Tokyo Literary Godfather

As time goes by, the film festival has reached its sixth day, and many reviewers have already made their own choices, but who they will vote for, they generally will not say anywhere before the results are announced.

But it is easy to see which movie the audience prefers.

On the first day of screening, the audience for each movie was about the same, but by the sixth day, as word of mouth spread, the audience for each movie was completely different.

There are only three or four people in the screening room of some movies, and maybe halfway through, everyone is gone.

Some movies that are more well-received may have a larger number of people, such as "Lucky" and "The Crow High." Five or six days later, when it is time to show, there may be 20 or 30 people watching in the screening room. If it weren't for unexpected variables, the Commendation Award and the Commendation Vice Award should have been selected from these two works.

As for the screening room of "Suddenly Looking Back", all the seats were full, and some people even stood to watch, all of whom came here because of its reputation. The organizers moved the movie to the largest screening room for screening, but it was still overcrowded.

Kamiya Momoka and Shirai Eiji went to see the movie the next day. After watching it, the two walked out of the screening room. Kamiya Momoka sighed and said to Shirai Eiji: "Eiji, you are right, Fujiwara Kei is indeed a [ A man descended from heaven].”

At this time, Kei Fujiwara, the man from heaven, was looking at the ratings report of the third episode of "Housekeeper Mita".

It's very good. The ratings have reached 29%, and the rate of breaking through three is much faster than "Homeless Children". It seems that there is hope that the highest ratings can surpass "Homeless Children".

[Month 9th] The power of this period has finally emerged. If this drama was broadcast half a year ago, even with the same content, the ratings would be more than 3 percentage points lower.

The book "The Devotion of Suspect X" is about to be serialized by Keiya Fujiwara. Kei Fujiwara will not make any cuts in this book, and will reduce the content to one chapter like "Astrology Killing Magic" and "The Clock Museum Incident". Just change the name and write the rest directly in the original text.

The main reason is that "The Devotion of Suspect X" has a richer plot and more fleshed-out characters. If it is deleted at will, it will reduce the charm of the novel itself.

Although "Astrology Killing" has amazing tricks, it is a bit lengthy and the plot is not rich, so appropriate deletions will not have much impact. On the contrary, if it is not deleted, readers of this era may find it boring and long-winded.

This is the difference between Keigo Higashino and Shoji Shimada, two writers of mystery novels. Although they are both geniuses in the literary world, their emphasis is different. Shoji Shimada focuses on "reasoning", and is far behind other mystery authors in terms of conspiracy; but Keigo Higashino focuses on "novel", and Shoji Shimada is not as good as him in terms of plot shaping and emotional rendering.

Therefore, some readers like to use Shoji Shimada to disparage Keigo Higashino, which is actually biased. The two actually have their own strengths.

The Peer Film Festival is coming to an end. Most of the reviewers have reviewed the entire film and will give their votes at the discussion meeting.

As the most popular work at the film festival, "Suddenly Looking Back" has naturally become an award-winning hit.

However, the three works "Crow Middle School", "Lucky" and "Stone Girl" are also pretty good. Although there are more ordinary viewers who like "Suddenly Looking Back", it is not certain that it will win the commendation award.

There is a consensus that there is a difference between the tastes of award judges and the public. Whether it is a film festival or a public award, there are often unpopular results, which is not surprising.

On the closing day of the film festival, the organizer's organizing committee presided over the voting of all reviewers. The voting was public. In the end, "Looking Back" overwhelmingly won the Commendation Award with more than half of the votes.

Tetsuya Iwai's "Lucky" also beat "Crow High" by one vote and won the deputy award at the conference. "Crow High" won the Special Jury Award, and three other films won the Encouragement Award.

There are cash prizes for the top three prizes. The commendation ceremony prize is 1 million yen, the secondary prize is 200,000 yen, and the special prize is 100,000 yen.

On the last day of the festival, the awards began to be announced. After ten days of public release, "Suddenly Looking Back" has received great popularity, especially among professional film critics. After a group of people discussed it, they felt that it was not a big problem for the film to win the first prize.

On the other hand, it is a bit suspenseful as to who will win the secondary award and the special award. The overall level of the works exhibited at this year's film festival is higher than in previous years. Everyone is lamenting that whether it is "Lucky" or "Crow High", if it appears at the peer film festival in previous years, it is very likely to win the commendation award. Unfortunately……

After the final result was announced, it was in line with the audience's expectations. Finally, after the host announced the award winner on the stage, the recipient went on stage to receive the award.

Ohno Nagaharu looked a little confused, and finally stood up amidst the applause of the crowd.

He had participated in two film festivals before. The first time he didn't even qualify for the exhibition, and the second time he was criticized by a group of audiences and film critics. Unexpectedly, this time he won the first place.

This also made him realize the importance of a good script for a successful movie, and he gave up the idea of ​​writing his own scripts in the future.

This is also good. Having this kind of ideological imprint on yourself at the beginning of your career will prevent you from becoming the kind of director who lacks screenwriting talent and loves to dictate scripts in the future.

The award setting of the Peer Film Festival is relatively simple. There are no major awards, which are divided into best film, best director, best screenwriter, best actor and actress, etc... There are no detailed criteria, only comprehensive consideration.

Nagaji Ohno was stunned for a while, and then tugged Kei Fujiwara's sleeve, wanting him to go on stage to accept the award together.

But Kei Fujiwara indicated that he should go by himself. Firstly, it is because it is customary for directors to accept awards at peer film festivals, because one of the concepts of this film festival is that "movies are the director's thing";

Secondly, the peer film festival was established with the goal of supporting newcomers. Although Kei Fujiwara was exposed to movies for the first time, he was not considered a newcomer after all. At this time, it would be better to give all the limelight to Ohno Nagaharu, a newcomer director.

Nagaji Ohno swallowed. In fact, he pulled Kei Fujiwara to the stage more because he was a little nervous alone. He wasn't originally that introverted and shy character, but this time he suddenly couldn't let go.

But in the end, one person came on stage. Tetsuya Iwai and the directors of other works also came on stage one after another. Although it was a secondary award, it was a rare improvement for Tetsuya Iwai. After this award, there will definitely be investors and producers. When the film studio contacted him, it can be said that he had stepped into the threshold of a professional director with half a foot, but he didn't seem to be very happy.

After receiving the award, the host put the microphone to the mouths of several winners and asked them to give their acceptance speeches. Everyone spoke very briefly and seemed a little shy.

Fujiwara Kei couldn't help smiling when he saw Ohno Nagaji's rare and cramped look.

Just wait until he gets used to it. Ono Nagaharu doesn't have the traditional introverted character of Japanese people. When he gets used to such occasions, when he receives the award again, his reaction will probably be exactly the same as Cameron's reaction when he won the award.

"No matter what you think, I'm so happy!"

Kei Fujiwara glanced around. Although it is not as popular as the Academy Awards and the Tokyo International Film Festival, as the most famous newcomer film festival in the country, it still attracts a lot of media attention.

After several award recipients received their awards, the next step was for these award winners to answer questions from reporters. Fujiwara Kei stood up and was about to leave when he found several reporters standing in front of a photographer carrying a camera, holding a microphone and looking fiercely. Aiming at himself, it seems that he is ready to sprint over at any time.