It's only ten o'clock in the morning, Chanel Laurent set off for the cinema, after yesterday's whole day of fermentation and noise, "Buried Alive" This work really made a name for itself in Toronto, and even attracted more attention than "The Thieves in the City", so it is conceivable that the number of moviegoers today is bound to be even more turbulent, even if there are not a few audiences who want to join in the fun. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Today's screening of "Buried Alive" is scheduled for 5 p.m., and this is the only one that will be open to the public in two venues. Chanel set off in the morning, taking into account the possible queues.

But two blocks from the cinema, Chanel could see the bustling crowd surging in his sight, which made Chanel frightened, and hurriedly trotted all the way over, and then saw the terrible long queue.

Catching up from the end of the procession, the procession actually exceeded 400 yards, not only circled the whole square around seven or eight turns, like a giant dragon hovering in the clearing, but also extended its tail to the next street, such a grand occasion was simply jaw-dropping, the surging crowd of at least five hundred, maybe even more, the lively scene made the surrounding reporters extremely excited, and the scene of people coming and going completely detonated the frenzy of the 35th Toronto Film Festival.

Seeing such a scene, Chanel was directly dumbfounded, and she strongly doubted that she had gone to the wrong place - how could "buried alive" attract such a large audience?

Surprise, this is absolutely unexpected, the Toronto Film Festival did not anticipate such an accident at all.

To a normal extent, an independent film like "Buried Alive" that has no big names, no gimmicks, or even no backing sponsorship is often difficult to get attention.

Although Toronto is a film festival, it is still different from the three major film festivals in Europe, in Europe, the market for art films is far more mature and extensive than in North America, and the popularity of independent works at film festivals is also significantly higher;

Therefore, the Toronto Film Festival has scheduled the premiere of "Buried Alive" at 4 p.m., even though only six works at this year's film festival are world premieres, and "Buried Alive" is one of them, but it still does not receive special treatment;

Generally speaking, the number of screenings for popular films is between eight and twelve, and for lesser-known films, there are about three to five screenings, after all, there are a total of 51 films to be shown in just 10 days. If it weren't for the accident, three would be enough for "buried alive".

When the Toronto Film Festival arranged the schedule and venues for the works, it did not foresee the unpopularity of the Emmys, the hot spot of "Ophelia", the boiling of YouTube and even the miracle of the billboard, and the amazing appearance of "Buried Alive".

As a result, the unexpected happened, and the long queue of more than 400 yards easily surpassed "Blue Valentine's Day" and "Thieves in the City", and deservedly became the most high-profile film at this year's festival so far.

One of the traditions and attractions of the Toronto Film Festival is to queue up in the "Rush-Line". In addition to the premiere, the screening of film festivals is generally divided into industry and public venues. The public market is aimed at exhibitors, producers and the media, while the public venue is open to the general public, and these tickets are sold before the opening of the festival, and the public theater of popular films is often hard to find and sold out early.

However, there are other opportunities to buy tickets for the festival's craze.

First of all, at 7 o'clock in the morning, there will be a small number of remaining tickets for the day's movies on sale online, and it is a good choice to swipe tickets online early or go to the cinema to buy tickets directly, but such tickets are very limited and often sold out.

The second opportunity is the long queue of peaks. Before the start of each screening, the unfilled seats will be distributed on the spot and reserved for those who queue up in the long queue. The long queue is very simple, but also very fair, first come, first served, and no one knows how many empty seats will be left for themselves in the end, only queuing early is the only way.

Therefore, this has also become a spectacle of the Toronto Film Festival, and "how many meters the audience queues" has also become one of the best measures for the media to describe the popularity of a film.

Of course, this is limited to popular films. Like "The Magician", there are still tickets left in the last moments before the screening, and they are not even full, which is not uncommon at film festivals, especially in Toronto, which is generally less receptive to art films than in Europe.

Tickets for the "buried alive" were not in short supply, and Chanel bought tickets for the premiere almost effortlessly before the festival. In fact, there were even a lot of tickets left for the premiere, which went on sale on the spot, and it was a surprise that the screening room was fully filled.

