On the plane!

Wu Jianye and He Qing sat together, Wu Jianye closed his eyes slightly, he was resting, he was a little overworked last night, he was not very energetic today, and He Qing on the side looked a little excited.

When she imagined that she would participate in one of the three largest film festivals in Europe tomorrow, the Berlin Film Festival, she still couldn't help but feel a little excited, although she did not receive any nominations, but "New Dragon Gate Inn" was able to be shortlisted for the Golden Bear Award, which still made her feel extremely proud.

This year, she has fully felt the sensation caused by this movie in China, no matter where she goes, someone can immediately recognize herself, and occasionally someone will shout her name, which also makes her very clear that she is famous.

Looking at Wu Jianye beside him, he looked relaxed, thinking of the honors he had won before, he knew why he was so calm.

"Take a good rest, it's still a while before you get to Berlin, and you have to take a turn in between. Although Wu Jianye closed his eyes, he could still feel that someone was paying attention to him, so naturally He Qing was right.

At this time, there was no flight from Yanjing to Berlin in China, and if you want to fly to Berlin, you must have to transfer flights, Wu Jianye chose to fly to Moscow first, and then transfer to Berlin.

He Qing's face turned slightly red, "Oh!"

When the plane flew to Moscow, Wu Jianye did not use this time to visit Moscow, but chose to rest in the airport lounge, and only boarded the plane to Berlin after almost two hours.

When I arrived in Berlin, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

After getting off the plane, Wu Jianye saw Chen Kaige and Hong Huang waiting for him at the airport.

"You're finally here. After seeing Wu Jianye, Chen Kaige sent a big hug, which made Wu Jianye a little strange for a while, Chen Kaige was not so enthusiastic in the past.

Hong Huang also gave Wu Jianye a hug, because the two of them were not too familiar with He Qing, just a simple handshake.

"Teacher Wu, there's something you don't know yet!" Hong Huang said happily to Wu Jianye.

Chen Kaige said with an unnatural face on the side: "Lao Wu has been on the plane for more than ten hours, let him go back to the hotel to rest first, it's not too late to tell him about those things later." ”

Hong Huang showed a disapproving expression and said with a smile: "What can't be said, anyway, we have to go back to the hotel together." ”

Wu Jianye smiled: "That's it, what is it, saying it makes me happy!"

Hong Huang coughed, and then said solemnly to Wu Jianye: "Kaige and I have already received the certificate in the United States!"

Wu Jianye immediately smiled and said, "Congratulations, congratulations!"

It's just that when he shook hands with Chen Kaige and said goodbye, Wu Jianye could see a trace of unnaturalness in Chen Kaige's eyes, in fact, this is also very understandable, no matter how interesting a talented woman is, she is not as beautiful as a beautiful woman, she has been with Hong Huang for more than a year, and Chen Kaige's freshness of talent has long passed.

As for marrying Hong Huang, it is just to continue to stay in North America and have a legal identity.

Chen Kaige's tourist visa to North America expired last year, and if he wants to stay in North America, he must marry Hong Huang.

In fact, after Chen Kaige finished his learning process in North America, he walked with Ni Host not long after returning to China.

"Okay, let's go back to the hotel first!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

Chen Kaige was also relieved to see that Wu Jianye did not get to the bottom of the matter of getting married, and chose to marry Hong Huang in order to stay in North America, which is actually quite embarrassing for Chen Kaige, who has always been arrogant.

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, I was on the phone before, and you said that you had already arranged the itinerary here, so where do you live?" asked Chen Kaige.

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "It's at the Burling Ritz-Carlton Hotel near the Animal Palace Cinema, let's go, let's go to the hotel first!"

Chen Kaige stood next to him and looked at Wu Jianye with some surprise, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is only more than 100 meters away from the main venue of the Berlin Film Festival, the Animal Palace, and it is also the best hotel in the whole of East Berlin.

At the same time, the organizers of the Berlin Film Festival will also arrange them as judges here, and if they want to book a room here, they must not book a room here until at least three months in advance, and Wu Jianye knows that even "New Dragon Gate Inn" was shortlisted for the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, he told him that now Wu Jianye can actually live at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boling, which once again refreshed Chen Kaige's understanding of Wu Jianye.

