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"Forget it, it's not too bad anyway."

Mithril comforted Angeldao, rubbing the hair of his current body with his small paws.

"Shall we go back meow?"

"No, I'll confirm it again." Angel said.

"...you actually like this movie meow?" the black cat complained.

Angel didn't care what the black cat said. He called the hapless servant Tom and asked him to get another movie ticket.

This time Angor still remembered to buy hot dogs and sweet orange juice, and bought small dried fish for Mithril before walking into the cinema again.

The signboard of the magic gear first appeared on the screen.

The golden gears whirled, dropping shiny powder, and Sir Mandela's tin puppet logo lumbered across the screen.

The movie officially begins.

The content of the movie is actually roughly the same as the script provided by Allen to Angel.

The cute little Maya is an ordinary 12-year-old girl who owns a tailor shop at home. She has a lively and cheerful personality and is loved by everyone.

When the story opens, Maya encounters the ever-wacky Maine Coon in Boots on her way to school, and she follows the cat through a cat-filled alley (the cats are entertaining guest appearances), ending up in an ordinary alley In the garbage dump at the end, I saw a broken full-length mirror, and what was reflected in it was not herself, but a beautiful female figure, who called herself "Cecilia".

When Angel saw it for the first time, he thought it was nothing.

The beginning of a very well-behaved magical girl film.

During the second swipe, Angor noticed that some problems in the later stage had early signs.

For example, the beginning of the film seems to be bright and beautiful, but this light only stays on little Maya. Her tailor shop is dark, and the street where she lives is dark. The smiles of her parents and neighbors seem to be cheerful. Under normal lighting, it looks sad; compared with the tailor shop, the shopping mall outside the old street is very bright, but the faces of passers-by in fashionable clothes are blurred, like dolls, and it even makes people feel a little creepy if you look closely. .

After Maya entered the cat alley, the atmosphere became like a fairy tale, but the scene was a bit overexposed. Cute is cute, but it looks very fake, especially when Maya walked through the alley and returned to reality again, the dark alley The contrast brought about just now looks like Maya's own dream.

As for the old crystal ball, wand, magic sword, bow and arrow in the garbage dump where the broken mirror is, it is almost a simile.

Cecilia, the "Daughter of Enchantment" is also very interesting.

Cecilia in the mirror is changing all the time, she is a pure girl for a while, and a gorgeous woman for a while. Although this may be an expedient measure adopted by Sir Mandela to deal with various castings through the back door, the peerless beauty The uncertainty of its shape is even more weird.

At this time, Maya also asked: "Can beauty alone defeat the enemy?"

"Of course, girl." Cecilia smiled, "Beauty is a woman's greatest weapon."

"Damn it!" Angor muttered with a small dried fish of mithril in his mouth.

He remembered this line of dialogue, obviously there was nothing wrong with it in the script, he even felt that it was probably a good advertisement line as a merchandising product, but under the current weird environment, it made people full of uneasiness.

But the plot is still a well-regulated routine.

The kind little Maya couldn't bear Cecilia being sealed, and agreed to accept her inheritance, defeating monsters and collecting moonlight energy.

Cecilia presented Maya with the "Moonlight Wand".

Maya came to the school with a magic wand, and a monster appeared in class. Maya transformed for the first time and defeated the opponent.

The performance that made Angel realize something was wrong started here.

When reading the script, Allen explained that this monster was Maya’s classmate, and he collapsed into a monster because of the bankruptcy of his family’s business——Angel thought this was a very common reason, and it’s good to get by——Maya Later, he attended his funeral and met his first little friend Xiaohong at the funeral.

It's just that Angel didn't expect that the home of the classmate who turned into a monster was so close to Maya's home, and the layout was so similar. It was even a small handicraft workshop, and the conversation between Maya's parents and those deformed and weird passers-by at the funeral was also about discussing Don't stop your own business to go to factories or something.

"Hehe, intensified social conflicts are the favorite topic of film critics." Angel took a hard bite of the hot dog.

"It's quite realistic too." Mithril went to catch the small dried fish.

"The last thing I need is reality!" Angel dissatisfied.

So the transformation scenes and battle scenes in his storyboard are very unrealistic.

Angel is taking the commercial route, coupled with the planning experience in his previous life, he has a lot of research on how to attract players' handsome transformation and battle scenes, and the storyboard is the same.

As for whether this storyboard matches the plot... who cares about that!

Wouldn't it be great if the surrounding area could be sold? !

What Angor cares most about this movie is the transformation scene, so Angel stared at them on the scene to shoot the transformation scenes of several magical girls.

