Huayu: Director started with art films

Chapter 26 026 [Red carpet ends, exhibition hall screening] Please read
Soon, under the arrangement of the organizer, the vehicle slowly moved forward and stopped at the location designated by the organizer.

After getting off the car, Li Yishu followed Gong Li and stepped onto a long red carpet, which was about several dozen meters long.

Gong Li walked with grace and grace, stopping from time to time to be photographed by reporters from all over the world.

Li Yishu followed her the whole time, forcing a stiff smile, but the dense flashes made him feel like his eyes were about to go blind.

After all, she has been to Berlin and Cannes, and there were reporters shouting "Gong Li"'s name from time to time in the venue.

It took about two or three minutes to walk a distance of several dozen meters.

Originally, Li Yishu was planning to go in directly, but when she saw two hosts arranged by the film festival called Gong Li, and Gong Li asked him to go with her, Li Yishu had to stay.

After answering a few questions from the host, Gong Li pointed to Li Yishu next to her and said, "This is Director Li. His work was shortlisted for the main competition unit. He is an excellent young director."

“Wow! The director of Postmen In The Mountains?”

The female host was surprised.

She was a reporter arranged by the film festival organizers, so she naturally knew the shortlist by heart.

What she never expected was that the director was so young.

Originally, this kind of mistake should not have been made, but Li Yishu entered the venue behind Gong Li, and looked so young, so the two hosts mistakenly thought she was an actor from Gong Li's crew.

Li Yishu nodded: "Yes."

"It's incredible. I didn't expect the director of this movie to be so young..."

Just as the female host was about to ask a few more questions, cheers suddenly broke out from the front.

She looked up and saw that it was Tom Cruise who came on stage. She quickly said, "Lee, I apologize for my impolite behavior just now. I hope you can achieve something in this film festival."

"Thank you."

Li Yishu naturally noticed the female host's perfunctory attitude, but he had long been accustomed to the entertainment industry's practice of flattering the powerful and bullying the weak.

Seeing the two hosts preparing to interview Tom Cruise, Gong Li comforted them after they entered the venue: "Yishu, it's okay. When Director Zhang and I went to Berlin for the first time, no one was interested. I believe you will be successful in the future."

"It's okay, Sister Gong Li. I didn't really want to be interviewed in the first place."

It doesn't matter to Li Yishu. Even Zhang Yimou probably can't take away the shine of Tom Cruise now.

In recent years, Liang Tang has become so popular that he has many fans even in mainland China.

"Just have a good attitude."

Gong Li smiled, then glanced at the scene and found the location of Zhang Yimou and others.

Li Yishu, who was following behind, recalled the scene just now. It was really like she was standing like a background at the film festival.

They waited like this for more than half an hour. When Li Yishu was bored and thinking about sitting on the chair and taking a nap, the lights on the scene began to dim.

The 1991 Venice Film Festival officially opened.

This year's film festival chairman Randy took the stage first to deliver a speech, and then after various opening activities were over, the opening blockbuster began to be screened.

This year's opening film is an ocean documentary called "Atlantis". Its director is not very famous now, but in two years, he will become famous with "Léon: The Professional".

Yes, it’s Luc Besson!
Speaking of Luc Besson, domestic movie fans are quite familiar with him. He has filmed the "Taxi" series, the "Transporter" series, "Hitman: Agent 47", "Taken" and many other films.

Most of them are based on crime and gunfights.

So when Li Yishu saw Luc Besson's English name written on the subtitles at the beginning of the movie, he was very surprised. He didn't expect that this director who was good at gun battles and crime themes had also made documentaries on the ocean.

Out of curiosity, Li Yishu was immersed in this documentary until the end of the screening. She couldn't help but sigh that successful directors are indeed very capable.

The opening ceremony didn't end until around 8 o'clock in the evening.

There was supposed to be a dinner party, but Zhang Yimou and the crew left directly because they had to accept an interview from Xinhua News Agency, and Li Yishu was also included.

