"Yes, it was indeed an unfortunate accident, you are right, Monroe's two miscarriages hurt her a lot......" Jenny changed her position in the sofa, and should be with the middle-aged woman opposite Angie - this is Arthur's more optimistic director candidate, a female director who is well-known for shooting female themes, compared with Salvi, Angie's qualifications are better, from a photographer to a director, and has also made three art films in the past ten years, all of which are based on women's self-discovery and re-understanding, and "Monroe" The theme is in line, Jenny has watched her works, and it can be clearly seen in several of Angie's films that her thinking and maturity are complete, including the theme of Marilyn, she does have ideas. M. Mobile Network is also a director with great potential and talent, but like all art film directors, he is not talented, waiting for his own opportunity.

In fact, this can also be seen how small the British film industry is, and it is indeed talented after ten years of career change, but Anji only has three works - although around the world, art films are not so profitable, and art film directors and peers are often miserable, but in Hollywood, they can try to take on some more commercial films to maintain their cutting-edge exploration, while in the UK, there are only a few commercial films every year, and the impact of commercial films from Hollywood is too fierce, This directly leads to the fact that Angie and Salvi can only find opportunities from the Americans to try to transform, if there is no luck to send the opportunity to the door, and there is no way and courage to go to Hollywood, then their talent may be buried. And this mechanism has also led to the flow of the best film and television talents in the entire English-speaking world to Hollywood, and even the cultural circles with similar language families such as French and Spanish have taken entering Hollywood as their goal, after all, there is still hope of making films in Hollywood, if you stay in your home country, the most vigorous years of creativity and creation are spent in waiting, and it takes a few years to make a film, and the speed of progress cannot be compared with peers, so you can only end up being buried.

Angie's personality is more lively and outgoing than Salvi, and she is not the kind of sensitive and withdrawn type, and Arthur beats the side drum, the conversation must be going well, and it can be heard that Angie is more interested in Monroe's mental journey, she wants to make "My Week with Monroe" a mode with most dialogue scenes, so that Colin, who is not deeply involved in the world, but intelligent and educated, looks back on the first half of her bleak life through conversations with Marilyn again and again, and discusses the various problems encountered by Monroe in the star path. The process of "Dragon and Phoenix", so that the two lines spiral forward and introduce Monroe and Arthur. Miller's relationship even combined Colin He's feelings with the extramarital affair, the trigger for Monroe and Miller's breakup, and ended with an artistic perspective to look forward to and hint at Monroe's future.

This is also a very valuable idea, if it were not for the time limit, Jenny would also like to talk to Angel for a while, but unfortunately, she will have to attend the copyright promotion conference later, so the conversation was unfortunately stopped after only two hours, Angie and her agent left the hotel room first, while Arthur stayed and exchanged a few words with Jenny.

"I heard Salvi say that you had a great talk." Arthur shook hands with Jenny again, and then smiled and asked about Salvi and Jenny's meeting, "If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't □, I would have accompanied him to meet you, I was always worried that his shyness would become an obstacle to the meeting." ”

Although he was concerned about Salvi, Jenny felt that Arthur should think that Salvi was Anji's biggest opponent, or was he 'listening to the enemy' for Anji, she looked at Arthur funny, "Don't worry, Anji and I have the same good conversation." However, Arthur, if you are so optimistic about Angie, why would you recommend Salvi? ”

Arthur also knew that his true intentions had been seen through, he scratched his head, and said frankly with some embarrassment, "Salvi is indeed very talented, but he is still young, and it may not be a good thing for him to become famous too early, and in terms of personal feelings, I prefer Angie, she has waited long enough." ”

Jenny could also feel Arthur's sincere emotions - his sympathy and pity for Angie was very contagious, and Jenny could also feel the distress of Angie in that moment, the pain of waiting for the right time, and the urge to help her, but the tide of this emotion was only for a moment, and she quickly regained her composure: she was a producer, not a philanthropist, after all.

"I'll think about it." She told Arthur, "I'll call you as soon as the results come out, but I have to go now, Arthur, keep in touch ......"

On the way to the press conference, Jeanne had been quite reticent, absentmindedly browsing the crowds on both sides of the waterway, until Cesare ended his call and walked over to her and sat down, breaking the silence in the cabin.

