Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"What's going on, Detective Claire?" Ronald quickly called his acquaintance, Detective Claire, to inquire about the situation.

"The Milwaukee Ogre, whose real name is Jeffrey Dahmer, we nailed him just as he was about to escape."

Detective Claire of the FBI has made great achievements. Caught the demon who brutally murdered dozens of innocent victims in Milwaukee, Michigan, and neighboring states.

She patiently compared the similarities between several unsolved murders over the past few years. For example, they are looking for low-level men or women on the street, and no one cares about them after they disappear. Afterwards, the bodies were eliminated through horrific methods, so that few cases were ever opened.

But after all, he is just a cruel serial murderer, not a highly intelligent person like Hannibal depicted in the movie or in the book. One victim took advantage of his negligence and escaped in handcuffs and went to the local area to report the crime.

The police who came to search the house believed that he was just an incompetent and unemployed young man whose home smelled so bad that he could not commit such a crime. The so-called handcuffs were just some sex toys, so they closed the case as a "lover's argument." In fact, those odors are evidence left behind after he committed the crime...

Although Jeffrey Dahmer was lucky, he was also frightened to leave the house left by his grandmother and move to near Marquette University. He once again lured people standing on the street into his apartment with cash and tried to kill him. This time the victim was more alert and ran away to report the crime when something bad happened.

The local police detectives actually don't care much about these people. Marquette University is an area with poor security and is full of these bad people who just want to fool them.

Detective Claire happened to go there to request clues on similar cases. She deduced from various signs that it was very likely that the murderer was the guy known within the FBI as the "Milwaukee Refrigerator Ogre."

Inspector Claire arrived at Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment single-handedly. As soon as the caretaker saw that she was going to the bachelor's room, he complained that someone finally came. The residents had complained no less than ten times about the odor emanating from there. Stink...

Unlike the fight with "Buffalo Bill" in the movie, Jeffrey Dahmer burst into resistance as soon as Inspector Claire mentioned his intention, but was easily subdued by Claire and handcuffed to the heater behind his back. Chip.

She took a casual look and found two complete skulls, a pair of severed hands, and more than seventy photos of the victims in an open drawer.

The police were called for backup and found five more skulls in the bedroom and unfinished ones in the refrigerator... The police were so disgusted that they went out to vomit.

The local chief regretted that they had received reports from other victims but failed to deal with them, leaving FBI detectives to pick the peaches.

Local media immediately reported this murderous case. Instead of calling him the Milwaukee Refrigerator Ogre, as the FBI did, they called him Milwaukee's version of Buffalo Bill, or Milwaukee's Hannibal.

The movie "Silence of the Lambs" was also very successful at the box office in Milwaukee? In the very dull Milwaukee, many people like to watch this kind of thriller movies and use them as conversation topics.

Soon, Dahmer’s previous life tracks, including several addresses in Wisconsin and Michigan, were also found. Many relics were also found there, including more than a dozen skeletons that were confirmed to belong to different people.

Detective Claire has now become a star detective in the FBI, and has appeared on TV many times to talk about how she single-handedly captured Dahmer.

The news that she served as a consultant for "Silence of the Lambs" was also discovered by the gossip media. Suddenly, many newspapers in the central region were saying that the movie was indeed very realistic and that the real Inspector Starling was hired as a consultant.

But because these media were local television and newspapers, Ronald didn't pay attention.

But the Silence of the Lambs movie consultant really, like the heroine in Silence of the Lambs , single-handedly caught the serial ogre. The legend of this story is really amazing.

So much so that in places like Chicago and Detroit, where many white people have traditionally reserved seats for horror films, there has been another wave of people going to see The Silence of the Lambs.

"However, this case has not yet been prosecuted, so I will not publicly say anything related to the case in the media..."

"Hey, I'm not going to let you tell me. At most, I'll just tell you about your dual identity and being a consultant for our movie..." Ronald touched his nose. This is what Hollywood people look like in the eyes of FBI detectives. Is it just for profit?

