NOVEL NEXT Exploiting Hollywood 1980.
Chapter 73 The Rocky Horror Show
Chapter 73 The Rocky Horror Show
"What movie should we watch?" After everyone finished eating pizza, they went to a late-night movie theater nearby.
"I heard you made a film in Los Angeles. What was it called?" Antonia asked.
"You are very well informed. It is called Rock and Roll High School, but the box office is not good, so it cannot be released in New York."
"Why don't you watch Apocalypse Now, directed by Coppola, they won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in France."
Thinking of the news he saw on TV a few days ago, Ronald also wanted to watch the full version without the editing interface again.
"Come four Apocalypse Now", Gene got a higher salary for the protagonist and clamored to invite everyone.
"No, look at the film schedule." The conductor pointed to the film schedule on the wall.
It appears that "Apocalypse Now" is not yet in theaters in the US.
Ronald looked at the schedule.
"Alien" - a sci-fi horror film, this one is suitable for men and women to watch together.
"The last show has already started for an hour." The conductor pointed to the time again.
This kind of commercial film usually starts at 6 o'clock in the afternoon after get off work and before 9 o'clock in the evening, which is convenient for mainstream moviegoers.If it's too late, everyone will go home and go to bed.
"Then what movie?"
"There's an X-rated movie for adults over there." The conductor is a veteran, and seeing that two men and two women are here for a two-on-two date, he recommended an X-rated movie.It's that late anyway, and inspectors aren't going to be dedicated enough to work overtime to catch teens watching X-rated movies.
Gene didn't want to look at it, "Is there any more?"
"Then there's only this old movie, The Rocky Horror Show. Today is a special show for their club. If you haven't seen it, I still recommend it."
"Is there a club for a movie?" Ronald was a little confused.
"Yeah, they're crazy and come to the midnight shows a lot. It'll be fun to watch them for the first time."
"Oh really? Then let's watch this one too." Antonia seemed to have heard of this movie.
"Four tickets." Gene took out the money and paid the bill first.
"This is the newspaper for you." The conductor handed out 4 more expired newspapers along with the ticket.
The four looked at each other and shook their heads, "What is this for?" Ronald asked.
"You'll know when you go in."
"Welcome new friends to join our Rocky Horror Show viewing club!" A middle-aged man held a microphone to welcome the four of them into the screening hall.The audience below began to applaud neatly, "Welcome!"
This club has a great atmosphere.
"Hi, hello, hello", Gene was very happy, high-fived everyone along the way, and found four seats together to sit down.
Ronald glanced left and right, many spectators wore gothic black eye makeup, and some men dressed as girls, it was a wonderful experience.
After the opening scene of the movie, a man and a woman reversed their car on a rainy night, and suddenly the car seemed to hit something.
The audience in the front row of Ronald suddenly fell backward collectively.Match the car crash plot on the screen.
"Oops," the protagonist on the screen patted the seat.
The audience also hit the seat at the same time with the right timing, and let out a neat "snap".
"I should fix the spare tire."
The audience collectively yelled "Asshole".
Spoiler alert this guy is a sucker.
How can you watch a movie with your own dubbing?Ronald looked around strangely.
Gene and Lucy had a great time, shouting with the clubbers.
The two protagonists on screen get out of the car and it starts to rain.
The audience raised the newspapers distributed in their hands to cover the top of their heads.
Um?There was literally water falling on the face.Ronald had a confused expression on his face. What kind of advanced technology is this? Can the cinema still rain in accordance with the plot?
Antonia held up the newspaper too, hit Ronald to remind him, and helped him lift it up.
It turned out that someone was firing water guns in the aisles on both sides, and some spectators brought their own and took them out to spray water in the sky.
The two protagonists on the screen entered an old castle, and a master who looked like a vampire came out to receive them.
"Where's your neck?" the audience yelled.
Ronald took a look, really, the actor has no neck.
