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I watch my breathing,

I look at you, getting colder and colder in my breath.

The sea never shows his understanding of the soil,

Like the song of a birdsong melting in the sky.

I see my silence,

I look at you, in my silence,

You are the depths of the sea.

Zhu Wen began writing poetry, but later it is said that he began to write novels when his inspiration dried up. Compared to this gentle, slightly sad little poem at the end of the script, the whole script is full of sharpness, toughness and directness.

Lao Jia finished reading the script on the plane and read it three times. When Wang Dalun woke up and transferred at Munich Airport, Lao Jia gushed about his admiration for "Seafood", in his words, when he finished watching it for the first time, he was already covered with goosebumps, but he couldn't wait to watch it a second time. The script has a strong experimental and banned film attributes, which is very suitable for Lao Jia's appetite, and this product even reveals the idea of directing it himself.

Of course, if it was directed by Lao Jia, there would be no financial problems at all, but this is obviously unrealistic. Because he understands Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen is actually a very proud person in his bones. In other words, Zhu Wen, Lao Jia, and Zhang Yuan are all the same kind of people in their bones, they all want to show their ideas and words to the world in the language of film, and this kind of display can never be faked to others.

Lao Jia was very disappointed, but he also clearly told him that it is difficult to attract sponsorship and investment for a script that has not won an award and the director is a newcomer, but he can help recommend it. For Wang Dalun, it is enough to have Lao Jia's words, he was originally a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

Munich Airport had an hour and a half stopover and another hour to Venice Marco Polo Airport. I boarded the plane at Beijing Airport at 12 o'clock at noon, spent 13 hours along the way, and arrived at the destination just after 7 o'clock in the evening.

Ichiyama is already waiting at the airport, he is the executive producer of T-mark in Japan, and he is very familiar with the process and operation methods of participating in international film festivals, and he has a lot of experience. He arrived in Venice two days earlier than Lao Jia and Wang Dalun, sent copies, played the front station, and by the way, led the way for these two turtles who came to Venice for the first time.

Lao Jia's trip was both excited and nervous. I was excited because my first film (he never admitted that "Xiao Wu" was his first film) made it to the main competition of the three major European film festivals, and he is only 30 years old this year, which is not only the first in China, but also one of the few in the world. The nervous reason is that the total investment of "Platform" has exceeded 10 million, although this is not worth mentioning internationally, but it is already a blockbuster in China, in addition to foreign investment and sponsorship, he has invested his own family and even owed millions of foreign debts. It's a matter of success or failure.

However, this time is very different from the last time I participated in the Berlin Film Festival, "Xiao Wu" will be completely lucky, and there will be no distributor until after the premiere. And this time, because of the operation of a trader like Shozo Ichiyama, he had already sold the copyright and recovered part of the investment before coming to Venice, and this time the booth had just been put out, although it had not yet premiered, but there were a lot of repercussions, because since "Xiao Wu", Lao Jia's popularity in Europe has even exceeded his popularity in China in a sense, and he also refused to Cannes, which caused a lot of sensation. In general, it is still commercially successful, but how much success it can be depends on the effect after the premiere.

In contrast, Wang Dalun is much calmer, he came this time to try his luck with "Seafood", and secondly, he has not participated in the three major European film festivals. However, thinking about the limited number of movies I made, I was actually shortlisted for the three major European film festivals, which can be regarded as a grand slam, and it is indeed something to be proud of.

But whether it was excitement, nervousness or pride, after getting off the plane and taking the car, then by boat, to the hotel, the two of them fell asleep at the end, and when they woke up, it was the morning in Venice, and the time difference was magically adjusted to European time.

The main task of coming early is to sell films, with fluent English and stumbling French, Wang Dalun has helped Ichiyama Shangsan a lot, and as a "famous director" Lao Jia is interviewed by various media, and the powerful Ichiyama Shangsan even made an appointment with a very influential French media to give Lao Jia an exclusive interview.

Of course, before the premiere of the movie, the job of selling the film is relatively easy, and those distributors are not fools, they will not blindly place orders before seeing the film, but more about the intention first, everything can not be determined until the quality and response of the film is seen. So in their spare time, he and Lao Jia still have time to walk around.

