Receiving a call from Roman Polanski, who was far away in France, was a big surprise for Daniel Sandler, who had just broken free from his annoyance. In fact, since attending the opening ceremony, he said goodbye to the mecca of international cinema in the theme song of Woody Allen's new film, and he has not thought that this Cannes has anything to do with him. If anything, Leonardo reiterated Daniel and New York at the star-studded screening of Gangs of New York a few days ago. and the film media's far-fetched discussion about whether Nicholson and him can win another actor for Hollywood.

The limelight of George Lucas's new Star Wars film alone outweighed all Daniel's news, so much so that after a glimpse at the opening, the hottest superstar in Hollywood didn't actually become the center of attention at Cannes.

But Polanski's phone call somewhat made Daniel have some reverie.

The head of the organizing committee, Gibbs Jacobtongguò Polanski, sent him a message: I hope you will come to the award ceremony.

The tradition of international film festivals forced Daniel and Polanski to think about this qiē.

Is it an actor? Or the Palme d'Or? Or the jury?

If it's just some indifferent small prizes, then Jacob specially notified, which is somewhat out of line. Polanski was a little agitated on the phone, but he tried to say that Daniel would be able to make another trip to Cannes.

"Daniel, come on, why not? Even if it's not the Palme d'Or, it must be your actor. As you can imagine, if it were just my director, Jacob wouldn't have been discreet in passing on the word to you. This is your chance and your moment of glory. ”

In fact, it doesn't take a long time to think about it, although Hollywood claims not to care about the three major international film festivals, but watching Woody Allen, a peculiar director who has never attended awards ceremonies and film festivals, go to Cannes this time after breaking his ring to attend the first Oscars after 911 - so much so that some people claim that seeing a living Woody at Cannes or film festivals is like seeing a miracle.

Hollywood's miracles all happened in Cannes, so isn't it a bit ridiculous to say that you don't care about it here?

Levan Phoenix won the Venice Best Actor, which was the beginning of his real Hollywood golden boy. Now Daniel also has such an opportunity, he is practically impossible to refuse this invitation, even if it is only the Palme d'Or, it is also strong enough, after all, there is an Oscar behind him.

After communicating with Universal, fortunately, the audience preview is basically over, and now it is necessary to prepare for the world premiere in New York, when Daniel is of course already in Los Angeles.

"Cannes actor? Dan, are you sure? ”

David, who was busy with "My Grand Greek Wedding" and "Hotel Rwanda", also cared about Daniel's affairs this time. This is not unrelated to him, both films are mainly distributed to the European market, the former itself is based on European countries, and even the name has the word Greek, as for the latter. If films with similar themes don't get enough box office in the European market, then the rest of the world should not be delusional. So David attaches great importance to it, even if Daniel wins the actor, if "The Pianist" can win the Palme d'Or, presumably Daniel will no longer be just the elf prince in "The Fellowship of the Ring" in the eyes of movie lovers. And excellent actors who can take on heavy themes such as anti-Nazi, anti-massacre, and anti-war are completely super good for the release of DD Pictures' two films.

Daniel didn't expect David to ask him this, usually David would be happy for him, but rarely ask this kind of question when the dust has not yet fallen. It can be seen that now David is not just Daniel's friend, but has truly transformed into the CEO of DD Pictures, a qualified Hollywood film producer and studio owner. It's something to be happy about, but it also occasionally evokes a little melancholy for Daniel, who is usually a few minutes away from the fact that one can see some philosopher two thousand years ago in the sunlight peeping through the leaves, and Daniel is now, a simple friend who is gone, and it is worth a few minutes for him to be hypocritical.

His reply to Davy, of course, was that he didn't know.

Basically, no one can know, unlike the Oscars, Cannes relies on nine judges to decide whether to win or lose, and every news is among these nine people, unless someone leaks it, generally no one can find out. Specific to this year's film festival, the chairman of the jury, David Lynch, is a Hollywood director, in addition, Sharon Stone and Michelle Yeoh can probably be counted. The rest are directors from Denmark, France, Brazil and Chile, as well as Indonesian national treasure actress Kristen Hakim. The niche film market, as always, accounts for the vast majority.

Of course, the rush to Cannes this time could not be done silently, and there was no way to hide the pervasive media.