After all, he is a director shortlisted for the film festival, and he is so young and outstanding, so naturally he is full of topics and publicity effects.

At first, Li Yishu was surprised to hear that the domestic interview team was from Xinhua News Agency.

But then I thought, the CCTV film channel has not yet been established, and if the domestic external interview team is not mainly based on Xinhua News Agency, who else can be entrusted with it?

"Director Li, I saw in your profile that you seem to be only 21 years old this year?" "Strictly speaking, I should be 22 years old, but we use the lunar calendar over there, so I'm still only 21 years old."

"Whether you are 21 or 22, I believe there are only a few people in the world who can be shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival at your age..."

After a long chat, Li Yishu was very humble in answering various questions. She said that the cultivation of Emei Film Studio and the support of Beijing Film Academy were the credit for her being shortlisted.

Xinhua News Agency is not an ordinary news organization, so it is better to be cautious.

After the interview, Gong Li found Li Yishu and told him to get up early tomorrow because the film could be screened in the exhibition hall starting tomorrow.

With anticipation for tomorrow, Li Yishu went to bed early.

The exhibition hall of the film festival is similar to the small commodity market in China. Independent filmmakers from all over the world bring their works here to promote them.

Those who are rich can rent a small exhibition hall like Li Yishu.

Those who had no money could only take their own movie manuals and videotapes and sell them to people in this "commodity market".

Generally speaking, these independent filmmakers are mostly students or amateur directors. They have spent almost all their money on making movies for their dreams, so naturally they don’t have much money to rent an exhibition hall.

The quality of the movies made by these people is definitely not good, but the film producers don’t care about the quality because they acquire the copyrights of these movies at very low prices and can recoup the costs from the videotape market.

Speaking of which, there was a hit movie in 1999, the famous "The Blair Witch Project".

This horror movie with almost no logic and no plot, with a cost of only $6, grossed $2.48 million worldwide and created a new film model - pseudo-documentary.

"Fuck, what kind of crap was that movie just now!"

A middle-aged bald man came out of an exhibition hall with his companions, cursing. It was obvious that he was very dissatisfied with the movie inside, as he had wasted twenty minutes of their time.

His companion consoled him: "Okay Mike, we came here to find gold in the shit, didn't we?"

"Thomas, it looks like there won't be any good movies at this year's Venice Film Festival."

Mike sighed. He was the owner of a small distribution company in North America. His main business was to participate in film festivals around the world, and then select films with suitable prices from these festivals and buy the North American copyrights.

Get the copyright of the film and distribute it directly on videotapes instead of going to theaters.

Today is still the era of videotapes. The videotape market in North America is very developed, and it has even given birth to videotape giants such as Blockbuster, whose annual sales exceed tens of billions of dollars.

So even though Mike flies to various film festivals every year to select films, the returns he gets are still very generous by purchasing film copyrights at extremely low costs.

But today I watched several movies in a row, and the quality was all terrible. Even for a film producer like Mike who casts a wide net, I felt disgusted as if I had encountered a scavenger. I was too lazy to even take a look at them, let alone eat them.

"Hey, Mike, this looks pretty good."

As they walked, their companion Thomas pointed to a young man standing at the entrance of the exhibition hall not far away.

“Postmen In The Mountains?”

Mike came to the entrance of the exhibition hall and took a look at the poster full of oriental style. The English name on it attracted his attention.

The postman on the hill?

Telling the story of the postman? That's quite novel.

"Two movie tickets please."

"Sorry, the movie has already started for 20 minutes."

"It's ok."

Mike shook his head. Even if the movie was only halfway started, the remaining half would be enough for him to determine whether the movie was worth watching.

"for you."

After getting the movie tickets, Mike and Thomas entered the exhibition hall. It was not large, with only forty or fifty seats, but seven or eight people were already sitting there.

As soon as they sat down, they heard soft music: "Baby won't you tell me why..."

Hmm? This song is good!

Mike and Thomas looked at each other, then looked at the screen together.

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