[PS: This chapter is 466]
"You mean! You are all here for the voting card of the Imperial International Film Festival! " In the bathroom, James, who was enduring the stench, finally learned the truth of the matter from his next-door neighbor. That was, 99% of the audience present here had come for the voting card!
At the same time, James finally remembered that the Daqian people seemed to have come to his Metropole Cinema and wanted to set up a voting box in the cinema, but he had firmly refused.
Could it be that he had really done something wrong?
James didn't want to believe this, so he couldn't help but ask, "How is this possible? It's just a chance to vote, and there are no benefits. Why would you come to such a godforsaken cinema for a voting card? "
"Friend, you don't understand. You haven't experienced the wonderful feeling of voting after watching a movie!" The neighbor on the side sighed, "Let me ask you, after watching a movie, do you have a strong desire to express your feelings?"
"Of course!" James nodded. After watching a movie, anyone would have the feeling of wanting to express their emotions.
"That's right!" The other person smiled and said, "You don't know, but it's actually quite cool to vote after watching a movie. Once you have done it once, you will want to do it again."
"The first time I came here, it was a friend who brought me here. The second time, I came here on my own initiative. Anyway, as long as I want to watch a movie in the future, I will probably come to this cinema. Anyway, it's the same money, so why not have another chance to express my feelings? "
"Oh!" James nodded thoughtfully. Indeed, if the price of watching a movie was the same, then the cinema with the opportunity to vote was indeed more attractive!
"But this Critical Moment has been showing for more than a week. Why are there still so many people coming to watch the movie?" James asked, puzzled.
"First of all, it's difficult to get a seat here. If you want to get a seat on a non-working day, you have to wait for two days. If it's a weekend, then you have to book a week in advance. So, many people here have booked the movie tickets three or four days ago. "
"Of course, other than the people who came to watch the movie for the first time, there are many people who came to watch it for the second time, the third time, and even more than ten times!" The other party revealed another shocking piece of information.
"Watching the movie over ten times, how is that possible?!" James was shocked again. It was understandable that she would take a detour to this cinema just for a chance to vote.
It was incomprehensible to watch a movie more than ten times. This was beyond the scope of watching a movie twice or thrice because one loved it too much. Who would watch a movie more than ten times in the cinema?
"Well, this is the only movie theater in the whole of Columbia City where people can vote!" The other party sighed and said, "You don't know this, but 'Imminent Peril' is actually a very good movie. Whether it's the production of sci-fi special effects or the concept of genetically perfect people in the movie, they are all top-notch. We all love this movie very much. This movie already has a lot of fans."
"However, the box office of this movie is so bad that they can't even recoup their investment. So, many loyal fans of the movie think that since they can't make this movie a box office success, they should at least make it win an award, so that all the audiences in the world know that there is such an excellent movie."
"So, many people come to watch the movie twice or thrice, even more than ten times, just to vote a few more times and raise the score of the movie so that this movie can win an award, which can be considered as compensation for this movie!"
"This is … incredible …" James opened his mouth wide.
This sounded incredible, but it was actually very normal. Anyone who knew a little bit about the culture of the fandom knew that there were many people who would buy hundreds of albums for their idols.
Of course, the former was a carnival for little girls, while the latter was a gamble for movie lovers who were unwilling to give up.
In fact, there weren't many people. There were only about a hundred people in the whole of Columbia City. Because this was the only movie theater in the whole of Columbia City that had the function of voting, they all gathered here, which made it seem like there were a lot of people.
In fact, 99% of the audience would not deliberately watch the movie a second time after watching it once.
However, all these people gathered in a small movie theater could indeed bring a lot of income to the small movie theater.
"However, there are also some damn black sheep among these people. For example, the person who stole the voting card before. If you have the ability, spend money to buy movie tickets and sit down to watch the movie. Stealing other people's voting cards is simply shameless. If I find out who it is, I will definitely beat him up!" The person cursed, then took a piss and returned to the theater with James, who was still a little confused.
Next, James, who had solved the doubts in his heart, began to watch the movie seriously. He then realized that this movie, which he had neglected before, was indeed a rare good movie.
When the movie was over, James's heart instantly surged with the desire to complain about the injustice of this movie. He couldn't wait to take out his voting card and start scoring on it.
It was obviously inappropriate to give all 100 points. This movie hadn't reached that level yet, and some aspects were really bad, such as the editing.
Anyway, according to what he thought in his heart, James gave a score of about 88 points seriously, then cast his sacred vote.
He glanced at the neighbors next door. Good heavens, all of them got 100 points. It's a bit like a fandom, but fortunately, these people were in the minority and couldn't change the overall situation.
When he left the movie theater, James even felt that he had saved an excellent movie.
Then, James saw the new screening room of the Great Moon Bay Movie Theater that was being renovated. The expression on James's face instantly became incomparably wonderful.
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"Did any of you see the business card that the Daqian staff gave me three months ago?" James asked loudly in his own movie theater.
"Boss, didn't you say that you would never contact the Daqian again? So when I was cleaning the garbage, I found it on the ground, so I cleaned it up! "A cleaner said carefully.
"Idiot!!" James couldn't help but curse. Such a precious business card, and this damn cleaner actually lost it. I must fire him.
"Boss, I remember that there may be another business card in the drawer at the front desk. The Daqian staff gave us a lot of business cards, and I threw them in the drawer. Maybe there are still one or two left!" A receptionist said quickly.
"Hurry up and look for it!" James shouted angrily. Then, a precious business card was found. James immediately called the number on the card. In a respectful and gentle voice, he proposed that he also hoped to be one of the voting cinemas.
"I'm very sorry. Because it involves a whole year's worth of movie ratings, if a new batch of theaters is added, it will greatly affect the overall number of votes. It's not fair to the movies released in the early stages."
"So we plan to add the second batch of voting theaters at the end of December this year. Please keep this business card and contact us again at that time!" The Daqian operator also hung up the phone politely, leaving the furious James.
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