It really is!

Ronald immediately called for a meeting with Michael Gray, trying to figure out how to add fuel to the film for free so that it could stay in theaters until September. This would give him great hope of competing for next year's Oscars. .

The two discussed it and suddenly discovered a big problem, because it was inconvenient for such disgusting acts of serial murderers to be reported in the national media.

Therefore, the movie must not take the initiative to connect with this kind of thing. At best, it can only pretend to be unintentional. When the media reported this case, someone mentioned it twice.

This is related to American media ethics and the consistent practice of Jews to control the media. Unlike local media, most national media are under the control of Jews, and they will not actively challenge mainstream social values.

After formulating a publicity plan, Daydream quietly followed the pace of national media reports, occasionally making some soft articles to tout the legendary experience of FBI female detective Claire.

At the end, she did not forget to tell the origin of her movie "The Silence of the Lambs". Of course, most of these reports were also reprinted from the in-depth reports made by the New York Daily News - how a woman succeeded in the traditional male field.

Sure enough, the box office of The Silence of the Lambs stayed there after rushing back to the life-and-death line of more than $1,000 per theater. For such movies that have been in the theater for more than 20 weeks, generally speaking, there is a 10% to 20% drop every week.

But The Silence of the Lambs strangely maintained a 1%-5% drop, and still stubbornly continued the growth of the domestic box office in America.

Now it continues to contribute more than one million to the domestic box office every week, and the overall box office has exceeded 120 million. If it can continue to be released after September, it is expected to exceed 130 million, surpassing Jaws 2 and ranking third in the horror movie box office rankings, only behind "Jaws" and "The Exorcist".

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The acquisition and reconstruction of the old cinemas went smoothly. Several cinemas in Chinatown and downtown New York were quietly taken over by Ronald and Doug and began to show Daydream system movies.

In addition to Yimou's Red Sorghum, there are also many old movies by Chinese directors. Let's start with a month-long Chinese film retrospective. Of course, they did not forget to set aside a certain number of screenings every day for "The Silence of the Lambs".

Since the Daily News reported the story of FBI Detective Claire, the box office figures of The Silence of the Lambs in the New York area and nearby New Jersey have also begun to rise...

Ronald is very satisfied with the box office figures of this movie, because their public relations work did not cost too much money, and the conservative marketing strategy also ensured that they would not be attacked by the mainstream media.

After all, this is a thriller horror film, telling the story of a serial killer helping a rookie FBI detective to catch another serial killer.

There is one difference between horror films and those star-studded movies, that is, they rely more on word-of-mouth publicity from the audience. Now, the word-of-mouth of The Silence of the Lambs has taken off again in the 20th week of its release, which is a rare event in the decades of Hollywood history.

However, Ronald was not interested in using the Milwaukee Refrigerator Killer case to hype it up, but it does not mean that others would not do so.

Soon, the two forces began to use this case on a large scale to vent their accumulated dissatisfaction over the years, and began to hype and protest against The Silence of the Lambs.

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Michigan, the main protests were against the inaction of the local police stations.

Before he was caught this time, many victims escaped the clutches of the police, but after reporting the case, they were ignored by the police because of their identity and ethnicity. The most lamentable thing is that there is another Southeast Asian victim in Milwaukee, Konelac Sintasomfong, who had obviously escaped from the clutches of the devil, but because of his "business" of prostitution, the police regarded it as a financial dispute and released him.

Dahmer caught him again and successfully made the police recognize that it was a "family dispute" and killed him two days later.

Because Konelac Sintasomfong was a boy who had been prostitutes, after the case was solved, the local community with different orientations and the victim's family publicly held a candlelight memorial event with more than 400 people participating, with the aim of allowing Milwaukeeans to "share their feelings of pain and anger about what happened."

