It is said that the current German president Jackie Heidenberg, who was elected in 2001, along with one of his sons and two daughters, are all die-hard fans of the Big Four Beauty Band and Liao Liao. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Heidenberg and his wife, who went to China to attend the opening ceremony and pay a state visit to China during the China World Cup, were very active in showing media reporters the three records he and his wife carried with them, one of which was actually the first album released by the four major beauty bands that year, "Fake Monk".

During the World Cup, this incident became one of the most talked about songs by all Chinese.

Because Heidenberg is a German and doesn't know Chinese, and then "Fake Monk" is an authentic Chinese rock album, or the debut work of the Big Four Beauty Bands, of course, and most importantly, it is a general manager!

Therefore, this incident makes many Chinese people feel very face-saving and stylish.

But to tell the truth, is Heidenberg his own fan, and is he really so fond of it that he can't even get tired of listening to "The False Monk" to take it with him when he visits abroad...... This estimate is still debatable.

Politicians, inevitably!

But this incident alone can reflect a problem.

That is, for the current Western society at that time, it was a very appropriate way for them to send a signal of friendship and goodwill to the entire Chinese society by expressing their love for Li Qian, Liao Liao, and the Four Great Beauty Bands -- in their eyes, or in the eyes of the entire Western society, Li Qian, Liao Liao, and the Four Great Beauty Bands have become, to a certain extent, one of China's representative figures in the world.

This role is probably a bit similar to that time and space when foreign presidents put on a show to learn to play table tennis, or praise the spirit of the Chinese women's volleyball team in public, or shake hands and take photos with Jackie Chan amicably......

Not necessarily the same, but probably similar!

Therefore, for the arrival of Li Qian, a top superstar in the international music scene, the Berlin Film Festival officials and the Berlin city government have paid a certain amount of attention to it - for example, the Berlin city government does not know if it is filming the sycophants of its own boss, and they have already tactfully contacted this side before, saying that they can award Li Qian and Liao Liao the certificate of honorary residents of Berlin.

Even if the two want, they can get a marriage registration certificate in the city of Berlin!

Li Qian refused without hesitation!

It seems that they have made efforts to understand China's marriage system and the marriage situation of Li Qian and Liao Liao, but ...... Doesn't that add to the chaos?

If Liao Liao's head is opened, what should I do if Zhou Yan, He Runqing, and Xie Bing all need marriage certificates?

Is it possible that there are still residents around the world running to mix honors?

So, refuse them all!

But even so, the photo of Li Qian and Qin Jingjing walking into the theater where the participating films were shown together still occupied a large place in the entertainment section of many newspapers across Germany the next day.

Of course, the majority of the film masters from the United Kingdom, who are also considered to be one of the most outstanding film masters in Europe since the 70s, James McCullough, and Joshua Chris from Hollywood, the world's most popular superstar at the time.

After five years of hibernation, the former arrived in Berlin this year with his new work, an erotic masterpiece "The Golden Palace", or translated as "The Golden House".

The latter's "Mission Impossible" sold more than $600 million worldwide this year, making him the world's top actor and the first Hollywood actor to be recognized as a top celebrity worth $20 million so far - he came to Berlin for a film invested by his film company. The name of the film is "Heart of Gold", and the director is said to be a very talented newcomer, and the film was also selected for the main competition unit of this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Li Qian has always kept a low profile, and it is no different when he comes to Berlin to participate in the film festival.

In fact, if he wants to make some news in Berlin, it is very simple, make frequent high-profile appearances, or pull Liao Liao and Rose Power over to help him stand on the platform, and the news will definitely rise immediately.

However, no.

Except for the beginning of the film festival, when he must have appeared to show that he has come, other times, he mostly turns to watch movies, under the introduction of John Deiss, does a little less heavy social activities, and then quietly waits for the day when "Red Sorghum" is screened.

Of course, although he doesn't go to the United States much, he also has friends after all, not to mention, even if he doesn't know it, Liao Liao is also familiar with it, at this time, as long as he comes to Berlin, he probably has to say hello and chat.

No matter how low-key Li Qian is, it is impossible to refuse this.

For example, Joshua Chris.

Then, the two made it to a café on the streets of Berlin to chat, laugh, and hug each other and pat each other on the shoulder, which was photographed by local media reporters and appeared in the evening newspaper of the day.

