May 4th.
"Break Dance" was released simultaneously in 1,069 theaters across the country. It happens to be a relatively weak period now, and there are not many new movies. After all, no one wants to be sniped by the sequel of the blockbuster Castle. As a result, MGM helped grab more theaters to release the film.
However, it is still not as good as "Sixteen Candles" released by Universal. This movie directed by John Hughes received 1,240 theaters. That movie had a budget of over six million and was taken more seriously in comparison.
Ronald came to a Universal Theater in West Hollywood. MGM had low expectations for "Break Dance" and did not hold a formal premiere. Instead, the creative team came to a large cinema to watch the movie with thousands of viewers. A live performance and Q&A session will follow.
Minahan took this very seriously and recruited a few shills just in case no one asked questions.
But as soon as the movie started, Minahan knew he was worrying too much.
The audience began to marvel at the opening scenes of break dancing.
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 beauties in bikini flashed in front of the camera. Jean-Claude Van Damme, wearing a black tights, did a backflip, and three hip-hop boys performed a floor dance in unison beside her.
The appetizers made the audience forget to eat popcorn and stare blankly at the screen. It wasn't 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, appears on the big screen for the first time. It is so powerful that the audience forgets to drink Coke!
Kelly, played by Lucinda Dickey, invited Motor and Tornado to her jazz dance class after seeing break dancing. Let them also see themselves dancing jazz. Two break dancing masters did not appreciate the ancient jazz dance very much, so they started to break dance.
When her teacher Franco discovered that Kelly had brought wild street dancers to the dance class and incorporated jazz dance moves, he severely stopped her.
The audience booed again.
Most of the people who came to watch today were teenagers. In their opinion, what should be booed was old-fashioned jazz dance. Breakdancing is the dance they should dance and enjoy.
The scene shifts to the convenience store where Ma Da and Xunfeng work. Ma Da goes out with a broom and performs a Ma Ma Broom Dance.
"boom……"
The whole cinema seemed to explode.
"What is this?" The audience couldn't believe their eyes. They saw something unprecedented on TV. This moonwalk was even more exciting and natural than Michael Jackson's at the 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 scene then moved to Motor and Tornado dancing with people in the basement, and the audience was once again stimulated. The confrontational dance is 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 less 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 belittle hip-hop since he had never seen it with his own eyes.
In the end, the agent was persuaded by Kelly and they went to the basement to watch the dance fight. This time with the addition of Kelly, the trio outperformed their rival Falcon's trio in terms of looks and dance routines.
The agent was shocked by this novel dance, and he tried every means to sign up the trio to compete for a spot on Broadway with Franco from Kelly's original dance class.
The movie has reached its midpoint, and the audience has begun to relax, eat popcorn, and prepare to enter the end of the second act.
The agent found a spot for them to compete and let them go to the dance organizer's luncheon. In the garden outside the mansion, 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."
Disgusting gets the two ladies off their feet and finds Tornado blaming Kelly's ex-dance teacher Franco again. It turns out that Franco was jealous when he saw Kelly and Tornado together. He said that their dance was performed by the lower class and could not participate in the elegant jazz dance competition, and threatened to disqualify them.
Xuanfeng was humiliated and left with Ma Da.
Kelly was also angry with 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 eligibility, and Kelly drove to Motor and Tornado to find them and join them in the dance competition.
Ma Da teaches children how to break dance at home, while Whirlwind is alone at the beach thinking about his thoughts. Kelly found them and tried to convince them to compete together.
Xuanfeng said that he did not participate in the competition to win awards, 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 did 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 a normal person. It must be polio."
"Then why can he still do such dance moves? I think he is better than the gymnasts of the Suville Union."
The audience no longer cared about the plot and began to discuss it loudly.
This dance shocked them too much. If it weren't for the previous 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. Finally, he jumped on the judges' table and did a big 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 in 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 started to applaud to celebrate the three leading actors winning the championship and realizing their dreams.
"I'm sorry, 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 something to the trio. 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 members 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 asked, "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, Motor, Tornado, and Kelly breakdancing together.
After the electronic sound of "biu biu biu", a red background appeared on the screen, and white subtitles read:
"Stay tuned for 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, who were all subtitled.
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 on the face several times.
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 Bugalo Prawn performed back spin and head spin respectively, and then they appeared together, leaving the middle space free. Lucinda Dickey, wearing a headband and leg warmers, landed on the ground in a forward somersault and then began to spin on her back too.
"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 come to the office to report this kind of thing 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 your movie hire?" the detective asked. Such enthusiasm is indeed only seen at a premiere starring a big star, but today the audience was a little bit wilder.
"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 did not know who the actors were and could only shout the names of the characters 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. 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 there were several rows of people lined up, 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, and ran away.
The cinema was delayed for a long time by all kinds of enthusiasm, and the second "Break Dance" was delayed. They heard the commotion inside the first game outside, and they were all very excited and urged to enter. Even the necessary cleaning time was reduced 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 "Break Dance", which 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 were 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 movie that was released at the same time tonight, "Sixteen Candles." The staff at the counter over there were also transferred over to open two rows to handle the "Break Dance" ticket sales.
Ronald, with his mouth wide open, looked at the crazy scene and was baffled.
He drove to another movie theater to check on the situation.
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 lot of old movies that have been released for a few weeks, but they are also beaten by break dancing and have no power to fight back. Cinemas have begun making 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.
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