The theater was silent, less than twenty audience members in total had their eyes focused on the top of the screen when the door to the screening room was suddenly pushed open from the outside, a man with shaggy hair and glasses walked in, he saw a lot of audience members casting disgusted gazes, he hurriedly revealed an embarrassed smile and casually found a seat at the back and sat down.
The movie was about to start showing, and similar to Jones Butler in the middle, this man took out his pen and book, his name was Tony Guzman, also a professional movie watcher from Fox Searchlight.
Unlike the three people in front who were invited by Bill Rossis, Tony Guzman came in on a whim when he occasionally turned up and saw that a movie was about to be shown.
In fact, before the start of every film festival, most of the films with quality assurance are basically screened by the organizing committee and put into relatively conspicuous theaters and times, and most of the professional buyers from the major companies are keeping an eye on that piece.
However, it's not like there haven't been highly profitable films coming out of the overlooked ones, such as Blair Witch which was initially discovered by artisans at a roadside screening.
It was known that it was easier to find good films in the Park City theater concentration area, and with the number of companies and buyers who went there to look at films, the competition was naturally more intense, and there were not a few people like Tony Guzman who circled around, looking for projects in out-of-the-way locations.
Before the screening began, Tony Guzman looked ahead to make sure there weren't too many of his peers, and it's unlikely that a remote theater like this, showing films that won't cost more than $300,000, would attract too many people.
As expected, the movie begins with a dry subtitle that identifies the production company as Stanton Studios, without even a title image. ...
Stanton Studios? Tony Guzman, who asked himself to be well-informed, had never heard of such a movie company.
It seems to be the same kind of unremarkable sparrow company in the bottom of Los Angeles, and the name of the director that appeared later also confirms this, Murphy Stanton, who the hell knows who he is ...
Tony Guzman couldn't help but be a little disappointed, his body leaning back completely on the back of the seat, intending to just look at the beginning, no point in continuing to waste time if the beginning wasn't appealing.
Ten seconds or so of credits flew by, black and white images appeared on the screen, the camera still seemed to be a little shaky, a female audience member sitting in front of Murphy, suddenly cursed in a low voice, "Damn, it's this shit again."
"Shhh ..." her male companion made a silencing gesture, "Daisy, be quiet."
The young girl called Daisy grumbled anyway, "Ever since Blair Witch, there's been a lot of inexplicable movies, handheld shots, shaky-cam, first person, so tiresome you want to vomit!"
"Can you still make a good movie!" She didn't stop there, "Can anyone watch a movie properly anymore!"
Murphy tilted his head to look at her, understanding that this is the negative effect brought about by Blair Witch, that marketing more than a year ago was a masterpiece, but also overdrafted the market in a short period of time, the audience who had just been fooled once, inevitably complained about and detested the same type of movie, and on the side of the North American movie circle following the trend was prevalent, many people wanted to imitate the success of this time, and the result was contrary to the wishes of the people, and the difficulty of succeeding in itself not to mention that it has further overdrawn the market of the same type of movie. The result was the opposite, not to mention the difficulty of success, but also further overdrawing the market for the same type of movie.
However, the girl was quickly quieted by her male companion.
The moment she saw the black-and-white image and the shaky camera, Jones-Butler secretly shook her head, thinking that this was another imitation of the type of film that Blair Witch had made, and as a professional buyer from Miramax, she knew enough about the market to know that such films were of little value nowadays.
But the camera shook only a few times before it stabilized, a large hand covered the lens, as if someone had planted the camera on a stand, and at the same time if anything a woman's wail sounded, not high but very miserable, as if she were undergoing inhuman torture.
"Uh ..." the girl called Daisy opened her mouth slightly, "what's happening?"
The large hand rotated the camera, and Daisy immediately covered her mouth and secretly screamed, "OH, MY..."
In the black and white picture, a girl was lying on the ground, her upturned face was full of wounds, the corners of her eyebrows were bursting open, her mouth was swollen, her skin was blooming and cracking, her long hair was scattered, and there were still drops of blood flowing onto the grass ...
Although the picture black and white, this appearance still let people can not stop the heart shock, especially the girl looks just thirteen or fourteen years old, is the beautiful age of youth, why become this appearance?
The answer then appeared, the big hand appeared in the picture, clenched into a fist downward, a gray back then appeared, but cleverly did not completely block the camera, the picture clearly appeared fist fell on the girl's nose above the scene.
Juice splattered everywhere, and the girl's head jerked backward as if she had been hit by a car, a testament to the sheer force of the punch.
Violence ... abject violence! Jones Butler made a note in his book.
"You're arrogant and think you're great ..."
A maniacal man's voice rang out as the gray body spun around and turned to the camera lens, "I love girls your age, and the fact that you won't accept my advances when I've tried everything to please you is punishment!"
In just one sentence, he delivered his identity and character - pervert, bigot and pedophile . Pedophile!
His words were ferocious and violent, while his face with glasses appeared to be gentle and kind, creating a strange contrast in the picture.
"The actor's performance is good, and the make-up is also good ..." Tony Guzman stretched his chin, "the director lens is also used extremely well, to express this kind of contrast between the outside and the inside, the camera can't make any mistakes. "
Ferocious adult man, miserable little girl, one to carry out the punishment, the other bitterly begged, forming a strong contrast, but also drive the conflict of the opening scene.
Watching the movie, Daisy unconsciously stood in the position of the little girl, looking forward to this time to savior from the sky, to save the girl by the grim reaper.
However, a sharp wallpaper knife shatters her illusions as the man walks up to the girl and pulls her long hair, the blade resting on the seemingly white throat.
"Please..." the girl's pleading voice made it impossible to continue watching.
The man made a motion to stroke the knife and the screen went black ...
Murphy let out a breath, the shot of the throat slitting in the back was cut by him and Griffiths during the fine cut, although it was in black and white, but it was hard to say that the MPAA wouldn't give an NC-17 for a scene like this.
The screen came back on, the picture turned to color, it was the same man from earlier, he was sitting in front of his computer, the camera panned up step by step, finally revealing the screen in a close-up, on it was a web chat.
Daisy couldn't stop her heart from lifting at the sight of that chat, was another girl about to be tragically killed?
Jones Butler, however, turned his head to look at Murphy, the guy clearly knew how to control the pace and mobilize the emotions of the viewer.