Just a year ago, "Lost Tokyo" produced and distributed by Diorama Films, fought fiercely with the first work "City of God" produced after the establishment of Chaos Films during the awards season. "Lost Tokyo" first won the Golden Globe Awards, but then suffered a defeat at the Oscars.

Now, the "Rwanda Hotel" produced and distributed by Diorama Film once again confronted Chaos Film's "Borrowing a Knife" on the stage of the awards season. The "Rwanda Hotel" won the nomination at the Golden Globes, but tied with "Borrowing a Knife" in the awards. After the Oscars, the nomination stage has been distanced and ended with the absolute advantage of "Borrowing a Knife".

Similar scripts have been staged for two consecutive years. This is really a bit chilling.

After the grand premiere of the "Rwanda Hotel" at the Toronto Film Festival, it has been rising all the time. The special themes have easily won the attention of countless media. At the same time, the Iraq War and the turbulent situation in Africa have once again triggered people's concerns about the Holocaust.

During World War II, after the Nazis' tragic massacre of Jews, countries around the world expressed their positions and would do everything in the future to avoid such a tragedy again. But at that time, sociological and historical experts analyzed that in addition to human factors, such tragedy occurred more often than not, human tragedy caused by historical trends. Both the perpetrators and the abusers were victims of the historical trend. They believed that in the near future, there would still be a possibility of repeating the same mistakes.

Sure enough, in 1994, the terrible genocide in Rwanda shocked the world again - and this time, what was even more cruel was that the United Nations had the opportunity to control and even stifle the entire situation at the beginning, but because of political games and conflicts of interest, humanitarian rescue was delayed, resulting in a cruel and complete loss of control.

Now, just ten years later, the pattern of the Middle East and Africa once again reminds people of such a nightmare. Lance mentioned Rwanda in the script "Borrowing a Knife to Kill People", which also means the same.

It can be said that the "Rwanda Hotel" chose the right time and came out smoothly in the right way. This is also called political correctness. Almost immediately, the "Rwanda Hotel" became the number one seed of the awards season, and its powerful momentum showed the African version of "Schindler's List", which made people increasingly optimistic about the prospects of this work.

But the "Rwanda Hotel" is obviously too early. With the advancement of time, the heat wave of awards ceremony season has come, and one after another is wonderful works have been released one after another. In contrast, people found that the overall quality of the "Rwanda Hotel" is still very lacking. Not to mention that it is comparable to the "Schindler's List", even in this awards ceremony in 2004, its story thickness, thought depth and humanitarian exploration are far from at the forefront.

However, the "Rwanda Hotel" still represents political correctness, so the frequency of mentions during the awards ceremony is still not low, but in the competition for major awards, they gradually became unable to do so. After the list of nominations for the Golden Globe Awards was announced, there was a saying in the circle: this year is the Little New Year, and the pattern of all works is too limited. Even skits, except for the "Flyer", there are no works that can show the artistic height. The two works "Rwanda Hotel" and "Million Dollar Baby" that stand on the humanistic height should obviously receive more praise.

Obviously, this is Diorama Film's last move, and it also won the support of Warner Bros. "Million Dollar Baby" and "Flyer", both were issued by Warner Bros. This also means that Warner Bros. must reasonably allocate public relations resources, then select the main players, concentrate their firepower to launch an offensive, otherwise they will only lose sight of one thing in the end. In this case, Diorama Film is willing to conduct public relations for "Million Dollar Baby". Warner Bros. can gain reputation without any effort, and is naturally willing to push behind the scenes.

But the result is... the reputation of "Million Dollar Baby" suddenly rose, showing calls that were almost comparable to that of "Flyers", which led to the signs of tilting Warner Bros.'s public relations quota began to appear - in the face of real interests, whether it is Martin Scorses and Leonardo DiCaprio, or Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, there is no difference for Warner Bros. It only needs to ensure that the benefit is yourself, everything is fine, and no one will hesitate to sacrifice.

The "Rwanda Hotel" once again became a cannon fodder for the runner-up. The overall quality restricted the further breakthrough of this work. The nomination seat for the Golden Globe Awards Best Picture Film has squeezed out the last bit of energy for the theme advantage, so it was above the Oscars, and it was not surprising that it was defeated in the entire nomination stage.

