Chapter 3651: Film Project (End)

After this, the professor of magic biology played by Wang also broke into the audience's sight. Wang was a fat mage, looking very kind, and also used healing potions to heal the protagonists' injuries, helping them hide the fact that they broke into the forest, which made the protagonists even more unscrupulous.

In order to investigate the previous student infection, they even ran out of the school and caused trouble in the ordinary world. After being discovered by the professors, they were all locked up. The children in the cinema made dissatisfied shouts.

The protagonists also had disputes. The little boy from Hong Kong felt that they shouldn't do this, at least they should abide by school rules, instead of abusing magic to scare ordinary people. But the white boy felt that they were executing justice, in order to ferret out that abominable vampire, this was something that had to be done. And the girl mediated in between.

A series of things happened later, and the result was that two of the three were hurt again, and this time they were hurt quite heavily, even alarming the headmaster and deputy headmaster. The white boy had now determined that Dr. Barton was a vampire, and wanted to expose him in front of the headmaster, but was scolded again. The protagonist group felt very frustrated, and even the audience couldn't be happy.

Immediately after, the plot rhythm began to speed up again. The protagonist group prepared to mix the sunlight potion that could restrain vampires, but they couldn't succeed no matter what. They sought help from the magic biology professor, who readily agreed and made an appointment to meet in the office at midnight.

The protagonists were very excited, feeling that they could defeat the damn vampire hiding in the school infirmary like this. But they didn't expect that when they arrived at the appointment at midnight, the magic biology professor revealed his fangs.

The three little protagonists were terrified, but also tried to use the magic they learned to deal with each other. They were chased by the vampire who turned into a bat all the way, and finally found half a bottle of sunlight potion in the classroom of the magic spell class. In a very dangerous situation, they splashed the potion on the vampire and successfully defeated him.

The final fighting and chasing battle was very exciting, all kinds of magic flew around, basically running through the entire second floor of the castle. They constantly used the magic they learned and all kinds of magic props to slow down the vampire's speed, such as using magic to manipulate sticky gel to paste his face, or the three worked together to manipulate the dummy, pretending that the arriving professor scared him, and then kicked him down the stairs from behind. The scene was unique and full of absurd black humor, making people watch it very satisfyingly.

Well-known film critics saw the shadow of "Home Alone" in this segment. Columbus's arrangement of actions and lens conversion in a small space was simply superb, even adults didn't feel childish, and with the magic background, it had a kind of absurd black humor, making people watch it and call it satisfying.

After defeating the vampire, the whole field erupted into warm cheers. The children were all immersed in the joy of victory, and others also stood up and applauded.

The children were completely immersed in the joy of victory, but the adults had already started to think: where did the key prop—that is, the half bottle of sunlight potion—come from?

The magic spell professor Wang Da had said before in class that she knew nothing about potion mixing. This was a very important clue in the movie, clearly the screenwriter telling the audience that this potion wasn't mixed by Wang Da.

And there was another clue in the movie, that was the magic spell professor Wang Da and the school doctor Barton were good friends. This clearly wasn't a useless clue, clearly the director was hinting: the potion was placed by the school doctor.

However, this school doctor's attitude toward the little mages was very bad, looking like no good person, why would he help the little mages? Could it be that he just hated vampires?

Clearly, this first movie left enough suspense. Film critics sat on the spot and didn't move for a long time, all whispering to each other, discussing the plot.

Actually, the plot of the first part was very simple, except for a simple reversal, there was nothing very difficult to understand. It was mainly used to show the worldview of the entire magic world, spending a lot of space on how the little mages went to class and lived.

Although the plot was relatively weak, the sense of immersion was full. Clearly, all the children present were very satisfied.

Film critics had basically reached a consensus, that was, this movie would definitely be popular. Because whether it was the mode of real mages participating, or the real Ilvermorny castle built with real materials, it was very shocking, and could completely bring people into a fantastic magic world. If the plot of the next few parts was expanded, it wasn't impossible to become a classic passed down through the ages.

Film critics had basically written the draft. Everyone who finished watching gave good reviews, just the focus points were different.

Some people accepted traditional media interviews, mainly talking about the real scene construction and the mode of mages participating. Compared with the current assembly-line, highly repetitive movie filming mode, it had a more perfect immersion experience.

Others shot short videos themselves, chatting about the shaping of various characters, such as the image and background of the professors, the academic level of the little mages, the difference between various demons, etc.

In short, these evaluations released first pulled everyone's expectations very high. After the full release in North American theaters, the first-day box office broke the highest box office record of the year, and soon broke Director Ke Lisi Columbus's own box office record.

