IPPWR Chapter 38

Director (9) Sea king wants to attack me

TN: Wow I’m so happy about the new comments that I’m going to post early, was planing to release when there were more chapters stacked up but here you go!

This is actually a super long chapter, aboout 3x a normal IPPWR chap.

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After the press conference, the fallout did not subsided for a long time.

The next day, a promotional video less than one minute long was uploaded to the Internet. Under the bright colored lens, in the misty rain and fog, the young man in a simple white shirt smiled across the screen, which was particularly moving.

The new film called “Monologue” became popular before it was released.

From promotion to warm-up, other films need to be advertised all over the place. Or the entire production team needs to publicise on variety shows, and partake in commercial performances all over the country in order for the film to become popular.

It was not so for Yuan Buwei, he found a new way. By killing two groups in just a few days, a top-level traffic star, a new flower, and his own father were sacrificed, and a large amount of popularity was harvested at one time.

Of course, the popularity was transferred to his new film.

[The name of the movie together with the promotional clip, this should be a movie about youthful love right?]

[Shooting a youthful love movie in a mental hospital? Is the subject acceptable? The salvation between nurses and patients? I always feel something is wrong…]

[Ah, ah, ah, the promotional clip is so cool. My xiao didi¹  is so handsome! Going to support this beauty! ]

The comments on the Internet could be divided into two categories, one is the face fans that only focuses on the appearance of the protagonist, and the other is seriously guessing the plot. However, most people think that this should be a youthful romance film, and it is likely to be about salvation and cure.

Although the last film “Deep Palace” was a complete smash, and even the investment cost was not recovered. Recalling the astonishment of “ghost” and the fact that this film happened to be related to the case of a mental hospital a few days ago, it still greatly aroused the curiosity of netizens.

It should be known that the whole process of Yuan Buwei’s broadcast on that day was made into many emoticons from screenshots. So far, the most popular one is the picture of him yawning quietly, while the background is the impassioned speech of others.

The picture also says # It’s just curing mental diseases, exposing a case, and shooting a movie by the way. Don’t give 6.²  The way you haven’t seen the world makes me just want to doze off#. #Ah, another calm and boring day. I’m going to die from having nothing to do# And # get out of the way, it’s my turn to perform# Wait a minute.

Many people are very curious about how special this film, which claims to be self-directed and self-acted, will be without the participation of other actors. All the scenes are shot in a mental hospital. It is different from ordinary films.

Due to Star Entertainment’s suppression and restrictions, those who chose to cooperate with Yuan Buwei were all those who had enmity with Star Entertainment, or those who didn’t care about Star Entertainment at all. On the first day, a total of 800 theatres started screening at the same time, with a film placement rate of 70%.

And whether it was coincidental or intentional, star entertainment also suddenly announced that it would release the film originally planned to be released next month, on the same day.

——This is a fantasy film directed by a famous director. It has been advertised for a month, and there is no shortage of popularity.

Yuan Buwei, who turned the computer on for the first time since leaving the mental hospital, happened to see Star entertainment mention that “Deep Palace” was a let down. Saying that they had judged the director incorrectly before and that the next film would not disappoint everyone. At that time, the other side stepped on his popularity to promote a new film, which was the fantasy blockbuster “Secluded city of infatuation”.

The people in the circle have been eating lemons(jealousy) these days. At this time, they are waiting to watch the jokes of Yuan Buwei.

In their view, such a film with little investment, low cost, no big name actors, and with the only actor being the director himself, along with a group of doctors, nurses and patients in the mental hospital act as background… The explosive points are innumerable, but they were all made using clever operation, and many audiences are looking forward to it out of novelty.

It happens that there are no competitive films recently, so this film has become popular. Even if the content is not good, it can make a small profit after it is released. But now they are headbutting with a major blockbuster from Star entertainment . It was like being beaten all over the head, and the contrast is too tragic.

Many people are waiting for the Shengshi side to respond, but the Shengshi side is calm and quiet, with a calm posture. This is obviously the rhythm of preparing for a direct confrontation.

Seven days later, “Monologue” was released as scheduled. There was no grand premiere and opening ceremony. It landed in major cinemas under the attention of the world.

At the gate of a cinema, people come and go and Mo Qing follows the crowd with a very subtle expression on her face.

She is not a star herself, but she is a keen film lover. Whenever she hears that a good film is on, she can’t help coming to the cinema to experience it. The last time she watched “deep palace”, she only wanted to ask the producer to refund her money — what was that spicy chicken³  film? She wasted two hours!

For this reason, she wrote a long review, criticising the whole film for free. She also @the spicy chicken director who made this spicy chicken film, and won praise from many original fans.

