Wu Jianye, He Qing and others stood at the door of the Festival Theater to greet the audience who came to watch the movie today. Just like the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, after the opening ceremony, there will be two weeks of movie watching, Berlin
The film festival organizers will screen participating films in major cinemas.
For movies whose copyrights have not been sold, this is a huge opportunity to showcase themselves, and many film producers will shuttle around various theaters to find movies they are satisfied with.
Now Matthew Murphy is doing such work.
But for Wu Jianye, he came just for the awards ceremony on the last day. I don’t know whether he will win or not, but he must at least have a sense of participation. The most important thing is to establish a good cooperative relationship with European film producers.
However, it is precisely because "New Dragon Inn" has been released in Europe and the United States that it was screened at the Berlin Film Festival today. Not many film producers came. The most important ones were film critics and audiences from major film magazines.
Even if there are film producers, they are not here for the movie, but for Wu Jianye. Wu Jianye has proved with three movies that there is a market for his movies in Europe, and he will always stand with the right people.
Side, is their motto.
Since Wu Jianye has already succeeded, the possibility of his future success is greater than that of some new directors.
"Director Wu, I am Tom Branson of England. This is my business card. I hope to have a chat with you after today's screening!"
Wu Jianye has received many such invitations, and he always talks to them with a smile on his face to find a time to sit down.
Wu Ziniu and Hou Yong also accompanied Wu Jianye and stood at the door, watching Wu Jianye chatting and laughing with these European film producers, looking very envious. As the director of "Evening Bell", he is only a film director. His films include
Bayi Studio produces, which means he wants to sell the film, so this matter has nothing to do with him.
In fact, it has nothing to do with Bayi Film Studio, but is handled by people from China Film Group, just like the first movie "Raise the Red Lantern" shot by Wu Jianye.
The reason why Wu Jianye has this privilege is not because of Tangting Culture, but because of Fengge Entertainment. As a co-production, the overseas copyright of "New Dragon Inn" is not managed by China Film.
This was also one of Wu Jianye’s original intentions when he founded Fengge Entertainment.
Wu Jianye now belongs to a special category in China. Even without the Tangting culture, Wu Jianye can still shoot the movies he wants as the director of Fengge Entertainment, thus bypassing many domestic regulations on the film industry.
But Wu Ziniu and Hou Yongyong can't.
As the main screening hall of the Berlin Film Festival, the Festival Theater can accommodate 1,300 seats. It was quickly filled up by audiences, media reporters and film critics. As the lights in the screening hall were turned off, the screening of "New Dragon Inn" officially began.
Sitting in his seat, Wu Jianye could clearly hear the screams of the audience. They had never heard of such a fighting scene and had only seen it in this movie.
It gave these people a different feeling.
Especially during the last desert battle, the audience was mesmerized. Wu Jianye could clearly hear the gasps from the audience behind him.
Wu Jianye smiled and said nothing. The big scenes of science fiction movies in this era have not yet begun to bombard the audience with visual effects, and the emergence of martial arts movies has filled this technical gap.
Of course, as Wu Jianye said to Moritz before, the differences between Eastern and Western cultures make these audiences still feel confused about some plots of the movie, but this does not delay them from understanding that this is a movie.
Excellent movie.
In fact, it’s not that there are no science fiction movies, just very few. As a country that promotes science fiction movies, Hollywood is also limited by technical problems at this time and has not really produced science fiction movies that have a global impact.
Even though they have already filmed the "Star Wars" series that influenced them.
"Star Wars" has become the culture of the United States in just a few hundred years since the founding of the country. It can be said that it has influenced a generation of young people in North America. However, outside of North America, this movie did not cause much of a sensation.
Especially in later generations, this series of movies can only reap huge box office in North America, but outside of North America, they cannot be compared with the Marvel series of superheroes.
In fact, by that time, the setting of "Star Wars" had long been outdated, and what was sold in North America was just feelings. It can be seen that feelings can make a lot of money in any country.
After the movie ended, 1,300 people in the theater stood up and applauded. This is a customary thing for them and cannot be used as a reference for the quality of the movie. Therefore, the ten-minute applause mentioned in the media is not at all
It's just to deceive outsiders who don't know the business.
