The Venice Film Festival, which began on September 2, was already crowded at the end of August. There are also tourists from all over the world, crowding this water city into a bustling city.

Li Xuechu and others thought that they had just arrived, but it turned out that they were a lot late, and almost all the film dealers in Europe were in place, as well as film dealers from all over the world. Some of the participating films have even completed deals. But fortunately, the screening venue and number of the movie have been booked in advance, otherwise it would really be soy sauce, and the movie will have no place to be screened and participate in the exhibition.

The first two days of the festival are hardly scheduled, and almost all of them are communication between directors and filmmakers. Wu Yushen and Xu Anhua hardly know anyone here, and the movie hasn't started to be released yet, but they are idle. In order to catch up with this film festival, Li Xuechu was anxious, and he didn't dare to urge too much for fear of spoiling the quality of the film, but if he didn't urge it, he wouldn't do it, and if he didn't have this film, he wouldn't come to this film festival.

In Xu Anhua, Li Xuechu realized Xu Fei's mood. After becoming rich, Li Xuechu obviously relaxed about the newspaper serialization, and even broke off for a while, so that Xu Fei came to the door again and again.

"I'm out of inspiration, I can't think of it." This was Li Xuechu's words back to Xu Fei, which made Xu Fei angry, anxious and helpless.

"I'm out of inspiration, I can't shoot it." This is Xu Anhua's words back to Li Xuechu, Xu Fei's hatred Xu Anhua repaid him with all the profits.

But fortunately, I finally caught up with the exhibition.

Throwing everything to Ye Zhiming, and taking the beauty to be happy in this world-famous tourist city, this is Li Xuechu's original plan, but now seeing a few people busy like a spinning top, he is a little embarrassed, so he has to participate in it, and as a result, things can't stop.

In the early 80s, it was still rare to see Asian faces at European film festivals, some of them were mostly Japanese, and other countries and regions occasionally showed their faces. Maybe scarcity is expensive, Li Xuechu and his group did not suffer the cold reception as they originally thought, but they were warmly welcomed by the film festival, and they also attracted the attention of many film companies, watching sample films, negotiating prices, and being very busy. It's a pity that the price offered by the people who came was not high, and the highest price so far was only 400,000, which made Li Xuechu miss the German company very much.

"Thirty thousand, why don't you grab it?" Li Xuechu scolded and invited a brown-eyed curly-haired foreigner who looked like Turkey or the Middle East out. Those from India or the Middle East, South and South America don't seem to have much to talk about, the price is set like a curse, and even if it can't be sold, they won't agree to it.

Ye Zhiming is now maneuvering with various European and American film companies in various gatherings, knocking on the side, testing each other's bottom line. Li Xuechu has confidence in his own movies, and many filmmakers actually recognize the quality of the film in their hearts, the current offer is not the bottom line of the other party, but the negotiation is always full of asking for the price to pay back on the spot, how much can be less, the hole cards are in their pockets, and they will never take it out until the end. And businessmen also have to look at the audience's recognition after the movie is screened, and sometimes they may not be a blockbuster, and they are everywhere.

Attended two such gatherings with Ye Zhiming, Li Xuechu never went again, this kind of conversation between vegetable vendors and diplomats is really not something that he can play, and it hurts his brain too much.

"I'm sorry, I haven't been with you well in the past two days."

"It's okay, we've had a lot of fun during this time, you have your own career, it's normal to be busy." Although she was a little disappointed in her heart, Lin Yujia comforted.

Li Xuechu felt a little guilty, and then gritted his teeth and said: "You can't come in vain, I'll play with you all day tomorrow." ”

Lin Yujia said with some joy: "You won't delay the serious business, right?" I think everybody's busy. ”

"It's okay, Ye Zhiming is on top of the big things, and the small things will be handled by others, I'm not going to be a little busier at most with them, just to exercise my work ability." As he spoke, Li Xuechu suddenly realized: "Yes, the boss is responsible for eating, drinking, and having fun, just let the employees do these troublesome things, and they can't be busy and work overtime at most." ”

"How can you be the boss like this?" Yu Jia covered her mouth and smiled: "No wonder I was scolded by my grandfather, I was too unprofessional." ”

"It's okay, I don't usually care about anything anyway, at most I can keep my money bag in jail." Li Xuechu nodded the little nose of the beauty: "In the future, you will take care of the finances and be my little housekeeper." ”

"No, I don't. By the way, where are you going to play tomorrow? ”

"St. Mark's Basilica, I heard it's a good place."