"What are you thinking?" Cesare asked, "By the way, Chris and I are likely to have dinner with Ang Lee tonight, and he's very interested in Ann's work, so I guess we'll have to split up tonight." ”

Jenny is scheduled to interview a couple of Colin actors tonight, so she certainly doesn't have time for this kind of social dinner. She exhaled and nodded, but did not answer Cesare's words, who raised an eyebrow at her in confusion, "What?" ”

"It's just...... I'm already missing Wellington. Jeanne sighed, and said honestly, "Don't laugh at me—not that I'm suddenly weak, but really, it's just—I don't know, Cesare, that I may be used to putting on a smile in a short period of time, forcing myself to appear to be compatible with the other side of the conversation, but I still can't get used to choosing one of the people who are hungry for success, and indeed everyone deserves success, and then shutting out the rest." ”

She didn't know how to describe how she felt, "It's like you chose only one street child to enter the door on a snowy day and brutally starved the rest to death - if you know what I mean, it makes me feel cruel." ”

"It's not going to be easy for anyone to lay off their employees for the first time, you just need to get used to that, you're not God, you're not family, it's the simplest working relationship, there's no need to be too sentimental." Cesare scoffed, glancing at Jenny, "Don't let Arthur's warmth card sway your judgment, Jefferson, it's just a simple trap you should have learned to see through. ”

For some reason, Jenny's mood relaxed a little when he said this, and she smiled and said, "Oh, I'm sorry to disappoint you again, Chesa, but this is women, and we can be very emotional sometimes." ”

Cesare gave her an eyebrow, and they were both quiet for a moment, before Cesare said, "So, between Angie and Salvi, you still prefer Salvi?" ”

They have met almost all the director candidates, but they have not yet talked about who will be selected in the end, and now, Cesare has directly ruled out other candidates other than the two, and Jenny has no intention of denying it, "In terms of qualifications, Angie seems to be more suitable...... What do you think? ”

"Both are very talented." Cesare said he pondered for a moment, "But I suggest you go with Salvi — the main character in this movie is Monroe, and the actress is always more beautiful in the male director's lens, and for Monroe, that's crucial." ”

"Are you sexist?" Jenny couldn't help but ask, but quickly raised her hand and returned to her seriousness, "Yes, I understand what you mean, of course actresses can also be beautiful in the lens of a female director, but that kind of beauty is often a little less sexually tense, and that kind of sex. Sense is crucial for Monroe. ”

In fact, she has always been unable to choose between Angie and Salvi, also because she can't feel the spark between Angie and Angie, not that she and Salvi have that kind of sexual tension, or that Angie is not a good director, her ideas have no value, it's just that she and Salvi's ideas are more similar, and she has a vague feeling that Salvi should be better at capturing Monroe's flesh. The side of desire, and this is exactly what Anji lacks.

But on the other hand, Angie has the ability to turn her ideas into reality, which can be confirmed from the films she has made, and choosing Salvi, who has no feature film at all, is undoubtedly quite risky, if Salvi eventually gets out of control and makes the story of the film very bad, then even if the picture is beautiful, it will not save the project.

"I'll have to think again," said Jenny, "but I've got time to think again, ah, are we there?" Again, what are we going to do? ”

She couldn't help but sigh again, and suddenly felt a deep exhaustion: she had had enough of such a high level of social activity, she missed Wellington, she missed the set, Jenny had never found herself so passionate about acting - in this moment, she understood Daniel completely. Day-Lewis felt that she was attending a global film event, but all she wanted to do was get away from it all and go back to the world of cinema, and she didn't know what she was doing here, what was the point of these things, people liked her because of her performances, but what they did was try to keep her away from acting.

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This is Mr. Ko Takai from Toho Co., Ltd., Jennifer, the distribution of "The Fifth Sally" in Japan is in charge of Toho. The overseas rights of Clayton are also of great interest. ”

"Hay, Miss Jefferson, I finally have the opportunity to see you in Venice, and I have been looking forward to seeing you two years ago......"

"Ah, Miss Jefferson, I've always been a fan of you......"

"Jennifer, I didn't expect us to meet in Venice, you really should have come to our cocktail party last night—"

Among the three major film festivals in Europe, the Venice Film Festival has always been recognized as the film festival with the highest artistry and the lowest commerciality, and therefore, in the 90s of the last century, the Venice Film Festival has obviously shown its decline, and the Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals have gradually distanced themselves. In addition to being optimistic about the vast market of emerging China, and the fifth and sixth generation directors of Chinese mainland, Müller has always spared no effort to enhance the commerciality of the Venice Film Festival, and he also pays attention to the Venice Film Festival's copyright trade and the degree of connection with Hollywood. The Venice Film Festival, which used to be the world of Europe and Asia, gradually opened its arms to Hollywood, and this was the last film festival during his tenure.

