[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

Why has the Toronto Film Festival become a film industry that has sprung up in recent years?

Because here, everything is based on public opinion!

On King’s Avenue, the main screening area, there are a total of [-] large theaters, and each theater’s various screening halls will show participating films during the film festival, and there will be ballot boxes at the entrance of each screening hall. If If you like this movie after watching it, you can vote for it!So that the final selection of the awards!

So there are no judges at the Toronto Film Festival, the judges are the public!

It is unbelievable that the lines at the entrance of the screening halls of many popular movies have been lined up since the early morning, because everyone hopes to be able to buy tickets.

During the film festival, tickets for popular movies can be hard to find!There is nothing else to do but queue up to buy tickets.

Unless you're willing to volunteer at the festival, you get three free movie tickets.

Or you are a member of the media, so you will get a job card, hang it on your chest and you can freely enter and exit various screening halls, but you should pay attention, job cards are also graded, blue is the most free, followed by It is red, with certain restrictions, and the lowest level is yellow, which can only enter and exit specific screening halls.

Joey's new work "Slumdog Millionaire" of course also received a lot of attention, but because of the limitations of its subject matter, R-rated rating, and the restriction that the main character is a non-mainstream race, the audience asked questions. There are a lot of inquiries, but the flow of people who actually go in to see it is not so hot.

After all, people are more willing to watch other movies with more mainstream themes, such as the sentimental film "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" starring Will Smith, the Olympic film "The Reader" starring Kate Winslet, and the low-cost thriller "Ghost Shadow". "wait.Compared with these movies with traditional values, stories about Asian slums and the rise of Asian women are really not that attractive.

It can also be heard from people's comments, "I admire Joy, but the subject matter of her new movie is not interesting to me."

"I think the movie Joy has gone too far... She wants to focus on the stories of minorities, but the truth is that most people are not interested."

"That's right, although I feel that it is generally a story of the American Dream, but I am not very interested, and feel that it is too far away from me, this group."

Therefore, there are many people wandering around the entrance of the screening hall, but few people actually go in. After all, it is so difficult to buy movie tickets, and no one wants to waste time and energy.

At this time, the first "Slumdog Millionaire" tickets were opened.

There are not many people queuing up to buy tickets, especially compared to other popular movies.

After a few movie fans bought tickets, they walked into the screening hall, and the first show had already begun.

At the beginning of the movie, the camera shakes, the slums in the United States decades ago, everything is dirty and messy.

"Wow, why is the camera shaking so badly?"

"What do you know, this is intentional by the director, only a shaking camera can be more realistic..."

MaggieQ comes on.

"Wow, this girl is so hot, Asians also have such hot girls?"

"Great figure."

In the subsequent episodes, the audience's breathing was frozen, because the atmosphere was too tense and depressing. It seemed that people could feel the hardships of life as poor Asians in that era.

Until MaggieQ hit a bonus.The atmosphere became a little more active.

But soon, the Asian atmosphere hit again. She faced the helplessness of her family, the departure of her boyfriend, and the harshness of her mother.

However, MaggieQ's superb acting skills show all these emotional changes with very natural transitions.

"I think this actress will develop very well in the future. Not only is she hot, but she also has good acting skills."

"I can't take my eyes off Asians, too."

This girl who lives in poverty, she is poor but not humble, she is humble but independent.

The audience watched her get on a train. Because she couldn't afford a seat and had no place to stand, she chose to lie down and curl up under someone else's seat.Seeing the footsteps of people passing by "slap" and "slap" stepped on her ear, she suppressed the choking but still had tears in her eyes.

At that moment, the audience cried with her.

But this girl can always arouse the love and bitterness of the audience.

Especially when MaggieQ's mother asked MaggieQ, "What do we live on?"

MaggieQ said very seriously to this mother who always beat and scolded herself, criticized herself, and never even took responsibility: "Love."

The audience couldn't help their eyes getting wet at this moment. MaggieQ, a strong, independent girl who rose from adversity, made them bitter.

When MaggieQ started to fight for his career with the prize money he got, the audience's atmosphere exaggerated by the director also became excited and passionate.

It turns out that life can be so beautiful.

When MaggieQ tried her best through a series of hardships and setbacks, and finally reached the pinnacle of her career, that weak, poor, and humble girl finally became the "Queen of Scouring Pads" in the United States.

The reporter asked her what made her so powerful

She replied, it was love.

