Last year, because Jia Zhangke's "The Good Man of the Three Gorges" was released at the same time as "The City is Full of Golden Armor", the two filmmakers had a war of words, Jia Zhangke won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival last year, Zhang Weiping once said that there was a "cat greasy" between Jia Zhangke and the chairman of the jury.

Zhang Yimou is also very face-saving, this year's Venice Film Festival will open on August 29, although he has been busy preparing for the opening ceremony of the Yanjing Olympic Games, but Zhang Yimou has successfully "taken leave" after coordinating with the Olympic Organizing Committee, and his trip to Venice will have more than ten days.

In 2000, Gong Li became the chairman of the jury of the Berlin Film Festival, achieving the "first time" for a Chinese filmmaker to sit as the chairman of the jury of the three major international film festivals in Europe, that year, "My Father and Mother" won the Silver Bear Award for the Jury Award, after two years, Gong Li was invited to become the chairman of the jury of the Venice Film Festival, and Zhang Yimou, who has won important awards at the three major international film festivals, is the chairman of the jury of the Venice Film Festival for the first time this year.

As soon as he got off the plane, he went straight to the hotel where he was staying on Lido Island, and as soon as he sat down, he received a call from his old friend Muller: "Zhang! I need your help." "Mueller has been in China for more than a decade and is married to a local wife, and his Mandarin is smoother than Zhang Yimou's, and he has no accent at all.

Zhang Guoshi frowned and said, "What happened?

Mueller said: "I'll wait for you in the old place ......." ”

Venice seems to have always been a blessed place for Chinese, "Detective" sprinted successfully at the last moment, which is a "surprise" for Venice, and it also gives Chinese films one after another to be shortlisted.

Although the chairman of the festival, Mark Mill, insisted that all the shortlisted films won the hearts of the organizing committee with their "originality and individuality", it is an indisputable fact that Hollywood directors and celebrities have invaded Venice, which has always been known as "artistic persistence". Anderson continued to develop his absurdist and flamboyant style.

Regardless of the close relationship with Chinese films and the complicated relationship with Hollywood interests, the Venice Film Festival still desperately needs films worthy of the word pure art to be worthy of the artistic reputation accumulated over the years. Greenaway is also popular with the three major film festivals.

The Venice Film Festival is actually very tense these days, and under pressure from Rome and Toronto, this year Marco Müller has invited many of the most prestigious directors to present their new films.

In the European film festival, it is obvious that Venice and the Chinese are the most cordial and ambiguous, since the 1990s, directors from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan have come here to occupy the mountain and become famous, and now it is the four King Kong-like masters of Venice, hunting for the golden lion.

The 100-year-old Oliveira came to the screening with a new film, the 88-year-old Hou Mai came to participate again, and the national treasures of New York and South Korea, Woody Allen and Lim Kwon-taek, did not forget to join in the fun.

From Tim Burton's hairstyle, to Takeshi Kitano's face, to Takashi Miike's evil and disgusting, their films are always unexpected and exude strange charm, and Venice has brought together cult movies again this year, which is very much expected.

Each film festival has its own selection and corresponding characteristics. Compared with the commerciality of Cannes and the politics of Berlin, Venice is generally emphasized to pay more attention to the artistry of the film, in fact, this simple induction and analogy does not reflect the characteristics of the three major film festivals, Venice pays more attention to the plain narrative, pays attention to the style of listening to the thunder in a silent place, and pays attention to the national expression, which can be seen from the list of winners in recent years.

The Venice Film Festival has a soft spot for films that are rich in national characteristics and reflect regional characteristics, and the Indian film "Monsoon Wedding", which won the Golden Lion Award in 2001, does not have much depth in the depiction of love, but it uses a wedding scene with national characteristics to show the conflict and integration of opposing elements such as love and morality, tradition and modernity, aristocrats and commoners. Last year's Golden Lion award-winning Chinese film "The Good Man of the Three Gorges" also clearly reflects the fun of the Venice Film Festival. What's more interesting is that Zhang Yimou's two-time Golden Lion Award-winning films "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" and "No One is Missing" also belong to the same "soil gets rid of scum" style type, and the packaging of the two films is engraved with the folk customs of Chinese reality.

