Chapter 352 Luo Banbi

Christopher Nolan is actually a very special director.

What makes him special is not that he is obsessed with series like George Lucas, nor is he embracing business like Steven Spielberg, nor is he grasping special effects like James Cameron, but he started with series , Relying on the commercial explosion, using real shots to fight special effects, but in the end, he frantically played with his own things there.

In Roland's previous life, there was such a saying.

‘Nolan produced, must be a boutique’

The reason for giving this sentence is actually very simple.

Because of the movies he made, they are widely loved by the public.

Unlike those George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and James Cameron who emphasize neatness, Christopher Nolan has his own ideas and never sticks to the status quo. Altar, but it is precisely because of his superhuman genius style that he has become the envy of the judges, so in terms of awards, he has failed.

That's right, this is Nuoshen in the eyes of fans.

Anyway, everything that is not good is someone else's problem.

but-

Is this really the case?

The first feature film "Following" he filmed was only screened in a small range;

The box office return rate of his second feature film "Memory Fragments" is not even comparable to Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet";

Under this circumstance, he was supported by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney to take over the filming of the third feature "Insomnia";

But the lineup of Al Pacino + Robin Williams + Hillary Swank made the film lose to grandma's family, with an investment of 46 million and a global box office of 113 million. His path to promotion was overshadowed;

But after that, he suddenly became angry;

Because he made Batman.

"Mystery of Heroes" did not lose money. Although the investment of 150 million yuan only brought in a global box office of 370 million yuan, among them, there was a North American box office of 200 million yuan. It is precisely because he started to make a profit, so Warner went on to invest in his "The Prestige", and the same breakeven results allowed "The Dark Knight" to be approved, so...

He exploded!

Before the launch of the "Batman" series, or before the release of "The Dark Knight", Christopher Nolan was a niche director immersed in his own world, but after the death of Heath Ledger...

All his movie ratings, suddenly surged!

"Follow", which no one has seen before, has soared to more than 50,000 ratings!

"Memory Fragments", which has only been rated by tens of thousands of people, drove all the way to a million!

There were 200,000 people rated "The Mystery of Hero Shadow", and the number of ratings increased five times in a short period of time!

The "Fatal Magic", which is worthy of returning to the book, has more than one million people giving high marks and praise!

The number of likes of "The Dark Knight" even exceeded two million!

You know, the sum of "Titanic" and "Avatar" is only this amount!

And when Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor, The Dark Knight was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture...

The word 'targeting' was slapped on the public screen by Christopher Nolan's fans!

Fans can't understand why such a profound film as "The Dark Knight" can't even get nominations, and when they continue to plan forward, "The Prestige", "The Mystery of Shadow", "Insomnia", "Memento" failed , It is unbelievable for them!

Ah no...

In the matter of the loss of "Insomnia", these fans maintained a high degree of unanimity.

They felt that Christopher Nolan was not well-known at the time, and he couldn't command Al Pacino, Robin Williams and others at all, let alone in the presence of Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney. Play as you want under control, so...

The problem of failure is not the director's fault!

hehe!

Co-author Steven Soderbergh's behavior of giving "Memento" a platform doesn't exist?

And after that, the failure of "Inception", "The Dark Knight Rises", "Interstellar", and "Dunkirk" was directly attributed to the fact that the Oscar judges did not like suspense films, commercial films, and Science fiction, and..

"The Shape of Water" shameless!

Anyway, it is the peak of the fairy, proud of the world, with my keyboard, there will be heaven!

On the one hand, he keeps saying that Christopher Nolan’s movies have a certain threshold, and you have to watch more to understand them, but on the other hand, the box office of all high-scoring movies has never skyrocketed!

One side kept saying that talented filmmakers like Christopher Nolan were suppressed by the old school, but what about the other side? But based on the cheapest website rating, to prove how much the audience loves him!

Excuseme?

Is there a problem with this logic?

yes!

The box office is indeed not the only criterion for measuring a movie!

But it is the most direct measure of people's love!

Don't even say two billion!

When 1 million or 2 million people took the initiative to score, and kept saying that they would pay more, how could they fail to generate a billion box office?

The love of fans is just a click of the mouse!

