The timeline is pushed back a week.

The Cannes Film Festival is one of the final maps of the film and television industry, and the shortlisting is news, not shortlisted, generally speaking, only in a professional household like Jia Zhangke, it can be regarded as news - Ji Ming's words really have little to do with Cannes.

This can also add to the heat.

On the one hand, it is the residual heat of his "Longing", and on the other hand, of course, someone is messing with him, and the whole world knows it.

"Do some people attach too much importance to Ji Ming? His first film was not shortlisted for Cannes, and it has to be known to everyone. What's the matter, some people dare to have more confidence in Ji Ming than our fans? Is this blackmailing him, or is it praising him? I've been in the fandom for ten years, and it's the first time I've seen such a blackheart. ”

Hahaha laughed to death, I guess they didn't expect that under those unconscionable marketing accounts, the comments were all the same. ”

- "Huh? I'll take a look." ”

Sure enough, under the marketing account that received the money:

"If you don't say it, I don't know that Ji Ming's new drama is so optimistic?

"When was it released, to be honest, the three major European and Chinese-language films are not completely consistent, but since everyone thinks so, it shows that "Immortals" is definitely a rare good art film in recent years, and it must be supported. ”

"Hey, I was worried about whether the quality of a top-level traffic starring actor like Ji Ming was doubtful, but now I am a little more confident. ”

"At least it has to be a quasi-Cannes?"

"The most straightforward comparison method is the second largest Chinese film of the year after "Children of Jianghu"?"

The people behind the scenes, I don't know if they will cry to death, they spent a lot of money, but they gave people a wave of publicity - but if it is really publicized and implemented, this play will not be on Cannes, and the level of this drama will not be top, and it can be regarded as a setback for Ji Ming's momentum.

However, this self-consolation did not last until May, only a week after the first batch of lists were announced, the second batch of lists has been announced - in recent years, in order to receive as many works as possible from directors from all over the world, Cannes has also made compromises in the selection time, and most of the second batch of lists are international famous directors, followed by directors who have been shortlisted in the top three European rankings, and even won awards.

As a highly commercial film market, they must continue to attract works with sufficient artistic value - and then use the artistic influence brought by these works to enhance the value of the festival itself, so as to attract more producers and film dealers to buy and sell here.

That's why the world's films have a relatively level playing field in Cannes - because its market itself is facing the whole world, just Europe at sunset, far from being able to hold up, and participants from Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa are absolutely not to give up in Cannes.

Of the 6 films on the second batch of film lists, of course, there is only one Chinese film, and even only one Asian film.

"Falling to the Immortals".

And that's the real news.

"Starring Ji Ming and directed by Wen Yan, the new work "Immortals" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 71st Cannes Film Festival, and two more Chinese films were shortlisted after three years!"

Last time, it was Jia Zhangke's "Mountains and Rivers Old People" and Hou Xiaoxian's "Assassin Nie Yinniang".

"The First Trailer of the Penguin Annual Film and Television Conference" tells the story of a young urban teacher who is obsessed with ancient poetry, after coming to the picturesque Qiannan Mountains, he has many conceptual conflicts with local villagers, primary school students, teaching colleagues, and his inner self, and finds the true meaning of poetry from the poetry-like environment and the people in this environment, and more importantly, his own inner peace and liberation. The film tries to find a way to relieve stress for urban youth, and also hopes to tell these people that there is no peach blossom paradise in the world, no matter where it is, there is pressure to face, and if you want to get real peace and satisfaction in your heart, you can only explore it from your heart, maybe when you reconcile with your own heart, everything will be different. ”

Uh-huh.

I don't know where this reporter got the synopsis, seven or eight out of ten got it from Penguin Film and Television - if you want to say who is the happiest shortlisted, the first one is Penguin, and the second is Xitian, these two investors understand that the meaning of being shortlisted is that it will not lose money in this drama, and it can make a little money.

Ji Ming + Cannes, it's completely enough.

