Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 515 Premiere Blast

  May 4th.

   "Break Dance" was screened simultaneously in 1,069 theaters across the country. Now is a relatively weak schedule, and there are not many new films. After all, no one wants to be sniped by the sequel "Magic Palace". MGM thus helped to grab more theater releases.

   However, it is still not as good as "Sixteen Candles" released by Universal, the film directed by John Hughes, which has won 1,240 theaters. This middling production with a budget of more than six million is more important in comparison.

   Ronald came to a Universal Theater in West Hollywood. MGM's expectations for "Break Dance" were not high, and they did not hold a formal premiere, but instead sent the main creative team to a large cinema to watch the movie with thousands of audiences. A live performance and a question-and-answer session were then arranged.

   Minahan took this seriously and recruited a few nurses just in case no one asked questions.

   But from the beginning of the movie, Minahan knew he was overthinking.

   A few breakdance scenes at the beginning made the audience start to marvel.

Kelly played by Lucinda Dickey worked as a waiter at a fast food restaurant. After her part-time job, she went to the dance classroom opened by Franco to practice dancing. Franco grabbed Kelly and praised her for a while, suggesting that as long as Kelly was committed to herself , he is willing to let her participate in the dance competition and be his dance partner.

  Kelly rejected this kind of power and **** trade. She and her friend Ayton, who danced with them, came to the hip-hop in Venice Beach to watch breakdance for the first time, and the audience began to burst into exclamations.

  The bikini beauty flashed in front of the camera, Jean-Claude Van Dan in black tights did a backflip, and three hip-hop boys danced a floor dance in unison.

The    appetizers have made the audience forget to eat popcorn and stare blankly at the screen. It wasn't until Falcon challenged Motor and Cyclone for the first time that the two left with Kelly that the audience began to regain their ability to think.

   Everyone grabbed the popcorn and ate it together, and drank the coke together.

   "Hiccup..." A swallowing sound was made almost simultaneously, interrupting the film's lines.

   Ronald looked very excited from his seat. Breakdancing, a dance full of dynamic and rhythm, appeared on the big screen for the first time, and it had such power that the audience forgot to drink Coke!

   Kelly, played by Lucinda Deitch, after experiencing breakdancing, invited Motor and Cyclone to her jazz dance class. Let them see their jazz dance too. The two breakdance masters didn't appreciate the old jazz dance very much, so they broke danced.

  When her teacher Franco found out that Kelly had brought Yeluzi's hip-hop dancers to the dance classroom and incorporated jazz dance moves, she sternly stopped her.

   The audience booed again.

   Most of the people watching today are teenagers, and in their opinion, what should be booed is the jazz dance. Break dancing is the dance they should dance and appreciate.

  The camera moves to the convenience store where Motor and Cyclone work. Motor goes out with a broom and dances a motor-broom dance.

   "Boom..."

   The whole movie theater seemed to explode.

   "What is this?" The audience couldn't believe their eyes, they saw something groundbreaking on the screen. This spacewalk is even more exciting and natural than Michael Jackson's at the Motown concert.

  Then the motor volleyed the broom with his hand, as if he was really walking on the moon, and the broom was free from the fetters of gravity, and danced with him.

  The camera turned to the motor and the whirlwind dancing in the basement with people, and the audience was once again stimulated. The confrontational dance is even more exciting than the single-player routine.

   Kelly's new agent also persuaded her not to get too involved with street dancers, but to focus on jazz dance. Kelly quarreled with him, saying that he didn't understand the beauty of hip-hop at all, and asked him not to belittle hip-hop if he didn't see it with his own eyes.

  The final agent was persuaded by Kelly to go to the basement to watch the dance together. After Kelly joined this time, the trio outperformed the opponent Falken's trio in terms of appearance and dance routines.

  The manager was stunned by this novel dance. He tried every means to sign up the trio to compete for the championship with Franko from Kelly's original dance class, and the championship reward to enter the Broadway spot.

  The movie enters the midpoint, and the audience begins to soothe their emotions, eat popcorn, and prepare to enter the end of the second act.

   The agent found a place for them to go to the dance organizer's luncheon. In the garden outside the mansion, the celebrities began to dine.

   The two ladies who came to the banquet saw Ma Ma wearing a rented suit, thinking he was a black waiter, and raised their hands to let him serve.

  Ma got angry and brought a cheese plate and brought it to them, "Do you want some pig's head cheese?"

"no, thanks."

   Disgusting walks the two ladies' motors and finds that Cyclone and Kelly's former dance teacher, Franco, are blaming each other again. It turned out that Franco saw Kelly and Whirlwind together, and he was jealous, saying that their dance was a low-class dance, and they could not participate in the elegant jazz dance competition, and threatened to disqualify them.

   Whirlwind was humiliated and left with the motor.

  Kelly was also **** off by Franco, saying that she was of the same class as Cyclone and Motor, not a dancer like him who flattered these rich ladies.

   The agent assures that Franco can't decide their eligibility, and Kelly drives to Motor and Cyclone to find them for a dance competition together.

  Mada taught children how to break dance at home, while Cyclone was alone on the beach thinking about things. Kelly found them and tried to convince them to race together.

  Whirlwind said that he did not participate in the competition to win prizes, but to promote the dance form of breakdancing, which is truly free dance.

  The whirlwind pulled Kelly to the beach, and the two watched the shocking dance of the paralyzed "hand man" together.

   "How the **** does this dance?"

   "He seems to be disabled, doesn't he?"

   "Isn't he on crutches? You see that his lower limbs are different from normal people. It must be polio."

   "Then why he can still perform such dance moves, I think he is better than the gymnasts of the Souville Union."

