Iceland's road trip around the island officially ended on December 3rd.

However, Paul and Meadow did not leave immediately, but stayed in Reykjavik for a while, a vast land full of hot springs, which is really a good choice to enjoy the soothing and comfortable hot springs in the harsh winter, not to mention that Paul can also take Meadow to learn outdoor activities such as sledding and skiing, which is a paradise for Meadow, who has lived in Hawaii since childhood.

So, Paul and Meadow simply enjoyed a vacation here.

For Lan Li, this is naturally the best news. The fateful catastrophe of November 30 has finally passed, but if Paul can stay away from Los Angeles for as long as possible, does it mean that those remnants of the turbulent waters will also be completely calm, and further and truly sure that Paul will be "reborn"?

Located at the confluence of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, Iceland is quietly away from all strife, with heavy snow and cold isolating the island in the vast and ethereal sea, and the outside world seems to be gradually moving away, and then the whole world is quiet, and gradually finds the long-lost peace in the depths of the heart.

While Lan Li threw himself into the filming of Interstellar, while Paul and Meadow enjoyed a rare father-daughter vacation, the awards season on the North American continent is getting more and more lively, with more and more popular works coming out one after another, joining the annual college PR, and the noise of singing and singing my debuts is roaring all the way to the Oscars.

Although Lan Li is on the other side of the Atlantic, he has no intention of college public relations, but the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, no one can ignore the existence of "Lan Li-Hall", not to mention, this year's Lan Li with "Gravity" and "Drunken Folk" two works, since the Cannes Film Festival has become the strongest contender for the major awards ceremonies at the end of the year, how can anyone forget the name of Lan Li?

On December 6, "Drunken Country Ballads" was officially screened, announcing that it would join the year-end awards season.

At the Cannes Film Festival in May, "Drunken Country Folk" stole all the glamour, and "The Life of Adele" received rave reviews on a par with "The Life of Adele", and won the Grand Jury Prize and Best Actor in one fell swoop, making it undoubtedly one of the best expectations of the year.

Incidentally, as of December, the original soundtrack sales of "Drunken Country Ballads" have surpassed 4 million. What kind of level is this?

To put it simply, "Don Quixote" barely exceeded 1 million sales just over a year after its release, while "Drunken Country Ballad" has only been released for seven months; at the same time, this is the highest-selling movie soundtrack in a single year since the 2006 "Youth Musical" movie soundtrack, and even among the total sales of all soundtracks after the millennium, it is only behind the 7.8 million of "The Three Kings of Escape" and the 4.8 million of "Youth Musical", temporarily ranking third.

Of course, the soundtrack of the "Frozen" movie, which was released in the last week of November, is bursting with incredible anti-heaven energy, and it continues to rise with a strong momentum, and it has the ability to surpass "Drunken Country Folk", after all, the box office appeal of "Drunken Country Ballads" cannot be compared with the sudden rise of "Frozen".

Still, the four million sales are already a reminder of the far-reaching influence of "Drunken Country Ballad," and the entire North American region is anticipating the title.

When "Drunken Country Ballad" debuted in Cannes, the unanimous praise caused countless curiosity, and many film critics even exclaimed, maybe this is not the best work of the Coen brothers' career, but it is definitely the best performance of Lan Li's career, and it makes this work deservedly the first expectation of the year-end awards season.

After that, EGOT brought Lan Li's prestige to its peak, although for industry insiders, everyone said that it was too much to start cooling down, but for the layman melon eating masses, Lan Li is now Hollywood's well-deserved first person, and then the whole of North America collectively witnessed the miracle journey of "gravity" to create history.

It is worth mentioning that after "Gravity" landed at the Venice Film Festival as the unveiling work, film critics have already given a standing ovation and applauded, and countless people have sighed that if this work enters the main competition unit, then the Best Actor trophy almost undoubtedly belongs to Lan Li, then Lan Li will complete the EGOT and Best Actor Grand Slam in the same year with a historic feat.

Such remarks caused a lot of controversy at the time, "Everyone is frantically praising Lan Li? Is it so exaggerated? He is not a god descending from heaven, is it?"