But soon he saw Wu Jianye's ability again, when they walked out of the hotel, Chen Kaige was going to take a taxi, but he saw two latest Mercedes-Benz cars parked at the airport gate, and Wu Jianye walked over, and the other party personally opened the door for Wu Jianye.

"Murphy, thank you!" Wu Jianye said with a smile to the white man next to him.

This time, it is still the old acquaintance Matthew Murphy who came to the Berlin Film Festival to be in charge of all the daily life of Wu Jianye, and when Wu Jianye participated in the Cannes Film Festival before, it was Matthew Murphy who was in charge of everything, and this time Wu Jianye came to the Berlin Film Festival and still asked Linda to send Matthew Murphy over.

Matthew Murphy smiled and said, "Director Wu is too polite!"

At this time, Matthew Murphy has already become the general manager of the European division of Phantom Entertainment, and now Phantom Entertainment has begun to set its sights on the European market, which is also preparing for their real entry into the publishing industry in the future.

Matthew Murphy, who is in the upper echelons, naturally knows that Wu Jianye is the real big boss behind Phantom Entertainment.

This once made Matthew Murphy unbelievable, he couldn't believe that a Chinese director could become the behind-the-scenes boss of Hollywood's most promising production company.

But I don't believe it, but what should be done still has to be done, this time Wu Jianye came to participate in the Berlin Film Festival, and Matthew Murphy naturally had to arrange everything.

As for the rooms at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Matthew Murphy, as an American, has always enveloped the idea that there is nothing in this world that money cannot buy.

A few people got into the car, and Chen Kaige looked at Wu Jianye with some surprise: "Old Wu, I didn't find that you hid deep enough, you have such a great ability in Europe." ”

Wu Jianye smiled and joked with Chen Kaige: "Low-key, low-key!"

"Cut!"

But after laughing, Chen Kaige said something serious to Wu Jianye: "Moritz Hader, the chairman of the Berlin Film Festival, is very interested in your films, and has been telling me before, when you come to Berlin, you must arrange for the two of you to meet!"

Moritz Hader is to the Berlinale what Jacob is to the Cannes Film Festival.

Later generations said that he determined the Berlinale in its current form and established its current importance.

During his tenure at the helm of the Berlinale, Moritz Hader integrated Eastern and Western films to facilitate cultural exchange, improved the festival's relations with the United States to make Berlin an outpost of the Oscars, promoted new Asian films, especially Chinese-language films, to the stage of international film festivals, and moved the Berlinale from the Palais des Zoonots to Potsdamer Platz.

In 87, Moritz Hader once went to China and had a very good relationship with Wu Tianming, and Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" was discovered by him.

In fact, at that time, he was interested in Chen Kaige's "The Child King", but at that time, Chen Kaige insisted on sending his "Child King" to the Cannes Film Festival, and everyone knew the result.

However, this did not delay Moritz Hader's appreciation of Chen Kaige, this time Chen Kaige was able to become a judge of the Berlin Film Festival, and he was also invited by Moritz Hader.

The relationship between the two can now be said to be both teachers and friends, but it was later broken, and the reason for the break was that when Moritz de Hader was the artistic director of the Venice Film Festival, he rejected Chen Kaige's film "With You.......

Incidentally, Moritz Hader is the only one of the three major European film festivals to have served as president of the Berlin Film Festival and artistic director of the Venice Film Festival.

Moritz Hader has a very strong obsession with oriental films, not only Zhang Yimou, but Chen Kaige has a lot to do with him, that is, Xu Anhua of Xiangjiang and Cai Mingliang of Wanwan were discovered and promoted to Europe by him.

"Well, after the opening ceremony tomorrow, I will visit Moritz in person!" Wu Miya nodded.

In any case, having a good relationship with these giants of the European film industry is a good and harmless thing for Wu Jianye.

Chen Kaige said: "There are a lot of films selected this time, you have to be ready to fight a tough battle." ”

Wu Jianye smiled: "That time I participated in the film festival was not like this!"

