Chapter 880: The speed of life and death
The Los Angeles Theater, which can accommodate two thousand people, is worried that the premiere of "life and death hour" will not be able to fill the Los Angeles Theater. Of course, Twentieth Century Fox will definitely not allow this to happen. They will try every means to fill the theater.
The fact is that the Los Angeles Theater is indeed stuffed, but it was not achieved by the 20th Century Fox "destined to" it. On the contrary, countless movie fans flocked to the Los Angeles Theater, hoping to enter the Los Angeles Theater to watch the "Speed of Life and Death" as soon as possible. The reporters who arrived temporarily used their connections to get a ticket to the premiere.
The "Speed of Life and Death" premiere tickets, which were originally considered to be "abandoned son", became very popular in an instant, but when the movie started playing, there were still more than 500 viewers outside the venue who could not enter the Los Angeles Theater. Although they could wait until the movie was officially released on Friday before entering the cinema, the audience who missed the premiere was still unwilling to stay at the door of the Los Angeles Theater, which left Broadway Avenue with a long-term noise that could not be dissipated after the crowds dispersed.
It seems that from the beginning of the premiere, "life and death speed" began to break people's fixed thinking. To be precise, it has already begun from the preparation stage of the movie.
The two thousand viewers who were able to enter the Los Angeles Theater were already sitting at this time. Unlike ordinary cinemas, the spacious theater with 2,000 people seemed extremely empty, and the noisy crowd also made the air always feel restless. Everyone's expectations, tension or excitement did not gradually settle until the theater lights dim.
But this calm did not last long. When the "Speed of Life and Death" was played, the restlessness on the scene began to move again because the audience found that they seemed to have been deceived!
The title of the movie is "Speed Speed", but the opening of the movie has nothing to do with speed and racing. Instead, it appears in an elevator shaft, a quiet and closed elevator shaft, which is really disappointing. However, this restlessness only has a slight turbulence and quickly calmed down, because the darkness, confinement, tension and stimulation created in the prelude of the movie is very good, as if all the heat outside is blocked, making people focus on the movie. Since it comes, it is safe. It always takes a look after the movie before it can make a statement, right?
The first to appear was Dennis Hopper, an actor who worked with James Dean in his early years on two famous works: "Rebellion Without Cause" and "Giant". The actor has always been mediocre. Later, his debut work "The Free Knight" which he wrote, directed and acted, caused a sensation, and is now one of the most familiar golden supporting roles to American audiences.
Dennis plays Paine pretends to be an elevator maintenance worker and is busy in the elevator. But she is not willing to be discovered by the inspected security guards. Paine kills the security guard without hesitation, and blood flows. This unwarranted violence and killing does not cause any surprise, because the atmosphere brewing from the beginning of the movie allows the audience to know that something is going to happen. Now Paine's actions only verify this, but the question is, what is Paine seeking?
The answer will be revealed soon!
A group of ordinary company employees took the elevator downstairs from the 46th floor, but suddenly the rope that maintained the elevator was blown off. Then the elevator began to lose weight and fell down. The elevator's emergency brake equipment took effect in time, leaving the elevator at a height of about 30th floor. But at this time, the elevator was in mid-air, with no slings above and no support below, and it might fall at any time.
This is Peen's plan. He placed a bomb under the elevator and demanded a ransom of three million US dollars based on the lives of the thirteen hostages in the elevator. If the police do not agree, he will detonate the bomb, and the elevator will fall directly and everyone will be smashed to pieces.
Jack and Harry were ordered to come to the 32nd floor for inspection, while Peren hid in another elevator, holding a remote control in his hand, ready to detonate the bomb at any time. Looking at the ordinary employees in the elevator who knew nothing about the bomb, "How do they take pictures of the police, not the repairman?" The tense atmosphere in the elevator condensed in an instant, and the cinema was still in a relaxed atmosphere thirty seconds ago, and immediately became tense.
Jack realized something was wrong. He felt that no matter what, the gangsters would detonate bombs and let all the people in the elevator be buried. Although Harry felt that they should stay in place and continue to wait for the above instructions, Jack believed that the most direct way to subdue the gangsters was to make the gangsters have nothing to rely on. For example, when the gangsters took hostages, he should hurt the hostages and make the gangsters unable to continue to wait for the hostages to escape. For example, in the current situation, he must find a way to maintain the elevator and make the gangsters surrender.
So Jack decided to find other means to maintain the elevator. Looking at Jack who was leaving rashly, Harry still had no way to abandon his partner and had to follow him.
Jack and Harry came to the roof and saw the steel rope bracket table set up on the top floor. They put the rope into the elevator shaft from the ventilation window. Then Ha hung Jack with a nylon rope and hung the hook at the other end of the rope on the lifting ring on the top of the elevator to insure the elevator.
