The filming continued, and Minahan was in a very happy mood. His main task now was to lead everyone in applauding and shouting slogans during the filming breaks on the set.
"Defeat Hot Street Kid! Early release! Cannon forward, forward!"
The more Ronald looked at Minahan, the more he looked like Master Miyagi, the Japanese veteran in "The Dragon King". He was stunned. But since he could improve his morale and speed up his movements, he didn't care.
The crew went to the basement where the dance battle was being filmed. The art director and the set and props team worked here all day to get all the sets ready.
A very simple basement was decorated with a hip-hop style. A false wall made of wood was covered with all kinds of graffiti. All kinds of weird letters were filled with bright colors.
This method of using fake walls instead of real walls makes it very fast to dismantle the scenery.
Ronald saw a lot of extras, all from the Soul Train show, and the students from Kazuo Man came in to fill in. Each of them can dance street dance. During the dance, some were in the background, some were in the background, and some were on their own.
Those who will dance to express their feelings have already been selected.
At one end of the basement, there was a table with a teacher's record player on it, followed by two loudspeakers. A sinister-looking man wearing a baseball cap was repeatedly playing the record, making a stopping sound.
This is a underground DJ that Minahan found through the Soul Train program. His nickname is ice. His record only has accompaniment and no melody. The lyrics are improvised, "You all come together to watch, in order to feel the shock of rock and roll."
So, on this special night, you asked me to come, this special party, for all the breakdancers out there..."
Ronald was amazed at his ability to improvise and chatted with him for a few words.
It turns out that this very light-skinned DJ is actually black. No matter how many mixed-race ancestors there are in America, as long as there is one black person, he is considered black.
When he was in elementary school, he was mistaken for a light-skinned Latino by his white classmates. When his classmates arbitrarily abused black people, he felt the full malice of white people towards people of color.
Ice t later lost his parents and has been messing around. Until recently, he was noticed by a record company and wanted to release a special album.
The songs in this album have no melody, only rhythm and lyrics, and each lyric is not allowed to rhyme. The record company named this music form "rapping".
Beginning in 1981, this music gradually entered the mainstream music, and it debuted on the Billboard Top 100 Hot Singles chart.
ice t’s current album has not been released yet, so I don’t know if it will become popular. However, his ability to cope with this kind of dance battle is still a small scene.
Breakdancers especially like to use rap music as accompaniment because their rhythms are particularly distinctive and there is no interference caused by the melody, which is particularly suitable for dancers to improvise.
"Let me tell you, where did you go from here, buddy?" Ice t was an acquaintance and soon became close friends with Ronald.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, are you from the East Coast or the West Coast?"
"I don't know, what's the difference?" Ronald was curious.
"Hey, you white people like to steal our black people's dance forms. Since you don't know which side you belong to, it's the West Coast."
Ronald quickly asked for advice. It turns out that break dance and other hip-hop forms were founded by black people in the early 1970s. They quickly became popular and had a great influence. On the TV station, "Soul Train" was also born, which specialized in broadcasting break dance.
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But as the time came to the late 1970s, this dance form quickly lost popularity among black people, and the "Soul Train" program was almost canceled by the television station.
Who knows, but for some reason, this dance gradually became popular among Latinos. Children from Puerto Rico quickly picked it up and injected new vitality and creativity into it.
Today, hip-hop has been split into two major genres. On the east coast, it is dominated by black people, insisting on the relationship between this dance and the black liberation and affirmative movement. On the west coast, it is developed by Latinos, paying more attention to the expression of dance itself and technical innovation.
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Needless to say, it turns out that the "Crazy Legs" whom Ronald knew were die-hard East Coasters. People like Boogaloo Prawn and Sabado were more typical West Coasters.
The two always argue about originality and authenticity, which is one of the reasons why this dance has not become popular in other parts of the country.
Of course, the entire trend is evolving in the favor of the West Coast genre. In the past five years, West Coast Latinos have gradually taken over the black flag and begun to become break dance's main source of new dancers and new fan audiences.
"Director, you are here, come and take a look at our shooting." The photographer asked Ronald to do the work.
"Oh, shxt! This white boy is actually the director!" Ice t felt a little regretful that she didn't show herself in front of him more. She would have to make up some good lyrics 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 East Coast dance troupes.
From this point of view, these two movies are likely to determine who of the two factions on the east and west coasts will dominate hip-hop in the future. It depends on whether Cannon or Orion can be released first and achieve better box office results.
"action!"
ice t cheered up and exerted 100% of his ability. He kept spinning the record with both hands, making a squeaking sound.
"Oh, then,
The feeling of love is indulgent,
The body longs for freedom..."
Under the repetitive rhythm of "dong da da da... dong da da da", Ronald felt that it was very conducive to the performance of break dancing.
Ma Da and Xuanfeng stood on the edge, pretending to be break dancing masters, hugging their brothers and letting some of the minions show off first.
One person started to dance on the floor, taking turns holding one hand on the floor.
