Chapter 865 Little Flames Rubbing Against Each Other!

"... strong Chinese local customs, excellent colors and pictures, an amazing performance by a great lead singer, a simple, strong but beautiful Chinese woman, a romanticism and realism intertwined to the point of inseparability Greatness achieved! This is a movie not to be missed!"

——"Rheinische Zeitung"

"... Li from China, who gave an amazing performance at the opening ceremony of the World Cup, once again surprised and admired me! This time, he is with a movie. He is the director and the lead actor. It is an unforgettable Movie viewing experience, if you haven't seen it yet, go now!"

——The Herald

"...Red, green, yellow, the director showed us his excellent color aesthetics with extremely strong use of color, comparable to Van Gogh's masterpiece! This is a great masterpiece! He will be included in China The annals of film history will also be included in the annals of the Berlin Film Festival!"

——"Morning Review"

"...amazing use of color, excellent camera aesthetics, a story of resistance to invasion in rural eastern China in the 1930s and 1940s, a great cast of people, and an outstanding film! China Li's acting ability, and his The directing ability is equally outstanding! Ms. Qin Jingjing's performance is equally astonishing!"

——"Deutsche Post"

"This is a movie so perfect it leaves me speechless! It's great!"

—— "Art Observation"

"... Li's directing ability surprised me! This masterpiece he brought is the best film I have seen since the opening of this Berlin Film Festival! No one."

—— "The Observer"

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Berlin, Germany.

It's afternoon.

In front of Li Qian, there was a thick stack of various newspapers.

Most of the newspapers were in German, and Li Qian basically couldn't understand anything.

Just because "Red Sorghum" became popular in Berlin for a while, the Chinese embassy in Germany actually took the initiative to send someone to contact and asked if there was any need for help. German newspaper.

Then, a girl who looked about 24 or 20 years old appeared in the hotel where the crew of "Red Sorghum" was staying an hour later. She also came with a cultural counselor from the embassy, ​​and then, There was such a scene: the girl picked up a newspaper and translated it while reading it.

In fact, there is no need for such a specific translation. Just look at the attitude of the embassy in Germany to know how popular "Red Sorghum" is in Berlin and Germany.

In addition, considering that Li Qian had contributed to the World Cup, adding brilliance to China's image on a global scale, and it is said that he was also a person who was specially praised internally by the top management, so he brought the film to the Berlin Film Festival , and the work has also won unanimous praise from the local film critics. Of course, the embassy in Germany is also happy to add icing on the cake.

The cultural counselor came over to offer a series of congratulations, and they chatted briefly with each other. The other party left the interpreter as a secondment, and promised that the embassy would provide help to Li Qian and the others if they encountered any problems in Berlin. Say goodbye and leave.

However, when he left, Li Qian picked up the German newspapers one by one, but was somewhat unable to recover - the direction and speed of the development of the matter were really beyond his expectation.

"Red Sorghum" is a good movie, that's for sure! My own version is even a good movie, of course it is for sure! But the question is, is it so popular?

Up to now, during the two-and-a-half-day screening period, except for the first two shows, the rest of the shows are full, and audiences waiting to buy tickets line up in front of the cinema—but even if they line up, they are unwilling to leave!

Again, this is a Chinese movie!

And it's still a Chinese country-style movie!

It has Chinese dialogues and Chinese narration throughout, and only a German translation is given at the bottom of the screen-seriously, in Li Qian's opinion, he feels that such a movie is very difficult for the vast majority of ordinary German audiences to watch. It’s probably the same feeling that Chinese people in another time and space feel when they watch a movie about Turkish village stories with Chinese subtitles.

But I don’t know if it’s because the audience who pay attention to the film festival has a particularly strong demand for this kind of art film, or it can be understood that they are the audience who love art films the most in Europe and even the world. In addition to the almost one-sided applause from the professional reviews given by people, it is said that even the vast majority of reviews on the Internet in Germany are full of applause!

