Just a year ago, "Lost in Translation", released by Diorama Pictures, and "City of God", the first film produced by Chaos Pictures, were in a fierce battle during the awards season, with "Lost in Translation" winning at the Golden Globes and then losing at the Oscars.

Now, the "Rwanda Hotel" produced and released by Diorama Pictures has once again faced off against Chaos Pictures' "Killing with a Knife" on the stage of the awards season, "Hotel Rwanda" won the nomination at the Golden Globe Awards, but tied with "Killing with a Knife" in the awards, and after the Oscars, the distance between the two has been widened in the nomination stage, ending with the absolute advantage of "Killing with a Knife".

A similar script has been staged for two consecutive years. It's a bit chilling.

After its grand premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Hotel Rwanda has grown in popularity, with its unique subject matter easily attracting the attention of numerous media outlets, while the war in Iraq and the turbulent landscape in Africa have once again raised fears of the Holocaust.

During World War II, after the Holocaust of the Jews, countries around the world expressed their stance that they would do their utmost to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. However, at that time, some sociology and historical experts analyzed that in addition to human factors, the occurrence of such a tragedy was more often a human tragedy led by the trend of history, and both the perpetrators and the abused were victims of the historical trend.

Sure enough, in 1994, the horrific genocide in Rwanda shocked the world again – and this time even more brutally, the United Nations had the opportunity to control or even stifle the entire situation at the beginning, but because of political games and conflicts of interest, it delayed humanitarian relief and led to a brutal loss of control.

Now, just a decade later, the landscape of the Middle East and Africa is once again a reminder of such a nightmare. Lance mentions Rwanda in the script "Murder with a Knife", which means the same thing.

It can be said that the "Rwanda Hotel" chose the right time and in the right way, and came out in the right way. This is also known as political correctness. Almost immediately, "Hotel Rwanda" became the top seed of the awards season, and the strong momentum showed the attitude of the African version of "Schindler's List", which made people more and more optimistic about the prospects of this work.

But the "Rwanda Hotel" obviously started too early, and with the advancement of time, the heat wave of the awards season hit, and one wonderful masterpiece after another came out one after another. In contrast, people found that the overall quality of the "Rwanda Hotel" is still very lacking, not to mention the "Schindler's List", even in 2004, the year of the awards, its story depth, ideological depth and humanitarian excavation are far from being at the forefront.

However, "Rwanda Hotel" still represents the correctness of politics, so it is still mentioned frequently in the awards season, but in the competition for major awards, it is gradually beginning to be unable to do so. After the Golden Globe Award nominees were announced, rumors began to circulate in the circle: this year is a small year, the pattern of all works is too limited, even independent sketches, except for "Aviator", there are no works that can show the height of art, and "Rwanda Hotel" and "Million Dollar Baby", two works that stand on the height of humanity to examine themselves, obviously deserve more praise.

Obviously, this is the last ditch effort for Diorama Pictures, and it has also won the support of Warner Bros. - "Million Dollar Baby", like "The Flyer", is distributed by Warner Bros., which also means that Warner Bros. must allocate public relations resources reasonably, and then select the main players and concentrate their firepower on the offensive, otherwise they will only end up taking care of one or the other. In such a situation, Diorama Pictures is willing to launch public relations for "Million Dollar Baby", and Warner Bros. can gain fame without much effort, and is naturally happy to push behind it.

But as a result...... the popularity of "Million Dollar Baby" has skyrocketed, showing a call that is almost comparable to that of "The Flyer", and the public relations quota of Warner Bros. has begun to show signs of tilting - in the face of real interests, whether it is Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, or Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, there is no difference for Warner Bros., just need to ensure that it is themselves who benefit, and it will be no problem to sacrifice no one.

And the "Rwanda Hotel" has once again become cannon fodder. The constraints of the overall quality have limited the further breakthrough of this work, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in the Drama category has squeezed the last bit of energy from the genre's advantage, so it is not surprising that when it comes to the Oscars, it is not surprising that the nomination stage has been lost.