Subsequently, various black materials about the other side exploded on the Internet. Mo Qing did not realise that she had been incited by the navy. She vented all her anger and became a member of the internet mob.

It wasn’t until she was named and praised by the government twice that she vaguely realised that she had made a mistake. After watching the live broadcast of the press conference the other day, Mo Qing suddenly realised: “Yes, why are those people wronged? Who will not call the police and only cry and ask for pity online?”

People like Yuan Buwei who reported a disagreement with investors were as much as a mudslide in this entertainment circle. But they washed away people like Mo Qing who were influenced by public opinion, and later regained their sobriety.

These people only feel that they have learned a new way of looking at problems from Yuan Buwei’s example. They have turned black to pink, and worshipped Yuan Buwei as the new idol in their hearts.

Today, Mo Qing came to see this film with the mood of supporting her idol. Before, she had wronged her idol indiscriminately. This time, no matter whether the new film is good or bad, she will support it to the end!

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For this extremely fastidious film enthusiast, making such a decision is tantamount to forcing top gourmets to taste pig food, which is really a great sacrifice.

Mo Qing made up her mind and went into the cinema.

The lights went out, but the screen did not light up after the start. Instead, it was dark.

“Ahh ahh ahh…”

There was complete silence for ten seconds. Just when Mo Qing was puzzled, there were several extremely strange sounds in the dark. They were indescribable, but the first time they sounded, people’s hearts could not help but tighten.

On the black screen, handwriting gradually appeared.

As the first word fell, the darkness on the screen dissipated like smoke. At this time, they found that this was one of the pages from an open diary.

One hand is holding a pen and writing in it.

“September 17, the weather was fine. What woke me up was the creaking sound on the window. Someone was scratching the window with his long nails. It wanted to enter my home. It came, it came, it came!”

The last stroke suddenly made a long scratch.

Without knowing why, when seeing this scene, Mo Qing was thrilled because she suddenly felt a kind of creepy feeling.

She couldn’t help using her hand to touch her arm. She said to herself, “maybe the background sound is too scary. Where did this sound effect master come from?”

In the background of the film, there has always been a strange sound that seems to be everywhere, like the wind and like someone shouting and screaming at a very far distance. In a word, the sound released through the cinema’s stereo gives the audience a feeling of inexplicable panic and goose bumps.

This time it was the film’s real beginning.

The diary was slowly closed, and one black twisted word appeared – “Monologue”.

This word has been dripping ink like blood. When the lens turns, the thick ink slowly drops into transparent water, and the ink in the water spreads out in a circle.

A clear male voice sounded from one side.

“Ah, it’s raining. I have to move on rainy days!”

The first thing that appears in the lens are steps continuously hit by rain drops, and a grey corner is vaguely exposed. Then slowly moving up, from shoes and trouser legs splashed with mud, to a clean and ordinary shirt, and then a delicate clavicle and chin

Finally, what appears in the lens is a young, clean and beautiful face. He sat on the steps, his legs slightly bent, and he flusteredly covered his diary with his jacket in his arms. He looked distressed.

In the background behind him, people could be vaguely seen coming in and out in the distance and hear the noise of people and the sound of wheels rolling on the ground. Something seems to be moving.

This one-man play, which is said to have only one main character, began on this rainy day.

From the background revealed in the dialogue between the town residents who do not enter the lense and the protagonist, it can be seen that it is August. In order to avoid a fanatical suitor, the protagonist temporarily moved to an unfamiliar town to relax.

Mo Qing subconsciously nodded: “that was a flashback.” Then she suddenly responded, “the shooting method of this film seems to be a bit special.”

How to put it? Some scenes are using methods for shooting documentaries in the last century. Everything presented in the lens gives people a real and natural feeling. The overall tone of the picture is dark, and occasionally it will be quietly shaken, making the audience feel as if they are really watching an extremely realistic story in a corner of the world.

Almost all the scenes in the film focus on the main character. From the first day he moved here, he got up early, cooked, painted in the room, read books, and sometimes looked at the rainy weather and worried…

In addition to the main character, there are occasionally other lenses that will shoot the rain outside the window and the grey sky.

As a senior film lover, Mo Qing has a feeling. She even sat up straight: “it seems that this is not a youth romance movie. Hiss, she always feels that there will be a surprise at the end.”

At the beginning of the film, the atmosphere seems calm and relaxed, but in this relaxed atmosphere, it gives people a kind of inexplicable depression from time to time. It always feels like some hidden danger is slowly spreading in the dark.

This is a sense of silence and tidal depression.

In the cinema, many people have long forgotten the popcorn and drinks they brought in at the beginning. They unconsciously tighten their hands and grasp them on their own thighs or the arms of their boyfriends and girlfriends.

