The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1518 Eye-opening
Eye-opener!

That was the only thought in Nicholas' mind.

Even with all his imagination, Nicholas still couldn't describe the scene before him. Anson actually turned the premiere into a real carnival!
Literally, a carnival.

However, to be honest, if that were the only thing, it would still lack some highlights, and the event would be nothing more than a carnival.

The carnival is not a campus festival. It is grand and lively, but it has little to do with "Spider-Man". At most, it is just a party that seems noisy but is actually empty.

In response, Nicholas said that one should never underestimate Anson.

It was a crazy idea to boldly transform Rockefeller Center into a carnival, and Anson was obviously not satisfied with stopping there.

If the most popular area in the first half was the photo-taking area where the upside-down kiss was recreated, with not only couples but also friends eager to go and experience it, with long queues stretching out; then the most popular area in the second half was a simple life experience game.

There were 20 computers in the booth. Each computer had a stand-alone game. When you entered the game, you could choose from four characters:

Peter Parker, Mary Jane, Norman Osborn, Harry Osborn.

Without a doubt, Peter Parker became the most popular character, with more than 85% of people choosing Peter Parker.

Choosing a character is just the simplest and easiest of the next series of choices. Players will then face fifteen multiple-choice questions.

For example, during an underground boxing match, whether one obeys the manipulation behind the scenes and loses to the opponent; after the boxing match, whether one stops the robber.

For example, on the Brooklyn Bridge, should he save the cable car or Mary Jane? After Mary Jane confesses her love, should he accept her love?

For example, should she confess her identity to Aunt May, what about Harry? What about Mary Jane?
And so on and so forth.

When the audience sits in front of the movie screen, they often say it easily, examining the characters from a God's perspective, and easily say that this should be done or that should be done, as if they can control their lives as long as they make these choices.

But the cruel reality is that it seems particularly easy to point fingers at other people's lives, but when you return to your own life, it is still a mess.

Now, this mini-game gives everyone the opportunity to make their own choices and derive different endings based on their own judgment, just like a parallel universe.

Twenty years later, the parallel universe gag has been worn out to the point of being tiresome; but in 2004, parallel universes were absolutely fresh, and the audience couldn't even imagine that because of their own choices, Peter Parker could actually derive hundreds of different development directions.

Of course, stand-alone games aren’t that complicated; and, at the end of the day, this is just a premiere, and the event is just one part of it.

So, there are not really endless parallel universes. According to the stall owner, their team produced 333 endings for Peter Parker, 66 endings for Mary Jane, Norman Osborn and Harry Osborn respectively, to ensure that everyone's results are as non-repetitive as possible.

At the end of the single-player game, each participant will receive a beautifully crafted bookmark with their respective endings written on it.

"Your Peter Parker has accomplished nothing and has become an alcoholic at the age of thirty-five."

"Your Peter Parker loses his superpowers and becomes an ordinary person. Then, a man named Tony Stark makes you a pair of gloves that shoot spider silk."

"Your Peter-Parker is happily married and a regular guy with a big belly."

"Your Peter Parker becomes a war correspondent."

"Your Peter Parker joins a larger organization and no longer just saves New York, but becomes a good neighbor to Earth."

"Your Peter Parker, I'm sorry, destroyed New York."

There are all kinds of things. But the real value of this game is that it makes people realize that a choice can lead to completely different results, life is not that easy; and in the final analysis, Peter Parker is just a middle school student.

incredible!

Who would have thought that Anson would actually arrange a life experience game at the premiere! It's not just about the costumes, it really lets people enter Peter Parker's world.

Bold enough. Stylish enough. Cutting-edge enough.

Previously, Anson had tried this at the premiere of "The Butterfly Effect", allowing the audience to experience the movie before entering the cinema and pave the way for watching the movie; now, Anson has gone a step further and truly let the movie break the fourth wall, allowing the audience to enter the world inside the movie.

I have to say...it’s amazing.

Looking at the whole situation, you can deeply feel the campus atmosphere that permeated the entire premiere. All booth staff were dressed in uniforms. If they were young, they were wearing school uniforms, and if they were a little older, they were wearing faculty suits, which was as close to the story setting of "Spider-Man" as possible.

It's not just the carnival.

The moment they step into this area, they truly enter Peter Parker's world.

Of course, this is still not all.

The premiere of "The Butterfly Effect" opened the door to a whole new world. Eye-opening peripheral products were also present, and this time, there were surprises -

A palm-sized Spider-Man plush doll.

There are all kinds of other peripheral products, with a wide variety of styles. There are only people who pass by without entering, and those who do not stop at the stalls and leave empty-handed. However, the truly valuable peripherals are not sold directly, but must be drawn through gashapon, and the characters, postures, and shapes are all random.

There are a total of thirty types of plush dolls in the capsule machine, and the most popular one is the Spider-Man doll squatting on the ground, because it is the only doll whose mask can be taken off, revealing Anson's cute face. It immediately became the most popular and sought-after hard currency at the premiere.

The movie hasn't even been released yet, and the price of this plush doll has soared to three thousand dollars.

Still out of stock.

In addition, the hidden activities are still available. You don’t need to go to all the stalls. You only need to go to ten stalls to get stamps. After going to any ten stalls, you can finally go to the entrance of the Radio Concert Hall to receive a poster.

Random posters.

It didn't take much time for enthusiastic movie fans to dig out the hidden surprise. If they collected all the stamps from all the stalls, they could draw one of the three hidden posters.

There are three posters, all of which feature Anson, but they are not promotional posters. Instead, they are special posters made from behind-the-scenes photos of Anson taken on the set.

It's crazy, crazy, the whole Rockefeller Center is completely crazy.

Everything is as colorful as a kaleidoscope.

Nicholas had to admit that this premiere... was really awesome. It completely broke the framework of the premiere and created a brand new event.

Not to mention the fanatical fans, even passers-by stopped out of curiosity, and there were also people who came specifically to participate in the event.

Before the news media had time to issue press releases and reports, the premiere of "Spider-Man 2" had already set off wave after wave of frenzy in Manhattan.

But while marveling at the praise, Nicholas also had to say objectively: I am a little disappointed. It seems that Anson has run out of ideas?
(End of this chapter)