Chapter 521: Embarrassment (First Day of the Lunar New Year, Happy !!)
Following!
Wu Jianye, He Qing and others stood at the door of the festival theater to greet the audience who came to watch the film today, and the Venice Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, after the opening ceremony, it was a two-week movie, and the Berlin Film Festival hosted the exhibition to screen the films in major theaters.
For films that have not sold their copyrights, this is a huge opportunity to show themselves, and many film companies will shuttle through various theaters to find movies that they are satisfied with.
Matthew Murphy is doing just that.
But for Wu Jianye, he came for the award ceremony on the last day, I don't know if he can win the award, but at least he must have a sense of participation, and the most important thing is to reach a good cooperative relationship with European film companies.
However, it is precisely because "New Dragon Gate Inn" has been released in Europe and the United States that there are not many film companies that are released at the Berlin Film Festival today, and the most important thing is the film critics and audiences of major film magazines.
Even if there are film companies, they are not here for the movie, but for Wu Jianye, who has proved with three films that his films have a market in Europe, and it is their motto to always stand on the side of the right people.
Since Wu Jianye has succeeded, the possibility of his success in the future is greater than that of some rookie directors.
"Director Wu, I'm Tom Branson from the UK, this is my business card, I hope to talk to you after today's screening!"
Wu Jianye has received many such invitations, and he is all smiling and talking to the other party to find a time to sit.
Wu Ziniu and Hou Yong also accompanied Wu Jianye to stand at the door and watched Wu Jianye talk and laugh with these European filmmakers, looking very envious, as the film director of "Evening Bell", he is just a film director, and his film is produced by Bayi Factory, that is to say, if he wants to sell the film, this matter has nothing to do with him.
In fact, it has nothing to do with Bayi Factory, but is in charge of the people of China Film, just like Wu Jianye's first movie "The Red Lantern Hangs High".
And the reason why Wu Jianye has this privilege is not because of the court culture, but because of Fengge Entertainment, as a co-production, the overseas copyright of "New Dragon Gate Inn" does not belong to China Film Management.
This is also one of Wu Jianye's original intentions when he founded Fengge Entertainment at the beginning.
Wu Jianye is now a special category in China, even if there is no court culture, Wu Jianye can shoot the movies he wants to shoot as the director of Fengge Entertainment, and he can bypass many domestic rules and regulations about the film industry.
But Wu Ziniu and Hou Yong cannot.
The Festival Theatre, the main screening room of the Berlinale with a capacity of 1,300 seats, was quickly filled with audiences, journalists and film critics, and as the lights in the screening room were turned off, the screening of "New Dragon Gate Inn" officially began.
Wu Jianye sat in his seat and could clearly hear the exclamation of the audience, such a fight scene they had never heard of, and they had only seen it in this movie.
It gives these people a different feeling.
Especially when it came to the last desert battle, the audience at the scene was fascinated, and Wu Jianye could clearly hear the feeling of the audience behind him gasping.
Wu Jianye smiled and didn't say anything, the big scenes of science fiction movies in this era have not yet begun to bombard the audience's visual effects, and the emergence of martial arts movies is to fill the gap in this technology.
Of course, as Wu Jianye said to Moritz before, the surprise of Eastern and Western cultures makes these audiences still feel unclear about some plots of the movie, but this does not delay them from understanding that this is an excellent movie.
In fact, science fiction movies are not nothing, but there are very few, and Hollywood, as a science fiction movie that will carry forward science fiction movies, is also subject to technical problems at this time, and has not really shot science fiction movies that affect the world.
Even if 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 its founding, and it can be said that it has influenced a generation of young people in North America, but outside of North America, the film did not cause much of a sensation.
Especially in later generations, this series of movies can only harvest a huge box office in North America, but outside of North America, it cannot be compared with the superheroes of the Marvel series.
In fact, by that time, the setting of "Star Wars" had long been outdated, and what was sold in North America was just feelings.