Venice is a world-famous historical and cultural city, a famous tourist city, and its status in the world is a bit similar to that of Wang Dalun's hometown Hangzhou in China. The various historical buildings, frescoes, and sculptures are unforgettable, especially the famous St. Mark's Church in "Princess Sissi", which he said he wanted to visit. Especially during the film festival, there is an influx of tourists, and everything is expensive, and it is ridiculously expensive, and many things can only be seen and cannot be bought. However, the price of crystal is acceptable, so he picked a bracelet of crystal for his girlfriend for a long time, and he came back to have an explanation.

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On the evening of the 29th, Jacob and Yu Liwei finally arrived, and the next day, the Venice International Film Festival officially opened.

Compared with the Berlin Film Festival, which emphasizes ideology, consciousness and form, and the combination of commerciality and artistry of the Cannes Film Festival, the purpose of the Venice Film Festival, known as the father of the "International Film Festival", is that "film serves serious art", and the criterion of judging is very pure, that is, artistry. Therefore, it is also quite popular with Chinese movies. And just last year, Chinese films were a great success at the Venice Film Festival, Zhang Dadao's "No One is Missing" won the Golden Lion Award, and Zhang Yuan won the Silver Lion Award for Best Director with "Going Home for the New Year".

This year's film festival also has two Chinese-language films shortlisted for the main competition unit, in addition to "Platform", there is also "Durian Piaopiao" by Hong Kong director Chen Guo.

At the end of August, Venice is already a little cool, and it can be described as a crisp autumn air, with a beautiful wind and sunshine. In the evening, the 57th Venice International Film Festival kicked off at the prestigious Lido Cinema Palace. The organizing committee also entertained filmmakers from all over the world in the form of a celebratory dinner.

The opening film was the American film "Space Cowboy". The organizing committee also arranged a special surprise, at the dinner "space cowboy" East Wood and Tommy Lee Jones suddenly appeared in front of everyone, and the climax was the most hated Hollywood actress Sharon Stone by the majority of Chinese people to present the "Lifetime Achievement Award" to East Wood. The host also introduced that the reason why the organizing committee commended this seventy-year-old guy at the opening ceremony was mainly to pay tribute to this Hollywood legend......

There are a lot of Chinese people on the scene, and the most eye-catching is of course one of the judges of the competition unit, Berlin actress Zhang Yanyu. That is the idol and goddess of Wang Dalun's two lives, not to mention that Zhang Yanyu is only thirty-six years old now, and she is still graceful, and she is far from becoming the later rib essence.

Toyacob and Yu Liwei's blessing, several people followed over to say hello. Although Zhang Yanyu's hands were a little bruised, holding her hand, Wang Dalun still felt extremely excited, and almost didn't take out a pen and paper to ask her to sign it.

Zhang Yanyu politely exchanged a few words with him and Lao Jia, but after all, he was a judge of the competition unit, and he grew up in Europe, and he was the wife of a famous French director.

I chatted a few more words with the crew of "Durian Piaopiao", which was also shortlisted for the competition unit. Director Chen Guo looks like he is in his early forties, quite dark and fat, with a typical Lingnan appearance, and specially introduced the heroine in the play, Qin Hailu, who has just graduated from the Chinese Opera Performance Department.

To be honest, since Wang Dalun was in his previous life, he felt that this girl was quite distinctive, with very white skin and a high nose bridge, a bit like a mixed-race.

This girl participated in the film festival for the first time, and it was one of the three major festivals in Europe, she was very excited and restrained, and her English was not good, she was already laughing behind the director like a log, and she was very excited to see her compatriots. She didn't know Lao Jia, but Wang Dalun was already familiar with the face on the TV screen.

It should be said that this girl is very lucky, she has not acted in any film and television dramas before, but she was favored by Chen Guo and starred as the female number one in "Durian Piaopiao", uh...... Play a poor prostitute.

Wang Dalun has never seen or heard of this movie in his previous life, but listening to her description, it seems that the story is quite moving, and he will definitely go to the show when the time comes.

