"An excellent movie always reflects the ...... of life"

On the stage of the Palazzo Cinema in Venice, the president of the jury, Alexander Dissprat, said a long list of things like that the film should return to its essence, and then looked down at the card in his hand, "The one who won the Golden Lion Award at this year's film festival is ......"

The closing ceremony of this Venice Film Festival has come to the end, and only the heaviest Golden Lion Award has not yet been announced. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Many European directors in the audience are eagerly watching Alexander Dissprat, in a sense, the Golden Lion, the Golden Bear and the Palme d'Or are the highest film awards they can get.

Compared to these people, Murphy seems very calm, and the purpose of screening "Focus" at the Venice Film Festival has been achieved for him, whether it is the film's momentum and reputation, or the impact and negative impact on Catholicism, it has greatly exceeded previous expectations.

This is very beneficial for "Spotlight" to impact next year's Academy Awards.

Due to personal cognitive problems, the status of the Oscar statuette in his heart is naturally far higher than the highest award of the three major European film festivals.

Because of this, after attending the opening ceremony, Murphy left Venice directly and went to the Toronto Film Festival, which is more important to the North American film market, and did not return to Venice until the closing ceremony.

As for some of the publicity and public relations work here, it was naturally all handed over to Twentieth Century Fox.

Therefore, Murphy thinks that his chances of winning the award should not be too high.

All the previous media, although they praised "Focus", but in view of the choice of the Venice Film Festival in recent years, they are not very optimistic that "Focus" will win the Golden Lion Award.

And tonight's closing ceremony and awards ceremony so far, "Spotlight" has not won a single award, it seems that as in the past few years, regardless of the quality of the film itself, the Venice Film Festival will ignore films from Hollywood in order to show its own personality.

But the name pronounced by Alexander Dispratt, the chairman of the jury, caused the audience to fall silent for a moment.

"The winner of the Golden Lion is ......" he paused briefly and said the answer, "Spotlight!" ”

There was an eerily silence in the Palais du Cinéma, except for the voice of Alexander Dissprat, the chairman of the jury, wafting around.

"Spotlight?" Many European filmmakers were a little stunned, "How is this possible?" ”

The applause first rang out in the spotlight of the Hollywood filmmakers, and then most of them began to applaud, but now the applause is not as loud and a little chaotic as it was when European filmmakers won awards.

"That's right."

Murphy has stood up and walked to the podium without hesitation, unlike the Oscars for Best Picture, the highest awards at the three major European film festivals are all awarded to directors.

He is very fast, and at the same time, his head is also spinning very fast, and when he came to the front of the stage, he had already thought of some reasons why he won the award, and the theme of "Focus" is the key!

I am afraid that the Italian counterparts have also had enough of the restrictions and oppression of Catholicism......

Walking onto the stage and leaving all of this behind, Murphy took the Golden Lion from the chairman of the jury, Alexander Dispratt, and stood in front of the microphone.

"Thank you, thank you, jury." Murphy wasn't going to make a tirade, but said as briefly as possible, "Thank you Stanton Studios and Twentieth Century Fox, and thank everyone on the Spotlight crew!" This Golden Lion Award means a lot to me! ”

He thought for a moment, then said, "To borrow two lines from the movie, the church is an institution, it is made up of people, it makes mistakes, it fades, and our faith is eternal. Sometimes, we love to forget, and most of the time, we stumble in the dark until dawn! ”

In any case, this is one of the highest awards for world cinema, and it is better to have nature than nothing.

Standing on the podium, which was a lot higher, Murphy could see that the directors sitting in the first row had doubts and disdain on their faces, as if he had won this award, which seriously violated the art of film.

Murphy is well aware that a Hollywood director like him, who mainly shoots commercial blockbusters, is simply not in the mainstream in the eyes of many pretentious European directors.

After saying his acceptance speech, Murphy walked straight off the podium, completely ignoring those people.

According to the award principles of the Venice Film Festival in recent years, "Focus" is indeed not the favorite of the Golden Lion Award, and winning the Golden Lion Award can be regarded as an upset, but the problem is that those directors and their works are more qualified than "Focus"? More representative of the art of cinema?

Before the closing ceremony, the recognized Golden Lion hit was "Silent Image," which tells the story of the "9?30" massacre of communists during the Suharto era in Indonesia.

