Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 515 Premiere Explosion
May [-]th.

"Breakdance" was screened simultaneously in 69 theaters across the country.Right now is a relatively weak schedule, and there are not many new films. After all, no one wants to be sniped by the follow-up blockbuster "Raiders of the Palace".MGM therefore helped to grab more theaters.

However, it still fell short of Universal's "Sixteen Candles," directed by John Hughes, which took in 240 600 theaters.This medium-sized production with a budget of more than [-] million is more valued in comparison.

Ronald came to a Universal Cinema in West Hollywood.MGM's expectations for "Breakdancing" were not high, and instead of holding a formal premiere, the main creative team came to a big movie theater to watch the movie with thousands of viewers.This was followed by live performances and a question-and-answer session.

Minahan took this very seriously, and specially recruited a few babysitters, just in case no one asked questions.

But as soon as the movie started, Minahan knew he was worrying too much.

The first few breakdancing shots made the audience start to marvel.

Kelly, played by Lucinda Dickey, works as a waiter in a fast food restaurant. After working part-time, she goes to the dance studio run by Franco to practice dancing. , he is willing to let her participate in the dance competition and be his dance partner.

Kelly rejected this kind of power-sex transaction. She and her friend Ayton, who danced together, came to the street dance hall of Venice Beach to watch breakdance for the first time, and the audience began to burst into exclamation.

A bikini beauty flashed in front of the camera, Jean-Claude Van Daan in a black tights did a backflip, and three hip-hop boys danced a floor dance in unison beside him.

The appetizers have already made the audience forget to eat popcorn and stare blankly at the screen.It wasn't until Falcon challenged the motor and the whirlwind for the first time, and the two left with Kelly, that the audience began to regain their thinking ability.

Everyone grabbed the popcorn and ate it together, and gulped down the Coke together.

"Hic..." There was another swallowing sound almost at the same time, interrupting the lines of the movie.

Ronald looked very excited from his seat.Break dance, a dynamic and rhythmic dance, appeared on the big screen for the first time. It has such power that the audience forgets to drink Coke!
Kelly, played by Lucinda Dickey, after seeing breakdancing, invited Ma Da and Cyclone to her jazz dance classroom.Let them also see their jazz dance.Two break-dancing masters didn't appreciate the old jazz dance very much, and they broke-danced.

When her teacher Franco found out that Kelly brought Yeluzi's hip-hop dancers to the dance classroom and incorporated jazz dance movements, he sternly stopped her.

The audience booed again.

Most of the people who come to watch today are teenagers. In their opinion, what should be booed is the old-fashioned jazz dance.Break dancing is the dance they should be dancing and enjoying.

The camera switches to the convenience store where the motor and the whirlwind work, and the motor goes out with a broom and dances a dance of the motor broom.

"boom……"

The whole movie theater seemed to explode.

"What is this?" The audience couldn't believe their eyes, they saw something groundbreaking on the screen.This moonwalk is even more exciting and natural than Michael Jackson's Motown concert.

Then the motor sucked the broom in the air with his hands, as if he was really walking on the moon, and the broom lost the fetters of gravity and danced with him.

The camera then switched to the motor and whirlwind fighting and dancing with people in the basement, and the audience was stimulated again.The confrontational dance is more exciting than the routine of a single person.

Kelly's new manager also persuaded her not to get too involved with street dancers, and it's better to focus on jazz dance.Kelly had a big fight with him, saying that he didn't understand the beauty of hip-hop at all, and asked him not to see it with his own eyes, and not to belittle hip-hop.

In the end, the agent was persuaded by Kelly and went to the basement to watch the dance together.After Kelly joined this time, the trio outperformed Falcon's trio in terms of looks and dance routines.

The agent was shocked by this novel dance, and he tried every means to sign up for the trio, and compete with Franco in Kelly's original dance class for the championship, and the championship reward, to enter the Broadway spot.

The movie entered the midpoint, and the audience began to soothe their emotions, eat popcorn, and prepare to enter the end of the second act.

The agent found a place for them to go to the dance organizer's luncheon.In the garden outside the mansion, the celebrities began to dine.

The two ladies who came to the banquet, seeing Ma Da in a rented suit, thought he was a black waiter, and raised their hands to let him serve.

Angrily, Ma Da brought a plate of cheese and brought it in front of them, "Do you want some pig's head cheese?"

"no, thanks."

Nausea took the two women's motors and found that Cyclone and Kelly's former dance teacher Franco blamed each other again.It turned out that Franco was jealous when he saw Kelly and Cyclone together, saying that their dance was of a low class and could not participate in the elegant jazz competition, threatening to disqualify them.

Cyclone was humiliated and left with Ma Da.

Kelly was also pissed off by Franco, saying that she was in the same class as Whirlwind and Motor, and not in the same class as a dancer like him who flattered these rich ladies.

The agent assured that Franco could not determine their qualifications, and Kelly drove to find them at the motor and cyclone, and went to the dance competition together.

Ma Da teaches the children to break dance at home, while Xuan Feng is alone at the beach, thinking about his thoughts.Kelly found them and tried to convince them to compete together.

Cyclone said that he did not participate in the competition for the sake of winning prizes, but to promote the dance form of break dancing, which is a truly free dance.

The whirlwind pulled Kelly to the beach, and the two watched the shocking dance of the "hand man" who was paralyzed from the lower body.

"How the hell did you dance?"

"He seems to be disabled?"

"Isn't he on crutches? You can see that his lower limbs are different from normal people. It must be polio."

"Then why can he still make this kind of dance moves? I think they are better than the gymnasts in the Sowell League."

The audience no longer cared about the plot and began to discuss loudly.

This dance shocked them too much.If it weren't for the scene of the "hand man" leaning on crutches in front of him, the audience would not believe that he is a disabled person anyway.