And the effect of this is also immediate, with the arrival of Hollywood movie stars, reporters and film dealers are also flocking to the market, which has laid a good foundation for the prosperity of the copyright fair. And he also invited people such as Jennifer and Kate. Blanchett and other popular movie stars, John Woo, Johnny To and other highly commercial directors came forward to stand on the trade fair, and even included the chairman of the jury, Zhang Yimou, and member Fosen. In addition to the promotional booths of various films in the exhibition, many practitioners are also in a hurry to rush to the reception venue in the center of the exhibition to talk to the movie stars and directors they usually like and admire very much, in this regard, in fact, their mood is no different from that of ordinary movie fans. Of course, in order to sell the copyright, most of these big names who have brought their own films to the exhibition are also smiling and welcoming, and they are doing their best to help the film companies return to their original costs and make profits.

And this kind of international exhibition is also very distinctive, most of the exhibitors are accompanied by interpreters, and many times, the communication between the two sides is actually done through translation, or both sides simply abandon their mother tongue and exchange through stammering English - the existence of a large number of translations also makes the exhibition much more crowded than the exhibition of domestic film festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival, which can almost be said to be shoulder to shoulder, noisy and even headaches.

This crowding can sometimes be problematic, at first, Jeanne is guarded by Cesare, Marie, and the interpreter, but later, neither Cesare nor the interpreter are scattered, and Mary is the last to go missing, and she is blocked in a corner, surrounded by the Japanese, Koreans, and even Kate. Blanchett took turns bombing, or greeting or catching up, and he couldn't get out to find someone. Results Mark. When Müller, the president of the Venice Film Festival, came to greet her, the two of them could only communicate through the translator next to Müller, who spoke English with a strong Italian accent, which Jenny could barely understand, so she had to smile vigorously, trying to save the atmosphere of the conversation, and praying in her heart that such an inefficient call would not affect "Michael. Clayton's journey to Venice.

"Ah, it's Miss Jefferson-" Just as Jenny wanted to find Mary to leave early, someone shouted in surprise, followed by the Chinese she was very familiar with, "Teacher Zhang, people are here!" Come, come, come—"

After staying in the Western world for a long time, I suddenly heard this Chinese with a slight local accent, and it is also false to say that Jenny has no emotion in her heart, of course, there is also a deep sense of absurdity: because it is difficult to explain, she has never revealed that she can speak Chinese, let alone know about the mainland. In some of the previous exchanges with Chinese Americans, she did not say Chinese, so now even in front of her compatriots in her previous life, she still has to speak English with them......

"Mr. Zhang." Seeing a young man in his thirties pull a middle-aged man with a thin face and an inconspicuous appearance from the crowd, Jenny, who originally wanted to turn away, also stopped, she took a few steps forward with some surprise, held Zhang Yimou's hand, half unconsciously, half intuitively said back to Chinese, "I didn't expect you to come too." ”

At this moment, both Zhang Yimou and the young man were obviously stunned, and Jenny also realized her mistake, but she hesitated for a moment, and continued to say in a wrong way, "I rarely practice this language, I hope my pronunciation is standard enough-"

"Your pronunciation is pretty standard." Director Zhang quickly came to his senses, and also replied in Mandarin in a straight voice, and the tone was deliberately slowed down, taking care of Jenny's 'hearing problem', he showed the demeanor of an international director, and shook hands with Jenny, "But we were all very surprised, because we didn't know you could speak Chinese before." ”

Jenny is not in a hurry to leave now, she pulled Director Zhang and the young people, and explained as she walked, "Because the level is not too good, there is no 'show' at the opening ceremony-"

"No, no, no, you said it very well," said the young man, hurrying as he looked at Jenny with a dreamlike look in his eyes, as if he had seen an all-powerful superman. "Ah, I haven't introduced myself yet, I'm Xiao Han of China Film Import and Export Company - I've always been your movie fan!"

