Chapter 287: Mifune wants to cooperate
Before this media meeting, Xu Wangqiu had only seen the Dongying right-wing in newspapers and on television. And today's meeting, he saw a living body for the first time. They drove in more than a dozen propaganda vehicles and blocked half of the street.
Slogans such as "Don't abuse history," "Yasushi Tokuma is a traitor," and "Junya Sato is a traitor" were hung on the propaganda car, and right-wingers were holding loudspeakers and shouting loudly. Dozens of right-wingers under the car waved the Rising Sun Flag, as well as various slogans, and shouted all kinds of slogans. Some people even chanted "Kill Tokuma, God will punish the thief".
Dayei expected that right-wingers would come to make trouble, and got in touch with the police. A lot of police officers came to the scene, and the company also specially organized people to maintain order, and right-wingers were stopped outside the press conference. Apart from shouting loudly and shouting slogans, the right-wingers did not make any radical moves.
Junya Sato comforted Xu Wangqiu and them, saying that the right-wingers were only a minority, and they were unpopular.
Tang Yuqiang and the others all nodded yes, saying that the people of Dongying are friendly, and only a small number of right-wingers are bad.
Xu Wangqiu smiled and did not speak. He knew that in the future, under the strong pressure of the United States, Dongying's economy would fall into a long period of stagnation. In this state, the entire Dongying society began to turn to the right. Even Junya Sato, who is now staunchly anti-militaryism, filmed "Men's Yamato", which is considered to have a tendency towards militaryism.
Xu Wangqiu and the others entered the meeting site, and the meeting officially began. Although there were right-wingers making trouble outside, they were not affected, and took turns on the stage to introduce the film, explain their creative ideas, and tell interesting stories about the filming.
The media who participated in the meeting were all invited by Daying Company, and they were all relatively neutral or friendly media, and they did not ask any particularly sharp questions, nor did they ask political questions, they all asked about movies and movie-related issues, and the atmosphere of the whole meeting was very harmonious.
Although there was a big star such as Rentaro Mikuni and a famous director Junya Sato on the scene, the reporters still threw most of the questions to Xu Wangqiu. After all, everyone has interviewed Rentaro Mikuni and Junya Sato many times, and there is nothing new anymore. Xu Wangqiu's films are very popular in Dongying, and he is so young that reporters are full of curiosity about him.
To the surprise of the reporters, Xu Wangqiu looked young, but he was very old, and his answers to questions were particularly methodical and rhythmic, and each question was answered concisely and in place, and he would even make a small joke from time to time, which caused continuous laughter on the scene. What surprised the reporters even more was that not only newcomers like Akina Nakamori admired Xu Wangqiu and admired him with admiration, but Junya Sato and Rentaro Mikuni were also full of praise and convincing when they talked about Xu Wangqiu.
At the premiere in the evening, there were more people from the right wing of Dongying, with more than 20 propaganda vehicles and more than 100 people. But because of the large number of police and volunteers at the scene, right-wingers were kept far outside the red carpet.
In order to promote "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished", Daying Company invited many Dongying stars to cheer for the movie. are all stars who have been to China, or are more friendly to China, including Toshiro Mifune, Ken Takakura, Ryoko Nakano, Kurihara Komaki and others. The appearance of these Dongying stars made the atmosphere very warm, and the cheers and screams resounded in the sky, completely suppressing the slogans and propaganda of the right wing outside the red carpet.
Right-wingers can understand the audience's pursuit of stars such as Ken Takakura, after all, they are very famous and have a large number of fans. What right-wingers could not accept was that when Xu Wangqiu and Tang Yuqiang appeared on the red carpet, they were also warmly welcomed by the audience, and the screams and exclamations were deafening. Especially when Tang Yuqiang smiled and waved at the fans, now some girls have completely lost their usual reserve, screaming ahh
The right-wingers look down on China and the Chinese, and now seeing that Xu Wangqiu and Tang Xiaoqiang are so sought after, the Dongying girls at the scene simply can't wait to take off their clothes and pounce on them, and they are so angry that they smoke. They didn't care about shouting slogans such as "don't abuse the view of history", and scolded "what a degenerate generation", "lost all the face of Dongying", and "Dongying has no future". The right-wingers have not studied ancient poetry, otherwise they would definitely shout "The merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the flowers in the backyard across the river."
It's a pity that Xu Wangqiu didn't see this scene, otherwise he would definitely laugh out loud. The reason why he wants to cultivate Tang Yuqiang and Zhou Lijin is that he hopes to have such a scene, hoping to establish a benchmark image of Chinese men through celebrities, just like the Korean Wave in later generations.
After entering the theater, Xu Wangqiu and the others met with the actors who came to cheer for the scene backstage. "Manhunt" is particularly good in China, Ken Takakura and Yoshiko Nakano are simply gods and goddesses in China, and the Chinese actors of the crew are very happy to see them, and they can't help but express their gratitude for their support.
Xu Wangqiu chatted with Toshiro Mifune, he has watched many movies of Toshiro Mifune, and he admires Toshiro Mifune.
Toshiro Mifune is Akira Kurosawa's royal actor and has starred in most of Kurosawa's works. Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, Toshiro Mifune moved to Dalian with his parents at the age of four, where he completed high school and then helped his father run a photo studio there. At the age of 20, he was conscripted into the army, and because of his expertise in photography, he was assigned to the 7th Aviation Education Corps of the Army in Manchukuo as an aerial photographic scout, and he did not return to Dongying until he was 26 years old, when the war ended.
