"Break Dance" was released simultaneously in 1,069 theaters across the country. Now it happens to be a relatively weak period, and there are not many new movies. After all, no one wants to be sniped by the subsequent blockbuster sequel "The Lost Man". Therefore, MGM helped grab it
Showing in more theaters.
However, it is still not as good as "Sixteen Candles" released by Universal. This movie directed by John Hughes got 1,240 theaters. That movie had a budget of more than 6 million, which was more in comparison.
valued.
Ronald came to a Universal Cinema in West Hollywood. MGM did not have high expectations for "Break Dance" and did not hold a formal premiere. Instead, it asked the creative team to come to a large cinema and meet thousands of viewers.
Watch a movie together. A live performance and Q&A session will be arranged afterwards.
Minahan took this very seriously and specially recruited a few shills just in case no one asked questions.
But as soon as the movie started, Minahan knew that he was worrying too much.
The opening scenes of break dancing made the audience start to marvel.
Lucinda Dickey and Lucinda Dickey were in the restaurant. After finishing their part-time job, they went to the dance studio run by Franco to practice dancing. Franco grabbed Kelly and after a while of compliments, he hinted that as long as Kelly committed herself to him, he was willing to let her participate in the dance.
Competition, be your own dance partner.
Kelly refused this kind of power and sex deal. She and her dancing friend Eton came to the hip-hop dance hall in Venice Beach to watch break dancing for the first time. The audience began to burst into shouts of amazement.
The beauty in bikini flashed in front of the camera. Jean Claude Van Dam, wearing a black tights, did a backflip, and three hip-hop boys performed a floor dance in unison beside him.
The appetizers made the audience forget to eat popcorn and stared blankly at the screen. It was not until Falcon challenged Motor and Tornado for the first time, and the two left with Kelly, that the audience began to regain their ability to think.
Everyone grabbed popcorn to eat together and drank Coca-Cola together.
"Hiccup..." Another swallowing sound was made almost simultaneously, interrupting the lines of the movie.
Ronald looked very excited from his seat. Breakdancing, a dynamic and rhythmic dance, appeared on the big screen for the first time, and it actually had such power that it made the audience forget to drink Coke!
Kelly, played by Lucinda Dickey, after seeing break dancing, invited Motor and Tornado to her jazz dance classroom and let them see her own jazz dance. The two break dancing masters had a deep understanding of the ancient jazz dance.
Without much appreciation, they broke into a break dance.
When her teacher Franco discovered that Kelly had brought wild hip-hop dancers to the dance studio and incorporated jazz dance moves, he sternly stopped her.
The audience booed again.
Most of the people who came to watch today are teenagers. In their opinion, jazz dance is an antique that should be booed. Break dancing is the dance that they should dance and appreciate.
The scene shifts to the convenience store where Ma Da and Xunfeng are working. Ma Da goes out with a broom and performs a Ma Da broom dance.
"boom……"
The whole cinema seemed to explode.
"What is this?" The audience couldn't believe their eyes. They saw something groundbreaking on TV. This moonwalk was more exciting and natural than Michael Jackson's Motown concert.
Then the motor sucked the broom in the air with his hand, as if he was really walking on the moon, and the broom lost the fetters of gravity and danced with him.
The camera then moved to the scene of Motor and Tornado dancing with people in the basement, and the audience was once again stimulated. The confrontational dance was even more exciting than the solo routine.
Kelly's new manager also advised her not to get involved too much with street dancers and to focus on jazz dancing. Kelly had a big fight with him, saying that he didn't understand the beauty of hip-hop at all and asked him not to I have seen it with my own eyes, so don’t belittle hip-hop.
In the end, the manager was persuaded by Kelly to go to the basement to watch the dance battle. This time, after Kelly joined, the trio surpassed their rival Falcon's trio in terms of appearance and dance routines.
