The Best Director

Park City, Utah, this small mountain town famous for alpine skiing has become extremely lively in recent days. The annual Sundance Film Festival has attracted a large number of tourists. This town is now more attractive than Hollywood Note that you can see directors, actors, production company personnel, journalists, and movie fans all along the street.

Many of them are already well-known stars, from Quentin and Lentino's "Pulp Fiction" to turn Bruce Willis and John Travolta, and Uma Thurman In the beginning, participating in the performance of independent films became a cool thing, and many stars began to join in regardless of pay, hoping to bet on a good film to spark a second spring, or to successfully transform and break through.

Of course, there are more unknown newcomers on the street. They bring their works to the exhibition, expecting opportunities and appreciation.

Last night, the 16th Sundance Film Festival officially opened. This year, the organizer, the Sundance Institute, also received numerous requests for participating films. They finally selected 100 feature films and 50 short films to participate in the exhibition. The directors of the 50 short films are likely to win an investment and contract; and the 100 feature films are the focus of all film companies. If you only consider it from the perspective of commercial box office, it is very likely that there is gold and scrap iron hidden in it. The probability is higher, it depends on the vision and luck of picking the film.

In order to come to the Sundance Film Festival, Wang Yang suspended the editing work of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door". He plans to stay in Park City for a few days before returning to Los Angeles to see if there are any outstanding movies Second, he enjoys the atmosphere here, and now the air here is filled with the smell of independent movies. What is an independent film? Quentin and Lentino once said: "An independent film is that the director will take all the money he has, even the money he doesn't have, whether it's from his parents, stolen, or in debt all his life, to make a movie. Some of these movies are as good as they can be, and some are as bad as they can be. But this is their movie, an independent movie."

Sometimes, it’s because the director doesn’t want to be influenced by investors and producers, just like one of Sundance’s original intentions was to “fight against Hollywood”; sometimes it’s because he can enter Hollywood for his own movie dream. But in any case, often outstanding independent directors will find a balance between business and self in the end, and become the hottest figures in Hollywood. And good independent films can often create commercial miracles, so Sundance also has a commercial side. Film companies wave checks to acquire films, scripts, etc., and Flame Films has 10 million available funds this year.

"Boss, the latest news, last night's opening film "You Can Rely on Me", several companies have already bid." Max Langte put down his phone, carried his briefcase, and walked outside the hotel with Wang Yang, Said: "Paramount, Miramax, New Line", they are very interested, and now the copyright price has probably risen to more than 3 million, and its investors are very happy, the cost of this movie is only 1.2 million. "

Wang Yang was wearing a gray Dayong, but when he walked out of the hotel, the wind near the evening still made him feel a bit chilly. With his hands in his pockets, he walked to the reserved taxi and looked at Max Langte ,

Asked: "Do you think we should bid?" He didn't have any information about this movie in his mind, but in the relevant information of the second Oscar (2001), he found that the movie "You Can Count on Me" has Two nominations, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay.

Max Langt replied: "This movie has a certain potential, the performance of the heroine is quite good, and the old guy Martin Scorsese is the producer, at least it is somewhat guaranteed." He opened the taxi and said, "But I think the highest price of that movie is 5 million. We can just wait and see for now. After 5 million? Let it go! Its story is too artistic, and the box office won't be much higher." Go, but maybe get nominated for some association awards."

"Mark, your analysis this time..." Wang Yang gave a thumbs up with a smile, bent over and got into the taxi, and said, "Not only the association nomination, but also the Oscar nomination has a great chance."

Mark Slant on the other side also got into the car. He leaned against the back of the car seat, slammed the car door, looked at Wang Yang next to him and said with a smile, "Oscar nomination? The company lacks this. But my Boss, I have some good news that I haven't told you yet. He coughed and said mysteriously and happily: "The company's public relations department has inquired about reliable news that "High School Musical" will be nominated for an Oscar."

What? Oscar nominations! ? Wang Yang was slightly taken aback: "Really? , he smiled and wowed, and said with a smile: "Is it the best film or the best director? "Max Langte Shrugged" is only best original song, and there may be several songs shortlisted at the same time. "And the total number of candidates for this award is dozens. Wang Yang also shrugged and said: "It's good for Canwei, isn't it? "

At this time the taxi started, and the street scene outside the window was constantly regressing. The place they were going to was the Redstone Theater where the film festival was held. Today, the organizer arranged for the premiere of more than a dozen films.

Just when Wang Yang was about to ask Max Langte "what movie is there today", the taxi driver in front, a middle-aged white man, looked into the rear-view mirror and said with a smile: "Hey, Magic Yang, and Mark? Hello, actually, I wrote a script., He let go of the steering wheel with both hands, and quickly took out a thick stack of printing paper from the top of the front dashboard. A bound script, he smiled and handed it to Wang Yang , smiled and said: "Look at it, this is it! Can you see if it can be made into a movie? "

"Oh, let me see, you drive!" Wang Yang took the script and pointed to the unmanned steering wheel. The white man turned around with a smile and put his hands back, looked at Wang Yang who was flipping through the script in the rear-view mirror, and introduced the story of the script: "This is a script for a horror movie. The male protagonist is a taxi driver. His The car caused a ghost, the story started when he got into a car accident...""

This script was written in a rigorous format. Wang Yang read a few pages and heard the white man talking about the car accident and the passengers being killed by ghosts. He couldn't help frowning with a smile. He is sitting in a taxi now. above!

