Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 498 East and West Coast Fighting Dance

  The filming continued, and Minahan was in a very happy mood. His main task now is to lead everyone to applaud and shout slogans during the filming interval.

   "Defeat the Hot Street Kid! Early release! Cannon forward, forward!"

  The more Ronald looked at Minahan, the more he looked like the old soldier Miyagi from "Dragon Power Boy", and he was stunned. But for the sake of improving his morale and speeding up his actions, he didn't care.

  The crew came to the basement where the dance battle was being filmed. The art director took the sets and props to work here for a whole day, making all the sets.

   A very simple basement, they were dressed up to look like hip-hop. A fake wall made of wood is covered with all kinds of graffiti. A variety of oddly-shaped letters, filled with bright colors.

   This method of replacing the real wall with a fake wall makes the removal of the scenery very fast.

  Ronald saw a lot of group performances, all of which were Soul Train shows, and filled in with those students of Hand Boy. Each of them can dance hip-hop, and when they are fighting, some are on the field, some are in the background, and some are out to express their feelings, all of which have been selected.

   At one end of the basement, there was a table with an old-fashioned record player, followed by two big speakers. A ferocious-looking man wearing a baseball cap was playing the record repeatedly, making a creaking sound.

   This is an underground DJ that Minahan found through the Soul Train program. The flower name is IceT, and his records have only accompaniment, no melody. The lyrics are improvised, "You all came together to see the rock and roll. So, on this special evening, you have me here, this special party, for all the break dancers..."

  Ronald was amazed at his improvisation skills and had a chat with him.

   It turns out that this very light-skinned DJ turned out to be a black man. No matter how many mixed-race ancestors Amelica had, as long as there was a black person, it was counted as black.

   When he was in elementary school, he was mistaken by his white classmates as a light-skinned Latino white man. When his classmates abused black people in front of him, he felt the full malice of white people towards people of color.

  IceT later lost his parents and has been messing around. It was only recently that the record company took a fancy to it and wanted to release a special album.

   The songs on this album have no melody, only rhythm and lyrics, and every lyric must rhyme. The record company named this form of music "Rapping".

   Beginning in 1981, the music gradually entered the mainstream music, and for the first time on the Billboard chart top 100 singles.

  IceT's current album has not been released yet, I don't know if it will become popular. However, his ability to deal with this kind of fighting dance is still a small scene.

   Dancers who dance break dance especially like to use rap music to accompany them, because their rhythm is very clear and there is no interference from melody, which is especially suitable for dancers to improvise.

   "I said, who the **** are you from, buddy?" IceT was a familiar one, and soon became fraternity with Ronald.

"What do you mean?"

   "I mean, are you from the East Coast or the West Coast?"

   "I don't know, is there any difference?" Ronald asked curiously.

   "Hey, you white guys like to steal our black dance styles, since you don't know which side you belong to, it's West Coast Law."

   Ronald quickly asked for advice. It turns out that hip-hop forms such as breakdancing were founded by blacks in the early 1970s. And it quickly became popular and had a great impact. The "Soul Train" was also born on the TV station, which was a program dedicated to playing breakdance.

   But in the late 1970s, this dance form quickly lost popularity among black people, and the "Soul Train" program was almost cancelled by TV stations.

  Who knows, but for some reason, this kind of dance has gradually become popular among Latinos. The kids from Puerto Rico picked it up quickly and injected new energy and creativity into it.

   Today, hip-hop has split into two major genres. The East Coast is dominated by blacks, and insists on the relationship between this dance and the black liberation and affirmation movement. And developed by Latinos on the West Coast, it pays more attention to the expression of dance itself, and technological innovation.

   Needless to say, the "crazy legs" that Ronald knew belonged to the die-hard East Coast faction. People like Boogaloo prawns and Sabados are more typical West Coast pie.

  The two are always arguing about originality and authenticity, which is one of the reasons why this dance has not caught on in other parts of the country.

  Certainly, the whole trend is moving in favor of the West Coast genre. In the past five years, Latinos on the West Coast have gradually taken over the black banner and have become the main source of new breakdancing dancers and new fan audiences.

   "Director, you are here, come and see our framing", the director of photography asked Ronald to go to work.

   "Oh, Shxt! This white boy turned out to be the director!" IceT was a little remorseful and didn't show himself more in front of him, so he might have to make up some good words later.

  Ronald was thinking about another thing. His "break dance" was mainly performed by hip-hop elites from the West Coast, while the "Hot Street Boys" invested by Orion used all the East Coast dance troupes.

  In this way, these two films are likely to decide who will dominate the future hip-hop in the east and west coasts. It depends on whether it is Cannon or Orion, which can be released first and achieve better box office results.

   "Action!"

  IceT was full of energy and showed 100% of his abilities. Both hands kept spinning the record, making creaking, creaking movements.

   "Yo, then,

  The feeling of love is indulging,

  The body longs for freedom…”

   Under the repetitive rhythm of "Dong Da Da Da... Dong Da Da Da", Ronald felt that it was very beneficial to the performance of breakdance.

  Motor and Cyclone stood on the side, posing like a big break dancer, hugging their chests and letting some of the little guys show off first.

