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Chapter 325 Correct
If we only talk about world influence and not about artistry, then the four major film festivals in the world are naturally the Oscar Film Festival in the United States, the world's largest country.

This is like the domestic Huabiao Award.

If China is the largest country in the world, with its influence, the Huabiao Awards must be the most influential film festival awards in the world.

But the selection rules of the Huabiao Awards are to only select domestic films, and the most correct films and academic films can often not only be nominated, but also win awards.

The Oscars in the United States are essentially the same as the Huabiao Awards in China.

The Oscars have the most influence only because of the United States.

Among the three major events in Europe, Cannes is the most popular, has the highest transaction volume, and has the greatest global influence.

But even if it is the best, its influence is slightly less than Oscar.

But if you add artistry, the Oscars are slightly inferior to Cannes.

All film festivals around the world are a pork-barrel game, and they all need to be run to get nominated, or to be directly nominated.

The American Oscars and the Chinese Huabiao Awards are just dividing the pork in their respective countries.

Although they are both the four major film festivals in the world, the Oscars are fundamentally different from the three major film festivals in Europe.

As for Cannes, although it has also won Oscars, it has not completely abandoned its original intention of facing the world, and has not completely abandoned second and third world filmmakers and only licked American Hollywood.

Among the three major European cities, Berlin and Venice are declining faster.

Just like the Huabiao Award in China, it is only for domestic entertainment.

It is undeniable that the United States is the largest country in the world, but this does not mean that there are no excellent actors, excellent directors, and excellent film works in the second and third worlds.

But the Oscars are not backed by the United States, the world's largest country, and are local awards like the Huabiao Award.

The difference is that the top three in Europe are divided among filmmakers from all over the world.

Does this mean that "Farewell My Concubine" is not even as good as Hollywood toilet paper?

Ten years later, the literary and artistic circles around the world are in decline, including the Oscars.

In addition, Cannes is the most popular and influential international film festival among the three major European film festivals.

Of course, this is just now.

It can be said that the Cannes Film Festival does not have France, Venice does not have Italy, and the Berlin Film Festival does not have Germany, it is still the top three in Europe.

No.

Therefore, it is the only one that can be compared to the Oscars.

For example, the film "Farewell My Concubine" is one dimension higher in artistic quality than the Oscar-winning film "Forrest Gump", but "Farewell My Concubine" could not win an Oscar.

Berlin still maintains its original intention of facing the first world, the second world, and the third world, but because it pays more attention to current affairs, it has increasingly lost its competitiveness.

Therefore, in terms of artistry, Oscar is not as good as the top three in Europe.

The three major European ones are internationally oriented and include all filmmakers from the first, second and third worlds.

Oscars, only for Hollywood.

Venice licks the stinky feet of the Oscars every year and becomes an outpost of the Oscars. It loses its artistry and its gold content drops rapidly.

The level of artistry is compared by filmmakers from all over the world, not simply because the United States is the largest country. The Oscars, an award rich in American ZZ, is the most artistic.

Even if the top three European awards are a pork-sharing game, they are divided among filmmakers from all over the world, not just Hollywood filmmakers like the Oscars, or only domestic entertainment like the Huabiao Awards.

For example, the movie "Farewell My Concubine" has a higher artistic level than "Forrest Gump".

"Forrest Gump" can get a share of the Oscars, but "Farewell My Concubine" will never get one because it is not a Hollywood movie.

On the contrary, in the three major European movies, "Farewell My Concubine" got the pork.

The Oscars are not international awards, they are only American film awards. Films from outside the United States can win at most one for Best Foreign Language Film.

The selection rules for the Academy Awards are based on two rounds of voting. The first round is the nomination voting. Each department under the Academy is responsible for the nomination (using a nominating method). The nominated films will be screened in rotation at the Academy headquarters. After viewing, the Academy All members will conduct a second round of voting (using a secret method), and the number of votes will ultimately determine whether the film wins the award.

This mode must work in one round to get nominated.

When it comes to the second round, it's just like the old guys in domestic entertainment. As long as they don't, those people will always vote.

