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Chapter 178 Hayao Miyazaki

The scenery on Lido Island is still unique.

The ornate marble and frescoed palaces, bell towers and domes reflected in the sparkling water of the lagoon under the azure Adriatic sky are dazzling sights that have become ingrained in the minds of tourists arriving in Venice through paintings, films and postcards. It's like being transported to another world.

This is a beautiful scenery that can be healed, and the movie Li Mu is about to watch is a movie that can heal people's souls.

"Director Li! You are here in Venice too." Li Mu was walking around various screenings when someone called him from behind.

With this voice, Section Chief Jia did not run away.

As expected, Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao were behind Li Mu, dressed casually. It seemed that they were here to hang out today.

"Hey, Director Jia!" After Li Mu called him, he felt that the name was weird. It felt like he was calling a fake director. This name was not good.

Jia Zhangke didn't care, but instead took Li Mu to chat together, meeting an old friend in a foreign land!
Zhao Tao was half a step behind, and Li Mu saw it.

This actor was selected as one of the top 06 best actors in the world by the Lincoln Center in the United States in 50. It seems that he has been bound to Jia Zhangke ever since. In subsequent Jia Zhangke movies, she will always be the heroine. She is cheap and easy to use. Jia Zhangke is Will save money.

"Which movie did Director Li come here to watch this time?" Jia Zhangke was not surprised by Li Mu's appearance. At their level, attending the three major film festivals was just a joke, and the film festivals still wanted these directors. Come and increase your popularity.

As for being shortlisted for the main competition, it depends on the strength of the film.

""Ponyo on the Cliff"!" Li Mu said it truthfully. The movie will have its premiere tomorrow. He is here for this, or in other words, he is here for the director behind the movie.

"Oh, Director Li, your span is not small." Jia Zhangke also knows about this animated film that was shortlisted for the main competition. In other words, everyone knows Hayao Miyazaki's name.

"Just out of curiosity!" Li Mu said with a smile.

Jia Zhangke didn't pay much attention. He didn't know much about animated movies.

In Jia Zhangke's opinion, the person who knows the most about this in China is probably Li Mu. After all, this year's "Kung Fu Panda" was so impressive.

The next day, at the premiere of "Ponyo on the Cliff", Hayao Miyazaki attended the press conference of the new film alone, showing a rather innocent smile. It must be said that Hayao Miyazaki is quite pure in the field of animation. one person.

Movie tickets in Venice this year cost 40 euros a piece. It’s really shameful to know that movie tickets at this year’s Berlin Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival are 8 euros and 15 euros respectively.

There are so many people watching cartoons, including film producers, celebrities, directors, and audiences. However, except for Hayao Miyazaki's new film "Ponyo on the Cliff," the audience was full, and the public venues for other movies were all crowded due to ticket prices. The high price stopped the audience and left them quite deserted.

After all, there are very few people in the world who don’t know what Shangyuki is talking about about this two-dimensional director.

Maybe you have never heard of Hayao Miyazaki, but it is impossible that you have never heard of a movie called "Spirited Away".

Number one at the box office in China, it just changed hands and was handed back to Chinese local films.

In 2001, the box office of "Spirited Away" surpassed "Titanic" in Japan, becoming a box office monster in Japanese history with a box office of more than 300 billion yen.

Hayao Miyazaki is a famous Japanese animation director. He is the first thinker to elevate animation to a humanistic level. He is also the spiritual pillar for three generations of Japanese animators to connect the past and the future.

His cartoons are an important oriental force that can share the world with Disney and DreamWorks. It has an irreplaceable position in the global animation industry. Disney calls it "Akira Kurosawa in the animation industry" and has won numerous awards.

Li Mu was watching "Ponyo on the Cliff" while thinking about his meeting with Hayao Miyazaki later.

The animation "Ponyo on the Cliff" is one of the very fantasy-type animations produced by Hayao Miyazaki. This is also the first animation created by Hayao Miyazaki with the theme of "ocean".

The movie tells the touching story of Ponyo, a girl who wants to become a human in the deep sea, and Sosuke, a human boy.

"Whether she is a fish or a human, or half-fish and half-human, I will take good care of her."

When Zongjie made that promise to Ponyo's mother, Li Mu was still a little touched. This is a story about a boy and a girl, about love and responsibility.

It's so simple, but it's so lifelike in his writing.

At the end of the premiere, everyone stood up to give this animation master the respect and applause he deserved for the film.

