Raising Dragons in Hollywood

Chapter 38: What's so scary about pythons?

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Rossi is right.

When the snakes flooded the screen, several girls screamed and fled the movie theater.

The rest of the audience also stared at the screen with numb scalps, not daring to move.

They always have the illusion that when they move, the snake will jump up from somewhere they can't see.

And in accordance with the routine of monster films.

Whenever such a crisis is encountered, there will always be someone who will take the initiative to stand up, or lead everyone, or fight alone, and finally successfully relieve the crisis of mankind.

Apparently, Sheriff Reynolds was one of those people.

According to the original plot, as the male protagonist, he will lead the police officers to rescue the people and fight with the snakes in large and small battles. After the snake was headless, humans were able to successfully disperse the snake group and save the entire town.

But Herbert, who played Sheriff Reynolds, dropped out of the show halfway through.

So, Director Sammy has a new idea...

The plot at the beginning has not changed.

Sheriff Reynard will still lead the police officers around to hunt down snakes and rescue the people.

Here, there is also a wonderful counterattack of mankind.

Unlike other monster movies.

In this film, when human beings faced the snake group at first, it was not that they had no resistance, they only knew how to scream and run away, but they mustered up their courage, took good weapons, and chose to stand up to fight and protect their homeland.

Thus, the audience can see:

Under the leadership of Sheriff Leonard, a team of police officers shuttled through the town with grim faces, using a variety of tools to frantically hunt and kill snakes. A face; the flamethrower chased the snake and burned, the snake screamed and shook its body; the high-pressure water gun even rushed the snake to the sky...

Some soft-hearted viewers could not help but feel sorry for those snakes when they saw this.

While they were eating popcorn below, they sighed a little like crocodile tears: "This snake died too badly! Oh, you said, what are you doing to provoke humans?"

But another part of the aggressive male audience watched it with great relief.

"Yes, that's how it should be!" They waved their fists and looked excited: "Go on, kill them! If you dare to provoke the humans who stand at the top of the food chain, you should be taught a lesson! I'm so sick of seeing humans being bullied. Well done movie! Kill them all!"

It can be seen that no matter what different opinions the audience holds.

From this moment on, their hearts have been firmly grasped by this movie, and they have unknowingly threw themselves into the plot.

But it is also because of investment.

When Sheriff Leonard died suddenly, everyone was stunned.

Due to the actor Herbert's withdrawal from the crew, the role of Sheriff Leonard can only be doomed to early death.

In order to give the character an impressive exit, Sammy took his dying moments seriously.

When Sheriff Reynard led the police to hunt down the snakes...

On the other side, the camera was slowly advancing forward, and the rustling sound of crawling appeared again in the background sound. Moreover, on the screen, a deep trace appeared on the large grass, as if something had been captured. Heavy objects weighed the same.

These strange elements seem to imply the arrival of some kind of danger.

At the same time, it also increases the sense of urgency in people's hearts step by step.

Might have guessed that there would be a change.

At this time, the audience began to look at the screen with all their attention, without blinking, for fear of missing some wonderful scenes if they were not careful.

Sure enough, when Sheriff Leonard seriously assigned the task to his subordinates to clean up the snakes in the town again, some sticky disgusting liquid dripped onto his face from above.

He touched his face with his fingers in confusion, looked at the liquid on his fingers, and looked confused, as if he couldn't understand what was going on.

At this time, the subordinate standing in front of him showed an extremely frightened expression with trembling all over his body.

The audience at the cinema also let out a soft cry.

In an upward shot, the huge python standing more than ten meters tall straightened up and quietly appeared behind Sheriff Leonard. The inorganic and cold eyes unique to reptiles were staring at him. with 'prey'.

Sheriff Leonard also realized that there might be something terrifying behind him.

He did not choose to give up immediately, but chose to decisively draw his gun, turn around, and shoot!

All actions are done without hesitation and in one go.

If there is indeed an enemy, such a violent attack can definitely gain the upper hand.

But a big snake that stands up to ten meters high is obviously different from those ordinary snakes that are easily wiped out.

The bullet hit its hard scales, and although it let out an angry roar because of the pain, it didn't really hurt it. On the contrary, when it was provoked, it slammed down its huge body, and instantly Biting Sheriff Leonard's head, and then, he took the person alive in the air...

In the footage, Sheriff Leonard's struggling body and an octave of screams appeared.

