(Actually call me a big hair...) You're going too far!)

Westerners want to give ordinary affirmation to Oriental films, and they must meet two conditions: either they have national individuality or human commonality.

Topic selection is important!

In recent years, the mainland market has risen, and the excavation of national characteristics is not accepted by the public!

In fact, since Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" won the award in Berlin, there has been a debate in the academic circles about whether the fifth generation is making films to please the film festival in the West, that is, from the perspective of postcolonialism, analyzing whether Chinese films are self-othering and creating on the premise of the presence of Western audiences!

How do you say this...

If you want to make a name for yourself in Europe, you have to join them, and to join is to accept the rules of the game on the ground, and the rules of the game at the European Film Festival are obviously not made by third world countries.

In other words, if you can't look at and present your story from the perspective of the European and American world, it means that your story will be some kind of incomprehensible, or "non-artistic" presentation.

Let's make a conclusion: many award-winning films are first and foremost good films, but although a film is a good film, the director's mentality may be complex, subtle or helpless, but it is an indisputable fact that his works are influenced by Western film festivals.

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The first screening of "Scorching Sun" did not buy many tickets.

The screening hall was about 70% full.

At least it's much better than "The Sea of People"...

Lu Xiaoran only learned when she arrived in Venice that "Big Man" and "Lone Agent" had actually been screened in Italy, although the box office did not reach $1.5 million, which was not as good as the box office in a district in Beijing, but it was considered to be out of the country!

The Venice Film Festival is indeed a bit of a decline...

Generally speaking, such a big film festival, no matter what kind of film, should be full!

It's a pity that this year's Venice was full of only "March 15th" - directed by George Clooney.

In addition, there is "Salome Conjecture", directed by Al Pacino.

That's right, they are all works blessed by Hollywood stars!

It's embarrassing that the Venice Film Festival, which celebrates art with the slogan 'Cinema at the service of serious art', declares war on Hollywood, only to have to use Hollywood stars to earn exposure...

Entering the movie palace, the crew of "Scorching Sun" soon arrived at the screening hall, and there was a warm applause at the scene.

The movie is officially screened!

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Let's talk about the Venice release version of "Scorching Sun" first:

Xilong's Xin Xiaofeng, Yang Zidao, and Chen Bijue are inseparable friends.

Xin is smart and impulsive, trying to hide his homosexuality;

Chen has a very high IQ and is an astronomy enthusiast;

Yang is a muddle with a big tiger tattoo on his chest.

One day, the hot three went to play in the reservoir and saw a young girl bathing naked in the villa next to the reservoir.

I don't know if it was because of the primitive sexual impulse or the suppression of sexual orientation, Xin Xiaofeng held down the girl and forcibly did that, the girl died suddenly of a heart attack, and the three of them killed all the girl's family members who saw them in the villa in a panic and fled after cleaning up the traces of the scene.

The only clues that the police can get when handling the case are that the perpetrators are three people, Xin Xiaofeng's fingerprints left on the pendant of the girl's corpse, the tattoo on Yang Zidao's chest that was seen by passers-by, and the astronomical magazine that Chen Bijue dropped at the scene of the crime in a panic, this case has become an unsolved case!

Chen Bijue's sister picked up an abandoned baby girl, and the baby girl's birthday was the same month as the three of them committing the crime, so Xin Xiaofeng, Yang Zidao, and Chen Bijue decided to raise the baby girl together and named her Tail.

The three of them left Xilong with their tails and went to Xiamen, Xin Xiaofeng became an assistant policeman, Yang Zidao became the elder brother, and Chen Bijue became a burrow for fishermen to stay on the fishing raft with their tails.

The three of them desperately do good deeds and do good deeds every day, desperately earn money to heal the tail of heart disease, complain and accuse each other, and work together to escape responsibility.

Thirteen years after the Xilong extermination case, the police sergeant Yi Guchun, who was newly transferred to Xin Xiaofeng's police station, contacted Xin and Yang because of their abnormal behavior, Xin kept pinching out cigarette butts with his fingers to self-destruct fingerprints, and Yang was robbed because he wanted to avoid police contact and took the initiative to help the robbers escape.

Yang Zidao was cut in the chest by a knife when he helped someone to rob a bag robber, and he hurriedly left the scene and did not dare to seek medical treatment and bandaged himself and almost died.

Igu Natsu often goes to the hospital to take care of Tail with the trio, and Igu Haru discovers the relationship between the three and vaguely suspects that they have something to do with the murder case.

The gay wealthy businessman pursues Xin Xiaofeng, and Xin Xiaofeng goes to bed with him and takes money to heal his tail.

Haru Igu dispelled his suspicions when he discovered Shin's homosexuality.

Xia learns from Yi that Xin is gay, suspects the sexual orientation of Yang who rejected her, and asks Yang naked for confirmation, and it turns out that Yang is not gay, Xia asks Yang why she refuses to dodge, and finally Yang is overwhelmed and tears open his chest to reveal a tiger tattoo, telling Xia to go back and ask Yi to understand everything.

Xia checked the information and finally understood everything, but he covered up for Xin, Yang, and Chen in front of Yi.

In the end, the landlord eavesdropped on and recorded the conversation between Xin Xiaofeng, Yang Zidao, and Chen Bijue, and denounced them.

The case was solved, and the three were executed.

There is no scene of Wang Yanhui after that...

Wang Yanhui's role is to pass the trial...

Film festivals don't need to think about that.

Including a story-like narration, in fact, this represents the condemnation and trial of Xin, Yang, and Chen in a secular sense of society, in order to avoid the question of obscuring morality...

The Venice Film Festival released version is a 160-minute version, which is a rough cut version, without any cuts!

That's right, this is also a double script, double ending!

Will anyone denounce it?

He dares, the orange image does not say that it covers the sky with one hand, and it is still possible to manipulate public opinion!

Besides, "The Sea of People" and "The Mystery of the Floating City" are all double scripts, why should "Scorching Sun" be an exception?

The film bureau usually turns a blind eye and everyone knows it!

The reason why Cao Baoping took over "Sunspots" is because the foundation of the story is good!

The main line is solid, and the psychological rivalry between the three hidden fugitives and the sheriff makes the story tense all the time, which is the foundation for the establishment of a crime movie.

The rich branches, the voyeuristic landlord, coupled with the constantly interspersed small cases such as road bandits, jumping off buildings, and gambling, expand the width of the story and make the characters more convincing, which is the key to this crime movie that can nail people to the seat.

The entire screening hall has been very calm, for more than two hours, there was neither applause, nor laughter, nor discussion, everyone just watched the film in shock.

Among them is Du Qifeng!

Du Qifeng is also very good at shooting crime movies, and he has always looked down on mainland filmmakers, thinking that they are all local works.

After watching "The Scorching Sun", he was silent...

Especially in the death penalty scene, he deeply remembered this actor named Lu Xiaoran...

It's a pity that before he made an invitation, the oranges were already on the market, and Lu Xiaoran was already a big man worth billions.

At the end of the movie, at the press conference afterwards, a bunch of reporters gathered around...