v2 Chapter 868： I am the clown

Pushing the car door, James Holmes carried a worn long backpack with an AR-15 rifle in it. He adjusted the backpack slightly, left the parking lot, and walked in unimpeded by the bright light. The Santa Monica Commercial Plaza.

It’s past midnight and there are not many people in the commercial plaza. Even if I met a few, I didn’t feel strange when I saw James Holmes’ weird clown costume. There are too many similar costumes tonight. People are here.

Before nine o'clock in the evening, James Holmes walked into the Santa Monica Commercial Plaza, selected the theater and the hands-on theater, without any hesitation, walked through the long corridor and entered directly In the open theater.

There are not many people in the front hall of the theater. "The Dark Knight Rises" has started for nearly 30 minutes, and most of the fans have already ran into the theater.

The staff standing behind the ticket office glanced at James Holmes, and then lowered his head to continue busying himself with his work. In his eyes, this was just an ordinary fanatical fan.

As a top student who graduated from a prestigious university with a master's degree, James Holmes's head is absolutely good. He didn't have any cover, and walked frankly towards the well-studied theater, but when he was halfway through, he took advantage of no one. Note that he quickly left this corridor and turned into the safe passage next to him. After looking around, he untied his backpack, took out the AR-15 rifle from it, and opened the insurance.

Touching the Colt pistol under the purple coat again, James Holmes strode towards the safety exit of an IMAX theater.

Standing outside the security door, he could hear the exciting soundtrack inside, which made his blood boil even more.

Without much effort, James Holmes opened the security door and entered the theater from the security exit as a special soldier. The military training he had experienced played a role. His movements were clean and neat, and he did not attract the attention of the audience.

No one noticed him either, all the audience was attracted by the screening of "The Dark Knight Rises".

It may be a coincidence that when James Holmes entered the theater, it was exactly when the first shootout of "The Dark Knight Rises" began.

James Holmes took out the prepared tear gas canister. After unplugging the safety pin, he threw it toward the center of the theater, then raised the muzzle and aimed it at the nearest few people. Using the "burst shot" technique in shooting, it easily made them burst into blooming blood.

The gunshot sounded, but no one noticed, Jessica Garvey heard the gunshot. Thinking this was just the sound effect of the film, until the choking smoke came and screams of horror sounded, she, who had experienced the shooting incident, realized that she had encountered this kind of bad luck again.

Gunshots, screams, howls... These sounds finally overwhelmed the film. Countless people panicked and fled for their lives, which instead led to a trampling tragedy.

Seeing blood blossoms, hearing panic howls, and seeing panicked crowds. James Holmes is even more excited, at this moment he feels like a clown. Although the great clown was murdered by Batman fans, the clown has been reborn on him under his burning flames of revenge.

"I am the clown!"

James Holmes' smirk was mixed in the gunfire. "I am the clown! The clown is back!"

The theater was too chaotic and there were too many people. James Holmes simply gave up the burst and started shooting with an AR-15 rifle. He didn't know how many people were hit, but he was just finishing one shot. After the clip, he escaped from the Colt pistol and shot at the crowd.

Listening to the chaotic voices around, Jessica Garvey was already lying on the ground, and there was a fierce pain in her legs and head. She looked at the ceiling and felt that the patterns on it were getting blurred, and there seemed to be something in her ears. A man was yelling for her to hold on.

There was darkness in front of me. I don't know why, Jessica Garvey suddenly thought of the "Reaper Is Coming" that I had read. She had escaped in Toronto. Could it be that she couldn't escape the pursuit of Death in the end?

Then she lost consciousness.

Before the safety exit, James Holmes had already emptied the pistol magazine. He knew that the theater must have called the police, and the police would arrive soon. At this time, he no longer hesitated, turned his head and walked along the safety exit. The long passage quickly ran to the outside of the mall.

Perhaps it was too unlucky, or perhaps it was destined. The retreat that James Holmes inspected had a problem. A door of the commercial center was closed and locked because it was too late, so he had to make a detour. After returning to the place where his car was, several police cars surrounded him before he could start the car.

To deal with unarmed ordinary audiences, James Holmes is like a clown, but what about the police?

Reality is not a movie after all. James Holmes, who thinks he is the rebirth of a clown, didn't even wait for SWAT to appear, and without any decent resistance, was handcuffed by several police officers.

"I am a clown!"

