You don't understand the happiness of the director

In the movie theater that had just been replaced with a Chinese giant screen at the Cinema Palace, hundreds of industry colleagues and lucky spectators packed the movie theater to capacity.

Many movie fans from China have not been able to buy tickets. Even if they paid 10,000 yuan, it was useless. The movie will be released in China next month, but it is not known when overseas, and Cannes only shows This one.

There is a movie poster at the door. The poster is divided into two colors: red and blue. The top is Chen Kun's front, and the bottom is Ni Ni's back.

Before the movie officially started, Wang Quan took Chen Kun and Ni Ni to introduce them to some contacts. This is also one of the benefits of working with famous directors.

In the past, legends like Spielberg, who are at the top of the directing industry, were completely out of their reach. Now they can say to them gently: I look forward to your performance.

Wang Quan also had a few words with Li Bian. Li Bian had not been very successful in the past few years. After "Brokeback Mountain", his glory was gone, and he gradually fell out of the first-line director echelon. Later, Long Toutou gave him a hand.

If any of King Quan's works are shortlisted for the main competition this year, Li Bian will definitely go out of his way to compete with Spielberg to win the award for him.

What a pity, what a pity.

Soon, the film officially started. These people, including the festival chairman Gilles Jacob, had seen the film for the first time. People on the review committee had seen it and highly recognized the quality of the film. , with their praise, this film got the opportunity to be the opening film.

The movie is not a sequential story. At the beginning, Li Xianji went to the psychiatry department to see Dr. Wang Hongxing. However, because of "jet lag syndrome", a condition not recognized by modern medicine, he was deemed to be mentally ill and was subsequently imprisoned in a mental hospital.

When Li Xianji was transported to the mental hospital in a car, the twists and turns of the mountain city and the ups and downs of its three-dimensional structure were initially revealed.

Then Li Xianji found Dr. Wang Hongxing in the mental hospital who had treated him before. Only then did he realize that a long time had passed and his jet lag had returned.

Dr. Wang Hongxing, played by Wang Zhiwen, is not sick. He just likes the atmosphere of staying with mentally ill people. He feels that these people are more irritable to him than the normal people outside.

As the two talked, time went back to the time when Li Xianji met Wang Hongxing for the first time. At that time, Li Xianji was still a young man and was in love with his girlfriend Wang Qian.

However, because jet lag is uncontrollable, it brings them a lot of trouble.

In the mental hospital, Li Xianji got two bottles of pills from Dr. Wang, which were the results of his research over the years.

One of the characteristics of jet lag syndrome is its randomness. You don't know when it will appear, and these two bottles of pills can make him sick immediately after taking them.

A bottle of red can slow down time.

A bottle of blue can make jet lag manifest as time speeding up.

Then Dr. Wang urged him to try it quickly, "You are the only patient with jet lag I have seen. After this medicine is made, I don't know who to try it on."

Li Xianji thought for a while and took a blue pill. He began to feel confused. Doctor Wang slapped him to wake him up.

Then there was a scene where Li Xianji was slapped on the face. He appeared in a bar, had a conflict with a rough man, and was slapped.

And he had no idea why.

This is the first time that jet lag has been presented in audio-visual language in a movie.

Some people in the audience couldn't help but cheer in their hearts. This setting is wonderful, and a lot of suspense suddenly appeared.

The opponent was very cruel, and Li Xianji seemed to be no match for him. When he was in danger, he took out the medicine bottle in his pocket, whether it was red or blue, and took one after taking it out.

Then, the opponent's fist suddenly slowed down.

Not only that, the people watching around him also slowed down.

So Li Xianji easily dodged the attack. Then he switched the perspective. In the eyes of the onlookers, the violent man was still as violent as ever, but the movements of the person being beaten suddenly became faster.

Relying on this plug-in, Li Xianji easily subdued the opponent, but there were too many people on the opponent. Although Li Xianji was fast, his physical strength quickly ran out, so he chose to run.

The next scene is very beautiful and very cyberpunk.

The neon lights of the mountain city are beautiful, but different time flow speeds are used here, making it even more dreamy and blurry.

