Not long ago, the cat cup incident caused a lot of uproar.
He directed and acted in a play called "Primary School Students Lost Their Homework Books in France".
As the incident fermented, the heat skyrocketed.
In the end, it was found to be fabricated, and not only was the account blocked, but also received administrative punishment.
In fact, such incidents are not uncommon in today's online environment.
Relying on the means of making up stories to attract attention has become a traffic password.
It just so happens that a new film recently talks about this topic.
And it plays bigger, plays harder, and has a worse ending.
As a horror film, word-of-mouth has caught up with the recent hit Korean movie "Broken Tomb".
Today, let's take a look at it together-
"The Devil's Late Show"
Late Night with the Devil
The traffic password of the Internet has long been played with various tricks.
But at the end of the day, the basic routine is still similar.
It's like making up some bizarre and mysterious stories to capture the emotional pain points of the public.
Or create antagonistic controversy, want to promote the first to play reversal, and so on.
Although the story of this "Devil's Late Show" takes place in the 70s of the last century, the idea that catches people's attention is the same.
It's just that the movie is bigger - acting in a psychic live show.
The main character, Jack, is a famous entertainment presenter.
At first, his show did well.
Successful career and happy family.
In the eyes of the outside world, he is a proper winner in life.
The only regret is that the program ratings are the second in the millennium.
With the death of his wife due to illness, Jack was depressed, and the show's ratings fell off a cliff.
Gradually getting out of the pain of losing his wife, he decided to make a comeback.
He is unwilling to fail the show, and he is even more unwilling to be the second.
So, he planned a Halloween night psychic show.
This unprecedented late-night show will be his turnaround.
The first to play was an Indian psychic medium.
This well-known psychic medium claims to be able to hear soul whispers.
To put it bluntly, it is to be able to read minds.
As soon as he got on the stage, he started performing.
One operation, say the name of one of the audience members on the scene.
But the details are not all right.
The atmosphere was a little awkward, and the psychic medium seemed to have overturned.
Jack saw that the atmosphere was not right, so he wanted to insert an advertisement to round the scene.
Unexpectedly, the medium hit the name of another viewer's deceased son for the second time.
One operation stimulated the audience's true feelings.
The scene was once touching, and the effect of the show was almost full score.
Just as the show was about to come to an end, the medium suddenly "worked" again.
I saw him holding his head in his hands, and shouted with a painful face:
"I heard a name Minnie Mouse, so sad. 」
As soon as the words ended, the stage was pitch black, and the medium fell to the ground.
The audience was in an uproar.
Even Jack looked surprised.
In fact, it was all a planned script before that.
Including the mistake at the beginning, it gives people the impression of watching a joke.
Recreate the reversal to bring a strong impact to the audience.
But the last psychic didn't make Jack expect.
He thought it was the psychic medium that was too exaggerated in order to attract attention.
After the commercial, a second guest appeared.
He was a master magician.
At the same time, there is another identity -
Professional anti-counterfeiting.
It is to expose those charlatans who pretend to be ghosts.
Inviting such guests to the stage is naturally the purpose of the program team.
In order to create conflict.
As soon as the magician came up, he made all kinds of mockery of the medium.
I insist that those spirits are fake.
The medium immediately felt insulted.
In a fit of rage, he turned around and was about to leave.
Over there, Jack was still explaining that the "Minnie Mouse" that the medium had just said was his wife.
Here's an even weirder scene.
The psychic medium suddenly fell to the ground, his face full of pain, and even spat black water from his mouth.
He lay on the ground and said "something is wrong" weakly.
Seeing this, Jack immediately inserted the advertisement.
Just cut the shot, and even the guests praised Jack's performance just now for being particularly good.
Jack's face was slightly confused.
In his opinion, although he still followed the script, the psychic medium seemed to be overly "dedicated".
And the scene just now was not arranged in advance.
But as the producer told him that "the phone station was blown up".
Jack's mood calmed down.
As long as the ratings of the show go up, no matter what happens.
Immediately after, the show will invite the third guest of the night.
A little girl who claims to have a demon in her body.
With the appearance of the girl, Jack's show ushered in another wave of soaring ratings.
Because, it seems that there really is a demon in her.
reversed again and again, making the show's ratings climb steadily.
This is similar to those things in reality.
However, there are always unexpected risks that arise.
Qin Lang elementary school students who made up Mao Cup at the beginning, it is estimated that they did not expect that there would really be relatives to claim it later.
A man who claimed to be "Uncle Qin Lang" spoke out and pushed the incident out of control.
And this "uncle" is actually here to rub traffic.
The same is true in movies.
At the beginning of the show, it was all according to the planned script.
The overturn of the psychic medium, the magician fights the fake, and summons the demon on the spot...... Everything is an arranged program flow.
In other words, the public's reaction is all in the calculation of the program team.
Moreover, every reversal, it is a rise in ratings.
But unexpectedly, the situation became more and more out of control.
Lily, the girl who took the stage at the end, was extraordinary.
She had been a victim of a cult.
In a mass immolation, only Lily survived.
The guardian in charge of treating her once said that Lily's personality and behavior were strange after being rescued.
