Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"!"

Ronald called start again.

The camera once again panned behind the two male protagonists, Tornado and Motor. The audience was intoxicated by the wonderful dance and danced to the rhythm. Slowly approaching, the man wearing a black spandex bodysuit did not steal the spotlight again, but moved his shoulders in line with the dance, dancing funny steps.

"The dance is really ugly, but it's OK." Ronald nodded with satisfaction.

The actor seemed to be inspired, and he did a backflip in excitement and landed firmly on the ground.

"He is considered smart. It is not a foul to steal the spotlight, and the audience likes to see it." Ronald pretended not to see it.

"cut!"

Ronald stopped the filming.

Director of Photography Hanania shouted, "Get a close-up shot from below and carry it over your shoulder. Come on, Bob, you have strong arms."

The crew, who were in a hurry, did not have time to queue up and rent a Steadicam camera stabilizer. So I chose a shoulder-mounted shooting method.

"Everyone, take a break, the next one will be in twenty minutes," the assistant director shouted, holding up a loudspeaker.

Ronald put on his sunglasses, returned to the chair marked with his name, poured a cup of black tea from the thermos, and tasted it slowly.

"Director," someone called him.

Ronald looked up and saw the Chinese actor Jean Claude.

"What's up?"

"I want to ask, do you think I can be a leading role in Hollywood? I just arrived in your country not long ago, and I want to find a career as an actor in Hollywood."

"Where are you from? Country?" Ronald was happy to chat with an actor who cleverly wanted to express himself. To be successful in Hollywood, what is essential is tenacity and the ambition to always stand out.

"Uh... I'm actually Belgian. I've practiced karate, judo, won the European Karate Championship, and played full-contact karate. My record is eighteen wins and one loss..."

"In Hollywood,

Being able to fight does not guarantee that you will become the leading actor." Ronald interrupted his self-introduction, and Tanhou took another slow sip of tea, "You also have to fight well. If you can fight well, you can only be a substitute. If you fight well, you can be the protagonist. "

"I can play well, look at my move." When Jean-Claude heard that Ronald was willing to communicate with him, he showed off the trick he had prepared long ago.

"Don't move, director." Jean-Claude suddenly stood up and let his toes brush the tip of Ronald's nose. During the whole process, his upper body did not move and he fell steadily.

"Fuxk! You use your shadowless kick to sneak attack!"

Ronald was startled. He put down the black tea that had leaked out and burned his hands, and then waved his hand, "You, never, ever... never use this trick in front of me."

"Sorry, director." Jean-Claude quickly apologized, "Do you think my skills can establish me in Hollywood?"

"You're good at it, but you still have to catch up on acting lessons. If you have the skills, you can work at a karate club and take acting classes while making money."

"Okay, thank you, director! My full name is Jean-Claude Van Damme." Don't forget me if you have a role. "Mikael, Mikael, the director told us how to enter Hollywood."

Ronald shook his head. Competition in Hollywood is very fierce. Can you become famous just by having acting skills and skills? It's not that simple.

But this Jean Claude's level is still good. If he had been in "Longwei Boy", he would definitely have played a semi-final player or something, and his performance would have been good.

The second close-up shoulder-mounted shooting was completed quickly. The camera operator named Bob was very burly, and there was no shaking when carrying the camera on his shoulders. Ronald was very happy.

"Come on," Ronald led everyone in applauding a few times, then picked up the electric horn and shouted, "We don't have time to waste, move, move, quick, quick, quick!"

The third scene is Kelly, played by Lucinda Dickey, who is introduced to Tornado, played by Sabado, by her friend Eton. Tornado took a liking to Kelly and pulled her off the set to break dance with him. This arouses jealousy in the dancers played by Falcon and Solomon.

The two of them were dissatisfied with Tornado's domination of the most beautiful dancer Kelly, so the dancer played by Latino Falcon stepped forward and challenged Tornado to a duel.

Falcon's strongest performance is the robot dance (popping). His rhythm and rhythm are very harmonious. Compared with other robot dances, he is more agile and his whole body has a rhythm.

This is also what casting director Pamela said, a master who takes a dance to the realm of art. Such a master, because break dancing has a low social status in America, was hired by Ronald to play a supporting role very cheaply.

Falcon's dance battle is very interesting. Starting from the invitation, without saying a word, he only used body language and provocative eyes to complete the insult to the whirlwind.

Tornado's robot dance was actually no match for him. In order to avoid making a fool of himself in front of Kelly, he pretended to sneer with disdain, and then left with Motor and Kelly. So much so that Ma Da, who had been encouraging him to challenge, was disappointed.

"cut!"

After Ronald finished filming, he took the lead in applauding. He called his assistant, "Go and ask Minahan to come over."

"What's going on?" The fat Minahan kept staring at the crew. He hoped that this movie would make him stand up. Therefore, he personally monitors all supplies and talents. His personality is quite capable of supervising things like this, and he is a very competent production director.

