Chapter 310 The Price of Fame(2/2)
He gently asked the stewardess to bring a blanket to cover McGillis, then turned on the reading light on his seat, took out Eleanor's script, and read it slowly.
This script called "Dirty Dancing" is very interesting. It tells the story of a middle-aged Jewish woman (that is, Eleanor is the prototype) who recalls an experience in her youth.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Jews, like blacks and other ethnic groups, were discriminated against by the mainstream Puritans. They would not go to the Caribbean or the outer islands of New York where the Puritans often went on vacation. Instead, they would go to Virginia and other places.
Some specially built resorts specifically for Jewish vacations.
Anyway, most Jewish people have higher incomes, and there are more people working in doctors, lawyers, accountants, and entertainment industries.
In these Jewish-specific resorts, Jewish operators would hire black jazz bands, magicians, and stand-up comedians to entertain customers.
Another popular entertainment is to hire a group of professional dancers to serve as customers' dance partners, dance together during vacations, and teach their young people how to dance ballroom.
The protagonist of this memory, a little girl named Baby, fell in love with an Irish-born dancer in a resort, and ended up learning a dance that is not recognized by the mainstream with him, dirty dancing.
People fall in love over time while learning to dance together, and it becomes the baby's first love.
The script was written very smoothly. It was indeed a script that I had rewritten countless times and polished based on my own experience. However, after Ronald read it in one sitting, he was still a little worried.
This movie, like "Secret of Success," has the "missing audience of The Sound of Music" problem.
The original image of Jews in movies is very inconsistent with this movie. They are always stereotyped as a greedy, ruthless, and cruel group of people who only care about profits. It is rare to see a movie that describes a Jewish girl's first love in such a delicate way.
In addition, this is a story of memories. In other words, it was filmed more than 20 years ago. How many teenagers who often go to the cinema now like this kind of old story from the Kennedy administration?
If it is aimed at today's middle-aged housewives, will these middle-aged people really go to the cinema that they have not gone to for many years to watch a movie that they have dreamed of as a girl?
Finally, this is a movie with a lot of musicals and dances. Since his debut, musicals have gradually declined in Hollywood. After John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John's "Grease", there has been no musical.
It can lead to huge success.
Although Ronald liked this story very much, it mixed an unwed pregnancy, an interracial couple, Jewish discrimination, a true love story, and Dirty Dancing scenes described by many authors, Eleanor.
But the market prospects still made him hesitate. For a while, he couldn't decide whether he should invest.
"Hey...ah...let's talk about it when we get back." Ronald yawned and read the script for two hours. His eyes were a little sore. He closed the script, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
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"Can you keep it a secret? You are a guest here. I saw the boss's son dancing with you. This is where the dancers live. You can't come. If the boss knows you are coming, I will be in trouble."
A young man wearing a white T-shirt, holding three large watermelons in his hands, said to a girl wearing a old-fashioned sweater and skirt.
The girl didn't say anything, she reached out and took a big watermelon, and the two of them walked towards a big house in front of them.
"What kind of movie are you dreaming about again?" Ronald slept comfortably and changed his position, as if he was holding a big watermelon in his arms.
"This old-fashioned girl has a Jewish nose, but it's not too obvious. Wait a minute, isn't this the girl Michael J. Fox dated, named... Jennifer Gray?"
Ronald recognized the actress.
"Dong...dongdong...dongdongdong..."
The sound of fast and enthusiastic drumbeats brought Ronald back from his wandering thoughts.
The boy in the white T-shirt held two large watermelons and pushed the door open with his butt.
"Dong dong dong dong..." The sound suddenly became louder as the door opened.
Four drums beat, and a hoarse black voice sang the old pop song "Do You Love Me?"
“do you love me?
i can really move!
do you love me?
i’m in the groove.”
The short and rhyming lyrics are like the rhythm of early black rock and roll.
After the door was pushed open, Ronald suddenly felt the smell of male and female hormones rushing towards his face.
The light inside was an ambiguous red, and men and women hugged each other and danced provocatively.
Ronald, like the actress Jennifer Grey, had a stunned expression.
"How... how was this kind of shot taken? Why does it seem that in addition to hearing and vision, I was also attracted by the rhythm and dance, which aroused the taste and smell deep in my memory? The director of this movie is so amazing."
