Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 735 Dance Training

   "One two three four... two two three four..."

Choreographer Ortega, and assistant choreographer Miranda, began rehearsing several scenes in the movie through a relationship in Ronald, borrowed from the dance studio of old friend Debbie Reynolds. Massive dance scene.

  Three pairs of dancers with different fat and thin looks and crooked melons and jujubes are looking in the mirror and starting to dance Ortega specially choreographed for them to highlight their own strengths.

   "How is it? I've seen their dances are pretty good." Ronald took assistant director Emile Adolino and watched them in the corner for a while. Taking advantage of the break, he asked assistant choreographer Miranda how his training was going.

   "It's not bad, but it's still far from Ortega's requirements, and we need to continue to step up rehearsals."

   "Then leave it to you, let's go see Patrick and Cynthia."

   "They are in the dance studio next door." Miranda led the two to another dedicated dance studio.

  While waiting for Miranda to open the door, Ronald looked back at a dancer who was twisting his hips. His movements were smooth and exaggerated. Although he looked ugly, he danced with a unique charm.

  Assistant director Emile worked with Ronald during the preparations for the film. He saw Ronald's eyes projecting for advice.

   "The camera is at eye level, and the camera is slightly tilted down. This effect will be better. While showing the twisting characteristics of the dance, the actor's facial expression will not be lost."

   Ronald nodded, as he expected, Emile is used to making dance live TV films, and is very experienced in what shots can best show the charm of dance. This is where he officially needs the other party to contribute his abilities.

   is different from "breakdance", where one person dances alone, shooting against the camera, and letting the actor perform by himself.

   "Spicy Dance" is a male and female pas de deux. The two dance partners share the same proportion of movements in the charm of the dance through body, movement, and eye contact. How to arrange camera positions, how to light, and how to do sub-shots needs to be well designed.

   seems to have found that Ronald is looking at himself, the lean dancer, showing a smile, and then together with the dance partner, a very coquettish dance step.

"Very good, I like this move, you will practice this move specially." Choreographer Ortega could not make all the dancers show the tacit understanding of dancing together since childhood, so he had to let the choreographer Ortega They specialize in practicing a few moves to a proficiency level.

   "Oh..." The dancer heard this and covered his face with his hands. It is torture for dancers to keep repeating a movement.

   "Is he?" Ronald asked Emil when he saw the "enchanting" look of the man.

   "No, we're not all sissies like you think."

   "How do you know he's not?" Ronald curiously walked to the next dance studio with him.

   "We seem to have a radar between each other, and we will find each other in the crowd. In fact, many of us still look very masculine."

   "Jennifer, what are you doing here? Didn't I tell you not to come?"

  Ronald saw the sneaky Jennifer Gray at the door of the dance studio.

   "Oh, I want to see their dance rehearsal, and I want to learn as much as possible."

"Miranda," Ronald stopped the assistant choreographer, "I have a task for you, notify everyone, and forbid Jennifer from being here. Whenever you see her, call me and let her go. A dance move also Don't teach her, don't watch."

"Why?" Jennifer Gray, who just saw Patrick Swayze and Cynthia Rhodes through the crack of the door, the two danced inside, enthusiastic and strong, wishing she could take Cynthia's place, and Swayze posted Together.

   "Because I said it."

   Ronald didn't want to explain too clearly to her.

   Actually, Gray's current state of mind is very similar to the Baby in the script. After seeing the rock-shattering dance, he wanted to dance that close-fitting dance with the male protagonist, just like flirting.

   But in the script, Baby is a girl who is not very good at dancing hot body dance, so there is a series of plots in which the hero Johnny teaches her dance from scratch.

   If she starts practicing dance moves now, then when it comes time to shoot, she won't be able to perform in her true colors.

  Being able to dance, to act like she can't dance, this kind of familiar acting is a very advanced skill, Ronald doesn't believe Jennifer can do it.

  It is very difficult for Gray to pretend that she is not good at dancing if she has already practiced a certain level of proficiency. She is not a dancer like Cynthia Rhodes and has no control over her body.

   "Okay, then I'll wait outside for Patrick."

   "Let's rest for ten minutes", Miranda let the two protagonists take a break, and by the way communicated with Ronald the progress of dance training.

   "Dancing well, I seem to be in good agreement."

"Oh, Ronald," Cynthia Rhodes wiped off her sweat with a towel, "could you tell Ortega, it's so tiresome that we do high-intensity jumps for ten hours a day. already."

