hollywood melon man

Chapter 25 Conquer the Audience
  Universal Pictures observer Jackie Fall, who is responsible for the Los Angeles area, came to a movie theater near Century City early Friday morning and sat near the ticket booth to survey the audience's choices.

It can be seen that even in October, which is relatively off-season, there are not many choices for viewers, and not many people will choose to buy movie tickets for "Shark Beach".

The ticket booth faces the lobby of the theater. At a glance, it is easy to find a still poster of Gnives Paltrow in a bikini with a shark on the back.

Similarly, trailers for recently released movies are also playing on the big screen in the theater lobby, and trailers for "Shark Tank" can also be seen appearing from time to time.

Just as the ticket checking for the first "Shark Beach" started, Jackie Fall went to check in with more than 20 movie fans.

It seems that these twenty-odd movie fans are the audience of "Shark Beach".

While checking in, Jackie Fall was still listening to fans talking behind her.

"I'm telling you, if you haven't seen this movie, you will definitely regret it. Then don't blame me for not recommending this movie to you."

"Is it really such an exaggeration? Lewis, are you bragging?" A companion obviously didn't believe it.

The white boy named Lewis said with a displeased look on his face: "What are you bragging about? This is my true feeling. I only dragged you to watch the preview after watching the preview.

It’s true that Universal Pictures still needs to screen such a good movie? "

Jackie Fall smiled when he heard this. There were only four movie theaters in the entire Los Angeles area, and the others were scattered in major cities across the United States.

Universal Pictures is still adopting a conservative distribution strategy and does not believe that "Shark Tank" can detonate theaters from the beginning.

Even in Los Angeles, and it was a Friday, there were only so many viewers for the first show in the morning.

However, it is understandable that perhaps during the prime time in the evening, the audience may increase a bit.

In fact, Jackie Fall was quite surprised that some fans who had watched the preview took the initiative to drag others to watch the screening.

This shows that the movie "Shark Tank" really left a deep impression on the fans at the preview screening, so much so that they couldn't help but share it with their relatives and friends, and even invited them to watch it together.

It's just that there are too few viewers who have watched the test screening. If the preview screening can be as successful as the test screening, the reputation of "Shark Beach" will spread rapidly.

No form of publicity can match the driving effect of good reputation spread by word of mouth.

After entering the theater and taking a seat, Jackie Fall counted approximately thirty spectators, which was a bit more than expected.

Mainly, the white boy Lewis brought more than ten people to watch the movie.

Before the movie started, the group was still chatting, mainly around Lewis bragging about the movie.

"Has the director of this movie had any previous works?" asked the only girl in the team.

Lewis shook his head and said: "I checked after I went back and found that this movie should be the first feature film of his career.

He is definitely a genius to be able to make a movie so wonderful the first time. ",

The other friends obviously didn't believe it, and the girl said: "Lewis, if it doesn't look good in a while, you will pay the bill when I go to the bar at night."

"No problem, I'll pay for it, but what if the movie is good?" Lewis asked.

"Then I'll introduce you to the school cheerleader. Haven't you always wanted to date her?" the girl said.

"Wow," the people next to him cheered: "Lewis, this is a good opportunity, you must seize it."

Lewis was full of confidence: "Don't worry, I will never let you down. Also, I would like to advise you not to drink too much."

"Why?" Someone was puzzled.

Lewis pretended to be mysterious and said: "Believe me, you will never remember to go to the toilet by then."

Seeing how miraculous Lewis was, the dozen or so companions who came with him were a little doubtful.

Lewis has never been a big talker. Could it be that this movie is really good?

Sarathy Merton was the girl who introduced Lewis to the cheerleading squad on the promise that the film would be good.

Today was originally an activity for their college club, and it was Lewis who suggested watching a movie, so he came to this cinema.

When the film officially started screening and the Universal Pictures logo flashed across the screen, Salati Merton didn't care and kept eating popcorn.

After the movie company logo, there must be a long and stinky credits list. Who wants to see this!

