In fact, ten days ago, Christian Franklin was acutely aware that the city of darkness might be a threat to Shawshank''s redemption, and subconsciously thought that the film''s word-of-mouth trend might be extremely strong, and it would not be like those new films before that, the score would drop sharply after the first weekend.

    Since he became the leader of the IMDB section discussion group of "Shawshank Redemption", he found that every time Murphy Stanton''s new film was released, it always threatened "Shawshank Redemption". For example, "body of steel" once dominated the top 250 list for a long time. If it wasn''t for him and other fans of "Shawshank Redemption", they would have been constantly lowering their scores It''s hard to say whether the ranking of body of steel will fall.

    Even so, before the release of city of darkness, body of steel ranked fifth with 8.9 points!

    Although I like Shawshank Redemption very much, Christian Franklin is very clear that this film can get the top 250 position of IMDB, more because of the God making movement of these fans, once it is surpassed, it is difficult to get back to the first place.

    So, as one of the founders of the apotheosis movement, Christian Franklin has been paying attention to the score change of top 250 on IMDB, and soon after the release of dark city, he focused on Murphy Stanton''s film again.

    After recent years of observation, he can see very clearly that among the existing Hollywood directors, there are many directors who are better than Murphy Stanton. However, it is extremely rare for him to combine business and art perfectly. Even if there are some directors, his works are not as good as Murphy Stanton.

    On IMDB, a fan rating website, it''s hard for movies that are too small to reach the top of the top 250 list, which means that those literary and art movies that are easy to get professional praise rarely appear at the top of the list, and the movies with a wider audience are at the top of the list.

    Popular movies are easy to be made into ordinary popcorn. Ordinary popcorn may sell well, but it can''t get into the front row. So he has his eye on Murphy Stanton, because the other party always makes unusual commercial movies.

    Since more than ten days ago, Christian Franklin has been launching fans of shawshank redemption to lower the score of city of darkness. With their tireless efforts and some other fans who don''t like the film, after a period of struggle, they finally lowered the score of the film from 9.9 to 9.7, which is 9.7 points away from shawshank redemption 2 is not far away.

    But Christian Franklin knows that it''s not enough to get Shawshank Redemption back to the top spot of IMDB''s 250 best movies. Compared with the huge number of fans and the number of audiences confused by "dark city", they are too few.

    The scale of the action must be expanded. Christian Franklin is very confident that as long as he calls on more people to brush one point for "city of darkness", he will surely pull down the film as he did when he pulled down "body of steel".

    Christian Franklin sat in front of the computer and thought for a few minutes. He quickly made a decision to turn off the IMDB website, open his mailbox and send a mass email, calling on the members of the discussion group of shawshank redemption to continue to intensify their attack and make sure to pull the city of darkness down from the top of the list as soon as possible.

    It''s not enough to send an email. After sending the email, Christian Franklin picked up the phone and dialed it one after another. He had connections with the leaders of many fans'' organizations of shawshank redemption. It was the God making movement they launched.

    "Costa, be sure to mobilize the people around you to vote for dark city, remember! Only one point! Speed up

    "Alexandra, mobilize your friends..."

    After all, IMDB is an open network platform. Movie fans can give a movie high scores or low scores. In order to be relatively fair, the score changes and score statistics of IMDB are all open and can be seen by ordinary users.

    In just two days, Justin, as one of the deputy leaders of the Murphy Stanton discussion group of IMDB, noticed that the score of "dark city" did not conform to the common sense. In two days, the score of the film dropped from 9.7 to 9.6, which completely did not conform to the normal law of smooth decline before!

    He went to the IMDB website to look at the statistics. Two days ago, the 1-point voting ratio of "dark city" only accounted for 1.2%, but now it has risen to 2.6%. It is obvious that someone is doing something.

    Even a fool can see the problem.

    Another troublemaker? Justin immediately thought of "body of steel". At that time, Murphy''s film was also popular at both word-of-mouth and box office. For a long time, it ranked first in IMDB''s 250 best movies list. Later, it slipped down for no reason. At the beginning, including him and Daisy, they didn''t understand what was going on. It was a long time before they found out that someone was troublemaking The old users of scoring brush a large number of low scores, and the scoring of "body of steel" is suppressed.For this reason, he and Daisy and other leaders of the discussion group observed for a long time, and targeted the suspect on Shawshank Redemption, because they were the biggest beneficiaries.

