In fact, there is also a domestic crew that came to Venice this time, but they came to participate in the screening, and this crew is "The Legend of the White Snake".

Therefore, after the crew arrived in Venice, before walking the red carpet, the crew of "The Legend of the White Snake" and the crew of "Scorching Sun" 'met' by chance, and everyone greeted each other.

There are rows on both sides, He Fang is an upstart in the film industry, and Jet Li is a royal predecessor in the film industry.

It was supposed to be He Fang who went to visit his predecessors, but this is not to blame, because the other party came to Venice on the spot, and He Fang didn't have the opportunity to visit in advance.

People just come over to rub the red carpet and increase publicity.

What does this movie say? It's hard to say, I heard that the production cost was 180 million, and I don't know if it's true or not, it is estimated that I didn't find the post-production team of Huying Group to produce it, otherwise it would definitely not be so expensive.

Of course, it may also be the reason why Jet Li took tens of millions of dollars alone.

Some people say that he got a salary of 30 million, and some people say that he got a salary of 80 million, anyway, everyone doesn't know, and tens of millions of dollars will definitely not be able to run.

In addition, I heard that the special effects production of "The Legend of the White Snake" cost a lot of money, so this makes the cost of "The Legend of the White Snake" remain high.

"Brother Jet Li, hello, hello, it's an honor to meet you." He Fang's attitude towards Jet Li is better.

At least he left Cheng Xiaodong aside and shook hands with Jet Li first.

Although many people criticize Jet Li, he has appeared around the world as a business card of Chinese kung fu stars, and his contribution is still very great.

In particular, his "Jingwu Hero" is loved by audiences around the world, and has also been studied by directors and filmmakers from all over the world, this film can be said to have opened a new style of Hong Kong action movies, and of course, it is also a new style of global action movies.

"Jingwu Heroes" is the culmination of the fourth generation of martial arts style, from a technical point of view, martial arts films have experienced the first generation of masculine martial arts films in the sixties and seventies, represented by Liu Jialiang and Zhang Che, including the later Bruce Lee to promote this style to the world.

This style embodies the beauty of masculinity, the hard-style martial arts style.

The technical style of the second generation is represented by humorous martial arts, which is represented by Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung who make martial arts movements witty and no longer hard bridges and hard horses.

The third-generation technical style is represented by Tsui Hark's elegant, whimsical hollowing, among which the representatives are Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaodong, Yuan Heping, and the martial arts movements in their martial arts action movies are imaginative and exaggerated.

The technical style of the fourth-generation martial arts is reflected in "True Martial Heroes", which takes the style of actual combat and the concretization of violent aesthetics, and later movies such as "Slaying the Wolf" also follow this style.

This style focuses on the concise, efficient, and close to actual combat of martial arts movements, but does not lose the agility of martial arts movements, fists to the flesh, and the aesthetics of violence are concrete.

Of course, the most interesting thing is that this style has grown in Hollywood, and later "Spy of the Inferior" adopted this simple, fast and effective fighting style.

The martial arts movements of Chinese action movies still developed for two generations, but after these two generations, the transformation of Chinese action movies stopped.

What are the other two generations?

The technical style of the fifth generation is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", what is this technical style? Maybe the domestic audience didn't see it, but it had a great impact abroad.

The style of this generation is completely poetic and dance-like martial arts movements, which is even more excessive than the third generation represented by Tsui Hark. This is not very optimistic in the eyes of Chinese, but it is very popular among foreigners.

And domestic action movies have developed to the sixth generation......

It is the film "The Trace of the Widows" by Xu Haofeng, a film school teacher who participated in the Venice Film Festival this time, this style has moved towards de-exaggeration, and all the actions are real kung fu, one board and one eye, one move and one style.

However, the ornamentality has been greatly reduced, and the authenticity has been enhanced.

Including the later "Taoist Priest Descending the Mountain" and "The Grandmaster" all took this route, but the audience did not want to see it.

