On the Internet, Japanese netizens who watched the live broadcast were also noisy.

"Ahh

"I guessed right, I thought of it a long time ago, but I couldn't believe it!"

"Genius!

"Actually, what should be thought of is that "Spirited Away" is different from most of the current Japanese animation, it is the kind of warm and pure story, with the soul of literary films, the bones of commercial films, and today's mainstream hot-blooded animations that often start to fight without saying a word, I think it is difficult for today's Japanese animation directors to give up the market and do such unknown works. ”

"I really underestimate him!"

"Li Zhifan, sure enough! A world-class director, any work is unattainable!"

"In comparison, I think 'Zootopia' is also a very good movie. ”

"I didn't expect the history of Japanese anime to ...... No, it is the number one box office in the history of Japanese films, and it was taken down by a Chinese!"

"You seem to have ignored "Avatar", the box office is also very high, and it won the annual championship before, but it was surpassed by "Spirited Away" so quickly. ”

"So, this year's champion and runner-up are likely to be Li Zhifan?"

"Oh my God, are Japanese movies crushed like this?"

"What about the Japanese directors? Come out and make a movie to surpass Li Zhifan!"

"The directors in the audience look very admiring, and they are not nervous at all. ”

"They don't feel a sense of crisis, do they?"

"Isn't that Nakata ash? He's crying!"

"It's tears of frustration!"

"No, it should be tears of emotion!"

"Ah! What is he moved by when someone else wins an award?"

“……”

……

The scene of the award ceremony.

After Li Zhifan received the first award, he returned to his seat.

There are other trophies one after another, Li Zhifan will not go up to receive them in person, they are all collected by the people of Buji Island, which is also to give them a chance to show their faces, so that they have more opportunities to meet more industry insiders, so as to facilitate follow-up cooperation.

Just as Li Zhifan was sitting and enjoying the performances of the artists on the stage, several men in black suits came over, bowed to Li Zhifan, and got straight to the point: "Wow!

"Oh, hello, who are you?"

Li Zhifan stood up, shook hands with these few and asked.

"We are from the Association for the Promotion of International Cinema, the organizing committee of this year's Tokyo International Film Festival!"

The first person said, "We came to you to ask you to be the chairman of the jury of the main competition unit of this Tokyo Film Festival, and to present the final cherry blossom award at the award ceremony!"

"Oh!"

Li Zhifan understood what he meant, "Why are you looking for me? And as the chairman, is this appropriate?"

"Of course, you are the fourth Chinese to serve as the chairman, which is an honor blessing for us and a great honor!"

The other party was very frank, "My name is Gengitaro, we will send you an invitation letter, if you agree, just restore our email, we will prepare everything for you, can you give me your email?"

Talking about things with the Japanese, Li Zhifan is still not very used to it, he didn't greet him at all, he just said everything directly, and left directly when he got the mailbox, without a single superfluous word from beginning to end.

"Director Li, are you going to be the chairman?"

As soon as the autumn on the side waited for the people to leave, he couldn't wait to ask, and the happy expression seemed to think that he had been invited.

"Hmm!"

Li Zhifan nodded lightly, "Okay, there's no fuss." ”

"Sure enough, it's Director Li, who has experienced strong winds and waves!"

Autumn gave a thumbs up, "Director Li is really a model for our younger generations to learn." ”

"Uh......"

Li Zhifan was stunned for a moment, shook his head with a wry smile, he had just passed the age of thirty and had not been two years old, how did he feel that he had become an old-timer?

He's still young!

I still want to make small fresh meat!

It's a pity that youth is gone!

……

After returning from Japan, Li Zhifan began the preparations for the next movie - "This Killer Is Not Too Cold".

This movie is a very literary crime action movie, and it is also a movie that Li Zhifan is ready to use to win the Olympics, and when he picks off the little golden man, he will be able to grasp more of the right to speak, and his popularity and status in Hollywood can be higher.

