316. Frankfurt am Main
It took a total of 11 hours to fly from Pudong International Airport to Frankfurt, Germany, and Xie Xiaoke and they went to a total of 8 people, except for 4 bodyguards, as well as Gong Qiuwei, Pan Xiaoting and Zhou Dongyu.
Not long after getting on the plane, a flight attendant came over to distribute snacks, biscuits, cakes and cup noodles, and had dinner in the middle, Xie Xiaoke kept watching movies, he brought a power bank, the power was sufficient, and the three women fell asleep.
Looking at the scenery of the earth from an airplane, it is really not an exaggeration to describe it as magnificent, and I really feel that human beings are too small!
As the minutes passed, I saw the street scene of Frankfurt and was very excited, and I was finally able to reach my destination.
The time zones of China and Germany are different, there is a time difference of 7 hours, the time in China is 7 hours faster than Germany, Xie Xiaoke and they boarded the plane from Shencheng at 9 o'clock in the morning, Germany at that time was 2 o'clock in the morning, 11 hours later, when they got off the plane at Frankfurt Airport, it was exactly 1 o'clock in the afternoon in Germany.
The eyes are bright and the climate is pleasant, and I have a different feeling when I first come to Germany, and I actually saw the advertisement of the glory hand outside the airport, as well as the Bank of Communications, and rows of Mercedes-Benz and BMW taxis.
They don't want to go to Berlin for the time being, they plan to spend an afternoon in Frankfurt, although Xie Xiaoke has been watching movies, but now he is still energetic and free himself.
"My friend is waiting for me in Berlin, or I'll go over first, you guys will play here!"
Louise flew to Germany 2 times before Gong Jovi, and now she has gone directly to Berlin, her hometown in Germany is near the Berlin Nordrbahnhof Park, and she made an appointment with Gong Jovi before, and she will meet her home in Berlin as soon as she arrives in Germany.
Zhou Dongyu asked unhappily: "Are you in a hurry, let's play for a while, and then go tomorrow, it's still early anyway?"
Xie Xiaoke also persuaded: "Yes, I'll call a special car to send us over tomorrow!"
"No, I've already made an appointment with someone to go over first, and the Germans are taboo about breaking the contract!" Although Jovie has a good relationship with Louise, she never dares to be dishonest in anything, because Germans are known for their rigor and trustworthiness, and they never make friends with the kind of duplicitous and untrustworthy people.
In China, the pace of life is very fast, and sometimes it is inevitable that the default will be late, and everyone can understand each other, but in Germany it is different, people say the same, even if it is a small thing, you can't default casually.
Although Louise has been in China for a long time, she is still taboo in this regard.
"Yes, yes, yes, I heard that the Germans are like this, you either don't agree to the other party in the first place, as long as you agree, don't break the contract in the middle because of this and that, besides, the reason why we broke the contract is just to play, it's not good for her to know!" Pan Xiaoting said suddenly, she had occasionally met a few German athletes when she played before, and she had a misunderstanding with others because she didn't understand this.
Xie Xiaoke said helplessly: "Okay, the four of you will go with her, and when you get there, you will go to the hotel I booked and stay by yourself!"
Before coming here, each of them opened a credit card, and the 100,000 limit was swiped casually, and they could directly ask Xie Xiaoke for reimbursement after swiping.
Gong Qiuwei also has one in her hand, and now the first time she uses it is to buy a bus from Frankfurt to Berlin, which takes more than 3 hours to arrive, and the ticket price is 350 yuan, which is about 46 euros.
"Thanks, then we'll go first!"
After the five of them left, only Zhou Dongyu, Pan Xiaoting and Xie Xiaoke were left, the three of them planned to take a taxi, but they didn't speak German, and it was the first time they came to Germany, and they waited for almost 20 minutes to get a taxi, but fortunately, a POS machine was installed in the car, and they could directly swipe their credit cards, eliminating some troubles.
Along the way, Xie Xiaoke was observing the scenery, and found that there were not many cars on the street, and there were no pedestrians, which was strange, I heard that Frankfurt is still the largest city in Hesse, Germany, with Germany's largest aviation hub and railway hub, and is the industrial, commercial, financial, and transportation center of the whole Europe.
Later, he checked on Baidu, and there are only more than 80 million people in Germany, which is too few, and there are not many people who are allocated to each place on average every year, and maybe there are not many people at this time.
Most European countries are not very populous, and even commercial centers are unlikely to be as crowded as Asian cities.
Xie Xiaoke can communicate with the driver in English, and the other party can understand, the two talked for two or three sentences, Xie Xiaoke roughly understood that the taxi here starts at 3 euros, and then the fare is 1.5 euros within 1-5 kilometers, and 1.3 euros for 5-10 kilometers.
