Chapter 137 The audiences response was very intense
After a lot of red tape, the lights in the auditorium dimmed and the words "Cannon Group Presents" appeared on the screen.
Powerful disco drumbeats began to play from the speakers, and a large building popped up on the screen. Flags of various countries were flying on the flagpoles outside. A group of people ran into the building screaming.
This is a good beginning, Ronald commented secretly. In just a few strokes, he sketched out the apocalyptic scene in 1994. What will happen next? The cold war turns into a hot war? An alien invasion? Or an asteroid hits the earth?
After thinking about several of the most popular disasters in Hollywood scripts, Ronald quickly gathered his thoughts and watched the movie. As a buyer, the main task is to watch the movie from the audience's perspective, not to do any analysis.
Three male and female singers, dressed in sparkling white diamond-encrusted costumes, sang and danced disco-style songs on the stage.
How unexpected is it? This building is not a meeting of the United Nations to deal with the crisis, but a concert.
No, it's not a concert, but a song and dance show. The heartbeat of the audience and the decibels of the shouts determine whether the contestants will leave or stay.
The second person to take the stage was a male and female group. They had no band accompaniment, only an acoustic guitar, and what they sang was not current pop music, but more like the country rock that hippies loved in the 1960s. The audience was silent and did not cheer, and some people impatiently
He stood up and asked them to get off, and some started throwing things on the stage.
As soon as the scene changed, two singers, a man and a woman, were still singing with smiles on their faces. The audience gradually sat down and listened carefully. The heartbeat of the audience in the control room gradually reached 150. The director was stunned and decided to make some noise to ruin the performance.
Ronald was also shocked. This movie was not as good as Roger Corman's. How should I put it, it was like a college student visiting the studio directed by Corman and then going back to work on his own spare time project.
The next plot is even more absurd. The director of the talent show turned out to be Satan. They made noise to deliberately lower the score of the duo, and then signed the female singer Bibi instead of her partner and boyfriend Alfie. The movie has evolved from a musical
It became a mythical film.
But the names of the protagonists were a bit interesting, and Ronald couldn't help laughing when he saw this. Alfie is the name of the protagonist of a movie of the same name starring Michael Caine in 1966, in which he played a character named Al
Fei's love saint.
This small-budget British production cost less than 1 million U.S. dollars, and sold 18 million in America. Ronald also watched it when he was in class.
As for the name of the heroine Bibi, anyone who is familiar with rock music gossip knows that it is an allusion to Bibi Bull, a well-known flesh and blood boy in rock music, who slept with all the popular rock bands.
Ronald's laughter caused the beauty next to her to roll her eyes. She could no longer stand this bad movie and was about to leave. "Fortunately, this handsome guy from America confiscated his movie ticket money, otherwise he would have to refund the money."
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When Ronald saw this, he gave up the idea of buying the film. The first reel of film (11 minutes) made the audience want to leave, and the gods would not come to save him in the subsequent plot.
Most of the audience was just being polite and didn't leave early at the opening film of the film festival. Some audience members had already started to doze off, and then they were woken up by a burst of singing and dancing.
The scene suddenly jumped from the office to a cave, where a group of devils began to sing and dance, urging the heroine Bibi to take a bite of the big apple.
Ronald looked at the fat producer sitting in the front row. He was bobbing his head and happily following the music. The joys and sorrows of human beings in this world are really not the same. The fat man was immersed in his great movie song and dance scenes, while the audience just
They felt that the noise prevented them from sleeping.
Not to mention the next plot, even Ronald couldn't stand it. There were only two places where he was awakened from his drowsiness.
For the first time, a producer turned from Satan signed the heroine. Immediately her record sales began to skyrocket. Ronald, who fell asleep to the noisy singing and dancing, suddenly woke up after the background noise disappeared and took a look twice.
screen.
"But I haven't recorded any songs yet? Why can I start selling records first?" Bibi asked in confusion.
"This is the true meaning of business, you sell it first and then start making it." Satan laughed.
Hey, this idea is interesting. Isn't this how fat people operate movies?
Ronald found it interesting and continued to sleep.
The second time, near the end of the film, Bibi finally woke up, no longer controlled by Satan, and ran to find the male protagonist Alfie. The two found a group of people, left modern technology, and lived like hippies. They burned a fire on a large lawn.
Unknown plants appeared and became very "spiritual" in the smoke.
Satan led the security guards to arrest Bibi, and saw that their family and children were about to be destroyed. Yes, I don't know why the hero and heroine suddenly got married and had children.
At a critical moment, the screen suddenly shone brightly, and Ronald was awakened by the bright light.
I saw a Rolls-Royce car glowing with white light appearing in the sky, making a sound of "BiuBiuBiu" and falling from the sky. An old man with a white beard came out, saved the hero and heroine, and led them to a new planet to start over.
Human reproduction.
Ronald rubbed his eyes. Was this a special effect that cost a "big price"? It seemed quite expensive, probably only costing two dollars and thirty-eight cents.
