Chapter 174

It was only ten o'clock in the morning when Chanel Laurent set out for the cinema. After a whole day of fermentation and noise yesterday, the work "buried alive" really made its name in Toronto, and even attracted more attention than "city robber". Therefore, it can be imagined that today's audience is bound to be more turbulent, Even if it is to join the audience is not a small number.

Today's screening of "buried alive" is scheduled at 5 p.m., and only this one is open to the public at two venues. Chanel set out in the morning, considering the possible need to queue up.

However, two blocks away from the cinema, Chanel could see the crowd surging in the line of sight, which surprised Chanel. She trotted all the way to catch up, and then saw the terrible queue.

After catching up all the way from the end of the team, the team actually exceeded 400 yards. It not only made seven or eight turns around the whole square, just like a giant dragon hovering in the open space, but also extended its tail to the street next door. Such a grand occasion was astonishing. There were at least 500 people, maybe even more, The bustling scene made the reporters around extremely excited. The scene of people coming and going completely set off the frenzy of the 35th Toronto Film Festival.

Seeing such a scene, Chanel was directly dumbfounded. She strongly doubted whether she was in the wrong place. How could "buried alive" attract so many audiences?

Accident, this is absolutely an accident. The Toronto Film Festival did not expect such an accident at all.

To a normal extent, independent films like "buried alive" that have no big name, no gimmicks, or even no backstage sponsorship are often difficult to attract attention.

Although Toronto is a film festival, it is different from the three major film festivals in Europe. In Europe, the market of art films is far more mature and extensive than that in North America, and the popularity of independent works in film festivals is also significantly higher; However, in Toronto, this is a film trading market selling copyright. Even the only award is people's Choice Award. In the Internet age, the lack of gimmicks and publicity means the lack of audience. The era when wine is not afraid of deep alleys is gone forever.

Therefore, the Toronto Film Festival has arranged the premiere of "buried alive" at 4 p.m. this year, even though only six films are premiered in the world, "buried alive" is one of them, but it still does not get special treatment; Therefore, the Toronto Film Festival has also followed the tradition of film arrangement, with three screenings in each of the two cinemas. This is not much, but it is normal.

Generally speaking, the number of shows of popular films ranges from eight to twelve, while that of popular films ranges from three to five. After all, there are 51 films to be shown in the film festival in just ten days. If it wasn't for the accident, three for "buried alive", this is enough.

When arranging the schedule and venues for the works, the Toronto Film Festival did not foresee the popularity of the Emmy Awards, the hot spot of "Ophelia", the boiling of the oil pipe, or even the miracle of the billboard, and the amazing appearance of "buried alive".

As a result, there was an accident. The long queue of more than 400 yards easily surpassed "blue Valentine's Day" and "city robber", which is worthy of being the most watched film so far in this year's Film Festival.

One of the traditions and attractions of the Toronto Film Festival is to line up in the rush line. In addition to the premiere, the screening of the film festival is generally divided into indoor and public venues. For exhibitors, producers and the media, the public venues sell tickets to the general public. These tickets will be sold before the opening of the film festival. The public venues of popular films are often hard to get one ticket and sold out early.

However, for the sake of the festival boom, there are other opportunities to buy tickets.

First of all, at 7 a.m. every day, there will be a small amount of tickets for the same day's movies on sale online. It's a good choice to swipe tickets online early or go to the cinema to buy tickets directly, but such tickets are very limited and often sold out.

The second opportunity is the long peak. Before the start of each show, the vacant seats that are not full will be distributed on site, for those who queue up in the long line of the peak. The long peak is very simple and fair. It's first come, first served, and no one knows how many seats are left for them. The only way is to queue up early.

Therefore, this has become a spectacle of the Toronto Film Festival, and "how many meters the audience line up" has become one of the best measures for the media to describe the popularity of a film.

Of course, this is limited to popular movies. Like "magician", there are still tickets left at the last moment before the show, or even not full. This is also common in film festivals, especially in Toronto, where the acceptance of art films is generally weaker than that of Europe.

