I am a director, but I have the skills of an actor

Chapter 142 Stimulation, opposition

"Hello, Mr. Wan Qingshan!"

Wan Qingshan, who had just gotten off the plane, reached out and shook hands with this Berlin Film Festival staff member who could speak fluent Chinese.

"Hello there!"

"Mr. Wan Qingshan, we have prepared a hotel for you. Please come with me. I will take you to the hotel first."

Later, Wan Qingshan and Chen Chen followed the Berlin Film Festival staff member out of the airport, got in the car, and came to the hotel.

As soon as the staff left, Chen Chen murmured in a low voice, "Director Wan, didn't the Berlin Film Festival say they had prepared a translator for you? Why did you still let me come?"

Then, Chen Chen said with a smile on his face, "Director Wan, do you know that because you asked me to come to Berlin with you on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, what did my mother say about you?"

"What did you say?" Wan Qingshan turned around and asked.

"Hehe, my mother said, your boss is such a bastard that he will let you work on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year!"

"Haha, then I don't need to pay you overtime. After all, I am Zhou Papi. Have you ever seen any Zhou Papi pay you for overtime?"

"Director Wan, you are not Zhou Bapi, please don't deduct overtime pay from me." Chen Chen said anxiously.

Wan Qingshan smiled and said nothing, quickened his pace and followed the hotel attendant to the elevator.

When she arrived at the hotel room, Chen Chen was still saying not to deduct her overtime pay.

Wan Qingshan smiled and said, "You are a money addict, have you ever seen me deduct your salary?"

Chen Chen's face suddenly changed, from anxious to smiling, "Haha, of course I know that you, Director Wan, will not deduct my overtime pay, but if I don't cooperate, then Director Wan, you will feel very unfulfilled."

Wan Qingshan was stunned for a moment, opened the door and walked in.

"Director Wan, since I've been so cooperative and given you a sense of accomplishment, can you increase my overtime pay?" Chen Chen, who followed in, said with a smile.

Wan Qingshan turned around and rolled his eyes, "Now I know that you are cooperating with me on purpose. How can I still have a sense of accomplishment? I am almost a fool now."

Chen Chen rolled his big eyes and said with a smile, "Director Wan, I'm not telling you because I'm afraid that you won't know that I'm cooperating with you. Otherwise, Director Wan, let's do it again."

Wan Qingshan put down his suitcase and said with a smile, "Okay, if you have a chance next time, please cooperate with me. We don't have time now.

As for you, go back to your room and pack your things.Didn't you hear that person say just now?Berlin Film Festival Chairman Koslik will be coming soon. "

Chen Chen pouted slightly and turned around to go to the opposite room.

Koslik arrived very quickly, as soon as Wan Qingshan and Chen Chen collected their things.

Koslik came here for nothing, just to communicate and get to know Wanqingshan.

Looking at Wanqing Mountain, Koslik felt filled with emotion.

When Wan Qingshan won the Berlin Film Award and spoke on stage, he specifically thanked the Berlin Film Festival, which made him have a good impression of Wan Qingshan, and also specifically asked the staff to invite Wan Qingshan to the Berlin Film Festival in the future.

Who would have thought that in just over half a year, Wan Qingshan would have won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for "Heart in the Heart", and had a reputation recognized by everyone in the international film and television circles - the best acting director!

He had also watched "In the Heart" and was amazed by Wan Qingshan's amazing acting skills in the last 10 minutes. At the same time, he was also anxious.

For those 10 minutes, as long as Wan Qingshan gets older, he will be recognized as an acting master.

The acting maestro made his debut in Berlin, which is good for the Berlin Film Festival.

But his reputation soared only after he won the Golden Lion in Venice.In addition, with Mark Muller's relationship with the Chinese, this acting master is likely to become a direct descendant of the Venice Film Festival in the future.

The three major film festivals in Europe also compete with each other. The competing film festivals are directly related to each other. Only with more direct relations can the film festival continue to prosper.

So Koslik was anxious. Last year, because there were a lot of objections, his idea of ​​inviting Wan Qingshan to serve as a judge for the main competition of the Berlin Film Festival failed.

This year, there were still many voices opposing Wan Qingshan's role as a judge for the main competition, but they were all suppressed by him.

After Koslik left, Wan Qingshan led Chen Chen around.

After walking around for two times and looking at the surrounding scenery, Wanqingshan recalled that three years ago, when he had just made his debut and came to the Berlin Film Festival for his first film, he felt a little emotional!
Three years ago, he dared to take off his coat and put it on Chen Yumo at the Berlin Film Festival regardless of etiquette. Looking back now, he doesn't know if he dares to do that now.

