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All the fans are waiting for this moment to come.
At this time, Lin Mu's secretary Jiang Xiaowen came to the villa where the "Avatar" team rested with 15 IMAX movie tickets, and distributed them to the group of hungry people: "The boss said it." The cinema will arrange for you to enter through the back door, and then go out through the back door after watching the movie, so as not to be recognized by the fans, and it shouldn't be too much of a problem when it's dark. ”
Robert Jr. snatched a ticket quickly. A few kisses. laughed out loud: "I knew the boss was the best!" ”
When others got the tickets, they were also beaming.
……
:40。 There are still 20 minutes until the sale of tickets for Avatar.
At this time, countless fans watched the time and sat nervously in front of the computer.
"Don't watch videos, don't download, don't open programs that take up the speed of network transfers......"
"Why open the ticket channel at 0:00. It's too pit! ”
", if it opens at noon, won't there be more people robbing us? It's still best late at night! ”
While they wait, they use words to vent the tension in their hearts.
Everyone was ready as if it were a war......
The palms of the hands were sweaty, the forehead was sweaty, and the shirt was wet......
The clock ticks and ticks. The minute hand kept moving closer to the 12 position......
In one of the Internet cafes, a local tyrant commanded more than a dozen young men and said, "Everyone cheer me on!" Whoever grabs an IMAX movie ticket is rewarded with $200! $50 awarded for 3D tickets! ”
These young men are all regulars at the Internet café, and they were supposed to play games here, but tonight a strange local tyrant broke in and said that whoever helped grab the ticket would be rewarded with a high reward. It doesn't take much time anyway. So the lads all agreed.
This kind of thing is not unique to this Internet café, other Internet cafes have similar things. Fans from all walks of life use various ways to grab tickets for "Avatar". They knew the popularity of "Avatar", and once they didn't grab it, they would have to wait for days to buy tickets to enter the cinema.
They didn't want to wait for a day, let alone days, so they came up with all sorts of tricks. It's a pity that the security of the ticketing system is very high, and there is no way to grab tickets by means of software, only manually.
Time keeps ticking......
The clock last pointed: 59:50......
Countless fans in major cities around the world began to quickly press the F5 refresh button!!
The local tyrants in the Internet café waited until the time began, and immediately yelled at everyone: "Now, refresh!" Keep refreshing! As soon as you appear at the ticket window, you will choose your seat and pay immediately!! ”
As frequent visitors to the Internet café, the young men were naturally fast, and they quickly operated the computer, ordering seats, online payment, passwords, and payment......
The Internet café was suddenly filled with the sound of keyboards and mice......
This is the legendary keyboard master...... Legendary Hand Speed 200...... (囧).
The local tyrant looked at everyone nervously, and he was eager to get good news from their mouths.
"Sorry, the seat has been booked!!"
"Sorry, the seat has been booked!!"
"Sorry, the seat has been booked!!"
The young men raised their hands in despair and said.
"......" local tyrants want to run away! After thinking about it, he commanded loudly: "Buy it again, change it for the No. 24 one...... If you can't do it, change the ...... of the 25th right away."
Before the local tyrant finished yelling, a person quickly raised his hand and said excitedly: "I bought it!" IMAX 1 !! ”
"Good!!" The local tyrant jumped up excitedly and shook his fist and yelled.
"Keep it up!! IMAX tickets award $200 and 3D tickets award $50!! ”
The thrill of money makes the lads pant even harder!!
Twenty minutes later......
All advance tickets for the first three days of "Avatar" on the Internet are sold out, and tickets for the fourth day (December 26) will not go on sale until the 21st.
And this local tyrant who offered a bounty in the Internet café only managed to get a midnight premiere IMAX-3D ticket and a 3D ticket at noon on December 24. The result is very scummy, but it also proves that this ticket is really difficult to grab.
grabbed the midnight premiere, which was also a big joy, and the local tyrant waved his hand and generously added a $100 reward to the young man who helped him grab the ticket, reaching $300.