He opened a coffin and used a duster to clean cobwebs from the bones inside.
"So it's a horror movie," Ronald thought to himself.
All of a sudden he started singing, shitty old-fashioned pop.
"Is it a musical?"
"One, two, three, four" the audience began to sing in chorus.
The host began to walk up to the stage in front of the screen, and everyone was welcome to come on stage and sing together.
Soon, more than a dozen men and women with gothic eye makeup and costumes of the characters in the play came up to the stage and sang in a row. The audience below also raised their hands high, shaking left and right to cooperate.
In the movie, a man in a suit and leather shoes once again taught everyone to dance, "Move the left foot first, then jump to the right foot."
The men and women on the stage began to dance to the music.
"Yo, here we come." Gene pulled Lucy onto the stage and danced with them.
Hahaha, the audience laughed so hard,
"Let's go too," Antonia pulled Ronald up to the stage.
Following the rhythm, Ronald imitated the moves of the cosplayers in the club and made some silly dance moves. For some reason, he became happy.
"Hahahaha", the dance ended, and Ronald laughed with everyone.
"It turned out to be an exploitation film."
Huh, Ronald seems to have remembered something important, and desperately tried to catch this hint of inspiration.
Antonia pulled him off the stage again and returned to his original seat.
"Today's a big day for our Rocky Horror Show viewing club members, Larry and Holly, who've been to the theater for the 150th time today—"
The host turns the microphone to the audience
"Luo-qi-horror-horror-show..."
Another member took out two small cakes with 150 candles on them, and asked the two members to blow them out.
"Can you watch the same movie 150 times, Antonia?" Ronald felt a little incredible when he heard the 150 viewing records.
"No way, but they're not watching a movie anymore, it's purely for self-entertainment."
"150 is a big number, and it will take 3 years to see it once a week. Don't they have anywhere else to go?"
“Yes, there are certain neighborhoods in New York where teens don’t really have anywhere to go at night. If they tell their parents to go to a bar, the parents should be worried. But it’s reassuring to go to the cinema with a bunch of old friends and watch a bad movie.”
"Yeah, they're all teenagers." Ronald looked around again, and under the gothic black eyeshadow, they were actually boys and girls in their teens and twenties.
After the movie ended, Ronald specifically went to the chairman of the Rocky Horror Show Club, and the host had a chat.Since the film was released in 75, it has been played continuously at midnight shows.
The style of this film is weird, and the results in the first round of release were not good, but the mixed style and a large number of stalks attracted young audiences in New York, and many theaters continued to show it at midnight.This in turn led to a craze for watching midnight movies, so it continued showing until 1979.
"But we may not be able to watch it here next year." In the end, the club president lamented, "The high school students who grew up with this movie have all graduated this year, and the new generation of young people have their favorite movie again.
The box office began to fall, and the movie theaters said they wanted to replace the Rocky Horror Show with a new movie. We fans, in the end, could only keep one or two movie theaters. "
That sliver of inspiration seemed to be right in front of him, and Ronald stood still, trying hard to catch her.
"Ronald, what are you thinking? Are you thinking about the script again?" Lucy looked at Ronald with admiration and asked.
The inspiration seemed to fly away again.
But the script?
Just now, I was dragged onto the stage by Antonia to sing and dance. I was in a low mood and became very happy.It seems that this can be written into the plot of the Jewish student Doris. Didn’t she lack a motivation to get rid of her mother who has too much control and bravely sing on stage?
"Yes, you have given me good inspiration, Lucy, thank you." Ronald thanked Lucy, took out a small notebook and began to shorthand his thoughts.
"Yeah, I'm glad I could help you, Ronnie, can I call you Ronnie?"
"Come on, Lucy," Gene came up from behind and pulled her away, "Antonia is right, you really aren't Ronald's type."
"Antonia, what are you looking at?" Ronald saw the Italian girl holding Gene's Polaroid, laughing back and forth at the smaller X-rated ticket window, and couldn't help walking over to ask.
