In fact, ten days ago, Christian Franklin had keenly realized that "Dark City" might pose a threat to "Shawshank Redemption", and subconsciously believed that the reputation trend of this film might be extremely strong, and it would not have dropped significantly after the first weekend of the previous newly released films.

Since he became the leader of the IDC discussion group of "Shawshank Redemption", he found that every time Murphy Stanton's new film was released, it would always pose a threat to "Shawshank Redemption". For example, "Man of Steel" had dominated the top 250 rankings for a long time. If he had not been tirelessly getting low scores with other fans of "Shawshank Redemption", it would be hard to say whether the ranking of "Man of Steel" would have fallen.

Even so, before "Dark City" was released, "Man of Steel" ranked fifth with 8.9 points!

Although I like the film "Shawshank Redemption", Christian Franklin knew very well that this film could get the top 250 ranking of ImDB, more because the god-making movement of movie fans, once surpassed by others, it would be difficult to get back to the throne of first place.

So, as one of the initiators of this god-making movement, Christian Franklin has been paying attention to the rating changes of top 250 on ImDB, and shortly after "Dark City" was released, he once again focused on Murphy Stanton's movie.

After years of observation, he has seen it very clearly that among the existing Hollywood directors, there are directors with better abilities than Murphy Stanton, but almost perfect directors like him who combine business and art are extremely rare. Even some of them are not as good as Murphy Stanton.

On imdb movie fan rating websites like imdb, it is difficult for videos that are too niche to really hit the top 250 rankings, which means that art films that are prone to professional praise rarely appear at the top of this list. The ones at the top are basically movies with a wide audience range.

It is easy to make ordinary popcorn films into ordinary popcorn. Ordinary popcorn may be sold well, but he cannot squeeze into the front line next to it. He also targeted Murphy Stanton, because the other party always shot unusual commercial movies.

Starting more than ten days ago, Christian Franklin was launching fans of "Shawshank Redemption" to give "Dark City" a low score. Their tireless efforts, coupled with some other fans who don't like this film, after a period of struggle, finally lowered the score of the film from 9.9 to 9.7, which is not far from the 9.2 points of "Shawshank Redemption".

But Christian Franklin knew that it was far from enough to make "Shawshank Redemption" regain the first place in the 250 best films in ImDB. Compared with Murphy Stanton's huge number of fans and the number of viewers who were confused by "Dark City", these people are really too few.

The scale of the action must be expanded. Christian Franklin is very confident that as long as he calls more people to give "Dark City" one point, he will definitely be able to pull down the film like he did when he pulled down "Man of Steel".

Christian Franklin sat in front of the computer and thought for a few minutes, and soon made a decision, closed the IDB web page, opened his email, and sent a group email calling on the members of the discussion group of "Shawshank Redemption" whom he was in to continue to increase the attack and must pull "Dark City" off the top spot in the rankings as soon as possible.

Sending an email was not enough. After sending the email, Christian Franklin picked up the phone and started to dial it one after another. He had contact with the leaders of many movie fans in "The Shawshank Redemption", which was the god-making movement they launched.

"Costa, be sure to mobilize the people around you to vote for "Dark City". Remember! You can only vote one point! You must be fast!"

"Alessandra, mobilize your friends..."

After all, imdb is an open online platform. Movie fans can give high scores to a movie or low scores. In order to achieve relatively fairness, imdb's score changes and rating statistics are all open, and ordinary users can see it.

In just two days, Justin, one of the deputy leaders of the Murphy Stanton section discussion group of Imdb, noticed the unreasonable rating changes in "Dark City". In two days, the rating of this video actually dropped from 9.7 to 9.6, which is completely inconsistent with the normal rule of steady decline!

He specially found the statistics of the imdb website and looked at it. Two days ago, the 1-point voting ratio of "Dark City" only accounted for one-point two percent, but now it has risen to two-point six percent. It is obvious that someone is trying to do anything.

Even fools can tell there is something wrong with it.

