She raised her head sharply. Lin Chaoyang had already walked far away. The light of the street lamp shone on his head, giving him an indescribable sense of chicness and wisdom.

On the afternoon of the third day and the morning of the fourth day of the Shiner Film Festival, a film that not many people paid attention to before appeared on the pages of the daily review manuscripts of many media at the film festival. It was "The Truman Show"

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The daily review of "Cahiers du Cinema" commented on it this way: Ann Hui's "The Truman Show" brought absurdism back to France.

The review article of "Main Film" wrote: Its unique and extreme story setting is amazing,

This is a film worthy of a Palme d'Or.

The film review of "Sight and Sound" is very distinctive:

A huge photo studio, a false world, everything is carefully designed.

Here, free will is deprived; here, personal privacy disappears; here, ethics and morality are not worth mentioning.

Welcome to Utopia! Welcome to The Truman Show!

Every year at the Cannes Film Festival, there is one word that is mentioned most frequently by the media: program.

The Cannes Film Festival's catalog is called "Screen" and is published the day before the festival opens.

After that, one issue will be released every day, which contains all information about the film festival, behind the scenes, reviews and advertisements.

Of course, the most important thing among them is the film score, which is what all crews, reporters and film critics who participate in the film festival pay attention to.

On the fourth day of the film festival, the program for the third day of this film festival has been released.

In today's "Screen", "The Truman Show" made a big splash and occupied the cover position.

This is not the "Daily Screen" magazine in charge of the event, but Zou Wenhuai's golden and Yuan magic.

The success of yesterday's premiere made Zou Wenhuai see the possibility of "The Truman Show" winning awards. With such a great situation, of course he must build momentum again.

The cover and back cover advertisements in the Cannes catalog are clearly priced, and you can have your face on the cover for $5,000.

Compared with the huge rewards after the film wins awards, this small amount of money is nothing.

In addition to being on the cover, "The Truman Show" also exceeded many people's expectations in terms of the most important venue ratings.

3.6 points!

This is the highest score so far for the opening of the film festival.

Before "The Truman Show", the film with the highest score from the show was Roland Joffe's "In War", with a score of 3.5.

The film festival's program scores are determined by a small group called the program jury, which is composed of film critics from major media.

These include well-known media such as Cahiers du Cinema, Feature Film, Daily Mail, Sight & Sound, and Variety.

The scoring is divided into "×" and five grades from one to four stars.

, "×" means no points, which means that the maximum score for the venue is 4 points.

The media jury gave "The Truman Show" a score of 3.6, which shows that they are optimistic about the film.

In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that the proposition of "The Truman Show" itself is related to news dissemination and personal privacy. It can be said that it scratched the itch of these media.

With this score, "The Truman Show" has been successfully promoted to one of the strong contenders for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival in the minds of many filmmakers.

Xu Anhua, Xu Guanwen and others were extremely happy when they saw this score. They thought the same as those filmmakers. Although the score does not mean that they will definitely win an award, it is definitely proportional to the probability of winning.

But Lin Chaoyang was not happy when he saw this rating.

In his mind, it is not a good thing to have high ratings in the Cannes Film Festival. Over the years, there are many works that have received high ratings from the award media but failed to win the awards.

Of course, this phenomenon is not completely absolute.

In any case, in less than a day, many heavyweight media participating in the film festival reported and commented on "The Truman Show", which immediately caused a wave of public opinion at the Cannes Film Festival.

"The Truman Show" was like a whirlwind blowing over the small town of Cannes. It not only firmly locked the attention of many media, film critics and filmmakers, but also successfully swept the attention of many movie fans.

It only took one day to complete the transformation from obscurity to high-profile, and became the biggest dark horse at this film festival.

As "The Truman Show" becomes more and more famous and influential at film festivals, every screening of "The Truman Show" will attract many media reporters, film critics, film investors, and film producers, and the attendance rate is high.

No less.

At the same time, audiences began to appear at the entrance of the Debussy Cinema holding placards "asking for tickets."

The screenings of films in the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival are all arranged by the organizing committee. There are not many screenings, and you must have an invitation letter, a work permit or a ticket issued by the organizing committee to enter the screening.

Every year, the Cannes Film Festival attracts thousands of movie fans from all over the world. Officials will release some tickets to these fans, but tickets for many popular movies are not so easy to get, and sometimes they are even hard to find.

Therefore, during the film festival, there will be a group of audiences holding "Ticket Asking" signs in front of various theaters in Cannes that screen popular movies.

After several days of fermentation, "The Truman Show" has become one of the most popular movies at the film festival.

There are many "votes seekers", and many of them have even written down their prices.

But because tickets were so scarce, the price on the sign went up from the initial "$5" to "$20."