The agent was so impressed by this novel dance that he tried every means to sign up the trio and compete with Franco from Kelly's original dance class for a spot on Broadway.
The movie has entered the midpoint, and the audience has begun to relax, eat popcorn, and prepare to enter the end of the second act.
The agent found a place for them to participate in the competition and let them go to the luncheon hosted by the dance organizer. In the garden outside the mansion, the celebrities began to dine.
Two ladies who came to the banquet saw Ma Da wearing a rented suit, thought he was a black waiter, and raised their hands to let him serve.
Angrily, Ma Da brought a cheese plate and put it in front of them, "Would you like some Pig's Head cheese?"
"no, thanks."
The two ladies were disgusted and found that Tornado was accusing Kelly's former dance teacher Franco. It turned out that Franco was jealous when he saw Kelly and Tornado together and said that their dancing was low-class. If they can't dance well, they cannot participate in the elegant jazz dance competition, and they are threatened with disqualification.
Xuanfeng was humiliated and left with Ma Da.
Kelly was also angry at Franco, saying that she was in the same class as Tornado and Motor, and not in the same class as dancers like him who relied on flattering these rich ladies.
The manager promised that Franco could not decide their qualifications. Kelly drove to Motor and Tornado to find them and go to the dance competition together.
Ma Da teaches children how to break dance at home, while Tornado is alone on the beach thinking about his thoughts. Kelly finds them and wants to persuade them to compete together.
Xuanfeng said that he did not participate in the competition just to win prizes, but to promote break dancing, which is a truly free dance.
Tornado pulled Kelly to the beach, and together they watched the shocking dance of the "Hand Man" who was paralyzed from the lower body.
"How the hell does that dance?"
"He seems to be a disabled person, right?"
"Isn't he using a cane? You can see that his lower limbs are different from those of normal people. It must be polio."
"Then why can he still do this kind of dance move? I think he is better than the gymnasts of the Soviet Union."
The audience no longer cared about the plot and started discussing loudly.
This dance shocked them so much. If it weren't for the scene of the "Hand Man" using a crutch, the audience would never believe that he was a disabled person.
Tornado, Motor, and Kelly competed as a trio. In the end, they jumped on the judges' table and performed a break dance.
The chief judge, played by Roger Corman, smoked a big cigar, nodded happily, stamped his feet and beat time, and was very happy to watch.
Franco stepped forward to stop the competition and asked the judges to disqualify the trio, otherwise he would withdraw from the competition.
Roger Corman blew out a big smoke ring, "Then hurry up and don't stop me from watching break dancing."
"Hahaha..." The audience was also amused. The bad guys were asked to leave the venue, and the trio won the championship and started holding hands and spinning to celebrate their victory.
The audience's emotions were aroused, and some people began to applaud to celebrate the three leading actors winning the championship and realizing their dreams.
"I'm sorry, but it's impossible for your dance form to appear in a musical on Broadway at this stage. Maybe there will be such a musical in twenty or thirty years. If you want to enter Broadway, your top priority is to promote this dance form.
.Go on TV to dance and train new dancers, this is what you should do."
The judge, played by Roger Corman, said to the trio that although they won the championship, they would not be able to enter Broadway immediately.
After the audience was happy that the trio won the championship, they felt the reality of the problem. It seems that for the time being, they are still focusing on cultivating new people and striving to be on TV shows.
The trio began to teach children to dance on the beach. A man wearing a leather jacket and leather pants studded with diamonds approached and said, "You are dancing very well, can you join us?"
"It's mj!"
"No wonder he can moonwalk. It turned out to be Motor who taught him."
This real ending suddenly lifted the audience's emotions.
The movie freezes on the scene of MJ breakdancing with Motor, Tornado, and Kelly.
After the electronic sound of "biu biu biu", a red background appeared on the screen, and white subtitles read:
"Stay tuned, the sequel to Breakdancing - Electronic Boogaloo"
Then the subtitles began to rise, and Ronald read it carefully, including the "Hand Man" and other major extras, as well as the crew members.