The following plot took a turn as expected.

After a few days of calm and relaxation, strange things began to happen. Things that were lost from time to time at home, hair that appeared on the pillow at night, suspicious shadows that flashed past the window… Many small events accumulated, subtle and strange feelings were superimposed, making the nerves of the audience tense unconsciously.

The attitude of the small town residents who still haven’t been revealed in the film, appearing as only voices have changed when talking to the protagonist.

It seems that after the arrival of the protagonist, various strange and ominous things have occurred in this town. Rumours are breeding in the dark, which makes other people’s attitude towards him gradually change.

The director’s lens always focuses on the main character.

The audience can clearly perceive how he became more and more anxious, uneasy and frightened. From his ease at the beginning to his anger later, and then the frustration that he could not find the mastermind for a long time.

It has to be said that these very infectious acting skills let the audience unconsciously sink into it. So that they completely ignored the familiarity brought to them by the face that had just become popular on the Internet.

——Now, he is not the “director Yan” who has all kinds of gossip on the internet, but the protagonist in the movie.

Mo Qing has completely forgotten the thoughts she had before she came. She stares at the screen without blinking, and the whole person is completely immersed in the plot.

Finally one day, the protagonist woke up in the middle of the night and heard a dull sound. He sharply turned to look.

In the dark night, something quickly brushed the window, as if a pair of beads were stuck outside the window, staring at him with eager eyes!

“Ah!”

This scene is extremely weird under the director’s lens. Even every micro expression of the protagonist’s fear is also included in the lens, and the atmosphere is appropriately tense. Already some people in the cinema could not help screaming, and the popcorn on their hands was tossed away.

In those realistic, documentary-like camera lenses, everyone is nervous and uneasy when following the main character’s perspective. Watching him gasp, carefully push the door open, and look out!

The yard was empty, the windows and walls were full of blood splatter, and there was a hole on the ground that was smashed out. With a strange twist in the hole.

——It seems that someone jumped down from his roof. Before he died, his twisted limbs kept struggling on the ground until he stopped completely.

The image of the protagonist’s brain supplement is naturally presented in an illusory way by the film lens. The distorted and grotesque hazy human figure struggling on the ground has rendered the current panicked atmosphere increase tenfold.

The audience in the whole cinema was plunged into inexplicable panic with the protagonist.

Mo Qing, as a fanatical film lover, although she does not know so much professional knowledge, she naturally improves her discernment after watching so many movies.

She was trembling with her arms around herself, yet she still didn’t forget to analyse it in her heart, Spreading her thoughts wildly, so as to dispel that creeping sense of fear:

“This is amazing. The director’s lens language and aura are so strong! He can achieve this effect without using too powerful special effects or too many props. Maybe it’s also related to the acting skills of the main character? Eh eh? Isn’t the director and the main character just one person? So, director Yan is too 6 in the end!”

Thinking of the expression packs of the enthusiastic citizen Yan, she unconsciously recovered her composure when watching the main character again. Even if there are really ghosts, it is estimated that director Yan will arrest them and report them all.

After reciting “believe in director Yan” ten times, Mo Qing calmed her heart and continued to watch.

In the follow-up plot, the director gave full play to his ability to play up the panic. There were no screams in the cinema, but almost everyone could not help but hold their breath and immerse themselves in the plot uncontrollably, as if worried that some monster would suddenly appear in the dark.

Under the lens in the film, the main character’s mood changes almost step by step. His reason slides rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and gradually becomes more and more nervous.

The atmosphere in the town has also changed from relaxed and peaceful at the beginning to extreme depression. The small town residents who did not enter the camera kept their sense of existence with their voices.

Infected by those strange occurrences, the voices of these people have also changed from peaceful at the beginning to nervous at the end, with indescribable strangeness.

“Stay away from that house!”

“There is an ogre living there. He will come out to eat people in the middle of the night. Many people in the town have disappeared…”

“No, we can’t live unless we kill him…”

“Catch him, drag him out… Eat him!”

With the continuous development of the plot, the protagonist has become the object of covetous eyes of the town residents. One day he was almost dragged out by the crazy town residents to eat!

Fortunately, at the last moment, the protagonist struggled desperately and finally escaped back to his house. He blocked the whole house with boards, nails, chains, and everything at hand, and locked himself there.

He was shivering in the house.

The house is surrounded by crazy villagers, unknown strange creatures and hidden monsters. They are all outside spying on him.

——The rhythm of this story is very fast, and soon it was the first time that the town residents appeared, but they did not show their faces. Their bodies are blurred and distorted under the lens. It is only when a pair of hands grasp the main character that they appear clear.

After the protagonist finally escapes safely, the camera again turns and the frame refocused.

