The premiere of "Car Forty-Four" was a success, and despite being only an eleven-minute short film, it caused a small shock at the festival.

The copyright income of short films is very limited, but the cost is not high. The proceeds from the sale of the rights were sufficient to recover the cost and cover the cost of the trip to Venice at this time.

For this reason, Wu Shixian and Gong Beibi specially invited everyone to a seafood dinner on Lido Island.

After the opening of the festival, the flow of people in the trading market also increased, and the booth of "The Third Man" distributed a lot of pamphlets, but the film was never interested. Not only Zeng Jia, who was guarding the stall every day, was very anxious, but Li Tang and Cheng Er were inevitably worried, after all, the two of them threw out their families for this movie, and they were desperate to get back to blood.

On September 3, "Hong Kong Has a Hollywood" premiered.

As the only Chinese film shortlisted for the main competition unit, it was arranged by the organizer in a hall second only to the main venue, with a serious red carpet for the premiere.

The scene was very lively, and there were many media from Hong Kong, such as "Oriental Daily", "Sing Pao", "Ming Pao", "Apple Daily" and the like.

Since it is a Chinese-language movie, everyone cheers each other, Zhang Yang, the director of "Yesterday", and Zhu Wen, the director of "Seafood", are here. Of course, the most sensational scene was the president of the festival, Ya Cupto. Barbera came in person, which attracted a fierce shot from the Hong Kong media reporters at the scene.

The old man obviously knows how to market very well, and in the face of many media cameras, the old man took Zhou Xun's hand and said that he hoped that she could attend the awards ceremony at the closing of the film festival.

As soon as these words came out, the Chinese-language media on the scene suddenly boiled, and issued a notice as soon as possible, saying that the weekly news is very likely to win the queen laurel.

But when he actually sat in the theater and watched this movie, Li Tang could only describe it as sitting on pins and needles, like a thorn in his back, and like a fish in his throat, compared to the previous film that used the perspective of a woman from the mainland to examine the bottom society of Hong Kong, and this is an out-and-out political metaphor film.

Zhou Xun plays the name of a woman from the mainland: Dongdong, Fangfang, Honghong, what does it mean?

In addition to the sense of superiority, there are all kinds of divisions, estrangements, disharmony and exclusion.

The actor was cut off his right hand for Dongdong, Fangfang, and Honghong, but he received a left hand from a mainland doctor, and he was forced to have two left hands, what does it mean?

Dongdong, Fangfang, and Honghong played by Zhou Xun deceived everyone in Hong Kong, and finally went to the United States, what do they want to express?

The actor chops off the wrong left hand in the last scene, what do you want to say, is it determined?

After a movie, Li Tang's good impression of the little black fat man disappeared, and he even had a kind of disgust and vigilance, and he didn't even say hello after the movie ended, and left directly.

On the way back, Li Tang and Cheng Er were silent, only Fan Xiaopang was still chattering, what "Wow, Zhou Xun's sacrifice this time is really big!" ”

"She speaks Cantonese well!"

Li Tang and Cheng Er couldn't help but glance at each other.

No culture, it's terrible!

Zhou Xun is also uneducated, but it doesn't mean that her agent is uneducated, and her agent is from a compound.

The compound, synonymous with the ruling class, is perhaps the most terrifying.

As soon as the three of them returned to the guest house, Zhou Xun's phone came after them.

"Li Tang, where are you?"

"Oh, we're back."

"Why don't you even say hello, and there is a dinner." Zhou Xun said unhappily on the phone.

"Uh......"

Li Tang was speechless for a while, glanced at Xiao Pang who was changing clothes, and made up an excuse temporarily: "Bingbing is a little uncomfortable, so we left early, I'm sorry!" ”

"Oh, that's right...... Hey, how am I doing? ”

"As far as acting goes, you've done a great job."

"As far as acting goes?"

Zhou Xun obviously read the subtext of Li Tang's sentence, there are some things that can't stand scrutiny even if you have no culture, maybe it's the understanding of the script or the perception of the characters during the performance, maybe it's a reminder from others.

She was silent for a while, then diverted the subject: "I'm flying to Paris tomorrow, there's an event there, and I won't be back in a few days." However, the date of going back this time will definitely be postponed, and Mr. Zhang may be unhappy again. ”

Li Tang said with a smile: "If you win the actress, I guarantee that Lao Zhang will be happier than anyone else." ”

At present, the crew of "Shooting the Condor" is filming grassland dramas in Ulan Butong, different from Yang Kang played by Li Tang, Huang Rong played by Zhou Xun has grassland dramas, and was originally scheduled to return to China to join the group after participating in an event in Paris. Since the chairman of the film festival sent her an invitation today, she must stay until the closing of the film festival.

"Don't talk nonsense, maybe people are just polite."

It can be heard from Zhou Xun's words that she was originally hopeless about winning the award, and she inevitably had some expectations at this time.

