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Chapter 147 Jiang Wen: Winning Gold and Silver

Li Muzheng directly took a batch of actor lists and looked at them. Liu Yifei called: "Don't come over for my birthday. Just make up for me later. I'm afraid it will disturb the crew's work."

Liu Yifei's crisp voice came from the microphone, specifically telling Li Mu about this.

Originally, Li Mu had planned to go to Ottawa to give her a small surprise, but it seemed that he had not thought carefully about it.

"Inception" was being filmed in a closed mode, and Li Mu suddenly arrived. More or less, the crew couldn't start work for a long time.

Liu Yifei's consideration was also reasonable. Li Mu gave up his past thoughts and originally planned to transfer directly to the Venice International Film Festival.

The invitation letter from Zhang Yimou has arrived, and the theater that needs to be rented has also been applied for by Li Mu. It is easy to do things when there are people in the court.

Lu Yang is also well prepared. One director will go to Venice and the other will stay behind for post-production. As long as the two directors are good, there will be no delay.

The Hollywood blockbuster "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" has already been released in mid-August. Anyway, the two-month schedule does not leave anyone else a way to survive.

Relying on the popularity accumulated from the first four movies, it took away 2000 million in two days. Although it was not as good as "Transformers", it also made domestic movies a little scared.

But in terms of word-of-mouth, there is some collapse.

Audiences said that the plot was mediocre, the story was dragging, the actors had grown up, and coupled with aesthetic fatigue, the story was hard to find a climax, and the excitement of the past was completely missing.

To sum up, it has little stamina.

On the contrary, the media are very proud, "Broomsticks have lost their "magic", as if "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" has fallen from the altar after losing to "Transformers".

The media is getting better and better at playing with traffic.

However, it still grossed 7 million at the box office in 8000 days, and is well on its way to breaking [-] million.

China Film Corporation was probably a little anxious, and invited more than 20 representatives from more than 50 mainstream theater chains across the country to Beijing to participate in the "Domestic Film Screening".

He tried his best to persuade theaters to support domestic films and give them a higher screening rate.

Nowadays, these theater chains are unwilling to release domestic films, and theaters are unwilling to show them. They only focus on Hollywood films and box office.

This will kill you sooner or later.

Li Mu knows very well that the country has withstood a lot of pressure on quotas for domestic and foreign films. Even so, Han Sanxing was scolded by domestic film companies.

If all foreign films are released in China, then the role of theater chains will not be big, because foreign films, especially Hollywood films, have their own distribution teams and do not need the help of domestic theater chains.

This is a direct blow to the bottom of the pot. For example, Baodao now has no domestic film protection policy. The result is that Baodao’s current domestic film market is basically gone, and it is all monopolized by Hollywood.

If these theater chains don't listen and only care about their immediate interests, coercive measures may be necessary.

Li Mu also listened to Han Sanping complain a few times about this matter, and even yelled at those theaters. Some theaters released a few domestic movies casually, and did whatever they could to make money.

Li Mu did not participate in the Huabiao Awards, and fortunately he did not participate. This year, there were actually two double-yolked eggs, a double best actor and a double best actress.

One look at it is a favor award, which makes people speechless!
The word "best" feels tainted. You can only say double yolk egg once or twice.

This time, both the male and female protagonists are open, so no one wants to offend?
Then there will be a Hammer Award, and everyone present will receive one.

good for everyone.

The opening ceremony will be held in Venice tomorrow, but the popularity is overtaken by the news about the completion of "The King of Kung Fu" co-produced by China and the United States.

It became a hot topic in an instant, and the leading actors were being interviewed.

However, Li Lienjie's words about not having too high expectations for the movie are thought-provoking.

Jingtian has benefited a lot. Recently, her new movie "Anaconda" was exposed for the first time. Taking advantage of this hot spot, many reporters have interviewed her.

It's a pity that Li Mu didn't know what to say because of the feeling of a bad movie.

Li Mu has already taken Lu Yang and several staff members to Lido.

The film festival is named "Venice", but the real venue is an island called Lido.

Although the film festival landed on Lido Island, most people chose to take the "Water Bus", while guests invited by the film festival could take a faster and more stable speedboat to the island.

On Lido, boats are still functional, but have evolved into status symbols.

Li Mu went from the airport to the Westin Hotel and took a speedboat directly to the hotel's pier to disembark.

By this time, domestic reporters had already learned that Li Mu was coming to Venice and were waiting patiently at the door of the hotel.

"Director Li, Director Li, welcome. What do you think of this domestic film competition in Venice?"