After the movie ended, 1,300 people in the theater stood up and applauded, which is a conventional thing for them, and it cannot be used as a reference for the quality of this movie, so the media said that the applause for ten minutes and the like is simply to deceive outsiders who don't know how to do it.
To really know the success of this film at the film festival, one is to look at the final situation at the awards ceremony, the second is to look at the film festival's house program score, and finally to see what kind of price the film can sell here.
Wu Jianye took the stage to thank the audience who came to watch, and the screening of "New Dragon Gate Inn" ended today.
Tomorrow there will be a movie like Rain Man!
As for Wu Ziniu's "Evening Bell", it was arranged on the 13th, not in the festival theater, and the second was in another theater.
"What's next?" After walking out of the screening hall, Wu Ziniu came to Wu Jianye, as for Chen Kaige, during the film festival, it will not be so easy to see him again, one is to avoid suspicion, and the other is that their jury will also start watching each of the participating films, and cast their votes to decide the list of winners of this film festival.
For the sake of justice, even Moritz will not know the exact result of the vote, and can only wait until the closing ceremony on the 24th, like ordinary filmmakers.
Wu Jianye smiled: "It's better to go to Berlin, come once, if you don't go, it's a trip for nothing." ”
Wu Ziniu said regretfully: "It's a pity that this is not Venice, otherwise we would have been able to rent a yacht and take us out to sea." ”
Obviously, Wu Ziniu knew about Fang Shu and the others about their participation in the Venice Film Festival.
"There will be a chance in the future!" Wu Jianye said.
Wu Ziniu proposed: "Let's go to the Berlin Wall, shall we?"
Wu Jianye smiled: "You didn't look at it when you came?"
Wu Ziniu and the others did not come by plane, but by train, and they sat for seven days and seven nights.......
"Hey, don't mention it, this road tossed us, we first took the train to Erenhot, and then from Erenhot to Mongolia, Mongolia to the Soviet Union, the train was stunned in the Soviet Union for five days and five nights, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Baikal, and then from Moscow to Warsaw, Poland, and finally arrived in East Berlin, where I took a car to West Berlin......."
"Alright, don't tell me about your embarrassing journey. Wu Jianye hurriedly interrupted, if Wu Ziniu took his mother, it would be a proper journey for his mother.
"When you go back, you have to take care of us!" Wu Ziniu said as he pestered Wu Jianye.
"Why?" Wu was unhappy when he saw the night, this was to make himself pay for it.
"Don't rely on anything, anyway, if you don't care, we won't be classmates!" Wu Ziniu said.
Tao Zeru and the others watched Wu Ziniu play scoundrels with Wu Jianye here, and they were also amused, but they did take the train to get out of the psychological shadow, if they could really take the plane back, it would be great.
Wu Jianye looked at Tao Zeru helplessly and said, "Let's talk about it later!"
Wu Ziniu said: "Then I'll make you agree!"
When I arrived at the Berlin Wall, I saw that it was separated only by a barbed wire fence, and the net was filled with names and wreaths in memory of those who died as a result of smuggling across the East-West border.
Looking at these names, Wu Jianye smiled, it seems that this kind of thing of smuggling does not only happen in Huaxia, isn't this equivalent to the river that swims from Huaxia to Xiangjiang.......
In fact, many tourist attractions are more about the story behind her, Wu Jianye is actually quite indifferent to the so-called Berlin Wall, if you remove the meaning behind her, this is just a wall.
Wu Jianye was indifferent to the Berlin Wall, and the others were full of interest, such as He Qing, a literary and artistic young man, who was pulling Zhang Manyu to take pictures of himself at this time.
"It's okay to take pictures, don't compare to V, it's too vulgar!" Wu Jianye said.
"I want you to take care of it!" He Qingbai glanced at Wu Jianye, pulled Zhang Manyu to continue filming, and provocatively made a V-word.......
But it was also when he saw He Qing that Wu Jianye saw another woman, Isabel Adjani, the most beautiful woman in France today.
She is followed by a man with long hair, three-dimensional facial features, deep eyes, and an elegant aristocratic temperament all over his body, this man is not unknown, it is the famous Hollywood actor Daniel Lewis.
