I’m in Hollywood Chapter 385: Test strip

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The length of "Dances with Wolves" is 236 minutes, nearly four hours. It is definitely not finished in the morning. Eric and Fox's distribution director and several industry-renowned film critic watched the first two hours together, after eating lunch To watch it again in the next two hours.

Eric previous life has not seen this movie, but during the investigation, Cao Cao looked at the original book that has been published. At this time, watching this four-hour movie, Eric is not like the Fox distributor. When watching a movie, I will subconsciously think about what kind of distribution strategy this movie should use, where to promote it, and so on.

Because of the devotion to the plot, Eric is as entertaining as those invited film critic.

Traditional western films often promote the supremacy of white people. The plot is usually white people's resistance and conquest under the oppression of local evil forces during the development process.

But "Dances with Wolves" is completely the opposite.

After recovering from his injury, Lieutenant Dunbar was sent to a remote outpost bordering the Indian settlement and thought he would live a quiet and peaceful life.

But a horse theft by a few children living in the nearby Sioux Tribe connected Lieutenant Dunbar with this Indian tribe. Subsequently, Lieutenant Dunbar accidentally rescued the standing boxing dance. Send it back to Sioux Tribe. Started contact between the two sides. Then he tried again and again, interacted again and again, and exchanged jerky time and time. As time passed, the two sides finally established a sincere friendship. Lieutenant Dunbar also fell in love with and combined with the white woman standing in Sioux Tribe.

Director used a lot of details in this process, but the seemingly dull shots of these shots did not make people feel lengthy at all. Instead, they often understood because of the jerky interaction between the two parties in a situation where the speech was not available. smile.

After getting married with standing boxing dance. Lieutenant Dunbar was about to move completely to live in Sioux Tribe. When he returned to the post to pick up his luggage, he found that a team of soldiers had been stationed there again.

And after noticing the appearance of Lieutenant Dunbar dressed as an Indian, the white soldiers shot at him indiscriminately. The proud white soldiers in his bones ignored Lieutenant Dunbar ’s defense of Sioux, Instead, he was beaten up as a traitor and then escorted to a nearby fortress for trial.

During the escort, the Sioux people killed the soldiers and rescued Lieutenant Dunbar.

Due to the disappointment of the white cruelty and arrogance, Lieutenant Dunbar completely changed his name to ‘Dances with Wolves’. Announced a break with the white world, but in order not to harm Sioux people. Lieutenant Dunbar also left the tribe with helpless standing fist dance.

A good movie all has a characteristic, that is, it will make people unconsciously watch it, even if it lasts for four hours. A bad movie, even if it's only ninety minutes, will often give people the urge to leave the game early.

The style of "Dances with Wolves" is simple and fresh, the lens is unpretentious, the details are rich and infectious, and people unconsciously sink into it.

No matter in the current or future Internet era, Oscar is greatly affected by film critic. If a movie that is highly regarded by film critic is not even nominated for Oscar, the credibility of Oscar will definitely be questioned. Therefore, before the vote of the Oscar jury, the reputation of the nominated film in film critic is often used as an important basis.

Therefore, if any movie wants to impact Oscar, the first thing to do is public relations with film critic.

After the screening, almost all of the invited film critics expressed a high rating for the film and sent the group away. Several executives from the release department of Fox had another brief meeting. , Carter began to discuss the details of the release of "Dances with Wolves" with Eric.

"Eric, although film critic just gave this film a high rating, but the duration is the biggest flaw, after all, many theaters are reluctant to show such a long movie. So we roughly discussed two options , One is to be released during Easter next year, so Fox can arrange 1500 screens, if Box Office is going well, it can be increased, of course, this is definitely not in line with the release strategy of the Olympic Games, but it can stimulate this to the greatest extent Box Office potential of a movie. "

Although this movie won the best movie and the best Director in memory, Eric does not know exactly what the Box Office of this movie is, but Oscar has not yet tended to be niche. Looking back on these years, Oscar has the most The best movies, such as "Driving Miss Daisy", 《Rain Man》, "Platoon", etc., all got very high North America Box Office.

Therefore, it is certainly true that "Dances with Wolves" takes the typical strategy for the release of the Olympic film. The worst thing is that after getting the best film, you can also earn more benefits from the income of the video tape. If it is released on Easter next year, although more canvases can be obtained, until the end of the year Oscar public relations, "Dances with Wolves" even if the word of mouth is still strong, the influence and publicity will certainly not be comparable to those films released at the end of the year, even if it is still Can get Oscar, but the Box Office rebound bonus after Oscar will certainly not be enjoyed.

So, Eric shook his head directly and said, "Carter, let's talk about the second option."

"The second is to release it at the end of next year according to the strategy of the Olympic Games. However, in this case, your investment will be pressed for another year. I heard that Liz won this movie. 30 million ... "

Carter said, thinking of Eric ’s current net worth, and shook his head with a smile: "Well, you definitely do n’t care about the money, then let ’s talk about the second option, put this movie at the end of next year. , But they ca n’t take Orion ’s original haircut strategy anymore. They put their time on November 9th, and it feels like Hulai. Oh, Orion ’s release has always been at sixes and sevens. But think about the current situation of Orion. Understand that they have been losing money in the past few years, so they are not willing to miss any profitable opportunities, but they want to impact Oscar and do not want to give up the two-month holiday stall. This is too greedy and does not want to think about holidays The competition of the file is so fierce, in case this movie can not be screened for even two months of holiday, how can you enjoy the Box Office dividend after the Oscar award. "(Unfinished ...)