Exploiting Hollywood 1980

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"Ronald, it's the role that you asked me to play as an interesting guest. Coppola and the others don't want to give me a few lines. In your movie, I can still go head-to-head with the protagonist and have a lot of fun. You don't know, I played in the past. In acting school, I had Jack Nicholson in my class."

Roger Coleman sits in a dressing room built out of a corner of the Cal State gymnasium, applying makeup.

Ronald asked him to guest-star as a judge for a final dance competition, and he had quite a few lines.

"Oh? Now that you're retired, you can start your career as an actor, and maybe you'll even be nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor." Ronald joked and handed a cigar.

"Ha, this is a good thing, a sign of a successful person." Roger Coleman took the prop, picked up the match, struck it, and then slowly lit it.

Ronald remembered his promise. Every time he made a movie, he would always ask his former boss to make a cameo. This final dance competition also has such a judge, which is just right for Roger Coleman's gentle appearance.

In addition to wearing gold glasses, he speaks in a well-organized manner, and his temperament is more refined. I really don't know how he made so many blood plasma horror movies with the respectful appearance of a university professor.

Roger Coleman put on his makeup and sat behind a table with the actors who acted as judges. The entire set is a bit copied from the "Lightning Dance" layout, but all the sets and props are downgraded by two levels to fit the budget of the exploitative film.

But Roger Coleman clearly liked the tune, and when he lit the cigar again and a puff of smoke came out, Ronald got all the departments to get started.

"A!"

Playing the role of Kelly's jazz dance teacher Franco is Ben Lodge, who is very feminine and bad-looking. He and his team had just finished jumping, retreated from the judges, and headed into the trio of Motor, Cyclone, and Kelly.

Franco saw that they had broken through his own obstruction with the help of his agent, and still came to the competition. He immediately went back to the dance competition and protested against the judge played by Roger Coleman.

"They're street dancers and don't qualify for this dance competition. Do you want them to go to Broadway for musicals and dance those black dances?"

"There is no problem with your qualifications, but the purpose of this dance competition is to select actors for new off-Broadway musicals, you..." Roger Coleman looked at the registration form and found the names of the trio, but He also kindly persuaded them not to waste time.

"Okay, next! Tell me what dance you're doing." The judge, played by Roger Coleman, saw that the trio was left speechless by the accident and thought they wanted to quit.

"The next one is me, Whirlwind!" The whirlwind played by Sabado was finally angry. Why can't blacks and Latinos go to Broadway to perform musicals?

He pulled the suit he was reluctant to put on in order to participate in the dance competition, and he ripped off both sleeves. "What I want to perform is street dance—break dance!"

"Cut!"

Ronald looked up at the director of photography, who said OK. Roger Coleman is always very comfortable playing this type of role.

"Take care of the table here." Ronald called the assistant director, and with the assistants, started to pack up the documents and chores on the table, leaving a lot of space.

"Audio!" Ronald asked the recording department to turn on the tape recorder that played the soundtrack, and "Nothing Can Stop Us" blared through it.

"A!"

The camera shot from the side, with Roger Coleman at the head. The trio began to dance a very rhythmic breakdance. The judges had never seen this kind of dance, and they all beat the beat with their feet in amazement.

Franco was angry, "You promised me that you couldn't let them compete!"

"Get out of the way!" Roger Coleman waved his hand in disgust, telling him to stay away, so as not to hinder himself from watching the trio's dance.

"it is good,

In that case, I quit the game. "Franco thought that forcing the opponent in this way, the dance competition did not have his own dance group to support the scene, the jury kept him, kept him and expelled the Kelly trio.

"Yeah!" The trio quickly ran over from behind, all three jumped on the judge's table at the same time, and then jumped up while standing on the table.

The DP motioned for the coolies to move the camera, move the camera slightly, then a zoom, and the shot was full of Kelly's pantyhose-clad thighs, dancing in front of Roger Coleman.

The yoga clothes with high slits, with the bottom leg warmers, a sexy Jane Fonda dress, Roger Coleman cooperated to make a happy look, and he really looked like a sanctimonious college teacher.

"Cut!"

