"What movie should we watch?" After everyone finished eating pizza, they went to a late-night movie theater nearby.
"I heard that you shot a movie in Los Angeles, what was it called?" Antonia asked.
"You are very well informed. It's called Rock and Roll High School, but it didn't do well at the box office and couldn't be shown in New York."
"How about watching Apocalypse Now, directed by Coppola, they won the Grand Prize 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.
"Four Apocalypse Now", Gene got a higher salary for the protagonist and shouted to invite everyone.
"We don't have this one, please look at the film schedule." The conductor pointed to the film schedule on the wall.
It looks like "Apocalypse Now" hasn't been released in the U.S. yet.
Ronald looked at the schedule.
"Alien" - a sci-fi horror movie, suitable for both men and women to watch together.
"The last show has started one hour ago." The conductor pointed at the time again.
This kind of commercial film usually opens during the prime time between 6pm and 9pm after get off work in the afternoon, making it convenient for mainstream moviegoers. If it is too late, everyone will have to go home and sleep.
"What other movies are there?"
"That's an adult X-rated movie over there." The ticket seller was a veteran. He saw that the two men and two women were here for a two-on-two date, so he recommended an X-rated movie. It was so late anyway, and the inspector wouldn't be dedicated enough to work overtime to catch him.
Teenagers watch x-rated movies.
Gene didn't want to look at it, "Is there more?"
"Then there's only this old movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Today is a special show at their club. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it."
"Is there a club in a movie?" Ronald was a little confused.
"Yeah, they're all crazy and come to midnight shows all the time. It'll be fun to watch it with 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 for it first.
"This is the newspaper for you." The conductor handed out four expired newspapers along with the tickets.
The four of them looked at each other and shook their heads, "What is this for?" Ronald asked.
"You'll know when you get in."
"Welcome new friends to join our Rocky Horror Show viewing club!" A middle-aged man held a microphone and welcomed the four people into the screening room. The audience below began to applaud in unison, "Welcome!"
This club has quite an atmosphere.
"Hi, hello, hello," Gene said happily, high-fiving everyone along the way and finding four seats connected together to sit down.
Ronald glanced left and right, and saw many viewers wearing gothic black eye makeup, and some men dressed as girls. It was a wonderful experience.
The movie opens with a man and a woman reversing a car on a rainy night. Suddenly the car seems to hit something.
The audience in the row in front of Ronald suddenly fell backward collectively, matching the scene of the car crash on the screen.
"Oops," the protagonist on the screen slapped the seat.
The audience also hit the seats at the same time at the right time, making a neat "snap".
"I should have fixed the spare tire."
The audience collectively shouted "asshole".
Spoiler alert, this guy is a bad person.
How come this is a movie with his own voice acting? Ronald looked around strangely.
Gene and Lucy had a great time, shouting together with the club members.
The two protagonists on the screen got out of the car and it started to rain.
The audience all raised the newspapers in their hands and covered their heads.
Huh? Water really fell on his face. Ronald looked confused. What kind of advanced technology is this? Can it rain in the cinema to match the plot?
Antonia also raised the newspaper, hit Ronald to remind him, and helped him lift the newspaper.
It turned out that someone was shooting water cannons from the aisles on both sides, and some spectators brought their own and used them to spray water into the sky.
The two protagonists on the screen entered an old castle, and an owner who looked like a vampire came out to receive them.
"Where's your neck?" the audience shouted.
Ronald took a look and realized that it was true that the actor had no neck.
He opened a coffin and used a duster to clean the cobwebs from the bones inside.
"So this is a horror movie," Ronald thought to himself.
Suddenly he started singing at the top of his lungs, singing a crappy old pop song.
"Is it a musical?"
"One, two, three, four" the audience began to sing.
The host began to walk up to the stage in front of the screen and welcomed everyone on stage to sing together.
Soon, more than a dozen men and women wearing Gothic eye makeup and costumes walked up to the front stage and lined up in a row to sing loudly. The audience below also raised their hands and swayed left and right to cooperate.
In the movie, a man in a suit and tie appeared again and taught everyone how to dance, "First move your left foot, then jump to your right foot."
The men and women on the stage began to dance to the music.
"Hey, we're here." Gene pulled Lucy onto the stage and danced with them.
Hahaha, the audience burst into laughter,
"Let's go too." Antonia pulled Ronald up and also went on stage.
Ronald followed the rhythm and the movements of the yers and made silly dance moves. For a moment, he didn't know why, but he felt happy.
"Hahahaha", the dance ended, Ronald and everyone laughed together.