   "Do have to take a break or my ankles can't take it." Patrick Thwaites agreed.

   "I will tell him that I will be on vacation tomorrow, and I invite everyone to go to the hot spring."

   Ronald saw that everyone had reached the point where they were disgusted by the boring and repetitive dance training, and knew that they could not continue, so he had to find something to change the rhythm.

   "Yeah..." Cynthia and Patrick gave each other a high five.

   "I have promised them that I will go to the hot springs for a rest tomorrow." Ronald said to Ortega, the choreographer who followed him.

   "Okay, Miranda, you go tell the boys and girls outside, but you have to work hard for me today."

   "Yes, Sir", Cynthia hated choreography. This dance training method, the better you dance, the more restrained you feel.

   After a short break, Patrick and Cynthia started rehearsing standard ballroom dancing again.

   They are different from other group performances that specialize in hot dance. There is also a plot of performing extraordinary ballroom dancing in front of holiday guests, so the training is more difficult than those outside.

   Ronald frowned a little as he watched them dance in tights.

   "What's the matter, they dance at a very high level." Assistant director Emile has seen a lot of dancers and knows that the level of these two is the top among Hollywood musical actors.

  Patrick Switz's dancing level is much higher than John Travolta, who represented America and danced with the British Princess. Cynthia Rhodes is even more professional. In fact, the two of them are more than enough to play Broadway musicals that require higher dance standards.

   "It seems too high, you guys stop."

   Ronald called off the rehearsal. He discussed it with the choreographer, Ortega nodded in agreement, and went to prepare a new dance move.

   Then Ronald called out Patrick Switz and Cynthia Rhodes, "I'll ask Ortega to take your dance off a bit, don't dance too professionally.

  In the movie, Johnny and Penny are poor children who have not received formal dance education. They watch dance programs on TV by themselves, and they are self-taught and need some wild movements. You should try your best to collect professional dance moves and have more of a fan's temperament. "

   "Okay, let's discuss it."

  In the later dance training, Ronald saw some not very standard, but very exaggerated movements like fans.

  Dance enthusiasts are often unable to perform particularly difficult movements, so it is often more difficult to renovate some small movements than professional dancers.

   "Very good, just follow this path", Ronald was very satisfied with the ability to choreograph Eltega's adaptable movements, and the new movements achieved his expected effects well.

"I said, don't be too strict with them. Training for a long time will cause boredom and resistance, try to have some entertainment time every day. I can find some movie copies to show them, or how they want to play, you Just let them play.

   Working every day, not playing, quickly turns people into idiots. Ronald still instructed the choreographer Ortega to pay attention to letting the dancers rest.

   "They are all dancers. At the end of each day, let them dance their favorite dance."

"very good!"

  Ronald saw that the progress here was in line with expectations. He thought that when the game was turned on, they had been able to perform well the tacit understanding of dancing together since childhood.

   "Let's go first and show you a top expert in the industry." Ronald turned around and called assistant director Emile, and the two said goodbye and left.

  "Oh...sorry", Ronald opened the door and went out, just outside the door stood a young man who was about to come in. The two of them pushed and pulled the door at the same time, and the door opened quickly and almost hit him on the head.

   "It's okay, I didn't touch my hairstyle." The young man carefully touched his hair and looked at the mirror on the wall. Fortunately, it was not messed up.

   "Are you here to find someone?" Ronald asked.

   "I'm here to find Cynthia." The young man stretched out his hand, "My name is Richard."

   "Cynthia is in there, but you'd better wait, she's still rehearsing her dance."

   "Okay, I'll wait for her here." Richard had an easy-going temperament. Hearing Ronald's words, he went out with him and waited outside the door.

   "Are you from the dance industry or the movie industry?"

   "I'm making movies, how about you?" Seeing that the other party didn't recognize who he was, Ronald chatted with him for a while.

  His hair is very interesting, with a high comb on the top, but the two temples are trimmed very short, and the back is left with long hair.

   "I'm a singer, and I write songs for other people, and I may have the opportunity to write for Barbra Streisand in the future."

   "Good for you", Ronald nodded to him and walked out with his assistant Emil.

   "Who is this? The shelf is so big." Richard waited for a while and found that no one cared about him, so he gently pulled the dance studio away and stood in the corner, looking at Cynthia with admiration.

   "Oh, she's so beautiful."

   (end of this chapter)