After reading the article, Xu Wangqiu realized that this was the famous murder case of Chen Guoren.

Chen Guoren is a second-generation Chinese American in Detroit and a designer at an automobile factory. Due to the impact of Dongying Automobile, the automobile manufacturing industry in Detroit, the automobile capital of the United States, fell into a trough, and many workers were fired, which caused Detroit auto workers to hate Dongying people and other Asian Americans. Because Chen Guoren was getting married, he went to a bar with friends to drink and celebrate.

In the bar, Ronald Ebans, a Chrysler foreman, and his stepson, Michael Nits, who had been fired from the auto factory, thought Chen Guoren was from Dongying and hurled insults at him, and a verbal altercation ensued, which ensued a fight. After Chen and his friends left the bar, Espen and his son drove after Chen Guoren and took out a baseball bat. Nitz hugs Chen, and Ebans hits Chan on the head with a baseball bat. Four days later, Chen died.

The reason why this case is famous is not because Chen Guoren was killed, but because of a series of events after Chen Guoren was killed. The case was simple and clear, and there were eyewitnesses, but the charges and interrogations against Ebens and Nitz were repeated, and the U.S. Court of Appeals eventually sentenced Ebens to manslaughter with a three-year suspended sentence and a $3,780 fine, which was quashed in May 1987. Chen's mother filed a civil lawsuit against Ebens, demanding $1.5 million in compensation, but Ebens transferred the assets to Michigan and could not be cashed out, and the legal authorities did nothing. That is, the two murderers did not spend a day in jail for their crimes, and no compensation was made.

The Chen case has taught Asian Americans that Asian Americans are second-class people in the United States, and they realize that if they don't stand up for it, the same thing could happen to them. As a result, Chinese Americans, who are known for their low-key and non-troublesome behavior in the United States, have come out in protest, which became the starting point of the Asian American civil rights movement.

But Asian-Americans' position at the bottom of the food chain in the United States has not changed, even four decades later. Before the 2016 Oscars, white and black American stars came out to accuse the Oscars of being too white and unfair to people of color, but at this Oscars, the host openly discriminated against Asians.

Xu Wangqiu sighed slightly, thinking that this era is particularly powerful in advocating foreign flattery, and in the eyes of many people, the United States is paradise, maybe I should make a movie about Chen Guoren's story to let them understand that heaven does not exist.

Of course, this is just a thought, Xu Wangqiu knows that even if he makes ten Chen Guoren movies, he will not be able to change the Chinese people's yearning for the United States, because China is really too poor now. The only way to reverse this mindset is to get the economy up.

When Xu Wangqiu arrived in Dongying, the first cut of "A Game of Chess That Wasn't Finished" had been completed, and other work was progressing in an orderly manner. Xu Wangqiu did not rest, and immediately worked with Junya Sato and the editor to make the final editing of the movie.

The whole editing went very smoothly, the only problem was that due to the long time of the film, two scenes were painfully removed. In one of the scenes, Matsuba meets Kuroda who killed Amin in the black market after the war, and Kuroda has become a black market merchant, buying and selling on the black market. Matsuba went over to grab Kuroda, but was beaten up by Kuroda and his men.

This scene shows the chaos after the war, and it also shows that the post-war Toei military doctrine was not completely liquidated, and people like Kuroda were not imprisoned. It's a pity to take this scene, but in order to maintain the rhythm of the movie, they can only endure the pain of parting love. However, Xu Wangqiu decided that if he had the opportunity to release a director's cut in the future, he must add this scene.

Shortly after the film editing was completed, Chen Bo, director of the film bureau, brought people to Dongying for a double film review. Domestic films are all directors who send the film to the Film Bureau for review. However, "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" is a co-production, and it was done in Dongying in the later stage, so I can only ask the leaders of the Film Bureau to review it in Dongying.

After watching "A Game of Chess That Didn't Be Finished", Chen Bo and the others spoke highly of the movie, believing that the movie showed the encounters of the Go families in two different countries, Guo Yishan and Songbo, so vividly and vividly, and did not describe the characters in isolation, but combined their fate with the major historical event of Japan's war of aggression against China.

Chen Bo and the others left on the front foot, and Marco Müller, the Asian filmmaker of the Venice Film Festival, came to the door again. Marco Müller is passionate about cinema and knows China very well, having been selected for the Venice Film Festival in Asia since last year.

Two years ago, Marco Muller was shocked after watching "The Rape" in the cinema. After he served as the film selector, the first thing he did was to find the film bureau and ask to take Xu Wangqiu's new film to Venice. However, "Falcon" has long decided to go to Cannes, and there is no way to Venice. Marco Muller was very regretful, so he sent "The Field" by Miss Ye of Lingnan to Venice.

However, Marco Muller always had Xu Wangqiu's new film in mind, and after hearing the news that "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" was in the late stage of Dongying, he immediately flew to Daying Company.

In the screening room of Daying, Marco Müller saw the double film of "A Game of Chess That Didn't End". In Marco Müller's impression, Xu Wangqiu is a bit similar to Coppola, the kind of director who uses the author's technique to make genre films. However, "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" completely subverted his stereotype.