Immediately afterwards, under the trembling gaze of the audience, they did not directly shoot the death of the sheriff, but saw a scene of blood splattering, and even a few drops hit the camera directly. Hide, the broken human limbs fell to the ground, a split corpse in the air, very shocking!

In this scene, Sammy did not chase the python all the time (because of lack of money, the model was rudimentary, and he was afraid of revealing the contents), but indirectly planted fear in people's hearts with the tragic death of Sheriff Leonard. …

There was silence in the cinema.

It was obvious that the human race was about to win, but it was instantly killed in an instant.

Moreover, it was such a huge snake that killed them in seconds, and it could crush people to death with every movement.

Not to mention the humans in the plot, even the audience in front of the screen was a little desperate: "What kind of monster is this? How can this be killed? Humans are over!"

Then, the situation turned around completely.

Under the leadership of the snake king, the group of snakes flooded into the town unstoppably like a tide.

Countless humans in this town died tragically in this wave of snake attacks.

All kinds of deaths quickly appeared on the screen. Sammy used the method of fast editing. In just a few minutes, he showed a variety of ways of death, showing his imagination (bad taste) .

At this time, due to the death of the male lead, the scene gradually shifted to the female lead.

Mrs. Leonard, played by Nali, begins to take over the male lead and becomes the center of the whole plot again.

After learning the news of Sheriff Leonard's death, she gave a wonderful performance. First, her facial expressions showed a kind of near-real grief, as if the shock was too great, and she couldn't react for a while, and then she turned pale and slowed down. Slowly slid to the floor, and after slowly reacting, burst into tears!

That helpless and sad look made the audience feel sour in their hearts.

Some people even thought: "Although I haven't seen this actress before, her acting skills look really good."

In this regard, Sammy can only say that the loss of eyelashes has really hurt the actress quite a lot.

In the days of Sheriff Leonard, Nari's role was that of a gentle, virtuous wife.

But when Sheriff Leonard was gone, and the town was invaded by an endless group of snakes, she had to be strong and change herself to better protect her children.

So, in the next shot...

She stopped crying, and did not dare to continue to be weak, but resolutely chose to take her son and prepare to leave this dangerous town.

Coincidentally, the surviving residents of the town also wanted to leave.

The giant python king who led the group of snakes has grown as big as a giant monster, which makes it impossible for humans to develop a little resistance. Even if they rush to fight, it is not enough for it to eat.

So, everyone had no choice but to leave.

Everyone gathered together, and the four surviving members of Sheriff Reynard, because they were police officers, reluctantly acted as the leader of the escape operation; Stley, the botanical garden consultant who had volunteered to join the sheriff's team before. Claiming to be familiar with the surrounding trails, he once again became a guide.

Then, Mrs. Reynard and her eight-year-old son, Remy, were taken care of by Sheriff Reynard's subordinates and joined the team;

Laura, a delinquent girl who had been a guest at her house before, had nowhere to go and could only follow Mrs. Leonard to help take care of little Remy.

In addition, there are the remaining residents of a dozen towns.

They form a makeshift human team to escape the town that has been overrun by snakes together.

In a short period of time,

Snake outbreaks—humans kill snakes—snake kings appear, groups of snakes occupy towns—humans flee.

The whole process, the rhythm is so tight that the audience has almost no time to think about other things.

They desperately want to know 'whether humans can turn over again and defeat these snakes'.

However, in the subsequent escape plot, the situation took a sharp turn, and human beings were completely reduced to dust-like fragile and insignificant existences.

They were madly chased by snakes and could not fight back.

Among them, Mrs. Reynard was very timid, completely unlike her husband, the heroic hero before.

Although the police officers who fought with Sheriff Reynard before were running away, they still insisted on fighting back. Those snakes that caught up, as long as they could kill them, would be killed by them. During this period, both the botanical garden consultant and the delinquent girl Laura also followed the police officers and worked hard to fight the snake.

Only Mrs. Reynard dared not face the snake at all.

She has been hiding in the car with her eight-year-old son Remy in her arms.

But hiding is clearly not a long-term solution.

Soon, the mother and son ran into big trouble.

When the others were not around, a python three or four meters long suddenly appeared and wandered repeatedly outside the car.

At this time, the camera gradually moved from the outside to the inside of the car, and a trembling arm appeared in the picture but was firmly pressed against the door, showing that Mrs. Reynard was trying to keep the python out of the car in fear...

The audience stared at the screen with their hands clasped together.

