After confirming the itinerary for Berlin with Han Dong, Wu Yuan said goodbye and left China Film and prepared to go home to pack some luggage.

As soon as he got home, before he could take a breath, Wu Yuan's phone began to ring non-stop.

The first to call was Zhang Guorong.

"Director Wu, is our film really shortlisted for Berlin?"

"How can this be fake?" Wu Yuan responded with a smile.

"I haven't been to the Berlinale yet!" Zhang Guorong's tone was full of joy.

Among the three major film festivals in Europe, he has only been to the Cannes Film Festival, and "Farewell My Concubine" was nominated for Best Film and Best Actor that year, and finally won the Palme d'Or.

"Zhang Sheng, I told you at the time, as long as we shoot this movie well, I will definitely take you to Europe, and it may bring you an actor trophy."

Wu Yuan also smiled and said, "I never lie to people. ”

"Haha, I definitely believe Director Wu's words." Zhang Guorong agreed very much.

"Hmm." Wu Yuan nodded: "We will leave for Berlin on February 4th, and the next half a month will be free." ”

"By the way, hurry up and order the dress, as the leading actor of our crew, you have to dress up well for this Berlin appearance."

"No problem!" Zhang Guorong patted his chest and promised: "I have temporarily stopped the preparatory work for "Stealing Hearts", and I have also contacted LV, and they will have a special stylist to Berlin with a dress to make up for me at that time!" ”

Smash it, smash it, Wu Yuan is a little envious, he, a "big" director who is good at coming to the dock, doesn't have a top luxury brand to provide dresses, and he still needs to spend money to buy it.

"Okay, then let's do this first, and I'll see you in the capital later."

hung up the phone, Wu Yuan called the other actors in the crew of "The Undertaker" one by one, from Chen Hong, Li Xuejian to Wu Yanshu, and even Sun Li, who can only be regarded as a small supporting role, was also notified.

Anyway, Han Dong said that the main actors should be brought!

Wu Yuan also felt once again how much the domestic film industry valued European film festivals in recent years.

Teacher Wu Yanshu, who is about to retire in two years, agreed without hesitation when she heard that she could go to Berlin to participate in the Berlin Film Festival, and she was not afraid of the discomfort of long-distance flights.

Sun Li and Li Xuejian were even more excited, and they were a little speechless.

Even Chen Hong, whose husband had won the Palme d'Or, was very happy to hear that she could go to the Berlin International Film Festival as the heroine, and even Wu Yuan vaguely heard Director Kaige's laughter on the phone!

After notifying the actors of the crew, Wu Yuan's mobile phone still didn't stop, and he was answering congratulatory calls from friends all afternoon, Chen Kun, Zeng Li, and Qin Hailu all called to congratulate them as soon as possible.

Even the international chapter who had only exchanged contact information called, and Brother Cheng Long politely sent a congratulatory text message.

Throughout the day, he was busy replying and thanking these friends and family...

......

A few days later, on February 4th.

Wu Yuan took the gathered crew of "The Undertaker" to Beijing International Airport and prepared to fly to Berlin.

In addition to the crew and actors, there are also Chen Yuan, the producer, and two specially hired translators.

Wu Yuan, who felt that the treatment was indeed different, as soon as he entered the door of the VIP lounge at the airport, he saw other Chinese film crews who were also going to Berlin to be screened.

"Yo, Director Wu, I've admired my name for a long time, but I can be regarded as seeing you."

Feng Xiaogang, who smiled like a chrysanthemum face, immediately greeted him warmly as soon as he saw the crew of "The Undertaker" come in, and hugged Wu Yuan.

While hugging, he also said: "Director Wu, don't you know, Han Dong has been talking about you in my ear every day for the past two years, and he has praised you to the edge of the sky." ”

"But you're really good, are you a director from a professional class so good at making movies?"

"The copyright of a small-budget film can sell for millions of dollars, and the box office is $200 million when you go to the United States, and now you are making a literary film and it has also been shortlisted for Berlin, what a young genius!"

Feng Pants is really jealous, almost crazy with jealousy.

Is there such a big gap between those who have gone to college?

Among the four major directors in the mainland, Feng Xiaogang did not go to an art academy, and he didn't even go to college.

This is also one of the reasons why many old men don't look down on Feng pants.

In the past, he didn't take it seriously that he didn't go to college, he didn't care.

