Chapter 253: A flash
In the quiet screening room, the audience watched the fast-paced sequence of scene transitions on the screen and knew the background of the story.
Cotton is a priest, an exorcist, and a descendant of an exorcist family. Because his premature son survived with modern medicine and cured his ear disease, he wavered in his beliefs, and because of the news that a little girl died due to exorcism, he had a conscience to make a documentary to expose the exorcism hoax.
He picked up a letter asking for help from the exorcism and led the film crew to Switzer Farm in Ivan Wood, where the incident occurred. On the way, he talked a lot about psychological medicine, how patients think they are enchanted and crazy, but in fact it is just a psychological problem, and exorcism is just a kind of psychological treatment.
"An exorcist is a kind of doctor? You can call me that. The Cherokee was moving forward, and Cotton was smiling brightly with a band-aided face.
After this crisp opening of about 7 minutes, the interest of the three film critics is growing, and it is now certain that TPT has made its own pseudo-documentary horror film style, which is by no means a copy of "Blair the Witch", it is a new birth.
The technical aspect is very good, the story aspect is also well told, and the classic proposition of the exorcism theme of "the conflict between modern technology and religious beliefs" appears.
Talking about exorcism movies must be inseparable from the exorcist", this is known as the most terrifying movie in film history, the biggest horror is the blasphemy of Christianity, how many viewers broke down, cried, and fainted when they watched it, just like last year's "The Passion of the Christ". But it is not simply for the purpose of terror, it has done many in-depth discussions, and the proposition is one of them.
They all know the commercial positioning of "The Exorcism Video", and it is inappropriate to compare a UU-minute pseudo-documentary horror film with a 20-minute classic, and their expectations for TPT are not that it is as mysterious as "The Exorcist", but whether it is scary enough and whether there is anything touching about it.
The three of them feel that the film critics really don't have high requirements for exorcist films, but the last good exorcism movie seems to be The Exorcist", it was more than 3 years ago, and the next two sequels and last year's prequel were very bad, Custer's key words for the prequel are "completely mediocre", Sherk is "failure", and Orr is "a waste of time".
They weren't intimidated, they weren't emotionally fluctuating, and other critics said they were "cluttered, boring, cliché...... There was no terrible hysteria, not even exorcism". No one knows what's wrong with the brains of those Hollywood people, so the 360,000 production fee of The Exorcist Prequel, which tries to reboot the series in the 2l century, has not escaped the butcher's knife of the film critics: Rotten Tomatoes Freshness.
But surprises always happen when you're not mentally prepared
This opening can be called "fascinating", the story is unfolding, the feelings are being created, and there is a great sense of anticipation. This is thanks to the anticipation brought by an Exorcist or TPT trailer: there are really demons and there are really people who have been invaded by demons
But Cotton is a big liar, he doesn't really know how to exorcism, he doesn't even believe in exorcism, which makes people wonder if he can handle it?
It's these expectations that make people care about the story and want to see how exciting it is. As a commercial film, its rollout is a success.
Sheker thought, this is really due to its extraordinary sense of substitution, first of all, exorcism and pseudo-documentary are a clever combination, I didn't have this feeling before watching it, but now I have to feel that this angle has brought a new wind to the trite exorcism film; At the same time, it is inseparable from its new style of cinematography, precise lenses and editing, which gives people a huge sense of realism even when they know that this is a movie.
If it's compared to The Exorcist Prequel, TPT will become a classic.
The three of them really didn't expect this, Grande and Potter Coe made a good movie? Think about it and it's like a basin of cold water poured down, although watching movies and not watching people, the two of them really can't give people confidence.
Maybe it's just a good beginning, the first act of the film is not over yet, nothing is certain now, the first 7 minutes are good does not mean that the whole 3 minutes are good, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, it often happens, a good movie meets the audience's expectations and is unexpected, and the more bad movies go on, the more messy and boring they are.
Bloodlust has always been in the hearts of the three of them, and if they are disappointed when they walk out of the theater, the butcher's knife will fall.
"The exorcism scene doesn't need to be as exciting as The Exorcist, and if it's hysterical, I won't be disappointed. Shecker laughed in his heart, it's just a low demand, but too many filmmakers can't even do it.
"It's not like a pseudo-documentary......" At the same time, Gesta said suspiciously, after watching it for a while, why is it not the style of "Blair the Witch" in his memory.
"Don't speak. Debbie was watching the play, and immediately asked him not to make noise, which really affected the atmosphere
"Didn't you say this was a movie like 'Blair the Witch'? Gesta continued, a little dissatisfied, "The camera isn't shaky enough, it's too much like a movie, it doesn't feel ......"
"I love it. If you want to see a dizzy person, why don't you go to see "Blair the Witch"?" Debbie's freckled face was also dissatisfied, dissatisfied with his impact on her movie-watching: "Stop arguing"
The ordinary audience in the two screening halls, there are only a few people who have conversations, most of them have already invested in the screen world, and the technical techniques and so on are not what they care about, like "Blair the Witch", they are originally there to see the new movie, just look good.
