Chapter 200

Counting up, the movie "Tuina" is going to premiere at the film festival.

It will take 10 days from August 28 to September 7.

The first day was the red carpet, and from the second day, in the original old cinema palace, the films participating in the screening began to be scheduled.

Three Chinese-language films were screened this year.

It's a little better than last year, only "Tai Chi" participated in the screening last year, and it was Huang Da'an and his daughter-in-law who participated, well, they are not married yet, and they can only be said to be a pair of dog men and women who secretly sprinkle dog food.

Jury Bernardo Bertolucci promised in an interview last year that more Chinese-language films would enter the main competition next year.

In fact, if you don't count "Tuina", which came in halfway to compete, there is one over there.

If there is no Lin Dong's blind mixing, there would be no Du Qixi, an "international guide".

Hua Yan is the director of "Tuina", and he will take the film to the 64th Berlin International Film Festival next year.

And was shortlisted for the main competition unit at the festival.

Nominated for the Golden Bear for Best Picture and won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.

So the quality of this film - if you ignore the level gap between Hua Yan and Du Qixi - is still very popular with international film festivals.

Unfortunately, the Venice Film Festival did not nominate the film for the Golden Lion.

Nominated are the Silver Lion and two other awards.

Bernardo Bertolucci, the old man, really doesn't want to see Chinese movies.

For some special reasons, the Chinese opened the Forbidden City to make films for him, which made him famous and won the Oscar for Best Director.

Although he claimed to be a friend of the Chinese.

But during his tenure, from 2012 to his death in 2018, the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival was completely closed to Chinese mainland films.

None of the mainland films entered the main competition!

Perhaps, he is a friend of the Chinese people, and he does like oriental culture, but he does not like Chinese movies.

Even in 2018, when the jury was replaced by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, he was still influenced.

It was not until after his death that Argentine director Luquecia Martel became the jury taker.

Two Chinese films, one "Lanxin Theater" and one "Jiyuan Terrace No. 7", reappeared in the list of the main competition unit.

And Marco Mill has never made a Chinese film.

But this old man is really preferential to Chinese filmmakers, and this name deserves to be remembered by all Chinese filmmakers.

Lin Dong and they spent a few days in Venice, and the festival announced the shortlisted films and their respective nominations.

also knew the schedule of "Tuina".

The premiere will be held at 7:15 p.m. on August 31 in Hall 4.

Saturday night is prime time.

All thanks to Jiang Xiaojun.

This buddy helps run before and after, otherwise Du Qixi and Lin Dong, two black rookies, may not know where the door of the screening hall is facing when they premiere.

The screening hall is in the old cinema palace.

In fact, after the festival's new bamboo Xi Bernardo Bertolucci took office, he carried out drastic reforms, in addition to not allowing Chinese films to enter the main competition unit, but also planned to build a new film palace.

It's a pity that it's half repaired.

When digging the foundation, toxic substances such as asbestos were dug up.

And the geology was not suitable for continuing construction, so the plan was cool.

Bernardo Bertolucci had to abort the project.

Movies are still to be screened at the Old Cinema Palace.

Before the screening, there will be a press conference where the judges come out to meet with everyone and answer some questions from the media.

Lin Dong and Du Qixi walked around the press center and various venues of the Movie Palace.

There are indeed a lot of hot girls, but after Lin Dong changed his skin, it doesn't seem to meet their aesthetics, not to mention Zhang Sanfat.

Unless he can wear a large gem on all ten fingers and a large gold chain around his neck.

That might also be able to hook up with some hot chicks doing business.

There was also a press conference on "Gravity" during the day, and Lin Dong and Du Qixi went to the scene to watch it.

It's not how much they like the movie.

Nor did they become fans of starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.

They just go to see how other people's press conferences are played.

George Clooney is already old, but men in Europe and the United States, the older they get, the more flavorful they are, but Sandra Bullock is old and has no charm at all.

Women in Europe and the United States don't see much when they get old.

A little later, there was still a red carpet opening ceremony.

The red carpet is important, very important.

At least for people who want to walk on the red carpet to rub off on a wave of popularity, whenever this time comes, actresses are like feathery chickens.

Looking back on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival in the past 10 years, the demeanor of Chinese actresses is always indispensable.

From Gong Huang, Zhang Caiwei, and Yang Ziqiong in the early 2000s, to Huang Shengfang, who was dressed in a dzi outfit of 100 million yuan in 2011, and Zhao Yanzi, who walked slowly in a sky blue tulle skirt last year.

The Venice Film Festival has always been a blessed place for female stars.

Winning an award is a small matter, but showing your face is a big thing.

It's a pity that there isn't one today.

