Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"What movie are we watching?" After everyone finished eating the pizza, they came to a late-night movie theater nearby.

"I heard you did a movie in Los Angeles, what was it called?" Antonia asked.

"You're well-informed. It's called Rock and Roll High School, but it didn't do well at the box office and couldn't be shown in New York."

"Why don't you watch Apocalypse Now, directed by Coppola, they won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in France."

Remembering the news he saw on TV a few days ago, Ronald also wanted to watch the full version without the editing interface again.

"Four Apocalypse Now", Gene got a higher salary for the protagonist and shouted to invite everyone.

"If you don't have this, look at the schedule." The conductor pointed to the schedule on the wall.

It looks like Apocalypse Now hasn't hit theaters in the U.S. yet.

Ronald looked at the schedule.

"Alien" - a sci-fi horror film, this one is suitable for men and women to watch together.

"It's been an hour since the last show." The conductor pointed to the time again.

This kind of commercial film usually starts at 6 o'clock in the afternoon after get off work and before 9 o'clock in the evening, which is convenient for mainstream moviegoers. If it's too late, everyone will go home to sleep.

"What other movies are there?"

"There's an X-rated movie for adults over there." The conductor was a veteran and saw that the two men and two women were on a two-on-two date, and recommended an X-rated movie. It's so late anyway, and inspectors aren't going to work overtime to catch teens watching X-rated movies.

Gene didn't want to look at it. "Anything else?"

"Then there is only this old movie, the Rocky Horror Show. Today is their club's special show. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it."

"Is there a club for a movie?" Ronald was a little puzzled.

"Yeah, they're all crazy and come to the midnight show a lot. It's going to be fun to watch with them for the first time."

"Oh yes? Let's watch this one too." Antonia seemed to have heard of this movie.

"Four tickets." Gene took out the money again and paid the bill first.

"This is a newspaper for you." The conductor handed out four more expired newspapers along with the ticket.

The four looked at each other and shook their heads, "What is this for?" Ronald asked.

"You'll know when you go in."

"Welcome new friends to our Rocky Horror Show Movie Club!" A middle-aged man with a microphone welcomed the four into the screening room. The audience below began to applaud neatly, "Welcome!"

This club has a great atmosphere.

"Hi, hello, hello," Gene was very happy, high-fives with everyone along the way, and found four connected seats to sit down.

Ronald swept left and right, and many viewers wore gothic black eye makeup, and some men dressed as girls. It was a wonderful experience.

After the movie opens, a man and a woman are reversing their car on a rainy night, and suddenly the car seems to have hit something.

The audience in the front row of Ronald suddenly fell backwards collectively. Match the car crash on screen.

"Oops," the protagonist on the screen slapped the seat.

The audience also hit the seats at the same time, making a neat "pop".

"I should have the spare tire fixed."

The audience collectively shouted "Asshole".

Spoiler this guy is a shit.

How come you watch the movie with your own voice acting? Ronald looked around strangely.

Gene and Lucy had a great time, shouting with the club members.

The two main characters on the screen got out of the car and it started to rain.

The audience raised the newspaper in their hands to cover the top of their heads.

Um? There was literally water falling on the face. Ronald has a confused expression on his face, what advanced technology is this, and the cinema can still cooperate with the plot to rain?

Antonia also held up the newspaper, hit Ronald to remind him, and helped him hold it up.

It turned out that someone fired water guns in the aisles on both sides, and some spectators brought their own and took them out to flood the sky.

The two protagonists on the screen entered an old castle, and a host who looked like a vampire came out to receive them.

"Where's your neck?" the audience shouted.

Ronald looked, really, the actor has no neck.

He opened a coffin and used a duster to clean the cobwebs from the bones inside.

"It turned out to be a horror movie," Ronald thought to himself.

Suddenly he began to sing out loud, and he sang the old-fashioned pop songs.

"Is it a musical?"

"One, two, three, four" the audience began to chorus.

The host began to walk up to the stage in front of the screen, and everyone was welcome to come and sing together.

Soon more than a dozen men and women with gothic eye makeup and costumes from the play walked up to the front desk and lined up to sing loudly. The audience below also raised their hands, shaking left and right to cooperate.

Another man in a suit appeared in the movie to teach everyone to dance, "Move the left foot first, then jump to the right foot."

The men and women on the stage began to dance to the music.

"Yo, here we are." Gene took Lucy onto the stage and danced with them.

Hahaha, the audience is laughing backwards and forwards,

"Let's go too," Antonia pulled Ronald up and went on stage.

Ronald followed the rhythm, learned the movements of the club's people, and did some silly dance moves. For a while, he didn't know why, but the whole person became happy.

