The Goddess Shines on America

Alice only found out about Brown's thank you call and the first-day sales results of the new book when she took the initiative to call her home. As for herself, she is in the small town of Huron in central California at this time, and is filming for DreamWorks' first film, "Ghost Story" at her own expense.

"Jack, you have to hold on. The whole movie depends on you carrying such a big camera to take selfies. You can't do it without eating more burgers."

"Don't worry, boss, I'm the captain of the school's rugby team, a camera is nothing, but I've carried three cheerleading girls at the same time!"

Lush green lawns, white stone pavement, and a secluded street in Huron City, houses spread from one end to the other. More than a dozen young people were living in front of one of the houses. If someone carefully collected the latest newspapers, he would find that this was the house where the bodies of three high school students were found.

As the shooting scene of "Ghost Story", a young man in his mid-twenties is waving his arms mightily at the door, chatting loudly with other students. He is the rookie actor who plays the leading role in this movie, the captain of the rugby team of UCLA doctoral students.

After all, the leading actor should be able to take selfies with a camera in a reasonable way!

This is not the era when DV players have been available, and the weight of the video camera is quite expensive, so the original plot must be revised.

"Actually, it seems that the protagonist Mick is really an idiot."

As the assistant director, David looked at the house with his arms folded, and said with a smile: "I guess when the movie just started, the audience should say, why does this idiot want to carry a camera to take selfies? He doesn't mind it." Tired?"

"Yes, yes, there must be complaints."

Alice followed with a smile and said, "No matter how much we rationalize the plot, the audience won't go around the hero himself, so let's just shoot Mick to death, just make him a fool, and the more fools, the better." Well, the audience will definitely love it."

"So, Alice, why do I always feel that the atmosphere is a bit wrong?"

David rubbed his chin and said, "Although your script is really well written, it is indeed a sophisticated thriller movie, but listening to your analysis all the time, I always feel that we are making a...funny movie."

Alice touched her nose, now she was speechless. There is no way, I have really developed this habit, the Internet is so developed in later generations, no movie should be hacked into scum by the audience. Especially those horror movies and ghost horror movies, of course netizens did their best to make them humorous.

Therefore, Alice was not sure whether the movie was a thriller or a comedy after it came out, after all, this was the first time she reversed a movie as a script. As the saying goes, everyone has a first time, long live the understanding.

There is no doubt that the shooting location is the scene of the crime. It has been a while since the bodies of the three high school students were discovered and the UCLA \u0026amp; DreamWorks joint crew settled in. During this period, the police had collected all possible clues, otherwise they would not have had the opportunity to come here.

Of course, Alice is very good at keeping things clear. At that time, she went to the Menlo City Police Station in person and told Sergey, who had been her bodyguard, about her plan.

"Uncle~ I heard that the three bad boys who beat my brother are hanging there. After a while, I want to go to the scene of the crime and make a movie to enjoy myself. Can you watch it~"

With this kind of preemptive rhetoric, although the police will definitely be quite big, they will definitely not suspect anything about themselves~

After all, those three high school students... ahem.

The whole movie lasts less than a hundred minutes, and most of the plots just take place in the house, just a couple's daily self-portraits, plus the incompetent priest and the heroine's girlfriends. In just one week, more than 80% of the plot of the whole movie was finished. Alice figured it out, even including the finalized editing, it was all done in two weeks.

Well, it's comparable to the shooting cycle of "Chain Saw".

So it is a cliché that in order to accumulate funds for its development of the mainland clothing market and to make this movie a huge box office hit, DreamWorks spent a lot of money on publicity. Mr. Grant raised a total of 12 million U.S. dollars through deposits, loans, and loans. Then, relying on the channels he had accumulated over the years, he began to create public opinion with a sharp edge.

In fact, Alice personally wrote this whole promotional plan, and it had already started before the filming of the movie started.

One day at noon, when the sun shines vertically on the sky.

"Ah Choo!"

