Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Girl Just Want to Have Fun!" The TV station is still rotating its own MV and the trailer for "Night of the Comet". The Cindy Lauper single also hit the top ten on the charts.

Portrait Records is very satisfied with this result, which is a surprise for their small record company. Seeing that the single has the hope of breaking into the top three, Portrait Records began to increase the release of the single in Taiwan. Even the trailer of "Night of the Comet" was added many times.

Ronald turned off the TV, put on comfortable clothes and trousers, and put on his sunglasses, ready to go to the cinema to see his second film as a director.

The shabby production and marketing budget meant that the film didn't have any premieres and few press interviews. . Ronald also had to pay for his own tickets to a nearby movie theater.

Again he picked the movie theater in Sherman Oaks. Two of my own movies were shot here, and it was really good to see the official screening of "Night of the Comet" on the big screen for the first time.

At the ticket window, I chose the first game of the evening. Ronald went to the pizza shop where Jennifer Jason Lee worked as a part-timer to buy a pizza and ate it with Pepsi.

The movie theater opposite was approaching, Ronald noticed that many of the people who went in to watch the movie were couples, but there were also many singles or a couple of boys, and many of the singles came with glasses.

The time for watching the screening had passed, and the audience had completely entered the screening room before Ronald got up to check the tickets.

"The screening room is in the second room from the left, and the restroom is upstairs." The ticket inspector said mechanically, ripping off a corner from Ronald's movie ticket.

"Ronald." A woman's voice came from behind.

Ronald looked back and saw that it was Catherine Mary Stuart, the heroine of "Night of the Comet".

She also wore a pair of sunglasses, and the style of clothing was completely different from that in the movie, so the ticket inspector next to her didn't recognize her for a while.

"Ha, come to see you too?" Ronald knew that Catherine was also afraid that others would recognize him, so he entered the arena while it was already open.

The two happened to go in together, and Ronald went to buy a big bucket of popcorn, like a couple on a date.

After entering the arena, Ronald and Catherine approached the aisle on the edge of the back row and found a place where no one was sitting. Ronald also wanted to watch the audience's reaction.

Catherine, on the other hand, is a mixture of anticipation and worry. This is the first time she has seen a complete movie on the screen, and she is looking forward to her performance to become famous in one fell swoop.

I am worried that the audience will not accept it.

Soon the commercials and trailers passed, and "Night of the Comet" was officially played on the silver screen.

A comet flew towards Earth, glowing dark red, and a special effect typeface "Night of the Comet" appeared in the center of the screen.

Starring, producing, and finally the director's subtitles. Ronald sat upright, the plot was rapidly approaching, the audience seemed to be more engaged in the beginning, and Ronald let down half of his heart.

"Oh oh," saw the stepmother slap Regina's sister Samantha on the face, and the audience cried out. It's not too common to see two beauties fighting each other on the screen. The real slap made them excited. .

Then came the intense red lightning caused by the comet, and all the crowd standing outside watching the spectacle covered their eyes with their hands.

The audience is also very satisfied, this lightning effect is good. Only Ronald still felt it wasn't bright enough.

The camera cuts to the next morning, the sky turns blood red, and the sun rises in the skyline of high-rise buildings. The place was deserted, and the crowd watching the comet yesterday was just clothes and shoes that had fallen on the ground, plus some red powder.

"Oh!" Several audience members exclaimed excitedly. The comet turned out to be so annihilated, so cool, it is finally about to enter the horror plot, it seems that it is a horror movie lover.

Regina's pirated boyfriend who was a projectionist at the movie theater woke up first, got dressed and went out. As soon as he opened the door, he was hit on the head with a wrench by a very tall and stout zombie, and then dragged out through the back door of the movie theater.

“啊啊……！”突如其来的暴力镜头，让观众精神一振，一阵消耗爆米花和可乐的声音悄悄响起。

"Don't you hate pirated movies?" Katherine Mary Stewart whispered next to Ronald.

"Ha ha……"

The next Regina woke up, played a few more games on the video game console, and knocked the DMK who had shattered her high score record formation off the leaderboard.

He found that the back door through which his boyfriend went out was blocked. She pushed the back door of the old movie "Red Dust" twice and didn't open it, so she took a detour to the front door. There were a lot of clothes and shoes on the street. Along with the red dust, Regina didn't know why.

Going around to the back door, she found that the door had been blocked, Regina kicked angrily, and then found a blood-stained wrench on the ground.