To really know whether the film is successful at the film festival, one is to look at the final performance at the awards ceremony, the other is to look at the film festival's program scores, and the last is to look at what price the film can be sold here.
Wu Jianye went on stage to thank the audience for coming to watch, and today's screening of "New Dragon Inn" ended.
The movie "Rain Man" will be shown here tomorrow!
As for Wu Ziniu's "Evening Bell", it was scheduled on the 13th, not at the Festival Theatre, but in another cinema.
"What's the next plan?" After walking out of the screening hall, Wu Ziniu came to Wu Jianye. As for Chen Kaige, it would not be so easy to see him again during the film festival. Firstly, to avoid suspicion, and secondly.
Even their jury will start to watch every participating film and cast their votes to decide the winners of this film festival.
In order to be fair, even Moritz will not know the specific results of the vote. Like ordinary filmmakers, he can only find out at the closing ceremony on the 24th.
Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Why don't you take a stroll around Berlin? Come here once. If you don't go around, it will be in vain."
Wu Ziniu said regretfully: "It's a pity that this is not Venice, otherwise we could have asked you to rent a yacht and take us out to sea."
Apparently Wu Ziniu found out about their participation in the Venice Film Festival from Fang Shu and others.
"There will be opportunities in the future!" Wu Jianye said.
Wu Ziniu suggested: "Shall we go to the Berlin Wall to see it?"
Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Didn't you look at it when you came?"
Wu Ziniu and others did not come by plane, but by train, which lasted seven days and nights...
"Hey, don't mention it, this journey was a hassle for us. We first took the train to Erenhot, and then from Erenhot to Mongolia, Mongolia entered the Soviet Union. The train took five days and five nights in the Soviet Union to Irkutsk.
, Novosibirsk, the shores of Lake Baikal, and then took a special bus from Moscow to Warsaw, Poland, and finally arrived in East Berlin, and took a bus from East Berlin to West Berlin..."
"Okay, don't tell me about your embarrassing car journey." Wu Jianye quickly interrupted. If Wu Ziniu took his mother with him, it would be a completely embarrassing journey.
"You have to take care of us when you go back!" Wu Ziniu pestered Wu Jianye and said.
"Why?" Wu Jianye was unhappy because he had to pay for it.
"I don't rely on anything. Anyway, if you don't care, we won't be classmates!" Wu Ziniu said shamelessly.
Tao Zeru and others were amused when they saw Wu Ziniu playing rogue with Wu Jianye here, but they had indeed taken the train to get out of their psychological shadow. It would be great if they could really go back by plane.
Wu Jianye looked at Tao Zeru helplessly and said, "Let's talk about what happens next!"
Wu Ziniu said: "Then I'll take it as your promise!"
When I came to the Berlin Wall, I saw that there was only a barbed wire fence between them. The net was covered with names and wreaths in memory of those who died trying to cross the boundary between East and West.
Looking at these names, Wu Jianye smiled. It seems that smuggling does not only happen in China. Isn't this the same as swimming from China to the Xiangjiang River...
In fact, many tourist attractions are more about the stories behind them. Wu Jianye is actually quite indifferent to the so-called Berlin Wall. If the meaning behind it is eliminated, it is just a story.
Just a wall.
Wu Jianye was indifferent to the Berlin Wall, but others were very interested. For example, a literary young man like He Qing was dragging Zhang Manyu to take pictures of himself.
"It's okay to take pictures, but don't compare yourself to V, it's too vulgar!" Wu Jianye said.
"I want you to take care of it!" He Qingqing gave Wu Jianye a blank look, pulled Zhang Manyu to continue filming, and even made a provocative V-sign...
But it was also when he was looking at He Qing that Wu Jianye saw another woman, Isabelle Adjani, the most beautiful woman in France today.
Next to her was a man with long hair, three-dimensional facial features, deep eyes, and an elegant aristocratic temperament all over his body. This man was no unknown person, he was the famous Hollywood actor Daniel Lewis.
In later generations, some people called Daniel Lewis the greatest actor in the world. This title is naturally subjective to a certain extent, but it also just shows that he is a great actor.
Wu Jianye saw them, and they also saw Wu Jianye.
