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Chapter 336 Opening

After the party, Wang Shu, Mei Ting, Zhang Hanyu, and Fu Dalong returned to the hotel.

Wang Shu had just finished taking a shower when his cell phone rang. It was a text message from Mei Ting.

"I miss you, come to my place." Mei Ting.

Wang Shu smiled unconsciously when he saw this text message.

It seems that the fact that he may go to Hollywood has greatly stimulated Mei Tiao.

"Wait for me." Wang Shu replied.

"Yes." Mei Ting saw Wang Shu's text message and replied.

After a while, Wang Shu came to Mei Ting's residence.

As soon as he entered the door, Mei Ting threw herself into his arms and hugged him.

And when it became an Oscar outpost, the world's attention and popularity plummeted.

On August 8, the Venice International Film Festival, the world's first international film festival and the father of the "International Film Festival", officially opened.

With that said, he came behind Wang Shu and squeezed his shoulders.

"And you also know that our Chinese culture is ultimately different from that of the West. Few directors from our country to Hollywood can succeed."

Wang Shu felt Mei Tiao's shoulder squeezing action. Although it was not very skillful, it could still soothe his muscles.

After saying that, he said with stern eyes, "If it were you, I would definitely succeed."

It was just an act, because she quickly leaned over obediently
Then, Mei Ting's mouth bulged and she was speechless.

Nowadays, due to the decline in the influence of Italian films and the derby competition formed after the establishment of the Rome Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival is in an embarrassment.

Wang Shu shook his head when he heard this, "Li Yu is a top student who graduated from New York University in the United States. He initially worked in Hollywood, which is different from me."

The two of them were sitting on the sofa hugging each other, and Mei Tiao asked gently: "Are you tired? Can I give you a squeeze on your shoulders?"

Without waiting for Mei Ting to ask again, she continued, "Even if you go to Hollywood to direct the American version of "The Tuner," it doesn't mean you will go to Hollywood to develop your career."

"Hollywood is not that easy for us Chinese-language film directors."

During a social gathering with Jiang Wen's crew, both of them drank, especially Mei Ting, who drank more than Wang Shu.

This gesture awakened Wang Er again.

Then, on the couch.
I don’t know how long it took, but Mei Ting snuggled into Wang Shu’s arms. She whispered: “Are you going to Hollywood to develop your career?”

Sure enough, after receiving Wang Shu's compliment, Mei Ting became even more motivated to squeeze her shoulders.

Wang Shu then stretched out his hand and pushed Mei Ting's head. Mei Ting raised her head and looked into his eyes. She instantly understood what he meant, and immediately gave him a sideways glance with her lips feigning reluctance.

"The differences between Eastern and Western cultures make it difficult to control the tastes of Western audiences."

Seeing this, Wang Shu smiled and patted her smooth back, giving a signal with his eyes.

Whether it is its invitation to many Hollywood films or Chairman Marco Muller's continuous favor of Chinese films during his tenure, it has caused great controversy.

In order to make his words more convincing, he then added, "And didn't Li Yu succeed?"

"There is a high probability that he will return to China after filming this drama."

These words are all true, because the examples of Xu Ke, Chen Kaige and others were placed in front of everyone. Mei Ting was silent for a moment, then comforted Wang Shu and said: "You are different from them, I believe you , will definitely make it in Hollywood.”

Mei Ting understood what Wang Shu meant, and she obediently leaned her head in Wang Shu's arms and said softly: "No matter what, I believe in you."

"How was it?" Mei Ting asked as if asking for praise.

Even after returning to the hotel and taking a shower, Wang Shu could smell the faint smell of alcohol.

"Not bad, you can open a shop now." Wang Shu also knew the art of speaking and praised him without hesitation.

As an international film festival, Venice continues to favor Chinese films, which makes the second and third world countries have a sense of participation and feel that they have a chance to win the grand prize, and it attracts attention and pursuit from all over the world.

The Oscars are exclusive awards for Hollywood movies, and countries other than the United States have no sense of participation at all.