It was another night, and he was completely immersed in the dark house. The main character was sitting on the bed alone, staring at the window with wide eyes, and his lips were still moving.

Strange sounds rang from the window again.

“A. A. a…”

There is only darkness on the screen, and a slit of moonlight from the window divides the main character’s face into two parts.

Half of his face was calm, with one corner of his mouth bent, it seemed that he was about to be liberated. The other half of his face was distorted by fear, and his eyes were full of extreme fear.

——The director’s lens use is too perfect, and the proportion of light is just right, so that the picture presented in the eyes of the audience has an extreme impact.

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“It’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming!”

“Bang”!

The screen suddenly went black.

“Haa -“

The movie theatre suddenly heard the sound of breathing one after another. Many people were really holding their breath just now, and did not dare to breathe in this atmosphere.  It was only now that they dared to breathe out.

It’s hard to say that the plot of the story is particularly novel, but the exaggeration of the panic in the film is really ingenious. Coupled with the reality brought by the documentary-like filming, all the audience only felt that they had experienced the same thing as the protagonist, as if they had made a narrow escape.

Many people here actually come with the same thoughts as Mo Qing, because they misunderstood the director before and decided to contribute a wave of box office for that little guilt. The final harvest was unexpected.

A film critic who mingled among them wiped the cold sweat on his forehead: “this director sure is something.”

Then looking up again.

Director: Yan Xun

Screenwriter: Yan Xun

Editor: Yan Xun

Starring: Yan Xun

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On the dark screen, the same two words continue to scroll past, especially striking.

The film critic could not help but twitch the corner of his mouth and roast: “it seems that there are many other talents, not just directing.”

Just as the audience was preparing to leave, they heard a sudden sound on the screen, which sounded like the emergency bell in the hospital.

Beep beep–

The audience looked up in astonishment, and saw that the lens that was dim before suddenly brightened up, showing an empty ward.

“Room 23, it’s time to take the medicine.”

The voice of a young woman nurse sounded. A thin and pale young man wrapped in patient clothes sat on the bed with his head bowed. He raised his head bit by bit.

Showing a young, clean and beautiful face.

He smiled at the camera.

It seems to coincide with the picture at the beginning of the film.

“Hiss!”

The cinema was filled with a cold inhale. This smile is completely different from the opening one, which makes them not feel the slightest appreciation of the beauty of the youth. Instead, they feel an indescribable panic in a moment.

——This smile is really weird. It’s not a normal person’s smile. The other person is completely crazy.

The picture on the screen was getting darker and darker, and the calendar was vaguely visible in the corner of the room.

When the door of the ward was pushed open, the wind blew through the calendar. Showing the date above——

September 17.

The appearance of the last scene seems to have subverted the previous content. There is a lot of whispering in the cinema, and many audiences begin to discuss it excitedly. Mo Qing also forcefully calmed her volatile mood. Only then did she walk out following the flow of people and her eyes brightened with excitement.

She is like a glutton who has had a good meal. At this time, she is radiant, full of energy, and extremely satisfied. She even has the idea of having another meal.

Obviously she was not the only one with those thoughts. When she arrived at the door, she heard many people shouting:

“Another monologue ticket!”

“Haven’t you just finished watching it? Do you want to see again?”

“Don’t mention it. I missed many details just now. I feel I haven’t seen enough, I need to watch it again and watch it carefully! This movie is really surprising!”

“That’s true! I can’t believe that there is still a director who can make such a terrifying film without half a ghost. Obviously, there are not many special effects. It’s really immersive. Just now I was scared into getting cold sweat.”

“Have you noticed the date on the calendar just now? According to the records in the diary, this day should be the day when the protagonist was eaten in the previous scene. The last scene turned out to be in the mental hospital. Was everything the protagonists dream and he just woke up now? I always think it’s not so simple?”

“Can I still think so? I couldn’t think so much. I was shivering and the popcorn was shaken all over the floor. It seems that this film is really worth watching again.”

Hearing the discussion nearby, Mo Qingyue felt more and more itchy. She suddenly felt an impulse. Ignoring the crying of her wallet, she rushed to the ticket office with pride and courage:

“Another monologue ticket. I want to watch it again!”

The author has something to say: 

The plot of the first film is written in detail because the plot of this film is related to the main line of the world, so it is written in detail. This will be useful later. The plots of the next few films will be very brief and will not be as detailed as this one.

¹ xiao didi = little brother 

² 基操勿六 =  Do not give 666 (powerful!) for basic operations . Meaning: Tell everyone not to make a fuss about the operation/move. For you, it is a magical skill, but it is only a basic operation for the bosses (in e-sports).

³ Spicy chicken = sounds like trash

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