He chatted with Qin Hailu, and Lao Jia actually chatted with Chen Guo very speculatively, probably this is a group of people, the director and the director have a common language, and the actors can talk to the actors.

Counting this time, Wang Dalun has participated in three film festivals, although Argentina's Matabrata International Film Festival is slightly worse than the three major European festivals, but the liveliness and process are the same.

Before the premiere of "Platform", it was to watch movies, in fact, this is also a learning process, watching different types of movies in different regions, no matter how bad it is, you can expand your horizons.

Among the 20 films shortlisted for this year's competition unit, in addition to two Chinese-language films, there are also three films from Asia, India's "Wrestler", South Korea's "Walkway" and Iran's "Circle".

may be due to the fact that he watched a lot of Indian song and dance films when he was a child, he and Lao Jia were very interested in this Indian film, and this film premiered on the second day of its opening.

But when they finished watching this movie, they all felt quite shocked, and the Indian Bollywood movies that they knew in the past were not the same type at all, religion, friendship, violence, and the protagonist's dedication to wrestling, there are not many characters in it, but they have their own characteristics, vivid and vivid, and the so-called life is varied. And it is said that the director of this film was originally an economist, and later rewrote poetry, and then picked up the guide tube.

Lao Jia felt very deeply, and from time to time he cocked his little tail and clamped it all at once, the movie that could be shortlisted is definitely not an ordinary movie, this film that combines screenwriter and director hides social criticism in fables, and injects a lot of hope into the world of weak human feelings.

As soon as the film premiered, it caused a great response, and the newspapers of the next day praised it at great length, and Lao Jia also specially found a few English newspapers and asked Wang Dalun to translate the comments in the newspaper to him, and sat in the chair and was silent for a long time after listening.

"Durian Piaopiao" premiered one day earlier than "Platform", fellow countrymen, everyone has to support each other, even Ichiyama Shozo, who is very busy on weekdays, also came along.

Compared with "Platform", which has not yet premiered, "Durian Piao" has not been screened much, and it is obviously not very optimistic about this movie. It is also true that until the opening, there are no two or three kittens in the theater, but it is for sure.

There was a small press conference before the screening, and Chen Guo, Qin Hailu and other main creators appeared on stage one after another, but because there were not many people, the atmosphere was a little awkward, and they ended hastily without saying a few words.

Different from the Hong Kong films that I am used to watching, the editing technique of "Durian Piao" is quite unique, especially when watching the movie, Wang Dalun obviously feels that he is watching a documentary about prostitutes, it will suddenly intersperse a MV-style montage; when he feels that the storyline is too close to life, and all that appears is bitter or even salty, it pulls the camera away and calmly tells the poetry and Zen of life.

A Yan of the Qinhai Roadshow is a person who has studied Peking Opera for nine years, but has no way out in the mainland, so she has to come to Mong Kok to rationally incarnate as a prostitute to make quick money, and set a deadline for herself to expire her two-way passport. After meeting Ah Fen, a girl who is also from the mainland but entered the country illegally, in the alley where she lives, she is moved by Ah Fen's optimism and simplicity in the face of adversity, and the two become friends in a foreign land.

When she returned to Mudanjiang Town to change to another identity and decided to live a good life, Ah Yan found that the world around her was very different from what she understood, and she was disappointed to see the cruelty and ruthlessness of being in Hong Kong in reality, and when she received the durian sent by Ah Fen, all kinds of complicated feelings came to her heart.

The film is divided into two sections, the first is Hong Kong, and the second is Northeast China. I have to say that Chen Guo, as a Hong Kong person, made a mess of the Northeast, which is more real than Lao Jia's shooting of Fenyang, which is simply breathtaking. Wang Dalun also specially asked Lao Jia how he felt for this, Lao Jia shook his head and spit out two words: "It's over." ”

But in any case, the moral of the movie is still good, and durian outlines a kind of reality - it is ugly, tricky, and smelly, but it is sweet in the aftertaste. The bitterness and sweetness of the durian are scattered in the air of reality, and they touch the coldness of the world, and finally condense into snow and fall down. (To be continued.) )