Hollywood Director 1992

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"Link, you're so cool. There were so many people and so many reporters just now. How did you dare to walk forward?"

"Please call me a warrior."

Link joked. As an old director, he had attended too many film premieres and walked too many red carpets in his career. Today's scene was just a small one.

"Sorry, Link, I didn't dare to follow just now."

"It's okay, I understand."

Link and Chris Bauer walked into the AMC cinema and met Jerome Preston at the door. Jerome was wearing a suit, his arms behind his back, and he was looking at him with a smile.

"Link, I just made a bet with someone, betting on whether you would dare to walk the red carpet. I won."

"Jerome, thank you for your arrangement. This premiere can save me a lot of publicity expenses."

"You're welcome! I also don't want my cinema to be deserted. Is it really just the two of you who came?"

"Yes, this is Chris Bauer. The others will probably come later."

After saying goodbye to Jerome Preston, Link and Chris Bauer came to the ticket hall, bought two movie tickets, and entered screening room 16, which was also one of the only two screening rooms in the AMC cinema showing 'Buried'.

Screening room 16 was a small screening room with only 80 seats. When Link and Chris Bauer walked into the screening room, there were only 13 people in the seats.

The trailer for 'Buried' and the pre-movie commercials were being shown on the screen.

The trailer was also a short film that Link had edited while editing the video.

There were two in total. Originally, he wanted to put them on TV after signing a distribution contract with the film company, but unfortunately, it didn't happen.

After the trailer ended, a 2-minute commercial was played.

While the commercials were playing, more than twenty people came in one after another, barely filling half of the 80-seat audience.

"Michael, here!"

As the movie was about to start, Chris Bauer waved to the audience in the front row.

Waiter Michael brought a girl from the front row to the back row and sat in the empty seat next to the two of them.

"Why are you so late? Why didn't Justin and the others come?"

"I don't know. I asked them. Maybe they'll come later."

"They should have come earlier. This 'Buried' is really good."

"Link, Chris said that you wrote, directed, and starred in it yourself? Is that true?"

"That's right. The movie is starting. You can watch it."

The movie started playing.

The first thing that appeared was a beam of light, the light of a flashlight, followed by Link's dusty cheeks and rapid breathing.

This movie tells the story of an Asian businessman who, for unknown reasons, was mistaken for a Soviet spy. After being knocked unconscious, he was buried in an unknown sandpit. He only had a mobile phone, a lighter, a flashlight, a glow stick, a knife, and a pen. He needed to use these simple tools to save himself.

"Hello, this is 911!"

"Hello, I've been buried. You have to save me. I can't breathe."

"Sir, please speak slowly."

"I'm buried in a coffin, a box that looks like a coffin. I don't know where I am. Please save me."

"What's your name?"

"Dawson, Dawson Lee!"

"Okay, Mr. Lee, can you tell us your location?"

"I don't know. I'm in a coffin, a box that looks like a coffin. I don't know where I am. Please save me."

On the screen, the protagonist was holding the phone, with a look of panic and despair on his face.

"Link, your acting is good. It doesn't feel any worse than a professional actor."

Michael said.

"It's okay. I practiced it specifically."

Link shrugged.

The movie continued playing.

The protagonist sought help from the police, his family, and his friends with hope, waiting for the police to rescue him, until finally the police claimed that they could not find his location.

The rescue failed.

The protagonist also became desperate and began to save himself hysterically.

This scene looks simple on the surface, but it contains reflections on the international political situation in the past few years.

Through the protagonist's experience, it reflects that during the Cold War, due to improper handling by government departments, and also because of racial segregation and distrust, many innocent people were implicated.

This is also an anti-war movie.

Link didn't know if the revised version of 'Buried' would be a big hit like the original, but he had already tried his best, put everything on the line, and only hoped that the system wouldn't be too坑.

Clap clap clap!

The movie ended, and more than a dozen people applauded, sparsely.

Chris Bauer also cheered loudly, Eric put his fingers in his mouth and whistled, and the other audience members clapped their hands when they heard someone applauding.

"Thank you!"

Link walked from the audience to the front, "Thank you for your applause. My name is Link. I am the director and male lead of 'Buried'. If you have any questions you want to ask me after watching the movie, you can stay and we can discuss them together."

"Director Link, did the male lead escape from the wooden box in the end?"

A middle-aged man raised his hand and asked.

