Pokémon's Lord of Fear

Chapter 403: Thoughts on Filming the Ring

Although Red Flamesong and Water Wutong escaped, Teng Shu did not take it to heart. When these two guys had Pokémon, they were the leaders of Team Magma and Team Water, but without Pokémon, these people might not even be able to beat ordinary people.

At this moment, Teng Shu is in the amusement park.

He had not planned to come originally, but he could not resist Junxiong being too cute. He looked at Teng Shu eagerly. Facing such an eye attack, Teng Shu could not help himself and took Junxiong directly to the amusement park to play.

"Kayako, come to think of it, you guys seem to like staying here a lot during this period of time?" Teng Shu looked at Kayako beside him. She was queuing with Toshio. Toshio seemed to be very interested in the roller coaster. He had ridden it twice and wanted to ride it again. However, Teng Shu naturally didn't care. He was now immune to roller coasters and the like.

"Well, actually, I originally wanted to reincarnate back into this world." Kayako's tone was a little hesitant.

Her original ultimate goal was to find a pregnant woman, then reincarnate and live again in this world, but Kayako was always worried about her son Toshio.

Toshio is innocent, this is Kayako's idea, that's why she hates the madman Takeo Saeki so much. If she really cheated and gave birth to Toshio with Kobayashi, then Kayako would not be so angry, but she is innocent, so she is very angry.

Teng Shu nodded. He knew this. After all, the Grudge should have ended after Kayako's reincarnation.

It's just that the IP of "The Grudge" is so popular, and it is almost as popular as "The Ring" in the field of horror films, so they have been dragging on releasing sequels to make money. At the beginning, they talked about other ghosts, such as the white old lady and the black girl, but later they let themselves go. The American version is good, but it is only limited to the first few films. Later on, it also broke away from Kayako and became a pure plasma film.

Speaking of The Ring, Teng Shu had an idea. The Ring, a horror film that was also famous in the previous life, still left many classic elements. Of course, the best one is Sadako in The Ring.

"But I was always worried about Toshio, and I was tortured by resentment every day. I knew I couldn't let this go, so before I completely lost my mind, I was ready to reincarnate." There was a hint of coldness in Kayako's voice, and now it was finally Toshio's turn. Toshio happily pulled Kayako and Teng Shu to sit on the roller coaster together.

Teng Shu scratched his head. He didn't expect that Kayako's reincarnation would have such a problem. He just didn't know if Kayako still had the abilities she had as a ghost after becoming a living person. If so, she would be a walking killing machine, the type that kills wherever she goes.

After riding the roller coaster for a round, Teng Shu walked down without changing his expression, and then watched Toshio and Kayako continue to happily spin around in the amusement park.

No one else noticed that this mother and son in ordinary clothes were actually the evil spirits in The Grudge. However, Toshio attracted a lot of girls because of his cute appearance. Every time Toshio was praised by these girls, Kayako's expression would become proud.

Toshio should be considered Kayako's pride.

"By the way, Ms. Kayako, is there any legend of Sadako in your world?" Teng Shu thought of something. He remembered that the island country had filmed a movie called "Sadako vs. Kayako". Although it was a bad movie, it did attract a lot of attention when it was promoted. After all, these two are the two most well-known female ghosts in the island country.

"Sadako? Oh, are you talking about the cursed videotape? I know about it, but I haven't seen it." Kayako shook her head. She did know this, after all, she was also a housewife before.

Housewives in island countries do housework, take care of children, and make lunch boxes every day. It may be because of this reason that the rate of infidelity among housewives in island countries is very high.

But Kayako is an exception. She never cheats on her husband. Although she loves Kobayashi, she just keeps her feelings deep in her heart and in her diary. She is still very loyal to her husband.

Teng Shu had some new ideas. He planned to travel to Kayako's world again. On the one hand, it was for tourism, and on the other hand, he wanted to take a look at the legend of Sadako and her killing methods. That would provide some inspiration for his new movie The Ring.

"The Ring" is a very good horror film in Teng Shu's opinion, but this horror film also has some problems. The early part of the film is not very scary, and most of the psychological horror is created through music and the advancement of the story. The final horror shot is when Sadako crawls out of the TV.

We have to admit that there was another important factor that made "The Ring" so popular at the time, and that was that television was almost the mainstream of society at that time, and basically everyone who was not poor had a television, so the setting of a female ghost crawling out of the TV could gain fear and admiration from so many people.

But the problem is that the Pokémon world is now a modern society with mobile phones and computers, and people's demand for television is actually relatively low. In this case, whether the same effect can be achieved by filming "The Ring" is what Teng Shu is worried about.

It is also for this reason that Teng Shu has not filmed The Ring, so this time Teng Shu plans to go to Kayako's world to take a look. Kayako's world is also the modern world, so Teng Shu plans to see how Sadako should make people feel scared in such a situation.

"Boss, the filming of "Carrie" has been completed." Zoroark hurried over and found Teng Shu who was sitting on a chair watching Toshio and Kayako playing the bungee jumping machine. Teng Shu raised his eyebrows after hearing this. Is it that fast?
But this is true. There is not much plot in Carrie. Most of the plot is concentrated on Carrie being bullied at school, and then at the prom and at home. It can be said that if the acting skills are good enough, the filming progress will be very fast. Moreover, movies are not TV series. It will take relatively longer to shoot a TV series, but for movies, there are not so many concerns.

"Okay, hand it over to the post-production department for editing, and show it to me after it's done." Teng Shu clapped his hands. Although he had made up his mind to go to Kayako's world, before that, Teng Shu also planned to finish filming "Ghost". The filming of Ghost was not very difficult. After all, most of the shots were easy to shoot. The only thing that needed special effects and post-processing could also be done by Pokémon. Teng Shu was confident that he could finish the filming within a month.

