When they came to the hotel where they stayed, Xiao Douding and Brother Song were still busy outside. Under Chen Zhixi's Zhang Luo, everyone went back to their rooms to reverse the jet lag after eating something briefly.

The team led by Sister Hong is mainly for Tang Wei, but the family and Director Li Yu and his party will not arrive until noon tomorrow, so they will settle here for the time being. Moreover, the "Lust and Caution" team stayed in Venice for only three days, the opening ceremony on the 29th, the morning press conference on the 30th, the premiere in the evening, the reception reception on the 31st, the promotional photos and so on. On September 1, he will fly to Canada to participate in the Toronto Film Festival.

As for whether the winner can win the award, it depends on the notice of the organizer, if he can win the award, then Li Yu will attend in person, and if the actor hopes to win the award, the actor will come.

Obviously, Li Yu focused his propaganda on North America, after all, compared to Europe, North America is the big ticket warehouse. Of course, he also attaches great importance to the mainland film market, which is gradually beginning to recover. It is said that the big scissors in the mainland review are very powerful, and Shengsheng took the full version of 157 minutes Shengsheng scissors for 145 minutes, which also includes temporarily adding some content for consistency after cutting.

Even so, instead of complaining, Li Yu was asked this question in an interview, sincerely agreeing with it, and at the same time excusing the mainland's censorship system. For example, there is no grading system in the mainland, and the acceptance level of children should be considered.

Sister Hong, they naturally had to revolve around Tang Wei, and according to the plan, they would only leave a makeup assistant of their own company for the rookie. And for the little rookie, maybe Sister Hong's absence from her side makes her more free, more unrestrained, and free herself. Anyway, whether it's an executive agent or a makeup assistant in the company, she can handle it.

He Xin almost ate and slept all the way, slept and ate, and he was in good spirits at this time, but he didn't have to pour any jet lag. He came to the room and took a hot shower to wash away the fatigue of the journey.

I changed into a light-colored T-shirt and the same cropped pants and made myself a cup of tea.

Every time he comes to Europe, he especially likes the small balcony with a wrought iron railing outside a hotel room that looks old on the outside. The small balcony was always kept quiet and there was a small coffee table between two chairs.

Sit on the balcony, blowing the gentle sea breeze, while sipping tea, while looking at the Mediterranean Sea that has turned from green to blue outside the tourist pier not far away.

He Xin was a little hindsightly, and it wasn't until this moment that he realized that the last time he came here to live in this room, he couldn't help but smile. Don't look at Xiaodouding's usual babbling, many times she is still a very careful female paper.

It's a pity that this is not the Harbour Plaza Hotel in Cannes, across a coastal road, the beach is full of blood-pumping bikini girls, all kinds of large Yanmar, rare to see in China, very eye-catching.

He Xin sat a little bored for a while, then got up and took out his laptop from his suitcase. In this era before the birth of smartphones, laptops became a necessity for him.

Although there is wifi in the hotel now, it seems to be a lot slower than the domestic speed, but fortunately it does not affect the normal use. He habitually opened the entertainment section of the slag waves.

Most of the content is related to the Venice Film Festival:

"Orange Sky Entertainment smashed a lot of money into Venice and spent a huge amount of money to package Zhou Yun Kong Wei!"

"Anatomy of Jiang Wen: Eyes can kill, and even Huang Qiusheng admires his mind!"

"The opening of the Venice Film Festival is imminent, Chief Jia: Art has a different path!"

"Exclusive Dialogue with Zhang Guoshi: The greatest happiness can be to watch a few more movies!"

"Jiang Wen ......"

Although the film "The Sun Also Rises" has the most news, there is a title that has attracted He Xin's attention.

"The Venice Film Festival is about to kick off: 'Four Dragons and Pearls' has become the biggest hot spot!"

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"The ten-day 64th Venice Film Festival is about to kick off, and 22 films will compete for the Golden Lion Award, including Li Yu's "Lust and Caution", Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises", Li Kangsheng's "Help Me, Eros" and Diao Yinan's "The Story of Two Donkeys", four Chinese films will compete for the Golden Lion ......"

"Many people believe that this year's Venice Film Festival has too much good news for Chinese-language films. Zhang Guoshi is the chairman of the jury, and this year is the last time Marco Müller, the president of the Venice Film Festival, will be in charge of the overall situation, and it is entirely possible that he will give his favorite Chinese film one last big gift before he leaves office. Moreover, a total of 4 Chinese films were shortlisted for this year's film festival, and the proportion of winners is very large......"

Seeing this, He Xin couldn't help but chuckle. The domestic media always like to treat others with themselves, and are good at using all kinds of marginal relationships to speculate on the most beneficial situation for themselves, and then draw a definitive conclusion, which is very good at self-congratulation!

Just like during this time, the Internet is full of similar things to achieve the triple crown of Chinese movies. He Xin didn't understand at first, although Section Chief Jia won the Golden Lion last year, but Li Yu, who won the Golden Lion the year before last, 'Brokeback Mountain' "Brokeback Mountain" is a pure American movie, but the director is a Chinese-American. It is too far-fetched to be classified as a Chinese-language film by the media.

Then here is the editor's prediction for the four Chinese films shortlisted for the main competition unit:

The first place is naturally "Lust Caution", with the subtitle: "The National Teacher is My Lucky Star!"

It means that when Li Yu was a fledgling and won the Golden Bear Award in Berlin for the first time, it was one of the judges, the national teacher, who overrode public opinion and listed Li Yu's "The Wedding Banquet" and Xie Fei's "Fragrant Soul Girl" as the Golden Bear.