Li Mu feels that this movie is not inferior to the previous ones, but after all, Hollywood will continue to dominate Venice this time.

After the reporter finished the interview, Hayao Miyazaki, who was alone, was about to get up and leave. Li Mu stepped forward: "Director Hayao Miyazaki, please stay!"

Reporters filmed the meeting between the two Eastern directors and were very curious about what they would discuss. However, Li Mu and Hayao Miyazaki did not give these reporters a chance.

Hayao Miyazaki greatly praised the story told by Li Mu. He looked at the most famous talented director in China and sighed with emotion: "Li, you are such a genius. China can always produce directors as good as you." .”

"Your story is somewhat similar in artistic conception to my "Ponyo on the Cliff"." Hayao Miyazaki continued to talk about Li Mu and the story he told.

Isn't that right? We are both in the field of pure love, but we express it in different ways.

If I want to sum it up in one sentence: It’s just for you. I’ll travel thousands of miles to see you no matter how far I go.

This is true for both stories, and the movie ends up with the same destination.

"I heard that the film used a total of 17 hand-painted paintings to depict people and objects," Li Mu Xu said.

"Haha, we can discuss it. I also brought part of the hand-painted manuscript." Hayao Miyazaki originally wanted to use 3D to produce this movie, but unfortunately it was too difficult, so he returned to the original point and used hand-painted methods.

The two communicated for a long time. After saying goodbye to Hayao Miyazaki, Li Mu was quite satisfied with the trip and felt that many of the stuck points had been solved.

There weren't many domestic films at the Venice Film Festival this time, and reporters felt like there wasn't much to report on it, so they might as well stick with Li Mu and see if they could get anything out of it.

Seeing Li Mu coming out, they quickly gathered around him: "Director Li, this time I came to Venice to meet with Director Hayao Miyazaki. Will there be any cooperation?"

"Director Li, is Mengying going to make an animated movie?"

Questions from reporters came one after another. Li Mu had a headache, but looking at their weathered faces, he couldn't bear to walk away directly: "To answer your questions simply, don't worry, first of all, director Hayao Miyazaki and I It’s just a simple communication, and secondly, Mengying will produce animated movies, which I have already said before.”

"Is it convenient to reveal it?"

"It's inconvenient." Li Mu looked at these pushy guys and revealed how to maintain a sense of mystery and didn't understand marketing at all.

The essence of marketing is to squeeze out toothpaste and get just the right amount of foam to make your teeth white and comfortable.

Li Mu abandoned the group of reporters and wandered around for a while, and met his young and immature cousin. At this time, she was still fair and tender, with quite a lot of collagen.

The Golden Lion of Venice this time was finally given to the American film "The Wrestler", and the cousin won the Best Newcomer.

"Boss, Facebook is launching an acquisition of Twitter." Facebook has been very arrogant recently and is buying and selling everywhere. Zuckerberg is interested in Twitter's complement to Facebook. This vision is indeed spot on. "Express our intentions to the board of directors." Li Mu ordered. Facebook is quite sincere in this acquisition. It will acquire Twitter with US$1 million in cash and US$4 million in stock. However, Twitter is unlikely to be sold.

Although in the spring of this year, Twitter was often down, so much so that David complained about these garbage technologies all day long.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that Twitter has a promising future, and Twitter has never been short of financing, and Dream Capital has followed suit.

"Boss, Facebook doesn't seem to have been greatly affected by the financial crisis." Because Li Mu has been telling him to pay attention to Facebook's developments, David is also very concerned about it.

During this year's financial crisis, all walks of life in the United States have suffered a huge crisis, but Facebook's valuation has risen instead of falling. Last year, Microsoft entered the game, and this year Hong Kong's Li Jiacheng also entered the game. It's no wonder that Facebook is rich.

"Just because it is not affected does not mean that other industries are not affected. Continue to watch."

Ecology is a circle, and Facebook’s darkest moment is coming soon.

It later proved that the two rounds of investment by Microsoft and Li Jiacheng were a huge mistake for Facebook, because its excessive valuation brought huge difficulties to its subsequent financing process.

Li Mu's "The Invisible Guest" seems to have stopped at 3.78 million, almost unable to move, with a daily box office of less than 10.

Piracy has long been rampant and unscrupulous. At the stalls in the imperial capital, Li Mu occasionally passed by and saw his own movie DVDs placed at the front.

There are still many people who buy it.

But Li Mu was very angry.

