There is a saying in the college entrance examination essay that a zero-score essay is a masterpiece, and it is better than a full-score essay.

And there is a similar legend in the film industry that a banned movie is a good movie.

If you count by this standard, it is difficult to say which movie is the best in the Celestial Empire, but the best director can definitely only be decided between Lou Ye and Jia Zhangke.

Other directors have at most one or two films banned, but these two are different, only one or two movies have not been banned.

Especially......

Qin Muchu glanced at Lou Ye, who looked a little similar to Liu Luoguo's actor Li Baotian, this is the "king of banned films", if I remember correctly, it is still in the period of banning directors, right?

"We're going to go to the bar for a few drinks, why don't we go to the bar together?"

Just as he was thinking, Wang Xiaoshuai sent out an invitation.

"Oh, no."

Qin Muchu felt that he couldn't urinate with the six generations of directors, and maybe people were just polite, so he shook his hand and refused:

"I arrived in Cannes in the middle of the night last night, and the jet lag hasn't come over yet."

He yawned as he spoke.

A hint of pity flashed in Wang Xiaoshuai's eyes, but when it came to this, it was not good to say much, and said with a smile:

"Then another day, Cannes will be long anyway, haha."

"Definitely, definitely."

……

"Spleen?"

"Beer, foreign wine is not used to drinking."

"Haha, you're still not used to drinking?"

Wang Xiaoshuai laughed and ordered wine from the bartender.

"Isn't it a joke that French directors can't get used to drinking foreign wine?"

Jia Zhangke, who had less words, also said with a smile.

It would be right to say that it is half a French director.

took the big beer glass handed by the bartender, and scolded with a smile:

"I've come all the way to see you being treated like this?"

"Come on, if we're not here, I don't believe you won't come to Cannes."

Wang Xiaoshuai pierced it, and Jia Zhangke also smiled and nodded in agreement.

"I ......"

Lou Ye was really a little speechless for a while.

Indeed, even if Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke did not attend the Cannes Film Festival, he would come.

Nothing else, you can see excellent movies from all over the world here.

However, the participation of two friends also gave him another reason to go to Cannes.

Without further ado, he raised his glass:

"Come, let's go."

"Let's go."

The sound of glass cups colliding, a big sip of beer in the stomach, followed by three neat "ha~".

"It's a pity that there are no peanuts."

Lou Ye sighed, sighed and looked at Wang Xiaoshuai with emotion:

"It's not easy for us to get together, Haozi didn't bring it, why do you still call Qin Muchu together?"

"Why do you say? Not for you? ”

Wang Xiaoshuai didn't have a good air.

"For me? What does it have to do with me? ”

Looking at Lou Ye's puzzled eyes, Wang Xiaoshuai shook his head helplessly:

"You can't ask anyone about it?"

Speaking of this, Lou Ye showed a look of disgrace, not to Wang Xiaoshuai, but to the forbidden matter, and said in a muffled voice:

"Won't the ban be lifted next year? What else to ask. ”

"Are you sure you can lift the ban next year?"

Wang Xiaoshuai asked rhetorically and sighed again:

"Others are banned, honestly admit punishment, or play some sidekicks. It's good for you, if you are banned in China, you go directly to shoot abroad, and that's it, the key is that you secretly go back to China to shoot, are you fooling a fool or deliberately provoking? ”

Although Lou Ye was banned for five years in 06, his works continued during this period.

Some are purely French films, and the producers and actors are all French.

And some of them are Celestial Empire goods with French brands.

For example, "The Night of the Spring Breeze Drunk".

The Celestial Empire team, the Celestial Empire actors, was filmed in the Celestial Empire, but it was a French film.

The whole filming process was frightened, because I didn't get a shooting permit, and I didn't report to the film bureau, so I used a DV machine to shoot secretly.

This kind of behavior is undoubtedly to put the face of the film bureau on the ground and step on it, which is a serious disobedience to discipline.

Wang Xiaoshuai raised his eyebrows:

"Believe it or not, you just got out of the game because of prostitution on the front foot, and you were locked up on the back foot because of theft."

"Fuck off."

Lou Ye was amused, and worry appeared in his eyes with a smile.

It's not impossible.

Maybe the day he lifts the ban is the time of the new ban, what if the Film Bureau really gives him a seamless connection?

"But what does this have to do with Qin Muchu's child, he has a way in the Film Bureau?"

"Tut-tut."

Lou Ye didn't understand why Wang Xiaoshuai's expression suddenly became disgusted, and hammered his arm:

"What about you?"

