Legendary Hollywood Director

For several directors who are interested in the final grand prize competition, Ryman is really the best example of a situation that is very adaptable.

Lehman felt that he had already taken it once, so how could he wrestle with others?

Therefore, waiting for the result peacefully is a more comfortable way, at least there is compensation.

Before that, though, there are a few things to consider.

Lehman sat on an office chair at the venue, pondering around with the scheduled report.

The non-competition arrangement is just as unfair as the main competition.

In his hands, some films can be shown once a day, while others only come once every four or five days.

As we all know, the more the audience, the louder the voices, at least the more they can get. Therefore, the number of shifts is really important.

Then, it's time to think about Tower of Babel and No Country for Old Men.

Lehmann is roughly divided into several levels according to the film list.

The first category is works that have both connections and materials, such as The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves, Return, Flandler, etc., and has the greatest chance of winning the grand prize;

One category is Legend of the South, Fast Food Nation, Glorious Years, etc., which are slightly inferior, but the queue is also considered to be the front;

Finally, there are accompanying works such as Family Friends, Lanterns at Dusk, and Youth in March selected by various regions for the sake of differentiation. The chances of winning the prize can only be said to be very slim.

After sorting out the options, Lyman crossed out the last category of movies first.

Because if the jury or the organizing committee were not nervous, they would not award awards to this type of film, because there is no advantage to compare with each other, and the scene cannot be suppressed at all.

And Tower of Babel should be in the second category according to Lyman's division.

Among them, Family Friends is directed by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, whose style is a post-modern small narrative, he likes to shoot very trivial characters in daily life, and the film lens has a traditional Baroque picture texture , is very competitive. But it is precisely because of the emphasis on the camera and the ignorance of the tension of the plot that his films hardly have a complete storyline, and are always in a state of dismantling, intertwining and paralleling, which is very different from the way of Babel Tower. count overlap;

Needless to say, The Lantern in the Dusk, the director Aki Kaurismaki is a Finn, and the film is also the end of the Finnish Trilogy, and the overall style is rather gloomy.

In other words, what this director is best at is the gloomy style, but the film is very short, the main content is less than 70 minutes, and it depicts the lonely and desperate life trajectory of a deceived person. It is very depressing to look at. It is also the kind of cruel to real tragedy that most audiences do not like. It's too cold and the subject matter is not new. The odds of winning are quite small;

Then there is Youth in March - not very competitive. The director Pedro Costa is Portuguese, and Portuguese films have always been less popular internationally. The plots of key films are also very bland, and the subject matter does not follow the trend, which is lower than the above two.

Therefore, Babel Tower is relatively prominent in the second waiting camp.

And then No Country For Old Men basically set a grand prize by default, there's nothing to say. After all, the Cannes Film Festival is the official French film festival. In addition to Lehmann, there are several French filmmakers whose works have been selected. The support means is obvious to all.

Anyway,

Every Cannes Film Festival is held, if no French works are selected, it will be strange...

In the first echelon, in addition to the most competitive Return and The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves, there is another Glorious Years that cannot be ignored. The director John Paulman is also an international director, and he is best at using gorgeous The visual style tells a gripping story.

In other words, this guy is very characteristic in both the plot and the lens. As early as 1970, he won the best director in Cannes with a The Last Leo.

And Glorious Years is also one of the must-see comedy films. The director uses the perspective of a little boy to recall some things in his childhood-John Bowman's self-substituting work.

In the chaotic war years, there are wars everywhere, but children can always find the source of happiness in the life that adults think is miserable.

Sister's sock line, German jam, peeking at girls bathing and catching big fish in the river...

This film is definitely everyone's style. Compared with The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves, the way it takes is to look at the war with a relaxed tone. It even ridicules that the school building was bombed and collapsed, and the children shouted happily that they did not need to go to school. It is full of humor, but it tells the history exactly.

After an analysis of all the competitors, there is another question about the theatrical screening.

——In four days, No Country for Old Men will be pushed to North American theaters.

In this regard, Blue Butterfly Pictures has allocated about 1,750 screens, which is quite good. After all, this time it is an independent release.

Of course, Lehmann is more concerned about the audience market and the pressure of The Da Vinci Code.

Throughout the end of May, the current box office champion is The Da Vinci Code, which was released not long ago. It won 77 million in North America in its first weekend, and its reputation was rarely boycotted by religious people and declined.

After the propaganda slogan Everyone has a password in their hearts was printed, the perceptions in various places were quite complicated.

Canadian mainstream comments said that Tom Hanks' imitation of the scholar's hairstyle is too ugly; the United Kingdom joked that it was the best mockery of Catholicism; the United States said that the movie was good, but it could not be a global sensation, and regional cultural restrictions too high.

But for North American audiences, except for Catholics, everyone is happy to support The Da Vinci Code, because the film is of excellent quality and can meet the spiritual needs of watching movies, that's all.

And the popularity of this film has once again proved the argument that the more controversy and the boycott, the failure is not necessarily the case.

Even the film's first-day performance in Italy directly broke the film history record.

Then, at the end of the week, the total global box office of 224 million US dollars is also enough to prove the box office potential of The Da Vinci Code.

In this week's North American rankings, in addition to the first The Da Vinci Code, the second is the animated film Beyond the Hedge, with an income of 37.28 million, and it is worth mentioning that it is produced by Lionsgate. The low-budget horror movie See No Evil came in sixth with $4.35 million.

What's more interesting is that this time, the opinions of American film critics are quite unified. They generally believe that The Da Vinci Code is a suspenseful film that surprises and entertains people. Of course, Tom Hanks' performance is his best. A dull one.

The box office word-of-mouth was quite successful in the first week, basically announcing that the subsequent box office trend will not collapse.

And No Country For Old Men is sure to compete with The Da Vinci Code for the market in the second half of the schedule, and the pressure is very high.

Lehmann thought, if you get a good reputation in Cannes first, you may be able to grab a wave of popularity, otherwise, it will all depend on the long-term trend...and the total score will definitely not match.

This is also the only place where No Country for Old Men can exert its strength. Compared with others, it is too difficult to compare. Even though Lehmann has directed many works and has accumulated a not-so-bad internal reputation among audiences, it is similar to The Da Vinci Code. The first-line masterpieces in the rising period are still much worse.

Don't you see, the high-level people in Colombia can't help themselves laughing. This result is their most popular one since Spider-Man, and it can also produce a sequel, which is a series of works.

If you want to participate in such a box office melee, you will definitely be overwhelmed if you don’t show the momentum at the beginning.

This point, Lehmann is still very clear.

Of course, the production cost of No Country for Old Men is not high after all, and the risk of not being able to return to the original is still very small.

——According to the theory of winners, this can be regarded as profit-keeping, but the geographical factor of No Country for Old Men is bigger, and the overseas market is narrower than The Da Vinci Code, and it can only rely on the North American market to exert its strength, then it has to be A fight.

The most prime time slot in the summer season is definitely not related to Firefly, but with the market strength on the eve of the summer season, you can also get a little soup, which is why No Country for Old Men will be set on May 24. day.

After all, who doesn't want to enjoy the largest audience base, the broadest market space...

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