"Mr. Walker, may I sit next to you?" spoke in French, and if he wanted to speak English, Guy would say without raising his head: "The seat is hosted by the organizers of Cannes." ”

If it was French, Guy looked up and recognized Thomson, who was competing for the best actor, and said, "Of course." ”

Thomson is French, but at the age of seventeen, he ran to Hollywood, and the actors who are looking for opportunities in Hengdian in China can be called Hengpiao, and Thomson can be called "Hao Piao".

At the opening ceremony, the film was screened, so the attendance rate was quite high, there were at least 400 people at the scene, and no other reporters came in, only official reporters.

Mainly because of the fear that the reporter will circulate the film, the official reporter of the festival will only take two photos of the reaction of the moviegoers, and after the film will conduct some text interviews, and publish them on the official website of the film festival.

Many online self-media fooled people into saying how they went to the scene, but in fact, it was carried from the official website, and an American Internet celebrity was debunked at the Berlin Film Festival a few days ago.

It was said before that the Palais du Cinema was a grand theater, but it was not enough, the Globe Theater had seats of 1,800 people, so the Palais du Cinema de Cannes could only be said to be a medium-sized theater, and "Cinema Paradiso" began to be screened-

At the beginning, an old woman in Sicily is calling to find her son Duoduo, but it is difficult to find his son's phone, although Duoduo has not returned to the town for thirty years, but the old woman thinks that Duoduo must know about it.

Or the style of "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", with a soft camera movement.

The camera pans to Rome, and the successful Duoduo listens to the woman sleeping next to him say that his mother has called and recognizes her as someone else.

From here, it can be seen that the woman is not Duoduo's wife or long-term girlfriend.

The woman told Duoduo that Ai Fei Duo died, and Duo Duo, who didn't care just now, heard about it, and suddenly his face changed, and his mind began to recall the incident with Ai Fei Duo.

At that time, Duoduo was only five years old, and he was a deco-priest of the godfathers in the town, and he literally rang the bell next to him when the godfather prayed, calling the holy bell in a religious name, and ringing it to remind everyone of God's contribution to humanity.

After the prayer, the deacons and the church father take off their vests, and there is an interesting detail here, the priest hangs the clothes on the hanger, and the little Duoduo hangs the clothes in the hands of the Virgin.

The only cinema in Sicily that needs to be approved by the Catholic Censorship Board before it can show films, so the priest, after the prayers, has another job to review the films, and if there is affection, even if it is just a kiss and hug, the bell will be ringed, and the backstage projectionist Efedo will mark the film to minus it.

Duoduo hid behind the curtain to watch, and at a young age, he also thought the movie was very interesting, so he also ran to the screening room twice in three days, and became familiar with the projectionist Ai Feiduo.

When I was a child, Duoduo's hobby was to collect discarded film and imitate the lines and actions in it.

At this time, the movie has opened for fifteen minutes, but the plot has not unfolded at all, Guy is expressionless, he grew up in France and has no sense of substitution for this plot, what has a sense of substitution is the film cuts.

The advent of the digital age evolved into numbering the film first, and then working on the film according to the number, and finally it became that a series of products can be completed with a computer.

At this point in the film, Duoduo began to explain Duoduo's family affairs, Duoduo also has a younger sister, but his father disappeared during the war, and he relied on his mother to support the family's affairs, and his mother kept telling Duoduo that his father would come back one day, and he didn't know if he was lying to himself or a white lie to Duoduo.

Duoduo's family conditions are not good, and he definitely has no spare money for Duoduo to watch movies, so sometimes Duoduo will steal the money from his family to buy milk and buy tickets to watch movies with his classmates.

It is obvious that the act of stealing money is to be beaten, whether at home or abroad, and when he is beaten, Efedo will come out to solve the siege.

As the only cinema in the town, it is the only entertainment activity for the residents of the town in addition to making people, so they are all full, there are families coming, there are also young couples, and a group of strong guys come, and the cinema is ...... It is inappropriate to mix fish and dragons, and it is accurate to call it "varied", such as smoking, snorting melon seeds, and even jerking off.

In particular, a few strong guys were given shots, and the cinema was not an entertainment place to be precise, but the most relaxing place for the residents of the town.

No matter who stares intently at the screen, when there is an intimate scene in the plot, whether men, women and children, their eyes reveal their expectations, the result must be reduced, boos are all over the cinema, and there are shouts "I have watched movies for 20 years, and there has not been a kiss scene", "I knew it would be like this", "When will it be, when".

A shallow smile appeared on the corner of Guy's mouth, not because the plot was funny, but because of the era when the family watched movies together, and he also experienced it, his parents and grandparents took him and his younger brother to the cinema together.

It just so happens that the movie shown in the cinema in the plot is Chaplin's classic "City Lights", a homeless man pretends to be a rich man and punches a blind flower girl to cure his eyes, Guy remembers the plot and is one of his favorite movies.

