Chapter 8
“This doesn’t look anything like in the movies…” Fang Shao secretly complained to defend himself.
Although Fang Shao is not a fan of magic, "Harry Potter" is one of the hottest IPs in the 21st century after all. He has also watched several episodes, so he still has some superficial impressions of the character Harry Potter and the magical world.
But the features are still very consistent, black hair, blue eyes, thin body, and lightning scars. Only the glasses have not been put on yet. I guess he is too young now, and he will be almost there in a few years.
Although he recognized the savior of JK Rowling's wizarding world, Fang Shao's attitude towards Harry did not change. No matter what earth-shaking achievements this child would make in the future, he was just a lively and innocent child now.
Totoro didn't reject Harry. This wasn't surprising, as in the movie, Totoro was always gentle and tolerant to simple-minded children. But the little white Totoro was in trouble. He was frightened by Harry and ran away. He bumped into Orange, who was squatting and watching the show. He quickly changed direction and ran in a V shape in the bar hall.
The blue one was relatively calm. Although he was also startled, when the white Totoro ran back and hid behind him a moment later, he straightened his back and used his not-so-broad body as a shield for the Totoro.
Harry finally came to his senses from his overjoyed attitude, blushed, let go of Totoro, and stammered an apology to him.
"Roar~" Totoro stroked the child's head with his big, broad hands.
At this time, Fang Shao also switched over from his secretly sour fan state, and the rational and gentle bar owner reappeared, and stepped forward to greet the Totoro familiarly.
After finally having some free time, Fang Shao looked at Totoro's table and Harry who occasionally looked up at the restaurant across the street, and couldn't help but sigh. Now the bar also has two tables of guests, which is a qualitative leap in the development of "Yuan*Bar"!
Fang Shao couldn't help himself and opened the mobile chat group again.
[Fang Jia Xiao Shao]: I'm a bit busy today [Picture] Bar lobby [Picture] Close-up of the Totoro family [Picture] Close-up of the black-haired boy
[Fang Wei]: Wow, it's so lively! Xiao Shao's business is getting better and better! [Expression] Thumbs up
[Qing Mei'er]: Oh my god, what did I see, a Totoro! [expression]Shocked [expression]Shocked [expression]Shocked
[I am Chu Kuang Ren]: Kao, what luck you have!
[Baby is still young, so hold him up high]: Doudoulong!! I want Doudoulong! [Expression] Baby wants to cuddle and hug
【Dahui Song】: Envy, jealousy and hatred! Why don’t I have such good luck?
【Twenty-eight Beauty】: This child, can’t be Harry Potter…
[Twenty-eight Beauty]: [Picture] A zoomed-in half-length photo of Porter, with the iconic lightning scar faintly visible on his forehead
[Fang Jia Xiao Shao]: @[Twenty-eight Beautiful Woman] Awesome, that’s him! [Expression] Thumbs up.
[Young and Beautiful Lady]: Hahaha, I really have a keen eye.
[Qing Mei'er]: Wow, I didn't recognize you, @[Twenty-eight Beautiful Woman] is awesome!
[Dahuige]: Hey, these are all movie characters?!
【I am a madman from Chu】: Ahhh! Why is Xiao Shao's channel the movie channel, but mine is the documentary channel!
[I'm a Madman]: [Picture] The bar is decorated in a wild and gorgeous style. There is only one person dressed like an old farmer sitting in the bar. He looks terrified as he faces the camera, and he looks like he's about to cry.
[Twenty-eight Beautiful Lady]: You are still a documentary channel at least, but here I have a blank screen with snow.
[Twenty-eight Beautiful Lady]: [Picture] The elegant hall filled with flowers was completely empty without a single guest.
【Dahu Song】: Snowflakes on the empty screen [Picture]
【Not talkative, only loves diving】: Snowflakes and blank screen [Picture
【I love watching short videos every day】: Snowflakes and blank screen [picture]
[Salted fish also want to get rich:] Snowflakes and blank screen [Picture]
【I am Lightning】: Snowflakes and blank screen [Picture]
Snow Blank Screen [Picture] * N
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[Qing Meier]: Is this my future? [Expression] Cat is shocked [Expression] Hold yourself tight
[Baby is still young, hold him up high]: [expression] Cat is shocked [expression] Hold yourself tight
[A proud soul needs no shackles]: [expression] Cat is shocked [expression] Hold yourself tight
[300 Days to Prepare for the College Entrance Examination]: [expression] Cat is shocked [expression] Hold yourself tight
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[Fang Wei]: Don’t scare your younger brothers and sisters.
【I am a madman from Chu】: @【Fang Wei】Then you post the photo
[I am a madman from Chu]: @[Fang Wei] I want today’s photos, they cannot be fake!
【Fang Wei】：……
【Dayuge】: Laughing to death...
【Twenty-eight Beauty】: Died of laughter...
【我本楚狂人】：@【方家小崹】What about the other guests? Where are they from? Are there any anime characters?
[Qing Mei’er]: Brother Chu, isn’t Totoro an anime character?
[I am Chu Kuang Ren]: No, no, this anime is not that anime. [Expression] Shaking fingers proudly
[Qing Meier]: Got it! [Expression] The light bulb lights up
[Qing Mei'er]: @[Fang Jia Xiao Shao] Who are the other guests? Is my Bone King among them? [Expression] Cat is curious
[Fang Jia Xiao Shao]: Uh... Actually, these two tables are all my guests. [Expression] Awkward but polite smile
【I am a madman from Chu】：……
【Qing Mei’er】：……
【Young Lady】: @【I am a madman from Chu】@【Qing Meier】I just wanted to show off, but you guys exposed me. [Expression] Laughing loudly
[Qing Meier]: [expression] silently crying [expression] hugging myself tightly
[Fang Jia Xiao Shao]: @[Qing Mei Er] No, no, I still have other guests. But they are not movie stars, I guess you are not interested, so I didn’t tell you.
