Is Ju Bean a good movie?

It has to be.

It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, won the Luis Buñuel Special Prize, and won the Golden Spike Award for Best Film at the Valladolid International Film Festival and the Audience's Choice Award for Best Film.

Both the audience and the judges gave Ju Dou high praise.

And, of course, got an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

But so what?

Does a good movie necessarily win an award?

If that were the case, Saving Private Ryan wouldn't have been defeated by Shakespeare's love history and lost the Oscar for Best Picture.

Shakespeare's love history will not make Gwyneth Paltrow, the most watery actress in Oscar history.

Saving Private Ryan is considered one of the most realistic war films of all time, and many World War II veterans have given the film a very high rating, calling it "the most realistic reflection of World War II".

In particular, the 26-minute recreation of the spectacular scene of the Normandy landings in the film is regarded as a treasure book by fans, military fans, and enthusiasts, and no one can beat it.

But it's such a classic movie, after winning the best director, the best cinematography, and the best editing, it actually lost the best picture.

You must know that according to the convention, winning the best director, the best editing, the best cinematography, and the best film is basically stable.

However, Saving Private Ryan also lost the best picture nine times out of ten.

Of course, it doesn't need to be said that if other competing films win the best picture, but the rescue of Private Ryan actually lost to Shakespeare.

A classic film full of heart-wrenching reflections on the cruelty of war and an excavation of the inner humanity of ordinary soldiers has lost to a fictional extramarital affair film about Shakespeare falling in love with a prospective wife.

It's ridiculous.

But how ridiculous can it be?

The producer of Sawain's love history is Miramax Films, and its owner is Harvey Weinstein.

Although Harvey was brought down by Rice Rabbit.

But this guy is really good at Oscar Raiders.

And Shakespeare's love history is his famous work in the true sense of the Oscar.

Think about how Spielberg, who is also a Jew and one of Hollywood's greatest directors, can do it without being awesome.

Some people say that the reason why Saving Private Ryan lost Best Picture was because the film was not the best film Spielberg made and was not as good as Schindler's list, so Best Picture was given to Shakespeare's love history.

This argument is pure nonsense.

This is the same as the selection of three good students, there is a perennial test first result this time also tested the first, but this time the first score is not as high as last time, or even last time, so I lost the three good students, and the penultimate one took the three good students.

Why?

Isn't the annual award the strength of the same film?

Why do you still compare yourself to yourself?

Even if Saving Private Ryan can't compare to Schindler's list, then you can't give Best Picture to Sawain's love history, which is far inferior to Saving Private Ryan.

Really, there are too many nonsense things about various awards, and there are too many factors that can affect the attribution of awards.

In Qiao Feng's view, saving Private Ryan's defeat to Sawain's love history, in addition to Spielberg's Oscar level is not as good as the dead fat Harvey, there is also an important factor that the original DreamWorks is being surrounded and suppressed by the Hollywood Seven, and no one in the Seven wants to see the rise of DreamWorks.

To put it bluntly, the GIs were targeted.

This is the same as the old planner.

Lao Mouzi and Cannes started with Ju Dou.

Then four years later, Lao Mouzi won the "Jury Award" second only to the Palme d'Or, and the starring Uncle Ge became the first Chinese Cannes actor.

A year later, "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge" won the "Best Technology Award" at the Cannes Film Festival.

Then the honeymoon period ended.

In 1999, Lao Mouzi participated in Cannes with "No One is Missing", but none of them were hyped by the media.

In particular, some domestic celebrities and media deliberately targeted Lao Mouzi, saying that my father and mother were false, saying that no one should be less political, and I should sing praises, causing the chairman of the jury, Jill Jacob, to also think that the film has "political implications", and hopes that Lao Mouzi can use "My Father and Mother" to replace "No One Less" to participate in the evaluation.

As a result, Lao Mouzi published an open letter accusing Cannes, withdrew from Cannes with two films, and broke with Cannes.

It's not the first time I've met politics in Cannes.

Qiao Feng heard Gong Li say that when Ju Dou participated in Cannes last year, Ju Dou attracted widespread attention at the beginning, and then someone from the organizing committee approached Lao Mouzi during the period, saying that as long as he said a few "politically correct" words at the press conference, he would definitely win the award.

What does it mean to be politically correct?

In Europe and the United States, our people criticize the government and call it political correctness.

But Lao Mouzi didn't bother to win the prize in such a disgusting way, so he refused.

Then the result was that Ju Dou, which attracted much attention, did not win an important award.

Although none of them encountered a political cold reception and hostility in Cannes, Lao Mouzi withdrew from the competition.

But the ending is still wonderful, no one of them quit Cannes and went to the Venice Film Festival and won Lao Mouzi's second Golden Lion Award, while my father and mother went to the Berlin Film Festival and won the Silver Bear Award.

Saying that no one can be less than propaganda politics, are the judges of the Venice Film Festival blind?

As Lao Mouzi said in his open letters to Cannes and Jacob, "Both of my films are about the theme of love. "No One is Missing" expresses our love for our children and our worries about the current situation and future of our nation's overall cultural quality. "My Father and Mother" eulogizes the truth and purity of love. This is an emotion that all human beings share and celebrate. However, it is incomprehensible that Your Excellency should criticize the film on 'political' grounds, which cannot but be said to be a political or cultural bias."

There are really too many factors that affect film awards.

Whether a classic film can win an award or not, in the three major European film festivals, a judge, especially the chairman of the jury, can affect the outcome for most of the time.

In the United States, the Oscars just turned one or a few people into a large group of people.

For the Oscars, which allow public relations, and for many judges who basically don't watch the participating films, giving gifts, sending their own participating films to the door one by one for the judges to see, and calling to promote their own movies tirelessly, there is a high probability that it will affect the judges' voting.

The reason why Harvey is invincible at the Oscars is just to play this kind of public relations trick to the extreme.

The only factor that may not be widely affected by public relations is the international and domestic environment and political correctness of the year.

In the face of absolute political correctness, PR becomes bullshit.

In addition to the quality of the film, political correctness is the biggest obstacle to Chinese films winning awards.

If a domestic director wants to win the Oscars, unless he is making a foreign theme, especially an English film, it is absolutely not enough if the domestic theme is only to the extent of Ju Dou.

You have to shoot a slander, it's easier to get the prize if you don't keep it.

But what's the point of winning a prize in that case?