The next day, Wan Qingshan led Chen Chen, led by Berlin Film Festival staff, to the Berlin Film Festival and met the seven members of the main competition unit jury headed by Charlotte Rampling.

After Wan Qingshan got to know each other, he discovered that the eight judges, including him, were all from different countries.

"The old policy of the Berlin Film Festival, political correctness!" Wan Qingshan muttered in his heart, and then sat down next to Lee Young-ae, a yellow-skinned Korean actor and the star of "Dae Jang Geum" among the seven judges. .

Afterwards, the eight people held a small meeting under the chairmanship of Charlotte Rampling.

Wan Qingshan came to the Berlin Film Festival just to make money, so he told Charlotte Rampling according to the internal procedures of the Berlin Film Festival, "Please review the films that have been reviewed in the first three days. Some films are not of good quality. Vote it out by voting, so as not to affect the public's perception of the Berlin Film Festival when the film is released to the outside world, I don't take it to heart.

He didn't take Charlotte Rampling's words to heart, but he was still upset because he said, 'The quality of the movie is not up to par'.

Although a month has passed since the incident, Wan Qingshan still feels a little irritable when he thinks about it!

On the second day of the ribbon-cutting meeting of Fanfan Company, Wan Qingshan and Chen Yumo went to Nortel School for a walk.

In order to prevent people from recognizing them, Wanqing Mountain is heavily blocked.

But just because he was too covered and too conspicuous, he and Chen Yumo were recognized after walking for a while.

Then, at the invitation of his old classmate Lu Jianli, Wan Qingshan gave a speech to his juniors who were still in school on New Year's Day and were seniors in the directing department.

Originally it was nothing, Wan Qingshan just talked some empty words, but unexpectedly, when he was about to finish speaking, a man took out the DV movie he had shot in front of everyone, hoping that Wan Qingshan would help recommend it to the Berlin Film Festival.

Suddenly, Wan Qingshan's heart was filled with anger!
In front of everyone, asking him to help recommend movies to the Berlin Film Festival is asking for his help. This is forcing him!

If he refuses, it will damage his reputation if word spreads. It will be said that he does not care about the friendship between classmates and actually does not even help his junior brother.

In desperation, Wan Qingshan could only say to watch a movie first.

Then, Wan Qingshan watched the DV movie with everyone.

This junior brother is very good at research. The DV movie he shot was actually an imitation of Wan Qingshan's first movie "Selection".

On the surface, "Selection" uses young people's previous love to reflect the young people who have just entered society. Their ideal society and the real society are completely reversed. Between reality and ideals, young people are confused and changed.

This junior also used the love between newly graduated lovers, but the reaction was different. It reflected the different ways men and women treat love.

The themes of the two movies, domestically speaking, the theme of "Selection" is more connotative.

But for the Berlin Film Festival, the theme of love may be more popular.

Once this kind of subject is filmed, Wan Qingshan will actually recommend it to the Berlin Film Festival because of his reputation.

But this junior brother actually played tricks, using narrative structure, flashbacks, and interludes.

If you use it well, it's okay, then at best you can show off your skills.

But it just didn’t work well, it felt too exaggerated, stiff, and too dramatic.

After the movie ended, Wan Qingshan was about to refuse, but was pulled aside by Lu Jianli and said that the junior fellow student was the nephew of a vice president of Nortel. Even if you think the movie is not good, please help recommend it.

This made Wan Qingshan understand immediately. He was invited by Lu Jianli to give lectures just to foil his junior brother. In front of so many people, if Wan Qingshan recommended his movie to the Berlin Film Festival.

In the future, no one would say that it was because of his relationship with the deputy director of Nortel that his first film was shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival!

If Lu Jianshe told Wan Qingshan in private that he would help with a recommendation, Wan Qingshan would help for Lu Jianshe's sake. Anyway, it was just a recommendation, not asking him to tear off a prize.

But in public, he was forced to do a movie, especially by the nephew of the vice president of Nortel.

At first, some people at Nortel were jealous of him, which led to them not inviting him to the preview screening of "The True Meaning of Love." Since then, Wan Qingshan has never thought about Nortel in his heart.

Now - how could Wan Qingshan agree?

Then, Wan Qingshan called Chen Yumo directly, turned around and left.

Within two days, news spread from Nortel that Wanqingshan did not miss the friendship between classmates!
With Wan Qingshan's current status, he doesn't care about the friendship between classmates, and the Nortel circle in the film and television circle does not dare to exclude him.

