Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Paula Wagner came to Ronald and gave him some basic guidelines for interviews.

“If you can’t answer a reporter’s question, secretly modify the question to something you can answer, and then tell the standard answer.

If a reporter asks two questions and you can only answer one, then answer the one you know how to answer first, try to prolong it as long as possible, and then deliberately forget to answer the question you don't know, and ask the next reporter to ask the question. "

Ronald practiced with her a few times, and there was no problem. In short, if you can't fool me, you can fool me. If you can't fool me, you can talk to yourself and pretend to answer the question.

"I thought there would be a lot of media wanting to interview me. For such a hit movie, it was beyond everyone's expectation. The streets were full of people breakdancing. Why didn't anyone come to interview the crew?"

After the exercise, Ronald discovered that no one in Los Angeles had come to interview him yet.

"Movie box office takes time to accumulate. It takes a certain amount of time for newspapers to interview you from noticing the phenomenon to finally interviewing you, and magazines are even slower." Paula rarely communicated business matters to Ronald. This time Niceta Grabbing her from Tom Cruise at short notice, Ronald's movie is about to explode.

"Then I'll wait a little longer. Someone should be interviewing you in a few days."

"Also, it's possible that they are all waiting for the movie review, which should be coming out in the next two days. By then, reporters can ask questions."

"Well... please help me collect the movie reviews of 'Break Dance', and also collect the reviews of 'Sixteen Candles'." Ronald is about to go to Chicago and New York to attend fan meetings, and asked his agent to help He pays attention to collecting.

"Excuse me, Boogaloo Prawn, was it you who taught MJ the moonwalk?"

Several reporters caught the creative staff who had just arrived in Chicago. What they were most interested in was not the movie itself, but the final hint that Ma Da taught MJ the moonwalk dance steps. "

"Uh..." Boogaloo Prawn has never seen this kind of scene before and doesn't know how to answer.

"MJ and I are good friends, so I asked him to make a guest appearance. He himself is also very interested in break dancing and incorporated this new element into his MV. He is a pop master and is very interested in fashion trends. I have a keen sense of smell." Ronald hurriedly came up and answered on Boogaloo's behalf.

"May I ask Director Ronald..." The reporter turned the microphone to Ronald.

"Then MJ's dance was taught by Boogaloo Prawn?"

"Boogaloo and Shabadoo are both masters of break dancing. Their choreography is very high. In the movie, their dances were choreographed by themselves. Including the motor broom dance. Lucinda herself actually and Kay Like Li, she also has a background in jazz dance, and her learning ability is very good."

"I asked if he taught me...

"Okay... you've already asked two questions, leaving the opportunity for others to ask the next question."

"Ronald, do you think this is your best film? Why do you think its box office performance was unexpected?" another reporter asked.

"I think the most important thing is that we have three outstanding leading actors. Do you like their dance? Sometimes, I just need to set up the camera, and their genius dance will continue to be produced. And that The one who dances with the cane on the beach is nicknamed Hand Man..."

"You are really good at dealing with reporters." The Boogaloo prawn was not good at this, but Ronald came to the rescue.

"Hi, just kidding."

"You have to praise yourself next time," the Boogaloo prawn said in a low voice. Today, Ronald gave all the credit to the actors.

Ronald smiled, no one else could take away his credit. In any case, no one in the industry believed him when he said to put the camera there and let the actors do their thing. The final box office success of the movie is, of course, attributed to the director.

"Okay, okay, friends from the press, we have to rush to the hotel. If you have any questions, we can ask them after the audience meeting." Minahan came up to interrupt the reporters and led the creators into the arranged car.

It was a hit at the box office, and Minahan stopped holding back. He booked Ronald and the three leading actors at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago.

Ronald checked into the room and immediately received a call from his agent Richard.

"I've asked the hotel to put the film review in your room. Those two Chicago film critics didn't say anything good about you."

"I expected it."

Ronald picked up the Chicago Tribune specially prepared by the waiter and read the Chicago Sun-Times.

"There will be several hip-hop movies this summer, 'Break Dance' is the first, and they've got another one. Lucinda is sweet and high-spirited, and the three dancers are all so good they deserved a better script... "

"Hehehe", this is Roger Ebert's film review. Ronald has become immune to his sarcasm.

"It's really a strange film: a stiff and awkward story interspersed with dance of astonishing grace and power.

Alas, this story is predictable from beginning to end. We meet Kelly (Lucinda Dickey), a young Los Angeles dancer who is the student of a hateful choreographer. Through a friend, she met a few breakdancers on the boardwalk in Venice.