But in fact, what Li Qian values more is another meeting.

A famous talented female director in China, Zhang Zifang.

Her films are very popular at the three major film festivals in Europe, and everyone especially welcomes her to participate in the exhibition, but what makes people speechless is that she has come four or five times together, and each time she returned empty-handed, at best, it was just a consolation prize, and last year's "Reunion" failed to achieve a breakthrough in awards.

However, she received an invitation this year, and she still came, bringing her new film, "The Promise".

This year, those who came to participate in the Berlin Film Festival in China, on the two films "Red Sorghum" and "Promise", although the two were not familiar with each other when they were in China, that is, they nodded their heads, but when they came to a foreign country, they also became "foreigners", but they suddenly became a lot closer.

In the morning, Li Qian went to watch a French movie that was exhibited, and the bed scene lasted for half an hour, but it was not his own woman sitting next to him, so Li Qian had to drink a few cups of coffee to suppress his heart.

Then, at noon, I rushed to the restaurant and met with Zhang Zifang, it turned out that Zhang Zifang also went to watch the movie in the morning, so the two tacitly laughed at each other.

That kind of film, no one in China dares to make it, and there is no need to shoot it - if you shoot it, let alone release it, as long as the relevant government departments hear about it, they will generally arrest people directly.

Therefore, whether you say art or pornography, anyway, even domestic filmmakers who are more admired for European literary films, under the influence of the domestic system for many years, the vast majority of people are not very interested in the so-called art played by the so-called film masters in Europe.

On the contrary, some literary and artistic movies that are walking near the red line and have lust, but the focus is on human nature, or the focus is on love, not to mention in Europe, in fact, in China, there are many people who like it.

In 1998, Zhou Yanghua's Oriental Cinema Line, a subsidiary of Oriental Media, came back with a batch of wholesale films from the award-winning films of the three major European film festivals, and as a result, an Italian literary romance film was at best just a few shots that missed two points, and the main selling point was actually love, which actually won more than 13 million box office in China, making Oriental Media very proud and promoting it everywhere.

It is said that at that time, a total of 11 films were bought for the Chinese screening rights, and Oriental Media only spent 1.7 million US dollars, equivalent to less than 3.5 million yuan!

The two of them each ordered their own food, sat and waited, first chatted a few words about Berlin, then talked about each other's activities in the morning, looked at each other and laughed, then complimented each other, and the meal came up.

Eating is the beginning of the real chat.

Moreover, this is the first time that Li Qian has seriously chatted with the most famous female director in China.

She should have just reached the age of forty this year, but she is already an old director who has more than a dozen works, and when she met in Berlin at this time, she was as elegant as ever, dressed plainly, spoke softly and slowly, and ate slowly when eating, every move was with a kind of elegance and tranquility unique to a mature little southern woman.

It felt good to talk to her.

It's just that there will be some resentment.

After all, she has already come to the Berlin Film Festival alone for the third time, but the first time she returned empty-handed, and the second time she gave a consolation award, and considering the inertia and continuity of her film theme, there is not too much progress in expression that is too big and too much to boast about, so it is very likely that this time, it will be difficult for her to have any heart-warming achievements.

In this case, the individual will have resentment.

Facing Li Qian, she shook her head helplessly, with a bitter smile on her face, and said: "I'm annoyed! I'm also annoyed! If I don't give me anything this time, I really don't want to come in the future!"

Li Qian smiled when he heard this, "You are really willing, your film still has a market in Europe, and if you don't come to the film festival, I'm afraid it will be a lot less money!"

Zhang Zifang was helpless and shook her head, "Less is less, they are all old friends for many years, I will run less this trip, even if it is less, it will not be too much of a trick for me!"

Li Qian nodded when he heard this.

The three major film festivals in Europe, to put it mildly, are of course grand events for human exchanges of film art, but we have to admit that under such a grand event, under the banner of such art, there are huge commercial interests running around.

To put it bluntly, the three major film festivals in Europe are not only a stage for art, a stage for directors to show their film talents, but at the same time, they are also a stage for distributors and producers to wrestle, and it is a big market!

If someone comes to the exhibition and has a certain reputation, it is very likely that they will be selected by a certain publisher in a certain country, and the price may not be high, hundreds of thousands, or even only hundreds of thousands?