Director Peter is also a very obedient director. He completely followed Angel's request, and there was no discount in this part.

Unexpectedly, Allen was able to make this paragraph come back.

He adjusted the positions of these few battles, and put them in the most contrasting positions, so after the beautiful battles, there was a gloomy reality, but the battles became more and more unreal, like a little girl's fantasy.

This sense of unreality naturally erodes the protagonist.

The next few battles are a normal process of defeating the enemy and meeting friends, but as the enemy's life experience becomes more and more tragic, Maya's innocence and cuteness become more and more empty. Her battle seems to be defeating the enemy, but in fact it is like In the process of being swallowed by Cecilia.

Especially at the end of the story, after Maya's gorgeous battle, the bloody moonlight illuminates her shadow and falls on the ground, like Cecilia in the mirror.

Even the love story didn't save the atmosphere change.

Rather, the existence of the campus prince whom Maya has a crush on has repeatedly stimulated Maya's blackening.

The most frightening thing is that after the "monster" is eliminated, there will still be passers-by who look similar to the "monster prototype". There are still hints of various vicious cases, which means that these corrupted beings have not really become monsters and been eliminated by magical girls, but are still among the girls among people.

(Damn it! When Angel saw them reuse supporting characters and costumes, he thought he was saving money!)

The girls seem to be delusional about destroying monsters.

They are becoming crazy day by day under the control of the black witch Cecilia.

Angor bit the hot dog and said, "This part is a very classic witch madness process, and even through the changes of the moon, it can correspond to the degree of mental breakdown of the protagonist."

This is why Angel never doubted the director at all, but gritted his teeth and wanted to settle accounts with Allen.

Probably no one can feel the spiritual impact of the magic tide caused by the moon better than Allen.

Angel didn't notice that when he said "moon" and "witch", the audience sitting next to him took a deep look at him, and finally held back from discussing with Angel on the spot. I wrote it down and decided to go back and check the information.

Maybe this metaphor has to be thought about by audiences in this era, but as far as Angel is concerned, when the plot is here, he can almost make up the content of Chinese reading comprehension:

——This film satirizes the tragic situation of cannibalism of XX. Under the oppression of XX, the people at the bottom have degenerated into monsters and cannot be saved. The heroine is no exception. She wants to save her friends and family, but everything is hers. The illusion that she can't save anyone, and can only be assimilated into a part of the witch in the end, which shows——

It shows that the screenwriter is courting death!

With the collection of moonlight energy in the later stage, Maya has more and more magic props-this should have been a point that excited the audience-the differences between the several magical girls actually came from the unconscious comparison of beauty!There is also jealousy of Maya's magic props, which faintly satirizes consumerism.

Angel: ...You fuck, I still want to sell props!

One of the magical girls went to the mage's tower, wanting to gain more power, but because of this, she fell secretly and became a witch.

Since then, Maya has failed to save all the people she wanted to save, and even her partners have betrayed her.

The whole atmosphere also reached the climax of depression. When Cecilia smiled and asked Maya, "Do you really want to save her?", the atmosphere simply suggested that Maya had gone crazy to the limit and was about to sacrifice herself.

Angel suspected that Allen thought so.

According to the original script, Angel remembered that Maya agreed to Cecilia's request without hesitation and saved her companion.

From the children's point of view, it was a victory - Angel also thought so when he was reading the script.

But according to the rendering of the atmosphere, it actually implies that not only Maya has actually committed suicide, but her soul has also been swallowed by Cecilia, and several other magical girls have already done so.

The script doesn't say it clearly, but Cecilia's beauty that can confuse everyone comes from the "dedication" of the little girls.

Be it the monsters or the girl who defeated them, they all became part of Cecilia.

A part of the old days that was abandoned and forgotten by people.

But at this point in the plot, Allen seemed to regret it at the end. He added a performance of Maya's firm belief, relying on his own strength, and inspiring the power of the wand. Strength saved the little buddies.

It is also this performance that pulls the tone of the whole story back to "the battle between justice and evil with a very grand scene", rather than "the little girl's crazy imagination" and "magic is all fraud".

—Alan thus saved himself.

To be honest, after reading it for the second time, Angor was a little skeptical, if he followed Allen's original script, would he anger Mayor Owen and President Hume.

However, President Hume followed the film all the way. If that was the case, wouldn't it be released?

Thinking of this, Angel suddenly felt relieved.

"I just said, things won't be that bad." Angel muttered.

He seemed to have forgotten who it was who ran to Chesser angrily after seeing the newspaper.

"Finally relieved? Then we went back, meow?" Mithril asked for the second time.

