Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Pittsburgh is in Pennsylvania. Looking down from the plane, two rivers sandwich a delta in the center of the city, which gave Ronald a familiar feeling.

After he agreed to work as an associate producer on the "Flashdance" crew, he was immediately given a plane ticket by Don Simpson, and before he had time to read the script, he got on the plane and flew to the location of Pittsburgh.

"The mouth of the Ohio River. You can sail along this route to Cleveland, Ohio. If you cross Lake Erie to the north, you will reach Detroit, the automobile manufacturing center..." When they were about to reach their destination, Ronald woke up from his sleep and took a I read the Pittsburgh travel guide on the plane.

This was once the site of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Works, which once monopolized more than half of the country's steel production. To this day, Pittsburgh still has many steel mills. and Carnegie Mellon University, which was established through his posthumous donation.

In addition to Carnegie, Pittsburgh also produced power companies Westinghouse and Heinz Food Company, which manufactured a full range of products for American people's daily necessities.

The crew stayed at Forbes Street, and Ronald went out of the hotel to stroll around alone. There is a slightly acidic smell in the air exhaled by the industrial city, and the sunset is dyed particularly red by the exhaust gas.

The temperature was a bit low in the evening in October in Pittsburgh. Ronald soon couldn't bear the cold and returned to the hotel.

In the hotel lobby, a group of beauties were chattering about where to go to have fun. Ronald looked at them, his young body a little ready to move.

"Hi, Ronald."

The two beauties headed by him greeted him. When they were at the airport, the producer had already announced Ronald's identity as associate producer to the crew, and all the actresses knew him.

"Hi Cynthia, Sunny."

Ronald is very fond of dancing beauties. These are all colleagues who play the protagonist Alex, and they are dancers who dance in the bar.

Sunny Johnson has been working in Hollywood and has played many supporting roles. Cynthia Rhodes is a professional dancer from the South. The actual age of both of them is over 25, but their dance training makes them look very young.

This is the first time they have had a supporting role with a lot of scenes. With them is a Chinese beauty and dancer Malin Jahan who does not speak English well. She will act as a dance double for Jennifer Beals in the movie.

Ronald invited the three of them to the hotel bar for a drink. The bar decoration in Pittsburgh is very tough, and the customers inside are also dressed very tough.

Big and exaggerated hairstyle, high shoulder pads, and the only woman dressed in a very masculine style.

"You have been rehearsing in Los Angeles for a long time, right?" Ronald ordered a few cocktails and motioned to the three beauties to help themselves.

"No, we came to Pittsburgh without rehearsing after signing the contract with the crew."

Ronald frowned slightly. This was a medium-sized project with an investment of seven million US dollars from Paramount. It was not a small production like his own. How could he not rehearse?

"Ronald, what does your associate producer do?" Cynthia Rhodes, a girl from the south, is relatively innocent. If you have any questions, just ask them directly.

"At your service."

"Hahaha..." The two beauties laughed together, but only the girl from the country, Ma Lin, didn't understand.

Ronald, who returned to the room, quickly took out the script and started reading it.

There were no rehearsals, the director was changed before filming started, and the heroine was undecided. All signs seemed to indicate that there was something very wrong with this movie. When I was in Los Angeles, I thought I was just working casually to earn some extra money, but don’t fall into this trap.

The script of "Flashdance" was adapted from the real experience of Maureen Mader, a female construction worker in Toronto, Canada. This way of writing shows that the producer paid for the adaptation of the prototype character. Otherwise, if the film is adapted from a real character, it would be an open invitation for the other party to sue.

The plot is very simple. Alex, a girl who works as a welder in a Pittsburgh steel plant, earns money by dancing in bars at night. She dreams of one day entering a ballet school and learning dance. Her friend Jenny, the bartender, wants to be a figure skater.

Nick, the boss of her factory, walked into the bar where she was dancing one day and was attracted to her. Nick secured an interview at a ballet school for Alex, and Alex was unhappy when he saw Nick riding in the car with another blonde beauty.

In the end, the misunderstanding was solved and it turned out to be Nick's ex-wife. Encouraged by his retired ballerina neighbor and friend Jenny and others, Alex finally entered the ballet school.

As director Adrian Lyne said, the script is a bit dull. It's a bit unqualified as a story for a feature film.

"Isn't it a deliberate project given to Don Simpson? So that he can leave because of the box office failure?" Ronald began to make random guesses about Paramount's intentions.

Big studios can often produce some incredibly bad movies, and the impact of high-level struggles is indispensable.

"But it's none of my business. I just need to complete my work. An insignificant associate producer's signature will not have much impact on my reputation. If it doesn't work, let the agency find a way to remove my signature. ”

Ronald threw the script aside, took a shower, warmed himself up, and went to bed.