It's far away, but when it comes to Jet Li, it will be about action movies and changes in martial arts styles.

Jet Li was also very happy to hold He Fang's hand.

"Ah, I have long heard that there is a great young man in our Chinese film industry, and I finally met him today, and I am fortunate to meet him."

"Haha, Brother Li praised it falsely. Director Cheng, hello, it's a pleasure to meet you. He Fang immediately shook hands with Cheng Xiaodong.

Although Cheng Xiaodong was a little unhappy, he didn't make a sound, just smiled and nodded.

After that, the two sides greeted each other, and both actors and producers were in the line.

However, this is just a little bit of a chill, and there is no time for everyone to chatter, because the red carpet will start soon.

The Venice red carpet is not so much topical, after all, the domestic media care about the three major film festivals is different.

Cannes is recognized by everyone as the most concerned by everyone, just watch the news, so many stars go to Cannes on the red carpet, why don't they go to other film festivals? It shows that the degree of persistence is different.

The opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival started uneventfully, officially opened at 7 o'clock in the evening, and the movie began at half past seven, and in the middle half an hour, the chairman of the festival, Marco Muller, went up to talk about it, and then the jury appeared.

This time, the jury was divided into two parts, the main competition unit and the horizon unit.

The jury of the main competition unit is Darren Aronofsky, a director from the United States, who many people may not know. In fact, he is one of the directors of American art school films, won the Golden Lion, and won the Oscar "Black Swan" directed by him in February.

If you are interested in carefully examining the previous jury chairmen of the three major film festivals, you will find that many jury chairmen are directors from the United States, and there are also many films from the United States, and many have won awards.

illustrates a problem, that is, whether a film can win awards has little to do with whether it is a director-centered system or a producer-centered system, and the films made by other producer-centered systems are the same as awards.

Of course, there is another problem, that is, the United States has always sent people to control the artistic trend of the three major film festivals at any time, and it is difficult to win awards if it is not in their favor.

For example, this is the case with the shortlisted film "Saidek Bale" in Taiwan Province at this film festival, and it is impossible for such a film to give an award.

In addition to the chairman of the jury is an American, there is also an American among the other six judges, his name is Todd Hines, he also won the Venice Golden Lion, and his most famous film was directed in 2015, called "Carol" won the Palme d'Or, who knows him.

He Fang is very familiar with this film, not only did he explain it in another time and space, but at the same time, many authors used it to pretend to win awards in entertainment in another time and space.

Therefore, there is no shortage of art film directors in the United States, and the United States also controls the three major film festivals.

Of course, one of the reasons why this Venice did not like He Fang was that there was a Chinese chairman of the jury, that is, the chairman of the jury, who was in charge of the single-line judging of the horizon.

"Okay, please enjoy the opening film "March 15th", a film from the United States, directed by George Clooney, starring Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, etc."

After Marco Müller finished speaking, the audience burst into thunderous applause.

", this kind of exposure of the pseudo-democratic elections in the United States can also be filmed? Why don't we introduce this kind of film? Halfway through the movie, Deng Chao couldn't help but whisper.

"Poof" A few people around laughed, and there were some things that everyone tacitly knew. Just as Chinese films are always promoted to the world by criticizing the system and presenting the darkness of the country, or showing the backwardness of the country, the image of China seen by the global audience is also black and backward.

But strangely, films that critique the darkness of America are rarely seen globally, or are few. Is it that no one filmed? Of course not.

Do you think it's strange that even China and Russia, which are competitors of the United States, will not introduce films that criticize the United States?

Of course, even if it is introduced, there will be people who say, 'Look at how free it is to be criticized.'"

What is the movie "March 15th" about?

It's probably a story like this: Mike Morris, the perfect donkey politician at the core, is smart, handsome, ambitious, and full of leadership, and he assures the public that he will be honest with what he says.

Stephen was the media spokesman for his campaign, and the new recruit almost overshadowed Paul, the veteran of the campaign.

