From Flower Vase to Film Emperor in Hollywood

New York also has its own cinephile culture, with a dazzling array of underground film festivals.

But overall, New York's film fans have a threshold and are scattered in different corners of the city.

If a small screening of an independent film is held, it can easily attract a large number of film fans; but a special screening of a large commercial film is rather deserted.

That's why Karen thought they should stay in Los Angeles—

Now it seems like a good idea.

“Ah!”

A scream can easily summon a group of friends.

Doing something crazy alone seems much more normal with the support of friends, and one or two other people around slowly let go of their rationality and join in one after another, becoming a trend—

For example, taking photos with cardboard cutouts.

So, this scene of performance art appeared at the entrance of the cinema.

While queuing and yawning, Karen couldn't understand it at all, "Ah, I have to protest to Sony Columbia, I'd rather watch a midnight show than an early show, if it wasn't for Anson..."

Unexpectedly, as soon as she muttered, someone responded.

“That's right, that's right, why not arrange a midnight show?”

“I'm willing to watch the midnight show in advance, but Sony Columbia won't give me the chance.”

“I guess they're still worried about the box office.”

Since the 1970s, North American cinemas have had the concept of midnight shows, specifically referring to films screened in advance at midnight, but this film culture has not yet become mainstream, and the news that the midnight premiere box office of commercial blockbusters broke records is now just a concept.

Currently, there are often only two types of films willing to do midnight screenings:

One is genre films, such as romance, horror, westerns, and genres prohibited for those under 18, mainly serving couples or specific audiences.

One is fan films, such as "Star Trek," which has a large number of die-hard fans but has never been as popular as "Star Wars."

In short, niche.

After all, the concept of watching movies at midnight, in 2002 when the Internet was not fully developed, audiences still lacked a little imagination.

Naturally, summer blockbuster commercial films rarely use midnight shows to create hype, which is why this scene happened.

"Spider-Man" is obviously not the kind of movie that has狂热影迷 willing to搶午夜場, and superhero comics are even more of a异类 labeled as宅男, Sony Columbia is worried that the gimmick of midnight shows will be a waste of effort—

So, a group of impatient, eager, and anxious viewers were forced to get up early to come to the cinema to watch the early show.

Not only girls, but also their boyfriends, and amazingly, there are also a small group of nerds, each of whom is silent and unapproachable, hanging their heads and queuing obediently, not daring to let their eyes wander.

In a sense, the early show is even more outrageous and absurd than the midnight show.

After all, staying up late is much easier than getting up early.

However, when the words "worried about the box office" came out, everyone showed a knowing look.

Including Karen, although helpless, she couldn't refute it.

Then, a voice immediately burst out from the crowd.

“Don't underestimate us, even if it's just for Anson, I'm going to watch it three times!”

“No matter how good or bad the movie is, I definitely won't just watch it once.”

“Street performances, God, I later went to find street performances to watch…”

“Isn't anyone here because of 'The Princess Diaries'? When Anson came out from the crowd at the end—”

“Ahhh! Ahhh!”

The chicken-like screams couldn't be controlled at all. Every time someone threw out a topic, someone immediately connected to it, one after another, completely overwhelmed.

“By the way, does anyone have 'GQ'?”

“I was just about to ask.”

“Out of print.”

“What?”

“I specifically wrote an email to ask 'GQ,' wanting to buy the issue with Anson, but they replied to me that it was out of print and would not be reprinted.”

“Ah, my heart! Despair!”

“I saw someone on the forum last time who seemed to be buying it, priced at ninety-nine dollars, I didn't dare to buy it, and it was taken away, I'm still regretting it now.”

“God, Anson wasn't even on the cover of that issue of the magazine, what's going on?”

“But you have to admit, that issue with Anson was really well shot, so good-looking.”

“I haven't seen it, how would I know?”

Chattering, dazzling.

Suddenly, a whole new world opened up before Blair's eyes.

All along, Blair thought that Anson was just a newcomer actor, and "Spider-Man" was his first leading role in his career. Everything was like the street performance in Manhattan, only a small group of people knew him.

The premiere of "Spider-Man" was the same, with only a dozen or twenty supporters led by Gloria, but she never expected that there was a vast ocean outside her world.

It turned out that she wasn't the only one who liked Anson.

A sense of happiness from finding comrades instantly filled her chest, and that excitement and joy flapped like butterfly wings, flying into the sky.

Blair realized for the first time that that issue of "GQ" was actually out of print, and someone was even asking for it at a high price on the forum, which was another whole new world—

How could it be?

Unexpectedly, Karen interjected, "There's a scanned version on Yahoo, although it's not very clear, you can save it on your computer."

Blair looked at Karen in disbelief.

With a rustle, there was a buzz of discussion around.

Karen also looked at Blair, with a smile, "I also tried to buy a copy to collect, but unfortunately I couldn't find it."

Blair covered her mouth: You Karen, you didn't share such good things!

“Which section on Yahoo?”

“Yes, yes, yes, share it.”

In a blink of an eye, laughter once again completely drowned out the entrance of the cinema.

Jesse and Alexander, who had just arrived at the AMC cinema, hadn't reacted yet. Sitting in the car and looking at the long queue outside the window, they were full of question marks.

Alexander is an honest man, "Oh, is there a superstar appearing? Or are they queuing to buy popcorn?"

Jesse:…

Jesse glanced at Alexander speechlessly, "It would be more reliable if you said AMC was holding a summer movie special with buy one get one free."

Alexander looked surprised, "Really, how come I haven't heard of it?"

Jesse was actually choked and ignored Alexander, looking out the window again and couldn't help but start thinking.

He had confirmed that the "Spider-Man" crew had not arranged any after-screening meet-and-greet events in Los Angeles this week, so how to explain the surging crowd in front of him.

As a reporting journalist, his keen sense of smell immediately caught a possibility—

Couldn't be…?

Jesse's heart tightened, and all kinds of guesses instantly filled his entire brain, some nervous, some excited, and some confused, and he was at a loss for a moment.

Wait, what exactly is going on in front of me?