"It's hard to imagine that I was watching other films in the movies. Guy felt like he was being matryoshka dolls.

Guy knew that it was not good to have too many images from other movies in the film, and he knew that it would strip away the sense of substitution and distract attention, but he didn't feel it at all in "Cinema Paradiso".

"After the last movie was about the mood of the male protagonist, "Paradise Cinema" went one step further. Guy felt that this was really director Chu Shun's unique skill.

Little Duoduo thinks it is fun to show movies, so he asks Alfedo to teach him, but Alfedo tells Duoduo that the projectionist has no future and no money, so he does not agree.

In the movie, the residents of the town who come to watch the movie are also depicted lightly or severely, such as coming to the cinema basically to sleep, and the couple who are always affectionate, etc.

The next plot is that there is finally a conflict, because of the film collected by Duoduo, the house is on fire.

As we all know, in the past, film was made of nitrocellulose, which was not flammable, but extremely flammable, and kerosene lamps easily burned without paying attention.

The mother must have been furious, hugged her sister, beat and cried a lot, and also dropped most of Ai Feiduo.

"It's a shame to be such a big person. ”

"You're only going to hurt him. ”

"Can't let him go to the cinema again. ”

Strictly speaking, the film collected by Duoduo was picked up in the background, and it was none of Ai Feido's business, but this matter was jointly and severally responsible, and Ai Feiduo had no way to refute it.

Duoduo's love for movies has not been affected, and he will still come to watch movies, but Ai Feiduo is hindered by the words he promised to Duoduo's mother before, so he has a cold attitude and ignores Duoduo.

Why Duoduo chose the child of the spirit, it can be seen from the cleverness of retreating here: "Ai Feiduo, don't scold my aunt for asking me to deliver food." ”

In fact, the camera shows that Duoduo saw the aunt who delivered the meal, and then ran out, obviously taking the initiative to come.

"I told my mom that the negative was not given to me by you, it was not your fault, I thought the negative would catch fire was fake, I came to explain, I left. When he spoke, Xiao Duoduo's little aggrieved expression made people laugh.

Alfedo also smiled and reconciled with Duoduo, and talked to Duoduo about the development of the projector, which used to be very backward and had to be hand-cranked all day.

"Chu Shun, a young director, is really good at telling stories, a child and the trivialities of the cinema, acting for half an hour, I didn't find it boring. Guy didn't find it boring, he liked it a little.

What kind of real tragedy can happen to you in the cinema? Although Guy advocates tragedy, he doesn't want to see a team of mercenaries fall from the sky for no reason, and he is insane, that is too small a probability and unrealistic.

Not only Guy, but also the surrounding audience were attentive and did not feel bored.

The plot continues, Duoduo still wants to learn to show it, but Alfedo still refuses, and tells Xiao Duoduo that the projectionist is very hard and tired, like a slave, he stays in the hut alone, and there are no weekends.

There is a conversation in it, and Xiao Duoduo asks why he doesn't change jobs since this job is not good.

Alfedo replied, "Because I'm an idiot." ”

"No one in the village knows how to use a projector, it's just me an idiot doing this unproductive job. ”

It sounds like Alferdo is very dissatisfied with his work, but in fact, he loves it very much, and he can also respond to the sticky notes and movie posters that are plastered all over the wall.

In the words of Efedo, every time I hear the laughter of everyone in the theater, there will be a faint sense of accomplishment on my face, as if I made them laugh by doing it myself.

Hearing Alfedo's answer, he wanted to learn to show movies more and more, and Duoduo, who failed again, was not discouraged, and soon he waited for the opportunity.

At one of the degree exams, Alferdo arrived late, followed by a few adults, and here there is foreshadowing, in front of the cinema, when the prologue text is shown, there is a conversation between two people, both of whom are illiterate because of the war.

Efedo also has no education, so simple elementary school students can do the questions, but he is only so anxious that he hits the table, he asks for help, and Duoduo takes advantage of this to let Efedo teach him how to use the projector.

Ai Feiduo compromised, and began to teach him to show after the exam, how to distinguish the front and back, how to save the film, and Xiao Duoduo is also quite talented, and he learned it in three or two, except for being a little short.

But Guy also had another question in his heart, if such a story alone was not enough to beat his film "Bad Taste", the opening film must have a reason.

It didn't take long for Guy to know why, because the first classic shot of "Cinema Paradiso", "Magic of Light and Shadow", was about to appear.

One day, there were a lot of people queuing up at the cinema, and many people still didn't see the movie until the end, and then they were cleared out of the cinema by the security guards, and it was very late and it was dark.

They still held chairs around the door of the movie theater and refused to leave, "Let's watch a movie, please", "I didn't see a movie today", "Show again", "I want to watch a movie"......