After hanging up the phone, Xiaopang, who had already changed his clothes, immediately rolled his eyes at him, and said dissatisfiedly: "You can have this reason, and I'm not feeling well, why don't you say that you are uncomfortable?" I have already said that there will be a dinner party for a while, you have to leave, Cheng Er is too, silent, hum! ”

She deliberately wore a small dress today, and originally planned to meet some Hong Kong filmmakers at the dinner party to expand her network, but she was dragged away by Li Tang, and the plan was lost.

"I just didn't want to go to this dinner. You don't see that in the movie, they are all Hong Kong people, if you are willing to be discussed as a Beigu in secret, I have no opinion. ”

Xiaopang said unconvinced: "Aren't all movies fake, besides, everyone else Xiaoxun is playing the female number one." ”

The implication is that Zhou Xun, as a mainland actor, can play the female number one, which shows that people do not discriminate against mainland actors.

Li Tang couldn't tell her clearly, and he didn't bother to explain, so he shook his head and prepared to go out.

"Hey, why are you going?"

"Go buy something to eat, aren't you hungry?"

"Cut, do it yourself!"

……

So far, among all the shortlisted Chinese films, "The Third Man" has not appeared, and the rest have already shown the true face of Lushan.

Zhu Wen's "Seafood", to be honest, Li Tang really didn't know what he was filming, it was nothing more than a stumbling woman who wanted to commit suicide, a policeman saved her, but the strong girl her, and then took her to eat seafood, trying to untie her heart knot. So the relationship between the two became delicate, the police tried to change her life, and the stumbling woman had trust in the police. But everything was short-lived, in an argument the woman who lost her foot shot and killed the policeman, and then miraculously calmed down, faked the scene, and fled back to the capital overnight to continue her career as a woman who lost her foot.

The main reason is that this film was shot with the simplest home tape camera at first glance, and then the magnetic transfer was glued, and the picture was extremely poor. There are also all kinds of inexplicable long shots, chaotic street scenes, and shaky pictures of handheld cameras chasing behind the buttocks, which look particularly familiar, just like Section Chief Jia's "Xiao Wu".

And the scale is also huge, the male and female protagonists are all out of the country, no wonder they are black households.

When watching, Li Tang almost didn't fall asleep, but Cheng Er and the few audience members in the screening hall who could hold on to the last watched very seriously.

Well, art isn't something that everyone can appreciate.

As for Zhang Yang's "Yesterday", it is more like a pseudo-documentary, the male protagonist in the film, including his family, is said to play himself, and only the role of the male protagonist's sister is found because the real sister is unwilling to leave the country.

This actor is a familiar stranger to Li Tang, because he used to be a big star and Lou Ye's former queen actor.

is such a very successful actor, but he fell into the trap of Dupin. The movie depicts the man who is madly in love with rock and roll, and looks at the Beatles. Lennon was the spiritual father, and at the same time, he also came into contact with the appendage that was not the spiritual core of these avant-garde artists—Dupin.

Since then, he has stopped taking on dramas, and his personality has become extreme, paranoid, crazy, hysterical, out of place with other people, and he has also developed visual and auditory hallucinations. The parents in their hometown in the northeast were unwilling to let their son sink like this, retired early, and moved the whole family to the capital to take care of their son. Everything that followed was like a war......

On the surface, it seems to be quite touching, but at its core, it is full of all kinds of hypocrisy and innocent moans of the so-called artist.

The so-called suffering is that life is too good, pursuing the so-called spiritual world, and suffering by itself. You must know that it is illegal to absorb it, and if you try something that you know is illegal, you deserve it.

Li Tang, who lived in the United States in his previous life, saw too many addicts, like the walking dead, and hated it when he looked at it, so he couldn't empathize with this kind of self-touching, let alone any sympathy, after all, people have to pay for their actions.

……

On September 4, "The Third Man" premiered.

There was a small press conference before the premiere, thanks to the blessing of the French journalist contacted by Ney last time, and the interview with the venue magazine made Cheng Er, the first feature film of the rookie director, attract many European media reporters, and of course, Chinese media reporters.

There are very few domestic journalists, most of them entertainment reporters from major portals. To be honest, their questions were quite unprofessional, with little attention paid to the film itself, and more to various gossip news, such as "Are you confident in winning the award?" "Zhou Xun is expected to become a movie queen, what do you think about this?" These kinds of questions are talked about.

This year, because there are no Wanwan films shortlisted, there are not many reporters from Wanwan, more are Hong Kong media reporters. They were also unconcerned about "The Third Man", and their questions were all about their thoughts on "Hong Kong Has a Hollywood", which premiered yesterday.

Cheng Er hesitated and made some comments on the techniques of the movie itself, and Li Tang also talked about him at the beginning, hoping to fool this problem. As a result, those Hong Kong media reporters worked tirelessly, and he was annoyed, so he simply said: "I don't like that movie, I don't like it at all." ”

First update!

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