Wu Jianye, who has already participated in the Venice Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival, has long been nervous about such a scene.

Now what he wants to do is to introduce Chinese films to European audiences, telling them that Chinese movies are not only Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige's genre, Chinese movies can also be diversified!

Several people chatted and came to the hotel.

The exterior of the hotel is very characteristic of this era, with a special style of Eastern Europe, and it looks like a castle on the outside.

The Ritz-Carlton, Burling, is still just over 100 metres away from Potsdamer Platz shortly after the Berlinale moved to Potsdamer Platz.......

When he came to the hotel, Wu Jianye saw Li Lianjie, Liang Jiahui, and Zhang Manyu in the lobby.

The three of them arrived in Berlin yesterday, one day earlier than Wu Jianye, and now after seeing Wu Jianye, they also surrounded them, Chen Kaige and Hong Huang knew them, they didn't know Chen Kaige.

Only Liang Jiahui knows that Chen Kaige is one of the judges of this Berlin Film Festival.

"Let's go back to the room first!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

By this time, he had already obtained the key to the room in Matthew Murphy's hands.

Several people first came to Wu Jianye's room, Matthew Murphy booked a suite for Wu Jianye, and everyone sat in the living room, Wu Jianye asked.

"Have you tried all the dresses you have prepared, and do they fit?"

Li Lianjie smiled: "I've tried it, it's very suitable!"

Although He Qing came with Wu Jianye, Wu Jianye did not remind He Qing to try on the dress now, because Wu Jianye prepared a cheongsam symbolizing Chinese culture for He Qing, as early as a few months ago, Wu Jianye asked Jinxiu Clothing to find the top cheongsam designer in China and design the cheongsam according to He Qing's body shape.

This is also to promote your own splendid brand by the way!

didn't talk much with them, Wu Jianye let them go back to rest, but Chen Kaige didn't leave, drove Hong Huang back to their room, and stayed in Wu Jianye's room.

"Old Wu, to be honest, after coming out this time, I found out that the distance between the domestic film industry and Europe and the United States, not to mention Europe and the United States, even RB and Xiangjiang can't compare!" Chen Kaige sat on the sofa and said to Wu Jianye.

Wu Jianye smiled: "It will always catch up, aren't we also developing now?"

Chen Kaige shook his head and said: "It's different, in the past year in Hollywood, I found that their film industry has already developed into a complete industrial program, and it is too difficult to catch up with them!"

Wu Jianye asked, "Then it's not superordinate?"

Chen Kaige immediately shook his head and said, "How is it possible, falling behind now doesn't mean that you will be behind in the future!"

Everyone knows that Chen Kaige is proud in his heart, especially in the film industry, his pride even exceeds Zhang Yimou's, but it is precisely because of this pride that Chen Kaige always sways between business and literature, and in the end, he didn't get a good deal over there.

His pride is also reflected in another aspect, that is, extreme confidence in himself, Chen Kaige always thinks that he can do everything well, before "Farewell My Concubine", his confidence has not been concretely shown, but after "Farewell My Concubine" helped him reach the peak of the night.

His pride was completely aroused.

Just like the chairman of the Chinese Football Association, he always shoots in areas that he is not familiar with, such as the adaptation of the script, he stubbornly believes that the script he writes is the best script, so the movies shot after "Farewell My Concubine" always like to write the script by himself.

As a result, he struggled to reach the top of the previous ranks.

That's why Chen Kaige will say so now.

Wu Jianye smiled: "Since you want to catch up, then it's useless to say this, just make movies honestly, and just do things within your own responsibility." ”

A person like Chen Kaige is only suitable for being a director, and nothing else can be done, as for the sense of mission he has added to himself outside the movie itself, Wu Jianye does not think that Chen Kaige has this ability.

This is a matter of the entire industry, and it is impossible for a director to do all this, so Wu Jianye will work hard to develop other aspects of the industry.

To put it bluntly, if you want to overtake Chinese movies in corners, this is a money-burning thing, and Chen Kaige has no money, he Wu Jianye has money and ability!