In fact, since ten days ago, Christian Franklin was keenly aware that "The Dark City" may be a threat to "The Shawshank Redemption", and subconsciously thought that the word-of-mouth trend of this film may be unusually strong, and it will not drop after the first weekend like those new films released before. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since he became the leader of the IMDB discussion group of "The Shawshank Redemption", he has found that every time Murphy Stanton's new film is released, it can always pose a threat to "The Shawshank Redemption", for example, "Man of Steel" once occupied the first place in the TOP250 list for a long time, if it were not for him and other fans of "The Shawshank Redemption" tirelessly brushing low scores, it is difficult to say whether the ranking of "Man of Steel" would have fallen.

Even so, before the release of "Dark City", "Man of Steel" ranked fifth with a score of 8.9!

Although I like the film "The Shawshank Redemption" very much, Christian Franklin knows very well that this film can get the first place in the TOP250 ranking on IMDB, more because of the god-making movement of these fans, once it is surpassed, it is difficult to regain the first place.

So, as one of the initiators of this god-making movement, Christian Franklin has been keeping an eye on the TOP250 rating changes on IMDB, and shortly after the release of "Dark City", he once again set his sights on Murphy Stanton's films.

After observing in recent years, he has seen very clearly that among the existing Hollywood directors, there are not no directors who are better than Murphy Stanton, but directors like him who combine business and art almost perfectly are extremely rare, and even if there are a few, the works directed and produced are not as good as Murphy Stanton.

On a fan rating website like IMDB, it is difficult for too niche films to really reach the top of the TOP250 list, which is destined to rarely appear at the top of this list for literary films that are easy to get professional praise, and the top ones are basically movies with a wide range of audiences.

Popular films are easy to make ordinary popcorn, and ordinary popcorn may be a big hit, but he can't squeeze into the front of this side, so he also has his eye on Murphy Stanton, because the other party has always made unusual commercial movies.

Since ten days ago, Christian Franklin has been launching fans of "The Shawshank Redemption" to give "The Dark City" a low score, their tireless efforts, plus some other fans who don't like this film, after a period of struggle, finally lowered the rating of this film from 9.9 to 9.7 points, which is not very far from the 9.2 score of "The Shawshank Redemption".

But Christian Franklin knew that it would not be enough for "The Shawshank Redemption" to regain the No. 1 spot on IMDB's 250 Best Films, which was too small compared to Murphy Stanton's huge fan base and the number of viewers who were bewitched by "The Dark City."

The scale of the operation must be expanded, and Christian Franklin is very confident that as long as more people are called on to give "Dark City" a 1 point, he will definitely be able to pull this film down like he did when "Man of Steel" was pulled down.

Christian Franklin sat in front of the computer and thought for a few minutes, and quickly made a decision, closed the IMDB web page, opened his mailbox, and sent a mass email calling on the members of the "The Shawshank Redemption" discussion group to continue to increase their attacks and be sure to pull "The Dark City" from the top of the list as soon as possible.

Sending an email wasn't enough, and after sending the email, Christian Franklin picked up the phone and dialed one after another, he was connected to the leader mission of many fan organizations in "The Shawshank Redemption", and it was they who started the god-making movement.

"Costa, be sure to mobilize the people around you to vote for Dark City, remember! You can only vote one point! Be fast! ”

"Alexandra, mobilize your friends......"

After all, IMDB is an open network platform, fans can vote for a film, and they can also vote for low scores, and in order to be relatively fair, IMDB's score changes and rating statistics are all open, and ordinary users can see it.

In just two days, Justin, one of the deputy leaders of IMDB's Murphy Stanton discussion group, noticed the unreasonable change in the score of "Dark City", and in two days, the rating of this film dropped from 9.7 to 9.6, which is completely inconsistent with the normal law of the previous steady decline!

He specially found the statistics on the IMDB website and looked at it, two days ago, the 1-point vote ratio of "Dark City" only accounted for 1.2 percent, but now it has risen to 2.6 percent, and it is obvious that someone is doing something.

Even a fool can see that there is something wrong with it.

Someone is making trouble again? Justin instantly thought of "Man of Steel", Murphy's film was also a big hit at the word-of-mouth and box office, and it ranked first on IMDB's 250 best film list for a long time, but then it slipped down inexplicably, at the beginning, including him and Daisy, I didn't understand what was going on, until a long time later, I found out that someone was making trouble, and used a large number of old users who met the score to brush up on low scores, and pressed the score of "Man of Steel" down.