The next day, the world's major entertainment media reported on last night's ticket sales.
"Avatar is crazy before it is released! All the tickets for the first three days were sold out in less than an hour!! —Le Paris Gazetteer.
"The ticket-grabbing storm of "Avatar"! Tickets are hard to come by! According to the system records, the IMAX three-day tickets for the international cinema in Hollywood were sold out in only 5 minutes, while the 3D tickets were sold out in only 25 minutes, which is the result of the system delay. —The Hollywood Reporter.
"The ticket grabbing of "Avatar" can be said to be one person among 10,000 people, not only speed, but also luck, congratulations to those friends who bought tickets." —Calcutta Entertainment.
"With the tickets for the first three days, it is too difficult for fans to watch movies with their friends, and it is estimated that most of them go to the cinema alone." - "Magic City Film and Television News".
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And at this moment, the Internet has become popular.
"Ask for IMAX tickets at a high price, within 1000 kilometers around the New York area, a daily ticket is $3,000, a 24-day ticket is $2,000, and a 25-day ticket is $1,000!!" A local tyrant began to throw money and beg for votes.
"Haha,**, don't ask for tickets, no one will sell it!"
"Yes, who would be so stupid* forced to sell tickets, and it's an IMAX ticket, this is a super rare ticket!"
"It's definitely showing off your wealth!!"
For a while, a large number of fans collectively squirted......
However, there are few tickets sold, but there are many tickets exchanged.
"I've separated from my girlfriend, I want to exchange tickets, and I want to be fulfilled!"
"Asking for a ticket, isn't it okay to watch a movie alone?"
"Avatar" is gradually approaching the release time in the midst of excitement.
According to the global time zone, New Zealand and Australia, the eastern countries closest to the international date line, are the first to enter the new day, so the earliest countries for the release of "Avatar" are New Zealand and Australia.
On the evening of December 22, 2012, many movie theaters in New Zealand and Australia welcomed a large number of audiences early. They are very peculiar, and they came in one after another at 21:00, but they have been waiting in the hall and have not entered the theater.
They don't talk much, but the only feature is that they don't look at their watches, they look at the time.
As if waiting for something......
In the major theaters of New Zealand and Australia, if the waiting fans observe carefully, after 22:30, the cinema has welcomed twenty more people, these two dozen people are foreign accents, some European, American, and Chinese Chinese.
These people are film critics and journalists from North America, Europe, and Asia.
The main reason why they came here is that "Avatar" was released first in New Zealand, and according to the time zone, Europe is about 10 hours behind New Zealand, and North America is even worse, about 15 hours later.
As the only IAMX cinema in New Zealand, New Zealand International Studios naturally attracts most of the film critics.
In order to ensure that the film reviews of "Avatar" can be obtained quickly, countless film critics and many media have rushed here from Europe and the Americas to watch the world's first movie of "Avatar".
After the film critic Brownor came here, he was surprised to find other colleagues, and hurriedly went over to greet him: "Sam, Marshall, Benson, Conley, you are also arranged here?" ”
"Haha, Browno, long time no see. You were also invited by the newspaper? ”
"yes, work!"
"I think it's good, if you think about it, you can easily get a movie ticket, and many people can't envy it. You don't want to watch Avatar sooner? I can't help it anyway. Marshall's face was like a chrysanthemum.
"Hehe, me too, this time I took the initiative to apply for the opportunity to grab it, many people have broken their heads, or I'm lucky." Benson couldn't help but smug at the thought of this.
"That's right. Did you go to the toilet yet?? ”
"Not yet? What's wrong? ”
Sam gave him a blank look: "The movie is 170 minutes, almost 3 hours, you don't go to the toilet, you have an urgent need to urinate in the middle of the way, that's too bad." ”
"Well, we also need to drink less water, otherwise we will urinate urgently. It's not good to disturb other people's movies. ”
"170 minutes, it's been a long time since I've had a movie this long." Benson sighed.
