Chapter 170

Staying in the peak mansion in Cannes, Simon has gradually sorted out the shooting idea of Batman these days.

In the preliminary plan, first of all, we will produce the "Batman" single film trilogy, the name of which will follow Nolan's "Batman: the moment of war", "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight". However, in terms of content, Simon intends to adopt a completely different plot setting, through the appropriate interposition with the Superman series, to pave the way for the whole DC movie universe.

The opening of Batman's first film is very important if we want to realize the film universe plan.

Simon actually has a shortcut to success, which is to make the clown the villain of the first song. As Batman's biggest enemy, but also the most popular villain in Batman Series, in the original time and space, Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan's two major versions of Batman Series's top works all take the clown as the anti-1. The clown, Batman's lifelong enemy, has an irreplaceable popularity and status in both comic and reality.

However, after much deliberation, Simon gave up the idea.

To use the clown, the first song must have a matching atmospheric pattern. The starting point of the story is too high, the sequel is difficult to satisfy the audience's appetite, and repeatedly saving Gotham and saving the world is also easy to cause aesthetic fatigue. Therefore, Simon intends to put the clown as the ultimate boss of the trilogy in the final episode.

As for the beginning, Simon doesn't intend to spend too much time on Bruce Wayne's transformation into Batman, but starts from Batman's running in with the whole city after he begins to fight for justice.

A volunteer police officer suddenly appeared in the city of crime. The public, the media, the government, the criminals and other sectors responded and responded. At the same time, these branches will be surrounded by a high conceptual model of the story line of the victory of good over evil. The villain appears, Batman defeats the villain and begins to gain the recognition of the city. The story ends.

Simon is hiding in Cannes to write the script of Batman. In North America, this year's film summer season officially opened in May.

On May 13, paramount released the seventh sequel of the classic horror film series Friday the 13th, which made Simon envious of the scale of 1796 screen paintings, earning $9.8 million in the first week. Although the box office did not meet the expectations of the producers, paramount recovered most of the production and publicity budget in the first week, compared with the ultra-low production cost of only $2.8 million.

Besides Friday the 13th, the other two independent producers' new films did not set off any waves. When Harry meets Sally ranked second, which is also the official box office champion of next week after eight weeks of mass production of when Harry meets Sally.

In the 10th week of release, "when Harry meets Sally" received another $6.13 million, with a total box office of $90.12 million, and continued to march towards the billion yuan mark without any suspense.

Although Hollywood has always admired Denise pictures for making its first box office movie in 1988, Simon is not satisfied with the result. Paramount can arrange nearly 1800 screens for a horror film with a production cost of only 2.8 million US dollars. During the whole release process of when Harry meets Sally, the number of screens failed to exceed 1500. In the first few weeks of the golden box office harvest, the number of screens of the film was just over 1000, which made Simon strongly feel that Hollywood's traditional forces have deep roots in the latecomers Tightily watch out for and hold back.

If "when Harry meets Sally" can get enough screen resources, the box office of the film will certainly have exceeded the threshold of 100 million yuan, rather than stuck in the embarrassing figure of 90 million dollars. Although it's not difficult to break through 100 million in the next few years, with the arrival of a series of new summer movies, the release scale and subsequent box office of when Harry meets Sally are bound to shrink rapidly.

Next.

On May 20, the first big production film of the summer program, the chance of the wind and the wind, entered the cinema. This medieval magic film, based on Western fairy tales, was jointly produced by MGM and Lucas pictures, using the most advanced special effects technology of a large number of industrial light and magic Studios.

However, the 35 million dollar blockbuster film has a poor reputation. Variety magazine rated it as "a medieval version of star wars with a lot of myths and fables. The story is old-fashioned and lacks innovation.".

MGM, the distributor of the film, has only arranged 1024 opening screens for "the chance of the wind and the cloud", which is not as good as "Friday the 13th 7", not to mention "Crocodile Dundee 2" and "the first drop of blood 3", which will be released soon. According to the public data of the distributor, the number of opening screens of these two heavyweight new films is expected to reach 2800 and 2500 respectively, This scale once again shows the complete arrival of the era of full distribution.

Unfortunately, as one of the most popular new films in this summer program, "vulgar novel" is expected to have only 1500 screens, and Simon has no choice, because this is the limit that Orion film can use.

Moreover, the film review reputation of vulgar novel has been constantly changing since its premiere in Cannes, especially in North America. Many well-known critics have criticized the film's excessive violence and Simon's plagiarism of various classic films.The reason for this situation is obvious, too many people do not want to see vulgar novel too successful.

Simon had no way to find out who was in the way.

