The Greatest Showman - Chapter 174

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It was only ten o’clock in the morning when Chanel Laurent set off for the cinema. After a whole day of fermentation and noise yesterday, the work “Buried Alive” really made a name for itself in Toronto, even more than “The Thief in the City”. It has attracted more attention, so it is conceivable that the number of viewers today is bound to be even more turbulent, and even there are not a few viewers who want to join in the fun.

Today’s screening of “Buried Alive” was scheduled for 5:00 pm, and only this one was open to the public in two venues. Chanel set off in the morning, taking into account the possible need to line up.

However, there were still two blocks away from the cinema, and Chanel could see the hustle and bustle of the crowd surging in his sight, which made Chanel stunned, and hurriedly trotted after him, and then saw the terrifying long queue.

Chasing up all the way from the end of the team, the team actually exceeded 400 yards. Not only did the entire square go around seven or eight turns, like a giant dragon hovering in the open space, but its tail also extended to the next door. The spectacle of the street was so staggering that the crowd was at least 500 people, maybe even more. The lively scene made the surrounding reporters extremely excited. The scene of people coming and going completely detonated the first time. The frenzy of the 35th Toronto Film Festival.

Seeing such a scene, Chanel was dumbfounded. She strongly suspected that she had gone to the wrong place and was “buried alive”. How could it attract so many audiences?

Accident, it’s definitely an accident, and the Toronto Film Festival didn’t expect such an accident at all.

Normally, independent films like “Buried Alive” that have no big names, no gimmicks, or even no backing sponsors are often difficult to attract attention.

Although Toronto is a film festival, it is still different from the three major European film festivals. In Europe, the market for art films is far more mature and wider than that in North America, and the popularity of independent works at film festivals is also significantly higher. ; But in Toronto, this is a film trading market that sells copyrights, and even the only award is the People’s Choice Award. In the Internet age, lack of gimmicks and lack of publicity means lack of audiences. The era of wine fragrance is not afraid of deep alleys. Gone forever.

Therefore, the Toronto Film Festival arranged the premiere of “Buried Alive” at 4:00 p.m. Even though only six films had world premieres at the festival this year, “Buried Alive” was one of them, but it still did not get a special treatment; therefore, the Toronto Film Festival has also followed the usual tradition in terms of film arrangement, and arranged three screenings in each of the two theaters. This number of screenings is not too many, but it is normal.

Generally speaking, the number of screenings of popular films is between eight and twelve, and the number of unpopular films is limited to three to five. After all, there are 51 films to be shown in the festival in just ten days. . If it wasn’t for an accident, three games would be enough for “Buried Alive”.

When the Toronto Film Festival arranged the schedule and venue for the works, it did not foresee the unpopularity of the Emmy Awards, the popularity of “Ophelia”, the uproar of YouTube, and even the miracle of the Billboard, much less. It was foreseen that “Buried Alive” turned out in an astonishing manner.

As a result, an accident occurred. The long queue of more than 400 yards easily surpassed “Blue Valentine” and “The Thief in the City”, and deservedly became the most high-profile film at this year’s film festival so far.

One of the traditions and attractions of the Toronto Film Festival is to line up in the “rush-line”. In addition to the premiere, the screenings of the film festival are generally divided into the industry field and the public field. The industry field is aimed at exhibitors, producers and the media, while the public field is open to the general public. These tickets will be open for sale before the opening of the film festival. The public field of popular films is often hard to find a ticket, and it is sold early. empty.

Still, there are other opportunities to buy tickets for the festival craze.

First of all, every day at 7:00 in the morning, there will be a small amount of remaining tickets for the film of the day for sale online. It is a good choice to swipe tickets on the Internet early or go to the cinema to buy tickets directly. However, such tickets are very limited and are often sold out. .

The second opportunity is Gao Long Long. Before the start of each screening, vacancies that are not full will be distributed on the spot, reserved for those queuing in the peak queue. Gao Feng Long Long is very simple and fair, first come first served, and no one knows how many vacancies will be left for him in the end, and the only way is to queue up early.

Therefore, this has also become a spectacle of the Toronto Film Festival, and “how many meters are the audience lining up” has also become one of the best measures of the media’s description of the popularity of a film.

Of course, this is only limited to popular movies. Like “The Magician”, at the last moment before the screening, there are still tickets left, not even full. This situation is not uncommon in film festivals, especially for Toronto, where the acceptance of art films is generally weaker than that of Europe. It is so.

