I Forged the Myth of the Old Ones

In other words, many viewers actually just joined in the fun of the midnight premiere today, and they didn't have any intuitive understanding of Lu Yi's horror films before.

Bai Qiquan gloated a little, but when he thought about it carefully, he was also sitting in the audience, and he didn't know who was more ugly.

He stopped talking.

When the movie started, he calmed down and watched the movie.

After more than 100 minutes.

Accompanied by the play of the credits and the ending song, there was silence in the huge movie theater.

Bai Qiquan looked at the screen, his mind went blank.

It's not the same as being scared, or feeling frightened.

If watching "Crying" and Lu Juan's other works brought him intuitive fear, the sense of horror that turned into a poisonous snake and entangled himself, then this film gave him the feeling of It's like forcing a lot of things into his head.

Some people have such an experience when they were young. They used to only live in their own homes, between kindergarten and elementary school. They felt that the world was very small and only so big. But one time, they suddenly saw something huge, such as the sea. , such as the boundless starry sky, such as those huge and busy cities, the feeling at that moment is what Bai Qiquan perceives.

It was a feeling of fear that he couldn't control, understand, or recognize. When the credits were over and the lights of the cinema were turned on, Bai Qiquan cried.

He felt that his life seemed meaningless, everything was hypocritical, just like the protagonists in the movie, just like that famous artist, no amount of his own efforts could stop the world from moving forward in the direction of destruction.

This movie is like a switch. After pressing it, the whole person becomes nothingness.

"Lu Jian, this man is so terrifying!"

During the sage's time, Bai Qiquan was full of emotions.

In September, the second monthly ticket will be added to 3/3

===253. Break the fourth wall===

May [-]st should have been a holiday for fishing.

But in the movie circle, everyone feels very grim.

Lu Yi's movie is not just a box office hit.

The clues behind this movie are surprising.

Under the famous role-playing website Do you understand, and how to evaluate "The Mouth of the Madman", several hot replies have been updated.

[Filmmaker Aping]: I take back my previous comment. "The Mouth of the Madman" is a breakthrough in the field of horror movies, and even for domestic movies. Its content is not limited to the works , and even extends beyond the work. This technique of combining reality and illusion and blurring the boundaries is very novel. It can be said that the viewing experience of the whole movie reached its peak when the last part revealed the secret. To be honest, I am a little curious now, are we actually living in a book, are we just characters in the book, and are manipulated by others?

[My name is Mr. Zhao]: I think there are only a small number of people who can rationally evaluate this movie. Most people are still in the chaos that seems to have their brains stirred. Another movie shocked us, changing our cognition of Lu Yi, is it very similar to the famous artist in the movie? After watching this movie, I really thought about the possibility of whether I am a fictional character. Of course, If this is a plot of a novel, then maybe Lu Juan is the absolute protagonist of this plot, and I am just a shameless dragon touting him.

[Deep Blue Melancholy: My face hurts a little. I thought that according to the normal production speed, Lu Jian’s movie would take at least two years to be seen, but I didn’t expect it to be released in half a year. Did this guy secretly save more than a dozen movies? , One after another, this will not give other directors a chance to survive. Some people shoot well and the speed is fast. How can other people beat him? It's unreasonable! 】

However, more people are actually still stuck in the shock of the movie.

In Lu Jian’s previous films, the discussion of the fourth wall was very superficial. In most films, the actors ignored the audience and performed completely immersed in the world view of the film. The audience felt that this was "acted out".

But in "Madman's Mouth", the interaction between the family and the protagonists, and the main plot of the movie, obviously broke the fourth wall of horror stories in the movie, connecting reality and fantasy together. The audience can think that this The movie is the story of "Madman's Mouth". The home is separated from the story, and it can be considered that the home is also a part of the story. This is a movie about how to complete it.

This can easily lead to a thought, that is, are the audience watching the movie another character in an event called "The Mouth of the Madman", and is the world we live in real?

When Bai Qiquan came back from watching the premiere, he was completely dazed.

He got up very early today, and barely slept last night. His dreams were all about those spiders crawling over people's bodies, the heads of men in suits turning around, and the scenes of vicious dogs with tentacles on their heads exploding.

Waking up in the morning, Bai Qiquan rubbed his eyes.

He suddenly saw a man in a suit standing in his bedroom.

Hearing Bai Qiquan's movement, the other party turned his head.

"Fuck!"

Bai Qiquan sat up as if he had been electrocuted, his head almost hit the wall, tremors swept through his whole body, he even felt his hands and feet twitching.

"What are you doing? It's like seeing a ghost."

The man in the suit asked.

Only then did Bai Qiquan realize that this was his roommate.