Their concept of dance was completely different from hers; while she honed her skills, they elevated the ghetto sound and immersed themselves in the joy of hip-hop. She liked them, danced with them, and they formed a team.

So far so good. But then we have to sit back and watch blandly written, clumsily performed scenes involving: a famous choreographer covets Kelly's beauty, becomes jealous of a hip-hop dancer, and tries to put the trio in the dark during a big dance competition list;

a group of arrogant upper-class dance snobs who turn their noses up at Kelly's friends;

A pretentious dance judge with a British accent miraculously changes attitude when the trio starts dancing, appreciating the breakdancing.

Kelly and both partners share this gifted dancing talent, Tornado is a sensitive Latina who likes Kelly but is wary of any sign of offense, and Motor's hands and feet take on a life of their own.

They're so free-spirited in their dance scenes with Kelly that they're surrounded by puppet-like supporting performances, which is a shame.

I bet the director could have made an interesting documentary about how these three dancers met, how they learned to work together, how the hip-hop dancers taught their moves to the classically trained Kelly, and how they Get along off screen.

Isn't this much more interesting than those fictional plots? ——The script is too amateurish and the director is too clumsy to make good use of the three talented dancing skills.

Do you like break dancing? This is a great movie, if you can manage to ignore about two-thirds of the uninteresting plot.

There’s another movie coming out in the summer, ‘Hot Street Kid’ distributed by Free Orion, so let’s see what that brings to the table.

ps: Michael Jackson’s cameo at the end is exciting. "

Roger Ebert gave his film two out of four stars. I guess it's all about the dancing and MJ's cameo.

"This guy can't talk without being weird, right?" Ronald threw the Sun aside and picked up the film review Sisko wrote for the Tribune.

"I disagree with my colleague Ebert's assessment of 'Break Dance.' The fact is that this is a small production, and the director did a great job of not falling into the trap of all kinds of cliche plots and giving us a film that A refreshing movie.

If it were other exploitation film directors, they would inevitably make some movies that were not clichéd. For example: Kelly will be raped by the choreographer of the dance class, and she will complain to the society about the shady situation here. After the trio wins the championship, they will enter Broadway, wear colorful costumes, and give up those spiritual street dances.

And I'm not surprised that this movie avoids these perfectly, since they were directed by Ronald Lee. I applauded his 'fast-paced Richmond High School' two years ago.

This "Break Dance" reminds me of another dance film many years ago, "Saturday Night Fever". John Travolta was also so free and spiritual, clumsily challenging mainstream society while dancing on the street.

I give him two and a half stars.

Of course, what I am more optimistic about is another new film released this weekend, 'Sixteen Candles', John Hughes' debut film.

I give this movie three and a half stars out of four, calling it "the best teen comedy since last year's 'It's Crazy.' It's sure to get a lot of laughs, but more importantly Yes, it will also provide comfort to young girls and boys who feel embarrassed.

And moments of comfort and recognition are sorely lacking in teen movies, which often depict a world of violence and sexual mastery, and that's a lie. "

Sisko always put in a good word for himself, and his Tribune readers were more educated and therefore spoke more coherently. As for Albert, hey, the readers of The Sun are mostly low-level manual workers, the same people who beat the Chinese Chen Guoren to death. The plot of "Break Dance" belittled white dance teachers and praised Latinos and black people. It seems that he He won’t be able to speak well of himself.

But both men rated "Sixteen Candles" more highly. It seems that although "Break Dance" was able to lead at the box office, it lost out critically.

"It's time for us to go, the audience is waiting for us." The Boogaloo prawn came knocking on Ronald's door. He was indebted to Ronald for rescuing him today. Otherwise, he would have violated the agreement and not only paid MJ the choreographer's money. If you want to change it back, you will have to be fined by the mj team.

"Come here." Ronald put on his coat and walked down the elevator with him. "Next time you encounter something like this, just pretend to be confused. It's hard for you to answer other people's questions. Just answer the one you know how to answer, and then pretend That’s the reporter’s problem.”

"The audience doesn't seem to be as lively as in Los Angeles." Several people walked into the arranged theater. The audience sat down and waited for the movie to start. Ronald felt that it was not as crazy as the one in Los Angeles.

"Yeah, yeah...motor!"

"Kelly, I love you!"

After the movie was screened, Ronald discovered that he was wrong. The audience in Chicago, which was mainly white, was not inferior to that in Los Angeles.

And here in Chicago, there are more old-fashioned large theaters, and the number of people attending a single show is larger than in Los Angeles. The three leading actors were blocked on the stage. After performing a live break dance, they signed autographs for more than an hour before they were Let go.

It seems that not only Latinos and black people like this dance, but mainstream white teenagers are also moved by this energetic dance.

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