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It was already two midnight in a blink of an eye. For a small town like Park City, it should have been a quiet moment, but during the Sundance Film Festival, the midnight hustle and bustle is one of the wonders of the film festival, not only It's a party for movie fans, and it's also a movie carnival.

Eli raised his head and looked at the bustling crowd around him. I don't know when the crowd gathered around him. Gradually, 30 or 40 people gathered around the benches and talked loudly. Expressing his own views, that energetic appearance did not seem to be tired at all.

It is hard to imagine that these people all stayed because of the movie "Love Is Crazy", and they are vying to participate in the discussion just for such a small-scale love movie, which is really incredible.

"Love Is Crazy" is not a pleasing movie. Strictly speaking, it is even more unpleasing than "Buried alive".

At least, as a thriller and suspense movie, "Buried alive" can make people watch heartily and enjoy the excitement and pleasure brought by genre movies, but "Love Is Crazy" can't do this, that kind of bitter emotions. Difficulty with reality, held in my chest, unable to breathe.

However, the turbulent thoughts after the end of the movie are still lingering, and people can't help but want to ask questions, discuss, argue, vent, and protest.

Every audience in the line of sight is like this, they are so pure and enthusiastic about the movie. Happy because of the movie, but also sad because of the movie. They gritted their teeth, hated and even yelled at "Love Is Crazy", but on the other side they were reluctant and reluctant to put it down, standing shivering in the cold wind, but they were unwilling to go back to sleep.

This is a movie that makes people unable to like, but also makes people unable to extricate themselves.

"No, no, I think Lanly Hall is much better than Ryan Gosling! Ryan's performances are mostly influenced by light and color, and the things he gives to the role are limited to the director's frame; But Lan Li’s performance has a lot more depth, has more of his own, and more importantly, the story he interprets is completely different!"

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

"There is 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 twenty-one years old, but it's like fifty-one. The story between his eyes The charm is really great!"

"My favorite scene is the look in the eyes of Jacob and Anna on their first date, God! It melts people, okay?"

"Yes, yes! Have you noticed the change in Lan Li's eyes? That kind of emotional gradual process, my God, I really want to eat him! Ah!"

"You should go to see the Pacific War. I mean it, Master's performance in episode ninth, I really understand what is called heartbreak."

...

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

Eli thinks this is a very interesting thing. The audience who were still gritting their teeth because of "Crazy Love" in the last second, the next second they agreed because of Lan Li.

Moreover, in the movie "Love Is Crazy", both Jacob and Anna are not so lovable characters, especially Jacob, standing in the position of a female audience, it is easy to produce rejection, but Lan Li It was easy to win the hearts of the audience.

Seeing the arguing audience in front of him, 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 become friends; but also because it was in Parker. This snowy night in the city left a unique memory. After many years, he could no longer find the passion and enthusiasm of this night.

"Personally, I still think that Lanly's performance in the buried alive is the best. Have you seen his eyes?" Eli joined the argument. He even had to raise his voice to avoid being submerged in a quarrel. Among.

The throat was still sore, the cold wind was getting bitter, the temperature was dropping, and the muscle aches became more and more obvious, but Eli didn't care, even if he would catch a cold and fever after getting up tomorrow, he would enjoy it.

This year’s Sundance Film Festival ushered in a real high dynasty. "Crazy Love" set a record of twelve consecutive tickets sold out for single-room theaters. This is the second time there is a film after the 2009 "Precious". The movie can reach such a high level. What is even more bizarre is that the twelve scenes of "Precious" are all matinee scenes, while the "Crazy Love" also includes two midnight scenes.

The sales difficulty of matinee and midnight are not the same. Even if it is "cherished", midnight sales have never been sold.

The sales record of 13 consecutive tickets for "Crazy Love" was broken at the midnight show on the third night. The attendance rate of the midnight show was as high as 80%, but after all, it was still not sold out.

However, the record of continuous matinee sales for this popular work is still continuing. According to the latest data, "Crazy Love" has sold out all 14 matinee tickets, and the supply is still in short supply, breaking the record. There is no meaning to slow down.

What’s even more incredible is that the discussion boom triggered by "Love Crazy" among the audience has reached an unprecedented height. It seems that everyone has participated in the discussion, whether they like it or hate it, rushing to express their opinions, those People who haven't watched this movie suddenly become out of date.

