The first round of screenings of "Hope" has ended, and the response was enthusiastic not only in the screening room where the young couple was, but also in the screening rooms where Wen Muye, Liu Yi, Kong Sheng and Li Xue were.
"Hope" is just a short film, and its level may not be enough to fully represent Chinese science fiction.
But in the current perception of the audience, Chinese science fiction seems to be the only one in front of us, "Hope". Even a short film can serve as the face of Chinese science fiction under the current circumstances.
Many viewers initially had doubts about Chinese science fiction, but after watching "Hope", such thoughts were weakened.
Its imaginative ideas, incredible reversals, and shocking visual shots were completely unexpected before entering the screening room, giving them enough surprises.
"This is a good movie-watching experience." Most viewers thought so.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei stood up from their seats, took the microphone from the staff and walked to the stage. They felt the good atmosphere of the scene along the way, which showed that the audience recognized "Hope" and they also had a sense of honor in their hearts.
.
Wen Muye, Liu Yi, Kong Sheng and Li Xue also took to the stage in their respective screening rooms. The enthusiastic response at the scene made them relieved, relieved some of the pressure, and picked up the microphone to prepare for the interview.
For the foreigners in the five halls, these film and television practitioners from China are very strange. It can be said that they have never met each other.
Let your works speak for yourself, which is the best way to understand and communicate in an environment where you are in the same industry but in different places.
The success of "Hope" has made many foreigners interested in this person from the Chinese production team, and the media are also eager to try out the following interviews.
"Where does this story come from? Which novel is it adapted from?" the reporter asked.
"It's not an adaptation of a novel. It was an inspiration for a story we had before handing in our graduation project last year." Liu Yifei replied.
The foreigners at the scene showed surprised expressions. This short film was so exciting, but they didn't expect that it was only inspired by a story. They thought it was adapted from a Chinese science fiction novel.
From what Liu Yifei said, the inspiration for this story was to submit a graduation project, but now that such a graduation project appears on the international stage in Cannes, they find it very interesting.
"How did you create a script like "Hope" from a story inspiration? Are there any changes before that?" In the second screening room, the reporter asked Liu Yi.
Liu Yi said: "The overall framework of the story was provided by the producers and the male and female protagonists of "Hope" Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei. I was just responsible for sorting out the story line and details."
"Everyone has seen that there are several flashback scenes in "Hope", which are CG scenes that took place on Earth. These scenes are used to explain the background of the world and the origin of the story."
"Actually, the CG clip was originally complete. In the first version of "Hope," it was concentrated at the beginning, totaling two minutes."
"The reason why we broke it up is to make the rhythm of the story and the emotions generated by the camera more compact and ups and downs, so we have this second version."
The reason why Liu Yi and others made this second version of "Hope" was to delete some scenes and save some time to comply with Cannes' short film review standards.
Another reason for doing this is to make the editing style suitable for the European and American markets.
This is like writing a novel. The first chapter is all background settings and there is no protagonist. At the beginning of online novels, readers would not think there was any problem with this because of the novelty. However, once they read too many novels, they will get tired of it.
Meaningless writing.
The same goes for film and television dramas. In the first version the year before last, the two-minute CG scene of the earth's disaster was at the beginning of "Hope". The two-minute scene was also used to introduce the background and the origin of the story.
This kind of editing style is a very normal basic method of montage editing with a logical sequence.
Due to the lack of sci-fi film and television market in China, no matter how it is edited, the audience will still feel fresh, so they are also talking about the first version of "Hope".
However, if this version is placed in Europe and the United States, it takes a full two minutes at the beginning to introduce the background setting, and when the protagonist does not appear, the plot that lacks the main body for a long time will have a dissuasive effect on European and American audiences who have watched too much science fiction.
After Liu Yi adjusted the script, he broke up the two-minute setting and picked it out, so that the beginning of the story started directly from the main plot of the male and female protagonists.
It doesn’t talk about any setting or background at the beginning, it only talks about the main lens language, allowing the audience to see, understand, and analyze by themselves, and then insert clips about background and setting at the right time according to the plot.
Explain the suspense.
In this way, those who don't read much science fiction may need to watch this version of "Hope" a few times before they can fully understand it.
But once you can understand it, you will feel that this version of "Hope" has a full story rhythm, and the details and foreshadowing of every shot cannot be missed.
Judging from the screening just now, the audience was amazed from time to time, which shows that Liu Yi and his team's second adaptation of "Hope" was successful.
"Wen Mino, I heard that you are only 23 years old and graduated from college last year. However, in the "Hope" you shot, many viewers were amazed by the overwhelming design of the scene and the two shots just now. How did you do it?
