative to attack, the backhand often hides the preparatory action to defend the opponent's counterattack.This method may not be very useful in a boxing match that relies on counting points to win, but if you can attack with your feet, or in pure street fighting, then this method of defending your vital points every time you make a move can be the greatest. Protect yourself as much as possible and kill the enemy.

"This is what it means to be both offensive and defensive?" Ronald imitated Vidal and made a few turns.

"Yeah, Goju-ryu doesn't advocate aggressiveness. Our philosophy is that karate is for defense, and if you're attacking, you probably want to have a weapon in your hand. Karate is just a means of self-defense to get attacked in a hurry ’” explained Vidal.

Ronald finds it very interesting that this philosophy is exactly similar to the philosophy of Danny Weber, the protagonist in the story he wrote.Learning martial arts is for self-defense, not to be bullied by bullies, not to actively bully others.

"Not bad, you teach me how to fight." Ronald asked Vidal to teach him eighteen moves, which are the basic stereotyped moves.

"Okay, you do it with me. This is the 'three battles', which is the representative type of 'rigid' in the Gangju style. When you fight, you have to imagine that the enemy is in front of you, and your nerves and muscles are in a state of high alert.

This is "turning the palm", the representative of "soft" in the rigid and soft style. You must control your fighting spirit from showing up, so that it is quietly stored in the body, as if waiting for an opportunity to explode. "

"The meaning of this turn is that when you defended my fist just now, did that grasp mean that the center of gravity was off?"

"Yes, you are very savvy, Ronald. This is actually the characteristic of Chinese martial arts. It relies on a small shift of the center of gravity to relieve force. You have to experience it well."

"Why do I feel that this movement is a bit like Tai Chi?" Ronald recalled Coppola's Tai Chi practice in the crew of "Urchin" and asked them to watch the video.

"Haha, you still know Tai Chi? That's good. That's the reason. All martial arts ideas in East Asia are interlinked."

"Okay, let's see if my posture is standard."

Two people teach one and practice together, and they have a great time playing.Not long after, Ronald dodged and spilled the coffee on the table.

"Let's find a chance to go to the guild hall to practice." Vidal helped clean up the broken coffee cups all over the floor.

"That's right, don't fight at home. What other schools of karate do you have?" Ronald asked.

"They are all ancient schools. Now the more prosperous one is the Kyokushin Karate Club created by Dashan Beida. Their philosophy is different from Ryukyu Karate. They pay attention to aggressive attack and knocking down opponents with full contact. By the way, I haven't asked you yet, what movie are you making now?"

"There is 'Night of the Comet' playing. If you are interested, I invite you to watch it."

Soon it was the second weekend of "Night of the Comet," and Ronaldo took Darryl Vidal to watch his movie again.

Still arrived at the Sherman Oaks department store, where parking is convenient and there are all kinds of food. The two of them practiced karate for a day, and they just had a big appetite.

"Here, here..." Ronald, who was eating, saw a loud shout from the opposite side.He looked over and saw a few fat men wearing glasses coming from the entrance of the cinema. They saw a person holding a card with the words "MISC.

"Did you post it in the NewsGroup, saying we met here? I am Dave."

"Ah, hello, hello, I'm Kessel. There are still a few of us, so we can go in together. This is a movie ticket. You need to give me three yuan and fifty cents each." Ronald found the sign The person in question is the student-like nerd I saw last time.

"It seems that word of mouth is very good. So many people go to some newsgroup to call friends, probably the bulletin board at the entrance of the university dormitory. It seems that they don't know each other." Ronald took a bite of the hamburger, A good reputation is a good sign.

Today's attendance rate is good, Ronald looked left and right, took a closer look, and it was similar to the first game he watched last week.

Seeing his own director's movie in the cinema for the second time, Ronald fell into self-criticism again.He kept taking out a pen and paper and jotting down areas that could be improved.If you encounter similar scenes and performances in the future, you will be able to direct and guide better.

"It's really a good movie. Will your karate movie be so good?" Vidal admired Ronald's director level.

"I don't know. I'm just a screenwriter. It depends on whether Columbia and the producers invite me to be the director, so we can talk about this."

"Do you think there is such a comet with a long return period?"

"It's hard to say. In the Kuiper belt at the edge of the solar system, there are many, many comets with ultra-long elliptical orbits, the kind that come only once in millions to tens of millions of years."

"The extinction mentioned in the movie, will this happen?"

"That's probably not true. The comet's tail is actually very sparse. Last year, a comet's tail swept across the earth, and no one felt it. But if the comet's orbit is too close to the earth, it may not be hit.

A professor of geology in my department has always suspected that the Gulf of Mexico was created by a comet hitting the earth. "

"No way, it's just a movie, how come it's been discussed so deeply?" Ronald saw the group of young people who looked like college students with eyes. Could it be that this movie is not suitable for people like nerds? Students, especially attractive?
(End of this chapter)