Then, Li Qian felt in a trance that things seemed to start to exceed his expectations!

Originally, he didn't report any hope, but when the matter developed to this point, he couldn't control his heart. There was a small flame at first, and it rushed up all at once!

Maybe... it is really possible to win an award?

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In the afternoon of German time, John Deiss returned to the hotel from the outside, and when he entered the door, he excitedly said to Li Qian: "This afternoon, a total of four German film distribution companies contacted me, and they all expressed their enthusiasm for this film. And all of them made offers to me, wanting to buy out the distribution rights of "Red Sorghum" in Germany, and some also hope to win the distribution rights in Czech Republic at the same time."

Having said that, he proudly said: "The one with the highest offer offered two million dollars!"

No wonder he is proud. For a Chinese film, the treatment it can get in the European film distribution market may be worse than that of a small-budget American independent film. Two million dollars buy out German and Czech Republic. Release, the price is really not low.

Fu Xuelong, who had known the market beforehand, was really a little excited, and quickly asked, "You agreed?"

John Deiss smiled slightly, a little arrogant and reserved, um, a solid American profiteer, "I refuse!"

Li Qian pursed his lips, Fu Xuelong was taken aback.

But immediately after, John Dyce lost his reserve and arrogance, and turned his head to Li Qian with a smile: "Although the quotations are different, the four publishers put forward exactly the same request!"

"What?"

"They asked our film to stop screening and ticket sales immediately after completing the minimum number of screenings stipulated by the film festival!"

"so you……"

"I refused!"

Fu Xuelong rolled his eyes, Li Qian laughed out loud.

Now, if you sell tickets for screenings at film festivals, you must give some money to the theater and the official film festival, but the ratio is very low. The tickets sold are German marks, and the venues are full, so don’t worry about only one screening hall. But if you count it seriously, each screening can bring in a net income of two or three thousand Chinese dollars! Based on the current schedule of five screenings a day, more than 10,000 yuan will be credited to the account in one day!

Of course, for a film festival, money is a trivial matter, and more importantly, more people will watch it, which will be more conducive to the word-of-mouth spread of this film in Germany and Europe!

The better the word-of-mouth, the more attention the film festival officials must pay, which is inevitable!

There are more people watching, and everyone is praising the film through various channels and platforms, so even the judges of the film festival have to consider the pressure brought by public opinion.

But on the other hand, the distributors have already determined that this is a good movie, a movie that can already make money. Out of profit motives, they actually don't really want the word-of-mouth of this movie to continue to ferment!

Even, if it is taken to an extreme point, maybe they don't want "Red Sorghum" to win!

Strange to say, right? It's completely unreasonable!

But in fact, there is an account here!

There are a lot of film screenings, good word-of-mouth and continuous spread. The official attention and appreciation of the film festival, and finally award, maybe even a grand prize. Of course, the distribution work will be much easier for the film that wins the prize. Under normal circumstances, the distribution If the businessman buys out the distribution rights of the film and then shows it, the box office will be quite impressive.

But the question is, what is the price of a frustrating film that failed the film festival? What is the price if you win a big prize, especially if you win a Golden Bear, Silver Bear, etc.?

Especially for a film like "Red Sorghum", word-of-mouth has already spread. If they can buy it out now, even if they don't win awards in the future, they can still say "this is a regrettable film festival, because Not even a masterpiece like "Red Sorghum" won't win" gimmick, or move Li Qian out, etc., there are various means to publicize, the box office may not be really much less, but the buyout money will be less It's a big big piece!

After calculating the income and expenditures of both parties, it is very likely that "Red Sorghum" did not win the award and they earned more!

Only this time, what they encountered was not a rookie director who had no experience in international distribution, but a Li Qian who didn't take European distribution rights sales revenue seriously, and a director who had a tricky understanding of international distribution rules. To John Dice in full clarity.

Therefore, John Deiss, who has been authorized, can directly refuse all the offers he received without hesitation or asking for instructions!