In addition to Tang's nomination for Best Actor, the unexpected breakthrough of Best Supporting Actress can be regarded as an affirmation of its political correctness, and it is also a victory for the college's public relations. But both of these projects have apparently been preempted by others, and it is not the turn of the "Rwanda Hotel", and even Don's black advantage has been weakened to a minimum because of Jamie Fox's deposit.

Time is not waiting for me, that's all.

Although there is still more than a month before the Oscars, Diora Pictures can still expect that "Hotel Rwanda" will achieve a counterattack in the two awards of Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress - although the odds are small, as long as they are nominated to qualify, and "Kill with a knife" has not been received, then they will still usher in a victory, but these people who are active in Hollywood are not dreamers, Ryan and Tucker are not, Jason is not, they know that the odds are slim. So......

Therefore, this also means that the plan to rely on the "Rwanda Hotel" to win respite has been declared bankrupt; This also means that if Diorama Pictures wants to turn over, only the "Sahara cavalry" remains. All of this is like a well-planned chess game, step by step, leading Diorama Pictures to the edge of a cliff, only to find that there is no way back but to leap forward: either leap over the cracks of the cliff or die in the abyss.

When I realized this, the fear was chilling, even for Ryan and George. Could it be that this qiē was all planned by Lance? Is all this a trap for Lance? Should...... Possible...... Maybe...... Probably...... No way.

In fact, is the "Rwanda Hotel" really that bad? In fact, it's not, in addition to the advantages of the subject matter, the work itself still has a lot of merits, maybe there is still a distance from the masterpiece, but it can indeed be regarded as a good work. From this point of view, this also proves once again that Diorama Pictures has the ability to prepare and grasp art films.

What's more, he has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for five consecutive years, winning Oscar nominations for four of them, and winning two statuettes. It can be said that when it comes to stability, only top independent studios such as Focus Pictures and Miramax can compare.

But things are not so simple, after leaving Diora Pictures, Lance seems to have broken free from the chains, and the more he fights, the more courageous he becomes, while the team that stayed behind Diora Pictures has always been guarding, conservative, and catching up, and has been crushed by Chaos Shadow Fang for two consecutive years - not only art films, but even commercial films have much inferior box office results, especially considering that Chaos Pictures' current three works are all created by Lance, and the gap between the two is even greater.

This inevitably makes people guess: Lance is the source of creation of Diorama Pictures, and after sweeping Lance out of the house, the decline of Diorama Pictures is inevitable. Looking at it now, when Lance Wolf Bèi was unbearable to leave the house, was the winner the three partners of Diora Pictures? This seems to put a big question mark on it.

Not only industry insiders, but even the partners of Diorama Pictures themselves have their own thoughts. Ryan, Tucker, Jason, and George sat in the office, no one spoke, falling into an incredibly silent silence.

Tucker couldn't help but wonder if they were really far behind Lance in terms of enthusiasm, understanding, and energy for film. Without Lance, their keen sense of cinema is getting worse and worse, "If we take 'Harry Potter', and 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' ......" Tucker didn't dare to think further.

Recalling the early days of Diorama Pictures, they were united and twisted into a rope, with Lance in charge of the film, he and Jason in charge of production and planning, and Ryan at the helm of the general direction, they were like the Titanic, riding the wind and waves, unstoppable. And then...... And then it hit the iceberg.

Looking up, Tucker looked at Ryan.

Jason just sat quietly, he seemed to have anticipated the outcome of today, a long, long time ago, perhaps deep down, he always knew that Lance had made the right choice. Wasn't Diorama Pictures formed at the beginning because of Lance's passion for film? It's just that...... He's also greedy, he wants to win his own light? That's why the wrong decision was made. Perhaps.

But compared to the failure of Diorama Pictures, he always echoed in his mind the resolute cruelty of Lance's expression at the premiere of "Troy", and the strong smell of blood could be smelled in the air. It wasn't the Lance he knew, it was a stranger, a completely different stranger, a stranger hidden in that familiar skin, and they were the murderers who strangled the real Lance, but it was just in exchange for the situation that is now, this qiē...... Does it really make sense? The death of a company is the death of a friendship and the death of a soul. He's the murderer, Tucker is the murderer, Ryan is the murderer, and George.

Jason looked up at Ryan. (To be continued.) )