The withdrawal of the Chinese film delegation from the Venice Film Festival and the withdrawal of the film has aroused great concern. The next day, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported the news, and the vast majority of them sided with the Chinese delegation, believing that the Venice Film Festival should not play politics.

Before the 70s, the Venice Film Festival was the most influential film festival in the world, and because of the death of the Italians themselves, Cannes overtook the corners and became the world's number one film festival. In recent years, the Venice Film Festival has resumed competition in order to regain its former glory, especially this year's Venice masters, which has put pressure on the French. The arrogant French naturally do not want to lose their status as the boss, and the French media are picking their noses and eyes at the Venice Film Festival.

It's just that the French didn't find a particularly good opportunity to attack the Venice Film Festival, so they could only find fault with it, and now they have finally waited for such an opportunity, so they seized the point that the Venice Film Festival is political, and opened fire on the Venice Film Festival. If the Venice Film Festival were a living person, it would definitely be sprayed by the French media that it would not be able to take care of itself.

"Although the Italian audience wanted Venice to use the festival as an opportunity to rejuvenate, the organizing committee played politics and led the Chinese delegation to withdraw from the festival, making the Venice Film Festival's art-centric narrative a joke. The Venice Film Festival has a long way to go if it wants to regain its former glory. ”

"Compared to the purity of Cannes, Venice has a tradition of politics. The Venice Film Festival was originally founded by Mussolini and was a stage for Nachi's propaganda. Free countries led by France realized that the Venice Film Festival had been completely reduced to a propaganda tool, so they founded the Cannes Film Festival in 1939 to compete with Venice. ”

West Berlin films compete with Venice, and in the decade that Venice stopped judging, the West Berlin Film Festival became the second largest film festival in the world. After the re-award at the Venice Film Festival in 1979, West Berlin was beaten back to the third place, and the Germans must have been unwilling. It's just that the Germans are not qualified to accuse the Venice Film Festival of playing politics, because the West Berlin film is known as a political correctional center, and it can only play politics better than anyone else, so it can only satirize Venice and add to the blockage of Venice.

"It is said that the West Berlin Film Festival is particularly political, but now that "A Game of Chess That Never Ends" has withdrawn from Venice and switched to the West Berlin Film Festival, does it mean that West Berlin respects art more than Venice?"

Other countries do not have a conflict of interest with Venice like France and Germany. Their comments on the incident were relatively objective, with Reuters writing: "The withdrawal from Venice is a warning to all film festivals." Any film festival must be cautious when facing this issue, and must realize that this is a very serious political issue, and if this issue is properly handled, there will be a foundation for cooperation and exchanges with China; if this principle is violated, relations with China will inevitably suffer. ”

Of course, it is not that there is no support for the Organizing Committee of the Venice Film Festival, such as the Wanwan media, and the pro-Taiwan media in Xiangjiang.

"This kind of duck hegemony on the mainland is unpopular and doomed to failure. ”

Xu Wangqiu's farce of withdrawing from the competition at the Venice Film Festival, trying to interfere with art with politics and metallurgy, has become an international laughing stock. ”

"The Chinese film delegation at the Venice Film Festival wanted to ban the hanging of the flag, which was unpopular with the people, and was rejected by the film festival organizing committee, so they could only withdraw from the Venice Film Festival in disgrace. ”

On this day, the Minister of Culture of the People's Republic of China in Italy lodged a strong protest with the Italian Ministry of Culture, and said in an interview with reporters that the Venice Film Festival's move is a serious damage to the friendship between China and Italy, a move that lacks political common sense, and that such a mistake should not occur as a film festival organized by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

It was also on this day that Moreno, president of the Venice Film Festival, received a notice from the Italian Ministry of Culture that he would no longer be president of the Venice Film Festival after the end of this edition. In fact, the moment he heard that the Chinese delegation held a press conference and announced his withdrawal from the film festival, Moreno already knew that his president was at the end of his life.

Wolf Donner is the president of the Berlinale, and during his more than a decade as president of the Berlinale, the Berlinale has grown to become one of the top three film festivals in the world. But in 1979, after "The Deer Hunter" caused a storm and caused the Soviet Union and other countries to withdraw from the film festival, he also had to step down. Moreno's presidency of the Venice Film Festival lasted only four years, and the incident had a great impact on the city's reputation for emphasizing artistry, and there is no doubt that he was dismissed from his post by the Ministry of Culture.

Moreno felt particularly aggrieved, feeling that he had never thought of getting involved in politics at all, and that he was thinking entirely from an artistic point of view. Because Hu Jinquan won an award in Cannes, many films have been screened in Europe, and his films have a strong artistic quality, which is the kind of oriental film that everyone wants to see, and can also represent oriental culture; although Xu Wangqiu's films are of a very high level and have strong artistry, his films are still too commercial and are typical Hollywood genre films. For the Venice Film Festival, which has always emphasized artistry, it must pay more attention to Hu Jinquan's films than to choose a Chinese version of Hollywood films.

Hu Jinquan's films represent oriental culture, while Xu Wangqiu's films are from Chinese mainland, and neither film does want to lose at the Venice Film Festival, so the only way is to delay. Anyway, the film festival is only 6 days, and "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" will be released on the 30th, and if you drag it a little, you can drag it over.