"Unfortunately, no!"

"Wouldn't such an ending seem too depressing?"

"This is reality! In war, many people have experienced deeper despair than being buried alive. It is precisely because of this despair that people's aversion to war and their desire for peace can be aroused. The male lead died here, and his death was valuable."

Clap clap clap!

Many audience members applauded.

"Link, good job."

Chris Bauer shouted loudly.

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No mistake, one first, one post, one content, one at a time, take a look!

After attending the premiere held in Grove, Link left Chris Bauer behind and took the subway to Burbank City - United Theater in the north to see the screening situation there.

Burbank City is located in the north of Los Angeles and also belongs to the Greater Los Angeles area. It is a residential satellite city and industrial center of Los Angeles.

Many world-renowned media and entertainment companies have branches in Burbank.

Including The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros., National Broadcasting Company NBC, Viacom Media Group, Public Broadcasting Service PBS, etc., so Burbank is also known as the "Media Capital of the World."

Although there are not as many people here as in the central area of Los Angeles, the media information is developed, and the competition in the theater industry is not as fierce as in the central area.

It is not bad to screen 'Buried' here.

It's just that Link has no money, no connections, and no fame. There are no celebrity guests to support him, and no media on-site interviews, which makes the premiere scene here very deserted.

When ticket sales started, there were only Link and the manager, William Mason, at the theater entrance.

William Mason is an old guy in his sixties with a white beard, wearing a well-dressed suit and a bow tie, like an old British aristocrat.

"I have worked in the cinema for thirty-three years, and this is the first time I have seen such a deserted premiere ceremony. If this continues, the number of people who come to see the movie today will probably not exceed 100."

"It doesn't matter, a few is a few. My movie can be screened, and it's already half successful."

"Haha, good attitude. You better keep it up."

William Mason stood at the entrance of the cinema for a while, and when he didn't see anyone coming in to watch the movie, he sighed and returned to the office with his hands behind his back.

Link sat on the bench in front of the cinema.

This cinema is also located in a shopping center, but it is not as prosperous as the Grove Shopping Center, and the average daily passenger flow is not large. In addition, the cinema was closed for a short period of time due to renovations, so fewer people come here.

Link sat on the bench for half an hour. Dozens of customers came and went, and 5 people stood at the entrance of the cinema looking at the posters, but no one went in to buy tickets.

Link began to feel anxious, wondering if the system that had only appeared once was a hallucination after a cold and fever?

During this period, he ignored everyone's advice and insisted on screening 'Buried', mainly because of the 4x box office reward prompted by the system.

This was his confidence, and it was also the motivation for working hard.

If the system is a hallucination, does everything he has done before still have meaning?

An hour passed, and the entrance of the cinema was still deserted. No one went in to buy tickets, and the ticket seller was sleeping on the ticket counter.

However, in this hour, Link also figured out one thing - as a transmigrator, the biggest advantages are foresight, directing skills, countless classic scripts, and decades of life experience.

Even without the help of the system, there is no big problem.

This time, he was tricked by a hallucination. Next, he can continue to sell scripts, or go to other crews to work, accumulate funds and fame, and direct other movies in two years.

Although the road to explosion will be a little slower, it is still dozens of times faster than ordinary people.

Link stretched his waist, feeling dizzy with hunger. He walked to the fast food restaurant next door, bought two hot dogs and a cup of hot cocoa, and saw a middle-aged man walking into the cinema when he came back.

Today, the entire cinema is only screening one movie, 'Buried'. People who enter the cinema can only watch 'Buried'.

Movie ticket + 1.

After the man went in, a couple went in again.

Movie ticket + 2.

Very good.

It's getting better and better.

Link was worried that he was too unlucky and sitting at the cinema entrance would block his luck, so he simply sat on the bench opposite, eating and staring at the cinema entrance.

Today is Friday. By 4 pm, the passenger flow in the shopping center increased, and the number of people entering the cinema also changed from single digits to more than 20.

However, some people came out after watching half of the movie, complaining that there were only three or four people watching in such a large screening room, and they were watching a thriller, which was a bit scary.

By 5 pm, the passenger flow in the shopping center increased again.

The number of people going to the cinema to watch movies is also increasing.

By 6 pm, more than 60 people had gone in to watch the movie.

By 7 pm, the number officially exceeded 100, which was more than William Mason expected.

This is a good sign.