Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 825 Breakdance is popular in the Mainland

"Michael Jackson was warmly welcomed at the airport, and more than 600 reporters waited for the King of Pop at Tokyo's Narita Airport. This was the second time he came to Dongying after performing as a member of the "Jackson5" band in 1973 .

   The first concert was held at Korakuen Stadium, home of the Yomiuri Giants baseball team. More than 40,000 tickets were sold out within 5 hours of the sale. The organizer said that it is in contact with Michael Jackson to negotiate to increase the number of screenings.

  MJ's pet, orangutan Bubble, arrived on another flight and was also greeted by more than 300 fans.

   In this concert, there is a freighter specially designed to transport more than 22 trucks of equipment, more than 700 lights, 100 speakers, and 40 laser generators to ensure the most perfect performance for the Tokyo audience. "

   "This is really crazy, crazy."

  Ronald's room in the Okura Hotel, after pre-booking, finally ate a complete hair-style toast carefully crafted by the chef, paired with black tea, bacon, sausage, etc. Ronald was very happy. Dongying people are good at cooking the original simple food carefully and making different flavors.

  Diane, who was having breakfast with him, picked up the concert front-row ticket sent by MJ's manager Frank DiRio last night, and looked left and right.

   "It is said that a ticket has been copied to a sky-high price. If you want to sell these two front row tickets, it is estimated that there will be a **** the spot."

   "What are you thinking?" Ronald put his arms around Diane and sat on his lap, "Let's leave early, otherwise we'll be stuck in the crowd waiting for refunds at the door."

I exchanged contact information with Director Wu, and also signed a distribution agreement for "Spicy Dance" with the theater chain under the name of Kadokawa Bookstore, and also held the promise of two big names in the entertainment industry, and only waited for the seven major producers after returning to Hollywood. The factory came to visit and seek cooperation.

  Ronald was so complacent that he simply extended his itinerary in East Asia and went to Hong Kong to see if there was any chance of cooperation.

  MJ came to Tokyo just after the film festival to start the world tour of his new album "Bad". Ronald received two tickets from DiRio and was going to be a fan with Diane for a while.

At six o'clock in the evening, the lights in the Korakuen Stadium suddenly began to light up in a row. Ronald and Diane immediately felt the sound of the 40,000 spectators shouting together. Like waves, they scraped the stadium like a real entity. .

   "Pepsi is hot, and you are Kamela", a kind female voice, began to broadcast the sponsor's name once on the loudspeaker in the venue, Ronald vaguely heard that it was Pepsi and Coney cameras.

   The drum beat started from slow to fast, and the sound became heavier and heavier. Finally, at the moment, all the lights illuminated the stage, and in the compensating smoke, a row of people in leather jackets appeared looming.

   “Ah…ah…ahah…”

   Amid the deafening cries of the live audience, the laser began to draw bright lines on the stage. A man with a top hat and hair like instant noodles appeared in the center of the stage with sunglasses.

  MJ unbuttoned the shiny diamond-encrusted leather jacket, put one hand on his crotch, and began to wiggle in a fast rhythm.

   The eyes of the audience were all focused on this strange man.

  The concert started with the new song "TheWayYouMakeMeFeel" of the new album. The laser flashed on and off with the rhythm, and all the audience couldn't help standing up and dancing to the rhythm.

  The audience at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo was fascinated. MJ guided them to cry, laugh, and applaud, as if he was the **** at this moment, asking for anything.

   Ronald only felt that the appeal of this kind of superstar was even more powerful than the best movies in Hollywood. After all, it was a live performance, and the careful guidance of the movie had a different impact on the audience.

   The one-and-a-half hour performance ended quickly. The audience in Tokyo cooperated very well and slowly exited the stage in an orderly manner.

   "These audiences really love MJ." Ronald saw that there were still many female students wearing T-shirts watching the performance, and lined up at the door calling MJ's name to express his love.

   Ronald and Diane arrived at the hotel, Diane went to take a shower first, and the concert made people sweat.

  "I'm fine", Diane wore only a bath towel and called out to Ronald.

"CBS News 60 Minutes also came to interview MJ on-site, and it will be broadcast simultaneously in America tomorrow." Ronald watched the show on TV and lamented MJ's invincible popularity. News 60 Minutes is the oldest news talk show , many people say that to understand America, just watch this show.

   Ronald also took a shower. The hot water washed away his exhaustion. Ronald wiped his hair with a towel and came out to find Diane.

