Jack Black delivers the viral line “Chicken jockey” in “A Minecraft film,” But it does not register on the behavior of chaotic fans around him in theaters and on social networks.
The actor and the star of “School of Rock” surprised the moviegoers during a projection of “Minecraft” during the weekend and encouraged them to be on their best behavior, according to the video shared on Sunday by the Hollywood handle. Disgurating his voice like that of a theater spokesperson, Black can be heard of fans “for today's presentation of” A Minecraft Movie “, please, without throwing sautéed corn”.
“And also no Lapis Lazuli. And absolutely no …”, he continues his message before, shouting, “chicken jockeys!”
In the video, Black presents itself to the group of excited young movies. “I am Steve,” he said, referring to his character in Warner Bros. 'Cinematographic adaptation of the popular video game franchise. Black also shows its Pickax accessory and crosses the theater making fans before the start of the screening.
So what was the problem with his popcorn warning?
The star of “Kung Fu Panda” encouraged public members to hold back after several videos showed that “Minecraft” viewers during various projections launching objects, screaming and loudly applauding during a viral scene. In the film, which was created earlier this month, the characters of Black and Jason Momoa find themselves in the middle of a boxing ring. Their enemy, like “minecraft”, is a zombie baby riding a cubist chicken: a “chicken jockey”, as Steve de Black notes.
Since its creation over ten years ago, the “Minecraft” franchise has generated countless memes among fans and Rare combination of a chicken and a zombie In the game, he is one of the jokes inside. The wink of the film to this piece of Fan Lore has only made the meme at the next level.
In several viral social media videosThe moviegoers burst into chaos during the “jockey chicken” scene: they light up their telephone lights, throw their popcorn and drink towards the screen and cry through the combat sequence. In one videoA masked public member can be seen by holding a live chicken while they sit at the top of the shoulders of another film buff.
Following the noisy crowd, the theater workers – often left to treat The disorderly consequences – are also responsible for encouraging moviegoers to avoid throwing objects on the screen. Police were recruited for escort certain public members for their behavior. Beyond the chaos of “Chicken Jockey”, some “Minecraft” viewers have also personalized their projections with Preshow speech.
“It was too fun,” said director Jared Hess Entertainment every week. Hess, who made Black in “Nacho Libre” and broke out with “Napoleon Dynamite”, said that he had not seen the evil in the trend and finds it funny “that the cops are called to popcorn.”
“I'm just happy that people make memories with their friends and families,” he said.
During his opening weekend, “A Minecraft Movie” won a record of $ 157 million national dollars and $ 144 million abroad. Clear winner in the middle of the push continues to adapt Hollywood video games, the action comedy beat “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” for the adaptation of the most efficient video movies.
In her goodbyeTimes criticism Amy Nicholson wrote that “a film Minecraft” was “essentially a Meathead version of” The Wizard of Oz “. The film features Black, Momoa, Sebastian Hansen, Emma Myers and Danielle Brooks.