Wang Xiaoshuai still didn't speak, gave a disdainful look, picked up the wine glass and drank the wine.

Lou Ye saw that three black lines appeared on his forehead, and he was about to scold, but Jia Zhangke spoke:

"Tang Wei is the one he helped unblock, do you think there is a way?"

"Tang Wei has been unblocked?"

Lou Ye, who was not well-informed in the circle, didn't know the news, and after being stunned, he said in surprise:

"He's so tough?"

At that time, the matter of "Lust and Caution" caused a storm in the city, and many people in the circle called for Tang Wei to be unblocked, and at that time, he also got a joint application for unsealing Tang Wei, and he also signed it.

But as a result, the application was lost in the sea and no response was received.

What so many people couldn't do together, let Qin Muchu do it alone?

"The leader of the Film Bureau surnamed Qin...... Director Qin? His family has not been in place for generations, is it the grandson of whom? Or bastard......"

Listening to Lou Ye's more and more outrageous broken thoughts, Wang Xiaoshuai couldn't help but speak:

"You can accumulate some virtue, an orphan of others."

"Why?"

Lou Ye is psychologically unbalanced.

are all directors of the Celestial Empire, why is there such a big difference in the weight of speech?

"Why? Relying on people to have awards, box office to have a box office, and be obedient and able to make achievements, if you are the leader, who do you like? ”

“……”

Lou Ye was killed by Wang Xiaoshuai.

Oh, yes.

It's like a woman, one lives well, the other lives well, and at the same time she is obedient and beautiful, which doesn't need to be said.

depressedly drank the beer in the glass, and the wine glass fell on the bar with a "pop":

"That's it for me, I can't change it. Can you change it? ”

At this moment, Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke were silent, and they picked up their wine glasses and sent them to their lips.

yes, who of them can change?

……

After separating from Wang Xiaoshuai, Liu Xiqian and Zeng Li were inconvenient to wear dresses, so they went back by car first, while Qin Muchu and Zhang Mo walked to enjoy the night view of Cannes.

I don't know if it's because of the film festival, the trees on the roadside of Cannes are wrapped with colorful lights, and the neon lights in the city illuminate the night in all colors.

Although it was already 11 o'clock in the evening, there were still many pedestrians on the streets, and many people stopped and took pictures with their cameras.

Zhang Mo bypassed a person taking pictures and followed Qin Muchu:

"You don't seem to want to cross paths with them?"

Qin Muchu knew that this "they" referred to Wang Xiaoshuai and a few people, and he did not deny it:

"I don't know them well, and I can't drink enough."

"Yes."

Zhang Mo nodded, took two steps and asked:

"Xiao Qin, you should have watched Lou Ye and Jia Zhangke's movie, right?"

"I've seen two of them."

As a director, expo movies are basic, and the two top-notch directors of the sixth generation, Qin Muchu naturally can't have seen their works.

"Just two?"

Zhang Mo was a little surprised,

"My dad said that you often watch award-winning movies at home and abroad, don't their movies often win awards in the 'Big Three'?"

Qin Muchu does have the habit of brushing film festival movies.

After all, there are so many movies, you have to watch them selectively, and the movies that have been on film festivals and won awards are undoubtedly the highest priority.

He has basically watched all the award-winning movies in China, but he has watched very few movies of Lou Ye and Jia Zhangke.

After one person watched one, he didn't watch it again.

And why......

"I don't really like their cinematic style......"

After a pause, he added:

"It's not just the two of them, in fact, I basically watch very few works of the so-called sixth generation of directors."

"Why, isn't the sixth generation of directors bad?"

Zhang Mo was interested.

She has been back for two years, and she knows a lot about domestic movies.

There is no standard definition for the division of the directors of the Celestial Empire, and it is generally a conventional statement.

The first generation of directors is from the 20s, the second generation of directors is from the 30s and 40s, the third generation of directors is from the 60s, and the fourth generation of directors are trained by BJ Film Academy or various film studios before the "special period".

These are all too long ago in the present day, and most of them are no longer alive or out of the industry.

Next comes the "main force" of the current Celestial Empire film industry - the fifth and sixth generation of directors.

The fifth generation of directors, a group of directors who graduated from the 78th class of the Film Academy, that is, Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.

After that, there is the sixth generation of directors, in the eighties and nineties, and the representative figures include Lou Ye, Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai and so on.

The fifth-generation directors are full of honors, and the sixth-generation directors are not bad, and they have won many awards.

Why don't you look down on them?