"Where's the iron arm?" Ronald yelled at the director of photography. "Come on, let him come."

The camera operator, who had strong arms and carried a camera similar to that of a Steadicam, was called over.

"...Do you remember? You can control the speed yourself." Ronald instructed.

"A!"

The trio of Cyclone, Motor, and Kelly, who got the highest score, hugged in the middle of the dance floor.

The iron arm held the camera, shot it from a low angle, and started to turn around the three people.

The effect of shooting in this way is as if the trio is the center of the circle, and the camera is like the eyes of the audience, drawing a circle.

"Cut!" Ronald saw that the iron arm operator was still very tired, and shook his arms again and again, "Ten minutes to rest, let's do it again."

This kind of lens is easy to go wrong, and I don't really feel relieved if I don't shoot a few times. At this time, the advantages of TV cameras are revealed. You can use video tapes to play back at any time. You can see whether the effect is good or not.

Movie cameras don't have this ability, and you have to trust the photographer.

The judges, played by Roger Coleman, presented them with trophies. But after the awards, I told them directly that Broadway could not accept them as protagonists. Maybe in ten years, they would have the opportunity to enter the highest art hall.

The important thing is not to capture Broadway now, but to carry forward the form of breakdancing. America is a commercial society, and as long as someone likes to watch it, there must be greedy businessmen to use it to make money.

After shooting this morning's footage, most people had no other arrangements in the afternoon, but everyone stayed where they were. The news that Michael Jackson was coming was leaked for some reason. All want to stay and meet the hottest singer in America right now.

"MJ!" The crowd suddenly cheered, and a group of people walked in from outside the gym, surrounding the lean black man.

Michael Jackson was still wearing diamond-studded clothes and sunglasses. When he saw Ronald, he took the initiative to hug him.

"I'll introduce to you, this is Boogaloo Prawn, this is Falcon..." Ronald brought him to know the main members of the crew, the most important of which were two highly accomplished breakdance choreographers Dance talent.

MJ first chatted with Boogaloo Prawn and Falcon. The two dancers were so excited that they dragged their jackets and danced their best spacewalking and popular mechanical dance.

Michael Jackson's eyes lit up. His dance steps at the Motown concert had two shortcomings. The first was the step backwards in the spacewalk, which was more powerful than dashing. The second is that the movements of the upper body are not rigid. With the help of two choreographers, wouldn't it be even more exciting?

Michael Jackson nodded to his assistant, who went to discuss cooperation with the two master choreographers.

MJ just spared time to sign autographs for fans at the scene. Dozens of copies were signed one by one, until the assistant came out to announce the end of time.

The group headed to a nearby beach, and Ronald directed the camera to the walking path leading to the dance arena.

MJ came over from there and shot twice in a row for the convenience cut. Then there was a close-up, MJ took off his sunglasses and said to the camera, "You guys dance well, can you do it together?"

"Cut!"

Michael Jackson is a star who often faces the camera, and he plays himself here, so the shooting is not difficult. Just waiting for the editing after the event, let his appearance become the real ending of the movie. Finally, let's hang on to the emotions of the audience.

"Is it that simple?" MJ came over and asked Ronald in a soft voice. "The last time I shot a movie, each shot was rehearsed and shot several times."

"Because you're playing yourself, MJ. You're acting naturally, and you're good at acting," Ronald replied. "I heard you're going to shoot a TV commercial for Pepsi? When will it start?"

"At the end of this month, we are going to shoot abroad, and I also wrote a part of the script." Michael Jackson was very proud of this incident, "I used the Billie Jean single I mentioned last time as the background music."

"That's good." Ronald knew that the trend of adapting popular pop music into movies was very bad. In addition, many record companies entered the film industry and made a lot of money. Many people were thinking of this idea. make a fortune.

"I'm also going to make this Billie Jean single into a screenplay. My agent told me about it. It sounds interesting. Can you help me then? Ronald."

"Of course, I will read the script for you when I have time." Ronald agreed. The song that MJ sang at the Motown Memorial Concert was his first spacewalk breakdance, and Ronald wanted to see what kind of story he would turn the song into.