I'm just trying to ride the wave of popularity!

Chapter 257 Shameless attempt to ride the wave of popularity!
The lights in the AMC theater slowly came on.

The last frame on the screen disappeared into the darkness.

The Chinese subtitles at the end of the film flowed like a river of stars…

Despite the fact that it was Chinese that no one could understand, it did not affect the excitement in the entire theater.

After a brief silence—

"Holy shit!!!"

A near-voice-breaking scream tore through the air, as if igniting a powder keg.

The young Black man in the back row suddenly kicked over his Coke cup, stepped on the seat, and waved his fists wildly, as if his hormones were being stimulated by the visceral scenes in the movie, driving him to an uncontrollable frenzy...

The white student on the left, wearing a baseball cap, squeezed the popcorn bucket so tightly that he stared at the string of incomprehensible Chinese characters on the screen, wanting to say something, but found himself unable to utter a word!

The Asian boy not far away was also very excited, constantly pulling his companion and excitedly explaining something in Chinese...

Vaguely...

You can hear "Zhou Yang", you can hear "Saw" and words like "crazy"!
……

Carl sat in the last row, watching this unreal scene unfold before him.

this moment!
He had tinnitus, a constant buzzing in his ears, and his eardrums vibrating continuously; at one point, he couldn't hear anything at all...

On the distant screen, the light and shadow gradually dimmed, revealing the words "[Zhou Yang's Work]" in large characters, which remained frozen for a very long time!

Karl gasped for breath, and in the next moment, a flood of complex emotions surged into his heart, causing him to stand up excitedly!
“Karl, damn Karl, listen…”

He was finally able to hear a sound, but it was extremely piercing.

Kevin pointed excitedly ahead.

Ahead!

Amidst the noise!
"Fuck!"

"This is a true superhero..."
"God, I love him so much! FUCK those hypocritical politicians, FUCK!"

"..."

The roars of anger echoed throughout the screening room for a long time.

Previously, the superheroes they saw on screen were all great, righteous, and without any flaws...

And this movie...

They saw the subversive charm of the character, they saw the complexities of human nature, they saw a real, flesh-and-blood, temperamental Superman!
We also witnessed the unprecedented visual and emotional impact of the film!

I witnessed absolute force, abandoning moral constraints, and being unfettered by anything, killing and killing all the way...

This was a movie they had never seen before!
Explosive!

……

Carl watched as the [XuanShi Entertainment] logo disappeared from the screen for the last time!

Watching the screen eventually sink into endless darkness.

He clenched his fist!

Trembling with excitement!

At the gambling table that will decide his fate!

He made the right bet!

....................................

China.

[Feihe Cinema]

Liu Jun watched as the lights on the screen gradually came on.

On the screen, under the gray-brown light, the outline of the laboratory gradually became clear.

In the footage, the cold metal instruments gleamed with a chilling light, and blood-stained bandages and syringes were scattered on the operating table.

The camera moved upwards, eventually reaching a series of culture chambers.

Humanoid embryos floated in the incubation chamber, connected by a dense network of tubes. Bubbles in the nutrient solution rose slowly, leaving tiny watermarks on the glass wall.

The camera slowly zooms in, focusing on the largest incubation chamber in the center...

Through the murky green liquid, a curled-up body could be vaguely seen, with black, spider-like protrusions extending from its back, trembling slightly with each breath.

Suddenly, the body opened its eyes, and the scarlet pupils contracted sharply in the liquid!

The laboratory alarm blared, and the red lights flashed frantically.

The sound of mechanical gears turning came from the shadows. A figure wearing a gas mask pressed a lever, and a hoarse voice came through a voice changer:
Welcome to... the birthplace of superheroes!

"Experiment No. 999, failure..."

The voice was filled with coldness and chill, and Liu Jun trembled slightly involuntarily.

A moment later, the camera slowly moved upwards, eventually stopping on a strange logo that read "TD".

Then, the light on the screen gradually dimmed, and dimmed further, until it finally disappeared into the darkness.

The entire screening room was plunged into endless darkness...

But from the darkness, a gentle voice, tinged with excitement, rang out.

“Dear Mr. Clark…” “I mean no harm. I am extending a friendly invitation to you on behalf of the highest leaders of humanity…”

"..."

"We've established a superhero company called [TD], ready to serve you from start to finish..."

“We investigated and found that the ‘explosion at the court’ and the ‘explosion at the laboratory’ were completely accidents, or rather, traps set by those villains who attempted to use the weapon of public opinion to push you into the abyss… We, the people of justice, will not let their conspiracy succeed!”

"If it weren't for your constant restraint and your efforts to save those innocent victims, our 'Ugly Covenant' city would have been reduced to ruins!"

"We will expose the illegal acts of those villains to the public, and we will clear your name so that the whole world knows how much you have sacrificed and made concessions to save the world!"

"..."

The voice that rang in his ears startled Liu Jun slightly.

