Exploiting Hollywood 1980

May 4.

"Breakdance" was released simultaneously in 1,069 theaters across the country. It was a relatively weak schedule, and there were not many new films. After all, no one wanted to be sniped by the subsequent blockbuster sequel, "The House of the Assassins." MGM helped grab more theaters for the release.

However, it was still not as good as "Sixteen Candles" released by Universal. This movie directed by John Hughes got 1,240 theaters. That movie had a budget of more than 6 million and was more valued in comparison.

Ronald came to a Universal Theater in West Hollywood. MGM did not have high expectations for "Breakdance" and did not hold a formal premiere. Instead, it asked the main creative team to come to a large movie theater to watch the movie with thousands of audiences. Afterwards, live performances and question-and-answer sessions were arranged.

Minahan took this very seriously and specially recruited a few shills to fill in in case no one asked questions.

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

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

Lucinda Dickey and Franco practiced dancing in the dance studio run by Franco after finishing their part-time jobs in the restaurant. Franco pulled Kelly over and, after a round of praise, hinted that as long as Kelly committed herself to him, he would let her participate in the dance competition and be his dance partner.

Kelly refused this power-for-sex transaction. She and her dancing friend Eton came to the street dance venue in Venice Beach to watch breakdancing for the first time, and the audience began to shout in amazement.

A bikini beauty flashed in front of the camera, Jean Claude Van Damme in a black tights did a backflip, and three street dancers were dancing a floor dance move in unison next to them.

The appetizers had made the audience forget to eat popcorn and stared at the screen. It was not 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 ability to think.

Everyone grabbed popcorn and ate it together, and drank Coke together.

"Burp..." Almost at the same time, a swallowing sound was made, interrupting the lines of the movie.

Ronald was very excited watching from his seat. Breaking, a dance full of dynamics and rhythm, appeared on the big screen for the first time, and it was so powerful that the audience forgot to drink Coke!

After seeing break dancing, Kelly, played by Lucinda Dickey, invited Motor and Tornado to her jazz dance studio. Let them also see her jazz dance. The two break dancing masters did not appreciate the ancient jazz dance, so they started to break dancing.

When her teacher Franco found out that Kelly brought wild street dancers to the dance studio and incorporated jazz dance moves, he severely stopped her.

The audience booed again.

Most of the people watching today were teenagers. In their opinion, jazz dance was an old-fashioned dance that should be booed. Break dancing was the dance they should dance and appreciate.

The camera turned to the convenience store where Motor and Tornado worked. Motor went out with a broom and danced a Motor Broom Dance.

"Boom..."

The whole cinema seemed to explode.

"What is this?" The audience couldn't believe their eyes. They saw something groundbreaking on TV. This moonwalk was more exciting and natural than Michael Jackson's at the Motown concert.

Then Mada used his hand to suck the broom in mid-air, as if he was really walking on the moon. The broom was no longer bound by gravity and danced with him.

The camera then turned to Mada and Tornado dancing with others in the basement, and the audience was stimulated again. Confrontational dance is more exciting than individual routines.

Kelly's new agent also persuaded her not to get too entangled with street dancers and to focus on jazz dance. Kelly had a big fight with him, saying that he didn't understand the beauty of street dance at all, and asked him not to belittle street dance unless he had seen it with his own eyes.

In the end, the agent was persuaded by Kelly to go to the basement to watch the dance battle. This time, after Kelly joined, the trio surpassed the opponent Falken's trio in terms of appearance and dance routines.

The agent was shocked by this novel dance. He tried every means to register the trio to compete with Franco, who was in Kelly's former dance class, for a place on Broadway.

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

The agent found a place for them to participate in the competition and asked them to go to the luncheon of the dance organizer. In the garden outside the mansion, the celebrities began to eat.

Two ladies who came to the banquet saw Mada wearing a rented suit and thought he was a black waiter, so they raised their hands to ask him to serve the dishes.

Mada angrily brought a cheese plate to them, "Would you like some Pig's Head cheese?"

"No, thank you."

Mada, who disgusted the two ladies, found that Tornado and Franco, Kelly's former dance teacher, were blaming each other again. It turned out that Franco saw Kelly and Tornado together, and he was jealous. He said that their dance was low-class and could not participate in the elegant jazz dance competition, and threatened to disqualify them.

Tornado was humiliated and left with Mada.

Kelly was also irritated by Franco, saying that she was in the same class as Tornado and Mada, and was not in the same class as dancers like him who relied on flattering these rich ladies.

The agent assured her that Franco could not decide their eligibility to participate in the competition, and Kelly drove to Mada and Tornado to find them and go to the dance competition together.

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

Xuanfeng said that he did not participate in the competition to win awards, but to promote break dancing, which is a truly free dance.

Tornado pulled Kelly to the beach, and together they watched the shocking dance of the "Hand Man" who was paralyzed from the lower body.

"How the hell did that dance?"

"He seems to be a disabled person, right?"

