The West Berlin International Film Festival, as an international A-category film festival rated by the International Association of Film Producers, is actually a reason why it is screened in the open air with some drops.

At that time, when the festival was first held, politicians in Western countries and German filmmakers quickly discovered that the festival was not as smooth as they had imagined, and the biggest headache for these people was that as the most convincing audience of the festival, if the film was shown in a slightly better cinema, then it was basically impossible to think about how many people watched the film.

After all, the festival itself has a political purpose, and the inclusion of the participating films is not large, which also leads to the small number of foreign audiences that can be attracted, so the local German audience, mainly the West Berlin audience, has become the largest audience group of the festival.

However, when the West Berlin International Film Festival was founded in 1951, it was just after the end of World War II. West Berlin, the festival's main audience, had a population of just over two million at the time, of which one in seven was unemployed, and most of the remaining people were paid very little for their jobs.

So from the very beginning, if other factors are not taken into account, the West Berlin International Film Festival cannot be compared with the luxury and prestige of the Cannes International Film Festival and the Venice International Film Festival in terms of audience group alone. After groping for a period of time, the organizers had to play the card of being close to the people and the public, putting the attendance rate and the participation of ordinary fans in the most important position, and with the financial subsidies of politicians, all the participating films were set up as open-air movies, which greatly reduced the cost of watching movies without theater screenings, so as to attract audiences to watch movies with low or even free ticket prices.

On the one hand, because West Berlin has no good place to play because of the war, and on the other hand, out of political considerations, those who pay to sponsor Western politicians want to attract people from East Berlin to watch through the film, and hope that through the subtle brainwashing of the free life of Western capital, the people of East Berlin will be tempted to flee to West Berlin and completely smash the lie of communist superiority.

As a result, the area around the Berlin Wall, such as the Potsdam area, which is now a no-man's land, and Pariser Platz, which was partially destroyed by the war, have been divided into open-air screening venues for the West Berlin International Film Festival.

Of course, this proved to be an effective tactic, and some 2.6 million people fled from East Germany to West Germany during the film screenings in the decade before the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. After the Soviet occupation of East Germany, before the construction of the Berlin Wall, only about 3.5 million people fled from East Germany to West Germany.

That is to say, in the ten years that the film festival has been showing films, the number of East Germans who fled from East Germany to West Germany and want to live a good life in the Western capitalist society in the film has surged by two and a half times, and it is no wonder that the East German government could not sit still and built the Berlin Wall.

Sometimes, when Walter thinks about this, he feels that American propaganda is really interesting, after all, isn't this example like the Celestial Empire after the millennium?

When the Internet was on the rise, countless Western fans of democracy who did not know the truth or falsehood had been preaching the benefits of a capitalist society, compared with the dark corruption of the Celestial Empire. Then, all kinds of strata of the Celestial Empire, from top to bottom, after seeing the injustice of their own lives, emigrated overseas, and secretly sent batch after batch of elites of the Celestial Empire, and even officials loyal to the party, abroad.

This is the power of public opinion, and it's sad that the Celestial Empire wants to constantly clean the network and restrict VPN, there are really things, don't do it so compulsively, once the trend is formed, all kinds of problems will come.

It wasn't until Walter and the others walked around a street corner and saw a temporary sign with "Enter The Dragon" written on white cardboard that they found the movie play point for "Enter the Dragon".

The open-air screening site is surrounded by several adjacent unknown trees, separated by several black screens, and a number of neatly arranged stools, plus a projector that is not too worn-out, and a large white screen in front of it, which makes for a simple open-air screening point. It can only be said that the open-air playback point is really a bit poor and sour, but it was originally a movie that forced to enter through the back door, and it would be nice to have one more point to appear.

"You're finally here, I thought you were lost and was about to go to you. Mike, who had been waiting at this screening spot for a long time, complained when he saw Walter and the others, and finally arrived.

"Sorry, there are too many people and screening spots, and it took me a long time to find this place. ”

"It's okay, in fact, when I was brought here by that guy, I was also worried that no one would come to watch, after all, this corner is really a bit remote. ”

"Forget it, it's good to have us screened, do we need to ask for anything more?" said Walter with a shrug.

"I understand that, but I'm worried about ......"

"Worried about what?"

"I'm worried that if we are arranged here to screen, the flow of people will be small, and if we really win the award when the screening effect is not good, and the media will expose the shady scene, then the consequences will be unimaginable......"

"Don't think about it, trust me, these don't exist. Trust me, Enter the Dragon will definitely surprise you. Walter reassured.

"I hope so!"

"Don't worry!" Walter replied, then glanced at his watch, and continued: "There is still half an hour before the screening, and it will be interesting to see how the movie will perform!"

"Okay. ”

Indeed, the West Berlin International Film Festival, as a political film festival dominated by Western civilization led by the United States, is listed as one of the three major film festivals in Europe along with Cannes and the Venice International Film Festival.

Looking at this slightly deserted corner of the movie, Walter thought coldly that this would be his chance to successfully enter the center of Disney's power, and it should not be missed.

After all, the future will always be live-action movies, cartoons and animations, and the audience is obviously much smaller than that, and he is the founder of the rise of Disney's live-action movies in this time and space.

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