Zhao Zhenghao also met many old friends and met many new friends at the buffet.

Although he rarely participated in film awards ceremonies outside of Dragon Kingdom before, as a leading international music superstar, music awards ceremonies everywhere will be attended as long as he can find time, of course, mainly to receive awards.

Film and television songs are not separated, this is not only the characteristic of the entertainment industry of Dragon Kingdom, but also many multi-habitat stars exist abroad, everyone often meets at music award ceremonies, and after seeing a lot, they become friends.

The friends mentioned here refer to those who usually can't remember, but when they meet, they can have a lot of common topics to talk about, and the relationship with these people is closer than acquaintances, and they should be classified as friends.

Most of the new friends I met were fans of Zhao Zhenghao.

Zhao Zhenghao has traveled through the past few years, and his achievements in music have not only been limited to the Dragon Kingdom, but also around the world, and he has cultivated a large number of loyal fans, among which young people under the age of 25 account for the largest proportion.

Nine and a half out of ten young actors who came to participate in this year's Cannes International Film Festival are fans of Zhao Zhenghao, and the remaining half have also heard his songs and imitated his dance steps.

This made Zhao Zhenghao's trip to Cannes off to a good start and a bit of a home away from home.

The next day, Zhao Zhenghao participated in four more activities, a high-level salon in the morning, a luncheon at noon, an afternoon tea party in the afternoon, and a buffet party in the evening.

That's it, it's already the result of careful selection, in fact, the number of invitations Zhao Zhenghao received is not many times that of participating in the event!

Now in Cannes, everything else is secondary, similar salons, tea parties, and dinner parties are the most, and there may be more than a dozen or even dozens of them at the same time, and Zhao Zhenghao can receive more than half of the invitations.

These activities are not in vain, while participating in activities organized by others, Zhao Zhenghao is also sending invitations to others, and thousands of invitations have been sent out, and there are dozens of hand-delivered to more weighty guests.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is the opening film of this year's Cannes International Film Festival, so its premiere is the opening ceremony of the film festival.

However, after the opening ceremony, "Zhenghao Studio" also held a buffet party dedicated to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and the invitation sent out now is for this event.

On the afternoon of May 7, local time in Cannes, outside the Palace of the Cannes Film Festival, flags fluttered and people were crowded.

The opening ceremony of the film festival will not start until seven o'clock in the evening, but from three o'clock in the afternoon, the red carpet ceremony of the opening ceremony will kick off, and the entire red carpet ceremony will last for more than three hours, which can be said to be the longest red carpet time among all A-class international film festivals!

There is no way, there are too many celebrities who come to participate in the film festival, and if the time is not fully arranged, there are simply not enough stars and celebrities to appear one by one.

Of course, among the people who come to walk the red carpet, there are many people who have no works of their own and insist on rubbing the red carpet, and this is not only the characteristics of the Dragon Kingdom, there is no shortage of people in other countries, but these people will never become the protagonists on the red carpet.

According to the practice of walking the red carpet, the heavier the guests, the later the time to appear, and the last to appear are the judges of the jury of the main competition unit of this film festival.

Zhao Zhenghao, and his crew of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", were arranged to appear before the judges, which can be called the finale, which shows the importance that the organizing committee attaches to him and this film.

Although "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has not yet been released, even the trailers that have flowed out are a glimpse, making it difficult for people to get a glimpse of the whole picture.

However, from the people who were fortunate enough to watch the film, there were still some comments about this film, without exception, all of them were praised.

The venue catalogue of the Cannes International Film Festival even listed "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" as the first place in the list of the most anticipated films of this year's film festival.

All this, coupled with Zhao Zhenghao's huge attention, has made "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" more and more popular, not only is it difficult to find tickets for the premiere later, but even the tickets for dozens of screenings in the next ten days have long been sold out.