It seems somewhat familiar, as if I've heard it somewhere before.

After a brief mental blank, he was stunned for a moment!
That's a line from the very last part of "The Distant Man: Reboot"!
Just after Superman let loose, destroyed everything, and tore everything apart, a mysterious young man in a suit walked in and began to cooperate with Superman...

Not long after Chen Jun recalled that part of the plot...

The screen lights came on again.

This time, the color scheme is not dark; instead, it's very bright and vibrant...

The scene depicts a metropolis resembling New York...

The camera pans down over this steel jungle known as "New Gotham"...

The gentle light of dawn enveloped a building called [TD]...

At the entrance of the building stands a Superman statue that is nearly 20 meters tall!

The Superman statue holds a politician's head in its left hand and gently cradles an infant in its right, while the inscription "Humanitarian Award Winner" on the base gleams in the sunlight.

The camera rapidly descends, passing through the glass curtain wall of TD Corporation's headquarters.

The electronic screens on both sides of the corridor played a loop of edited footage: when Superman used his heat vision to vaporize terrorists, the special effects team turned the screams into hymns.

As he broke the rebel's spine in the street, the editor cleverly cut to a shot of children offering flowers...

"The latest poll shows that public approval ratings for Superman have risen to 92%!"
The announcer's voice came from the cleaner's radio.

The hunchbacked old man wiping the wall of honor suddenly trembled as his gloves brushed against the photo of "Employee of the Year"—in the frame, a smiling Superman was stepping on his son's corpse.

The glass door of the finance department reflected the billboard across the street.

In that huge poster that took up half a block, the unwashed blood could be vaguely seen between the folds of Superman's red cape.

The advertisement, written in Gothic font, reads: "True heroes dare to break the rules," and is signed by the TD Company Public Relations Department.

……

The transitions between montage shots are filled with American joy and lingering charm, yet the peaceful and gentle voices in my ears are unusually loud...

In the footage, Chen Jun saw scenes from the past episodes of "The Reboot"...

However, unlike the Superman in "Human Reboot," who is portrayed as "twisted," "bloodthirsty," and "mad," the scenes shown to the public in this film depict Superman being forced to kill politicians who "manipulate public opinion" and "attempt to destroy the world" in order to save the people during a crisis.

Those "humans" who once targeted Superman in the first part of "Human Reboot" are now all nailed to the pillar of shame...

Chen Jun also saw a company similar to the Daily Bugle from Spider-Man...

When Chen Jun saw the name of the newspaper, he was stunned!
"Pfft!"

"Holy crap, this is ridiculous! Everyone else has 'The Daily Bugle,' and you're calling yourself 'The Bugle'?"

"Cough, cough, I'm choking!"

"..."

Someone in the back row choked on their cola and started coughing violently!

In the movie "Spider-Man," it's the Daily Bugle.

But the movie is called "The Daily Bugle"!
What the hell!
The only difference was that the bugle was replaced with a horn!
Do you think this is shameless enough?

Do not!
Even more shameless, they were behind them!

The boss in Spider-Man is named Jonah Jameson, while the editor-in-chief's name in this movie is...

What the hell!
James Jonathan!
Upon hearing this Chinese name, Chen Jun's anus tightened slightly!
Not only did they switch the positions of the characters in the name, but they also went so far as to change the position of the character "森" (Sen)!
As expected of President Zhou!
Awesome!
Chen Jun was slightly startled. Then, he clearly saw the appearance of the editor-in-chief of "Black Robe Alliance" and was slightly startled after seeing it!
This is a foreign actor!
He looks remarkably like the Daily Bugle boss from Spider-Man, especially his little mustache. If you don't look closely, you might mistake them for brothers!

How did you find Shen Long, the director of [Xuan Shi Entertainment]?

but……

What Chen Jun found slightly ironic was that this movie and "Spider-Man" seemed to be completely reversed!

The Daily Bugle, which just finished showing "Spider-Man," was filled with all sorts of smears against Spider-Man. Even the column "The Threat Under the Mask" included a photo of Spider-Man swinging through a fire: "Look at these broken webs! The fire department had to spend an extra $12 to clear these obstacles!"

In the movie, the Daily Bugle from the "Black Robe Alliance" newspaper used Photoshop to alter the scene of Superman crushing a politician's head into "eliminating corrupt elements," accompanied by the text "Absolute justice requires absolute power."

In addition, he also saw that in the movie, when Superman destroyed the laboratory, the headline was "Breaking the Shackles of Scientific Ethics! TD Corporation Announces Breakthrough Progress in Super Soldier Program".

They even edited videos of protesters being vaporized by heat vision into clips of "cleaning up terrorist hideouts," accompanied by a beautiful symphonic version of "Ode to Joy" as background music...

……

The scenes unfolded one after another, giving Chen Jun an indescribable sense of irony!
And the damage done to the superhero Spider-Man in "The League of Black: The Rise of Spider-Man" comes even later...

(End of this chapter)