Chapter 368

In the twinkling of an eye, it's two o'clock in the middle of the night. For a small town like Park City, it should be a quiet time. But during the Sundance Film Festival, the noise at midnight is one of the wonders of the festival. It's not only a party for fans, but also a carnival for movies.

Eli raised his head and looked at the bustling crowd around him. He didn't know when more and more people gathered around him. Gradually, thirty or forty people surrounded him with benches as the center, talking and expressing their opinions. His energetic appearance didn't look tired.

It's hard to imagine that these people are all left behind because of the movie "crazy love". They are scrambling to participate in the discussion, just for such a small pattern of love movie. It's really incredible.

"Crazy love" is not a pleasant movie. Strictly speaking, it is even more unpleasant than "buried alive".

At least, as a thriller and suspense movie, "buried alive" can make people enjoy the excitement and pleasure brought by the type of movie, but "crazy love" can't do it. The bitter emotion and the reality of the dilemma are suffocated in the chest and can't breathe.

However, after watching the film, the turbulent thoughts are always lingering. People can't help asking questions, discussing, arguing, venting and protesting.

This is true of every audience in sight. They are so pure and crazy about movies. Because of the film and happy, but also because of the film and sad. On the one hand, they gnashed their teeth at "crazy love", hated it deeply, and even yelled at it, but on the other hand, they were reluctant to give up and put it down. Standing shivering in the cold wind, they did not want to go back to sleep.

This is a movie that people can't like but can't extricate themselves from.

"No, no, I think Langley hall is better than Ryan Gosling! Most of Ryan's performances rely on the influence of light and color, and what he gives the role is limited in the framework of the director; But lanli's performance has more depth, more own things, and more importantly, his interpretation of the story is quite different! "

"I think so, too. I've been thinking about how to describe it. Now I finally get it! "

"There's a story in his eyes!"

"Yes, that's it! His eyes really have endless stories! I don't know how he did it. He's only 21 years old, but he's like 51 years old. The story between his eyes and eyebrows is really wonderful! "

"My favorite lens is the look in the eyes of Jacob and Anna on their first date, God! It's melting, okay? "

"Yes, yes! Did you notice the change in Langley's eyes? That kind of emotional gradual change process, my God, I really want to eat him! Ah, ah

"You should go to see the Pacific War." I mean it. In Episode 9, I really realized what heartbreak is. "

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Unconsciously, the focus of the discussion focused on Lan Li.

Eli thinks it's a very interesting thing. The audience who were gnashing their teeth because of "crazy love" in the first second, and the audience were united because of blue Li in the next second.

Moreover, in the movie "crazy love", both Jacob and Anna are not so pleasant characters, especially Jacob. Standing in the position of female audience, it's easy to repel them. However, lenley easily won the hearts of the audience.

Looking at the arguing audience, Eli suddenly fell in love with the movie "crazy love", not only because it built a bridge between them and made a group of strangers friends; And because it left a unique memory of this snowy night in Park City, after many years, he could never find the passion and enthusiasm of this night again.

"Personally, I think lanli's performance in 'buried alive' is the best. Do you see his eyes?" Eli also joined in the argument. He even had to raise his voice to avoid being drowned in the quarrel.

His throat was still aching, the wind was getting colder and colder, the temperature was falling, and the ache in his muscles was becoming more and more obvious. However, Eli didn't care. Even if he would catch a cold and have a fever tomorrow, he would enjoy it.

This year's Sundance Film Festival ushered in a real climax, "love crazy" has created a record of 12 consecutive tickets sold out in a single cinema. This is the second time that a film has reached such a high level after "treasure" in 2009. What's more amazing is that "treasure" has 12 matinees, and "love crazy" also includes two midnight.

The sales difficulty of matinee and midnight is not the same, even if it is "treasure", the sales of midnight has never been sold.

"Love crazy" 13 consecutive ticket sales record in the third night of the midnight show was broken, the attendance rate of that midnight show was as high as 80%, but it was not able to sell out after all.