Blame all problems on others in this situation?

Ning, isn’t this funny!

In this way, Christopher Nolan's reputation is actually limited by his fans.

As a guy who doesn’t even bother to talk to the outside world, he has been taking pictures of what he likes, but his fans have to push the heads of passers-by to let others like Christopher Nolan’s works.

The point is that once they show doubts, more than 80% of the guys will say 'you are stupid'.

With such a move, how could he be accepted by mainstream awards?

In the case of spontaneous teaching by fans, Christopher Nolan did not promote major commercial awards, so when he was unknown, the judges were even less likely to favor him. On August 30, Sony collaborated with "Memory" The main creative team of Fragments participated in the fifty-seventh Venice International Film Festival. On August 31, after the film was officially screened in the main competition unit—

An unexpected accident happened.

According to Evelyn Watson, the president of Warcraft Film and Television, with the relationship, "Memento" can win several awards in Venice no matter what. Although the golden lion and silver lion are too exaggerated, other categories of awards can still be awarded. Think about it.

But after the Sony staff contacted all parties according to her intention, the judges who had seen the movie all showed embarrassment.

The chairman of the jury this year, the director of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Milos Forman directly stated, "Without giving the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture and the Silver Lion Award for Best Director, no award is given to this film. Something is wrong!"historical

When filming "The Twilight Zone" again, Vic Morrow's daughter Jennifer Lee, who was decapitated by the propeller in a helicopter crash, agreed with Milos Forman, "Yes, like The Catholic Humanitarian Award, this kind of award is generally awarded to religious films that embody humanitarian spirit, but it cannot be awarded to "Memory Fragments" about revenge."

Giuseppe Bertolucci, the younger brother of Bernardo Bertolucci, the director of "The Last Emperor", thinks what they said is very reasonable, "For example, the UNESCO Award, how about "Memory Fragments"... I can't even get in touch with them..."

If the reasons given by the three acquaintances are relatively gentle, then the words of Isabelle Huppert's friend Claude Chabrol are very sharp, directly clarifying the problem, "This movie does not seem to be Not suitable for a film festival."

"All the film festivals."

That's right!

Same as Harvey Weinstein's doubts, these judges also felt that the biggest highlight of this movie is the editing!

Using complicated editing techniques to turn an ordinary story into a magical one is already a very polite evaluation. They can tell a good story, but they have to make a fool of themselves. That is their real idea!

And in this case, they don't know what reason to give the award at all.

Such a situation makes the Sony staff extremely regretful.

In fact, they also know that if this kind of suspense film participates in the film festival, it is a disease of the brain!

Take the entries in this year’s main competition unit as an example. All films have their own highlights, such as "When Night Falls", "The Killer's Virgin", and "Phantom", which are same-sex films for LGBT people. And like "Gospel and Utopia", it is a religious film about faith, and there are directors who hunt novelties, but it is definitely not about suspense.

Kim Ki-duk is here to participate.

Although the work he brought is "Small Island", which is even more goosebumps than "The Scarlet Letter" and "Sea Fog".

But that's good or bad, about human nature.

In this case, the showy "Memory Fragment" really has no advantage.

Just when Sony thought that even if they shook people, they might return empty-handed, reporting the situation to the president of Warcraft Film and Television, Evelyn Watson, became what they had to do.

After their report was over, the mood of watching the joke spread wildly in the team.

"This **** thinks he can walk sideways in the circle by hugging Roland's thigh? Instead of going to Cannes, which has the highest degree of commercialization, he has to go to Venice, which has a stronger artistic atmosphere? Isn't this out of his mind?"

"Yes! Yes! I really treat these film festivals as if I run them at home!"

"The judges are all our own people! Do you see how these judges treat you now?"

"Although the judges change every year, they cannot form an effective line of interest like the Golden Globes and Oscars, but they also have to consider their own reputation! Milos Forman, Jennifer Lee, Giuseppe Beto Lu Qi is all about art, how could he like this kind of commercial suspense film? And...is this broken movie suspense?"

When making announcement arrangements, Evelyn Watson really slapped them in the face and vetoed their plan.

And now...

Beeping softly on the back of the opponent's **** is already a very face-saving performance.

