Chapter 1114: Why Your Comedy Broke the Horror Movie Record
”But I don’t have any experience! I’m not a very good liar, it’s easy to be exposed.” Xiao Sun had a helpless smile on his face, it was the first time he was taken so seriously.
”You don’t need to lie, just be yourself.” Chen Ge was very optimistic about Little Sun and was ready to focus on cultivating him, “When Lao Zhou finishes shooting the movie, you can communicate with him more, he is one of the most experienced actors we have here, with many experiences of pretending to be a tourist.”
”Okay.”
”Cheer up.” Chen Ge let Xiao Sun go to familiarize himself with the venue, while he held the white cat and continued to check the plutonium scene, “Old Zhou and Duan Yue’s exposure is too high, many tourists will be wary as long as they see someone similar to them, and even some of the old greasers will specifically ask their teammates for their names before entering the scene, and once they meet tourists with the last name of Zhou, they’ll immediately flee far away, which makes Old Zhou and Duan Yue’s work a a great deal of difficulty.”
”It’s also a good thing for me to have fresh blood joining now, I believe that Little Sun will definitely be able to make a big impact in the haunted house in the future and bring his special abilities into play.”
The Cursed Seed that had been abandoned by the Underworld Fetus was given a new “job” here in Chen Ge.
Arranging positions for all the severe ghosts, Chen Ge taught them to scare others by hand, while he himself continued to familiarize himself with the Underworld Fetus Scene.
The Underworld Scene was even bigger than the Psychic Ghost School, and the nine sub-scenes were already extremely scary, not to mention the most terrifying hidden scene, the World of Black Mist.
Chen Ge realized that the biggest difference between four-star scenes and three-star scenes was that all four-star scenes contained a hidden scene.
The hidden scene in the Psychic Ghost School was the Red Clothes Drawing Room, and the entire campus where the Red Clothes Drawing Room was located was blood red, completely restoring the world behind the door.
The hidden scene in the Underworld Fetus Scene, the Jiu Hong neighborhood, completely restores the world of black mist.
The black mist transformed into dark spirits and negative emotions drifted in the scene, and the only difference between here and behind Xiang Nuan’s door was that there were no man-eating monsters in the black mist.
Strolling in the middle of the black fog, Chen Ge closed his eyes as he earnestly felt the terror brought by the black fog.
”What exactly is this black fog? Why is it that I know I’m in a state of absolute safety, but I still feel a palpitation when I’m standing in it, as if I’ve been detached from the real world and am in the middle of someone else’s nightmare.”
”Everything is unknown, everything is strange.”
The world of black fog is all filled with abandoned memories, the black fog hides pain, despair and fear, and walking through the fog creates the illusion that one is being assimilated.
Walking around and realizing that you are part of the black fog, that you are the despair and pain itself.
”If there is a visitor who can walk out of the black fog with his own will, then he must be a very powerful person.” After Chen Ge finished speaking, he walked out of the black fog himself and entered the middle of the Jiu Hong neighborhood.
The arrangement of these buildings was similar to the one behind the Xiang Nuan Gate, where the most important memories of the Underworld Fetus and the most tragic past were located.
Chen Ge also found the remnants of the rag doll’s body here, and just like the Jiu Hong neighborhood behind Xiang Nuan’s door, the rag doll’s body was split into several parts and hidden amongst the agitated buildings.
”We can consider letting them come in to look for the remnants of the rag doll’s body, and after finding all the bodies, successfully bringing them out is considered a pass.” Chen Ge first searched for all the rag doll’s bodies, he originally wanted to take a picture to use as a mission statement, but who knew that an accident had occurred.
After the remnants of the rag doll’s body were put together, the entire Underworld Fetus scene changed!
The cries of a child appeared in the black mist, countless undead loomed in it, and all sorts of curses crawled all over all the buildings in the Nine Hong neighborhood.
”I’ll go! What’s this?” Chen Ge hurriedly summoned the red high-heeled shoes, worrying that he had triggered the means reserved by the Underworld Fetus.
After looking at it, the red high-heeled shoes gave Chen Ge a clear answer that the Underworld Fetus had already scattered its soul and its consciousness was completely shattered, making it impossible for it to come back.
The reason why this scene had changed was because the “Fierce God” had killed too many people. Even if the fetus had been dispersed, even if it had borne all the sins, there would still be something left behind, and this was the difference between the Fierce God and the top red coat.
