"The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" is Jia Zhangke's eighth feature film, and it is also his fourth trip to Cannes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The last movie "Heaven is Destined" failed to be released in China, and the theme was too violent, this time in "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers", Jia Zhangke is ready to play with warmth.

Jia Zhangke is one of the most well-known Chinese directors in Europe, and he once won the Venice Golden Lion.

However, in recent years, it seems that it has become a descendant of Cannes.

Of course, Cannes is also very good to him, make one into one!

(Shortlisted for the main competition unit four times, and also won the Best Screenplay Award)

But it is estimated that it is precisely because of this that this buddy's films in recent years seem to be somewhat film festival-style patterns, of course, it may also be limited by domestic censorship, and some have lost their aura.

This is even more true of "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers".

The first part of the movie is amazing, the second part starts to fool, and the third part is simply unwatchable!

After all, Jia Zhangke is not an ignorant teenager who dared to take it to participate in foreign film festivals after filming "Xiao Wu" and being banned.

He himself is already a banner figure of the sixth generation of directors, and he is one of the members of the Directors Association, to put it bluntly, he is already a member of the system.

It couldn't have been possible to make a movie that amazed the world again!

When you're in the system, it's always a bit inappropriate to criticize the system.

And Jia Zhangke's reputation on the Internet is very bad, many people say that his movie is to expose the dark side of China for foreigners, so he can win the award!

Not to mention whether this sentence is correct or not, but Jia Zhangke's own movies do give foreigners a lot of misunderstandings, they think that China is still so poor and backward as shown in the movie, which is an indisputable fact.

Shen Lin doesn't like directors like Jia Zhangke, he doesn't like it very much.

In fact, the crew of "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" is on the same plane as the crew of "Carol".

Shen Lin was sleeping on the plane and didn't notice the crew of "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers", but Jia Zhangke saw him.

He saw Shen Lin, who was sleeping in Zhengxiang, and Gong Li, who was not far away, who was originally entangled in whether to say hello, but finally gave up.

After all, he and Shen Lin nodded at each other's friends!

When he got off the plane, Gong Li saw Jia Zhangke and his group, and took the initiative to greet him, but Shen Lin was sleepy-eyed and missed the meeting again.

The entire crew of "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" has many actors, including Zhao Tao, Zhang Yi, Dong Zijian, and Zhang Aijia.

Since Jia Zhangke won the Golden Lion Award, he has a high reputation in the circle, and the actors he uses are all relatively well-known.

"Heaven is Destined" uses Jiang Wu and Wang Baobao, and this time "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" uses Zhang Yi and Dong Zijian.

In fact, he himself also hopes to gain the recognition of mainstream audiences, so he will appear in Han Shao's "After the End".

Unfortunately, the mainstream audience has an ingrained impression of him as a director who likes to expose China's shortcomings to Westerners in order to satisfy their compassion.

Among these people, the only one who has a good relationship with Shen Lin is Dong Zijian.

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Jia Zhangke and his entourage were also blocked at the airport, probably like Shen Lin, they didn't expect it to rain suddenly.

Hurriedly called the hotel where they stayed and asked them to arrange a vehicle pick-up, and then saw Shen Lin and Zhao Liying, who were alone.

"Hey, Director Shen!"

Dong Zijian finally saw Shen Lin and ran over first.

Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao also followed, and Zhang Yi and Zhang Aijia naturally followed.

"Xiao Dong, why are you here?"

Shen Lin heard the footsteps, hurriedly turned his head, and then saw Dong Zijian, who felt like he had met an old acquaintance in a foreign country, and was about to pull him to chat a few words, when Jia Zhangke and his party appeared in front of Shen Lin.

The latter hurriedly greeted him: "Director Jia, Teacher Zhao Tao, Director Zhang, Zhang Yi, hello." ”

"Director Shen Lin, hello."

Jia Zhangke greeted Shen Lin with a smile.

"You are... By the way, look at my memory, "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" is! ”

It's really not that Shen Lin deliberately pretended to be forced, after six hours of flying in a row, his iron body was a little unbearable, and it was normal to not be able to remember it for a while.

“… What is Director Shen doing in Cannes this time? Selling films or helping the platform? ”

The news of "Carol's" participation in Cannes, Shen Lin covered it very tightly, and there has been no news until now, and Jia Zhangke doesn't know that it's normal.

"The production company has always been responsible for selling films, and I am only a director, not involved in this."

Shen Lin obviously didn't want to talk about the reason why he went to Cannes, and Jia Zhangke couldn't say anything.

In fact, Jia Zhangke already had a premonition that Shen Lin would participate in this Cannes, and it was very likely that new works would come out, after all, he had seen Gong Li before.

But in recent times, Shen Lin's overwhelming propaganda has been "Operation Mekong".

Is he going to take this "Operation Mekong" to Cannes?

I haven't heard of Shen Lin's works participating in the Cannes competition in China.

Could it be "Carol"?

But "Carol" was only launched in March, and Jia Zhangke asked tentatively, but Shen Lin did not respond.

Then, the atmosphere fell into an awkward situation.

The main thing is that Shen Lin really has no state, otherwise he can win Jia Zhangke to worship him on the spot!

"Director Jia, you are here first, and I'll go talk to Xiao Dong."

After a few simple exchanges, Shen Lin had already found that he and Jia Zhangke's aura were too incompatible, and he was not a person at all.

Jia Zhangke was born in Fenyang, Jin Province, and Shen Lin was a standard imperial capital.

After graduating from Jia Zhangke Film Academy, he began to tinker with movies, good at long shots and hand-held DV portrayal of characters, and preferred black and white pictures, even if he won the Golden Lion Award in his thirties, he was disliked by the official in various ways; Shen Lin is the complete opposite of him, he didn't go to college, although he has audited film courses, but his movies are always catering to the public's aesthetics, compared to the artistic value, he is more willing to pursue box office revenues, by the way, Shen Lin became famous at a young age, and now he has almost become an official spokesperson!

There is no common language between the two.

It's normal to not be able to talk together.

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Let's talk to Dong Zijian about the situation of "Monster Hunt"!

Shen Lin has always maintained a good contact with Dong Zijian.

Although he doesn't like Wang Jinghua, he has to admire that this first agent is really good at teaching his son.

Dong Zijian can definitely be called one of the very few young actors who are willing to sink down and ponder their acting skills.

This can be seen from his selection of scripts.

The debut film, "Youth Pie", although the box office is not good, but the reputation is good, and it is one of the few conscience productions in youth-themed movies!

Then, he took on movies like "Young Babylon", "Delan", "The Old Man of Mountains and Rivers" and "Riding the Wind and Waves", with vision, acting skills, and resources.

Shen Lin is very optimistic about Xiao Dong's future development!

"Xiao Dong, "Monster Hunt" is set for July 16th? What do you think? ”

"July? Summer file? ”

Dong Zijian thought about it seriously, "But in July, there are Director Chen's "Taoist Priest Descending the Mountain", Guo Xiaosi's "Small Times 4", and He Yi's "Gardenia Blooming 2015" and Fan Ye's "Dynasty Woman Yang Guifei", I'm a little worried..."