"Teacher Zhang! Teacher Zhang, there are foreigners looking for you!" Two eight or nine-year-old teenagers from the mountain village rushed out of the village. They shouted excitedly as they ran. The blonde and blue-eyed foreigners, the foreigners who are as black as coal, have only seen it on TV before, but now they have seen it alive, not to mention how excited they are.

"Foreigners looking for me?" Zhang Ran, who was working in the soil, heard this, put down his hoe and looked in the direction of the village, and saw four or five people walking towards this side from a distance, there were white and black people, but it was too far away to see who it was.

As several foreigners got closer and closer, Zhang Ran recognized who the person was, Fumao, the artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival, next to a white man in his thirties, who should be his assistant; and a black man in his twenties, carrying a camera, shooting around; in addition to two Chinese translators.

Zhang Ran remembered that Zhang Jingchu called him the day before yesterday, saying that Fumao was looking for him and wanted to invite his new film to Cannes to compete, he shouted at Fumao from afar: "Fumao, what are you doing in the mountains instead of enjoying the sunshine in Cannes?"

The corners of Fumao's mouth twitched when he heard this, In order to invite you to Cannes to compete, I came all the way to China. As a result, no one was found at all, and the phone could not be reached. If I hadn't found Zhang Jingchu, who was filming "Shouting Mountain" in Shanxi, she told me, I don't know what to do where you are. You're asking me what I'm doing?

Fumao and his entourage walked over slowly, Fumao was in his fifties, he had never walked on a mountain road, and his legs were weak. After walking to the piece of land where Zhang Ran was, Fumao sat on the ground, and the black photographer pointed the camera directly at Zhang Ran and shot seriously.

After Fu Mao evened out his breath, he sighed: "Mr. Zhang, you are really hard to find!"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "This is a mountainous area, the traffic is inconvenient, and the road is very difficult to walk, I didn't expect you to come!"

"As long as I can find you!" Fu Mao looked at Zhang Ran and said sincerely, "Mr. Zhang, we are very interested in your new film, and this time we are here to invite you in person, hoping that you can bring your new film to Cannes to compete." Jacob let me tell you that he is in his eighties, and he is in very bad health and cannot afford to travel long distances, otherwise he would have personally come to China and sent you an invitation!"

Zhang Ran's new film is scheduled to be released in the summer of 2014, and in terms of time, it is very suitable to go to Cannes, but he has no plans to take the film to Cannes to compete.

The director takes the film to the three major film festivals to compete, and the most important thing is for two purposes, one is to sell the film, and the other is to promote. In the 90s, Ang Lee once met Chen Kaige at a film festival and brought a film to the competition, and said how old are you, why do you still come to participate in the competition? But later, Ang Lee's own films would always be sent to film festivals, and even if one film festival was eliminated, it would be sent to another film festival immediately. Because for art films, film festivals are the best publicity platform and the best place to sell films.

However, these two roles of the film festival are not of much significance to Zhang Ran, the peak of the century has built a global distribution network, and there are many partners around the world, Zhang Ran's films can be directly distributed globally, and there is no need to go to the film festival to sell films;

The Cannes Film Festival is no longer very attractive to Zhang Eryan!

Zhang Ran directly rejected Fumao's invitation: "It's my honor to be able to invite me to the Cannes Film Festival, but Cannes is not suitable for my new film, and I can't bring a new film to Cannes to compete!"

He refused!

As soon as Zhang Ran's words fell, the black photographer next to Fumao was directly stunned. Zhang Ran actually refused the invitation to Cannes! This is an invitation to the Cannes Film Festival, and no matter how many people cut their heads, they can't get in! Moreover, the artistic director personally came to invite him! He actually refused like that!

In addition to being shocked, the photographer's face showed a look of adoration, what about Cannes, what about the art director, Lao Tzu is still not a bird!

Fu Mao was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Zhang Ran to refuse directly without even thinking about it. As the artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival, he flew to China and struggled to find someone, so he refused!

However, this is not the first time that the Cannes Film Festival has been rejected, Jacob fought for two years to get "Paradise Day" to compete in Cannes, and in order to invite Woody Allen to Cannes, Jacob worked hard for 20 years to finally impress Woody Allen's eccentric old man and let him appear at the Cannes premiere.

Rejecting Cannes with Zhang Ran's current status and influence is nothing, now Cannes needs Zhang Ran, not Zhang Ran needs Cannes!

Fu Mao suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and said sincerely: "Mr. Zhang, a director like you won't be entangled in business and art, right? And you can't make a popcorn movie with no art at all, Cannes has never rejected films with commercial elements, you don't need to refuse Cannes because your film is commercial!"

Zhang Ran found that Fumao misunderstood, and his rejection of Cannes was not because his new film was very commercial, on the contrary, his new film would be more artistic, he explained with a smile: "My new film is a real 3D movie with 3D picture and 3D sound, and the movie screen will be 60 frames, which has particularly high requirements for theater equipment." If you play this movie on a normal device, the 3D sound won't work, and the 60 fps picture will be very unsmooth. I wanted the film to be the best it could be when it premiered, and the Palais du Cinéma's equipment couldn't do that, so I couldn't really bring the film to Cannes!"

