In 03, Emperor was investigated by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and "Sanlian Life Weekly" published an article on "Entertainment This Thing".

It is the first time in China that a publication has seriously discussed the meaning of the existence of entertainment.

Before that, entertainment was called the entertainment industry, and the outside world didn't care about what really happened in the circle, and what everyone discussed and discussed was just scandals.

For example, who slept with whom, split legs with whom...

According to "Triptych": Entertainment can't be more real, and if you compare it, you will find that it's not bullshit, so some people like to call entertainment "foolishness", that's the reason. As a result, entertainment is carried out under an unwritten or latent rule, and it is fun to entertain others and themselves.

In later generations, the entertainment industry is directly out of touch with the public!

On the one hand, there is a frenzy of using 100 million yuan as a unit of capital, and on the other hand, many word-of-mouth has fallen to the bottom, which leads to the cries of the masses who complain about "feeding";

On the one hand, it is strange that the regulatory power of the film and television industry is omnipotent, and on the other hand, there are all kinds of strange plots that break through the bottom line of imagination;

On the one hand, it is the pursuit of traffic, and on the other hand, it is the lower limit of the professionalism of the actors;

On the one hand, there is the growing entertainment market, and on the other hand, there are concerns about the future of the big screen.

Shen Xudong has been pondering what the use of entertainment is, and what happened in May gave him a new understanding: fart is useless!

Because entertainment does not dry clean the national economy and people's livelihood!

It has never been a social necessity.

In this kind of catastrophe, all Shen Xudong can do is donate money...

He participated in the filmmakers' earthquake relief rally and star charity performances, and did his part.

donated 30 million, which is not as good as Andy Lau, and he boasted that he donated 50.1 million, with a total historical donation of 9.6 billion...

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Of course, Shen Xudong has memories of this incident...

To be honest, the flood of 98, our generation, does not have a deep memory, after all, ignorant.

But now it's so impressive!

Almost rooted in memory!

Many people went crazy, searched for news every day, and cried with the announcer.

Shen Xudong is the same, this is called Chang Tai Xi to cover up his tears, mourning the difficulties of people's livelihood, and it is also called national emotion...

Let's tell the truth, when a disaster occurs in a foreign country, we are more of a talking point, and we can rarely empathize, but Wenchuan is different, even if more than ten years have passed, now when you see the report at that time, you will still feel panicked in your heart, and you will even cry!

Of course, at this time, you can also see who is not your own person.

The famous Swedish actor Zhao Lixin later posted on Weibo about the incident of the female policeman feeding the child in the disaster area, "The eyes of the leaders are bright, the wisdom of the masses cannot be underestimated, and the policewoman's is..."

Such unscrupulously hurting national feelings, he has never been Chinese!

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On the 22nd, Shen Xudong arrived in Cannes to build momentum for the beautiful night.

Five movies, "Exquisite Ancient City", "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", "Painted Skin" and "Hot Hand Detective", "Tuner"...

This year's Cannes is still buzzing.

It's a bit embarrassing that among the 23 films in competition this year, only one Chinese-language film was shortlisted: Jia Zhangke's "Tale of Twenty-Four Cities".

The so-called Twenty-Four Cities is a place name in Chengdu, and the main story line of the movie revolves around the three generations of "factory flowers" of an old state-owned factory, through the life experience and emotional process of the six decades, the 80s and now the three generations of "factory flowers", reflecting the development of cities in the process of urbanization in China.

The movie was originally very good, but the people who watched it were all kinds of embarrassment.

If you want to make a documentary, don't use a professional actor!

The performance of a professional actor is still too abrupt.

Understand the director's idea of trying to merge documentary and feature film, but the experiment was obviously a failure, and it would be nice to make it a pure documentary.

Chen Chong, Lu Liping, and Zhao Tao are like beautiful fake flowers, although the fake flowers are beautiful, they destroy the real space.

Even if it is placed in Jia Zhangke's movie sequence, "A Tale of Twenty-Four Cities" is not in the forefront, and the probability of winning the award is almost zero.

Oh, and there's another film worth mentioning, "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", which was shortlisted for the Director's Biweekly unit, directed by Yi Lichuan, one of the founders of the lower body poet movement.

But "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" is very interesting, it tells the story of two low-level women squeezing each other for a man, and finally the man is gone, but the two women live happily together to raise their children.

It's interesting, it's not boring at all, it's not the sixth generation, and it's not the lower body.

Aside from the main competition unit, Cannes is still the largest booth for Chinese filmmakers.

Whether it's buying or selling films.

The two blockbusters "Red Cliff" and "Mei Lanfang" have rushed over.

The global pre-sale of "Red Cliff" has basically ended, and the strong lineup of Liang Chaowei, Hu Jun, Zhang Zhen, and Lin Zhiling is still used, to put it bluntly, mainly to build momentum!

Jin Chengwu didn't come, and it was rumored that Jin Chengwu and the crew of "Red Cliff" were incompatible...

It's hard to say whether it's true or not.

Shen Xudong is very concerned about the ...

The target of the "Zhao Zilong" series is "Red Cliff", although the investment is not as big as it, but it is the same theme of the Three Kingdoms, and the audience will definitely compare!

In addition, "Exquisite Ancient City" was released two weeks earlier than "Red Cliff".

For a commercial film, two weeks is enough to recover eighty percent of the box office!

But... The domestic market is special, the number of screens and word-of-mouth fermentation, "Red Cliff" will still be the opponent of "Exquisite Ancient City"...

The company has prepared a bunch of press releases to hype up the contradiction between Xu Ke and Wu Yusen.

Those who are familiar with Hong Kong movies know the story of these two people, to sum up: the personalities are incompatible.

But the most important thing right now is to sell films!

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Cocktail parties and parties are a tradition in Cannes, and from the opening to the closing, there are no less than 100 large and small parties.

Large-scale parties are mainly held by the brand side to promote the brand;

Small parties are a lot of filmmakers with movies, mainly to sell films!

There are more fixed themes, such as: "Chinese Movie Night", "Taiwan Night", "Hong Kong Night" and so on.

That day the United States company called it 'Tianmei Night'!

More than 500 people were invited, including domestic and foreign film businessmen and media, domestic counterparts who came to the red carpet and official personnel of the film festival.

More than 500 people...

It cost about 500,000 euros!

Don't be too expensive, in Cannes, a place where there is a trench and a strong one, a party of 500,000 euros can only be considered medium-grade.

In fact, the five movies, "Exquisite Ancient City" and "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", including "Spicy Detective", are relatively easy to sell, and the last two have Cheng Long, and they are all gunfight scenes, which are full of fun, and the global copyright pre-sales are almost done.

"Exquisite Ancient City" knows at a glance that it belongs to the genre of treasure hunting and adventure, this kind of theme, as long as the copyright is not expensive, many filmmakers are more interested!

"The Tuner" is also okay, with a strong suspense flavor, and the plot itself is also very interesting, not only sold the copyrights of 77 countries and regions, but even sold the adaptation rights of three countries - France, Italy and Japanese benzene;

"Painted Skin" is more difficult, because foreigners can't understand it at all!

Indeed, "Painted Skin" took place in ancient times, the system of polyandry and multiple concubines, if a man likes it, he can take a concubine, why fight for life and death?

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