Rushing to the Olympics is not an easy task, of course, this is for most people.

For Li Zhifan, Chongao can't be said to be very simple, but after all, he has a golden finger and has a lot of reserve conditions.

Although in another world, "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" did not even have an Oscar nomination, and it was a French film, it was even considered that it was not submitted at all, in addition, after the film came out, it received many nominations, but none of them won the award.

Of course, another important reason why "Killer" did not win the award was that it did not even participate in the three major international film festivals, and after it was released in the United States at that time, the box office was not high, only less than 20 million US dollars, which can be described as a failure.

In this kind of situation where there is no data and success records from another world to lay the foundation, Li Zhifan still uses it to shoot, which can be regarded as a challenge.

In addition, it was also he who found out the trend of the Oscars in recent years, blockbusters like "Avatar", the leading actor is basically no play, and the best film and best director may be nominated, but whether they can win the award or not really depends on the taste of the judges.

So this time out of a new work, the gambling component and luck are bigger.

In order to be more in line with the characters, Li Zhifan made some changes to the script.

The hero's name is still Leon, but the Chinese translation has become Leon.

And in the movie, there will also be many Chinese "Li Ang" two words revealed.

Li Ang is Chinese, but he has left his homeland and wandered overseas, and he is a top professional killer, and has been living alone in New York's Chinatown.

One day, Matilda, a 12-year-old neighbor girl, returns home from afar, sees that her family has been murdered, and cleverly knocks on the door of Leon's house to avoid the murder.

After Matilda was adopted by Leon, Matilda began to teach him English and even became his butler.

Leon teaches her the skills of a killer, and the two gradually develop a complex relationship like father and daughter and lovers.

The later story is still a drama of revenge, and it is inevitable that there will be repeated twists and turns, but the final ending is not happy, the enemies of the male protagonist Leon and Matilda die together, pointing to a potted plant raised by Matilda and Leon.

In terms of details, of course, it is necessary to conform to the times, after all, this is a 94-year-old movie, many parts of the original drama are very old, the most basic is the equipment at home, and as a killer, Li Zhifan of course has to design a more concise and powerful living environment.

For example, there is only one table and a few chairs in the living room of the whole house, but the decoration style is not destitute, so he plans to make a house full of Nordic industrial style.

When I first came up with this script, the people around me didn't think it was particularly good, and there were even taboo ingredients in it.

However, in this era, this is no longer a black spot, and there is nothing special written in the play, and it is also wishful thinking of the little heroine to have feelings, and the male protagonist, as a killer, is just a cold stone, until it was melted later, and he died before he developed anything.

The official version of "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" is 110 minutes, but there is another 133-minute version.

The extended version is officially known as the "International Version", but it will only be released in Japan.

Why is it only released in Japan? Maybe it has a lot to do with the added plot and story.

In the extra 23 minutes of clips, Leon and Matilda get along with each other is mainly added in the middle, especially the clips that are biased towards the relationship between men and women, and in the official version, these descriptions are very few and very little.

These include Matilda's conversation with Leon saying that she wants to be his lover and Leon rejecting her, the two sleeping in the same bed, Leon's conversation about becoming a killer because she lost her old lover, and some scenes with her watching him kill people.

The most important thing is that there is a sex scene in it!!

Don't think about it, it's not a naked fight, it's just that Matilda invited Leon to rest in bed, Leon had never slept in bed before, but this time he agreed, and let Matilda sleep with her arm on her pillow for the night.

In fact, this scene was also very important in Li Ang's transformation process, but it was finally deleted because of some taboo topics.

In addition, when the two of them go to the hotel to register, Matilda lies that she is 18 years old, and Leon will be suspicious; Leon takes Matilda to see Tony and announces that she is his partner; Leon and Matilda act together for the first time, Matilda sees the drugs on the table and burns them out.