For this reason, he and Daisy and other discussion group leaders observed for a long time, and targeted the suspicion on "The Shawshank Redemption", because they were the biggest beneficiaries.

Is it them again this time? The old revenge of the year has not been avenged, did they jump out again?

Justin thought for a while, picked up the phone and dialed Daisy's number, and after a while, there was a crackling sound like fried beans.

"What's the matter?" Daisy's voice seemed to shout, "I'm practicing guns at the club?" If it's not urgent, I'll talk about it later! ”

"Boss, it's urgent!" Justin hurriedly said, "Very urgent! "Dark City" has been hacked again on IMDB! ”

"What?"

Justin could probably guess that Daisy was looking for a quiet place, and after a while, when he couldn't hear the crackling gunshot, Daisy's voice came again, "What's going on?" Tell me about it. ”

Justin recounted his guesses in a quick and concise manner.

There was silence for a while, and Daisy's voice sounded again, "You go and contact the person in charge of the fan organization who can be contacted, and I'll go home now!" Those bastards, they really thought we were bullies! ”

However, in more than half an hour, on an online video software, Justin and Daisy gathered the heads of many Murphy fan organizations and had a heated discussion on this matter, and even the heads of several Murphy's black fan organizations participated.

The CAA also fed back the news to Murphy for the first time, and Murphy not only did not object, but let people add a fire to the back!

In the next screening, if "Dark City" wants to maintain a certain amount of popularity, it must have enough topics.

A fan battle broke out over IMDB.

With the explosive start of "The Dark City", the film's rating on IMDB remained high, and at the highest point it was an unbelievable 10 points, and Murphy's fans almost all turned into fanatical believers on the Internet, who didn't care about the reactions of fans like "The Shawshank Redemption" or "The Godfather", and while worshipping "The Dark City" as a masterpiece, they were also secretly belittling other works.

The fans of "The Shawshank Redemption" spent a lot of effort to grab the first position in the TOP250, and naturally refused to give it up, they continued to use the previous method, and under the call of Christian Franklin, all the people with the corresponding IMDB permissions went to brush up on the Dark City, wanting to pull down the film as soon as possible.

After entering Hollywood for more than ten years, Murphy has also accumulated a large number of fans, and there are not a few die-hard fans like Daisy and Justin, especially in large and medium-sized cities across the United States, there are basically Murphy-Stanton fan associations, under the tandem and launch of the heads of various associations, hundreds of thousands of fans rushed to "The Shawshank Redemption" like a tide, and they have only one purpose, to lower the rating of this film, so that it can no longer pose a threat to "Dark City", and even pull "Man of Steel" The following locations.

Although IMDB scoring is indeed a relatively fair way to score the network, a simple score has a lot of room for maneuver in the hands of ordinary fans, even if it does not need to be done by a professional water army.

There are many reasons that affect IMDB's TOP250 score, the first of which is of course the number of voters.

It's interesting to note on IMDB that a film with only a dozen votes and a seemingly poor reputation tends to initially have super high scores - which usually don't last long, of course, - and it's hard not to suspect that this is a promotional ploy by the producers and distributors.

Therefore, the list has added the restriction of the number of votes and the fact that only the votes of active users can be counted in the ranking, so as to ensure the fairness and relevance of the Top250 ranking to the greatest extent.

In the face of films of the level of "The Godfather", "Dark City" and "The Shawshank Redemption", this restriction actually does not play a big role.

As you can imagine, it would be difficult for Murphy's die-hard fans to make a more sober and rational judgment about the quality of the film when they are surrounded by ecstasy after watching a movie as gorgeous and passionate as Dark City. And most of the people who will vote on IMDB for the first time after watching a movie are the hardcore of the movie, and it is not difficult to understand that the score of "Dark City" soared to ten points at the beginning.

On the other hand, there is also a deeper element of the "collective unconscious" at work, and in the midst of a frenzy of eulogy or denigration, it is difficult for most people to assert their own judgment. As far as "Dark City" is concerned, it is difficult for most people to say "no" to it in the midst of the oppression of A+ praise from the audience and the super high praise of IMDB.