I didn't grab the tickets, I can only sigh and wait for the release of the film, because here, there is no scalper ticket, except for a very small number of locals, all the other people who come to Cannes during the film festival are all veteran fans, for them, being able to see a good movie in advance is more important than anything, and no one will have the idea of transferring the tickets they grabbed at a high price.

There are too many people who want to get a sneak peek, and the largest screening room in the Festival Palace has only 1,000 seats, so the number of people who can attend the premiere of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a small few, including celebrities who have just walked the red carpet, and not everyone can get this opportunity.

After the brief opening ceremony of the film festival, Zhao Zhenghao and his entourage moved from the auditorium to the large screening hall and took a seat in the front row.

Zhao Zhenghao specially edited the version for participating in the Cannes Film Festival, and naturally there will be no dragon mark at the beginning of the film, and there are no other miscellaneous labels, before the feature film, only the nameplate of "Zhenghao Studio" flashed, and the line of "Zhao Zhenghao's directorial works", the names of the leading actors and the main creators of the crew were not marked, and they entered the feature film directly.

At the beginning of the movie, there are a few frames of the scenery of the traditional houses of the Hui school with the characteristics of the Dragon Kingdom, and the sound of humming and ping pong martial arts is randomly heard, bringing the audience into the martial arts and rivers and lakes with the most Dragon Country characteristics.

The first one to appear in front of the audience is not any of the four leading actors in this film, but an elderly actor who plays the role of Yu Xiulian's housekeeper, a role that only has such a scene in this movie, and is played by Gao Qing, a well-known old drama bone in Long Guo.

I saw her walking on her little feet, trotting all the way, passing through the hall from outside the gate of the Yu family's dart bureau, passing by a dart master who was practicing martial arts, and came to Yu Xiulian's room in the backyard, and told Yu Xiulian the news that Li Mubai came down the mountain to see her.

Yu Xiulian was packing up at this time, preparing to escort to Beijing, hearing the news, she was overjoyed, and hurriedly put down the clothes she was sorting out, and hurriedly went out to meet Li Mubai.

At this time, as soon as the camera turned, Li Mubai, played by Zhao Zhenghao, officially appeared, wearing a cyan robe, holding a high-headed horse with one hand, and holding the most important prop in this film with one hand - the Qingying Sword.

Walking to the door of the dart board, someone had already seen him from afar, waiting for the door, greeting him and taking the reins from his hand.

Li Mubai walked towards the dart game, and met Yu Xiulian who hurriedly came out to greet him, and the two looked at each other and smiled, and they had a tacit understanding in their hearts.

This opening scene seems to be plain and straightforward, with nothing commendable, but in the free performances of Zhao Zhenghao and Yi Ping, the audience's emotions are brought into the film at once.

Next, it is the dialogue scene between Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian, Li Mubai bluntly stated the reason and purpose of his descent from the mountain this time, these words sounded cloudy and foggy to the audience, but Yu Xiulian could understand it, this is the tacit understanding that two people have known each other for many years, and it is also the reason why two people can become soul mates.

It's just that at this time, Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian were bound by traditional morality and concepts, and they couldn't completely open their hearts and accept each other frankly, so they had the back story.

Li Mubai asked Yu Xiulian to bring his Qingying Sword to the capital and give it to Lord Beile for safekeeping, so as to show his determination to retire to the rivers and lakes, and then agreed with Yu Xiulian to meet in the capital, and hinted that by then, he had retired to the rivers and lakes, and he could stay and fly with Yu Xiulian.

In this scene, Zhao Zhenghao performed Li Mubai's restrained and restrained emotional expression quietly, which complemented Yi Ping's skillful performance, highlighting his extraordinary acting skills in the ordinary.

In particular, his eyes, in the close-up shots, are deep and smart, replacing the silent face and becoming the subject of emotional expression.

The words in his mouth sound like he has nothing to do with emotional expression, but the emotions in his eyes are undisguised, and they are expressed fiery and intense.