Spielberg has always felt that except for the original "Juno", which was very personal, all of King Power's works are commercial, including "Slumdog Millionaire" which swept the Oscars and "Inception" which was canonized.

But it wasn't until he saw "The Adventures of Li Xianji" that he discovered that Wang Quan also had audio-visual pursuits. The film aesthetics in this movie were very advanced.

And Li Yin believes that although it is a feature film, judging from the parts he has seen so far, this film may even be in the main competition. With this color scheme and this camerawork, he might be the same as Wong Kar-Wai. It will inspire many new directors.

In this movie, Wang Quan’s attempts at audio-visual language don’t stop there. Considering that if the audience can’t understand this movie, there will at least be something to chew on, so Wang Quan shot it very carefully and did a lot of preparation work. Year.

When escaping, Li Xianji looked at the date and found that a month had passed since he was imprisoned in a mental hospital.

He didn't know what happened this month, but he wanted to know what happened to him and Wang Qian, so he returned home.

Because of his jet lag, he has the habit of keeping a diary. He wants to find the diary and find his lover.

So the timeline went back to when they were teenagers, when the two met for the first time, and Li Xianji returned home and buried many details.

Because it involves the original concept of time lag, it is inevitable that the timeline will be disrupted. However, with the experience of "Inception", King Quan has proven its strong narrative ability.

So even though the character speaks Chinese, with English and French subtitles, the audience can basically understand the story, and some people even doubt whether this disease really exists.

Famous Chinese film critic Zhou Liming was also invited to attend the premiere. He was once called "China's Roger Ebert" by the Los Angeles Times and has written many works about film criticism and the film industry.

To be honest, he admires Wang Quan very much. He has achieved such great achievements on the world film stage in just his twenties. There is no doubt that he is the pride of the Chinese people and the morning star of Chinese films.

However, the two films Wang Quan shot after returning to China made him a little disappointed. If "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" has some progressive significance in laying out the industrialization of film, then "Rich Second Generation" is just making money, although both films are below the standard. But this is not what a director of his level should do!

Until now when he saw "The Adventures of Li Xianji", Zhou Liming finally became excited. Originally, he wanted to record it while watching it so that he could write a film review later.

But at this time, he had closed the book. The movie had been playing for half an hour, and he was now able to give it five stars.

The reason why he no longer keeps records is to watch the movie more immersedly. It is easy to make mistakes if you don't watch movies related to time and space carefully, and he can feel that there are many details in this movie.

He may have to wait until the movie is officially released and watch it in the theater a few more times before he dares to write.

The movie continues to develop, and Zhou Liming solves a previous doubt.

Because the concept of "jet lag" is the acceleration or slowdown of the senses, Li Xianji took the red pill and developed jet lag, but it seemed like he had gained superpowers. So this disease is not bad at all.

Later, through the reminiscence part, Li Xianji told the audience that this ability was acquired through training, and the person who taught him was Wang Qian, the only time-lag patient like himself he knew in the world.

The girl who played Xiao Wang Qian was pretty good. Although she wasn't as pretty as Ni Ni, she still performed her charm.

It should be a newcomer, Director Quan also has a way of training actors.

Although the royal rights of plots such as cutting the waist and replacing robot hands in the original animation are not retained, there are also many unusual operations by Li Xianji in the movie, which provide a lot of laughs and enrich the character's personality, and are also very helpful in the narrative. .

The charm of key animations is completely retained.

Wonderful!

When the daughter of the American president played by Anne Hathaway appeared on TV, Zhou Liming, who had watched the original animation, was curious about what would happen next.

The movie King Power also had an investment of 300 million. In addition to the third movie, he gave a big salary increase to the mainland behind-the-scenes team that he has been cooperating with and used smoothly. After all, this movie is a special effects blockbuster.

Later, in order to work as a bodyguard for Anne Hathaway and make money to find a wife, he boarded a sea ship.

In order to kill Annie, the mastermind behind the scenes planned to bury the entire ship with him.

At the critical moment, Li Xianji took a small red pill.

But it didn't work, everyone else was still too fast.

So he simply poured a handful of red pills into his mouth.

So the people around and the ship that was about to be in distress all stopped.

