In the French film industry, Godard is a god-like being. If you go to a French film school and say that you don't like Godard's films, you won't be admitted at all, and you will think that there is something wrong with your taste.

This time, Godard's film "Goodbye Language" premiered in Cannes, and naturally received strong attention from the media and fans. An hour before the screening, the procession at the six entrances of the Palais du Cinémathèque had already exceeded a hundred meters, and most of them had come in the mood of pilgrimage.

Godard did not attend the premiere of the film, and after meeting Zhang Ran, he went back to Switzerland. After the main actors of the film entered, the lights in the Lumière Hall gradually dimmed, and the live broadcast prompted: "Please wear the 3D glasses you received when you entered, "Goodbye Language" is a 3D film. ”

What is particularly interesting is that after the movie begins, the reporters present take out their notebooks like students who have come to listen to the lecture. But after ten minutes of the film, they gave up on the record because they didn't know what the movie was about.

Godard has always been seen as the standard-bearer for challenging and countering Hollywood's blockbuster approach and narrative style, and he will not succumb to Hollywood's methods. The film opens with a series of chaotic, fragmented, and complex color images, and even different scenes of the left and right eyes, plus the movie speaks French, and the subtitles come and go, Zhang Ran fell asleep after watching it for more than ten minutes. Of course, not only Zhang Ran fell asleep, but most of the reporters fell asleep, and the entire screening hall was snoring.

However, Zhang Ran didn't sleep long before he was woken up by the sound of snoring. When I opened my eyes, the fat reporter on the left was snoring like thunder, and the snoring sound sounded one after another on the right. He knew the journalist on the right, Anne Pilson of The Guardian, who had interviewed him the other day and was said to be a fan of Godard, but he didn't expect her to sleep too.

To Zhang Ran's surprise, at the moment when the subtitles came out at the end of the movie, the reporters who were asleep woke up, and the audience gave a standing ovation. Anne Pilson even applauded and exclaimed: "It's amazing, it's a great movie." ”

The corners of Zhang Ran's mouth twitched, did you wake up just now, he deliberately asked: "Do you think this movie is good? Why do I think this movie looks like a half-finished product." ”

Anne Pilson didn't recognize Zhang Ran because Zhang Ran was wearing the mask of the Dark Knight Joker. She thought that Zhang Ran was a fan of Nolan, and said with contempt: "That's deliberate, this is the work of a master, he is playing a movie and enjoying a movie." ”

As he walked out of the screening room, Zhang Ran heard several Chinese reporters say they had fallen asleep. Only a young journalist came to Cannes for the first time and felt that it was humiliating to watch the master's film and fall asleep, so he pinched his thighs and watched it. The young reporter said distressedly: "I don't know what the movie is about, how to write a film review?"

The old reporter next to him taught: "Godard's films can't be understood, not only by us, but also by foreign journalists." This kind of film is right as long as it is praised, and another god film was born directly about Cannes. ”

On the second day of the release of "Goodbye Language", major web portals and news newspapers around the world published film reviews, touting "Goodbye Language" in various ways. Anne Pilson wrote even more passionately: "There is no God in the cinema, only Godard." ”

At noon, when Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu were on the phone, he told her this as a joke, and said: "When I reach Godard's age, I will deliberately make a film and win it to the film festival, so that thousands of reporters and film critics will applaud and cheer in the hall, seriously discuss and analyze the meaning behind the film, and I will say at home, I have played all of you!"

Zhang Jingchu laughed and said: "Such a fun thing must be called to me, I have booked the heroine!"

After ending the call with Zhang Jingchu, Zhang Ran prepared to go to the movie palace to participate in the premiere of "Deaf and Dumb Tribe". Ryan Coogler told Zhang Ran that the film was inspired by "One Man Shines Brightly", and the director of the film very much wanted Zhang Ran to attend the premiere of the film.

At this moment, Zhang Ran received a call from the Tiangong Chongcai VR team, saying that they had arrived in Switzerland. Godard was particularly interested in VR, and after talking to Zhang Ran, he was impatient to return to Switzerland and wait for the equipment to be delivered to the door.

Zhang Ran told the staff of Tiangong Chongcai that he would cooperate with Godard and go to Switzerland tomorrow morning.

The next morning, Zhang Ran rushed to Nyon, a small town on the shores of Lake Léman, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, and came to Godard's house.

Anne Pilsen is right when she says that Godard is playing a movie, enjoying a movie. When Zhang Ran arrived at Godard's house, the old man was taking the staff and two actors to test shoot in the courtyard.

The actor wears a head-mounted VR camera on his head and walks and talks to an actress. Godard sat behind the monitor, watching with interest as the two actors performed.

When Godard saw Zhang Ran, he immediately shouted "stop" to let the two actors rest. After Zhang Ran came over, he was like a child who had gotten a new toy, and said to Zhang Ran excitedly: "This thing is very interesting, closer to reality than the movie, and more free than the movie." I took a film, how do you see the results?"

Zhang Ran really wanted to see what Godard's VR movie would look like. Godard has spent his life exploring the language of cinema, expanding the vocabulary of cinema, and his understanding of space, picture, and lens is not comparable to ordinary people. The VR he shot is definitely different from others, and it may be able to inspire Zhang Ran.

