Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Pittsburgh is in Pennsylvania. Looking down from the plane, Ronald felt familiar with the delta in the center of the city between two rivers.

After he agreed to serve as an associate producer for the "Flashdance" crew, Don Simpson immediately gave him a plane ticket. He boarded the plane and flew to Pittsburgh, the location of the filming, before he had time to read the script.

"At the mouth of the Ohio River, you can sail along it to Cleveland, Ohio. If you go north across Lake Erie, you will reach Detroit, the automobile manufacturing center..." When Ronald was about to reach his destination, he woke up from his sleep and picked up the Pittsburgh travel guide on the plane to read it.

This was once the location of the Carnegie Steel Plant of steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, which once monopolized more than half of the country's steel production. Until now, there are still many steel plants in Pittsburgh. And Carnegie Mellon University, which he donated to establish after his death.

In addition to Carnegie, Pittsburgh also produced power companies Westinghouse and Heinz Foods, which manufacture all kinds of products for Americans' food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The crew stayed at Forbes Street, and Ronald went out of the hotel alone to walk around. There was a slightly acidic smell in the air exhaled by the industrial city, and the color of the sunset was dyed particularly red by the exhaust gas.

The temperature in Pittsburgh in October was a bit low in the evening, and Ronald soon felt a bit cold and returned to the hotel.

A group of beauties in the hotel lobby were chattering about where to have fun. Ronald looked at them, and his young body was a little eager to move.

"Hi, Ronald."

The two beauties in the lead greeted him. At the airport, the producer had announced Ronald's identity as an associate producer to the crew, and these actresses knew him.

"Hi, Cynthia, Sunny."

Ronald had a good impression of the dancing beauties. These were colleagues of the protagonist Alex, and dancers dancing in the bar.

Sunny Johnson had been hanging around in Hollywood and played many supporting roles. Cynthia Rhodes was a professional dancer from the South. The actual age of the two was over 25, but the dance training made them look very young.

This was the first time they got a supporting role with many scenes. They were accompanied by a beautiful Chinese girl who spoke poor English and was also a dancer, Marin Jahan. She would be a dance stand-in for Jennifer Beals in the movie.

Ronald invited the three of them to have a drink at the hotel bar. The decoration of the bar in Pittsburgh was very hard, and the guests inside were also dressed very hard, with big and exaggerated hairstyles, high shoulder pads, and the only woman was also dressed very masculine.

"You have been rehearsing in Los Angeles for a long time, right?" Ronald ordered a few cocktails and motioned the three beauties to help themselves.

"No, we didn't rehearse after signing the contract with the crew, and came to Pittsburgh."

Ronald frowned slightly. This was a medium-sized project with a $7 million investment from Paramount, and it was not a small production that he shot himself. How could there be no rehearsal?

"Ronald, what does your associate producer do?" Cynthia Rhodes, a girl from the south, was still relatively innocent, and asked directly if she had any questions.

"To serve you."

"Hahaha..." The two beauties laughed together, only the hairy girl Ma Lin didn't understand.

Ronald returned to the room and quickly took out the script to read.

There was no rehearsal, the director was changed before filming, and the heroine was not determined. All signs seemed to indicate that there was a big problem with this movie. When I was in Los Angeles, I thought I was just working casually to earn some extra money, but I must not fall into the trap.

The script of "Flashdance" said that it was adapted from the real experience of Maureen Mader, a female construction worker in Toronto, Canada. This writing method shows that the producer paid the adaptation fee for the prototype character, otherwise, the film based on the adaptation of the real character is equivalent to an open invitation to the other party to sue.

The plot is very simple. Alex, a girl who works as a welder in a steel plant in Pittsburgh, dances striptease in a bar at night to make money. She dreams of one day entering a ballet school and learning dance. Her friend, the bartender Jenny, wants to be a figure skater.

One day, Nick, the boss of her factory, walked into the bar where she danced and was attracted to her. Nick got Alex an interview opportunity for the ballet school. Alex was very unhappy to see Nick and another blonde beauty in the same car.

Finally, the misunderstanding was solved. It was Nick's ex-wife. Encouraged by his retired ballet dancer neighbor and good friend Jenny, Alex was finally admitted to the ballet school.

As director Adrian Ryan said, the script was a bit dull. It was a bit unqualified as a feature film story.

"Was it a deliberate project for Don Simpson? So that he could leave because of the box office failure?" Ronald began to speculate about Paramount's intentions.

Big studios often make some incredible bad movies, which are inevitably influenced by the struggles of the top leaders.

"But it's none of my business. I just have to do my job well. An insignificant associate producer's signature will not have much impact on my reputation. If it doesn't work, let the agency find a way to withdraw my signature."

