I’m Almost Losing to a Muggle

Chapter 204 Du Qixi Cries Even More (Monthly Ticket Plus 2227)

Half an hour before 19:15, Massage was gradually welcomed by wave after wave of audiences.

Some even exited from the next-door screening hall.

It's impossible to get a full house, but it's 70% to 80% done, and there are a full 200 people.

Unless it is an Italian film or a North American film, it is difficult to achieve such an attendance rate.

One on the first day, one at noon on the second day, and one in the evening.

Lin Dong bought a phone card.

Viewers who use it to surf the Internet, watch film festivals, and related media comment on this movie.

A reporter from Berlin was dissatisfied with the film's too many viewpoints and multi-character narration, which caused the film's plot to be rather messy. He said he didn't like Massage.

This is indeed a problem.

Lin Dong said in an interview that he was one of the leading actors.

This is definitely not a statement of self-effacing.

And a fan from France said: This is a movie that focuses on the marginalized people of society, not the lack of heart - it is generally believed that blind people are as sound as normal people, just because they can't have vision and are out of touch with the world. framed a real divide.

A local Italian media made an analysis from other angles: This time in Chinese movies, we can see more violent elements - more cruel than those before. When I was alone, the audience next to me covered my eyes.

And the performance of the herring is more vivid than anything we've seen before.

Obviously, this gives Huaxia movies more space to show a richer world of the blind, so I was shocked when I saw Massage, and I didn't expect the world of the blind to be like this.

Quantitatively speaking, the comments are very numerous.

After watching the movie, the media and audience more or less wrote something and posted it casually.

Word of mouth is not an explosion, but it is above the standard.

But there was still a little surprise.

Even the jury member and the director of The Great Rotten Country, Andrea Arnold, even published a review of the film.

People on the jury watch movies, almost whenever they can.

Even Bernardo Bertolucci, the jury member, is no exception. Lin Dong saw him several times in a wheelchair, being pushed by his assistant to watch movies.

But few of them will reveal their position in advance.

That would look unprofessional.

Ms. Andrea Arnold, a fellow of the wizard king's half, has always been known for her maverick.

She is the darling of international film festivals such as Cannes, and she can win Oscars for short films.

It is her style to comment when she wants to comment.

Fortunately, this fellow did not complain about this movie. Although he also pointed out some shortcomings of the movie, most of the ink points are praises.

Especially the emphasis on complimenting Lin Dong.

It is said that the protagonist's guessing and grinding of Xiao Ma's heart is extremely precise, and the tension and sense of proportion of the performance are also just right.

He is a suppressed fire.

Darkness, depression, even decadence, but there is no lack of a little bit of warmth.

This kind of praise is inexplicable and very motivating.

It gave Lin Dong the illusion that fellow villagers want to take him to fly.

Could it be that he could really get the Best Actor?

The best actor of the Venice Film Festival, although slightly inferior to Cannes and Berlin, is stronger than the Golden Horse and the Golden Statue.

That's the real actor.

This kind of good reviews word of mouth is very useful.

In the two games on the second day, an 80% attendance rate was basically guaranteed.

Du Qixi was a little disappointed.

He thought it would be a full house, and even some audience members would stand in the aisle to worship the movie.

I really think too much.

A Venice has a total of less than 20,000 residents. Even if there are many people coming during the film festival, there are no more than 30,000 residents.

How many of the 30,000 people came to watch the movie.

Six screening halls.

How many people will crowd into a screening hall to watch literary films.

Being able to maintain a viewing audience of 200 people per session, Massage is enough to surpass 90% of the screening films.

Dongzi, in fact, if it wasn't for you, my Massage would really be useless. Du Qixi was still in a low mood.

Brother Qixi, don't say that, it's a pretty good shot.

Lin Dong's consolation was sincere.

Du Qixi is not very capable, but he has one advantage, that is, he doesn't mess around.

No messing around with men and women or relationships between men and women.

I don't mess around with the filming process that I don't know how to do.

The photographer he found was very naive and gave him a lot of advice on photography, but this guy accepted all of them regardless of the dignity of a director.

And his do you think it's okay, or if you don't, do it again.

Although in fact he has no confidence.

But indirectly, the actors have a more thorough understanding of the characters, and the points converge into a surface, which improves the overall quality of the movie.