But the size is always money, anyway, you can't sell it by contacting yourself, but taking the opportunity of the film festival and everyone gets together, this business will work.

And if you can win awards at film festivals, especially important awards, and give film distributors in various countries a good publicity gimmick, then needless to say, hundreds of thousands of dollars will definitely be in hand, and the copyrights of various countries will be sold around, and bits and pieces will generally be added together, and there will generally be a lot of money in the account.

Like Zhang Zifang, her "Reunion and Reunion" was released in China last year, and it was already the highest box office in her history, only 68 million, less than 70 million, but in fact, "Reunion and Reunion" sold more than a dozen copies just by selling copyrights in various European countries, although they were all bought out, but in the end, it was said that there were more than 6 million US dollars - equivalent to 123 million Chinese yuan!

And that's pure profit!

And last summer, many movies that grossed more than 100 million yuan basically couldn't sell well in Europe!

Like Li Qian's "My Sassy Girlfriend", although it is very popular in the East, but in Europe, it was only introduced by a wealthy man in Singapore, and the screening rights were sold in the United Kingdom, and ...... It's only 300,000 pounds!

"Once Upon a Time" became a big hit in China, landed in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and also created a lot of box office myths, but when it came to Europe and the United States, it was very unadaptable, and it was all bought out and released, and it was bought and sold with a hammer, and it didn't sell for a few dollars.

Therefore, speaking of a single person, Li Qian is also more famous than Zhang Zifang in Europe because he is the lead singer of a famous band, but when it comes to film works, Zhang Zifang's current reputation and popularity in European film distribution circles and art criticism circles have killed Li Qian for several streets!

After the meal, drinking the German version of the bagged Indian black tea, Zhang Zifang sighed with some emotion, "In fact, our domestic films have not been low in artistic achievements in the past twenty or thirty years, but there is no way, we have no right to speak, the Yangcheng Film Festival run by our country, if it were not for the rich bonuses, if it were not helpful for entering the Chinese film market, it is estimated that it would have been yellow a long time ago! Foreign films are not willing to participate at all, and even domestic film directors are not very willing to participate in the exhibition!" In fact, the three major film festivals in Europe are now in decline! The Oscars in the United States are really in full swing!"

"However, even these three declining old shops, the right to speak in the world, especially the right to criticize film art, is much higher than that in our country! Whether your movie is good or not, whether your own country says it or not, even if it is good, in the world, people will not recognize it, you have to come over, find other European masters to take a look, and if you recognize it, you can be famous in the world!"

"The reality is so helpless! You can't do anything!"

"And, don't look at the TV news shouting, what is said, China and many European countries are now very close politically, and economic interactions are also very frequent, as if we have a good relationship, but in fact, I don't know anything else, at least in movies, it is too difficult for Chinese filmmakers to win awards!"

Speaking of this, she said with a light sorrow, and said helplessly: "If you want to win an award and become famous here, either you already have a huge reputation and excellent reputation among the European people, or you are a descendant director who has been in love with and cultivated by this film festival from the beginning, otherwise there are big distributors behind you, otherwise, it will be difficult!"

"Of course, if you have the skill of Master Qin Wei Qin, and can make all the judges see that there is nothing to say with your work, and make them feel that not voting for you is a crime and a desecration of art, then of course it is another matter!

"But after so many years, there are only two people in the whole of Asia, and there is only one Qin Wei in our country, which frightened the judges of that Venice Film Festival!

Speaking of this, she looked at Li Qian, and suddenly covered her mouth and laughed, stunned Li Qian, who was listening and thinking, and after a long time, she finished laughing, and said softly: "I'm sorry to roar, I forgot that you and Qin Wei have broken off their friendship, and they don't get along with each other anymore, so you shouldn't praise him like this in front of you!"

Li Qian shrugged helplessly and smiled bitterly.

The matter of breaking off the letter has really become a well-known meme in China.

However, even if the friendship has been severed, Li Qian actually has to admit that the reason why Qin Wei's name is so hard, and why his status in the domestic film circle, literary circle, and entertainment circle is so lofty, in the final analysis, he took "Red Light District" to Europe back then, and he did have real skills under his hands!

He won the Golden Lion Award and Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in one fell swoop, and he was by no means famous!

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Rummag through your pockets again, and ask you for a few monthly passes for support from the line of fire!