Vol 2 Chapter 243: Complaints about Chicago

After he parked the car, Richard Thomas tightened his clothes and walked towards the most famous independent theater on Long Island in the cold wind. He quickly entered the theater, which was different from when he was watching movies in the past. Most of them turned out to be middle-aged and elderly people like him, and many of them still wore white hair. Thomas walked in the middle and felt that he was much younger.
I stood in front of the conspicuous poster in the theater and glanced at it. It was a large poster of "Chicago". The appearance of Tom Cruise and the other two heroines on it looked really good, especially the two girls in short dance skirts The actor is beautiful and enough, much more eye-catching than the starring role in the new Broadway musical.
When a man's body is old, his heart will not grow old.
This kind of thought Thomas would naturally not say it. If someone asks, it must be purely because of art, because I want to see the difference between the movie version of "Chicago", because this is the "Audience Choice Award" of the Toronto Film Festival!
In the past few years, the final films selected by the Toronto Film Festival are very suitable for their North American audiences. In contrast, what kind of golden lion and golden bear, how many people can sit there and watch it safely?
With this thought, Thomas walked to the ticket office, and the conductor immediately gave a bright smile, "What can I do for you, sir?"
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"The most recent "Chicago", a ticket!" Thomas was about to take out his wallet.
"I'm sorry." The conductor said directly, "There will be one in half an hour, but there are no tickets."
"No tickets?" Thomas felt a little surprised. "How come there are no tickets, "Chicago" is so popular?"
The ticket saleswoman hurriedly explained a few words, "In the two screenings in the morning, the film received a great response. As a result, tickets for the two screenings in the afternoon were booked by many people. If you want to buy tickets, you can only wait for the evening screening. Or if you wait here for a while, if someone chooses to refund 15 minutes before the show..."
"No need." Thomas didn't want to wait, waved his hand, "I'll look elsewhere."
Out of the theater. In his car, Thomas took some time to rush to the Imperial Cinema a little further away. This is one of the most famous cinemas in Long Island. It has many theaters. It is Friday day again. Tickets should be bought. Not difficult.
Walking into the theater hall, Thomas did not hesitate, and first asked about it before the ticket booth. I bought a ticket for the latest "Chicago", and I found a free place and waited for the ticket to enter the venue.
Bored, he looked around and found that just like the previous theater, there were a lot more middle-aged and elderly people here than usual, and he could hear the voices of several people nearby.
"The tickets for "Chicago" are very tight." It was a man in his 50s, and he said to another person of the same age. "I ran three theaters in the Manhattan area without buying tickets, so I came to Long Island."
"Is it so hot?"
"I have a friend who attended the Toronto Film Festival. After seeing the show, he thought the film was more exciting than any version of the musical." The man seemed confident, "Otherwise the film will not get the Audience Choice Award."
After hearing a few words, Thomas discovered that someone from the TV station was doing a show. A female reporter from the NBC TV station was walking in front of the camera and was interviewing the audience.
"Which movie do you want to watch next?"
The female reporter Juliet smiled slightly. Very easy to give people a good impression, "Why choose it?"
"I want to watch "Star Trek"..."
Juliet surrounded the crowd and interviewed more than a dozen viewers. Most of them chose Paramount's latest commercial masterpiece "Star Trek", a small number of candidates chose "Chicago", and only a few people chose "The English Patient".
People who choose commercial films like "Star Trek". The reasons are basically the same, but viewers who want to watch "Chicago" have various reasons for watching the movie.
The most of them are spoken by older audiences because it is "Chicago", and the rest are "Want to see Tom Cruise", "This is the audience award-winning film", "Duke Rosenberg" "New work", "I want to see the work of the director and his new girlfriend"...
What surprised Juliet the most was that there were people who came over because they heard from the Internet chat room that the film was very beautiful.
However, Juliet also heard a voice, complaining about "Chicago."
"I live in Manhattan. I heard friends who watched the movie in the morning said it was wonderful. I wanted to come out and watch it in the afternoon. As a result, the tickets for the Manhattan show of "Chicago" were all sold out. ..."
After asking several people who were going to watch "Chicago" one after another, Juliet found that there were a lot of complaints, and many people responded that the ticket for the film was tight, as if there were so many people watching...