James Holmes was still yelling frantically when he was stuffed into the police car.

The police car has not left Santa Monica Commercial Plaza. A large number of reporters and paparazzi have swarmed in. They soon heard the news of the crazy massacre of the "clown". In this Internet age, no one can suppress such news. At least this kind of incident cannot be suppressed on this land.

Malibu, not far from Santa Monica, is extremely peaceful. The eye-shaped villa of the Duke’s Manor is completely dark. In the master bedroom on the top floor, Duke is already asleep. In his sleep, he seemed to fly to the other side of the Pacific Ocean and found the same life. This time of self.

At that time, he was already the head of the pyrotechnics crew of a small and small crew. He wanted to become a director with great ambitions. He first made some achievements in the TV series, and then entered the film industry. Become a relatively successful film director.

If you can gain a certain degree of international fame, it is even more a matter of sleeping and waking up.

Even at that time, he still had the dream of leading Chinese films to the world, but he knew very well that this dream could not be achieved by anyone.

Perhaps it was because the dream turned to reality. Duke woke up suddenly. He opened his eyes and looked at the side. Scarlett Johansson was sleeping well.

Turning to look at the dark window, Duke couldn't help but think of his dream. If he was not in Hollywood, but in China, he might be a top member of this circle, but it would be impossible to lead Chinese movies across the world.

He has seen many people's statements, such as copying Hollywood movies into Chinese movies.

Oh... this idea is very beautiful, but cultural differences are more than simple. Even if you ignore cultural differences, ignore that this is a world where western culture and values ​​are rampant, there is no prominent industrial chain effect, and there is no perfect broker. System, no mature production system, no advanced special effects production industry, no strong financing environment...

These are definitely not something one person can do.

Shaking his head, Duke dismissed these thoughts and returned to reality completely, replacing his mind with a more realistic Hollywood.

Hollywood has developed smoothly for so many years, but it has actually met its ceiling-the North American market capacity cannot be expanded further.

In order to break through this ceiling, it is not difficult to find that Hollywood has begun to do a lot of things. The international market is becoming more and more important for Hollywood, especially the expanding Chinese market. In order to gain a Chinese audience, the Hollywood creative team is now heading to China for the first time. Ying has become a standard configuration, and various marketing gimmicks are emerging in endlessly.

At the same time, Hollywood is getting closer and closer to Silicon Valley, and Netflix, Amazon, and even Apple have become Hollywood partners.

From channel authorization, to content cooperation, to technological innovation, Silicon Valley with new technologies is also influencing the development of Hollywood.

Of course, even if Hollywood meets its own ceiling, it is still the most developed film industry in the world.

Nowadays, many professional critics are unwilling to be lonely and uttered their own shouts, believing that mature genre films and blockbuster models have become a kind of imprisonment for innovation. Hollywood is increasingly lacking in creativity and creative ability. The movie universe and the sequel movies have completely become the mainstream of Hollywood, but those movies with innovative themes or forms have failed miserably.

However, these people have deliberately ignored that the so-called fiasco of films with innovative themes or forms is not the choice of the film studio, but the choice of the market, to be precise, it is the audience's own choice!

What mainstream audiences like to watch and what types of movies they like to pay for, Hollywood will meet their requirements. If mainstream audiences like literary films, Duke can guarantee that there will not be much commercials in the summer files in the next few years. Big production, when a long list of literary and artistic films will be lined up for release.

For a Hollywood film, the box office is only a part of the income. Almost everyone understands that, but some people ignore it. In this era, the box office is the basis for the subsequent income of the film.

The box office of the film is very hot, and the subsequent DVD, Internet and TV rights can be sold at a good price. Naturally, there are people around to buy it. The image authorization is a matter of course.

If a movie only has a few million dollars at the box office, can you count on its DVD, Internet and TV rights to sell at high prices?

Few merchants around this industry are fools, and the dollar is constantly depreciating. Like some movies, they can only be profitable after they are sold for more than a decade. The producers are probably crying.

Just as Duke was thinking about it and was about to fall asleep again, a sudden knock on the door sounded.

The knock on the door awakened Scarlett Johansson, she turned over and muttered, "Who?"

I knocked on my door so late, except for the housekeeper, Emma, ​​and Tina Fei, who often lives in the Duke’s Manor. They must be in a hurry to find them. (To be continued~^~)

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