Chapter 651： analyze

For several directors who are interested in competing for the final award, Lehmann is really the best example of adapting to the situation.

Lehman felt that he had already taken it once, so how could he still wrestle with others?

Therefore, it is more comfortable to wait for the result peacefully, at least there is compensation.

Before that, however, there are a few things to consider.

Lehmann sat on an office chair at the venue, pondering around with the scheduled report.

The non-competition arrangement is just as unfair as the main competition.

In his hands, some films can be shown once a day, while others only come once every four or five days.

As we all know, the more the audience, the louder the voices, at least the more they can get. Therefore, the number of shifts is really important.

Then, it's time to think about "Babel Tower" and "No Country for Old Men".

Lehmann is roughly divided into several levels according to the film list.

The first category is works that have both connections and material selection, such as "The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves", "Return", "Flandler", etc., and has the greatest chance of winning the grand prize;

The first category is works that are slightly inferior, such as "Legend of the South", "Fast Food Nation", "Glorious Years", etc., but the queue is also considered to be the front;

In the end, there are accompanying works such as "Family Friends", "Lanterns in the Dusk", "Youth in March" and other accompaniment works selected by various regions for the sake of differentiation. The chances of winning the prize can only be said to be very slim.

After sorting out the options, Lyman crossed out the last category of movies first.

Because if the jury or the organizing committee were not nervous, they would not award awards to this type of film, because there is no advantage to compare with each other, and it cannot hold the scene at all.

And "Babel" should be in the second category according to Lyman's classification.

Among them, "Family Friends" is directed by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, whose style is a post-modern "small narrative", he likes to shoot very trivial characters in daily life, and the film lens has a traditional Baroque picture texture , is very competitive. But it is precisely because of the emphasis on the camera and the ignorance of the tension of the plot that his films hardly have a complete storyline, and are always in a state of dismantling, intertwining and paralleling, which is very different from the way of "Babel Tower". count overlap;

Needless to say, "The Lantern in the Dusk", the director Aki Kaurismaki is a Finn, and the film is also the end of the "Finnish Trilogy", and the overall style is rather gloomy.

In other words, what this director is best at is the gloomy style, but the film is very short, the main content is less than 70 minutes, and it depicts the lonely and desperate life trajectory of a deceived person. It is very depressing to look at. It is also the kind of cruel to real tragedy that most audiences do not like. It's too cold and the subject matter is not new. The odds of winning are quite small;

Then there is "Youth in March" - the competitiveness is not very strong. The director Pedro Costa is Portuguese, and Portuguese films have always been less popular internationally. The plots of key films are also very bland, and the subject matter does not follow the trend, which is lower than the above two.

Therefore, "Babel Tower" is relatively prominent in the second waiting camp.

Then, "No Country For Old Men" basically set a grand prize by default, so there's nothing to say. After all, the Cannes Film Festival is the official French film festival. In addition to Lehmann, there are several French filmmakers whose works have been selected. The support means is obvious to all.

Anyway, every time the Cannes Film Festival is held, it would be strange if no French works were selected...

In the first echelon, in addition to the most competitive "Return" and "The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves", there is another "Glorious Years" that cannot be ignored. The director John Paulman is also an international director, and he is best at using gorgeous The visual style tells a gripping story.

In other words, this man is very characteristic in both the plot and the camera lens. As early as 1970, he won the best director in Cannes with "The Last Leo".

And "Glorious Years" is also one of the must-see comedy films. The director used the perspective of a little boy to recall some things in his childhood-John Bauman's self-substituting work.

In the chaotic war years, there are wars everywhere, but children can always find the source of happiness in the life that adults think is miserable.

Sister's socks, German jam, sneaking to watch girls take a bath and catching big fish in the river...

This film is definitely everyone's style. Compared with "The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves", the way it takes is to look at the war with a relaxed tone. It even ridicules that the school building was bombed and collapsed, and the children shouted happily that they did not need to go to school. It is full of humor, but it tells the history exactly.

After analyzing and understanding all the competitors, there is another question about the cinema screening.

——In four days, "No Country for Old Men" will be launched into North American theaters.

In this regard, Blue Butterfly Pictures has allocated about 1,750 screens, which is quite good. After all, this time it is an independent release.

Of course, Lehmann is more concerned about the audience market and the pressure of The Da Vinci Code.

Throughout the end of May, the current box office champion is The Da Vinci Code, which was released not long ago. It won 77 million in North America in its first weekend, and its reputation has rarely been boycotted by religious people and thus declined.

After the propaganda slogan "Everyone has a password in their hearts" was put out, the perception in various places was quite complicated.

Canadian mainstream comments said that Tom Hanks' imitation of the scholar's hairstyle is too ugly; the United Kingdom joked that it was the best mockery of Catholicism; the United States said that the movie was good, but it could not make a global sensation, and regional cultural restrictions too high.

But for North American audiences, except for Catholics, everyone is happy to support The Da Vinci Code, because the film is of excellent quality and can meet the spiritual needs of watching the movie, that's all.

And the popularity of this film has once again proved the argument that the more controversy and the boycott, the greater the failure.

Even the film's first-day performance in Italy broke the film history record.

Then, at the end of the week, the global total of 224 million US dollars at the box office is also enough to prove the box office potential of "The Da Vinci Code".

In this week's North American rankings, in addition to the first "The Da Vinci Code", the second is the animated film "Beyond the Hedge", with an income of 37.28 million, and it is worth mentioning that it is produced by Lionsgate. The low-budget horror movie "See No Evil" came in sixth with $4.35 million.

What's more interesting is that this time, the opinions of American film critics are quite uniform. They generally believe that "The Da Vinci Code" is a suspenseful movie that surprises and entertains people. Of course, Tom Hanks' performance is his best. A dull one.

The box-office word-of-mouth that was fairly successful in the first week basically announced that the subsequent box-office trend would not collapse.

And "No Country For Old Men" is sure to compete with "The Da Vinci Code" in the second half of the market, and the pressure is very high.

Lehmann thought, if he first made a name for himself in Cannes, he might be able to grab a wave of popularity. Otherwise, it all depends on the long-term trend...and the overall result is definitely not comparable.

This is also the only place where "No Country for Old Men" can exert its strength Compared with others, it is too difficult to compare. Even though Lehmann has directed many works and has accumulated a not-so-bad internal reputation among the audience, it is not as good as "Daily". A first-line masterpiece such as Finch Code, which is on the rise, is still much worse.

See you, Columbia's executives can't help themselves laughing. This result is their most popular film since "Spider-Man", and it can also produce a sequel, which is a series of works.

If you want to participate in such a box office melee, you will definitely be overwhelmed if you don't show the momentum at the beginning.

This point, Lehman is still very clear.

Of course, the production cost of "No Country for Old Men" is not high after all, and the risk of not being able to make a return is extremely small.

——According to the theory of winners, this can be regarded as profit-keeping, but the geographical factors of "No Country for Old Men" are bigger, and the overseas market is narrower than "The Da Vinci Code", and it can only rely on the North American market to exert its strength, then it has to be A fight.

The most prime time slot in the summer season is definitely not related to Firefly, but with the market strength on the eve of the summer season, you can get a little soup, which is why "No Country for Old Men" will be set on May 24 day.

After all, who doesn't want to enjoy the largest audience base and the broadest market space...

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