It watched the movie twice with Angel and felt a little tired.

Angel also felt that watching this kind of movie full of hints was tiring, he sighed: "There is no rush, before we go back, let's go to a place that really heals people's hearts."

"Heal people's hearts?"

Angel left the cinema with Mithril and came to the street outside.

Sheiser is indeed one of the largest commercial cities in the world. Her prosperity is not even inferior to the first-tier cities of Blue Star where Angel was located in his previous life. Just like the commercial street outside the movie theater, it looks almost the same as that of Blue Star. Different, you can find various types of shops on this street, some of which sell mature movie peripherals.

Angel was naturally not interested in those shops.

He walked straight towards the shop with the most children at the door.

After Mithril got closer, he realized why Angel came to this store.

I saw the children coming in and out of the store holding the peripheral products of "Magical Girl", including but not limited to the set of magical girls, character cards, Maya's Q-version dolls, Maine Coon cat dolls, Various types of magical girls' backpacks, trinkets and the like.

Even not just children, adults who just watched a movie couldn't help but go in and buy something when passing by here.

When "Magical Girl" was released, it was immediately sold around the cinema, which was a strategy agreed upon by Angel and Mandela early in the morning.

"How? Heal people's hearts?" Angel said intoxicated.

"What is your definition of healing people's hearts? Small money?" Mithril complained.

It was relieved to see the hot sales of these peripheral products.

Magic Cats has really had enough of overstocked merchandise.

But when it comes to the backlog of goods, Mithril always feels that something is missing——

"Strange meow, why didn't I see a child buying a magic wand?" Mithril thought for a while, and was frightened, "I can't even sell it like this meow?!"

"That's not true, because..."

Angel was about to explain, when he heard an excited voice from the counter:

"Honorable guest, you have found the hidden clue left by Your Excellency Cecilia. Excuse me, do you want to get her inheritance?"

Such a conversation naturally attracted everyone's attention, including Angel and his cat.

They looked over curiously, and saw that the waiter in the store was leading a little girl to a curtain. After pulling the curtain, a full-length mirror exactly like in the movie was revealed.

And just like in the movie, there is no reflection on the full-length mirror, as if everyone in the store doesn't exist.

The little girl was not afraid, but her eyes widened in excitement.

The waiter smiled and said to the little girl, "Little friend, do you know how Maya transformed?"

"I know." The little girl said childishly.

The receptionist encouraged: "Then why don't you give it a try?"

The little girl was a little at a loss at first, she turned her head and glanced at her parents, and saw that everyone was smiling and looking at her, and then she made the transformation awkwardly:

"The magic power of the moon, transformation—"

The clerk next to him and others also shouted along with him.

Only Angel took a step back.

Although he was the one who came up with this thing, actually watching it live still felt awkward enough to dig the ground.

Fortunately, others don't think so.

Accompanied by the little girl's cry, the center of the mirror rippled like water waves. When the mirror calmed down, the little girl's figure was reflected in the mirror, but the girl in the mirror was wearing the same magical girl costume as Maya.

"Maya! Lily has become Maya!"

The little girl yelled incomprehensibly, and stretched out her hand to touch the mirror, but the girl in the mirror smiled, handed a few cards to her hand outside the mirror, and then disappeared.

Seeing the card in the girl's hand, the waiter immediately announced loudly:

"Congratulations! You have won 'Cecilia's Hospitality Ticket'!"

"Cecilia's invitation card?" The girl's mother hugged the little girl who was still staring at the mirror in a daze, and took the card from her daughter's hand and looked at it.

It was a black invitation letter, and the magic gears on it were constantly spinning, and it said [You are sincerely invited to participate in the Carnival of the Holy Spirit in Cecilia].

The receptionist explained: "This is an invitation ticket from Cecilia, as long as you go to the magical city of Cecilia, you can participate in the carnival there, join the Millennium Annual Meeting of Magic Gear, and have a chance to get a real moonlight wand. "

"But, we are going to Cecilia by ourselves, right?" The girl's father frowned.

The reception is not too much, she smiled and said: "If you feel that the journey is too far and the itinerary is inconvenient, you can also use this invitation letter to exchange for any product in the store... But, unfortunately, only Cecilia has the moonlight wand, we cannot sell."

The little girl is very smart.

Although she half understood the words of hospitality, she grasped the point: "Magic wand! I want a magic wand!"

She cried out to her father,

At this time, the receptionist added: "The magic gear's annual meeting is only once a year! It's gone at other times."

So the father also showed a hesitant expression on his face.

