Chapter 45 Movie Release (asking for monthly tickets and recommended tickets)

Los Angeles, America.

Today is Christmas of 1930, and we are not far from entering 1931.

Christmas in the past two years has remained very lively and does not seem to be affected by the economic crisis. People walk on the streets wearing Santa hats, holding Venus sticks and carrying Christmas gifts.

To be honest, whether in his past life or this life, Zhang Feng didn't understand why the economic environment was so bad, but there were still so many people celebrating holidays, traveling, watching movies, etc. It seemed that everyone was rich and didn't need to worry about life.

In his previous life, he had no money and could only stay at home and watch Douyin. There were crowds of people everywhere, and movie box office hit new highs. He didn’t know who these people were spending the money on.

He is very rich in this life, but there should be few families as rich as his. He also doesn't understand who these consumers are. It seems necessary to ask the Folklore Survey Office to do an investigation report on this matter in order to resolve the doubts that have been in his mind for many years.

But no matter what, he now has to rely on the legendary lipstick effect to make money from movie entertainment.

Today is the day Paramount's film The Amazing Spider-Man is released.

Because Zhang Feng is the director and male lead of the movie, in order to show their support for their man and father, the three women and nine sons decided to go to the cinema as a whole family to support Zhang Feng with a movie ticket.

I don’t care whether the little ones can understand it or not, but it doesn’t matter, I can just watch it as a cartoon.

The family, escorted by bodyguards, came to the cinema owned by their own company in a mighty manner. The movie tickets had already been purchased through internal channels, and they sat in the two rows in the middle.

When all the audience entered, the lights in the cinema went out, the screen lit up, and the movie began.

The company boss's movie was of course fully promoted before it was released, and money was not a problem at all, so the cinema was basically full at this time.

The first twenty minutes of the film tell the story of how the economic crisis intensified, people lost their jobs one after another, and pointed out that the current president was failing to save the market, which led to domestic turmoil in countries around the world. Some presidents even collapsed as a result. In order to consolidate their regimes and prevent the emergence of red revolutions, some countries started an arms race, trying to divert domestic conflicts through foreign wars.

In order to prepare for the upcoming World War II, the U.S. Department of Defense implemented the Super Soldier Program and commissioned Shennong Biopharmaceutical Company to develop genetic drugs and produce super soldiers.

However, Shennong Biopharma's experiment to develop super soldier serum did not go smoothly. During the research process, disagreements arose within the company's research team, leading to endless arguments.

Finally, the company's boss Monk couldn't stand it anymore and decided to split the team into two, conducting research in two directions simultaneously.

One of the directions is to change the genetic material of human cells so that the body of the transformed person can obtain synthetic proteins from the serum, which can enhance the user's metabolic function and all body functions, achieve 100% brain utilization, and reach the peak of human potential.

This is the super soldier serum that Captain America later injected, but research in this direction is too difficult and it took a long time without much progress.

Another direction is to extract genes from various animals, fuse them, and then inject them into the mother animal. The offspring will then acquire the fused gene, which is then extracted and made into a super gene medicine.

Although the experiments in this direction are progressing faster, it is still very slow compared to the time when the war broke out. However, it has also reached the final stage. Dr. Rheinstein of the research team said that the experimental results are not yet mature, and the medicine made by extracting the offspring genes is unstable. Further research is needed before human experiments can be carried out.

However, as the world war was about to break out, in order to protect the American people from the harm of the war and for the sake of peace in America, the company's owner, Monkie, decided to conduct the experiment on himself.

Then Monkey was bitten by the spider's daughter, and his body was strengthened, his strength increased, his reaction became faster, his jumping ability became stronger, and he could even spit spider silk from his hands.

But in the process, he found that his mental state was affected and his personality became extremely violent.

At this time, Monkey also realized that this direction was a failure. It would only create a group of bloodthirsty killers and destroy humanity, so he ordered the destruction of the experimental data and the cleaning of all the experimental subjects.

Then the entire experimental team transferred to another team to study synthetic protein serum. Thanks to the previous experience, the entire team was inspired and the experiment gradually made progress.

However, during the destruction process, a drug extracted from the fusion of lizard and gecko genes was stolen by a rival company, which laid the groundwork for the second part.

