director of the millennium

Outside the Film Forum art cinema.

This is different from the past when the exterior walls of cinemas were filled with various art film posters from all over the world.

Today's Film Forum is all yellow.

The movie posters of "Bruce Lee" are hung all over the exterior walls of the cinema.

Of course, they are not the same ones. There are eight different posters in total.

But what is the same is that all eight posters use yellow as the main color. There are solo posters of "Bruce Lee", posters of him fighting with his opponents, and even a photo of him wearing classic yellow tights and holding nunchakus.

There is no way, Bruce Lee and yellow are really too deeply linked. Basically, when Bruce Lee is mentioned, the first reaction, besides thinking of kung fu, is inevitably thinking of yellow.

Disney is not trying to be unique, so the overall impression is maintained in the promotional posters.

Today, Film Forum changed all its posters to Bruce Lee ones, not just to promote the movie.

At this moment, outside the Film Forum theater, there was a group of film critics in suits and ties who had come from all over North America and even from South America, whispering in groups of three or four.

In China, the profession of "film critic" has basically disappeared. In the Internet age, everyone can be a film critic.

But in North America, the film critic industry still exists.

It's not just because film awards such as the Oscars and the Golden Globe Awards require the active presence of a group of film critics, but also because although America has always boasted of its "freedom of speech", in reality, North American public opinion and media are still in the hands of a few people.

Well, they are called "media conglomerates".

To this day, even with the development of the Internet and social software such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, media groups still hold the final say in film reviews.

Media groups need to cultivate a group of film critics to write a variety of articles for their magazines, social accounts, newspapers and journals.

For most North American film critics, their job has simply changed from contributing to newspapers to publishing film reviews on the Internet, and not much else has changed.

They are still opinion leaders who represent the "public" to evaluate movies.

Only their film reviews will be pushed to the mobile phones of millions of ordinary people in North America.

As for those independent voices.

Do you think these media groups can let you see and hear?

If this were true, by 2020 a large number of Americans would not still think that China is still like it was in 1960.

This is also the reason why Tiktok is so popular in North America.

It is very rare to find a short video platform that is not controlled by a North American media group!
Closer to home.

After all the invited film critics from major media groups had arrived, a man also dressed in a suit and tie, but a Disney staff member, walked out of the Film Forum theater.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the first critics' screening of Bruce Lee is about to begin. Please line up to enter."

"Because this is an advance preview, in order to prevent the movie from being leaked, please hand in all your electronic devices for electronic inspection."

"After the preview is over, we will return them to you intact." The film critics had no objections, and no one stood up and said anything like "freedom to watch movies". They obediently handed in their electronic devices.

Wu Yuan, standing in the dark corner of the cinema hall, looked at the situation outside and gave a complicated smile.

Unlike previous premieres, Wu Yuan was very clear that this critics' preview of "Bruce Lee" was just a show.

At least 80% of the film critics present at the scene were invited by Disney or Disney’s connections. Simply put, they are a group of water armies.

If the quality of "Bruce Lee" itself is only 5 points, then they can praise it as 7 points in the film review. If the quality can be 9 points, then they can directly praise it as points.

If it can really reach the level of 8 points, it will definitely become a timeless classic in their mouths.

To build momentum for an Oscar bid.

what?
You mean ordinary movie fans don’t agree?

What does the average moviegoer know about the art of film?
The final right to interpret film art has never been in the hands of ordinary movie fans.

Aren’t there many art films that have won major awards that ordinary moviegoers cannot understand? They have to rely on various commentary and film reviews to understand the content of the film.

As for whether these commentary reviews are over-interpretations or whether the director himself does not have such complicated thoughts, does it matter?
Lu Xun also couldn't understand why his words "One is a jujube tree, and the other is also a jujube tree" could be interpreted with countless deep meanings by various "literary writers", but that didn't prevent him from becoming a literary giant.

Of course, this does not mean that all works of art are "over-interpreted". It's just that if you want to win an award and want ordinary people to think that your work of art is great, then you must find a group of people to help you over-interpret it, so that people who don't understand film art or literary art can have that kind of inexplicable sense of awe.

The people invited to the "Bruce Lee" film review preview this time are a group of "authoritative" film critics who talk about film philosophy, the art of light and shadow, and the entanglement of love and hate. They have the final right to interpret the film.

By paying sufficient "travel expenses", Disney can ensure that this group of people will write good reviews for "Bruce Lee".

Even though Wu Yuan had been mentally prepared for such a blatant transaction, he still felt somewhat uncomfortable when he actually saw it.

This is also the reason why he has never cared about Oscar.

This award has been an award that can be manipulated, publicized, and arranged from the beginning to the end.

But domestic movie fans are not aware of this at all. Instead, they regard the Oscars as the temple of world film art and winning the Oscar for Best Picture as the highest honor for a film.

This also forced him to make up for this shortcoming in his "golden body".

No matter how you live in this world, you can't escape the entanglement of fame and fortune. Now that Wu Yuan has gained enough fortune, he can only pursue fame.

The only thing he lacks is the Oscar for Best Picture, so even if he doesn't like this way of "operation", he has to take it seriously.

“When Kung Fu meets film philosophy, I don’t know how these people will interpret my film.” Tilting his head, Wu Yuan and the producer joked self-deprecatingly.

"I think they will give an in-depth philosophical interpretation to some of Bruce Lee's lines in the movie." The producer shrugged and gave the most likely answer.

"For example, Bruce Lee's quote: Water is both soft and tough, and is the greatest force in the world. This quote has always been a classic in Hollywood."

Wu Yuan shook his head and said in fluent Chinese: "There are only four words in Chinese to express this sentence."

"The highest good is like water." (End of this chapter)