Even if they knew that this was just a fake plot, at such a thrilling moment, they couldn't help praying silently for the mother and son, hoping that they could escape the catastrophe.

About a minute or so...

When the sound of snakes swimming outside the car disappeared, Leonard showed an almost innocent behavior.

She rolled down the window and looked out.

At this time, a standard horror method - a python suddenly appeared in front of the window and broke into the camera.

The audience was really taken aback!

Some people were caught off guard and were so frightened that they cried out directly.

On the screen, Mrs. Leonard was also screaming.

She screamed and closed the window desperately.

When the window was closed, the python had no time to withdraw its head, and with a click, the snake's head was cut off!

Blood splattered all over Mrs. Leonard's face, and the snake's head fell into the car. Since the nerves were not dead, she opened her mouth wide and jumped.

Several viewers were horrified.

There was a loud gasp in the theater.

The plot continues...

When all the people who were exploring the road and looking for supplies came back, they only saw the headless snake corpse lying beside the car, and Mrs. Reynard hugged her son tightly, her expression almost collapsed.

But maybe because she was too stimulated, Mrs. Leonard quickly transformed.

For the sake of her son and herself, she stopped hiding behind and started trying to fight with the team members.

A group of people drove the car like this, heading into the distance, and launched an escape.

The audience eased their mood a little at this time. The previous episodes of nearly dying had challenged their hearts too much.

But the plot has progressed so far, and it is really exciting and unexpected.

The audience really wanted to continue watching, and they also wanted to know, can these humans escape successfully in the end? Or, defeat the swarm of snakes.

As far as they want to come, the next development can only be two possibilities: one may be that humans finally defeat the snakes and win back their homeland; the other may be that humans can't defeat the snakes, but escape successfully.

However, they underestimated the extent of the director's madness.

The human escape group kept losing lives, and even the four previous police officers died inexplicably.

The more the audience watched, the more puzzled they became: "What's going on? Why do you have to act alone?"

But what is gratifying is that Mrs. Leonard has grown rapidly along the way, gradually transformed from a virtuous housewife to a mother who is strong and brave to kill snakes, and also replaces the dead police officer, leading everyone's female warrior, and win the audience little by little When we appreciate and love…

she is dead!

When the swarm of snakes chasing these humans surrounded them and everyone had no way to escape...

On the screen, there was silence.

Not even any background music.

Sammy purposely gave Mrs Reynard a close-up of each of her eight-year-old son Remy in her arms.

The performance of the young actor who played Remy can only be said to be passable, but Nali's performance was very surprising. She is a contagious display of the fear, anger and desperation that a mother feels when she is in an extremely dangerous situation, and there is nothing she can do but be forced to sacrifice herself to protect her child.

She entrusted Remy to Laura, a former delinquent girl, and resolutely entered the group of snakes.

For, all animals have a similar nature, that is, when they are full, the aggressive nature will be minimized during the time when they are not eating. At this time, even if the prey is walking around in front of him, it will not attack easily.

Moreover, the way of eating snakes is to swallow, they do not chew, and they swallow the prey whole.

So, both eating and digesting slow them down, thus giving others time to escape.

Mrs. Reynard bravely walked into the snakes and was devoured by them.

So, after the male protagonist was dismembered, the female protagonist was also miserably led away.

This is definitely the worst heroine ever.

Seeing this, the audience in the entire movie theater couldn't think of any beautiful snakes anymore, they were really dumbfounded: "Damn! How can this be? How can this be? The hero and heroine are all dead, and this movie is still playing. P?"

But what breaks them even more is...

Mrs. Reynard had clearly sacrificed herself, but she had not served as a noble example.

Instead, the entire human team completely went astray.

because…

She used her own death to come up with a good idea of 'feeding the snake, and not being killed by the snake for a short time'.

The audience was shocked: what kind of black humor is this? ?

So, when the group was surrounded by snakes again, Stley, the consultant of the botanical garden, suddenly gave a suggestion: "Let's throw XX out, his leg is broken, and there is no way to hurry."

Of course, the words are definitely not so direct.

Instead, use all kinds of words, what for the collective, for everyone to survive, please make sacrifices or something.

But no matter how high-sounding words, they can't hide the fact that 'feed you to the snake, we will take the opportunity to escape'.

Many viewers wanted to scold when they saw it.

They were extremely disgusted by the boy on the screen who proposed 'feeding others to snakes', and thought, "How can this be agreed? If you do this kind of thing, what's the difference between killing someone?"

