Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Girl Jt ;to Have Fun!" The MTV channel on TV was still playing the MV he shot and the trailer of "Night of the Comet". This single by Cyndi Lauper also rushed into the top ten on the charts.

Portrait Records was very satisfied with this result, which was a pleasant surprise for a small record company like them. Seeing that the single had the hope of rushing into the top three, Portrait Records began to increase the single's investment in MTV. As a result, the trailer of "Night of the Comet" was also added many times.

Ronald turned off the TV, put on comfortable clothes and pants, put on sunglasses, and prepared to go to the cinema to watch his second work as a director.

The shabby production and marketing budget resulted in no premiere ceremony for this movie, and no media interviews. . Ronald had to pay for the ticket to go to a nearby cinema.

He once again chose the cinema in Sherman Oaks Department Store. Both of his movies were shot here, and it was perfect for him to watch the official screening of "Night of the Comet" on the big screen for the first time.

After choosing the first show of the evening at the ticket window, Ronald went to the pizza shop where Jennifer Jason Lee worked part-time and bought a pizza, which he ate with a Pepsi.

The movie theater opposite was almost open, and Ronald noticed that many of the people who went in to watch the movie were couples, but there were also many singles or boys who came together, and many of the singles wore glasses.

Seeing that the show time had passed and the audience had all entered the theater, Ronald got up to check the tickets.

"The theater is the second room on the left, and the bathroom is upstairs." The ticket inspector said mechanically, tearing off a corner of Ronald's movie ticket.

"Ronald." A woman's voice came from behind.

Ronald looked back and saw that it was Catherine Mary Stuart, the heroine of "Night of the Comet".

She also wore a pair of sunglasses, and her style of clothing was completely different from that in the movie, so the ticket inspector next to her did not recognize her for a while.

"Ha, you're here to watch it too?" Ronald knew that Catherine was afraid of being recognized by others, so she entered the theater when the show had already started.

The two of them went in together, and Ronald even bought a big bucket of popcorn, like a couple on a date.

After entering the venue, Ronald and Catherine found a place to sit near the aisle in the back row. Ronald wanted to observe the audience's reaction.

Catherine was in a mixed state of mind of expectation and worry. This was her first time to see a complete movie on the screen. She expected her performance to become famous, but was also worried that the audience would not approve of it.

Soon after the advertisements and trailers, "Night of the\u0026" officially started playing on the screen.

A comet flew towards the earth, emitting a dark red light, and a special effect font "Night of the\u0026" appeared in the middle of the screen.

The subtitles of the starring actor, producer, and finally the director. Ronald sat up straight, the plot was approaching quickly, and the audience seemed to be quite involved in the beginning, and Ronald was relieved.

"Oh, oh," the audience cheered when they saw the stepmother slap Regina's sister Samantha. It was not common to see two beauties fighting on the screen, and the real slapping made them excited.

Then there was the strong red lightning caused by the comet. All the people standing outside watching the spectacle covered their eyes with their hands.

The audience was also very satisfied. The lightning effect was good. Only Ronald still felt that it was not bright enough.

The camera switched to the next morning. The sky turned blood red, and a round sun rose in the skyline of high-rise buildings. There was no one everywhere. There were only clothes and shoes dropped on the ground and some red powder in the crowd watching the comet yesterday.

"Oh, oh!" Several audiences shouted excitedly. It turned out that the comet destroyed the world in this way. It was so cool. Finally, it was going to enter the horror plot. It seemed that they were horror movie fans.

Regina's pirated boyfriend, who worked as a projectionist in a movie theater, woke up first. He got dressed and went out. As soon as he opened the door, he was hit on the head with a wrench by a very tall and sturdy zombie, and then dragged out from the back door of the movie theater.

"Ahhh...!" The sudden violent scene made the audience excited, and the sound of consuming popcorn and Coke sounded quietly.

"Do you hate people who pirate movies?" Catherine Mary Stewart whispered beside Ronald.

"Haha..."

Then Regina woke up, played a few more games on the video game console, and completely squeezed DMK, who destroyed her high score record formation, out of the leaderboard.

He found that the back door that her boyfriend went out was blocked. She pushed the back door with the old movie "Red Dust" on it twice, but it didn't open, so she went around the front door. There were a lot of clothes and shoes on the street, accompanied by the red dust, and Regina didn't understand.

Going around to the back door, she found that the door had been blocked. Regina kicked it in anger, and then found the bloody wrench on the ground.

She began to feel that something was wrong, and the background music changed from cheerful to thrilling, as if a zombie would jump out at any time.

