Films shortlisted for the main competition will naturally attract attention from all sides, especially the Mataburrata International Film Festival, which has always been known as the grand event of Latin American cinema and European cinema, for the first time, an Asian film has been shortlisted for the main competition, and it is also from mysterious China.

So when the mix and match of three Asian faces and one European face appeared on the red carpet, it immediately attracted a wild shot from South American reporters who had never seen the world, and the violent magnesium lights flashed so much that Wang Dalun almost didn't open his eyes.

"Hey, and Chinese journalists. Wang Dalun was surprised to find several yellow faces in the crowd.

"It's either Japanese or Korean, it's not going to be a Chinese journalist. Zhang Yuan whispered beside him.

Wang Dalun carefully observed, those people did seem to be different from the Chinese, and couldn't help but be a little disappointed, muttering in his mouth: "How can there be no Chinese reporters?"

"The Matabrata International Film Festival generally has very few Chinese films, so there are very few domestic journalists to cover it. But even if there are domestic journalists, they won't interview us. ”

"Why?" Wang Dalun said strangely, "If we win the award this time, it will be regarded as winning glory for the country!"

"Win glory for the country?" Zhang Yuan snorted coldly and ignored him anymore.

Zhang Jian on the other side gave him the answer: "This is an underground movie, Lao Zhang is still in the ban period, even if we win the Golden Tree Business Land Award this time, there will be no domestic reports." ”

Wang Dalun understands, this is commonly known as banning! I feel very disappointed when I think about it, I finally got a chance to become famous, but it turned out to be useless.

Before being shortlisted for the main competition unit, although Zhang Yuan and Lao Ke recommended it everywhere, "East Palace and West Palace" was still rarely interested. As soon as they were shortlisted, the situation reversed, and immediately some filmmakers took the initiative to contact them, not only distributors in South America, but also many filmmakers in North America and Europe. This broke Zhang Yuan and Lao Kele, and after the opening ceremony, they negotiated the price with people everywhere.

Wang Dalun and Zhang Jian started the learning mode - going to watch movies everywhere. As a result, movie tickets have become the biggest expense of the trip.

But what makes him depressed is that he almost can't understand a word in the movie, Latin American movies are all very fast tongue playing, except for a few European movies that speak English, the others are French, German, Czech, etc., of course, there is also the same language as Latin America. Although there are English letters all below, he can only see an approximate picture of his English level, and he can't communicate at all.

In contrast, Zhang Jian watched it with relish, and when he asked, he knew that he could neither understand nor understand this product, but he looked at other people's photography skills.

On November 11th, uh, there is no Double 11 shopping festival at the moment, it can only be called Singles' Day, and the shortlisted film "East Palace and West Palace" in the main competition unit of the Matabrata International Film Festival was finally released.

The only Asian film shortlisted, mysterious China, gay themes, and the superposition of various elements, on the day of the premiere, the audience, the media, and the film company filled the theater of more than 300 people.

Among the four people, only Wang Dalun has not seen the finished film, so he is looking forward to it. When the lights dimmed and the screen turned on, he immediately restrained his mood and watched the movie seriously.

Opening

"You're a slut!"

"Shut up! You can say I can do anything, but you just can't say I'm cheap, I'm not cheap!"

"You're sick!"

"I'm sick, and my illness is that I love you. ”

Xiao Shi is always the one who loses his temper, and he insults and repairs the other party at will. And the feminine Alain "even if he abused me thousands of times, I still treat him like my first love", in addition to defending his pure love, he never resisted Xiao Shi, and always obeyed him, begging him to give even a little love. Alain has a gentle personality and is submissive, and his blind expression in love is like a woman, which is in stark contrast to Xiao Shi's rough and tough style.

This is the first time Wang Dalun has seen the image he has created on the screen, and a sense of accomplishment arises spontaneously. Recalling the bits and pieces of the shooting, he was suddenly very excited, it was he who created a small history, created a small history, created a distorted character, and created a small history, and created a small history, and created a small history, and created a small history, and he created his submission. It was as if he was not seeing an image, not a movie character, but a living person, a flesh-and-blood person created by himself.

That's right, that's what I do!

At the end of the film, in the background music of the Kunqu opera "Dream in the Garden", Xiao Shi's face is full of confusion and his lonely crushed back......

The picture freezes, and the list of rehearsal credits is quickly typed.

When the ......lights were turned on, the theater erupted in applause.

The premiere was an unprecedented success. Director Zhang Yuan and starring Wang Dalun were naturally sought after by the media, but in the face of the Spanish question of "Da ......" like machine gun fire, the two could only look at each other and were at a loss. Fortunately, there was Lao Ke as a translator and answered a few questions in English and French.