"Look at this..." Antonia pointed to a poster, "Hahahaha, I laughed so hard."
In front of me is a small format poster titled "Hot Lunch"
Turns out someone actually made a porn film using black slang for hot lunch.
"Puchi..." Ronald couldn't help but spout.
"Look at the director's bar...hahaha." Antonia couldn't straighten up with a smile, holding Ronald's arm to maintain balance.
"AL Parker...hahahaha", Ronald couldn't help spraying again.
This is Porcelain directed by Alan Parker.Maybe the "Hot Lunch" project was reported in the media, and an adult film producer spotted a business opportunity and made a quick movie to catch the heat?
Ronald shook his head.
"Take one for me too, I'll keep it." Ronald asked Antonia to take a snapshot of the poster for him.
I don't know how to calculate this matter, Ronald plans to report to the producer Da Silva.
"Don't tell them, so as not to cause trouble." Ronald pointed to Gene and Lucy.
"I understand."
"Hey, what are you two laughing at, why are you laughing so happily?" Jin finally found out that the two were laughing, and ran over from a long distance.
"It's nothing, we are laughing at those people just now, acting in a movie by ourselves in the audience."
Everyone walked out of the theater, ready to go home.
"Where do you live, Antonia? I'll see you."
"Little Italy, my house is right next door. No need to deliver." Antonia declined.
"Lucy and I take the subway. The lines in Harlem are open 24 hours a day. Your car is not safe."
"Well, that's it. I am very happy today, thank you." Ronald said goodbye to everyone on the spot.
"What the hell was that inspiration just now?" Ronald thought while driving, "Midnight show, teenagers, long-term screening."
"Squeak..." Ronald slammed on the brakes. Aren't teenagers the target audience for "Rock High School"?Long-running midnight screenings appeal to New York teens.And it just so happened that the movie theater in New York wanted to show a new movie...
Today is the double monthly ticket for the starting point, please ask readers for a monthly ticket.
(End of this chapter)
"What movie should we watch?" After everyone finished eating pizza, they went to a late-night movie theater nearby.
"I heard you made a film in Los Angeles. What was it called?" Antonia asked.
"You are very well informed. It is called Rock and Roll High School, but the box office is not good, so it cannot be released in New York."
"Why don't you watch Apocalypse Now, directed by Coppola, they won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in France."
Thinking of the news he saw on TV a few days ago, Ronald also wanted to watch the full version without the editing interface again.
"Come four Apocalypse Now", Gene got a higher salary for the protagonist and clamored to invite everyone.
"No, look at the film schedule." The conductor pointed to the film schedule on the wall.
It appears that "Apocalypse Now" is not yet in theaters in the US.
Ronald looked at the schedule.
"Alien" - a sci-fi horror film, this one is suitable for men and women to watch together.
"The last show has already started for an hour." The conductor pointed to the time again.
This kind of commercial film usually starts at 6 o'clock in the afternoon after get off work and before 9 o'clock in the evening, which is convenient for mainstream moviegoers.If it's too late, everyone will go home and go to bed.
"Then what movie?"
"There's an X-rated movie for adults over there." The conductor is a veteran, and seeing that two men and two women are here for a two-on-two date, he recommended an X-rated movie.It's that late anyway, and inspectors aren't going to be dedicated enough to work overtime to catch teens watching X-rated movies.
Gene didn't want to look at it, "Is there any more?"
"Then there's only this old movie, The Rocky Horror Show. Today is a special show for their club. If you haven't seen it, I still recommend it."
"Is there a club for a movie?" Ronald was a little confused.
"Yeah, they're crazy and come to the midnight shows a lot. It'll be fun to watch them for the first time."
"Oh really? Then let's watch this one too." Antonia seemed to have heard of this movie.
"Four tickets." Gene took out the money and paid the bill first.
