Chapter 97: I saw the newcomer laughing
The success of the premiere gave Alex immense confidence. He decided that he wanted to add his MTV to the movie.
After knowing the news, Morris hurried over: "You are crazy! The movie is so popular, why do you need to change it! ”
Alex patiently explained, "It was because of the success that I believed that my judgment was correct. Since it's right, stick to it. Besides, I didn't change it, but added it to play after the movie ended. It doesn't have a big impact on the whole storyline, it's just to perfect the emotional description inside. ”
He was convinced that the love story of the Colonel, Maria and Bergman was a whole, and that the lack of a description of one aspect would make the story much inferior. Seeing the excellent performances of Pike, Hepburn and Bergman, he couldn't sit still anymore and had to make up for the missing link. This can enrich the emotional elements of the film and make the connotation of the film more profound.
"But our copy has already been made, and many movie theaters are already showing it, and it's too late for you to change it now." Morris was quick to mention the real problem of time not allowing for change.
Alex pondered for a moment, and then he suddenly asked, "After the premiere, will more movie theaters contact us for copies?" ”
Morris nodded and said, "Yes, we are still negotiating. See if you want to make a new copy for them, or wait until you've recycled the old copy and then let them take turns playing it. ”
Alex immediately made a decision and said, "Let's make a new copy." Add this easter egg of mine as well. ”
"Hey! All right! This may not have a big impact. "Morris knows Alex's character, and when he decides something, he has to do it. That being the case, the only option is to minimize the damage.
Copies of this new version of the film were quickly made and sent to the cinemas that were later added to the screening. They are all cinemas in remote locations with smaller audiences. However, when this "The Sound of Music" was released, so many people came out of nowhere. The entire cinema was filled up at once.
Alex thought that after this easter egg was added, it would immediately attract a lot of attention. How do you know that more than a week has passed, and there has been no news in this regard. He wondered if the easter egg wasn't as good as he thought. However, he felt that after adding this easter egg, there should be a reaction, and no one talked about it at all. Didn't anyone see this easter egg?
He was right, it was true that no one had seen this added clip. After all, ginger is still old and spicy, and Morris followed Alex's instructions and added this easter egg to the back. However, after the end of the movie and the easter eggs, he also added a 3-minute blank film.
Normally, when a movie is shown in a movie theater, the audience will get up and leave as soon as they see the end of the show. When the cast and crew are finished, it will be another five or six minutes. At this time, the people in the cinema have long been gone, and the staff has also begun to clean the venue. As soon as the screen goes blank, the projectionist starts rewinding and doesn't have to wait for 3 minutes to run out.
In other words, Alex's elaborate MTV Easter egg has not been seen until now.
However, there are exceptions to everything. There is Port Arthur in Texas, USA, a small port with a small population but a movie theater.
Originally, according to the convention, this movie theater was playing some old movies that had been released for a long time. This is a strategy for small theaters like them to maintain their capital and profits, and they can pay a lot less box office revenue by playing old films. However, the owner went crazy for some reason and spent a lot of money to get a copy of "The Sound of Music".
This is a movie that has just been released, and it is so famous that even the old farmers in the countryside know about this movie. When this movie was released, many people came from far away just to see what the movie was about. Look at Pike's wedding to Hepburn, and see the Virgin Bergman who doesn't appear.
"The Sound of Music" did not disappoint them, it was a good movie that would have been difficult to make for decades. Soon caused a frenzy of movie-watching among them, and they didn't count watching it themselves, but they also had to bring their relatives and friends to watch it together. If you can't watch it once, you have to watch it again or twice......
Among these people is a girl named Jennis, who is only 14 years old this year. But she was an unhappy little girl, and from a very young age she did not feel what happiness was. When she began to be sensible, she knew that she was ugly from the way people looked at her strangely. It's not ordinary ugly, it's very ugly. She has a terrible complexion, an ugly figure, and an ugly face.
Since she was a child, Jennis has been the object of ridicule from the girls around her. Throughout her childhood and adolescence, she felt at the bottom and couldn't fit in with the girls, and the boys didn't like her. There was a time when she tried to seek friendship from boys her age, but when she tried to achieve friendship by drinking, using foul language, and imitating male behavior, she was subjected to even more intense contempt.
As a result, she can only use poetry and painting to dispel loneliness, and laugh at suffering with the determination to suffer. At this time, she discovered music and fell in love with the songs sung by the Carpenter brothers. Especially the songs that Alex sang, she listened to each one over and over again, over and over again. Behind the scenes, she sang loudly along to the songs on the radio where no one was around.
When she learns that Alex has made a movie, her first thought is to watch it, and she wants to watch it right away. However, at this time, the movie theater where "The Sound of Music" was shown was very far away, and it took several hours to get there by car. In order to see this movie sooner, she worked hard to save money, and as long as the travel fare was enough, she would immediately jump in the car and speed over.
Luckily, Port Arthur, where she lived, soon released the film. After she found out, she cried with joy, immediately snapped up a ticket, and sat in the cinema.
Janis looked at the people on the screen and thought, wow! They are so tall, so handsome, so beautiful.
Soon, she was deeply attracted to this comedy. After watching it, she was still reluctant to leave, and when the people around her saw the words "the end of the play", they all got up and left one by one. She still read all the cast and crew lists, and she is still reluctant to leave. It wasn't until the cinema staff were cleaning the venue in preparation for the next show that she was kicked out.
