The crew of "Shushan" went to Venice, including Tang Shuxuan, Jiang Zhiqiang, Ye Zhiming, Xu Ke, Shi Nansheng, He Jiajin, Li Saifeng, Zhao Yazhi and Wu Zhixiong, as well as several employees of Oriental Entertainment Distribution Company.
Tang Shuxuan is naturally the leader and is responsible for contacting the organizers of the film festival, while Jiang Zhiqiang and Ye Zhiming are here to do distribution and publicity work.
Jiang Zhiqiang is the general manager of Oriental Cinemas and also has some shares in the theater company. He also has the status of a special consultant in Oriental Entertainment Issuing Company. Although Ye Zhiming is now in charge of the issuance affairs of Oriental Group, he is only able to play in Asia, and he needs Jiang Zhiqiang's help when he comes to Europe and the United States. After all, Jiang Zhiqiang has followed his father to buy films in Europe and the United States since he was 13 years old, and he has known countless Western film manufacturers.
As for the remaining Wu Zhixiong, he is actually the B brother in "Young and Dangerous". This time he played the villain Deng Yin in "Shushan". This person dropped out of school in the second grade of elementary school and started to join the club as a club a little older. 11 years ago, he joined TVB as an actor by a friend, and collected protection fees while filming.
A few years ago, the Hong Kong government cracked down on people in the clubs. Wu Zhixiong was unlucky and went to prison for several years. In the past two years, the Hong Kong government relaxed the control of the clubs and Wu Zhixiong was able to be released from prison early.
After Wu Zhixiong was released from prison, he didn't want to be amateur, so he went to DreamWorks to be an actor through Chen Huimin's introduction and played supporting roles in several films. This time, Xu Ke was attracted to play the villain number one in "Shushan", and his role was twice as many as Zhao Yazhi.
A group of more than ten people flew to Paris, then transferred to Venice Airport, and finally took a boat to the island of Diledo, the film festival. They were so tired for more than ten hours.
After staying in the hotel, everyone began to divide the work and became busy. Tang Shuxuan contacted the organizer without stopping, Jiang Zhiqiang and Ye Zhiming were responsible for contacting foreign publishers, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng only asked the employees brought by Ye Zhiming to set up the booth. Even the starring actors such as Li Saifeng, He Jiajin, and Zhao Yazhi were not idle. They wore customized clothes and walked out of the Aixsio Hotel from time to time, and then "accidentally" squatted around the hotel to take pictures.
Axesio is a century-old store. The original intention of the Venice Film Festival is funny, but it is actually to solve the problem of the hotel's autumn customer base.
Because of this, during the Venice Film Festival, the entry threshold for the Axesio Hotel was extremely high, and only accepts big directors, big stars, and crew members shortlisted for the main competition unit. As for crews shortlisted for the Horizon unit, they can only stay in another hotel. The crews screening the film went cooler.
Before the Venice Film Festival officially began, entertainment journalists from all over the world gathered outside the Axesio Hotel, as well as fanatical movie fans, with the purpose of meeting a big director or big star.
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"Sister Zhi, those foreigners seem to be photographing us." Li Saifeng, dressed in cute pink, walked past the avenue in front of the hotel with a dignified and elegant Zhao Yazhi, and said to Zhao Yazhi in a low voice.
Zhao Yazhi had just walked around the island with Li Saifeng. She was in a good mood at this time. She turned around and looked to the side. Sure enough, she saw two white men holding cameras to take pictures of them.
Zhao Yazhi didn't care and was about to go back to the hotel with Li Saifeng, but the two foreign reporters ran over quickly.
One of the reporters asked in English: "Harrow, can I interview two of you? It only takes a little time."
Li Saifeng's English is not very good, so Zhao Yazhi can only answer it.
Zhao Yazhi nodded and smiled, "Of course."
The reporter heard that Zhao Yazhi could speak English and said happily: "Hello, beautiful lady, my name is Alberto, I am a reporter from the Italian Pioneer Movie Weekly. Are the two ladies Japanese?"
Zhao Yazhi asked back, "Why do you think we are Japanese?"
The reporter named Alberto explained: "I see that two people live in the Ixecio Hotel, so they must be members of the main competition unit film. This year, Venice has three Oriental movies shortlisted for the main competition unit, two of which are Japanese and one is Hong Kong. In terms of probability, the probability of the two ladies being Japanese is higher."
Zhao Yazhi naturally couldn't be a patriotic and angry young man. She was just a little disgusted and said with a thorny look in her words: "Reporter first, I think you can be a math teacher."
"So, are the two ladies from Hong Kong?" Alberto asked excitedly.
