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"...a rich Chinese local style, excellent colors and images, an amazing performance by a great lead singer, a simple, strong but beautiful Chinese woman, a romanticism and realism intertwined with each other. Great achievement! It's a movie you can't miss!"

-- "Rheinische Zeitung"

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

--The Herald

"...Red, green, yellow, the director used incomparably strong colors that are comparable to Van Gogh's masterpieces, showing us his excellent color aesthetics! This is a great masterpiece! He will be recorded in China The history of film will also be included in the history of the Berlin Film Festival!"

-- "Review Morning News"

"...Amazing use of color, excellent lens aesthetics, a story of resistance to aggression in the 1930s and 1940s in rural eastern China, a group of great people, an outstanding film! China Li's acting ability, and his The director's ability is equally outstanding! Miss Qin Jingjing's performance is also amazing!"

-- "Deutsche Zeitung"

"It's such a perfect movie that I'm speechless! It's great!"

- "Art Observation"

"...I am amazed by Li's directing ability! 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.

The time is afternoon.

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

Most of them are German newspapers, and Li Qian basically can't understand anything.

Just because "Red Sorghum" became a big hit in Berlin for a while, the Chinese Embassy in Germany actually sent someone to contact him and asked if he needed any help. Fu Xuelong, who answered the phone at that time, was sloppy and said that we couldn't understand the local language. German newspaper.

Then, a girl who seemed to be about twenty-four or five years old appeared at the hotel where the crew of "Red Sorghum" was staying an hour later, along 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. You can see how popular "Red Sorghum" is in Berlin and Germany right now by looking at the attitude of the embassy in Germany.

In addition, considering that Li Qian has contributed to the World Cup, added glory to China's image on a global scale, and is said to be someone who has been praised internally by high-level officials, he brought the film to the Berlin Film Festival. , and the work has also won unanimous praise from the local film critics, so of course, the embassy in Germany is also happy to add the icing on the cake.

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

However, when he left, Li Qian picked up the German newspapers one by one, but he was more or less unable to return to his senses - the direction and speed of development of things were really beyond his expectations.

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

So far, in the two-and-a-half-day screening period, except for the first two shows, the rest of the shows are full, and the audience waiting to buy tickets has lined up in front of the movie theater—but even if they queued, they were unwilling to leave!

Again, this is a Chinese movie!

And it is also a Chinese local style movie!

It has Chinese dialogues and Chinese narration throughout, and only German translation is given at the bottom of the screen - to be honest, in Li Qian's opinion, he feels that such a movie is very difficult for the vast majority of ordinary German audiences to watch. The feeling is probably similar to the feeling of watching a Chinese-subtitled Turkish country story movie by a Chinese in another time and space.

But I don’t know if this group of audiences 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 film the most in Europe and even the world. In short, except for film critics The professional comments given by people are almost one-sided applause. It is said that even the vast majority of comments on the Internet in Germany are completely applauded!

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

Originally, he didn't report any hope, but at this time, he couldn't control his heart, and there was such a small flame, and it came up all of a sudden!

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

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In the afternoon of German time, John Days returned to the hotel from outside, and as soon as 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 said they were very optimistic about this movie. 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 the Czech Republic at the same time."

Having said this, he proudly said: "The one with the highest price quoted an offer of 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 independent film in the United States. Two million dollars to buy out Germany and the Czech Republic. Release, the price is really not low.

Fu Xuelong, who had known the market in advance, was indeed a little excited, and quickly asked, "You agreed?"

John Days smiled slightly, somewhat arrogantly reserved, um, the iron American profiteer, "I refused!"

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

But then, John Days lost his restraint and arrogance, turned his head and smiled at Li Qian: "Also, although the quotations are different, the four publishers of them have put forward the exact same request!"

"what?"

"They demanded that our film must stop showing and selling tickets immediately after completing the minimum screenings stipulated by the festival!"

"so you……"

"I refused!"

Fu Xuelong rolled his eyes, and Li Qian laughed.

Now, if you sell tickets for screenings at the film festival, you must give some money to the cinema and the film festival officials, but the ratio is very low. The tickets sold are German marks, and the venue is full, so don’t look at only one screening hall, But if you have to do the math, every screening can bring in a net income of two or three thousand Chinese yuan! Taking the current schedule of five screenings a day, more than 10,000 yuan is properly credited in one day!

