Exploiting Hollywood 1980

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The shooting continued, and Minahan was in a very happy mood. His main task now is to lead everyone to applaud and shout slogans during the filming interval.

"Defeat Hot Street Kid! Early release! Cannon forward, forward!"

The more Ronald looked at Minahan, the more he looked like the old soldier Miyagi from "Dragon Power Boy", and he was stunned. But for the sake of his ability to improve morale and speed up his actions, he didn't care.

The crew came to the basement where the dance battle was being filmed, where the art director worked with the sets and props all day to get all the sets done.

A very rudimentary basement, dressed up by them to look like hip-hop. A fake wall made of wood is covered with all kinds of graffiti. A variety of oddly-shaped letters, filled with bright colors.

In this way, the fake wall is used instead of the real wall, and the speed of dismantling the set is very fast.

Ronald saw a lot of group performances, all of which were Soul Train shows, and filled in with those students of Hand Boy. Each of them will dance hip-hop. When fighting dance, some of them will be on the field, some will be in the background, and some will come out to express their feelings, and they have already been selected.

At one end of the basement, there was a table with a teacher's record player, followed by two loudspeakers. A ferocious-looking man wearing a baseball cap was playing the record repeatedly, making a creaking sound.

This is an underground DJ that Minahan found through the Soul Train show. The flower name is Ice T, and his records have only accompaniment, no melody. The lyrics are improvised, "You all come here to watch, to feel the rock and roll. So, on this special night, you have me here, this special party, for all the breakdancers..."

Ronald was amazed at his improvisational skills and had a chat with him.

It turned out that this very light-skinned DJ turned out to be a black man. No matter how much blood was mixed in America, as long as there was a black man, it was counted as a black man.

When he was in elementary school, he was mistaken by his white classmates as a light-skinned Latino white man. When his classmates abused black people, he felt the full malice of white people towards people of color.

Ice T later lost his parents and has been blind. It was only recently that the record company took a fancy to it and wanted to release a special album.

The songs on this album have no melody, just rhythm and lyrics, and every lyric must rhyme. The record company named this form of music "Rapping".

Beginning in 1981, the music gradually entered the mainstream and reached the Billboard Top 100 for the first time.

Ice T's current album has not been released yet, I don't know if it will become popular. However, his ability to deal with this kind of fighting dance is still a small scene.

Dancers who dance break dance especially like to use rap music to accompany them, because their rhythm is very clear and there is no interference from melody, which is especially suitable for dancers to improvise.

"I said, where did you come from, buddy?" Ice T was a self-acquaintance, and soon became fraternity with Ronald.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, are you from the East Coast or the West Coast?"

"I don't know, is there any difference?" Ronald asked curiously.

"Hey, you white people like to steal our black dance styles, and since you don't know which side you belong to, it's West Coast Law."

Ronald quickly asked for advice. It turns out that hip-hop forms such as breakdancing were founded by blacks in the early 1970s. And it quickly became popular and had a great impact. The "Soul Train" was also born on the TV station, which was a program dedicated to playing breakdance.

But as the time came to the end of the 1970s, this dance form quickly lost popularity among black people, and the "Soul Train" program was almost cancelled by TV stations.

Who knows, this kind of dance has gradually become popular among Latinos for some unknown reason.

The kids from Puerto Rico picked it up quickly and injected new energy and creativity into it.

Today, hip-hop has split into two major genres. The East Coast is dominated by blacks, and insists on the relationship between this dance and the black liberation and affirmation movement. And developed by Latinos on the West Coast, it pays more attention to the expression of dance itself, and technological innovation.

Needless to say, the "crazy legs" that Ronald knew belonged to the diehard East Coast faction. People like Boogaloo prawns and Sabados are more typical West Coast pie.

The two are always arguing about originality and authenticity, which is a big reason why the dance hasn't caught on in other parts of the country.

Of course, the whole trend is moving in the West Coast genre's favor. In the past five years, Latinos on the West Coast have gradually taken over the black banner and have become the main source of new breakdancing dancers and new fan audiences.

"Director, you are here, come and see our framing", the cameraman knew that Ronald was busy.

"Oh, Shxt! This white boy turned out to be the director!" Ice T felt a little remorse, he didn't show himself more in front of him, and he would have to make up some good words later.

Ronald was thinking about another thing. His "Break Dance" was mainly performed by hip-hop elites from the West Coast, while the "Hot Street Boys" invested by Orion used all East Coast dance troupes.

From this point of view, these two films are likely to decide who will be the dominant player in hip-hop in the future. It depends on whether it is Cannon or Orion, which can be released first and achieve better box office results.

"A!"

Ice T was full of energy and showed 100% of his abilities. Both hands kept spinning the record, making creaking, creaking movements.

"Yo, then,

The feeling of love is indulging,

The body longs for freedom..."

Under the repetitive rhythm of "Dong Da Da Da... Dong Da Da Da", Ronald felt that it was very beneficial to the performance of breakdancing.

Ma Ma and Cyclone stood on the side, posing like a big break dancer, hugging their brother and letting some of the little guys show off first.