Although Daniel Lewis came to Berlin this time, he did not walk on the red carpet. He spent more time accompanying Isabelle Adjani, whom he just met and fell in love with immediately.
"Honey, what's wrong?" Daniel Lewis asked immediately when he saw his girlfriend next to him paying attention to an Asian man.
Although Daniel Lewis has achieved superhuman achievements in his acting career, in terms of life, Daniel Lewis is not so successful. His desire to control women is just as good as his acting skills.
At the same time, the master did not end up with Isabel Adjani. Six years after the two fell in love, Isabel Adjani gave birth to a son for Daniel Lewis, and Daniel Lewis said that he did not want to be
After the father's excuse, the relationship between the two came to an end.
As for the real reason, it's just that when Daniel Lewis was in love with Isabel Adjani, he visited the writer Arthur Miller, whom he had admired for a long time. By chance, he met Miller's daughter Rebecca, and the two fell in love at first sight.
Quickly developed into lovers......
"Nothing, I saw the director of "New Dragon Inn", Wu Jianye!" Isabel Adjani said.
When the movie "New Dragon Inn" was released in Europe, Isabel Adjani also watched the movie and fell in love with it at that time. Wu Jian came to the Berlin Film Festival at night, so she naturally knew about Wu Jian.
The appearance of Ye now saw Wu Jianye himself preparing to go over and say hello.
However, Daniel Lewis did not care about this, "It turns out he is Wu Jianye!"
This is the attitude of Daniel Lewis. As a top actor in Hollywood, his eyes are always on those top Hollywood directors. He is destined to never cooperate with Chinese directors like Wu Jianye in his life, so even if
Wu Jianye won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival. In his eyes, he was still just a passerby whose name he had heard.
Isabel Adjani did not hear what Daniel Lewis meant and walked towards Wu Jianye.
"Director Wu, hello!"
Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Hello, Miss Adjani!"
"you know me?"
"Of course, I think there are very few filmmakers in the film industry who don't know Miss Adjani. I've seen all of your movies too!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.
"Thank you. I have also watched Director Wu's movies, especially the movie "The Last Emperor". I like it very much!" Isabelle Adjani said.
After the two complimented each other, Daniel Lewis said impatiently: "Okay, honey, it's time for us to leave."
Isabel Adjani showed an apologetic smile to Wu Jianye and left.
This brief encounter was nothing to Wu Jianye. As for Daniel Lewis's attitude, Wu Jianye just put him in an inconspicuous position in his impression.
Wu Ziniu waited for them to leave before saying: "Old Wu, let's go to the TV Tower in East Berlin for dinner. I heard that the TV Tower in East Berlin is the tallest TV tower in the world."
Wu Jianye turned around and said with a smile: "Even if you want to go, you have to change money first before going!"
There are two currencies separated by a wall, East Germany uses the East Mark, and West Germany uses the SMS.
If you are in East Berlin, you can exchange East Marks for West Marks at a ratio of 1:1, but in West Berlin, 1 West Mark can be exchanged for 5 East Marks. Tourists from West Berlin exchange 5 times the East Marks for East Berlin.
Consumption.
After Wu Jianye and others exchanged for East Marks, they crossed the Berlin Wall and came to East Berlin!
Passing through the Berlin Wall, you can also see the gap between the two sides. On the West Berlin side of the Berlin Wall, there is only an iron fence, while on the East Berlin side, there are strict inspections. The high leather boots of East German soldiers with police dogs are dark and shiny.
They are all wearing neat military uniforms and are tall and mighty.
When he saw them, Wu Jianye couldn't help but think of the image of Germany in the World War II movies he had seen.
Separated by the same wall, we can also see the difference between East and West Berlin. The night in West Berlin is as bright as the day, with busy traffic, feasting and lively life.
In East Berlin, there were a few dim lights in the darkness, and it was quiet and deserted.
When they came to the TV Tower, Wu Jianye sighed again. As one of the few tourist places in East Berlin, there was a long queue, and the winding queue entered the TV Tower lobby.
Go to the elevator door...
Seeing the excited expressions of Wu Ziniu and others, Wu Jianye had no choice but to accompany them in line. However, when they arrived at the revolving restaurant, they saw a pair of people they had just met.