Although the Three Continents Film Festival held in Nantes does not attract the attention of the international media as much as the Cannes Film Festival, as a springboard for a young director from Asia, Africa and Latin America to enter the mainstream film circles in Europe and the United States, the Three Continents Film Festival in Nantes still attracts many professional

The presence of the media. The opening film of this year's Three Continents Film Festival is "Day and Night" by Chinese director Wang Chao, and if nothing else happens, this film will also be the "Golden Hot Air Balloon Award" of this film festival.

winner.

It's just that Lin Junxiu is not that fond of this director and his work. First of all, Wang Chao won the "Fei Bi" award at the Chicago International Film Festival with "Anyang Baby" before this "Day and Night".

He won the Western International Film Critics Award" and was also selected for the "Directors' Fortnight" section of the Cannes Film Festival, so he is not considered a new director in any case. So Lin Junxiu feels that he has raised a big boy to come to Xinshou Village to show off his power.

Quite unreasonable.

Secondly, among Wang Chao's several films, "Days and Nights" is the ugliest to watch. Not only is the plot as thin as Qingshui, but the concept is also very bizarre. To put it simply, "Days and Nights" is the movie

It tells the story of the male protagonist first cheating on his master, and then his master’s son. The male protagonist had an affair with his master’s wife, and then the master died unexpectedly, which made the male protagonist feel bad. After the male protagonist became rich,

He met a woman who moved his heart in a custom shop. After a while, Chunfeng introduced her to his master's son, who was also the son of his ex-mistress. He thought that this could redeem him and make his master forgive him underground. In short

After Lin Junxiu watched this movie in his previous life, he felt that his outlook on life had been hit by an inhumane nuclear explosion.

Of course, this movie also gave a very detailed portrayal of some of the dark and ugly aspects that occurred in coal mines during the restructuring period, highlighting the generally recognized ignorance and cruelty of coal mines. Naturally, it was well received by European and American film critics. In fact, Lin

Junxiu is not against movies showing reality. Directors certainly have the right to decide what works they will shoot. But the things behind the works make Junxiu Lin feel a little weird.

Why would any film capital invest in a movie that is destined to not be released in the country where it was shot? Would Disney invest in a movie that is destined to not be released in the United States? So why would there be such capital to invest in Wang Chao? After all, this movie

There is a famous French film company on the introduction of the film. In addition, after the film is shot, international distribution, awards and reporter interviews are almost one-stop services. Not to mention that it is free of charge, Lin Junxiu in order to promote his own

"Always 3-chome Sunset" spent a lot of public relations money, but how can these directors complete these things so smoothly and simply? So, everyone can take a closer look. Is there no trace of manipulation behind it?

"Jun Lin, the demand for "Day and Night" seems to be very high." Three days after the opening of the film festival, after most of the participating films were released, Lin Junxiu commissioned a public relations company to conduct a small poll.

.The results of this poll were very unfavorable to Lin Junxiu, which made Koishi Takaki a little worried. "Our movie did not enter the top five in the popularity ranking. It is too dangerous!"

"Europeans, especially the French, like to watch so-called 'cruel movies.' Our movies are too warm, and it is difficult to get their approval. Let the public relations company spend more time, which is nothing more than spending more money to let them

Invite a few influential film critics to review our movie. By the way, Le Figaro and Cahiers du Cinéma should step up their public relations." Lin Junxiu ordered. "As for "Day by Day"

"Ye Ye", I wonder if I am going to cause them some trouble." Lin Junxiu remembered that he checked the investors of this movie in later generations. It was nominally a Chinese movie, but the investment capital basically came from France.

In addition to one Chinese company, the three joint investment companies of the entire film are French Art Film Company and Rosen Film Company from France. In addition, during the release stage of the film, three continental film festivals

The official foundation "Southern Film Foundation" and the National Film and Animation Video Center run by the French government have participated in the assistance. It can be said that "Days and Nights" is the official son at this Nantes Film Festival, so this film

If the movie doesn't win an award in the end, it will really fail everyone's expectations.

"You ask the people from the public relations company to find the market research company in France and say that we want to check the details of the movie "Day and Night". What we mainly want is the background of the investment company for this movie, but

Don’t leak this situation to the outside world." Lin Junxiu ordered.

Since everyone is playing so dirty, don't blame yourself for setting the stage. You play by the rules honestly, but you send me a son from the sky. Rules are only rules if everyone follows them. If you don't follow them first

, then don’t blame the people behind you for imitating him. Thinking of this, the trace of guilt that originally surged in Lin Junxiu’s heart disappeared.

It has to be said that the power of money is indeed a kind of superpower, otherwise it would be difficult to set up the master in the DC world. Under Lin Junxiu's money offensive, the French investigation company quickly reported the investment status of "Day and Night"

After a thorough investigation, Lin Junxiu suddenly felt a pang of pain when he looked at the information he had spent a lot of euros to obtain. When he thought that this information would be available for free on IMDb in a while, Lin Junxiu felt a pang of pain. However, this information also confirmed

According to Lin Junxiu's speculation, apart from the director himself, all the investors in this film have a close relationship with the French government or the organizer of the Nantes Film Festival.