Although Yu Xiulian has always adhered to the traditional morality of the Dragon Kingdom, she will not be unaware of such an obvious expression of her feelings for Li Mubai, and she will not be unaware and resist, which makes Li Mubai think that she has a clear understanding of her heart and has made an agreement with each other.

The next plot is that Yu Xiulian escorted the dart to Beijing and handed over Li Mubai's Qingying Sword to Lord Beile, and it coincided with the visit of Lord Yu and her daughter who returned to Beijing to take up her post, and Yu Xiulian and Yu Jiaolong wanted to see each other for the first time in Baylor Mansion.

At this time, Yu Jiaolong gave people the impression that she was still a young lady who did not leave the door, but in the conversation with Yu Xiulian, she had already revealed her yearning for freedom in the rivers and lakes.

It was also here that Yu Jiaolong learned the news of the Qingying Sword, which led to a series of stories such as stealing the sword, finding the sword, stealing the sword again, and running away with the sword.

And these plots are also the biggest attraction of this movie.

"Kung Fu" is a major feature of Dragon Kingdom movies that are famous all over the world, just like Hollywood's "superheroes".

Although Dragon Kingdom's kung fu movies failed to form a special cinematic universe like Hollywood's superhero movies, it is still an important part of Dragon Kingdom movies going global.

In Zhao Zhenghao's previous life, the world-renowned movie stars of Dragon Kingdom, the top three were all kung fu superstars; in this life, in addition to Zhao Zhenghao, among the Dragon Kingdom movie superstars who are well known to European and American fans, there are also many kung fu superstars at the top of the rankings.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", a martial arts film, was able to become the only film to win the Academy Award for "Best Foreign Language Film" in Zhao Zhenghao's previous life, which is directly related to its film genre.

Now, Zhao Zhenghao has brought it into this world, and the aspects that played a role in the previous life are equally valid here.

A series of wonderful action scenes in the middle of the film made the audience in the screening hall of the Festival Palace addicted.

Due to the improvement of current film shooting technology, Zhao Zhenghao's version of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" not only uses 3D effects in action scenes, but also carries out special effects on some specific shots.

The 3D viewing angle makes the audience feel more immersive when watching the movie, and the application of special effects lenses makes the action scenes of the film more freehand and chic.

Especially the scene of the duel between Li Mubai and Yujiaolong Zhuhai, the original version of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", can clearly see the traces of the use of coercion, which is quite dramatic.

Zhao Zhenghao's version, in this scene, adopts a combination of real-life shooting and special effects shots, which makes Li Mubai's peerless image fuller, and Yu Jiaolong's youthful and sharp posture is more thorough.

Of course, advanced film technology can only add color to the film, what really impresses fans is the content of the film first, and then to be more specific, the story.

The story of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is not a very classic, after all, it is only an adaptation of an old-school martial arts in the thirties and forties of the last century, and the inherent flaws of the adaptation make it difficult to cover all the plots within the limited time capacity of the film.

However, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is also good, it is adapted from a not-so-famous old-school martial arts, and now fans, especially the post-80s and post-90s movie-watching groups, rarely have seen the original work, let alone foreign audiences.

Therefore, as long as the story told in the film can be justified, the audience will not blame it.

And the original version of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was able to win the Academy Award for "Best Foreign Language Film", which has proven with facts that the story it tells can meet the needs of the audience.

Especially for European and American audiences, due to cultural differences, it is difficult for them to understand the traditional cultural connotation of the Dragon Kingdom, such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", in addition to the exciting action scenes, the dragonfly involves some of the traditional culture of the Dragon Kingdom, which is not only easy for them to understand, but also satisfies their curiosity.

In the eyes of Dragon Kingdom audiences, it is difficult for the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to give a high rating of more than 8 points, but for European and American audiences, this is already a very good Dragon Kingdom movie.

This is best demonstrated by the three-minute applause in the screening room of the Palais de Cannes Film Festival after the two-hour runtime!

The appearance of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" at the Cannes International Film Festival was perfect.