"Blind Well", "Winter Solstice", "Warm Spring", "Can't Forget", "Looking for Jay Chou"......

Duane crossed his legs, sat on the bed, lowered his head, held a copy of "Shenjiang Daily" in his hand, and slowly scanned the lines of his eyes on it - today is the 14th, tomorrow the film festival will open, and the list of participating films was also announced today, and the "Shenjiang Daily", which is known as the "encyclopedia of modern Chinese history", was naturally published.

This is the 23rd time Duane has looked at the list today, but like the previous 22 times, he didn't find the name of "Saw" on it.

The old fan above his head rotated slowly, sprinkling bursts of cool breeze, but it couldn't drive away the restless emotion in his heart at the moment. Finally, Duane clutched the newspaper tightly, clenching it so tightly that it curled, then slowly released his fist and sighed softly.

Click

With the sound of footsteps, Shu Yu walked out of the bathroom, walked to the bed next to Duane and sat down, and put the plate in his hand on the bedside table between the two beds.

Duane looked at her and smiled wryly.

Facts have proved that Shu Yu's words should only comfort him, after all, he is just an ordinary person who graduated from the management department of a medical school, not a genius director in her mouth.

"Let's have an apple. ”

Shu Yu said this, took a red Fuji apple from the plate, and took out a fruit knife from the pillow and peeled it.

When Du An saw the fruit knife, he was stunned for a moment, and then swallowed a mouthful of saliva: he really didn't know when Shu Yu hid a knife under his pillow. Fortunately, he has been in good order these days, if he had been lustful about his comrade-in-arms one day before, he would have been killed now.

Duane shook his head, put his messy thoughts aside, and asked Shu Yu, "If we haven't made progress, when will we go back?"

Shuyu's peeling skills are very good, and it will be done in a while. Not only is it fast, but as soon as it is pulled, the whole apple peel comes off, and it keeps on and on.

She handed the peeled apple to Duane, took another one, and began to peel it, saying as she peeled, "Have you ever seen a movie? ”

Duane took a bite of the apple and munched on it, "No." ”

He had gradually become accustomed to Shu Yu's out-of-the-box thinking.

"I don't have either, so let's go back the day after tomorrow and go to a movie tomorrow. ”

Du An looked at Shu Yu thoughtfully.

The good movie didn't make it to any unit in the end, and this woman was not as calm as she was on the surface after all. And as a person who doesn't like to watch movies and has never been to the cinema, but suddenly wants to go to the cinema to watch a movie at this time, her thoughts can really be pondered: she is probably still unwilling, and wants to see how good the other movies that are better than the movies they made Zuò.

Duane took another bite of the apple and muttered a slurred word.

"Good. ”

……

On September 15, the annual Shanghai Film Festival opened as scheduled.

This year's main venue is the Shanghai Grand Theatre, which has been set up two days ago, with the red carpet stretching from the theater entrance to the roadside. Guardrails were pulled up on both sides of the carpet, dense reporters were like ants fighting for territory on both sides, and experienced people held up the magnesium lights in their hands, shouting the names of the stars passing by on the red carpet, asking them to pose, but their buttocks were restless, and with a quiet twist, they squeezed their peers around them, and the cameras in their hands were unstable.

At this moment, an extended Bentley stopped at the end of the red carpet, and a woman stepped out of it and gracefully stepped onto the red carpet.

"Gong Li ......"

“GONG！……”

The scene fell into the first small ** of the day, and the media reporters who had been silent or whispering before were in full fire for a while, flashing into a flash, not blinding people's eyes, and at the same time shouting: "Gong Li, look here!" "Gong Li, turn around!" "Gong, poseforme!" ......

The small movements in the secret also increased, and in the spirit of the mentality that I am not good and you can't get better, each performed a stunt. If the private actions of these well-dressed media reporters are filmed, it is enough to cut out a martial arts film about small grappling techniques.

One celebrity after another walked by in an orderly manner, and the reporters were intermittently high and high, and the pattern was obvious - those little stars who stayed by the side and waited until they formed a group to walk the red carpet, such as Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie and others who came to the United States to rub the red carpet, obviously could not arouse the interest of reporters, only reporters in the United States would take a few photos, and big stars like Gong Li, who had a special car to the red carpet and were guided by security guards to walk the red carpet alone, could make them high and trendy.

When we were almost done, the opening ceremony finally began.