However, this is not the case with Lily seen on the show.
Well-behaved and cheerful with a smile.
It's just a sunny and lively ordinary little girl.
The only thing that's a little strange is that the girl keeps staring at the camera.
The corners of the mouth are always raised, and after staring at it for a long time, I only feel oozing.
When Lily appeared, the magician immediately questioned it.
Convinced of science and against cults, he accuses Lily and her guardian of being liars.
In his opinion, they are only on the show to sell books.
That's when Jack got two pieces of bad news.
One is about the medium.
The producer told him backstage that the psychic had died of hemorrhage in the ambulance.
Jack couldn't help but feel terrified: Could it be that the strange behavior before was not the medium's "hard performance", but what he really sensed?
The other is from Lily's guardian.
She tells Jack that Lily has been acting very unusually lately.
At the same time, it is hoped that Jack will not summon demons on the show.
But Jack insisted on going his own way.
If you stop at this time, you will undoubtedly smash your own job.
In any case, summon the demon to try.
In anticipation of everyone, the guardian began to summon demons.
I saw that the girl, who was still young and bright just now, instantly became hideous, and there were strange scars on her face.
The laughter became weird, and the eyes became evil.
He also suddenly turned his head to look at Jack to the side.
The demon said hello, as if it wasn't the first time they had met.
When the guardian tries to suppress the demon, an even more explosive scene appears.
The demon was suspended in mid-air.
At this time, the ratings also soared.
Almost everyone at the scene was stunned by what they saw.
I thought it was a charlatan again, but I didn't expect it to be a real demon.
Such an anti-transfer was satisfactory to all viewers.
Only the magician still didn't believe it.
He thought it was just a form of group hypnosis.
To prove his point, he also demonstrated group hypnosis live.
The same effect was achieved.
In an instant, the wind direction changed again.
The people, who had just believed in the existence of the devil, turned their heads and accused Lily of being a liar.
In the midst of doubt, Lily had to defend herself.
Came up with a way to play back the tape to prove that everything was real.
Surprisingly, the tape not only proves that it was not hypnosis just now.
even filmed a terrifying scene-
Behind Jack stood the soul of his deceased wife.
Just as Jack is still at a loss because he sees his dead wife, Lily suddenly becomes demonic again.
The whole body is discharged, the head is cracked, and the mysterious flames are burning in it.
Suddenly, the whole audience was in chaos, and the real demon officially began to kill the killer.
On the surface, this is an alternative horror film.
Pseudo-documentaries and pseudo-reality shows fabricate a devil's story that is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Plus the retro painting style makeup, as well as the worm plasma of the ancient cult film.
all make this film "fresh and refined" in horror movies in recent years.
And the revelation of the behind-the-scenes production of the show makes this ancient story more realistic.
"The Devil's Late Show" exposes and satirizes the secrets of "explosive manufacturing".
Through the written script, use one reversal after another to gain more and more attention.
This is based on the public's curiosity and obsession with "story reversal".
And many of the current short video stories also use the same underlying logic.
Everyone wants to see the story unexpectedly unfold.
It's just that this movie is completely out of play.
Even, let the protagonist who planned everything get the most terrible backlash.
And the theme it captures, psychics, has always been the ratings password of TV programs.
In reality, there was Russia's "Psychic War" before.
has been filmed for 23 seasons, and the reputation has always been high.
Later, there was Hong Kong's "King of Psychics".
not only filmed spells and supernatural spells, but also spread the traditional Taoist culture.
The reason why psychic shows attract attention is precisely because of the mysterious and mysterious atmosphere it creates.
And the background era of this film is the peak of the prevalence of this kind of supernatural topic.
In the 70s of the 20th century, the United States at that time was plunged into unprecedented turmoil.
Cult worship was once all the rage, and Satan the Devil became the object of worship by many people.
In this context, faith has become a powerful weapon.
The social upheaval has caused many people to lose their faith.
This has given the cult an opportunity to take advantage of.
It then turns it into a criminal tool for its use.
It was also at that time that many murders were branded as cults.
Such as the infamous Manson family.
They believe that there will be an apocalyptic war, and that their murder will lead to it.
Thus killing dozens of people, including actor Sharon Tee.
Charles Manson in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
In the movie "Rosemary's Baby", it also shows how the cult worked in that era.
Use a large and high-status group to achieve full control over a woman.
Eventually, through her body, the Son of Satan was born.
And Jack in "The Devil's Late Show" has a similar idea.
Because the ratings of the show stagnated, he pinned his faith on the cult.
He made a deal with the devil to make his vision of skyrocketing ratings come true.
But the price was his wife's life.
That is, it was Jack who sacrificed his wife as a sacrifice to the devil.
A person who is good at designing reversals ends up falling into reversals and reaping the consequences.
Even after decades, the genre will not go out of style.
On the surface, it is a horror story haunted by the devil, but in fact it is an accurate projection of the essence of human nature.
The public loves to watch it, just like the audience in the film who likes to watch late-night shows.
With some curiosity, let's see what's so special.
More importantly, it is to see what kind of evil consequences human nature can eat when it does evil.