After seeing it, Jennis's heart was full of joy and couldn't calm down for a long time. She decided to watch it again, and just like that, she watched it three times in a row until late at night.
When she watched it for the third time, because it was the last show of the day, the projectionist also went back to rest and nap, and did not stare at the projector all the time. After the movie ended, Jennis sat down in her seat and left the place that brought her fond memories. After the cast and credit, there was a blank and silent for more than three minutes, indicating that the film was still playing to the end.
Janis was still staring at the screen, imagining that he was also the child of the Colonel's family, living happily with Alex and Richard.
At this moment, suddenly the music sounded again, it was a bell in the distance, as if it had been heard from the monastery in the movie.
Immediately after, sad music and images reappeared on the screen. It was the Baroness sitting in a carriage, looking at the church in the distance. There was a wedding going on, the Colonel's wedding to Maria.
Janis was stunned by what she saw, and she even wondered if she was hallucinating. However, she was quickly drawn to the stories on screen.
The Baroness looked at the happy couple and burst into tears, and then the scene switched to a black-and-white image, a fragment of the Baroness and the Colonel's love affair.
It is accompanied by a sad English song, which is sung by Alex.
I only heard him sing: "Quietly, I stand in Salzburg, dotted with stars in the sky. Are they also twinkling over Vienna and decorating the night sky on the other side? You will be my sweet home, but I must leave you away, and my train is about to carry me forward. But my heart is destined to stay! Oh, my heart will definitely stay! Now the clouds are flying past me, and the moon is rising in the sky......"
This song is a classic song written and sung by Matthew Lien, called "Bressenon". He's a Canadian environmental musician, and it's a song about sorrow. When he wrote this song, he was madly in love with a girl and also in the southern Tyrolean mountains, which are in the north of Italy, on the border with Austria, just south of the Brenel Mountains. To commemorate this relationship and this place, he wrote this song.
The original song has a distant and sad melody and picturesque lyrics. Matthew Lane's mellow vocals, as well as the sound of train tracks at the end of the song, often intoxicate the listener with the sad and pure world created by the song. This song is often praised as "the saddest English song in the world".
Alex's version is no worse than Matthew's. On the one hand, he borrowed from Matthew's singing style, and on the other hand, he also simulated Matthew through his own ability, integrating his unique voice with Matthew's emotions.
In the interval between singing, when the Baroness parted ways with the Colonel, she said sadly: "What a sorrow! You're my Romeo, but unfortunately I'm not your Juliet! ”
This music clip is long, lasting 6 minutes, and after the memories are over, it is back to the church. The baroness looked at the crowd in the distance, and rode away in the carriage with tears in her eyes. At this time, the snowflakes fluttering in the background add a bit of bleakness. This snowflake also appeared in the movie, when the snow at the wedding looked so festive and lively.
After watching this music clip, Janis was moved to tears by the tragic love of the baroness inside. She felt that she was like the baroness in the movie, abandoned by the entire world, alone.
Janis, who was crying loudly, was invited out of the film staff after the most deaf, and she was dizzy and didn't know where to go. After the worst, I touched it home and fell asleep. When she awoke from her sleep, she wept bitterly when she thought of the Baroness.
Someone hurriedly asked her why she was crying, and Janis described what she had seen.
The man didn't believe it, and he said, "! I've watched the movie so many times, and I haven't seen this part of it at all. I haven't heard the sad music you said either. In the whole movie, except for "Edelweiss", which sounds a little sad, the rest is very joyful music. ”
Jennis, of course, didn't think she was hallucinating, but she wasn't sure. So the two made a bet to go to the cinema again to see what was going on.
When the movie ended, the staff had to chase them away. Janis then told the staff what she had seen and asked him to help.
Unexpectedly, the other party immediately sneered: "Ha Luha, I have shown it here so many times, and I have never seen the memories of the baroness you said." ”
Janis swears to check it carefully, and the staff will be suspicious, so they go to the screening room together.
"We need to hurry, if we delay the showtime, the audience will have to break in." The staff urged.
They put the film behind them at the back of the film and kept it going for several minutes, when just as Jennis's partners and staff were about to laugh at her, the music suddenly started.
Under their stunned gazes, the fragment described by Janis appeared. After watching it from beginning to end, they were stunned by the music and images on it.
At this time, the audience outside was already waiting impatiently, and they took their tickets and rushed in.
In order to appease these audiences, the staff told them that this time a special version of "The Sound of Music" would be played, and that there would be highlights that had never been seen before. That's what makes people quiet down and watch the movie.
When these people, after watching the Colonel and Mary's joyful love story, waited patiently for a few minutes, and then watched the Baroness's sad love story. At this time, an incredible situation occurred, and some people cried on the spot. A few minutes ago, the audience, who were still full of joy, felt the sadness of parting as if they had lost their lover.
The news of Jennis's discovery of the Easter egg quickly spread, and many people who had already watched the movie a few times returned to the cinema. After watching this ending clip, some people cried bitterly, some people scolded the director, and more were silent and thinking.
The news reporters also quickly learned the news, and they immediately investigated the matter. They found that some cinema versions have this easter egg, and some don't. After they reported the content of this easter egg, it attracted more people's attention, and everyone wanted to see how this special version of the movie was different.