Marc and Giselle both attended the Venice Film Festival's high-level party, which was organized by the Italian Ministry of Culture, with a number of officials from the Ministry of Culture and the City Hall also attending, and of course the main members of the festival's organizing committee and selection committee, who sang and danced to talk about life and ideals.

Mark also met famous Chinese directors Zhang Yimou, Jia Zhangke, Du Qifeng, Jiang Wen and other famous directors, plus Mark and Ang Lee, who are also Chinese, the Chinese army is the main force of this film festival.

Although Mark is Chinese, he is different from Zhang Yimou, who was born as a farmer and has strong roots, he is a capitalist and whitened Chinese, belonging to the yellow-skinned and white-hearted kind, and the two sides are in a state of competition.

The two sides meet in a narrow way, and the brave wins, but it is the Hollywood Army that has the upper hand, and the two sides can't pee in a pot, so naturally they don't speculate for more than half a sentence.

Mark and Ang Lee had a very happy conversation, Ang Lee as the first brother of Focus Pictures, a pillar, unless Mark is the focus of acquisition, it is difficult to dig up, and it is also in the form of a company to cooperate, in fact, Ang Lee has cooperated with Columbia, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is invested and distributed and promoted by Columbia, and this time the two sides also started talks about the cooperation of "Lust and Caution".

The Colombian side is led by Pascal, who in this film festival, mainly to promote "No Country for Old Men", and the second is to discover some valuable European films, which is the largest film company in this film festival and the most popular film company in the film festival.

Muller is relatively scolding Mark, hoping that Mark will support his re-election, and also hopes that Mark will support his plan for the Movie Palace.

The Venice Film Festival was once controlled by the Italian fascist government, and in 1938, in order to fight against the Venice Film Festival controlled by the fascists, the Cannes Film Festival came into being, and the Venice Film Festival from 1938 to 1942 was not recognized by future generations, and in 1946, the Venice Film Festival canceled the "Mussolini Cup" to eliminate the influence of Mussolini's fascist government.

But what is embarrassing is that the film palace, where the film festival is held, is a film palace that has always been in Mussolini's era, and the previous organizing committees have plans to rebuild it, but they have not been able to make it due to a huge funding gap.

Muller ran in the middle, pulled a lot of financial sponsorship from the government and the consortium, and gained a lot of accumulation by successfully operating the Venice International Film Festival, he hoped to get political chips through the renovation of the film palace, so as to get re-election, so far, no chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Venice International Film Festival has been re-elected.

A financier like Mark, he will not let go no matter what, and he is trying his best to sell the Movie Palace to Mark

Of course, he believes that this is to promote the world film culture and better promote the development of the art film industry.

Of course Mark won't eat this set, he is also a person who doesn't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles, unless the Venice Cinema Palace leaves him with good memories, Mark's meaning is so obvious, he will never donate money without benefits, with his status today, it is worth spending money to buy honor.

Muller understands that Mark can have today's status and wealth, of course, he is not a stupid person, and it is not easy to fool him.

The Venice Film Festival focuses on film experimenters from all over the world, encouraging them to make films with new forms and unique techniques, even if they have some flaws, as long as they are innovative, they can be accepted by the festival.

In the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, the Venice Film Festival discovered a large number of emerging European filmmakers. Although the film he chose may not be the director's best work, it has always led the trend of European art cinema.

This makes the Venice Film Festival, along with the Berlin Film Festival in Germany, the Cannes Film Festival in France, the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada and the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, among the top five international film festivals recognized by the International Film Federation, and one of the four major art film festivals in the world (Berlin Film Festival in Germany, Venice Film Festival in Italy, Cannes International Film Festival in France, Moscow Film Festival in Russia).

Muller is a veteran of the film industry, a gold medal gangster, and many of the films he produces and co-produced have won awards at major film festivals, such as Zhang Yuan's "Coming Home for the New Year" won five awards at the 56th Venice Film Festival, "Borderlands" won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 74th Academy Awards, and "Secret Ballot" won the Best Director Award at the 58th Venice Film Festival.

As early as 1979, he independently founded the "Shadow of Electricity" film festival in Turin, which was the first large-scale presentation of Chinese films in the international arena, and became a traditional project in Turin at that time because of the good response. He then served as President of the Persalu Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival. In 1983, he arranged the "Asian Cinema Perspectives" section at the Persalu Film Festival, organising special screenings of Hong Kong films.

