Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu’s movie was not finished in the end.
When they arrived at the cinema at around six o'clock, they were told that there was a power outage and they didn't know when the power would be restored.
Standing at the entrance of the cinema, Cheng Yanqiu held the movie ticket in his hand and looked a little disappointed.
"Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" has been released for a month, and she deliberately didn't watch it because she wanted to find a chance to be with Yu Dong.
Now I finally made an appointment with Yu Dong, but something like this happened.
Yu Dong looked at the ticket booth where a group of people were queuing up to refund their tickets and found it quite interesting.
Since his rebirth, he has never been to a movie theater to watch a movie, mainly because most of the movie theaters nowadays are chaotic, and the audio and video effects are also very poor, making it boring to watch.
Many movie theaters are converted video halls, which are about the same size as an ordinary classroom, with a few rows of chairs.
The slightly better ones are just better-looking and spacious, and there is no difference in projection technology.
It was precisely because of the backward projection technology that VCDs and pirated discs appeared, which suddenly destroyed the domestic box office market.
TV sets are getting bigger and cheaper, and VCDs have appeared. You can buy a disc and play it at home with just a little money, and the effect is not much worse than in a movie theater.
As a result, not many people are willing to spend a lot of money to go to the cinema to watch movies.
It was not until later, when film technology and projection technology improved a lot, that people began to go to movie theaters again.
"I'll refund the ticket." Cheng Yanqiu said.
Yu Dong grabbed her arm and said, "Don't change it, change it to tomorrow, and just ask the conductor to stamp it."
As he spoke, he took the movie tickets directly from Cheng Yanqiu's hand, walked to the cinema, found the staff, and stamped their tickets.
After making the changes, Yu Dong came out with the ticket, "I'll take the ticket first, and we'll come back at this time tomorrow."
Cheng Yanqiu nodded, and then asked Yu Dong: "Shall we go back to school now?"
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Now that you are out, let's walk around. I haven't visited Jinling in more than a year since I arrived. Aren't you a local? Be a tour guide and take me around."
"Okay." The disappointment on Cheng Yanqiu's face was wiped away. She put her hands behind her back and looked at Yu Dong with a smile: "Then do you have a place you want to go? You should have been to Xinjiekou a lot.
Come on, "Zhongshan" magazine is nearby."
“Xinjiekou is quite familiar.”
"We can wander around the Drum Tower area. Have you been to Southeast University? Although their school is not big, the scenery at the entrance is not bad, but it is getting dark now..."
"It's okay, let's go over there, and I heard that there is a pretty good duck blood vermicelli shop near the Drum Tower. If you get hungry, you can go in and have a try. You can also go for a walk by Xuanwu Lake, it's not that far anyway.
." Yu Dong said.
After Yi Dong finished speaking, Cheng Yanqiu looked at him with a half-smile but not a smile, "I feel like you are quite familiar with Jinling. You know where and how far you are from, and what stores there are. I am a local and you don't even know."
Which duck blood vermicelli restaurant in Gulou is delicious?”
"It's all hearsay, so I have to go and see it today. Let's go." Yu Dong said with a smile and walked forward.
The two of them walked along the road towards the Drum Tower. As they walked, it gradually became dark.
But when it got completely dark, because of the lights on the roadside, the two of them felt that it was getting much brighter again, and the night had really begun.
"I came to Anren Street most often when I was a child. When I was in junior high school, there was often an aunt here selling steamed cakes on a burden. Her steamed cakes are delicious, but I seem to have rarely seen her in the past two years.
I wonder if she has stopped doing it."
Every time he went to a street or road, Cheng Yanqiu would talk about his childhood.
She seems to have a special ability to remember the little things in life that are inconspicuous, and when these little things are said again from her mouth, they appear vivid and lively.
Yu Dong seemed to see a little girl with a ponytail on Anren Street, counting her change and buying steamed cakes to eat.
In fact, Yu Dong had already guessed who the aunt Cheng Yanqiu was talking about selling steamed cakes, and she should be the founder of Fangpo Cake Dough Shop later.
