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The white snow spread all the way up along the sides of the street, and the houses like Lego bricks were scattered and scattered, and the gentle hills gradually climbed up under the footsteps.

Walking through the quiet road of the small town, suddenly, the field of vision becomes wider, and you can see a wide and gentle platform space. The steep mountains and continuous mountains behind are like natural barriers, blocking the world. The thick snow covered the original verdant green, replaced by the ski trails wrapped in silver, winding down in the dark green forest, outlining a touch of leisure in winter.

Park City, located not far from Salt Lake City, Utah, is known for skiing and is world-famous for the Sundance Film Festival. All this seems to be similar to Telluride. In fact, even the layout and style of these two towns are somewhat similar.

The difference is that when the Telluride Film Festival is held, they still grab the tail of summer. People are wearing short sleeves, holding Coke, sunbathing on the lawn, and enjoying the leisure brought by the movie; Sundance Film Festival When it was held, the winter was bitter and the wind was raging. People wearing down jackets and holding hot coffee walked back and forth between the major theaters, welcoming the grand event of independent films.

Since 1983, the Sundance Film Festival, created by Robert Redford, has reached the 27th edition and has become the largest gathering place for independent films in the United States and even the world. There are hundreds of them every year. Thousands of independent filmmakers gathered here for carnival celebrations.

Compared with Telluride’s cluster of stars, Park City will usher in a large number of completely unfamiliar new faces every year. Here, there will be no harassment of the awards season, no college public relations singing and dancing, and no commercial atmosphere. It’s noisy, and some are just movies, and only about movies.

Telluride can invite big-name producers and actors such as "The King's Speech", "Social Network", and "127 Hours" to participate in the hot movies of the award season, so that fans can truly enjoy a feast of stars; but Sheng Dan There are only debut directors, unheard of independent directors, independent works that are difficult to win the attention of the award season, and cult movies with a unique style of Swordsman. Movies are all about movies and only movies.

Of course, the movie "Little Tiger" links Telluride and Sundance, two distinctive film festivals, and this is another story.

This week, "Love Is Crazy" is about to land at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

For a small-cost work with an investment of less than 250,000 yuan, the situation of "Love Crazy" is even more bleak than "Buried alive".

The production cost of "Buried Alive" is at least 3 million, and part of it is promotional expenses. So, "Buried Alive" can sign up for the Toronto Film Festival and take the Dongfeng to join the ranks of the Telluride Film Festival; but "Buried alive" Love is crazy" without the money.

They can’t go to small European film festivals to open up the market. They can’t even participate in some local film festivals in North America, because each film festival requires registration fees, and then the crew goes to the film festival to promote the cost of transportation, accommodation, and food. , Equipment costs, etc. are also expenditures.

Sundance is their only choice-in Park City, independent films have certain privileges; at the same time, Sundance is also their only opportunity. If they can't find a suitable distributor here, the crew will fall into In the dilemma, it is very possible that even the art theaters will not be able to go up, which means that the investment of 250,000 yuan will be in vain.

Perhaps for those independent film companies with large net worth, two hundred and fifty thousand are still affordable. But for Drake Doremus, it can't afford to lose.

Therefore, after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony ended, Lanly ended a series of brief publicity for "Buried Alive", and then arrived in Park City non-stop all the way to the Sundance Film Festival, "Love is crazy". Propaganda contributes a lot.

However, before the official promotion, Lanly won precious time to return to his fandom and enjoy the good time at the Sundance Film Festival.

In this small town, "Mulholland Road" is more popular than "The King's Speech", and the discussion on "social networks" is not even as popular as "Uninvited Guest", "Inception" and "New York Synonymy." If you make a choice, the former will always be a loser; the "winter bones" that shined here last year have also been mentioned repeatedly, but people are complaining that the mainstream market has not appreciated the excellence of this work...

At the entrance of the cinema, next to the street, at the entrance of the cafe...In every public place, a small group of people may gather at any time and place, standing together in twos and threes, and discussing the feelings of watching the movie just now. Sometimes, after a movie is shown, six or seven small teams may gather at the entrance of the cinema to express their opinions. The passing fans wander between different teams, looking for their like-minded friends.