Cyclone, Ma Da, and Kelly, the trio participated.Finally, he jumped onto the judges' table and broke danced.

The chief judge, played by Roger Coleman, was smoking a big cigar, nodding and stomping his feet to beat the time happily.

Franco stepped forward to obstruct and asked the judges to disqualify the trio, otherwise he would withdraw from the competition.

Roger Coleman exhaled a big smoke ring, "Then you hurry up, don't block me from watching breakdance."

"Hahaha..." The audience was also amused.The bad guys were invited out of the arena, the trio won the championship, and started holding hands and spinning to celebrate the victory.

The audience's emotions were lifted, and some people started to applaud, celebrating the three leading actors winning the championship and realizing their dreams.

"I'm sorry, it's impossible for your dance form to appear in musicals on Broadway at this stage. Maybe there will be such musicals in 30 or [-] years, and I can give you a chance to appear on TV shows. If you want to enter Broadway, you The most urgent task at the moment is to promote this form of dance. Going on TV to dance and train new dancers is what you should do."

The judge played by Roger Coleman said something to the trio. Although they won the championship, it is impossible to enter Broadway immediately.

After the audience was happy that the trio won the championship, they felt the real problem again.It seems that for the time being they are still focusing on cultivating newcomers and trying to get on TV shows.

The trio began to teach children to dance by the beach, and a man in a leather jacket and pants studded with diamonds approached, "You dance very well, can you dance together?"

"It's MJ!"

"No wonder he can spacewalk, it turned out that Ma Da taught him."

This real ending suddenly raised the audience's emotions.

The movie freezes on MJ and Ma Da, Cyclone, and Kelly breakdancing together.

After the electronic sound of "Biu Biu Biu", a red background appeared on the screen, and the white subtitles read:

"Stay tuned, Breakdance sequel - Electro Boogaloo"

Then the subtitles started to rise, and Ronald watched carefully, including the main extras such as "Hand Man", and the staff of the crew, all subtitled.

Finally, "Special thanks - Michael Jackson."

At the same time, the audience began to give standing ovations and loud chants, asking the three main actors to come out and perform live break dancing.

Minahan tried to go on stage to maintain order, but was hugged by the enthusiastic audience, dragging him away, and two teenage girls kissed him in the face several times.

There is no way, Boogaloo Prawns, Sabado, and Lucinda Dicky had to go on stage and perform live breakdancing to Ice T's rap music.

Every movement of the three leading actors drew cheers from the audience below, and some people followed suit on the spot.

It was not until Shabadu and Bugaloo Prawns performed a backspin and a headspin respectively, and then they appeared together, leaving the middle field.Lucinda Dickey, wearing a headband and leg warmers, landed a front somersault and began a backspin as well.

"Aw, ow..." The audience was completely boiling, and they rushed up to hold the stage, not letting them go.

In desperation, Minahan rushed out to call the police. The police arrived 10 minutes later and pulled up a human wall, allowing the three leading actors to retreat from the enthusiastic audience to the waiting room.

"In the future, such things should come to the office to report earlier." The senior detective who led the team told Minahan how to deal with the premiere with big stars.

"I don't know...how do I know...the audience is so enthusiastic, the audience is crazy." Minahan was so tired that he was sweating profusely, and took out a handkerchief to wipe it frequently.

"Which star did your movie invite?" The inspector asked, such enthusiasm can only be seen at the premiere starring a big star, but today the audience is also a little wild.

"It's the three of them." Ronald stepped forward and pointed to the three leading actors, "They are the stars of tonight."

"Motor... Tornado...Kelly..."

The audience outside the door still refused to leave, because they didn't know who the actor was, so they could only repeat and shout the name of the character.

"You three stars, you'd better go out and meet their demands and sign them, otherwise they won't leave tonight." The inspector has rich experience and knows that such an enthusiastic audience is hard to dismiss.

The three leading actors looked at each other, and became famous?

The three of them hadn't practiced signing at all, so they took the signature pens given by the movie theater, and the three of them walked out.

"Ah, ouch..."

The crowd began to commotion again, and the inspector repeatedly yelled at them many times to line up.Only then did they line up a few rows, waiting for autographs.

The three leading actors patiently signed for the audience for more than half an hour.

Minahan called the van, and the three squeezed out, got into the van and ran away.

The movie theater was delayed for a long time by various enthusiasms, and the second "break dance" was delayed.They heard the movement inside the first game outside, and they were all very excited, urging them to enter the arena.Even the necessary cleaning time was compressed to the shortest possible time. When the ground was still being cleaned inside, the spectators broke through the ticket gates and entered the arena to find their seats.

Ronald did not expect that this "Breakdance" which he filmed casually and cost less than 100 million US dollars could cause such a response. He was so excited that he didn't know what to do.Looking at the ticket office, there are still many spectators of the first game, waiting to buy tickets for the third game.

Ronald also leaned over and saw that there was also a new movie, "Sixteen Candles", which was released at the same time tonight.The staff at the counter over there were also transferred to open two rows to handle the ticket sales of "Breakdance".

Ronald, who opened his mouth wide, looked at the crazy scene, and he was also baffled.

He drove to another movie theater to check on the situation.

Although it was not as popular as the premiere theater where the actors were seen, the box office of Breakdance obviously began to explode from the second show, which surpassed that of the next movie "Ten Movies", which Universal put great efforts in marketing and put posters and posters everywhere. Six candles".

There are also a lot of old movies that have been released for a few weeks, and they are also beaten by break dancing.The cinema has already begun to make temporary adjustments, vacating the hall to show the third break dance, hoping to sell more tickets.

"My god, why are you so crazy?" Ronald looked at all this, and he didn't know what happened.

(End of this chapter)