"Breaking Dance ", it is estimated that in the children in nine out of ten have not heard of the title of this movie, and with me the same age of the older uncles and aunts will certainly remember the film, fortunately, we are now not to the age of the square dance, or the square dance in the square dance will also be someone to dance Breaking. Well, I said its English title "Breakin", Breaking, now everyone will know what kind of movie it is. About Breakin , do not want to say more, please Baidu.
In 1987, on the one hand, the domestic cultural market was still in a manic phase before the complete opening up of the country, and too many young people were holding a thirst for pop culture, while the outside world was small and pitifully small, with no Internet, no consumer magazines, no variety shows ...... people were still in the midst of numerous On the other hand, cultural forces outside China were waiting for an opportunity to make a move, and Qi Qin's "Wolf" had already been sung all over China. That year, without any signs or publicity, the American movie "Breakdance" was released in China. I can't tell you how big an impact this movie had at that time, and I haven't found a reliable statistic, but at that time we were all proud to have seen Breaking Dance and ashamed not to have seen it. If I were to organize the history of Chinese film screening, I would definitely leave an important place for this film.
I don't remember how the sound in the theater was, but I vaguely remember that the theater was very big, upstairs and downstairs, with single and double sizes separated, and almost empty. I was always excited during the entire viewing process, and some of the chapters were so exciting that I couldn't breathe, and then I had to watch it again for the second time. In my growing up years there were some movies I saw twice during the run, and this is the first one I can remember. Later on, I think there was "Sunny Day" 3 times, "New York Heist", "This is it", "Inception" ...... and can't remember the rest. Later, in the videotape era, VCD era, DVD era, and now the Blu-ray era, I have collected and revisited this movie, but what I saw was only my own young old times, an outdated dance film can no longer bring me the year of vertigo like excitement. Everything about the movie is unfamiliar, even the main character's name, "Cyclone," and the floor-sweeper, "Motor," which I'm not too sure if the translations are faithful to the original. Of course, there are some highlights that I didn't realize until now, such as the inclusion of ShanghART in the cast list.
In fact, Breakin was released in the US in 1984, and although Breakin was born many years ago, in 1984, it was particularly popular in the US. We saw the movie 3 years later which was actually still largely in sync by the efficiency measures of the time. The movie was later followed by a sequel, whatever, it doesn't really matter. After the release of "Breakdance", many famous breakdancing teenagers appeared all over the country, and I don't know how many breakdancing gloves with exposed fingers were sold. On the streets, in the hutongs, on the campuses, in front of the closet mirrors of thousands of homes, and next to the desks and podiums of every classroom, there were people everywhere doing the space step, wiping the glass in the air, and doing the V-legs to the ground and then a little bit of the pulling rope to stand up! ...Even the Faces, a band that we are familiar with, was formed on the basis of the youngsters of Peranakan back then. It can also be said that our generation have been more or less influenced by this movie.
The following year, in 1988, Tian Zhuangzhuang turned this phenomenal pop culture phenomenon into a movie called "Rock 'n' Roll Youth", combining it with Gold Rush's autobiographical novels, which made the breakdancing label Gold Rush (1961-1997) famous. In 1988, Michael Jackson's "BAD" was released by China Records under the title "Awesome". So Taojin also once topped the name of China's Michael Jackson.
Later, the introduction of Chang Cheh's "Breaking Bad", also a movie named Breaking Bad, a short period of time, the same gathered a lot of popularity, and now rewatch, the dance is not a breakdance, when the fire, Breaking Bad two words can not be ignored. But Donnie Yen's Breakin' Away is more of a breakdancing movie, and both films were released in the same year as Breakin', 1984.
After the movie was over, the dance and music from the movie were still in my head, and then I managed to get a few dollars to buy the Breakin' movie's self-titled tape, which was the first movie soundtrack album I ever bought. The tape is still in my collection, but I can't remember which cardboard box I sealed it in and put it in the garage. In retrospect, it seems that the tape was released by that movie translation studio, and all the songs on it were from the movie soundtracks, and some of them even had dialog. A few years later, in the early 90's, I saw the "Breakin" movie soundtrack in the Xinhua bookstore, an imported tape with a price tag of 27 yuan, which was an outrageous price at that time, so I had to miss it, which has always been a regret in my collection, and the tape is nowhere to be found nowadays.
Nearly two years ago, I bought the Japanese vinyl LP of Breakin, the price is not low, the record is still new, the cover is not ideal, after all, it is an old record of more than 30 years, as if to understand the year this regrettable complex. Maybe there are too many rubbing discs and remixes in this record, so I feel that listening to the LP is extraordinarily good when comparing various media, throwing off the use of MP3s by a long shot.
The music in the movie, 80's dance music, may be a bit outdated now, but at that time it was very trendy, and most of the singers were still unknown to me, and the word "remix" was unheard of at that time, but I just liked it, and I can still hum the melody of a few of the songs.
"Breakin' . Street People 》Firefox;
Ain't Nobody 》Chaka Khan & Rufus;
Reckless 》Ice T;Chris The Glove Taylor...... p>
I was going to talk about the most impressive songs, but I didn't expect to stop, these impressive almost the whole album. In the shrimp to see the most played is my impression is not very deep "Freakshow On The Dance Floor 》BarKays..... I remember that year all the songs related to breakdancing will be popular, I also especially like Hong Kong singer Mak Jie Man's "Electric Lightning Breakdance Dancers 》,which also came out in 1984, it can be seen that 1984 is a year belonging to the Breakin It was the year of Breakin'.
I've written a lot, not only to tell you about my first movie soundtrack, but also to tell you that sometimes people's love and obsession with things actually comes from the heart rather than the material itself. Mr. Cui Jian, although I think your words on "China Star" are too much and too subjective, I must admit that I am also an internalist.