Raising Dragons in Hollywood

Chapter 37: A city overrun by snakes

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The history of the rise of well-known filmmakers is often a history of cheating.

It couldn't be more true when it was applied to Sammy and Rosie.

think about it!

In the past, the producer of Rossi fooled Mr. Corlene to invest money and painted the foreground of the film into hype;

Later, director Sammy, in the name of saving paper and environmental protection, made a poster of the beautiful snake, dedicated to deceiving a wave of audiences to come in to watch the premiere.

These two are simply shameless.

The poor juvenile fire dragon has been confused all the way since he came to human society.

Now it seems that following the two of them, there is nothing to learn at all.

But being shameless also has the benefit of being shameless.

There will be about 400 films participating in this film festival, that is to say, Sammy and the others have to fight their way through these 400 or so films and stand out completely, so that there is a little chance of success.

Rossi's contribution in this regard is remarkable.

It was his unremitting efforts to find relationships and help that made the film finally named "Snake Bane" appreciated by one of the judges, Leotini (after a sleepless night). And, under his recommendation, the film was broadcast at an earlier time.

Of course, there are a few more films that air at the top of the line.

But being able to rank in the top 20, Sammy and the others are already very satisfied, it's better than being outside the top 100.

So, "Snake Bane" soon premiered in a small movie theater

Moreover, compared to the movies broadcast on the same day, there are still quite a lot of viewers watching it.

only…

How many of them came with the curiosity of 'seeing beautiful snakes', then I don't know.

Because the crew is not well-known, they did not prepare any special premiere ceremony.

Just before the lights went out, Sammy, who was the director, stood up and said a few words.

"Uh... this movie isn't actually scary, it's hilarious."

The rookie director Little Round Face, who was not used to speaking in front of strangers, was embarrassed, and stumblingly introduced to the audience: "Although there are many snakes in the film, snakes are also quite cute."

Probably the first time I've heard someone describe a snake this way.

Moreover, the appearance of the speaker seems very innocent and harmless.

The audience below all burst into laughter and said, "It's okay, we're here for the snake, don't be afraid."

There were also a few men who looked strong and jokingly shouted at the bottom: "Looking at you, you can't shoot anything scary. Stop talking nonsense, get out of the way, and let me take a look at "cute" snake'."

Everyone giggled and laughed.

In the whole cinema, there is no atmosphere of watching horror movies at all.

Sitting in the corner with a blank face, Rossi really had nothing to say about this development.

Sammy, on the other hand, felt nothing was wrong.

He scratched his head embarrassedly, the very deceptive round face of a natural doll made him small, cute and innocent, and he couldn't be associated with anything scary.

And so, with the unanimous comments from the audience of 'Stop talking, we're not afraid of anything' and 'You can't make any scary stuff', the film started.

It is still the beginning of the dark night, the burial of corpses, and the encounter with snakes.

It's just that these audiences in the theater have a much stronger psychological capacity than the investor Mr. Corrian.

Although they also showed a touch of fear on their faces, there were no adverse reactions for the time being.

It's just... Occasionally there will be a few voices about 'When did snakes become human? ''Maybe in the back? ''Are the snakes that turned into humans these snakes that eat humans? That's a bit too disgusting, too" weird discussion.

However, that was just false advertising.

It is impossible to become human, and it is impossible to change until the end of the film.

At this time, the camera turned, the picture brightened, and the figure of Sheriff Leonard appeared on the screen.

He came in a hurry with a team of police officers, the purpose was to investigate the case of 'snake cannibalism'.

turn out to be…

The murderer failed to bury the body halfway through.

But the behavior of snakes eating corpses indirectly helped him a lot.

The female corpse was almost eaten up by the snakes, leaving only a few remains.

This not only successfully helped the murderer to hide the traces, but also took the initiative to take the blame, misled the police in solving the case, and led their thinking in the wrong direction.

Sure enough, the police all believed that the female victim was killed by a snake.