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Also in the afternoon, John Deiss sat down and chatted for a long time. Just after he left, Liao Liao called suddenly—she suddenly received an official invitation from the Berlin Film Festival in the United States, and the other party hoped that she could attend the Berlin Film Festival. The closing ceremony of the festival, and is responsible for presenting awards to some of the winners of this film festival!

This incident came very suddenly.

In fact, whether it is the Berlin Film Festival or the other two major film festivals in Europe, many places and many rules are set at random, but after so many sessions, there are actually regulations to follow.

As far as award presenters are concerned, the three major European film festivals have been under great pressure in recent years. The overall global influence of European films continues to decline, which is the biggest problem they face.

In order to save the film festival and maintain a certain degree of discourse power in film art, the three major film festivals have become more and more open in the past ten years, especially in the past three to five years, and have paid more and more attention to publicity and momentum , Pulling stars to help out, platforms, etc. These aspects they didn't pay much attention to before.

The most typical thing is that, despite repeatedly advocating that they are sticking to the position of film art, and never concealing their contempt for Hollywood commercial blockbusters, in recent years, the three major European film festivals have begun to actively court major American directors, Big stars and big productions.

Even if you don't participate in the award judging, if you come over and make a publicity, the official of the film festival will welcome you!

As long as there are enough cafes, as long as you are willing to come, the film festival will promote it vigorously!

Joshua Chris came this year to promote and solicit votes for the independent film platform invested by his film company, but in fact, he just swayed a shot when he came, stayed for two days after his public appearance, and then disappeared, but , if nothing unexpected, he will still be invited to the closing ceremony!

Whether it is purely watching the ceremony or in charge of presenting awards, he is an existence that can attract attention and boost ratings!

But he is a movie star, so it's only natural for him to come to the Berlin Film Festival!

Liao Liao is a singer, and he had almost no contact with the Berlin Film Festival before! And it should have been communicated in advance before the opening of the film festival, but now the other party suddenly sent such an invitation——

So, Liao Liao asked with a smile: "Maybe you are going to win an award? They want to make a gimmick to promote it?"

Not to mention, Li Qian also thought so when he received a call from Liao Liao!

Will the award presenters do it?

Do!

So two days later, Liao Liao flew over from Los Angeles with his American assistant and bodyguards.

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March 4, 3:00 pm local time in Germany.

The closing ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival was officially held.

It seems that the film festival officials have no intention of deliberately concealing it. Before the closing ceremony, Liao Liao received a notice from the film festival that she and Joshua Chris will be responsible for presenting the Silver Bear Award of this film festival.

The most important awards of the Berlin Film Festival are undoubtedly the Golden Bear and Silver Bear.

The Golden Bear Award is awarded to the best feature film, documentary, science and education film, art film, etc., which is equivalent to the best film, while the Silver Bear Award is awarded to the best director, best actor and actress, and screenwriter, music, photography, art, and youth works. Special achievement feature films and more.

Naturally, there is only one winner of the Golden Bear Award each year, but the Silver Bear Award is not certain.

Sometimes it might go to Best Actor, sometimes it might go to Best Actor and Best Actress, and other times it might go to Best Actress and one to Best Cinematography, and sometimes, Neither male nor female actor won the award, but one of the judges' favorite screenwriter won the Silver Bear Award.

Everything is possible!

Let Liao Liao and Joshua Chris present the Silver Bear Award together. In terms of coffee status and treatment, it is enough, but the options left to the judges for the Silver Bear Award are too wide!

Take the movie "Red Sorghum" as an example. At present, the three people from the crew are all in the category of possible awards-Li Qian's director, screenwriter, and actor, Qin Jingjing's heroine, Fu Xuelong's photography, who will win? All awards must be Silver Bear Awards!

Therefore, knowing in advance that Liao Liao was going to present the Silver Bear Award, it was nowhere to be guessed!

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