But now, Teng Shu still has to wait for Junxiong to finish playing.

After Junxiong finished playing, Teng Shu started to shoot the ghost shadows. The shooting of the ghost shadows went very smoothly. After all, Teng Shu wanted actors with good acting skills. With these actors competing with each other, Teng Shu finished shooting the ghost shadows in just three weeks.

"Isn't the shooting speed a little too fast?" Teng Shu scratched his head. However, this speed was actually quite normal. After all, he was shooting a horror movie, and the filming location was set in the city of Kanaz.

Three weeks later, the post-production department had finished editing the movie "Carrie", and the original film was sent to Teng Shu for review.

"Let's watch it together." Teng Shu said to Zoroark. Zoroark shook his head subconsciously. He didn't really want to watch the movie that Teng Shu participated in designing the script. Zoroark knew very well what style of movies his boss liked to shoot.

"Don't worry, it's not scary this time." Teng Shu rolled his eyes. This time, "Carrie" was not a horror movie. Of course, if you insisted that the last part where Carrie killed a lot of people was scary, Teng Shu had nothing to say.

"Is it authentic?" Zoroark was still a little hesitant, and Teng Shuli nodded immediately. It was authentic, absolutely authentic. Zoroark stayed, but he still looked a little nervous, after all, this was a script designed by his boss.

But when the movie really started, Zoroark's expression became strange. It didn't dare to look at it at the beginning, but now it became very casual, and finally it was gritting its teeth. If it wasn't watching a movie, Zoroark would probably rush up and beat up those Pokémon and humans who bullied Carrie.

Yes, Teng Shu added a plot where Carrie is bullied by both Pokémon and humans. After all, Carrie this time is played by Lalu Ras, so the addition of Pokémon is a very normal thing.

In the end, when Carrie finally couldn't bear it anymore and started to go crazy, Zoroark even clapped his hands and cheered, then sat down obediently under Teng Shu's weird look.

After a while, the movie was over.

"How do you feel?" Teng Shu didn't have any feelings. He was more judging the shots in the movie and the acting skills of the actors. After all, the plot was written by Teng Shu himself, so he naturally had no interest in watching it himself.

"It's pretty good, but the beginning is too depressing." Zoroark thought for a moment and gave an evaluation.

"If the beginning isn't so depressing, how can the latter make people feel good?" Teng Shu waved his hands. Carrie was able to become popular, which was related to the depression in the beginning.

When the audience sees Carrie being bullied, misled and suppressed by her mother, and then having to endure it all the time, it is easy to think of some of the problems that people have. If you have had similar experiences, it is easy to empathize, but even if you can't empathize, just thinking of your own problems is a good situation.

After all, almost everyone in this world has grievances of one kind or another, and there is basically no one who has no grievances at all. In such circumstances, it is easy for the witch Carrie to mobilize people's emotions.

Finally, under constant repression, that string completely broke, and Carrie's rampage and the miserable plight of those bad guys before would become the best catharsis. Simply put, it makes people feel very refreshed when watching it.

Teng Shu was very satisfied. Lalu Lasi's acting was very good, and the acting skills of other people were also good. The director's skills were also there. Although such a movie would cause some people's criticism after its release, it would not be a problem to make back the investment or even make a profit.

"Okay, let's send it for review, and then we'll schedule it after it's approved." Teng Shu yawned, then took out his cell phone and took a look.

Three weeks have passed, and the daily box office revenue of Another World has decreased, but the total box office has exceeded 4 billion, which is a good result.

But the subsequent increase was very slow, and Teng Shu felt that it would probably not reach 5 billion, and he was given three draws.

Although there is still some fear value of 300,000, it may be difficult to reach 400,000.

"Nowadays, the audience's fear threshold for horror movies has also increased." Teng Shu looked at the fear value and scratched his head.

With the help of the protagonist, the fear threshold of the audience in the Pokémon world has also been improved a little, but the protagonist thinks the main reason is probably because he has shot too many horror films, which has caused the audience's fear nerves to become numb.

"It seems that after filming "Ghost", I still need to take a break for a while, otherwise it will be more difficult to gain fear value again." Teng Shu scratched his head. It seems that I have to let the leeks take a break and wait until the leeks are almost grown before cutting them, so that I can gain more fear value.

"Draw, draw!" Teng Shu chose the lottery without hesitation.

【You got a movie world travel voucher】

[You have obtained the primary level of film reality]

[You have acquired a basic sense of movie smell]

?

Teng Shu was a little surprised. He originally thought that he would not get any new stuff, but he did not expect to get two directly this time. But is there any difference between these things and the master-level lens language? Teng Shu was a little curious about this question.

Teng Shu took a look at the movie world travel voucher and put it away. This thing was still useful to Teng Shu. He had just decided to go to Kayako's world. Although he already had one, another one would make it convenient for him to go to other worlds later.

[Elementary film reality: Your movie will give the audience a slight sense of physical contact during the viewing process]

[Elementary sense of smell for movies: Your movie will allow the audience to acquire a certain sense of smell, and they can smell the smells in the movie. The stronger the smell during the filming process, the more likely the smell in the movie will be restored.]

"There is such a thing? In the future, will people be able to touch the actors and smell the actors directly here?" Teng Shu was a little surprised. This ability was very interesting and reminded him of the five senses movie.

However, the five senses movies in the previous life were basically nonsense. Similar situations were achieved through some methods on the set. There were also some movies where when there was wind, the staff would blow the wind directly in front of you, which was very outrageous.

(End of this chapter)