"Buried alive" public tickets are not in short supply, Chanel before the film festival, almost effortlessly bought tickets for the premiere. In fact, there are still a lot of tickets left for the premiere, which will be sold on the spot. Finally, the screening hall will be full. It's really a surprise.

Even the tickets for the premiere are like this, not to mention the subsequent shows. 40% of the tickets for the three shows were not sold in advance. There was no way to "bury alive" before that. Rodriguez finished the post production at the last moment, which caught up with the deadline for registration. As a result, there was almost no pre publicity for the film, This movie is just a bonus for most of the audience.

But who would have thought that, first of all, all the tickets for the show yesterday morning were sold out, and even caused a queue of about 30 viewers; Then there is today's peak dragon, more than 400 yards, such a grand occasion is simply incredible.

Chanel quickly asked the front of the team responsible for maintaining order staff, "is this the 'buried alive' screening field?" After getting a positive reply, Chanel was a little stunned. For a moment, she didn't know what to do. The other side seemed to understand Chanel's expression and nodded with a smile, "yes, everyone didn't expect it. You'd better hurry up, or you won't be in line. "

Chanel then reacted and rushed forward. Behind him came the voice of the staff, "don't make a mistake, the row on the left is right. On the right is the morning team Chanel made a "OK" gesture in a hurry, and then quickly ran to the team. After less than five minutes' delay, the team stretched back more than a dozen people. Chanel quickly stood at the end of the team and gasped for breath.

"I hope we can make it." There was a funny voice coming from the front. Chanel looked up and saw the blonde boy in front of him. He kindly extended his right hand, "tyronn Johnson." Chanel shook each other's right hand, but he didn't introduce himself. With a questioning attitude, Talon didn't mind. He said with a smile, "it's said that today's venue is for 600 people. In the morning, the online ticketing was cancelled because of the system's failure. So, all the people rushed in, hoping that we can still line up."

Chanel then responded, "but 'buried alive' is a 5:00 p.m. show. What about the previous show?"

"Right." Talon pointed out that a venue will play six to seven films in a day. "Buried alive" is today's fourth work. Before that, there are three, including the hit work "city robber". But from the perspective of Gaofeng Changlong, the queue of "city robbers" is less than one fifth of "buried alive". Such a huge gap is really breaking people's eyes“ Did you come here because you heard the praise of this work? "

Talon enthusiastically said that Chanel didn't want to talk about it, but after thinking about it, he replied, "no, I've watched the premiere."

In fact, Chanel didn't plan to watch the movie again. On the one hand, the movie was too thrilling, and the viewing process was not a wonderful experience; On the other hand, it is also because "burying alive" itself is not a classic work to let people watch repeatedly. But in the last two days, she could not forget Lan Li's face, especially the fear and confusion between the light and shadow. The enchanted performance was absolutely intoxicating.

After much hesitation, Chanel finally decided to watch it a second time, only to find that the premiere was more comfortable for her.

"God, have you watched the premiere? What about? Is it really like simultaneous interpreting legends? "I've heard that the actor in this work is really brilliant. Is it true or is it exaggerating?" she said excitedly

Chanel didn't even think about it, but said, "of course it's true!"

This exclamation sound suddenly, because other people around have cast their eyes, curious inquiry voice flocked to, "what kind of work is this in the end?"“ Isn't Langley hall a rookie“ Before that, everyone didn't notice it. Why did it suddenly become popular overnight? "“ What does the movie say? "“ How was the actor's performance? "“ I heard that someone was scared to cry after watching the movie. Is that true

In the twinkling of an eye, the chirping inquiry drowned Chanel, and all the people in the queue around her looked at Chanel one after another. Just in the blink of an eye, Chanel became the focus of attention, which caught her off guard. In those eager eyes, she could clearly feel people's enthusiasm and expectation.

Chanel took a subconscious look at Tyrone, and Tyrone shook her fist encouragingly, which made Chanel laugh a little. Then she said, "yes, the hero is a new man, but the performance is really excellent. The first time I saw him was in... "

With the development of the long dragon team, the upsurge of the Toronto Film Festival has reached a new peak.