In addition to the invited members of the opening ceremony, there are regular opening ceremony tickets in the circle this year, but the price of up to 200,000 tickets is obviously not affordable for Du An and Shu Yu, so they also gave up their plans to watch the opening movie and bought tickets for the branch venue Daguang Cinema.

It also happened to be the opening movie, "Warm Spring".

From the information on the declaration, it can be concluded that this movie has a high demand for winning the championship, second only to the biggest hit "Blind Well". Of course, if it weren't for that, it wouldn't have been scheduled as the opening film.

I went to the Daguang Cinema, and after waiting for another half an hour, I was finally able to enter.

"I hope to appreciate the charm of the movie. ”

When Shu Yu sat down in his seat, he said this, and Du An grinned when he heard this.

Although Shu Yu's face was expressionless and his eyes were calm, he could clearly feel the explicit refusal to admit defeat of his comrades-in-arms at the moment, and he had a little bit of a little daughter for a while.

Ten minutes before leaving, the crowd of people who came in was sparse, almost every seat in the theater was full, and as far as the eye could see, there was a black press, black head, yellow head, white head, and colorful head, it felt like the United Nations General Assembly, and the charm of the Shanghai Film Festival could be seen.

After ten minutes of waiting, the movie began.

The story of "Warm Spring" is very simple, and the general context can be seen from the beginning: in a poor rural area, Baozhu and his daughter-in-law Vanilla have never had children, one day, the village chief's son Ergou picked up a girl at the entrance of the village, no one wants to adopt, Baozhu's father stepped forward and took the girl doll away, and the next story is that a person can guess seven or eight points.

The opening scenes and textures made Duane think he was watching a movie from the sixties and seventies.

Maybe it's because the director likes to play with this style.

Duane said to himself.

Next, there was a dialogue between Baozhu's father and the village chief on the screen, and the old actor who played Baozhu's father told the truth, which made Duan's facial features wrinkled - this line, this subdued and frustrated dialogue skills, this stage atmosphere of a very strong tone of pause, and this extremely heavy trace of actor scheduling, no matter how you look at it, you feel that the uncle on the screen is the head of the southern tour giving instructions, rather than a poor old farmer with little education chatting with the village chief - this Baozhu father is more like the village chief.

What is the image of a poor old peasant who has no education? Duane, who grew up in the countryside, knows best how to do this: he is direct, simple, and comes out of his mouth from time to time with two swear words, and he will not tell you any reason at all.

Even if it's a plot need, it's too much.

Duane shook his head, feeling uncomfortable to sit on, so his butt slid down a little, so his back, chair and cushion formed a triangle, and his hands rested on the armrests on the side, supporting his head and looking at the screen.

The story on the screen continued, and Du Anxin also jumped out one word after another.

The editing is abrupt, the story is loose and not compact, the rhythm is too flat, and the performances of the young actors are contrived and superficial......

Well, he didn't like to watch movies in the first place, and now, he lost all patience with the movie in front of him.

Duane yawned, closed his eyes, and wanted to sleep for a while, but as the plot progressed, the suppressed sobs of the girls around him, the sound of blowing his nose vigorously, and the whispered whispers of discussion made him unable to sleep.

Oh, my God.

Duane reluctantly opened his eyes and looked up at the dark ceiling of the hall.

I couldn't stand it, I couldn't sleep anymore, he wanted to leave, he suddenly felt his shoulders sinking, and when he looked sideways, he saw Shu Yu's head tilted, leaning on his shoulder, his hands crossed in front of his lower abdomen, his chest rose and fell slightly, obviously asleep.

"The quality of sleep was really good. ”

Duane muttered quietly, quite envious of his comrade-in-arms' excellent sleep quality, and he could sleep in such an environment.

In this case, he didn't seem to have to think about being able to sleep, so he had to slowly sit up straight little by little, during which the movement was a little bigger, Shu Yu's head was crooked, and seeing that he was about to slide down, Du An's hurriedly slapped her head lightly with his hand, and when he withdrew his hand, a long hair was sandwiched between his fingers.

Now that Shu Yu is sleeping soundly, he can't just leave the scene, just wave his hand and shake his hair, and continue to look at the screen.

"Warm Spring" lasts 83 minutes, when this time finally passed, the screen was dark, the lights in the theater were on, Du An woke up Shu Yu next to him and walked out of the theater.