Especially for Tencent Video, many people may be reluctant to go to the cinema to watch a shortlisted literary film, but in their spare time, go to the video website to click on this drama, even if it will pull the progress bar, it doesn't matter, it's all clicks, it's all advertising money, it's all money!

So Xitian doesn't need to make much effort here, and the media resources that Penguin has are not a joke.

......

Renyi.

"I'm a puppet, you dare to treat me as a puppet...... Ji Ming was wearing a suit at that time, but there were still sweatpants and sneakers underneath, but the ridiculous outfit did not affect the feeling of being a trapped beast exuded by his whole person, weak, nervous, sad, and angry.

Ren Ming stood on the side of the stage, his eyes lit up.

Sure enough, he didn't think wrong, since the rehearsal for most of the month, Ji Ming's performance is completely different from the Chinese opera version, at that level, Ji Ming's direction is how to control the scene, how to "manipulate" actors with a lower level on the same stage by exuding his emotions, he has done a good job. However, on the stage of human art, he doesn't need so much, and Ren Ming will never allow him to do so.

A Mandarin actor, a 21-year-old actor, comes to Renyi to act, and he has to rely on Renyi's actors to play - this face is too big, as the new dean of Renyi, Ren Ming can't afford to lose this face no matter what.

If Song Yi or Lan Yingying, who can't catch Ji Ming, he has a plan to replace him.

At this time, Pu Yi, who staged a big monologue on stage - after being humiliated by the devil officer, in the northern palace, for the first time, knew that he had never been able to return to the country, and all the previous struggles and "efforts" were just a joke. This despair, despair that the Qing Dynasty is dead, and there will be no resurrection one day; this shame, shame on his own dignified emperor, but being manipulated like a puppet by the devil; this panic, panic in tearing his face, will the devil do nothing, kill him, and support his younger brother Pu Jie to ascend the throne......

This complex situation, combined with Pu Yi's own complex and sensitive spiritual nature, makes this monologue extremely dramatic.

Ji Ming uses intricate and irregular movements, and lines with changeable tones and high and low lines to express all this.

It's all his forte.

Long and short, east, west and west...... Dozens of steps, messily memorized in your head, not to mention the performance, with more complex lines - it's like a combination of endless possibilities.

Which one can burst out with the most powerful energy, and which one can make the audience feel the madness of the characters from the depths of their hearts?

Maybe no one knows, but everyone present knows that Ji Ming's performance is already the best they can imagine.

“...... You are all rebellious, rebellious. ”

At the end of the monologue, panic and fear have occupied the mainstream of emotions, anger is only mixed with some aftertaste, and the unknowable confusion about the future is like a base, supporting this line, and these emotions drift into the audience's heart.

Heh, what a coward.

Disdainful, and desolate - the general trend is surging, and manpower can not help?

"Not bad. Ren Ming nodded, nodded again, people who are familiar with him will know that this is not just a "good" question, but a very satisfied, quite satisfactory evaluation, but limited to maintaining a posture, he will not have a more outrageous evaluation.

Refreshing.

After Ji Ming's performance, there was a kind of refreshing air coming out of the cracks of the bones, just like a hot and stuffy summer, and suddenly there was a cold snap - it was not the closed cold current of the air conditioner, it was the shade of the mountains, the springs and rivers, the breeze blowing, the heat disappeared, the birds chirped in the distance, and the nameless fire did not grow at all.

Pour yourself clean and feel refreshed.

"Ahh ”

"Enjoyable, huh?"

Ji Ming looked at Wang Lei and nodded, and even Han Ming begged the old man to say nothing.

Lan Yingying and Song Yi don't talk about it, this formal arrangement, Ji Ming is far more terrifying than the previous tirade and talking to them-the kind of crushing without scruples, if you can catch it, you will take it, and if you can't catch it, you will be embarrassed.