The midnight show for three consecutive evenings ignited the audience's enthusiasm, especially on the third night, although the attendance rate did not reach 100%, but after the end, more than half of the audience stayed on the scene, talking all night, and the scene was really full of enthusiasm. It's been too long, too long.

As a mecca for independent films, Sundance must also make compromises to the market-if they stay on their own feet, close the country, and just entertain themselves, then those excellent works can only be circulated among the niche, not to mention profit. Now, even promotion is impossible. If things go on like this, those real artists will only become poorer and poorer, and art films will gradually decline.

Therefore, after entering the 21st century, Sundance opened its doors to Hollywood, especially after 2006, Hollywood forces represented by Paramount and Weinstein Pictures began to station in Sundance to dig out more outstanding things. The works are pushed to the year-end awards season, which makes more and more Sundance works on the international stage, attracting more attention, and winning more opportunities for independent filmmakers.

If there is gain, there must be loss. Correspondingly, Sundance is more or less tainted with some "fireworks", and the commercialization trend still inevitably affects the film festival. The most direct manifestation is that more and more non-professional movie fans, or even tourists who are not movie fans at all, come here to join in the fun, and the discussion atmosphere in Park City has begun to become intoxicated.

All night long discussing their favorite movie works, wandering around in various theaters day and night to watch works, ubiquitous movie disputes... Once upon a time, this was the movie atmosphere Sundance was most proud of, but now Just stay in the depths of memory.

Back in 1992, they were arguing endlessly about Quentin Tarantino, Greg Araki Gregg Araki, Allison Anders Allison-anders who came to Park City with their debut novels. Who on earth? Even better, who should win the jury award and who can shine in Hollywood?

But who would have thought that that year was another rookie director who won the jury award that year with his debut? Alexander-Rockwell alexandre-rockwell, a name that has long been obliterated in the history of Hollywood, and even now not many people have heard of his existence.

This time, Sundance once again reproduced such a grand occasion. Of course, this is not comparable to 1992, but it still allows people to revisit the glory of Sundance——

Movies, all this is about movies, and it's just about movies. It's like "Love Is Crazy", everything is only about love.

Such a grand occasion once again made the headlines of the entertainment pages of major news media. Countless eyes have been cast on the icy and snowy Park City. In the snow, the gurgling enthusiasm is like lava erupted from a volcano. The small town is full of light, just like midsummer.

Immediately afterwards, the "Seattle Post" reporter Eli Wallach broke the inside story for the first time: "Focus Pictures has won the crazy North American distribution rights for US$5.5 million!"

After the news came out ~www.novelhall.com~ immediately caused a sensation throughout North America. The copyright transaction price of 5.5 million yuan, even in Toronto, can be regarded as an upstream level, and in Sundance, the 2011 Sundance, this is the top price, and it is another after the 2009 "Treasure". The publication of works with a copyright transaction price of more than 5 million has set off a bombardment in the industry, and countless follow-up reports have been coming.

"Weinstein Pictures lost love and went crazy with North American distribution rights, and Harvey was furious."

"Paramount Advantage regrets to withdraw from the competition and will lose first in the competition for the awards season next year."

"Fox Searchlight said he was not interested in being crazy about love: but it was indeed an interesting work."

"Focus Pictures pointed to the 2011 awards season and witnessed the strong rise of Lanly Hall."

"Another cherished one? Love madly emerged from Sundance!"

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Generally speaking, distribution companies will be a little more cautious in their actions in Sundance. Unlike in Cannes, Toronto, etc., during the film festival, news of copyright transactions will fly all over the sky. Due to Sundance’s special independent film attributes, The issuing company will wait until after the closing ceremony to take a look at the trend of the awards, the comments from the media, and the feedback from the audience market.

But this year, Focus Films has rushed in front of a group of competitors. It is the first to start and win "Love Crazy" in one go. Just this one action can see Focus Films' determination.

Of course, if "Crazy Love" can win awards at the awards ceremony, the tide will naturally rise; but if you return empty-handed, the Focus Pictures deal will appear to be too haste.

The question is whether this gambling-style preemptive behavior by Focus Pictures can be worth the fare? ()

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