Then Li Xianji put on his headphones and listened to mountain folk songs with unique local characteristics while leisurely rescuing the people on the boat and putting them on the lifeboat.

This scene is so refreshing, Li Xianji, who has always looked like a mental patient, seems like a savior.

Seeing this scene, Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios, opened his mouth wide.

Yes, this, this is the feeling of Quicksilver that you want!

In order to promote "Iron Man 3", Kevin Feige came to Cannes and learned that King Quan's new film was the opening ceremony film, so he naturally came to join in the fun. The two had a good relationship, and King Quan even recommended an actor to him.

The script of "Avengers 2" has been completed, and several new actors have been cast. It will start filming around the end of this year. Among them, Dr. Helen Zhao is Clara recommended by Wang Quan.

The newly added characters this time are mainly the brother and sister Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.

At this time, the strength shown by Li Xianji, who was suffering from time lag syndrome, was the feeling of Quicksilver he wanted. Moreover, because Li Xianji was not easy to use, his process of saving people also had a sense of tragedy.

He rescued everyone on the ship within a few minutes before the ship sank, but his physical strength was completely exhausted and he was very uncomfortable.

So he took the little blue pill, hoping to get over this painful day as soon as possible.

Then the camera turned to the cemetery and the tombstones.

The little blue pill is like a fast-forward button. The audience thought that the protagonist died, but the camera shot back and showed Li Xian's plan standing in front of the tombstone.

The audience chuckled in relief, but when the camera fell on the tombstone and saw Dr. Wang's name and photo, everyone's hearts became heavy again.

Before his death, Doctor Wang left other clues to Li Xianji to find Wang Qian.

After another half hour, the movie entered a high-energy stage, absurd yet so reasonable.

There is also a big shot in the audience, Jonathan Nolan.

Director Nolan's younger brother is also the screenwriter of many of Nolan's films. He even wrote a movie about dreams for his brother, but because there had already been such an excellent movie about dreams as "Inception", it was not made in the end. Green light via Warner.

After successfully completing the project of "The Dark Knight Rises", the project of "Interstellar" fell on Nolan. This is a project that has been in place for a long time.

However, after the Nolan brothers handled it, it became a work unique to their style.

The film has now been shot and is in post-production and will be released next year.

But Nolan discovered that "Interstellar" and "Li Xianji" actually collided with the core creativity, but one was based on love and the other was family affection.

Jonathan Nolan: I feel like I’ve been living in the shadow of the throne.

But Nolandi was thinking more about pride at this time. In terms of international status and reputation in the industry, his brother would definitely not be able to compare to King David.

But their movies actually came together. Isn't this what Chinese people often say: "Heroes see the same thing."

Moreover, the two films were completed in about the same time. "Interstellar" has also been filmed, so there is no need to worry about plagiarism charges.

When both movies are released, will people say that they are the most outstanding duo among the new generation of directors?

Nolandi thinks that his brother can definitely take advantage of this popularity.

After more than 130 minutes passed, the audience burst into warm applause, which lasted for a long time.

Ni Ni was even more moved and wiped her tears.

It turns out that my role is less than I thought!

But it’s so touching. This is the best love movie I’ve ever seen!

He was even more moved than "Titanic". In the movie where the ship sank, Wang Quan even spoofed the famous scene in "Titanic" where Jack and Roux died.

Gilles Jacob felt that he should have seen this film in advance. If he had seen it in advance, he would definitely persuade King David to participate in the main competition unit.

Although this is a commercial film, the film is full of commercial scenes and plots made for the audience's money, such as the operations after taking the little red pill and controlling the power of time, especially saving a boatload of people, which is the most cliché and refreshing.

But the core of the movie is "love" and "regret", and the performance is so high-level and so alternative. This is so rare. Even those art masters will not have such ingenuity.

The movie is also beautiful, the images are beautiful, and the lighting is amazing. From an audio-visual perspective, this movie is also worthy of praise!

At the end of the movie, Gilles Jacob held Wang Quan's hand and said, "David, you must consider Cannes for your next film! We are willing to do it even if it is a commercial film, except of course "Star Wars"..."

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