Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"What movie should we watch?" After finishing their pizza, everyone went to a late-night movie theater nearby.

"I heard you made a movie in Los Angeles. What's it called?" Antonia asked.

"You're well-informed. It's called Rock 'n' Roll High School. But the box office is not good and it can't be shown in New York."

"How about Apocalypse Now, directed by Coppola. They won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival in France."

Thinking of the news he saw on TV a few days ago, Ronald also wanted to watch the complete version without the editing interface again.

"Four Apocalypse Now," Gene got a higher salary for the protagonist and shouted to treat everyone.

"There's no such movie. Look at the schedule," the ticket seller pointed to the schedule on the wall.

It seems that "Apocalypse Now" has not been released in the United States yet.

Ronald looked at the schedule.

"Alien" science fiction horror movie, this one is suitable for men and women to watch together.

"The last show has started for an hour." The ticket seller pointed to the time again.

This kind of commercial film usually opens in the prime time after 6 o'clock in the afternoon after get off work and before 9 o'clock in the evening, which is convenient for the mainstream moviegoers. If it's too late, everyone will go home and sleep.

"What other movies are there?"

"Over there are adult X-rated movies." The ticket seller is an old hand. He saw that the two men and two women were here for a two-on-two date, so he recommended an X-rated movie. Anyway, it was so late, and the inspectors would not be dedicated enough to work overtime to catch teenagers watching X-rated movies.

Gene didn't want to watch it, "Anything else?"

"Then there is only this old movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Today is their club's special show. If you haven't seen it, I still recommend it."

"Is there a movie in the club?" Ronald was a little confused.

"Yes, they are all crazy and often come to the midnight show. It will be fun to watch it with them for the first time."

"Oh, really? Then let's watch this one too." Antonia seemed to have heard of this movie.

"Four tickets." Gene took out money to pay first.

"Here are the newspapers for you." The ticket seller handed out 4 expired newspapers along with the tickets.

The four looked at each other and shook their heads, "What are these for?" Ronald asked.

"You'll know when you get in."

"Welcome new friends to our Rocky Horror Show Club!" A middle-aged man holding a microphone welcomed four people into the screening room. The audience below began to applaud in unison, "Welcome!"

This club has a great atmosphere.

"Hi, hello, hello," Gene was very happy, high-fived everyone along the way, and found four connected seats to sit down.

Ronald looked around and saw that many viewers were wearing Gothic black eye makeup, and some men dressed as girls. It was a wonderful experience.

After the movie started, a man and a woman were reversing on a rainy night, and suddenly the car seemed to hit something.

The audience in front of Ronald suddenly fell back collectively. In line with the car crash on the screen.

"Oops," the protagonist on the screen slapped the seat.

The audience also hit the seat at the same time at the right time, making a neat "pop".

"I should have fixed the spare tire."

The audience collectively shouted "Asshoe".

Spoiler: This person is a bad person.

How can you watch a movie with your own dubbing? Ronald looked around strangely.

Gene and Lucy had a great time, shouting with the club members.

The two protagonists on the screen got off the car, and it started to rain.

The audience raised the newspapers in their hands to cover their heads.

Hmm? Water really fell on my face. Ronald looked confused. What kind of advanced technology is this? Can the movie theater rain according to the plot?

Antonia also raised the newspaper, hit Ronald to remind him, and helped him raise the newspaper.

It turned out that someone was shooting water guns in the aisles on both sides, and some audiences brought their own and sprayed water into the sky.

The two protagonists on the screen entered an ancient castle, and a host who looked like a vampire came out to receive them.

"Where is your neck?" The audience shouted.

Ronald took a look and saw that the actor had no neck.

He opened a coffin and used a duster to clean the cobwebs from the bones inside.

"It turned out to be a horror movie," Ronald thought to himself.

Suddenly he started singing loudly, singing a lousy old pop song.

"Is it a musical?"

"One, two, three, four" the audience began to sing.

The host began to walk up to the stage in front of the screen, welcoming everyone to sing on stage.

Soon, more than a dozen men and women with Gothic eye makeup and costumes walked to the front, lined up and sang, and the audience below raised their hands and swayed left and right to cooperate.

A man in a suit and leather shoes appeared in the movie again to teach everyone to dance, "Move your left foot first, then jump to your right foot."

The men and women on the stage began to dance to the music.

"Hey, we're here." Gene pulled Lucy onto the stage and danced with them.

Hahaha, the audience laughed so hard that they fell backwards.

"Let's go too," Antonia pulled Ronald up and went on stage.

Ronald followed the rhythm, imitated the movements of the cospayers in the club, and did some silly dance moves. For a moment, I don't know why, the whole person became happy.