Even many viewers have a backlash of rejection and resistance, and the words of the film critics are regarded as deaf ears, losing their prestige and shock, sounding like flattery without money, and even the expectations of "drunken country ballads" and "gravity" have dropped slightly for a while.

But what happened next is known to all: after the release of "Gravity", the thrilling performance brought a lingering frenzy of reflection, successfully won the enthusiastic applause of the whole North American region, and became the undisputed number one frontrunner in this year's Oscar race.

At the same time, the topic of discussion about the merits of "gravity" and "drunken country ballads" is very loud on social networks, and surprisingly, many film critics still choose "drunken country ballads". While the "Gravity" performance has won many accolades as "Blue Rite's career best", the performance of "Drunken Country Folk" has garnered countless followers who are "emotionally delicate and deeply tear-jerking".

As a result, the people who eat melons collectively became excited-

They only have to actually watch both movies in person that they will be able to make a choice, right?

Now, the mystery of "Drunken Country Ballad" has finally been revealed!

On Friday, December 6, "Drunken Country Ballads" was officially screened in four theaters. But interestingly, Sony Classics, which is responsible for the North American distribution, has arranged all four theaters in New York.

This move sparked an outcry, especially from Los Angeles residents: the first round of screenings requires control of the number of theaters and the city of screening, which is understandable, and generally speaking, Seattle, Chicago, Houston, Washington, Atlanta and other big cities are scheduled for the second round;

As far as the screening strategy is concerned, the Sony Classic, which is second only to Focus Pictures and Fox Searchlight, will naturally not make a mistake, and there is nothing wrong with this arrangement. Each distribution company must select the city of the film according to the attributes of the film, its characteristics, its audience and its public relations goals.

Boston would be suicide for a black film, North and Strait cities should be for a Civil War biopic, and women's will be able to win more support in San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles...... And so on and so forth.

According to the characteristics of the movie "Drunken Country Folk", Sony Classic has arranged all the screening cities in New York, and also specially arranged the cinema chain in Greenwich Village, which is a clear positioning and accurate target arrangement.

The opposition and protest in Los Angeles is completely unexpected, after all, Los Angeles is in the second round of screenings, and it is just a matter of waiting for another week or two, and Sony Classics needs to arrange follow-up screenings and expansion plans according to the feedback from the first round of screenings.

The only explanation for this situation is that Sony Classics ignores how strong the appeal of Lan Li is, and underestimates how much people are looking forward to the work "Drunken Country Folk". Obviously, everyone is looking forward to watching this movie and being able to compete with Lan Li's two works.

The grand occasion of the screening in New York also proves this explanation!

On the night of the official screening, although there was no red carpet for the premiere, it was a low-key screening of the art theater, but there were incredibly long queues at the entrance of the four theaters, and it seemed that movie lovers throughout New York City poured out, according to real-time statistics of box office data, all tickets for the first and second screenings were announced, and the attendance rate reached an incredible 100%!

This is a midnight screening.

100% attendance at midnight is unbelievable for any work, whether it is an art film, a commercial film, or an idol movie, such a result is terrifying, and it clearly makes people feel the heated discussion and popularity of "drunken country ballads".

This is just the beginning.

On the one hand, no one can match the popularity of the movie itself, and Sony Classics chose New York specifically because of this, this work is called the "Song of Decline", which truly interprets the voices and conditions of the wandering artists led by Greenwich Village, and can easily spark the craziest discussion and support in the city.

On the other hand, this is a relatively deserted schedule, after the box office frenzy of "The Hunger Games 2" and "Frozen", no heavy works have been released this week, which means that the topic is still on the side of "Drunken Country Ballads", and the curiosity and expectation are all gathered together, further dispatching the enthusiasm of hardcore audiences.

Sony Classic is worthy of being the industry's top college public relations master, a schedule arrangement, a selection of screening cities, seemingly unintentional but fine arrangements, successfully won a great opportunity for "Drunken Country Folk Songs", so, it soared into the sky, and created a wave of public screening with the attitude of screening, which is indeed clever!

Although only four theaters have launched screenings, the first round of word-of-mouth of "Drunken Country Ballads" has finally reached the moment of reveal, and all the media comments and audience comments have been officially released. Anyway, now is the time to test.