The Underworld Tire Scene recorded everything about the Underworld Tire, a place that was the closest thing to hell for tourists, but paradise for the Red High Heels.
She took the same route as the Undertow and specialized in the same things, and she had swallowed most of the curses left behind by the Undertow, and at this time, knowing more details about the Undertow’s past and all the breakthroughs would be very helpful for her to become a Fierce God.
”You’ll stay in the middle of the Underworld Tire Scene, I’m very relieved to have you, a top-notch Red Clothesman, sitting in the middle of it.” Chen Ge had just finished speaking when the red high-heeled woman with bandages wrapped around her body walked next to him.
Waving her hands, the woman used countless black silk threads to intertwine into a single ghostly monster, these monsters formed entirely from curses were extremely terrifying, with a strength almost equal to that of a half-body red coat.
”Are you preparing to use them to scare the tourists?” Chen Ge wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, “No, no, calm down! You just need to hold down the scene, don’t let the curse hurt the tourists.”
Chen Ge didn’t adopt Red High Heels’ idea, but it gave him a wake up call, “I’ve memorized a lot of Black Mist World ghosts and monsters in my mind, take some time and I’ll go and make all of them, mannequins and stern ghosts mixed together this is the perfect haunted house scene.”
Leaving Zhang Yi to assist with the red high heels, Chen Ge left the hidden scene down a secret passage.
The Underworld Fetus Scene was different from the Psychic Haunted School, all the sub-scenes hid secret passages leading to the hidden scenes, whether or not they could be found depended on the visitor’s ability.
The employees filmed and studied, constantly adapting to their new identities, Chen Ge wasn’t idle either, he went into the tool room and started drawing the drawings of the black mist monster, preparing to go to the place where the dolls were made tomorrow to customize another batch of props.
When it was almost dawn, Chen Ge returned to the staff lounge, but he couldn’t sleep as he lay on his bed.
He was used to wandering around in the dark and being born to die every night, so he was still a bit uncomfortable after he had violently relaxed.
Confused, Chen Ge didn’t know when he fell asleep, and when he opened his eyes again, a new day had arrived.
The group of people that Director Luo had told him to be careful of still hadn’t appeared, but the number of visitors to the four-star scenario Psychic Ghost School, which he had chosen to challenge today, had suddenly increased.
Many people came from great distances just to enter the Psychic Ghost School experience.
These people didn’t look like they were here to pick a fight, their attitudes were ridiculously good, and in order to pass the level, they saw the ghosts as if they were meeting their elders, causing some of the employees to be embarrassed to scare them.
But even so, no one among them was able to pass.
”There must be a demon when things go wrong, most of the tourists who came to visit the four-star scene today bought their tickets in a group on the internet, and they seem to know each other.” Chen Ge took a look at that haunted house APP of Luo Dong’s and found that in recent days, some people were frantically collecting information about the Psychic Ghost School, and there were even people on major platforms who offered high prices to buy information related to the scenes of the Psychic Ghost School.
Chen Ge reacted this matter to Director Luo, and at noon, Luo Dong told Chen Ge that it was Ma Feng who made the move.
A true general with a long victory never fought unprepared battles, Ma Feng had collected a large amount of intelligence in order to re-challenge the scene that had disgraced the Virtual Future Paradise, to rise from where he fell, he was prepared to fight back the face that Jiang Jiu had lost.
Ma Feng’s approach couldn’t be faulted in any sense, the key was that Chen Ge now had a new scene, this kind of scene unlocking speed was unimaginable to anyone involved in the haunted house industry, not to mention Ma Feng.
”You guys take your time to investigate, I’ll announce the information about the new scene of the Underworld Tire when you’re all prepared.” Chen Ge watched a large number of “tourists” desperately challenging the psychic ghost school, and then being pushed out by the cart, his heart was quite emotional: “I really didn’t expect that I would open a haunted house and still be able to generate income for the hospital.”
A calm day with no ripples, Chen Ge left the paradise with his bag on his back, and he continued to go help those suicides fulfill their last wishes.
In fact, in this process, he himself slowly realized something, life and death are separated by eternity, the rules of the world are just not gentle, but there are always some things that need to be done by gentle people.