"I've been there yesterday."

"There's an activity you haven't experienced before, so let's try it tomorrow."

Lin Yujia knew what he was talking about, a service launched by St. Mark's Basilica to offer group weddings for couples. Of course, this has no legal effect, it is just a feeling. However, thinking of wearing a wedding dress and swearing to each other's love with her lover in the splendid cathedral, Yujia was ashamed and happy.

"It's interesting, let's go play tomorrow?" Li Xuechu also wanted to see the beauty in a wedding dress, and he started planning this when he was looking at the travel guide.

"Hmm!" Yu Jia lowered her head and answered softly.

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In the Venice Film Festival, which is full of the atmosphere of art films, the pure action movie of Black Man is full of disobedience like a camel in a herd, probably knowing this, Xu Ke simply did not come. Of course, there are actually many similar movies selling dog meat on sheep's heads in the film festival, but none of them are as crazy and cool as him. The favorite of the people of Xiangjiang is comedy, but the most surviving sense of Xiangjiang is action movies. In the early 80s, the foreigner's concept of action movies was still in the old routine of you punching me and punching me back, depending on who was stronger and more durable.

It's just that playing this kind of unassuming action movie in Venice, which has a strong literary atmosphere, feels like setting up a juggling team next to a symphony orchestra, and it has really gathered a lot of popularity, no matter how you look at it, it looks like you're here to smash the scene. Li Xuechu was worried that the film festival would ban the film at first, but he never saw any action, and it seems that people are not so stingy.

Black Man has been on the air for several days, attracting a lot of viewers who come to hunt for curiosity, most of whom are full of praise for the cool action of the movie, and there is not much criticism of the plot. Li Xuechu referred to the experience of later generations and improved some blunt and unreasonable plots a lot, so as not to be criticized for the plot.

In addition to uncontrollable factors such as language and race, the most important factor is the shoddy production of the plot, full of all kinds of unjustifiable and even contradictory plots...... makes European and American fans who are in the mainstream of the reasonable party look down on them. Therefore, Xiangjiang's audience in Europe and the United States is still mostly Chinese, blacks, Asians and other colored people, so they are nervous and exciting, and they don't have too many requirements for the plot, and they feel verbose and impatient after a long foreshadowing. To please both sides at the same time, Hollywood has tried for 20 years, but Xiangjiang does not have so many opportunities.

Like the Black Man, the killer Leon is also widely acclaimed. The plot of the film in which he was scolded the most in Xiangjiang became the most attractive place for fans in Europe, and European audiences, especially Italian and French audiences, who boasted of their romantic romance, were full of praise for it. Influenced by the audience, the filmmakers are also obviously enthusiastic about these two films, although the discerning person knows at a glance that the two films are basically impossible to win awards, but the filmmakers are here to make money, and the audience is their God, which is more worthy of pleasing than film critics.

Soul Catcher has been praised by many film critics, who believe that this is a good work that is qualified for the exhibition, and the film has also entered the main competition unit. But there are also places that make Li Xuechu blocked, and some film critics criticize the unreasonableness of the movie: it is not the unreasonable plot, but the unreasonable facts, and no Chinese have won the Fields Medal now. Although there will be one next year, it really makes Li Xuechu speechless now.

Overall, this film festival is worth it.

Li Xuechu didn't bother with the movie anymore, but took Yujia and three oil bottles to travel all over Venice, and also ran around a few cities next door. Wu Ma strictly monitored herself as expected, and holding hands would be criticized by her, and the strict Cheng dù made Li Xuechu crazy, so he could only rack his brains to seize various opportunities to be intimate with the beauty, and it was a thought that he wanted to go to bed, and the beauty with traditional education could not agree to be outside with him, and Li Xuechu didn't dare to mention it. However, after the night on the plane, Li Xuechu's mind was not so eager. Forget it, if you really don't have a chance, you just stay until the wedding night, anyway, my parents' generation has come over like this, and I don't necessarily have a happier life than others.

In the process of playing around, Ye Zhiming brought the first good news: Soul Catcher won the International Association of Film Critics Award. This makes Li Xuechu very happy, and this time he will not return empty-handed, and the selling price of the award-winning works will definitely go to a higher level.

After nearly a week of crazy play, the date of the Venice Film Festival's awards ceremony has arrived.

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