Li Saifeng could still understand some simple English and couldn't help but interrupt, "Yes, we are Chinese."
"That's great." Alberto smiled, "I know that the opening film of this year's Venice movie collection is a Hong Kong movie. Are you the starring actors of "Shushan"?"
Zhao Yazhi pointed at Li Saifeng and said, "She is the heroine."
The current situation of Italian films is far inferior to that of Hong Kong films. The development over the past few decades has suffered a lot. Compared with American films, Italian films started very late, but the starting point is quite high. When other countries regard movies as tricks, Italian films are already famous for their luxurious sets.
Unfortunately, after Mussolini came to power, Italian films became a propaganda tool for fascism. After the end of World War II, Italian films became anti-fascist tools, and then a tool for the Cold War, anti-Soviet and anti-Communist.
During this period, Italian films also set off several waves of ideology, but they were short-lived and basically art films with realistic themes. Most of the entertainment commercial films in Italian films were derived from Italian stage comedy. While their country was popular, few people appreciated them as soon as they left Italy.
Nowadays, filming movies in Italy is no longer full. Italian directors who have a little good fortune will run to Hollywood or seek foreign funds to invest in local commercial films.
Italian movies are difficult to survive, and Italian movie newspapers are even more dying. Old-fashioned magazines like "Movie" (its status in Italy is equivalent to that of the French "Movie Manual"), are almost closed, let alone nominated for the unknown "Pioneer Movie Newspaper".
The Venice Film Festival is a feast in the world's film industry every year, and it is also an important opportunity for Italian domestic film newspapers to make money.
Alberto and his partner were hoping to get something exclusive during the film festival so as to take the opportunity to earn a generous bonus. Naturally, they didn't have the opportunity to interview international directors and stars alone, so they quickly changed their goals and locked the interviewees on this year's opening movie.
In fact, not only them, but everyone who learned the news was surprised, and at the same time, they were very curious about what "Shushan" was like and why it was specially taken care of by the judges.
"It turned out to be the heroine of "Shushan". May I ask about the name of the lady." Alberto felt that he had good luck and being able to interview the heroine of "Shushan" before the opening of the film festival is much more meaningful than reporting in a few days.
Li Saifeng was interviewed by a reporter abroad for the first time. She felt a little proud and happy, and smiled and said, "Moon? Li."
"The beautiful moon is such a good name," Alberto praised, "Is this your first time in Venice?"
Li Saifeng nodded and said, "Yes, Venice is beautiful."
Alberto began to ask about Li Saifeng and "Shushan" step by step: "Ms. Li is a very famous actor in Hong Kong."
Li Saifeng was embarrassed to boast, and Zhao Yazhi smiled and replied to her, "Yes, Amei is a well-known big star in Hong Kong."
"I think it's the same. The movie you starred in can become the opening film of the film festival. Your acting skills must be very good," Alberto praised again before continuing to ask, "Can you introduce what kind of movie "Shushan" is? Is it a Chinese Kung Fu film?"
"Shushan is a movie...uh..." Li Saifeng turned her head and looked at Zhao Yazhi. She said some simple English is OK, but the words "Swordsman" and "Fantasy" are not good.
Zhao Yazhi understood what Alberto meant and said, "Mr. reporter, if you want to know the specific situation of "Shushan", you can go to the booth there to browse the information."
Alberto asked, "Your booth is already set up?"
Zhao Yazhi replied: "It's being built, but the director of this film is also there. I think you can go and interview him directly."
Alberto said happily: "Thank you for the reminder, if you don't mind, I want the photographer to take a few photos of the two beautiful ladies."
"Of course." Zhao Yazhi said.
After a clatter of shutters, Alberto and his friends went to the booth to find Xu Ke and got some promotional materials for "Shushan" that had not yet been distributed.
The day before the opening of the Venice Film Festival, The Herald Movie Weekly took a different approach. When all newspapers and magazines were focusing on the big names, they put the news of "Shushan" on the front page, which unexpectedly increased sales by 30%.
I have to say that everyone is still very interested in the sudden opening movie "Shushan".
Behind the Axesio Hotel is the Film Palace, the main venue of the Venice Film Festival. Don’t listen to the name as high-end and elegant. In fact, it is just a casino on weekdays, and it is only changed to the Film Palace when the film festival is opened.
The first procedure for the opening of the Venice Film Festival is to hold a press conference in the Palace of Film. The head of the Venice Biennale and the art director of the Venice Film Festival introduce the specific situation of this Venice Film Festival and answer some questions and doubts from reporters.
"Mr. Lorenzo, why did you choose a Hong Kong movie as the opening film for this Venice Film Festival?" This is the first question raised by the reporters at the press conference.
Chapter completed!