I haven't studied in a professional college, so I still made a movie that is the top box office in the mainland!

But this trip to Berlin really hit him.

Xu Anhua is not a mainland director, and "Man Forty" is a Hong Kong Island movie, so he does not start from Beijing.

The remaining four directors are now in this lounge, but Wu Yuan, Zhang Yimou, and Li Xin are all from film school, and he Feng Xiaogang didn't even go to college.

And Wu Yuan has not graduated yet, which has surpassed Feng Xiaogang in artistic achievements, and Feng Xiaogang has not been shortlisted for the top three in Europe so far.

If you count the box office of "Juno", then he can even beat all mainland directors at the box office...

Feng Xiaogang faced Wu Yuan, this was really a little inferiority, and even began to wonder if he should apply for a film academy seminar and then go back to the furnace to learn...

"Everywhere, Director Feng's Chinese New Year movies are also very good, and the box office is also selling very well." Wu Yuan responded with a smile, he naturally wouldn't have nothing to belittle Feng Xiaogang.

In fact, he is indeed not like the fifth-generation director, who always looks down on Feng Xiaogang.

Without Feng Xiaogang, the era of commercial films in Chinese films might have been ten years late.

Without Feng Xiaogang's "Party A and Party B" to open the era of mainland commercial films and give the market confidence, there would be no "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou that opened the blockbuster era!

You must know that in the 90s, the people's enthusiasm for watching movies fell to the freezing point.

First of all, because of the change of the above policy, the main theme movie has become the mainstream.

But at that time, the main theme movies were basically the routines of early red movies, and compared with foreign films of the same period, they were simply three eras behind.

At the time, it could only be summed up in one word, ugly.

In terms of art films, it has also encountered the most demanding period, and the sixth-generation directors who have just begun to emerge are on the verge of not being judged and banned every day, and they do not care about the mainland market, and they all rely on a large number of overseas distributions to recover their costs.

Although when "Titanic" was released in 1998, there was a brief craze for mainland fans to watch movies, but this was just a flash in the pan, and it made mainland audiences even more reluctant to go to the cinema to watch domestic films.

At this time, it was the emergence of Feng Xiaogang that changed the mainland film environment.

Although his early commercial films were not much different from sitcoms, they re-attracted mainland audiences to cinemas and rekindled their enthusiasm for movie-watching.

It was he who cultivated the first batch of mainland commercial film audiences, and it was he who lowered the "movie" from the artistic level of high and low music to the entertainment level that ordinary people can accept and love!

More than 100 years later, Feng Xiaogang is a director who can be written into the history of mainland films!

"Director Feng's "Big Names" collided with me, and the theme is funeral, but you are a comedy."

"Haha, I'm just making a satirical comedy that makes fun, and I can't compare to you."

"Where, where..."

After a few words with Feng Xiaogang and chatting about each other's movies, Wu Yuan looked at Director Zhang Yimou, who had been sitting quietly in the corner of the lounge.

"Director Yimou, when we met for the first time, I was Wu Yuan from the 98th grade of the Film Academy."

"Hello hello, I've seen your movie, the "The Night the Comet Comed" was filmed, it was very interesting."

Wu Yuan deliberately ignored Zhang Weiping, who was sitting next to Zhang Yimou, and chatted with Director Zhang Yimou enthusiastically.

Director Yimou's personality is relatively shy and introverted, and he speaks gently and slowly, with a very, very simple temperament, and it is very comfortable to chat with him.

Both of them went to film school, and although director Yimou is shy, he is also very easy to talk, especially when it comes to movies, his conversation box will be opened.

Wu Yuan, who had the heart to have more contact with Director Zhang Yimou, quickly chatted with him, and Li Xin and Feng Xiaogang also came up and interjected a few words from time to time.

Their topic mainly revolves around the movie "Hero", and there is no director who is not curious about the first commercial blockbuster in China.

Director Zhang Yimou also took the opportunity to invite Wu Yuan to attend the premiere of "Hero" at that time.

How could Wu Yuan miss this opportunity to witness an "epoch-making" event, and readily agreed on the spot.

Directors have director's circles, and actors naturally have actors' circles.

The actors of the four film crews knew each other to a greater or lesser extent, and they also chatted in the lounge.

Everyone chatted and waited for the flight to take off.