Chapter five hundred and seventy-eight I have confidence in the double donkey record
When they arrived at the hotel where they were staying, Xiao Douding and Brother Song were still busy outside. With Chen Zhixi's help, everyone had a quick bite and then went back to their rooms to catch up on jet lag.
The team led by Sister Hong mainly serves Tang Wei, but she and director Li Eu will not arrive until noon tomorrow, so they will settle here temporarily. Moreover, the "Lust, Caution" team only stayed in Venice for a short time
Three days, opening ceremony on the 29th; press conference in the morning on the 30th, premiere in the evening; reception, promotional photos, etc. on the 31st. On September 1st, I will fly to Canada to participate in the Toronto Film Festival.
As for whether you can win the award, it depends on the organizer's notification. If you win the award, Li Eu will attend in person; if an actor hopes to win, the actor will come over.
Obviously, Li Yu focuses his publicity on North America. After all, compared to Europe, North America is the largest box office. Of course, he also attaches great importance to the mainland film market, which is gradually beginning to recover. It is said that the censorship in the mainland is very powerful, and there are 157
The full version of 145 minutes was shortened to 145 minutes, which also includes a part of the content that was temporarily added after the cut for the sake of continuity.
Even so, Li Yu not only did not complain, but was asked this question in an interview. While sincerely agreeing with it, he also excused the censorship system in the mainland. For example, there is no grading system in the mainland, and children's acceptance level must be considered.
Sister Hong and the others will naturally revolve around Tang Wei. According to the plan, only the rookie will be left with a makeup assistant from her own company. As for the rookie, maybe the absence of Sister Hong by her side will make her freer, more unrestrained, and free.
Self. Anyway, whether it’s an executive agent or the company’s makeup assistant, she can handle it all.
He Xin almost ate and slept all the way. He was in good spirits now and didn't need any jet lag. He came to the room and took a hot shower first to wash away the fatigue of the journey.
She put on a casual outfit of a light-colored T-shirt and cropped pants of the same style, and made herself a cup of tea.
Every time he comes to Europe, he especially likes the small balcony with wrought iron railings outside the hotel room that looks old and not too big. The small balcony is always kept very quiet, with a small coffee table between the two chairs.
Sitting on the balcony, enjoying the gentle sea breeze, sipping tea, and looking at the Mediterranean Sea that changes from green to blue outside the tourist pier not far away.
He Xin was a little belatedly aware that it was not until this moment that he realized that he had stayed in this room last time. He couldn't help but smile knowingly. Despite Xiao Douding's usual blathering, she was still a very attentive woman most of the time.
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It's a pity that this is not the Harbor Plaza Hotel in Cannes. Across the seaside road, the beach is full of bikini girls that make people's blood boil. All kinds of ocean horses are rare in China. They are very eye-catching.
He Xin sat for a while and got a little bored, so he stood up and took out his laptop from the suitcase. In this era before smartphones were born, a laptop side became a necessity for him.
Although there is wifi in hotels now, the speed seems to be much slower than in China. Fortunately, it does not affect normal use. He habitually opens the entertainment section of Zhalang.
Most of them are related to the Venice Film Festival:
"Chengtian Entertainment invested heavily in Venice and spent huge sums of money to package Zhou Yun and Kong Wei!"
"Analysis of Jiang Wen: His eyes can kill, and his mind even admires Anthony Wong!"
"The Venice Film Festival is about to open, Chief Jia: Art reaches the same goal through different paths!"
"Exclusive conversation with Zhang Guoshi: The greatest happiness is to watch more movies!"
"Jiang Wen..."
Although there is the most news about the film "The Sun Also Rises", there is a title that caught He Xin's attention.
"The Venice Film Festival is about to kick off: 'Four Dragons Playing with Pearls' has become the biggest hot spot!"
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"The ten-day 64th Venice Film Festival is about to kick off. 22 films will compete for the Golden Lion Award, including Li Eucalyptus's "Lust, Caution", Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises", Lee Kang-sheng's "The Bang Bang"
"I, the God of Love" and Diao Yinan's "A Tale of Two Donkeys", four Chinese films will compete for the Golden Lion..."
"Many people believe that this Venice Film Festival has too much good news for Chinese-language films. Zhang Guoshi is the chairman of the jury; at the same time, this year is the last time that Marco Muller, the chairman of the Venice Film Festival, will preside over the overall situation. Before he leaves office, it is completely possible.
It may be the last gift for your favorite Chinese-language films. Moreover, there are a total of 4 Chinese-language films shortlisted for this film festival, and the proportion of winning awards is very high..."
Seeing this, He Xin couldn't help but chuckle. The domestic media always like to judge others by themselves, and are good at using all kinds of irrelevant relationships to speculate on the situation that is most beneficial to them, and then come to a definite conclusion. They are very good at themselves.
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Just like during this period, the Internet was full of talk about achieving three consecutive Chinese-language film titles. He Xin couldn't understand it at first. Although Chief Jia won the Golden Lion last year, Li Yu's "Brokeback Mountain" which won the Golden Lion the year before that was
It is a pure American movie, but the director is a Chinese-American. It is actually classified as a Chinese-language movie by the media. This is so far-fetched that it is really outrageous.
Then below are the editor’s predictions for the four Chinese-language films shortlisted for the main competition:
The first one on the list is of course "Lust, Caution", with the subtitle: "The National Preceptor is My Lucky Star!"
It means that when Li Yu was just starting out, he won the Golden Bear for the first time in Berlin. It was one of the judges, the National Master, who overcame all opinions and ranked Li Yu's "The Wedding Banquet" and Jie Fei's "The Fragrant Soul Girl" as the Golden Bear.