   "No, Ronald Sand doesn't need this service."

   Diane happened to be on the phone.

   "What service?" Ronald asked.

   "I don't know, someone called you to ask if you wanted a woman, or they spoke English."

   "Huh?" Ronald was inexplicable. For several days in Tokyo, the Okura Hotel had never received such an unsolicited call.

   Diane hung up the phone with a snap.

  Ronald dried his hair, went to draw the curtains, and came back to see Diane answering the phone again.

   "No, what? The Prime Minister's secret lover, no that. We don't need it, OK, please don't call."

   "What secret lover? That one again?" Ronald asked.

   "Yes, he said that their service is good, they are the Prime Minister's secret lover, and it doesn't matter if there are women."

   Diane said and laughed, this Tokyo people's hobby is strange.

  Ronald seemed to feel a little familiar atmosphere, he took the phone with a smile, "Hello? Michael, are you not resting? I see that you are working very hard tonight."

  Diane opened his mouth beside him, what, is this a call from MJ?

   "He likes to call friends, joking, I've heard it several times." Ronald explained to Diane, covering the microphone.

   "Hahaha, how did you recognize me?" MJ was on the other end of the phone, laughing loudly. He didn't have any friends, so he liked to play pranks in the hotel.

   "For more than an hour, it's just a warm-up for me. Every time I finish singing, I feel better and I can sing a song."

"Why, have you decided to sing a few more times in Dongying?" Ronald understood that the concert was a great movement of the singer's body, like a sports car warming up the engine. This kind of short concert of more than one hour, singing After the singer just reached the best state.

   "Yeah, yes, the fans here are the best, they are so enthusiastic, I decided to add five more shows here, Yokohama, Osaka..."

   "Yes, they are really nice. I saw a lot of female students outside the venue, calling me I love you MJ very enthusiastically."

   "Hahaha..." Michael Jackson, who was in good spirits, chatted with Ronald on the phone.

   "Where are you going next?"

   "Me, I'll go to Xiangjiang to see the movie market there. You know, besides watching your first global tour, I'm here to sell movie copies."

   "Hey, hey, I'll watch it when I get a chance." MJ was silent for a while, then suddenly asked, "Do you know any officials in mainland China?"

   "I'm not very familiar with it, but I just met the mayor once. The factory I invested in there won an advanced award."

"I was in Tokyo and saw one of their documentaries, 'Yangtze River', which was filmed by the people of Dongying. I like the scenery there very much, and I also want to go there for a concert. But my manager, Di Rio, went to contact him. However, no suitable person was found."

   "It was more difficult to get a visa there. When I went to travel, I could only get a visa because they were invited to the women's volleyball team by the champion in the Olympic Games." Ronald recalled that he almost didn't get a visa that year.

   "I saw your news. You seemed to be speaking Chinese with the director of Huaguo at the film festival. Are you familiar with Huaguo? I really want to see it."

   "Well, I can make a few calls, but I can't guarantee anything.

   "It's really a mysterious country. If I can go, I can also be a tourist."

   "Then I'll ask someone to help, and do you want to go to Xiangjiang? It's also in China, so it's much more convenient to travel."

   "Really? Well, I'll ask you, I'll let Di Rio contact you."

  …

   left Tokyo, Ronald and Diane went to Hong Kong together. Was warmly welcomed by Jackie Chan.

   At the Fook Lam Moon Restaurant on Johnston Road, Wan Chai, Jackie Chan called in his team. The two people who went to Los Angeles last time to help Ronald in the commercial are also there. They are helping Jackie shoot the police story series.

"Michael Kison is coming? That's a good thing, I'll call Amei right away, she likes his new song so much. But why won't Hongjiang Michael come to the concert? We are worse than Dongying here. There are quite a few, there are no big venues, and there are not many fans who can listen to English songs.”

"He shouldn't have a plan. In Tokyo, it will be held at a baseball stadium of 40,000 people. At most, he will come to Hong Kong for a tour. His concert will continue in two weeks, but he has time to play around." Ronald While talking to Jackie Chan, he used chopsticks to hold vegetables for Diane.

   "However, he really wants to hold a concert in the mainland, and he asked me to ask you, is there any way you can help him get in touch?"

"Hey, how can we do this?" JackieChan seemed to be more taboo about this, he shook his head, "but Hong Kong can arrange with Mr. Zou and Mr. Shao, and their relationship with the Hong Kong Governor is just to say hello. ."

