I have to say that Jude's luck is very good, although the Toronto Film Festival is full of blockbusters, and there are popular films such as "Forrest Gump", "The Shawshank Redemption", and "Pulp Fiction", but the topic discussion about these three films is not a new topic, and compared with these three films, the other participating films are a bit mediocre and cannot attract more attention.

The appearance of "This Man is from Earth" successfully saved the film festival from this tepid embarrassing situation.

low-budget shooting, and the director is an indispensable newcomer, so no one will compare this movie with popular films such as "Forrest Gump", "The Shawshank Redemption", and "Pulp Fiction", but this small-budget movie itself has enough topical attributes.

The lowest-cost movie ever! It's actually a science fiction film"

"The first one-shot feature film! 》

"Jude Locke's gorgeous turn from a down-and-out actor to a cutting-edge director!" 》

The reporters who came with the task of covering the film festival and couldn't find anything else to write about gave a lot of coverage to "This Man is from Earth", which suddenly made the film the most watched work in the entire film festival.

In this way, the reporters were able to make a difference, but they left the trouble to the festival organizers.

Many people only know that there is such a film at the film festival after reading the newspaper, but when everyone really wants to see it, they find that as an unofficial participating film, "This Man from Earth" has only one screening at the film festival, and later people can't find a way to watch it.

The festival organizers were a little confused by this incident, and on the one hand, they hurriedly contacted New Line through official channels, hoping to increase the number of screenings of the film, and on the other hand, they contacted Jude through the personal channels of Kenneth Bryanner, a member of the festival jury, hoping that he could cooperate with the arrangements of the festival organizers.

Kenneth Bryner did not avoid suspicion this time, but directly asked Jude out to meet.

A photo of the two men chatting at an open-air café on the streets of Toronto made headlines in the local media the next day, and the feedback from Kenneth Blenner to the festival's organisers was also encouraging.

Jude promised to stay and cooperate with the official publicity until the end of the festival, but the organizers had some problems communicating with the new line company.

The new line company felt that "This Man from Earth" suffered "unfair" treatment when it first participated in the film festival, otherwise the quality of the film would definitely be included in the official screening list, and now the film has received widespread attention, and the film festival organizers want to use this film to advertise themselves, and it is obviously not enough to only give the film an official film festival qualification.

The purpose of using the film festival to quickly hype "This Man from Earth" has been achieved, and the film festival organizers need to launch this film to take advantage of the situation to expand the influence of the entire film festival, and the two sides finally reached a compromise after several rounds of negotiations, "This Man is from Earth" will be screened as the closing film of the film festival, and the original closing film will also be retained, which means that the film festival will have two closing films.

Jude was a little surprised by the concession of the festival organizers, and asked his agent Leet for his opinion.

"Isn't the new line afraid of offending the film festival organizers by doing this?"

"Do you think an old fox like Shay would make such a low-level mistake?" Litt handed Jude a cup of coffee he had just bought from the side of the road, "I dare say it's just a 'show' by New Line and the festival organizers." ”

"Performance?" Jude stopped drinking coffee, looked at Litt with a puzzled expression, and said, "What do you mean?" ”

"To use a Chinese proverb, this is called Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer." Li Teh explained while drinking coffee: "The popularity of "This Man from Earth" has been hyped by the media, and the organizers of the film festival are estimated to be ready to show it as the closing film before communicating with the new line company, because it will be of great help to enhance the reputation of the entire film festival, but then there is no way to explain the original closing film, so they staged this bitter meat trick with the new line company, so that people with opinions can not find something to say." ”

Jude was silent, and Leeter thought he didn't understand.

Because Li Te's words just now were said in Chinese, which involved some colloquialisms, if a "foreigner" like Jude does not have enough understanding of Chinese culture, even if he can understand Chinese, it will be difficult to understand.

Leet was about to repeat what he had just meant in English, when Jude suddenly spoke.

"I was thinking that if I had been the director of the film that had closed the festival, I would have been very unhappy now."

Litt was surprised by Jude's thoughts, but that didn't affect his answer.

"What if you're not happy? You should be glad that you are not the director, because at this time, no matter how many grievances you have, no one will sympathize with you, this is the reality of the film industry! ”

"Oh, that's bad!" Jude replied.

At first, Litt thought Jude was referring to what he had just said, but when he noticed Jude quickly turn around and dodge, he realized that he had misunderstood.

Several reporters appeared directly in front of them, apparently noticing this side.

"I've had enough of these guys, help me get them, thanks!"

Jude patted Litt on the shoulder, shoved the unfinished coffee into his hand, turned his head and left.

"Shit!"

Before Litte could utter a foul word, Jude's back had disappeared into the crowd in front of him.

The reporters in the back directly ignored Lee's existence, bypassing him and preparing to continue chasing Jude.

The two cups of coffee in Leete's hand finally came in handy at this time, he pretended to be bumped into by two reporters, and directly spilled the two cups of coffee on each other.

"Damn! My coffee! ”

Li Tet covered his forehead, looking unlucky to see a ghost.

The attention of the two reporters was all on Jude, who was fleeing, and they didn't realize that it was Leet acting, so in order not to delay the business, one of them immediately took out ten dollars and stuffed it into Leeter's hand.

"This is to compensate you for the coffee money, I'm very sorry!"

After a few more steps, Jude was no longer visible from the crowd.

When I turned around and looked for the "passerby" who accidentally bumped into just now, there was still no trace of the other party.