"Hahahaha", the dance ended, Ronald laughed with everyone.

"It turned out to be an exploitation film."

Hey, Ronald seemed to have remembered something important and tried desperately to catch this inspiration.

Antonia pulled him off the stage again and returned to his original seat.

"Today is a big day for our Rocky Horror Picture Show viewing club members, Larry and Holly, as they go to the theater for the 150th time today."

The host turns the microphone to the audience

"The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

Two other members took out two small cakes with 150 candles on them and asked them to blow them out.

"Can you watch the same movie 150 times, Antonia?" Ronald felt a little incredible when he heard the record of 150 movie viewings.

"No, but they don't count as watching a movie. They are purely entertaining themselves."

"150 times is a big number, and it would take three years to see them once a week. Don't they have somewhere else to go?"

"Yes, in certain neighborhoods in New York, teenagers don't have anywhere to go at night. If they tell their parents to go to a bar, then the parents should be worried. But going to the movie theater with a group of old friends to watch a bad movie is more reassuring."

"Yes, they are all teenagers." Ronald looked around again. Under the gothic black eyeshadow, they were actually boys and girls in their teens and twenties.

After the movie ended, Ronald specifically talked to the president of the Rocky Horror Picture Show Club and the host. Since the film was released in 1975, it has been continuously played at midnight screenings.

This film has a weird style and did not do well in its first run. However, the mixed style and lots of jokes attracted young audiences in New York, and many theaters continued to show it at midnight. This in turn led to the trend of midnight movies, which continued to be shown until 1979.

“But we may not be able to watch it here next year.” Finally, the club president lamented, “The high school students who grew up with this movie have all graduated this year, and the new generation of young people have their favorite movies again.

The box office began to decline, and theaters said they wanted to replace The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a new film. In the end, we fans could only keep one or two theaters showing it. "

That glimmer of inspiration seemed to be right in front of him, and Ronald stood there, trying hard to catch her.

"Ronald, what are you thinking about? Are you thinking about the script again?" Lucy looked at Ronald with admiring eyes and asked.

The inspiration seems to have flown away again.

But the script?

Just now, I was dragged on stage by Antonia to sing and dance. My originally depressed mood became very happy. This seems to be written into the plot of the Jewish student Doris. Doesn’t she lack a motive to get rid of her overly controlling mother and bravely go on stage to sing?

"Yes, you gave me great inspiration, Lucy, thank you." Ronald thanked Lucy, took out a small notebook and started jotting down his thoughts.

"Yeah, I'm glad I could help you, Ronnie, can I call you Ronnie?"

"Pull it, Lucy." Gene caught up from behind and pulled her away. "Antonia is right, you are indeed not Ronald's type."

"Antonia, what are you looking at?" Ronald couldn't help but walk over and ask as he watched the Italian girl holding Jean's Polaroid camera and laughing so hard at the smaller X-rated ticket window.

"Look at this," Antonia pointed to a poster, "Hahahaha, it made me laugh so hard."

In front of me is a small poster with the title "Hot Lunch"

It turns out someone actually made an adult film using the black slang meaning of hot lunch.

"Pfft" Ronald couldn't help but squirt.

"Look at the director's column hahaha." Antonia laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten up and grabbed Ronald's arm to keep her balance.

"AL Parker hahahaha", Ronald couldn't help but spray again.

This is director Alan Parker. Maybe the "Hot Lunch" project was reported in the media, and an adult film producer discovered the business opportunity and quickly made a movie to increase the popularity?

Ronald shook his head.

"Take a picture of me too, I'll keep it." Ronald asked Antonia to take a snapshot of the poster for him.

I don’t know how to figure this out, but Ronald plans to report it to producer Da Silva.

"Don't tell them, otherwise there will be more trouble." Ronald pointed at Jean and Lucy.

"I understand."

"Hey, what are you two laughing at? Are you laughing so happily?" Gene finally found the two of them laughing and ran over from afar.

"It's nothing. We were laughing at those people just now, and we were acting in a movie in the audience."

Everyone walked out of the theater and prepared to go home.

"Where do you live, Antonia? I'll take you there."

"Little Italy, my home is right next to it. No need to send it away." Antonia declined.

"Lucy and I take the subway. The lines in Harlem are open 24 hours a day, but your car is not safe."

"Okay, that's it. I'm very happy today, thank you." Ronald said goodbye to everyone on the spot.

"What was that inspiration?" Ronald thought as he drove. "Midnight show, teenagers, long-term screening."

"Squeak" Ronald slammed on the brakes. Aren't teenagers the target audience for "Rock High School"? Midnight screenings can be shown for a long time, attracting New York's teenagers to watch movies. And it just so happened that the movie theater in New York wanted to show a new movie.