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Emma was caught off guard. She had not encountered such a situation a few days ago. Although she had to queue up every time she bought a ticket, there was almost no ticket sales. This was really too surprising. Emma's first reaction in her mind was, "So should she buy the 'City of God', or should she go to see the 'Whale Knight' as planned?" But the words she blurted out asked, "What time is the nightclub?"
"There are two games at 8 o'clock and 10 o'clock, and there is one midnight game at 12 o'clock." The staff explained with a smile.
Emma took a deep breath, "Eight o'clock, two." She bought the tickets directly according to her own directness, and until she felt the residual printer heat on the movie tickets with both hands, the sense of reality slowly came.
So, the man was called Lancelot-Stralo, and he was also a director, a talented director who amazing countless people... So, the man who reached out to help in the coffee house that day could really be him... So, she really had the chance to see him again...
Thinking of this, Emma's smile at the corner of her mouth was outlined with satisfaction, and she put the two tickets in her hand firmly on her chest, and her mood was like a dandelion dancing in the sunshine.
"So, do film festival tickets always sell so fast?" Emerson's excitement and confusion came over, causing Emma to put away her chaotic thoughts, turn her head and look over, and then see Emerson and a large group of people walking out of the cinema in a mighty manner. It is roughly estimated that there are at least twenty people, just like a group activity of the Boy Scouts - but some "Boy Scouts" seem to have exceeded the limit.
"It can be said this, and it can't be said that." The middle-aged man with a big belly who just spoke came up, holding a thick stack of information in his hand. In addition to the official magazine, there were several newspapers and movie posters. At the top was a freshly released movie ticket. He said with a smile, "At the film festival, there are restrictions on screening venues. A movie may only be released on eight screens in three cinemas. In addition, there are many movies participating in the competition and exhibition, so there will not be too many screens. It may be played four times a day. In this way, it can only accommodate 4,000 to 5,000 viewers in the cinema to watch the movie. This is naturally not enough for a film festival with at least 200,000 people participating."
Speaking of this, the middle-aged uncle stopped and smiled and looked at the others around him. "And this is a movie with a lot of events. Some movies may be released on two screens in a cinema, which is even more in short supply. Therefore, there are often cases of movie tickets sold."
"So why can't you say that?" Emerson couldn't wait to ask.
The uncle shrugged, "Because 'City of God' is released on nine screens in four cinemas today, and seven screenings were arranged throughout the day - including midnight shows, which means that it can accommodate at least 7,000 to 8,000 viewers. However, we only bought nightclubs. So..."
The following words are self-evident. Parker City audiences are flocking to the cinema just for "City of God". At least from here, we can see that after the movie has been screened all day yesterday, the audience's reputation has quickly risen to a new level, igniting the enthusiasm of today's Sundance Film Festival.
"Wow..." Emerson couldn't help but exclaim, "Sir, so are you a film festival staff member? Or a Hollywood industry practitioner?"
"Haha, no, no." The uncle laughed happily and waved his hands repeatedly. "Forgot to introduce himself, Colin Simonson, a senior film lover, I have been participating in Sundance since 1985. Hoho, I hope I won't look too out of place here."
"Are you kidding? God! 1985? That sounds like the first Sundance!" Emerson screamed exaggeratedly, and expressed his excitement, "So, how do you think of 'City of God'? As a senior movie fan." Although Emerson didn't say anything more, the look of expectation seemed to say again, "How about it, is it great?"
This made Colin laugh, "No, to be honest, I was not interested in this movie at all." This cold water suddenly made everyone excited, and Emerson's face was filled with disappointment. Colin shrugged, "I'm just trying to be honest. Who would you be interested in a Brazilian movie? For me, there is no movie worth paying attention to except for "Central Station".
Emerson lowered his shoulders and said frankly, "Okay, what you said makes sense. Even the 'Central Station' cannot awaken my curiosity about Brazilian movies."
Colin was amused by Emerson's honesty, "I am interested in this movie because of Javier's blog." These words immediately responded to the people around him. Obviously, the Carter brothers and sisters were not the only impulsive people. Many people rushed to Park City after reading Javier's blog - and then collectively did not buy tickets, so they could only wait for the nightclub.