Busy until dark, now Zhang Wenyu has owed Chen Ge more than a dozen favors, his attitude towards Chen Ge continues to improve, his tone of voice is not so stiff, and occasionally reveals a more realistic side, he and Chen Ge on the phone, and it slowly becomes as if he is chatting with a friend.
The deeper Chen Ge got to know Zhang Wenyu, the more he realized how scary this Redcoat was, there used to be a lot of scary guys in the southern and northern suburbs as well, but then only Zhang Wenyu was left in these two places.
After six o’clock in the evening, Chen Ge returned to New Century Paradise, and he had just finished inquiring about Lao Zhou’s operation today when Chang Loo rushed out from the underground scene.
”Director Chang? You’re looking for me for something?”
”The movie cut is finished, do you want to take a look?” Chang Ku’s eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes, his face was as pale as paper, even his body had become much more illusory, as if he had just gone through a vicious battle.
”It’s only been a few days and you finished filming? It’s too fast!” Chen Ge was surprised.
”Whether it’s making a TV series or a movie, it’s not as easy as you think. According to the regulations, we first need to attach an operating unit that has a filming license, and then in their name, go to the local film and television competent unit to receive a filming application form, after reviewing it without any problems and then report it, the General Administration Bureau will issue a filming license after reviewing and approving it, and that’s just setting up the project, that is, it’s the first step only.” Chang Ku’s words directly confused Chen Ge.
”Then what did you mean when you said you’re done filming just now?”
”What I’m filming now is a concept movie, you can understand it as the Essence web skit version, as long as this concept web skit can catch fire, naturally there will be related companies looking for us, only then will there be room for maneuverability, after all, our actors are very special.” Chang Ku is an industry insider, and naturally knows more than Chen Ge: “But you shouldn’t hold too much hope, be prepared to entertain yourself, at least I see that everyone is enjoying the process of filming, and they are all looking forward to watching the final product.”
”There’s no living audience, but there’s a group of stern ghost audience, I don’t know if the writers can accept the result.” Chen Ge followed Chang Ku back to the underground, they entered the makeshift screening room, and by the time they came over, the screening room was already packed with employees.
”The movie isn’t long, but every frame is the essence, it’s everyone’s blood and sweat.” Standing on the projection stage, Chang Ku said a few last words, then the lights went out and the movie began to play.
The title was called That Summer I Was Eighteen, and it was mainly about a female student who came out of depression and ushered in a new life with the help of her parents and school.
It was a school comedy full of positive energy, but the feeling of Chang Ku shooting it out was vaguely off.
The picture hadn’t even come out yet, and just the soundtrack playing in the background made Chen Ge feel goosebumps rise on his neck.
”How about this tune? Xu Yin’s original, he’s simply a genius, with a high face value and strength, he can also compose music and various instruments, you’ve really picked up a treasure!” Chang Lu whispered, his words full of appreciation for Xu Yin.
”The tune is made by him, who is the singer? How come it sounds a bit} human?”
”A student of the music club of the Psychic Ghost School, nicknamed the class president, a very cute girl.”
”It’s already scary enough, and you’re looking for a bunch of stern ghosts to harmonize?” Chen Ge felt that this tune would be fine as background music for a haunted house.
”Scary? I do think the atmosphere is cozy! Comedy is all about making the viewer feel comfortable.” Standing Orphan stared at the screen, and he seemed to be a little nervous.
”Big brother, you’re already dead, you feeling comfortable and the audience feeling comfortable are two different concepts.”
”But the viewers also feel good ah, it’s starting, it’s time to start the main movie.” Chang Ku signaled Chen Ge to continue on.
Frankly speaking Chang Ku did a very good job of filming, and he utilized his talent as a horror movie director to the fullest.
Chen Ge only watched for a minute or two before he was completely captivated by the plot.
The entire movie was no longer about a positive story of a depressed person curing himself, but became about a schoolgirl accidentally finding herself living in an imaginary world, she ran, chased and walked through countless absurd and bizarre things, and finally woke up from the nightmare, and right at the moment of waking up, the reality and the nightmare intersected with each other, and all of the clues and imagery were all checked against each other.
The final scene of the movie is when the heroine looks at her nightmare self and pulls off the rose that grows on the heart of the nightmare self.
The rose pierces the heroine’s finger and blood drips down from the nightmare to reality, and she vaguely hears the familiar, gentle voice of the hero.
”Does it hurt?”
The ending was an open ending, but the story was so complete that Chen Ge felt very shocked even after reading it.