When Fangpo didn't have a store at the beginning, she just carried a load and sold steamed cakes in the streets. Many locals knew her.
"Perhaps we will meet again in the future. Then I will definitely try how delicious her steamed cakes are, so that you will remember her till now."
"really tasty."
Yu Dong listened to Cheng Yanqiu talking about her childhood, and wandered around the streets for a long time. She originally planned to go to Xuanwu Lake, but she didn't go because she chatted on the street for too long. There was also the duck blood vermicelli shop, but...
Can we make an appointment to eat before watching the movie tomorrow?
When I returned to school, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Fortunately, there was no Uncle Zhou on duty, otherwise the old man would have gossiped a lot.
After sending Cheng Yanqiu to the downstairs of their dormitory, Yu Dong was about to turn around and leave when Cheng Yanqiu called him: "Tomorrow during the day we will go to Xuanwu Lake to take a duck boat ride. Is that okay? I have never taken one before."
"Okay." Yu Dong agreed simply, "I'll come find you tomorrow morning, and we'll have breakfast together. We'll go there after breakfast."
"Okay, then I'll go up."
Watching Cheng Yanqiu go upstairs, Yu Dong also returned to the dormitory.
There were a lot of things going on today, and he was quite tired. He originally planned to take a bath and go to bed, but he didn't expect that after the bath, his sleepiness was washed away, and he became more energetic.
In addition to the movie "Chaos Diary" in my mind, there is Cheng Yanqiu, her figure standing in the streets and alleys talking about her past, which has always been lingering in Yu Dong's mind.
In the past, Yu Dong had always been passive emotionally, just like he was with his ex. When the other party pursued him, he felt pretty good about it, so he agreed.
Now Yu Dong needs to be more cautious. He begins to examine his own heart more. But he also begins to become proactive, just like today he lied and said that he did not understand Jinling and asked Cheng Yanqiu to be a tour guide, as if he wanted to talk to her.
There are more contacts.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After thinking about it for a while, Yu Dong took out a pen and paper and wrote for a while.
It doesn’t matter what I want to write, I just write whatever comes to my mind, and as I write, my heart finally calms down.
But sleepiness still didn't come over him, so he found another notebook and started writing the structure of "Deep Space".
This novel has been written before, but now he is going to revise it. The main modification is the background. The deep space novel he wrote before was set in 2018, which is obviously inappropriate now.
Such a change involved more things, and as he kept changing, Yu Dong suddenly realized that some of his previous ideas were not good, and he came up with some new plots.
…
When Yu Dong finished taking a shower, it was almost noon in New York.
When Hans went downstairs to eat, he happened to pass by Little Bear Bookstore and saw the large poster at the door of the bookstore.
"A terrifying autumn"
"New works by well-known writers"
"fear!"
These words are printed on the poster.
The most important thing is that there is a person on the poster who is missing half of his head. This person is standing crookedly, extending his hand forward, and his head seems to have been cut off in half by some sharp weapon, but his eyeballs are still hanging on it.
Such posters are so eye-catching that Hahns couldn't help but walk into the bookstore after just one glance.
He pointed to the poster at the door and asked the boss: "Where is this "Resident Evil"?"
The boss smiled and said: "This book won't be released until next month, and the poster is just a preview."
"Has this author YU published any works before? It seems to me that the living dead on this poster are somewhat similar to "Dawn of the Dead", but not quite the same." Hanes asked.
The boss shook his head, "I don't know either. Anyway, Bantam spent a lot of money on this promotion, so he should be very optimistic about this book."
"But boss, isn't this poster too bloody? It wouldn't be good if it were seen by children." Hanes reminded that although he thought the content on the poster was quite exciting, it was really not suitable for children.
We see.
The boss smiled and replied: "It's okay. There are very few children here. If it doesn't work, there is another version of the poster."
In fact, when Bantam was making posters, he took various factors into consideration and made many versions of posters just to cope with various situations.
Not only this Little Bear Bookstore, but also some relatively large bookstores in China have received posters sent by Bantam. Due to long-term cooperation, these bookstores will naturally not fail to give Bantam face and are willing to help them advertise this.