Even if he is squeezed out, it will have no impact on him and Wan Qingshan will not be upset.What makes Wan Qingshan upset is that the teacher-student relationship between him and Lu Jianli is over.

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"Hello, Director Wan Qingshan."

After the meeting, when Wan Qingshan followed a group of people out of the room, he heard the stiff words in his ears. He looked sideways and saw Dae Jang Geum - Li Aiying looking at him with a smile like a spring breeze. .

"Hello, Miss Li!"

"Mr. Wan Qingshan, I don't know if you have time. I would like to buy you a cup of coffee."

Wan Qingshan raised his eyebrows, curious in his heart.

"I have time, but Miss Li, let me treat you. In my country, if a man asks a woman to treat him, it will make people think that this man is very ungentlemanly."

Li Aiying covered her mouth and smiled, "Mr. Wan, when you went on stage to accept the award wearing a shirt at the Berlin Film Festival, everyone knew that you were a very gentleman."

Wan Qingshan couldn't help but smile when he thought of what he did back then.

Li Aiying put down her hand and continued with a smile on her face, "Also, Mr. Wan, South Korea is just like your country, even more serious. If a man allows a girl to treat him, it will make people think that the man is very ungentlemanly, and even think that this Men are particularly ungrateful."

"Then Miss Li, you just wanted me to be rude!" Wan Qingshan said in an exaggerated manner.

"Mr. Wan, no. Because, there is an exception, that is when girls need help from men, so it is normal for girls to treat."

Wan Qingshan and Li Aiying came to a nearby coffee shop while laughing together.

With Chen Chen's help, I ordered three cups of coffee.

After the waiter left, Wan Qingshan took a sip of coffee and asked directly, "Ms. Li, you just said that you need help in exceptional circumstances. I wonder what help you need from me?"

Li Aiying leaned forward, almost lying on the coffee table. Her big, watery eyes looked at Wan Qingshan, "Director Wan, I hope you can support my decision in the vote for the Berlin Golden Bear Award."

Wan Qingshan's eyes widened!
Li Aiying pretends to be cute and has a soft tone, but Wan Qingshan doesn't feel anything at all.But just as Li Aiying finished speaking, he suddenly felt a foot...

"Uh, uh, Miss Li, this is my first time as a judge, and I don't know much about the work of a judge. Not to mention the selection of the Golden Bear Award, I don't even know the selection process of any award. Miss Li, how about that? In this way, I will reply to you after I understand the award selection."

As soon as Wan Qingshan finished speaking, he felt that there was no abnormality under the table.

"Haha, no problem, Mr. Wan, then I'm waiting for your reply!" Li Aiying said and gave Wan Qingshan a wink.

"Okay, okay."

Afterwards, Li Aiying returned to her previous dignified posture, chatted with Wan Qingshan for a while, praised Wan Qingshan a few words, and then left beforehand.

Looking at Li Aiying's leaving figure, Wan Qingshan lowered his head and looked at the key card that was stuffed into Li Aiying's hand when he shook hands and left.

"It turns out that being a judge is such an exciting thing!"

At this time, Chen Chen said with a weird look on his face, "Director Wan, don't tell me that you are obsessed with her. Her face and figure are nothing compared to Miss Chen Yumo!"

Wan Qingshan raised his hand and knocked Chen Chen on the head with the key card, "What are you talking about? I just sighed, you think I am obsessed with her. In your heart, am I a womanizer? What if I really Lecher, you are the first to be unsafe.”

Chen Chen smiled and said, "Haha, Director Wan, aren't I worried? I'm afraid that you will covet the novelty of a foreign country, so..."

Wan Qingshan was stunned for a moment and said helplessly, "It's still fresh, but you were really led astray by Sun Yao!"

"Sister Sun Yao's views on many things are quite reasonable!" Chen Chen muttered softly.

Wan Qingshan glanced at Chen Chen and waved to the waiter in the distance to pay the bill.

Early the next morning, Wan Qingshan led Chen Chen to the Berlin Film Festival office, and watched the approved films with Charlotte Rampling and others.

For films that have passed the preliminary screening, Wan Qingshan has a process mentality.

These films either passed the preliminary review based on quality or passed the preliminary review through connections.

And even through connections, the quality of the movie itself is not too bad.After all, if the quality of the film is not good, even if it passes the preliminary review, it will not win the award.

Maybe, the movie will be rejected by the judges because the quality of the movie is too poor. In this case, the person who recommended the movie will be embarrassed.

