The Toronto International Film Industry was founded in 1976. After twenty years of hard work, it has developed into an annual event that will be shared by 400,000 people.

In recent years, the transaction volume of the Toronto Film Festival has approached Cannes, and the number of viewers is close to that of the Berlin Film Festival. Especially in the minds of North American audiences, it is the world's number one international film festival - the Oscar is recognized as a Hollywood event - Cannes and everything else has to stand aside. The popular films at the film festival can always attract the attention of the entire North American market.

At the same time, this is the most useful and active film festival recognized by the industry.

"Usual and active" not only refers to its active market and is a shopping market with huge volume of film transactions, but also lies in its organizational method and positioning - no jury is set up, but all viewers and fans vote to select the "Audience Choice Award".

Therefore, the most important part of the Toronto Film Festival is the screening stage. In ten days, more than 300 movies will be screened, and 200 pages will be printed out just by the screening schedule. This is disastrous for anyone participating in the film festival. Even if you go to bed late and get up early, you can only watch about one-tenth of it. Everyone has to make various plans and trade-offs in a large number of films.

There are two types of screenings for film festivals. One is the media and film mall. If you have relevant documents, you can [% go in and watch it. Generally, there will be seats. It is about how to sell the copyright of the film; the other is the public. The audience needs to buy tickets to enter, and the media and film merchants can enter, but they have to queue up like the audience.

Because "Chicago" will not sell copyrights at all, it is only screened in public places.

At this film festival, it seems that all the movies displayed at equal opportunities, but in fact they are not.

Since there is no main competition unit, there is no red carpet filled with stars, and the media's publicity role has been largely cut off. With so many films participating in the screening, and everyone's energy is relatively limited, so why should the audience choose the movie?

Therefore, on the long list of screened films, films of famous directors and celebrities have become the most attractive to the audience.

There is no doubt that the names Duke and Tom Cruise are difficult not to attract people.

The first screening of "Chicago" was held at 7:00 p.m. on the second day of the film festival. At about 6:30 p.m., Tom Cruise sent his assistant to the theater to watch it. There was a long queue of hundreds of people at the door, all of which were audiences and journalists from all over the world. Although these people were anxious to wait, they still did not enter the venue, because the theater was full at around 6:00 p.m.

Never doubt the enthusiasm of the festival audience. The influence of Duke and Tom Cruise's first collaboration is enough to achieve a sensational effect.

At the Toronto Film Festival, the audience has a bad habit, probably because there are a large number of new works and experimental films of some directors in previous film festivals. No matter what kind of film ends, the audience will often give extremely warm applause or not, which will last for dozens of seconds.

Therefore, "Chicago" has subtitles, and Toronto is the second largest theater. When more than a thousand people stand up and applaud, Duke and the rest of the crew don't care too much. Even experimental films from Iran or South Korea will receive such applause after the screening.

Duke also stood up and applauded and looked back. The fans are mainly middle-aged and elderly people, which is also a major feature of the Toronto Film Festival and also the title of the Middle-aged and Elderly Film Festival.

Why is the audience's final vote for the audience in the Toronto Film Festival always very close to the taste of the Oscars? This may be one of the reasons.

"Chicago" is actually very targeted to participate in the Toronto Film Festival.

In the next interactive session, a very interesting scene appeared. Several rows of middle-aged and elderly aunts formed an alliance tacitly, praising Tom Cruise's performance and singing and dancing in the film, with a passionate and open manner. It seemed that the beautiful soup had a tendency to become an idol of middle-aged and elderly people in advance.

To be honest, Duke believes that Cruise's performance in "Chicago" has indeed made great progress, and has already left the low-level stage of being cool and handsome. After all, even a pig has spent more than half a year preparing a movie and filming it in the torture of repeated ng for nearly four months, and will make a breakthrough.

After the chaotic audience interaction, Warner Bros. had already arranged a reporter and asked some questions to Duke and other crew members, which was entirely for publicity needs.

"Director Rosenberg, what do you think of this collaboration with Mr. Cruise?"

Standing on the stage in front of the screen, after the reporter's question, the microphone was transmitted from others to Duke. He said, "I want to explain a situation first. Tom has been taking dance and vocal classes for more than half a year for this film. His efforts are admirable, and the level of his performance is obvious to all."

For the sake of need, Duke lies without drafting it. "Tom is the actor I want to work with the most. Any director who works with Tom will feel relaxed. I don't know why, there have been criticisms from the outside world, but I think this is a rumor. The Tom I saw is a serious, hardworking, modest, and extremely talented actor."