Since it focuses on folklore, Venice does not pursue Huang Zhong Dalu, but prefers the flavor of the ancient road west wind and thin horse, simple, ordinary, desolate and more or less easy to get the approval of Venice, in 2002 won the Golden Lion Award "Qinglou Sisters", showing the story of the girls in the Irish asylum, it outlines the fate of several girls in the eloquent narrative, and does not care about the conflict of the characters. The 2004 Golden Lion Award for Best Film, Vera Drake, focuses on the daily life of a woman who is engaged in abortion without permission, and then takes a sharp turn from the bland narrative to highlight the twist of the character's fate.

Among the films in this competition, Chinese-language films account for four, and it is certain that Li Kangsheng's "Help Me, Eros" and To Qifeng's "Detective" have no possibility of winning awards, and Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises" and Ang Lee's "Lust and Caution" are likely to both appear in the list of winners.

There are eight films in the United States, according to the past practice, their main role is to attract traffic, Venice may not make an exception for Hollywood films to win, at most in some subsidiary awards, to give Hollywood a little comfort, in this regard, Venice's position is more resolute than Cannes, but the appearance of the Mark Gang has changed all this.

Rather, there are two British films – "It's a Free World," which tells the story of two immigrant girls, and "Atonement," which is set against the backdrop of man and war. Egyptian director Youssef Chain's "Chaos" may be an upset due to its own national characteristics.

Two French films, "The Love of Astre and Serrado" and "The Seed and the Mule" by veteran director Houmai, have little hope. Italy's "Peak Moment" and "Sweet and Bitter" are more like the "participation-focused" phalanx of European films, because Italian films have never been favored by Venice, which is also the reason why Italians are unhappy with the Venice International Film Festival and switch to the Rome Film Festival.

Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov's film "12 Angry Men" lacks novelty in the subject matter, and it is difficult to hope to be included in the award. Germany's "Night Watch" is too commercialized, the plot is similar to "The Da Vinci Code", and there is no precedent for a detective film to win an award at the Venice Film Festival. Spain's "In the City of Sylvia" tells the story of a man who returns to Strasbourg, France, in an attempt to find the woman he met four years earlier, but the director targets the camera abroad, contrary to the folk traditions of Venice. Japanese director Takashi Miike's "Sukiyaki Western" is a grafting of Westerns and Japanese-style violence, with a slightly inferior local flavor and lack of stamina to win the award.

Judging from the above analysis, the main popular awards of this year's festival are likely to be born from "No Country for Old Men", "This is a Free World", "Atonement", "Chaos", "The Sun Also Rises" and "Lust and Caution".

Mark took Gulfstream V home after participating in the red carpet catwalk at the opening ceremony, to be honest, there are Blake in this romantic capital and beautiful women from all over the world covet, Giselle is still really worried that Mark is here, so she is very happy that Mark is busy with work and returns to Chicago to shoot "The Dark Knight".

Little Martin is almost able to walk, which Mark and Giselle are very happy and proud, Mark did not forget to teach little Martin to walk on the plane, his work nature is destined to stay at home for less time, and he can spend more time with his family.

As for Mark's private life now, it is actually very rich, and it has not fallen to the point of going to the film festival to hunt for pigs, several of his lovers are eyeing him, as long as Giselle is not by his side, they are rushing up, they are aware of each other's existence, both competition and the formation of some kind of tacit understanding, not to let other people into this club, Anderson, the bodyguard captain, is more for him to arrange a date with his lover and provide confidentiality, which makes this special forces commando feel ashamed, in the past to defend the country, protect dignitaries, Rescuing hostages and fighting terrorists is now a pimp, and if it weren't for the fact that his life is very glamorous now, at least on the surface, he wouldn't be able to see his old comrades.

Now Anderson is a face-saving person in front of his old comrades-in-arms and friends, and when his old comrades-in-arms come to Los Angeles, he will definitely arrange parties, provide holiday packages, and want to take photos with celebrities, which is also a matter of one sentence.

Mark is now satisfied, earning so much money, creating such a big family business, paying off huge debts, living in such luxury, and Scarlett giving birth soon, all this makes him so happy that dopamine is about to flow out.