"It's not bad, it's just that most of their movies are not the kind I like, and the dark side of various human nature and society in the movie is too depressing." Qin Muchu said.

"So you don't like my dad's early work either?" Zhang Mo asked again.

If you want to reveal the dark side of human nature and society, the fifth generation of directors has done a lot of work.

"It's different."

Qin Muchu shook his head,

"Old man, Father Sei...... Ahem, I have seen the works of Kai Ge and Tian Ge, and basically more than once.

Although they all reveal the dark side of human nature and society, how can we say it...... The manifestations are not the same, and the kernels are not the same.

The fifth generation of directors filmed the land and traditional culture, and the sixth generation filmed the urban and marginal survivors.

One is the nation and the nation, and the other is the individual or a small group of people.

The former is basically resonant with everyone, while the latter is relatively niche. ”

Zhang Mo nodded thoughtfully, she hadn't thought about the difference between the fifth and sixth generations of directors, and when she heard it, it seemed that this was really the case.

Then she was a little puzzled:

"Then why is this happening?"

"Hmm...... I think it has something to do with the different growth nutrients that the director has absorbed. ”

Qin Muchu thought for a while and said:

"In the era of the fifth generation of directors, the atmosphere of land and national culture was heavy, and it was close to the old feudal society, so the works naturally brought a similar atmosphere.

The sixth generation of directors grew up in an era that had begun to become urbanized, and the biggest suffering at that time came from the ordinary people who went to the city to work hard, which were unconsciously reflected in their works. ”

Before they knew it, they had already walked to the door of the hotel.

Zhang Mo thought for a moment and looked at Qin Muchu:

"What about our generation of directors?"

Although she is not a director yet, it is a matter of time before she officially directs, and when she thinks of her future career as a director, she can't help but feel a little confused.

"Our generation ......"

This question really asked Qin Muchu.

"I don't know, let's leave it to our next generation of directors to summarize and think."

……

May 13th.

On the first day of the Cannes Film Festival, Qin Muchu and his entourage got up early in the morning and set off for the Palace of Film Festivals.

It was not far away, so a few people did not take the car, and walked away.

"You don't know how popular Fan Shuishui is in China now, the media reports that he is crazy, dragon robe!"

Listening to Yang Mi's excited voice on the phone, I didn't know that I thought it was her who was wearing the dragon robe.

"I heard that many big-name fashion resources have found her, and now all the media call her 'Fan Huang'."

"Emperor Fan?"

Qin Muchu finally spoke.

"Well, aren't you Emperor Fan when you're wearing dragon robes?"

“…… A lot of media? ”

"It's overwhelming."

After a moment of silence, Qin Muchu slurped his lips:

"It's really ambitious...... But if she is Fan Huang, what is Sister Gong Li? ”

Among the female stars in the entertainment industry, only Gong Li is called the "emperor", which is played by strength, and no one is unconvinced.

And Fan Shuishui walked the red carpet and called "the emperor", isn't it funny.

"Anyway, anyway, Fan Shuishui is in the limelight now, and many people in the circle are considering going abroad to walk the red carpet, especially major film festivals.

Listening to Yang Mi's words, Qin Muchu frowned.

Relying on the red carpet to get resources, what is this, "blanket star"?

Besides, there are no shortlisted works, and they are not officially invited, and running to "rub the red carpet" has always been a very low behavior.

I can't help but remind:

"No matter what others do, our company is not allowed to do this kind of thing."

"Don't worry, Sister Mi will definitely not allow such a price drop."

After talking for a while, Qin Muchu ended the call with Yang Mi.

"Mimi talking about the red carpet?"

"God counts."

Qin Muchu gave Zeng Li a thumbs up.

Zeng Li glanced at it, which is a divine calculation, completely understanding the character of Yang Mi's gossip.

The group soon arrived outside the Cinema Palace, and according to the information on the bulletin board, they quickly found the exhibition hall of "Love Letters".

Ticket checks have begun at the gate, and people are entering one after another.

Qin Muchu and the others came relatively late, and they were at the end of the line.

Qin Muchu took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Qin Hao:

"Have you arrived?"

Qin Hao is also the second male in the movie, and he still has to participate in the premiere, which is also what he said last night.

Not long after the message was sent, the phone rang, and after it was connected, Qin Hao's voice came out:

"Director Qin, we're inside, are you here?"

"We're here too, checking the tickets at the door."

Qin Muchu replied, and suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Qin Hao said "We are in it", and there are others?

(End of chapter)