Matilda finds out the name and address of the murderer and wants to hire Li to kill him, Leon says that he is tired of Matilda's game and does not want to be involved with her anymore, so Matilda loads three rounds of ammunition in her revolver and plays Russian roulette with Leon.

They celebrate the success of their first collaboration at a restaurant, Matilda tries to kiss Leon, but Leon insists that he refuses, and Matilda drinks a whole glass of wine and laughs hysterically all the time, much to Leon's embarrassment.

Another attack failed, Leon threw a grenade into the room to blow up people, he pointed to the sheath in his hand, and said that it was a ring pull game, and at the end of the film, he used the same trick to solve the enemy.

And a certain time when Leon was going to kill someone and not let Matilda follow, there is an important dialogue here, which is quite important for the understanding of the actual age and mental age deficit between Leon and Matilda.

The international version is more thoughtful and watchable than the 110-minute version.

But Li Zhifan is not ready to shoot these, some things, it is better to leave some suspense and regret.

In fact, these extra plots represent some of the original director's personal ideological factors.

However, these thoughts are not active in Li Zhifan's thinking, and from his point of view, it is okay to remove them, and even better.

It's like a Chinese ink painting, which is about blank space and leaving room for imagination.

European paintings, especially French paintings, have to be painted slowly, and the sky has to be painted golden yellow, or there are a few white clouds floating in the blue sky, which are definitely not on the prescribed canvas, leaving a trace of gaps.

As a Chinese, Li Zhifan still likes the feeling of "not speaking thoroughly, but everyone who understands will understand".

There is a lot of preparatory work, and the most important thing is the selection of scenes.

The entire selection will be held in Chinatown in New York's Chinatown, and there is a professional film collaboration company in the local area to receive the Chinese crew who come here to select the scene.

William Entertainment itself does not need to use a collaborative company, but Li Zhifan still uses it, after all, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and these collaborative companies are all opened by Chinese, and having their help is of great benefit to Li Zhifan and the Chinese work team.

In addition to the selection, it is the casting.

There are not many characters in the play, and this movie is also a low-budget work, which is not a big deal.

However, the role of a little girl is difficult to choose, although European and American little girls are very cute, but Li Zhifan wants to break some habits, so from the beginning, he aimed at mixed-race children.

To be mixed, naturally Chinese and Western mixed-race, no matter which parent is Chinese, the child will be very beautiful.

Of course, there is also a big premise here, which is that the yellow race and the white race are mixed.

There are many American young men who have married Chinese girls, and Li Zhifan started from this aspect at the beginning.

But to be honest, looking down all the way, I found that the aesthetic gap between foreigners and Chinese is still quite large, these married Chinese girls, the appearance is not very outstanding, although the children also have a lot of good-looking, but in general, most of them are boys, girls do not know where to hide, anyway, Li Zhifan looked at a lot of photos, did not choose the right candidate.

Simply Li Zhifan directly put down the work of selecting the heroine, and started the selection from other supporting roles.

I heard that Li Zhifan was going to cast, and basically most of the Hollywood stars came.

And the prices they offer are very low, and they don't have the posture they had when they filmed "Avatar" before, and even some actors who have become famous come to audition, hoping to get a role.

To make a movie in the United States, there is a must - there must be black people among the actors, and they must play decent.

This article has stuck many film directors, and from the beginning of creation, they must first consider the arrangement of these roles.

But Li Zhifan does not take this path, he intends to break this rule.

In the movie, he used a large number of foreign actors.

I heard that Li Zhifan was going to cast, and basically most of the Hollywood stars came.

And the prices they offer are very low, and they don't have the posture they had when they filmed "Avatar" before, and even some actors who have become famous come to audition, hoping to get a role.

To make a movie in the United States, there is a must - there must be black people among the actors, and they must play decent.

This article has stuck many film directors, and from the beginning of creation, they must first consider the arrangement of these roles.

But Li Zhifan does not take this path, he intends to break this rule.