"You shouldn't ask director Zhang Yimou about this."

"Director Jiang Wen said that his movie won gold and silver medals. What does Li Mu think of this?"

Li Mu almost burst out laughing, Jiang Wen really dared to say that.

Even winning gold and silver, that movie, these foreigners can understand it, that's really amazing.

"Ask Director Jiang Wen about this. I believe the Venice judges will make a fair decision."

Li Mu then waved to the reporters and went back to the hotel to rest.

"Director Li, can Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises" really win gold and silver?" Lu Yang was also very curious at this time, and Jiang Wen seemed very confident.

"Don't listen to his nonsense." Li Mu said with a smile.

Lu Yang nodded thoughtfully.

In the afternoon, Li Mu went over to look at the venue for tomorrow's opening ceremony and found that the Hollywood film companies participating in the exhibition were more public relations aware.

What was unveiled in advance were basically movie posters starring Hollywood stars such as Keira Knightley, Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Adrien Brody.

This is very NICE.

"Did you see it? Hurry up and post our poster, don't waste the space." Li Mu ordered his men.

After a while, the cover of Huapi was also placed in it, and a good location was specially chosen.

Li Mu naturally chose the poster that Zhou Xun was looking at in the mirror. It had a magical style and looked quite shocking.

Li Mu nodded in satisfaction.

Just as he was about to leave, he unexpectedly bumped into Jiang Wen and the crew from "The Sun Also Rises".

"Hey, Director Li!" Zhou Yun saw Li Mu and Lu Yang first and said hello quickly.

This domestic director is always seen with his head down but not his head up. No matter how close they are to each other, at least they all know each other.

Only then did Jiang Wen react and hurriedly stepped forward, "Director Li!"

Li Mu responded with a smile: "Director Jiang, sister-in-law!"

After Jiang Wen said hello, he was about to say something, but was attracted by the "Painted Skin" poster in front of him.

Good guy, I haven't even made my debut in the main competition yet, but Li Mu, the one who came to sell the copyright, has made his debut first.

Look at the Hollywood team next to them who are still frantically taking advantage of today's time to promote their own movies in advance.

"It must be Director Li's trick. This is a good trick." Jiang Wen quickly ordered his men to take out the posters and find a good place to display them.

Li Mu smiled and didn't care.Fang Zuming, Chen Chong, and Kong Wei all stepped forward to greet Li Mu.

Fang Zuming was directly ignored by Li Mu, but Chen Chong and Kong Wei were dressed extremely hot, and the opening ceremony hadn't even started yet.

Tomorrow's opening ceremony can't be better?
"Director Jiang, I heard from the media that you want to win gold and silver this time." Since we met, I stopped by to chat with Jiang Wen.

"Hehe, that's what I said, but since Li An's "Lust, Caution" is here, this golden lion should be opened in half."

Li Mu couldn't help but laugh after hearing this tone. It was indeed Jiang Wen's temperament.

"How about watching the premiere of "Lust, Caution" together?" After the opening tomorrow, the main competition section will premiere.

"That's a good relationship. Let's go and see it together." Jiang Wen agreed without hesitation. In his opinion, "Lust, Caution" was a bit of a threat.

Know yourself and the enemy, a hundred battles will never end.

Although ultimately it depends on the judges.

Li Mu was also curious about Jiang Wen's reaction after seeing "Lust, Caution".

The few people chatted for a while and then dispersed. Li Mu also led the team back to rest. Tomorrow is the premiere of the Venice International Film Festival.

On the red carpet in Venice the next day, celebrities arrived at the entrance of the Cinema Palace in cars and stepped on the red carpet. This process created a unique scenery of the Venice Film Festival.

Li Mu took Lu Yang, and after dealing with several questions from the host Angio, they hurried to the meeting point.

"Director Li Mu is quite casual," Tang Wei said from behind. Because Li Jian was also there, he avoided confusion and directly addressed Li Mu by his full name.

Tang Wei still had some envy in his eyes.

You must know that not everyone can walk on this red carpet. She has paid a heavy price to be able to walk now.

Li Bian smiled and led the crew to the red carpet. The treatment from "Lust, Caution" was guaranteed by the host.

The main competition unit must be taken care of.

"Brother! Mr. Marco Muller!" Zhang Yimou and Marco Muller were standing together at this time.

When the two saw it was Li Mu, they responded quickly.

"Li, thank you for your persuasion to Press Li, otherwise "Lust, Caution" would not have come to Venice." Marco Muller still remembered this incident and mentioned it specifically.

"Hahaha, it's just a small favor. Besides, according to the director's original intention, Li should have come to Venice." Li Mu said with a chuckle.

