Shanghai, the international capital, is the most dazzling city in China.

Every year on September 15, the ten-day Shanghai Film Festival will be held as scheduled.

If the Huabiao Award is the highest honor for filmmakers all over the world, then the Shanghai Film Festival is the place where the dreams of filmmakers all over the world take off.

Countless directors and producers from all over the world who want to be famous will bring their works to this event, hoping to find their own Bole and then become famous in one fell swoop. Correspondingly, major film and television companies at home and abroad will also be gearing up, ready to check one by one, to find this year's dark horse in this film event, to bring profits to their own companies, and even the honor of the Huabiao Award - this is not a dream, in the past ten years, the Shanghai Film Festival has given birth to three Huabiao Award Best Films.

This year's main venue is the Shanghai Grand Theatre, which is now only on the 6th, and the theater is already warmed up, with filmmakers and enthusiasts from all over the world laughing and taking photos on the stairs or on the surrounding lawn.

At night, the lights around the theater have all been turned on at this time, outdoor searchlights, laser lights, laser lights and other dazzling lights will illuminate the surroundings, and more and more people gather around, in addition to the filmmakers from all over the world who came to participate in the exhibition in advance, as well as the local residents of Shanghai, with their children and the elderly, strolling around, enjoying the lively atmosphere while enjoying the shade, a lot of laughter.

Just as there is prosperity and fall, in the fair road rover door alley seven kilometers away from here, there is no noisy lights, the light is dim, the night breeze is bleak, the dog barking can be faintly heard, only the signboard lamp of the hotel at the entrance of the alley emits a dim white light, and the four red color characters of "Fangfang Hotel" seem to be dripping with blood against the background of the white light, I really don't know how vulgar the aesthetics of the owner of this hotel will adopt such a color.

The door of the hotel was open - the so-called gate, that is, a glass door that could only be walked by one person - and at the door of the hotel, there was a blackboard with white chalk writing on it, "Today's special, accommodation thirty", and a large exclamation mark on one side, that is, the person who wrote probably could not hold the chalk, and the upper end of the exclamation point was a little crooked, more like a question mark.

Entering the door, it was the front desk, and the cashier girl with a ponytail and cheeks a little plateau red lowered her head and looked at a romance novel with relish.

Next to the front desk is a narrow staircase, down the stairs, is a narrow walkway, flanked by dense doors, the first room hangs a "203" sign on it.

A man came from the left side of the aisle, short-sleeved shorts, steaming hot from his body, wiping his wet hair from his head as he walked, and holding a basin with a bar of soap in his other hand.

The man walked up to door 203, knocked on the door, and soon someone came to open the door.

It was a woman with her hair coiled back and a chopstick stuck diagonally horizontally.

These two people are none other than Du An and Shu Yu, who came to Shanghai from Nanyang.

Duane walked in with a basin and heard Shuyu close the door behind him. He went into the bathroom and put the basin away, and said as he came out, "Hurry up and wash, that little girl said that the hot water will be cut off at ten o'clock in the evening." He walked to the door but stopped, wrinkled his nose and sniffed, wondering, "Why does it smell?"

It was a standard room with two beds, and Shuyu walked around the room with his head down after closing the door, not knowing what he was looking for. Hearing Duane's question, she didn't raise her head, and said lightly: "The toilet is blocked." ”

Duane looked back, frowning.

It was really the smell of the toilet, a layer of yellow suspended matter wafting on the surface of the water, emitting a foul smell.

"I'll go down there and call them up to get it. ”

Duane said, tossing the towel aside, and was about to step out when Shu Yu's voice sounded behind him.

"I've called it, but it's useless. She said that the plumber master has already left work, and she can't get it now, so she wants tomorrow. ”

Duane looked at the toilet bowl and muttered, "That's not a problem...... Why don't we go and talk to her about changing rooms?"

"I said it, she said that the room was full, and she loved to live in it, and she couldn't stop pulling it down. ”

Shu Yu stopped his movements and straightened up from the bedside table, holding a cylindrical wire that had been wound several times in his hand.

"You also know, this is Shanghai, and now it's this time again, where else can you find such a cheap place? ”

Duane smiled wryly.

Yes, Shu Yu, like herself, came to the big city from a small place to work hard for a better life, they are all bitter children, and they are all in this difficult period when the future is not clear, saving money is the first place, otherwise how could two people live in this place? And two people share a room.

Alas, if there are difficulties, overcome them.

Duane turned his head, his eyes wandered around the toilet, and when he saw the leather tiger in the corner, he was about to step forward to pick it up and open the toilet, but there was a sound of Shu Yu behind him.