The reporter then asked Cruise again. Even if Liang Tang knew how to be a human being, he knew what to say now. He couldn't stop praising Duke and praising all the members of the crew.

After asking Zeta Jones and Naomi Watts a few questions, a reporter from a gossip media under Warner stood up.

"Duke, judging from recent news in the media, you have a close relationship with Miss Zeta Jones. Are you dating?"

This was a question set in advance, and Pany Kellis also prepared the answer. Duke turned his head and looked at Zeta Jones who looked to him, saying, "Kate is very beautiful and charming. He has brought me a lot of help and inspiration during the production of the film. It is my luck to meet her. We are now very good friends."

Before the reporter could ask again, Robin Grande, who was hosting the interaction, announced the end and the crew quickly left the stage.

The Toronto Film Festival has neither a formal opening nor a formal closing ceremony. The crews who come to the exhibition often leave Toronto soon after participating in a screening. The crew of "Chicago" will not stay here for a long time, but will stay for another two days. Now this is the gathering place for media reporters, whether it is Duke and Zeta Jones, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, they can create some topics.

The next day, Duke and Catherine Zeta Jones walked onto the streets of Toronto together. Behind them, in addition to the reporters under Warner, there were many other reporters from Europe and the United States, especially the guys from Fleet Street. When they saw the two walking on the road holding hands, they almost rushed to the front and faced them and took a slap.

Duke turned a blind eye to these things, but whispered a few words with Zeta Jones from time to time, with an extremely close expression. Then when he turned to a cinema, he bought two tickets and walked into the cinema and watched a South Korean movie that didn't even have an English translation. After he walked out, the reporters basically dispersed and found a coffee shop on the street, sat together to have coffee and chat.

There is almost no other entertainment in Toronto now. Apart from watching movies, the only option is to go to a bar.

"Did you understand?"

Drinking coffee, Zeta Jones talked about the movie just now, "I can't understand the lines, the content is inexplicable. I really can't understand what the director wants to say."

"I can't figure it out, either." Duke shrugged.

Zeta Jones put down his coffee cup, "It's a bit boring and should leave early."

Duke smiled and said, "Almost all the movies we can see in theaters are commercial films, with the main purpose of entertaining audiences, which is the same everywhere in the world. Including France, which thinks it is very artistic, the movies at the top of its box office list are pure commercial films."

"Movies are always diverse," he continued. "We always have to give niche art films and experimental films a certain amount of living space. Film festivals are actually the only place where many films of this type have a sense of existence. We may never see these movies in theaters, but only at film festivals."

"You always make sense."

A flash light seemed to be on outside the glass window. Zeta Jones tacitly pulled Duke's hand, making the two look particularly close, and continued the topic just now, "Actually, I understand, aren't the audience just watching movies when they come here? The Toronto Film Festival has hundreds of feature films, and they can be picked up and watched at will."

"So, the only important thing for the audience to come here is to watch movies." Duke gently scratched Zeta Jones' palm, and when she smiled, she said, "Isn't the function of the film festival just to play movies and watch movies?"

Speaking of this, Duke suddenly remembered his experience of attending the film festival in his previous life. It was the second Capital Film Festival in a certain country. It was a large-scale national event with very political and cultural significance. It was specially held in the famous Hall of Prayer for Rebirth. It was raining and it was very cold. Domestic filmmakers participating in the film festival stood in the cold rain and suffered hard...

They are pretty good, after all, they can't wait for too long, and many viewers and reporters waited for three or four hours in the cold rain, and finally waited until the opening of the grand event that had been delayed for a long time.

Everyone was in the cold and rain together, not for the sake of movies, not for the promotion of film festivals, nor for the sake of showing the new look to the world, but just for the sake of waiting for a leader to speak...

The most tangible thing is that there is no bathroom for the audience, reporters and filmmakers. Many people are so cold that they want to pee, but once they go out, unless they are the faces of celebrities known to the public, they will inevitably be blocked outside the door and can never go in again.

The experience of holding urine was amazing.

Many people on the other side fantasize that their country's movies can rush to the whole world earlier and make Hollywood so loudly. However, the backwardness of the film industry is not only solved by the film industry, but it involves all-round problems such as industrial foundation and social environment. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

ps: I have been insisting on the third update this month, which is very difficult for a part-time party. Although there are not many manuscripts left, we will work hard until the end of the month to cheer ourselves on!
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