”Out of my expectation, very good …… Wait a minute, what was the original plot again?” Chen Ge looked at Chang Lone.
”Depressed girl heals herself, I’m just showing this process more specifically, campus, comedy, youth, positive energy, all of these elements! The plot hasn’t been altered in any way either, except that it takes place in both nightmare and reality. The nightmare world is the inner world of the depressed girl, and the real world is the real world, the two world lines intertwine and influence each other, it’s just perfect!” Standing Orphan took out the writer’s original book, and labeled the changes and depictions of the girl’s inner world in it in particular.
”Normal means of filming, trying to express this inner change is very difficult, but we’re different, you should understand the reasoning of raising the strengths and avoiding the weaknesses.”
Chang Ku was very confident in himself, Chen Ge didn’t say anything more as he looked at the employees who were already celebrating with fervor, “Give me the film, I’ll go and let the original author take a look at it, and if he thinks it’s okay, then we’ll just put it on the internet.”
After getting the original movie, Chen Ge hoofed it to the northern suburb of Hanjiang, where he met Zhang Wenyu once again.
This redcoat looked just like an ordinary person, without a trace of Yin Qi on his body, different from all the redcoats Chen Ge had seen.
The original author had watched Chang Lone’s movie and gave Chang Lone high praise, seemingly saying that Chang Lone had filmed the kernel of comedy.
”These ones who are in the arts, they feel like they’re all very powerful.”
Having received a high evaluation, Chen Ge rushed back to the haunted house, and after discussing with Chang Lone for a long time, he finally decided to release this conceptual web skit at multiple points, utilizing the horror house’s popularity on the internet and the huge number of fans to bring it to life.
Personal accounts, the largest short video sites, video sites, as well as Chen Ge’s live broadcast platform, as well as the haunted house APP developed by Director Luo, Chen Ge released all the places he could think of, he did not care about the monetary return, only thinking that this short drama can be a big fire, attract the attention of those companies with filming qualifications, and at the same time, it is also considered to give the writer an explanation.
After only ten minutes of posting this short drama, the views, comments and retweets had already started to skyrocket like a rocket, far exceeding Chen Ge’s expectations.
”Crap! A haunted house is making a school comedy!”
”What kind of divine plot is this!”
”The female lead confessed her love to the male lead, and what the hell is that red-clothed groupie’s sudden corpse separation!”
”Have you ever seen a male or female lead confessing and the group actor committing suicide?!”
”This is fucking comedy? That female teacher who brought the male and female lead into the classroom, she turned around and her legs were gone ah! KAM! There will be a body for three people???”
”The ending seals the deal! I got goosebumps from watching it!”
”The male lead is handsome! As long as you guard Xu Yin, you’ll be my half-brother and half-sister from now on!”
Looking at the soaring data, Chen Ge and Chang Lone were dumbfounded, the post editing was done by Chang Lone alone, and with the tight timeframe, it was inevitable that there would be some bloopers.
But the gangster shots filmed in Chen Ge’s haunted house, that was put in other horror movies were absolutely real special effects that had to burn a lot of money to produce.
”What to do?”
”I feel like we’re going further and further down the road of comedy.” Chen Ge hadn’t finished speaking when his cell phone rang, and when he saw that it was Director Luo calling, he hurriedly pressed the answer button, “Luo Dong? Is something wrong?”
”You still make movies?!”
”It’s my staff filming.” Chen Ge didn’t know what to say, “Luo Dong, did you also see the short movie we made?”
”It was an old friend of mine who specifically called me, he said he found a pop-up, the producer written on it was the New Century Paradise House of Horrors, and when he searched for it, wasn’t it my paradise? So he hurriedly called over to confirm with me.” Luo Dong tone a little calmer.
”That friend of yours is a movie and television company?”
”Anyway, he’s quite powerful, as soon as this short drama of yours was released, all the data directly crushed the horror shorts of the same period. Their website has a comprehensive data ranking, and your short drama has already broken their record for the horror genre, and is still setting new records!” Director Luo’s words were also filled with surprise and exclamation, “Chen Ge, you really brought me too many surprises.”
”Breaking records is a good thing, but I still want to reiterate it again.” Chen Ge scratched his head, “This is actually a youthful love campus drama for us, a positive energy comedy.”
”A comedy? Why would a comedy break someone’s horror movie record?”