"How is it now?" Emma asked Gia again, watching Cotton and his party arrive at the small town of Evanwood, on the way to the farm, asking for directions and interviewing passers-by, some say that the Swaitzers have "disappeared" for a long time, and some say that it was once haunted, and the atmosphere of mystery is getting stronger and stronger.
She is also more and more bottomless, different from what she thought before, the movie is not related to rotten for the time being, and it is quite attractive...... Is it because she likes it? Actually, it's not good?
"It's still ......early," Gia said again, her expression seemed to be a little different, and her tone softened.
"So far?" said Emma, who couldn't help but wonder something.
"For now, that bastard genius bad boy is shooting ten minutes of good-looking footage of his horse at an unbelievable pace. Gia's firecracker words paused, "ECK"
That's ...... It's not rotten, it's really not rotten at all. Emma looked dumbfounded, oh yes, how can I say that this is a viyr spoon movie, it can't be rotten, isn't this the heroine played by Nina hasn't appeared yet, does she know acting, she will mess up......
On the big screen, Cotton and the others arrive at the farm, surrounded by ice and snow and withered scenes, cold breath, gray tones, and the shaking of the camera is slightly rising, photographing the old mansion in the distance. The screening hall outside the screen suddenly seemed to be frozen, and the atmosphere had been accumulated for a long time, and the proximity to the demon at this moment made people's hearts chill.
Switzer and Ramon appear, a middle-aged farmer who doesn't smile harshly, and his son Ramon, a rebellious but loving teenager who loves his family.
"I'm out. Damian was thrilled, and his parents were delighted. When each of the leading actors sees themselves on the stage, they will celebrate this glorious moment with their relatives and friends.
As the footage continues, Switzer tells Cotton about the fact that many livestock had been killed on the farm one after another, and he was sure that his daughter Maggie had done it, but when he asked her, she didn't remember anything. This anomaly had been going on for a while, and he suspected that she had been invaded by a demon, so he turned to Cotton for help.
In the first scene, Cotton went to the idle barn to check, and there was another oppressive bloody shot, in the dim light, the carcasses of the recently killed livestock and poultry were put aside like a display, a large pool of dark red blood, and some animal stumps began to decompose, looking weird and disgusting.
The camera pans and zooms in on one of the dead donkeys, whose belly has been cut open, and suddenly, something flashes next to it.
A scream rang out in the theater of the "Demon" landmark studio, startling many viewers, and Lev and Bard looked around in shock, "Master Gia's voice"
Why, what's wrong Emma was almost frightened, but fortunately she wasn't eating popcorn, otherwise she might have choked to death.
Gia exclaimed, "Did you see it? There was a demon flashing just now" Emma was surprised: "Didn't see it...... Is there one?"
"Yes. Gia nodded, and could see clearly, there was definitely one frame or some unknown frames, and a hideous demon face was next to the dead donkey, as if eating the corpse.
It's just a flash, and if you just blink at the time, you won't see it, and even if you don't blink, it seems that not everyone notices, but
"That bastard is brainwashing the audience. Gia gritted her teeth and felt crazy excitement, boy, what do you want to do, "Come on, this isn't scary enough"
This technique, she doesn't know when it first came into use, but she knew that it was useful in "Scorpio Rising" as early as the 6s, and later there were many uses in "The Exorcist", maybe it didn't count as this category, because those demon faces were either directly a single shot, or suddenly appeared in an obvious position. I don't know if it's called stream of consciousness or whatever, she remembers Brad Pitt and the two of them doing it in "Fight Club".
Looking at Emma, Gia wanted to laugh, do you think that if you don't notice it, it won't matter? That may be wrong, as long as you don't blink at that moment, in fact, you have already seen it, the human eye can fully receive frames per second, I heard that 48 frames are fine.
So those few frames of the demon eating corpses have entered the brains of all the viewers who see it, and affect everyone's nerves, and the consciousness may not be aware of it, and they can't see what it is, but the subconscious is quietly tense.
It is said that this is also a kind of brainwashing, interspersing some information that wants to be instilled in the movie, and secretly implanting it into the audience's brain through guò.
"It seems that the demon appeared just now...... "Other viewers noticed it, and suddenly felt cold.
"Demons. The three film critics nodded silently, and some viewers shouted that the devil, that flicker should be the devil, so the story officially made it clear that the demon existed.
Some viewers saw it, and some viewers didn't see it, no matter whether they were confused or not, watching a movie in the theater could not be paused.
In the living room of the old house, Switzer shows Cotton the evidence, Maggie's bloodstained clothes. At this time, the sound of "knocking" staircase footsteps, and the girl's crisp voice came: "Dad, is anyone coming?" Maggie is about to appear
Emma's heart suddenly lifted, and her eyes widened
All the expectant viewers had their hearts beating, and the girl possessed by the demon appeared