The rest of the movie is a funny time, as Monkey is unable to adapt to his physical changes, which causes a lot of jokes. In the end, he masters his abilities through training and overcomes the violent negative effects of genes with his strong will.

As the economic crisis continued, the security in American cities became worse and worse, so he made a spider suit and often used his abilities to help the weak and fight against the strong.

The fighting scenes were designed by combining the fighting routines of Chinese martial artists with the scenes Zhang Feng saw in movies in later generations. They are both gorgeous and exciting.

There are also enhanced reactions, jumping, and the ability to fly via spider webs.

The audience in the cinema screamed in surprise. The American people of that era had never seen such a fighting scene before, and they were so excited that they shouted "Fuck!"

"Wow, Dad, that's awesome!" Zhang Chenghan, who was sitting next to Zhang Feng, leaned over and whispered in Zhang Feng's ear.

Every time he quickly dodged, every time he hung on the spider silk and shuttled through the city, and then dropped from the sky from a height of 100 meters to knock down his opponent, not only Zhang Feng's children, but all the children in the cinema screamed "wow wow", even the adults were no exception.

At the end of the story, a group of extremists, dissatisfied with Zhengfu, made many bombs and carried out terrorist attacks in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles from time to time, causing heavy casualties among civilians.

A group of terrorists were forced into a building by the police and kidnapped hundreds of hostages. Many bombs were installed in the building. Just when the terrorists were about to blow up the building and die with the hostages, Spider-Man appeared.

After a thrilling and wonderful fight, Spider-Man killed all the terrorists and successfully rescued hundreds of American people.

Everyone was so engrossed in watching the movie that they were reluctant to leave until it was over.

At this moment, Zhang Feng knew that his movie was a success, and a chivalrous image of a man who helped the weak, eradicated evil forces, and protected the American people was established.

Zhang Feng knew that he would definitely gain recognition from some Americans this time. This is the power of idols.

But before that, he still needs to monetize this wave of traffic. In addition to the movie box office, he is also preparing a product to harvest dollars from the American people.

"The Amazing Spider-Man is here!" - Los Angeles Daily News

"The Amazing Spider-Man, an unparalleled visual treat" - The New York Times
"America's own hero, Spider-Man" - The Washington Post

"After G.I. Joe, director Monchi's next masterpiece, The Amazing Spider-Man" -- Los Angeles Times

"Spider-Man's same suit is also on sale, priced at $10" -- New York Business Daily
Yes, another money-making tool of Zhang Feng is the peripheral products of The Amazing Spider-Man - the battle suit. To be honest, this battle suit is quite handsome. Not to mention children and teenagers, even some adults want to buy it.

Zhang Feng had already arranged for OEM factories to produce and stockpile millions of pieces, and they were put on the market through the stockings sales channel at the same time as the movie was released.

In America today, the price of a suit is 10-12 dollars, and the price of a shirt is about 1 dollar; he priced the Spider-Man suit at 10 dollars, and the reason for setting such a high price.

On the one hand, the fabrics he uses and the quality of his production are relatively good. He needs to build a good brand and not just think about making a quick buck. On the other hand, it can also raise the quality of his company's products and enhance the brand value. So it would be reasonable for future products to be sold at a higher price.

On the other hand, it is because we are in the middle of an economic crisis. Even if the price is normal, it is more expensive than ordinary clothes. Ordinary families will not spend money to buy such an impractical piece of clothing, so they are not Zhang Feng’s target customers at all, and his target customers will not mind being a little more expensive.

With the hot release of The Amazing Spider-Man, not only did the box office explode, but Spider-Man's suits were also sold from America to Europe and even to China's Magic City.

A week later, Zhang Feng's nine sons wore the Spider-Man suits that their father had prepared for them. The hoods covered their entire heads tightly. They walked on the streets of Los Angeles and instantly became a beautiful landscape.

Of course, in addition to them, there are many children also wearing this Spider-Man suit, doing various actions from time to time, punching and blocking, and the most common thing is to stretch out one arm and shout "whoosh" and other strange words, as if they can really send out spider silk forward.

(End of this chapter)