Chapter 82: This Damn Coincidence
The next day, there was a drizzle in Venice in the early morning, and it stopped at about ten o'clock. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info this rain has also cooled down a lot for the tail of the hot summer.
"Crazy Smoking Gun" is scheduled to premiere today, and there are several shortlisted works that will be scheduled for premiere together. Because it happened to be the weekend, it was also lively today, with a large number of reporters and spectators waiting to enter on both sides of the red carpet. Happy, Sun Honglei, Huang Bo, and Liu Ye were dressed in suits and leather shoes, and Li Jiaxin, who was delicate and incomparable in the middle, was even more beautiful.
The two big smoking guns on the huge movie poster became a "two" word, not to mention how arrogant it was.
Fericher Lauda Dio, who has been president of the Venice Film Festival for two years, is also here today, like an elderly courtesan. As president, he could not save the plight of Venetian cinema, he could only do it without fault. The problem of the decline of films by great directors is a phenomenon that everyone can see. After all, as Venice, Cannes can't be beaten in front, and there is the Toronto Film Festival in the back. Cannes stole Europe's top directors, and Toronto stole the most competitive blockbuster in the Hollywood system. Venice may only have the advantage of Italy, a fertile land for cinema that was once glorious.
There is also a serious problem that Cannes and Berlin have long been trained at a time when the creative power of the great directors is declining, and Venice still has a long way to go. When it comes to cultivating the lineage, the happy front heel won the grand prize in Berlin, and the relationship with Berlin is good, so it should be assigned to the Berlin lineage.
"Open, congratulations on the premiere of your movie." was looking at the president of the film festival, and he had already taken the initiative to come over.
Happy for a moment, instantly realized, "Thank you, and thank Venice for the help I have given." ”
Alberto smiled and patted him on the back and said, "You're welcome, the Venice Film Festival needs more young people like you to join." To be honest, I like your film very much, but it shouldn't be in competition. It might be better as an opening or closing film. You know, Venice has its own artistic insistence after all. ”
What do you mean by that, I'm not playing? Happy was silent on his face and did not post a reply.
"Let's take a picture together."
As soon as he turned his face, he immediately faced the camera flash with a smile on his face.
A Milan newspaper reporter shouted: "President Alberto, have you come to see this film?" What do you think of this movie? ”
Alberto nodded solemnly, "Yes, that's right, I'm here for this young man." I've been thinking about the future of the Venice Film Festival, the directors of the whole era are declining, some of the big directors who came up in the last 30 years have passed away, some are no longer able to make films, and some directors who continue to make films are not as good as they used to be. In fact, cinemas are not dead, and the digital age has renewed the entire film industry, including filming and distribution. So what should film festivals do? It is necessary to understand and understand this change in different countries. So this year's festival, we made a lot of trade-offs. We have a lot of new directors, debuts, and film festivals that need to be seriously accumulated, who will be the big director in the future. I like this movie very much, and I believe everyone will have the same experience after the movie premiere. ”
He was talking at length, not making Happy much more comfortable, and still immersed in what he had just said.
As he said, the Venice Film Festival has its own unique tradition: it focuses on film experimenters from all over the world, encouraging them to make films with new forms and unique techniques, even if there are some flaws, as long as they are innovative, they can be accepted by the festival. The purpose of the festival is "Cinema at the service of serious art", and every year a different slogan is proposed, and the judging criterion is very pure: artistry.
In the sixties and seventies, the Venice Film Festival discovered a large number of emerging European filmmakers. Although the film he chose may not be the director's best work, he is proud to be leading the way in European art cinema at every turn.
If Alberto is not untargeted, judging from an artistic point of view, "Crazy Smoking Gun" can be shortlisted for the main competition unit, which may be related to his novel shooting methods. Winning...... Hanging. Thinking about this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, "It's simple, maybe I should wait for the winter to go to the Toronto Film Festival to test the water." ”
Perhaps because of the announcement of the shortlist, the theater has thirteen screening rooms, and eight of them have been arranged to screen "The Crazy Smoking Gun," but it is still full. In the main hall, there are many media reporters, and it seems that they have to keep their eyes open and take a good look at why this movie was shortlisted.
The movie screening began, and he took a deep breath of happiness and leaned back in his seat.
"Hani, don't be nervous, believe in yourself." The other elders all looked like they were relishing, but Li Jiaxin noticed his strangeness and comforted him softly.