After Zhang Ran put on VR glasses, Zhang Ran found that Godard's VR shooting was as capricious as making a movie and making a 3D movie, regardless of the rules, whether the audience accepted it or not, and could not edit, but Godard cut it. So, Zhang Ran saw that the actress seemed to be teleporting, one to his left and one to his right, and the two actors were speaking French, so they didn't know what they were talking about.

After Zhang Ran took off the VR glasses, Godard asked with interest, "What do you think?"

Zhang Ran knew that Godard was straight-tempered, and said unceremoniously: "I feel like I'm watching a ghost movie, and the person I'm talking to is not a person, but a female ghost, and she is floating around in front of me, swishing!"

Hearing Zhang Ran's words, the two actors, as well as the staff at the scene, laughed, and they felt the same way.

Godard also laughed: "You don't understand, I'm talking about the reality of the world." He looked at Zhang Ran and said curiously: "I heard them say, you are going to make a VR feature film, how are you going to shoot it?"

Zhang Ran spread out his hands and said helplessly: "Now there are only big ideas." What I'm going to make is a cyberpunk movie that takes place in a futuristic online world. The characters will travel between different cyberspaces, which can avoid the stiffness caused by scene transitions, and let me complete the narrative smoothly. In the first scene, I figured out how to deal with it. But I haven't thought about it yet. I can only try slowly, hoping to find a language that belongs to VR movies in the process. ”

Godard stared at Zhang Ran for a few seconds, then suddenly laughed: "I'm sure you can find it." ”

Zhang Ran smiled: "You have so much confidence in me?"

Godard nodded earnestly: "At the beginning of cinema, Méliès and Griffith, who explored the language of cinema, were both very talented, and at the same time, they were either rich enough or had the backing of big companies to do so, so they could explore. You're just as talented, and you're richer, you're more exploratory, and I'm sure you'll be able to create a whole new art of cinema. ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Zhang Ran and said with a little puzzlement: "I explore the language of film because film is bourgeois, and if you want to resist the bourgeoisie, you need to smash all the traditions of film." And what about you, what is it to explore the language of cinema?"

The smile on Zhang Ran's face disappeared, and he said very seriously: "Many foreigners do not understand the Chinese and say that we have no faith. This is not right, we have faith, and our faith is history. You Christians seek to go to heaven. ”

Godard interrupted Zhang Ran: "I am not a Christian, my faith is communism. ”

Zhang Ran smiled when he heard this, and made an apologetic gesture: "For most Chinese, the highest pursuit is to leave a name in history. There is a commercial film director named Feng Xiaogang in our country, and his commercial films are very popular, but two years ago he made a more artistic film "1942". Before filming, he knew that the box office would not be too good, because the movie was very depressing and not the genre that the audience liked, but he still insisted on filming. He said he hopes to make a few movies that will be remembered. The reason is very simple, he has everything, so he owes a young history to leave a name, and I am the same.

It has been more than 100 years since the birth of film, and many smash hit directors have been drowned in the dust of history, but we still remember Griffith and Eisenstein, because they laid the foundation of film grammar and are the teachers of all filmmakers. I hope I can be like them, and I will still be remembered for hundreds of years. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Ran exhaled and said, "You just said that you are discussing the reality of the world. I've thought about this and been puzzled by it. I think that people have to leave something behind for a lifetime, to tell the world that I have been here, so I want to create a new film language, create a new kind of film. ”

In the blink of an eye, it is May 25th, and the closing time of the Cannes Film Festival has arrived. At this time, the films that should be screened were basically screened, and the attribution of awards became the focus of attention of various media at this time.

This year's Cannes is the highest quality since 2000, and it is a rare big year. Of the 19 films in this year's main competition unit, 5 have a score of more than 3 in the house magazine, among which Zhang Ran's "Scorching Sun" topped the list with a score of 3.8, Mike Lee's "Mr. Turner" ranked second with a score of 3.6, the Russian film "Leviathan" ranked third with a score of 3.5, the Turkish director Ceylon's film "Winter Sleep" ranked fourth with a score of 3.4, and the Dane brothers' "Two Days and One Night" ranked fifth with a score of 3.1.

Of the five films, Mike Lee, the director of "Mr. Turner", and the Darnay brothers, the directors of "Two Days and One Night", have all won the Palme d'Or and are less likely to win again. The Palme d'Or was basically produced in the three films "Sunburn", "Leviathan" and "Hibernation", of which "Sunburn" was the most popular.

The popular candidates for the actor are Li Xuejian, the star of "The Scorching Sun", and Timothy Spo, the star of "Mr. Turner". The media generally believes that Li Xuejian's performance is better, more difficult, and more complete, but Cannes now has a clear rule that a film can only win one award. The quality of "Scorching Sun" is particularly high, and there will definitely be awards, and once "Scorching Sun" wins the award, Li Xuejian will not be able to win the award, so Timothy Spo has a higher chance of winning the actor.

Of course, this is only a prediction by the media, and the attribution of the award has never been related to the media. Anyone who can become the president of the Cannes jury or a judge is very individual and stubborn, and will not be easily swayed by the media and the audience. What really determines the outcome of the award is the preference of the nine judges of the jury.