The public tickets for “Buried Alive” are not in short supply, and Chanel bought tickets for the premiere with little effort before the festival. In fact, there were even a lot of tickets left for the premiere, which were sold on the spot, and it was a surprise that the screening hall was finally full.

Even the tickets for the premiere, not to mention the screenings that follow. Forty percent of the pre-sale tickets for the three screenings have not been bought. There is no way to do it. Before that, “Buried Alive” had no publicity of any kind at all. Rodrigo even completed the post-production at the last moment. The deadline for registration has been reached, resulting in almost complete lack of pre-publicity for the film. This film is simply a bonus for most audiences.

But who would have thought that the first screening in the early morning yesterday, when all the tickets were sold out, even caused a queue of about 30 spectators; then today’s peak long queue, which exceeded 400 yards, such a grand event is simply unbelievable.

Chanel hurriedly asked the staff at the front of the team responsible for maintaining order, “Is this the ‘Buried Alive’ screening room?” After receiving a positive answer, Chanel was a little stunned, not knowing what to do for a while. The other party also seemed to understand Chanel’s expression, and nodded with a smile, “Yeah, no one expected it. You’d better hurry up, otherwise it’s estimated that you won’t be ranked.”

It was only then that Chanel reacted, and sprinted quickly, and the voice of the staff came from behind, “Don’t make a mistake, the row on the left is the one on the left. The team on the right is the morning team.” Chanel hurriedly gestured for a With an “ok” gesture, he quickly ran to the team. After a delay of less than five minutes, the team actually stretched back by a dozen people. Chanel quickly stood at the end of the team, panting and standing still.

“Hopefully we can catch up.” A teasing voice came from the front, Chanel raised his head, and then saw the blond boy in front of him, he extended his right hand friendly, “Tyronn-Johnson (tyronn-johnson) .” Chanel shook the other’s right hand, but did not introduce himself, with a questioning attitude, Tyron didn’t mind, and said with a smile, “I heard that today’s venue is for 600 people, and the Internet broadcast in the morning. Tickets were cancelled due to system failure, so everyone rushed over, hoping that we could still be ranked first.”

Chanel then reacted, “But, ‘Buried Alive’ is a 5 o’clock in the afternoon, then What about the previous show?”

“On the right.” Tyron pointed, a venue will show six to seven films in a day, “Buried Alive” is today’s fourth work, and there are three before that, of which the It includes the hit work “Robbers in the City”, but from the perspective of Gao Feng Changlong, the queue of “Robbers in the City” is not even one-fifth of that of “Buried Alive”. Such a huge gap is really shocking. “Have you heard the good reviews of this work, so you made a special trip here?”

Tyron said enthusiastically, Chanel didn’t want to talk about it, but after thinking about it, he still replied, “No, I am at the premiere. I’ve already watched it.”

In fact, Chanel had no plans to watch it a second time. On the one hand, it was because the movie was too thrilling and the viewing process was not a wonderful experience; on the other hand, it was also because “Buried Alive” itself was It’s not a classic that can be watched over and over again. But in the past two days, she has never been able to forget Renly’s face, especially the fear and panic between the light and shadow.

After hesitating again and again, in the end Chanel decided to watch it for the second time, but when she encountered such a situation, she felt that the premiere was much more comfortable.

“God, have you watched the premiere? How is it? Is it really like a legend, wonderful?” Tyron said excitedly, “I heard that the actor’s acting skills in this work are really outstanding. , Is this true, or is it exaggerated?”

Chanel said without thinking, “Of course it’s true!”

This exclamation was suddenly caused by the eyes of others around him, curious inquiries. They swarmed, “What kind of work is this? Isn’t the male lead Renly Hall a newcomer? No one noticed it before, why did it suddenly become popular overnight? What is the movie about? What? How is the actor’s performance? I heard that some people were scared to cry after watching the movie, is this true?”…

The chattering inquiries drowned out Chanel in an instant, and everyone who was queuing around watched them one after another. To Chanel, in the blink of an eye, Chanel became the focus of attention, which caught her off guard. In those earnest eyes, she could clearly feel the enthusiasm and expectations of people.

Chanel glanced at Tyron subconsciously, and Tyron clenched his fist encouragingly, which made Chanel couldn’t help laughing, and then said loudly, “Yes, the male lead is indeed a newcomer, but the performance is really outstanding. Now. The first time I saw him was…”

Gao Feng Changlong’s team spread out in a mighty manner, pushing the boom of the Toronto Film Festival to a new height.

[End of this Chapter]