However, politics is slowly showing its own sinisterness, and Stephen has a love affair with Molly, a college student who comes for an internship, but inadvertently discovers that Morris has a one-night stand with her, and Molly is pregnant with a child. Subsequently, Stephen's private meeting with Morris's rival campaign director was revealed, and he was forced to resign, and Molly committed suicide as a result......

Not to mention, the criticism and satire of Americans are also merciless, but what the world sees is more of Hollywood's propaganda of universal values.

……

The opening ceremony of Venice opened in such a calm manner, and of course it took a lot of time to report it in China.

After all, there are five Chinese films shortlisted, two from Hong Kong, one from Taiwan Province, and two from the mainland.

"Ha, Venice is good-looking this time, will it be covered by Chinese films?"

"You're thinking too much upstairs, how could this happen? Sometimes movies are just a kind of promotion, and it is not really a monopoly on the awards of countries with many shortlisted films. ”

"Why are so many Chinese films suddenly shortlisted? I usually don't see a few excellent literary movies released. ”

"It's not that it's not released, it's that the film isn't scheduled, it's that the audience doesn't like to watch it. There are only a few that can be released and played, and so far there is "Single Zoo" with the biggest momentum and the best box office. ”

"Who can watch it, I've watched a few films, I've tried it, but I can't stand it, so I watched "Single Zoo" from somewhere."

"Come on, come on, the highlight moment of Chinese cinema."

"Highlight your sister, the box office is pressed to death, it is obviously the lowest moment, do you want to say that it is the highlight moment? What role does winning the award have on the development of the film? Is it the development of film technology, or have domestic films snatched back the box office throne? Or have we created a new concept for film? ”

", movies are art, you shout at the box office these days, what's the use of the box office, art should return to art......"

"Phew......"

"Alas, it's noisy again, and the Internet doesn't have a safe time."

……

After the opening ceremony, there was nothing to do, and He Fang was not interested in participating in various activities.

Each of them had a booklet in their hand, which listed the various activities during the festival.

The main thing is the film screening, He Fang gave the crew an itinerary, that is, to mark the premieres of all Chinese films, which everyone must gather to participate, and the Chinese must give the Chinese a cheer.

Then there were the three screenings of "Sunburning" during the Venice Film Festival, and they had to be there to thank the audience for all three of these three screenings.

The rest is free time, you can go to the movies if you want, and you can play as much as you want.

Of course, each actor's agency team has activities scheduled, when will this popularity not rub off? Take some commercials, take photos with celebrities, wear what clothes and then report in the media a "so-and-so sexy photo shines in Venice" and the like.

In addition, there will also be arrangements for appropriate relaxation to travel around, and there will also be arrangements to go to the movies.

After all, the Venice Film Festival can openly and legally criticize films that are more open than island films with an artistic vision, so what is it like to watch island movies in the cinema with a group of foreigners?

It's a pity that he can't find a companion to see, so he can't go with Huang Yi, and he won't touch Huang Yi.

The first day passed like this, and the next day everyone had to gather, because there was a Chinese film to premiere today, and this film was "Sedek Bale", which had to be supported.

At half past two in the afternoon, He Fang took the crew of "Scorching Sun" to the Theater of the Annual Exhibition Palace.

"Oh, Director He, hello, hello, thank you for your support." Wei Desheng greeted him at the door of the movie palace and shook He Fang's hand to thank him.

"Director Wei is polite, as a filmmaker, how can you not come to see a good movie? Especially about a historical film about the resistance to Japan, I like it better. The real history of many Taiwan provinces has been covered up, and Director Wei can show these real things to the world, and I sincerely admire them. It has to be supported, and it has to be supported. ”

That's right, that's one of the reasons why He Fang must bring the crew to support.

"Heh, what a bold guide, I must be more critical when I look back."

"You're welcome, you're welcome."

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(End of chapter)