After waiting for nearly half an hour, Richard Thomas walked into the movie hall, which was a hall. He habitually chose a position a little behind and sat quietly waiting for the film to start. It didn’t take long for him to find out In response to the tight ticket supply reflected outside, the attendance rate of the theater was extremely high. When the film began to be shown, from his position, at least more than 90% of the seats were occupied.
"It's only Friday afternoon!"
Just thinking of this, Thomas couldn't help shook his head. Most of the people in the theater were his age. For retired people like them, there is actually no difference between day and night, Friday and weekend.
The film started quickly, and from the moment it was timed, Richard Thomas was deeply attracted.
The director did a very good job, using a seemingly complimentary tone to completely sarcasm the impetuous mentality represented by Chicago in the 1920s.
Especially for people with rich social experience like him, it is not difficult to find that the content in the film is still suitable for 70 years later.
There is a classic lyrics in the film called "Killing can be an art".
This caused Thomas to resonate strongly and whispered, "It should be said that shamelessness can be an art!"
"You are right!"
Sitting next to him was the man who had come from Manhattan. He said, "It was a successful adaptation. Isn't it?"
"Yes." Thomas nodded and said in a low voice, "The director has inherited Bob Fauci's style very well, and boldly transformed the film song and dance into a Roxy illusion, making the song and dance insertion more vivid and natural."
"His choice of actors is also good." The man echoed, "Tom Cruise played very well. The singing and dancing of the two heroines is also very good."
At the end of the film screening, Richard Thomas became familiar with the people sitting around. Several people walked out and talked about the film. They were similar in age and had seen different versions of musicals.
Thomas said to several people, "Depth is not the specialty of musicals. The director can make the theme of "Chicago" so incisive. And it can be said to be very successful in creating such colorful characters!"
"Although there are cuts and cuts, there are still many singing and dancing scenes in the film." Someone said, "The singing and dancing are very smooth. Unlike the previous song and dance films, they always slow down the plot. Instead, they push the plot to a train quickly. To the front."
The man from Manhattan said, "Chicago is a long-running stage play, and the adaptation from stage to screen will be greatly restricted. The movie can do this to the extent that the guy named Duke Rosenberg The director has contributed a lot. I am very interested in him now. I should look for his past movies when I go back."
Several people nodded, "I'm going back to the video store."
Half an hour ago, Mokley from the tpzz research company arrived here from another theater. He and a few colleagues had timed the end of "Chicago" and waited at the exit.
"Good morning sir……"
See the audience coming out. He didn't stop those older people. Instead, he found young people who were not too many among them. He introduced himself first, gave a small gift, and then asked. "Can you talk about the "Chicago" you just watched?"
"I've seen a few videotapes of musicals before, but none of them lasted till the end. It was too slow and dull."
The young man looked at the Roxy doll presented by the other party, and said, "Because "Chicago" is a collaboration between a big director like Duke and a big star like Tom Cruise, and it won the Audience Choice Award. , I decided to come and watch it. The film is different from what I thought. It is very relaxed and joyful. The plot is particularly exciting, especially the cage tango and the puppet show. The idea is too clever."
"If a+ is the highest score, how many points can you score?" Mokley asked.
"A+, the film is far better than imagined and promoted."
Then Mokley stopped another person, and the other person said, "I watched this movie because of Duke. He did not disappoint. Although the genre of the movie has changed, the production is equally brilliant, especially the same. Since it has a strong visual impact, and the song and dance design is also very good, it is in line with my appreciation of beauty."
Ten minutes after the investigation, another movie "The British Patient" ended. Except a few people, most of the audience who came out were drowsy, and people from another investigating and consulting company walked up.
"I look boring, the rhythm is too slow."
"I didn't understand how love happened in the film? Can the director be less hypocritical? It's obviously very simple, I have to use the most complicated way to shoot!"
There are also many people who praise this film, but compared to the previous "Chicago", the proportion of audiences who think the film is dull is significantly higher.
"Why doesn't the theater set the fast forward button? I was bored sitting there and wanted to press fast forward!"
"Up to now, I am also very confused. I don't understand what the movie is about..."
Afterwards, investigators on both sides obtained their respective attendance rates in this theater so far. "Chicago" was screened in one theater, with an average attendance rate of 79%!
"The English Patient" was screened in the same theater for four times, and the attendance rate was only 27%!
The strongest movie this weekend, "Star Trek: First Strike", only had less than 20% attendance, but this movie has seven theaters showing! (To be continued...)