However, looking at Colin in front of you and his friends around you, it seemed that the waiting time was not that difficult. On the contrary, it felt very interesting.
Emma, who was standing next to her, couldn't help feeling frustrated - because she knew nothing about these contents, but after the frustration, she was an irrepressible excitement. She began to wonder, curious about what the movie the man made was like; she began to look forward to, looking forward to the depth of thought hidden under the handsome skin of the man.
She had an inexplicable urge to understand the man. "Maybe, that handsome appearance is just a vase, and the one hidden under that sack is just a pile of straw. Who knows?" This prank-like teasing mentality popped up in her mind, and then it began to grow vigorously. Emma couldn't help laughing, and her mood suddenly became clear.
"Actually, I've watched it once yesterday, but... I have to admit that the movie is so great that I've been thinking about it all night. I think that the blog post Javier posted this morning did not really say the excitement of the movie, even one-tenth." Colin's words immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"Is that true when I stand up for a seven-minute ovation?" Emma finally couldn't help but thrust her heart and joined the discussion.
"Of course." Colin's answer was straightforward. After his eyes met Emma, he unexpectedly found that it was a little loli. He had never expected that such a little loli would be interested in "City of God". Moreover... the movie is so bloody and violent, the little loli should not be able to watch it after the grading, right?
However, the idea was the idea, Colin did not make a random judgment, but said objectively, "My biggest regret was that he did not catch up with yesterday's premiere. Several of my friends were fortunate to enter the scene, and their caliber was surprisingly consistent: this director was definitely a genius, not just a movie, but also a series of witty comments in the later conversation between the audience, which was amazing. Can you imagine it? It was originally scheduled to conduct a 15-minute audience Q&A, but it lasted for an hour!"
"Oh!" Everyone around exclaimed.
"You can check out the official magazine," Colin opened the magazine in his hand. "I read newspapers that follow several major media outlets of the Sundance Film Festival today. Obviously, everyone praised the "City of God" and praised it very much. Even several newspapers believed that this movie was the most powerful competitor to this year's Sundance Jury Award."
Emma immediately opened the official magazine in her hand and realized that the magazine was from Emerson. She couldn't help but raise her head and smiled awkwardly. However, Emerson and Lily didn't care at all, and came to Emma directly, and the three of them started to read it together.
"Modern epics like poems and songs, beautiful prose of sadness and despair, heroic and magnificent retro oil paintings - a samba rhapsody from Lancelot-Stralo."
When everyone saw this title, they exclaimed. Compared to "Seven Minutes of Standing Applause", the sensation of praise in the official magazine in front of them is undoubtedly more shocking, pushing the expectations of "City of God" to a higher level. Emerson wanted to sneak into the cinema immediately and watch this work first.
Harvey Weinstein stepped up the stairs, and then saw a huge group of people at the entrance of the cinema, at least 30 or forty people. Each of them had an excited smile on their faces and expressed their thoughts in a stroke. Such a scene is not uncommon at the Sundance Film Festival. This is a festival for fanatical movie fans, but it is still very rare to start discussing it at the entrance of the cinema. This made Harvey become a little interested - a movie that can win the hearts of the audience, and the market prospects can obviously be seen by a few percent.
"God! The New York Post actually compared the City of God with the "Train Guess"! The "Train Guess" is one of my favorite movies, which is amazing! I can't believe it!"
Harvey heard a little burgundy-haired loli shouting excitedly, with uncontrollable excitement and excitement in his eyebrows, "'City of God'?" Harvey chewed the name carefully, and then his eyebrows slightly frowned. This was the fourth time he had heard the name of this work in just two hours. There was no doubt that this was the hottest topic in Park City in the past twenty-four hours.
Just ten minutes ago, Harvey heard that all the movie tickets for the "City of God" were sold out this morning and afternoon. Robert Redford was planning to add a screening screen for the "City of God" tomorrow. At this time, Harvey saw a group of fanatical movie fans - this is abnormal. "City of God" is just Lancelot's debut work, and it is really rare that the director's first work can be crowded with fanatical content.
Chapter completed!