Chapter 1075 1075 Highly Sought After

If Hugo had read Roger Ebert's articles about the Sundance Film Festival, about "Hands and Hers" and Hollywood facing a turning point once again, he would have been amazed that his jaw was dislocated, no wonder Roger is Hollywood's most authoritative One of the film critics, his keen grasp of the entire industry is indeed superior.

According to the historical development track, Hollywood movies did enter a period of rapid development in the 1990s, and after the "Titanic" in 1997 entered the era of full-scale explosion of large-scale productions. High investment and high returns have become Hollywood's extreme development model. But in the second half of the first decade of the 21st century, big productions gradually began to weaken, and high investment means high risks and huge losses.

After "Pulp Fiction" opened up the scene for independent films, after a decade of nurturing at the Sundance Film Festival, independent films started a turnaround in 2006, a "Little. Miss. Sunshine" from St. Dans was born and amazed the whole United States. The box office, awards, word-of-mouth and popularity have been harvested in an all-round way. Not only did major Hollywood production companies flock to Sundance to seek the next "Little Sundance", but also changed Hollywood's large-scale production companies. The power contrast between production companies and independent film production companies is one of the portrayals of Lionsgate's strong rise to change the Hollywood landscape.

So, Roger can almost be said to have foreseen the development trajectory of Hollywood in the next ten years.

Although Hugo did not read Roger's professional review, Roger's praiseworthy review of "Before Sunrise" was widely circulated and widely recognized throughout the Sundance Film Festival.

Since the Sundance Film Festival is not well-received, the number of professional film critics is limited - most of the people who come to join in the fun are just journalists, responsible for reporting, not responsible for writing film reviews. Like Nicholas, although he writes film reviews, he is not Completely professional, relying more on his perspective as a professional reporter in the circle to comment on the film.

After the premiere of "Before Sunrise" at Sundance, there were only eight reviews in the first batch, and the overall score was 8.4 out of 10. The main reason is that the ratings of the four media other than the official publications have all exceeded nine points, so the average score has been raised in one fell swoop, surpassing the two competitors in one fell swoop, and currently ranks high among the films that have been screened by Sundance. the top position.

Among them, Roger's comments on the script have received a lot of recognition.

It must be admitted that before "Before Sunrise" landed at Sundance, people actually had a lot of doubts about Hugo's screenwriting skills.

Although Hugo has created countless brilliance in the past three years, whether it is acting or music, Hugo has delivered a convincing answer. After the downturn of the Golden Raspberry Award, Hugo is like a phoenix Nirvana. It has created an incredible miracle, and even changed the media's opinion, changing the original negative Matthew effect into a lot of praise.

However, even the Matthew effect could not make the media recognize Hugo's screenwriting ability. Even laymen know that screenwriting, actors, and bands are completely different types of work, and this is not a skill that can be learned by analogy. Therefore, although most news media did not ridicule Hugo, they still generally believed that this was an attempt to play tickets.

Now, after "Before Sunrise" made its debut, it blinded everyone, and people couldn't help but think of a strange thing: that is, "The Shawshank Redemption" has Hugo's name on the list of screenwriters, and even let Hugo took a nomination seat at the Golden Globes. What is even more interesting is that after the "reminder" of "US Weekly", people remembered that Hugo's educational background was Yale University's classic literature.

In an instant, all doubts were answered.

"Lancaster has shown us the power of lines in such an extreme way, when everyone ignores the true meaning of dialogue, when Hollywood has stopped paying attention to lines, and when lines gradually degenerate into the framework of the story. As one of the fillers, he used the lines to frame, use the lines to show depth, and use the lines to outline the soul, and he told everyone that even just the lines can make a classic."

This short comment comes from the sharp-spoken "The New Yorker". Different from the "New York Times", the "New Yorker", as a "petty media" in the New York area, has always been very critical and sharp, and they just stick to their positions. to tell their own stories and express their opinions. Therefore, the "New Yorker" has always paid attention to the Sundance Film Festival. Although it is not continuous, they do not exclude coming to Park City to dig some works that are different from Hollywood.

This time, The New Yorker found "Before Sunrise."

Unlike other media, "The New Yorker" focuses almost all attention on the script, although people are discussing the romantic beauty of the story, the true meaning of love presented in the film, and the director Richard's outstanding ability to control , discussing the chemistry of the two protagonists, discussing Hugo and Charlize's wonderful performances...but the "New Yorker" stubbornly focused on the script.