However, the record of continuous sales of this popular work is still going on. According to the latest data, "love crazy" has sold out all the tickets for 14 consecutive matinees, and the demand is still in short supply. The momentum of breaking the record does not mean to slow down.

What's more incredible is that the discussion upsurge caused by "crazy love" among the audience has reached an unprecedented height. It seems that everyone has participated in the discussion. Whether they like it or hate it, they rush to express their own opinions. Those who have not seen the film suddenly become out of date.

The audience's enthusiasm was kindled in the middle of the night for three consecutive nights, especially in the third night. Although the attendance rate did not reach 100%, after the show ended, more than half of the audience stayed at the scene and had a long talk all night. It was too long to see the hot scene.

As a resort for independent films, Sundance also has to compromise with the market. If they are complacent and closed to the outside world and just entertain themselves, then those excellent works can only be circulated among the minority, not to mention making profits. Even promotion is impossible. In the long run, those real artists will only become poorer and poorer, Art films will gradually decline.

Therefore, after entering the 21st century, Sundance has opened its doors to Hollywood. Especially after 2006, Hollywood forces represented by Paramount and Weinstein began to settle in Sundance, mining more excellent works and pushing them to the year-end award season, which makes more and more Sundance works come to the international stage and attract more attention, More opportunities for independent filmmakers.

There are gains and losses. Correspondingly, Sundance is more or less tainted with some "fireworks", and the commercialization trend inevitably affects the film festival. The most direct manifestation is that more and more non professional fans, or even tourists who are not fans at all, come here to join in the fun, and the discussion atmosphere in park city begins to become intoxicated.

All night long, he talked about his favorite film works, walked around all the cinemas day and night to watch the works, and there were film debates everywhere... Once upon a time, this was the most proud film atmosphere in Sundance, but now it just stays in the depth of memory.

Back in 1992, they argued endlessly about who was better, who should win the jury award, and who could shine in Hollywood.

But who would have thought that it was another new director who won the jury prize with his debut that year? Alexandre Rockwell, a name that has long been lost in Hollywood history, has not even been heard of by many people.

This time, Sundance once again recreated such a grand occasion. Of course, this is not comparable to 1992, but still let people see the brilliance of Sundance again——

Movies, it's all about movies, it's just about movies. It's just like the work of "crazy love". It's all about love.

Such a grand occasion, once again on the entertainment headlines of major news media, countless eyes have turned to the ice and snow of Park City, in the white snow, the gurgling enthusiasm is like the lava from the volcano, so that the whole town blooms, just like midsummer.

Then, Eli walach, a reporter for the Seattle Post, broke the inside story for the first time: "focus pictures won the North American distribution right of" crazy love "with 5.5 million dollars

After the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation throughout North America. The 5.5 million copyright transaction price, even in Toronto, can be regarded as the upper level. In Sundance in 2011, this is the top price. It is also another work with a copyright transaction price higher than 5 million after "treasure" in 2009, which has caused a lot of bombardment in the industry and numerous follow-up reports have come.

"Harvey was furious that Weinstein pictures lost its North American distribution right of" crazy love. "

"Paramount advantage regret to withdraw from the competition, in next year's award season battle, lose one way first."

"Fox Searchlight shows no interest in 'crazy love': but it's really an interesting work."

"The focus film industry points to the 2011 award season, witnessing the strong rise of lanli hall."

Another "treasure" Love is crazy! From Sundance

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Generally speaking, distribution companies are a little more cautious in Sundance. Unlike Cannes, Toronto and other places, during the film festival, the news of copyright trading is flying all over the sky. Due to the special independent film property of Sundance, distribution companies will wait until after the closing ceremony to see the trend of awards, the media comments and the media comments Take a look at the feedback from the audience market.

But this year, the focus film industry is in front of many competitors. It's better to start first. It's just this move that we can see the determination of the focus film industry.

Of course, if "love crazy" can win the award at the award ceremony, it is natural that the tide will rise; But if you return empty handed, the focus of the film industry this deal seems to be too hasty.

The question is, can focus film's gambling preemptive behavior be worth the ticket price?