But Bantam's propaganda doesn't stop there.
The real "blood money" was paid by Jimmy himself.
After signing the contract with Bantam, Jimmy went around and started planning and promoting the "Resident Evil" that was published earlier.
He first found director Romero and persuaded him to reveal in front of the media that he was paying attention to a novel called "Resident Evil", intentionally or unintentionally.
Then I found several media outlets and paid them to write news.
"The Living Dead series will reach its peak again? Romero revealed that..."
Finally, he mobilized a navy to send letters to major media outlets, creating the illusion that the novel "Resident Evil" is now a highly topical topic.
The rest can be left to those media who like to chase hot topics. Jimmy doesn't need to spend money to buy it. They will spontaneously pay attention to the novel and then publish the news.
When the audience sees so much news about a book, they will naturally pay more attention to it. At this stage, the work of the trolls can also stop.
The illusion created before will slowly turn into the "truth".
…
In Bantam Books, James from the editorial department saw that multiple media outlets had reported the news about "Resident Evil", so he went to Dante's office.
"Dante, our poster strategy seems to be working. "Resident Evil" has become very popular recently. Even Romero has expressed concern."
Dante smiled speciously, "Do you really think our poster tactics worked?"
"What else?" James was stunned for a moment, "YU's popularity is not easy to achieve in the United States. Even if "One Day" is mentioned, how many people will pay attention to this movie that has not been released yet? Apart from ours
Apart from the posters working, I can't think of any other possibility."
"That's because you don't understand Jimmy."
"You mean that agent?"
Dante narrowed his eyes and said, "James, put away your arrogance. Jimmy doesn't have any well-known projects at the moment, but I think it won't be long before we may need to take the initiative to find him. We Bantams are indeed very
Big, but we are not the only book company in the world."
James didn't take Dante's words to heart. Maybe Jimmy was lucky enough to find a novel with potential like "Resident Evil".
But a novel can't explain anything, and Jimmy can't talk to Bantam on an equal footing with a novel.
"Anyway, he took the initiative to help promote it, so we can just sit back and reap the fruits." James said with a smile.
Dante shook his head slightly and did not answer James's words.
A person like James can only be an editor, and his vision is still low.
Jimmy's operation this time made Dante feel a little uncomfortable.
Although this publicity is not earth-shattering, Jimmy and the others will definitely spend a lot of money, at least tens of thousands of dollars, more, not less.
Being willing to spend so much money on preliminary operations for a novel proves that Jimmy and the others are not weak, and also proves that they have full confidence in the novel "Resident Evil".
If "Resident Evil" really becomes popular all over the world, then he will have to think about how to explain it to his superiors.
Because he has not negotiated the derivative rights of "Resident Evil" at all.
When the novel is adapted into a movie or comic and becomes popular, only Jimmy will happily collect the money, and their Bantam company will only be able to watch from the sidelines.
The more these profits are, the more jealous the company's upper management will be, and they are likely to be angry with him.
Dante knows very well that bosses don't see how much money you make for the company, they can only see how much less you make for the company.
…
Although Dante had his own worries, he still did his best in publicity.
While the media was reporting on "Resident Evil", Dante also kept releasing some news, and even selected some of the more exciting chapters from the book and published them in newspapers for readers to have a sneak peek.
Although "Resident Evil" has not been released yet, the news about it has been overwhelming, giving many readers the illusion that people all over the world are paying attention to this novel.
At the same time, Jimmy, who was hiding behind everything, was also settling the scores in distress.
A total of 180,000 U.S. dollars had been spent on this marketing campaign. Not long after, one-third of their company's start-up capital had been spent.
And this is not over yet. After "Resident Evil" is officially released, he will do further marketing to improve the reputation of this book.
A conservative estimate is that by the end of the second round of marketing, it will cost at least US$250,000.
This is 250,000 US dollars. If Yu Dong hadn't told him that the cost would be within 2 million RMB, he would not have been willing to spend such money.
Chapter completed!