After Ye Zhiming left, Xia Tian looked at the information he collected and found that "The Big Red Lantern" faced many competitors this time.

There are 485 movies participating in various awards in the Berlin Film Festival, including many classic works.

For example, "Born on July 4" directed by Oliver Stone; "Music Box" directed by French national treasure director Costa Gavras; "Driving for Miss Daisy", which has just won multiple Golden Globe awards; "Driving for Miss Daisy", a German national treasure director Volk Schrondov, who once directed "Tin Drums", also brought his new work "The Story of the Maid"... These works are qualified to compete with "The Big Red Lantern" for the Golden Bear Award.

"The Big Red Lantern" has two weaknesses that these movies do not have. One is that it was filmed by a Chinese film director, while there were no Chinese judges at the Berlin Film Festival, so there was inevitably a tendency when voting.

For example, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997, Isabel Adjani, who was the chairman of the jury, guided the judges to vote for other directors through his influence as the chairman, so that Wang Jiawei, who was shortlisted for "The Light of the Light", only won the Best Director Award in the end.

Second, last year, Zhang Yimou just won the Golden Bear Award for "Red Sorghum", and there is no precedent for Lian Zhuang in the history of the Berlin Film Festival. In his previous life, only director Li An once won the Golden Bear Award for "Wedding Banquet" and "Reason and Emotion", but that was only three years later.

The reason why Zhang Yimou won the award in the first year was actually because he had the word "fresh". At that time, Chinese films rarely participated in foreign film exhibitions, so once Chinese films participated, they would inevitably attract attention. And because its Chinese elements were so fresh, the judges opened their eyes and felt refreshed, so they were naturally happy to vote for him.

But this year, he is participating in the second year, and the freshness has been discounted. When judging this movie, the judges are relatively objective and have no impression points. In addition, he has won the Golden Bear Award, so the judges are likely to consider not presenting him any more, which is also a troublesome thing.

If these two weaknesses cannot be compensated, even if "The Big Red Lantern" does not return empty-handedly, at least the highest award, Golden Bear Award, will be out of reach.

Xia Tian naturally had to think about this. He was preparing to increase publicity efforts and create momentum for "The Big Red Lantern Hanging High".

Zhang Yimou won the Golden Bear Award last year. Although this is a weakness, if it is used for publicity, it is also a point worth talking about. It will help enhance his reputation in the European and American film industry and also help foreigners understand Chinese films.

In addition, he is also planning to have a good chat with several judges. There are ten judges at this Berlin Film Festival, composed of actors, directors, screenwriters, photographers, etc. Each one is considered a leader in their respective fields.

But no matter how strong their ability, how high their status, or how powerful their influence is, they are always human beings. As long as they are human beings, they have hopes and some desires.

Xia Tian is preparing to target their weaknesses and do it well. Just so happened that the information he asked Ye Zhiming to collect includes the files of these ten judges, which can be found in it.

...

Just as Xia Tian looked through the judges' resumes and looking for a suitable opportunity, the door opened and Gong Li walked in gracefully.

"Mr. Xia, what are you looking at?" She couldn't help but ask curiously when she saw Xia Tian looking at her thick stack of information.

I have come to Berlin in summer, how can I still be so busy?

"I'm reading the information of these judges. Oh, it's really troublesome." Xia Tian frowned.

These judges have different identities, different personalities, and different requirements. It is not too easy to please them.

"What do you think of these things..." Gong Li frowned when he heard this, and suddenly realized, "Oh, do you want to know yourself and your enemy, and to give your preferences to win the big prize?!"

"Smart!" Xia Tian smiled when he heard this.

Gong Li couldn't help but feel proud when he saw that he had guessed correctly, "Did you think of a solution?"

"I'm still thinking, it's not that easy." Xia Tian waved his hand.

The reason why he was successful in public relations lobbying for the Golden Globes in the United States was because the United States had a very developed public relations industry. All those public relations companies were powerful, ranging from presidential congressmen to ordinary people, and they had the ability to hook up.

Although there are many judges at the Golden Globe Awards, he doesn't have to worry about it at all. The public relations company is responsible for communicating and successfully lobbying them to award the award to Summer.

However, he didn't know the situation in Germany and didn't know if there was such a magical public relations company here. If there was, of course it would be the best. If there wasn't, it would be a little trouble.

Without a middleman to match, it would be difficult for him to get to know the judges. Even if he could get to know him, without the mediation of the middleman, it would be difficult to negotiate conditions. After all, he could not rashly stuff money or stuff things. If he met a straightforward person and broke his things out, he would be a laughing stock. Even the image of a Chinese filmmaker was defiled, so he had to be careful.

"Okay, don't worry too much, it's just an award. If you can win, you can get it. If you can't win, you'll get it next time. You're still very young, and it doesn't matter if you miss a year." Gong Li advised softly when he saw this.

"Actually, I don't care." Xia Tian smiled, "But if you win the award this time, it will be a great thing for Chinese movies and Director Zhang, to you."

His goal is to gather the highest awards at the four major awards, the Berlin Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards.

He has won one of the Golden Bear Awards, and even if he wins another one, it doesn’t make much sense. But for Zhang Yimou, Gong Li and Chinese films, any international and awards are very eager for them.

The mainland is now reforming and moving to the world. Every time an international award is received, it represents a result and also the international recognition of it. Zhang Yimou and Gong Li are still unknown internationally and need the blessing of the award. So Xia Tian felt that this award must be obtained.

"Yeah." Gong Li nodded in emotion when he heard Xia Tian say this, "Then I'll help you with massage. You can find a way slowly, don't worry."

"Yeah." Xia Tian nodded.

Gong Li then walked behind Xia Tian, ​​stretched out his slender fingers and helped him gently massage.
Chapter completed!