Chapter 72: Mine Bottom Premiere (1)
Because of cultural differences, in the eyes of some Western film critics, Chinese films are not very popular.
Especially those screwed literary films.
For example, Wang Shuai was nominated for the film "Seventeen-Year-Old Gift" at Cannes.
This movie is regarded as a classic in the Chinese literary and artistic circles, and many directors praised it after watching it, feeling that the background of the times in it is very thick, which makes people can't help but burst into tears.
However, the reputation abroad is very mediocre, and even many film critics gave the movie a bad score of 1 star on Rotten Tomatoes.
They can't understand the thoughts and behaviors of the characters, let alone what the director wants to show or express from the characters and the story, and even the tear-jerking part of the plot, they have watched it several times, but they still can't understand it.
They only feel that the actor is very noisy, suddenly angry, suddenly crying, and then suddenly reconciled......
There was a lot of noise, and the movie ended inexplicably.
They looked at it inexplicably.
It's a sense of cultural disconnect.
"The Gift of Seventeen" was nominated for Cannes but did not win an award, and eventually lost to an anti-war film called "Golvia".
The reason for the general environment, after all, in 03, a senior leader of Lao Mei rushed into a country with a bag of laundry detergent in front of everyone, and a group of soldiers chewing gum rushed into a country to find contraband, and after looking for more than 40 days, they finally found many bottles of cans that could hold discarded chewing gum, and happily announced the end of the "special mission".
Many filmmakers dared to be angry at the time, and after half a year after the incident, they finally used the form of a movie to criticize this "laundry detergent special operation".
Cannes filmmakers are touting "Galvia" as a spirit, while "The Gift of Seventeen" is too far away.
As a film critic for "The Screen", Glain was assigned to the screening room of "Mine Bottom" by the company.
The little girl felt very aggrieved after listening to the news yesterday, she had been to Cannes a few years ago, and she happened to watch the "Seventeen-Year-Old Gift", and she was in a fog.
There is one thing to say!
She really can't stand those messy Chinese literary movies.
She applied to the company to come to Berlin for the German director Bahrer's film "Particle Technology".
No matter how bad it is, I hope to go to Screening Hall 12 and watch the French romantic movie "Thief", right?
Outcome!
I was assigned to "Sengoku" a few days ago!
After watching the movie stupidly, I came out in a daze, feeling like I had seen a piece of shit with an unusually gorgeous package.
What's even more speechless is that the company leaders ask you to find a way to blow this, no matter how bad it is, you can't scold this movie during the screening, you have to press the script, and then scold after the movie is screened.
FUCK!
Probably, the Chinese director stuffed money into the company again.
In fact, this situation is very normal, everyone comes to Berlin in addition to winning awards, they are trying to sell films in various ways, and many media naturally have to do a good job in advance, at least you can't spray your movie at the key to selling films, and Zhou Yilin also has the identity of a special guest in Berlin, more or less Berlin's face is to be given.
This feeling made her feel very uncomfortable, a feeling of being oppressed by capitalism, and this feeling has not subsided, and today the company assigned her to the movie "Mine Bottom".
All right!
It was a movie produced by the same company again, and the little girl instantly felt that she had nothing to love.
When he came to the door of the No. 6 screening hall, Glayin felt weak holding the microphone, as if he was carrying a burden of 100 pounds.
This state lasted until she saw the "welcome bear" at the door.
The bear that greeted us was so cute!
Standing there stupidly holding a sign, looking at everyone with a blank look, with that sincere handsome face wearing bear ears, it was so cute that people wanted to go up and touch it!
When he was about to walk into the screening room, Glein realized that the "welcome bear" was actually the director of the movie.
All right!
No matter how bad your movie is today, for the sake of the group photo, I will scold you lightly.
Grain lovingly bit his pen, silently made the decision, and walked into the screening room.
The moment you walk into the screening room......
She was stunned!
The imaginary emptiness didn't happen, and she even realized that she might not even have a place to sit......
Then I looked at the people in the back row, and when I saw Charlotte. After Sally's figure, Glein suddenly realized that this movie might be completely different from the Chinese movies he had watched in the past!
There were no premiere speeches, no bells and whistles before the premieres of other films, and the premiere of "Mine Bottom" began as soon as the little girl sat down.
……………………
"The lens is too bad."
"It's a mess."
"The stability of the picture is terrible."
“……”
The movie premiere began.
When the camera slowly fell on a mine, Zhou Yilin's face was very ugly.
His first impression of the film felt bad.
As Zhou Yilin, who has extremely high requirements for lens aesthetics, can't accept that the opening scene of a movie is so bad, and even more unacceptable is that such a bad work was nominated for Berlin.
It's ridiculous.
At the beginning of the movie, Zhou Yilin felt that the film was very bland, as if it was shot with a DV machine, and it was not a normal shooting, but it was like a movie that sneaked into a private coal mine to shoot secretly.
"The picture is so artistic!"
Zhou Yilin's face became ugly again, and his throat seemed to be choked with something, and he couldn't spit it out.
He saw that the engineering trucks coming and going kicked up a burst of dust, the workers didn't even wear masks, shuttling everywhere in the dust, the low and dilapidated coal houses, and even the swill buckets were full of messy vegetable leaves, and he felt sick to his stomach through the screen, and under the lens, you can even see the dust stained on the DV machine, no matter how you wipe it, you can't wipe it clean, oh no, it's on the camera.
Finally, after the lens was a little cleaner, Zhou Yilin saw a few migrant workers smoking cigarettes with each other under the camera, they spoke a dialect, their eyes were dull, and they were full of the simple temperament of old farmers in the northwest.
Zhou Yilin can only be described in two words, that is, old-fashioned!
The background of the dirty and messy characters, the so-called original performance, the natural sound effects with noise, and the obscure local dialect that you can't understand......
00 years ago, there were some literary film lovers overseas who liked this set, but with the emergence of a large number of such pictures, this kind of film gradually became a third-rate work overseas, and after being exhibited several times and not being selected, there are few directors in Huaxia after 03 years to play this set.
Zhou Yilin wanted to stand up and leave.
But thinking of his identity, he was still patient, sitting little by little, and watching carefully.
The shaky camera gradually pulled to the "tank cage" where the three people went down the well, and in the narrow and claustrophobic depths of the wellhead, a long-lens technique was used that made Zhou Yilin even more scornful......
"I want to use a long shot to show off my skills, proving that this is a movie and not a DV film, but the way to show off my skills is too unprofessional......"
It's like a video of a child holding a garbage camera.
The more Zhou Yilin looked at it, the more speechless he became.
Looking at the long shot slowly deepening, what is this meant to express?
Almost thirty seconds of normal shooting time were wasted, and how many stories can be inserted in these thirty seconds!
"The second time I watched this long shot, I still felt amazing!"
"It's a hint that these three people have begun to go deeper into hell, and every time the camera shakes, and the obscurity of the light, it represents an unwilling ......"
"At the same time, it also implies that in the dark and deep world, the light represented by the law has gradually disappeared, and human nature has been shrouded in darkness and has begun to be gradually extinguished!"
"It's a rare art of shooting!"
“……”
Zhou Yilin heard a burst of emotion.
He subconsciously turned his head.
I saw the chairman of Charlotte. Sally was staring at the screen and muttering to herself in English......
After muttering to herself, she looked at a bald filmmaker next to her.
"Mr. Zhuo Fulin, this movie is actually very suitable for watching for the second time, every time you watch the movie, you can see a different flavor from the movie, but I hope you can be mentally prepared for the next scene!"
Seeing this scene, Zhou Yilin was stunned!