However, the oppressive fear brought by the snake group, the enormous pressure of death, coupled with the sacrifices of the police officers who were the leaders before, and even Mrs. Reynard's tragic death in Shekou, the human group has All of the members are on the verge of collapse.

They selfishly and silently agreed with Stley's suggestion, all tacitly tacitly agreed that the injured people should be like Mrs. Leonard, feeding the snakes with themselves and buying time for more people to escape.

When they had a meeting and so agreed that they started to seriously discuss who to feed the snakes...

All the moviegoers lost their language and felt chills and creeps on their backs.

After both the male lead and female lead are off...

The new central character of the plot appeared, and the hidden human villain also ushered in the role.

The botanical garden consultant Stiles, who has been wandering in the protagonist's team, slowly uncovered the mystery.

It turned out that he was the escaped murderer at the beginning of the film, and he infiltrated Sheriff Leonard's team just to make sure he wasn't found out about the murder.

With the outbreak of the snake infestation, he fled with the big team, while calmly clearing the clues of his original murder, and even the four police officers who had been inexplicably singled out before were all killed by him. .

Today, the human fugitive groups have suffered heavy casualties, but the pursuit of the snake group is becoming more and more violent.

In order to leave alive, with no one around to restrain him, he immediately thought of 'feeding snakes with human companions'.

In the next plot, the audience can see that he used all kinds of methods to feed his companions to the snakes one by one, so as to buy enough time for his escape.

If the first half of the film is a human-snake battle, then the second half of the film is a human infighting.

After Stiles gradually exposed the villain side, people couldn't help changing their disgust for snakes, because in everyone's eyes, snakes are non-human, and hating and killing humans is a matter of course...

But Stryker is also a human being, but when he used all kinds of tricks to coerce and entice his companions to feed the snakes, he did not feel any guilt or fear, but a bit of a matter of course: "You can sacrifice for me with peace of mind. Well, I'll survive well, bye."

Shameless to the fullest.

Cruelty is chilling. .

The team members are getting smaller and smaller.

In the end, only the bad girl Laura, the eight-year-old boy Remy and Stley himself are left.

At this time, the three of them finally reached the end of their escape route.

There just happened to be another python blocking the road ahead, but according to Stley's memory, as long as you get out of here, you can escape this closed small town and come into contact with the big city.

So Stry looked at Remy and smiled again.

From the perspective of the bad girl Laura, the audience watched the beast approaching step by step with a gun.

Everyone knew what he was thinking.

He wanted to feed the boa constrictor that was blocking the road with Remy and Laura so he could get through the road.

The poor girl hugged the eight-year-old boy tightly and stepped back, the air seemed to be filled with terror, helplessness and despair.

Obviously in the wilderness, there is still so much space around, but the scene where Laura and Remy can't escape, but it seems like they are in some confined space, desperate and desperate.

Stley smiled politely and suggested to Laura friendly: "This child is too young, and he has no parents, even if he escapes, he may not be able to survive, otherwise we just put him... "

The audience couldn't take it anymore.

They all called out in their hearts: Director! director! Are you still human

Director Sammy is obviously still human.

Therefore, as soon as Stley's voice fell, another python came out of nowhere, suddenly rushed over, wrapped his body around him enthusiastically, and opened its blood basin amid the screams and cries for help. The big mouth starts from his head and slowly swallows down a little bit...

at the same time,

Laura hurriedly picked up Remy, seized this opportunity, and ran desperately towards the distance.

The camera slowly moved away from her back and turned to the small town abandoned by humans.

Under the setting sun, the giant snake king sitting in the center of the city stood upright, his inorganic cold eyes staring at the distance where Laura and Remy escaped...

After a long time, the snake king leaned down and began to slowly crawl up, and behind it, following a large group of snakes, it kept surging forward and crawling, like waves of undulating snakes.

End!

There was silence in the cinema.

Everyone sat motionless in their seats.

Director Sammy looked around for a while, a small round face full of confusion: "Why don't you leave?"

At this time, an audience suddenly shouted: "Damn, director, why are you filming like this (are you sick)?"

Sammy couldn't understand the audience's indignation, but thought it was a great opportunity to pretend: "I just want to tell everyone..."

He stood up, deliberately had a small round face, and waved his hand vigorously: "What's so scary about pythons? I'll show you people's hearts!"

Some spectators took off their shoes and smashed them on the spot: "Look at you paralyzed!"