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With only two days left, the opening of the 13th Beijing International Film Festival "Beijing Film Festival" is imminent, and at 12 noon today, the ticket grabbing battle took the lead.
It's time to wail in the circle of friends again: "After so many years, there is no harvest again!" "The North Film Festival A.K.A. always can't grab the big hit days. It is difficult to say which ticket is more difficult to grab this year's Beijing Film Festival and Music Festival, but what is the same thing is that in addition to the literary and artistic youth, the busiest are the scalpers who are always fast.
According to the official battle report of the Beijing Film Festival, the three films that sold out the fastest were: the 4K version of "City of Sorrow"; The sold-out times of "2001: A Space Odyssey" in the IMAX version were staggering 6 seconds, 8 seconds, and 9 seconds, respectively.
The speed of the hand can be seen.
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At 12 o'clock, in addition to the tickets released by the Maoyan platform, there were also wails from the circle of friends. As an annual professional hand speed test, the North Film Festival always tells us with strength that the tickets with few stocks are always the most difficult to grab. After all, the official will come out with a money-grabbing strategy, and this is the only one.
This year's Beijing Film Festival will present more than 180 films, among which the most anticipated film by veteran fans and literary and artistic young people is undoubtedly Hou Xiaoxian's "City of Sorrow", not to mention the new 4K digital version.
The two performances on the 25th and 26th were even more difficult, and producer Qiu Fusheng and editor Liao Qingsong talked with the audience that year, and they were very excited to think about it. Mr. Chu Mingren, a veteran filmmaker who has made outstanding contributions to the restoration of classic films in Taiwan, China, will also attend the two screenings of the film.
The victory and defeat of "City of Sorrow" were almost divided when the ticket grabbing channel opened. This afternoon, rumors have been circulating on the Internet that someone (of course, our familiar good friend, scalper) hung out movie tickets for "City of Sorrow" on second-hand websites, with a price tag of even as high as 8,000 yuan 2, and a middle seat in the back row.
Perhaps the sky-high price of 8,000 yuan raised the price threshold of KK, and when KK went to search for second-hand tickets on Xianyu, it was found that the price ranged from 400 to 2,000 yuan, and you ran gave birth to a slight "conscience" feeling. After knowing it, it is outrageous, this is not the successful PUA of the scalper.
The difficulty of "City of Sorrow" was indeed expected at the beginning of the official announcement. The subject matter of the film is quite sensitive, and there are very few opportunities to be screened in the mainland, and the last time I saw it on the big screen was 11 years ago - in 2012, the archive did a special retrospective of Hou Xiaoxian. Continuing the unique quiet and vast aesthetic style of director Hou Xiaoxian, "Tragic City" takes the February 28 incident in Taiwan as the historical background, telling the story of the encounters and lives of four brothers, this tragic work in a stable narrative won the Golden Lion Award, the first important international film festival award in the history of Chinese film.
In addition to "City of Sorrow", films such as "Small World" and "Nightfall" that have been widely watched are also sold out on Maoyan.
The famous director's masterpiece is the fragrant gluttony of scalpers, and there is another one at this year's film festival. Zhu Yilong's "Disappearing Her", although it is only about to be released in two months, but because of its reputation at the Hainan Film Festival and a wide range of fan groups, it has also become the target of scalpers, netizens said that the price of scalpers was even speculated to 6,000 yuan a piece.
In fact, the scalping phenomenon of the Beijing Film Festival has been around every year, and popular films in previous years will also appear "seconds empty", and then scalpers will also begin to start prices through various channels. There are resale, screened at the 2021 North Film Festival, the 1988 Japanese animated film "Akira", a single ticket price is 500 yuan. The original price was 120 yuan, more than 4 times.
Now, two years later, the inflation rate is frightening, equivalent to 8 times the price of scalpers that year.
In addition to reselling, the scalper business also has "robbery", and the scalper in the KK circle of friends generously said that the price increase can rob "City of Sorrows" and guarantee to grab it.
However, on the whole, in addition to super hits, or classic hits such as "The Shawshank Redemption" and "2001: A Space Odyssey", there is still a margin of tickets for the Beijing Film Festival, and a large number of excellent films are waiting for fans to choose.
What to watch at this Beijing Film Festival?
The annual ticket-grabbing event is not only a fixed carnival program for fans, returning to the movie itself, or that the Beijing Film Festival will bring what fans want every year.
This year, compared with last year, this year's Beijing Film Festival activities have increased by four times, which can meet the needs of all kinds of fans who have suffered from the "film famine" in previous years to the greatest extent.
There are old and new, "Focus on the Future", "Focus Filmmaker", "Mirror World", "Women's Voice", "Truth First" and "Global Vision" units include a series of new films that have attracted the most attention in the world this year. The "Restoration Classics" and "Master Review" units are the most difficult classic old film units to grab tickets.
Among the 15 shortlisted films in the main competition of the "Temple of Heaven Award", 5 are directed by female directors and 7 are director's first works (one of which is "Disappearing Her" is co-directed), which is the highest of these two statistics in the past year. Among the directors of the main competition films, the most well-known to fans is director Zhang Lu, who is well-known in both China and South Korea, and Argentine director Damien Szfron (who directed "Savage Story") is also very interesting.
At the same time, it can also be followed by the just finished schedule of the Berlin Film Festival, and the Beijing Film Festival will show many Berlin Film Festival films including "Journey of Fortitude", which won the Golden Bear Award, and "The Light of the White Tower", "Totem", "Big Dipper" and other Berlin Film Festival films shortlisted for the Berlin main competition.
This year's Beijing Film Festival will show four feature films by Bass DeVos in the Focus Filmmaker Unit - "The Death of a Cycling Boy", "Next Stop, Hell", "Tropical Soul" and "Small World". Shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival three times and the Cannes Film Festival once, DeVos is a director influenced by Chantel Ackerman and Kylie Leichett, focusing on the mysterious world purely wrapped in image and sound outside the boundaries of narrative.
In addition to movies, what is more precious is the opportunity to communicate with masters. On April 20, director Xie Fei will meet you at the post-screening event of "Fragrant Soul Girl" at the Broadway Film Center (Wanguo City Store) in Beijing. The Russian sports film "Mr. K.O" will also hold two post-screening sharing sessions on this day, and director Artum Mikhalkov will share with the audience the creative experience and journey of this sports biopic based on the legendary Russian boxer Valery Popenchenko. and "Space Exploration Editorial Department" director Kong Dashan is also an additional content of the post-screening link.
In addition, referring to the information of the Beijing Film Festival war report, the ten films with the most tickets sold at this film festival are: "Holiday After the Sun", "Poem" (4K), "Casablanca" (4K), "The Shawshank Redemption", "Tess", Bulgari "Beautiful City", "Twin Peaks: Walking with Fire" (4K), "Fellow Streamers" (4K), "Small World", and "Big Red Lantern Hangs High".
Compared with the two or three hundred films a year before 2019, this year is still slightly conservative, in 2019 due to the epidemic, the offline screening list of the Beijing Film Festival has been sharply reduced from the previous two or three hundred to about 80, and this year, the number of films screened at the Beijing Film Festival has increased. However, judging from the performance of the film market, the "revenge viewing" that can bring people confidence has not appeared.
The reason why scalpers covet fanatical fans is on the one hand because the old film market is in short supply and there is nowhere to show it; On the other hand, it is indeed because of the "consumption trend" for many years, the supply exceeds the demand every year, and Luoyang paper is expensive every year.
But every year at the North Film Festival, every year with new expectations, and the long river of film flowing from the past to the future, this may be the unchanged theme of the grand event that audiences and creators are looking forward to.
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