Chapter 1123 Partying Together
Haha, hahaha!
Nicholas couldn't control himself and burst into laughter. This was so fun.
Who would have thought that these game consoles actually have such interactive functions.
Then, at this moment, the game console made a sizzling sound again. Nicholas couldn't control himself at all. It was like returning to his teenage years, looking left and right, full of curiosity.
Only then did he realize that a palm-sized card was spitting out from under the game console.
The size of a bookmark, with green as the main tone, the exquisite border design and color matching are admirable, and the words just displayed on the screen are listed in a vertical arrangement -
It is actually a peripheral!
Nicholas's eyes lit up. Such peripherals could be collected as souvenirs, but the crew of "Butterfly Effect" actually gave them away for free.
Nicholas is totally in love with it.
Excited, excited, curious, uncontrollably excited, a pure joy.
Nicholas was reluctant to leave, and immediately used his professional instinct as a reporter to conduct in-depth inquiries, and finally got a glimpse of the whole event.
For these game consoles, everyone can get a different answer after entering the year -
Not exactly the same.
As far as 1994 is concerned, Nicholas has seen at least five versions, some of which just record the major events of that year, and some of which review the popular things of that year, easily awakening the memories of the past.
Among them, the funniest ones are pranks.
“Oh, sorry, nothing.”
There’s even a hand-drawn emoticon behind it, a grimace.
Really! Madam! It’s fun!
So that every bookmark is worth collecting.
Here, there is an Easter egg hidden. Nicholas noticed that this game console can only be traced back to 1982. What does this mean?
The year Anson was born.
But Nicholas prefers to believe that this should be the age of the male protagonist in "The Butterfly Effect", forming a perfect intertext from the movie to reality.
It’s unbelievable, how did Anson come up with such an interactive method?
And that’s not all.
In the parking lot, there are these game consoles; what about the phone booth?
It didn’t take much time for Nicholas to understand the truth——
Periphery.
All are movie peripherals! A movie premiere that’s as good as a Comic-Con!
Absolute surprise, Nicholas couldn’t believe that he could actually see a subculture like comics invading the film world in Los Angeles in 2003!
Moreover, movie peripherals are not just peripherals!
The whole event is divided into two parts.
In one section, each viewer can receive a card for free. There are ten stamps on the card. Every time you go to a phone booth to watch an Easter egg from the "Butterfly Effect" movie, you can win a stamp.
In the phone booth, it is also set according to time. In different years, small story fragments from the movie are displayed, but you can see the joy, anger, sorrow and joy. In this way, the relationship between the movie and time is shown.
After collecting ten stamps, you can finally get a "perfect stamp" at the entrance of Wilshere Theater——
This card itself is a piece of peripherals. Not only is it carefully designed, but each stamp also has a special meaning, not to mention the final butterfly stamp exclusive to the "Butterfly Effect" movie.
The other part is hidden in every phone booth. There is a gashapon machine inside. You can play it once with one dollar coin. Each time a gashapon comes out, there are surprise peripherals inside the gashapon.
Including but not limited to, keychains, erasers, brooches, refrigerator magnets, bookmarks, etc. Of course, they are not ordinary objects, they are all matching peripherals carefully designed based on the movie.
There are two most special hidden rewards, one is a mini baseball signed by the starring actor, and the other is an Anson villain.
A small finger-sized doll, there are three models in total, one from Anson's look in the movie, Anson's black suit look at the Cannes Film Festival, and Anson's look playing baseball.
In other words, every audience member arriving at the premiere can freely choose how to open the party according to their own preferences.
They can participate for free, and in the end they can take home two pieces of movie peripherals as souvenirs for attending the movie premiere. These are also carefully designed special peripherals with collectible value.
They can also purchase peripherals and collect a series of peripherals specially designed for the "Butterfly Effect". Whether it is a signed baseball or an Anson doll, these are undoubtedly rare treasures, not to mention twisted ones. The other peripheral items inside the egg are equally interesting.
Unbelievable!
Nicholas:...
Jaw-dropping and full of surprises.
Nicholas discovered that from the first time he came into contact with Anson, this young man was always able to bring surprises, turning his experience into useless things again and again, pushing away a lot of things in the shock and impact. Open the door to a whole new world.
In 2003, the movie peripheral market in North America was not prosperous, and people's impression of "movie peripherals" was Disney's stuffed dolls -
Childish. girl. childish. boring. Only kids will like it.
These stereotypes are still mainstream, and the peripherals of Transformers, Barbie, and superhero movies already exist, but they are still subcultures.
Nicholas knows that the peripheral market for neon is very prosperous, including animation, movies, games, concerts, etc.; however, it is still limited to the palm-sized market, even in neighboring countries and regions in East Asia. Completely spread, let alone the North American continent across the Pacific.
So, when "Spider-Man" was released, Sony Columbia never thought of manufacturing movie peripherals. Even now that the movie is a huge success at the box office, they still do not pay attention to this market——
It’s not that they don’t know, after all, Sony’s parent company comes from Neon; it’s that they think that the North American market doesn’t follow this trend, so there is no need to spend energy,
However, now, the “butterfly effect” has begun .
Surprise, 100% surprise.
And when Nicholas learned that there were hidden Easter eggs in the follow-up, the storm in his mind couldn't stop at all.
In the gashapon, there are actually hidden surprises, five in total, a note with a "mischievous face". If you bring the note and a card covered with ten stamps, go to Weiwei. Receive the reward at the entrance of Erxie Theater, and you can exchange it for a limited-edition poster of the movie——
At the same time, it has the autographs of the actors and directors, including Anson.
The so-called hidden surprise means that the official did not explain that if someone sees the "Naughty Face" note but does not notice that there is a "surprise reward" on the back of the note, and misses the opportunity to redeem the prize , then this poster cannot be honored.
In the end, only three people cashed in their rewards, and two posters didn't cash in.
After the enthusiastic fans learned about this incident, they emptied all ten gashapon machines, but still could not find the last two notes with the mischievous faces.
Surprises, one after another.
Easter eggs, one after another.
Nicholas finally realized that this was not like a premiere, but a carnival garden party, where everyone was partying together and enjoying a wonderful night——
Who can refuse?
(End of this chapter)