Even so, the Academy has not forgotten the work "Rwanda Hotel". In addition to Tang's nomination for Best Actor, the unexpected breakthrough of Best Supporting Actress is also a recognition of his political correctness and a victory in the Academy's public relations. But these two projects have obviously been seized by others. It is no longer the "Rwanda Hotel". Even Tang's black advantage was weakened to the lowest level because of the existence of Jamie Fox.

Time doesn't wait for me, that's all.

Although there is more than a month before the Oscars, Diorama Film can still look forward to the "Rwanda Hotel" counterattack in the two awards of Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress - although the chance is small, as long as it is nominated, it is qualified. If the "Borrowing a Knife and Killing" particles have not been collected, then they will still have a victory. However, these people active in Hollywood are not dreamers, Ryan and Tucker are not, and Jason are not, they know that such a chance is slim. So...

Therefore, this also means that the plan to win respite by relying on the "Rwanda Hotel" has been declared bankrupt; it also means that Diorama Film has only the "Sahara Cavalry" left to turn around. All of this is like a carefully planned chess game, step by step, leading Diorama Film to the edge of the cliff. When it reacts, it finds that it has no way out and only leaps: either fly over the cracks in the cliff or be buried in the abyss.

When I realized this, the fear was chilling, and even Ryan and George were no exception. Could it be that all this was planned by Lance? All of this was just Lance's trap? It should... maybe... maybe... maybe... not.

In fact, is the "Rwanda Hotel" really that bad? In fact, it is not the case. In addition to the advantages of the subject matter, the work itself has many advantages. Perhaps it is still a long way from the masterpiece, but it can indeed be regarded as a good work. From this perspective, this also once again proves the ability of Diorama Film to prepare for art films.

What's more, he has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for five consecutive years, and has won Oscar nominations in four of them and won two Little Golden Man. It can be said that in terms of stability, only the top studios like Focus Pictures, and Miramax can match it.

However, things are not that simple. After leaving Diorama Film, Lance seemed to break free from the chains and became more and more courageous in the battle. However, the team who stayed at Diorama Film has always been in a stable position, conservative and catching up. It has been pressed behind by Chaos Shadow Teeth for two consecutive years - not only artistic movies, but also commercial movies have been much worse in box office results, especially considering that Chaos Pictures' current three works are all created by Lance, the gap between the two is even bigger.

This inevitably makes people guess: Lance is the source of creation of Diorama Film. After sweeping Lance out, Diorama Film’s decline is inevitable. Now, when Lance left the house in a mess, was the winner the three partners of Diorama Film? This seems to be a big question mark.

Not only industry insiders, but even the partners of Diorama Film have their own thoughts. Ryan, Tucker, Jason and George sat in the office, none of them spoke, and fell into an incredible silence.

Tucker couldn't help but start to wonder whether they were really far behind Lance for the enthusiasm, understanding and vitality of the film. After the lack of Lance, their keen sense of touch on the film works was getting worse and worse. "If we win 'Harry Potter', and 'Pirates of the Caribbean'..." Tucker dared not think further.

Looking back at the early days of Diorama Film's business, they were united and tied together. Lance was responsible for the film, he and Jason were responsible for the production and planning, and Ryan was in the main direction. They were like the Titanic, riding the wind and waves, unstoppable. Then... and then they hit the iceberg.

Looking up, Tucker looked at Ryan.

Jason just sat quietly in place. He seemed to have expected the ending today. A long time ago, perhaps deep in his heart, he always knew that Lance's choice was correct. Didn't Diorama Film set up at the beginning because of Lance's enthusiasm for movies? But... he was also greedy, and he wanted to win his own light? So he made the wrong decision. Maybe.

But compared to the failure at the company level of Diorama, the "Troy" premiere always echoed in his mind. Lance's resolute and cruel expression could smell the strong smell of blood in the air. It was not the Lance he knew, it was a stranger, a completely different stranger, a stranger hidden in the familiar skin, and they were the murderer who strangled the real Lance, but just exchanged for the current situation. Is all this really meaningful? The death of a company is the death of a friendship, and the death of a soul. He is the murderer, Tucker is the murderer, Ryan is the murderer, and George.

Jason looked up and looked at Ryan.

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Chapter completed!