When the sun was outside, Duane still didn't know what had just happened.

This is the quality of the opening film? But looking at the audience around him who watched "Warm Spring" and their eyes were still red, Duane could only think that he was probably a cold-blooded layman who didn't know how to appreciate movies.

Of course, he still has like-minded people - the lesbian next to him who slept with a movie is his close comrade-in-arms, and the two of them are just as cold-blooded and don't know how to appreciate movies.

At this moment, a couple walked past them, and the man's expression was indignant.

"What is this shooting? I'm almost asleep, it's like going back to the 80s of the last century, and now the Shanghai Film Festival is this quality?"

The woman looked pitiful with red eyes and said, "Don't you think this movie is very touching? I think this movie is very good." ”

The man blurted out that he wanted to swear, but after glancing at the female companion next to him, he thought that if he angered the other party, he might have to sleep on the sofa tonight, so he finally held back the words in his stomach.

is also a cold-blooded guy who doesn't understand movies, Duane gave this gay man such a comment, and then said to Shu Yu: "Let's go." But he found that Shu Yu was looking in one direction and standing still.

Du An followed Shu Yu's line of sight and found that in a small open space on the right side of the Daguang Theater, a curtain had been pulled up, and there were some rudimentary projection equipment around, and open-air movies were being played. A blonde white man in his thirties walked around, constantly pulling people over to watch movies, and indeed some people stopped to watch under his encouragement, but basically watched for a while and then walked away, but the white man was not discouraged, and continued to use his qualified but strange-sounding Chinese to pull the audience around.

I have to say that the influence of the Shanghai Film Festival is huge, and if someone set up a stall like this on weekdays, they would have been driven away by the city management long ago. But now in the face of the Shanghai Film Festival, in the face of these tourists from all over the world who have been attracted here, Shanghai Chengguan is obviously also smart enough to know that he should not appear, and give filmmakers from all over the world a free and relaxed atmosphere, which will help Shanghai's city image and tourism income.

"Go over and see. ”

Shu Yu said this and took the lead in walking over.

She is indeed suitable to be a producer, although she does not talk much, but she can often get closer to people with just two sentences - lo and behold, after a while, the white man did not go to pull the audience, but stood there and chatted with Shu Yu.

“…… I don't know, you know, I filmed this, I want people to see, I can't get inside, but I can be outside, here,"

When Duane walked over, he heard that's all he heard.

The white man kept gesturing and had a big smile on his face, "I can let them see, and look, this is my movie! I made a movie! It's a wonderful feeling!"

Shu Yu listened silently, and asked a crucial sentence at the right time: "Can this make you money?"

The white man was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Hey, man, you know, I came here from Florida, I paid for the flights, the hotel, the equipment, I paid for it, I spent five thousand dollars, but it didn't matter, the important thing was that I screened my film at the Shanghai Film Festival, and somebody watched it! Oh, mygodness! That's the beauty of the movie! Make money? I didn't think about it." ”

Duane clearly doesn't understand the thinking of this kind of movie fanatic.

"Let's go. ”

Duane said to Shu Yu again.

Shu Yu didn't move, just put his hands around his chest, looking at the temporarily pulled up curtain, not knowing what he was thinking.

Finally, Shu Yu said to the white man, "Actually, I'm a producer, he's a director," she pointed to Duane next to her, "We made a movie, and we can't get into it, can you play our movie?"

Duane was stunned.

When he came back to his senses, he couldn't help but ask, "What's the point of this?"

Yes, the list of exhibitors has been decided, they have been defeated, and now what's the point of screening "Chainsaw" on this vacant lot? Even if passers-by like it, feasible people are pedestrians, they are not insiders, let alone the kind of insiders who have weight, and their opinions will not affect Ruixing Film and Television.

Duane added.

"Don't tell me, you're also a movie lover, don't forget, you fell asleep watching the movie just now. ”

A person who doesn't like to watch movies, or even can watch movies and see them sleep, obviously won't be a movie lover.

Shu Yu didn't turn his eyes and said, "That's right, I don't like watching movies, but even so, I think "Chainsaw" is better than the movie we just watched." At least she didn't fall asleep while watching Saw Horror.

Shu Yu turned his head and looked at Du An, his eyes behind the big black frame were cold, firm, and powerful.

"And Saw is not just a movie for me, it's a product. ”

"Even if it is going to die, it should have a funeral. ”