Yawning loudly, the beautiful woman next to them was also awakened. The two found that the movie had ended, and the beautiful woman was awakened by the reopened theater lights.
The fat man who gave Ronald the movie ticket happily walked onto the stage in front of the screen and took the microphone prepared by the organizer. "I am the director of this film, Minahan Golan..."
"Hey...hey...don't hit anyone."
The audience had been holding back their anger and wanted to vent it. Since Montreal hosted the Olympic Games, it has been in debt of one billion US dollars. Four years have passed and the main venue for the 1976 Olympic Games has not yet been completed. A large amount of taxes paid every year have been used to pay off debts.
Public facilities cannot be updated, and there is great dissatisfaction.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Montreal International Film Festival is also an idea thought up by the city government. It wants to attract investment in the film industry and boost employment and tax revenue. However, the French-speaking part of Montreal has restricted the film festival.
The film source and scale of the festival are far less developed than the Toronto Film Festival, another Canadian film festival established at the same time.
Thinking that the taxes I had worked so hard to pay would lead to such a terrible movie, it would be better to repair the roads and increase the funding for public education. I happened to have the mini record that was given when I entered the door, and the audience imitated the movie
In the opening scene, everyone threw the records in their hands at the fat man Minahan.
Fat Minahan fled off the podium in embarrassment and scurried away with his head in his arms. The audience didn't give up, and the audience in the back row also began to throw the record forward. Their hands were not strong enough, and it fell on the head of Ronald, who was sitting in the front row.
"Hey, don't throw it away..." Ronald held his head and ran out of the cinema.
The beautiful woman beside him disappeared somewhere. Ronald had to walk slowly back to the hotel alone. Is the level of this Montreal Film Festival limited? It is said to be an A-level film festival. What kind of opening film was chosen?
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When Ronald returned to the hotel, he made a cup of instant coffee to calm his frightened mind.
In fact, after thinking about it, the investment in this movie is probably not small. There are so many dancers participating, and although many big scenes are ugly, the scenery is real.
There are many bad movies because they have low budgets and cut corners. This bad movie is really bad in a unique way. It's not that money was not invested, but that the money was invested in the wrong place.
The movie is set in 1994, but the props and scenery look like they were in 1954, giving people a very low-key feel.
The hero and heroine become hippies to save the world, but they are not hippies at all. Hippies advocate freedom, and there is no one who can dance in a group dance with uniform movements like them.
How should I put it? It feels like the director only saw descriptions of hippies in magazines, and then used his own imagination of the reported text to direct the hippie scenes, which is specious.
"You can't leave. What the audience threw was the record you sent. You, Cannon Pictures, must compensate."
At the same time, Fat Minahan's cousin, another fat Yoram, was held tightly by the manager of the cinema and refused to let him go. It turned out that some of the records thrown by the audience were thrown onto the screen with too much force, causing the screen to break.
Broken.
The main venue of the Montreal Film Festival is very large, and the supporting large screen is very expensive. If it is broken, replacing it will cost a lot of money, and the organizing committee also wants to show other films here. The person in charge of the cinema grabbed Yoram and refused.
Let him go, and he will not give up until he comes up with the money.
"It's no use holding me back. Only Minahan can sign checks."
"Where did he go?"
Everyone searched around the venue three times but could not find Minahan.
His cousin and partner Yoram said helplessly, "Maybe Minahan has gone back to the hotel. He put a lot of effort into this movie and directed and edited it himself. Why don't you go back to the hotel with me, I'm afraid of him
receive a blow."
The theater manager and senior officials of the organizing committee returned to the hotel with Yoram. There was no sign of Minahan in the room. They searched several times but could not see Minahan, so they had to go back to the lobby to discuss compensation matters.
"Minahan won't escape, right?" The theater manager and Yoram had this thought in their minds at the same time.
"He's here...he's going to jump off the building." A staff member yelled outside.
Everyone ran out of the lobby and saw a man standing on the balcony railing outside the room where Minahan lived.
None other than "Apple" director and producer Minahan Golan.
Yoram was very anxious and shouted to the top, "Minahan, don't worry about it. Let's go back and continue financing the next movie. We will definitely succeed."
Minahan glanced down and murmured in a low voice: "It's useless, the audience doesn't like my movie. I figured it out, I don't have the talent for movies. This time we will shoot the movie in Israel and distribute the movie
I have lost all the money I earned and I don’t want to live anymore.”
"Think about your wife, think about your children, Minahan..." Seeing that Minahan had not left the railing, Yoram shouted anxiously louder. The staff of the organizing committee next to him were already preparing to call the police.
Ronald was also disturbed by the shouting from downstairs in his room. He opened the balcony door and prepared to go out to watch the excitement.
When I walked to the balcony, I saw many people below waving their hands to the top and shouting "Don't jump".
Ronald looked in the direction they were pointing and saw a fat man standing on the balcony railing of the room next to his, about to jump down.