If you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have thought of participating in the exhibition, and it might be screened in China tomorrow; if you were the one who talked so speculatively with the media at the press conference, no one would watch our movie; if it weren't for you Well done, Northrend won't watch our movie.

Arnold, her name is Arnold, not Northrend. Lin Dong was speechless.

Whatever, whether her name is Alsace or Northrend, who cares. Du Qixi lay on the bed weakly with a big belly.

Like a salted fish waiting to be cooked.

What do you think the people Jiang Xiaojun is looking for are doing? Even if there are not so many audiences, there will be a lot of reports about our movie the next day. As long as the media reports, people will definitely watch it the next day, just one day later. That's all.

Lin Dong didn't think of himself too great.

The fact is true, his outstanding performance has more or less won the praise of the media, but this kind of alienated praise is really not enough to make reporters and film critics open their eyes and tell lies.

The final awards are yet to come.

But the three screenings have demonstrated the high quality of the film Tuina.

At this time, the film studio is faced with a choice, whether to bet that the film will win an award and start early, or wait for the award ceremony to settle before discussing business.

In fact, the Venice Film Festival is not a good place to sell films.

Movies have both artistic and commercial attributes.

Except for Boss Lin who doesn't want to make money, most other film festivals also rely on these two wheels to drive.

As the three most authoritative film festivals recognized in the world - Cannes, Venice, and Berlin each have their own perseverance in art, and they are evenly matched.

But in terms of business, Venice is like a kid standing in front of a professional boxer with a dazed face, a long way from Cannes and Berlin.

Booths are counted in single digits, and the film studio just sends someone randomly to get rid of them.

Even Toronto sells movies better than Venice.

If Massage hadn't been decided to be released on 9.1 - Du Qixi didn't change his plan because of participating in the film festival - he might wait until next year to participate in the Cannes or Berlin Film Festival.

Today is September 3rd, and it has been screened in China for two days.

The box office on the first day was 600,000. This is because I heard that the shortlisted Venice only increased the number of films, and the next day was more than 300,000, a cliff-like drop.

Du Qixi's depression is also related to this.

He can only hope for overseas copyrights now.

The awards ceremony was on September 7th. During the few days waiting for the awards ceremony, some filmmakers also came to contact me.

A studio in charge of the Southeast Asian market offered an offer of 300,000 euros, which was considered the highest.

This is already a great price.

The overseas copyright of Picnic on the Wanwan side was packaged together and only bought 150,000 euros.

However, compared with Gravity, it is still far behind.

The overseas copyright of Gravity has sold for 10 million US dollars in the Southeast Asian market alone. After the film is released in Southeast Asian countries, for the portion exceeding 10 million US dollars, Gravity will continue to participate in the box office share.

In the final analysis, Hollywood is still too good, and Chinese films are getting harder and harder to sell.

Three hundred thousand euros, converted into domestic money, is only two million or so.

To sell or not to sell?

Lin Dong couldn't make the decision for him, and Jiang Xiaojun couldn't make the decision for him either.

Even those domestic producers who wanted to hack Du Qixi to death couldn't make the decision.

Two million is also money.

At this time, an accident happened.

Someone told Du Qixi that this movie cannot be sold like this.

This person is called Hua Yan.

That's right, it was Hua Yan who was supposed to direct the film but was later robbed of his job by Du Qixi.

Hua Yan is one of the representative figures of the sixth generation of directors in the mainland, and a senior of Beidian in the 1989 class.

He planned to make this film after finishing Mystery of the Floating City, but he didn't expect to be cut off by a primary school boy, and there was an uproar in the circle, and it was inevitable that he would feel uncomfortable.

After the movie was released, he went to see it on the first day.

As a result, I saw a Massage with a style completely different from what I expected.

He felt he could do better.

But it must also be admitted that this film is very good now, and there are many styles that he can't shoot.

At least the audience won't get dizzy after watching it.

He knew the dilemma Massage was facing. The domestic box office of this movie would never exceed five million.

Sure enough, with the BUFF bonus of being shortlisted for the Venice International Film Festival, it only won 600,000 box office, and it fell off a cliff the next day.

Even if he could win the prize, it would be difficult to exceed five million.

We can only hope to recoup the cost of selling overseas copyrights.

Hua Yan is more experienced than Du Qixi when it comes to how to exploit foreign film studios' money. After the producer approached him for advice, the advice he gave was to dismantle and sell the film after the awards ceremony.

