You made me a superstar

Chapter 443 The Water Is Too Deep, You Can't Hold It

As the oldest and the world's first international film festival, the Venice Film Festival's reputation is not as good as Berlin and Cannes.

Even Christopher, the judge and chairman of this year's Venice International Film Festival, was criticized for criticizing the opening ceremony of the Venice International Film Festival and various film screening ceremonies just like rural cinemas...

Affiliated to the water city of Venice, in order to create an atmosphere combining "man and nature", the organizer specially invited art designers to design a series of retro "night open-air exhibitions", accompanied by the sound of swaying water and the high moon , The misty and exotic style creates a wonderful movie-watching experience, which makes people linger and forget to return...

The idea was really beautiful, but within a few days after these films were screened, there was continuous drizzle, which forced the organizers to find a way to move some of the screening areas indoors. After going back and forth, the entire film festival seemed rushed and embarrassed. The designer was directly scolded to doubt life...

After finally stabilizing the screening of the film, something went wrong at the final awards ceremony of the Venice International Film Festival.

"Poverty to the bone!"

"Practicing in literature and art, pretending to be noble, so poor that you can't afford it, you don't even let the audience's pockets go..."

"International film festivals should strike a balance between business and art. You can see how successful Cannes is. It perfectly combines business and art. It is getting bigger and bigger. It seems to be the top three film festivals in Europe... ..."

"No face!"

Similar invective came days before the opening of the awards ceremony at the Venice International Film Festival.

This year's chairman Christopher's show operation has discredited the overall sanctity and atmosphere of the entire Venice International Film Festival.

Sell ​​tickets!

And it's an audience ticket for the film festival!
Why do not you go to hell?
Focusing on the discovery of literary and artistic films, commercial films cannot enter the Venice International Film Festival. The purpose of the Venice International Film Festival has made the Venice International Film Festival poorer and poorer. In addition, a few European judges are self-proclaimed, and they are picky about some commercial sponsorships. point, I am afraid that it will affect the authority of the Venice International Film Festival, and because of the coquettish manipulation of the organizer's designers, the final Venice International Film Festival will make people's brains hurt...

But despite being scolded, filmmakers from all over the world still supported half the sky of the Venice International Film Festival.

The boats on the edge of the water city were all overcrowded, and there were even some shipwreck accidents...

Zhou Yang saw with his own eyes several elegant and luxurious crews rolling in the river, and finally made it quite unseemly in the sunset, and was once photographed by various people...

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"Damn it, I don't even want my real face, it costs so much money to rent a venue!"

"Professing not to be contaminated with any commercial factors, but just started selling screenings..."

"Being a whore again, and setting up a memorial arch..."

"Is this still the Venice International Film Festival?"

sunset.

Feng Kai held the bill cursingly, and stood at the gate of the Venice International Film Festival, feeling quite gloomy in his chest.

This year's Venice International Film Festival has a really bad reputation, not only selling tickets, but even cheating filmmakers' money.

Huaxia participated in the Venice Awards Ceremony with only two films, but there were quite a lot of films invited to participate in the exhibition. In half a month, a rough count shows that nearly 20 Huaxia films were screened.

Among the more than 20 films, although the quality is online, the content is uneven, commercial, literary, BL, and even some banned films that Zhou Yang has never heard of...

Any type of movie has it!

Ok……

The so-called invitations are actually all a pretense, and basically money is spent internally, and there is a lot of money, all in units of millions of dollars.

Feng Kai's "Jinyiwei" has a good reputation in China, but in the West, especially the Venice International Film Festival, which focuses on the field of literary and artistic films, some people don't like it. After trying to manage the western market, after the "Jin Yiwei" all the filming was finished, not a single film producer came over, and there were not even many viewers...

There is a big difference between "invited screenings" and normal screenings.

Not only is the schedule of the film relatively dark, but also the places where the screenings are far away from the screening area. Basically, the title of "invited" screening is hung, and you are left to fend for yourself. At first there were some people, but later more and more people The less, all were attracted by the normal screening area on the other side.

The insiders of the film festival, and even many judges did not admit that these "invited screening" films had anything to do with them!

This made Feng Kai inexplicably feel cheated.

But other directors were very excited, especially some directors who had just lifted the ban. They went to the Venice International Film Festival with their films, doing all kinds of screenings and promotions, and still immersed in the dream of international directors.