"It turned out to be an exploitation film."
Hey, Ronald seems to have remembered something important, and is desperately trying to grasp this glimmer of inspiration.
Antonia pulled him off the stage again and returned to his original seat.
"Today is our Rocky Horror Picture Show viewing club members, Larry and Holly's big day. Today is their 150th time attending the theater -"
The host turns the microphone to the audience
"Rocky Horror Show..."
Two other members took out two small cakes with 150 candles on them and asked them to blow them out.
"Can you watch the same movie 150 times, Antonia?" Ronald felt a little incredible when he heard the record of 150 movie viewings.
"No, but they don't count as watching a movie. They are purely entertaining themselves."
"150 times is a big number, and it would take three years to see them once a week. Don't they have somewhere else to go?"
"Yes, in some neighborhoods in New York, teenagers have nowhere to go at night. If they tell their parents to go to a bar, then the parents should be worried. But going to the movie theater with a group of old friends to watch a bad movie will put your mind at ease."
"Yes, they are all teenagers." Ronald looked around again. Under the gothic black eyeshadow, they were actually boys and girls in their teens and twenties.
After the movie ended, Ronald specifically talked to the president of the Rocky Horror Picture Show club and the host. Since the film was released in 1975, it has been continuously played at midnight shows.
This film has a weird style and did not do well in its first run. However, the mixed style and lots of jokes attracted young audiences in New York. Many theaters continued to show it at midnight. This in turn led to the trend of watching midnight movies.
, so it continued to be screened until 1979.
"But we may not be able to watch it here next year." Finally, 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 movies again.
The box office began to decline, and the movie theaters said they wanted to replace The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a new movie. In the end, we fans could only keep one or two movie theaters showing it."
That glimmer of inspiration seemed to be right in front of him. Ronald stood there and tried hard to catch her.
"Ronald, what are you thinking about? Are you thinking about the script again?" Lucy looked at Ronald with admiring eyes and asked.
The inspiration seems to have flown away again.
But the script?
Just now I was dragged onto the stage by Antonia to sing and dance, and my originally depressed mood became very happy. This seems to be written into the plot of the Jewish student Doris. It is not that she lacks a motive to get rid of her overly controlling mother.
, are you brave enough to go on stage and sing?
"Yes, you gave me great inspiration, Lucy, thank you." Ronald thanked Lucy, took out a small notebook and began to jot down his thoughts.
"Yeah, I'm glad I could help you, Ronnie, can I call you Ronnie?"
"Pull it, Lucy." Gene caught up from behind and pulled her away. "Antonia is right, you are indeed not Ronald's type."
"Antonia, what are you looking at?" Ronald couldn't help but walk over and ask as he watched the Italian girl holding Gene's Polaroid camera and laughing so hard at the smaller x-rated ticket window.
"Look at this..." Antonia pointed to a poster, "Hahahaha, I was laughing so hard."
In front of me is a small poster with the title "Hot Lunch"
It turns out someone actually made an adult movie using the black slang meaning of hot lunch.
"Pfft..." Ronald couldn't help but squirt.
"Look at the director's column...hahaha." Antonia laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten up and grabbed Ronald's arm to keep her balance.
"Al Parker...hahahaha", Ronald couldn't help but sprayed again.
This is director Alan Parker. Maybe the "Hot Lunch" project was reported in the media, and an adult film producer discovered the business opportunity and quickly made a movie to increase the popularity?
Ronald shook his head.
"Take a picture of it 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 figure this out. Ronald plans to report it to producer da Silva.
"Don't tell them, otherwise there will be more trouble." Ronald pointed at Jean and Lucy.
"I understand."
"Hey, what are you two laughing at? Why are you laughing so happily?" Gene finally found the two of them laughing and ran over from afar.
"It's nothing. We were laughing at those people just now, and we were acting in a movie in the audience."
Everyone walked out of the theater and prepared to go home.
"Where do you live, Antonia? I'll take you there."
"Little Italy, my home is right next to it. No need to send it away." Antonia declined.
"Lucy and I take the subway. The lines in Harlem are open 24 hours a day. Your car is not safe."
"Okay, that's it. I'm very happy today, thank you." Ronald said goodbye to everyone on the spot.
"What was that inspiration?" Ronald thought as he drove. "Midnight show, teenagers, long-term screening."
"Squeak..." Ronald braked suddenly. Aren't teenagers the target audience of "Rock and Roll High School"? The midnight screening can be shown for a long time to attract teenagers in New York to watch the movie. And it just so happens that New York's movie theaters want a new movie.