Chapter 299: The World's Four Major Film Festivals

As the fastest art form to enter the palace level in the industrial age, the development of film is only more than 100 years, but it has shown vigorous vitality and tension all over the world, and the film built on many mature art forms in the history of human civilization can be regarded as a lucky person standing on the shoulders of giants. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But although this lucky person has only been developed for a hundred years, it is still divided into two important categories by the definition of "professionals", commercial films and literary films.

The so-called literary films refer to those films that are not purely made for commercial profits, do not attract the audience's attention with exaggerated movie stunts and bizarre or fascinating storylines, but focus on some deep thinking such as life, human nature, and philosophy, and take care of the essence of the film and the theme of life in a metaphysical way.

Literary films are flexible in their filming techniques and narrative methods, and sometimes they are even a kind of deconstruction of the film itself -- or simply to say that literary films are intended to present a state of thinking.

But there are also literary films that are very commercial, mainstream, and trendy, and some that are very alternative and marginal.

But more literary films are films that need to resonate with people in order to express human emotions. Through the artistic shooting techniques of the director and the artistic performance of the actors, it makes the audience deeply feel the beautiful emotions of human beings and arouses emotional resonance, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of film shooting.

The use of film language is also more plain and more suitable for people's receptive habits.

Commercial film, on the other hand, is the term art film, which refers to a film genre whose main or only creative purpose is to make a profit, and it is a kind of film that caters to the public's taste and appreciation level with box office revenue as the highest purpose.

At the beginning of the birth of film, because it brought a novel form of entertainment to the audience from commercial films, it was only used as a tool for profit by film dealers.

Since then, the artistic status of film has been gradually established, but the enterprise system of film production has also become more and more mature, so a considerable number of producers and investors have produced modeled films that cater to the taste of the public in a low-cost and short-term way, so as to obtain "three times the profit of the market" commercial operation benefits.

In the early days, a large number of genre films produced by Hollywood belonged to this category, and commercial films all incorporated a variety of commercial elements, such as popular stars, well-known directors, complex special effects, large investments, large-scale publicity, and simultaneous national or global releases. But not every commercial film has all the commercial elements, but it must have one or two.

Generally speaking, the so-called summer and Christmas movies that originated from the United States and are now very popular are all commercial films, and Chinese New Year films are also representative commercial films.

The difference between these two types of movies is very different, or the service object is different.

Literary films pursue the artistic connotation of the film and aim at industry recognition, while commercial films pursue the market value of the box office and its derivatives and aim at consumer recognition.

Just like the definition of 'art' by human beings, we think that the development of an inclusive human society is also an art, and even on the other side of human nature, war is also an art that can be objectively tolerated.

There is no comparison between commercial films and literary films, because they are two completely different species, somewhat similar to the relationship between men and women, who seem to be human beings, but in fact they are not the same species.

But in the industry, or in the eyes of professional filmmakers, commercial films and literary films also look down on each other.

Commercial films feel that literary films are hypocritical, and literary films feel that commercial films are vulgar.

But each category will have the most authoritative judging body.

As the birthplace of cinema, the authority of European cinema led by the world's three major film festivals, the Venice Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, is an important indicator to define the gold content of an actor, director, screenwriter and other professionals.

In the public sense, Hollywood's Oscars are well-known authoritative film festivals, which also represents the hegemony and operational success of the film industry of American imperialism.

However, as actors and directors who pursue artistic value and artistic recognition, they do not attach so much importance to the Oscars, they are more concerned about the belonging of the three major European film festivals, and as a filmmaker of the Dragon Kingdom, Zhang Yiyan is the first director to lead Chinese films to win the highest awards at international film festivals.

Later, Li Yu followed closely behind, killing all the way from Hollywood to the three major European film festivals, consolidating the status of Chinese films.

Although the current mainstream film discourse is still in the West, the participation of Chinese films can at least be fairly judged by the majority of people, rather than stereotypes and ridicule.

But in fact, in addition to these three international film festivals, there is also a Moscow Film Festival, which is called one of the four major film festivals in the world.

The Moscow Film Festival is the largest film festival in the film industry of the former Soviet Union, which was originally only a film festival with Soviet characteristics, and slowly contacted the outside world after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but still maintained a low-key characteristic.

Compared with the more and more vigorous development of the other three film festivals, the Moscow Film Festival did not invest much energy in the film industry because the Soviet Union suffered the loss of the soft culture of American imperialism, but now Russian filmmakers inherit the will of their ancestors, although their reputation is not obvious, but they still have a rich cultural heritage that is enough to compete with American imperialism.

In the current long history of film, in addition to the Oscars, there are also film masters from Russia, and Russian filmmakers have made indispensable contributions to the progress of films, from theory to practice.

Russian filmmaker, Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" is as important to film art as Newton's physics, and the film knight who created the "montage" technique gave the film personality, so that the nascent art of film suddenly reached a level comparable to ancient arts such as literature and music.

In the eyes of contemporary filmmakers, the god-like existence of the Swedish film giant Ingmar Bergman, the only thing that makes him fall in love is this Russian film master.

Like the ancient city of Tsarist Russia, Russia, a fighting nation, in addition to being reckless, has an unexpected humanistic cultivation, as a nation bordering China in ancient times, the fighting nation is also a multi-integrated nation, so the culture is mixed and complex, colliding with dazzling sparks.