Under this model, the gold content is actually the same as the domestic Huabiao and Golden Rooster Awards. In many cases, the highly anticipated movies do not win the award, but "other" movies win the award.

There is no doubt that the cause must be operational to be nominated, and its "gold" content is unquestionable.

Zhou Xun and Zhou Haiwei knew the value of the Cannes International Film Festival, so they felt ashamed after seeing Gong Li receiving preferential treatment.

The opening ceremony is over, and then comes the day for the jury to review the film.

The awards at the Cannes International Film Festival are divided into 4 parts.

The first is the main competition unit. The chairman is Stephen Frears. The judges are Marco Bellocchio, Zhang Manyu, Toni Collette, Maria de Medeilo, Orhan Pamuk, and Michel. Piccoli, Sarah Polley, Adraman Sissako.

Among them, only Zhang Manyu is Chinese.

Then there is the attention unit. The chairman is Pascal Phelan, and the judges are Kent Jones, Kristi Puyou, Bian Qin, and Jasmine Trica.

Wang Shu's "Horror Cruise" is in the Un Certain Regard section.

Since "Terror Cruise" is a commercial film, even if Cannes is the most commercial among the three major European film festivals, this Cannes Film Festival is celebrating its 60th anniversary, and the competition for special attention units that are not the main competition unit is also fierce. In addition, Wang Shu is also I won an award in the main competition section and was a big director in China, so I never thought about winning a prize in the special attention section.

The purpose of this trip to Cannes is to promote the film internationally, and the rest will be whatever happens.

After one type of unit, there is the Golden Camera, and then there are the film cornerstone and short film units. The chairman of the evaluation is Section Chief Jia.

As for the participating films, among the Chinese, only "Blueberry Nights" directed by Wang Jiawei was shortlisted.

Wang Shu vaguely remembers that the Palme d'Or for Best Film at this year's Cannes Film Festival was won by "April, Three Weeks and Two Days" directed by Romanian Christian Mongi.

This film, a drama starring Romanian actor Annamaria Marinca and Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov, tells the story of a female student who is under Romanian law when abortion is illegal. With the help of her close friend, she still insists on having an abortion, which leads to a series of horrific consequences.

Yes, this is a story whose premise is that abortion is illegal, but abortion is still happening.

This is not true in the United States. The same theme can win awards in Cannes, but it cannot win Oscars in the United States.

In the original timeline, a drama film titled "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" was released in the United States on March 2020, 3. The film was directed by American female director Eliza Hittman , the plot is very simple, telling the story of an underage girl’s unexpected pregnancy and difficult abortion.

Different from the image of girls in most literary films, she is bright and passionate youth. This film talks about the hurt and labor pains of youth.

If you want to watch an intense plot with climaxes, you won’t find it here.

It was too real, just like a documentary director holding up a camera to follow a girl who was pregnant for the first time for two days of anxiety and fear.

The film begins with Autumn, a seventeen-year-old girl, singing "He's got the power" at a school party. A boy in the audience interrupted her performance by shouting "slut" to her.

Autumn discovered she was unexpectedly pregnant and began trying to abort the pregnancy by beating herself, drinking mouthwash, and exercising.

It couldn't be dealt with, so she had no choice but to have an operation. The state of Pennsylvania where she lives implements the strictest abortion law. Abortion cannot be carried out after a certain period of pregnancy, so the doctor asked her to go to New York to have it done.

She and her cousin Skylar left home and embarked on this journey of underage girls having abortions, which is a bit like a teenage version of "Thelma and Louise."

Before the operation, the doctor asked her some private questions. "The following questions may be uncomfortable, but you just have to answer them to the best of your ability: Never, Occasionally, Sometimes, Always. Has your sex partner ever hit you? Has he or she ever had sex against your will? ?”

It was not until this moment that the heroine's usually calm expression gradually lost control, and she began to cry. Only then did she get a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of pain in her intimate relationship.

