Made in Hollywood

After parking the car, Richard Thomas tightened his clothes and walked towards the most famous independent cinema on Long Island against the cold wind. He quickly entered the cinema. It was different from when he watched movies in the past. Most of them were middle-aged and elderly people like him, and many of them had white hair. Thomas walked in the middle and felt much younger.

Standing in front of the conspicuous poster in the theater, I glanced at it. It was a large poster of Chicago. The appearance of Tom Cruise and the other two heroines on it looked really good, especially the two girls in short skirts. The actor, beautiful and sexy enough, is much more seductive than the starring in the new Broadway musical.

When a man's body is old, his heart will never grow old.

Naturally, Thomas would not say this. If someone asks, it must be purely because of art, because he wants to see what is different in the movie version of Chicago, because this is the Audience Choice Award of the Toronto Film Festival!

In the past few years, the films selected at the Toronto Film Festival are very suitable for the tastes of their North American audience. On the other hand, how many people can sit there and watch it peacefully?

With this thought in mind, Thomas walked to the ticket office, and the conductor immediately gave a bright smile, Is there anything I can do to help you, sir?

Chicago, the most recent show, a ticket! Thomas was about to pull out his wallet.

I'm sorry. The female conductor said directly, There will be a game in half an hour, but there are no more tickets.

No tickets? Thomas felt a little surprised, How come there are no tickets, Chicago is so popular?

The female conductor quickly explained, In the two screenings in the morning, the response of the film was excellent, so many people booked the tickets for the two screenings in the afternoon. If you want to buy tickets, you can only wait until the evening screenings. Or you wait here for a while and if 15 minutes before the show, someone chooses to refund the ticket...

No need. Thomas didn't want to wait, he waved his hand, I'll look elsewhere.

out of the theater. After driving in his car, Thomas took some time to arrive at the Imperial Cinema, which is a little further away. This is one of the most famous cinemas on Long Island and has many theaters. Now it's Friday and daytime. Not difficult.

Enter the theater lobby. Thomas didn't hesitate, went to the ticket booth to ask, bought a ticket for the latest show of Chicago, found a free place and waited for the ticket check to enter the venue.

bored. He looked around and found that just like the last cinema, the number of middle-aged and elderly people here was much larger than usual, and he could still hear the voices of several people nearby.

Chicago tickets are tight. It was a man in his fifties. He told another man of the same age, I went to three theaters in Manhattan and couldn't get a ticket. I had to come to Long Island.

Is it so hot?

I have a friend who attended the Toronto Film Festival and saw the screening, and he thought the film was better than any version of the musical. The man seemed confident, otherwise the film wouldn't have won the Audience Choice Award.

Heard a few words of discussion. Thomas noticed that someone from the TV station was doing a show, and a female NBC reporter was walking in front of the camera, interviewing the audience.

Which movie are you going to watch next?

The female reporter Juliet's smile is very easy to give people a good impression, Why choose it?

I want to see Star Trek...

Juliet surrounded the crowd and interviewed more than a dozen viewers in a row. Most of them chose Paramount's latest commercial masterpiece Star Trek, a small number of people chose Chicago, and only a few people chose The English Patient.

People who choose commercial films like Star Trek have basically the same reasons, while those who want to watch Chicago have a variety of reasons for watching the film.

Most of them were from older viewers because it was Chicago, and the rest included Want to see Tom Cruise, This is an Audience Award-winning film, and Duke Rosenberg. 's new work, I want to see the director's work with his new girlfriend...

What surprised Juliet the most was that there were people who ran over because they heard from the online chat room that the film was beautiful.

However, Juliet also heard a voice complaining about Chicago.

I live in Manhattan, and I heard from friends who watched the film in the morning that the film was wonderful, so I wanted to come out and watch it in the afternoon. As a result, all the theater tickets for Chicago in Manhattan were sold out, so I had to come to Long Island and find two theaters in a row. …”

After asking several people who were going to watch Chicago, Juliet found that there were a lot of complaints, and many people responded that the film's tickets were tight, as if there were a lot of people watching...