"That's right!" The uncle driver seemed to suddenly remember something, and he left the steering wheel with his hands again, rummaging around in the front of the car, and said: "I also drew a few pages of sub-cameras, where did I put them... ..."Oh, come out..."" Seeing that he stopped looking at the road ahead, Max Langt suddenly shouted nervously: "Dude, pay attention, pay attention!"

Wang Yang couldn't help shouting: "Don't really have a car accident!" The driver uncle looked up and glanced ahead, and continued to search while smiling: "It's okay, I can drive with my eyes closed during this journey." In the past, don’t worry! Haha, I found it!”

The uncle driver took out a few crumpled pieces of paper from the crack of the chair, turned around and handed the steering wheel to Wang Yang and said, "Let's take a look!" Wang Yang took it and reminded again: Click to drive! "Mark Langte leaned over and took a look at the scripts of the scene, and said to the driver: "Hey, buddy, the drawing is very professional! "

"Of course, this is Sundance." The driver uncle smiled. Along the way, he was promoting his script, and soon the taxi arrived outside the Red Stone Theater. He personally sent Wang Yang and the other two out of the car, and said with a smile: "Take that script, please. My contact information is at the end, if you have any shooting plans, please contact me.”

Looking at the taxi leaving slowly, Max Langt breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's a miracle that there was no car accident!" Wang Yang nodded in agreement, and then smiled slightly, maybe this is Sundance.

Although the film exhibition was held in the Red Stone Theater, the same crowds of people were coming and going in the square outside, and it was very lively. The two were about to walk into the theater when Wang Yang suddenly saw a place in the distance. Looking at a small white cloth screen, a mobile film player in front of him vaguely saw the image on the screen, and said to himself suspiciously: "What's wrong there?"

Immediately, he figured it out. Maybe someone who was not selected for the exhibition still brought his own film to the exhibition. A projector was shown outside the venue, and I didn't expect someone to do it now. He was suddenly full of curiosity, and gave Max Langte a "very interesting" look, then walked over to Jiang Ye, and said with great interest: "I'll go to Jiang Ye to have a look."

"Oh, boss, your curiosity is really too strong." Max Langt followed behind and muttered, he probably knew what was going on, but he didn't think that a work that failed to be selected for the exhibition would have How outstanding, the people of the Sundance Institute are not fools. In fact, many of the 100 feature films each year are basically make-up, not to mention those that failed to be shortlisted.

Wang Yang came to the front of the projector, listened to the sound of the film rotating, stopped to look at the picture on the screen, and immediately saw that he was a very amateur actor, and then looked at the few people talking over there, three The man in suit and leather shoes with a briefcase seemed to be from the production company; there was also a young girl with dark brown hair, and to his surprise, that young girl was the director here.

I saw the tall girl in a light brown coat and a fisherman's hat, with a pretty face, and her bronze complexion was obviously of mixed race. With her straight eyebrows, she introduced to the men: "This story is mainly about a girl named Amy. She liked acting since she was a child, but she didn't have much talent and didn't get a good education..." You can watch it first, the 19-minute short film is being played now. "

"Girl, how old are you?" One of the blond-haired white men shrugged with interest, "You know, such a young female director is really rare." The dark-brown-haired girl replied casually: "I'm old, But go..." Hey! ? What does this have to do with movies, gentlemen? Check out my movie first! "The white man shook his head and said: "Your movie is not very good, but in fact you can become an actor, are you interested?" "

"No, it's Amy who likes acting, not me." The girl showed a funny smile, and said softly and very firmly: "I want to be a director." She frowned suddenly, and said seriously: "Gentlemen, I Rewind the film and let you start from the beginning!" Then, she looked towards the projector and found Wang Yang standing next to the projector, she shouted a little anxiously: "Dude, don't touch my projector !"

Wang Yang held up his palms and said, "I'm just watching a movie." The black-brown-haired girl came over a few steps away, seeing his appearance clearly, she stared at him immediately, and a trace of imperceptible excitement flashed across her face , blurted out: "It's you! Oh, hi, my name is Nancy..."" She took another breath, and seemed to say "Damn" before stepping forward to stop the projector, taking out the film reel and turning it upside down, while Quickly said to Wang Yang, Max Langte and others: "This is a 15-minute short film, but not all the insiders..."

"Hmm..." Wang Yang listened silently. The three men in suits turned and left after listening for a while, and walked towards the gate of the theater. Wait a minute, you haven't lived yet! Let's see!?"

Max Lang pulled Wang Yang, and said: "My boss, let's go." Wang Yang looked at Nancy's sweaty face, sighed in his heart, frowned, and said, "Let's take a look at it for a while?" Mark said Slante rolled his eyes and said, "You've been watching it for a while, did you buy her movie?" Wang Yang was startled, he opened his mouth to say something but couldn't. Mark lowered his voice and said: "Jan, look at this square, how many people are waiting for the opportunity? How many tribal selections are there at Sundance this year? 1000? 2000? Do you want to buy them all? Please, my Boss, you can't do this! Even if you buy all the distributions, a bad movie is still a bad movie."

"Mark, I know." Wang Yang pressed his forehead, although he felt a little uncomfortable, but it was indeed the truth. He could only steel his heart, nodded and said: "Let's go."

At this time, Nancy over there finally finished pouring the film. She put the film reel back into the projector and said with a smile, "I'm going to start the screening, gentlemen!" When he was about to leave, the smile on his face suddenly froze. Wang Yang smiled at her, pointed his thumb towards the theater, stepped forward and patted her on the shoulder, and said, "Nancy, I wish you good luck!" theater.

Seeing Wang Yang walking away, after a long time, Nancy looked away. She turned her head to look at the small white screen, and tightly pursed her mouth. u

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