Chapter 44: Contrast
Screenings will continue during the Festival de Cannes, albeit in an extremely limited number of screenings, with only six screenings over the next seven days, in addition to today's screening.
No way, it's the rule.
Unless the audience spontaneously applies, the organizer will 'solicit' the opinions of the crew and add a few screenings appropriately.
Stone saw the long queue and regretted it a little.
I knew that I should have asked Tiantian to come and queue up!
In front of him was a black buddy who was on the phone, looking excited: "ItsAmazing, Kung Fu!
"Friend, do you know who the director is?"
ββ¦ Xu Hui!"
Stone was a little reluctant, but he still said the name of the gun.
Men are probably like this, and the objects of his girlfriend's worship are not easy to use in his opinion!
The black buddy continued on the phone: 'Yes, Xu... Xu Hui, of course, is a Chinese director, Chinese kung fu! not Jack Cheng, not JetLi, it's... Dude, who plays Wong Fei Hung?'
ββ¦ Wu Jing!"
The stone continues to keep an indifferent face...
But in my heart, I was muttering, 'Black people are so simple-minded, they don't even know the director and the lead actor when they watch a movie!'
"Martial arts instructor? How do I know who the martial arts director is? Do you Chinese have so many rules for watching movies?"
The black buddy couldn't help but scold.
"The director is Xu Hui, starring Wu Jing, Deng Chao, Tong Liya, martial arts instructor Li Zhongzhi, what else do you want to ask?"
Stone snatched his phone and said it.
He speaks Chinese.
ββ¦ What do you think of the movie? Pete is a kung fu fan, as long as it is a Chinese movie, there is a kung fu plot, he thinks it is a good movie, the last time we watched it, he also said that he is so imaginative, he can fly people like kites..."
A man's voice came from the phone, how to say it, the voice was very gentle.
The stone was crispy in no time...
He can, this man must be his MrRight!
As for Tian Tian, who hasn't met a few more scumbags, life is a long way, and you have to look forward!
After organizing the language, the stone continued: "... I can guarantee that this movie is really good, Xu Hui is a genius, and the whole film has a feeling of 'chivalrous man, for the country and the people', not only the innovation of the new school of martial arts, but also the thinking about the collision between China and the West. The foreigners in the movie are unreliable, the imperial court is unreliable, the underworld is rampant, the infighting is happy, and the name is boring, what can the people rely on? β
"Really? I'll go over now? Are you at the Palais du Cinema?"
The voice on the other end of the line was tinged with some cheerfulness.
This is a pretty standard movie buff.
"That's right, we're still queuing up to buy tickets, the movie is crazy, so many people are queuing!"
"Okay, I'll go over right away, by the way, my name is Xiao Yan, what's your name?"
"Stone, my name is Stone, you can search my Facebook, melancholy little stone..."
"Okay, Stone, I'll see you later. β
Hanging up the phone, Stone looked at the black buddy, who had a question mark on his face: "... What did you say?"
"It's nothing, he said he'd come to see a movie!"
Returning the phone to the black buddy, the latter was very happy: "Really, buddy, you are so amazing, I have been living with Xiao Yan for half a year, and every time I ask him to watch a movie with me, he pushes back..."
"Is it half a year?"
Stone looked at the black man in front of him.
He's strong and full of muscles!
"Pete?"
"Huh?"
"What nationality are you?"
"I'm from Kenya!"
Kenya, that's poor, zero competitiveness!
"The east is red, the sun is rising, and China is hairy..."
"Alright, alright, I know you're our friendly nation..."
The black buddies actually sang, and the broken gong voice was not said, and the key Chinese pronunciation was really awkward...
"Why are there so many people queuing here? Can we still get tickets?"
After another ten minutes, Shi looked at the queue in front of him, there were at least a hundred people, and he couldn't help but be a little anxious.
"It's okay, so many people are queuing, and there will definitely be a screening when the time comes!"
The black buddy nodded firmly, then looked at the ticket window on the right, and asked, "It seems that there is also a shadow of your Chinese director, called..."
ββ¦ Rizhao Chongqing!"
"Yes, that's the name, why isn't there anyone lining up over there?"
ββ¦β
Nima, that's a great question, I'm speechless!
β¦β¦
The same time as the screening.
The medium-sized screening hall to the left of the Palais des Cinemas is about to be screened.
Wang Xiaoshuai felt a great humiliation.
Why, why can Xu Hui's films be screened in the Lumière Hall of 2,000 people, while his films can only be screened in the Debussy Hall?
This is an insult to him Wang Xiaoshuai!
This is the right insult!
How can he Xu Hui?
Have you been to the Cannes Film Festival before?
I, Wang Xiaoshuai, play money... Bah!
I, Wang Xiaoshuai, 99 was selected for the Cannes Film Festival a kind of attention column, I am a descendant of Cannes.
You did this to me!
"Don't be angry, watch a movie!"
Jia Zhangke had been sitting next to Wang Xiaoshuai, of course he knew what the old man thought.
He also didn't understand that Cannes shouldn't treat them like this.
We risked being misunderstood by our countrymen and banned by the Film Bureau to bring you Europeans the movies you love, so why don't you respect us?
The film is showing, the film is over...
Well, let's say a couple of words.
This movie, a semi-typical Wang Xiaoshuai, is said to be semi-typical because his theme is father and son.
Wang Xiaoshuai rarely makes movies with this theme.
is about a failed marriage, which involves a piece of youth in the story.
With the help of two generations and two cities, a so-called search and return is completed.
The protagonist makes up for the shortcomings and returns to another kind of fulfillment at the closure, where the wish is fulfilled and the knots are eliminated - a common theme of art films.
A good art film doesn't mean it sells money, but a bad art film definitely doesn't sell money.
Wang Xiaoshuai may have overlooked a situation, art films are not built by the accumulation of literary and artistic tones, and the lengthy dialogues of literary crepe cannot solve the problem.
Compared with other juvenile homicide films, master-level directors generally choose to rise to a height, enter a large environment, from family, school to society, from the inside to the outside, go hand in hand, and finally break out.
But Wang Xiaoshuai's choice broke up everything, played a procrastinating rewind interlude, wanted to be personal but didn't see the shadow of the individual, and he really slapped his swollen face to become fat.
It doesn't hurt or itch, it doesn't go up or down, the perspective is good, and the rhythm is weak.
Wang Xiaoshuai himself said, 'There is no market for Kim Ki-duk, there is no market for Takeshi Kitano, and there is no market for Akira Kurosawa!'
Hehe, you're blind! Are the movies made by people on the same level as you? People are masters, what are you?
One will say that it is more difficult to win an award than to get tens of millions of box office to flaunt oneself, one will say that there is no box office because he is ahead of the curve, and another will say that he has never given up on the market...
Hey, if you want everything, you won't get anything!
Fan Bingbing sat in the first row of the crew, and when the movie ended, she turned her head to look behind her, and the audience's expressions were silent.
There are only a few sporadic discussions, and they are still talking about things that have nothing to do with the movie...
Walking out of the screening room, she saw that the domestic media seemed to be discussing something, so she walked over and asked with a smile, "What do you think of this movie?"
"Well, it's a little better than I thought..."