"It says it's the carnival of the Holy Spirit, which means around Holy Spirit's Day, right?" The girl's mother confirmed carefully, and after getting the confirmation from the receptionist, she made a final decision, "Anyway, we are going on vacation at the end of the year, so why not go to Cecily?" Ya!"

The girl's father agreed to come down.

They bought another puppet of a Maine Coon cat in the store, and then left happily.

Mithril stared at all this dumbfounded, and pushed Angel's face with his claws: "What are you playing!"

"Don't push! The head will fall off." Angel held his head and said, "This is an impossible measure."

"no way?"

"Yeah, you won't forget it! When my game table was first made, even Enlis couldn't control it! And no matter how weak the pseudo-magic wand is, it needs a certain amount of magic power, which is more powerful than the game table. It’s even more difficult, how can I sell it directly to Xieser?! People in this place have never even played a game table!”

"So you tricked them into Cecilia?"

"Yes, after playing a series of carnival activities, it can almost increase the magic power to the level of using the wand!" Angel said.

This is also the process of screening out the rich.

In this era, due to the development of industry, several of the most advanced metropolises will inevitably become "foggy cities". Coupled with the damp and cold air in winter, it is popular for people with a little money to go to other areas for vacation during the Holy Spirit holiday, no matter how bad it is. I will buy a villa in the countryside where the air is relatively fresh.

The magic wand of the magic gear is a "luxury", and it is not something that ordinary citizens can buy.

So Angel focused on these middle-class kids who had spare money to go on vacation.

But if you want to say it carefully, this is a no-way move that can deceive one or the other.

The reality is like the world map of the teleportation post. For Angel now, the capital and Xieser are gray areas. If people's magic power level is not improved, he will have no way to use magic items to make money.

Although the movie is considered an outpost, the response here is not what Angel is concerned about. Even if the movie hits the box office, it can only sell some ordinary merchandise.

At present, only the city of Cecilia is Angel's home field.

Angor and Mithril stood in the surrounding stores and observed for a while, and sure enough, several lucky draws (X) were lucky enough to find the clues left by Ms. Cecilia when they purchased the goods.

Some of the guests who got the coupons didn't want to go to Cecilia City, so they exchanged the coupons for other products.

Of course, lucky prizes are not limited to hospitality tickets.

The most common ones are the small decorations on the costumes of magical girls, such as ribbons, crowns and bows. The little girls who can get these decorations immediately are also very happy... No, not limited to little girls.

Mithril saw with his own eyes a father who had won a prize in a draw, and instead of giving his daughter the opportunity to "transform", he happily ran to the mirror to transform himself, and his daughter was so angry that his daughter grabbed his arm.

"Is it an illusion? Why do I feel that everyone prefers that magic mirror."

Angel observed for a long time, puzzled.

"They prefer themselves in the mirror?" Mithril said.

It does not deny Angell's claim.

Because just now there was a woman—not even a girl, but an adult woman who bought hundreds of products in one go, took all the "clues" inside in one go, and then twisted and twisted in different poses in front of the mirror .

Mithril thinks these humans are crazy.

"That's right, dress-up games!" Angel muttered.

Since then, Angor has finally been healed and no longer entangled in the movie.

At this time, someone patted him on the shoulder.

"Dr. Marin, why did you come to the cinema so early?!"

The opponent's attack was so unexpected and heavy that Angel's head fell off——

No, it's not Angel.

The moment the head fell from the shoulders, a figure hugging the cat fell to the ground along with the head, and then disappeared as quickly as the water vapor in the desert. Only the headless body stood there blankly.

But no matter whether it is a visitor or a passer-by passing by in a hurry, no one takes a second look at the falling head, as if a person's head fell on the ground, just like a hat falling on the ground, it is not surprising things.

Even the owner of the head thinks so.

He bent down slowly, picked up the head, and put it on his shoulder.

Then he looked around slowly: "This is..."

where?

The man named Dr. Marin thought strangely. He found that his memory was getting worse and worse. It seemed that his head and body had two consciousnesses, and he always did things that he couldn't understand.

But no one found anything wrong with him.

The man on the opposite side took his arm, laughed and said, "You really saw the report in the newspaper, let's see if that "Magic Girl" is so good-looking?"

"...Yes?" By the way, I came to watch a movie.

But why do I always remember that I seem to have watched it twice?

Dr. Marin thought puzzledly.

His companion didn't care what he was thinking, hooked his arm affectionately, and pulled him to the cinema: "Speaking of which, after changing the owner, the products of Magic Gear are all fine products! But the game table thing Finally, I have a clue! I found two high-ranking rune masters in the capital, and they can definitely crack the core secret—"