Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 499 The Broom Dance

The one-on-one dance of the four of them is a bit of a fake.

Whirlwind and Ma Da, especially the actor who played the black boy Ma Da, the dance skills of Bugaloo Prawn surpassed the crowd, visibly surpassing everyone on the scene.So they beat each other victoriously, and even took off each other's coats.

But the two opponents didn't care at all, they showed evil smiles, split from the middle, and the two pulled out a short female dancer from behind.The female dancer held the hands of the two of them and swung out like a swing. She stood opposite the whirlwind and the motor, and began to provoke.

It turned out that they also had a female partner.The three formed a group together and challenged the whirlwind and motor again.

The fighting dance between blacks and Latinos is actually nothing more than a way to attract the opposite sex.Whoever dances well can win the favor of a beautiful woman. If this beautiful woman can also break dance, it is simply too good to die.

The female dancer returned to her side, and the three began to dance in a team. They were all simple movements, but they made Cyclone and Ma Da look frustrated.

Now that the other party already has a female dance partner, no matter how well the whirlwind and the motor dance, they have already lost the game.

Ice T, who is a DJ, also started to fire:
"At this point in the game, there is no suspense about the outcome.

Don't be discouraged, even you will be deflated! "

"Cut!"

After this part of the fight dance, the story will continue to develop. Kelly began to learn breakdancing to help Cyclone and Ma Da get back to the field. After their training, Kelly added breakdancing elements to her dance and was spotted by an agent. , to push her out.

But Kelly said that without Whirlwind and Ma Da, she was unwilling to sign the contract by herself, and would need three people to sign as a team.The manager was persuaded by her and promised her to watch the dance between Whirlwind and Motor.

So Kelly and her agent once again came to the basement where dance fights are held all year round.

Exploitation films are shot like this, and the scenes in one scene are all shot at one time.And it doesn't pay attention to lighting like big productions, and pays more attention to speed than quality assurance.

Therefore, the shooting speed only depends on whether the actors perform well.

Ronald waved in the costumes and make-up, changing the outfits of all the main actors.Anyway, several important characters are poor ghosts, so the actors brought a few clothes to exchange.

This time it was Ma Da's turn that Chinese characters appeared on Ma Da's clothes, with "famous" written vertically, which made Ronald laugh.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with what I'm wearing?" Bugaloo prawn was a little confused by the laugh.

"No, the Chinese characters on it are very auspicious, which means becoming famous. Maybe you will become famous after acting in this movie."

"Anthracene?" Bugaloo prawn is also a big boy with no plans in his life, so he was very happy to hear the director say that.

Lucinda Dickey wore a black and red outfit, a pair of cheap black Nike shoes on her feet, a black gauze dress on her upper body, a red long-sleeved T-shirt, and light makeup.

At first glance, Ronald was very eye-catching, much sexier and more beautiful than the female dancer on the opponent's side.The most important thing is that there are a pair of leg warmers on the ankles, which are the original products from Ronald's factory. Although according to the background of the script, Kelly, a poor girl working in a hamburger restaurant, may not be able to afford it, but exploitation films , It’s okay to bring your own goods.

"Action!"

"Wow, that's what you call breakdancing?" The blond manager was played by a handsome actor named Christopher McDonald, who often played supporting roles in TV series, and he was familiar with this kind of role.

"I have to find someone to take pictures of these dance steps." James, the manager, couldn't help but start shaking with Ice T's rap. This kind of music really makes people unable to stop.

This time it was the turn of Cyclone and Motor to show off, and they also moved aside, revealing Kelly behind.

Lucinda Dickey grew up practicing gymnastics as a boy before turning to jazz dancing.She landed a front somersault, and then began to challenge the other girl with a breakdance mixed with gymnastics moves.

"Oh, what will this girl bring tonight? Let's wait and see!"

Ice T started improvising again.

The opponent trio was dumbfounded, and the female dancer tried to imitate it, and then gave up in despair.

To say that Lucinda Dicky's dance skills are not inferior to Shabadu's, but she dances with jazz dance skills, while Shabado has break dance skills, and neither of them can dance well with the other's dance.

"Look at this, look at that, which one can you do?"

Ice T no longer cares about the face of the opponent trio, a white girl can also incorporate "noble" jazz dance moves in breakdancing, and quickly improvised lyrics and praised it.

The opponent conceded defeat, and Ma Da, Cyclone, and Kelly celebrated happily.

"Cut! Let's do it again!"

Ronald's filming went smoothly today, and all the shots of the fighting dance ended on time at six o'clock in the evening.

With the cast and crew gone, it was just Ronald and Minahan who got into a van and began directing the cut.

In the editing car, the editor had already synchronized the audio and video from the previous day. In order to ensure the progress, Minahan asked the two editors to work in two shifts.

"This guy dances the best!" Minahan also squatted next to Ronald, looking at the clip played on the monitor. "If I didn't know that he has a disability, I wouldn't be able to tell it just by watching the dance."