Seeing Jack and Harry bored teasing the police, the job was just "a meager pension and a gold watch in thirty years". The audience couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on the corner of their mouths. However, before the smile could be drawn, Peren, who was busy in another elevator, noticed something was wrong, so he detonated a bomb.
"Boom", a big hole was blown out at the bottom of the elevator, and the elevator began to fall sharply in an instant. Many viewers in the entire cinema exclaimed. The advantage of watching the movies together was that the emotional infectiousness was that the exclamation made the theater fall into a tightening of the heartbeat, and its breathing suddenly stopped.
Obviously, the "Speed of Life and Death" did not intend to relax the audience from the beginning. It was a super problem at the beginning, and it was thrilling wave after wave, which made the audience, who were originally a little dissatisfied and noisy, unconsciously entered the rhythm of the film. Even if it was not racing or speed, it was still exciting.
The elevator began to accelerate and fell down, and the elevator fell into chaos. Everyone was screaming, panic and fearing. Soon, the steel rope that Jack kept at the top of the elevator was straightened. When the elevator braked suddenly, a woman fell directly into the hole on the floor due to inertia, and her life was in danger.
The people in the elevator rescued the lady in panic, but just as everyone felt that they could breathe, the steel rope frame could no longer bear the weight of the entire elevator and was pulled down directly. The elevator began to fall down again. The sudden weight loss caused all the audience's breathing to stop again, and their heartbeat fell into stiffness at this moment.
Meredith Morris was completely stiff and unable to move at this moment. His whole thoughts entered the elevator of the movie and became a member of it. He watched intently, as if she would fall directly in the next second. This tension began to spread, resonating with many other audiences in the theater, and condensing the air in the entire theater.
Fortunately, after the rope bracket fell off, it stuck in the steel bars of the elevator shaft, which made the elevator stop falling again. But at this time, the passengers were already in despair and began to slap the elevator walls constantly, and even tried to open the elevator door. This confined space was completely occupied by fear.
Meredith let out a long breath. If she didn't breathe, she would suffocate. However, the air inhaled was so hot. The air in the theater was filled with a terrible and tense breath, which made the rhythm of the heart beat suddenly accelerate and the pupils began to magnify uncontrollably.
Jack and Harry quickly went downstairs and arrived between the twenty-first and twenty-second floors where the elevator was suspended at this time. They opened the elevator repair entrance. Seeing that the elevator was above the repair entrance, only a crack was exposed. Jack was outside and the passenger was inside. He worked together to open the elevator door. Then Jack grabbed a female passenger. When he was about to rescue her, the rope bracket suddenly loosened and moved forward a little. The elevator continued to fall.
Seeing this scene, the curse of "grass!" sounded everywhere in the cinema, and almost everyone could not control their emotions. Meredith's first reaction was to close his eyes tightly. The tension that was enough to paralyze the heart was suffocating. Obviously, she was not the only female audience at the scene. But even so, Meredith forced herself to open her eyes slightly. She was curious about what was going on, and she was curious whether Jack had turned the tide.
Just half a second later, the elevator fell again, and the distance between the bottom of the elevator and the maintenance port was enough for an adult to climb out. Jack quickly helped the female passenger leave the elevator, and then another passenger was rescued. But at this moment, the rope bracket actually began to slide down again, and the elevator continued to fall. On one side was the urge to save the passengers, and on the other side was the shaking of the rope bracket. This was definitely a crisis situation that must be fought for every second.
While Jack and Harry were saving people, the elevator was sliding down. At the cinema, you could even vaguely hear someone muttering angrily, "Hurry up!" There were also some erratic restlessness and whine, as if the cinema was the closed space of the elevator at this moment, and the atmosphere of anxiety and fear was everywhere. At this time, the audience had no distinction between them and the movie and had completely entered the movie.
In a blink of an eye, the elevator slid below the maintenance port. As long as the delay is a little longer, the "exit" will be closed and there is no way to leave the elevator. However, a lady leaned against the wall at the far end of the elevator and did not dare to move at all. She shivered against the wall, crying without tears, and couldn't even take a step. Faced with such a situation, Jack could no longer bear it and shouted angrily at the lady, "Hurry up!"
Meredith couldn't help but murmured, "Hurry up", and she soon discovered that she was not alone: dozens of voices around the area shouted in unison, "Hurry up!"
Finally, the lady took a step, Jack took her hand, and then carried her out. At this moment, the rope bracket could no longer hold on and completely slipped down. The entire elevator fell down and took away one of the lady's shoes. The passengers rescued in the corridor started to cry when they heard the sharp metal chirping in the elevator shaft, and some people in the cinema finally couldn't help it and screamed in a daze, "Ah..."
Chapter completed!