Tokyo Literary Godfather

After watching the movie, a group of people walked out of the screening room. The girls were in high spirits.

"This movie is very good!"

"Haha, it makes me want to play that subway slapping game."

Tanaka Seharu's friends seemed to be very satisfied with the movie. It was their first time watching it, and they were quite engaged while watching it. They also discussed it enthusiastically after watching it. Tanaka Shiharu has already watched it once. When I watched the movie for the second time, I mainly observed the details of the movie. Although there was no fresh feeling like the first time I watched the movie, the more in-depth I watched, the more I could feel the ingenuity of the director and screenwriter. It feels like the success of this film is no accident.

Tanaka Shiharu looked around while watching. This was a large screening hall with almost 150 seats. Except for the first three rows, it was almost full. The audience was mostly young people, but there were also some dragoons. I brought my family to see it. The occupancy rate is estimated to be above 85%.

Seeing this scene, Tanaka Shiqing no longer doubts that the prediction of more than 10 billion is indeed very likely to be achieved.

"Takami Inoshita is really cute. When I first watched "Blue Life" and she played the second female lead, I didn't like her that much. Now it seems that I have to change my view of her."

A group of people were chattering and discussing, and other movies in the screening room were about to start, and "My Sassy Girl" was also playing. When passing by the ticket gate, Tanaka Shiharu discovered that these new viewers were holding the same homemade tickets that had just been issued to him.

Steal the box office? Tanaka Shiqing blinked and thought.

The so-called box office stealing means that some theaters play movies to earn ticket prices, but do not share with the distributors. These theaters are either not qualified to screen movies, or although they are qualified to screen movies, they deliberately do not print real movie tickets or enter them into the system, and earn all the ticket money themselves.

Tanaka Shiqing has heard of this kind of thing before, but this is indeed the first time he has seen it. Some people who dare to do this kind of thing are small theaters run by individuals in remote places. The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and consultation is not developed. Some far away It is also difficult for distribution companies in Tokyo to know that other parties are stealing box office. Even if they knew about it, a small theater in a desolate area might not be too lazy to take the lawsuit to Hokkaido. The most they could do is write a letter from a lawyer to warn them.

But this time is different. This is Tokyo and Chuo-ku. Moreover, Tanaka Shiharu came to a well-known theater chain this time, which is owned by the famous film production and distribution company Matsunichi Pictures. How could he do such a thing? It's really puzzling.

Thinking of this, Tanaka Shiharu slowed down and looked at the ticket window.

Then he turned to his friend and said, "Can you wait for me for a while? I have something to do. If you are in a hurry, you can leave first."

"Huh? What's wrong? Do you want to strike up a conversation with a man?"

Tanaka Seharu ignored him, but found a new ticket window, queued up, and bought another ticket.

When buying a ticket this time, Tanaka Shiharu observed with wide eyes and found that the conductor did print a serious movie ticket after collecting the money, but after printing the movie ticket, he did not hand it to him. Instead, put it in a drawer. Instead, he gave Tanaka Seharu his own homemade handwritten ticket.

As for the printed movie ticket, Tanaka Shiqing's sharp eyes discovered that it was from another movie.

This is no longer just stealing the box office, but deliberately passing on the box office revenue of "My Sassy Girl" to other movies.

Tanaka Shiharu is a little indignant. Although she is not the distributor of the movie, as a film critic, she knows that this kind of behavior is very shameless and bad. It is theft and robbery, and it also greatly discourages the original filmmakers. They all do it. Who else is going to make an original film down-to-earth.

What made her even more angry was that in order to verify this matter, she spent an additional 1,800 yen.

Tanaka Shiharu wanted to scold the ticket seller on the spot and ask the person in charge of the theater to come out and give an explanation immediately and refund her 3,600 yen ticket price, but after thinking about it, she held back and it was better not to alert the snake first.

So he didn't say anything, stuffed the ticket into his pocket, and left silently.

After passing through the ticket gate, the ticket inspector will take back their handwritten tickets, which means there will be no evidence. This theater can be said to be fully prepared to steal the box office.

But if you don't go to check the ticket, you can keep the ticket instead. In other words, you can guard against those who are unintentional, but you cannot guard against those who are intentional.

After returning to the student dormitory, the people traveling with Tanaka Shiharu were very excited to discuss the plot and recommended other people to watch it. Tanaka Shiharu put on her headphones and began to concentrate on writing the article.

After watching it for the second time, Tanaka Shiharu did find more interesting details, understood the foreshadowing left by the main creators in the movie, and was able to write more analytical articles. For example, the TV news at the beginning of the movie: a family of quintuplets went to serve in the military. Later, five people with the same appearance actually appeared in the movie, appearing at different times and on different occasions - of course, these people all are played by the same person.

For another example, although this movie is a romance film, it also has many science fiction elements. However, these science fiction elements are not explicitly shown on the table. The creators only placed a hidden line in the movie. From the hidden line, it seems that it It is a science fiction story with "time travel" elements.

For example, the scripts written by the heroine are basically time-travel stories, which can of course be explained that the heroine wants to travel back to the day when he died in a car accident in order to make up for the regret of the death of her ex-boyfriend. However, the flying saucer flashing across the sky and the old man who has been waiting under the tree seem to be able to explain that this is the future morning glory coming to the present, wanting to make up for the regrets of the past.

Perhaps, in a certain parallel world, the male protagonist never waited for a girl all his life, but waited under that tree all his life, and eventually became old, so he chose to travel through time and space to change his destiny.

The heroine's later line "I met a person from the future" seems to confirm this point of view.

Or maybe, the heroine's so-called ex-boyfriend is another incarnation of the hero. He traveled back to an earlier time and space to fall in love with the heroine, and the so-called car accident was just a flying saucer back to the original time and space.

However, the director is very clever. He did not put this slightly sci-fi story on the bright side. Instead, he used hidden lines and hints to provide the audience with another possibility, which would not affect the audience's perception too much. Audiences who can discover this hidden thread will be surprised. Those who can't discover it don't matter, just treat it as a pure romantic comedy.

This time, Tanaka Shiqing used the method of prose narrative to record the process of his second viewing of this movie and his impressions of watching the movie. After writing it, he browsed it again, but he always felt that something was missing, so he did not rush to fax it to the editor for a while. , but flipped through magazines and newspapers.

Because of his status as a special writer, Tanaka Shiqing often bought some movie magazines to read. It was okay if he didn't read it, but he couldn't help frowning when he saw it.

A daily magazine also published a film review article about "My Sassy Girlfriend". Tanaka Shiharu found that everything he mentioned in his new article was written in this article, and he wrote it even more. deep.

This made her feel a little anxious. With the popularity of this movie, more and more people wrote this kind of dissecting articles. If so, what's the point of writing these articles by myself.

Thinking of this, Tanaka Shiqing crumpled up the article anxiously and threw it into the wastebasket, thinking that since he couldn't write anything new, he might as well not write it.

At this time, she suddenly remembered something again.

She took out the theater's handwritten box office from her pocket, and suddenly thought: The editor in charge asked me to write an article related to "My Sassy Girl", but she didn't say that I must write a film review... Stealing the box office still happens Isn't this a good topic entry point in a chain of theaters?