Pairs of dancing partners were shown in close-up shots. Their dance movements involved a lot of movements of the waist and hips. Sometimes they were slow and lyrical, and sometimes they had a strong rhythm.
Provoking a primitive and ambiguous desire in the audience.
Ronald felt that his whole body was getting hot. "Well, here we use the technique invented by Francis Coppola in 'Old Love, New Love', where the colored ambient light hits the actor's face directly.
Instead of the traditional Hollywood close-up light on the face, it does not stain the skin.
In this way, the ambiguous and passionate emotions are directly conveyed to the audience.
The camera showed Jennifer Gray's facial reaction. She opened her mouth wide, looking overwhelmed and yearning.
The male partner hugged the female partner's waist, lowered their upper body backwards, lowered their waists, and then the female partner's shoulders jumped back up rhythmically.
Ronald, like Jennifer Grey, has a passion for this kind of dance.
"oh oh……"
The dancers cheered, and the two protagonists, a man and a woman, walked into the room.
Under the red light, Ronald saw clearly what was shown in the camera: a handsome guy with small eyes in a white shirt and black pants, and a beautiful girl with blond hair in a dress and tied with elastic bands.
"Boom, boom..."
As soon as the two came in, the man took a bottle of beer to quench his thirst, and the woman immediately started dancing. At first glance, these two people were the kings of the group of dancers. They danced the pas de deux with the best rhythm and the most energetic movements.
The man did not hold the female companion in his arms from the beginning, but allowed the female companion to perform on her own.
Not to be outdone, the female companion lifted up her skirt with one hand and waved it to the rhythm.
The back of her dress is buckled with straps, and when the skirt is lifted up, it dances very sexy.
"shxt!"
Ronald recognized it. Isn't this the dancer Cynthia Rhodes who had played a supporting role in "Flashdance" and was later harassed by Stallone's brother in "Dragon Dance"?
Is she the protagonist of the movie? No, she should play the male protagonist's childhood friend.
I didn’t expect her to dance so sexy! Ronald sighed, her dance on the bar table in “Flash Dance” was not so sexy, much worse. By the way, that was to highlight Jennifer Beals, and Cynthia was deliberately made
·Rhodes is acting ugly.
Now she was at least treated like the second female lead, and she danced really sexy and charmingly.
Not to be outdone, the male protagonist fell backwards and was caught by his companion, and then swayed his shoulders, matching the shoulder movements of Cynthia Rhodes.
When the close-up was shown, Ronald also recognized it.
"This is Patrick Schwytz, who played the protagonist's brother in Coppola's "The Kid"."
I didn't expect that his dancing is also very sexy. How many women can be fascinated by these little eyes?
As soon as the music rhythm changed, the two of them changed their dancing postures.
This time Cynthia pressed back tightly against Schwytz's body, her waists rubbing together strongly to the beat of the drum.
Then their heads began to shake greatly, and Cynthia Rhodes' hair fluttered in the wind.
"As expected of dirty dancing."
This kind of dance full of Caribbean style is fascinating.
The dance reached its climax. Cynthia Rhodes jumped up lightly, and finally climbed on the head of Patrick Schwytz. She sat on the head of the male partner, then pulled up the hem of her skirt and swayed from side to side, just like the popular Broadway dance back then.
Like a cancan dance.
"Oh..."
Ronald felt like his blood was rushing to his head. Who could stand this dance?
"Um……"
Ronald felt that his waist was also pressed backwards by a woman's buttocks, as if the two were hugging each other and doing a dirty dance.
"Um...well...Ronald, don't be here."
Ronald was woken up, and when he looked up, he saw that McGillis, who had been held in his arms in his sleep for some time, was twisting his waist, trying to sit up from his seat and return to his seat.
"ah……"
Leaving the other party's close contact, Ronald quickly pulled the blanket and covered himself.
"Hmm..." McGillis winked, very satisfied with Ronald's reaction to his body.
"Excuse me, how many hours are left before we get to London? I'm at Heathrow Airport. Is there anywhere I can take an international long-distance call back to Los Angeles?" Ronald asked the flight attendant who rang the bell.
Ronald recalled the dance sequence in his dream, and he felt that the two of them danced really well. This kind of dance would definitely attract housewives to the cinema to watch the movie.
Chapter completed!