Mei Ting also knew that Wang Shu was telling the truth. She smiled, kissed Wang Shu on the cheek, and said with encouraging eyes, "I believe you."

Mei Ting pouted and glared at him with feigned disdain.

It's very simple.

It was founded on August 1932, 8 and has experienced great success.

"It's not like Xu Ke and the others went to Hollywood to make movies that they were not good at. They all made movies that they were good at, but one by one they failed."

These words are really fascinating.

Wang Shu responded with a smile: "There's nothing wrong with this matter."

Mei Ting pouted, and then hummed playfully and arrogantly: "You will know after you try it."

"Can you do it?" Wang Shu knew that Mei Ting grew up in a good family.

However, perhaps it is this kind of controversy that has once again put the Venice Film Festival in the focus of the media, making the Venice Film Festival still attract attention and pursuit from all over the world.

She was also very good at it, and said softly: "I won't open a shop, I will only do it for you."

When Wang Shu heard this, he pinched her face and pretended to be self-deprecating and said, "What's the difference? They are both Chinese film directors. There is essentially no difference."

On the contrary, when it is reduced to an Oscar outpost, the second and third worlds no longer have a sense of participation, and the United States also has various awards such as Oscars, Golden Globes, Saturn Awards, etc.

In this way, the second and third world should pay attention directly to the Oscars, Golden Globes, etc., rather than paying attention to the outpost Venice Film Festival.

The route was already wrong.

But this is the future. Although the influence of the Venice Film Festival has been declining, at least it still has gold content.

As for Italian movies.
Even though the country is small, there is indeed something to be said for it.

For example, "The Pianist" is an Italian-produced film.

It's just that the market in small countries is limited. In the era when the film industry is just developing, it may be possible to stand out with small-cost feature films.

But since the film industry entered the era of special effects, the market has been unable to support the high production costs, so it has only declined.

Just like Hong Kong movies, if the market is too small, it will eventually return to reality.

"The Pianist" is an Italian film produced in 1998, adapted from the literary play "1900: Monologue" by Alessandro Barric.

In the original timeline, "The Pianist" released in mainland China in 2019 is a 4K restored version of its original film.

During the opening red carpet, many filmmakers from all over the world gathered here.

Among them, the female artist Fang is a beautiful scenery.

I have to admit that some female artists dress really boldly in order to gain status.

Except for some private locations that are slightly disguised, other locations are all looming.

It stands to reason that Mei Ting, as the heroine of "A Crowd of People", will appear on the red carpet holding the arm of Zhang Hanyu, who plays the male lead in the film.

This is not the case.

Mei Ting wore a black dress with low V and high slits, holding Wang Shu's arm, and walked along the opening red carpet with Zhang Hanyu and Fu Dalong.

Mei Tiao had been to international film festivals when she was young, but this was her first time on the red carpet of the three major European film festivals, and she was quite excited.

Facing the camera, he always had a bright smile on his face.

Since Wang Shu has won awards in Berlin and Cannes at a young age, he is relatively well-known internationally, and the international media inevitably photographed him along the way.

Mei Ting held Wang Shu's arm and walked together on the red carpet, rubbing off Wang Shu's warmth.

Because of Wang Shu, she received a lot of attention from international media.

Zhang Hanyu smiled bitterly, which is why Mei Ting, as the heroine, would hold Wang Shu's arm instead of walking on the red carpet with his arm.

Holding his arm and walking on the red carpet, few international media would pay attention.

On the contrary, holding Wang Shu's arm was different.

The international media will be curious about the identity of Wang Shu's female companion, thereby adding to her popularity.

When several people reached the end, a host stopped Wang Shu and spared a minute or two so that the international media could take photos of Wang Shu.

It is true that Wang Shu won only minor awards whether in Berlin or Cannes. But the focus on Wang Shu is not limited to awards, but also youth!

Wang Shu made his debut at the Berlin Film Festival at the age of 18 and won the Alfred Bauer Silver Bear Award.

At the age of 20, he competed in Cannes again and won the Best Screenplay and a Cannes Best Actress.

Now 21 years old, he came to the Venice Film Festival with his film shortlisted.