?How are these lenses with a strong sense of space designed?”
In the third screening room, the reporter asked Wen Muye.
Facing such an occasion abroad for the first time, Wen Mino was very shy: "A lot of science fiction is unknown to us. I think it is precisely because of the unknown that we have bolder and broader imaginations, because we are in this aspect."
His thoughts are not bound."
The audience nodded thoughtfully.
If there are too many themes, those who will follow suit and learn from them will flock in, and the market will slowly lose creativity and originality.
How many people will go to great lengths to innovate if they can follow the trend and make money?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It is precisely because Chinese science fiction is full of unknowns, which means that everything is possible.
The toppling scene, the 3D shots shot with a non-3D camera, the simple yet full-scale spatial split-level shots that are full of visual effects...
All this shows that "Hope" has found their own answers from the unknown fields of Chinese science fiction. It not only surprises the audience, but also triggers professionals to think and re-examine science fiction lenses and the Chinese science fiction market.
manner.
"In my opinion, "Hope" can be a complete story, but if you look at the details, it is not a complete story. It is more like a fragment of the complete story. What I want to ask is whether you will film "Hope"
Into a complete movie?”
In the fourth screening room, the reporter asked Kong Sheng.
Kong Sheng nodded slightly: "You have a very keen vision. Yes, "Hope" has a complete story, and we are preparing for its movie. Maybe we can start shooting next year or the year after next at the latest. If everything goes well, it will
It will be a complete series of movies."
The audience was surprised as they did not expect this Chinese production team to be so bold.
"Hope" may represent the beginning of China's science fiction film and television, but thinking about making a series of movies at the beginning is not an ordinary ambition.
But isn’t the so-called ambition possessed by anyone who pursues something? This also means that this team has enough confidence to complete it.
The audience present watched the screening of "Hope" just now. Its brilliance and excellence were difficult to describe for a while, but after hearing Kong Sheng's words, they more or less had expectations for the movie "Hope".
"In the entire short film, there are no supporting characters except the male and female protagonists. What did you think about it?"
In the fifth screening room, the reporter asked Li Xue.
Li Xue said: "The whole story has three parts. The "Hope" just screened is the story of the third part. In this story, there are only male and female protagonists. This is the design of the script."
The reporter asked: "In other words, if "Hope" was made into a movie, there would only be two male and female protagonists in the entire movie?"
Li Xue nodded: "Eighty to ninety percent of the plot has only two characters, the male and female protagonist."
"Oh!" The people present were shocked.
In a two-hour movie, 80% to 90% of the plot only has two characters, the male and female protagonist?
They thought for a moment that there seemed to be no such movie in the history of global cinema.
They also couldn't imagine how just two characters could support a movie with a grand world view.
What does the team of "Hope" want to do? Do they want to break international constraints and create history and win an Oscar as a Chinese?
They didn't know the plans of the "Hope" team, but what Li Xue revealed maximized the publicity effect, making everyone present eager to make a movie about "Hope" and go to the cinema to watch it before it was released.
"Excuse me, what is your relationship?"
In the first screening room, the staff reminded that the first round of screening interviews was about to end. The reporter took the time to ask Chu Xuan the last question.
During the screening, the audience only watched the short film, but these media reporters paid more attention to it. Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, the two obvious principals of "Hope", were also within their focus of observation.
During the movie, the young man and woman held hands and whispered intimately from time to time. Media reporters had speculations about the relationship between the two, but they also hoped that the two could confirm this with their own words.
After all, we are engaged in news, and of course we hope that the news we get will bring extra benefits.
"Ms. Liu Yifei is my fiancée." Chu Xuan said.
"Wow!!" The fans present were greatly surprised. Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei are already engaged? Are they finally getting married?
Li Congcheng, Fan Congcheng, Liu Jialin and others shouted, followed by some cheers.
They were all smiles, and the title fiancée came only after they got engaged. Although engagement and marriage are private matters, there are many domestic celebrities who have hidden marriages, and it is difficult for outsiders to know the details.
But they know the situation of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei very well. Even though they are better than a couple, they are still in the state of boyfriend and girlfriend.
At first glance, Chu Xuan admitted on the international stage that he and Liu Yifei are an unmarried couple, which is equivalent to a situation where they are engaged and about to get married in the eyes of outsiders.
Once "Hope" becomes famous during Cannes and eventually wins an award, the identities of Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei as producers and the male and female protagonists will definitely be investigated and paid attention to by some people.
Chu Xuan's capital status will definitely be exposed in the eyes of some big guys, but if Liu Yifei is just an actress's girlfriend, she will definitely be looked down upon by some foreign big guys.