From the fields of literature, poetry, music, song and dance, painting, architecture, industry, etc., the civilization of this nation can be described as great, but it is a pity that this great country is rich in tyrants.

It may be that history has taught too many lessons, so that although this nation has retained its jaw-dropping domineering, it has learned to be more restrained and unassuming, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia began to recuperate, and the film industry is not as full of flowers as other Western countries.

But there are still countless masterpieces, especially in the theme of war and revolution, Russian cinema can be called the world's foremost.

War and Peace, Tolstoy's great literary masterpiece, has been transformed twice.

The first time was filmed by Hollywood Paramount in 1956, starring Audrey Hepburn, which was changed into a love movie, although classic, but always felt that some donkey lips were not in the horse's mouth.

In 1968, the Soviet Union shot it again, with an investment of 560 million US dollars, making it the most expensive film in the history of cinema, and it has been beyond the reach of other film investments until now.

The Soviet version of "War and Peace" uses epic camera language and the grandeur and brutality of the genes of a fighting nation to capture a truly frightening Russian history and the meaning of war.

This movie is like a huge monument, and perseverance is admired by future generations in the history of film.

Other films include textbook-level films such as "The Battle of Moscow", "Lenin in 1918", "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" and so on.

Compared with filmmakers elsewhere, Russian filmmakers seem to be more pure, so their selection of films at the Moscow Film Festival is even more pure.

In 2000, there were 9 A-category international film festivals, and the real influence was the Moscow Film Festival in addition to the three major film festivals.

The Venice Film Festival focuses on discovering directors with personal characteristics, so the personal characteristics of directors are more important when judging.

The Berlinale is very politically serious, so it will be a bit more serious in this regard.

The Cannes Film Festival is more commercial and artistic, and although it is not as exaggerated as the Oscars, it also has a large part of the weight.

Compared with them, the Moscow Film Festival, which is also one of the four major international film festivals, is much purer, no matter what culture, characteristics, customs or politics, as long as the film is good enough, they can give enough fairness, and it is rarely affected by other factors, and the Moscow Film Festival was held every two years before 2000, and it is low-key, so the influence is not so great, but the quality of the judgment is more authoritative.

In 2000, Russian film director Nikita Mihaikov became the president of the Moscow Film Festival, and after consultation, in order to stimulate the development of the film industry, the biennial edition was changed to an annual event in July, and an invitation was sent to filmmakers from all over the world.

"Dream in the Garden" is a pure literary movie, from the lines of spring and snow to the deep metaphors, most viewers will be confused, even if Wu Yangu and Wang Zuxian can support this movie with their appearance, but in fact, it is true that most audiences can't finish watching this movie.

But in the eyes of professional filmmakers, "Dream in the Garden" is a shocking work, "Farewell My Concubine" brought the mystery of oriental traditional culture to the entire film industry, Zhang Yiyan's "Alive", "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" and "The Red Lantern Hangs High" let Westerners understand the local Chinese culture that is completely different from them, and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" compiled a strange martial arts dream for them last year.

Therefore, the elaboration in "Dream in the Garden" belongs to the rendering of Chinese culture, and the expression of war, love, desire, and beauty and purity has attracted much attention in the Moscow Film Festival.

And the film received a total of six nominations, and what is even more bizarre is that three nominations are duplicates.

Three Best Actress awards.

Wang Zuxian's one, Miyazawa's Rie one, and the last one made Wang Yao silent for a long time, looking at Wang Zuxian, who was red and swollen and haggard in the opposite face, "How can there be her nomination?"

Wang Zuxian sniffed and blew his nose with a tissue, his red nose and crying swollen eyes did not show that she was a woman in her thirties at all, but as pitiful as a little girl in her twenties.

"How do I know it's an invitation? Wang Zuxian looked at Wang Yao with a dumb voice.

It has been half a month since Wang Yao passed the coming-of-age ceremony last time, and he originally went to Inner Mongolia to continue filming "Hero" after the ceremony, but he received a notice from director Yang Fan that he was ready to participate in the Moscow International Film Festival.

Because he won an International Film Critics Special Award, this award is an award that the International Film Critics Association excludes the participation of the jury in every film festival, and it is generally an award for outstanding films or screenwriters, this is not a consolation award but an award recognized by the industry, although it is not as good as the highest award, but it is not bad.

The reason why Wang Yao received this nomination is that Yang Fan put his name on the three positions of assistant director, screenwriter and art director, so I don't know which three are in the nomination.

After receiving the news, Director Zhang gave Wang Yao a holiday, so that he could prepare to accompany Director Yang Fan to the awards ceremony, which is a serious thing for Chinese films.

And Wang Yao really wants to sort out his "Zodiac Turn", although the prestige value is not enough to complete a whole movie, a quarter and the main plot can still be drawn.

He modified the story style and painting style a little.,It's not as heavy and bitter as before.,After all, it's a cartoon.,He doesn't want to bear the name of adult animation.,Besides, the movie itself is for children.,It's better to be relaxed and happy.,It's good to stand up for word of mouth.,As for the metaphors inside,,You can understand it naturally.。

However, before Wang Yao could concentrate on recuperating for a few days, Wang Zuxian came, and his eyes were swollen with a haggard and crying face, which made Wang Yao startled.