Ronald threw the script aside, took a shower, warmed his body, and went to bed.

"First, when there is nothing...

But a slowly glowing dream

Your fear seems to be hidden

In the depths of your soul

I heard the music...

Close my eyes and feel the rhythm

Entwined, grabbing my heart

Valley\u003c/span\u003eWhat a wonderful feeling

To exist is to believe

I could have it all and now I'm dancing for my life! "

A beautiful woman's singing sounded, and Ronald guessed that he was dreaming again.

The image jumped out of the darkness. A girl wore a hat with two large ear protectors in the morning light, riding a bicycle through the streets of Pittsburgh, and finally rode on a bridge. The rising sun in the background is red, shrouded in a haze, trying hard to shine.

"It's this kind of opening shot that quickly explains the background of the story." Ronald thought to himself that he had to learn this opening method carefully. One look at this smog showed that it was an industrial city. Pittsburgh's iconic Carnegie Mellon University then appears in the background.

This song is also very nice. It seems to be sung by a black singer and has that special black vocal method.

The scene turned to a dark factory. The water vapor in the background was hazy. A female worker was welding the workpiece. The name Alex was written on the welding mask. she put

"It's really Lightning Dance. This character appears with great momentum. In one song and a few shots, the protagonist Alex's living environment, work content, and beauty are clearly explained."

In the cold room temperature, Ronald felt comfortable in bed, so he wrapped himself in a quilt. This movie was well shot, and it was by no means a coping work as he had just guessed.

The scene seemed to have advanced a lot. On a stage with a black background, a woman wearing male clothing danced on the stage. Against a black background and dim lighting, only the silhouette of a dancer appears.

The dancer faced a chair and picked out various seductive dance moves. A shot cuts to a close-up of the dancer's face, Jennifer Beals seductively wearing glittery makeup.

"Wow..."

She took off her coat, danced a sexy dance, and finally pulled the rope, and a basin of water poured down on her.

The wet scene was replayed in slow motion, and then she started dancing wildly, shaking the water out of her hair.

"Ah, these shots are really beautiful and the rhythm is very good. Director Ryan really knows how to capture the beauty of women." Ronald was amazed.

However, the editing was a bit fast, and Ronald didn't see a few dance moves, nor did he see the camera's full face of Jennifer Beals.

"It's not like they're all stand-ins, right?"

The screen fast-forwarded for a long time, and two dances between the two heroines I saw in the bar today appeared on the screen. Cynthia Rhodes danced a dance in a bar. This time the editing took more care of her panorama and close-ups. It was very obvious that Cynthia danced it herself.

"The expressiveness of this dance is very good, but the makeup is too bad, making Cynthia, a beautiful woman, look so ugly." Ronald thought for a while, "Maybe it is to set off the protagonist, otherwise this wonderful dance will steal the show. ”

Sunny Johnson also had a lot of shots, but instead of dancing in a bar, she did a double jump on the ice to the music. A spotlight shines on her body, gliding on the ice to the music, which is also very beautiful.

"Ah..." Jenny, played by Sunny, couldn't stand still and sat down on the ground.

"This is too hard. In order to set off the protagonist, all the supporting actors are not given a good dance scene." Ronald continued to look at the scene in a daze.

The scene moved to the street again. Alex and Jenny were blocked by two break dancers on the road. They began to dance the moonwalk that Ronald was familiar with, and the "helicopter" while lying on the ground and spinning on the back. action.

"This level is not bad, the moonwalk is better than mine." Ronald thought to himself, tightening the quilt again.

The warm quilt made him sleep comfortably.

"ah……"

Ronald was woken up by another exclamation. The picture seemed to be Alex. She was wearing a black high-slit training suit and seemed to be lying on the ground by mistake. She was taking a dance exam in a large room with four judges sitting on one side of the room.

"Can I start over?" Close-up of Jennifer Beals, getting permission from the referee to reset the record player's probe to the starting position.

Warm sunlight filtered through the bright large glass windows, and Alex began to dance to his heart's content.

It was the nice song that opened the show, Alex danced to the rhythm.

"It seems like a stand-in again?" Ronald felt that a stand-in was also used in the filming of this solo dance. The actor's hair was deliberately hung down in front of his forehead, and he danced in front of the four judges. The intense dance rhythm made it difficult for people to see the actor's face clearly.

Then Alex landed on one foot and started spinning.

"Definitely not Jennifer Beals, she couldn't even turn a circle when she auditioned."

"oh……"

Alex in the picture started to use the break dance moves that people on the street had just done. She also lay on the ground, landed on her back, hooked her feet, and began to spin quickly.

"Is this stand-in Ma Lin so good? Can she, a native of China, also know these black dance moves?"

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