"Every dialogue that appears in the film is meaningful and echoes the context.

In the opening stage of the film, it starts with a quarrel between a couple, and the first topic of a man and a woman is about marriage. "When a couple reaches a certain age, they lose the ability to listen to each other." Later, this topic also became The controversial points of all discussions about love between two people: Should love guard the moment or hope for eternity? Where is the meaning of the moment, and does eternity really exist? Almost every discussion of their love can be traced back to this source core, leading to heated debates.

Also at the beginning, a woman once said, 'I'm afraid of the consciousness a few seconds before death, you know you're going to die', this seemingly random phrase also runs through, and love goes from an instant burst to an eternal enjoyment. The process is faced with the fear of 'eternity and death', and the mixed and tangled emotions of two people when they face separation is a true portrayal of this sentence.

There are many details like this throughout the film. Therefore, this movie is suitable for everyone to stop and watch repeatedly, and carefully taste the connotation and deep meaning brought by those lines.

Of course, the reason why the film is successful is because Lancaster did not tell the big truth through lines-although the film is full of esoteric topics such as philosophy, life and death, Lancaster started it entirely in the way of discussion, welcome to everyone The audience talks to the two protagonists, and the collision of ideas starts from the first second of the movie and continues long after the movie ends.

Therefore, watching a movie is a very interesting thing, not only the two protagonists are in dialogue, but also the audience is in dialogue with them, and the audience is in dialogue with their own life. The kind of reflection and aftertaste after the movie is the biggest charm of the movie. "

"The New Yorker" praised the film from a special angle, and in addition to film reviews, other reporters who flocked to Park City also praised "Before Sunrise", and most importantly, they focused on Hugo for attention from independent films.

The current Sundance Film Festival is very deserted. After a film is released, it is definitely a very rare thing to have media coverage in addition to the official publication. But now, "Before Sunrise" has not only received a lot of attention in the official magazine, but also has been reported by double-digit media, and the number of reports has even exceeded the sum of all the works premiered in the previous two days. It is invincible.

There are even bold predictions that "Before Sunrise" has the potential to compete for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Unlike the three major European film festivals, the Sundance Film Festival’s award setting is relatively simple. The highest award is the Jury Prize, in addition to the Special Jury Award, the Filmmaker’s Trophy and the Audience Award. But objectively speaking, throughout the entire Sundance Film Festival process, the Jury Prize is the only focus.

This year's Sundance is still quite lively, Tom DiCiro's "Camera Rhapsody", Edward Burns' "McMullan Brothers", James Mangold's "Unspeakable Love Words" All of them were well received, among which Mangold had the highest achievement in the future, "Girl, Interrupted", "Identity", "Walk. The. Line" are all his work.

In the midst of such strong competition, it is indeed unexpected that "Before Sunrise", which is like a cup of warm water, has been so sought after. Of course, this is also deliberately sought after by the media. After all, most of the media are here for Hugo, and "Before Sunrise" has enough quality, so they naturally don't mind raving about it, so how much moisture is there? It needs to be decided by the jury of the festival.

Compared with the lively and busy Cannes Film Festival last year, Hugo's life at the Sundance Film Festival is relatively simple: because of the immaturity here, because of the lack of media, because of the professional and unsocialized independent films, Hugo is on the contrary. Fall clean. After the premiere of "Before Sunrise", Hugo was only interviewed for an afternoon, and the work was done. Compared with the Cannes Film Festival, it was much easier.

This freed up time for Hugo to feel the atmosphere of Sundance. Last year in Cannes, Hugo didn't have much time to appreciate other people's works, but this time Sundance Hugo didn't want to miss it. Originally, Hugo was still a little hesitant. After all, the containment storm a few days ago still left Hugo with lingering fears. Now, after the premiere of "Before Sunrise", the residents of the whole city are showing signs of warming up again.

But it was Charlize who said something that moved Hugo, "Are you going to change your life plan because of these fans?" In fact, many public figures had to change their private lives because of fans and media congestion. This is the last resort of public figures, and the price that must be paid behind their brilliance.

Hugo didn't want that. Of course, Hugo didn't want to miss Sundance, the annual Sundance, so Hugo left the hotel and walked into Park City like an ordinary movie fan, into this future famous independent film Festival.