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Leave Jack Black getting involved in something out of the ordinary.
The comedy actor stars in the new and successful film “A Minecraft movie”, based on a popular video game. His players are very faithful, and part of that worship has moved to the film.
The public has gone crazy with the “Chicken Jockey” scene.
Next we explain why all this stir is due.
A “Chicken Jockey” is literally that: a Minecraft creature that rides a chicken as if it were a horse. (In the world of this video game, he is usually known in Spanish as “poultry rider”).
In the viral scene, another of the protagonists of the film, Jason Momoa, is seen in a ring with a chicken while Jack Black’s character declares: “It’s a fight to death, boy!”
Then, a box descends from the roof and drops an entity on the loin of the chicken while Black and the fighting spectators shout: “Chicken Jockey!”
Those who are familiar with the game know that poultry riders are rare.
According to the Wiki of the Minecraft game: “Each baby zombie or zombie zombified baby has a probability of 5% that it is generated by riding a chicken. This includes the zombies zombies babies. There is an additional 5% Chickens free, this gives zombie a 0.25% opportunity to become a poultry rider; if the chickens are present, probability increases to 0.4875%.
The public of the films went crazy with the scene, as well as some players who broadcast their games online when the “Chicken Jockey” appears in the game.
Shared images on social networks show the spectators shouting, throwing popcorn in the air and applauding with enthusiasm.
There have even been calls from police calls to deal with this noisy behavior, not to mention some discontent cine employees with the necessary cleaning.
A person shared in X the similarity with another film, which also invites public participation.
“Last night I saw Minecraft in the cinema with my children and I’m still processing what I saw,” he wrote. “The only film experience with which I can compare the public’s participation is Rocky Horror, except that it is with teenagers and their phones and the film does not have a weekend.”
The viral tendency to react to the poultry rider will probably continue to give the popularity of the film. “A Minecraft movie,” distributed by Warner Bros. Studios, raised almost US $ 163 million at the box office during the premiere weekend.
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