Seeing everyone lining up and sitting down conscientiously with their hands on their legs, just like primary school students preparing for a sports meet, Lu Ban felt extremely gratified.
It seems that these mentally ill patients are indeed wealthy and well-educated. As for why they have fallen to this point, Lu Ban believes that in addition to their personal efforts, they are also inseparable from the support of the country.
After tinkering with the machine, Lu Ban quickly prepared to start the screening.
The first movie is a folk theme with horror elements, but the folklore in Europe and the United States is really crude. It is basically a plus version of shaman dance. Many images are more disgusting than scary.
Eyeballs, blood plasma, severed limbs, and all kinds of restricted images appeared.
After watching this movie, Lu Ban felt that its subject matter was somewhat novel, the plot was relatively plain, and the character performances were very good. Overall, it was a movie worth spending time watching.
He wrote down his review and looked at the mentally ill patients again.
These patients were indifferent, just like junior high school students standing in the hot sun on a playground at 35 degrees Celsius listening to the principal talk about his work achievements and past glories.
It seems like they didn't like the movie very much.
He thought about it and thought that maybe it was because many of these mentally ill patients were top criminal masters, and the number of people who died in the movie might not be as many as the number of people killed by some patients. For them, this was not scary at all.
Lu Ban recorded it again.
Movies should take into account the experiences and needs of various audiences. Even a vicious murderer may watch this movie while in prison. At this time, the movie cannot bring them enough feelings, which is insufficient.
A good movie should be able to make people, whether or not they have relevant experience, feel something different and be touched after watching it.
However, Lu Ban also feels that the special effects of this movie are indeed very ordinary, and the ghosts are like cheap slides, which is also what lets the film down.
For a surreal movie, special effects are still very important. Not only imagination but also texture is needed. If the texture is in place, even if it seems a bit simple to the audience decades later, it can still touch people's hearts.
Especially now, these rich people may have seen Lu Ban’s movies, or at least seen similar clips on those short video apps. Their appreciation threshold for special effects is already very high. In this case, poor special effects will cause the movie’s evaluation to further decline.
But if the special effects of these movies are to catch up to Lu Ban's level, Lu Ban, who doesn't want to be too rude, may have to prepare tubes in the back of their heads.
Thinking of this, Lu Ban felt that he couldn't just stand there and watch, he had to take some action.
So he placed his hand on the projector, and countless words appeared.
[For an old projector, being able to start normally is a victory]
[Don't expect great picture quality, it's good enough to see the colors clearly]
[It is recommended not to turn it on for too long, the bulb may burn out]
It seems that there are also serious problems with this projector and the playback equipment is not very good, so the movie picture will definitely not be very good.
So, Lu Ban added a few strokes to it.
In a blink of an eye, the projector looked brand new, as if it had used some Zenith technology.
Lu Ban started playing the second movie.
The subject matter of this movie is a bit more popular, it's about a serial murder case, there's more blood and the scenes are more violent, but it's nothing scary.
Even when Lu Ban was halfway through watching the film, he was still curious whether the movie was based on a patient among the people present.
However, after Lu Ban's slight modification, this projector has acquired certain extraordinary powers.
For example, when the movie is playing, as the perverted murderer wearing a plastic raincoat and holding a chisel dismembers the victim bit by bit on the chopping board, the pain and fear will spread through the bodies of the mentally ill patients as if they were real.
Several people held their hands and trembled, while others wanted to cover their eyes and dared not watch.
Some of them simply rolled their eyes and fainted, as if the dead memories were trying to attack them.
After watching a movie, only one in ten mentally ill patients who were sitting in their chairs were still alive.
They are as miserable as the senior high school students who have just completed a month of intensive tutoring during the summer vacation and studied hard from six in the morning to twelve at night every day to prepare for the college entrance examination, but are suddenly told that the college entrance examination has been postponed for three months.
"The structure of this film is quite innovative. It uses the murderer's perspective to shoot the film, and adds misdirection and trickery. Although the photography is average, the creativity is quite good."
Lu Ban made a comment.
He believed that the mentally ill had the same idea.
Another movie has finished playing and Lu Ban is ready to continue.
Leopard on the side was already drowsy.
"Is this the standard of your human movies? It's not funny at all."
She muttered.
"So you're looking for something funny?"
"It's quite fun to see the monsters inside."
Leopard nodded obediently.
"It's more fun to see these people being frightened."
She looked around and saw that all the mentally ill patients were crouching with their heads in their hands, trembling with fear, as if they had seen something unspeakably horrible.
Seeing this, Lu Ban picked up the gun again and fired a warning shot into the sky.
Bang——
"Everyone sit down, how do you watch a movie?"
He shouted, and the mentally ill patients were afraid of Lu Ban's gun and sat back obediently.
The third movie started playing. Lu Ban was watching with great interest, but he found that the audience below were all distracted. Some even picked up their phones and were looking at them.
This feeling is like when you are taking an elective course in college and the students are either sleeping or playing with their phones. They do nothing but listen to the lecture, while the teacher stands at the podium and interacts seriously to finish the lecture.
"Look, why not!"
Lu Ban reminded.
He came to a patient who was looking at his mobile phone, without making any sound, just watching what the patient was looking at.
Then, Lu Ban discovered that the patient was not distracted, but was sending a message to his lawyer.
[Hurry up and find a way to get me out of this damn mental hospital, to jail, anywhere is fine, I'll plead guilty, okay? I'll plead guilty to any crime, I'll turn myself in, this place is too scary! ]
It seems that he wants to escape from the asylum by confessing his guilt.
Although Lu Ban didn't know why this patient chose to reform and admit the sins he had committed, it was a good thing since the prodigal son had returned.
Lu Ban waited for him to finish communicating with the lawyer, then patted him gently on the shoulder.
"You did a great job. I decided to treat you to another movie."
Upon hearing Lu Ban's words, the patient's face turned pale.