In addition, Li Yu has already achieved fame now, and he knows the aesthetic tastes of Westerners well, and he is obsessed with the cultural concepts and ethical customs of Orientals, so it seems that he is very important in dealing with various subjects.

And "Lust and Caution" itself is legendary, and the film has a stronger dramatic conflict than any of Li Yu's previous works, which should be good!

However, the disadvantage is that Li Yu just won the Golden Lion with "Brokeback Mountain" the year before last, and it is unlikely that he will win the award again this time, but winning an award does not seem to be a big problem.

Winning index: four stars.

In second place, it is also natural that the current hyped "Sun", with the subtitle: "I am planning to do things, and I am planning to achieve things!"

The editor took out Jiang Wen's two previous works "Sunny Days" and "The Devil is Coming" and bragged about it again, depicting Lao Jiang's talent as a ghost.

Probably the only disadvantage is that the national teacher may not let Jiang Wen "rise again" in order to avoid suspicion.

Winning index: four stars.

The third place is Li Kangsheng's "Help Me, Eros", with the subtitle: "Winning the award depends on luck!"

The reason is that Lee Kang-sung'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 compares him to Wanwan's "Lou Ye" and a copy of "Cai Mingming", thinking that the starting point is very high and he has a good understanding. Now the second work has been shortlisted for the Golden Lion, and if you are lucky, you may win a small award or two.

Award index: 2 stars.

"The Tale of Two Donkeys" accompanies the last seat, subtitled: "Low-key looking forward to the last surprise!"

Since it is a surprise, it itself shows that this is a movie that accompanies the run. Although the actor of this film is a frequent visitor to the three major festivals in Europe, the film is the art of the director, and Diao Yinan, whether in terms of popularity or previous honors, compared with the other three directors, the weight is not enough.

The editor believes that the shortlisting of "The Story of Two Donkeys" is largely due to the winning theme and filling a gap in the shortlist, but if you want to win the award, it may depend on God's will.

Award index: a heart.

A cursory look at this predictive analysis seems to make sense, but a careful analysis will reveal that this is completely the editor's speculation, completely based on the director's qualifications and previous works, and has nothing to do with the shortlisted works, which is pure nonsense.

But to be honest, this is also in line with the current audience's and media's overall evaluation of the four shortlisted films.

Although He Xin has always been very low-key on the surface, saying nonsense such as "being able to come to Venice is victory!" and "Participation!", he still has ambitions in his heart.

He didn't dare to think about the award for the actor, after all, the competition for actors' awards was too fierce, and the twenty-two films, including at least thirty or forty men with one male and two main roles, were able to stand out from them, and the difficulty was even greater than that of the film winning the Golden Lion Award.

But some other small awards should always be expected, otherwise it will be too unambitious.

In the evening, Xiao Douding and his family finally returned. Compared with Brother Song's tired face, Xiao Douding still looks energetic.

As soon as he saw He Xin, he couldn't wait to say: "Boss, our "The Story of Two Donkeys" has been screened in advance. ”

"When?" He Xin said in surprise at the same time.

"Tomorrow at nine o'clock in the morning. ”

"Uh...... Why is this a little too early?"

Don't be funny, 9 a.m. in Venice is probably equivalent to 7 a.m. in China, even if it's a weekday, it may be the time to just get up.

At this time, do you let someone else watch the movie?

Xiao Douding said unconvinced: "Boss, don't make a mistake, in this case, we are the first works to appear in all the main competition units." And now the studios are staring at the films that are shortlisted for the main competition, let alone 9 o'clock in the morning, even if it's 7 o'clock, I can guarantee that those studios will definitely come to see them! Oh, by the way, and the same goes for the media reporters. ”

Saying that, Xiao Douding also snorted: "This is still me and Lao Song entangled with the old antiques of 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 be screened this time means that the two media special shows originally arranged for me before the premiere are now only one left. It means that one of the media sessions has been brought forward before the opening. Such a good opportunity, your old man is still not satisfied?"

"It's not that I don't understand the situation, I have worked hard Mr. Hu!" He Xin said with a smile.

At the same time, he also thanked Brother Song and said, "Brother Song, I'm sorry for you." ”

Brother Song waved his hand very modestly and said with a smile: "The main thing is that Lin Yu will come to the matter, if it is replaced by me, I will definitely not be able to save this face......"

"Hey, are you saying I'm shameless?" Xiao Douding suddenly glared.

"No, no, I definitely didn't mean that. I mean you can persevere, perseverance, these advantages are something I don't have!" Brother Song hurriedly shook his head and explained with a thumbs up.

The key is that this guy instantly became extremely sincere, making people feel that what he said was true. And Xiao Douding was silent.

Seeing this, He Xin couldn't help but be a little surprised, and at the same time had to secretly think that this thing might have relied on this trick to conquer the unruly little bean ding.

Then Brother Song said to him again: "What Lin Yu said just now is indeed very right, but it may also be a double-edged sword to screen it in advance, in case the evaluation of the movie is not high, and at the same time, there is such a long time to ferment, which will not only affect the selection, but also have an adverse impact on the sale of the film." ”

He Xinyan subconsciously glanced at Xiao Douding.

Xiao Douding also nodded at him, but immediately said resolutely: "I'm very confident in our "Tale of Two Donkeys" anyway!"

He Xin pondered for a moment, and finally nodded and said, "That's right, we should all have confidence in our movies!"