In addition, Li Yu has become famous now, and he is well aware of Western aesthetic tastes, and is obsessed with Eastern cultural concepts and ethical customs, so he handles all kinds of subjects with ease.
"Lust, Caution" itself is legendary, and the film has stronger dramatic conflicts than any of Li Yu's past works, so it should be good to watch!
However, the disadvantage is that Li Yu just won the Golden Lion for "Brokeback Mountain" the year before last. It is unlikely that he will win the award again this time, but winning one award does not seem to be a big problem.
Award index: four stars.
The second place is also naturally the much-hyped "The Sun", with the subtitle: "It's up to me to plan, and it's up to me to succeed!"
The editor took out two of Jiang Wen's previous works, "Sunny Days" and "The Japanese Are Coming" and boasted about them, describing Jiang Wen's talent as that of a genius.
Probably the only disadvantage is that the Imperial Preceptor may not let Jiang Wen "rise again" in order to avoid suspicion.
Award index: four stars.
The third place is Li Kangsheng's "Help Me, God of Love", with the subtitle: "Winning the prize depends on luck!"
The reason is that Lee Kang-sheng's debut film won the Best New Director Award at the Busan Film Festival and the Golden Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival. The editor compared him to Wanwan's "Lou Ye" and a remake of "Tsai Ming-liang".
asxs. Very good, very understanding. Now his second work has been shortlisted for the Golden Lion. If he is lucky, he may win one or two small awards.
Award index: two stars.
"A Tale of Two Donkeys" will accompany you to the last place, subtitle: "Low-key and look forward to the final surprise!"
Since it is a surprise, it itself shows that it is a companion movie. The editor also analyzed that although the male protagonist of this film is a frequent visitor to three major European festivals, movies are the director's art, and Diao Yinan no matter
In terms of popularity and previous honors, compared with the other three directors, they are not important enough.
The editor believes that "A Tale of Two Donkeys" was shortlisted to a large extent because of its winning theme and filling a certain gap in the shortlist, but it may depend on God's will if it wants to win.
Award-winning index: a heart.
At first glance, this prediction and analysis seems to make sense, but after careful analysis, you will find that this is completely the editor's conjecture, based entirely on the director's qualifications and previous works, and has nothing to do with the shortlisted works.
Pure nonsense.
But to be honest, this is also in line with the current overall evaluation of the four shortlisted films by the audience and the media.
Although He Xin has always been very low-key on the surface, saying such nonsense as "being able to come to Venice is a victory!" and "participation is the most important thing!", he still has ambitions in his heart.
He didn't dare think about winning the Best Actor award. After all, the competition for actor awards was too fierce. There were twenty-two films, and the main roles included male and female actors, at least thirty or forty. Being able to stand out from them was even more difficult than winning the Golden Lion Award for a movie.
is more difficult.
But you have to look forward to other small awards, otherwise you will be too unambitious.
In the evening, Xiao Douding and his wife finally came back. Compared to Brother Song's tired face, Xiao Douding still looked energetic.
As soon as he saw He Xin, he couldn't wait to say: "Boss, our "Tale of Two Donkeys" has been screened in advance."
"When?" He Xin was surprised and couldn't help but asked in surprise.
"Nine o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Uh...why, is it too early at this point?"
Don't be ridiculous, nine o'clock in the morning in Venice is most likely equivalent to seven o'clock in the morning in China. Even if it is a working day, it may be the time when you have just woken up.
At this time, do you want others to watch the movie?
Xiao Douding, however, looked unconvinced and said: "Boss, make no mistake, in this case we will be the earliest works to debut in all the main competition units. And now the film producers are focusing on the films shortlisted for the main competition units, let alone 9 a.m.
Now, even if it’s seven o’clock, I’m sure the film producers will come to see it! Oh, by the way, so will the media reporters.”
As he spoke, Xiao Douding also hummed: "Lao Song and I struggled with those old antiques from the organizing committee for a long time, and finally alarmed Mr. Marco Muller, and finally made an exception for us. And
Getting the opportunity to screen this time means that there are only two media special screenings originally arranged for me before the premiere. Now one of the media special screenings has been moved forward before the opening. Such a good opportunity, dear old man
Are you still not satisfied?"
"I don't understand the situation, thank you for your hard work, Mr. Hu!" He Xin said with a smile.
At the same time, he also thanked Brother Song and said, "Brother Song, I'm sorry to trouble you."
Brother Song waved his hands modestly and said with a smile: "The main thing is that Lin Yu will cause trouble. If it were me, I would definitely not be able to save this face..."
"Hey, are you saying I'm shameless?" Xiao Douding suddenly stared.
"No, no, no, I definitely didn't mean that. What I mean is that you can persevere and persevere. These advantages are something I don't have!" Brother Song hurriedly shook his head and pointed his thumbs up in explanation.
The key point is that this guy suddenly became extremely sincere, making people feel that what he said was true. And Xiao Douding actually stopped saying anything.
When He Xin saw this, he couldn't help but be a little surprised. At the same time, he had to secretly think that this guy might have relied on this trick to conquer the rebellious little Douding.
Then Brother Song said to him again: "What Lin Yu said just now is indeed correct, but screening in advance may be a double-edged sword. If the movie is not well received and has such a long time to ferment, not only will it be
It will affect the selection and also have a negative impact on film sales."
After congratulating the news, he glanced at Little Douding subconsciously.
Xiao Douding also nodded towards him, but immediately said resolutely: "I am very confident in our "Two Donkeys" anyway!"
He Xin pondered for a moment, then finally nodded and said: "That's right, we should all have confidence in our own movies!"