   "Well, I'll ask someone else." Ronald thought of the Chinese actor Chao Li he knew. He seemed to have an older brother in the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

  Ronald put his mind down and started to eat Cantonese food, all kinds of siu mei and seafood were full of oil. He suddenly remembered something, "Right, I heard that the movie 'Break Dance' I made a few years ago is very popular in China now, have you heard?"

   "No." JackieChan has no research on dance films. "Have you heard of it? You? You? You? Your brother Luo's business is my business. If you hear it, ask me."

The    warriors shook their heads one by one, only the last thin warrior remembered something, "I really want to hear it, is it called Thunderbolt Love? My girlfriend likes it."

   "What are you talking about, breakdancing? Brother Luo is talking about breakdancing. What's the original name? Go and find out."

   "Okay, big brother, I'll go right away." The man immediately stood up and called.

After a while, the man walked back in a hurry, "I asked La, after Luo Sheng's movie was released here, many people couldn't understand it because it was a ghost movie. But Mr. Shao followed him and filmed one. Follow the trend film, the box office is OK, it's called Thunderbolt Love."

   Then he took out two videotapes from a bag beside him, "My girlfriend is dancing, and there happened to be videotapes of these two movies, which were brought to Luo Sheng."

   "Okay, you have merit, I'll give you an abalone, come and come..." Jackie Chan was very happy, and turned the abalone for him to eat.

   Then handed Ronald with two cassettes, “This is your movie and our follower…”

   "Okay, I heard." Ronald took down two cassettes. By the way, a toast to the warrior who helped.

  …

   "This seems to be the Chinese-dubbed version of breakdance that I dreamed of back then." Ronald returned to his suite at the Oriental Mandarin Hotel in the evening, found a VCR and started watching two tapes.

   "Did you authorize them to publish a videotape for your breakdance?" Diane watched the people in Ronald's film speak Chinese, and found it interesting. Their mouth shapes were all right.

   "No, it's dubbed from the mainland. They speak Mandarin, not Cantonese in Hong Kong." Ronald fast-forwards for a while, and there are several scenes that were too intimate.

   "But the price they offer is very low, and a movie has a buyout of $20,000. I can't share the money."

  Speaking, Ronald stuffed the "Breakthrough" filmed here in Xiangjiang into the video recorder.

   "Hahaha, what is this dancing, it's not breakdance."

  Dian laughed, this "Break Dance" is obviously because of the "break dance" trend, and Shaw Brothers followed the trend.

   What's more interesting is that the people inside are not breakdancers, they don't have the charm and style of breakdance at all, they just follow the trend to make money for a name.

  Ronald took a quick look at it. The plot is very localized and has something to do with martial arts.

   "Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake..."

  Ronald watched part of it patiently. There was nothing to praise in terms of technique or content. There was only the interlude. The "Shake Shake" of a rock band with a female lead singer was a bit interesting.

   "Ring Ring Ring Ring" Ronald picks up the phone.

   "Mr. Ronald, it's your international call."

   "Hello..." Ronald asked the operator to pick him up, and a person was talking in the noise.

"Ronald, I'm Chaoli, I told you about Mr. Jackson's idea of ​​going to the mainland to hold a concert. After research there, it is not suitable for rock stars to hold a concert now. As for travel, there Very welcome, visa is not a problem."

   "Can't hold a concert? I remember John Denver went on a tour a few years ago?"

   "He is different. He is a country singer, and he sings songs that sing praises to the people. There is still a lot of controversy about rock stars. If MJ travels, it is best to compare the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangxi."

   "Okay, I'll tell you. Thank you, Chaori."

Ronald felt like he had called MJ. He heard that he was allowed to travel in the mainland. He was very happy. He immediately called DiRio and planned to come to China to play for two days. concert.

  …

   "Oh, coronation!"

  Zou Sheng and Shao Sheng, two talkers in the Hong Kong film industry, jointly held a party to welcome MJ. Both parties showed their skills to make the American superstar happy.

Zou Sheng asked the lion dance team to come to MJ and the manager Di Rio. This vivid lion dance activity, with dance and meaning, made MJ very interested. He personally went down and took off the lion's headgear to see how they danced. .

   Shao Sheng took out the heirloom costumes of the film company and let MJ put on the emperor's costume and hat to take pictures. Let the interesting MJ have a lot of fun.