But unexpectedly, the long and stinky credits did not appear. After the credits flashed, the film officially started.

The scene begins with a man and a woman driving, and the woman is Gwyneth Paltrow. At the same time, subtitles were scrolling in the lower left corner of the screen, and names such as producer Spielberg, screenwriter and director Gilbert Jr., and starring Gwyneth Paltrow flashed past.

Jackie Foer thought this was a good approach, and the Directors Guild mandated that the names of the cast and crew must appear at the beginning of the film.

It was also because of this that "Star Wars" director George Lucas quit the Directors Guild in anger and has not returned to this day.

George Lucas thought the opening credits smelled like shit in a toilet.

Of course, recently, some people have been trying a new approach, which is to integrate the credits into the picture just like the beginning of "Shark Beach".

Doing so not only enters the plot of the movie, but also does not violate the regulations of the Directors Guild.

The very beginning had already attracted Sarathy Merton's interest. She temporarily forgot about the popcorn and watched the film a little more seriously with the audience around her.

The beginning of the film was nothing special, but the scene of taking off clothes on the beach still made the male audience in the theater burst with hormones.

A male audience member couldn't help but said to himself: "God, she is so sexy..."

If Gwyneth Paltrow heard this, she would be very happy.

Having known little Gilbert for so long and even having sex with her, little Gilbert never said a sexy word to her.

The plot of the movie progressed very quickly. Not long after admiring the heroine's sexy figure, after just surfing the waves for a while, a whale corpse appeared on the beach.

Then, a shark attacked, and the two boys who were surfing and swimming on the beach left together. The heroine Sally was bitten by a shark and trapped on a reef two hundred meters away from the beach.

The key is that the wound is bleeding, and the smell of blood always attracts sharks to wander around the reef.

As the plot progressed, the voices of people eating popcorn, drinking Coke, and talking in the theater disappeared unconsciously.

All the audience stared nervously at the big screen, worried about the condition of the heroine Sally.

Salati Merton was so scared that she hugged her companion's arm, but she refused to leave the big screen with her eyes and refused to miss any picture.

Later, the heroine Sally, who was trapped on the reef all night, waited for the two men from yesterday. She shouted for help, but the two men did not notice the shark and were killed by the shark.

However, the man's camera drifted to the edge of the reef. Sally recorded a last message with the camera and used the high tide of the waves to push the camera back to the beach.

At the same time, she also saw a signal buoy closer to the beach, so she planned to swim there.

The film shows the predator's perspective many times, using the lens to simulate the shark's first perspective, making all the viewers in the theater so nervous that they can't breathe.

This is simply too surprising and exciting. How could the audience in 1991 accept a horror thriller from twenty or thirty years later?

In the end, seeing the heroine Sally being rescued by the driver uncle at the beginning undoubtedly made all the viewers in the theater heave a sigh of relief.

But this thrilling shark movie undoubtedly left a deep impression on them all.

The film ends with a final flash of the work of Gilbert Landrini Jr.

Salati Merton said to his companions at this time: "Remember this name, I think he will also create surprises for us."

Lewis smiled and said: "Salaty, where is my cheerleader?"

Salati Merton rolled her eyes at Lewis and said: "Don't worry, I will introduce him to you when I get back."

At this time, a companion suggested: "It's still early, why don't we watch it again!"

"OK,"

"Then watch it again, oh my God, Gwyneth Paltrow is so sexy."

"Yes, I declare that she will be the girl of my dreams from now on."

"Hey, Davis, how many girls do you have in your dreams?"

"Can't there be one more?"

Listening to the conversation of this group of people, Jackie Fall wrote in his notebook: "Little Gilbert seems to have magic power. He conquered the audience in just one movie.

"Shark Tank" deserves greater publicity and is recommended to be released in theaters across the United States as soon as possible. "

After only one screening, Jackie Foer dared to assert that "Shark Tank" can definitely create surprises for Universal Pictures.

(End of this chapter)