In order to protect the residents of the town, the upright Sheriff Reynard is determined to lead a team to kill snakes.

Since we want to kill snakes, we must also investigate to see where these snakes that are not available locally come from.

As a result, after an investigation, it was discovered that the pet snake was actually imported from abroad.

This has been on social news before.

So, viewers who have paid attention to this news have a familiar feeling when they see it, and then think of what really happened in reality.

So, the video continues to play.

At this time, a character that the audience was looking forward to but confused is slowly coming online.

Sheriff Leonard's wife, Mrs. Leonard, played by Nellie, is officially on screen...

Many viewers who were deceived by the poster: "Wait, isn't this the beautiful snake? How come the legs are not the tail of the snake? Disguised?"

Many viewers could not have imagined that someone would make such a shameless fake advertisement at this time.

They began to think about it, and even had a suspenseful association of 'the sheriff caught a snake, and his wife was a snake'.

But then, another 'beauty snake' in the poster also appeared.

Laura, a bad girl dressed in a non-mainstream dress, had a big quarrel with her parents, and ran away from home in a rage, but she didn't know where to go

Because she is a neighbor and because her husband is a police officer, Mrs. Reynard, who is always used to helping others, noticed this scene.

So she invites Laura to the house to avoid the insecurity of an underage girl wandering outside.

At this moment, two lines appear in the film.

The daily situations of the couple, Sheriff Leonard and Mrs. Leonard, are shown respectively.

The audience watched in a fog and couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.

There are some viewers who are very picky about their tastes and think: "It was quite exciting at the beginning, but now... ugh! Don't be another sleepy film, right?"

But where no one notices...

The pace of the film started to pick up a little bit.

A new character - Wolff's botanical garden advisor Stiles, a man with glasses and a suave appearance.

He took the initiative to run to the police and offered himself, claiming that 'I am familiar with every plant and tree in the botanical garden' and, 'I understand some living habits of snakes'. victim.

So, Leonard agreed to hire him as a guide, allowing him to join the police's snake catching team...

With the help of Stiles, they succeeded in finding the 'killer snakes' and, together with a group of police officers, killed these snakes.

and many more

… killed

Killed so easily

It was hard for me to lift my spirits and look at the screen intently, looking forward to the end of the 'Man-Snake War'

The audience was a little speechless for a while.

A professional film critic who mingled with the audience has even begun to think about how to write film reviews.

For this film, if only so...

He thinks that he doesn't need to give too many evaluations, one sentence is enough: [Inexperienced new director's tricky work, the boss is finished ahead of schedule, and the follow-up is boring, I slept for more than half an hour. ]

However, just when everyone's emotions have calmed down and think this film is not worth watching...

The sky gradually darkened.

The camera slowly zoomed in. In this sleepy city, the audience could clearly see that countless snakes began to climb out of various places, in the grass, on the trees, In the trash can, the sewer...

The snake group on the screen began to show a scene of flooding.

Even people who have never suffered from intensive phobia are a little flustered when they see this scene.

In addition, these snakes don't seem to hide from humans anymore, and begin to openly appear in front of humans from dark to bright.

On a tense and depressing soundtrack, Sammy expertly uses close-ups and quick cuts to present a series of (in his view, amusing and dramatic) events.

A housewife standing in the kitchen washing dishes suddenly found that the place where the water was drained was blocked.

She reached out to touch it, but suddenly caught a slippery thing, and when she found it was a snake, she immediately screamed in horror;

The family who was sitting on the sofa watching TV noticed that the lights were flickering and raised their heads curiously.

As a result, several snakes fell on them from the sky.

and also…

Going out to mow the lawn with a lawnmower, it turns out that the yard is also full of snakes.

There are snakes everywhere, overwhelming and pervasive.

There is also a sense of imminent storm in the background music that gradually sounded.

- This will be a town overrun by snakes!

The boring expressions on the audience's faces froze for a moment.

They didn't get the director's humor at all, but stared at the screen dully, their smiles gradually disappearing...