The three of them quickly found a relatively secluded corner, and Jenny also approached Director Zhang, who showed his face a little at the opening ceremony and left first, "This time I came to Venice, I really wanted to see Mr. Zhang, since "The Red Lantern Hangs High", I have always been your fan, "Hero" and "Ambush on All Sides" I have never fallen. ”

No one doesn't like to be praised, and no one doesn't like to be praised so thoughtfully by the Oscar-winning actress in Chinese, Director Zhang's cheeks also swelled with a faint flush, he waved his hand, and said in return, "I'm also your fan——"

"You're being too polite." Jenny laughed, and Director Zhang said at the same time, "I'm by no means polite, Xiao Han, you come to prove it, I just watched your performance last night." ”

"Yes, yes, I can prove that Mr. Zhang called me up in the middle of the night and took your "Fifth Sally" disc - "TheFifthsally" to watch." Xiao Han was already so excited that his cheeks were red, and he couldn't stop confiding, "It's really a shame to you, we bought the copyright of this film, but it has never been able to be released, and it can't be broadcast on radio and television, but now that Mr. Zhang has seen it, it's no problem-"

Director Zhang touched Xiao Han and stopped his 'nonsense', and Jenny couldn't help but say: What's wrong with this, "The Fifth Sally" was bought out to China Film, and they didn't give money.

However, Xiao Han's words actually debunked the reason why she continued to speak Chinese - now in 2007, the mainland film market is simply a barren land for Hollywood, only she knows how terrible the explosive increase this market can usher in in the future, in addition to the United States, there are only a handful of countries that can provide 100 million or even more than 200 million box office for movies overseas, Hollywood's traditional largest overseas box office in the United Kingdom, and the box office of imported films rarely exceeds 100 million, but in 2014, "Transformers 4" directly took away 300 million US dollars at the box office in the mainland, which is already more than in the mainland...... In addition to the quality of the film itself, there is another more important thing that determines which company can make a big profit in this fertile soil market - that is, a word with Chinese characteristics: relationship.

Yes, in China, whether imported films can pass the review, whether they are abridged, and how to schedule these things are very flexible, the most typical event is "Titanic", the reason why this blockbuster can be introduced into China, and it is screened without abridgement, so that the people of the whole country can see Ruth's nakedness. body and that euphemistic bed. play, in fact, because the leader at the time praised the artistry of this movie, so in 1998, when the folk customs were still very conservative, the audience could see the scenes that could not be seen in the cinema in 2014. Since the Chinese film market began to recover, the scheduling of imported films has been an eternal battle for foreign manufacturers, and the competition is whether your company's relationship can withstand the domestic films released at the same time. And the word relationship, for foreigners, is very mysterious, and there are many accidental factors, for example, Nicholas. Cage has released a lot of films in China, and it is said that this is because there are people in the General Administration who are his fans. And what Jenny was puzzled about before, "Pirate 2" can be released simultaneously in China, it seems that there is also an answer: "The Fifth Sally" may really not be able to be released because of the sensitive subject matter, but Xiao Han must have played a very strong subjective initiative in "Pirate 2", so he promoted it to avoid harmony and was successfully released, otherwise, maybe he could only wait for Disney to start buying land in Shanghai before he could lay out the relationship and strive for the release of "Pirate 3".

Yes, in fact, Hollywood six miles, Disney's relationship is still very hard, much better than Sony and Warner, blockbusters can occupy a good schedule, will not be squeezed out by the national films released at the same time to postpone the release, but for Jenny, if she can play her advantage of speaking Chinese and hold a hard Chinese connection, then this is of course extremely beneficial to the development of big dreams. And among the connections she can access, which one can compare to Director Zhang? Didn't you listen to Xiao Han, since Mr. Zhang has watched "The Fifth Sally" (and said that it is good, or according to Jenny's brain, he said that he thinks it can be released), then with the cooperation of some people, this release will definitely be no problem.

This is not to say that Director Zhang is a predator in the entertainment industry, an underworld force or something, his status can be understood by just looking at it - for so many years, as long as he has a new work, he can get the best foreign language film in the mainland that year, which shows that he is indeed considered the face of contemporary directors in the leadership. And he did get nominated for Best Foreign Language Film first with his talent, and then relied on the accumulation of works to get to today's façade position.

In this position, the characters he can access are at a level that Disney and other foreign companies cannot hope for. The energy within the system must also be unimaginable to foreign companies, a lot of uneven relationships with money, for him it is a matter of phone calls, if you can get his favor and take this relationship, then for Da Meng, of course, it is a huge benefit, not to mention anything else, at least "Twilight" may not only enter the door in the form of batch films, but can occupy the quota of account sharing, and introduce it simultaneously. Of course, Jenny doesn't expect to win Director Zhang's support just by relying on favor, but at this point, she is not without benefits that can be exchanged - in short, it is easy to say how to make friends first and then operate.

