Chapter 528 It’s not difficult to decide on movie viewing choices
It was close to midnight, and a movie theater on Fifth Avenue in New York was still brightly lit.
Coke was sold cup by cup, and the popcorn-making machine was still working diligently. The popcorn produced was put into paper tubes and then delivered to the fans waiting to watch the movie.
This is a scene that can often be seen during the summer season in North America. Even if it is close to midnight, as long as a new movie is released, there is always no shortage of these loyal fans.
Today's midnight show saw two blockbusters showing at the same time, making it very lively.
In "Batman Begins" directed by Gilbert Jr., Christian Bale becomes the new Batman and the series is remade.
There is also the popular Jennifer Connelly, as well as Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson and many other Hollywood powerhouses participating.
"Kingdom" directed by Ridley Scott, starring popular young actor Orlando Bloom, plus Edward Norton and Eva Green.
Miraculously, Liam Neeson also participated in this film, but his role was not very important.
As a result, Liam Neeson did not attend any of the promotional events for "Kingdom of Heaven" except for the initial premiere. After seeing the performance at the premiere, I didn’t even want to go.
Obviously he also understands which side is the winner.
This kind of collision of release schedules is obviously very common. Generally, big-name Hollywood stars will avoid this situation to prevent the competition between the two films from affecting the box office.
But the supporting roles basically don't matter. If the movie fails, the blame won't be placed on the supporting actors.
Liam Neeson feels that he has a greater chance of winning in "Beginner", so of course he will go with the winner, and his role in "Beginner" is quite important.
For the audience, which one of the two movies to choose still needs to be considered.
Khloe found a spot in the parking lot and parked the car. His wife Anna took her bag and waved her son Ball out of the car.
A family of three came to the cinema. Anna took her husband Khloe's arm and asked, "Honey, which movie should we watch?"
"You decide!" Khloe said.
Anna asked Ball again: "Bauer, which movie do you want to watch?"
Ball pointed at the poster for Batman Begins and said, "Let's watch the Batman movie."
Anna obviously didn't want to watch it: "Is this good? Your dad and I watched that Batman movie, and it was terrible."
Ball said: "It's different now, Mom. Now the movie is directed by little Gilbert, and there is no bad movie he directed."
Anna thought what Bauer said made sense, but she touched her chin and said, "But there is Orlando Bloom in "Kingdom of Heaven"!"
"Orlando Bloom was also made famous by little Gilbert. Without little Gilbert, he is nothing." Ball said disdainfully.
Do you trust the director or the actors? After all, Orlando Bloom is not one of the two Toms, and Anna doesn't have that much trust in him.
So Anna made a decision: "Okay, let's watch "Beginner", buy a ticket, three cups of Coke, and a big bucket of popcorn."
"Okay!" Kolo went to pay for it. It seemed that he mainly played the role of wallet among this family of three.
The Kolo family, even their son, who is only seventeen and in high school, is a frequent visitor to the cinema. The family goes to the cinema almost four or five times a year, and this is just an ordinary time.
Of course, there are also novice audiences, which refer to young movie fans who come to the cinema independently for the first time without their parents.
The PG-13 rating still has the advantage that teenagers aged 17 or 18 can watch the movie independently without being accompanied by their parents.
Durant and James are two of them. Although they have the same name as a certain high school star player Durant and a certain NBA orangutan who can only use his body to run rampant, they are actually completely different people.
Durant and James are both members of the St. Mary's High School football team in New York, but their school team did not perform well in the state league.
The two of them work well together as a running back and quarterback, and they are also neighbors who live next door. Their parents are also very close to each other, so the relationship between the two is naturally very strong.
I don’t know how Durant and James in the basketball world would feel when they see such two tough guys.
Today was the first time for the two good buddies to leave their parents and watch a movie in the cinema by themselves. They seemed a little nervous.
As soon as they entered the theater, the two of them looked at the hall with people coming and going, feeling a little confused for a moment.
"Where...where can I buy tickets?" Durant asked.
James' classic Ajan spread his hands: "Man, I don't know, my dad is usually responsible for buying tickets." Although watching a movie is the first difficulty, buying tickets is difficult, but this does not trouble the two of them, Duran Specially stopped a family of three, who happened to be Khloe's family.
Durant was very polite, and the black schoolbag on his back was very conspicuous: "Excuse me, where should we buy tickets."
Ke Luo was very kind: "Is this your first time coming to the cinema by yourself?"
"Uh, yes." Durant and James touched their heads in embarrassment.
Ke Luo smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, you are familiar with it since you come here often. The ticket window is over there, and Coca-Cola and popcorn are sold next to it. When you go out, turn left and you will see the peripheral merchandise store."
"Thank you, thank you, you really helped us a lot." After Durant and James thanked them, they quickly went to the ticket window to buy tickets.
Anna looked at the two teenagers and complained about her son: "Bauer, learn a lesson, look at how independent they are."
Ball scratched his head: "I seem to know them, they are all members of our school's football team."
Good guy, it turns out that these three people are from the same school. This world is really small.
As soon as they reached the ticket window, Durant and James hesitated again. It turned out that there were two movies released and they didn't know which one to choose.
The poster of "Kingdom of Heaven" looks very grand, and Orlando Bloom's handsome face and Eva Green's beautiful and coquettish figure attracted the two teenagers.
The cool Batmobile on the poster of "Beginners" is like a seductive beauty, with Batman standing next to the tank, forming an excellent picture.
The two best friends had a bit of a conflict about which movie to watch.
Durant believes that "Kingdom of Heaven" is better because it has Legolas, the elf prince, and it is an epic blockbuster.
He watched "The Return of the King" with his family and also watched the discs of the first two parts of "The Lord of the Rings". So Durant likes this series of movies very much, and also likes Legolas very much, and dreams of becoming him.
James has a different opinion. He thinks "Baby Begins" is good to watch. This is Batman. Of all the boys in the United States who have superhero dreams, who doesn't want to be Bruce Wayne?
A very important selling point of the movie is the sense of immersion.
Two good friends both dream of becoming their favorite characters, and that's okay, but today they have to decide the winner and decide to watch a movie.
In fact, two people can go to one side alone, so there is no need to worry.
But before coming, my parents told me that we must watch the movie together and promise to come back together, so it is safe.
While they were arguing, a man next to him couldn't stand it any longer: "Guys, stop arguing. Let's see who is the director of "Beginners"?"
Durant and James looked at it and said in unison: "Is it little Gilbert?"
"That's right."
"Is it the little Gilbert who directed the "Lord of the Rings" series?" Durant asked again.
"That's right."
"Then why are you hesitating? Let's go watch "Beginner".
"agree……"
So the two good friends reached a happy decision to watch "Beginner" together.
As for "Kingdom of Heaven" and the Elf Prince, they were quickly forgotten in the corner and no one asked... In fact, there are still some people who choose "Kingdom of Heaven".
Most of these people are girls. The reason why they choose to watch "Kingdom of Heaven" is naturally because of Orlando Bloom's handsome face.
As we all know, little Gilbert, as a famous handsome director in Hollywood, may not be as good as Orlando Bloom in acting, but his face is no worse than Orlando Bloom.
It's just that a handsome face is of little use to the director other than attracting a group of female fans. For an actor like Orlando Bloom, it is the foundation of his life.
In fact, not to mention, many people are curious about what little Gilbert would feel like if he acted by himself.
But for so many years, little Gilbert has only appeared in "The Sixth Sense." In just ten seconds, it has already become a swan song.
So many people say that little Gilbert's acting skills are not bad at all, but he is just unwilling to express himself in front of the camera.
(End of chapter)