The film is completely from the perspective of the executioner, these murderers who killed people back then are still in power, not only do they not repent of their evil deeds, but unscrupulously perform various killing methods in front of the camera, and even teach how to kill faster and more efficiently, and what kind of results are presented by cutting off their genitals.

If the hell of "Silent Image" comes from description and imagination, then another popular film "Female Addict" is even more bizarre, director Lars von Trier has a heavier taste, let's say that Charlotte Gainsburg aborted for herself, close-up with the detailed surgical process, drove away many audiences with fragile hearts, and the audience who insisted on staying also admitted that they were disgusted with internal injuries after watching it.

Even in Western society, Russ von Trier's actions are undoubtedly full of provocations.

Can such a film represent the art of cinema? Is it true that a European director like Lars von Trier is working hard to realize the art of cinema?

I'm afraid that anyone with a brain will come up with a negative answer.

Like the visual effects of mainstream Hollywood commercial films, they are just creating selling points that attract audiences.

It's just that these people don't have enough investment and technical support behind the movie, which determines that it is impossible for them to create those time-consuming and labor-intensive scenes, and can only rely on relatively cheap nudity, 3P, ** and other large-scale meat selling scenes to attract the audience to achieve profitability.

If someone says that these large-scale European films represent film art, I am afraid that many people will spit on him.

In any case, it is an indisputable fact that Hollywood films have conquered the global film market.

Compared with the globalization of Hollywood films, the living space of European films has also been greatly threatened, statistics show that the share of Italian films in the domestic market only accounts for about 30%, and this is already the highest local share in the whole of Europe, more and more European directors and actors are following in the footsteps of Hollywood, the pursuit of more practical returns at the box office.

As we all know, the globalization of Hollywood has made American films break the cultural barrier and obtain higher box office, and the movies themselves have become more understandable.

Against this backdrop, the weakening of European film festivals is inevitable.

This year's Venice Film Festival came to an end, but the Golden Lion finally fell to "Spotlight" and Murphy, and the reaction in the mouth of the North American and European media was very different.

The mainstream media in North America generally believes that Murphy and "Spotlight" winning the Golden Lion are well expected.

Many media in Europe have used words such as "unpopular" and "upset" to describe the most important awards of the Venice Film Festival.

In any case, Murphy's taking away the Venice Golden Lion is an irrevocable result.

The day after the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival, Murphy left Italy and returned to North America, and the film "Spotlight" took advantage of the opportunity to be screened at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, creating a huge momentum, and many national and regional studios approached Twentieth Century Fox to introduce the film.

There is still a long time before the release of "Spotlight", but Twentieth Century Fox has already started negotiations with distributors in many countries, and in just over a week, more than 30 countries and regions have signed formal contracts with Twentieth Century Fox.

Combined with some overseas markets where Twentieth Century Fox was able to distribute itself, "Spotlight" will appear in the theatrical market in at least 80 countries and regions.

This is enough to ensure that the film will have a world-class impact.

Of course, Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox had to make sure that "Spotlight" would attract attention in the North American market.

With the development of Hollywood movies to the present, most of the popular films in North America will also cause a sensation in overseas markets, or at least ignite the film market in the Western world.

Frankly, Murphy didn't think that the film could affect several countries in the East, after all, the spread of Catholicism there was not particularly widespread.

It is no exaggeration to say that without Catholicism as a foundation, Spotlight would have been much less influential.

Subsequently, Twentieth Century Fox began the pre-screening marketing of "Spotlight", mobilizing its media to constantly hype related topics, and Catholicism is still one of the themes.

"What is distorted is not all faith perception, but the fact that people themselves have no faith and can only be influenced by the common religious beliefs around them......"

Perhaps it was because he witnessed the whole incident, Gal Gadot had a special emotion, and once said to Murphy, "Religious belief is actually people's brand perception of religious organizations in many cases, and once the organization is not well managed, it is easy to have problems." The problem is swept under the rug-over because people are superstitious about authority and tradition, just like religious organizations peddling beliefs, where salespeople hurt consumers and consumers have no way to complain. ”

Perhaps this represents the opinion of many people, in early November, "Focus" officially entered the North American theater market with the scale of ten theaters, and countless audiences flocked to it.