After all, in foreign vanity fairs, capital and celebrities are basically in a relationship of interest.
But if you are engaged or married, your status and status are completely different.
Chu Xuan disclosed his post-engagement relationship before they were engaged, which undoubtedly elevated Liu Yifei's status.
"Xiao Xuan thief has a sense of security." Li Congcheng chuckled.
Fan Zhitong and Liu Jialin nodded and looked at the two people on the stage with interesting eyes.
"Are they getting married?" Zhang Ziyi asked Chen Kaige curiously after hearing Chu Xuan's words. Zou Xun and others beside her listened intently.
Chen Kaige was noncommittal and smiled without saying a word.
Of course he knew that the young couple were not engaged yet. The reason why Chu Xuan said this was probably because he expected that some interested people would investigate their information, and combined with the identity relationship that Chu Xuan proactively admitted, Liu Yifei and him were considered to do things together.
Just as Li Sheng and others thought, Chu Xuan was raising Liu Yifei's status, or Chu Xuan wanted to tie Liu Yifei and him together in the international entertainment industry.
It seems that this couple not only wants to be a national couple, but also wants to go global and become a world-class on-screen husband and wife team?
"This is interesting." He felt very interesting in his heart, and he was looking forward to the day when the couple became famous on the international stage and how overseas audiences would feel about them.
It can only be said that when a person's status is high, a lot of people will think about it no matter what he says.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Chu Xuan on the stage said that he didn’t think about it that much at all, but now that it is April and the August proposal is getting closer, he
This is to warm yourself up in advance and be brave in advance.
Of course, it was also to make Liu Yifei happy.
"I'm very satisfied with this answer." Liu Yifei took Chu Xuan's hand and walked off the stage.
She really didn't expect that Chu Xuan would say that she was his fiancée.
Although the relationship between the two was an unmarried couple, everyone in the advanced class at Yale University in New Haven knew about it, and later the Macrons and others also knew it.
But on the international stage in Europe, facing reporters from all over the world, if Chu Xuan disclosed his identity, the situation and meaning in New Haven would be completely different.
Since the two were still boyfriend and girlfriend, Chu Xuan dared to say this, which made her feel very sweet.
As Li Zhengtong said, Chu Xuan always made her feel safe on very important occasions.
Liu Xiaoli saw the two children coming back, smiled and shook her head.
What was originally a good screening interview suddenly turned into a large-scale dog-food show. This reversal was comparable to the reversal of "Hope" and caught people off guard.
The first round of screenings ended, and under the instructions of the staff, the audience began to leave.
"The response from the audience is good. Although good response does not mean that the final voting result is good, it will affect the direction and judgment of the judges to a certain extent. In short, it is a good phenomenon." Wang Jiawei said from the back row, getting up and preparing to leave.
"Let's go first." Chen Kaige came over to say hello, and left the screening hall with Wang Jiawei, Chen Hong, and Li Zhengyi.
"It's very beautiful. I think it will win the prize." Zhang Ziyi and Zou Xun gave a thumbs up, looked at each other and smiled with the young couple before leaving.
After everyone left the screening room, only a family of three remained, and the screening room suddenly seemed empty.
Within a few minutes, the second round of audiences, judges, and moviegoers entered the venue one after another.
Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei repeated the actions of the first round, stood up to greet each other, went on stage to say a few words to start the show, and then sat back to watch "Hope" broadcast again.
Rewatching an already familiar movie is a boring thing.
But enjoying the exclamations from the audience due to the stunning visual effects and reversal, the family of three did not lose any interest.
Having your own works appreciated by a steady stream of people on the international stage is a great sense of honor, and it also satisfies your vanity.
In other words, it's pretty cool.
Until 11 o'clock in the morning, after the interview session ended, the first phase of the four-round screening of the "Hope" short film came to an end.
The ten days of the screening are divided into three stages with arrangements of five days, three days and two days.
After each stage, Cannes will announce the real-name voting results for the works in each competition unit in this stage.
It will be clear at a glance which works will advance to the next selection stage and which works will not be selected for this year's Cannes selection.
"It's over." Liu Yifei stood up, stretched, turned around and watched the last group of spectators leave from the exit.
Some fans looked at her and waved to her. Liu Yifei smiled back and raised her hand to wave to say goodbye to the fans and audience.
"Let's go, go out and meet them and ask what's going on." Chu Xuan took Liu Yifei's hand and walked out.
Liu Xiaoli picked up her bag and slung it over her right shoulder, then followed the two children out of the screening room.