After watching movies for three days, Wan Qingshan let out a long breath when he saw that there were only a few movies left.

I watched movies for three days in a row, and none of them were of poor quality, which made my head feel swollen.

At this time, the staff changed to a new movie. As soon as the movie started, Wan Qingshan's pupils shrank slightly.

'This man is out of his mind and has offended me. How dare he send it to the Berlin Film Festival?Or, he really thought that his movie was so good that it would win even if I objected, so he sent it here specially to slap me in the face! '

The new movie shown by the staff is the movie "Empty Love" imitated by the Nortel junior from Wanqingshan, "Selection".

After "Empty Love" played for about ten minutes, Li Aiying and the seven others looked at Wanqing Mountain frequently.They all saw that "Empty Love" was a poor imitation of "Selection".

Halfway through the movie, Charlotte Rampling asked the staff to stop playing, turned to Wanqing Mountain and said something.

"Director Wan, she asked you what you think of "Empty Love"?" Chen Chen translated from the side.

Wan Qingshan knew that because "Empty Love" imitated "The Selection" and was a Chinese-language movie, Charlotte Rampling believed that "Empty Love" was his recommendation, so even if the movie was bad, he would not vote for "Empty Love" and would instead vote for "Empty Love". The decision-making power of "Empty Love" is left to him.

Wan Qingshan is a judge, and he has voting rights for all subsequent awards.Therefore, no matter how bad "Empty Love" is, Charlotte Rampling and others will only leave the decision-making power to Wan Qingshan and will not offend Wan Qingshan for a nomination.

Wan Qingshan was a little hesitant. According to his inner thoughts, he should reject this movie that was sent to him to slap him in the face.But now that he is at the Berlin Film Festival, he should be helping Chinese-language films.

Tangled between the two situations, Wanqingshan hesitated for a moment, sighed, and decided not to help, nor to deliberately lower it, and everything would be done according to the movie.

“I don’t have any opinion, just vote!”

After Chen Chen translated Wan Qingshan's words, Charlotte Rampling and others had expressions of surprise on their faces.

vote!Not a single movie has been voted for in the past three days!Unexpectedly, Wan Qingshan actually asked everyone to vote for "Empty Love"!
Charlotte Rampling and others carefully looked at Wan Qingshan's face and saw that there was nothing unusual about Wan Qingshan's expression, so they started to vote.

When voting, seven people looked at each other, but no one voted first.

Finally, Li Aiying said to Wan Qingshan, "Director Wan, why don't you vote first!"

Wan Qingshan watched "Empty Love" completely at Nortel and knew that the latter part of "Empty Love" was worse than the first, so bad that the ending and the previous theme almost derailed.

So, without thinking, he said, "I vote against it. This film should not be shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival."

When Li Aiying was very surprised, Chen Chen translated Wan Qingshan's words.

Then, after Charlotte Rampling and others were shocked, they all voted against it.

It seems that they can't watch "Empty Love" for more than ten minutes. If it weren't for Wan Qingshan, they would have voted for the movie. Now that Wan Qingshan has voted against it, they don't have to worry about offending Wan Qingshan.

After selecting "Empty Love", everyone continued to watch the movie. After watching the remaining two movies, Charlotte Rampling handed the list to Koslik, and everyone left the Berlin Film Festival office.

On the way back to the hotel, Chen Chen whispered with a worried look on his face, "Director Wan, you have cast a Chinese-language movie. If word spreads, then you..."

Wan Qingshan replied calmly, "The audience is not fools. As long as "Empty Love" dares to be released, the audience will know what the movie is like and why I voted for it.

If it is not released, then I will let people guide me online and the movie will not be released. Then you can imagine how bad the movie will be. "

Then, Wan Qingshan gloated and said with a schadenfreude, "Now I'm curious, who put in so much effort to pass "Empty Love" through the preliminary review without having to hand it to any of the judges.

Now that "Empty Love" was so bad among the judges that it was voted out, his reputation in the international film industry has been lost. "

Knowing that Wan Qingshan would not be affected, Chen Chen was no longer worried. She smiled and said, "Director Wan, then he will hate you to death."

"There are too many people who hate me, but one more person is not enough."

After knowing that Tang Jianli favored him in front of a group of association people at the meeting, Wan Qingshan had no fear of offending domestic directors.

As long as he doesn't step on the line, no matter how dissatisfied he is, his movie won't be blocked, and things like "In the Heart" won't happen again.

(End of this chapter)