As Lin Junxiu described it, this film is really the "son" of this Nantes Film Festival. Lin Junxiu shook his head, and then ordered the public relations company to find the local tabloid in Nantes and break the news. Originally, this movie

The circulation and credibility of some local tabloids in Nantes are limited, but people all over the world love "conspiracy theories", so the theory that "Days and Nights" is the son of the organizer of the film festival has made a lot of noise. In several copies

Thanks to the joint hype of tabloids, it soon attracted the attention of major newspapers in Nantes and even Brittany, and finally appeared in a national major newspaper in France.

When newspapers such as "Le Figaro", "Le Monde" and "Le Soir Française" began to report, the organizers of the Nantes Three Continents Film Festival finally couldn't sit still and began to explain. Unfortunately, the relationship between the two is a certainty.

Zi’s explanation was so clear that no matter how he explained it, it was considered as sophistry by readers, causing the Nantes Film Festival’s credibility to begin to collapse.

While the Nantes Film Festival was busy, the reputation of the movie "Always 3-chome Sunset" began to slowly rise. With the recommendations and interpretations of several film critics, many viewers chose to watch this movie again. Although

The background of this film is very far away from France, but the feelings in it are common.

Especially when the male protagonist takes care of a boy of unknown origin for the woman he loves, the romantic Frenchman feels that he has been stabbed. To love someone is to devote yourself to her at all costs, even to help her take care of her.

Children are not spared either. In France, where cuckold culture is prevalent, everyone expresses that they can understand the male protagonist. Under this misunderstanding, the popularity of "Always 3-chome Sunset" is also increasing.

Although the film festival organizers have not yet explained how to deal with the film "Days and Nights", Lin Junxiu knows that the film's popularity has basically come to an end. Unlike the three major film festivals such as Cannes, the Nantes Three Continents Film Festival only organizes

There is no committee but no jury, so the "Golden Hot Air Balloon Award" is jointly selected by film critics and movie fans who participate in the film festival.

The Nantes Film Festival has always been proud of this, claiming that its film festival is a "people's film festival" (the French have the strongest left-wing ideas in Europe). Therefore, Lin Junxiu dared to bet that the Nantes Film Festival Organizing Committee would not

I hope that if "Days and Nights" loses, they will not dare to change the voting results, otherwise it will shake the foundation of the Nantes Film Festival. If the Nantes Film Festival dares to dig its own grave, there will be other film festivals to help cover the ground.

"This is the market survey data of the recent period. Our movie's current public opinion support is on the rise." The senior account manager of the public relations company showed off the data in front of Lin Junxiu. "Mr. Lin, don't you think we

Should I be rewarded?”

Lin Junxiu looked at the account manager with an idiotic expression and asked: "Mr. Poole, didn't you find a problem that surprised us all? Your marketing strategy has been proven to be unworkable.

, and the follow-up plans seem to be all provided by me, right? Even the operation methods of digging out the shady stories of the opponent's movies and seeking media exposure were all suggested by me, right? In the entire promotion process, you just acted as a passable executive.

Mr. Poole, if we can win a trophy at the Nantes Film Festival this time, then I will still pay the bonus stipulated in the contract; but I think you should not think too much about the excess. And in Stockholm Film Festival

Before the holiday, if I can't see a new and effective marketing strategy, then I have to choose to find other public relations companies to cooperate. Mr. Poole, if I have money, I can find many people to replace yours."

Poole's face is indeed a little ugly. As an account manager of a Western public relations company, he does look down on clients from the East. Even Japanese clients are nothing more than leeks harvested by Western capital in Poole's eyes, and everything must be abided by.

Western rules. Therefore, they did not pay special attention to the task entrusted by Lin Junxiu, otherwise they would have avoided the Nantes Film Festival when making plans. Their own sons have already left the competition, and people like us who have no background

What else is there to do with the work?

As a result, people just used the previous plan and started collecting money, and they repeatedly guaranteed that their plan was excellent. Anyway, they would just shirk it to "freedom" and "democracy". After all, no one can control the tastes of film critics and audiences.

.But what is the final result? Others are more professional than themselves and tell them directly that the so-called public opinion and public opinion can also be manipulated under the will of capital.

"By the way, Mr. Poole, between the Nantes Film Festival and the Stockholm Film Festival, there is the Cannes Film Festival. I heard that films that attract attention at the Nantes Film Festival have the opportunity to be shortlisted for the 'Un Certain Regard' section at the Cannes Film Festival.

"So, please don't disappoint me, okay?" Lin Junxiu said with a smile, "In addition, Directors' Fortnight and International Film Critics Week also asked Mr. Poole."

"I will communicate with the company and do my best!" Poole now felt like he was sweating profusely.

"I think your company will be very interested. After all, your company should know very well that I am not only the major shareholder of the blog network, but I am also an investor in MySpace." Lin Junxiu smiled and introduced the two major social media companies in his hands.

Sharp tool. "In the years to come, your company and I will have many areas of cooperation, so please be sure to make our friendship last forever!"

Poole didn't say anything else at this time. Blog.com and MySpace are both public relations channels that his company really wants to open up. Unexpectedly, the bosses behind these two websites are sitting in front of him. Now Poole doesn't want to talk about how much nobler he is than you yellow people.

, he only knew that if he blocked the company's cooperation with these two websites, then his boss would definitely be willing to stuff himself into a cement pillar and throw him under the Golden Gate Bridge, just so that the man in front of him could calm down his anger towards the company.
Chapter completed!