After all, Evelyn Watson, who was holding Roland Allen's thigh, was not someone they could provoke.

However, just when they thought that the unstoppable World of Warcraft film and television would not be able to force the judges to like it, on September 3rd, they won a heavyweight audience at the film festival——

Clint Eastwood.

When Master Dongmu finished watching "Memory Fragments"...

On September 9th, when the Venice International Film Festival closed, the Emerging Director Award named after the famous Italian producer Luigi De Laurentiis was awarded to Christopher Nolan.

The award for the best debut work that encouraged the director to continue to create was awarded to "Memory Fragments".

Such a situation made Sony, who was in charge of publicity for the exhibition, speechless, but when they saw Clint Eastwood holding up the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement, which symbolizes the highest honor, amidst the blessings of the organizing committee, it was absurd and natural. Emotions burst out suddenly.

The judges don't want to give awards?

That's all right!

Because as long as I want to take it!

Venice may be the film festival that respects art the most in the world, but the people who make up the film festival always have weaknesses!

The judges don't give Sony face?

That's because you Sony don't have face at all!

If Clint Eastwood sat there, two of the seven judges had to call him uncle! The two have to call him brother!

Originally, Evelyn Watson didn't want to trouble the old man, but who made Sony so useless?

It’s not that you are asked to win the best picture, best director, and even two small awards. What’s the use of you?

Such a situation made the guys in charge of the announcement of "Memory Fragments" as uncomfortable as eating flies, and after they flew back to America and reported what happened truthfully, the group that was working on "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" It's gone.

In 1994, when he made the best foreign language film for "The Wedding Banquet", Roland still had to rely on Sony.

In 1998, when he bought the Oscar for Best Actor and Actress, the profit that Roland gave up was conservatively 300 million.

And now?

Like a crab, run amok!

In such a situation, if AngLee wants to win an award, he has to find the biggest Hollywood relationship!

...

Just when "Memento" was advancing steadily according to Roland's expectations, and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was rushing forward with Roland's impetus, on September 10, Microsoft's two acquisitions of Yahoo, Intel and Watch Ventures' ATi Approved by the European Union.

They were so pinched that they unconditionally approved the two transactions. On the day they approved, the National Transportation Safety Board of America also submitted its own investigation report, indicating that the aircraft produced by Airbus met safety standards.

Such a humiliating surrender made the European Union furious, but before they could figure out how to fight back, a piece of good news made them breathe a sigh of relief—because on September 13, Steve Jobs held Apple’s new product launch conference as scheduled .

At the meeting, Steve Jobs introduced to the world MacOSX, which is priced at $29.95, and said that it will be released together with a new generation of Apple computers, although Apple's market share is lower than that of Windows. It's pitifully low, but considering that Steve Jobs is the only guy on the market who might beat Microsoft, the outside world will bear it.

But when this news reached Roland's ears, the guy who was watching Sendie's father diving with his family in Sydney showed a satisfied smile, because while swallowing the ATi and pushing the apple forward, he also Being able to run amok in the technology world.

"Others think I'm a crab in the film industry, but they don't know that I've swallowed half of the technology circle!"

Note: ①In reality, "Memento" did go to Venice, but it didn't even enter the main competition unit. A film festival established for American films), the Toronto Film Festival, the British Raindance Film Festival, the Saint Denis International Film Festival, etc., etc., in short, the films were sold but not sold. ② "Small Island" is a banned film, not only us, but also in the UK. Although it is good, the last scene can even be called a beautiful death, but the movie is painful to watch, and it is extremely not recommended. ③Clint Eastwood was indeed the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival that year, and their group went to Venice as if they were going back to their own home. Venice previously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award to the five founders of Pixar People, this is the first time in history that George Lucas was the one who presented the award, and Marco Muller, the chairman of the film festival at the time, said that he and George Lucas were good friends, and it was the proposal of the other party to present the award. In the 1990s, when the attention of Venice was low, they even gave Francis Coppola in 1992, Steven Spielberg and Robert De Niro in 1993, and Albany in 1994. - Pacino, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese in 1995, and Dustin Hoffman in 1996 for continuous lifetime achievement awards, please ask them to support the red carpet.

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