Chapter 722: A layman watches the fun, an expert watches the door
The Berlin International Film Festival quickly announced the nineteen films shortlisted for the main competition unit.
As expected, there were more than eight movies related to female boxing, accounting for more than one-third of the 19 movies.
At the same time, foreign entertainment media have also reported that the theme of this year’s Berlin International Film Festival must be female boxing!
At a time when both the domestic media and movie fans on the Internet are extremely pessimistic about the prospects of winning awards for Chinese films competing at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, including Li Yi's "Life Is Beautiful."
In North America, James Dean introduced Li Yi to Stern Nick, the head of the public relations company responsible for the Berlin International Film Festival, after seeing the list of the jury for the main competition unit of the Berlin International Film Festival.
, but very optimistic.
"Yes, the jury lineup for this year's Berlin International Film Festival. More than half of the judges are female, which indeed shows that the hot theme of the Berlin International Film Festival this year is female boxing, but look carefully at the list of judges." Stern
Said with a smile.
"What? Is there something wrong with the list?" Li Yi was confused.
"Unlike the Oscars, the awards of the three major European film festivals are decided by the votes of the judges. Therefore, if you want to win the award, you only need to win more than half of the judges."
"And first of all, your compatriot Ms. He Shuhua, I believe there won't be any surprises, right?" Stern Nick looked at Li Yi and asked.
Li Yi nodded and said: "Probably not!"
"So, you have firmly obtained the key vote, then let's analyze the remaining judges."
"Roman Friedman, his vote is crucial, because among these judges, he is not only the most famous, the most senior, but also the one with the greatest achievements, and Roman Friedman himself is Jewish.
Director, it is his right decision to support "Life is Beautiful"! Therefore, these two votes are the most stable."
Li Yi nodded.
He Shuhua had already informed him of this before.
Li Yi is also relatively confident that he can win this vote.
Of course, it is also because Li Yi is very confident in "Life is Beautiful" itself. It can be said that no Jewish person can be indifferent to this movie.
However, just when Li Yi thought that Stern Nick would continue to analyze another male judge, he circled the name of another female judge on the list.
"Maggie Majidi!"
Li Yi was a little confused.
Because, this is an Iranian female boxing director.
Yes, because this director shoots movies that are all related to female boxing.
This is also the reason why Li Yi is confused that Stern Nick will target her.
"Is it weird? Director Maggie is obviously a female boxing director, why would I target her, right?" Stern Nick asked with a smile as if he had anticipated Li Yi's reaction.
Li Yi nodded.
"Actually, female boxing and female boxing are also different!"
"We checked the information and found that Director Maggie is actually an anti-mainstream female boxing director. She has publicly refuted those arguments that overemphasize female boxing as the supremacy of female boxing. Her movies are actually very similar to mainstream female boxing movies.
big difference.
She opposed those female boxers who were divorced from reality. She once said that women should pursue equal rights with men based on the real social status quo, rather than the female boxer doctrine that overrides any male rights."
"Simply put, she believes that this extremism of female boxing supremacy is harmful to truly improving the status of women in a patriarchal society..."
Li Yi was confused when he heard this, but anyway, he thought what you said made sense.
In fact, Li Yi has always stayed away from these arguments about human rights.
Next, Stern Nick analyzed several other judges.
What surprised Li Yi was...
According to Stern Nick's analysis, despite the fact that there are so many female directors among these people, in fact, the real female boxers are just advertised.
In fact, it might be more accurate to say that they are all anti-war activists.
Because everyone’s interpretation of female boxing is different.
For example, one of the female directors, according to Stern, has lovers all over the world, so is this a form of female boxing?
If you say yes, it counts. After all, why can men be merciful and be scumbags everywhere, but women can't?
From this point of view, this is also very female boxing!
But the movies she shoots are mostly sentimental and touching movies. From this point of view, isn't it very unfemale?
Li Yi could only sigh. As expected of a public relations person, he is even better than a matchmaker, but you still think what he says makes sense.
According to Stern, the so-called female boxing theme of the Berlin International Film Festival actually has greater benefits for Li Yi's "Life is Beautiful".
Because there are also differences between female boxing and female boxing.
Most of the literary films produced by each director come with their own understanding.
Therefore, the same female boxing movie may not necessarily be liked by female boxers.
Some people like extreme female supremacy, while others like female boxing where men and women are equal, etc., etc.
Therefore, to the outside world, everyone must advertise that they are female boxers, but in fact, this is not the case.
Sometimes this kind of involution is even more terrifying.
As for movies with anti-war themes, opinions will be more unified.
So, you may not be a female boxer, but you are definitely not a militant!
As a result, Li Yi was almost fooled by Stern, because according to what the other party said, Li Yi was almost certain to win the award.
But is this possible?
The awarding of film awards will also be full of uncertainties.
However, Stern said that the purpose of their public relations is to turn this uncertainty into certainty!
The cowhide is boasted to the sky, but it is not clear whether it is really that powerful.
However, Li Yi had no other choice. Since he had already participated, Li Yi naturally hoped to complete his victory in one battle. After all, if he didn't get it this time, it would be really difficult to get it later.
However, bad news soon came. "Life is Beautiful" had been working on becoming the opening film of the Berlin International Film Festival, but as a result, it failed.
The opening film is a film called "Midnight Confusion" directed by a British female director, Sarah Taylor!
Her movies also have the same characteristic, that is, they are extremely long and extremely large in scale.
However, this is also due to the fact that Europe is still very open in this regard.
In fact, the Berlin International Film Festival is considered good, but the Venice Film Festival is an indulgence.
All in all, "Midnight Confusion" is the kind of movie that ordinary people don't know if it's art or not. Anyway, it's true that they are red in the face and out of breath.