It's just that Moreno didn't expect Xu Wangqiu and the Chinese film delegation to react so strongly, he didn't expect Xu Wangqiu to give them a chance to correct at all, and he didn't expect Xu Wangqiu to convene hundreds of media and hold a press conference to make things known to the world. However, there is no regret medicine to sell in the world, and the only thing Moreno can do now is to tell future generations that he can't play like this in the future, and being duplicitous won't work.

In China, there are also many media reports on this matter. The China Film Association published a notice in its official newspaper, China Film News, condemning the Venice Film Festival and supporting the Chinese film delegation.

The People's Daily published a commentary saying that the international film festival should be an important channel to communicate with people from all countries and maintain world peace, and must not be a place to challenge international justice and harm the dignity of the country.

Later, the Central People's Radio broadcast this article, and the Chinese film delegation's withdrawal from Venice became known to the whole country, and Xu Wangqiu also became a hero who defended the dignity of the country.

When Xu Wangqiu returned to Beiping, people who knew him would give him a thumbs up: "Wangqiu, you did a good job." Those foreigners bully people, we can't swallow our anger and let them bully. ”

"Since Venice doesn't respect us, it should be withdrawn. If you don't break the film festival, you won't participate, and in the past so many years, we haven't participated and we haven't done much. As the saying goes: if you die Zhang butcher, don't eat mixed pigs. I don't believe that if we don't participate in their broken film festival, we won't be able to make good movies in China. ”

Hearing these words, Xu Wangqiu was particularly relieved that now everyone attaches great importance to the honor and dignity of the country, and does not reverse the rampant racism as in later generations. In later generations, many people have masochistic thinking, China or Chinese are going to have something happen abroad, these people do not criticize and blame foreign countries, but jump out and say that China is bad, it is Chinese who are wrong, and let Chinese reflect.

Xu Wangqiu has been abroad for nearly a year, and there are a lot of things waiting for him to deal with at the art center. After returning to China, he barely rested and began to deal with the company's related affairs non-stop. It is particularly important to review the mixed double film of "Bloody Demon" with the leaders of the export company and the film export leading group.

"Bloody Capture of Demons" is a movie shot by Wu Zhiliu and them, which began filming in early January this year and was officially completed in mid-May, and then began intense post-production work. Due to Wu Zhiliu's graduation this year, the thesis defense and graduation procedures were delayed for some time, and they only recently completed the mixed recording.

Xu Wangqiu has been busy with "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" in Dongying, and he hasn't watched the sample film of "Bloody Demon Capture", so I don't know how Wu Zhiliu and their filming were. However, he is full of confidence in "Bloody Demon Capture", and he is also full of confidence in Wu Zhiliu.

Wu Zhiliu and they did not disappoint Xu Wangqiu, "Bloody Demon Capture" inherited the advantages of "Hoe Rape" and "Falcon", using a large number of handheld photography and sports shots, the whole movie is extremely realistic, the story is also extremely exciting, with fierce war scenes and hot war scenes. The whole film is extremely fast-paced, so tight that you can barely breathe, from the first set of shots to the end of the film, it tightly grabs the hearts of the audience and brings them into the rhythm of the film.

However, as aspiring young directors, Wu Zhiliu and his team were unwilling to make "Bloody Capture of Demons" a copy of "Falcon" and "Hoe Rape", and under the overall impression of a complete feeling, they boldly moved the incomplete composition of some parts of the picture, resulting in a strong effect; on the premise of highlighting the black and white structure of the large surface, they used concise composition techniques to create a contrasting effect, and the audio-visual style of the whole film is extremely unique.

Xu Wangqiu was a little surprised, this is very different from the storyboard that Wu Zhiliu and they originally painted, it should be that after they went to Dongying, Wu Zhiliu and they adjusted their shooting ideas and adopted irregular composition. This thing is really amazing, when Zhang Yimou and them filmed "One and Eight" in the last life, they made an irregular composition, which shocked the Chinese film industry. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yimou went to shoot "A Game of Unfinished Chess" with himself, and Wu Zhiliu and they also came up with an irregular composition.

The use of irregular composition was indeed what Wu Zhiliu and they thought of shortly before the filming of the movie, when Xu Wangqiu had already gone to Dongying, they couldn't discuss it with Xu Wangqiu, they didn't know if it would work like this, and they were a little uncertain. During the screening, Wu Zhiliu and the others kept observing the reactions of the guests at the scene, for fear that everyone would not say it well.

When the film ended, Wu Zhiliu saw Xu Wangqiu and the guests on the scene standing up, clapping vigorously, and breathed a long sigh of relief. Listening to the warm applause at the scene, they were so excited that they burst into tears, knowing that they had succeeded.

When Xu Wangqiu suddenly remembered his Venice, he said to Tong Yuejuan that in addition to "Shaolin Temple", there is only "Running to the Angry Sea" of the Blue Bird Company that can hit the top ten box office in Xiangjiang this year, which is not true, as well as "Bloody Capture of Demons".

Xu Wangqiu turned his head to look at Wu Zhiliu, who was so excited that he burst into tears, and was very relieved that he had really brought them out. At the same time, he is also very excited, now that the European faction has ruled the film industry, commercial films are directly called by them "movies that ask for money and shame", he alone cannot reverse the situation at all, with Wu Zhiliu their situation is completely different.

Xu Wangqiu smiled at Wu Zhiliu and them, and said in a reproachful tone: "How can a group of big men cry and cry, what do they look like, the big husband bleeds without tears." "Bloody Demon" was very well filmed, even better than I imagined. We'll have a good talk later, I have something very important to discuss with you. ”