As an otaku, Harry, who is not a geek, walked out of the house, out of the "Geek House" full of the smell of instant noodles, sweatshirts, and stinky feet, and came to the windy New York In the Queens district of the city, in the corridor of a high-rise apartment building on an inconspicuous street. Then, because of the sudden cold weather and his special physical fitness as an otaku, ah Bu Geek, he sneezed without any suspense.

"Unlucky, you sneeze right after you wake up, what a bad luck!"

Rubbing the dark circles under his eyes, rubbing his thatch-like hair, stepping on the slippers, Harry walked with his head down, and easily came to the elevator, then followed the creaking elevator to the ground, and then lowered his head. Head straight out of the apartment building, eyes fixed on the ground, while walking deftly into the street.

Then he looked up blankly.

"Um... where's the newsstand?"

Gathering news had been Harry's obsession for years, but after struggling to find a newsstand, he was dismayed to find that the likes of The New York Times and This Morning's Spotlight had disappeared.

"I said Tom, you always have a lot of stocks here. How can such an important newspaper as "Current Affairs Observer" be out of stock!?"

Tom was a little old man in a blue-striped checkered shirt and a baseball cap with an American flag on his head. He was smoking a retro pipe and said impatiently, "Smelly brat, don't you see what time it is?" ? My place is the only newsstand in the whole street anyway, are you questioning my income!?"

Harry didn't dare to quarrel with this old man. After all, he actually lived upstairs, and he didn't see him when he looked down. How could he easily offend him?

Of course, he would not admit that he was afraid of the shotgun that was always loaded and loaded on the wall of Tom's restaurant.

"No, not at all. The ones you usually read are all gone, just one "Hunting and Surprise". I think you can buy a copy in about a month, why not just this!"

Seeing the cover of that newspaper, Harry was a little dissatisfied. Although "Hunting and Surprise" had a lot of sales, it was regarded as a well-known newspaper among the tabloids, with tens of thousands of sales in New York alone, but Harry usually read it as an amateur pastime. Now, the serious "Washington Post" doesn't read anything, and just looks at the entertainment first, isn't it putting the cart before the horse?

"...What kind of eyes are you staring at, just your panda eyes, do you think you are scary? Oh yes, I'm afraid you don't know what a panda is, do you? Brat, go to the zoo if you have nothing to do... buy it? Oh, buy it All right, get out!"

Harry swears that he didn't quarrel with the old man because he forgot to drink coffee and lost energy, not the shotgun or something!

Even in New York in November, the sun at noon was scorching enough. Harry looked dissatisfied at the sunny sky and land around him, found a corner of a coffee shop, and opened the newspaper for the second time. Version.

Then, he couldn't move his eyes away for an instant.

"...The stalemate until now, the police are still at a loss for the murder of Huron's high school student, unable to find any effective clues. After many investigations, this reporter believes that, compared with the clues of the case itself, it seems that paying attention to the crime scene Much more useful."

"Huron's area is small, but its establishment history can be traced back to the beginning of this century, and the street where the crime scene is located has a history of more than 50 years. According to the reporter's visit and investigation, in the past 50 years In the city, No. 11 Walker Street has been resold 95 times, and the latest resale happened three years ago. That is to say, this kind of house welcomes a new family every two quarters on average.”

"What is the reason that an ordinary household has to move every quarter on average, and a household needs to be replaced every two quarters? Why, the latest batch of households can persist for three years? Go? Why, the current family only has a mother with disabilities and dementia living here, and the buyer of the house has not come to visit his relatives in the past six months?"

"The reporters of this newspaper will inevitably have a lot of suspicions, and they will inevitably draw closer to supernatural events. It stands to reason that compared with the two or three hundred years of history on the East Coast, the West Coast should not be a place haunted by ghosts and ghosts, but that is just human subjective Imagination, at most, is just reflected in the movie as a setting. If this kind of event really happens, presumably ghosts don’t care about historical factors, right?”

"Three high school students who were reported to be missing in May were found at the end of October. The autopsy date of death was about three months, and the coroner did not find traces of formalin. A tear wound on the neck is not a beast As a result, the blood loss in the whole body exceeds 80%... Yes, the first thing I thought of was naturally a vampire..."