  The audience has already ignored the plot and started to discuss loudly.

   This dance shocked them too much. If it weren't for the scene of "hand man" leaning on crutches, the audience would not believe that he was disabled anyway.

  Cyclone, Motor, and Kelly, the trio competed. Finally jumped onto the judge's table and broke dance.

   The chief judge played by Roger Coleman, smoking a big cigar, nods and stomps happily, and enjoys watching.

  Franco stepped forward to block and asked the judges to disqualify the trio, otherwise he would retire.

  Roger Coleman exhaled a large smoke ring, "Then hurry up and don't block me from watching the breakdance."

   "Hahaha..." The audience was also amused. The bad guys were pulled out of the field, and the trio won the championship and started to hold hands and turn around to celebrate the victory.

   The emotions of the audience were lifted, and some people began to applaud to celebrate the three leading actors winning the championship and realizing their dreams.

"I'm sorry, it's impossible for you to perform musicals on Broadway at this stage. Maybe there will be such musicals in 20 or 30 years. I can give you a chance to appear on TV shows. If you want to enter Broadway, Your priority is to promote this form of dance. Go on TV to dance and train new dancers, that's what you should be doing."

  The judge played by Roger Coleman said something to the trio. Although they won the championship, it is impossible to enter Broadway right now.

   After the audience was delighted that the trio won the championship, they felt the real problem again. It seems that they are still focusing on cultivating newcomers and striving for TV shows for the time being.

   The trio started to teach children how to dance by the beach. A man in a leather jacket and trousers studded with diamonds approached, "You dance very well, can you join us?"

   "It's MJ!"

   "No wonder he can spacewalk, it turned out that Ma taught him."

The real ending    raised the audience's emotions abruptly.

  The movie freezes on MJ breaking dance with Motor, Cyclone, and Kelly.

   After an electronic sound of "BiuBiuBiu", a red background appeared on the screen, and the white subtitles read:

   "Stay tuned, Breakdance Sequel - Electronic Boogaloo"

  Then the subtitles began to rise, Ronald read it carefully, including the main group performers such as "Handman", and the staff of the crew, all included subtitles.

   Finally, "Special thanks - 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 live breakdance.

  Meinahan tried to get on stage to maintain order, was hugged by the enthusiastic audience, dragged him from the top, and two teenage girls, who just dipped and kissed him several times in the face.

  There was no other way, Boogaloo Prawn, Sabado, and Lucinda Dickey had to take to the stage and perform live breakdance to IceT's rap music.

  The dance of the three leading actors, every movement attracted the cheers of the audience below, and some people followed on the spot.

   Until Sabade and Boogalo prawns did back spin and head spin respectively, and then they appeared one by one, leaving the middle of the field. With headbands and leg warmers on, Lucinda Deitch landed on the ground with a front flip, then began to spin her back too.

   "Ow, ooh..." The audience was completely boiling, and rushed up to grab the stage, preventing them from leaving.

  Minahan rushed out to call the police in a hurry. Ten minutes later, the police arrived and pulled up the human wall, so that the three leading actors could retreat to the lounge from the enthusiastic audience.

   "In the future, you should report to the office earlier." The senior detective who led the team told Minahan how to deal with the premiere with a big star.

   "I don't know...how do I know...the audience is so enthusiastic, the audience is crazy." Minahan was so tired that he took out a handkerchief and wiped it frequently.

   "Did you invite that star in your movie?" the inspector asked. Such enthusiasm can only be seen at the premiere starring a big star, but today the audience is also a little wilder.

   "It's the three of them." Ronald stepped forward and pointed to the three leading actors, "They are the stars of the night."

   "Motor... Cyclone... Kelly..."

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

   "You three stars, it's better to go out to meet their requirements and sign them, otherwise they won't leave tonight." The detective is experienced and knows that such an enthusiastic audience is difficult to pass up.

   The three leading actors looked at each other, and this became famous?

   The three of them had never practiced autographing at all, so they took the signature pens given by the movie theater, and the three of them walked out.

   "Ah, ooh..."

  The crowd began to riot again, and the inspector repeatedly shouted to them many times to line up. This is just a few rows, waiting to be signed.

  The three leading actors were patient and signed the names of the audience for more than half an hour.

  Meinahan called for the van, and the three of them squeezed out and got into the van to run.

  The cinema was enthusiastically delayed for a long time, and the second "breakdance" was delayed. They heard the movement in the first game outside, and they were very excited, urging them to enter the arena. Even the necessary cleaning time was shortened to a minimum. When the ground was still being cleaned, the audience broke through the ticket gate and entered the arena to find a place.

   Ronald never imagined that this "Break Dance", which he shot casually and cost less than one million dollars, could evoke such a response. He was so excited that he didn't know what to do. Looking at the ticket office, there are still many spectators of the first game, waiting to buy tickets for the third game.

  Ronald also leaned over and saw that there was a new movie, "Sixteen Candles", which was released at the same time tonight. The staff at the counter over there was also transferred over to open two rows to handle "breakdance" tickets.

   Ronald, who opened his mouth wide, looked at the crazy scene, and he was inexplicable.

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

Although it is not as popular as the premiere theater where I saw the actors, but at the beginning of the second show, the box office of breakdance clearly began to explode, which is better than that of Universal's vigorous marketing next to it, and the exhibition boards and posters are everywhere. Six Candles".

   There are also a number of old films that have been released for a few weeks, and they have also been beaten by breakdance. Cinemas have begun making temporary adjustments, freeing up halls for a third breakdancing show, in the hope of selling a few more tickets.

   "My God, why are you so crazy?" Ronald looked at all this, and he didn't know what happened.

   (end of this chapter)