hollywood melon man

Chapter 528: It's not difficult to decide on a movie
As it approached midnight, a movie theater on Fifth Avenue in New York was still brightly lit.

Coke was sold cup by cup, and the popcorn-making machine was still working diligently. The popcorn was packed in paper tubes and then delivered to the hands of movie fans waiting to watch the movie.

This is a scene that can often be seen during the North American summer season. Even if it is close to midnight, as long as a new movie is released, there is always no shortage of these loyal fans.

Today's midnight show was very lively with two blockbusters being screened at the same time.

In "Batman Begins" directed by Gilbert Jr., Christian Bale becomes the new version of Batman and the series is remade.

There is also the popular Jennifer Connelly, as well as Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson and other Hollywood stars participating in the film.

"Kingdom of Heaven", directed by Ridley Scott, stars the popular young actor Orlando Bloom, Edward Norton and Eva Green.

Miraculously, Liam Neeson also stars in this film, but his role is not very important.

So Liam Neeson didn't attend the rest of the promotional activities for Kingdom of Heaven except for the premiere. After seeing his performance at the premiere, he didn't want to go anymore.

Obviously he also understood which side was the winner.

This kind of clash of release dates is apparently very common, and Hollywood superstars generally avoid this situation to prevent the competition between the two films from affecting the box office.

But the supporting roles basically don’t matter, if the movie fails the blame cannot be put on the supporting roles.

Liam Neeson feels that "Butterfield 8" has a better chance of winning, so of course he will follow the winner, and his role in "Butterfield 8" is quite important.

As for the audience, which of the two movies to choose still needs some consideration.

Chloe found a spot in the parking lot and parked the car. His wife Anna took the bag and asked their son Paul to get out of the car.

The family of three arrived at the cinema, and Anna took her husband Chloe's arm and asked, "Honey, which movie shall we watch?"

"You decide!" said Kolo.

Anna asked Paul again: "Paul, which movie do you want to watch?"

Bauer stretched out his hand, pointed at the poster of Batman Begins and said, "Let's watch the Batman movie."

Anna clearly didn't want to watch it: "Is this good? Your dad and I saw that Batman movie, it was terrible."

Ball said, "It's different now, Mom. It's directed by Gilbert Jr., and he's never made a bad movie."

Anna thought what Bauer said made sense, but she stroked her chin and said, "But Kingdom of Heaven has Orlando Bloom!"

"Orlando Bloom was also made famous by Gilbert Jr. Without Gilbert Jr., he would be nothing," Ball said disdainfully.

Trust the director or the actor? Orlando Bloom is not one of the two Toms after all, so Anna doesn't trust him that much.

So Anna made a decision: "Okay, let's watch "Batman Begins", buy tickets, three Cokes, and a big bucket of popcorn."

"Okay!" Kolo went to take out the money. It seemed that he mainly served as the wallet in this family of three.

The Kolo family, even their 17-year-old high school son, is a regular at the cinema. They go to the cinema four or five times a year, and this is just a normal one.

Of course, there are also novice audiences, referring to teenage moviegoers who come to the cinema independently for the first time without their parents.

The PG-13 rating does have its advantages. Teenagers aged or can watch the movie independently without being accompanied by their parents.

Durant and James are two of them. Although they have the same name as a certain high school star player Durant and an NBA gorilla who can only rush around with his body, they are actually completely different people.

Durant and James are both members of the St. Mary's High School football team in New York, but their team did not perform well in the state league.

The two work closely with the running back and quarterback, who are also neighbors living next door and whose parents are very close, so naturally the two have a very close relationship.

I wonder how Durant and James in the basketball world would feel when they see these two close friends.

Today was the first time that the two good friends left their parents and went to the cinema to watch a movie by themselves. They both seemed a little nervous.

As soon as they walked into the cinema, they looked at the busy hall and were a little confused for a moment.

"Where...can I buy tickets?" Durant asked.

James spread his hands in classic James style: "Man, I don't know either. Usually my dad is responsible for buying tickets." Although watching a movie encountered the first difficulty, buying tickets was difficult, but this did not pose a problem for the two of them. Durant stopped a family of three, who happened to be Chloe's family.

Durant was very polite, with the black backpack on his back standing out: "Excuse me, where should we go to buy tickets?"

Chloe was kind: "First time coming to the cinema by yourself?"

"Uh, yes." Durant and James touched their heads embarrassedly.

Kolo smiled and said, "It's okay. You'll get familiar with it if you come here often. The ticket window is over there. There's a Coke and popcorn shop next to it. Turn left when you go out, and you'll find the merchandise store."

"Thank you, thank you, you really helped us a lot." After expressing their gratitude, Durant and James hurried to the ticket window to buy tickets.

Anna looked at the two teenagers and complained about her son: "Ball, learn from them. Look how independent they are."

Ball scratched his head: "I seem to know them, they are all members of our school's football team."

Wow, it turns out these three are from the same school. What a small world.

As soon as they walked to the ticket window, Durant and James hesitated again. It turned out that there were two movies showing and they didn't know which one to choose.

The poster of "Kingdom of Heaven" looks very grand, and Orlando Bloom's handsome face and Eva Green's beautiful and charming figure attracted the two teenagers.

The cool Batmobile on the "Batman Begins" poster is like an alluring beauty, and Batman standing next to the chariot forms a perfect picture.

The two good friends had a little conflict about which movie to watch.

Durant thinks "Kingdom of Heaven" is better because it has the elf prince Legolas and it is an epic blockbuster.

He watched "The Return of the King" with his family, and also watched the discs of the first two trilogies of "The Lord of the Rings". So Durant likes this series of movies very much, and he also likes Legolas very much, and dreams of becoming him.

James has a different opinion. He thinks "Batman Begins" is good. This is Batman. Who among the boys in America who has dreams of being a superhero doesn't want to be Bruce Wayne?
A very important selling point of the movie is the sense of immersion.

There is nothing wrong with two good friends both dreaming of becoming their favorite characters, but today they have to decide who wins and who loses, so they decide to go to a movie.

In fact, if two people go to one side, there is no need to worry.

But before we came, our parents told us that we must watch the movie together and come back together so that it would be safe.

As they were arguing, someone nearby couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Hey guys, stop arguing. Who is the director of The Dark Knight?"

Durant and James took one look and said in unison, "Is it little Gilbert?"

"Yes."

"Is it the young Gilbert who directed the Lord of the Rings series?" Durant asked again.

"Yes."

"Then why are you still hesitating? Go watch "The Mystery of the Swordsman"."

"agree……"

So the two good friends reached a happy decision to go see "Butterfly Shadow" together.

As for "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Elf Prince", they were soon forgotten in the corner and no one asked about them... In fact, there are still some people who choose "Kingdom of Heaven".

Most of these people are girls, and the reason they choose to watch "Kingdom of Heaven" is naturally because of Orlando Bloom's handsome face.

As we all know, as a famous handsome director in Hollywood, Gilbert Jr. may not be as good at acting as Orlando Bloom, but his face is no worse than Orlando Bloom.

But a handsome face is of little use to a director except for attracting a group of female fans. But for an actor like Orlando Bloom, it is the foundation of his life.

In fact, many people are curious about what it would be like for Gilbert Jr. to act himself.

But over the years, Gilbert has only appeared in "The Sixth Sense". Just a dozen seconds, it has become his last performance.

So many people say that Gilbert Jr.’s acting skills are not bad at all, but he just doesn’t want to show himself in front of the camera.

(End of this chapter)