   A person starts to dance on the floor, taking turns supporting the ground with one hand.

  Another robot dance, he seems to be cleaning the glass with his hands, clinging to the glass that does not exist, and walking step by step.

   "Pfft..." Ronald spat out.

   "Cut!" The director of photography looked over in amazement, "Ronald, what's wrong?"

   "It's alright, it's alright, my problem." Ronald saw Cabana dance and stair climbing dance again, but the dancer didn't dance at all and looked like a beginner.

   Ronald walked into the stage, "This dance move, you have to come here."

   Then he motioned IceT to continue playing the background rhythm.

   "Yo, then, the director is not satisfied with you boy,

   personally go off to guide,

   Let's see this white guy,

   You can’t teach you a few tricks…”

  Ronald made his preparations and said to the group, "Okay, I'll just demonstrate it once."

   He raised his hands up, clinging to the imaginary glass, then using his hands to drive the whole body, and finally using his legs one by one, he moved over.

   "Understood? The emphasis is on the strength of the legs."

   "Hi, man. Can you? How did you come up with that."

  The prawns of Bugalo rushed over. He was most obsessed with the innovation of movements, and he admired Ronald's improvement of this move.

   The other two actors who played rivals, Falken and Solomon, were also pleasantly surprised. No one has tried this kind of dance yet.

   "I talked about it when I was chatting with MJ." Ronald smiled and returned to the back of the camera, "Let's come next."

   Everyone looked at Ronald in amazement, but they didn't expect the director to be a master of breakdance!

  Meinahan was even more surprised and speechless, "Lucky! Lucky! I actually found a director who is a master of breakdance himself. If he doesn't beat Orion's 'Hot Street Kid', then there is no reason."

   "Defeat 'Hot Street Guy'! Defeat Orion! Go, go!"

   Meinahan began to encourage everyone to shout slogans again.

   "Shh..." Ronald gestured to him to shut up, "Action!"

  The camera is facing the motor and the whirlwind, and then slowly sweeps half a circle to capture the two dance-fighting opponents. The two sides, the four of them put their stances on their feet and faced off for a long time. When the momentum was about to explode, suddenly one of them moved.

   First, the Latino Falcon, who seemed to be boneless, danced a combined version of the robot dance and the spaghetti dance. Ronald is a master at first sight. If he doesn't take out his housekeeping skills, wouldn't he make everyone look down on it!

   Then the black Solomon also came off the stage. The two cooperated tacitly, shaking like a machine that automatically sifts out weeds after harvest in the big corn field in the central and southern regions. During the entire dance, the two of them stared fiercely at the whirlwind, and they walked around him, full of provocation.

  Whirlwind had no choice but to stay away from the two of them, lit a cigarette, and pretended that I was older than you and you were first. In fact, there is no bottom in my heart.

  Falcon trembled more and more arrogantly, his whole body trembled, as if he had transmitted energy from the soles of his feet to his hands. He approached the whirlwind, slapped the opponent's hand, raised his chin, and everyone knew that it was a silent challenge of "Can you do it?"

   "Cut!"

   Several dancers who stopped shooting have not yet withdrawn from the characters' emotions. When Ronald danced, he seemed to dope all the actors. Falcon and Solomon did not follow the choreography, but added extras on their own.

   This made Sabade very nervous, and he was not good at the completion of movements. In "Soul Train", he is more inclined to the role of a fusion person. He invented and borrowed many other dance moves, and innovatively joined breakdance, but to say that they dance well, they are really not as good as the other two.

  Sabadu's smoking hand trembled a little nervously, and he was hit by the bar.

   Adrenaline was secreted a lot, which made him feel extremely excited, and he hadn't wanted to fight for a long time.

  Sabadu and Boogaloo prawn exchanged glances, then took off the leather jacket and threw it on the ground, wearing a leather vest that he bought from a second-hand flea market.

   "Director, I'm ready!"

   "Okay, all departments pay attention, get ready to start!"

  Ronald also noticed Sabadell's abnormality. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The main actor is dancing!

  The shot was fixed, Ronald said into the director of photography's ear, "You just leave the camera still and let them dance and that's it."

  The director of photography is well-informed, and he has never seen such a real confrontation between acting and acting. He agreed and said to the camera crew that if he zoomed, he might not be able to keep up with the improvisation of a few dancers. Simply come to a large panoramic main lens, and capture the whole picture of the wonderful dance.

   "Action!"

   "Aah...ah!"

  Sabadu and Boogaloo prawns, their eyes widened, they shouted and rushed in front of Falcon and Solomon.

   began to stick to the front of the two opponents and began to provoke.

   Both hands seemed to be touching the electrical socket and kept shaking.

  Ronald was very excited when he saw this fake situation. When the two rushed up, Ronald saw Sabado's back.

   He quickly covered his mouth and almost laughed again.

  Sabadu's second-hand clothes from nowhere had three red Chinese characters written on the back. People who didn't understand Chinese at the scene thought it was very interesting, but Ronald, who understood, almost sprayed.

   Those three characters are Hollywood Cantonese writing, "He! Lee! Live!"

   (end of this chapter)