Movie Master

Thursday, October 20th, this is an unremarkable Thursday. The North American film market in the autumn season is already sluggish, and the premiere of Doom this week also lacks gimmicks and cannot trigger more discussions. But in New York, the number one city in the world, Lower/Downtown Greenwich Village is an all-night party.

This area that retains the legacy of hippies is definitely one of the most distinctive areas in the Big Apple. The landmark theater located here is also very popular among nearby residents-watch an old black and white movie in the art theater, go to jazz Listening to a community song in a bar, and then reveling with artists on the street... Such a night can always make people intoxicated. Tonight, it seems, is no exception.

The two landmark theaters, which are only four blocks away, jointly presented the most noisy, most prosperous and exciting night since the beginning of autumn this year. From 8:00 p.m., all the screening halls of the two theaters began to rotate non-stop, The long queue at the gate has never been interrupted, even at two, four and six in the morning. The mighty line makes the vicinity of the theater very lively, and people gather together all night long. , drinking beer, playing the guitar, and talking.

After the audience from the previous session left the cinema, they stayed behind one after another, joining in the upsurge of discussion around them with excited faces, and then waited for the audience to leave the next session, gathering together in twos and threes to continue the discussion.

Matt is one of them. He knows that he has to go to work this morning, but he doesn't care at all. He seems to have returned to the crazy life of college in a trance. Like everyone else, Matt stood at the door with a bottle of beer in his hand, expressing his opinions and opinions eloquently. They discussed from Hard Candy to Lance's crime trilogy, and then to Woody. -The works of Allen and Martin Scorsese, then to Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, and finally back to Hard Candy, the collision of ideas keeps the spirit in a high state of excitement , can't stop at all.

When the mood reached a commanding height, a group of people flocked to another old movie theater in the next block to watch the midnight show of Sin City. The new partners at the end of the movie gathered and continued to discuss every detail of Fruit Candy, from lines to plots, from costumes to room decoration, from characters to the core... passionate, dancing, and arguing with red faces with.

People didn't notice the passage of time until the morning sun slowly rose from the horizon, and when the first rays of sunlight tore through the black night.

Matt left the Landmark Theater reluctantly, walked towards Wall Street, turned his head three times a step, and then saw those hippies still discussing tirelessly, as if they were trying to change the world with their words, that kind of The burning enthusiasm is not inferior to the dawn and the sun. Matt loves moments like this, not just when he spends all night wrestling with arguments, but when the bright orange sunrise at the junction of sea and sky makes him feel, like never before, alive: he's alive.

And the link of all this is that amazing man named Lancelot Strelo.

Matt knows he's back at work, but the buzz about Hard Candies has only just begun.

The fact is the same. The two landmark theaters in Greenwich Village are constantly gathering people. Some people leave and some people arrive. The uninterrupted operation of all the screening halls still cannot satisfy people's curiosity and anticipation. Just on the island of Manhattan, just in New York City, just within a few blocks of the east coast of the United States, Hard Candy is releasing endless energy, quietly beginning to affect the entire North American continent, and even The whole world.

Give me a lever and a fulcrum, and I can move the whole earth.

Screenings of Fruit Candy are over, but in fact, the frenzy of reflection the film has created has only just begun. Since the film is only shown in two art theaters, even film critics have no way to appreciate the work in the first place. Instead, those fanatical movie lovers can rush ahead and appreciate the style of this work in the first place.

Therefore, after the screening is over, the first to get feedback is not the media, but the Internet!

The ten minute long shot is going to explode! That damn bastard Lancelot is so handsome!

Until now, my hands are still shaking, because of fear, but also because of excitement!

Unbelievable, Lance the bastard has delivered yet another amazing piece of work!

Ten times better than 'Sin City' and ten times deeper than 'Borrowing'! A must-see this fall!

This work will definitely make those macho men feel hopeless, haha!

Cult! A real cult! Strelow vividly explains what a cult movie is: abhorrent, yet addictive!