    Is it them this time? The old grudges of those years have not been avenged. Have they jumped out again?

    Justin thought for a while, picked up the phone and dialed Daisy''s number. After a long time, it was connected, but there was a crackling sound like fried beans.

    "What''s the matter?" Daisy''s voice over there seemed to be shouting, "I''m practicing at the club? If it''s not urgent, we''ll talk about it later! "

    "Boss, it''s urgent!" Justin said quickly, "it''s very urgent! "The city of darkness" was hacked on IMDB again

    "What?"

    Justin could probably guess that Daisy was looking for a quiet place. After a while, when he couldn''t hear the crackling gunfire, Daisy''s voice came again, "what''s the matter? Tell me about it

    Justin said his guess in a quick and concise way.

    There was silence for a while, Daisy''s voice rang out again, "you go to contact the person in charge of the fan organization that you can contact, I''ll go home now! Those bastards really think we are easy to bully! "

    However, in more than half an hour, Justin and Daisy gathered many leaders of Murphy''s fan organization on an online video software, and they had a heated discussion on this matter, including several leaders of Murphy''s black powder organization.

    CAA also fed back the news to Murphy for the first time. Murphy not only didn''t oppose it, but also let people add fire to it!

    In the next screening, "city of darkness" must have enough topics to maintain a certain popularity.

    A fan battle around IMDB broke out.

    With the explosive start of "dark city", the film''s score in IMDB remained high. At the highest time, it stayed at an incredible ten. Most of Murphy''s fans turned into fanatical believers on the Internet. These people regarded "dark city" as a masterpiece regardless of the reaction of fans like "Shawshank''s Redemption" or "Godfather" At the same time, it also belittles other works.

    The fans of Shawshank Redemption spent a lot of effort to win the top 250 position. Naturally, they refused to give up. They continued to use the previous method. At the call of Christian Franklin, all the people with the corresponding IMDB authority went to brush a point for the city of darkness, hoping to pull the film down as soon as possible.

    After entering Hollywood for more than ten years, Murphy has also accumulated a large number of fans, and there are many die hard fans like Daisy and Justin. Especially in large and medium-sized cities in the United States, there are basically Murphy Stanton fan associations. With the connection and launch of the leaders of various associations, hundreds of thousands of fans rush to the Shawshank Redemption like a tide, and they are very happy There is only one purpose to lower and lower the score of this film, so that it can no longer pose a threat to the city of darkness, or even pull it below the body of steel.

    Although IMDB scoring is indeed a relatively fair way of network scoring, a simple score can be operated in the hands of ordinary fans, even if it doesn''t need a professional water army.

    There are many reasons that affect the top 250 score of IMDB. The first is, of course, the number of voters.

    There is a very interesting phenomenon in IMDB. A film with only a dozen people voting and seemingly not so good often has super high scores at the beginning - of course, the high scores usually don''t last long - it''s hard not to doubt that it''s a means of publicity by the producers and distributors.

    Therefore, the number of voters and the limit that only the votes of active users can be included in the ranking are added to the list, so as to ensure the fairness and relevance of the top 250 ranking.

    In front of the godfather, dark city and Shawshank Redemption films, this kind of restriction does not work much.

    It can be imagined that when the die hard fans of Murphy are surrounded by ecstasy after watching a gorgeous and passionate film like "dark city", it is difficult to make a more sober and rational judgment on the quality of the film. After watching a movie, most of the people who will vote in the IMDB at the first time are the film''s diehard. It''s not hard to understand that the score of "dark city" soared to very high at the beginning.

    On the other hand, there is also a deeper "collective unconsciousness" factor, in a frenzy of praise or derogation, most people are difficult to adhere to their own judgment. As far as the city of darkness is concerned, it''s hard for most people to say "no" to it in the audience''s praise of a + and high praise of IMD B.