Late at night, the hotel room was full of smoke, Jiang Wen lowered his head and smoked, and the ashtray was already full of cigarette butts.

After another cigarette, he reached for the cigarette case, only to find it empty.

"Anything else?" Jiang Wen's voice was a little hoarse.

"No, just buy two packs."

Qin Muchu stood by the window, breathing in the fresh air outside.

"How can you buy two packs of horses? Two packs, two packs of horses are enough to do on horses! ”

Jiang Wen slapped the table again and again, and slapped the table with a "pop".

Very angry.

But Qin Muchu knew that this "anger" was not for himself.

Cheng Zuming was arrested.

As soon as he left the exhibition hall of the film festival, he was taken away by the local police in Venice on the grounds that someone reported him for smoking and selling D.

This is still the important influence of the Venice Film Festival considered by the police, and they did not directly go to the hall to arrest people, but notified the festival officials.

As soon as the official heard that he was from the Celestial Empire or an actor participating in the film festival, he thought of Zhang Yimou, the chairman of the jury, and asked him to come forward to negotiate.

Zhang Yimou told Jiang Wen that this was the case.

……

The smell of smoke in the room dissipated a little, and Qin Muchu looked at Jiang Wen, who had quieted down after venting:

"Would you like to smoke some cigars?"

"If you don't smoke, that thing doesn't solve your worries, and you have to step on the horse." Jiang Wen responded in a sullen voice.

Then leaned back on the sofa and pinched his sour eyes:

"What is this horse riding called, I came to the film festival, the actors were arrested, and this horse is also a record."

Seeing Jiang Wen's depressed appearance, Qin Muchu thought differently from him.

"I'm glad."

"Rejoice?"

Jiang Wen sat up and stared at him:

"You translate for me, what kind of horse rider is called horse riding luck!"

Qin Muchu was just about to speak, when there was a knock on the door, and he went to open the door first.

The person who came was very familiar, it was Zhang Yimou.

"I'll take a look at Jiang Wen."

Qin Muchu walked into the room with Zhang Yimou, and when he saw Lao Mouzi coming, Jiang Wen just said hello, and he didn't have a good face.

Zhang Yimou could also understand and didn't care.

When the crew has such a bad thing, no director can stand it.

"The case is still under investigation, and it's not clear how it is, so don't worry too much."

Zhang Yimou comforted:

"Think about it another way, you should actually be glad."

Glad?

Hearing this word again, Jiang Wen couldn't hold back:

"One or two of you say it's lucky, I really don't know what to be happy about, who can solve my puzzles!"

Zhang Yimou was stunned for a moment, and then asked:

"Anyone else said?"

Jiang Wen glanced at Qin Muchu, and Zhang Yimou immediately understood.

"Xiao Qin, you also said lucky? What are you thankful for? ”

Qin Muchu didn't sell it, sat on the sofa and said:

"Glad that the police didn't arrest people directly in the exhibition hall, that is really a record, a world record! The whole world knows it! It's still under control. ”

Zhang Yimou nodded, Qin Muchu thought the same as him.

If the police really go directly to the scene to arrest people, it will not only affect the crew of "The Sun", but also damage the image of the country.

After all, when they came to Venice, they represented the filmmakers of the Celestial Empire.

Fortunately, only him, Venice officials, Jiang Wen, and Qin Muchu know about this matter at present.

Naturally, a few of them will not go out and talk nonsense, and the Venice official will not take the initiative to expose this matter, not to mention that there is no benefit, the actors participating in the film festival are suspected of violating the law, which is also a scandal for them.

Jiang Wen's mind also turned this corner, he was just confused before, and he didn't think so deeply.

Now that I have calmed down, I can understand why Qin Muchu and Lao Mouzi both said that they were happy.

He sighed:

"Wait for the results of the investigation, the lawyer has also been invited, I can't say for sure, it shouldn't be possible for the trafficker, and his family won't do this kind of thing. If it's just sucking, it's not a big deal. ”

In fact, this is true in foreign countries, and it is not a big crime to smoke D, and foreign countries are not strictly controlled in this regard.

Even in China, ordinary people who smoke are only detained and fined, and they are forced to quit.

But the nature of trafficking is different, and it is a serious violation in any country.

……

As expected, Cheng Zuming just sucked, didn't sell it, spent some money, was locked up overnight, and was released this morning.

And his father Fang Long also arrived in Venice early this morning, and it was a big bag to meet him, and then he took it to Jiang Wen to apologize.

"Get on your knees! Kowtow! ”

Fang Long shouted loudly, and with a "pop", Cheng Zuming knelt on the ground, kowtowing his head again and again, and every time he made a "knock" sound, he used enough strength.

And Jiang Wen, the object of his kowtow, dodged directly, with a cold face:

"Big brother, this is your family affair, let your son kowtow to me, it's not appropriate, and I can't stand it!"

Fang Long was hunched over and smiled:

"I'll settle it with him when I go back, but if this happens, it must have caused you a lot of trouble, and he should apologize.

Not only him, but the Son did not teach, and the Father was wrong, and I should also apologize to you. ”

As he spoke, Fang Long bowed ninety degrees to Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen saw Fang Long's humble appearance, and the anger in his heart also dissipated.

They are all fathers who worry about their children.

So he held up Fang Long, and his attitude was much better this time.

The two talked for a long time, and they didn't know what they said, but in the afternoon, Fang Long left the hotel directly with Cheng Zuming.

After Fang Long left with Cheng Zuming, Qin Muchu walked into Jiang Wen's room with a laptop.

"They're ...... Returned home? ”

Jiang Wen nodded: "I've returned to China, it's good to bring it back to China, so I don't have a headache when I step on a horse......

