Exploiting Hollywood 1980

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 breaks in the filming.

"Defeat the hot street kid! Release in advance! Cannon forward, forward!"

The more Ronald looked at Minahan, the more he looked like the Japanese veteran Miyagi in "The Karate Kid". He was mad. But seeing that he could boost morale and speed up the action, he didn't care.

The crew came to the basement where the dance battle was prepared. The art director worked here with the set and props team for a whole day and made all the sets.

A very simple basement was dressed up by them to look like a street dance. A fake wall made of wood was covered with various graffiti. All kinds of strange letters were filled with bright colors.

This method of using fake walls instead of real walls made it very fast to dismantle the sets.

Ronald saw a lot of extras, all of whom were students from the Soul Train program and the hand man. Each of them can dance hip-hop. When they dance, some will be the background dancers, some will be the background dancers, and some will dance to express their feelings. They have all been selected.

At one end of the basement, there is a table with a teacher's record player and two big speakers. A man with a baseball cap and a fierce look is repeatedly turning the record and making a sound to stop the dance.

This is a DJ that Minahan found through the Soul Train program. His nickname is ibsp; t. There is only accompaniment in his record, no melody. The lyrics are improvised, "You all come together to watch, to feel the shock of rock and roll. So, on this special night, you let me come, this special party, for all breakdancers..."

Ronald was amazed at his ability to improvise and chatted with him.

It turned out that this light-skinned DJ was actually black. No matter how many mixed-race people there are in America, as long as there is one black person, they are considered black.

When he was in elementary school, he was mistaken by his white classmates as a light-skinned Latino. When his classmates abused black people, he felt the full malice of white people towards people of color.

ibsp; tLater, he lost his parents and had been hanging around. Until recently, he was noticed by a record company and was asked to release a special album.

The songs in this album have no melody, only rhythm and lyrics, and each line of lyrics is not allowed to rhyme. The record company gave this form of music a name "rap (rappg)".

Starting in 1981, this kind of music gradually entered the mainstream music and was listed in the top 100 hot singles of the Billboard chart for the first time.

ibsp; tThe current album has not been released yet, and I don't know if it will be popular. However, his ability to deal with this kind of dance battle is still small.

Breakdancers especially like to use rap music as accompaniment, because their rhythm is particularly distinctive and there is no interference from melody, which is particularly suitable for dancers' improvisation.

"I say, which side are you from, buddy?" Ibsp;t is very outgoing and quickly became close to 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 dance forms. Since you don't know which side you belong to, it's the West Coast."

Ronald hurriedly asked for advice. It turned out that breakdancing and other street dance forms were created by black people in the early 1970s. And it quickly became popular and had a great influence. The TV station also gave birth to "Soul Train", a program that specializes in breaking dance.

But as time went on to the end of the 1970s, this dance form quickly lost its popularity among black people, and the "Soul Train" program was almost cancelled by the TV station.

Who knew that there would be a ray of hope. For some reason, this dance gradually became popular among Latinos. The children from Puerto Rico quickly picked it up and injected new vitality and creativity into it.

Today, street dance has split into two major schools. The East Coast is dominated by blacks, who insist on the relationship between this dance and the black liberation and equal rights movement. On the West Coast, it was developed by Latinos, who paid more attention to the expression of the dance itself and technical innovation.

Needless to say, the "crazy legs" that Ronald knew belonged to the die-hard East Coast faction. And people like Buffalo Shrimp and Sabado are more typical West Coast factions.

The two always argue about originality and authenticity, which is also a major reason why this dance has not become popular in other parts of the country.

Of course, the whole trend is evolving in a favorable direction for the West Coast genre. In the past five years, Latinos on the West Coast have gradually taken over the banner of blacks and have begun to become the main new dancers and new fans of breakdancing.

"Director, you are here, come and see our framing", the photographer knew to find Ronald to be busy.

"Oh, shxt! This white boy is actually the director!" Ibsp;t is a little regretful that he didn't show himself more in front of him, and he will have to make up some good words later.

Ronald was thinking about another thing. His "Breakdance" was mainly performed by street dance elites from the West Coast, while the "Hot Street Kids" invested by Orion used all East Coast dance troupes.

From this point of view, these two movies are likely to determine who of the two factions on the east and west coasts will dominate hip-hop in the future. It just depends on whether Cannon or Orion can be released first and achieve better box office results.

"a!"

ibsp;tPulse yourself and show your 100% ability. His hands kept spinning the record, making a squeaking sound.

"Oh, then,

The feeling of love is indulgent,

The body longs for freedom..."

