screenwriter mystery

Chapter 168
"Is there too many people?"

When he came to the entrance of the cinema, Agent Phil looked at the long queue and couldn't help but exclaim.

Under Spike's proposal, BSI decided to watch a movie to relax everyone's tense nerves during this time.

However, Amanda and his party were a little surprised when they saw the long queue of hundreds of people at the entrance of the cinema.

It's midnight now, and there are still so many people willing to spend time queuing up to watch movies at this time.

"Is this movie really so attractive?"

As an agent of BSI, although Angela has no actual experience in participating in supernatural cases, she has at least been exposed to supernatural investigations.

With practical experience, she obviously didn't take this movie too seriously.

"Of course, didn't you hear what the director announced on the show? This is a 'real' documentary, and the inspiration for "The Blair Witch" came from this. It is said that the director just wanted to be able to screen this documentary. The purpose of shooting "The Blair Witch" is to paralyze the federal government and make them mistakenly think that this is another movie propaganda method..."

A white man in the team looked at Angela's pretty face, and immediately started talking.

"Yeah, I also heard about this, so I ran to watch this movie."

With people starting, everyone in line expressed their views on the movie.

Although, in the eyes of BSI agents, this reason for watching the movie, which is like nesting dolls, cannot withstand any scrutiny at all, but the people who lined up to watch the movie seem to believe it.

"Another group of people who have been deceived by the movie's propaganda."

Amidst the discussions among the crowd, Amanda and his party quietly lined up at the end of the line.

Agent Phil looked at the crowd who were still talking about the movie "Secret", couldn't help but shook his head and sighed.

"If I remember correctly, someone also seemed to believe that The Blair Witch was real?"

Seeing Detective Phil standing in front of him, who looked like everyone was drunk and the only one sober, Detective Zhou debunked it incomprehensibly.

"Cough cough!"

Hearing Detective Zhou Zhuo's merciless debunking, Detective Phil coughed unnaturally.

He turned his head and looked at the half-smiling eyes of the BSI people behind him, and quickly explained: "It was because of various rumors at the time that I was deceived for a while, and this time it is very clear. The documentary claimed by the film is nothing more than a promotional gimmick by the film production company, and I will not be fooled by the same trick a second time."

Under the assurance of Agent Phil, Amanda and his party waited outside the line for nearly four to ten minutes before buying the movie tickets.

Among them, although the number of theaters in Washington is scarce, it also proves the popularity of the movie "Spiritual: Ghost Story" from the side.

……

The theaters where "Spirit: Ghost Story" was filmed were naturally not just the two theaters in Washington.

Under the influence of Universal's fight for publicity, and Zhao Yuan's previous box office performance of several films in a row.

Many theaters are willing to vacate the big screen to show new movies.

Even after the previous "Blair Witch", a large number of "pseudo-documentaries" that followed suit suffered disastrous box office failures.

However, theaters are still full of hope for "Spirit: Ghost Story".

After all, it was Zhao Yuan who made the movie this time, and he has always been a symbol of a dark horse making money in the eyes of the theaters.

At least so far, none of the films that Zhao Yuan participated in writing or directing has lost money.

And the theater also hopes that this achievement can be extended to his new work "Smart: Ghost Story".

More than [-] theaters in the United States showed "Spirit: Ghost Story", which is enough to prove how optimistic the major theaters are about the movie.

Of course, all of this just means that theaters are looking forward to new movies.

Once the box office of "Spirituality: Ghost Story" is not as good as expected, these theaters will not hesitate to abandon it and turn around to find more profitable movies.

"You don't seem nervous at all, Zhao?"

Los Angeles, inside the theater.

Wen Ziren looked at Zhao Yuan, who looked calm, and couldn't help but speak.

As a horror director who has become famous in Hollywood today, even though he has been baptized by various movie premieres, Wen Ziren still feels uncontrollable tension every time a new movie is released. He would be surprised only when Zhao Yuan in the seat next to him was able to remain calm as usual.

"The movies have already been filmed and released, and continuing to be nervous will not help."

Hearing Wen Ziren's voice, Zhao Yuan glanced at Wen Ziren in the dimly lit auditorium.

"What's more, I have confidence in "Spirit: Ghost Story"..."

Wen Ziren thought that Zhao Yuan's confidence came from his trust in his own works.

But in fact, what supports Zhao Yuan's self-confidence is a series of brilliant box office achievements made by the original version of "Smart: Ghost Story".

In this way, under the different ideas of the two.

In the theater, the screening of "Smart: Ghost Story" started.

After Universal's opening animation, a subtitle naturally appeared in the opening credits of the film, expressing gratitude to the family who made this 'documentary' film.

This is a common technique of 'pseudo-documentary', which has been used once before in "The Blair Witch". The purpose is to remind the audience to bring them into the movie and think that what they see is a documentary, not a movie.

With the subtitles flashing on the screen, the movie soon entered the topic.

First of all, at the beginning of the movie, it is a simple plot. There is no main line, but the hero keeps shooting in the room with a DV camera. Although this kind of shaking scene is not worth mentioning, it is very good for the audience to get into it. During the filming of the documentary.

For "Smart: Ghost Story", Zhao Yuan had already watched it countless times while editing.

Therefore, compared with the movies on the big screen, he paid more attention to observing the audience in the theater. His eyes fell on their expressions, but Zhao Yuan could easily see emotions such as boredom and disdain on the faces of everyone. It is unavoidable. After all, as a "pseudo-documentary", only by creating enough daily foreshadowing in the early stage can the audience who watch the movie be successfully brought into the movie without feeling detached.

Fortunately, although the previous part of the plot was boring, no audience left the hall. This is also thanks to the baptism of those "pseudo-documentaries" filmed after the "Blair Witch" during this period of time, so that the audience has accepted this kind of The routine of the movie.

　Thank you Jiangshanyeyouyu for tipping 100 starting coins.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)