Exploiting Hollywood 1980

“A!”

Ronald called for a restart.

The camera once again scanned the backs of the two male protagonists, Tornado and Motor. The audience was intoxicated by the wonderful dance and danced to the rhythm. Slowly zooming in, the hairy man in a black spandex bodysuit did not steal the spotlight again, but cooperated with the dance, leaning his shoulders one by one, and dancing funny steps.

“It’s really ugly, but it’s OK,” Ronald nodded with satisfaction.

The actor seemed to be encouraged, and excitedly did a backflip and landed steadily on the ground.

“He is smart. It’s not a foul to steal the spotlight like this, and the audience likes to watch it”, Ronald pretended not to see it.

“Cut!”

Ronald called a halt to the filming.

Director of Photography Hanania shouted, "

The crew was rushed to the scene and didn't have time to line up and rent the Steadicam camera stabilizer. So they chose a shoulder-mounted shooting method.

"Everyone take a break, the next one will be in 20 minutes," the assistant director shouted with a loudspeaker.

Ronald put on sunglasses, returned to the chair marked with his name, poured a cup of black tea from the thermos, and sipped it slowly.

"Director," someone called him.

Ronald looked up and saw that it was the French actor Jean Claude.

"What's the matter?"

"I want to ask, do you think I can be a leading actor in Hollywood? I just arrived in your country not long ago, and I want to find a job as an actor in Hollywood."

"Where are you from? French?" Ronald was happy to chat with this clever actor who wanted to show himself. To succeed in Hollywood, a strong will and the ambition to always stand out are indispensable.

"Uh... Actually, I'm Belgian. I have practiced karate, judo, and won the European Karate Championship. I have practiced full-contact karate, and my record is 18 wins and 1 loss..."

"In Hollywood, being able to fight doesn't guarantee you a starring role," Ronald interrupted his self-introduction, and then took a sip of tea slowly, "You also have to fight well. If you can fight well, you can only be a stand-in, but if you fight well, you can be the protagonist."

"I can fight well, look at this move of mine," Jean-Claude heard that Ronald was willing to communicate with him, and showed the trick he had prepared long ago.

"Don't move, director," Jean-Claude suddenly kicked, letting his toes pass over Ronald's nose, and his upper body did not move during the whole process, and he landed steadily.

"Fuxk! You used the shadowless kick to sneak attack!"

Ronald was shocked, he put down the red tea that had scalded his hand, and then shook his hand, "Fuck you, never, ever... don't use this trick in front of me."

"Sorry, director. "Jean Claude quickly apologized, "Do you think my skills can make it in Hollywood?"

"I can, but you still need to take acting lessons. If you have skills, you can work in a karate club and earn money while taking acting classes."

"Okay, thank you, director! My full name is Jean-Claude Van Dam." Don't forget me if you have a role. "Michel, Michel, the director told us how to enter Hollywood."

Ronald shook his head. The competition in Hollywood is very fierce. Can you become famous just by acting and having skills? It's not that simple.

But Jean Claude's level is still good. If he was in "The Karate Kid", he would definitely play a top four player or something, and he would also look good in fighting.

The second close-up shoulder-mounted shooting was completed quickly. The camera operator named Bob was very burly and there was no shaking when he carried the camera on his shoulder. Ronald was very happy.

"Go on," Ronald led everyone to applaud a few times, then picked up the electric speaker and shouted, "We don't have time to waste, move, move, move, move! "

The third scene was Kelly played by Lucinda Dickey, who was introduced to Tornado played by Sabado by her friend Eton. Tornado had a crush on Kelly and pulled her off the stage to breakdance with him. This aroused the jealousy of the dancers played by Falcon and Solomon next to him.

They were both dissatisfied with Tornado dominating the most beautiful dancer Kelly, so the Latino dancer played by Falcon stepped forward and challenged Tornado to a duel.

Falcon, the strongest one is the robot dance (Poppg), his rhythm and rhythm are very harmonious, compared with other people's robot dance, it is more agile, and the whole body has a rhythm.

This is also He was the kind of master that casting director Pamela said, who had brought a dance to the level of art. Such a master was invited by Ronald to play a supporting role at a very low price, just because breakdancing has a low social status in the whole of America.

Falcon's dance battle was very interesting. From the beginning of the invitation, he didn't say a word, but only used body language and provocative eyes to insult Tornado.

Tornado's robot dance was actually not as good as his. In order to prevent himself from making a fool of himself in front of Kelly, he pretended to sneer with disdain, and then took Mada and Kelly away. Mada, who had been urging him to take on the challenge, was very disappointed.

"Cut!"

After the filming, Ronald took the lead in applauding, and he called his assistant, "Go and ask Minahan to come over."

"What's the matter?" The fat Minahan kept staring at the crew. He hoped that this movie would help him turn things around. So he personally watched all the supplies and talents. His personality was quite capable of supervising such things, and he was a very competent production director.

