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Chapter 270
🕑 Added 2024-10-29 02:00:04 +0000 UTCAnton knew that Rose’s storyline in the movie Titanic resonated with the rich young women who were expected to marry to further their family’s influence and wealth. Just like Rose, most of them felt trapped and imagined a man who would rescue them from a loveless though opulent lifestyle which almost made Anton laugh.
He carefully checked the reactions of the young women who hadn’t seen the movie yet like the two female bodyguards, Antonia and Lucia who were seated at the table beside theirs and he saw that for a moment, they all fell in love with Jack or the idea of Jack.
This time during the sex scene, no one reprimanded Anna so she boldly watched the risqué scene which in Anton’s opinion wasn’t that risqué anyway but he wasn’t expecting the reaction of some of the audience members. A lot of them looked outraged, at least that was what they were showing on the outside but he knew by carefully watching the expressions of the people through the table lamps that some of them were titillated.
Anton found it weird since from what he had read in some fantasy novels, people were mostly open to those kinds of things but then again, he was making assumptions again. From the logic of it, watching a show was rare enough as it was, and combining it with an erotic scene would shock some people but the nude drawing scene in Titanic was hardly what you could call outrageous since nothing was truly shown.
When the movie reached halfway through, Anton paused it and then signaled the stage manager. The lights in the dining hall were turned on causing most people to complain but it was time for them to go to the bathroom to take care of their business. Some ordered snacks and beverages from the waiters.
Their table did the same thing and ordered food from the waiters as well. Anton saw that his new friends at the other table looked like they wanted to talk to him but he could see Lucia telling everyone in their group to wait at a later time. After thirty minutes, he resumed the movie.
During the scene when the Titanic was hit by the iceberg and began sinking, the tragedy that followed caused some of the audience members to cry and when some of the more dramatic scenes were shown like the musician who kept playing while the ship was sinking, there were no dry eyes in sight. When Jack died, Anton was a bit shocked to see and hear that some of the audience members were sobbing hysterically. The combination of romance, adventure, and tragedy pulled the heartstrings of all the people in the dining room and Anton was amused to see that even the captain and the powerful mages were wiping the tears from their eyes.
When the movie ended, Anton played a video clip of the singer Celine Dion singing My Heart Will Go On containing a montage of scenes from the movie Titanic that he found on the famous streaming website and Anton believed the beautiful and haunting song truly fit the theme of the movie.
After the music video, Anton stopped the spell and the stage manager turned on the lights. With a gesture from the stage manager to Anders, all of them at their table stood up and bowed to the people in the dining room and they received a resounding applause from all the people who came to watch the movie.
One of the waiters approached them to lead them to where the captain and his officers and mages were but Anton saw that they were not at their table anymore so Anton, Anders, Nemina, and Lucas followed the waiter while the others followed Harun to return to their suite.
The waiter led them to a large sitting room where the captain and his cohorts were relaxing and drinking wine. When they entered the room, the captain introduced everyone to each other but then he let his father speak to the captain and the officers and mages. Anton knew that their family needed to form connections for their business but he found it tedious. He was a bit glad that Anton was young enough that even though he was considered the power behind the family, other adults would still prefer to talk to the actual head of the family, which was Anders.
Basically, their talk consisted of the mages asking if the spell that was used to show the movie could be taught to others. Of course, Anders was wise enough to say that it couldn’t be taught which was true anyway and the mages didn’t pursue it since if they reviewed the spell that powered the movie, they knew that it wasn’t a simple spell since it needed to be backed up by a huge database if the spell could show more than one movie.
The good thing about the spell that showed the movies was, that even though it was entertaining, no true mage would covet it since it would not increase one's magical power. At most, it could increase mortal wealth but a truly powerful mage had enough resources and magic to earn tons of physical wealth and they wouldn’t make an enemy of another archmage for the sake of mortal coins.
That was also the reason why Anton didn’t hesitate to show the movies to others since at the end of the day, it was just a spell that showed some entertaining play and according to the archmage Voduria, she mentioned that some of the most powerful mages had spells that allowed them to view scenes from other worlds so his globe of browser-sharing was hardly unique.
Since their family planned to erect a cinema in the new city so they could make coins and live lavishly as one of the wealthy families, Anders admitted to Captain Robertson, his officers, and the mages that their family had thousands upon thousands of movies and that they were planning to open a theater and charge people to watch the “movies” as what the shows were called.
After that talk, everyone in the room knew that Anton’s family would climb high in the city of New Drennor since their entertainment was truly something that people would spend a lot of coins to view.
The captain then asked the stage manager to negotiate with Anders about letting the movies be seen in the dining hall and after that, the captain and his cohorts left. The stage manager and Anders began talking and in the end, the agreement was that the movies would be shown once a week but it would be after dinner and that tickets would need to be purchased for those who wanted to watch the films during the night when the movie was scheduled to be shown.
The agreement was one movie a week but the new movie would only be shown bi-weekly. The ship wouldn’t pay their family but all the proceeds from the ticket sale except for ten percent would go to Anton’s family.
It was one in the morning when the discussion was completed and they returned to their suite tired but happy since they would earn many coins even though they were on the ship. Anton and Nemina would still need to talk to the stage manager at a later time to complete the details of the movie showing like the appropriate time when the film would be shown and the ticket prices.
Anders kept talking to Nemina and Lucas about some of the details needed, like whether they needed to rent a large room to use as the theater instead of the dining hall. Anton didn’t want to join that discussion, so when they arrived at their suite, he went directly to his room to rest.