Even the tickets for the premiere, not to mention the screenings that followed. Forty percent of the pre-sale tickets for the three screenings were not bought - there was no way, there was no way to "bury alive" before there was no publicity of any kind, and Rodrigo completed post-production at the last minute, meeting the deadline for registration, resulting in an almost complete lack of pre-publicity for the film, and the film was simply an addition to the majority of the audience.

But who would have thought that first the screening early yesterday morning, all the tickets were sold out, and even caused a queue of about 30 spectators, and then today's peak queue, more than 400 yards, such a grand occasion is simply incredible.

Chanel hurriedly asked the staff at the front of the team who was responsible for maintaining order, "Is this the screening hall for 'buried alive'?" After receiving a positive answer, Chanel was a little stunned, and didn't know what to react to for a while, the other party seemed to understand Chanel's expression, and nodded with a smile, "Yes, everyone didn't expect it." You'd better hurry, or you're probably going to lose line. ”

Chanel reacted at this time, and hurriedly sprinted up, and the voice of the staff came from behind him, "Don't make a mistake, the row on the left is." On the right is the morning procession. Chanel hurriedly made an "OK" gesture, and then quickly ran towards the line, which was delayed for less than five minutes, and the line actually extended back a dozen people, and Chanel quickly stood at the end of the line, panting and standing still.

"Hopefully we'll be able to catch up. There was a teasing voice from the front, and Chanel looked up, and then he saw the blonde boy in front of him, and he kindly extended his right hand, "Tyronn-Johnson." Chanel shook the other party's right hand, but did not introduce himself, with a skeptical attitude, Taryn didn't mind, and said with a smile, "I heard that today's venue is 600 people, and the online ticket release in the morning was canceled because the system was paralyzed, so everyone rushed over, hoping that we can still be on the top line." ”

Only then did Chanel react, "However, the 'buried alive' session is at five o'clock in the afternoon, so what about the previous session?"

"Right. Taryn pointed to the fact that a venue will play six to seven films in a day, and "Buried Alive" is the fourth work today, and there are three more before that, including the popular work "The Thief in the City", but judging from the long queue of the peak, the queue for "The Thief in the City" is not even one-fifth of the "Buried Alive", such a huge gap is really staggering. "You also heard about the praise of this work, so you made a special trip?"

Taryn accosted enthusiastically, and Chanel didn't want to deal with it, but after thinking about it, he replied, "No, I've already watched the premiere." ”

In fact, Chanel didn't plan to watch it a second time, partly because the movie was too thrilling and not a wonderful experience, and partly because "Buried Alive" itself was not a classic work that people watched repeatedly. But in the past two days, she has never been able to forget Lan Li's face, especially the fear and panic between the light and shadow, the soul-inducing performance is simply fascinating.

After much hesitation, Chanel finally decided to watch it a second time, only to find that she felt that the premiere was much more comfortable.

"God, have you already watched the premiere? Is it really like a legend, wonderful?" Taryn said excitedly, "I've heard that the actor in this work is really good, is this true, or is it an exaggeration?"

Chanel didn't think about it, and said directly, "Of course it's true!"

This exclamation suddenly attracted the attention of other people around him, and curious inquiries swarmed in, "What kind of work is this?" "Isn't the actor Lan Li Hall a newcomer?" "Everyone didn't notice it before this, why did it suddenly become popular overnight?" "What is the movie about?" "How is the actor's performance?" "I heard that some people were scared and cried after watching the movie, is this true?" ......

The sound of twittering inquiries drowned out Chanel in a blink of an eye, and the people who were queuing around all looked at Chanel, just in the blink of an eye, Chanel became the focus of attention, which caught her a little off guard, and in that earnest eyes, she could clearly feel people's enthusiasm and expectation.

Chanel subconsciously glanced at Tylen, who shook his fist encouragingly, which made Chanel laugh a little, and then raised his voice and said, "Yes, the actor is indeed a newcomer, but the performance is really good." The first time I met him was in ......"

The queue of high peaks has spread out mightily, and the craze of the Toronto Film Festival has reached a new peak.