One person starts dancing to the floor, taking turns on the ground with one hand.

Another danced an alternative robot dance. He seemed to be cleaning the glass with his hands, clinging to the glass that did not exist, and walking step by step.

"Pfft..." Ronald spat out.

"Cut!" The director of photography looked over in amazement, "Ronald, what's the matter?"

"It's alright, it's alright, my problem." Ronald saw the cabana dance and the stair climbing dance again, but the dancer didn't dance at all and looked like a beginner.

Ronald walked into the stage, "You have to do this dance move."

Then he motioned Ice T to continue playing the background rhythm.

"Yo, then, the director is not satisfied with you boy,

Instruct yourself in person,

Let's see this white guy,

You can't teach you a few tricks..."

Ronald prepared his moves and said to the group, "Okay, I'll just demonstrate it once."

He raised his hands up, clinging to the imaginary glass, then using his hands to drive the whole body, and finally using one of his legs to move in translation.

"Understood? The emphasis is on the strength of the legs."

"Hi, man. Can you? How did you come up with that."

The bougainvillea prawn rushed over. He was most obsessed with the innovation of movements and admired Ronald's improvement of this move.

The other two actors who played rivals, Falcon and Solomon, were also pleasantly surprised. No one had tried this kind of dance.

"I talked about it when I was chatting with MJ." Ronald smiled softly and returned to the back of the camera. "We'll come next."

Everyone looked at Ronald in astonishment. They didn't expect that the director was also a master of breakdance!

Minahan was even more surprised and speechless, "Lucky! Lucky! I actually found a director who is a master of breakdance himself. If he can't beat Orion's 'Hot Street Boy', then there is no reason."

"Defeat 'Hot Street Kid'! Defeat Orion! Go, go!"

Minahan began to encourage everyone to shout slogans again.

"Shh..." Ronald gestured to him to shut up, "A!"

The camera is facing the motor and the whirlwind, and then slowly sweeps half a circle to capture the two dance-fighting opponents. The two sides, the four of them put their stances on their feet and faced off for a long time. When the momentum was about to explode, suddenly one of them moved.

First, the Latino Falcon, who seemed to be boneless, danced a combined version of the robot dance and the spaghetti dance. Ronald is a master at first sight. If he doesn't take out his housekeeping skills, wouldn't he make everyone look down on it!

Then the black Solomon also came to an end. The two cooperated tacitly, shaking like a machine that automatically sifts out weeds after harvest in the big corn field in the central and southern regions. During the entire dance, the two of them stared fiercely at the whirlwind, and they walked around him, full of provocation.

Whirlwind had no choice but to stay away from the two of them, lit a cigarette, and pretended that I was older than you and you were ahead. In fact, there is no bottom in my heart.

Falcon trembled more and more arrogantly, his whole body trembled, as if he had transmitted energy from the soles of his feet to his hands. He approached the whirlwind, slapped the opponent's hand, raised his chin, and everyone knew that it was a silent challenge of "Can you do it?"

"Cut!"

Several dancers who stopped shooting have not yet withdrawn from the emotions of the characters. When Ronald danced, he seemed to dope all the actors. Falcon and Solomon did not follow the choreography, but added extras on their own.

This makes Sabade very nervous, and he is not good at the completion of movements. In "Soul Train", he is more inclined to the role of a fusion person. He invented and borrowed many other dance moves, and innovatively joined breakdance, but if you dance well, it's really not as good as the other two.

Sabad's smoking hands were shaking a little nervously, and he was caught by the bar.

The massive secretion of adrenaline made him feel extremely excited, and he hadn't wanted to fight for a long time.

Sabado and Boogaloo prawn exchanged glances, then took off the leather jacket and threw it on the ground, wearing a leather vest he bought from a second-hand flea market and was about to put it on.

"Director, I'm ready!"

"Okay, all departments pay attention, get ready to start!"

Ronald also noticed Sabadell's abnormality. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The main actor is dancing!

With the shot fixed, Ronald said into the DP’s ear, “You just leave the camera still and let them dance and that’s it.”

The director of photography is well-informed, and he has never seen such a real confrontation between acting and acting. He agreed and said to the photography team that if he zoomed, he might not be able to keep up with the improvisation of a few dancers. Simply come to a large panoramic main lens, and capture the whole picture of the wonderful dance.

"A!"

"Yah...ah!"

Sabadell and Boogaloo prawns with wide eyes, they shouted and rushed in front of Falcon and Solomon.

Start to stick to the front of the two opponents and start provocation.

Both hands seemed to touch the electrical socket and kept shaking.

Ronald was very excited when he saw this fake situation. When the two rushed up, Ronald saw Sabado's back.

He quickly covered his mouth and almost laughed again.

Sabado's second-hand clothes from nowhere had three red Chinese characters written on the back. People who didn't understand Chinese at the scene thought it was very interesting, but Ronald, who understood, almost sprayed.

Those three words are Hollywood Cantonese writing, "Ho! Lee! Live!"