Daniel flew to France before the awards ceremony, while Leonardo left directly after the screening of Gangs of New York. Why? No one would think that Daniel was going to participate in the grand event, how busy he was, even the media knew that now he was almost all in DD Pictures' office in Century City, except for the huge number of announcements and itineraries of "Spy", and then Universal, MGM and various functions and levels of personnel came and went, oh, by the way, even Tom Hanks's wife Rita Wilson appeared at DD Pictures twice, although there was still David there, but who knew that these people visited DD Pictures so intensively, What is considered is nothing more than taking advantage of Daniel's busy side of the matter, to determine the cooperation that needs to be determined, and to do the projects that have been determined better.

Daniel hasn't done much in the field of producers or investors, but the public opinion circles naturally regard him as one of the most important producers of "Greek Wedding" and "Hotel Rwanda", which is determined by influence and status. We can understand that those who can drive may not necessarily drive a boat, and those who can act in comedy may not necessarily be epic, but when it comes to the field of producers and actors, the media itself sometimes ignores this point: a successful actor may not be convincing enough in the producer position.

However, Daniel's unusualness is also one of the reasons why the media believes that he is important, and whoever achieves this goal in just three years, and is also said to have a strong talent for financial investment, is worthy of being treated differently.

Daniel, who was so busy, took two days out of his cog-hued itinerary to fly to Cannes - to add popularity to Jacob? Or cheer for Polanski? What a ridiculous conjecture, the only possibility is that "The Pianist" will win at least one of the Palme d'Or and the best actor, and even the jury is slightly underwhelmed. As for the consolation prizes in addition to the five awards of the Palme d'Or, Best Actress, Best Director, and Jury Prize, it is even more impossible.

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At this moment, David Lynch has indeed confirmed all the awards, and the debate is very hot.

Mainly focused on the Palme d'Or, 18 or 9 of the 22 films were basically out in the first round, and the Chinese film "Ren Yao" was among them, and the judges didn't even give it much time to judge, only Sharon Stone commented, "Such a rough and aesthetically pleasing film is definitely not what the Palme d'Or wants." But this comment was severely criticized by Christine in Indonesia.

"I can't agree with Stone, although I don't think 'Let It Go' have the quality to win the Palme d'Or, but it's not because of his so-called roughness, but because his mental strength is not strong enough, and the director is still a little unable to control the subject matter. What we have to realize is that the film festival, the Cannes Film Festival must not be a place where investment is the criterion, whether it is China, Indonesia, I think Chile and Brazil, many filmmakers do not have enough investment to produce beautiful films, but this does not detract from their determination and spirit of wanting to arrange some precious things in society, people, and hearts into films. ”

The Indonesian actress is quite good at words, the two directors of Chile and Brazil both bowed their heads slightly in agreement, Malaysia's Michelle Yeoh is a Chinese-speaking actor, and of course belongs to the most culturally identifiable to "Let It Go", but her inner thoughts are slightly similar to Sharon Stone, the 007 series "Bright Moon Empire" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are Michelle Yeoh's two famous works, both of which are well-made blockbusters, and she can sit here today, relying on the global table of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". She doesn't look very well at movies with a strong underclass color like the sixth generation of directors in the mainland, but at this time, of course, she won't go to the ring with Christine, you know, she has been watching Sharon Stone for a long time.

This former American actress, because of "Instinct", still has a certain popularity in France, but in fact, there are few good opportunities. Now Yang, who has infinite scenery, is of course overjoyed by her appearance during the film festival.

Stone, who was beaten by Christine, had no intention of admitting defeat, but David Lynch's cough was enough to silence her.

After the first round of selection, Polanski's "The Pianist", Finland's Kaurismäki's "Men Without a Past", Belgium's Darden Brothers' "Sons", and the United States' "About Schmidt" and "Confused Love" will be left behind, and the main awards will be selected.

"We should solve the hardest problem first, who should take the Palme d'Or?"

David looked at all the judges, and each one of them was not so impartial, but definitely not a narrow nationalist, these people all had a good reputation in their respective fields and countries, which was an important factor in the international film festival's authority. David wasn't very worried about the juries of various countries simply voting for their own national films.