Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 467 Possibility of Winning

Possibility of winning?
"Oscar? It's too late." Zhou Mo asked subconsciously.

"No, it's Cannes next year," De Niro added.

Cannes?

"Why do you think so?"

"Because it's very suitable." The speaker is De Niro, who has the most experience here, has enough connections, and knows a lot about the award: "From the beginning, I thought our subject matter was very good, and some things that happened in the United States and Europe in the past two years have simply strangled the aorta of those directors.

Realistic themes are easy to win awards, and adding a theme like refugees makes it even easier to win.

In fact, if it weren’t for the lack of time, I would even suggest that we should sprint for this year’s Oscars for this film.”

Zhou Mo was stunned. He really hadn't thought about this matter at first.

But if you think carefully about what De Niro said, there is some truth to it.

In his impression, the 2015 Cannes Film Festival was probably the most mediocre year in recent years, and it was also the year that greatly increased the political correctness content of the subsequent Cannes Film Festivals.

Some films of obviously high quality were not nominated, while some films of mediocre quality were forced into the award list.

The quality of several French films that were nominated cannot even be considered good, they are completely the result of connections.

As for the reason, it is naturally local protection.

After all, in 2014, no French films won any awards, so having five films shortlisted in 2015 can be considered a kind of compensation.

These are secondary.

For Zhou Mo, what is really worth noting at Cannes next year is:

Palme d'Or at Cannes 2015.

"The Wandering Dupin".

Apart from the fact that the audience thought that this film was boring and that it won the Palme d'Or only because the level of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival remained the same, even the film's director Audiard believed that he did not perform at his best.

In addition, the main elements of the film are refugees, immigrants, political asylum, gangs, gun fights, shopping, etc.

Looks familiar, right?

Because "JERK" also has these factors.

Zhou Mo: Isn’t this a coincidence?
He roughly recalled the plot of "The Wandering Dupin":

Dipan, a refugee fighter from Sri Lanka, ended up living in the suburbs of Paris, France. In order to get a better chance of political asylum, he pretended to be a family with a nine-year-old girl and a young woman. The three of them worked together and gradually found their own way out.

Although they encountered difficulties such as momentum, identity, language barriers, cultural conflicts, and skin color issues in the process, the three of them worked together and gradually overcame these difficulties.

However, there is this however.

In the suburbs of Paris, which is rife with violence, drugs and crime, Dupin's peaceful life is disrupted and the safety of his family is threatened.

In desperation, Dupin could only do his old job, pick up weapons, kill anyone who stood in his way, and shoot all the evil people who destroyed his peaceful life.

Is there a feeling of a sudden change in style?

From an art film about the life of refugees, it turned into a Hollywood-style gangster violence and gun battle movie with the theme of "You destroyed my peaceful life, so I will shoot you all to death."

But that's exactly what is happening.

Zhou Mo recalled again other professionals' comments on "Dhee Pan".

They seem to be pretty much the same.

At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, "Dupan" received a score of 2.5 in the festival brochure, which was a full point lower than "The Assassin" which also competed in the main competition unit of Cannes.

You know, the Cannes program scoring system only has 4 points in total.

The reasons why "Dupin" won the Palme d'Or are very complicated. In addition to France's protection of local films, there is also the preference of the jury chairman, the Coen brothers (directors of "Fargo" and "No Country for Old Men"), for crime films, and in 2015, the refugee issue became a municipal focus in Europe.

But after Zhou Mo considered these factors, he found that most of the factors that "Dippin" had, "JERK" also had.

Even if you don't have it, you can still strive for it.

Zhou Mo: I can have it too, and I can be right too (Jimmy face).

Taking all these factors into consideration, Zhou Mo discovered that he seemed to be able to win the prize again.

At this moment, Zhou Mo raised his head and looked at the people who had been waiting for his reply. He nodded in everyone's expectant eyes.

"Yes, I think I can win the prize."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone immediately showed an expression of uncontrollable excitement.

"But if you want to win the prize, you have to keep it confidential and make some preparations."

Everyone nodded.

Based on the factors he had just considered, Zhou Mo began to discuss with several leading actors the preparations needed to win the award.

I took a look at the progress of the banquet and it was basically coming to an end.

So it’s better to leave early and let the staff watch over the place to make sure no major problems occur.

……

It was not until the next morning that all matters related to "JERK"'s award-winning campaign were discussed.

"Okay, in that case, let's all use our energy together. I will work overtime to complete the post-production of the film."

Whether it’s one thousand to ten thousand, the prerequisite for winning the award is that the film has to be completed.

