Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 498
The filming continued, and Minahan was in a very happy mood. His main task now was to lead everyone to applaud and shout slogans during the filming breaks on the set.

"Defeat the Hot Street Boys! Early release! Cannon go, go!"

The more Ronald looked at Minahan, the more he looked like the Japanese veteran Master Miyagi in "The Dragon's Mighty Kid", and he was dazzled.But for the sake of improving his morale and speeding up his movements, he didn't care about it.

The crew came to the basement where the filming of the fighting dance was prepared. The art director led the set and props team to work here for a whole day, and all the sets were finished.

A very simple basement, dressed up by them to look like hip-hop.A fake wooden wall is covered in various graffiti.All kinds of odd-shaped letters are filled with bright colors.

In this way, the method of replacing the real wall with a false wall is very fast when dismantling the set.

Ronald saw a lot of group performances, all of which were soul train shows, filled in by students from Kazuo.Each of them can dance hip-hop. When fighting dances, some will be on stage, some will be in the background, and some will come out to express their feelings by themselves. They have all been selected.

At one end of the basement, there is a table with an old-fashioned record player on it, followed by two large speakers.A ferocious-looking man in 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.Nicknamed Ice T, his records only have accompaniment and no melody.The lyrics were improvised, "You all come to watch, to feel the shock of rock and roll. So, on a special night, you let me come, this special party, for all the break dancers..."

Ronald was amazed at his ability to improvise and had a chat with him.

It turned out that this light-skinned DJ turned out to be black.No matter how many mixed races there are in America, as long as there is one black person, it is counted as black.

When he was in elementary school, he was mistaken for a light-skinned white Latino by his white classmates. When his classmates abused blacks wantonly in front of him, he felt the full malice of whites towards people of color.

Ice T later lost his parents and has been fooling around.It was not until 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, only rhythm and lyrics, and every lyric must rhyme.The record company gave this music form a name "Rapping".

Beginning in [-], the music gradually entered the mainstream music, and for the first time, it appeared in the top [-] of the Billboard chart.

Ice T's current album has not been released yet, so 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.

Breakdancing dancers especially like to use rap music accompaniment, because their rhythm is particularly clear without interference from the melody, which is especially suitable for dancers' improvisation.

"I said, which one are you on, buddy?" Ice T was acquainted, and soon became friends with Ronald.

"What do you mean?"

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

"I don't know, what's the difference?" Ronald was curious.

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

Ronald quickly asked for advice. It turned out that break dancing and other street dance forms were created by black people in the early 70s.And it quickly became popular and had a great influence. The "Soul Train" program that specializes in breaking dances was also born on TV stations.

But as time went to the end of the 70s, this dance form quickly lost popularity among black people, and the "Soul Train" program was almost canceled by the TV station.

Unexpectedly, for some reason, this kind of dance has gradually become popular among Latinos.The children from Puerto Rico quickly picked it up and injected new vitality and creativity into it.

Today, hip-hop has been split into two genres.The east coast is dominated by blacks, insisting on the relationship between this dance and the black liberation and affirmative action movement.And developed by Latinos on the west coast, they pay more attention to the expression of dance itself and technical innovation.

Needless to say, the "crazy legs" that Ronald knew belonged to the die-hard East Coast school.But Boogaloo prawns and people like Sabah are more typical West Coast pies.

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

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

"Director, you are here, let's take a look at our filming." The director of photography asked Ronald to help.

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

Ronald was thinking about another thing. His "Breakdance" mainly used hip-hop elites from the West Coast to perform, 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 determine who can dominate the hip-hop in the future between the east and west coasts.It depends on whether it is Cannon or Orion, which can be released first and achieve better box office results.

"Action!"

Ice T pulled himself together and showed [-]% of his abilities.Both hands kept spinning the record, making a creaking, creaking sound.

"Yo, then,
The feeling of love is indulged,
The body yearns for freedom..."

Under the repeated rhythm of "Dong Da Da Da... Dong Da Da Da", Ronald felt that it was very conducive to the performance of break dancing.

Ma Da and Xuanfeng stood on the side, posing as a big break dancer, holding their chests, and let some young people show first.