"Hahaha", the dance ended, Ronald and everyone laughed together.

"It turned out to be an exploitative film."

Hey, Ronald seemed to have remembered something important, and was desperately trying to catch this hint of inspiration.

Antonia dragged him off the stage again and returned to his old seat.

"Today is a big day for our Rocky Horror Movie Club members, Larry and Holly, who are in theaters for the 150th time today—"

The host turns the microphone towards the audience

"Lo-ki-horror-show..."

Another member took out two small cakes with candles with the words 150 inserted on them, which were blown out by the two members.

"Can you watch the same movie 150 times? Antonia?" Ronald felt a little incredible when he heard the 150 viewing records.

"No, but they are not watching movies, they are purely entertaining themselves."

"150 is a big number, and it will take 3 years to see it once a week. Don't they have anywhere else to go?"

"Yes, there are certain neighborhoods in New York where teens have nowhere to go at night. If they tell their parents to go to a bar, then parents should be worried. But going to the cinema with a bunch of old friends to see a bad movie can be reassuring."

"Yeah, they're all teenagers." Ronald looked around again. Under the gothic black eyeshadow, there were actually boys and girls in their teens and twenties.

After the movie ended, Ronald specifically went to the president of the Rocky Horror Show Club, and the host had a chat. Since the film was released in 1975, it has been continuously played at midnight.

This film has a weird style and did not perform well in the first round, but the mixed style and a lot of memes have attracted young audiences in New York, and many theaters continued to show at midnight. This, in turn, led to the trend of watching midnight movies, so it continued to be shown until 1979.

"But we may not be able to watch it here next year." In the end, the club president sighed, "The high school students who grew up with this movie have all graduated this year, and the new generation of young people have their favorite movies again.

The box office began to fall, and the movie theater said that it wanted to replace the Rocky Horror Show with a new movie. We fans, in the end, could only keep one or two movie theaters. "

That gleam of inspiration seemed to be right in front of him, and Ronald stood there, trying hard to catch her.

"Ronald, what are you thinking? Are you thinking about the script again?" Lucy looked at Ronald and asked with admiration.

Inspiration seems to fly away again.

But the script?

Just now, I was dragged by Antonia to the stage to sing and dance, and I was in a low mood, and became very happy. This seems to be written into the plot of the Jewish student Doris. Isn't she lacking a motivation to get rid of her mother who is too much in charge, and bravely sing on stage?

"Yes, you gave me a good inspiration, Lucy, thank you." Ronald thanked Lucy, took out a small notebook and started to jot down his thoughts.

"Really, I'm glad to help you, Ronnie, can I call you Ronnie?"

"You pull it, Lucy," Gene came up from behind and pulled her away, "Antonia is right, you're not Ronald's type."

"Antonia, what are you looking at?" Ronald couldn't help but walk over and asked, watching the Italian girl holding Jean's Polaroid camera and laughing back and forth at the smaller X-rated ticket window.

"Look at this..." Antonia pointed to a poster, "Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter."

In front of you is a small poster titled "Hot Lunch"

Turns out someone actually made an adult film with the black slang term for hot lunch.

"Pfft..." Ronald couldn't help but squirt.

"Look at the director's column...hahaha." Antonia couldn't stand upright with a smile, grabbing Ronald's arm to keep her balance.

"AL Parker...hahahaha", Ronald couldn't help spraying again.

This is directed by Alan Parker. Maybe the "Hot Lunch" project was reported in the media, and an adult film producer found a business opportunity and quickly made a movie to gain popularity?

Ronald shook his head.

"Take one for me too, and I'll keep it." Ronald asked Antonia to take a snapshot of the poster.

I don't know how to calculate this, Ronald intends to report to the producer Da Silva.

"You don't tell them, you'll cause more trouble," Ronald pointed to Gene and Lucy.

"I understand."

"Hey, what are you two laughing at? Are you laughing so happily?" Gene finally noticed that the two were laughing, and ran over from a distance.

"It's nothing, we are laughing at those people just now, and we are acting in the movie off the stage."

Everyone walked out of the theater, ready to go home.

"Where do you live, Antonia? I'll take you."

"Little Italy, my house is right next to me. No need to send it." Antonia declined.

"I took the subway with Lucy, and the lines in Harlem are open 24 hours a day, and your car is not safe."

"Well, that's it. I'm very happy today, thank you." Ronald said goodbye to everyone on the spot.

"What was that inspiration just now?" Ronald thought as he drove. "Midnight show, teen, long-running show."

"Squeak..." Ronald slammed on the brakes, aren't teenagers the target audience for "High School of Rock"? Midnight shows can be long-running screenings, attracting teens in New York. And it just so happens that the movie theaters in New York want to show a new film...