If the movie is not finished, no preparation will be of any use.

"Okay, leave it to me." De Niro's face was filled with fatigue, and this was the result of a good night's sleep.

He is not as energetic as the young people in front of him. He is seventy years old and he really can't stand not sleeping for a night.

Zhou Mo looked at the time and realized it was too late to sleep at this moment.

Let’s just go out and have breakfast with Da Tiantian first.

A moment later, Da Tiantian was looking at the coast while eating breakfast on the plate, and said with emotion: "I still feel a sense of unreality now."

Zhou Mo casually replied, "Why, are you going to the dock to get some French fries?" Da Tiantian patted him lightly.

"You're up to something again. I mean, I didn't expect you to start trying to win prizes again so soon. To be honest, every time you try to win a prize, I get nervous."

"Relax, there's no need for that. Winning the award is certain." Zhou Mo's attitude was very relaxed.

The accuracy of "JERK" is here. As long as it is nominated, it is impossible not to gain anything.

The combat effectiveness of some international organizations has begun to stand out in the past two years.

It would be fine if a movie with a high degree of accuracy was not nominated, but would you dare not give it a share after being nominated?
They will make a fuss.

But is it possible that JERK won't be nominated?

The answer is of course no.

The money he spent during the years of operating in Cannes was not wasted.

Da Tiantian thought about it and found that it was indeed the case.

I feel a lot more relaxed.

With his eyes closed and his hands clasped in front of his chest, he said to the breakfast on the plate: "Then I hope I can have a chance to win another producer award."

"Don't worry, God has already promised you. You will know when you open your eyes." Zhou Mo's voice sounded in his ears.

Da Tiantian:?

She opened her eyes and found that her breakfast was gone from her plate, leaving only a few greasy French fries.

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Huayi.

office.

The big and small kings, Wu Baige still had a gloomy look on his face.

These three people are basically in this state every time they appear recently.

"Jiang Wen is only at this level! I really overestimated him." Wu Baige was quite unhappy.

When “The Crossing” was first released, the company had set two time points.

One is twelve and mid-term.

One is early January.

Both periods have their own advantages.

After some consideration, the mid-December schedule was ultimately abandoned. The biggest reason, of course, was that "One Step Away" had originally announced that it would be released in mid-December.

Considering that Jiang Wen's "Bullet" has achieved such a dazzling performance, it is a movie that was released four years ago, but it is still on the hot search list on several platforms such as YouTube and Duoyin.

After much consideration, the Wang brothers decided not to confront Jiang Wen head-on.

Now ten days have passed.

No one expected that the box office performance of "One Step Away" would be so mediocre.

It can even be said that compared to "Bullet", the box office of "One Step" is no longer mediocre, but poor.

Even Jiang Wen himself had given up hope on the movie.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have started promoting “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy”.

Big and Small Wang: That’s it?

There was some disdain on Wu Baige's face.

"Jiang Wen is still living in his past achievements and cannot extricate himself. I have seen One Step Away, and he still uses the same style of quibbling over words, liking allusions and metaphors. It is normal that the audience does not like it.

His ways are long gone, and there is no point in clinging to them.”

When the two kings heard this, they were speechless again.

Living in the midst of one's own achievements and unable to extricate oneself.

Cling to the old and refuse to accept the new.

No matter how I listen to these words, it feels like it's not just Jiang Wen who is talking about them.

The saying that intellectuals look down on each other is indeed true.

Creative people are always dissatisfied with others.

Fortunately, the king stopped talking in time, "It doesn't make much sense to talk about these things now. Everything should be looked to the future.

There are only a few days left until the premiere of The Crossing, so we must fight a good battle.”

Wu Baige waved his hands and his expression returned to being relaxed.

"Don't worry, didn't we find someone to watch The Crossing these past two days? The guests said that the film was highly praised. I'll wait two or three days, and when the film is released, I can immediately get back all the honors I lost!"

He had a smile on his face, and a scene appeared in his mind where he was surrounded by applause like in the past.

When the two kings heard this, they nodded together.

A few days ago, considering Wu Baige's past performance, the two of them were indeed a little worried about the final performance of "The Crossing".

So we cleared out some industry insiders and held a very small-scale preview.

The result of the preview was naturally very good.

The guests present all gave the film the highest praise, without any negative reviews.

Therefore, they felt relieved.

"You two, you already know the results of the preview. Now I think we should increase the publicity for 'The Crossing'," Wu Baige made a request.

The Second King hummed, "These are all as they should be."

(End of this chapter)