After waiting for nearly half an hour, Richard Thomas walked into the movie hall. This is a large hall. He habitually chose a slightly back position and sat quietly waiting for the movie to start. It didn't take long for him to find out. , Corresponding to the tight supply of tickets reported outside, the attendance rate of the theater was extremely high. When the film started to show, from his position, at least more than 90% of the seats were occupied.

It's only Friday afternoon!

Just thinking of this, Thomas couldn't help shaking his head. Most of the people in the theater were his age. For those retired people, there was actually no difference between day and night, Friday and weekend.

The film starts quickly, and from the moment it's timed, Richard Thomas is captivated.

The director did a very good job, using a seemingly praise-like tone to thoroughly dig the impetuous mentality represented by Chicago in the 1920s.

Especially for someone with rich social experience like him, it is not difficult to find that the content in the film is still applicable 70 years later.

There is a classic lyric in the film called Murdering can be an art.

This resonated strongly with Thomas, who whispered, It should be said that shamelessness can be an art!

You are right!

Sitting next to him was the man from Manhattan who said, Very successful adaptation. Isn't it?

Yeah. Thomas nodded and said in a low voice, The director has inherited Bob Fauci's style very well, and boldly processed the song and dance of the film into an illusion of Lockhey, making the insertion of the song and dance more vivid and natural.

His choice of actors is also good. The man echoed, Tom Cruise played very well. The two heroines sang and danced very well.

By the end of the film screening, Richard Thomas had become familiar with the people sitting around him. A few people walked out and talked about the film. They were of similar age, and they had all seen different versions of musicals, so they spoke well.

Thomas said to several people. Depth is not the specialty of musicals. The director can make the theme of Chicago so sharp, and the characters are so colorful. It can be said to be very successful!

Although we have made a choice of deletions, there are still a lot of singing and dancing scenes in the film. Another person said. The song and dance are very smooth, unlike the previous song and dance films that always slowed down the plot, but pushed the plot forward quickly towards a train.

The man from Manhattan said, Chicago is a long-running stage play. Adaptation from stage to screen will be very limited, and the film can do that. The Duke Rosenberger The director has contributed a lot. I am very interested in him now, and it is time to look for his past movies when I go back.

Several people nodded, I'm going to go back to the video store.

Half an hour ago, Mokley from the TPZZ investigation company arrived here from another theater. He and a few colleagues timed the end of Chicago and waited at the exit.

Good morning sir……

When he saw the audience coming out, he didn't stop the older people. Instead, he found not many young people among them. He introduced himself first, gave a small gift, and then asked, Can you talk about what you just watched? Chicago?

I've seen several videotapes of musicals before, but none of them lasted until the end. It was too slow and dull.

The young man looked at the Roxie doll that the other party gave him, and said, Because 'Chicago' is a collaboration between a big director like Duke and a big star like Tom Cruise, and it won the Audience Choice Award again. , I decided to watch it, the film is different from what I thought, very relaxed and happy, the plot is very exciting, especially the cage tango and the puppet show, the conception is too clever.

How would you rate an A+ as the highest score? Mokley asked.

A+, the film is far better than imagined and promoted.

Then, Mokley stopped another person, who said, I came to see this movie because of Duke, and he didn't disappoint. Although the genre of the movie has changed, the production is the same, especially the same Since it has a strong visual impact, and the song and dance design is also very good, it is in line with my appreciation of beauty.

Ten minutes after the investigation, another movie The English Patient came to an end. The audience who came out, except for a few people, were mostly drowsy, and people from another investigation and consulting company walked up.

I was bored, the pace was too slow.

I don't understand at all how the love in the film happened? Can the director be less hypocritical? It's obviously a very simple thing, but it has to be shot in the most complicated way!

There are also many people who praised the film, but compared with the previous Chicago, the proportion of viewers who thought the film was dull was significantly higher.

Why doesn't the theater have a fast-forward button? I'm sitting there bored and want to press fast-forward!

I'm still very confused, and I don't understand what the movie is about...

Subsequently, investigators on both sides obtained their respective attendance rates in this theater so far. Chicago was shown in one theater for four times, with an average attendance rate of 79%!

The English Patient also had four screenings in one theater, and the attendance rate was only 27%!

Star Trek: First Strike, the biggest movie of the weekend, had less than 20 percent attendance, but it had seven theaters showing it! (To be continued ~^~)