Chapter 199: Opening (2/6)
Hotel.
"I'm tired!"
The girl threw herself on the bed, breathless.
"You're not wearing high heels, how can you be tired?"
Shen Ming helped her take off her shoes, took a pair of slippers by the way, and put them next to the bed.
"I've walked at least 30,000 steps today!" he said, taking out his phone: "Look, more than 32,000 steps!"
"Bitter or not, think of the Red Army twenty-five thousand!"
“…”
Milk Xiao was speechless...
"It's still too bad!"
Helped her press her ankle and wash her hands, Shen Ming sat on the sofa, turned on the TV, and then found that he couldn't understand Italian, so he turned it off again: "I'll take a shower first!"
"Hmm..."
Turning her head to look, the girl was already asleep on the bed...
Approached the bed and kissed her.
Shen Ming was also a little exhausted, so he simply lay down next to her...
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Although the Venice Film Festival is the oldest of the three exhibitions, it has not become the leader.
First of all, the red carpet is not imposing enough, and the film market is pitifully small, and even closed for a time, and its transaction volume can be imagined.
But no matter how it falls, it's Venice too!
In order to attract attention, Alberto Barbara, the artistic director of this year's Venice Film Festival, really worked hard, holding hands with Netflix, and invited a bunch of supermodels!
Is it a real supermodel, what Victoria's Secret supermodel Sara Sampaio, Cristiano Ronaldo's girlfriend Georgina, supermodel Barbara Parvin, Isabelle Goeller and so on...
It's all a sister with a leg length of one meter...
These supermodels directly treat the red carpet as a show, and they wear very simple clothes - mainly showing their legs!
Shen Ming stared at these legs while criticizing: Venice is really degenerate, a good film festival, it has actually fallen to the point that it needs a supermodel to support the stage!
Well, I guess the photographers over there who are desperately pressing the shutter think the same thing...
Alberto Barbara is still a bit conservative...
Or that times have changed, and he doesn't dare to be too presumptuous!
How did the Cannes Film Festival come about?
In those years, there were no high-quality works at the Cannes Film Festival, and the atmosphere was quite miserable and miserable, so the organizers were happy: It's an international film party, don't you want to be so bleak! So in order to attract attention, I found a large number of cyan films, and simply held a "cyan film exhibition": they are all thighs, buttocks and breasts, so let you watch enough of it!
Then, Palm Beach in May of that year suddenly became a stage for third-level actresses to scratch their heads and show off their hues, and the whole Cannes became popular all of a sudden!
The Cannes Film Festival, which is so excited that it can't find the north, has since been out of control on the road of eroticism: a large number of cyan films are exhibited every year...
David Cronenberg's "Crash", Philip Kaufman's "Prague Love", Nagisa Oshima's "Kingdom of the Senses"...
When the last film was screened in Cannes, many people left the theater angrily, and the film was listed as a banned film in the world...
The Festival de Cannes has always delighted audiences with its sexy nature: to provide a stage for the gangsters, as long as you are happy...
You let Venice do it!
Cannes has produced several world-class cyan masters, such as Fordigas Nou, Lars von Trier, Michael Winterbottomon...
What about Venice?
Tindo Barras had to go to Cannes to show his work!
Italy is too low!
As the opening film, the crew of "La La Land" was the last to walk the red carpet.
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"Look over here!"
In the media area in front of the Palazzo Cinéma, Shen Ming, Emma Stone, Milk Xiao and Damien Chazelle stood in a row for reporters to take pictures.
Milk Xiao is also an actor in "La La Land"...
Of course, her nature is more like a publicly-funded tour ...
"How's the movie?"
"You'll find out later!"
"I didn't ask you, I asked Emma!"
“… Very good, I haven't seen such a good movie in a long time!"
Emma Stone has a lot of faith in La La Land.
"Really?"
"Of course, the music, the composition, the art are all very good, we are all so beautiful!"
"I can't wait!"
"Alright, here we go!"
After taking the photo, Damien Chazelle was in good spirits and led everyone to the Palais du Cinéma, where he first greeted the members of the jury of the film festival headed by Guillermo del Toro, and then walked into the main entrance of the Palais du Cinémathèque under the leadership of the organizer staff.
Guillermo del Toro, one of the three great Mexicans, director of Pacific Rim and The Shape of Water...
This year, the most controversial question is whether Guillermo del Toro will award the Palme d'Or to Alfonso Cuarón.
Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro, all three Mexicans and have a good personal relationship...
Starting with "Gravity" in 14 years, "Birdman", "The Revenant", "The Shape of Water"...
In five years, the three directors won the best director of Osjia four times...
Nepotism is normal at European film festivals, the chairman of the jury has a lot of power, and at the 59th Cannes Film Festival, Lao Wang released himself and awarded five actors and six actresses in one go!
One session is the top six, and the amount is increased without the price increase!
Old man Jill Jacob is depressed and can't help it, the chairman of the jury invited by himself!
Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" won the Golden Lion that year, also because the chairman of the jury that year was Quentin Tarantino, Sofia Coppola's ex-boyfriend...
Lao Mouzi sent two Golden Lion Awards to Li An...
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In fact, an important indicator to judge the prosperity of a film festival is, of course, the participation of masters, and the other is box office revenue...
From this point of view, Venice is really not as good as a year!
Of all the films that premiered or were released during the festival, the most sold tickets were "La La Land" as the opening film, and "The Birth of a Star" starring Ms. Gaga...
In the other main competition units, including the screening section, the average pre-sale of ten screenings is close to one-tenth, which is really low enough in this era...
Our Shanghai Film Festival, Beijing Film Festival, film screening, once the ticket sales channel is opened, no matter what movie, it can be snatched up for you within 30 seconds...
Although Venice has made frequent efforts on the film list in recent years, Alberto Barbera, the president of the festival, said that this year is a "rare year in a decade".
But when it comes to starlight, it still can't be compared with Cannes.
The biggest names in the opening ceremony were Shen Ming and Emma Stone...
Ms. Gaga's arrival in the water city will not be until the day after tomorrow, and "A Star Is Born", like "La La Land", focuses on the Toronto Film Festival, and comes to Venice only to promote it...
The number of media reporters is large, but the number of fans is very small.
After entering the movie palace, Shen Ming deliberately looked at the middle position, and sure enough, one or two rows were vacant...
By the way, Lao Mouzi also brought "Shadow" to the Venice Film Festival, but it was a non-film festival unit, as a screening project...
In addition, there is "Your Face" directed by Cai Mingliang...
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