This will definitely be a work that will be spurned by the mainstream market! But it is also a work that is enough to be recorded in history!

After watching the movie, you'll wish you'd never been in a movie theater.

Extreme discomfort, intense revulsion, deep hatred. That's right, that's the right way to watch 'Fruit Candy.'

Don't watch! Absolutely don't watch! This is a nightmare, and I doubt I will ever wake up!

It's fucking crazy! Please don't go to the movie theater, or you won't be able to sleep well for the next month.

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The forums of major portal sites on the Internet have exploded. Under the official IMDB page, more than 360 comments appeared in just one night; and the number of comments on Rotten Tomatoes also reached more than 190. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are more than 700 related posts in the Yahoo community, and the number of replies has reached an incredible 20,000, and the hit rate has exceeded 100,000. All this happened within twelve hours. Inside, the level of fire easily overwhelmed the discussion boom that good night and good luck brought about two weeks ago.

What's more interesting is that among these comments, even the praise comments are mixed with a lot of foul language, and the words bluntly stated that this work is not suitable for men to watch, and more than half of the comments emphasized at the end , This work is strongly not recommended; but you can feel the thought storm caused by this work in their brains between the lines, the excitement and excitement rushing through the computer screen, almost unbearable .

However, the real force of commentary is a small group of people, and everyone else is just joining in the fun. It can be seen that since Hard Candy was only filmed in two theaters, the audience who have enjoyed the work is really limited, and the audience who can participate in the topic is only mediocre; but this topic has aroused countless people on the Internet. Attention, especially the excitement mixed with the pain, is even more curious.

The difference with Good night, good luck is that so far, all of them are discussed by netizens, and there is almost no movement from the mainstream media and professional film critics. On the second day after the screening ended, the major media reported almost all the news about the official reconciliation between Lance and George, declaring that the plagiarism gate had come to an end, and related news was overwhelming.

It stands to reason that the follow-up reports will continue to focus on George and Lance, and bring the focus back to good night, good luck. This is the correct way to handle public relations; but surprisingly, it seems that all news media are Standing still, quietly waiting for the screening of Hard Fruit Candy to continue.

It is no exaggeration to say that the movie-watching frenzy caused by the two landmark theaters has spread throughout New York, and the news media all over North America have also received the news, and the branches stationed in New York have sent relevant reporters. They were able to watch this movie for the first time, but they were doomed to be disappointed - because they couldn't get tickets at all!

If this is the Sundance Film Festival, then the media and professional film critics have reserved tickets, and they can enter the venue directly with invitations or press cards, without worrying about not having tickets; but this is New York, Fruit Hard Candy was launched exactly as a niche experimental film. In other words, the only way to watch this work is to buy a ticket. A seven-dollar ticket is very cheap, but reporters and film critics People really feel what it means to get a ticket hard.

The long queues at the gates of the two theaters have not decreased since eight o'clock last night, and with the uproar on the Internet, many movie lovers living in New York have included hard candy in their In the schedule, compared to other cities, they have the upper hand.

As a result, there was a rare event at the entrance of the Landmark Cinema: those film critics and reporters who usually have their eyes above the top actually appeared in the queue.

Chaos Pictures doesn't need to care, because experimental films don't rely on film critics and reporters to eat. They are often screened for three weeks. Feedback from journalists is important, but most of the time, they don't pay much attention to these experimental films. So, Chaos Pictures is all about sticking to the rules, but critics and journalists can't help but care, and it's clear that Fruit Candy is the hottest movie of the weekend -- even if it's just an artistic experiment.

Landmark Cinemas has already filled all the screening halls, but the supply is still in short supply. It was less than 12 noon on Friday, and the tickets for the whole day were sold out. In desperation, they could only start selling tickets for the weekend, but this only lasted until 11 o'clock on Friday night, and soon the weekend would be two days All tickets are also sold out. This also means that if you want to watch this movie, you can only wait for Monday.

The good news is that Monday is only two days away; the bad news is that the number of screening venues for Hard Candy next week is only seven.