At the beginning of July, Barbera, president of the Venice Film Festival, told the media in public: "May is too early, it is not the right time for films that want to be judged in autumn and winter, and September is just right." So, we don't fight with Cannes, those who should go to Cannes go to Cannes, those who should come to Venice come to Venice, these are two production cycles. ”

The words are very informative.

History is always similar, more than 30 years ago, the cold Cannes repaired its relationship with Hollywood, and with the help of capital, it became the center of film rights trading between Hollywood and Europe, and became the most influential film festival in Europe.

Venice, which has lived in the shadow of Cannes for many years, has finally followed in the footsteps of Cannes, and has taken the same path, taking advantage of the momentum of Hollywood to go its own way.

Coupled with the fact that the opening film in Venice was successful in the North American awards season for three consecutive years, Hollywood producers tacitly shifted the starting point of the annual Oscar Rally to Italy's water city.

In fact, this year's Venice Film Festival opened with two films, "La La Land" and "The First Lady".

Despite the various promotions of this year's Venice Film Festival as "the strongest in history" and "gathering of masters", all the films that premiered or were released during the festival, the most sold movie tickets were "The First Lady" as the opening film, and the average pre-sale of ten screenings was close to one-fifth.

In this era, such pre-sales are really low enough, and if it weren't for Natalie Portman's strong fan appeal, it is estimated that there would not have been such a 'high' pre-sale.

It's not comparable to our Northern Film Festival.

The North Film Festival is sold out in 10 seconds!

Because of the relatively good publicity, the pre-sale of "La La Land" barely reached one-seventh.

No way, foreigners are really poor!

……

Lido, inside the Venice Cinema Palace, the screening of La La Land is nearing its end.

The audience at the scene was a little emotional, and the sound of women sobbing could be faintly heard.

“… Can this Nima also be moved? ”

Shen Lin looked at Di Li Re who was struggling to blow his nose next to him.

"Could it be that my brain circuits are too long?"

Until the end of the film, Shen Lin just felt a little emotional, but most of the audience at the scene, including the judges, had red eyes.

By the way, a film critic in his 80s behind him is also in tears.

The big screen went black, the subtitles fell, Sam Mendes was the first to stand up from his seat and clapped his palms with the greatest strength, even if the shooting hurt, he didn't think about stopping!

Then the eight members of the jury around the chairman of the jury also stood up and applauded warmly, including our Zhao Junqi, of course.

A standing ovation from everyone in the back, including the hundreds of journalists and general spectators sitting in the back!

Shen Lin was not surprised at all when he heard a tsunami of applause behind him.

In the original time and space, the reputation of "La La Land" spread from the Venice Film Festival!

Zhao Junqi actually doesn't like song and dance movies very much, which is understandable.

Shen Lin can't appreciate song and dance films, to be honest, he has always been getting the point of song and dance films, and every time he hears the actors singing inexplicably, goosebumps fall all over the ground.

If it weren't for the fact that "La La Land" is too famous, it is estimated that he would not have watched it repeatedly with a learning attitude, and experienced the filming in this life again.

However, Zhao Junqi is definitely a little more woman than Shen Lin, and she was moved by this story.

The love in La La Land is simple, but it's also realistic.

'The love of unfamous artists is very unreliable! ’

Robert De Niro once said, "Los Angeles has three homes for movie actors: the ex-wife's home, the current wife's home, and Hollywood's third home." ”

In fact, most of the artists in our country are like this, even the young master Shen Lin, a man with kidney deficiency, has an ex and a wife, and by the way, it also comes with a North American goddess-level body fluid exchange object and a junior...

Who doesn't have an ex?

The applause continued, and it continued for several minutes.

This film may not be popular enough, not popcorn enough, but this is the Venice Film Festival, not the summer file.

Shen Lin and the main members of the crew also walked to the stage in front of the screen with applause.

"Thank you for liking this movie, in fact, the other director of this movie, Damien Chazelle, is the real protagonist, I only filmed the plot part because of temporary things, and most of the singing and dancing content was handled by him, including the script and the like, all directed by him, but because of this, he was thundered, so I led the crew to participate in this film festival."

After a few simple words, Shen Lin stepped off the stage, and he was embarrassed to say too much, on the one hand, there was still a movie to be released later, on the other hand, five minutes later, there was a press conference, and Shen Lin would take the crew members to participate.

……

Hundreds of journalists filled the huge press room of the Venice Cinema Palace, and almost all the journalists who came to cover the Venice Film Festival attended the press conference, and not only the seats prepared by the organizers were far from enough, but even the aisles and corridors were full of journalists.

Well, more than half of them are media in our country.

Although none of our works were shortlisted for the main competition unit, we have some judges as judges, and the key is that there is a big Linzi, of course, we must support a wave.

By the way, the scenery of Italy is still good!

The questions asked by the European media are quite decent, mostly focusing on the film itself, and rarely asking about privacy or anything like that.

But our own people don't show face when they ask questions.

is a Hong Kong media.

"Director Shen, I heard that Di Li Re Bar and Li Yitong are employees of your company, you brought them to the Venice Film Festival, is it a bit of favoritism?"

"Walter?"

Shen Lin motioned for the reporter to ask again.

Of course he heard it clearly, but he was a little incredulous.

What's that?

“…”

The Phoenix News reporter had no choice but to repeat the question again.

"They acted very well, and even the drug addict Ke Zhendong can come to Venice, why can't I bring them over?"

“… But they're just supporting roles, so it stands to reason..."

"Please be a little more comfortable with the question of the movie itself, thank you."

"Okay then," the reporter thought for a moment, and then asked, "Director Shen, what is your purpose in filming La La Land, and why didn't you choose to orientalize it?" ”

"I think the first choice for movies is to be permissible, a classic Hollywood movie can't be disliked by most Orientals, and vice versa, because movies are art, and, after getting this script, I did think about orientalizing it, but considering that maybe the way of song and dance films can better reflect its original flavor, so I moved it out as it was."