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

"Then why can he still do such dance moves? I think he is better than the gymnasts of the Suville Union."

The audience no longer cared about the plot and started discussing loudly.

This dance shocked them too much. If it weren't for the previous scene of the "Hand Man" using a crutch, the audience would never believe that he was a disabled person.

Tornado, Motor, and Kelly competed as a trio. Finally, he jumped on the judges' table and did a big break dance.

The chief judge, played by Roger Corman, smoked a big cigar, nodded happily, stamped his feet and beat time, and was very happy to watch.

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

Roger Corman blew out a big smoke ring, "Then hurry up and don't stop me from watching break dancing."

"Hahaha..." The audience was also amused. The bad guys were asked to leave the venue, and the trio won the championship and started holding hands and spinning to celebrate their victory.

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

"I'm sorry, it's impossible for your dance form to appear in a musical on Broadway at this stage. Maybe there will be such a musical in twenty or thirty years. If you want to enter Broadway, your top priority is to promote this dance form. . Go on TV and dance and develop new dancers, that’s what you should be doing.”

The judge, played by Roger Corman, said something to the trio. Although they won the championship, they would not be able to enter Broadway immediately.

After the audience was happy for the trio to win the championship, they felt the reality of the problem. It seems that for the time being, they are still focusing on cultivating new members and striving to be on TV shows.

The trio began to teach children to dance on the beach. A man wearing a leather jacket and leather pants studded with diamonds approached and asked, "You are dancing very well, can you join us?"

"It's MJ!"

"No wonder he can moonwalk. It turned out to be Motor who taught him."

This real ending suddenly lifted the audience's emotions.

The movie freezes on the scene of MJ breakdancing with Motor, Tornado, and Kelly.

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

"Stay tuned for the sequel to Breakdancing - Electronic Boogaloo"

Then the subtitles began to rise, and Ronald read it carefully, including the "Hand Man" and other major extras, as well as the crew members, who were all subtitled.

Finally, "Special thanks to Michael Jackson."

At the same time, the audience began to stand up and applaud, shouting loudly, asking the three leading actors to come out and perform break dancing live.

Minahan tried to go on stage to maintain order, but the enthusiastic audience hugged him and prevented him from going up. Two teenage girls also kissed him on the face several times.

With no other choice, Boogaloo Prawn, Sabado, and Lucinda Dickey had no choice but to take to the stage and perform live break dancing to Ibsp;T's rap music.

The dance of the three protagonists, every move attracts

Until Sabado and Bugalo Prawn performed back spin and head spin respectively, and then they appeared together, leaving the middle space free. Lucinda Dickey, wearing a headband and leg warmers, landed on the ground in a forward somersault and then began to spin on her back too.

"Aw, ow..." The audience was completely excited and rushed up to the stage to prevent them from leaving.

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

"In the future, you should report this kind of thing to the office as early as possible." The senior detective leading the team told Minahan how to handle a premiere involving big stars.

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

"Which star did you hire for your movie?" the detective asked. Such enthusiasm is indeed only seen at premieres starring big stars, but today the audience was also a little wilder.

"That's the three of them." Ronald stepped forward and pointed at the three leading actors. "They are the stars tonight."

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

The audience outside the door refused to leave because they didn't know who the actor was and could only shout the character's name repeatedly.

"You three stars, you'd better go out and fulfill their requests and give them autographs, otherwise they won't leave tonight." The detective is experienced and knows that it is difficult to dismiss such an enthusiastic audience.

The three leading actors looked at each other. Is this how they became famous?

The three of them had never practiced signing at all. They took the signature pens given by the cinema and walked out.

"Ah, ow..."

The crowd started to commotion again, and the detective shouted to them many times to line up. Then there were several lines lined up, waiting for autographs.

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

Minahan called a van, and the three of them squeezed out and got on the car and ran away.

The cinema was delayed for a long time by the enthusiasm, and the second "Breakdance" was delayed. They heard the noise inside the first show outside, and they were very excited and kept urging to enter. Even the necessary cleaning time was compressed to the shortest. While the floor was still being cleaned inside, the audience broke through the ticket gate and entered to find a seat.

Ronald had never thought that this "Breakdance" that he shot casually and cost less than one million US dollars would cause such a response. He was so excited that he didn't know what to do. Looking at the ticket office, there were still many audiences from the first show waiting to buy tickets for the third show.

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

Ronald, with his mouth wide open, looked at the crazy scene and was also puzzled.

He drove to another cinema to see what was going on.

Although it was not as popular as the premiere theater where the actors were seen, the box office star of Breakdance began to explode from the second show, surpassing the "Sixteen Candles" next to it, which Universal had put a lot of effort in marketing and put display boards and posters everywhere.

There were also a number of old movies that had been shown for a few weeks, and they were also beaten by Breakdance without any ability to fight back. The cinema has begun to make temporary adjustments and vacated the hall to show Breakdance in order to sell more tickets.

"My God, why is it so crazy?" Ronald looked at all this and didn't know what was going on.