After finishing all the subcategories, there was only the last and most important option left, which was to give the movie an overall score.
This is probably the score that determines the best movie! Sam pondered for a moment and felt the importance of giving the last score.
Sam thought for a long time. When a staff member reminded him that five minutes were almost up, Sam gave the score of 72.
After voting, Sam walked to the ballot box. After lining up to put his voting card into the ballot box, Sam suddenly felt relieved and full of honor.
"My sacred vote!" Sam sighed in his heart. He felt like he was voting for the president of the United States.
"Sam, how do you feel?" When Sam left the theater, he saw Tim waiting for him.
"The movie is generally good. I gave it 72 points!" Sam said.
"No, I'm not asking you about that. I'm asking you how you feel about voting." Tim said with a smile.
"It's a very magical feeling!" Sam recalled the feeling of voting just now and said, "In the past, when I watched movies, I always felt that something was missing. Today, after voting, I finally made up for this missing feeling!"
"I know. It's just like how every time my mom bakes apple pies for me, I have to comment that it tastes terrible. Hahaha!" Tim laughed loudly, and Sam laughed as well.
Yes, that was the feeling.
In the past, when two people watched movies together, it was fine. They could discuss with each other. But if they watched the movie alone, the feeling was really terrible. They would be full of complaints and praise, and they didn't know who to talk to.
Now, with this ballot box, they finally made up for this flaw perfectly. Not to mention that their voting was not meaningless. On the contrary, it determined the winner of the award.
"It's a pity that the award of the Imperial Capital International Film Festival is meaningless and doesn't give much honor. In my heart, I feel that something is missing. If we voted for the Oscars, it would be perfect!" Tim sighed.
"Haha, didn't the young Daqian boy, Hua Xia, say that he would beat the Oscars in 10 years at the latest?" Sam laughed.
"That's bullshit!" Although Tim said firmly, he then muttered in a low voice, "How is it possible to defeat Oscar? This is impossible!"
In the next few months, Sam almost developed a new habit. Whenever a new movie was released, he would take a half-hour detour to the cinema in Chinatown. After watching the movie, he would vote for it.
And every time Sam came, he would almost always bump into Tim. After all, the two of them worked at about the same time and were used to watching movies at about the same time. They had also developed the habit of voting after watching movies.
It couldn't be helped. For people like them who were full of complaints, it was simply too uncomfortable to not vote after watching the movie. They couldn't stand those cinemas where they couldn't vote.
At first, Sam and Tim thought that as long as they went, they would be able to watch the movie.
But as time went by, Sam and Tim found that they had to book a day or two in advance to be able to watch the movie. This was because the cinema in Chinatown was now full of people, even on weekdays. A large number of audiences crowded the small cinema to the point that it was about to explode.
Fortunately, Sam had a good relationship with the proprietress. As long as he called the proprietress in advance, the proprietress would reserve a movie ticket for him.
It seemed that there were many audiences who liked to vote after watching the movie!
— — —
At this moment, James, the owner of the Metropolitan Cinema, looked at his cinema with some worry. In recent months, the traffic of his cinema had decreased a lot, about 2% less than the same period last year.
However, the total box office of each month announced by the Film Association had increased by about 3% compared to the same period last year. This increase and decrease was a full 5% difference!
Although it wasn't much, James, who was famous for his meticulous calculations, still felt very unhappy. It was as if someone had snatched a piece of meat from his bowl.
However, James didn't know what the problem was until one day, when he went to an event organized by the Columbia City Film Club, he found a very annoying guy wearing an Armani suit.
This eyesore was a Huaxia man. He was very skinny and always had the word "stingy" written all over his face. When he participated in the activities of the movie club, he always tried to save money. Once, he and his wife even came wearing a patched gown that was unknown how many times they had worn.
Oh my God, the suit could be patched. This simply made James' worldview explode.
However, this Hua Xia couldn't be blamed, because his cinema in Chinatown was the most dilapidated and the worst cinema in Columbia City. Because of the location of Chinatown and the appetite of Hua Xia people, this cinema generally only played Hua Xia movies. The audience had always been small, and it was said that it could barely survive.
Therefore, when James saw this Hua Xia actually wearing an Armani suit, he was shocked.
It wasn't that the suit was expensive, but that this poor guy was actually willing to spend thousands of dollars to buy a suit!
"Hu, did you make a fortune?" James took the initiative to walk up and asked with a smile.
"No, no … I didn't make a fortune, just a small gain …" Boss Hu quickly said with the unique modesty of Hua Xia people.
"Hu, what you said is too fake. I saw it with my own eyes. You bought the two houses next door and are now renovating them. I guess your cinema will be at least twice as big!" A cinema owner came over and said enviously.
"Three times bigger! Where did you get so much money? " James was immediately jealous. If a cinema wanted to triple its size, it was not as simple as buying or renting a house. It also needed to buy new equipment, a full set of seats, and recruit more staff, etc.
He was afraid that it would cost at least 100,000 dollars. It was difficult for him to make a net profit of 100,000 dollars in a year. Where did this guy who only had a shabby old cinema get 100,000 dollars to expand it?
"Don't you know?" The cinema owner on the side continued to say enviously, "In the past three months, Hu's cinema was always full. Even if the staff watched a movie at 10 a.m., it still had more than 60% occupancy. After 3: 00 pm, there are no empty seats for any of the movies. "
"If you want to watch a movie at Hu's cinema after 3 p.m., you have to book the tickets at least three days in advance!"
"That's ridiculous!" James opened his eyes wide. What did it mean for a movie at 10 a.m. to have 60% occupancy?
One had to know that in James' Metropolitan Cinema, on average, 5% of the seats were occupied at 10 am. That was already considered very lucky. However, Hu's shabby cinema actually had 60% of the seats. This was simply the most ridiculous thing in the world!
"No! It's not like that! " Hu quickly explained, "It's only the weekend movies that need to be booked three days in advance. If it's a weekday, it can be booked one day in advance at most!"
"Pfft!" It was fine if Hu didn't explain, but once he did, James really wanted to vomit blood.
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