Chapter 499： "The Mist" Premiere

Los Angeles in February is still a little cooler.

Seven thirty in the evening.

An investigation company commissioned by Universal came to a theater.

Pedestrians on the side of the road come and go, from time to time enthusiastically discussing which movie to watch.

In the poster column in the cinema hall, the one that occupies the most space and has the largest space is the new work "The Mist" directed by Lehmann.

This film premiered today, and the film schedule and support are significantly higher than other works in the same period. In Hollywood, the director is absolutely superior to the actors in the eyes of the theater, and it is also an absolute indicator to measure the tilt of resources.

For example, if a superstar from the front line participates in the work of a rookie director, and competes with the work of the front-line director pulling a rookie actor at the same time, before the performance data appears, no matter what the comparison, the theater chain will be more optimistic about the director.

This is the chain of contempt in the industry, and people in the industry will not believe that someone can't act without a certain work.

After all, what an actor does well is his duty, and what he does badly is his responsibility.

In other words, the director carries the box office, and the actors are just the icing on the cake.

At the level of Lehman, the domestic box office cost recovery is the bottom line, and the overseas return is slightly unsatisfactory.

This is the status and trust of his works, and his fame is enough to attract audiences to the theater, no matter what type it is.

"The Mist at eight o'clock, give me a movie ticket."

After paying the money and taking the ticket, Bella looked in the direction and walked into the second theater.

As a film critic, whether it is for her professional needs or her own needs, Lehmann's works, she always wants to see them.

After finding his seat, people came in one after another.

Before the screening, I looked around and found that the attendance was quite good - there are about 1,500 seats in the theater, and at first glance, it seems that there are people in the seats.

"It's really lively." Bella thought to herself.

In anticipation of the audience, the lights in the auditorium slowly went out...

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Blue butterflies fluttered, and the lens poured down like cold moonlight.

On the big screen, the sound of footsteps first entered my ears, followed by the noise of turning over drawers and carrying things.

Finally, the camera moves slowly from bottom to top, like a person holding a camera and peeping from the perspective of a person, facing the room with low lighting, from left to right, with the soothing background music, sweeping a frame Oil painting in the corner...

Like a pair of faithful eyes, recording everything it can see...

This section is the beginning of Lyman's special order for Thomas to make up the film. With his gradually mature and self-contained light and shadow coordination, the visual experience that is a little weird in the tranquility and a little gloomy in the sadness is vividly revealed.

It can be said that it is very dangling. It is also Lehman who wants to shock the audience from the very beginning, pulling into the slightly cruel and brutal dark jungle of "The Mist".

A good movie needs a sense of substitution, and there is no doubt that Lehmann did it.

If you look out from the direction of the screen, in the cinema, everyone's eyes are firmly fixed here...

Inside the house, the man is painting, which is almost finished.

In the painting, it is a tough cowboy with a revolver in his hand. His eyes are firm, as if he will not give in to any difficulties.

When the painting was completed, the man turned off the lights and rested.

In the darkness, there was a sudden gust of wind, and the sound of houses being destroyed could be vaguely heard.

Sure enough, the next day, the man who painted, namely David, was cleaning up his courtyard with a sad face.

Last night, there was another strong wind and another heavy rain.

And after the wind and rain, it was always a mess, and even the big tree outside the house was blown down.

The camera began to sway outwards, advancing the plot from the main perspective of the third person. In the depths of the big river not far away, a thick white mist slowly floated.

David saw it too, but ignored it. It's normal for it to get foggy in the morning after the rain, but the fog is a little heavier.

After his wife came out of the house, he instructed David to go to the supermarket to buy some necessities to save, so as not to be affected by the storm.

When my son heard it, he also wanted to go to the supermarket. He was only 6 years old, and it was when he liked to play and lively.

Just as he was about to leave, the neighbor's black lawyer Brent also went to the supermarket to buy supplies.

Moreover, his car broke down, and the three had to travel together.

When we got to the supermarket, all the nearby residents came.

The supermarket is very lively, greeting each other, chatting, and joking.

Most of the people knew each other, and amid the jubilation, when Miss Carmody from the town appeared, she was a little cold.

Carmody is very beautiful, and logically speaking, he should be welcomed by men, but the clerk muttered that the madman is coming, hate ghosts and so on.

She wandered in this small town, and all she could taste was confusion and indifference. After all, no one likes a woman who has been obsessed with reading the Bible, even if she is beautiful, she can't stand that kind of fanatical preaching.

The soothing tune sounded again, wrapped in bright sunlight, Carmody was like a panicked little beast, avoiding the crowd while shopping for daily necessities.

The camera followed her all the way, capturing her profile without any scruples, making her beautiful and even dazzling.

She would pray beside the shelf, pray to God, and then secretly look at the nearby residents, and when she was not found , she smiled faintly.

The camera zoomed out suddenly, extending her whole body, with a lavender dress and flat-bottomed boots, blooming like a fairy in the corner of the noisy supermarket.

Under Lyman's eccentricity, and also for the reversal of the subsequent plot and the first promotion and then depression, the role of Eva fell in the hearts of the audience, with a strange and mysterious temperament.

People in the town hated her, but to the audience, she was inexplicable.

She is so beautiful, why is she hated?

David also noticed Miss Carmody, but he ignored it and only hugged his son and took him to buy toys.

He is a man who is immersed in his own life, with a sense of freedom and ease.

He didn't care about the opinions of the people around him. When he met Carmody, he asked his son to greet her and chat politely.

But his freedom and ease did not bring him enough luck.

David was about to leave when a panicked old man with a little blood on his body ran in outside the supermarket.

He shouted loudly that there were monsters in the fog, and his companions were eaten by the thick fog, and he was very scared.

Then, for some reason, the thick white fog surrounded him.

This strange sight made everyone a little scared and uneasy, but the black lawyer Brent comforted everyone and warned the old man not to spread rumors.

The fog was so thick that it blocked the line of sight and could not see clearly, but there were definitely no monsters.

There are many people who agree with this point of view. What the old man said, everyone is just a little uneasy, and he didn't take the dense fog to heart, thinking, wait for the fog to clear before leaving.

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