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"Mr. Hello Tree", this is a movie that will soon be praised as a masterpiece in later generations.

In the movie, Wang Baoqiang's chic smoking scene was cut into a moving picture and became popular all over the Internet, and once became the representative of the "No Moutai" BGM.

But in fact, from its birth to its release, this movie has not made any splashes in the circle.

In 2009, Jia Zhangke, on behalf of his company, Xihe Xinghui, announced at the Busan Film Festival that he had raised 100 million yuan, which would be invested in the works of young directors.

Xihe Xinghui named this 100 million yuan investment project "Tianyi Plan", and the first phase will prepare to shoot 5 films.

"Mr. Hello Tree" is the second work of the "Wings Project".

This wing-adding plan is the same as Liu Dehua's Asian new star director, as well as the support plan for young directors in the era of light and shadow, which is dedicated to supporting new directors.

Among them, this "Mr. Hello Tree" is Jia Zhangke's most optimistic movie in the Tianyi plan.

He admires the screenwriter and director of this film Han Jie very much, and personally serves as the executive producer of this film.

This is not the kind of producer who gets an extra salary in his name, he really works as a nanny for Han Jie.

Li Yaohui, the photographer of "Hello! Mr. Tree", is the royal photographer of the king of sunglasses, and Jia Zhangke helped find it.

The composer of the film, Lin Qiang, is a Taiwanese musician, who has starred in Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Dream Life", "Goodbye in the South, Southland" and other films, and served as the soundtrack for many of Hou Hsiao-hsien's films, and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Film Music three times with the movie "Goodbye in the South, South", "Millennium Mambo" and "The Beginning of the Year".

It was also found by Jia Zhangke.

Recording engineer Zhang Yang has served as the recording engineer of Jia Zhangke's "The World", "The Good Man of the Three Gorges", "Tale of Twenty-four Cities" and many other films.

No need to ask, it was also found by Jia Zhangke.

Jia Zhangke is a true love newcomer.

At that time, when the preparation of "Hello Mr. Tree" began, Jia Zhangke also helped to audition for actors together, but he didn't find a suitable actor after looking around, or he didn't find an actor who matched their hearts.

Then Jia Zhangke mobilized his contacts and began to contact major domestic directors to ask them if they had any suitable actors to recommend.

The call came to Wu Yuan's side, and after hearing the movie outline described by Jia Zhangke, he immediately knew which movie it was, and of course recommended Wang Baoqiang to Jia Zhangke.

Brother Bao Qiang is really good at acting in this movie.

At first, Jia Zhangke felt that Wu Yuan's recommendation was a bit outrageous.

The contrast between Wang Baoqiang's screen image and "Mr. Tree" is still very large, before this, most of Wang Baoqiang's images were migrant workers or simple teenagers, rural boys and other images.

Silly, iron-clad and simple, but full of sunshine, not a "village keeper" at all.

As a result, Jia Zhangke called Wang Baoqiang to audition in disbelief.

Hey, absolutely!

That's him!

"It's really good to be strong." Jia Zhangke recalled: "Baoqiang never smokes and drinks, and his image can be described as healthy. ”

"But this time, in order to make Mr. Shu more realistic and close to life, he had to learn to smoke, sometimes even up to three packs of cigarettes a day."

He started learning to smoke a few months before the start of the film, because he had to look like an "old smoker," which sometimes didn't come naturally. ”

Wang Baoqiang, who is not good at drinking, also began to drink every day, because the "tree" in the play is a person who loves to drink, and he hopes that he can find the dizzy state of people who love alcohol, so he has to drink some liquor at almost every meal. ”

"Later, when filming, in order to be more suitable for the characters, he even drank alcohol when the film was turned on, and acted in a slightly drunk state, and the effect was really good."

"It's rare to have an actor who thinks about the role so seriously now."

"Bao Qiang is really good." Wu Yuan also nodded with emotion, "He is an actor from Yeluzi, and he was one of the earliest Beijing drifters back then, and he came to the capital with a dream of being an actor." ”

"He really loves acting, so he will work hard to complete every work 120%."

"Of course, his luck is also very good, there are so many people in Jingpiao, and the only ones who can really make a name for themselves are him and Huang Bo."

"Both of them are the essence left behind after the big waves, and they are both rare good actors."

Wu Yuan really admires Wang Baoqiang, but unfortunately, he has never had any opportunity to cooperate with Wang Baoqiang, and his movies have never been suitable for Wang Baoqiang's role.

It's a pity that the box office performance of "Mr. Hello Tree" this time will not be very good.

Because the subject matter is unpopular and has a small audience, this movie can only achieve a sluggish result of 2 million box office in the end.

However, the box office failed, but the word-of-mouth blossomed, and the further it goes, the better the word-of-mouth of this movie will be, and it was finally canonized as a god and became Wang Baoqiang's acting masterpiece.

"Senior brother, the current literary films are really not good." Wu Yuan sighed and said: "The book of "Hello Mr. Tree" is really good, but it is destined not to have a good box office, this movie has to be watched with a calm heart, and even has to be watched several times repeatedly to fully understand and understand." ”

"But the current market is impetuous and fast-paced, and there is no room for "Mr. Hello Tree" to exist."

Jia Zhangke shook his head and looked directly into Wu Yuan's eyes: "But someone always has to make a movie like this." ”

"Isn't it?"

After the opening red carpet, the film week of this year's Venice International Film Festival officially began.

Over the next 10 days, more than 200 films will be premiered, screened, presented and more on the Lido.

More than 2,000 media professionals and film critics from all over the world will also start their film feast, lingering in the cinemas on Lido Island every day, watching one art blockbuster after another.

The jury of the main competition unit of this year's Venice International Film Festival, headed by Wu Yuan, naturally has no way to be idle.

As many as 23 films made it to this year's main competition will also premiere in Venice over the next 10 days, with all the judges having to watch the films live, give their own evaluations in their minds, and then meet with the other judges to select the winners.

This is undoubtedly a draining task.

Since September 1st, Wu Yuan has been busy with his feet not touching the ground, usually watching a movie shortlisted for the main competition unit in the morning, and then discussing the pros and cons of the film with other judges at lunchtime, all kinds of arguments, and then shelving the controversy, everyone will watch another movie in the afternoon, and continue to discuss and argue in the evening.

In a lot of debate, the final winners of each award were gradually determined after weighing and compromise.

It was also at this time that Wu Yuan really felt how important the chairman of the jury was, and he could really decide who would win the final award.

Because almost every award has more than 2 popular candidates, the six judges other than him often support a movie, and there are often 2V2V2 or 3V3 situations.

At this time, Wu Yuan has the final word, and he finally chooses who to support, then the award will be determined to whom.

Of course, all this is kept strictly confidential.

The judges, including Wu Yuan, no matter how fierce the quarrel was in the conference room, or how excited they were to cheer for a certain movie, as long as they left the conference room, they all kept silent and did not say a word about the films shortlisted for the main competition unit.

Silence is the impression left by these judges on all film critics and the media on the scene.

It was also under this silence that the 10-day film week passed quickly, and the final list of winners, which was finally determined after countless quarrels, was personally confirmed by Wu Yuan and delivered to the hands of the film festival organizing committee.

The much-anticipated and long-awaited closing ceremony is about to begin. (End of chapter)