"That didn't work, I tried. You let it go first. ”

Du An stepped aside, and then saw Shu Yu roll up his sleeves, unfold the cylindrical wire that had been wrapped around several times, put one end into the toilet, and then grabbed the handle at the other end, and sent it inside while turning.

Duane came interested.

"What is this?"

"Dructer, for pipes. This toilet should be blocked with hard objects, not simply blocked by stool, so the leather tiger is useless, you have to use this. ”

Duane raised his eyebrows.

Anyway, he grew up in a poor environment, and Duane is still somewhat confident in his ability to take care of himself, at least better than most of his peers who live comfortably. When he was in college, he was able to find some self-confidence when he looked at his classmates who were so poor that they couldn't even wash their clothes - and this was probably the only place he could find confidence in college.

But compared to Shu Yu in front of him, he felt a little frustrated.

At least he didn't know about the unblocker, and Shu Yu did, and would use it.

This made his gaze at Shu Yu change a little.

Before that, because of the events of that rainy night and his cousin on weekdays, he always felt that his comrade-in-arms was a little bourgeoisie, no different from the girls in the school who were sad and sad when they had nothing to do, and looked forward to Prince Charming all day long to save him, but the things in front of him couldn't help but change.

My comrade-in-arms turned out to be a strange woman who can play with feelings at the top and open the toilet at the bottom.

After watching for a while, Du quietly listened to the sound of the rushing water, and always felt a little uncomfortable, so he couldn't help but have nothing to say, and said: "Why is there a dredge in this good hotel room, could it be that the hotel owner has a premonition that the toilet will be blocked?"

Shu Yu shook the dredge attentively, dredged it slowly little by little, with gentle movements, not letting the dirty water in the toilet splash on herself, and said without looking back: "The cashier girl said that this is usually the dormitory of the plumber master, and now that there are more guests, it will be vacated as a guest room, so I think maybe there will be some things left by him in it." Luckily, I found it. ”

Duane was somewhat impressed.

"That's just the little bit of effort I just went to take a shower, and you've got so much news, and you're really a natural producer. ”

The director can be withdrawn, kind, not good at words, and neurotic, but unlike the director, the producer must be the kind of character who is exquisite and treats people with a set, otherwise how can a producer who makes enemies everywhere attract investment?

Seeing Shu Yu's cold and lonely appearance on weekdays, he didn't expect that he would be so efficient in doing things, and he really had the basic qualities of a producer.

Speaking of producers, Duane couldn't help but think of the movie that he just signed up for today.

"You say, can we exhibit that film?"

He was very energetic and enthusiastic on the phone at the time, but he really came to this point, combined with the cruel status quo he heard about today, and he didn't have the confidence he had at the beginning, and he began to be worried.

After all, he is only a college student who graduated from the Department of Management of medical school, and all the knowledge about movies has been accumulated in just a few days, and now the opponents he is competing with are thousands of professionals who have come from all over the world, have learned relevant knowledge for many years, and have rich experience in the industry.

Without waiting for Shu Yu to answer, Du An's continued to muttered to himself: "God willing, I hope to enter the 'Film Critics' Week." ”

The Shanghai Film Festival lasts for ten days and has four sections, namely "Official Competition", "Special Attention", "Director's Fortnight", and "Film Critics' Week". Among them, the official competition unit is the most popular, only one bottle of golden goblet award is produced in this unit every year, and there are many silver goblet award awards;

As for the Director's Fortnight and the Film Critics' Week, they are non-competition units, there are no awards, and the threshold is relatively low, which can be seen from the numbers: every year, only 12 films can enter the official competition unit, 15 films can enter the special attention unit, and the number of films that can enter the film critics' week is 35, as for the director's fortnight?

That is the lowest threshold, it all depends on the taste of the film review committee, it can be described as whether there is a ceiling or not.

Just like last year, there were as many as 86 films entering the director's fortnight! With so many films, the number of screens and screenings that can be allocated during the film festival is naturally pitiful, and many films in this section are often only released once.

Originally, Duane's goal was the Director's Fortnight, but when he learned that the Directors' Fortnight only accepted films from other countries, he gave up the easiest goal to achieve and instead aimed at the Critics' Week, and at the same time spat on the organizers of the Shanghai Film Festival.

What a ridiculous regulation that only foreigners are allowed to participate in the project unit of China's film festival!

Even if it carries the noble slogan of "supporting overseas films and promoting the progress of global films", it cannot stop Duane from deeply hating him - the reason why he will be unemployed after graduation is also because of similar noble slogans, which he now has an inexplicable disgust and rejection of such slogans.