"Ah Mu, come over and eat dumplings tonight." There was still a noisy voice on Liu Yifei's phone. If you listened carefully, it was not difficult to hear the noisy voice of Shu Chang.

Li Mu looked at the documents at hand and found that they were basically all processed. The biggest thing for Mengying now is "Painted Skin", which will be released on National Day.

After Li Mu reached the top, everyone inside and outside the circle was staring at the movie Mengying.

Lu Yang and Wu Ershan are also under great pressure. They have taken the actors to many announcements recently.

When Li Mu arrived at Liu Yifei's villa, the two of them were cracking melon seeds and watching "The So-Called Marriage" starring Tong Dawei and Wang Yan.

Compared to Wang Yan in the play, Li Mu still likes "Qing Princess" in "Huan Zhu Princess 2".

"I think you two are suitable for watching." Shu Chang said casually while cracking melon seeds.

"Sissi, come here and do me a favor." Liu Xiaoli suddenly shouted.

"Here we come!" Two people wearing slippers made a shuffling sound and hurriedly ran into the kitchen.

Li Mu felt that Liu Xiaoli had made a decision that was not a very wise one. If these two could help, it would be a disservice to Amitabha.

Sure enough, only a few minutes later, with the word "Go away!", the two of them walked back again.

In the evening, each person had one portion of dumplings. Li Mu counted them, and he was the only one with double digits, like Liu Yifei, who had seven or eight. They called it weight loss.

The problem is that I don’t eat less snacks on weekdays, so why do I think about losing weight during dinner?

Li Mu took one bite at a time.

"Ah Mu, why don't you dip it in vinegar?" Liu Yifei watched Li Mu eating dumplings. She picked them up with chopsticks and stuffed them into her mouth without dipping them in vinegar.

Both Liu Xiaoli and Shu Chang set their sights on Li Mu.

Li Mu tried his best to swallow the dumplings: "???We usually don't dip them in anything. If we do, we always dip them in soy sauce."

"You are a heretic!" Shu Chang sighed.

"Your discrimination is a bit serious." How could I be a heretic? Obviously those dipped in soy sauce are orthodox.

"How about you try dipping it?" Liu Yifei looked at Li Mu expectantly.

"Then let's try it." Li Mu picked up a piece, flicked it in the small dipping saucer filled with vinegar, and then stuffed it into his mouth.

I have to say that dumplings with vinegar are not normal.

"Are you letting the dumplings float on this performance water?" Liu Yifei shouted with a smile. The accuracy of dipping the dumplings in vinegar was so high that it seemed as if they were not dipped.

After Liu Yifei finished speaking, she got up and went to the kitchen, brought out a plate with soy sauce, "Take it for dipping!"

"I feel like coming from your mouth, this soy sauce seems a bit expensive." Li Mu dipped it in the soy sauce with satisfaction. After all, the dumplings were still a bit greasy without dipping anything.

The dinner was a bit filling. Xiao Nizi's appetite was too small. In the end, she couldn't finish the meal and gave the remaining two dumplings to Li Mu.

Several people watched the TV series and talked about the gossip in the industry. Liu Yifei and Shu Chang's eyes widened when they talked about the gossip, hoping that Li Mu would give an accurate answer.

The most powerful ones recently are Zhang Jingchu and Gu Changwei. You must know that in "The Beginning of Spring", Jiang Wenli had directly cut out the scenes of Zhang Jingchu, the heroine, for the reason of advancing the development of the plot.

Unexpectedly, after a few months, the two of them would hang out together again.

"So they do have a problem?" Liu Yifei asked.

"Nine times out of ten, it's normal for a director and a female star to have sex." Li Mu thought for a while, and next year the car door won't be able to be washed off. Who would believe it if he said he didn't have legs?

"So you also want to do this?" Liu Yifei's death gaze struck her instantly.

"How is that possible?" Li Mu replied without hesitation, "Don't you always choose the heroines of my movies first?"

"That's right, I believe you." Liu Yifei instantly beamed.

Originally, Shu Chang was still snickering silently beside him, but suddenly he got a critical attack.

As expected, this is a world where only singles get hurt.

Recently, the 19th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival once again awarded awards. This year's mediocre Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival proved its "innocence" at the final award moment. There was no shady behind-the-scenes operation. The infamous "double yolk egg".

But even the suspense is gone: "Assembly" and "Yun Shui Yao", based on everyone's accurate guesses, shared the individual awards of this year's Hundred Flowers Awards.

After all, Huayi still spent real money and platinum to support the holding of this Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers.

(End of this chapter)