The release date of vulgar novel is June 3. In the previous week, Paramount Pictures' "Crocodile Dundee 2" and Columbia Pictures' "Rambo 3" produced by Samsung brand were shown. In the same period, fox's "flying over the future" and Warner's "funny farm" were shown. In the following week, Disney's "four daughters and two mothers" and Paramount's "psychic" were shown "Haunted by ghosts 3" by MGM.

In the past three weeks, only new films were released, and six of the seven major film companies came together. No matter how popular the schedule is, there is a certain amount of box office in a single week. If you score more, others will be less.

In this case, "vulgar novel" happens to be the most eye-catching one among a lot of new films. Even Simon himself, if possible, will not hesitate to attack his competitors.

Aware of this situation, Simon is not so optimistic about the award results of this film festival. Whether Simon himself or Orion, it's obvious that they can't compete with the seven major Hollywood stars in terms of network resources. Others may just make a phone call, and there may be no awards.

In this way, it was not until May 22, the day before the closing ceremony of the film festival, that the organizer sent an application to the winning crew. Simon was completely relieved until he was really informed by the organizer.

May 23, Monday.

On the last day of the festival, the main activity of the day is the re screening of all the nominated films in the main competition units. At the same time, the detained crew information also appeared in Cannes local media.

Among the 21 main competition unit films, the crew of five films have been retained, namely Simon's vulgar novel, Clint Eastwood's rookie Park, kieselowski's short killing film, Fernando Solanas's south and Chris Mengers's isolated world.

Among the five films, the most popular one is kiyerslovsky's short killing film. Before that, the film has won the main competition unit of the fabissey award, which is a completely independent award from the International Film Critics Association, similar to a wind vane.

As for vulgar novel, among the six awards of Palme d'Or, jury award, jury award, best actor, best actress and best director, it is generally believed that Palme d'Or is unlikely to win the performance award, and the jury is unlikely to give the best director to Simon, a young man just 20 years old.

Then, the final result is likely to be the jury award or the jury award.

It's near seven o'clock in the afternoon.

Outside the film Palace on the seashore of Cannes, the closing ceremony is much colder than the brilliant star of the opening ceremony.

The crew of vulgar fiction received a notice of detention yesterday, and John Travolta, Samuel Jackson and Nicole Kidman, who had left Cannes, flew over from the United States again. Others such as Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Madonna and Sean pan did not attend the closing ceremony for various reasons.

In a word, this basic purpose is still for the journey of film promotion. Orion will definitely bear the expenses. Simon's private plane bill will also be sent to Orion in the future. Of course, Orion can't afford the mountain top mansion in lecane.

Simon and his party arrived outside the film palace. The red carpet ceremony of the closing ceremony was drawing to an end. This time, they quickly crossed the media channel and entered the rubiel Hall of the film palace.

Perhaps it is the special arrangement of the organizers that the seats of the crew of "vulgar novel" are adjacent to the crew of "fortune fair". This special effects film dominated by Lucas pictures will be the closing film of this film festival.

However, Simon didn't see George Lucas. Only Lang Howard, the director of chance, Fang Kimer and Joanne Willie attended the ceremony.

After last Friday's opening, due to the word-of-mouth failure, "Fengyun Jihui" only got $8.3 million box office in the first three days of the weekend, far lower than the producer's expectation. The film can only expect the subsequent distribution channels to recover the expensive production and publicity costs.

Simon has always been concerned about "the chance of the wind and the cloud". Such a film using the most advanced special effects technology of this era can provide him with a lot of reference for making "Batman".

What's more, Ron Howard, a commercial director who is one grade lower than Spielberg but with a wide variety, is also of great interest to Simon. They took advantage of the short leisure time before the ceremony and exchanged business cards.

Seven o'clock in the evening.

The award ceremony of the closing ceremony of the 41st Cannes Film Festival officially began.

The host is still Matilda may of the opening ceremony, and the atmosphere of the award ceremony is as meticulous as that of the opening ceremony.

After Matilda May's emotional speech, the guests came on stage and first presented the "technology award". Yes, the name of the award is "technical grand prize", which is one of the few technology awards in Cannes Film Festival.This kind of marginal technology award has no result envelope and trophy, but only one certificate. Simon's heart can't help mentioning something while waiting for the actress named Jane Birkin on the stage to announce the result.

If vulgar novel gets such an award, it's a bit of a joke. This kind of technology award is actually a consolation award. Tell the creator in advance that there will be nothing wrong with you next.

Fortunately.

Jane Birkin announced the result very soon. Clint Eastwood's rookie Park was lucky to win the award, which many people expected. Looking at the old cowboy forced to smile and walk onto the stage, Simon clapped hands with everyone.

After presenting several awards such as golden camera and best short film, after a song and dance performance, Matilda may began to introduce the judges of the main competition unit to the stage. Many people in the hall also raised their spirits, because the next is the most important six awards of the main competition unit.