Of course, if anyone can give three million euros, they can also sell it to him.

If there are three million euros, it will pay back.

I still want to ask for more.

Two hundred million?

hehe……

The awards ceremony came as scheduled amidst the tormented waiting, and Du Qixi's hair turned gray a lot.

Originally, he looked like he was thirty or forty years old, but now he was heading towards fifty.

But he was actually born in 1990. In September 2013, he was 23 years old, and his imaginary age was less than half of half a hundred.

In order to cover up this change, Du Qixi put on his hat again.

I feel that this product may be accompanied by a hat in the future.

People have the king of sunglasses, he will become the king of hats.

After the red carpet of the closing ceremony, everyone sat down one after another. It was not as particular as in China, and the seating order was also very casual. Most of the participants in the closing ceremony were media and filmmakers.

All members of the jury are sitting on the stage.

It is also very casual to sit.

The host announced the start, and after a few words of nonsense, the judge sitting in a wheelchair took out a crumpled white paper from his pocket.

Then follow the above.

There was no atmosphere, no shortlisted film introductions, no prize winners, and no award presenters.

The first one read out the Golden Lion Award.

The winner was Rome Ring Expressway from Italy. The director was Gianfranco Rossi. After the old man went up, he hugged the golden lion and kissed and gnawed.

Very obscene.

Du Qixi whispered his contempt for the old man.

Then Mr. Zhuxi read the Silver Lion Award again. The object of the Silver Lion Award is not fixed. Sometimes it is the jury award, sometimes it is the best director, or it may be the best actor or best actress.

This time it's Best Director.

Congratulations to Qixi Du from China.

Lao Du burst into tears at that time, and the tears couldn't stop flowing down.

Lin Dong kicked him twice, and then he remembered to go up and take back the trophy from the little sister of the master of ceremonies.

During the speech, I was rambling on and on, and I couldn't speak Chinese smoothly.

It took several minutes of crying and whining—30 seconds is considered a long time under normal circumstances, and some people even said three grams of oil.

Lin Dong looked at the judging committee's bamboo mat, probably wanting someone to drag this thing away.

What a shame.

In fact, Lin Dong still can't understand why a person who doesn't like Chinese movies so much has such a soft spot for Du Qixi's movie.

Could he empathize with a flawed movie because he has mobility issues and needs a wheelchair?

Next came the Wanwan film, which won the jury award.

Of the nine awards, Huaxia people won two awards. Although they didn't win the Golden Lion Award, it was enough for the Huaxia media to be excited.

Bernardo Bertolucci doesn't leave time for emotion.

He spoke slowly, but without stopping announced the special jury award, best screenwriter award, and best actor award—it really wasn't Lin Dong.

Although Lin Dong was nominated for this award.

But after Du Qixi won the Silver Lion Award, he only had a very small chance of winning this award.

Because the jury has always tried its best to avoid awarding the golden lion, silver lion, best actor, and best actress to the same film, unless you can get unanimous approval from the jury.

It means unanimous vote.

Lin Dong obviously does not have such strength.

The best actor was Semis Pano, who starred in the movie Miss Violence.

The actress is Elena Kota, an eighty-two-year-old grandmother.

At the age of sixteen, she appeared on the stage of drama.

She didn't start acting in movies until she was 69 years old. The award-winning Palermo Madness is her second film, which embodies depressive cold violence.

Best New Actor Award, Lin Dong, Lin Dong from China, thanks to the movie Massage, for allowing us to meet a young and too young director and an too young and too young actor.

Lin Dong didn't cry.

It's not the movie king, why cry?

Even if he is the best actor, he can't compare to Xia Yu, who won the double best actor at the age of twenty.

Lin Dong took the strange-shaped trophy and said thank you.

Then he shouted to the audience in Chinese:

I love movies!

In less than ten seconds from beginning to end, I rolled back to my seat.

Dongzi, let's...

Du Qixi was still crying, he held the silver lion in one hand, and grabbed Lin Dong's hand with the other.

It's sticky, full of tears and snot, and it's so fucking gross.

Brother Qixi, think about it, even if we win the award, will the box office of the movie reach 200 million? I don't even think 3 million.

Lin Dong had no choice but to resort to stimulating therapy.

However, due to self-defeating, Du Qixi cried even more.

Fuck you, I'm not glass, if you smear my snot on my trophy, I'll let you die in Venice.