Finally, "Special thanks to Michael Jackson."
At the same time, the audience began to stand up and applaud, shouting loudly, asking the three leading actors to come out and perform break dancing live.
Minahan tried to go on stage to maintain order, but the enthusiastic audience hugged him and dragged him away. Two teenage girls also kissed him several times on the face.
With no other choice, Boogaloo Prawn, Sabado, and Lucinda Dickey had no choice but to take to the stage and perform live break dancing to ice t’s rap music.
Every dance move of the three leading actors attracted cheers from the audience below, and some people followed suit on the spot.
Until Sabado and Boogaloo Shrimp performed back spin and head spin respectively, and then they appeared together, leaving the space in the middle. Lucinda Dickey was wearing a headband and leg warmers.
, landed on the ground with a forward somersault, and then began to spin on his back.
"Aw, ow..." The audience was completely excited and rushed up to the stage to prevent them from leaving.
In desperation, Minahan rushed out to call the police. The police arrived ten minutes later and put up a human wall, allowing the three leading actors to retreat to the lounge from the enthusiastic audience.
"In the future, you should report this kind of thing to the office as early as possible." The senior detective leading the team told Minahan how to handle a premiere involving big stars.
"I don't know...how do I know...the audience is so enthusiastic and crazy." Minahan was so tired that he sweated profusely and took out his handkerchief to wipe it frequently.
"Which star did you hire for your movie?" the detective asked. Such enthusiasm is indeed only seen at premieres starring big stars, but today the audience was also a bit wild.
"That's the three of them." Ronald stepped forward and pointed at the three leading actors, "They are the stars tonight."
"Motor...Tornado...Kelly..."
The audience outside the door refused to leave because they didn't know who the actor was and could only shout the character's name repeatedly.
"You three stars, you'd better go out and fulfill their requests and give them autographs, otherwise they won't leave tonight." The detective is experienced and knows that it is difficult to dismiss such an enthusiastic audience.
The three leading actors looked at each other and became famous?
The three of them had never practiced signing at all, so they took the signature pens given by the cinema and walked out.
"Ah, ow..."
The crowd started to commotion again, and the detective shouted to them many times to line up. Then they lined up in several rows, waiting for autographs.
The three leading actors patiently signed autographs for the audience for more than half an hour.
Minahan called a van, and the three of them squeezed out, got in the van, and ran away.
The cinema was delayed for a long time with all kinds of enthusiasm, and the second "Break Dance" show was delayed. They heard the noise in the first show outside, and they were all very excited, and kept urging them to enter. Even the necessary
The cleaning time was shortened to a minimum. While the floor was still being cleaned, the audience broke through the ticket gate and entered the venue to find a seat.
Ronald never thought that this "Break Dance" that he filmed casually and cost less than one million US dollars could arouse such a response. He was so excited that he didn't know what to do. Looking at the ticket office,
There are still many spectators from the first show waiting to buy tickets for the third show.
Ronald also leaned over and saw that in the film schedule above, there was also a new film released tonight, "Sixteen Candles". The staff at the counter over there were also transferred over, and two rows were opened to handle "Break Dance"
"Ticket sales.
Ronald, with his mouth wide open, looked at the crazy scene and was baffled himself.
He drove to another movie theater to see what was going on.
Although it was not as popular as the premiere theater where the actors were seen, but starting from the second show, breakdancing's box office stars began to explode, surpassing the "Ten" movie next to it that Universal had vigorously marketed and put display boards and posters everywhere.
Six Candles".
There are also a number of old movies that have been released for a few weeks, but they are also unable to fight back due to break dancing. Cinemas have begun to make temporary adjustments, freeing up halls to show break dancing, in the hope of selling more tickets.
"Oh my god, why are you so crazy?" Ronald looked at all this and didn't know what was happening.