She began to feel that something was wrong, and the background music changed from cheerful to thrilling, as if a zombie would jump out at any time.

The audience is also moved by this emotion, and even the voice with popcorn is less.

Regina picked up her boyfriend's motorcycle keys from the ground, and now she also confirmed that something was wrong. She walked to the motorcycle on the other side and passed a wooden box...

A zombie appeared!

"Ah!" Although the audience had already had a hunch, they were also taken aback.

Regina looked at the zombie, still a little puzzled, "Are you pretending to be a Halloween ghost? Do you make trouble if you don't give money?"

Zombie shouting "Come on, come on"

"Fuck you, let me tell you, I was trained to protect myself since I was a child. I have learned self-defense, and I don't want to hurt you."

The zombie is still approaching, and the audience sees the horrible gray skin and red scars, and some bloodstains in the close-up of his face.

"Oh Shxt", Regina's palm hits the bridge of the zombie's nose with one blow, and then two feet against the crotch.

She turned to drive the motorcycle, but was hugged by the zombie and thrown to the ground. Regina picked up a wooden stick, hit the zombie's head with one hand, and kicked it in the head. The zombie was hit on the head with a nail on a wooden stick and fell to the ground motionless.

Regina picked up the motorcycle keys, ran to the motorcycle, and quickly started driving away.

The audience has made no sound, and it has clearly entered the rhythm of the plot.

"Oh, I didn't expect me to be so handsome on the screen. I thought you made me a tomboy."

Kathryn Mary Stuart told Ronald that Samantha wore skirts more, and Katherine was a little worried that her character Regina had been wearing pants.

"The changing show you guys in the mall looked really good."

Hector, played by Kevin Costner, escaped from his home and returned to the radio station. Together with his two sisters, he fought against the villains and zombies that came, and was finally rescued by the soldiers sent by the Biological Research Institute in the bunker. They all boarded the helicopter.

The audience breathed a sigh of relief, but they didn't expect that strange things would still happen in the bunker. Those biological experts seem to be hiding something. There are also places inside that neither Regina nor Samantha, who survived, can go to.

Scientist Audrey (Mary Voronoff) is tasked with "dealing with" the two sisters. She also discovered that the bunker had its vents open when the comet passed, and that all the people in the bunker were contaminated and were gradually zombifying.

Ronald noticed that the audience was breathing heavily again, and they sat staring at the screen, some wriggling in their seats, making the seats creaky. No one wants to go to the bathroom and miss the plot, so it's hard to hold back.

The hopeless scientist Audrey injected herself and another colleague with the poison originally used by the two sisters and committed suicide to prevent herself from becoming a zombie.

Regina became suspicious, and she went to explore the inaccessible area of ​​the bunker alone, and found that all the survivors were raised as artificial blood by experts who had been attacked by toxins, and their serum could be used to cleanse their own bodies. Toxins that suspend the process of zombification.

Regina kills the zombified bunker, saves two children, and escapes from the bunker. The scientists and soldiers in the bunker chased after them. Samantha and Hector, who just arrived, had explosives to solve the pursuit, and the group and a few children drove away from the bunker.

The next day, they returned to downtown Los Angeles. The rain washed away the red dust and cleared the sky. Regina is paired with Hector, who play the role of parents with the children.

Eventually a sports car drives in and Nicolas Cage's survivor Danny Mason Keener pulls Samantha on a date. The movie ends with the license plate footage of this sports car DMK.

Ronald took the lead, occupied the bathroom, and hid inside to listen to the audience's feedback. A male audience filed in.

"The real movie is really exciting, watch it well."

"You said that Samantha is really sexy in a cheerleading uniform."

"I think the zombies are very realistic, not worse than 'Dawn of the Living Dead', especially the one that killed Regina's boyfriend with a wrench cleanly."

"Hahaha, you didn't see that this director is someone who hates piracy and deliberately arranged a tragic ending for him."

"You said, is there really a comet that returns to Earth every 60 million years and wipes out most living things?"

"I don't know, but there is a possibility that the extinction of the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period, and the previous mass extinctions, have a vague cycle, exactly more than 60 million years."

"Are you kidding me? So aren't we?"

"It's not so accurate. I heard from a man who claimed to be a Ph.D. in paleontology and geology."

"How do you know so many great people?"

"Hey, I didn't know it through..."

Ronald didn't catch what the man said, thinking it might be some kind of high school science club.

In any case, these audiences are still discussing the plot and performance for a long time after watching it, which is a very good phenomenon.