Later generations called Daniel Lewis the greatest actor in the world, which naturally has a certain degree of subjectivity, but it also 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 the red carpet, but more to accompany Isabel Adjani, whom he had just met and immediately fell in love.
"Honey, what's wrong?" Daniel Lewis immediately asked, seeing his girlfriend next to him paying attention to an Asian man.
Although Daniel Lewis has achieved superhuman achievements in his acting career, Daniel Lewis is not so successful in life, and his desire to control women is like his acting skills.
At the same time, the master and Isabel Adjani did not go to the end, after the two fell in love for six years, Isabel Adjani gave birth to a son for Daniel Lewis, and Daniel Lewis gave a reason why he did not want to be a father, and the relationship between the two ended after the two.
As for the real reason, it's just that Daniel Lewis went to visit Arthur Miller, the writer he had admired for a long time, when he was in love with Isabel Adjani, and met Miller's daughter Rebecca by chance, and the two fell in love at first sight and quickly developed into lovers.......
"It's nothing, I saw the director of "New Dragon Gate Inn", Wu Jianye!" said Isabel Adjani.
When the movie "New Dragon Gate Inn" was released in Europe, Isabel Adjani also saw this movie, and she liked this movie at that time, Wu Jianye came to the Berlin Film Festival, and she naturally knew what Wu Jianye looked like, and now she sees Wu Jianye herself ready to go over to say hello.
However, Daniel Lewis didn't care about this, "It turns out that he is Wu Jianye!"
This is Daniel Lewis's attitude, as a top actor in Hollywood, his eyes are always on those top Hollywood directors, Wu Jianye, a Chinese director, he is destined to never cooperate with him 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 is still just a passerby who has heard his name.
Isabel Adjani didn't hear what Daniel Lewis meant, and walked towards Wu Jianye.
"Director Wu, hello!"
Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Miss Adjani, hello!"
"You know me?"
"Of course, I think there should be very few filmmakers who don't know Miss Adjani in the film industry, and I've seen all your movies!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.
"Thank you, I've also watched Director Wu's movies, especially the movie "The Last Emperor", I like it very much!" said Isabelle Adjani.
After complimenting each other, Daniel Lewis said impatiently, "Alright, dear, it's time for us to leave." ”
Isabel Adjani gave Wu an apologetic smile and left.
This short encounter is nothing for Wu Jianye, and as for Daniel Lewis's attitude, Wu Jianye only put him from his impression in an inconspicuous position.
Wu Ziniu waited for them to leave before he said: "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 smiled: "Even if you want to go, you have to change the money before you go!"
There are two currencies separated by a wall, East Germany uses East Marks, and West Germany uses West Marks.
If you are in East Berlin, you can exchange East Marks for West Marks, which is 1:1, but in West Berlin, you can exchange 1 West Mark for 5 East Marks. Tourists are all from West Berlin to East Berlin 5 times the East Mark to spend money.
After Wu Jianye and the others changed to East Mark, they passed through the Berlin Wall and came to East Berlin!
On the side of the Berlin Wall in West Berlin, there is only an iron net, while on the side of East Berlin there is strict inspection, and the East German soldiers with police dogs are black and shiny with high leather boots, and they are all tall and mighty.
When he saw them, Wu Jianye's mind couldn't help but think of the image of Germany in the World War II film he had seen.
The gap between East and West Berlin is also visible from the wall, and the night in West Berlin is as bright as day, with a lot of traffic, bright lights, and full of life.
And there were a few dim lights in the darkness of East Berlin, and it was silent and cold.
When they came to the TV Tower, Wu Jianye let out another long sigh, as one of the few places in East Berlin that can be visited, there was a long queue here, and the zigzag line went all the way to the lobby of the TV Tower and the door of the elevator hall.......
Looking at the excited expressions of Wu Ziniu and the others, Wu Jianye had no choice but to line up with them, but when they came to the revolving restaurant, they saw a pair of people they had just met.
Isabel Adjani & Daniel Lewis!