In 1986, Müller's outstanding talent in film research and organization attracted the attention of the Venice Film Festival, and they asked Marco to be in charge of the selection of films in Asia, and since then, he has served as the Asian selection of the film selection committee of the film festival for 18 years, and in the first year of his tenure, he sent Ling Zifeng's "Wilderness" (starring Jiang Wen and Liu Xiaoqing) to the Venice Film Festival, which is also the first film in mainland China to participate in a large-scale foreign film festival, and he also directed "Yellow Earth" directed by Chen Kaige Introduced to the Locarno Film Festival, and even the last film won the Silver Leopard Award, he also accepted the award on his behalf, and the first Chinese film to win an award at the Venice Film Festival, "The Red Lantern Hangs High" directed by Zhang Yimou was also recommended by him.

Since 1991, he has served as the chairman of the Locarno Film Festival for 10 years, during which the Golden Leopard Award was given to some films that could not be released in China, such as "I Am Your Father" directed by Wang Shuo and "Mr. Zhao" directed by Lu Le.

Since 2004, Muller has served as the chairman of the Venice International Film Festival for a term of 4 years, as an old bird in the industry, Muller is interested in seeking re-election, he has opened up the joints of the domestic government, and the above has already said that if there is outstanding political performance, it is not a big problem to be re-elected.

The key is political performance, Muller made a budget, rebuilding the film palace, it takes 50 million euros, this is the reason why the previous generations of committee members are powerless, if you can come up with this dazzling report card, re-election is a matter of expectation.

Now that the Hollywood tycoon Mark has come, in Müller's eyes, he is a fat sheep, and it has also become the key to whether the movie palace can be rebuilt? Müller put down his figure and did his best to flatter him, if it were not for Mark and his wife coming, he would definitely send a woman to Mark's room to please him.

Mark shook the wine in the crystal glass and said: "Ten million euros is just a number for me, the key is whether it makes me happy." ”

Pascal, who was next to Mark, was more straightforward and said: "The beer that has no place to rely on in North America is against the sky, and the rating in the media is also invincible, I wonder what Chairman Mueller thinks of him?"

They sang and harmonized, the meaning was very obvious, and of course Müller sang praises, analyzing the film from a professional point of view, from an artistic point of view, and he couldn't wait to praise it to the sky.

Pascal said: "In fact, Mr. Mark Wang's family foundation has a professional charity fund, and so far this year it has donated as much as 50 million, including the support and funding of public welfare film projects, and the project of the Film Palace is eligible for application." ”

Muller was overjoyed and said, "I'll arrange for someone to apply right away." ”

Daniel, the publicity director on Mark's right, sneered and said: "If every application was approved, we would have gone bankrupt a long time ago, the foundation has more than 20 people to review and approve the project, more than 90% of the projects have been rejected, the foundation was founded by Mr. Mark Wang, and his will can override all regulations." ”

Mueller said, "What do you mean?"

"Two big prizes, two small prizes, 10 million euros. ”

Mueller's face changed slightly, and he smiled bitterly: "This is too demanding, and I didn't open the jury alone." ”

Chairman Zhang Yimou won the Golden Lion Award for "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" and "No One is Missing", and won the Silver Lion Award for "Hang the Red Lantern High"; French female director Catherine Breard wrote and directed "Romance"; New Zealand female director Jane Campion's "Piano Lesson" won the Oscar for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay in one fell swoop; Alejandro González Iñárlido's "21 Grams" and " Babel is world-renowned, winning Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, while Turkey's Fosen Ozpaert has swept all the major Italian film awards with "Outer Desire".

Daniel said: "This is your territory, if you don't even have this control, is it unrealistic to seek re-election, 2.5 million a trophy, it is estimated that no one will bid higher." ”

Mueller's face fell.

Mark clinked his glass to him and said, "I'm a businessman, and I don't do anything that doesn't do good." After saying that, he patted the other party on the shoulder and danced with Giselle in style.

Daniel said: "The rebuilding of the movie palace can be re-elected, and the re-election is your territory, otherwise it is nothing." ”

Mueller said: "Three? I don't dare to guarantee the lion award." ”

Daniel said with a smile: "The Golden Lion Award is our goal, do you think those scraps are worth two and a half million?"