Then she put on her sunglasses and left the camera in a heroic manner.

The ending song unfolds, and the ending shady scene begins——

At the same time, a line of words appeared on the screen, "Thank you for watching, there are easter eggs at the end - Joey Grant."

People have not recovered, and the film is over.

"Oh! Is that the end?"

"Yeah, what's the matter, do you still want to see it?"

"No, I always feel that my chest is tight, I have a feeling, but I can't tell..."

"Brother, I understand you, in fact, I too...I always feel like saying something, but I can't..."

What does the audience want to say?

The film doesn't seem so perfect, but if you want to tell its shortcomings, it seems that you can't talk about it, as if it is actually perfect.

Every shot, every line, seems to be carefully designed by the director, full of Joey Grant's unique aesthetic sense of the picture-even if it is dirty, it is beautiful.

Every scene and picture is full of that tenacious and unstoppable vitality from beginning to end.

However, I always feel a little uncomfortable, probably because the director's shooting of the environment in the Asian American slums decades ago is too real and poignant.

Prosperity and filth coexist, sunshine and dust coexist, dark streets and alleys, those streets and alleys full of garbage.

But this discomfort will soon disappear, because you can see a kind of power from the movie.

A female power, a powerful female perspective.

For those fans in the audience who love Joy, they are familiar with and understand this power.

Although the subject matter is very small, the technique is still in Joey's consistent style - a clever narrative structure, the use of the lens is easy to use, and the editing is neat and neat.

The most important thing is that this movie is obviously just a bowl of chicken soup for the soul, and the truth explained is nothing more than: small people also have hope.Everyone present understood, but they all drank it abruptly.

I still have more ideas!

I don't know why, but in today's general environment, I always feel that this movie is surprisingly shocking. It is probably because everyone has been panicked by the financial crisis for too long. Unemployment, bankruptcy, and financial deficits are what countless people experience every day.

But this Chicken Soup movie about money, career, wealth, and success in life moved everyone present so much!

why?

At this time, no one understood or figured it out. They only knew that after watching this movie, their hearts were shocked!

So, so, so shocking!

What else can I use to describe this movie other than shocking?

After the show ended, people walked past the ballot box at the entrance of the screening hall of "Slumdog Millionaire" and cast their votes inside.

Don't ask why, they couldn't figure out why, they just thought this movie was too shocking, and finally gave them some comfort to their hearts that had been tortured by the financial crisis.

In just a few days, the ballot box at the gate of "Slumdog Millionaire" has accumulated a lot of votes.

This is a very strange phenomenon, because the flow of people who came to watch this movie is not particularly large, but there are a lot of votes, because basically 100% of the audience who watched this movie voted for this movie.

After watching this movie, many netizens and media reporters almost all gave unanimous praise.

Ryan Firth, a film critic of "Variety" who specially came to the Toronto Film Festival to participate in the exhibition, wrote in his column: "We have ushered in a great work."

"Hollywood-style smooth narrative, suspenseful, thrilling storytelling methods. It has the romance and light of American stories, the temperament of fairy tales, and the large-scale pattern of epic films. It has the humanistic care of European movies and Joey's presence." The sharpness and clarity of images and ideas create an extraordinary rhythm."

It's just that at this time, most people don't know what kind of movie this movie is, nor do they understand it.

Soon, the 15-day Toronto Film Festival came to an end. In the final vote-counting session, "Slumdog Millionaire" topped the leaderboard with a terrifying difference in the number of votes.

In the end, it won the Best Film Award at the Toronto Film Festival with an outrageous number of votes!

Many people didn't expect that, after all, judging from the subject matter and rhythm, this movie doesn't look like the kind that will attract attention, but it directly exploded at the Toronto Film Festival!

And it is extremely strange that many people in the industry have also watched this movie. Their evaluation is just a chicken soup movie with excellent quality, and there are suspicions of selling poverty. He Dehe got the unanimous approval of fans at the Toronto Film Festival Praise?

The quality and spiritual core of many works in the competition section of the Toronto Film Festival are no worse than "Slumdog Millionaire". Why should it dominate?

It's really incomprehensible!

The following is from the front line of the "Hollywood Reporter".

【This world is full of tears, you can't know it】

"No one expected that at the Toronto Film Festival, where many outstanding works participated, an inspirational film about poor Asians in the United States, using the timeless chicken soup inspirational method, won the first place alone."