Parked the car, Richard Thomas tightened his clothes and walked towards the most famous independent theater on Long Island with a cold wind. He quickly entered the theater. Unlike when he was watching movies in the past, most of the theaters were middle-aged and elderly people like him, many of them were also

Standing in front of the conspicuous poster in the theater, I took a look. It was a large poster of "Chicago". The looks of Tom Cruise and the other two heroines looked really good, especially the two actresses wearing short dance skirts. They were beautiful and sexy enough, and were much more pleasing to the eye than the starring of the new Broadway opera.

When a man's body grows old, his heart will not grow old.

Thomas naturally would not say this kind of thought. If someone asks, it must be just because of art, because I want to see what the difference is in the movie version of "Chicago", because this is from the Toronto Film Festival's "Audience Choice Award"!

In the past few years, the last films selected by the Toronto Film Festival are very consistent with the tastes of North American audiences. In contrast, how many people can sit there and watch them safely?

With this idea, Thomas walked to the ticket office, and the ticket seller immediately gave him a bright smile, "Is there anything that can help you, sir?"

"The latest "Chicago", one ticket!" Thomas was about to take out his wallet.

"I'm sorry." said the female ticket seller directly, "There will be one in half an hour, but there are no tickets."

"No votes?" Thomas was a little surprised. "How come there are no votes? "Chicago" is so popular?"

The female ticket seller quickly explained, "The video received a great response from the two shows in the morning, which led to the number of tickets for the two shows in the afternoon being booked by many people. If you want to buy tickets, you can only wait until the number of shows in the evening. Or if you wait for a while, if someone chooses to refund the ticket 15 minutes before the show..."

"No need." Thomas didn't want to wait, so he waved his hand, "I'll go somewhere else to take a look."

After leaving the theater. When Thomas drove his own car, he spent some time to arrive at the Imperial Cinema a little further away. This is one of the most famous theaters on Long Island and has many theaters. It is Friday and it should not be difficult to buy tickets.

When he walked into the theater lobby, Thomas did not hesitate and asked in front of the ticket gate. He bought tickets for the latest "Chicago" event, and found a free place to wait for the ticket check to enter the venue.

Bored, he looked around and found that like the previous cinema, there were a lot more middle-aged and elderly people here than usual, and he could still hear the voices of several nearby people talking.

"The tickets for "Chicago" are very tight." That was a man in his fifties, who said to another person of the same age. "I went to three theaters in the Manhattan area and didn't buy tickets, so I had to come to Long Island."

"Is it so hot?"

"I have a friend who attended the Toronto Film Festival. After watching the screening, he thought the film was more exciting than any version of the opera." The man seemed very confident, "Otherwise the film would not win the Audience Choice Award."

After listening to the discussion for a few minutes, Thomas found that there was a TV station person doing a show. A female reporter from NBC TV was walking in front of the camera and interviewing the audience.

"Which movie will you watch next?"

The female reporter Juliet smiled slightly. It was very easy to give people a favor, "Why choose it?"

"I want to watch Star Trek..."

Juliet surrounded the crowd and interviewed more than a dozen viewers in a row. Most of them chose Paramount's latest commercial masterpiece "Star Trek", a small number of them chose "Chicago", and only a few of them chose "British Patient".

People who choose commercial films like "Star Trek" have basically the same reasons, but viewers who want to watch "Chicago" have a variety of reasons to watch the movie.

The most of them are what older viewers say because it is "Chicago", and the rest are "I want to see Tom Cruise", "This is an audience award-winning film", "Duke Rosenberg's new work", "I want to see the director's work collaborating with his new girlfriend"...

What surprised Juliet the most was that someone else came over because he heard from the online chat room that the video was very good.

However, Juliet also heard a voice complaining about "Chicago".

"I live in Manhattan. I heard from my friend who watched the video in the morning that the video was very exciting. I wanted to come out to see it in the afternoon. As a result, the theater tickets for the screening of "Chicago" in Manhattan were sold out, so I had to come to Long Island and found two theaters in a row..."

I asked several people who were preparing to watch "Chicago" in succession. Juliet found that there were many complaints. Many people reported that the video was tight, as if there were a lot of people watching...

