Chapter 40: Cannes Silhouette (Part II)
To participate in the film festival, Xu Hui was not equipped with security personnel.
He is not Tang Seng, there are so many goblins who want to eat him, and he is followed by Ye Ning and Mu Hua.
Suddenly rushed up to a man who claimed to be his fan, Xu Hui was startled, but quickly regained his demeanor.
"Hello, do you want an autograph?"
"Thank you..."
The man was a little excited, and he took out his notebook tremblingly and handed it to Xu Hui.
Xu Huilong Feifeng Wu signed his name and looked up at the fan.
Not tall, thin, good-looking... Very cleverly avoided the word 'handsome'...
"Director Xu Hui, can I ask you a question?"
“… Of course. ”
For people who are not as handsome as themselves, Pao Hui has always been very kind!
"It's like, my girlfriend left me, I love him very much, how can I chase him back?"
“… I don't really understand this..."
The way you look, it's a good thing that your girlfriend left you!
"However, the fandom is rumoring that you are very good..."
"I don't really have much experience, if you want to tell me the secret, maybe one..."
Pao Hui glanced at the fan with a big plate face and small eyes in front of him, and then showed no mercy: "Be sincere!
“… Is it sincere?"
The stone fell into deep thought, and by the way, this fan is the stone.
Xu Hui took the opportunity to leave the screening hall with Ye Ning and Mu Hua.
"Boss, do you really think the trick to chasing girls is sincerity?"
“… Come on, sincerity has a fart, let me ask you, Jin Chengwu and Wang Baobao pursue you at the same time, they are very sincere, who do you choose?"
“…”
Ye Ning was stunned and couldn't say a word.
"So, it's all about looking at your face these days!"
Mu Hua struggled for a long time, but still asked: "No, boss, why do you want to take men as an example?"
“… It's more vivid, and it's not easy to offend people..."
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Xu Hui is a Chinese filmmaker, there is no doubt about it!
Even though many people boast that he has stepped into Hollywood, it is a pity that Xu Hui's opinion of himself is always that of a Chinese filmmaker!
As a filmmaker in the Chinese-speaking circle, he is bound to help a bunch of people stand on the platform.
Du Qifeng's "Blind Detective" and Liu Yunwen's "Crossing the Line", he went.
The attention is very average, the former is a little better, after all, Adu's qualifications over the years are on the table, and the latter has few media reports at all...
Whether you want to admit it or not, the influence of Chinese cinema in Cannes or the world as a whole has been declining.
Yang Dechang and Zhang Yimou participated in Cannes at the beginning, "Independent Era", "Yiyi", and "Alive" were all in the spotlight!
After staying in Cannes for more than a week, Xu Hui's usual schedule is to watch movies, attend some commercial events, and discuss with Ya Yi how to quickly conceive life in his spare time, whether it is because the cheese is not in place...
The biggest feeling is that Hollywood has really taken over the world!
In addition to films like "Drunken Folk", "Nebraska", "Humble Life", "Bastard", "Only Love Lives Forever", etc., which occupy nearly half of the entries, the whole of Cannes is full of blockbuster premieres!
In the summer, Hollywood's big studios will definitely not give up Cannes as such a good display platform, "The Great Gatsby", "Iron Man 3", "Star Trek: Dark", "The Hangover 3", "Fast and Furious 6" and so on have held a bunch of events in Cannes.
Not only that, but the hotel where the guests stayed was full of movie posters!
It feels like the entire Cannes Film Festival seems to be focusing on Hollywood movies as a highlight and focus.
The business atmosphere is too strong!
Even the film market has a bunch of film producers selling their products in various ways.
Xu Hui went once, and then he was intimidated!
When a bunch of filmmakers saw him, they flocked to him like sharks smelling fishy...
Although the arrogant French do not want to admit it, the so-called Cannes Film Festival is no longer pure!
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"Nebraska" was Xu Hui's favorite work throughout the Cannes Film Festival, followed by "Like Father, Like Son" by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Alexander Payne is a well-known independent filmmaker!
His films always tell a small story and then move audiences, especially "Nebraska," which tells the story of an old man, Woody, who receives an ad saying he has won a million, and decides to walk from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska to receive the prize. After repeated attempts to dissuade him by his wife and two sons, the younger son decided to drive him to Lincoln to receive the award. On the way to Lincoln, they passed through Woody's hometown and decided to visit relatives they hadn't seen in a long time.
In fact, it is a revisit to the homeland, looking back on the past. In the last period of life, to discover the former self, the son is learning about his father's past, and he also begins to understand his father and understand himself.
The whole movie is rough and stiff in the northwest countryside of the United States, bland family trivialities, an unreasonable stubborn father, a mother with a temperament, and a more immersive sense of substitution under the black and white images, and the cold wind that blows in your face suddenly pushes the cold reality in front of you...
To be honest, if it weren't for Matthew McConaughey of "Dallas Buyers Club", Woody's actor Bruce Dern designated to take the statuette...
Therefore, Xiao Lizi's 2013 is destined to have nothing to do with the little golden man...
Xu Hui has always liked the huge emotional expression hidden under the seemingly everyday lens!
Frankly, "Nebraska" has a lot of flavor like Hirokazu Kore-eda...
"Like Father, Like Son" is the work of Hirokazu Kore-eda...
I have already said before that Xu Hui likes Hirokazu Kore-eda very much, and "Like Father Like Son" is Hirokazu Kore-eda's masterpiece in the middle and late periods!
In the original time and space, Xu Hui has watched "Like Father Like Son" countless times, and if you watch it again, the emotions hidden in the two pairs of families are really going to overflow the big screen!
The story of "Like a Father, Like a Son" is very simple, the story of a comfortable middle-class family who suddenly learns that their 6-year-old child was born in the hospital and falls into a family ethical dilemma...
Hirokazu Kore-eda is definitely a good hand at making family-themed movies: the lens language is concise and to the point, the plot development is smooth, and it is difficult to calm down after watching the movie...
However, this kind of oriental ethical concept is difficult to be recognized by Western values, so winning the jury grand prize should be the result of the efforts of one of the judges, Ang Lee and Naomi Kawase.
Although Xu Hui really wants to have a chat with Kore-eda, he is not very proficient in Japanese, and the Japanese English is particularly speechless...
Therefore, after simply expressing their admiration, the two did not communicate more.
In addition to these two movies, Xu Hui also watched "Adele's Life", "Drunken Country Folk"...
Well, I must admit that Xu Hui was a little prejudiced before, "Adele's Life" is not just a simple A-movie, it is a very pure love movie, what it says is that 'people who are forced to be different are destined to not be able to stay together'...
"Drunken Country Ballad", the Coen brothers' fame, to put it simply, this movie... Didn't live up to expectations...