"You, what are you doing in a suit?"

he asked with a trembling voice.

"Oh, didn't I find an internship before, and I went to the interview today, so I got a suit."

The roommate laughed.

"Oh"

Only then did Bai Qiquan feel relieved.

Then he fell into that inexplicable sadness again.

"You said, is it possible that we are just a member of the book, and the whole world is fictional?"

He suddenly asked his roommate.

"what?"

The other party didn't understand, so he asked back.

"Forget it, you don't understand."

Bai Qiquan shook his head.

Now he feels like the scientist who was the first to understand the heliocentric theory, while others are still in ignorance, and only he has glimpsed the truth.

He lay on the bed, picked up his mobile phone, and searched for knowledge about the end of the universe, the end of time, and the destruction of the earth.

"do you know?"

Bai Qiquan asked his roommate again.

"what do you know?"

The roommate didn't understand again.

"The sun will expand into a red giant in 50 billion years, and the earth will be completely engulfed by then, and human civilization will be destroyed!"

Bai Qiquan said seriously.

"Oh, 50 billion years, that's still very early."

The roommate suddenly wondered if Bai Qiquan had some serious illness.

"Are you really okay, do you want to see the school doctor?"

"It's okay, I'm fine"

Bai Qiquan waved his hand, lay down again, and searched for some thought experiments such as Brain in a Vat, Ship of Theseus, etc., and became melancholy again.

This situation continued throughout the night.

A few buddies in the dormitory set a fixed opening time, and found Bai Qiquan to play a few games. After he knelt down five times in a row, he forgot about the destruction of the universe, the end of time, and the brain in a vat.

"Damn it, I won't sleep if I don't win a game today!"

Bai Qiquan clicked the mouse and opened the next one.

Then he stayed up all night for another day.

On May [-], the box office of "The Mouth of a Madman" reached [-] million, creating a domestic first-day box office record for a horror movie.

And, with the continuation of the holiday and the fermentation of word-of-mouth, its box office is still rising.

On the second day, the box office of "Mouth of a Madman" reached [-] million, and on the third day, this figure became [-] million. Movie.

It is worth mentioning that before this, the domestic box office was a military-themed film with a total box office of more than 50 billion, and the total box office of the leading actors exceeded 80 billion.

Now, according to statistics, the box office of Lu Yi's "Madman's Mouth" is likely to exceed 30 billion, reaching 40 billion. Adding "Crying", he can almost become the top five directors and actors in the domestic box office.

In this case, the mainstream media also began to chase the hot spot of Lu Jian.

At the end of the golden week, after Lu Yi's "Madman's Mouth" won a box office of one billion, he received a call.

The other party is the person in charge of the program group of Shonan TV Station, and invited Lu Yi to participate in a talk show to talk about his creative experience.

Lu Jian readily accepted.

===254. Talk Show===

"Weekend Date" is a talk show, hosted by host Jiang Xia. Most of the content of the program is that she interviews some celebrities, and shows the celebrity's mental journey through dialogue. It was very popular at the beginning, after all, it is an ordinary person. The best way to inquire about celebrity gossip.

But later, as the program broadcast more and more, and the interviewees were from more and more industries, the problem of the host Jiang Xia’s lack of knowledge was reflected. Coupled with some of her own problems, the program was often criticized .

However, this is a program broadcast by a TV station, and the audience is very wide. Lu Yi felt that it was good for his own publicity, and it would also make more people interested in his movie, so he agreed to the interview.

You must know that although there are more than one billion people in China, there are actually not that many Internet users. Many people obtain information through television, which is still the most influential media.

On the second Thursday of May, Lu Jian came to the building of Shonan TV Station.

Shonan is a southern province known for its spicy food. Shonan TV was also the first TV station to reform in the early years. It launched many variety shows and talent shows, and discovered a number of TV dramas that were popular all over the country. At one time, its ratings approached that of national TV stations.

In the Internet age, Shonan TV is still one of the better local stations, and it pays more attention to the entertainment industry than other local stations.

When I came to the studio, Lu Yi was greeted by a young girl who said she was Jiang Xia's assistant.

"Hello, Director Lu, these are some questions we will interview later, you can take a look first."

She gave Lu Jian a document.

Lu Yi glanced at it briefly, and found that they were all routine questions, which he could answer with his eyes closed.

But he also checked before that the host of the show "A Date on the Weekend" especially likes to ask some impromptu questions, some of which are rather sharp, often making guests unable to come to the stage, and she will not cut these clips later, just give people A feeling that she is very sharp and the guest is hiding something.

"Your host, will you still ask some questions that are not mentioned above?"

So Lu Jian went straight to the point.

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A question mark appeared on the assistant's little sister's head.