A reporter next to him suddenly shouted:

"Mr. Mark Muller, Chairman Zhang Yimou, and Director Li Mu, can you stand closer and take a photo?"

The three of them looked at each other and took a group photo cooperatively.

At this time, people from Jiang Wen's "The Sun" crew, Li Xian's "Lust, Caution" crew and Jia Zhangke's "Useless" crew arrived one after another.

There are 7 Chinese-language films shortlisted this time. Chinese filmmakers not only have the main creators of the participating films competing for awards, but also Zhang Yimou is in charge of the competition unit jury, and Liu Jie is participating in the future Golden Lion Award.

The power of Chinese-language films was unlimited for a while.

Lu Yang also met a lot of big guys following Li Mu.

People here are good at winning awards, and Li Mu was a little worried that he was a bad student.

After all, this is the director who will make commercial films for Mengying in the future.

The opening ceremony was "Atonement" directed by Beautiful Country, in which Keira Knightley's performance was quite bold, and she showed off a good figure, but it was a bit flat.

"Let's go, Director Li!" Jiang Wen was already urging. "Lust, Caution" will premiere today.

Li Mu took Lu Yang to the premiere of the main competition unit "Lust, Caution". Zhou Yun was wearing a dress made of the national treasure "Yunjin" material today. The fabric looked extremely expensive, and Li Mu couldn't help but look at it more glanced twice.

Li Mu, Jiang Wen and others walked to the middle row, where "Lust, Caution" was about to start showing.

The first half was okay, but the second half, with more than 20 minutes of real scenes, made Jiang Wen unable to help but take a breath.

Zhou Yun was beside him and couldn't help but pinch Jiang Wen.

Li Mu almost laughed out loud when he saw it. He encouraged Jiang Wen to watch "Lust, Caution" because he was looking forward to this scene.

After the movie ended, Li Mu believed that the people present had some physiological reactions. After all, it lasted more than 20 minutes.

Everyone stood up and applauded the creative team. Li Mu looked at Tang Wei, who was standing near the center of the front row, and suddenly remembered that Tang Wei was actually a suitable heroine for the new movie.

However, Li Mu didn't know how to use it. Although Tang Wei's escape brought him fame, it also hindered his future development.

There are gains and losses.

After watching the movie, everyone left. Tang Wei and others wanted to say hello to Li Mu. After all, directors like Li Mu were the most popular among the actors.

It can win awards, it can win box office, and it has plenty of resources.

However, as soon as I took a few steps forward, I didn't expect that someone would get ahead of me.

"Li, I'm so happy to see you here." Charlize Theron quickly moved forward to find Li Mu.

There were so many people coming to the film festival that Li Mu didn't notice that this person had also come to Venice.

After the two finished filming "2012", they had little chance to meet.

"Long time no see, Theron, you look beautiful today."

"Thank you, you speak so nicely. Does Crystal know that?" Theron covered his face and smiled.

"Are you here to compete for awards?" Li Mu was not sure. He didn't pay much attention to the movies in the main competition this year.

"Oh, Li, you disappoint me so much. "The Dilemma" premieres the day after tomorrow. You can come and support me." Seeing that Li Mu didn't know, Theron said it directly.

Li Mu recalled the list of main competition units and found that this one was indeed included. "Sorry, I've been too busy recently, you know."

Li Mu spread his hands, looking very impatient.

However, Theron didn't say much, and left after briefly chatting with Li Mu.

"Hey, Director Li, he's very famous. The Oscar-winning actress came right to his door." Jiang Wen was still on the side, waiting for Li Mu to leave together.

"How is it? Director Jiang, what do you think after watching "Lust, Caution"?" Li Mu changed the topic. He was only interested in Jiang Wen's thoughts at this time.

"Relying on pornographic sensationalism" Jiang Wen was still full of confidence in his movie and criticized it endlessly.

He seems to be dismissive of movies that are full of erotica like Li Yi's.

"Director Li, what's your opinion?" Jiang Wen seemed to have come to his senses and spoke by himself. Li Mu didn't seem to have expressed his opinion yet.

"Haha, I have the same opinion as Director Jiang." Li Mu looked careless.

Jiang Wen nodded with satisfaction, and before leaving, he specifically warned: "Director Li, you must come to the premiere of "The Sun Also Rises"."

Li Mu nodded. Anyway, he would stay here for a few days and have some contacts with film producers. Let's go and see all the shortlisted ones.

You won’t lose a piece of meat, but you can also take a look at the works of these masters.

(End of this chapter)