After meeting with the guests, Xu Wangqiu and the others took the stage of the theater to meet and communicate with the audience. After a brief introduction to Xu Wangqiu and Xu Wangqiu, the host invited two fans. Two young girls, one is a fan of Tang Yuqiang and the other is a fan of Xu Wangqiu.
After Tang Yuqiang's fans gave Tang Yuqiang a carefully prepared gift, they made a request, hoping to hug Tang Yuqiang. Tang Yuqiang knows that girls in Dongying are bolder, and hugging is nothing at all, but he is a soldier, if this matter is reported back to China and says that he is hugging Dongying girl in Dongying, then the problem will be serious. Tang Yuqiang didn't know what to do, and in the end, Xu Wangqiu told him that this was a courtesy hug, and it was okay, so he hugged the girl with a red face.
Tang Yuqiang's shy performance won the favor of more Dongying girls, and they exclaimed, "Oh, it's so cute."
After a brief interaction, the theater lights quickly went out and the film began to show.
Toshiro Mifune sat in his seat and watched the movie very relaxed. It's just that within a few minutes, when the story gets to the point, the smile on his face disappears, it becomes serious, and even a little dignified.
After the end of World War II, the left-wing became the mainstream of Dongying's literary and artistic circles, and many films with anti-war tendencies were made. For example, Masaki Kobayashi's "Proof of the World" and Yamamoto Safu's "War and Man". "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" is also an anti-war movie, but it's not quite the same as these movies. Through audio-visual means, the whole movie allows the audience to enter the hearts of the characters, truly feel the pain in the hearts of the characters, and feel the harm caused by the war to ordinary people.
Toshiro Mifune was a soldier, and the experience of being a soldier was very painful for him. He regretted that he had been involved in the war and told himself that he would never bow to power again. For Toshiro Mifune, the process of watching "A Game of Chess That Never Ends" was not pleasant, the slightly grotesque colors of the film hit his eyes, the sound of his breathing that fluctuated as the characters' emotions changed, and the misfortunes of the two families brought back many memories of the war.
When these elements were condensed, Toshiro Mifune's heart was shocked like never before.
Toshiro Mifune has been in the film industry for many years, has made many movies, and has seen many movies, but he has never seen a movie like "A Game of Chess That Never Finished", and he can walk into the characters and the hearts of the characters like this. In the process of watching the movie, he clearly felt that his heart and emotions kept rising and falling with the changes in the hearts of the two characters, Yishan and Songbo.
The whole movie is two hours long, but Toshiro Mifune doesn't feel the passage of time at all. When the movie ended, he was even a little surprised, how could it end so quickly. Toshiro Mifune turned his head to look at Xu Wangqiu, his eyes flashed with an incredible light, it turns out that movies can still be made like this! This young director is really powerful, there is a great director in China who can compare to Kurosawa-kun!
At this moment, the people around stood up. Their faces were full of excitement, and there was only one sentence in their minds, it turned out that the movie could still be made! They couldn't find a better way to pour out their excitement, and the only thing they could do was to applaud vigorously.
The applause was like a theater turning into a boat in the ocean, shaking incessantly.
Toshiro Mifune smiled and clapped vigorously.
Stars who worked with Junya Sato, such as Ken Takakura and Ryoko Nakano, surrounded him with excitement and congratulated him, and other stars also told him that this was a shocking film and a true masterpiece.
Only Toshiro Mifune was an exception, and he did not congratulate Junya Sato and walked directly to Xu Wangqiu.
Toshiro Mifune has never worked with Junya Sato, but he still knows Junya Sato better. He knew that Junya Sato was very good, and although he was a commercial film director, he had artistic pursuits. Junya Sato experiments artistically with each film, and tries something new. But Toshiro Mifune knows that Junya Sato's artistic talent is not particularly high, not to mention that he can't compare with Akira Kurosawa, even with Kei Kumai, Junya Sato's films rarely get artistic recognition, and it is impossible to make a film with such a unique style with Junya Sato's ability, nor can he make a movie of such a level.
The only possibility is that this young director named Xu Wangqiu led the movie!
Toshiro Mifune walked up to Xu Wangqiu and stretched out with a smile: "Mr. Xu, this movie is really great." It's one of the best movies I've ever seen. I really, really enjoyed this movie. If there is an opportunity, I hope we can cooperate. ”
The Toei actors and Toei audience present all looked at Toshiro Mifune suddenly when they heard this, and they couldn't believe their ears.
Toshiro Mifune is the pride of Toei, known as the world's Mifune, and has successfully entered Hollywood, and even Hollywood directors Spielberg and Lucas have expressed their desire to cooperate with Toshiro Mifune.
Toshiro Mifune is a proud person, the kind who refuses to bow his head to others easily. After filming "Red Beard", Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune had a gap and began to distance themselves from Toshiro Mifune. If Toshiro Mifune had taken the initiative to communicate with Akira Kurosawa, the situation might have been different, and it would have been possible to continue cooperating. But Toshiro Mifune's attitude is, if you ignore me, then I will ignore you too. In the end, Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa broke up completely and never worked together again.
No one thought that Toshiro Mifune would take the initiative to find Xu Wangqiu and express his hope to cooperate with him. The Dongying actors and the Dongying audience present were stunned, what was the situation, Mr. Mifune actually took the initiative to find Mr. Xu and said that he wanted to cooperate with him.