Skylar has been accompanying the heroine all the time. Later, because they ran out of money for surgery and had no money to take the bus home, Skylar did not hesitate to "sell her sex" for Autumn and kissed a boy who had a crush on her but she didn't like her at the station. In exchange he lent them money.

The secret hooking between the two girls at this moment is the most touching moment in the film.

The help and mutual understanding between women, and the secretly flowing emotions, have become the only warm color in this story. This little bit of warm color supports the youthful feat of "underage girl abortion".

The father of the heroine's child is not shown directly in the film from beginning to end. This is also in line with the situation of most girls who have been hurt. The scumbag is absent, and the only one who can face the hurt is herself.

This film does not express or promote anything, nor does it accuse or cry out. It just silently presents a short youth story. It returns the body to the body and makes language just language, rather than mobilizing the victim's emotions to fight against the system and the law. Female viewers can feel real empathy and breathing from the film. Male viewers will not feel the deliberate "feminist feeling" in it.

This film won the Silver Bear, the Jury Prize at the 70th Berlin Film Festival, and was also nominated or awarded at secondary film festivals in the United States.

But in the Oscar Film Festival, which pays attention to ZZ's correctness, it didn't even get a nomination.

The reason is not correct for the ZZ of the United States.

In 2007, an "abortion" movie was also released in the United States called "Juno."

To be precise, this is an abortion movie that has nothing to do with abortion.

"Juno" is directed by Jason Reitman, written by Diablo Cody, and stars Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, Allison Janney, J. A Canadian-American comedy film starring K. Simmons, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman.

The budget for the entire film was only 650 million, and although the time span in the film was one year, the actual shooting time was only one month.

It tells the story of a smart girl in her 10s who unexpectedly gave birth to a child out of wedlock, and eventually gave the child to another couple.

该片于2007年9月8日在多伦多国际电影节上首映，12月5日在美国正式上映。

"Juno" premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, which means that it cannot enter the threshold of the Venice Film Festival held in early September, and can only go to international film festivals that are inferior to the three major European film festivals.

Even if I went to the next Toronto International Film Festival, I still got nothing.

When such a film returned to the United States, it not only won nominations or awards at various film festivals in the United States, but was also nominated for Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards, Best Director at the 80th Academy Awards, and She won the 80th Academy Award for Best Actress and the 80th Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

There is also only one reason, "Juno" is in line with the American zz.

The American movie "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" is really about abortion, while the core of "Juno" is that no matter what, the child is born.

The former is not correct for the United States ZZ, and the latter is correct for the United States ZZ.

This is why "Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always", a film that won the Silver Bear, the Berlin International Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize, couldn't even get into the Oscars, and "Juno," which didn't even get into the top three European films. I couldn't get in, so I had to go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and the film that didn't get anything. After returning to the United States, it not only received nominations and wins for a bunch of awards, but was even nominated for multiple Oscars, and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. The reason for the award.

If the Oscars are the most influential, and the ability of the United States, the world's largest country, to export culture to foreign countries is in front of everyone, there is nothing wrong with this.

But if it is at the artistic level, it is open to question.

……

Fast forward to the next day, Wang Shu, Zhou Xun, Zhou Haiwei, Jiang Wu and others were walking around the Cannes Film Festival.

On the international stage, Gong Li is not on the same level as Wang Shu and Zhou Xun. In addition, she has something to do and goes out alone.

"Director Wang, where is the exhibition hall of our "Terror Cruise"?" Zhou Haiwei asked excitedly.

Although "Terror Cruise" did not participate in the competition of the main competition unit, it was invited after all. In addition, it is also an entry in the competition unit, so naturally it also has an exhibition hall.

"Over there." Wang Shu pointed to the location, and then went there with Zhou Xun, Zhou Haiwei, Jiang Wu and others.

After a while, several people came to the exhibition hall of "Terror Cruise" and saw that there were many people in the exhibition hall, and they all smiled.

"A lot of people watched our movie." Jiang Wu said that although he only played a supporting role, it didn't stop him from being happy as it was his first time to attend the Cannes Film Festival.

What's more, the more popular "Terror Cruise" becomes, it will also be good for him in disguise.

(End of this chapter)