Suddenly, he stopped talking, looked at Qin Muchu, and kept looking:

"No, it's not right! Did you kid know anything in advance? I have always had that attitude towards the name of my ancestors. ”

Qin Muchu's expression froze, he did know that Cheng Zu was famous, but he didn't know that he was sucking it now, and he didn't know why it was discovered now.

Could it be that the aunts in Chaoyang District also travel to Venice?

Seeing that Jiang Wen was suspicious, he could only pretend to be calm:

"His father doesn't even know about this, so I know where to go. Moreover, this should not be your concern right now. ”

He put the computer in front of Jiang Wen and clicked on a video, the video quality was very blurry, and he couldn't see people's faces very clearly.

But Jiang Wen recognized the characters in it at a glance.

Himself!

And this video is also the one he was pulled and persuaded to fight when he became his ancestral name yesterday.

"Where did this video come from?" Jiang Wen asked.

"It's been crazy in China, an audience who came to the film festival in our Celestial Empire, originally saw so many stars, so he wanted to take a sneak peek, but he recorded such a paragraph."

Qin Muchu turned off the video that had been played, and called up pictures from the mailbox, all of which were photos of various newspapers in China.

The above are all talking about this matter, and the popularity completely crushes the other two Celestial Empire films shortlisted for the main competition unit.

"Jiang Wen plays a big name and plays an actor"

"The crew of "The Sun" is full of contradictions, and the director beats the actor angrily"

Similar news is overwhelming, and they are basically condemning Jiang Wen, after all, judging from the video, it is indeed Jiang Wen who is wrong and beats someone.

"Fang Long came again this morning, and returned to China with the name of Cheng Zu, I don't believe that no reporter took it, which further confirms the authenticity of that video, and public opinion is very unfavorable to you...... And that's not what I'm most worried about right now. ”

Qin Muchu frowned:

"Cheng Zuming sucks this matter, if no one pays attention to it, then it will be hidden.

But now that you two are paying so much attention, what if this matter is found out by the media?

If this kind of thing happens to the actor, if "The Sun" wants to be released in China, then the actor's role must be deleted, otherwise it will definitely not be released.

But can you still watch this movie if he is deleted? ”

Qin Muchu's words made Jiang Wen's eyebrows condense.

Each of the four main characters in his film has an important metaphor, which is connected to each other, and no one is missing.

But as Qin Muchu said, if the matter of becoming an ancestor explodes, it will be miserable.

Thinking of this, Jiang Wen only felt that the addiction to smoking had come up again.

Qin Muchu saw Jiang Wen's sad face, and he was also a little unbearable.

So he stood up, took all the cups on the sofa to the small table on the other side, and after vacating the two of them, he said slowly;

"In fact, the box office and evaluation of "The Sun" during its release are destined not to be very high, even if "The Sun" is forced to be taken off the shelves at that time, your loss will not be as big as you imagined."

“……”

Jiang Wen looked around, looking for something to take advantage of.

"Don't look for it, I'll take it all."

Qin Muchu patted Jiang Wen's hand lightly, but Jiang Wen directly held it with his backhand, and then touched his waist with his other hand:

"If you can't say one, two, three today, I will beat you to call Dad."

Is it okay to call Daddy?

Qin Muchu swallowed his saliva, and in his heart condemned Jiang Wen's behavior of taking revenge and not knowing the hearts of good people.

After trying to get his hands out, he said seriously:

"You put a lot of effort into "The Sun", almost every shot has its meaning in it, life, desire, history, personality, many of which I still flip through books when I read it.

The first time I watched it, I just had a vague concept, and after reading it several times, I felt that I understood, but when I looked at it again, I didn't seem to understand......

It's a good film, and you tell your truth, but ...... The lower limit is too high, and I believe that the vast majority of viewers will be confused after watching it, not knowing what it is talking about. ”

Jiang Wen's movie, composed of four short stories, is a bit absurd and magical, and it looks a bit troublesome.

"It's a shame not to understand The Sun! It's a gift from God, so they should be like you, and watch it again, a few more times. Jiang Wen's attitude is very hard.

Qin Muchu shook his head:

"I don't think so. The director is just the director, you can't ask the audience for anything.

Just like your attitude towards them is 'if you don't understand it, watch more', then their attitude towards you can also be 'if you don't understand it, it's your movie garbage'.

I'm not saying you have to cater to the audience and have your own attitudes and ideas, but you also have to accept that they don't accept your attitudes and ideas.

The audience has no intention of liking something with a stronger story, and this movie is more ideological than storytelling. ”

Jiang Wen was silent.

Qin Muchu said to him, he would definitely not be at ease if he changed someone else, and even had to scold him back.

After a long time, Jiang Wen spoke:

"What do you mean by storytelling and what do you mean by thinking?"

"Hmm...... To put it simply, it's whether you are a story that expresses an idea, or whether you create a story for an idea.

It's like "Journey to the West", you can not understand what its core says, you just read the story, and then slowly, you understand, you understand more and more, you feel that the story has more and more connotations, and even many of the connotations are actually given to it by you, and the author may not think so much.

But you're not wrong, because what you think is in the story, it's reasonable, it makes sense.

This is the story of the awesome, and the movie I think is also awesome.

The lower limit is very low, and it can be fascinated by ordinary people; The ceiling is so high that it can make old pedants look at it over and over again.

Tastes. ”

"Elegance and Vulgarity ......"

Jiang Wen licked his lips.

"The Sun" is a bit too elegant.

He let go of Qin Muchu's hand, walked to the table, took a cup, poured himself a glass of water, and drank it in one gulp.

"Then let me be elegant again, the next part, the next film, I will make what they want to watch a little more realistically, and a little less virtual what they don't want to watch."

He looked at Qin Muchu and smiled:

"I'll get a prize first."

(End of chapter)