You must know that in the United States today, a movie ticket only costs 2.3 US dollars. During this period, the ticket price in France was about 20% lower than that in the United States.

Spending $20 on a movie ticket is definitely a huge price.

But even so, movie tickets for "The Truman Show" are still in short supply. The reason is simply that there are too many people who want to see it.

"Mr. Pollack! Mr. Pollack!"

Sidney Pollack, who had just attended a literary adaptation film proposal meeting at the Ambassador Salon, was surrounded by several strange men. Several judges who were traveling with him immediately became nervous.

Sidney Pollack also looked wary and asked: "Gentlemen, is something wrong?"

A leading brown-haired young man opposite said: "Sorry, sir. We have no other intentions. We just want to express our demands."

"What demand?" Sidney Pollack asked.

"You should increase the number of screenings for "The Truman Show" and give out more tickets to fans. There are too many fans who are eager to see this movie."

Sidney Pollack's face relaxed after hearing this, and he said with a smile: "Of course, gentlemen, I am very happy to serve you."

Agreeing to the demands of these enthusiastic fans, Sidney Pollack and his companions were able to leave. On the way back to the hotel, they couldn't help but discuss the current popularity of "The Truman Show."

Now that the film festival has entered its second half, "The Truman Show" has shown unparalleled media enthusiasm and audience love among all the films participating in this film festival.

Even Sidney Pollack, the chairman of the jury, had a soft spot for this movie.

He is an American, and the values ​​of pursuing freedom at all costs as shown in "The Truman Show" are too appealing to Americans.

Although "The Truman Show" expresses and discusses far more than the word "freedom", Sidney Pollack doesn't care. "Freedom" is enough.

The fans' move to surround Sidney Pollack was very effective. On the 9th day of the film festival, the organizing committee temporarily decided to add two screenings to "The Truman Show" and released a large number of videos to amateur movie fans.

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Such a move cheered and encouraged movie fans. Before the movie was screened that day, hundreds of movie fans gathered in front of the Debussy Cinema, as if celebrating a huge victory.

"Hush! Hurry!"

When Xu Guanwen appeared in front of the Debussy Cinema, their cheers became even more deafening. These fans excitedly shouted Xu Guanwen's name loudly, with enthusiastic expressions.

"The Truman Show" continued to be a hit in Cannes for a week, and it also made Xu Guanwen, who was originally unknown at the film festival, a big star. He conquered reporters, film critics and audiences with his wonderful performance in the film.

Standing on the steps in front of the theater, Xu Guanwen waved to the fans like a superstar. Looking at the scene in front of him, he was filled with emotions.

Recalling that ten days ago, he was sitting in the outdoor restaurant of the Carlton Hotel, hesitating whether to take a photo with Robert De Niro.

Now, he has become the most watched star at the Shana Film Festival.

The difference between before and after is really shocking.

Xu Guanwen couldn't help but think of Lin Chaoyang's encouragement to him and the crew in the first two days of the film festival. Before, he thought it might be a kind of blind confidence.

But now it seems that Chaoyang clearly has a winning chance!

Xu Guanwen walked into the Debussy Cinema surrounded by movie fans, which was on the second floor of the Palm Café not far from the Debussy Cinema.

At this time, Lin Chaoyang looked at Xu Guanwen's back, slowly retracted his eyes, and gently put down the coffee in his hand.

"Of course I am happy about the publishing company, Mr. Bourne. But I need to think about it again in terms of royalties."

He said calmly to Julio Byrne, who was sitting opposite.

Julio Byrne frowned and said, "Mr. Lin, the royalties we pay are not low. You should also understand that it is not easy for a novel written by a Chinese writer to be published in Europe."

"Mr. Bourne, who doesn't want to make more money? We writers also need to eat, don't we?"

Lin Chaoyang's frank attitude revealed a confident toughness, and he did not waver in his persistence because of Julio Byrne's words.

Julio Byrne pondered for a while and then said: "Then how much royalties do you want?"

"About 15%."

Julio Byrne shook his head when he heard this number, "Mr. Lin, this is too unrealistic. I think you should also understand -"

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Chaoyang raised his hand and looked at his watch.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Bourne. I have an appointment later. Since we can't reach an agreement, let's do this for now."

Julio Byrne opened his mouth, wanting to retain Lin Chaoyang, but he was afraid that Lin Chaoyang would take this opportunity to open his mouth. In the end, he could only watch Lin Chaoyang get up and leave.

He paid the bill and planned to leave the coffee shop, but when he reached the first floor, he was surprised to find that Lin Chaoyang did not leave the place, but was sitting in a booth on the first floor drinking coffee leisurely.
To be continued...