Their first stop, the Roman Forum, the most important city square in Germany, was built in the Middle Ages in Europe, in the heart of Frankfurt's old town, north of the Maine Iron Bridge, west of the town hall, and 200 meters east of the city's birthplace, Frankfurt Cathedral.
It is also home to the Frankfurt Christmas market every year during the Christmas season.
The buildings near the square are still very distinctive, and it is said that the rent of the storefront houses here is determined according to the width of the storefront, so the storefronts are narrow and deep.
"What is this?" asked Zhou Dongyu, pointing to a statue holding a scale.
Pan Xiaoting said: "This is the statue of the goddess of justice!"
"What is she doing with that scale?"
"I don't know!"
While walking, they bought a lot of snacks, feasted their eyes and mouths, and after walking around the square, they went to the iron bridge over the Main.
The Main is a tributary of the right bank of the German Rhine, formed by the confluence of the Red Main and White Main rivers near Kulmbach and emptied at Mainz, with a length of 524 km.
There are canals connecting the Rhine and Danube river systems, and the river valley is densely populated, with the main river ports being Würzburg and Frankfurt.
There were small signs on the bridge stickers, with the years, months and days written on them, and they couldn't understand what they meant, so they asked a Chinese who was traveling, and they learned that this was the time to record every time the Main River flooded.
There are many small locks locked by tourists on the iron bridge, and there are all kinds of colors, colorful and green, Xie Xiaoke sighed:
"I thought that only we Chinese liked to lock tourist attractions, but I didn't expect foreigners to like to engage in this thing!"
Zhou Dongyu looked at these locks, some of them still have words, they are all foreign characters, I can't understand them, they are all short, they seem to be people's names, so she looked everywhere, and sure enough, she found a lot of Chinese names.
She happily said, "Hey, let's go buy a lock too!"
"Okay!"
There is a shop selling souvenirs of tourist attractions in front, Xie Xiaoke trotted over, and also communicated with the shopkeeper in English, fortunately, there are still many people in Germany who can understand English, and the communication is very smooth.
Xie Xiaoke asked, "Master, give me three locks!"
"Okay, you can choose the color here, and you can also engrave your name for free!" said the shopkeeper amiably.
Xie Xiaoke heard it, it was very good, and he could also engrave his name for free, and continued to ask: "Can Chinese be engraved?"
"Yes!"
The shopkeeper took out the Chinese characters he had written before and showed them to Xie Xiaoke, the writing was very beautiful, Xie Xiaoke nodded in shock: "Amazing!"
Thinking about how difficult it is for a foreigner to learn Chinese characters, he really admires this shopkeeper, and even wonders if he will be reborn from China and come to Germany in 2030.
Then he turned to Zhou Dongyu and said, "You write down your name and let the master engrave it!"
Zhou Dongyu said with a smile: "Can you just help me write it down?"
Xie Xiaoke picked up the pen and wrote out his name first, and then asked: "You are the winter of winter, the language of the language, right!"
"Hmm!"
"Pan Xiaoting's three words shouldn't be wrong, you won't be small in size, right!"
Pan Xiaoting smiled and did not speak.
The master quickly finished carving the words, and the carving was very beautiful, and the three locks were red, blue, and black, and the three of them took one and went to the iron bridge over there happily.
"Come on, let's lock it together, and then take a picture to remember this location, maybe we can see it again when we come here in the future!"
After locking the locks in adjacent positions, they picked up their phones and took photos as a souvenir.
Later, they also found a passerby to help them take a few group photos.
"Wow, that's fun!"
"It's really quiet to travel here, and there are not many people, which is really different from China!"
One day passed quickly, and to put it bluntly, only half of their minds remained here, and the other half flew to Berlin.
The next day, they took a special car for two and a half hours to Berlin and found the Steigenberger hotel they had booked.
The environment of the hotel is very good, equipped with non-smoking rooms, desk, plasma TV, in-room safe, shower facilities, hair dryer and other facilities, and the hotel provides free Wi-Fi.
The waiter is blonde and blue-eyed, good-looking, and the service is also very attentive.
At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, Gong Qiuwei came here with Louise and met Xie Xiaoke and got to know each other.
Louise greeted Xie Xiaoke very politely: "Hello, Boss Xie, I have admired my name for a long time!"
Xie Xiaoke was stunned: "Hello hello, Miss Louise, Chinese is so good!"
"It's over!"
Jovian smiled and explained: "Louise has been in China longer than in Germany!"
"Oh, really?"
"Yes, on the day of the film festival, she was the interpreter for us, and no one knows Chinese better than her!" said Gong Qiuwei.
"Okay, I'm having a treat today, let's go to dinner together, and let Miss Louise lead the way and take us to taste the food of Berlin?" Xie Xiaoke proposed.