Another danced an alternative robot dance. He seemed to be cleaning the glass with his hands, grabbing the non-existent glass and walking step by step.
"Pfft..." Ronald spat out.
"Cut!" The director of photography looked over in surprise, "Ronald, what's wrong?"
"It's okay, it's okay, my problem." Ronald saw the glass cleaning dance and the stair climbing dance again, but the dancer didn't dance with any strength at all and looked like a beginner. Gu Liao
Ronald walked onto the stage and said, "You have to do this dance move like this."
Then he motioned ice to continue playing the background rhythm.
"Oh, then, the director is not satisfied with you, kid,
Personal guidance,
Let's look at this white guy,
You can’t teach you a few tricks…”
Ronald made preparations and said to the group, "Look, I will only demonstrate once."
He raised his hands to grasp the imaginary glass, then used both hands to move his whole body, and finally used both legs to move over.
"Understand? The important thing is the strength of the legs."
"Hey, man. You can do that? How did you come up with that?"
The Boogaloo prawn rushed over. He was most obsessed with the innovation of movements. He admired Ronald's improvement of this move very much.
The other two actors who played the rival roles, Falcon and Solomon, were also very surprised. No one has ever tried this kind of jumping method.
"I mentioned it when I was chatting with MJ." Ronald smiled softly and returned behind the camera, "Let's continue."
Everyone looked at Ronald in surprise. They didn't expect that the director was also a master of break dancing!
Minahan was even more surprised and speechless, "Lucky! Lucky! I actually found a director who is a master of break dancing. It would be unreasonable not to beat Orion's 'Hot Street Kid'."
"Defeat the 'Hot Street Kid'! Defeat Orion! Go forward, go forward!"
Minahan began to encourage everyone to shout slogans again.
"Shh..." Ronald made a shut-up gesture to him, "action!"
The camera pointed at the motor and the whirlwind, and then slowly panned half a circle, capturing the two dancing opponents. The two parties and the four people stood in full stance and faced off for a long time. Just when the momentum was about to explode, suddenly one party
Moved.
First, there was the Latino Falcon. His whole body seemed to be as soft as a bone, and he danced a combined version of the robot dance and the noodle dance. Ronald looked like a master at first glance. If he didn't show off his special skills, wouldn't he?
Let everyone look down upon you!
Then the black man Solomon also came to the end. The two of them cooperated tacitly, and their whole bodies were shaking like a machine that automatically sifts out weeds in the big corn fields in the central and southern parts of the country after harvesting. During the whole dance, the two of them stared fiercely at each other.
Whirlwind was still walking around him, full of provocation.
Xuanfeng had no choice but to stay far away from the two of them, lit a cigarette, and pretended that I was older than you and you were ahead. In fact, he didn't have any confidence in his heart.
Falcon was shaking more and more arrogantly. His whole body was shaking, as if energy was transmitted from the soles of his feet to his hands. He approached the whirlwind, slapped the opponent's hand, and raised his chin. Everyone knew that it was "You can do it."
?” a silent challenge.
"cut!"
Several dancers who stopped filming have not yet withdrawn from the emotions of their characters. Ronald's dance seemed to give all the actors a stimulant. Falcon and Solomon did not follow the choreography, but created their own.
The claims have increased.
This made Sabado very nervous. He is 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 movements, and innovatively added break dancing.
, but when it comes to dancing well, it’s really not as good as the other two.
Shabadoo's smoking hand was shaking nervously, and he was hit.
A large amount of adrenaline was secreted, making him feel unusually excited. He hadn't wanted to fight so much for a long time.
Sabado exchanged a look with the Boogaloo prawn, then took off his leather jacket, threw it on the ground, and got ready to wear a leather vest he bought from a second-hand flea market.
"Director, I'm ready!"
"Okay, all departments, please pay attention and get ready to start!"
Ronald also noticed Sabado's abnormality. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the lead actor had a great time!
After the lens was fixed, Ronald said into the director of photography's ear, "Just keep the camera still and let them jump."
The director of photography was well-informed and had never seen such a confrontational situation come true. He agreed and told the camera crew that they might not be able to keep up with the improvisation of several dancers if they zoomed in.
Just use a large panoramic main lens to capture the entire wonderful dance.
"action!"
"Ahh...ah!"
Sabado and Boogaloo prawns widened their eyes, shouted, and rushed in front of Falcon and Solomon.
He began to stick in front of the two opponents and began to provoke.
Both hands seemed to be pressed against the electric socket and kept shaking.
Ronald was very excited when he saw this fake situation coming true. When the two of them rushed forward, Ronald saw Sabado's back.
He quickly covered his mouth and almost laughed again.
Sabado's second-hand clothes, which he didn't know where to buy, had three red Chinese characters written on the back. People who didn't understand Chinese at the scene found it very interesting. Only Ronald who understood it almost burst into tears.
Those three words are the Cantonese way of writing Hollywood, "Lo! Li! Live!"