"This is the newspaper for you." The conductor handed out 4 more expired newspapers along with the ticket.
The four looked at each other and shook their heads, "What is this for?" Ronald asked.
"You'll know when you go in."
"Welcome new friends to join our Rocky Horror Show viewing club!" A middle-aged man held a microphone to welcome the four of them into the screening hall.The audience below began to applaud neatly, "Welcome!"
This club has a great atmosphere.
"Hi, hello, hello", Gene was very happy, high-fived everyone along the way, and found four seats together to sit down.
Ronald glanced left and right, many spectators wore gothic black eye makeup, and some men dressed as girls, it was a wonderful experience.
After the opening scene of the movie, a man and a woman reversed their car on a rainy night, and suddenly the car seemed to hit something.
The audience in the front row of Ronald suddenly fell backward collectively.Match the car crash plot on the screen.
"Oops," the protagonist on the screen patted the seat.
The audience also hit the seat at the same time with the right timing, and let out a neat "snap".
"I should fix the spare tire."
The audience collectively yelled "Asshole".
Spoiler alert this guy is a sucker.
How can you watch a movie with your own dubbing?Ronald looked around strangely.
Gene and Lucy had a great time, shouting with the clubbers.
The two protagonists on screen get out of the car and it starts to rain.
The audience raised the newspapers distributed in their hands to cover the top of their heads.
Um?There was literally water falling on the face.Ronald had a confused expression on his face. What kind of advanced technology is this? Can the cinema still rain in accordance with the plot?
Antonia held up the newspaper too, hit Ronald to remind him, and helped him lift it up.
It turned out that someone was firing water guns in the aisles on both sides, and some spectators brought their own and took them out to spray water in the sky.
The two protagonists on the screen entered an old castle, and a master who looked like a vampire came out to receive them.
"Where's your neck?" the audience yelled.
Ronald took a look, really, the actor has no neck.
He opened a coffin and used a duster to clean cobwebs from the bones inside.
"So it's a horror movie," Ronald thought to himself.
All of a sudden he started singing, shitty old-fashioned pop.
"Is it a musical?"
"One, two, three, four" the audience began to sing in chorus.
The host began to walk up to the stage in front of the screen, and everyone was welcome to come on stage and sing together.
Soon, more than a dozen men and women with gothic eye makeup and costumes of the characters in the play came up to the stage and sang in a row. The audience below also raised their hands high, shaking left and right to cooperate.
In the movie, a man in a suit and leather shoes once again taught everyone to dance, "Move the left foot first, then jump to the right foot."
The men and women on the stage began to dance to the music.
"Yo, here we come." Gene pulled Lucy onto the stage and danced with them.
Hahaha, the audience laughed so hard,
"Let's go too," Antonia pulled Ronald up to the stage.
Following the rhythm, Ronald imitated the moves of the cosplayers in the club and made some silly dance moves. For some reason, he became happy.
"Hahahaha", the dance ended, and Ronald laughed with everyone.
"It turned out to be an exploitation film."
Huh, Ronald seems to have remembered something important, and desperately tried to catch this hint of inspiration.
Antonia pulled him off the stage again and returned to his original seat.
"Today's a big day for our Rocky Horror Show viewing club members, Larry and Holly, who've been to the theater for the 150th time today—"
The host turns the microphone to the audience
"Luo-qi-horror-horror-show..."
Another member took out two small cakes with 150 candles on them, and asked the two members to blow them out.
"Can you watch the same movie 150 times, Antonia?" Ronald felt a little incredible when he heard the 150 viewing records.
"No way, but they're not watching a movie anymore, it's purely for self-entertainment."
"150 is a big number, and it will take 3 years to see it once a week. Don't they have anywhere else to go?"
“Yes, there are certain neighborhoods in New York where teens don’t really have anywhere to go at night. If they tell their parents to go to a bar, the parents should be worried. But it’s reassuring to go to the cinema with a bunch of old friends and watch a bad movie.”
