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Chapter 268 Filming (Earth)

By the 7th day of the Venice Film Festival, many excellent films had already stood out, including the new film by director Luca of "Call Me by Your Name", the new film "The Poet" by the director of "Birdman", "Father Trapped in Time" and "The Poet". "Son Trapped in My Mind" is the new work of director Florian, and it is also the end of the trilogy. This film stars Anthony Hopkins, who is well-known to domestic audiences.

Of course, Tilda Swinton's new film "The Eternal Daughter" who plays the role of "The Ancient One", "Spanish Rose" Penelope Cruz's new film "Huge" and so on.

As the finale of the three major European film festivals, the Venice Film Festival has become more and more influential in recent years. We can see such films as "La La Land", "The Shape of Water", "Joker" and "The Power of Dogs". After being screened in Venice first, it won a lot of excellent films at the Oscars, so more and more directors are throwing themselves into the arms of Venice.

As a producer, Xing Shuwen also accepted a series of interviews. Xing Shuwen recalled why "The Wave" was voted for the Venice Film Festival. At that time, it was because only the Venice Film Festival was still in the registration window. The film festival is long over.

But what he said is: "...The filming intention and method of "The Wave", as well as its main idea of ​​speaking for women, only the Venice Film Festival is the best platform to showcase it. The Venice Film Festival has a very serious temperament , it was born to discover the purest art that serves film."

Natsuka Mikami said in an interview: "...I am very grateful to Director Truman for speaking out for Japanese actresses through my performance. We are a group ignored by the film industry. I believe there are thousands of people like me in the world. I hope they can stand up and become part of the history of world cinema, not a dark corner."

Truman said in an interview: "...Yes, there are other shooting plans."

The interviewer noticed that there was a video camera and two Asians in the interview space where they were. He thought it was a reporter from a TV station, but it seemed that Truman brought it himself, because he heard Truman talking to him in Chinese. chat.

"...This is Feng Zikai, the director of "The Back Waves", and this is Lu Jieyu, the photographer." Truman introduced to the reporter of "Movie Handbook".

"Cinema Handbook", as the first magazine to find out the inside story of "The Wave", has become very popular recently, so the magazine is going to make persistent efforts to find news points from Truman. Lu Linlang also reciprocates. Interview requests, always arranged first.

Now the reporter's question is about Truman's next filming plan. As a new director, is there any other content, theme and spirit that he wants to show.

But Truman gave an affirmative answer, and introduced a director and a photographer on the spot, which caused the reporter's brain to be in a state of confusion. The question was about the "future" shooting plan, and the answer was "now". What about filming?

"May I ask what kind of movie "The Back Wave" is?" the reporter asked.

"'The Wave' is the follow-up to 'The Wave'." Truman said, "Because the length of "The Wave" is too short, it can only participate in the presentation of the best short film section of the horizon, so we plan to lengthen the length of the film, and then we can participate in the best short film competition." The competition for the film is over."

The reporter still couldn't turn his head around, because this was an unheard of operation, he tried to understand it, and then asked: "Are you going to participate in next year's Venice Film Festival?"

"This year." Truman answered patiently.

"But this year's declaration is over, and the review has also come to an end, and the window period has long passed." The reporter said.

"Yes, we have successfully declared, so we will sit here and discuss "The Wave" and "The Back Wave." Truman's patience is simply unlimited, and the logic of his mind can also loop infinitely, and he is in harmony with himself.

"Then... what is the content of "The Back Wave"?" The reporter barely understood.

"Everything that's happening now," Truman said, "everything that's happening on the Lido around The Wave."

The reporter's eyes lit up, this is really a wonderful idea, very pioneering, very experimental, and great!But there is also the biggest problem.

"But what you want to show is a new movie!" The reporter pointed out, "That won't be accepted by the jury!"

"Really?" Truman was slightly surprised, he looked at the director Feng Zikai.

"Ah?" Feng Zikai let out an 'ah' and looked at Lu Jieyu again.

"Oh?" Lu Jieyu said 'oh', not knowing who he should look at.

Because Xing Shuwen felt that "The Wave" was too short, Lu Linlang also lamented this point again and again, thinking that this was the biggest flaw and regret of not being able to win the award.

So Truman discussed with Feng Zikai and Lu Jieyu, and then the three of them collided with each other with their only IQs. At that moment, perhaps blessed by 'foolishness', they collided with a wonderful idea that would be praised by many filmmakers. It is to supplement the length of "The Wave" with everything that happened around "The Wave" participating in the Venice Film Festival.

"As long as it is supplemented to 70 minutes, it can be as long as other short films. If it is supplemented to 100 minutes, it can participate in the best film of the horizon. If it can be supplemented to 140 minutes, it can even participate in the main competition unit and compete for the Golden Lion Award. !"

The meager brains of the three people got together and sparked a spark of genius under the blessing of "stupidity". The only problem is that they didn't consider whether the judging committee could accept it.

"How about participating in the next film festival?" Truman asked the reporter.

"Because "The Wave" has already applied for this year's film festival, and it does not belong to the premiere, it loses its qualifications, unless it goes to other European film festivals or Oscars." The reporter said to Truman, he thought it was a pity, It's a genius idea, but why can't you read the rules?This is the basic rule.

"Oscar can~" Truman clapped his hands and said.

"That's right, Oscar~" Feng Zikai smiled.

"Yes yes, it's time to go to the Oscars~" Lu Jieyu said.

The air was filled with a happy atmosphere for a while, and the reporter didn't know what the three were happy about.

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In the last few days of the film festival, Lu Linlang couldn't catch the shadow of Truman, because Truman said that he really wanted to meet Todd, the director of "Joker", so Lu Linlang tried his best to get a dinner related to Todd invitation letter.

During the Venice Film Festival, there were various directors and investors' dinner parties held. It was very difficult for Lu Linlang, who had no connections, to get this invitation letter, but she couldn't find the Truman figure. It was hard to get through. He called, but Lu Jieyu answered it.

Lu Linlang has a good impression of Lu Jieyu, the 'family'. He knows that he is the photographer of "I'm in Love with the Immortal". I know why I was called by Truman to the Venice Film Festival, and why I came.

There seemed to be a large and attractive circle around Trumen, but Lu Linlang couldn't understand why it existed.

"Filming?" Lu Linlang froze when she heard the voice from the phone.

What are you filming at the Venice Film Festival?

(End of this chapter)