The next morning, when the four gathered in Zhang Yuan's room, Lao Ke went out early in the morning to buy a stack of English newspapers, and read the comments one by one in his strange Chinese accent:

"The film appropriately uses the tone of classical Chinese opera to blend reality and fantasy naturally, making the whole film coherent and compact, with strong unity. The main plot of the film begins after sunset, and ends with the sunrise in the early morning of the second day, and the story occurs, develops, **, and ends overnight. ”

Lao Ke nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "This is the column of "National Daily", and they scored 8.5 points, which is considered a high score. As he spoke, he flipped to the next one, looked at it for a while, restrained his smile, and said, "Well, the column of the Chronicle is not very friendly." ”

"Nian Nian. "The media, everything is always mixed, and Zhang Yuan, who has heard enough praise, doesn't seem to care much about negative comments.

"East Palace and West Palace" In many ways, he tries to add new elements to express Xiàn's exploration of the phenomenon of same-sex and love and show its avant-garde, but Alain's overly expressive monologue narration in the film gives people a sense of unnaturalness, and the insertion of scenes from classical Chinese opera, and the setting of the story in the dark night, all these factors add mystery to the film, and also unconsciously convey to the audience that the life of a homosexual is mysterious and strange, which is probably unwanted by the gay community. ”

After listening to Lao Ke read it, Zhang Yuan was immediately unconvinced, and said: "Same-sex love is mysterious and strange in China. To this day, same-sex love is still a disease in China, a mental illness, and I just want to reflect this in the movie. ”

"That's because foreigners don't understand China, and I think this kind of comment is quite normal. Zhang Jian interjected and comforted Zhang Yuan.

Lao Ke also nodded, agreed, continued to read another report, and said, "Hey, this comment is quite interesting." As he spoke, he began to read:

"We noticed that the film had a particularly interesting design when setting up the scene: the structure of the police station, where the incident took place, and the house had doors and windows on all sides, so that people could peek around the building from different angles. And the policeman is peeking into the house while walking around, which reminds one of Bentham's design of the panoramic open view architecture mentioned by Foucault. Bentham was an English thinker who designed the panorama for prison reform, a circular building with a watchtower at its center. The watchtower has a ring of windows facing the circular building. Each small cell in the circular building is monitored by an overseer in the central watchtower, and the prisoners cannot see the people in the tower. Although the structure of the police station is different from Bentham's panoramic open architecture, the essence is the same, that is, to make the prisoners feel that the surveillance is everywhere and the power is uncertain. ”

"Yo, fortunately, these are all comments from foreign media, otherwise the relevant departments would have said that I slandered the socialist system. Zhang Yuan shook his head and laughed at himself.

Wang Dalun listened to it for a long time, and most of Lao Kenian's film reviews commented on the movie itself, and some said about Alan, but he didn't write a small history.

"Lao Ke, take a look again, did you mention me?"

Lao Ke flipped through the pages until the last one, and suddenly laughed, "This comment is very vivid." ”

"Hurry up. Wang Dalun thought he was commenting on himself, and hurriedly urged.

"It's a game of cat and mouse. The question is, who's a cat? Who's a mouse?"

"Gone?"

"It's gone. ”

"That's it?"

"Just one word. ”

it!

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On November 19, the two-week Matabrata International Film Festival finally came to an end, with the closing ceremony and awards ceremony taking place at 7pm local time.

The festival sold well, and the Argentine, Brazilian and Canadian studios bought the distribution rights in their home countries, which has almost recouped all the investment, and the future distribution in Europe will be all profits. Lao Ke and Zhang Yuan were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths during this time.

Because he was shortlisted for the main competition unit, he may win the award, and when he participated in the closing ceremony, Lao Ke specially arranged everyone's outfits - all black evening dresses, which are the kind of tuxedos with short fronts, long backs, and slits in them. The four old men are tall, short, fat and thin, and they are different from each other, and it is a unique scenery when they wear them and stand together.

The closing ceremony had to walk the red carpet once as usual, and when they were waiting, Zhang Yuan and Lao Ke were talking, and Wang Dalun and Zhang Jian were very concerned about whether those thinly dressed female stars would catch a cold, and they watched it very carefully.

Originally, I didn't know anyone, but after watching so many movies these days, there are always familiar ones.

"Hey, this, this, it's the one with the dew point in it, female number two!"

"Why don't I look like it?"

"In the movie, people are without makeup, but now they are wearing makeup. You don't see people with that big breasts, and that body, for sure. ”

"Does it feel like it's not that big in the movie?" Zhang Jian craned his neck and took a closer look.

"Yo, you're still looking closely!"

"Alright, alright, it's almost our turn. Zhang Yuan came over and reminded him, and the staff had already come over to say it just now.

Maybe the novelty has passed, although the four people are wearing dog-like people today, they are not as popular as they were at the opening ceremony, and even the intensity of the flashing magnesium lights is much smaller, and Wang Dalun also bought a pair of sunglasses to wear. xh:.74.240.212