“First, when there is nothing…

but a slowly glowing dream

Your fear seems to be hidden in

deep in your soul

I heard music...

Close my eyes and feel the rhythm

Wrapping around, grabbing my heart

what a wonderful feeling

To exist is to believe

I could have it all and now I'm dancing for my life! "

A beautiful woman's singing sounded, and Ronald guessed that he was dreaming again.

The image jumped out of the darkness. A girl wore a hat with two large ear protectors in the morning light, riding a bicycle through the streets of Pittsburgh, and finally rode on a bridge. The rising sun in the background is red, shrouded in a haze, trying hard to shine.

"It's this kind of opening shot that quickly explains the background of the story." Ronald thought to himself that he had to learn this opening method. One look at this smog, it is an industrial city. Pittsburgh's iconic Carnegie Mellon University then appears in the background.

This song is also very nice. It seems to be sung by a black singer and has that special black way of vocalizing.

The scene turned to a dark factory. The water vapor in the background was hazy. A female worker was welding the workpiece. The name Alex was written on the welding mask. She dropped her mask and it was none other than star Jennifer Beals.

"It's really Lightning Dance. This character appears with great momentum. In one song and a few shots, the protagonist Alex's living environment, work content, and beauty are clearly explained."

In the cold room temperature, Ronald felt comfortable in bed, so he wrapped himself in a quilt. This movie was well shot, and it was by no means a coping work as he had just guessed.

The scene seemed to have advanced a lot. On a stage with a black background, a woman wearing male clothing danced on the stage. Against a black background and dim lighting, only the silhouette of a dancer appears.

The dancer faced a chair and picked out various seductive dance moves. A shot cuts to a close-up of the dancer's face, Jennifer Beals seductively wearing glittery makeup.

"Wow..."

She took off her coat, danced a sexy dance, and finally pulled the rope, and a basin of water poured down on her.

The wet scene was replayed in slow motion, and then she began to dance wildly, throwing water from her hair into the faces of the audience below, eliciting gasps and whistles.

"Ah, these shots are really beautiful and the rhythm is very good. Director Ryan really knows how to capture the beauty of women." Ronald was amazed.

However, the editing pace was a bit fast, and Ronald didn't see a few dance moves, nor did he see the camera's full face of Jennifer Beals.

"It's not like they're all stand-ins, right?"

The screen fast-forwarded for a long time, and two dances between the two heroines I saw in the bar today appeared on the screen. Cynthia Rhodes danced a dance in a bar. This time the editing took more care of her panorama and close-ups. It was very obvious that Cynthia danced it herself.

"The expressiveness of this dance is very good, but the makeup is too bad, making Cynthia, a beautiful woman, look so ugly." Ronald thought for a while, "Maybe it is to set off the protagonist, otherwise this wonderful dance will steal the show. .”

Sunny Johnson also had a lot of shots, but instead of dancing in a bar, she did a double jump on the ice to the music. A spotlight shines on her body, gliding on the ice to the music, which is also very beautiful.

"Ah..." Jenny, played by Sunny, couldn't stand still and sat down on the ground.

"This is too hard. In order to set off the protagonist, all the supporting actors are not given a good dance scene." Ronald continued to look at the scene in a daze.

The scene moved to the street again. Alex and Jenny were blocked by two break dancers on the road. They began to dance the moonwalk that Ronald was familiar with, and the "helicopter" while lying on the ground and spinning on the back. action.

"This level is not bad, the moonwalk is better than mine." Ronald thought to himself, tightening the quilt again.

The warm quilt made him sleep comfortably.

"ah……"

Ronald was woken up by another exclamation. The picture seemed to be Alex. She was wearing a black high-slit training suit and seemed to be lying on the ground by mistake. She was taking a dance exam in a large room with four judges sitting on one side of the room.

"Can I start over?" Close-up of Jennifer Beals, getting permission from the referee to reset the record player's probe to the starting position.

Warm sunlight filtered through the bright large glass windows, and Alex began to dance to his heart's content.

It was the nice song that opened the show, Alex danced to the rhythm.

"It seems like a stand-in again?" Ronald felt that a stand-in was also used in the filming of this solo dance. The actor's hair was deliberately hung down in front of his forehead, and he danced in front of the four judges. The intense dance rhythm made it difficult for people to see the actor's face clearly.

Then Alex landed on one foot and started spinning.

"Definitely not Jennifer Beals, she couldn't even turn around during her audition."

"oh……"

Alex in the picture started to use the break dance moves that people on the street had just done. She also lay on the ground, landed on her back, hooked her feet, and began to spin quickly.

"Is this stand-in Ma Lin so good? Can she, a native of China, also know these black dance moves?"

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