According to Mr. Jia's plan, this was the first Beijing International Film Festival, so he couldn't let the audience fall behind.
Generally speaking, famous European film festivals such as the Berlin Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and Cannes Film Festival would be held at the top of the list. [PS: Previously, a reader said that the author neglected Venice and Berlin. This is indeed the author's mistake. I'm very sorry.] Generally speaking, there would be around a few hundred films participating in the festival, and only 20 to 30 films could enter the main competition. This was the normal standard.
The Beijing International Film Festival was actually a little different from the other three film festivals. Although it was mainly a film exhibition, the judges of the other three film festivals, which were the main competition units, could only be selected if one participated in the festival.
It was the award for all the films participating in the festival.
However, the Beijing International Film Festival was different. It judged all the films that were released in cinemas in the past year. Therefore, the awards would be given out regardless of whether one participated in the festival or not.
Therefore, in terms of the number of awards and coverage, the Beijing International Film Festival had already surpassed the three major European film festivals. It even surpassed the United States' Oscars.
This was because the United States' Oscars, except for the Best Foreign Language Film Festival, were all awards for films from the United States. However, because Hollywood films dominated the world, it gave people the illusion that the awards were for global films.
Therefore, in theory, the number of films participating in the Beijing International Film Festival should far exceed the number of films participating in the three major European film festivals. Regardless of whether the films were released or not, they would all participate.
However, in reality, it was very miserable. There were less than 50 films participating in the Beijing International Film Festival. Among them, more than 30 were domestic films, and only about 20 were foreign films.
This seemed to be a good result for a newly organized film festival. However, Boss Jia was such a gentleman in the early stages of the festival that he wanted to compete with the Oscars and sweep the world. This result was too ridiculous.
Only 50 films participated in the festival. Wasn't this funny?
Therefore, when the final number of films participating in the festival was announced, the Oscar organizing committee laughed like crazy. Not only were they not disgusted by the media reporting on the festival, but they even wanted them to report on it. They began to add fuel to the fire.
There were only about 50 films participating in a film festival, and this film festival wanted to challenge the Oscars. This was simply a joke to the extreme. Of course, the Oscars organizing committee couldn't wait for the media to report about it.
The media was also very happy. First of all, it seemed that the crown princess could only appear at the film festival, so reporting on the film festival was a necessary choice.
The biggest selling point of this film festival seemed to be that there were very few films participating. Coupled with the previous talk of challenging the Oscars, this was naturally the most important thing to report.
All of a sudden, the attention of the Beijing International Film Festival rose again. However, the focus of attention was a little wrong. They were all talking about how ridiculous and terrible the Beijing International Film Festival was, how few movies were participating, and how overconfident Boss Jia, the Daqian Jia Yapeng, was.
At one point, the Beijing International Film Festival became a joke of the world. This made many films that participated in the film festival regret it. They came to such a ridiculed film festival and caused their own movies to be ridiculed as well.
However, on the other hand, due to the huge popularity of the Beijing International Film Festival, the number of visitors to the film festival began to increase crazily. The 20 temporary screening halls were all full, and all the movie peripherals were sold out. In the end, many film distributors came to watch the fun. A few outstanding movies were sold, which made the participating films happy. Then, they hesitated whether to continue participating in the festival the next year.
After all, their movies probably wouldn't be able to win any Oscars in this lifetime. It didn't matter if they were banned by the Oscars. The key was to be able to sell their movies and get a lot of attention.
Therefore, for the next week, the daily exhibition segment of the Beijing International Film Festival was ridiculed by the world. The number of participating films was small, but the flow of people and attention was off the charts all over the world. The popularity even surpassed the 1998 Oscars Awards Ceremony that was held a week ago.
This was a very contradictory but very reasonable situation until a week later, the closing ceremony of the Beijing International Film Festival and the first Daqian Global Film Awards Ceremony.
It was still the same red carpet segment as the opening ceremony. The guests who came on the first day of the opening ceremony were basically all here on the second day.
Other than that, there were also some new faces. Many of them were foreign faces. These were all film crews who came to receive the awards.
These people's thoughts were very simple. Their movies would never be able to win an Oscar in this lifetime, so the Oscars were meaningless to them.
On the contrary, they realized that Daqian movies were actually a god-like existence in the film industry. This was because all the movies that the Daqian invested in were basically exploding. The global box office was never less than 100 million USD.
Such a powerful film company was now in a situation where the whole world was ridiculed and not many filmmakers came to participate.
If they attended the awards ceremony when the Daqian movies were at their most embarrassing and embarrassing time, wouldn't they be able to win the favor of the Daqian movies and Boss Jia? In the future, when the Daqian movies wanted to make a movie, would they give priority to them?
It had to be said that these people were very smart. The ban of the Oscars made many filmmakers avoid the Beijing International Film Festival. However, they discovered the opportunity and were indeed very smart.
Then they realized that Boss Jia was indeed very smart. Every filmmaker who attended the awards ceremony received a business card from Boss Jia. The meaning of this was self-evident.
This made all the filmmakers who came to the awards ceremony feel a lot better.
At the end of the red carpet, the finale was Boss Jia and his wife, as well as the crown princess.
Seeing that the crown prince consort was finally making an appearance after a week, the media couldn't hold back anymore. These crazy reporters even broke through the security guards and rushed onto the red carpet in an attempt to interview the crown prince consort, giving the crown prince consort a fright.
Fortunately, Boss Jia was very smart. He asked Zhu Qiushui to run all the way into the stadium with the crown princess while he blocked the door and blocked the reporters outside.
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