"Yeah, they're all teenagers." Ronald looked around again, and under the gothic black eyeshadow, they were actually boys and girls in their teens and twenties.
After the movie ended, Ronald specifically went to the chairman of the Rocky Horror Show Club, and the host had a chat.Since the film was released in 75, it has been played continuously at midnight shows.
The style of this film is weird, and the results in the first round of release were not good, but the mixed style and a large number of stalks attracted young audiences in New York, and many theaters continued to show it at midnight.This in turn led to a craze for watching midnight movies, so it continued showing until 1979.
"But we may not be able to watch it here next year." In the end, the club president lamented, "The high school students who grew up with this movie have all graduated this year, and the new generation of young people have their favorite movie again.
The box office began to fall, and the movie theaters said they wanted to replace the Rocky Horror Show with a new movie. We fans, in the end, could only keep one or two movie theaters. "
That sliver of inspiration seemed to be right in front of him, and Ronald stood still, trying hard to catch her.
"Ronald, what are you thinking? Are you thinking about the script again?" Lucy looked at Ronald with admiration and asked.
The inspiration seemed to fly away again.
But the script?
Just now, I was dragged onto the stage by Antonia to sing and dance. I was in a low mood and became very happy.It seems that this can be written into the plot of the Jewish student Doris. Didn’t she lack a motivation to get rid of her mother who has too much control and bravely sing on stage?
"Yes, you have given me good inspiration, Lucy, thank you." Ronald thanked Lucy, took out a small notebook and began to shorthand his thoughts.
"Yeah, I'm glad I could help you, Ronnie, can I call you Ronnie?"
"Come on, Lucy," Gene came up from behind and pulled her away, "Antonia is right, you really aren't Ronald's type."
"Antonia, what are you looking at?" Ronald saw the Italian girl holding Gene's Polaroid, laughing back and forth at the smaller X-rated ticket window, and couldn't help walking over to ask.
"Look at this..." Antonia pointed to a poster, "Hahahaha, I laughed so hard."
In front of me is a small format poster titled "Hot Lunch"
Turns out someone actually made a porn film using black slang for hot lunch.
"Puchi..." Ronald couldn't help but spout.
"Look at the director's bar...hahaha." Antonia couldn't straighten up with a smile, holding Ronald's arm to maintain balance.
"AL Parker...hahahaha", Ronald couldn't help spraying again.
This is Porcelain directed by Alan Parker.Maybe the "Hot Lunch" project was reported in the media, and an adult film producer spotted a business opportunity and made a quick movie to catch the heat?
Ronald shook his head.
"Take one for me too, I'll keep it." Ronald asked Antonia to take a snapshot of the poster for him.
I don't know how to calculate this matter, Ronald plans to report to the producer Da Silva.
"Don't tell them, so as not to cause trouble." Ronald pointed to Gene and Lucy.
"I understand."
"Hey, what are you two laughing at, why are you laughing so happily?" Jin finally found out that the two were laughing, and ran over from a long distance.
"It's nothing, we are laughing at those people just now, acting in a movie by ourselves in the audience."
Everyone walked out of the theater, ready to go home.
"Where do you live, Antonia? I'll see you."
"Little Italy, my house is right next door. No need to deliver." Antonia declined.
"Lucy and I take the subway. The lines in Harlem are open 24 hours a day. Your car is not safe."
"Well, that's it. I am very happy today, thank you." Ronald said goodbye to everyone on the spot.
"What the hell was that inspiration just now?" Ronald thought while driving, "Midnight show, teenagers, long-term screening."
"Squeak..." Ronald slammed on the brakes. Aren't teenagers the target audience for "Rock High School"?Long-running midnight screenings appeal to New York teens.And it just so happened that the movie theater in New York wanted to show a new movie...
Today is the double monthly ticket for the starting point, please ask readers for a monthly ticket.
(End of this chapter)
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