The cinema chain under Fox was just a small cinema chain. It was only distributed in some major cities in the United States. Columbia City was about a third-tier city in the United States, so there was no Fox cinema.
This gave the Daqian a headache. In the end, the people of the motherland helped. A cinema in Chinatown offered to take on the task of voting.
After all, in the United States, as long as there was a city, there would be a Chinatown.
When Sam found the Great Moon Bay Cinema in Chinatown according to the address on the newspaper, he couldn't help but lick his lips because this cinema was a bit too small and a bit too shabby.
However, driven by the enthusiasm of voting for the movie, Sam entered the cinema and found that this cinema was actually quite good. At least, it was very humane. The popcorn was actually provided for free.
Although it was only a small portion, Sam, who was used to seeing popcorn at 10 USD per bucket, was moved to tears. It was almost comparable to the price of a movie.
After entering the screening room, Sam found that there were more people in the screening room than he imagined. Not all of them were Chinese. At least half of them were blonde white people like him.
Soon, Sam found his old friend Tim on one of the seats.
Tim was also a movie fanatic. Like Sam, he would not miss any movie that he was interested in, so the two often bumped into each other in the cinema and became familiar with each other.
"You're here too!"
"Yeah, it's too hard to find here!"
The two people exchanged a few words. Unfortunately, the seats of the two sides were not together. Tim also had someone next to him, so Sam could only sit in his seat.
Then, he looked at the voting form placed on the front row of seats.
At the back of the front row seat, there was a small pocket that was obviously pasted later. A voting form was also inserted in it, with the name "Road to Heaven Voting Card" written on it.
When Sam was about to take a closer look at the options on the voting card, the lights in the entire screening room dimmed instantly, and the movie began to play.
As a loyal movie fan, Sam obviously would not pay attention to other things when the movie was playing.
Two hours later …
After the movie ended, Sam gently wiped the corners of his eyes. Although the movie was called Road to Heaven, it sounded like a comedy movie. At the very least, it was a movie that made people feel excited and happy.
But the actual plot almost made people depressed.
It was a movie about the hardships of a white upper-class woman in a concentration camp in Fusang.
One night in 1942, the Kangaroo and Ying State troops stationed in Singapore were holding a grand ball. However, war had come and the Fusang had launched an attack on them.
The soldiers had all gone to participate in the war, and the families of the soldiers, especially the wives, had all boarded a cruise ship in an attempt to return home to seek refuge. In the end, the ship was attacked by the Fusang army and sunk. This group of noblewomen became captives of the Fusangpeople and lived in a concentration camp.
These noble ladies naturally suffered inhumane treatment in the concentration camp. Many of them were tortured to death. When all the women felt despair, the female lead named Idelia formed a choir in the concentration camp. Only in the midst of suffering did she find a trace of motivation to live.
At the end of the war, these female prisoners regained their freedom.
This was a very positive movie from the United States. It was a very United States movie with a very strong theme. It had always been about human nature and was a little tear-jerking. Sam, who was used to all kinds of tear-jerking movies, felt his eyes moisten.
However, it was just tears. To make a movie glutton like Sam shed tears, this movie was still not enough.
When the lights came on, Sam calmed down and began to read the voting card.
At the top of the voting card were the words "Imperial International Film Festival" and the badge icon. There was also a warm reminder.
[Hello, dear audience. After the movie ends and the lights come on, you will have five minutes to fill in the form in your hand. Of course, you can choose to give up. Due to the inconvenience of time and writing, for convenience, you only need to fill in the corresponding score or mark "YESNO".]
"That's quite comprehensive!" Sam exclaimed. He picked up a pen and began to fill in the form.
First, line 1, question 1.
"Do you like this movie (YESNO)?"
"YES!" Sam gave such an answer after thinking for a while. Although the movie itself was good, it was not qualified to be the best movie of the year.
"Do you think this movie is a literary film? (YESNO) Note: A literary film is a movie without commercial impact. There are special awards for literary films in the film festival. Please fill in carefully. "
“YES！” Sam thought for a while and found the voting really interesting. Why did they need to vote for a literary film? Didn't the officials set the tone of the movie when they promoted it?
After the first two options were marked "YESNO", all the following options were for scoring.
The audience was asked to score the director, the male lead, the female lead, and the male and female supporting roles.
It was worth mentioning that when it came to the male and female supporting roles, because there were more people, the voting cards listed the names of eight main female supporting roles and two main male supporting roles. The audience had to tick the names of one of the female supporting roles and the male supporting roles, then give the two supporting roles their individual marks.
In addition, the number of male and female supporting roles was not fixed. It was determined according to the number of main male and female supporting roles in a movie. After all, Road to Paradise was a female-dominated movie. The main supporting roles were of course female prisoners. It was impossible to have too many male supporting roles.
After that, they would grade the film's soundtrack, screenplay, cinematography, editing, sound effects, special effects, costume design, art direction, action direction, makeup, and theme song. There were a total of 10 projects, with scores ranging from 10 to 100.
Between 10 and 100 points, Boss Jia also thought about it. Previously, he was more inclined to a 10 point system. However, considering that when the majority of the people were scoring, if there were only 10 points, it was very easy to give 9 points in one go, or simply all 10 points. Such a high score was not easy to form a distinction between the movie.
However, if it was a 100-point system, although the audience would give the scores above 80 points, they would be able to differentiate more clearly. They wouldn't give all 100 points, right?!
So, in the end, they settled on a 100 point system.
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