In the past two years, with the development of science and technology, high frame rate movies have been put on the agenda, Cameron announced last year that the second and third parts of "Avatar" will be made into 48 frames per second or 60 frames per second 3D movies, he believes that the high-speed screening will greatly improve the playback quality of 3D movies, so that people have an immersive experience.

Subsequently, Peter Jackson responded on his blog, saying that the two "Hobbits" he is filming will be shot at 48 frames per second. Jackson wrote: "You might think it's okay to look at a movie at 24 frames per second — we've seen thousands of films like this for more than 90 years, but every frame of such a film is blurry, especially in fast-moving shots." Shooting and showing movies at 48 frames per second can be very helpful in getting rid of these problems. It will make the movie look more realistic and easier to watch, especially when it comes to 3D movies. ”

High frame rates lead to clearer and more stable images, so many people think that high frame rates will be the future of cinema!

I didn't expect Zhang Ran's new film to be a 3D plus 60 frames movie!

The equipment at the Palais du Cinémath, while not old, is certainly not particularly advanced. Because most of the films screened at the Cannes Film Festival are art films, the equipment requirements are not high, and there is no need for the most advanced equipment, so it is not necessary to use it at all. With the existing equipment in Cannes, it is really difficult to perfectly present a film in 3D plus 60 frames!

For Zhang Ran's reason, Fumao had nothing to say. If it was other requirements, Fumao could have compromised, but he was really powerless when it came to equipment. You can't just invite Zhang Ran to Cannes and update all the equipment of the Cinema Palace!

Fumao knew that he had run for nothing, and said with regret: "The equipment of the movie palace really can't perfectly present the effect of 3D plus 60 frames, it's really a pity!"

Although Zhang Ran doesn't have any special feelings about going to Cannes to compete, others come to China from far away to invite you, and you must give people face, at least you have to say a few words: "Cannes is the best film festival in the world, it is attractive to any filmmaker, if there is a suitable opportunity, I will definitely bring my own film to Cannes!"

Hearing Zhang Ran say this, Fumao was very happy, and said with a smile: "Then we have decided, your next movie, if it is not 3D, it is not this kind of film with particularly high hardware requirements, you must bring it to Cannes!"

If nothing else, Zhang Ran's next movie should be made by Zhang Chunru. It has been almost eight years since Zhang Chunru passed away, and now Zhang Ran is confident enough to bring her story to the screen. Zhang Chunru's film is quite inappropriate to be placed at the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival, which will make it seem that the film is very commercial, and it is more appropriate to place it in the three major film festivals. Zhang Ran promised: "It should be an art-biased movie, if the schedule is right, I will definitely send the movie to Cannes!"

After a brief chat with Zhang Ran, Fumao left, and he had to quickly tell Jacob the news. In addition, he is also going to meet Jia Zhangke, Jia Zhangke is a descendant of Cannes, and when he comes to China, he must stop by to see how Jia Zhangke's new film is doing.

Zhang Ran didn't keep Fumao, the mountain life was hard, where could an old man like Fumao who lived a good life stand it. However, to Zhang Ran's surprise, the black photographer and a translator who came with Fumao did not leave, and still held the camera and kept shooting at him.

Zhang Ran glanced at the photographer and said puzzledly: "Aren't you going with Fumao?"

When the photographer saw Zhang Ran talking to him, he looked a little flustered, and stammered: "That, I'm not with Mr. Fumao, I'm from the USC School of Film Arts!"

Zhang Ran was even more strange when he heard this: "You're from the USC School of Film Arts, what are you doing here?" He deliberately made a vicious expression: "I'm a public enemy of USC, and the person I hate the most is a USC student!"

"I especially like your films. The man quickly explained, "I'm not a student now, I've been graduating for two years, and I'm recently preparing my own film debut, but I've hit a bottleneck in the creative process, and it doesn't feel right to write it." I just want to make a documentary about you first, to find your footprints, maybe your creative experience can inspire me a little. Halfway through, I met Fukushige, and we came together. ”

It is nothing new in the film industry for young directors to follow in the footsteps of their idols and make documentaries for idols. In 1983, the young German director Wim Wenders embarked on a pilgrimage to Tokyo and filmed the documentary "In Search of Ozu". He traces Ozu's footsteps in Tokyo and keeps a diary of his feelings about the city of Tokyo.

Ten years later, the young director Hirokazu Kore-eda made a special trip to Taiwan and began his pilgrimage. After watching the movies directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien in his early years, he admired him a lot, so he made a special trip to Taiwan to shoot a documentary about Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Zhang Ran did not expect that there would be young directors who would follow in his footsteps and come to China to make documentaries about himself. Bergman's guidance to Zhang Ran made Zhang Ran find the direction in confusion, and he was also willing to guide younger directors. He looked at the young director in front of him and smiled, just like a teacher looking at a student, and said gently, "What's your name?"

The man immediately said, "Ryan Coogler!"