Of course, there are some advantages to being invited to show movies, that is, each movie can have a red carpet invitation letter, and a ticket to the film festival...

This made many actresses with international dreams happy collectively. They showed their faces on the red carpet in fancy dresses. The younger ones were quite conservative, and they still had a little bulge, while the older actresses didn’t care.弱21, making all kinds of headshots and poses, wishing that the photographer would put the camera on their chests, as much fun as they want.

"Wow! President Zhou!"

"Wow Mr. Zhou, can we take a photo together?"

"Mr. Zhou, my name is Han Yaya, I am a singer, and I admire you very much..."

"Mr. Zhou..."

"..."

Before the red carpet, Zhou Yang saw many speechless things.

After seeing him, countless Chinese actresses posted them together as if they saw some sweet pastry, wishing to squeeze Zhou Yang flat with those proud places.

Zhou Yang was very embarrassed, trying to keep his distance, and hinted that he didn't like it, but he couldn't stand the enthusiasm and unrestrainedness of these people...

Especially when he was walking the red carpet, Zhou Yang even felt that his body was not his own...

This buddy Zhao Zhen is even worse. The influence of the movie "Lighthouse by the Sea" is too great. Not only many western female stars posted it, but even many male stars also posted it...

"Mr. Zhou, I was kissed by that black man..."

"vomit!"

"I suddenly don't want to make that movie..."

After walking the red carpet, Zhao Zhen ran towards the bathroom immediately. When he came back, his stomach was still churning, and he was obviously terrified.

Zhou Yang smiled wryly, and instead of speaking, he walked towards the awards ceremony hall.

This circle seems to be like this, everyone is seeking positions in various ways, trying every means to build relationships, the competition is as cruel as the battlefield full of gunpowder in ancient times.

After being seated, Zhao Zhen's side was even more crowded. Countless producers and directors surrounded Zhao Zhen and surrounded him like a superstar, making Feng Kai jealous for a while.

"Zhao Zhen is quite famous in the circle... I heard inside information from Christian that Zhao Zhen is very likely to win the big prize. Damn it, he can't be the actor!"

"No, I think it should be the best newcomer...Zhao Zhen is a newcomer at the Venice International Film Festival..." Li Qiang, the head of the production team of "Infernal Affairs" next to him, wearing a Rolex and looking like a dog, shook his head.

"The best newcomer award is awesome too, this is the main competition unit award!" Feng Kai stared at Zhao Zhen who was surrounded by him, his eyes were about to bleed.

"Director Feng, what if the best actor is Mr. Zhou? What if the best newcomer is Mr. Zhou? Mr. Christian, one of the judges, has a very good relationship with our Mr. Zhou, so he will be a bit more inclined... and we "Infernal Affairs" "Tao" has many Asian film stars, Liu Hua, Zeng Jiabao..."

"Yes! I've been hearing "Lighthouse by the Sea" in Venice recently. I've heard it so much that my ears are callused..."

Feng Kai turned his head to look at the crew of "Infernal Affairs" next to him.

After seeing those people, Feng Kai was still in a complicated mood.

The last time he had this expression was when Zhou Yang boarded the award in Berlin...

That time, he was a supporting role in front of the TV.

This time, it was a little better. With the qualification of "invited to the screening", he came to the scene and sat in a relatively front seat.

but……

Still a supporting role to witness others.

Not far away, Liu Hua heard someone mentioning him, so he raised his head and looked around unconsciously, and then sat back on the chair.

Senior Zeng Jiabao patted him on the shoulder...

Liu Hua, as the king of heaven, has experienced the era when the three kings of Xiangjiang fought for hegemony. He has seen strong winds and waves, and boasted about the artists of film, television and music. He should be peaceful, but at this moment he seems a little nervous.

these years……

His acting skills have always been criticized.

Although he has been nominated for Best Actor of the Golden Image Awards many times and won an award in the millennium, he has been ridiculed by the outside world and the major media as "the best actor in the millennium" and "the beginning of the collapse of the Hong Kong film circle"... …

When he took the movie king, he didn't care about these rumors at all, and was immersed in the joy of success all the time.

