In the VIP screening room, Lu Hao curled up in the soft sofa, eating popcorn and drinking fat otaku happy water, and began to look forward to the next movie.
"Haunted House".
The trailers made Lu Hao unable to stop watching, and he was naturally full of curiosity about the suspense left in the trailers.
Lu Hao's movie-watching volume can actually be described in four words.
——Watch countless movies.
Basically, it's a normal movie plot and story line, and you can guess the ending after watching the beginning.
This movie is no exception, there are only a few endings.
Or...
It was a happy ending. The couple really bought the house and moved in. On the first night, when they were preparing a candlelight dinner, they heard a knock on the door - it might be another "killer" who wanted to turn the house into a haunted house.
To be fair, this ending was Lu Hao's own idea. If he were to film this story, he would definitely use this ending.
After all, just thinking about it gives me goosebumps. The open ending and the story that is like hell are both top-notch in terms of irony and horror effects.
Or...
It was a politically correct ending. In the end, the couple were arrested, received a just trial in court, and both sang "Tears Behind Bars". They never had to worry about buying a house again in their lives.
This kind of value is also often promoted in Hong Kong films - the future of young people in Hong Kong is to go to jail and find prostitution.
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Of course, in addition to these two endings, there may be other reversals. To be honest, Lu Hao is looking forward to this director bringing him surprises.
After all, I am engaged in this field. I have already mastered the thirteen-fold rhythm of movies, the interweaving of story lines, the deliberate creation of suspense and identity reversal, and all kinds of routines.
However, routines are routines, and excellent directors have this ability. Even if you can guess the ending, you still can't help but look forward to how the plot progresses and how the story turns.
It's like when you are in love with a girl. You know that she is interested in you and you will have sex in the end, but the process from the first date to sex is still very beautiful.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
At this time, the movie has already started.
The opening sound is a terrifying one, like the sound of an axe hitting flesh and bones. The screen is still black, but the sound is like a magic sound, giving people a sense of immersion.
Then the picture begins.
In the cramped kitchen.
The male and female protagonists are cooking.
The male protagonist is holding an axe in his hand and is chopping ribs with great force. From the camera, it can be seen that these are indeed pig ribs, not something as horrible as imagined, such as dismembered corpses.
This is a common trope in horror movies.
First, use something that seems to be true to relieve your mind, and then instantly enter the horror scene.
"Pork prices have gone up again, it's already 68 yuan, but I got paid today, so I should celebrate."
"How about making your favorite fried pork cutlet?"
While chopping the meat, the man turned and said to his wife behind him.
Her wife was sitting on the sofa watching TV. The warm light in the narrow room was very bright. Perhaps she felt that this was wasting too much electricity, so she reached out and turned the switch a little dimly. Then, while watching the supermarket sale advertisement on TV, she wrote down everything densely on a piece of paper.
"I don't want to eat."
"Why?"
"When I eat fried pork cutlet, it tastes like banknotes. What's the point of it being delicious?"
"Wow, no way, you're such a money-grubber. After dinner, um... well, let's be happy."
"What are you doing, happy?"
“Of course…”
The man said this with a slightly obscene expression, deliberately trying to make his wife happy and liven up the atmosphere at home.
"Neuropathy!"
The woman said expressionlessly, and turned off the TV. The lights in the room dimmed a little, but at this moment she suddenly shook the newspaper on the table, her eyes suddenly lit up, as if she saw some very interesting news.
She picked up the newspaper and looked at it carefully. Her pupils dilated and her breathing became a little rapid.
In the newspaper, there is a piece of news——
The female owner of a residential unit in a certain community hanged herself to death due to domestic violence. The house became a haunted house and was sold at a 30% discount!
She excitedly showed the newspaper to the man.
The man's hands, which were chopping meat, trembled subconsciously. He was silent for a moment, but he chopped even more fiercely.
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The beginning is quite standard, and the camera arrangement, the actors' performances and lines, the switching of lights, and the creation of artistic conception are all impeccable.
I have to say, this is a really good movie.
While laughing, I also felt a little inexplicably sad.
Read on…
Bang!
However, at this moment, the movie screen quietly turned black.
The screening of the film was temporarily suspended.
Everyone in the theater was stunned and couldn't help but stand up and shout loudly to the staff on the set.
What's going on?
I was halfway through the movie and just when I was getting into the mood, the power suddenly went out.
A moment later.
A man in a suit, probably the studio manager or something, walked in hurriedly, sweating profusely, and kept apologizing as soon as he entered.
"I'm sorry, everyone. We've received a last-minute notice from our superiors that this film cannot be released due to some explicit scenes. All films currently showing will also be withdrawn."
"We have no solution due to force majeure. Audiences who have already purchased tickets, please go to the front desk for a full refund."
While apologizing, the studio manager quickly came up with a solution to calm the audience.
After hearing this, the audience had no choice. After all, it was an order from their superiors, and the theater itself could do nothing about it. They muttered to themselves and started lining up to walk out the door.
Lu Hao: ...
I am speechless.
For a moment, I didn't know what to say.
After all these years of watching movies, this was the first time Lu Hao had encountered such a thing.
A movie is either released after passing the review, or it is directly blocked during the review stage. Now that it has passed the review, it is required to be taken offline when it is time for public release. What kind of a crazy operation is this?
Frankly speaking, this movie is indeed a bit heavy-tasting and quite explicit, but since it passed the review the first time, it means the situation is not too bad.
The theme it originally wanted to express was the distortion of human nature and the decline of morality under high housing prices, it's just that the form of expression was a bit extreme.
This... is it necessary to 404 it as soon as it was released?
I guess at this moment, the director, distributor and entertainment company of this movie have already fainted in the toilet crying.
At this moment, a line popped up in Lu Hao's mind.
——I guessed the beginning, but I didn’t guess the ending.
Even if I racked my brains, I would never have imagined that the ending of this movie would be like this.
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