Chapter 25: Insane Promotional Poster! (Second Update!)

Night.

Deepened.

In the rental room.

Shen Long smoked cigarette after cigarette.

In the blink of an eye, he had smoked nearly two packs.

But...

But his gaze was fixed dead on the copy of "Sun Sun Wukong Battles Superman 2", his eyes bloodshot.

Ten days, this movie...

Damn it!

Let's just call it a movie!

Strictly speaking, it was nearly fifty minutes of video footage that needed to be expanded to an hour and a half...

How insane were these materials?

Filmed in such a chaotic mess it made one's scalp prickle!

You ask about the lead actor's acting?

Joke!

Just being able to cut the plot to something roughly coherent was already a blessing from heaven!

The key was, it had to be expanded to an hour and a half...

It required repeatedly playing back various actions back and forth, plus inserting all sorts of close-up slow-motion shots, besides that...

The key point!

The movie premieres on the 11th!

They were given only three days!

Three days, to do what?

To cut the plot well, to fix the special effects, to handle all sorts of post-production audio corrections, subtitle reassembly...

"Damn it!"

"I can't do it, General Manager Zhou, I can't do it!"

"..."

In the rental room.

Shen Long's mental state completely collapsed!

Alright! Since filming this movie, his mental state had collapsed countless times.

At this very moment, he kept grabbing his messy hair, finally making a call to Zhou Yang, almost crying.

"Director Shen, I believe in your talent. On the road to chasing dreams, one inevitably encounters some bumps and twists, but gold will always shine!"

"General Manager Zhou! I originally thought I had talent, but since filming this movie with you, let alone gold, how could I even compare? I'm just a stone in a outhouse! I feel like I want to switch careers to farming..."

"Director Shen, you must be confident! Alright, after the premiere of this movie, I'll give you a big bonus. I'll hang up first, I'm discussing business here!"

"..."

The call was hung up by Zhou Yang.

Shen Long stared blankly at the phone, then blankly at the computer, at the messy pile of footage...

The more he looked, the more he felt his life was probably over!

Just then, the phone rang; the call was from the cinematographer Zhang Zhang Yunyi...

"Director Shen, I can't do it, I can't do the special effects..."

"Director Shen, I suddenly feel I have no talent at all, I'm just a pile of shit..."

"Aaaaaah, Director Shen, a hundred-dollar job asking me to do ten-thousand-dollar footage, how can I do it? I feel like my hair is going to fall out... Director Shen, do you know? I feel like I'm going crazy right now..."

"..."

The familiar sound of breakdown echoed in Shen Long's ears.

Shen Long didn't know what came over him; mimicking Zhou Yang, he comforted with a sentence: "Gold will always shine..."

"I'm just a pile of dog shit, how am I gold? You're overestimating me too much! Aaaaaah!"

"..."

On the other end of the line.

Cinematographer Zhang Zhang Yunyi's mental state seemed to start becoming unstable.

…………………………

Night.

Gradually deepened.

【Feihe Cinema】.

The wandering singer Shen Hu did not, as usual, carry his guitar to beg under the overpass, but instead followed Zhou Yang to the office of 【Feihe Cinema】.

No choice; his loudspeaker for begging had been requisitioned by Zhou Yang. Without the loudspeaker's amplification, the wind on the overpass blew fiercely, and no one knew what he was listening to.

"The movie premieres on the 11th? Where's the sample film?"

"Currently editing..."

"Finish editing in three days?"

"Yes, finish editing!"

"Then today, General Manager Zhou, you came over to..."

"I came over to plan the promotion. I hope that during these three days, our 【Feihe Cinema】 can cooperate with the movie to do some promotion together!"

"Promotion?"

Inside the office of 【Feihe Cinema】.

Zhang Zhang Muxue looked at Zhou Yang; at this very moment, she felt somewhat dazed.

She didn't know if it was her illusion...

It seemed Zhou Yang's movie had only just started filming?

It hadn't been filmed for long, yet it was already wrapped up?

"Yes, promotion. I brought a cassette tape; listen to it..."

"Hmm?"

Zhang Zhang Muxue watched as Zhou Yang silently handed her a cassette tape; after hesitating for a moment, she finally put it into the tape recorder.

A moment later...

"Good news, good news, it's wrapped, it's wrapped, our movie is wrapped!"

"Good news, good news, starting tomorrow, come to 【Feihe Cinema】 to buy tickets! Movie tickets half price, half price! Yes, half price!"

"Good news, good news, China's first magical sci-fi shocking blockbuster, about to premiere, about to premiere..."

"Shocking visuals, Cool and Flashy Technique, ultimate special effects, space battle!"

"Don't miss it if you walk by, don't miss it if you walk by!"

"..."

Hearing the rough voice in the tape recorder, playing back and forth in a loop just like a vegetable vendor at a market, Zhang Zhang Muxue trembled slightly!

"Just... promote it like this?"

"Yes!"

"Also, I customized a piece of clothing for you, yes, the battle robe for our movie! Try it on first to see if the size fits..."

"???"

Zhang Zhang Muxue watched as Zhou Yang, smiling, took out pieces of bright red clothing from the bag Shen Hu carried with him.

Zhang Zhang Muxue instinctively took the clothes!

What came into view was actually two big characters: "Superman 2"!

Then, she saw a line of prominent big characters written below!

【Global Big Movie, July 11, 【Authorized Zhengban Tiao Ren 2】 shocks the screen!】

Wait!

Superman 2!

The longer she looked...

Zhang Zhang Muxue felt the "Chao" character in "Superman" was somehow strange!

Wait!

Damn!

Superman?

Authorized Zhengban Tiao Ren?

Damn!

It's Authorized Zhengban Tiao Ren, not Superman!

This is 【Authorized Zhengban Tiao Ren 2】, not 【Superman 2】!

"Starting tomorrow, place this loudspeaker at the cinema entrance and play it back and forth in a loop!"

"All staff of the cinema, from the premiere onwards, wear this T-shirt, and hang the 【Authorized Zhengban Tiao Ren 2】 poster in the most prominent place of the cinema!"

"This is the poster I carefully prepared!"

"..."

Zhang Zhang Muxue stared blankly at Zhou Yang; after he finished speaking, he revealed a smile, then took out a large poster!

The poster slowly unfolded before Zhang Zhang Muxue...

Looking at the familiar poster!

Zhang Zhang Muxue was shocked!

She suddenly stood up, then immediately opened the computer and searched for the promotional poster of the upcoming Hollywood blockbuster "Superman 2"...

On the computer screen, the muscular Superman held one hand up and bent the other, flying in the sky!

And the poster on the table showed the same muscular Superman, one hand held up, the other bent, flying in the sky.

The poster looked exactly like it had been completely copied and pasted from the computer, then enlarged!

The only difference was...

Wait!

The only difference was...

The appearance of the person on this poster was different...

The one on the computer was the lead actor, the famous Hollywood star Christopher, in Hollywood described as a handsome beauty who reaps goddesses...

And the Superman on Zhou Yang's poster was, on Christopher's face, a PS-ed East Asian face with 90% similarity to the original owner; if one didn't look closely, one really wouldn't discover it!

This is allowed?

Zhang Zhang Muxue sucked in a sharp breath, staring tightly at Zhou Yang.

She saw Zhou Yang push his glasses up with one hand, reveal a smile, stand up slightly, stare into the distance, and say seriously.

"From now on, we are going to crush Hollywood!"