   "It's very interesting. I travel all over the world, and I like to see how local people dance. Many dances are very interesting."

"Your visa has been arranged. This time, you can go to the provincial capital near Xiangjiang to play, and you can also go to the countryside to see these places first. The country of China is really too big. Return to East Ying."

   Ronald brought a travel map and told MJ the big southern cities he would go to.

   "Oh oh..."

   got out of the car, MJ and his party stayed at the White Swan Hotel in the provincial capital together with Ronald Diane. This hotel is the first five-star hotel in the mainland, and you can check in without proof.

   Ronald even saw a garden inside, and Ronald, who was very impressed, took Diane for a photo in front of the artificial waterfall.

   "Ronald, I find you are more famous here than I am."

  MJ called Ronald after walking around the hotel.

   "Huh? Why?"

   Ronald doesn't know. So, how can he be more famous than MJ? Even if MJ was not introduced to the mainland very much, as a director, not many people would know him.

   "I noticed around the hotel there are a lot of people imitating your breakdance."

"what?"

   Ronald quickly made an appointment with MJ to watch Huaguo's breakdance together.

As soon as they left the hotel lobby, on the hardened ground next to them, there was a group of young people, wearing fingerless leather gloves, jeans, and some Ray-Ban glasses from "Top Gun", dancing around. Break dance.

  嘭Wipe…

   The dance moves of these people are not exactly the same as those in the movie "Break Dance". They are more advanced than those in the film, and localized ones have added a lot of moves.

  Ronald felt that the movements of cleaning the glass and pulling the rope were very similar to the way he could dance for no reason.

   "I think they seem to have more of a hip-hop mentality." MJ commented on the side.

   "Indeed," Ronald also felt the same way. Compared with Xiangjiang, the people here have the spirit of breakdance: they are not afraid of being humble, they develop their own spirit, and they start dancing on the street.

   There are also many people, who are competing with each other to see who can dance better, and the winner will be judged by the applause and cheers of the audience.

   "Except for the different costumes and appearances, the street dancers here are very similar to the street dancers in New York, Los Angeles."

   Ronald could not help but sigh, the spirit of a big country is indeed incomparable to a small country. The ordinary citizens of China and America have a spirit that we are born to be leaders.

   "Hahaha, what is this, why is this cow in the water?"

   After living in the provincial capital for two days, Ronald wore Diane, and along with MJ, under the arrangement of the escorts sent by Chaoli's brother, he went to the countryside near the provincial capital to play.

   The farmers here are all paddy fields, and they use the buffalo with curved horns to plow the fields. MJ likes the farmers who wear straw hats and let the buffalo walk slowly in the fields.

   "This buffalo is very docile, you can ride it." Ronald touched the buffalo, feeling like he was good friends with them before.

  The buffalo was rummaging and grazing, and its mouth was rubbing against Ronald, and it looked very cute.

   "Really? I want to touch it, hahahaha..." It was also the first time that MJ saw this kind of animal that is unique to Asia for farming, and it was funny to see them eating grass.

"Come on, Xiao Liu, take some pictures for us." Ronald called a young man who was the tour guide. He let Diane ride on the back of the buffalo, and MJ put on a straw hat like a cattle herder. , while holding the cow rope, the three smiled at the camera.

   "Hahahaha..." None of the people had such an experience in the southern Chinese countryside. They wandered between villages in wooden boats and took pictures with various ancient buildings.

   "I was so thirsty", Dai An finished drinking the bottled water brought from Xiangjiang, and the three of them, led by the tour guide, went to the family's house to ask for a bowl of water to drink.

   "Young son, you drink it, it's well water, I boiled it, it's sweet", a wrinkled old grandmother in blue clothes brought out several bowls and poured water for them to drink.

   Several people drank water, and after walking tired, a bowl of water looked delicious.

   "Thank you..." Ronald thanked the grandmother.

   "It doesn't matter, where did they come from? Why is that person so tanned?" The grandmother secretly asked Xiao Liu, the tour guide, in dialect.

   "From America, he's black, not tanned."

   "Do you want money?" MJ drank a bowl and asked the grandma to add another.

   "No, no." After Xiao Liu translated it to her, she immediately raised her hand and shook it, "Why do you want money for a bowl of water?"

   After drinking water, everyone was a little tired, so they went to the parking place.

  MJ secretly put two Hong Kong dollar bills on the table while everyone was not paying attention.

   (end of this chapter)