After waiting for nearly half an hour, Richard Thomas walked into the cinema, which was a hall. He habitually chose a slightly back seat and sat quietly waiting for the film to start. Not long after, he found that in line with the tight tickets reported outside, the cinema had a very high attendance rate. When the film started to be screened, from his position, at least more than 90% of the seats were seated.

"This is just Friday afternoon!"

Just as he thought of this, Thomas couldn't help but shake his head. Most of the people in the theater were as old as him. For those of them who retired, there was actually no difference between day and night, Friday and weekend.

The film soon began, and from the moment of the timing, Richard Thomas was deeply attracted.

The director did a very good job, and in a seemingly praising tone, he completely sarcastically the impetuous mentality represented by Chicago in the 1920s.

Especially for people like him with rich social experience, it is not difficult to find that the content in the film is still applicable to today 70 years later.

There is a classic lyric in the film called "Murder can be an art."

This aroused Thomas' strong resonance and whispered, "Shamelessness can be an art!"

"You said it very appropriately!"

Sitting next to him was the man who came from Manhattan, he said, "It was a very successful adaptation. Wasn't it?"

"Yes." Thomas nodded and whispered, "The director has inherited Bob Fauci's style well, boldly treating the song and dance of the film into Lockhee's illusion, making the song and dance insertion more vivid and natural."

"He chose a good actor, too." The man echoed, "Tom Cruise played very well. The singing and dancing of the two heroines was also excellent."

After the film screening ended, Richard Thomas became familiar with the people sitting around him. Several people walked out and talked about the film. They were similar in age and had watched different versions of musicals, which was very clear.

Thomas said to several people, "Deepness is not the specialty of a musical drama. The director can make the theme of "Chicago" so criticized the current situation. And the characters are so colorful, it can be said to be very successful!"

"Although the film has been made for a cut, there are still many singing and dancing scenes." Someone said, "The singing and dancing are very smooth, unlike those before, the song and dancing films always slow down the plot. Instead, it pushed the plot forward quickly towards a train."

The man from Manhattan said, "Chicago is a stage play that has been performed for a long time, and the adaptation from stage to screen will be greatly restricted. The director named Duke Rosenberg can make a great contribution to this level. I am very interested in him now. When I go back, it's time to look for his past movies."

Several people nodded, "I'm going back to go to the videotape store."

Half an hour ago, Mockley, who was investigating the company at tpzz, rushed here from another theater. He and several colleagues clamped the end of "Chicago" and waited at the exit.

"Hello, sir..."

Seeing the audience come out, he did not stop the older people, but instead found not many of them. He first introduced himself, gave him a small gift, and then asked, "Can you talk about the "Chicago" you just watched?"

"I have watched several videotapes of musical and dance films before, but none of them can last until the end. It's too slow and too dull."

The young man looked at the Lockhee doll presented to him and said, "Because "Chicago" is a work collaborated by a big director like Duke and a big star like Tom Cruise, and won the Audience Choice Award, I decided to come and see it. The film is different from what I thought, it is very relaxed and joyful, and the plot is particularly exciting, especially the cage tango and puppet show, which is so clever."

"If a+ is the highest score, how many points can you give?" Mockley asked.

"A+, the video is much better than imagined and promoted."

Then, Mockley stopped another person, and the other party said, "I watched this movie because of Duke. He did not disappoint. Although the type of the movie has changed, the production is also outstanding, especially as it has a strong visual impact, and the singing and dancing design is also very good, which is in line with my appreciation."

After more than ten minutes of investigation, another movie "The Patient in the UK" ended. Most of the audience, except for a few, were drowsy. People from another investigation and consulting company walked up.

"I'm bored and the pace is too slow."

"I didn't understand how love happened in the film? Can the director be less pretentious? It's obviously a simple thing, and I have to shoot it in the most complicated way!"

There are also many people who praise this movie, but compared to the previous "Chicago", the proportion of viewers who think the film is boring is significantly higher.

"Why don't the theater set the fast forward button? I was bored and wanted to press the fast forward!"

"I'm still confused and don't understand what the movie is talking about..."

Subsequently, investigators from both sides obtained their attendance rates in this theater so far. There were four screenings in a theater called Chicago, with an average attendance rate of 79%!

"The Patient in the UK" also showed four screenings in one cinema, with an attendance rate of only 27%!
Chapter completed!