No self-introduction, no greetings, and the only way to communicate is your own opinions and opinions. This wonderful and unique way of making friends can be said to be the most beautiful scenery of the Sundance Film Festival.

At this moment, Lan Li was standing next to a small team and did not speak easily, but listened carefully to their opinions, and then confirmed each other's ideas.

"No, I don't think the science fiction element is the most important. It explores our attitudes towards mistakes, which derive our attitudes towards life..."

"This is a sci-fi movie! You actually said that sci-fi elements are not important? So what is the most important? There is another earth hanging in the sky. Don't you just ignore it?"

What they are discussing is the movie that just ended its screening, "Another Earth", this small-cost science fiction work, turned out to surprise the audience. Almost everyone is eager to express their opinions and opinions.

Different from Toronto, where every work is enthusiastically sought after, and different from Toronto, which is more or less influenced by film critics, in Sundance, everyone has their own unique ideas, right or wrong, or profound. Or simple, but what is certain is that everyone is willing to express their opinions and are willing to share their opinions.

Seizing the opportunity, Lan Li opened his mouth and cut into their conversation.

"You two have different understandings. That is only the first meaning of the movie. The idea that is really hidden in the core of the script is in parallel space and parallel universe. Different factors lead to different results, but the choice is always the same person."

Unconsciously, everyone listened to Lan Li's point of view.

"So, when this person's ideology has changed, is his clone in different parallel spaces still the same person? Or, it has been split into completely different personalities? But if it is split, then parallel Is space still meaningful for discussion? Because another space is already a stranger, not ourselves anymore, we can completely regard it as another person with similar experiences in the same world, in different countries or different regions Different choices were made. The concept of parallel space itself has lost its meaning."

The discussion that had been fiercely exchanging fire suddenly came to a halt because of Lan Li's remarks, and the abrupt silence seemed a little jerky. Unexpectedly, no one interrupted such a long talk. Everyone fell into their own thinking. It could be seen that they were struggling to find loopholes in Lan Li's words, and then were ready to refute.

At the time when science fiction movies are becoming more routine and typified, it is difficult to find a science fiction work that has solid basic skills, strong theory, and can bring surprises. Who could have imagined that this year's Sundance Film Festival would actually be a treasure! The emergence of "Another Earth" is really exciting.

What’s more rare is that the heroine of this work, Brit-Marling (Brit-Marling), is also one of the screenwriters. She has an eye-catching appearance, good acting skills, and talent. This is definitely Sundance’s biggest harvest since its opening three days . Moreover, she is only twenty-eight years old this year.

After watching the movie, at the time when the thoughts exploded, the audience couldn't wait to start discussions—even disputes. Everyone was eager to express their opinions and exchange their thoughts. Suddenly, Lan Li threw a bomb, causing everyone to savor and chew carefully and think over and over again.

It can also be seen from another aspect that "Another Earth" is indeed an excellent work worth pondering.

"So how do you define parallel spaces? You mean that everyone has the same personality, so we will still make the same choices in the same situation. Does this mean that the results of different parallel spaces are the same? It's the same. In this case, the meaning of parallel space doesn't exist."

Suddenly, a voice was inserted next to ~www.novelhall.com~ but no one thought it was strange. This is a grand meeting open to everyone to participate in the discussion.

The speaker was a "newcomer" who had just passed by. After stopping, he immediately joined the discussion, cut into the topic openly, and successfully attracted everyone's attention.

Lan Li followed the voice and looked over. It was a female audience.

Science fiction movies undoubtedly have a huge fan base, and there are many women among them, but considering the huge base, women are still a small part after all. Therefore, among the otaku and geeks, if a female audience appears, they will be treated immediately by the stars, and everyone regards it as a rare treasure.

But at this moment, everyone was caught in a topic of dispute between two people, and no one raised their heads and noticed the female audience for a while. The typical geek, isn't it?

What surprised Lan Li was not the gender of the audience, but her identity.

She has snow skin, long red hair, and tough features. She is not a beauty at first glance, but she has a tough and heroic air. Even the small freckles on the tip of her nose leave a deep impression on people. It's Jessica-Chastain (Jessica-Chastain)!




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