This caused dissatisfaction among the conservative local white community. Although they also sympathized with the victim, this kind of thing was considered a very heretical act in the eyes of the local white community who generally believed in religion. It not only blasphemed God, but also insulted the victim (some people believed that Sintasomfong was just forced by life).

These memorial activities were eventually harassed by local white people, and finally the two sides had physical conflicts, and the police detained a group of people.

This once again caused great dissatisfaction in the community. Milwaukee, which was originally very conservative, began to no longer abide by the unspoken rule of using pseudonyms and used real names to protest against the insults and discrimination against their groups.

The two sides went back and forth, and for a time many people were afraid that someone would target these minority people and commit violent crimes again.

But soon, they received support from another group that was dissatisfied with the Dahmer case, and beat the conservative white group that came to make trouble again.

This is the Laotian immigrant group where the victim Xinta Somphon belongs. After the failure of the Vietnam War, many Laotians who helped South Vietnam and the US military also immigrated to America for fear of retaliation. Most of them settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and other states in the north-central part of the country.

This time, the children of their ethnic group were brutally killed by white people, and the police let the criminals go at first. They were already full of anger, and this time when the white conservative group came to their door, they no longer remained silent and fought the other side head-on.

These people were all hunters from Laos, and their family culture tradition taught them fighting skills. For a time, their reputation for martial arts was once again resounding in the neighborhood.

Their slogan was anti-racial discrimination, saying that if the victim, Sintath Somfong, was a white child, he would definitely be rescued. These people just didn't like the Laotian community, but this was approved by the president at the time. They were also American citizens who paid taxes on time and should not be inferior to ordinary white people.

Of course, with the banner of racial discrimination, the majority of black people also jumped out unwillingly.

Originally, racial conflicts in America have been greatly intensified in the past decade. Although the rapid economic development has brought good results to most Americans, it has also clearly caused racial inequality.

Most white people have received the dividends of economic development because they have received good compulsory education. However, many black people have not received much income improvement in this long-term economic revival because of the abandonment of public education.

Others are increasing their income, but you are not increasing, which is equivalent to a decrease. So they are very resentful. If other ethnic groups are still a situation that the police don't want to care about. For black people, most Americans know what's going on.

At this point, the local blacks started their traditional art again and participated in the Laotian protests. Whenever they saw areas with weaker police force, they began to smash the windows of shops on the street to move things in.

This made the Laotians feel that it was too much, and they simply canceled the subsequent demonstrations.

However, there is an obvious difference between blacks and minority groups and Laotians, that is, they are scattered all over the country.

It is also obvious that they have their own underground communication channels. Soon, sporadic black riots occurred on the West Coast where Ronald was located, because the Korean-American store owner shot a black girl and Rodney King was beaten up. The resistance wave that had not yet subsided had a tendency to revive.

When local news reported these incidents, they would mention the refrigerator killer incident in Milwaukee. And all reports, when mentioning the real FBI female detective, inevitably quoted the New York Daily News report, and inevitably talked about some gossip about the Silence of the Lambs.

For a time, the rising box office momentum of this movie was no longer limited to the central and northern regions, but began to spread to the whole country, with a trend of another national movie-watching craze.

"Hahahaha... God really helped me. I didn't expect that this movie was so lucky. It has been five months and the box office can still surpass the top ten."

Sitting upstairs in a Cantonese restaurant in Chinatown, Ronald was having morning tea. Looking at the newly renovated movie theater opposite, there were many viewers who came to watch the weekend morning show of The Silence of the Lambs. There was a queue at the box office. Ronald felt very proud.

"Protest, protest, this is discrimination against minority groups..."

"Uh..." Unexpectedly, the joy turned into sorrow. When Ronald turned around to order some barbecued pork buns for Diane, he was shocked to find that the protesters who caused a big disturbance when The Silence of the Lambs was released came again.

"How could it be? Didn't we agree not to make trouble?" Ronald picked up the phone and called Richard, "Go check, who is making trouble again!"