Disaster Artist

"tourist", "lover".

Among the nominations for the best film of the 88th Golden Book Awards, Blue Whale Pictures and Lion Pictures occupy two seats, attracting much attention.

A key question to continue throughout the awards season is:

Can Lu Qian win the nomination?

By all indications, the answer is no.

The tone of the two works directed by Lu Qian this year is too dark, and they are aimed at the middle class, which is precisely the main composition of the judges of the academy. It can be said that they are full of firepower and want the judges of the academy to ignore it. It takes a lot of effort for PR to vote on suspicion.

very, very hard.

However, the mess between Lanchuan Journalists Association and Wei Wei has subverted the order of the entire awards season, and Lu Qian is the first to become the target.

The Golden Sparrow Award sends out such a signal: Lan Chuan, a traitor like Lu Qian is not welcome.

The Lanchuan Journalists Association used their methods to label Lu Qian.

Although Lu Qian is not the culprit, but Lanchuan's existing interest structure has been broken, Lu Qian is a crucial promoter, and he should also be condemned.

Crisis can be felt in all aspects, and the turbulent undercurrent is always difficult to predict the direction of development.

Even Blue Whale Pictures itself is no exception.

They didn't fight back impatiently, and various PR strategies could feel their difference, as if... giving up.

However!

Turnaround.

The list of nominations for the Golden Book Award was announced, Lu Qian won the nomination, and "Tourist" and "Love" were both nominated for Best Picture, completing another feat:

Two works directed by the same director, both won Best Picture nominations.

In the long history of the Golden Book Awards, only one director has accomplished such a feat. Fifteen years ago, at the 73rd Golden Book Awards, the young director Sostin, with his "Never Compromise" and "" "Global Network" two films, won double nominations in the Best Picture and Best Director categories.

At that time, Sostin was only thirty-nine years old, in the prime of his life.

In the end, Sostin relied on "Global Network" to win his first Golden Book Award for Best Director, but unfortunately, this is also the last one.

The same director achieved double nominations for best picture and best director with two works in the same year, such a feat is indeed eye-catching; moreover, the age of thirty-nine is also very young for a director, which also means He reached his peak at a young age.

So, Sostin's directorial career encountered many challenges later, because people were more critical and because people had higher expectations.

Now, after fifteen years, I have once again witnessed such a feat.

And this time, it was the younger and sharper Lu Qian who made history, who was born like a comet, causing a storm in just two years.

In the first year, two works, "Unfriending" and "Raid", exploded at the box office.

In the second year, the two works "Tourist" and "Love" shined in the art circle.

Shocked!

incredible!

All the doubts, all the speculations, all the wait-and-sees, finally came to an end temporarily, because Lu Qian handed over a perfect answer sheet, which made people envious.

At the same time, Blue Whale Pictures has also officially joined the ranks of Lion Pictures and has become the biggest winner of this year's awards season. No matter whether it can win the award in the end, it is certain that Blue Whale Pictures has opened up the situation steadily and proved itself. He also has a lot of power in the field of art.

Perhaps, Blue Whale's PR strategy is different, showing the domineering and uniqueness of the new generation of young people, which is completely different from the awards season strategy established by Wei Wei.

But there is no doubt that Blue Whale Pictures has also opened up a new path and reopened the awards season. The momentum of the newborn calf not afraid of tigers is worth noting.

In the end, the best film nominees for the Golden Book Award, Lions Pictures and Blue Whale Pictures, each have two seats; Tianshan Pictures, Streamer Pictures and Webster Brothers Pictures have one seat each.

This also means that Fantastic Pictures will be wiped out.

In addition, Pinnacle Entertainment has also not received a grain; and Qiyang Media, one of the overlords of the awards season, has also disappeared this year, and no work has survived the siege.

This detail also indirectly confirmed Lu Qian's previous speculation:

The competition for the awards season has indeed entered a bottleneck, including Lions Pictures, which won a big victory this year. They also saw the plight of Magic Pictures and Qiyang Media. How could the top management be indifferent?

They both realized that Wevey had dominated awards season for far too long, and it was time to change the game.

Do not break, do not stand, break and stand.

So, when opportunities arise, chaos arises.

So, is there such a possibility that the mastermind behind the scenes is not Magic Pictures or Lions Pictures, but a company that continues to increase its investment without seeing much output... Peak Entertainment?

Wait, the above five companies have a total of seven works, so what about another seat? There are a total of eight works nominated for Best Picture this year.

"Focus".

This work comes from a little-known independent film company, strictly speaking, a small workshop, Anonymous Films.

This workshop is a documentary maker. There are a large number of excellent documentaries in the list of works. In the past two years, it has been involved in the field of film production. Currently, it is mainly active in the field of independent films. The PR is weak, and every time it stops at the first stage, it fails to win the Golden Book Award nomination.

until this year.

"Focus", this work is very special, they set their sights on Longquan——

It was the Longquan from Ma Ma and Zhang Benqing.

This is a city with a wealth of people and a middle class per capita. Over the centuries, following traditions, it has gradually formed a unique tribal urban structure.

Just like the powerful forces of the Longquan Gang in Lanchuan, there is a group of people who do their best to protect the inherent interest structure of this region from being broken.

The movie, like a scalpel, cuts into this area, and goes deep into the sins of the local church. They are reaching out to innocent children with their evil hands, and revealing the terrible truth behind the sins of officials.

All, based on true events.

For such a subject, almost no one dares to take over, because it does not need to be very smart to foresee that the production of the film will face many difficulties; even if it is successfully produced, the film will be severely suppressed after it is released, not to mention profit, I am afraid that even It is difficult to launch and promote.

After going around for several times~www.readwn.com~ still no company has such courage, and finally Anonymous Pictures took over.

As a film company that started out as a documentary, they have been hit too many times by reality, and they don't mind doing it again.

The fact also proved the speculation of the Lanchuan industry.

After the production of "Focus", it has not caused much discussion. If it is followed step by step, the film may be submerged again.

But no one thought that something happened to Lanchuan Journalists Association and Wei Wei.

The breaking of the interest structure also means that the initiative held by the Longquan Gang has been shaken, and opportunities have appeared like this.

A group of independent filmmakers and documentarians took action one after another to tell each other. In the midst of chaos, they tenaciously took root and sprung up, and eventually formed a prairie fire.

"Focus" did not get anything above the Golden Sparrow Award, but it was nominated for the Golden Book Award for Best Film——

This move alone is an unprecedented victory for Anonymous Films.