Chapter 641: Cannes Trivia
After having some such things, Luo Mo himself also felt some constraints, but it didn't matter, after all, these are people's housework, and it is difficult to say which film award is completely clean in the world, all award-winning movies rely on real talent and learning, and it is difficult to find such awards.
Therefore, Luo Mo only needs to do his own thing.
Soon, many competing films have been placed in front of Luo Mo, and the French film that is guaranteed this year has a Best Actress, and the rest of the decision-making power is still in Luo Mo's hands.
Soon, things were placed in front of Luo Mo's eyes.
Many of this year's awards, most of the films are still concentrated in Europe, and the Asian army is also good this year, but only China has four films shortlisted, which is beyond the imagination of many people, in addition to China, South Korea and Japan also have a film each entered the Cannes awards.
There is only one American movie this year......
It is conceivable what efforts Cannes has made over the years in order to get rid of the influence of Hollywood, at least in the current situation, they really feel a little painstakingly in order to exclude Hollywood.
But they do have good results.
Now, the whole jury is discussing several films, mainly a German film "Sunset", which should be a small-budget film, because judging from the pictures and various props, although it is not shoddy, it is indeed crudely made in many places......
For such a film to be able to enter Cannes, it is mainly because of a certain degree of artistry......
However, in addition to the artistry, there is a problem, that is, there are a lot of erotic elements in the middle of this film...... Actually, this is really a big problem.
Since the taste of Venice began to be more important, many filmmakers have also begun to try to find a shortcut to get awards, and we also know that the current major film festivals and film awards ceremonies have been affected by the economic crisis, and still maintain expenses as a very important part, so in this case, many films try to take advantage of loopholes to create topics.
After all, if you want to get more money, you will often take the opportunity to hype yourself up, and then add topicality to it, according to this way of selling more points to the broadcast rights and getting other benefits, in this way, many movies want to drill into this award from this range.
There are too many things like this, because any award in the Cannes International Film Festival is a pretty good thing for them, and this is really helpful for their future prospects, as well as things like attracting investment for the next film, so the big guys will try to get an award in it.
In order to get such an award, many filmmakers do everything they can.
For example, this German movie "Sunset", the name sounds particularly beautiful, but when it comes to the essence and content of the movie in it, you can see that this movie is full of countless pornography, violence, homosexuality, and murder content, and after a seemingly literary story packaging, such a thing becomes art.
There are not a lot of movies of this kind, just like China's online micro-films, there are always a lot of films flaunting art, flaunting the great topic of exploring human nature, but in fact, they are selling some sexually suggestive content to everyone...... Coming...... But the thing is, something like this teaches bad kids!
Just imagine, if everyone's child is born in a random open web page with all kinds of sexually suggestive **** things everywhere, and if you click on it casually, you will face a lot of similar things, what will he become in the future?
And now everyone is discussing the award after "Sunset", and this film was actually shortlisted for a "Best Artistic Contribution" award, so now everyone is discussing whether this movie can win an award.
Everyone had been discussing for a while, and it was almost time to vote, but at this time, everyone realized that they had all said something, only Luo Mo had not spoken.
Now the two factions can't convince anyone, and they are a little red-faced, so everyone shifted their attention to Luo Mo, and at the same time, they directly asked Luo Mo to say a few words of their opinion.
Luo Mo thought about it for a while, and said to everyone: "From my point of view, I think that among the films competing for this award, I am still more optimistic about the film "Wordless Dialogue". ”
"Wordless Dialogue" is an Iranian movie, there have been some pretty good movies in that place in Iran over the years, and this movie is about the lives of people with disabilities here, and this is a quite beautiful story, compared to "Sunset", this movie is more flat and straightforward, more plain, but some of the precious feelings conveyed in the movie are still quite felt.
Luo Mo proposed this movie, which immediately made everyone fall into contemplation, in fact, this award is mainly carried out in "Wordless Dialogue" and "Sunset", if "Sunset" does not have an award-winning phase, then it is reasonable for "Wordless Dialogue" to win the award.
After Luo Mo said this, he began to explain his thoughts: "I think this "Sunset" is indeed a good film in some aspects, but if we look closely, we will find that this movie has more of a CULT film flavor, after all, the Cannes Film Festival is different from other film festivals, not that it can't accommodate this style of film, it's just because our style is not this, so I think it's better to give "Wordless Dialogue" ......."
After Luo Mo's speech, none of the people present argued, after all, the chairman of the people had spoken, and it was not interesting for them to say too much.
What's more, what Luo Mo said is quite reasonable.
If you think about it, you really shouldn't lose the style of Cannes for the sake of a film......
So, these days, the jury is in such intense discussions and debates, and many film awards have to be carefully discussed over and over again.
Luo Mo is really able to see his status in the hearts of these people now, if he just made a "Hangover", with some Western audiences, there will not be too many people to pay attention to him now, but now Luo Mo is completely different, he just won the Academy Award for Best Director, and his cumulative box office is close to 10 billion US dollars, these are real achievements, especially the 10 billion US dollars, which is even more shocking......
So what Luo Mo said still has a lot of weight, and this kind of weight is not entirely just because he is the chairman of the jury.
In the midst of such a consultation, Luo Mo feels quite tired when he comes back every day, he feels that this tiredness is not the same type as the tiredness of making a movie by himself. But in a sense, today's fatigue is no worse in some places than when I was making movies.
However, the awards began to be slowly completed under their hands......
Soon, this year's Cannes International Film Festival officially began, and now, all the people began to pay attention to this film event, and sure enough, soon, Cannes has been crammed into more than 200,000 people, and it immediately became crowded......
Many of the Cannes corps arrived early, on the one hand, for fear of not being able to find a place, and on the other hand, because they could help their public relations by coming here, so many of the film's cast and crew came quickly. The conquest corps of several Chinese films also came with a few people. In addition to the two movies in Luo Mo's Qianmo Entertainment Company, the cast and crew of the other two films shortlisted for the award have now found Luo Mo through some channels, and then want to invite him to dinner and tea or something, of course, if Luo Mo really goes, it may not be so simple.
But this matter was rejected by Luo Mo...... After all, he can't leave anything to say at this time, if the favoritism is too obvious, it will be quite detrimental to himself in the future.
Luo Mo is in Cannes now, it's better to be cautious and don't be cheated by people......
These people couldn't invite Luo Mo, and they were a little regretful, but they could actually understand his difficulties, so they didn't say anything more.
But they are a little worried about the fate of their films...... Although "Fireworks in the Day" has a good beginning, in fact, most of the films nominated in Europe are still not very good sellers in Chinese mainland, so if you can't win awards here and can't get the attention of the filmmakers, then things are still very bad.
If they can't win an award in Cannes and are not favored by film companies, they may have to wait to see if there are any international A-category film festivals in Asia or Europe, and if so, they will take them, hoping to get the award and get the attention of the film companies......
This has gradually become a routine.
…… On May 23, this year's Cannes International Film Festival was officially held, and the red carpet on the first day has begun to roll out, and many stars can't wait to pounce.
The red carpet in Cannes is a complete nightmare for female stars - in order to maintain their good image, they naturally wear high heels when walking the red carpet, but the red carpet in Cannes is really too long.
The red carpet of the Shanghai International Film Festival is as long as a bus stop, which has made many people complain, but the red carpet in Cannes is longer than that of the Shanghai International Film Festival!
As a result, many actresses on the red carpet have bright smiles on the surface, but in fact, the expression in their hearts is completely bitter gourd face!