Of course, for the film festival, money is a trivial matter, and more importantly, the more people who watch it, the more favorable it will be for the film's reputation to spread in Germany and Europe!

The better the word of mouth, the more the film festival officials will pay attention to, this is inevitable!

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

But in turn, the distributors have determined that this is a good movie, a movie that can already make money. For the sake of profit, they don't really want the reputation of this movie to continue to ferment!

Even, if it's a little extreme, maybe they don't want "Red Sorghum" to win!

Strange to say, right? Totally unreasonable!

But in fact, there is an account here!

There are a lot of movies showing a lot, and the reputation is good and continues to spread. The official film festival attaches great importance to it, appreciates it, and finally gives it an award, maybe even a grand prize. Of course, the distribution of the film that has won the grand prize will be much easier. Under normal circumstances, the distribution If the film distributor buys out the film distribution rights and then shows it, the box office will be quite impressive.

But the question is, what is the price of a disappointing film that fails the festival? If you win the grand prize, especially if you win the Golden Bear Award, Silver Bear Award, etc., what is the price?

Especially for the film "Red Sorghum", the word of mouth has already been released. If they can buy it at the bottom, even if they don't win the award, they can still say "This is a regrettable film festival, because Even a masterpiece like "Red Sorghum" didn't win an award" gimmick, otherwise Li Qian would be moved out, etc. There are various means to promote it, the box office may not be really much less, but the buyout money will be less. What a big, big piece!

The balance of the two sides has been calculated. In a comparison, it is very likely that "Red Sorghum" did not win the award, but they made more!

Only this time, what they encountered was not a rookie director with no experience in international distribution, but a Li Qian who didn't take European distribution rights sales revenue seriously, and a man who knew the tricks of international distribution rules. To the clear John Dyce.

Therefore, John Days, who has been authorized, can directly refuse without hesitation and without asking for instructions, rejecting all offers received!

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Also in the afternoon, John Days sat down and chatted for a long time and just left, Liao Liao suddenly called. 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 awarding some of the winners of this festival!

This thing happened suddenly.

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

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

In order to save the film festival and maintain a certain degree of voice over film art, the three major film festivals have become more and more open in the past ten years, especially in the past three or five years, and have paid more and more attention to publicity and momentum. , pull star to help out, platform and so on these aspects that they did not pay much attention to before.

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

Even if you don't participate in the awards, come and make a promotion, the film festival officials are extremely welcome!

As long as there are enough coffee places, as long as you are willing to come, the film festival will be heavily promoted!

Joshua Criss came here this year to promote and canvass the independent film platform invested by his film company, but in fact, when he came, he just shot a shot. , if nothing unexpected, he will still be invited during the closing ceremony!

Whether it is purely watching the ceremony, or responsible for awarding awards, he is the existence that can attract attention and increase the ratings!

But he is a movie star, coming to the Berlin Film Festival can be regarded as a matter of course!

Liao Liao is a singer, and he had almost no connection 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 temporarily——

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

Not to mention, Li Qian also thought so when he received Liao Liao's call!

Does the presenter do it?

Do!

So two days later~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Liao Liao flew over from Los Angeles with his American assistant and bodyguard.

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March 4, at 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 concealing it. Before the closing ceremony, Liao Liao received a notice from the film festival that she and Joshua Chris will be responsible for awarding the Silver Bear Award for this film festival.

The most important awards at 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. Feature films of special achievements and more.

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

Sometimes it might go to best actor, and sometimes it might go to both best actor and best actress, and sometimes it might go to one for best actress and one for best cinematography, and even sometimes, None of the actors and actresses won the award, but one of the judges' favorite screenwriters won the Silver Bear Award.

Everything is possible!

It is enough to have Liao Liao and Joshua Chris present the Silver Bear Award together. It is enough to discuss the status and treatment, but the choices that the Silver Bear Award leaves to the judges are too broad!

Take the movie "Red Sorghum" as an example, the three people from the current crew are all within the scope of possible awards - Li Qian's director, screenwriter, and leading actor, Qin Jingjing's heroine, and Fu Xuelong's photography. The prizes are all Silver Bears!

So, knowing in advance that Liao Liao was going to give out the Silver Bear Award, it left people nowhere to guess!

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Weakly shouted: Can you recommend a ticket?