Ji Ming didn't turn around at the earliest, and when he faced these two girls, he was also half-supporting, but Ren Ming was furious - after Ji Ming completely transformed, the two of them were too difficult, Ji Ming's impact was sharper than that of his colleagues, and his progress was visible to the naked eye.

I got used to it today, but I can't keep up tomorrow, and when there is no gasping for breath, only Ji Ming occasionally has to ask for leave, and they can be lazy.

It's too difficult, I'm really too difficult-Lan Yingying sighed to their teacher Cao more than once.

"It's amazing. ”

"Awesome. ”

Ji Ming laughed: "Why isn't there a little bit of joy?"

“......”

"Haha, okay, that's all for today, get off work early, and have a good rest for the day. "Ren Ming is gracious and fake. He is a director who is willing to give holidays, and some directors are unwilling, not to say that they are stingy, but their creative concept feels that you have to work hard and can't break in the middle, so they require the actors not to ask for leave, and they have to be arranged to a complete degree before they can relax a little.

"Okay. Ji Ming picked up his prop costume and hung it on the shelf.

"Is there a day off?"

"There may be commercial performances. Ji Ming thought about the schedule, yes, there are commercial performances, if Ren Yuan doesn't have a holiday, he may have to rush - the event at five o'clock in the afternoon is not too late, when the time comes, leave a little early, the RV comes directly, puts on makeup and styling in the car, and rushes there to go directly to the stage, anyway, he is familiar with it.

Gee.

I don't know if it's sympathy or envy - when it comes to sympathy, people have millions of commercial performances, and they really can't sympathize.

Ji Ming's commercial price has been rising, and he promised that after today, it will rise even more.

"Ahh

Lan Yingying just got the phone, flipped through it for a while, and suddenly screamed, so frightened that Ji Ming's sentence of "" was like constipation, and he was squeezed into a paragraph.

Wang Lei was similar: "What are you doing? Teacher Cao is in the headlines? good or bad?"

"What Mr. Cao, Ji Ming, you are in the headlines, your film was shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival, don't you know yet?"

Wow!

There was silence.

If there is anything that will surprise people in the theater of Renyi, it has to be about the three major things of that level - the domestic golden statue and golden horse or something, it may be a happy congratulations.

"Didn't he get swiped? I also watched a lot of news, Xiao Tao's Weibo was everywhere, saying that he was not shortlisted this time, so as to frustrate his temper. Han Mingqiu was stunned for a while, very puzzled, and just honked a bunch of horns.

This uncle is actually okay, although he has seen it a long time ago, but this week, he has not stabbed him in the face of Ji Ming.

Ji Ming couldn't find the happiness of slapping his face at this moment.

"I know, didn't you just answer a phone call?"

“...... I, I'm really," Lan Yingying was blocked, and she was speechless: "Obey, I obey you, you are the best, Teacher Ji, you are this??。 ”

A thumbs up.

Can it not be a thumbs up? Can it not be a bull beep? Answered such a shocking phone call, and then like no one else, he went on stage to perform a crushing blockbuster monologue, scaring a group of people to death - this kind of person, is it still human?

21 years old?

210-year-old old tortoise, right?

In fact, Ji Ming is really not so excited, he is still confident in being shortlisted, and the second one is very unconfident in winning the actor, "Falling to the Immortals" is his first play after all, and it is not the kind of true character to act, like Xia Yu back then, "Sunny Day". So in fact, in terms of performance, it is still not too flawless.

After coming and going, the shortlisted will be shortlisted, almost over, and there is no big hope.

What are you excited about?

However, after the news of the finalists came out, the voice of dreams come true did not follow, so the play may still have other gains.

"That's great news. Ren Ming was also a little stunned: "Isn't it "Immortals"? When the time comes, you have to invite everyone to take a look, when will it be released?"

"I really don't know, I'll have to wait for notice. ”

Or Wang Lei understands a little: "A drama like theirs, if they win the award in Cannes, they may go directly, if they don't win it, they should go to other film festivals, or Golden Horse Golden Rooster or something, otherwise the box office will have to worry." Domestically, in fact, it is not only domestic, this kind of literary and artistic films are not selling very well. Of course, there may not be too much investment in these dramas, right?"