"Definitely going in. ”

Shu Yu, who had been bowing, straightened up, pulled the drawstring on the side of the toilet, and with the sound of rushing water, the toilet was opened.

Terrible.

Duane gave her a thumbs up.

Shu Yu didn't look at him, turned around, washed his hands, and said, "I believe in you, and I believe that this movie will definitely enter the competition unit." ”

Competition?

The 12 films in the official competition plus the 15 films of special interest are only 27 places, and when he signed up, Duane heard that this year's registration of more than 1,500 films! - God knows where there are so many filmmakers in the world - that is, the mathematical probability of them entering the competition unit is 1.8%.

Oh, and Duane discovers that he miscalculated.

"Saw Horror" is not a purely literary film, that is, it is impossible to get into it by paying special attention to it, so the mathematical probability is reduced again, becoming 0.8%.

Well, that's probably the number.

Duane mentally calculated twice, and then accepted, and finally felt that such a low probability was impossible for him to bump into.

"Accept your good words. ”

Duane could only say that, walking to the window and looking out.

Near is pitch black, and in the distance, Lujiazui, the brilliant city lights are faintly visible even a few kilometers here.

If Duane had clairvoyance, his gaze would have been able to penetrate the city's nights and pierce into the 76th-floor river-view suite of the Jin Mao Tower, a landmark in Shanghai, 4 kilometers away, where he saw a man holding a phone and standing in front of a glass curtain wall looking to the north.

“…… Well, I know, so I didn't make it difficult for you, I just asked you to hold the film down as if the film didn't compete...... The jury is so busy, and we have to watch so many movies every day, we film companies can't mess with them...... I heard that the food in Kukendo is good, and the service is very good, so I will go to relax tomorrow......? Okay, that's it. ”

This is a suite at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, and there is a person sitting on the sofa behind the man, who is Duane's "Bole", Fang Limin, the manager of the production department of Ruixing Film and Television.

At this moment, Fang Limin was holding a glass of red wine and shaking it slowly, his eyes were firmly fixed on the liquid in the glass, and there were wine marks hanging on the wall of the glass, and a faint aroma of wine slowly emanated from the air.

Hearing the man in front of the glass curtain wall finish talking on the phone, Fang Limin stopped shaking the cup and said disappreciatively: "Second brother, if you want me to say, there is no need to do this at all, just let them compete, is it possible to set off any storms?"

It turned out that the man who was talking on the phone was Fang Liyong, the manager of the distribution department of Ruixing.

Compared with Fang Limin's slightly thin figure, Fang Liyong is as his name suggests, burly and strong, with a tough face, even if he wears a pair of gold-wire glasses, he can't hide his fierce spirit, not like a manager but like a thug.

Fang Liyong walked to the sofa and sat down, took another bottle of Hennessy VSOP on the table, poured a little for himself, but didn't drink it, just held it in his hand, obliquely tilted at Fang Limin, and asked rhetorically: "What if that film really enters the exhibition, or even enters the competition unit?"

Fang Limin chuckled, "Second brother, it's not that you haven't seen that movie, it's too dangerous to shoot! I admit that I took a stupid chess game at the beginning, but I didn't expect that the liar really had some means, but the liar is a liar after all, what can he shoot? This kind of thing, even if it is beyond my expectations, but after all, it can't be put on the stage, and I don't know if I can recover the cost if I go to the family market, how can it progress?"

Fang Liyong held his cup and slowly walked back to the glass curtain wall, looking at the starry sea outside the window.

"What if it does?"

When Fang Limin heard this, he wanted to say that if that movie really entered the competition unit, he would jump from here, but after thinking about it for a moment, he felt that the taste of the judges was too difficult to figure out, and he really couldn't say such a thing, so he kept silent.

Fang Liyong continued: "Therefore, we have to take all the possibilities into account, and those who are not thoughtful will definitely lose in the details. Also, your big grinning personality must be changed after all, or you may lose to that woman one day—don't you talk back, if you hadn't thought about it enough, would you have come to this point?"

In fact, according to his thoughts, it is better for this movie not to even go to the home market, and directly refrigerate it, and treat the 200,000 yuan as a bad debt. However, the biggest boss of this company is always the old man, and the old man has spoken, and he can't help but listen, so he has to take a step back.

Fang Limin was sullen, and he didn't shake the cup anymore, so he picked it up and drank it in one gulp.

Fang Liyong, who was standing in front of the glass curtain wall, looked at Lujiazui outside and the river view not far away, raised the cup in his hand, and took a sip.

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