I think either Hanks or the Gladiator Russell Crowe will win this years, the others only have an outside chance. A film becomes a hit because people want to see it. A film becomes a flop because they don t want to see it. Everything else is nonsense. The minimalism of the Eighties and Nineties, which Jil helped to develop, is decidedly different from today s.
Many people now find the reduction to the bare necessities too little.
They want a soul too, an emotional image. We want to win over women between the ages of 30 and 40 too, who are at the moment still shopping in the world of Prada and Gucci. However, a major survey by the Scientific Council reveals considerable differences. In many large cities students take a particularly long time about it, whereas in Bavaria and the East German states they move ahead much more rapidly.