The audience was also moved by this emotion, and the sound of popcorn became less.

Regina picked up her boyfriend's motorcycle key from the ground. Now she also confirmed that something had happened. She walked towards the motorcycle on the other side, and when she passed a wooden box...

A zombie appeared!

"Ah!" Although the audience had already expected it, they were also shocked.

Regina looked at the zombie, still a little confused, "Are you dressing up as a Halloween ghost? Doing trouble without paying?"

The zombie shouted "Come on, come on"

"Fuck you, let me tell you, I have been trained since childhood to protect myself and learned self-defense skills. I don't want to hurt you."

The zombie was still approaching step by step, and the audience saw the horrific gray skin, red scars, and some blood stains in a close-up of his face.

"Oh Shxt", Regina hit the zombie's nose with the heel of her palm, and then hit her two feet on the crotch.

She turned to drive the motorcycle, but was hugged by a zombie and thrown to the ground. Regina picked up a wooden stick, hit the zombie on the head, and then kicked it in the head. The zombie was hit on the head by a nail on the stick and fell to the ground motionless.

Regina picked up the motorcycle keys, then ran to the motorcycle, quickly started it and drove off.

The audience made no sound anymore, obviously they had completely entered the rhythm of the plot.

"Oh, I didn't expect that I would be quite heroic on screen. I thought you made me look like a tomboy."

Catherine Mary Stuart told Ronald that Samantha wore skirts more often, and that Catherine was a little concerned that her character, Regina, always wore trousers.

"The clothes-changing show you had in the mall was pretty cool."

Hector, played by Kevin Costner, escaped from home and returned to the radio station. Together with his two sisters, he fought against the approaching bad guys and zombies, and was finally rescued by soldiers sent by the Biological Research Institute in the bunker. All boarded the helicopter.

The audience breathed a sigh of relief. Unexpectedly, strange things still happened in the bunker. Those biological experts seem to be hiding something. There are also places inside that neither the surviving Regina nor Samantha can go to.

Scientist Audrey (played by Mary Woronov) is ordered to "deal with" the two sisters. She also discovered that the vents in the bunker had been opened when the comet passed by. All the people in the bunker were contaminated and were gradually turning into zombies.

Ronald noticed that the audience's breathing began to become heavier again. Everyone was sitting and looking at the screen intently. Some people were squirming in their seats, making their seats creak. No one wanted to go to the bathroom and miss the plot, so they all had a hard time holding it in.

Disillusioned scientist Audrey injects herself and another colleague with the poison originally intended for the two sisters, and commits suicide to prevent herself from turning into a zombie.

Regina became suspicious. She went to explore the inaccessible areas of the bunker alone and found that all the survivors were being treated as artificial blood by experts who had been infected by toxins. Their serum could be used to cleanse their bodies. Toxin, slowing down the process of zombification.

Regina kills the zombified bunker people, saves the two children, and escapes from the bunker. The scientists and soldiers from the bunker pursued them. Samantha and Hector, who arrived just in time, had explosives to deal with the pursuers. The group of people and a few children drove out of the bunker.

The next day, they returned to Los Angeles. The rain washed away the red dust and made the sky clear. Regina is paired with Hector, and they play the role of parents with the children.

Eventually a sports car drives in, and survivor Danny Mason Keener, played by Nicolas Cage, takes Samantha on a date. The movie ends with the license plate shot of this sports car DMK.

Ronald got the first step and occupied the bathroom, hiding inside to listen to the audience's feedback. Male spectators filed in one by one.

"The real movie is really exciting and enjoyable to watch."

"You said that Samantha, she looks really sexy in her cheerleading uniform."

"I think the zombies are very realistic, no worse than 'Dawn of the Dead', especially the one who neatly beat Regina's boyfriend to death with a wrench."

"Hahaha, you didn't see that this director hates piracy and deliberately arranged a miserable ending for him."

"Do you think there is really a comet that returns to the earth every 60 million years and wipes out most of the living things?"

"I don't know, but it is indeed possible. The extinction of the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous and the previous mass extinctions have a vague cycle, which happens to be more than 60 million years."

"Are you kidding? Then we are not?"

"It's not that accurate. I heard it from a person who claimed to have a PhD in paleontology and geology."

"How do you know so many great people?"

"Hi, didn't I meet you through..."

Ronald didn't hear what the man said clearly, thinking it might be some high school science club.

In any case, these audiences are still discussing the plot and performance for a long time after watching it, which is a very good phenomenon.