This alone attracted much attention.

After the international media had finished taking pictures, the on-site host immediately interviewed Wang Shu: "Hello, Director Wang Shu, we know that you are participating in the Venice main competition with your film. Are you confident that you will win the grand prize? "

"Uh," Wang Shu pretended to think deeply to show respect for the Venice Film Festival, and then continued, "Every crew member who comes to the Venice Film Festival should want to win an award."

After finishing speaking, he paused for a moment and then said, "After all, winning awards will help sell the film."

These words made the beautiful blonde host laugh, and she then asked: "Director Wang Shu, which film do you think is most likely to win the Golden Lion at this Venice Film Festival?"

In fact, this question is about Li Yu's "Lust, Caution", Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises", Du Qifeng's "The Detective", Li Kangsheng's "Help Me Love God", and Wang Shu's own "Human Mountains and Seas" .

Wang Shu was not fooled at all and said with a smile: "The film festival has just opened, many movies have not been screened yet, and I haven't watched them yet, so I really can't answer this question."

"But no matter what, I have great confidence in "Human Mountain"."

"Okay." The beautiful host smiled after hearing this, and then asked, "Director Wang Shu, I would like to ask you, what do you think of Venice when you come to this city?"

The beautiful host then asked some questions that were of a promotional nature to Venice, and Wang Shu answered them politely.

After the party was over, Wang Shu, Mei Ting and others met up.

Although several of them are in the cast of "Human Mountain", it is obvious that Mei Ting and others do not receive as much international attention as Wang Shu.

Therefore, Wang Shu will be left alone for the interview.

But they have never had this treatment.

As the crew of "A Crowd of People" walked down the red carpet, not long after, the crew of "Detective" led by Johnnie To also walked on the red carpet.

Regardless of whether this movie is good or not, its presence at this Venice Film Festival is outstanding.

Because the film premiered on September 2007, 9 as the finale film.

It's just that in the original timeline, the finale was the finale, but the red carpet scene of its premiere was extremely deserted, with few people paying attention.

"Detective" is a crime drama film co-directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka Hui, starring Liu Qingyun, An Zhijie and Lin Jiadong.

Therefore, as the leading actor of the film, Liu Qingyun, who is expected to compete for the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival, also came to the scene with the crew of "Detective".

Then the crews of "Help Me Cupid", "The Sun Also Rises" and "Lust, Caution" all walked on the red carpet one by one.

The opening ceremony was star-studded and lively.

In fact, they are mainly Italian actresses, and there are only a few international big-name actresses.

Apart from Italian actresses, the only internationally famous actress should be Keira Knightley.

This is a British actress who made her debut in "Star Wars Episode 1999" in 1.

In 2005, he starred in "Pride and Prejudice".

She plays the heroine in "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" released today.

The actresses were dressed very casually, not as elaborately as at the Cannes opening ceremony. The styles of the dresses were mainly elegant and not grand.

White, gray, light blue and other plain colors have become the main colors, which makes the red carpet show without big stars even more lacking in confidence.

However, the lack of appearance is due to the lack of appearance, but even though the actress is dressed casually, she still needs to show off, and maybe hide it in a subtle way.

At the end of the red carpet, the seven-member director jury led by Zhang Yimou came on stage.

The smiling Zhang Yimou appeared chicly in a tunic suit with Chinese characteristics, conveying the mysterious color of the East.

Now that the first rehearsal of the 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony is getting closer and closer, Zhang Yimou is very busy. This time he specially applied to the Olympic Organizing Committee for more than ten days of vacation to come to Shuicheng to perform his duties as chairman of the jury.

After walking the red carpet, Zhang Yimou was asked about the Beijing Olympics and holidays in an interview.

Zhang Yimou said with a smile: "Because I haven't watched a movie for a long time, being able to watch a lot of movies this time will be the biggest reward, and of course the happiest thing."

A reporter asked: "Director Zhang, what do you think of the three films "The Sun Also Rises", "Lust, Caution" and "Humanity" that are in the main competition this time?"

Zhang Yimou replied with a serious face: "You can't say anything before watching the movie."