The judges sat down on the stage, and the first one to announce was best actress. The result of the best actress award was a rare "three yellow eggs", which was shared by the three heroines in Chris Mengers' isolated world.

The best actor award goes to Forrest Whitaker, the black star in rookie Park, who Simon remembers is one of the few black Oscar winners. However, Forrest Whitaker's sense of existence in Hollywood has not been strong. Although his acting skills are excellent, he can only play some minor supporting roles in most cases.

Cannes organizers obviously did not have the idea of arranging the awards to control the rhythm. After the award of best actor and actress, it was the best director. After the Argentine director Fernando Solanas won the award with "the South", only the three most critical awards, the Palme d'Or, the jury awards and the jury awards, remained at the ceremony.

Among the five retained works in the main competition unit, "rookie Parker" and "the South" have been awarded by pass, and the last three awards are destined to be attributed only to "vulgar novel", "short killing film" and "isolated world".

The guest of the jury award is Louis Mahler, a famous French director.

Looking at the old man on the stage slowly introducing the awards, Simon felt a small hand stretched out and pressed on the back of his hand, so he grabbed the woman's small hand and shook it. He asked Janet next to him in a low voice, "isn't that it?"

Janet blinked suspiciously, then shook her head. "I don't know. Natasha didn't tell me."

The three films have been famous for a long time in terms of seniority. Short film of murder and isolated world are excellent enough. Vulgar novel falls to the last Jury Award, which is totally reasonable.

On the stage, Louis Mahler finally opened the envelope, looked down at it, and read out the result in people's expectant eyes: "the winner of the jury award is" short film of murder ". Congratulations!"

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

From the beginning, kiyerslovsky's "short killing film" has always been the most popular work of the Cannes Film Festival. The film not only won the highest media score of 4.6, but also won the main competition unit fabissey award which can be called the weathervane.

Now.

Cannes awarded the last jury award of the three major awards to "short film of killing", and kieslovsky was obviously not destined for the final golden palm.

As for "the segregated world", this film about the past of the apartheid struggle in South Africa has been able to break through to the present, but it still has the aura of absolute political correctness.

Although the film director Chris Mengers is the best cinematographer of the two Oscars, "the isolated world" is only his first film. Apart from the intention, this film can not be compared with "vulgar novel" in other aspects.

However.

Cannes Film Festival is just the least conceptive compared with Berlin and Venice.

After kyleslovsky delivered her acceptance speech, French Caesar Award actress Sandrina bernel stepped on the stage to present the jury award. When everyone in the rubiel hall heard the name of "isolated world", there was no suspense about the ending.

Chris Mengers was still on the stage, and Simon had already noticed some figures around the hall quietly leaving their seats and rushing out.

By Simon's side, Janet's face had turned red, and the other faces also had a clear look of joy. After all, to be able to leave their mark in a golden palm film of Cannes Film Festival is absolutely helpful for their future career.

Even John Travolta, the first-line male star who used to be popular with grease, can finally get rid of his awkward position as a young actor after ten years of fame. The title of "dancing king" is no longer suitable for an actor who is already 34 years old and approaching middle age.

The last moment came.

The awarding guests are ITO Scola and Natasha Kinski, the chairman of the jury.The double yellow egg incident, which worried Simon a little, didn't happen. After two guests exchanged greetings, ITO Scola opened the envelope, and Natasha Kinski read out the result that had no suspense: "the winner of the Golden Palm Award is vulgar novel."

Even though this result was expected, there was a very short but obvious intermission at the scene.

Then.

Warm applause broke out.

Previous life can only be an unknown spectator, watching the glory of others, others cheering. At this time, feeling the applause around, even if the mood of two generations, the mind has too many people's experience, Simon's body can not help but overflow some excitement.

He got up and hugged Janet for a moment, and then hugged and shook hands with Travolta and others, as well as with the creators of the chance of the wind and the cloud. Simon quickly stepped onto the stage in the hall amid the endless applause.

He reached out to ITO Scola, gave a soft thank-you, and Simon saw Natasha Kinski next to him with open arms, so he hugged the woman cooperatively.

However.

Natasha Kinsky, however, took the opportunity of the gift to Simon's ear and said, "lend me the house."

Simon is also very simple, smiling and whispered back: "no borrowing."

Natasha Kinsky hugged Simon a little and continued to put her face on the other side: "do you want to see me destroy myself in public?"

Simon really wanted to see it, but considering the consequences of this woman's madness, he resolutely surrendered: "borrow it."

Natasha Kinsky let go of Simon with a satisfied snort. The little action between the two did not arouse the suspicion of others. Even if they noticed it, they basically thought Natasha Kinsky was congratulating Simon.

After being entangled by Natasha Kinsky for a while, Simon comes to the microphone and ponders for a moment. He begins to improvise his acceptance speech.