Chapter 129: One Hundred and Twenty-Nine, This is an absurd play
Le Mingxiao thought that October must be his lucky month. At this time last year, he won the Golden Rooster Award for Best New Actor with the first film in his acting career, "Palm and Back", and in October this year, the film "Daughter Country" starring him was shortlisted for the Venice International Film Festival before it was released, and was nominated for four awards: Best Film, Best Actor, Best Cinematography and Best Original Music.
Although Le Mingxiao was not nominated for an individual award, as a member of the crew, especially the starring role, he was honored to win the award, not to mention that the original music of this movie was made by his master Liang Zhensheng, and he also participated in it.
The Venice Film Festival is the world's first international film festival, known as the "father of international film festivals", usually held in August and September every year on the island of Lido in Venice, Italy, for about ten days each time, but this year it was postponed to October for special reasons.
The Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival in France and the Berlin Film Festival in Germany, are known as the three major international film festivals in the world. In recent years, the Venice Film Festival, although slightly weaker than the other two international film festivals, still has a wide influence because of its long history. Especially for newcomers like Le Mingxiao, everyone knows that whether or not to win an award is not the most important thing, as long as he can go once, it is equivalent to a layer of gold, not to mention that in addition to participating in the film festival, the company team also arranged a series of activities for him, such as the shooting of fashion magazines, interview programs on local TV stations, and his trip to Venice will be filmed in the form of a travelogue and made into a documentary, etc.
The film "Daughter Country" will be the opening film of the Venice Film Festival, which will be the first release of this film in the world, and will naturally receive wide attention from domestic and foreign media. Le Mingxiao is also the first time to see a finished film, he has put a lot of effort into this movie, this is the first time he has taken on the leading role, and it is the first time he has tried to act in a relationship between men and women, especially in the second half of the filming, he is still filming with injuries, so when he really wants to see the results, he will inevitably be nervous.
However, this tension dissipated little by little when the movie was officially released. The finished film is even better than Le Mingxiao imagined, I have to say that Director Shi is really good at shooting, not to mention the plot and other opinionated things, just the picture, it looks like a kind of enjoyment, and everyone is beautiful. Le Mingxiao's most impressive scene is that he and the heroine played by Xiao Zhenzhen are boating on Lugu Lake together, the two people in the picture seem to be in a fairyland, if he is not one of the parties, he will also give birth to a sigh that the male and female protagonists are so compatible.
After the film was first screened at the opening ceremony, Le Mingxiao looked through the film reviews of major media for the first time, and found that in addition to some controversy about the plot and the background of the movie, 70% of them were praised, especially the performances of several leading actors, as well as the cinematography and music of the film. Le Mingxiao paid special attention to the outside world's comments on himself, and many media and film critics said that his performance was more mature than in the first movie, and he retired a lot of his original youth, and the highest evaluation of him was his injury and the part he filmed after the injury, saying that his performance in that part was more involved than the previous part. Le Mingxiaoxin said that he could not be invested, that is a reproduction of the real situation.
This time, the movie "Daughter Country" was not only shortlisted for the main competition unit, but also served as the opening ceremony film, so the crew had to attend the opening ceremony in addition to the award ceremony at the closing ceremony, which meant walking two red carpets successively.
came out to participate in the film festival this time, Le Mingxiao's agent completely tied Xiao Zhenzhen and him together, not only did the two walk the red carpet hand in arm together, but even the magazine shoot also brought Xiao Zhenzhen. But even if Le Mingxiao doesn't like this little girl anymore, he won't refuse, although the main reason is because of Lin Chen's repeated orders, and he was also supported by many seniors when he first debuted, and now he is a little accomplished, and it is normal for him to bring newcomers, and how to say that he and Xiao Zhenzhen are both playing a couple in the movie, for the sake of movie promotion, he will not save face for Xiao Zhenzhen in front of the camera.
At the red carpet ceremony, Le Mingxiao and Xiao Zhenzhen did not choose the dresses of those internationally renowned brands this time, but the company specially found domestic cutting-edge designers to tailor a few sets of clothes for the two, in order to be able to represent their own country, whether it is Le Mingxiao's suit or Xiao Zhenzhen's long skirt, the designer has added Chinese style elements to it. First, it is unique enough, and it can also play a role in promoting the original domestic brand, and the more you walk outside, the more you can't forget your roots.