Otherwise, you can also see the beauty style.

Regardless of whether the photos sent back to China have been retouched or not, the beauty is wearing a gorgeous costume, and it should look good when you think about it.

On the red carpet first walked through the Italian stars, one of whom seemed to be Eva Lokbono, who was supposed to be the host of the opening ceremony.

As for the off-site hosts, there are none.

So it's embarrassing for the guests to come up and if no one knows who you are.

Lin Dong and Du Qixi encountered such embarrassment.

It is estimated that some people will think that they are here to rub the red carpet, and they are the legendary Chinese carpet stars.

Lin Dong and Du Qixi didn't stay long.

Let the media from China take a picture and finish the matter.

Even if we are blanket stars, at least we should have a calm aura of light and light, just like a real peerless master in martial arts, and we don't need big guns and long swords to dominate the world.

But the domestic media knows about the two of them.

This is the only film in the mainland that has been shortlisted for the main competition unit.

The camera just flashed.

After entering, the opening ceremony was not much different from the domestic one.

The difference is that there are no cabaret performances, and after the lecture, we start watching movies, and everyone watches "Gravity" together.

Gravity is actually a 3D movie.

This is also the first time in the history of the Venice International Film Festival that a 3D film has been selected as the opening film.

It is said that before Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Carey Mulligan, Marion Cotillard, and Scarlett Johansson were all considered to appear in this film.

Du Qixi sighed on the spot, if these hot girls can be included in the room, how complete his life should be.

And the actor, at the beginning, considered Robert Downey Jr.

Merlin has a beard, Lin Dong must be silent for Tony Stark for a few minutes, if he takes this film, the Oscar statuette will not be a problem.

Of course, although Lin Dong prefers big, but if the actors are really changed, it is really hard to say how far this movie can go.

"It's all CG, how much does it cost?" Du Qixi sighed.

He also wanted to make such a film, but it was obviously impossible.

"The production cost is 1.5 billion...... USD! Lin Dong gave him a popular science.

That's a billion dollars.

There is really no such bold one in China, and no investment company can afford it.

In this film, only most of the scenes inside the space station were shot on a built set, and the realistic feeling of outer space in this film is actually due to CG.

All of them - all CG!

"Fuyuko, let's have our own CG production team." Du Qixi was whimsical.

In his opinion, the most expensive thing in a film like "Gravity" is the actor's salary and CG, and one billion is a bit too much.

With this money, it is better to raise a CG team by yourself.

You can use it when you want it, and you can use it however you want.

"We'll talk about it later." Lin Dong needs to investigate whether doing CG makes money, and if he makes money, he will definitely not do it.

And so the first day passed.

The remaining two days were pretty much that, watching movies and eating Venetian food.

By the way, admire the foreign girls who are so poor that they can't afford to wear full clothes.

Ahem, the consumption here is really high.

During the festival, booking a water taxi can cost up to $250 per hour.

Several of the more famous hotels, such as the Hipriani Hotel, where suites cost $8,000 a night – George Clooney stayed.

There's also the Royal Suite at Bauer Palace, which costs $8,500 per night.

If you're looking for something a little more surfy, some suites at Palazzo Gritty have great views of the Grand Canal, though for $10,000 a night.

Therefore, it's not that Chinese literary films don't like to come to the Venice Film Festival.

It's really unaffordable.

Fortunately, Du Qixi still has the publicity budget for "Tuina", and Lin Dong applied for part of it from the system.

That's why two people can enjoy themselves in a cheap hotel that charges $1,400 a day.

Two people in a room.

Two beds.

It's just that Du Qixi's snoring sound made Lin Dong want to use the Avada Killing Spell on him.

In the end, I really couldn't do it, so I changed it to a "silent" spell.

The whole world fell silent.

The food is not good either.

Venice is hardly the gastronomic capital of Italy.

If you think about it on your toes, you know that this city is located on a small broken island, and the materials are poor, and if you want to talk about specialties, I am afraid that you can only think of seafood.

As a Chinese person, the only thing I can think of is pasta.

After eating pasta for a few days, Lin Dong felt that it was still a kind of cuttlefish noodles, which was a unique flavor.

Cuttlefish pasta is one of the most famous specialties of Venice, and the main sauce is black cuttlefish sauce with olive oil, and a little cheese and garlic, with some cuttlefish pieces, and noodles.

It looks like a proper dark dish that can be eaten with color on your lips.

But the taste is okay, otherwise Boss Lin wouldn't have eaten it every once in a while.

As for the other so-called delicacies, the Wizard King, who has been nourished by Chinese cuisine, really can't look down on it.

After two days of waiting, I finally waited for August 31st.

That's right, there is a 31st in August.

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