“…… I'm not nervous. He put one hand on the beauty's thigh and squeezed it gently, "Thank you." ”
Li Jiaxin smiled.
The movie began, and as soon as it opened, Sun Honglei's funny and funny tone lifted the spirits of the audience in the entire cinema, and the familiar local accent heard in the cinema, which cheered up the audience.
"Is there anyone who likes jewelry? Look at this, handcrafted in Italy, guaranteed to be stolen from a wealthy area, it's as long as my hand, and hopefully is as long as it is! ”
Even though I could only understand the subtitles, it still made the movie theater burst into laughter. There was also a stern-faced gentleman in the audience, his name was Nick, the buying manager of Cambridge Film and Television in the United Kingdom. Seeing the trench coat worn by the actor, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, and then frowned, "Where was this filmed, sometimes foggy, old streets, why is it so like London?" It's obviously a Chinese film. The music is great, it's British rock music, it sounds so familiar...... "He knew that Britain lost Hong Kong permanently last year, but after all, the British had informed Hong Kong for decades, and they should worship the culture of the British Empire," he thought. With such speculation, the original casual mentality seems to have focused a lot.
After reading the beginning, many people were in a fog, not sure what the plot was about, but they just thought the camera was cool and the rhythm was very fast. But with the strong and explosive and penetrating British rock - [email protected]/* */, he was cheated out of his gambling money by another big scam and still owed a lot of debt. If he doesn't pay it off within a week, he and his friends will lose their fingers and the bar. The gang tried every possible way to scrape together money, and happened to discover the secret of the next-door neighbor, and finally decided to rob the drug offender next door.
The drug offender next door is also planning to rob their drug supplier. The gang's plan sounds simple, but when it comes to execution, it goes into a lot of ways. The sudden situation made this group of people fall deeper and deeper. Things got complicated, and the scene became very chaotic. A few thugs try to escape when they realize that the whole thing has developed beyond their imagination, but things are completely out of control, as if God is manipulating everyone, and then laughs triumphantly.
Except for the first 15 minutes of the whole movie, which is confusing, the audience can no longer take their eyes off and can't bear to miss a single frame.
Especially at the end of the movie, when one coincidence after another is like dominoes, one point is triggered, countless points fall in response, one link is closely linked, one thing after another, after passing through the beginning seems to be a bit dull foreshadowing, it hits people's eyes like an avalanche, coupled with the cool shots, magical editing and energetic music, it is simply seamless and perfect!
"Oh God!"
In the end, the plot of all coincidences collided, and the theater was already joined by laughter. A few of the ladies were already laughing and hurting their stomachs, and it was not enough to stomp their feet, and even slapped their hands on the seats. This infatuation swept away the clouds of happiness.
Winning? Does it matter.
"Genius, genius, fantastic conception and cinematic structure, simply stunning!"
I couldn't help but laugh happily, and the life of ordinary people does feel boring sometimes. But there is always something in this world that people find moving, new or enjoyable. How many happens happen to people in their lifetimes? How many coincidences have happened, and people will always ponder and sigh for a long time, "How can it be so coincidental?" ”
But in this movie, it's such a coincidence!
Of course, "coincidence" has brought us joy and wonder, but it also brings us sorrow and sorrow. But no matter what the outcome is, it cannot hide the powerful attraction of the "coincidence" itself.
The more I think about it, the more magical I feel, the more I feel the taste, because when encountering such things that are inexplicable by common sense, people always like to attribute the causes of the coincidental events that have happened to the direction of fate, so the already somewhat incredible coincidences are covered with a layer of bizarre charm.
Even Li Jiaxin, who had just put his spirit on him, smiled after being fascinated, especially when he saw his character waking up from the state of "dead corpse" and lifting a heavy machine gun and bombing the entire house, he almost collapsed with laughter.
"Oh my God, it's my first time watching a movie, it's so good." She couldn't help but lean over and took the initiative to kiss her.
Happy inexplicably, turned his head to stare at her.
"Watch the movie, watch the movie." Li Jiaxin pushed his face away with some embarrassment.
When the movie ended, the audience applauded thunderously, and from time to time there was a shrill whistle.
Even Alberto, the president of the festival, was surprised, "This commercial comedy is so appealing? They didn't listen to me, did I do something wrong? No, I didn't do anything wrong, damn the film festival, this kind of competition is stupid and arrogant, I didn't do anything wrong! He pulled out an envelope from his suit pocket, which was a letter of resignation that had been prepared long ago.
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