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For several directors who are interested in competing for the final award, Lehman is really the best model to adapt to the situation.

Lehman felt that he had taken it once, how else would he go about it?

Therefore, waiting for the result is a more comfortable way, at least there is compensation.

But before that, there are a few things to consider.

Lehman sat on the office chair in the conference hall, holding the scheduled report and pondering around.

The non-competition arrangements are as unfair as the main competition.

In his hands, some movies can be shown once a day, and some have a chance only once in four or five days.

As we all know, the more the audience, the louder the voice, at least the greater the amount that can be obtained, so the number of shifts is really important.

Then, it was time to think about "Tongtian Tower" and "Old Nowhere to Be".

Lehman divided it into several levels based on the film list.

The first category is such as "Wind Blowing Wheat Wave", "Return", "Flandre" and other works that are both well-connected and selected materials have the greatest chance of winning the grand prize;

The first category is such as "Southern Legend", "Fast Food Country", "Glorious Years", etc., which are slightly inferior, but the queuing is also considered high;

In the end, there are escort works selected by various regions for differentiation, such as "Family Friends", "The Lantern in the Evening", and "The Youth in March".

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

Because the jury or the organizing committee will not give awards to this type of film if they are not nervous, because there is no advantage in comparison with each other, and the scene cannot be suppressed at all.

According to Lehman's classification, "Tongtian Tower" should be in the second category.

Among them, "Family Friends" is directed by the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino. This style is a post-modern "small narrative". He likes to shoot very trivial daily life. The film lens has a traditional Baroque picture texture. , Very competitive.But it is precisely because of the emphasis on the lens and ignoring the tension of the plot. His films hardly have a complete story line. They are always in a state of dismantling, intertwining and paralleling, which is very different from the path of "Tongtian Tower". Coincident

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

In other words, the director is best at gloomy style, but the film is very short, the feature film is less than 70 minutes, and it depicts the lonely and desperate life of a deceived person. It is very depressing to look at. It is also the kind of cruel to real tragedy that most viewers don't like.It's too cold and the subject matter is not new.The chance of winning is quite small;

Then there is "Youth in March"-the competitiveness is not very strong.Director Pedro Costa is Portuguese, and Portuguese films have not been very popular internationally, and the key film plots are also very plain, the subject matter does not follow the wind, and is lower than the above two.

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

Then there is basically a grand prize set in "Old Nowhere", there is nothing to say.After all, the Cannes Film Festival is the official French film festival. In addition to Lehmann, several French filmmakers' works have been selected. The support 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 "Wind Blowing Wheat Wave", there is also a "Glorious Years" that cannot be ignored. Director John Bauman is also an international leader, and his best is with gorgeous The video style tells an exciting story.

In other words, this man is very distinctive in plot and lens. As early as 1970, he won the best director in Cannes by relying on "The Last Leo".

And "Glorious Years" is also one of the must-see comedy lists. The director uses the perspective of a young boy to recall some things from his childhood-John Bowman's self-substitute work.

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

My sister's sock line, German jam, sneaking watching girls bathing and catching big fish in the river...

This film is definitely everyone's style. Compared with "The Wind Blows the Wheat", the way it takes is to look at the war with a relaxed tone, and even teases the school building being bombed and collapsed, and the children yelled that they don't 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 still another question about cinema screenings.

——In four days, "Old Nowhere" will enter the North American theater.

In this regard, Blue Butterfly Pictures has transferred about 1,750 screens to the distribution, which is quite good, after all, this time it is an independent release.

Of course, Lehman is more concerned about the audience market and the oppressive power of The Da Vinci Code.

Throughout the end of May, the current box office champion was the recent release of "The Da Vinci Code", which won 77 million in North America in the first weekend, and its reputation was seldom resisted by religious people.

After the propaganda slogan "Everyone has a password in their heart", the perceptions of various places are quite complicated.

The mainstream Canadian critics claimed that they relied too much on the original and that Tom Hanks's imitation hair style was too ugly; while 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. Regional cultural restrictions Too high.

But for North American audiences, except for Catholics, everyone is willing to support "The Da Vinci Code" because the film is of high quality and can meet the spiritual needs of watching movies, nothing more.

The popularity of this film once again proves that the more controversy and resistance, it does not necessarily fail.

Even the film was released on the first day in Italy, directly breaking the film history record.

Then, at the end of the week, the world's total cumulative box office of 224 million US dollars was enough to prove the selling potential of "The Da Vinci Code".

In this week’s North American rankings, in addition to the first "The Da Vinci Code", the animated film "Beyond the Fence" ranked second, with an income of 37.28 million. It is also worth mentioning that it was produced by Lionsgate. The small-cost horror film "See No Evil" ranked sixth with $4.35 million.

What’s more interesting is that this time, the opinions of American film critics are quite unified. They generally believe that "The Da Vinci Code" is a suspenseful movie that is surprising and entertaining. Of course, Tom Hanks’s performance is his best. Slowly once.

The box office reputation that was considered successful in the first week basically declared that the subsequent box office direction will not collapse.

And "Old Nowhere" can definitely compete with "The Da Vinci Code" in the second half of the market, and it is under great pressure.

Lehman thought, if you get a good reputation in Cannes first, you might be able to grab a wave of popularity, otherwise, it all depends on the long-term trend... and the overall results are definitely not comparable.

This can be regarded as the only place where "Old Nowhere" can exert its strength. Compared with the others, it is too difficult to compare. Even if Lyman has directed many works to accumulate a not-so-bad reputation among the audience, it is similar to "The Da Vinci Code". The first-line masterpieces that are on the rise are still much worse.

Don’t you see, Colombia’s senior leaders have already laughed so hard that they can’t help themselves. This achievement is their most popular since "Spiderman", and they can also produce a sequel, a series of works.

If you want to participate in this kind of box office melee, you will definitely be overwhelmed if you don't get the momentum out from the beginning.

Lehman is very clear about this.

Of course, the production cost of "Old Nowhere" is not high after all, and the risk of not being able to recover is still very small.

——According to the theory of winners, this is considered to have been guaranteed and profitable, but the geographical factor of "Old Nowhere" is even greater. The overseas market is narrower than "The Da Vinci Code", and it can only rely on the North American market to force it. Fight.

The prime time schedule of the summer file is definitely not related to the firefly, but relying on the market strength on the eve to get into the prime time of the summer file, you can also get a little soup with your hard work. This is why "Old Nowhere" chose to set it on May 24. day.

After all, who doesn't want to enjoy the most audience base, the most extensive market space...