"His level is superb, and today's Boogaloo prawns are also very good. Both of them are beyond others. And that Falcon's fusion of robot dance and noodle dance is also very good."

"Hmm," Minahan was listening to Ronald's opinion, "Boogaloo prawns, Falcon..."

He repeated it several times to impress the names of the two actors, "Boogaloo, Boogaloo, this name is quite easy to pronounce."

"Boogaloo is actually the name of a style of black music," the editor interjected.

"Their names are weird anyway."

After a few cuts, Ronald started yawning, "I'm tired, you keep doing rough cuts. I have to go to sleep."

In this way, the shooting time of the first week gradually passed, and on Saturday, the rest of the crew went home to rest, leaving only Ronald and the four leading male dancers, who sneaked in an RV at night and came to Corner of Melrose Avenue.

"We have already made an agreement with the owner, don't make a big noise, and leave after shooting."

Minahan directed the lighting team to set up lights at the entrance of a convenience store on the corner.

The photography team got into the convenience store and began to arrange the cameras.

Ma Da, played by Boogaloo Shrimp, starts muttering to himself with a broom in front of a thief-proof mirror.

Cyclone laughed at him, "Who do you think you are? Fred Astaire?"

"Who?" Ma Da didn't know the legendary white musical star.

"Forget it, you'd better take the broom and sweep the floor."

The reason why Whirlwind and Motor are so close is also because they work as cashiers in the same convenience store.The two have the same interests, and work together again, and have studied many innovative dance moves with each other.

Ma Da is a person with pure interests. He sweeps the floor and also plays music with a dual-card large-speaker recorder.After a few random sweeps, he started dancing with the broom again.

"Every department is ready!" Ronald pointed the camera at the entrance of the convenience store. "You just need to pan the camera and follow the dancing steps of the boogaloo prawns. You don't have to do anything."

"Okay", the director of photography went down and explained.

"Later, you can dance however you want." Ronaldo told Bugaloo Prawn.

"Aw... ah... ah... ah..." A heavy panting sound came from the speaker of the tape recorder.

Mada began to improvise.

He opened with a series of moonwalks, very compact, his feet seemed to be sliding on ice, and that kind of elegant feeling was much better than MJ's live performance at the Motown concert that day.

"Hmm..." Ronald touched his chin and thought of a trick.

The motor moved repeatedly on the ground, and his shoulders seemed to be loaded with springs. With the compact drumbeat, he began to shake like a puppet with springs.

Then he pinned the broom to the ground and jumped up around the standing broom.

The extremely rhythmic dance steps made Ronald pleasing to the eye.

The motor circled the broom a few times by hand, and with a gentle tap, pushed it down.

He stepped forward, raised his hand and made a movement, as if calling for the broom to come back.

Gradually, the broom seemed to hear his call, jumped on the ground, and then stood up slowly.

"Cut!"

"How is it?" Ronald quickly asked the director of photography, "Aren't you wearing a jacket?"

"No problem," the director of photography made an OK gesture.

"Okay, get ready for the next game."

It turns out that this is a magic trick of the Boogaloo prawn.When his hand was spinning around the broom before, he tied it with a very thin fishing line and stuck it on the bayonet that had been left in advance.

Then with a slight pull, the broom slowly returns to its original position.

"Action!"

The next movement was the motor surrounding the broom and performing thaumaturgy. When he raised his hand, the broom rose into the air as if enchanted. With the control of the motor hand, it seemed to be attracted to his palm by an invisible magnet.

Then Boogaloo prawn controlled the broom in the air with one hand, and took a moonwalk.

His dance steps are gently curling, and the broom seems to be floating in space with the moonwalk, moving forward and backward with the motor.

"Cut!"

"How about this time?"

"No problem, I zoomed into the close-up and it didn't hurt." The director of photography said there was no problem.

"Is this really a masterpiece?" The next afternoon, in the editing car, Minahan saw this "Dance of the Motor Broom" and was full of praise.

"You know what? He reminds me of Fred Astaire, the scene in the old movie where he jumps up the wall and ends up on the ceiling. A mysterious force... I was As a kid, I saw this scene in my dad's screening room, and I thought, I'm going to grow up to do this magical musical."

"Hmm..." Ronald's mind was not on Minahan's whimsical imagination at all, but he was thinking about his own problems.

At the end of "Breakdance", Ma Da, Cyclone, and Kelly teamed up to participate in the dance competition of the Broadway selection.Several judges didn't like their break dancing at first, and under the operation of Franco, the dance coach who harassed Kelly, they eliminated them if they didn't want to let them compete.

But in the end, the judges were persuaded by Cyclone's speech about freedom and let them breakdance. Finally, the trio finally succeeded, won the dance competition and won the leading role in the new Broadway musical.

"This ending is too much like 'Lightning Dance'. If you shoot it like this, you will be complained by film critics." Ronald thought, "And in 'The Dragon Boy', I want to imitate Billy Wilder and do that. False ending climax and aftertaste, it seems that you can try it here."

(End of this chapter)