Someone else was making trouble? Justin thought of "Body of Steel". At that time, Murphy's film was also a hit in reputation and box office. It was ranked first on the list of ImDB's 250 films for a long time, but later it fell for no reason. At the beginning, including him and Daisy, they didn't understand what was going on. It was not until a long time before they found out that some of them were making trouble. They used a large number of old users who matched the score to win low scores to suppress the score of "Body of Steel".

For this reason, he and Daisy and other discussion group leaders observed for a long time and focused their suspects on "Shawshank Redemption" because they were the biggest beneficiaries.

Is it them again this time? The old revenge of those years has not been avenged yet, so have they jumped out again?

Justin thought for a while, picked up the phone and dialed Daisy's number. After a while, it was only after the other side was connected, but there was a crackling sound like fried beans.

"What's the matter?" Daisy's voice seemed to be shouting, "I'm practicing guns in the club? If it's not an urgent matter, I'll talk about it later!"

"Boss, it's an urgent matter!" Justin said quickly, "It's a very important matter! "Dark City" was hacked again on imdb!"

"What?"

Justin could probably guess that Daisy was looking for a quiet place when he couldn't hear the crackling gunshots, Daisy's voice came over again, "What's going on? Tell me."

Justin said his guess in a quick and concise way.

After a while, Daisy's voice sounded again, "You go and contact the person in charge of the movie fan organization you can contact, I'll go home now! Those bastards really think we're easy to bully!"

In just over half an hour, on an online video software, Justin and Daisy gathered many heads of the Murphy fan organization and had a lively discussion on this matter, even the heads of several Murphy's black fan organization participated.

AA also immediately fed back the news to Murphy. Not only did Murphy not object, but instead made someone add a fire to the back!

In the next screening, if "Dark City" wants to maintain a certain popularity, there must be enough topics.

A battle of fans around imdb broke out.

With the explosive start of "Dark City", the film's ratings on IDC remained high, and at the highest level, it was once at an incredible 10. Murphy's fans almost turned into fanatical believers on the Internet. These people did not care about the reactions of fans like "The Shawshank Redemption" or "The Godfather". While regarding "Dark City" as a masterpiece, they also secretly belittled other works.

The fans of "Shawshank Redemption" have spent a lot of effort and finally grabbed the top 250 first place, so they naturally refused to give in. They continued to use the previous methods. At the call of Christian Franklin, all the people with corresponding IDC permissions went to "Dark City" to get a point, hoping to get this video off the ground as soon as possible.

After more than ten years in Hollywood, Murphy has accumulated a large number of fans, and there are many hardcore fans like Daisy and Justin, especially in large and medium-sized cities across the United States. There are basically Murphy Stanton Fans Association. With the connection and mobilization of the heads of various associations, hundreds of thousands of fans rushed to "The Shawshank Redemption" like a tide. Their only purpose is to lower the ratings of this film and lower it so that it can no longer pose a threat to "Dark City" and even pull it below "Man of Steel".

Although IDC score is indeed a relatively fair way to score online, even if a simple score is not subject to professional navy forces, there is a lot of room for operation in the hands of ordinary movie fans.

There are many reasons that affect the top 250 score of imdb. The first is of course the number of voters.

There is a very interesting phenomenon on imdb. A movie that only has a dozen people vote and doesn't seem to be very good often has super high scores at first. Of course, this high score usually doesn't last long. It's hard not to doubt that this is a promotional method of the production and distributor.

Therefore, the list has added the number of voters and the ranking limits that only the voting of active users can be included in the ranking, so as to ensure the fairness and pertinence of the top 250 ranking.

In the face of films of the level of "The Godfather", "The City of Darkness" and "The Shawshank Redemption", this limitation actually does not play a big role.

It can be imagined that when Murphy's hardcore fans watch a gorgeous and passionate movie like "Dark City", and when they are surrounded by ecstasy, it is difficult to make a more sober and rational judgment on the quality of the movie. Most of the people who will vote on IDC as soon as possible after watching a movie are hardcore movies, and it is not difficult to understand that the score of "Dark City" initially soared to 10.
Chapter completed!