After the group waited for more than ten minutes, the theater of "Avatar" was finally able to open. New Zealand International Studios has a total of six screens, 1 IAMX. 4 x 3D. 1 2D, the IMAX theater and 2 3D theaters were used to screen "Avatar", and thousands of people lined up to enter the theater at the same time, the scene was really spectacular.
"I'm going to see IMAX!!" It's a fan's turn to check the tickets. He shouted triumphantly waving his movie ticket. As if afraid that others would not know. And those fans who can only watch the 3D version suddenly glared angrily at this show-off guy.
The queue lasted almost 10 minutes. Thousands of spectators finally entered the venue with 3D glasses. The seats for the critics are uniformly rationed and are concentrated in the front row of the IMAX Cinema.
At this time, there are still 10 minutes before 24:00, and the projectors in each theater are turned on. Roll ads are screened. However, the advertisements at this time are particularly annoying, because everyone is eager to watch "Avatar" instead of the so-called commercials.
After anxiously waiting for 10 minutes, the damn ad was finally over. After skimming the opening credits of the New Zealand Film Censorship Department, the familiar starry sky opening of Hope Film and Television finally appeared in front of all audiences.
The lights in the theater were turned off, and only the 30m*21m IMAX screen remained.
"Avatar" officially begins.
All the fans nervously lay in the reclining chairs, their eyes glued to the big screen.
"Now it's finally here!!" And at this time, everyone's hearts were beating violently, and hot blood rushed to their brains.
The camera appears over a large forest covered in clouds and mist, with clouds and mist, and huge trees standing below, and the camera keeps passing by. Following the camera, the audience feels like a bird, flying freely over this forest.
Narration rings: "After a dramatic change in my life, I was sent to the Veterans Administration Hospital......"
"During that time, I often dreamed that I was flying, the taste of freedom......"
Just as the audience feels like they are swooping down into the forest, the picture goes black.
"And unfortunately...... Eventually, we have to wake up and face reality......"
The picture lights up again, revealing an eye socket with closed eyes, and the eyes go from closed to open, alluding to the 'wake up' in the narration of the line.
Several film critics nodded their heads, this beginning is very feeling, through editing, tone of speech, and background music, it expresses the mentality of a person who longs for freedom, and although the shot is short, it is very deep.
Film critics keep their eyes off the screen, and their hands are simply writing their own film reviews in notebooks. Senior film critics have basically practiced such first-hand skills, and they can write down the details they think of when watching movies without affecting them. And every scene of "Avatar", they don't want to miss it.
When the protagonist opens his eyes, he is a little uncomfortable at first, blinking a few more times, and then looking around, showing a kind of confusion, as if to say, "Where is this?" ”
Soon the protagonist sees a bizarre scene, where two water droplets float in mid-air, spherical shape, and then collide and fuse to form a larger water droplet.
This is a state of weightlessness.
When all the audience saw this scene, they all thought of space, and the current position of the protagonist should be in space.
"Being in the freeze, you don't dream at all, it doesn't feel like six years old, it's more like drinking five glasses of Moutai......"
At this point, the camera switches again......
"It's about your brother......"
A body bag, lifted, revealing a face identical to that of the main character. And next to the body bag, is the protagonist Jack, whose hair is messy and seems to have not been washed in a long time.
"A week before Jason's departure, a man with a gun ended his trip and snatched his wallet and banknotes......"
Seeing this, the audience suddenly realized, "So that's how it is." ”
"Presumably that Avatar is my brother Jason's, right? And the two of them should be twins with the same genes, so Jack was able to go to Pandora and carry out the Avatar project. ”
The film continues......
"Jason is just a scientist, and I'm just going to finish what he didn't finish."
In the starry sky, a huge spaceship is advancing in space.
At this time, the picture changes again. A huge planet appeared in front of everyone, occupying most of the IMAX screen, and on the edge of the huge planet, there was a blue satellite, and the spaceship was gradually approaching the blue moon like a small flying insect. (To be continued.) )