But as Xiangjiang movies started to get worse and the talents continued to flow out, these rumors began to become mainstream opinions, and even many film critics began to think so. Affected by it, it seemed that his film The award-winning movie "Future Man" was full of negative reviews!
This made Liu Hua so angry that he didn't know what to say. He fell into depression for a while. He has been eager to prove himself these years, but many things are like this. The more you prove yourself, the more cheating you are. Although the influence in China still belongs to the top-level senior figures, the whole person seems to be nailed to the pillar of shame...

He was invited to appear in "Infernal Affairs" to prove his...

Although Zhou Yang is young, his resume is astonishing, especially in the International Film Festival, where he can beat some old-fashioned artists in the Huaxia Cafe.

At the age of 26, he participated in four international film festivals.

Twice in Cannes, once in Berlin, and once at an Oscar!

It won both awards, and the Oscar-level award ceremony even won the best screenwriter award.

Why don't you follow Zhou Yang?

This time "Infernal Affairs" really won the nomination award!

And there are quite a few nominations.

Best individual screenplay award, he and Zhou Yang won the best actor award at the same time...

A total of three nominations for awards!

You know this is the Venice International Film Festival!
Among the three major film festivals in Europe, the film festival with the highest gold content as a whole!

Thinking of this, Liu Hua Liu Tianwang, who is already in his 40s, stared at the big screen again, and his nervousness deepened a bit.

Immediately afterwards, he looked at "Night Walker" on the other side.

Li Yaozong Li Tianwang from "Night Walker" is also sitting not far away...

"Nightwalker" also received several nominations, and even won an award such as the Silver Lion Award for Best Director.

During the period when the Three Heavenly Kings were fighting for hegemony, his appearance and acting skills were not as good as Li Tianwang, and his singing and dancing were not as good as Guo Tianwang. He belonged to all-round development, but he was not an outstanding one among the three heavenly kings.

Compared to Liu Hua's unlucky situation, Li Tianwang definitely got the script for the leading actor. Not long after his debut, he won the Best Actor Award at the Golden Statue Award, and his second film "Returning in the Night" won the Best Actor Award at the Golden Horse Award...

Several times Liu Tianwang became the background board at the awards ceremony, watching him on stage to accept the award.

This time, it won't be...

The awards ceremony was very noisy.

Amidst the noise, Zhou Yang maintained a calm expression. Even though it was his first time at the Venice International Film Festival, many things were novel, but he didn't feel much excitement.

Since his narrow escape in "Struggle", Zhou Yang's mood has never been more peaceful. He is very satisfied and wealthy in his current life, and he is not particularly competitive. It doesn't make much sense to him whether he wins or not.

Just as the awards ceremony was about to begin, Zhou Yang felt a familiar figure approaching.

He turned his head, but saw that figure was Song Yiyi.

"Teacher Song, you... I thought you weren't coming..."

"Come too early and there are too many media. I will come when there is less media, so it will be less crowded..."

"Oh."

"Zhou Yang..."

"what?"

"It's nothing."

After Song Yiyi sat down, she glanced at Zhou Yang, seemed to hesitate to speak, then finally shook her head, turned her head and looked calmly at the big screen in front of her.

Zhou Yang looked at Song Yiyi suspiciously, he always felt that Song Yiyi seemed weird.

Before Zhou Yang thought about what was going on, he saw a familiar figure approaching again.

"Director Zhou..."

"Director Jiang, hello..."

"Director Zhou...I..."

"Director Jiang, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, it's fine, it's fine..."

Django hesitated for a moment, hesitating to speak again flashed across his face, finally nodded and returned to the position of "Nightwalker".

Zhou Yang looked at Jiang Ge's back and frowned.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but he feels that Jiang Ge has really changed a lot. He seems to have matured a lot, and he is less hostile to himself, but he seems to be a lot haggard...

When he was sitting in his seat, Zhou Yang found that Jiang Ge hadn't talked to Li Tianwang and his group, and looked lonely, as if separated by a transparent membrane.

"Xiao Zhou……"

"what?"

Zhou Yang turned his head again and saw another figure approaching and patted him on the shoulder.

"Listen to my uncle's advice, the water of superheroes is too deep, you can't grasp it...don't make any "Spiderman"...this is not the movie you can make now..."

Zhou Yang turned his head and saw Zhou Yilin, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, also approaching. The first sentence he said was sincere.

(End of this chapter)