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"The dance you just performed was world-class," Ronald said softly to Minahan. "Today, together with the shot of the hand man behind you, we developed a working copy as soon as possible. We shot and cut out at the same time. A trailer, or you can send it to some cable TV stations and let them play it for free, which is very good marketing.”

"So good?" Minahan didn't believe it when he heard that it was world-class. He stayed to feast his eyes on it.

"Quick, quick, let's move to the venue by the beach." Ronald began to mobilize the crew's technicians to move various equipment to another terrazzo venue suitable for hip-hop.

This place is closer to the beach than the roadside venue just now. This scene was a jump shot. Exploitation films don’t have the luxury to shoot in script order, so Ronald asked his assistant to try to arrange the scenes shot in one place together as much as possible.

Soon the new scene was built under Minahan’s urging and supervision and the crew’s concerted efforts.

"A!" The camera focused on a concrete path from the beach. Tornado, played by Sabado, pulled Kelly by one hand and walked into the venue from the road.

This plot occurs two-thirds of the way through the movie. Kelly, played by Lucinda, is harassed by her former jazz dance coach, who asks her to fall in love with him, otherwise she will not be recommended to participate in the dance competition.

As expected, Xuanfeng and Ma Da were tricked by the white coach and refused to participate in the dance competition. Tornado saw Kelly lost her mind and dragged her to watch the dance performance.

There is a young man here who has disabled both feet due to polio, but he still breaks dances and is the number one in this street dance venue.

"Cut!"

After Ronald stopped, his lips curled up slightly, revealing his mood.

Sabado said he would not forgive Lucinda, but in his heart he wanted the white beauty Lucinda to be nice to him. Lucinda was often picked on, made fun of, and disliked by Sabado. It was just because Sabado was the designated male protagonist that he had to pretend to admire him.

This is very close to the vague relationship between Tornado and Kelly in the movie plot. The two people's dissatisfaction with each other, shown on the film, is actually very similar to the sexual antagonism between young men and women.

Some so-called happy enemies torture each other and like each other at the same time.

"Cut!"

The camera was relocated to the venue and Handyan Eddie Rodriguez walked in on crutches.

"Eddie, show them how awesome you are." Ronald patted him on the shoulder.

Hand Man Eddie is not nervous about making movies. Dancing is his favorite thing. Because of his disability, he is good at floor dancing (Breakg).

"A!"

The hand man put on the hood of the off-road jacket and zipped it up. He used crutches to lean on the ground, used the crutches to perform a full Thomas rotation, and then climbed the pommel horse and a series of gymnastic pommel horse movements. Make the final handstand and start spinning like walking on stilts with your hands.

Kelly, played by Lucinda Dickey, is excited to watch him let loose and be confident, unaffected by his physical disability.

She began to gradually put aside the worries of not being able to participate in the dance competition.

"Cut!" Ronald stopped. Lucinda Dickey's performance was very layered. This had something to do with her having practiced gymnastics. Seeing the movements of the hand man, she knew how difficult it would be to do these movements with both hands. . Therefore, I admire my rival man very much.

Then the camera moved closer, and Ronald looked through the viewfinder, which just covered the terrazzo-floored dance venue.

He walked to Hand Man's side and said, "

"A!"

Handman Eddie Rodriguez nodded and walked to the center of the field, with a happy smile on his face. He suddenly let go of his hands and the two crutches fell to the ground.

He fell to the ground, took a ready position, exerted force with both hands, and began to spin from slow to fast.

First with the hands as the center of the circle, then the back, then the shoulders, then the head, a handstand, with the legs being thrown up and spinning like helicopter blades.

"Look at him, look at how well he dances." Tornado, played by Sabado, pretended to teach Kelly a lesson. "Have you seen this kid? He is still dancing, Kelly. Dancing is to please yourself and yourself. audience."

Kelly had a heavy expression on her face, as if she was dissatisfied with her retreat. Then she was gradually infected by the hand man's dance and began to smile.

The camera zoomed to the far end. In the audience was a curly-haired girl wearing a silver bikini, wearing a pair of sunglasses and dancing to the rhythm, occupying a large part of the view frame.

"Cut!"

Ronald still remembers Roger Corman’s teachings: when the plot is a bit preachy, the audience’s eyes need to be treated to some ice cream.

Soon, the reaction shots of other people and the conversation shots between Kelly and Tornado were also filmed. Ronald watched as the director of photography directed the film to be removed.

"That's it for today, everyone come to me to get tomorrow's shooting schedule." The assistant director began to distribute personal schedules in the sunset.

"Minahan, hurry up and develop it. I can get a section in the editing car tomorrow."

"Really? I'll personally escort him to the lab. We'll get it tomorrow morning." Minahan now admires Ronald's shooting ability very much. He doesn't use much force and can get very good results when he just shoots. It seems like Put the camera there and say to the actors, just dance.