Louise said distressedly: "Actually, I'm almost like you, I'm not familiar with this place anymore, and Berlin has changed a lot in the past 20 years!"
Xie Xiaoke realized how inconsiderate what he said, now if he returns to Jiangdu by himself, and others ask him to lead the way to play, he can't take it, and he is completely unfamiliar with it.
"Then let's find out for ourselves!"
"Okay, let's touch the elephant blindly, and eat whatever we touch!" Zhou Dongyu raised his hands and cheered.
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A few days passed very quickly, at noon on February 3, Xie Xiaoke, Zhou Dongyu, and Pan Xiaoting all dressed in professional clothes and rode a German shared bicycle to Potsdamer Platz, the venue of the Berlin Film Festival.
It's half an hour's walk from the Beagle Hotel, and 15 minutes by bike.
There are a lot of people here, and there are also a lot of Asians, and people with black eyes, black hair, and yellow skin look at this kind of place, especially the women of the island country, when they hear them speak, they are simply kind to death!
"Hi, Miss Louise, hello hello!" As soon as he entered the square, he saw Louise, and Xie Xiaoke gave her a hug very warmly.
"Come in with me!"
Then they walked into the square under the leadership of Louise, only to see a huge statue of a bear walking zombie steps standing in the center of the square, glowing red, and under the bear was written several English letters in yellow "Berlinale Palast", symbolizing the highest award of the Berlin Film Festival, the Golden Bear Award.
Regarding this Golden Bear Award, many Chinese have also won, 2014's "Fireworks in the Day" Diao Yinan, "Tuya's Marriage" Wang Quanan, "Sense and Sensibility" Li An, etc., mainly for the film.
In addition, there is also the Silver Bear Award, mainly for actors, actresses, etc., I don't know if they have a chance to win one or two awards this time, if they do, their international status can be said to be a higher level.
Xie Xiaoke is still relatively normal, even if he doesn't win the award, it doesn't matter, it's good to come once.
The opening is February 3rd, in fact, the film has already begun to be scheduled on January 20th, there are a total of 11 days, everyone needs to buy tickets to watch their favorite movies, dense forms, looking for dead people, some people are too lazy to watch, just waiting for the final award-winning film.
The film festival is mainly divided into seven units, "Wood God 2" participates in the main competition unit, and there are also short film units, new generation units and so on......
Before the opening, many Chinese in Germany came to watch Chinese movies, especially "Mushen 2".
Although there are not as many people as on the day of the premiere of "Mushen Ji 1" in Shencheng, there are quite a few of them, and they basically monopolize all the German Chinese.
"Mujin Ji 2" has a total of 105 minutes, which is 15 minutes longer than the first part, because there were many flaws and loopholes in the performance of the first part, so it was cut out by the director, otherwise it would have been about 110 minutes to play.
The special effects of this one are also very shocking, or it continues the grandiose, real, and powerful rendering power comparable to Hollywood in the past, and the actors' performances are more mature than the first step, the details are more accurate and in place, and the plot is advanced in strict accordance with the original work, which makes people feel very comfortable to watch, and there is no sense of disobedience at all.
Shi Xiaolong's acting skills have been upgraded to a higher level, and after watching the whole film, his roles are very sufficient, and the shots are also comprehensive.
Because there is no makeup and beauty, the actors' movements and expressions are shown naked to the audience on the big screen, and the difference between the movie and the TV series is that the time is very short, only about 2 hours, the actor has no time to move, to figure out, he must immediately enter the state, and immediately interpret the inner world of this character, which is a very test of acting skills and state, Shi Xiaolong, who has been in the film industry since he was a child, has become proficient in this and can no longer be proficient, and the audience's evaluation of him is also surprisingly high。
"Xiaolong's acting skills are really perfect now!"
"People have been acting since they were young, can it be bad, but they didn't act much later, and the actors of that era basically had acting skills!"
"I heard that they are still filming Heaven and Dragon Slayer 2, starring Shi Xiaolong, I don't know if it's good-looking!"
"When it's released, be sure to see it!"
......
After watching the movie, everyone was full of praise for Shi Xiaolong's difficult and dangerous actions in the film, at least among traffic stars.
Shi Xiaolong is also a traffic star in the strict sense, but he is just a faction with acting skills, if he is compared with a national first-class actor, there must be a big gap, and national-level performing artists are definitely much stronger than stars in terms of dedication, this is incomparable.
In the end, Shi Xiaolong won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor under the expectation of the public, and Zhou Dongyu also won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress.
When he heard the news, Zhou Dongyu hugged Xie Xiaoke excitedly, and hung on him: "Great, Mr. Xie!"