One person starts to dance on the floor, holding the ground with one hand in turn.

Another robot danced in a different way. He seemed to be wiping the glass with his hands, grasping the non-existent glass, and walking step by step.

"Puchi..." Ronald spat out.

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

"It's okay, it's okay, my problem." Ronald saw the glass-wiping dance and the stair-climbing dance again, but the dancer didn't have any strength at all, and looked like a beginner.

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

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

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

Personal guidance,

Let's see this white guy,
You can't teach you how to..."

Ronald got ready to move, and said to the group of speakers, "Look at it, I'll just demonstrate it once."

He raised his hands up, clinging to the imaginary glass, and then exerted force with both hands to drive his whole body, and finally exerted force with both legs, and moved across it.

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

"Hey, man. You can? How did you come up with that?"

Boogaloo prawn rushed over. He was most obsessed with the innovation of movements, and he admired Ronald's improvement of this move very much.

The other two actors who played rivals, Falcon and Solomon, were also very pleasantly surprised. No one has tried this kind of jumping method.

"When I was chatting with MJ, I mentioned it." Ronald smiled slightly, and returned to the back of the camera, "We will continue."

Everyone looked at Ronald in amazement, but they didn't expect the director to be a breakdancing master too!
Minahan was even more surprised and speechless, "Lucky! Lucky! I actually found a director who is a master of breakdancing. If I don't beat Orion's 'Hot Street Kid', it will be unreasonable."

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

Minahan started to encourage everyone to shout slogans again.

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

The camera pointed at the motor and the whirlwind, and then slowly scanned half a circle, and captured two opponents who were fighting dances.On both sides, the four people put their feet up and confronted each other for a long time. When the momentum was about to explode, one of them suddenly moved.

First came the Latino Falcon, who seemed to be bony and boneless, doing a kind of combined version of robot dance and noodle dance.Ronald is a master at first glance, if he doesn't show his housekeeping skills, won't everyone look down upon him!

Then the black Solomon also came off the field, and the two cooperated tacitly, shaking like a big cornfield in the south-central region, a machine that automatically screens out weeds after harvest.During the whole dance, the two men stared fiercely at Whirlwind, and walked around beside him, full of provocation.

As a last resort, Xuanfeng stayed away from the two of them, lit a cigarette, and pretended that I am older than you and you are ahead.In fact, there is no bottom in my heart.

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

"Cut!"

The few dancers who stopped filming have not withdrawn from the emotions of the characters.The way Ronald danced seemed to give the entire cast a boost.Falcon and Solomon did not follow the choreography, but increased the size on their own.

This makes Sabah very nervous, he is not good at the completion of movements.In "Soul Train", he is more inclined to the role of a blender. He invented and borrowed many other dance movements, and innovatively added them to breakdancing, but in terms of dancing well, he is really not as good as the other two.

Shabadu's smoking hands trembled a little nervously, and he was hit by the bar.

A large amount of adrenaline was secreted, which made him feel extremely excited. It had been a long time since he wanted to fight like this.

Shabadu and Bugaloo Prawn exchanged a look, then took off the leather jacket and threw it on the ground, and was about to put on a leather vest that he bought from a second-hand flea market.

"Director, I'm ready!"

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

Ronald also noticed that Shabadu was abnormal. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the leading actor jumped up!
After the camera was fixed, Ronald said into the ear of the director of photography, "You just need to keep the camera still and let them dance."

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

"Action!"

"Yeah... ah!"

Shabadu and Bugaloo prawns stared wide-eyed, shouted, and rushed in front of Falcon and Solomon.

Start sticking to the front of the two opponents and start provoking.

Both hands seemed to be pressing on the electric socket, and they kept shaking.

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

He quickly covered his mouth, almost laughing again.

Sabado's second-hand clothes came from nowhere, and there were three red Chinese characters written on the back. People who didn't understand Chinese at the scene thought it was very interesting. Only Ronald, who could understand, almost sprayed.

Those three words are Hollywood's Cantonese way of writing, "Ho! Lee! Live!"

(End of this chapter)