[Qing Mei’er]: Really?
[Fang Jia Xiao Shao]: Of course it is true. For example, this is the first batch of customers I had when I opened the bar. [Picture] Photo of David captured from the surveillance video [Picture] Photo of five people just entering the bar, with heavy fog outside the door
【Qing Mei’er】：[Expression] Tears turned into laughter
[Baby is still young, hold him up high]: [expression] burst into laughter [expression] life is looking forward again
[Expression] There is hope for the future again*N
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[Not talkative, only loves diving]: @[Fang Jia Xiao Shao] This man can’t be called David. [Picture] Photo of David
[Fang Jia Xiao Shao]: How did you know? [Expression] Shocked
[Not talkative, only loves diving]: You can find out by searching the keywords "David" and "fog". [Expression] Continue diving
【Fang Wei】: @【Fang Jia Xiao Shao】[expression] hesitant to speak
【Fang Jia Xiao Shao】: @【Fang Wei】Big brother? ?
[Fang Wei]: Forget it, go search first.
After leaving the chat group, Fang Shao picked up his phone and typed "David" into the search bar. A bunch of "David statue", "David Copperfield", and "David Beckham" appeared by default in the drop-down menu. After adding "fog", the drop-down menu became empty. Fang Shao hit the Enter key.
"Honoured as the film with the best plot twist, what is so good about "The Mist"?"
"What is the story of the movie The Mist?"
“The Mist: Human nature is so real that fear and monsters are all pirated!”
“What is the ending of the movie The Mist?”
As expected, David and his friends are also characters from the movie. Although they were the first customers, David never came to the bar again, and Fang Shao almost forgot about them.
Fang Shao did not click on the link. Instead, after seeing off the guests, he turned on his computer and searched for "Misty Movie" on B Station. Although B Station did not introduce this movie, Fang Shao found an old resource shared by a netizen, and the picture quality was not bad. Fang Shao put on an earphone, opened a bag of potato chips, and watched it with great interest.
At the beginning of the movie, Fang Shao habitually closed the bullet screen. The male protagonist who looked 80% similar to the real David appeared, and then Billy and his wife, who looked like an ordinary and happy family, only the sudden thunderstorm and power outage caused some minor troubles for the small family.
This guy is actually a painter, I can't believe it. And this looks like an ordinary world. Fang Shao had previously thought it was a world similar to the end of the world or a magical world.
Fang Shao belatedly watched the video introduction.
"Directed by Frank Darabont, who directed The Shawshank Redemption, and adapted from the novel by the famous horror novelist Stephen King..."
Fang Shao pursed his lips. It turned out to be a horror movie. However, with the existence of that spider monster, it was normal for it to be a horror movie.
I continued to watch, and sure enough, fog and monsters appeared. The rest of the story was also a common horror movie routine, with sudden danger, loss of contact with the outside world, and the absence of national power units. Characters of various positions appeared in a supermarket. David, as the male protagonist, is naturally a positive character, honest and kind, brave and resourceful, while the other people in the supermarket play the roles of supporters, dissidents, and opponents, and each character has his own reasons and characteristics, not all of them are the same.
This old lady is amazing. She killed a spider monster without blinking an eye. Fang Shao was surprised to see the old lady calmly burning the monster to death with a flamethrower. This is not like her at the bar at all.
But the others seemed the same. Except for Billy, everyone else in the bar was a little restrained, not as good as in the movie.
As the plot progresses, everyone in the supermarket seems to be in a religious frenzy - oh, no, they are really in a religious frenzy, even a cult that worships death and monsters is a religion - ignoring the male protagonist's dissuasion, the innocent soldier who is the handsomest man in the entire movie pushes the soldier out of the supermarket to sacrifice the monster, and the smile on Fang Shao's face gradually disappears.
But what made Fang Shao even more depressed was yet to come. When his favorite supporting character, Oli, was about to escape successfully, he was killed by a giant monster that suddenly appeared, and was even chewed and eaten in front of the male protagonist and his friends. The pistol that David used for the trade was his legacy. When the protagonists finally boarded the car to escape, it was clearly a scene of surviving a disaster, but it was accompanied by sad and empty music.
This movie won't have a bad ending, right? Fang Shao had a bad feeling.
But it turns out that he was too simplistic. As the director of "The Shawshank Redemption", how could he be afraid of an ordinary horror movie? The main theme of the whole story is a reversal of the ending. It's just that the reversal of the two movies is different, one is healing, and the other is depressing.
Fang Shao opened the bullet screen and pulled the progress bar back a few minutes. As expected, there were a lot of complaints from netizens who were also victims, some of whom were directed at the male protagonist, who thought they shouldn't have given up too early. Fang Shao shook his head. In his opinion, the protagonist did nothing wrong. As ordinary people, they were already brave enough and smart enough. Each of them could be said to be a great teammate of the other side, and none of them was a drag. Even the young children were always sensible and well-behaved.
They just have bad luck...
Yes, just bad luck.
Fortunately, David and his friends came to his bar. Thinking of this, Fang Shao's depression was relieved. He should have treated them to a drink.