Under normal circumstances, the jury members come to the Venice Film Festival and then watch the shortlisted films during the festival and determine the awards.

Of course, this is only under normal circumstances. It may not be possible if someone has watched the shortlisted films before the Venice Film Festival opens without avoiding suspicion.

A reporter asked again: "Director Zhang Yimou, you are serving as the chairman of the jury for the main competition unit of this film festival. It coincides with the collective shortlisting of 5 Chinese-language films. As the chairman, will you maintain the fairness of the awards?"

Zhang Yimou replied calmly: "Movies respect no national boundaries!"

In fact, he really wanted to say that there are 9 American-produced films shortlisted for this Venice Film Festival, accounting for almost half of the shortlisted films.

How do Chinese-language films fare compared to this?
Of course, you can only say this in your heart, but you cannot say it openly.

Another reporter did not want to let go of this topic and asked: "There are several Chinese films shortlisted. Will you give preferential treatment to Chinese films?"

Zhang Yimou is already a veteran. He replied with a smile: "Of course I am happy to see many Chinese films shortlisted. Films do not respect national boundaries. As the chairman, I hope for the best result."

A reporter asked again: "Director Zhang Yimou, is it because Chinese films have achieved excellent results at the previous Venice Film Festival because Marco Muller prefers Chinese films?"

Zhang Yimou immediately denied it and said: "Marco Muller has not only greatly promoted Chinese films, but also made great contributions to films from other countries."

This is to tell reporters that Marco Muller does not prefer Chinese-language movies, but based on the principle of fairness.

As the opening ceremony ended, Wang Shu and others returned to the hotel. He immediately praised Mei Tiao: "It's so beautiful, so charming."

Mei Ting specially wore a black sequined deep V dress for the opening ceremony red carpet. It was not only dazzling, but also extremely sexy.

Of course, this dress was sponsored by a sponsor, she didn't buy it, she just chose it.

Being praised by Wang Shu so eye-catchingly, Mei Ting felt very happy, with a happy smile on her face, but she snorted dissatisfiedly: "Aren't you usually pretty?"

"Both are beautiful!" Wang Shu hugged Mei Ting and answered without thinking, breathing hotly and adding, "It's just that she is more beautiful today."

When Mei Ting heard this, she felt sweet in her heart, but she snorted with dissatisfaction on her face: "Oh, please be gentle, these are the sponsor's clothes, they need to be returned, don't damage them."

"If it's broken, it's broken. It doesn't matter." Wang Shu said proudly.

"No, I'll take off my clothes first." Mei Ting snorted.

"Don't take it off, that's it." Wang Shu stopped Mei Ting's hands.

Upon hearing this, Mei Ting met Wang Shu's eyes, and she instantly guessed Wang Shu's thoughts and rolled her lips at him, humming in a low voice: "Then be careful, don't break it, or you really want to return it. "

"Yeah." Wang Shu responded.

The black sequin dress is not only a deep V style, but also has a high slit.

so.
Mei Ting didn't take off her dress.

8 month 30 day.

"Lust, Caution" directed by Li Eu held its premiere in Venice.

Liang Chaowei, Li Yu, Tang Wei, Wang Lihong, and Chen Chong all attended the premiere. In addition to these creative staff, Yang Ziqiong was also invited.

Jiang Wen and Liu Yun didn't go, Du Qifeng and Liu Qingyun didn't go, and neither did Wang Shu, Mei Ting and others.

At the premiere, Li Yu walked on the red carpet holding Tang Wei's waist.

Li Yu wore a suit and leather shoes, and Tang Wei wore a white deep V dress.

Her dress has no straps and is a shoulderless deep V dress.

Viewed from the back, the shoulders and back are completely exposed.

Viewed from the front, the deep V blocks key parts on both sides.

It can only be said that Tang Wei is still too plain and not suitable for this dress.

Chen Chong is wearing a halter-neck ceremonial dress that at least gives a sense of duang, duang fullness when worn on her body.

There is nothing particularly amazing about Tang Wei.

(End of this chapter)