Movie box office had a ladder effect. After the first batch of people finished watching, if the evaluation of this movie was relatively good, they would promote it spontaneously, then the number of viewers in the second batch would rise exponentially.

One week after the movie was released, it broke the all-time box office record for children's movies, leading the way in the first-week box office list. Publicity on major platforms spread very quickly.

Then it was boarding hot searches, dominating hot searches. Online and offline placement became hot. People started to spread by word of mouth, whether it was the children group or the teenager group, every family, every school was spreading things related to Ilvermorny.

The box office of family-friendly movies was usually relatively high, because minors couldn't watch movies alone, movie tickets had to be bought at least two, sometimes three. And the more people watched, the faster the good reviews spread, the more box office records were broken, the more people paid attention, forming a virtuous cycle.

At first, the movie was only well-known in the teenager group, and the audience group was junior high school students and high school students. However, because the spread speed was too fast, many adults also caught the hot spot and released various film reviews and analysis. 【3651-28

Adults and teenagers have different points of focus. They don't care much about the young protagonists, instead focusing their attention on the professors. And then, quite unsurprisingly, Schiller, as the villain with the most screen time and the most suspense in this installment, has received the attention of the majority.

Schiller's sanitarium is already packed to the point of overcrowding. Almost all the teenagers in the community, along with their parents, have come to visit under the guise of seeking medical treatment. And those who are already hospitalized are unwilling to be discharged, practically blocking Schiller's office until it is impassable.

Just as Schiller expected, because he appears relatively gentle in his daily life, it forms a huge contrast with his image in the movie. People all feel that his acting is excellent, and the reviews for him are basically full of praise.

The teenagers' focus is basically on the later plot. After analysis by various experts, most people believe that the key potion at the end was concocted by Barton, handed to the Charms professor, and placed in the classroom, which is what helped the young mages.

However, the difference is that the analysis regarding the motive is divided into two camps. One camp believes that this might have been concocted by Barton for his friend's self-defense, and it was just that the Potions professor, played by Wanda, accidentally left the potion in the classroom, which allowed the young mages to take advantage of it.

The other camp believes that Barton did it on purpose. He knew the true identity of the Magical Creatures professor, and knew that the young mages would still go and provoke him, so he deliberately placed the potion in the Charms classroom, which is on the same floor as the Magical Creatures classroom.

The true reason is a matter of opinion, with each side having its own logic, which has instead pushed the heat of the topic even higher.

Schiller has lost count of how many people have questioned him over the past few days. Everyone wants to know what exactly happened, but he cannot provide spoilers, so he can only try every possible way to muddle through.

Having been a psychiatrist for so many years, it has always been him leaving others speechless; he never expected that it would be his turn now. It really is a case of "what goes around comes around."

What was unexpected for Schiller is that, even without talking about his own acting, the character of Dr. Barton is also liked by many people.

Schiller actually doesn't understand it at all. The first movie barely showed any of Barton's personality, and this movie doesn't have an original novel, so no one knows what will happen next. Why would they like this grumpy school doctor?

So, for the past few days, he has been intensely scrolling through short videos just to see why movie fans like this character so much. After scrolling for two days, he reached a conclusion that left him speechless—it's all about the face.

They simply like the school doctor Barton's appearance and his inner temperament. To be precise, it's not that they love the house and therefore love the crow because of his appearance, but rather that they just like this kind of cold and oppressive temperament.

And Schiller only feels that there are really quite a lot of psychopath-obsessed people in this world. You don't like the powerful and dignified headmaster, you don't like the beautiful and intellectual Charms professor, but you just have to like the school doctor who doesn't give a good look from beginning to end. Although it's understandable, he still suggests they go see a doctor.

Schiller does not hope for this trend to spread, because being obsessed with a psychopath is really easy to manipulate and hurt. So he specifically contacted his old classmate and held a lecture at Harvard, mainly to analyze the personality of psychopath-obsessed people, tell them how to reduce this orientation, and at the same time teach them how to get rid of the manipulation of psychopaths.

And the result was that very few people listened seriously, but a whole bunch of pictures were produced. When Schiller went back that night and opened the short video app, he was practically blinded. The homepage was filled with a dozen clips of him lecturing, and the comments below were simply unwatchable; the emojis were nothing but little red hearts and little devils.

And the comment with the most likes under the video with the highest view count was: "The content is very professional and usually very useful, but from the choice of the lecturer, it seems Harvard doesn't want us to learn this lesson."

Studying psychology cannot save humanity. Schiller thought with quite a bit of despair.

?? It's here, it's here.

? (End of this chapter)