Although there is almost no possibility of cooperation between the two, Director Zhang does appreciate Jenny's performance, and Jenny can't be said to be ignorant of him, the two sides are also very happy to talk, Jenny even took the initiative to mention her good feelings and optimism about Chinese mainland, "The next decade is definitely China's decade, I am very much looking forward to next year's Olympic Games, especially the opening ceremony directed by you——"

"Then I would like to invite you on behalf of our host, this one, on behalf of our hospitable host," Director Zhang also laughed, taking care to avoid using words in Taiwen, lest Jenny not understand, "Please come and watch our opening ceremony." ”

"That's great, Mr. Zhang, you're not kidding, are you?" Jenny immediately settled the matter, "Do you have a phone or an email?" ”

Mr. Zhang's mobile phone is often turned off, and he is not very good at using e-mail, but Xiao Han has, he also hugged Mr. Zhang's thigh with a very good look, "If it is inconvenient to call, you can contact me through me, this is my business card, I will write you a private mailbox......"

After booking this date, Jenny had no choice but to go, and she was already late. "I'm so sorry, I should have stayed a little longer, but we still have something to do - it's a shame we can't talk a little longer, I'll have to go back to New Zealand tomorrow, and we may only have to wait until next year to meet, if you do leave me a ticket-"

"Ah, this is leaving?" Director Zhang was obviously stunned, and he was also a little regretful, "But, this-"

Jenny blinked, a little unsure of what Director Zhang meant, and Director Zhang obviously hesitated, looked left and right, and then took a step forward, closer than when the two had an intimate conversation before, and said in a low voice, "If you can come, you should come as much as possible!" ”

As soon as he said this, Director Zhang stepped back, greeted Xiao Han, who seemed to have heard something, and his face was full of articles, said hello to Jenny, turned around and disappeared into the crowd again. Jenny stood on the ground, watching his figure overwhelmed by the crowd, and her heart was also full of distracting thoughts: although the French party admired her very much, she never thought that she could win the award of Venice actress, and this award almost did not belong to Americans in her heart, but-

Don't......

The author has something to say: Note: 1 To correct the misunderstanding about Zhang Yimou's obsession with the Olympics, in fact, this best foreign language film is selected by each region, so don't think that he is the only one in China who wants to rush for the Oscar, and other directors don't care, it can only be said that he has the highest status and correspondingly high popularity, so he will report him if he has a new work. And many directors are not even qualified to be selected for the Olympics, because the status of the rivers and lakes is not enough, and this matter has a very strong political meaning. In fact, Director Zhang has not made a movie according to the standards of the best foreign language film, because first of all, the best foreign language film does not like commercial films, nor does it like big scenes...... Zhang Yin's Ju Dou is a film that meets the standards of foreign language films, and last year's return is more similar

2 About radio and television, those are basically true, China is now the summer vacation protection month, the winter vacation protection month has the highest priority, all imported films in these two months cannot be synchronized, usually there is a lot of hope for the synchronization of films with a domestic background and films with a good relationship, if the relationship is not so hard, it is very easy to be postponed by the same domestic film crying. Anyway, there are too many ways to do this, as far as I know, the policy tightening in recent years seems to be related to the red line that the box office of domestic films accounts for 50% of the year, or has it degenerated to 40%? I remember 12 years, the box office of domestic films in the first half of the year was really bad, and there was the longest domestic protection month in history, July-August, which was the strange domestic protection month, and there were no films to watch in prime time that summer...... Then 8.31 Batman and Spider-Man were ranked on the same day, Sony and Warner both cried to death, anyway, it's very greasy. To see whether a company's strength in China is tough or not, it depends on whether their blockbusters can be synchronized, which is the most accurate.

3 Venice doesn't like Hollywood, especially American actresses have a low probability of winning the actress, which is true, because this award was not Hollywood before, if it weren't for the fact that 07 was very inclined to Hollywood in history, it would not be possible for so many Hollywood films to enter the competition unit or win awards.

4 In addition, Angie is also my fictional ...... -

It's been a long time since I've seen this long ~~~~~~~~~~

Hehe, it's updated, in fact, I also think it's very dramatic to mention the domestic director, but the career line has a plan for this, so ...... Haha, compared to the emotional line, the outline of my career line is too clear, so I will refer to it as a director or something~ In addition, the previous thing about the ticket price of American movie theaters was written too quickly and there was a bug, sorry, the United States is the difference between a film and a theater line, and the ticket price is different, but the ticket price in the theater is relatively unified, which is generally like this.