Under the repetitive 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 edge, posing like break dancing masters, hugging their brothers and letting some minions show off first.

One person started to dance on the floor, taking turns holding one hand on the floor.

Another danced an alternative robot dance. He seemed to be cleaning the glass with his hands, grabbing the non-existent glass and walking step by step.

"Pfft..." Ronald spat out.

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

"It's okay, it's okay, my problem." Ronald saw the glass cleaning dance and the stair climbing dance again, but the dancer did not dance with any strength and looked like a beginner. Gu Liao

Ronald walked onto the stage and said, "You have to do this dance move."

Then he signaled ibsp;t to continue playing the background rhythm.

"Oh, then, the director is not satisfied with you, kid.

Personal guidance at the end of the game,

Let's look at this white guy,

You can’t teach you a few tricks…”

Ronald made preparations and said to the group of speakers, "Look, I will only demonstrate once."

He raised his hands to grasp the imaginary glass, then used both hands to move his whole body, and finally used both legs to move over.

"Understand? The point is the strength of the legs."

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

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

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

"I talked about it when I was chatting with J." Ronald smiled softly and returned behind the camera, "Let's continue."

Everyone looked at Ronald in surprise. They didn't expect that the director was also a master of break dancing!

Minahan was even more surprised and speechless, "Lucky! Lucky! I actually found a director who is a master of break dancing. It would be unreasonable not to beat Orion's 'Hot Street Kid'."

"Defeat the 'Hot Street Kid'! Defeat Orion! Move forward, move forward!"

Minahan began to encourage everyone to chant slogans again.

"Shh..." Ronald made a shut-up gesture to him, "a!"

The camera focused on the motor and the whirlwind, and then slowly panned half a circle to capture the two dancing opponents. The two sides and four people stood upright and faced off for a long time. Just when their momentum was about to explode, one side suddenly moved.

First, there was the Latino Falcon. His whole body seemed to be as soft as a bone, and he danced a combined version of the robot dance and the noodle dance. Ronald is a master at first glance. If he doesn't show off his special skills, wouldn't he be looked down upon by everyone?

Then Solomon, the black man, also came to the end. The two of them cooperated tacitly, and their whole bodies were shaking like a machine in the big corn field in the south-central part of the country, which automatically sifts out weeds after harvest. During the whole dance, the two of them stared fiercely at Tornado and walked around him, full of provocation.

Tornado had no choice but to stay far away from the two of them, lit a cigarette, and pretended that I am older than you and you are first. In fact, I don’t have any confidence in my heart.

Falcon was shaking more and more arrogantly, his whole body shaking, 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!"

Some of the dancers who stopped filming have not yet recovered from the emotions of their characters. Ronald's dance seemed to give all the actors a stimulant. Instead of following the choreography, Falcon and Solomon upped the ante on their own initiative.

This made Sabado very nervous. He was not good at the completion of movements. In "Soul Train", he is more inclined to the role of a fusion person. He invented and borrowed many moves from other dances and innovatively added break dancing, but when it comes to dancing well, he is really not as good as the other two.

Shabadoo's smoking hand was shaking nervously. He was being bullied.

A large amount of adrenaline was secreted, making him feel unusually excited. He hadn't wanted to fight so much for a long time.

Sabado and Boogaloo Shrimp exchanged a look, then took off his leather jacket and threw it on the ground, wearing a leather vest he bought from a second-hand flea market and getting ready.

"Director, I'm ready!"

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

Ronald also noticed Sabado's abnormality. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the lead actor was having fun!

With the lens fixed, Ronald said into the director of photography's ear, "Just keep the camera still and let them jump."

The director of photography was well-informed and had never seen such a confrontational situation when acting came true. He agreed and told the camera crew that if they zoomed in, they might not be able to keep up with the improvisation of several dancers. Just use a large panoramic main lens to capture the entire wonderful dance.

"a!"

"Ah...ah!"

Sabado and Buffalo Shrimp opened their eyes wide, and they shouted and rushed to Falcon and Solomon.

They began to stick to the two opponents and began to provoke.

Both hands seemed to press the electrical sockets and kept shaking.

Ronald was very excited when he saw this fake-come-true situation. When the two rushed forward, Ronald saw Sabado's back.

He quickly covered his mouth and almost laughed again.

Sabado's second-hand clothes, which came from nowhere, had three red Chinese characters written on the back. People who didn't understand Chinese at the scene thought it was very interesting, but Ronald, who understood it, almost sprayed.

Those three words were the Cantonese spelling of Hollywood, "He! Li! Huo!"