The combination of Le Mingxiao and Xiao Zhenzhen is definitely one of the highlights on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival, the combination of handsome men and beautiful women is always eye-catching, and a local mainstream media even called the two "golden boys and girls from the East". However, Le Mingxiao understands that from now until the official release of the movie in China to the next release, he and Xiao Zhenzhen don't want to untie up, and he can also imagine how the scandal between him and Xiao Zhenzhen will fly all over the sky after returning to China. Thinking that Xiao Zhenzhen was once Yan Duo's rumored girlfriend, and then thinking of his relationship with Yan Duo, Le Mingxiao felt that this was completely an absurd drama.
On the tenth day of the festival, it is the closing ceremony and the award ceremony of the main competition unit. Among the many nominated films, "Daughter Country", a film from the mysterious oriental country of China, finally managed to break through the encirclement, winning three awards for Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Best Original Music, and only the Best Actor award went to another country.
Such a big harvest naturally caused a lot of commotion in the domestic media. On the day of returning to China, many media waited at the airport early, just to get a first-hand interview, and several leading actors also had a large number of fans to pick up the airport, but the capital airport was surrounded by water, and finally the airport police had to be dispatched to maintain order at the scene.
This trip to Venice can be said to have added a lot to Le Mingxiao. In particular, the original music of the film created by his master Liang Zhensheng won the award, and there is also a copy of Le Mingxiao, and his name will be on the list of movie doctors at that time, and the movie theme song "The Love of the Goddess" created and sung by Le Mingxiao has also received a very good response after it was officially exposed, and the movie has not yet been officially released in China, and his song has begun to circulate.
The movie is officially set and will be released on New Year's Day, and it may soon enter a busy publicity period. Lin Chen believes that since the song "The Love of the Goddess" has received a good response, then with the help of the east wind of the movie's release, it is completely possible to launch his folk song adaptation record first, anyway, the second album is still in the stage of collecting songs, and he is not in a hurry. Le Mingxiao felt that the agent's idea was still good, so after discussing with the master, he decided to go into the studio and record the title song of this folk song special first.
The title song music Mingxiao named it "Piano and Jasmine", which is one of the most classic Chinese folk songs "Jasmine" into the song, and the overall arrangement is mainly piano, adding some electronic pop elements. The piano is one of the most important representatives of Western musical instruments, and "Jasmine" is a traditional Chinese folk song, which expresses Le Mingxiao's determination to perfectly combine traditional Chinese folk music with Western pop music.
It took him a whole day to finish recording the song, and then he had to wait for the post-production to finish and then choose a suitable opportunity to send the song out.
After returning from Venice, Le Mingxiao naturally kept making film appointments, Lin Chen gave him a lot of scripts and asked him to choose them well, and Le Mingxiao had no choice but to take all such scripts home.
But just when he was about to pick a dazzling eye, Yan Duo also gave him a script when he went home one time. This script looks like a thick stack, Le Mingxiao took it, and checked it in his hand, it was really not light, he asked curiously: "What kind of drama is this, and you are still bothering Mr. Yan to give it to me personally?" ”
Yan Duo sat next to Le Mingxiao on the sofa and said: "Next year is the company's thirtieth anniversary, this is the annual drama at that time, the crew is under construction, and the news has not been revealed to the public for the time being, I will first take the script to you to familiarize yourself with in advance." ”
"Oh......" Le Mingxiao answered, opened the title page of the script, and then looked up and asked, "Brother, are you going to let me act in this play?" ”
Yan Duo nodded and said, "Since it is a New Year's show, as long as you are an artist of the company, you must be on everything." You, Qi Yao and Li Xin are the focus of the company, and the three of you will need to take the lead when the time comes, this drama will start filming in March or April next year, and I will ask Lin Chen to set aside your schedule at that time in advance. ”
"Uh......" Hearing Yan Duo's words, Le Mingxiao suddenly felt a little embarrassed, he said, "Brother, I am naturally very happy to participate in the company's big drama, but you know that the drama I have been preparing for will also start filming at the beginning of next year, I am the producer, and I am also one of the leading actors, what should I do if the schedule hits at that time?" ”
"......" Yan Duo was also stunned, obviously he hadn't thought of this before, he thought about it and said, "The script will stay with you first, and if you have time, read it, as for the schedule, let's talk about it then." ”
"Okay then."
Le Mingxiao responded, so he had to accept the script, but what he didn't expect was that a few days later, Tian Lei suddenly called and said that his drama was not going to be filmed......