The audio-visual style of "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" is extremely unique, obviously a realistic story, but the audio-visual style has a strong surrealism. The film is obviously divided into two parts, one part is the visit of the Dongying delegation to China in 1956, which is very realistic, and the remaining part is the memories of Guo Yishan and Songbo, and the audio-visual style is obviously surreal, and the colors are abnormal. The reason for this surrealism is that the director tries to show the emotional and psychological changes of the characters when they reminisce through the change of color.

In addition to the unique audiovisual style, the structure of "A Game of Chess That Hasn't Been Finished" is also very unique. The film is clearly divided into two parts, like a painting torn in half, one half of the painting can be seen from the perspective of the mountain, and the other half of the painting can be seen from the perspective of Songbo. Only when the two halves are combined will it become a complete picture, and it will be completely understood what is going on.

The three major film festivals have their own preferences: the Cannes Film Festival has the largest trading volume in Europe, focusing on the combination of commercial and artistic films, and is the stage for masters; the Berlin Film Festival focuses on politics and society, known as the political and social institutions, and the Venice Film Festival likes to shoot films in new forms and unique methods, known as the avant-garde film tea party.

"A Game of Chess" is a realistic film shot with surrealism, and it is the kind of film that the Venice Film Festival favorites with its audiovisual style and narrative technique.

When the film was over, and the lights in the screening room were not yet on, Marco Muller stood up impatiently. He grabbed Xu Wangqiu's arm tightly and said excitedly: "Director Xu, this movie is incomparable, please let me take it to Venice." ”

In fact, compared to Venice, Xu Wangqiu wants to go to Cannes more, because Venice does not have a film trading market, and it is not as convenient as Cannes to sell films, so he said: "The Venice Film Festival opens at the end of August, and there are less than two months to go. We have a tight time in the later stage, and we have to do the English version and the Italian version of the subtitles to participate in the film festival, we need to find someone to translate, and we need to do subtitles, and the time is definitely too late. Forget it, we will go to Venice again when we have the chance. ”

As the filmmaker of the Venice Film Festival, how could Marco Müller be willing to miss a film like "A Game of Chess That Never Ends", and immediately said: "It doesn't take much time for you to find someone to translate while you are doing post-production." There are almost two months to go, and you will definitely be able to complete it. ”

Xu Wangqiu also knew that if he rushed to work, he would definitely be able to finish it, but there was no need for that, so he shook his head lightly and said: "We have worked hard for this movie for three years and spent a lot of effort, and we hope that all aspects will be perfect." Rushing will definitely affect the quality of the finished film, so forget it. ”

Mark Müller is reluctant to give up: "You are just rushing to do the translation and subtitling, and the rest does not need to be rushed, and it will definitely not affect the quality." "A Game of Chess That Didn't End" really suits Venice, it's a realistic film shot with a surrealist approach. You may not know that this year's Venice Film Festival is very lively, with Tarkovsky, Marcel Carne, Satyajit Rey, Gilo Pentaikovo, García Berlanga, Mario Monicielli being the judges this year, don't you want to talk to them and hear their thoughts on "A Game of Chess That Never Ends"?"

Tarkovsky is known as a film poet and is famous for sculpting time, Marcel Carnet is a representative of French poetic realism, Satyagit Rey is a master of Indian cinema, Gilot Pentaikovo has few films but has a great influence and is called a "Marxist poet" by Pauline Kell, García Berlanga and Mario Monichelli are less famous but also very famous directors, this jury lineup can really be said to be unprecedented.

Obviously, the Venice Film Festival is not willing to be overtaken by Cannes and wants to regain its strength.

Xu Wangqiu was surprised by the jury lineup in Venice: "Venice is really lively this year. ”

Marco Müller said with a smile: "Not only that, but this year Venice will also present Lifetime Achievement Awards to Buñuel, Godard, Kurosawa, George Cook and others, and this year will be the most lively in the history of the Venice Film Festival." ”

Xu Wangqiu was dumbfounded, thinking that even Buñuel, Godard, and Kurosawa would go, this is too exaggerated, is this year's Venice Film Festival a wholesale master?

Although Junya Sato is a commercial director, he still has great respect for these film masters. These masters are usually difficult for each of them, but now there is a group of them. Such an opportunity is simply a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He looked at Xu Wangqiu and said excitedly: "Wangqiu, let's work overtime to catch up! We will definitely be able to finish it before the opening of the film festival." ”

Xu Wangqiu also felt that the opportunity was rare, and nodded: "Such a gathering may not happen once in decades, and it would be a pity to miss it." He looked at Marco Müller and said confidently: "We are participating in this Venice Film Festival. We'll finish the post-production before the film opens. ”

Marco Müller immediately smiled: "I believe that this year's film festival will shine because of your participation." ”

After Marco Müller left, Mori told Tokuma about it as soon as possible. Yasushi Tokuma was very happy to hear that "A Game of Chess That Never Ends" could go to the Venice Film Festival, and immediately used his contacts to find experienced film translators and asked them to translate "A Game of Chess Without Ending" into English and Italian.

Xu Wangqiu and the others began to work overtime, hoping to complete the post-production of the film as soon as possible, and then go to Venice. However, while they were working hard, the Asahi Shimbun and other media outlets poked out the problem of Toei's textbooks, and quickly set off a storm in East and Southeast Asia.