"Confidential! Ji Ming keeps secrets, Ji Ming guards secrets!"

“...... I also talked about tongue twisters. ”

Ha ha.

When the group dispersed, the reporters may not have come around, so he left Renyi smoothly and went home.

"Congratulations to the boss. Tang Fan's mouth was sweet.

"Okay, when the time comes, I'll take you to Cannes to play tricks, find a big ocean - ahem, find a foreign friend to solve your life events. Ji Ming flipped through his phone.

His own mobile phone, in fact, there are not too many WeChat friends, just dozens, and the rest are on the mobile phone in the hands of the staff.

That one had already exploded.

All kinds of media, peers, investors, producers, publicity and distribution companies, cooperative commercial activity manufacturers, organizers of commercial activities, various social institutions, relevant departments...... It was all sent like a bomb, and Lin Ran was busy thanking it at this moment.

"Thank you. ”

"Thank you so much. ”

"By all means, thank you. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Wang. ”

She is also very proficient, practice makes perfect, isn't it coincidental? Every time Lin Ran returns, it's a coincidence.

Ji Ming's friends on his mobile phone have also sent them, and there are a lot of them, but they are not so exaggerated, such as Xu Zheng Taohong, they haven't come to congratulate him yet, the main thing is that the relationship is really okay, there is no need to rush to this point, the first time it was sent, the important thing is not the congratulations themselves, but this attitude - you see, I will congratulate you as soon as possible, which shows that I value you, I treat you as an important person, you have to appreciate it, you have to have a number, right? The next time I want you to give face, I can't be close to people, right? Otherwise, your reputation will be rotten.

That's about the rules of the game.

So Ji Ming is not in a hurry to reply to these, the timestamp is there, and he can't be greedy for this "favor".

He first gave Zhu Man and Zhao Han over there in "Thunderstorm", people sincerely congratulated, regardless of whether they had ideas or not, but they didn't point to this congratulations to exchange favors, yes. Then there are a few leaders who look down, and they have to think about the wording, which is more difficult.

"Xiao Ji, I am glad to hear that your masterpiece was shortlisted for the Cannes International Film Festival, I am very happy, I wish you. You can't just say, "Thank you, buddy," isn't it funny. You'll have to crepe out a few words, too.

"Thank you for taking the time to care in your busy schedule, it is the help and care of leaders at all levels, we can make good works. ”

It's disgusting, you have to say the same.

What is called a sense of ritual, this is a sense of ritual.

There are also some "amiable", people say "Xiao Ji is good, and has achieved good results, come on", you come to a sentence "will come on, thank you", this is not appropriate, people will treat you as a child, don't take you seriously, you have to be serious: "Don't dare to say the results, you must make persistent efforts, and I have to ask you for more guidance and support." ”

After this lap, it's almost home.

After arriving home, I called Wen Yan, and it was also blown up over there, but fortunately he also had a private number, and after calling two, he was still connected.

"Oh, don't join in the fun. ”

"Haha, congratulations, Director Wen, you have become one of the few Chinese directors who have been shortlisted for the Venice and Cannes film festivals, and you are amazing. ”

“...... Hurry up and go to the side, I'm too busy, you're relaxed, and you're still talking about the wind and cold, aren't you?"

"Haha, okay, don't bother yourself to enjoy the good time silently. ”

A fart person, as a director, where is Wen Yan so relaxed - as soon as his face drops, he will pull investment in the future, who will pay attention to you, what kind of sweetness is it to really be a literary film director?

Throwing the mobile phone, Ji Ming ran two steps, and hugged the person holding the book, wearing a little rabbit home clothes, smiling, like a flower blooming in the spring water, and turned around several times: "Hahaha." ”

Chu Qing hugged his head and planted a strawberry on his head.

"That's amazing, poof. ”