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"The dance you just performed was world-class," Ronald said softly to Minahan. "Today, together with the shot of the hand man in the back, you will develop a working copy as soon as possible. We will edit it as we shoot it. A trailer, or maybe sending it to some cable TV stations and letting them play it for free, is very good marketing.”

"So good?" Minahan didn't believe it when he heard that it was world-class. He stayed to feast his eyes on it.

"Quick, quick, let's move to the venue by the beach." Ronald began to mobilize the crew's technicians to move various equipment to another terrazzo venue suitable for hip-hop.

This place is closer to the beach than the roadside venue just now. This scene was a jump shot. Exploitation films don’t have the luxury to shoot in script order, so Ronald asked his assistant to try to arrange the scenes shot in one place together as much as possible.

Soon the new scene was built under Minahan’s urging and supervision and the crew’s concerted efforts.

"!" The camera focused on a cement road leading from the beach. Tornado, played by Sabado, pulled Kelly by one hand and walked into the venue from the road.

This plot occurs two-thirds of the way through the movie. Kelly, played by Lucinda, is harassed by her former jazz dance coach, asking her to fall in love with him, otherwise she will not be recommended to participate in the dance competition.

As expected, Xuanfeng and Ma Da were tricked by the white coach and refused to participate in the dance competition. Tornado saw Kelly lost her mind and dragged her to watch the dance performance.

There is a young man here who has disabled both feet due to polio, but he still breaks dances and is the number one in this street dance venue.

"cut!"

After Ronald stopped, his lips curled up slightly, revealing his mood.

Sabado said he would not forgive Lucinda, but in his heart he wanted the white beauty Lucinda to be nice to him. Lucinda was often picked on, made fun of, and disliked by Sabado. It was just because Sabado was the designated male protagonist that he had to pretend to admire him.

This is very close to the vague relationship between Tornado and Kelly in the movie plot. The two people's dissatisfaction with each other, shown on the film, is actually very similar to the sexual antagonism between young men and women.

Some so-called happy enemies torture each other and like each other at the same time.

"cut!"

The cameras were relocated to the venue, and handyman Eddie Rodriguez walked in on crutches.

"Eddie, show them how awesome you are." Ronald patted him on the shoulder.

Hand Man Eddie is not nervous about making movies. Dancing is his favorite thing. Because of his disability, he is good at floor dancing (breaking).

"!"

The hand man put on the hood of the off-road jacket and zipped it up. He used crutches to lean on the ground, used the crutches to perform a full Thomas rotation, and then climbed the pommel horse and a series of gymnastics pommel horse movements. Make the final handstand and start spinning like walking on stilts with your hands.

Kelly, played by Lucinda Dickey, is excited to watch as he lets himself go, confidently and unimpeded by his physical disability.

She began to gradually put aside the worries of not being able to participate in the dance competition.

"Cut!" Ronald stopped. Lucinda Dickey's performance was very layered. This had something to do with her having practiced gymnastics. Seeing the hand man's movements, she knew how difficult it would be to do these movements with both hands. . Therefore, I admire my rival man very much.

Then the camera moved closer, and Ronald looked through the frame, which just covered the terrazzo-floored dance venue.

He walked to the hand man's side and said, "The next step is up to you. This is your performance time."

"!"

Handman Eddie Rodriguez nodded and walked to the center of the field with a happy smile on his face. He suddenly let go of his hands and the two crutches fell to the ground.

He fell to the ground, took a ready position, exerted force with both hands, and began to spin from slow to fast.

First with the hands as the center of the circle, then the back, then the shoulders, then the head, a handstand, with the legs being thrown up and spinning like helicopter blades.

"Look at him, look at how well he dances." Tornado, played by Sabado, pretended to teach Kelly a lesson. "Have you seen this kid? He is still dancing, Kelly. Dancing is to please yourself and yourself. audience."

Kelly had a heavy expression on her face, as if she was dissatisfied with her retreat. Then she was gradually infected by the hand man's dance and began to smile.

The camera zoomed to the far side. In the audience was a curly-haired girl wearing a silver bikini, wearing a pair of sunglasses and dancing to the rhythm, occupying a large part of the view frame.

"cut!"

Ronald still remembers Roger Corman’s teachings: when the plot is a bit preachy, the audience’s eyes need to be treated to some ice cream.

Soon, the reaction shots of other people and the conversation shots between Kelly and Tornado were also filmed. Ronald watched as the director of photography directed the film to be removed.

"That's it for today, everyone come to me to get tomorrow's shooting schedule." The assistant director began to distribute personal schedules in the sunset.

"Minahan, hurry up and develop it. I can get a section in the editing car tomorrow."

"Really? I'll personally escort him to the printing laboratory. We'll get it tomorrow morning." Minahan now admires Ronald's shooting ability very much. He doesn't use much force and just shoots with good results. It seems like Put the camera there and say to the actors, just dance.

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