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"Chicago" began to build momentum, as always, in the style of Li Yaoyang, first to open the market, so that the audience can better understand the plot.

His short stories were serialized in the New York Times, with Chris, his own, occupying an entire page.

The film bears a news headline - "Woman Playing Jazz Music When Victim Dies" and begins with a detail:

"At the scene of the crime, in Mrs. Annan's small apartment, she listened to a Hawaiian love song called 'Hula Lou' on a record player for more than two hours."

The story opens with two bloody homicides.

Mrs. Gartner's lover was found dead in her car, the murder weapon was a pistol left at the scene, and when Mrs. Gartner was found in the apartment, the deceased's blood-stained clothes were left on the floor.

A month later, the young Mrs. Annan also shot and killed her mistress, and the scene of the crime was her residence.

The whole story is written from a third perspective, as if it were a reporter of two cases.

At the end, Biula Annan is casually described as a "beautiful woman", "tall and thin, with short reddish-brown hair".

And in the upper right corner of the picture page on the back cover of the last page of the newspaper that day, a hazy photo was published, although the face could not be seen clearly, but everyone knew that this beautiful and moving picture was Beula Annan.

That was just the beginning, and in the month that followed, Beullah Annan's hazy photos made the pages of The New York Times four times, a clearly unusual frequency.

During the same period, the back photo of Belvagartner, the heroine of another murder case, also frequently appeared on major billboards in New York.

Two Chicago women conquer the men of New York with their mysterious beauty.

A flood of courtship letters poured into Hudson's theater from admirers who thought the two women were real.

There are also frenzied suitors who put their pictures side by side in the most prominent places on the page, and there are people who openly call on the judges to show mercy because "such sweethearts should not be killed."

Damn, they thought it was all true, that there was a case in Chicago, and that it was going to be tried in public.

Then, in the second serial, the scene of the trial was directly depicted, and the reversed confessions of the two suspects were obviously unfavorable to them.

Biula Annan first claimed that the deceased deliberately forced the woman, and then admitted that he was murderous because he was threatened by the other party to dump him.

Later, she claimed that she was pregnant at the time, and that the other party wanted to get the pistol at the same time as her, and that her actions were purely self-defense.

Belvagartner, on the other hand, insisted that he was drunk at the time of the crime and could not remember exactly what happened.

The two women each found the best lawyers in all of Chicago.

Biula Annan's lawyer, W. O'Brien, who was called "the one who could wash away the sins of Jesus."

He took full advantage of the star female criminal's appearance and secretly assembled a special jury for her - all men, with a large number of young people, and four bachelors among them.

In the end, the jury reached a unanimous verdict - Biyula Annan was not guilty.

Subsequently, Belvagatner was also released.

Her legal team adopted the same strategy, arranging an all-male jury in the courtroom.

After the serialization ended, Chris personally wrote a report that combined the two cases to discuss!

He denounced the trial as a "fashion show", where cosmetics became a defensive weapon for female prisoners, and clothes helped them win sympathy, and they walked out of prison even faster than they did when they entered prison.

also published an extra, In the extra, Beula Annan, who seems to have been portrayed as a star, has been in the news since she came out of prison, she divorced and remarried, and lived a star-like life.

Unfortunately, four years after she escaped from the gallows, she died of tuberculosis in the spring.

Belvagartner's married life was interrupted by murder, but she and her husband remarried a year later.

Later, the man once filed for divorce again in the name of abuse and alcoholism, and then it was revealed that the woman had another extramarital affair, but the couple did not really break up.

The endings of the two women are not perfect, which is embarrassing.

Many loyal fans protested to the New York Times, demanding that the author change the ending, whether the events are true or not, the two sweetheart babies deserve a better arrangement.

Just when fans were extremely excited and wanted to rehabilitate the two sweethearts, "Chicago" was grandly released at the Hudson Theater.

Tickets have long been sold out, and when a large number of fans learn that Beula Annan has been transformed into Locke Hart and Belvargartner is known as Velma Carey, and their advocate is transformed into Billy Flyin, a lawyer who is clever and money-oriented, and the story goes the same way, they go crazy to the theater to sweep away the tickets, only to find that there is no room for them to play at all.

Damn Manhattan lords, stupid high society ladies, give me back the tickets!

This is a cry in the hearts of countless fans, but it is useless, and it can't stop "Chicago" from being staged as scheduled.

Stir! Stir! Stir!

The important thing is said three times, compared to the poignancy and romance of "The Phantom of the Opera", "Chicago" incorporates the favorite elements of all the people at the bottom - dark, xing, and gorgeous.

If you haven't seen it, and you don't want to bother to understand the plot, you can even use "fashion show" to describe this performance.

Of course, this is certainly not just a show, because in this story, the law can be bought by money, public opinion can be demagogized by beauty, and order can collapse due to lust.

And the logical basis of all this is the darkness of this era and people's consumption of entertainment.

Just imagine, if this weren't a fiction, would the real-life Beula and Belva get real sympathy from their admirers?

Perhaps, people are just unscrupulously consuming fragrant flesh and thrilling stories under the cover of two high-sounding reasons: news reports and judicial trials. The same is true for Lockie and Velma in the play, although they are the nominal protagonists, but in fact they do not have the ability to move the plot forward, and can only be at the mercy of lawyer Flynn.

Therefore, the kernel of the story is actually established long ago.

Of course, as a musical and dance drama, there should not only be black, but also something that catches the audience's eye, such as fair and smooth thighs, such as a skirt that suddenly slips off.

There is no doubt that this is an excellent musical and dance drama, which not only restored the Hudson Theatre to its glory, but also took Lai's reputation to a new level.