The café was bustling with two dozen people standing in line next to the bar, talking aloud about how good the "King's Speech" was and how wonderful Colin Firth's performance was......

However, most people choose to take out, and the Telluride Film Festival is so lively that no one wants to waste time sitting in a coffee house, wishing they could go back and forth between the cinemas 24 hours a day. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info So, there are still vacant seats left around, and they are not full.

"Latte, and a piece of the Black Forest, thank you. The curly-haired fat man returned the menu to the waiter, and then he saw Lan Li's bright eyes, without special scrutiny, without special scrutiny, calmly like a clear spring, but the bottomless ink color made people can't help but want to explore.

He grew up in Orange Town, next to Los Angeles, a typical middle-class neighborhood with an elite class of lawyers, judges, doctors, fund managers, and government officials.

The blue gift in front of him made him a little curious. He could feel the alienation hidden under the gentlemanly demeanor on Lan Li's body, but he would not feel offended, let alone the arrogant arrogance of superiority, this kind of gentle but tenacious, gentle but sharp temperament actually made people feel a little good.

So, he showed a big smile and took the initiative to extend his right hand, "Look at my memory, until now, I still forgot to introduce myself, Drake-Doremus." Sorry to disrupt your viewing plans for today. ”

After learning that the curly-haired fat man was the director and sent an invitation to Lan Li to cooperate, Rooney took her leave, and she was ready to go to see "127 Hours", a work in which her sister participated in which she has not yet had time to watch. In the end, only Lan Li and the two came to the coffee house, looking for a place to sit down and talk.

"Ranley Hall. Lan Li held the other party's right hand and said quietly, "The charm of Telluride is that everything is related to movies. And now too. "But there was a series of question marks in my mind: Drake Doremus?

Lan Li didn't dare to say that he knew all the film works well, in the vast film history, there were thousands of movies, and the works that were not famous were like stars. But after entering the millennium, Lan Li has seen the most and the most complete, and almost all of the works that are not famous have been seen. However, he really doesn't have much impression of the director's name.

What does that mean? Does it mean that Drake isn't worth befriending? Is his work unknown? Could it be just an independent work that no one cares about? Should he turn away now?

No, Lan Li still chose to sit where she was. As he says, this is Telluride, and even though Drake is a nobody, being able to make a movie lover as a friend is a bonus. What's more, Lan Li would not be arrogant to think that he knows all the movies after the 21st century.

"I like your answer. Drake said with a smile, Lan Li's easy-to-use and easy-going attitude once again strengthened Drake's inner thoughts, "In fact, I am preparing my third film, and the preliminary work of the film has been completed and can be filmed at any time, but the problem is: I haven't found the actor I want." ”

Drake is telling the truth, he has been going around for nearly three months for the male lead of the new work, and he still hasn't found a suitable candidate.

For a small-budget independent film, it is difficult to move forward in any link, the actors he likes may be too expensive, or they are not satisfied with the script, and the actors he can find may not match the role setting in his mind, and finding the right actor is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and no one knows when he will find the treasure.

Therefore, many times independent directors have their own fixed casts, which may be familiar friends in life, and more likely that after a cooperation, the two parties find that the cooperation is pleasant, so they will naturally find each other again when they make a film.

Drake believes that Lan Li knows this very well, because he has just finished filming "Buried Alive", which is also a small-budget independent work.

Sure enough, Lan Li chuckled, "I hope you're not too demanding." ”

Drake smiled as well, "I'm really too demanding, and I've been waiting until now. Without moving, he praised Lan Li. At this time, the coffee of the two people was served, and Drake pushed the coffee cup forward, leaning forward slightly, "I wonder if you have seen Richard-Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and 'Before Sunset'?"

"Of course. Lan Li remembered the joke she had with Rooney last night, and couldn't help but laugh. "You're planning to make a love movie like this too?"

"Yes and no. Drake sold a pass, and a hint of pride slipped in his eyes, "I want to tell a story about two people who fall madly in love with each other like two flames from meeting to acquaintance and then falling in love, desperate and moths to the fire, so that they lose their minds." But at the moment of love, they were forced to separate due to force majeure factors, and the hot love poured a bucket of cold water on their heads, facing the test of a long-distance relationship, so where will this relationship go in the end?"

Drake's narration awakens Lan Li's memory, and he reminds him of a movie that tells such a story - "Love is Crazy".

The film tells the story of two college students, Anna and Jacob, who fall in love and get carried away as if they were crazy, so that Anna ignores her visa - she is an international student from the United Kingdom, and her visa expires after graduation, but she does not leave the United States within the deadline. Later, because of a friend's wedding, she had to go back to the UK, and when she came back again, she suddenly found that she was denied entry by customs, and this love began to undergo severe tests.

This is one of Lan Li's favorite romance movies.

For many, the film is about the pain and torment of long-distance love, but Lan Li has a different opinion. He believes that "Love is Crazy" really tells the original appearance of love, the most real appearance. From the moment they met, the hormonal chemistry was like a volcanic eruption, earth-shattering, falling in love; the madness and addiction in the love period destroyed all reason, everything was so crazy, like a tornado meeting; then, they encountered ups and downs, encountered difficulties, encountered struggles, the temperature of love began to gradually drop, so that love began to become a part of life, little by little in the daily trivialities, and can no longer find the original appearance.

As Drake just said, "Love Crazy" is actually a bit like a trilogy of "Before Sunrise", "Before Sunset", and "Before Midnight", showing the complete original appearance of love, from fermentation to death, from brewing to dissipation, real and cruel, beautiful and heartbreaking, but "Love Crazy" is different from Richard Linklater's trilogy, it explores the essence of love - is it a collision of passions, or a long stay?

In daily life, love cannot maintain a boiling point of 100 degrees all the time, and will always encounter peaks and troughs, but at critical moments, the object of their deep love is not around, happiness and sadness, happiness and sadness, joy and frustration can not be shared together, so is there still a need for love to exist? At this moment, how should love go on?

Drake doesn't give a direct answer in the movie, leaving an open-ended ending where every viewer will have their own thoughts. This is also the reason why Lan Li likes this movie so much.

Optimists will think that they have overcome all odds and come together in the end, while pessimists will believe that the passage of time has changed the two of them and that they will never go back.

Lan Li is the latter.

The movie "Love is Crazy" is very niche, because it is too real, too cruel, almost unbearable, and at the same time too delicate and too beautiful, and everyone who has truly loved can find their own shadow in the movie. Therefore, the box office performance of the film is unsatisfactory, and the publicity effect is mediocre. However, the film was unanimously recognized by critics, and it successfully won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

It's a pity that the publicity and distribution during the awards season were not strong enough, and the two works of "The Artist" and "Midnight in Paris" were violently attacked that year, and in the end they were not able to achieve anything during the awards season, not even bubbling. That's all too rare — just before Love Goes Crazy, the winner of the Sundance Jury Prize had been nominated for an Oscar for three years in a row, and Best Picture for two years in a row.

Even so, it still does not affect Lan Li's love for "love is crazy".

However, Lan Li didn't know that the director of "Love Crazy" was Drake Doremus - or more accurately, he had checked Drake's information, but unfortunately Drake's later works were difficult to compare with "Love Crazy", including "The Same Race" in 2015, and the quality was unsatisfactory, so Lan Li gradually forgot about the director, so that when he heard the name just now, he didn't have any reaction.

What makes "Love Crazy" so great is that it's based on the director's own story – the true story of him and his wife, and every detail and emotion in the film is so empathetic. In the movie, Anna and Jacob end up together, hugging each other scarred, and in real life, Drake and his wife divorced in 2008.