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Chapter 211 Old acquaintance

Do what you say you will do.

After attending the opening ceremony which was completely full of suspense and passion, the next day, Huang Ze brought the crew members of "Pulp Fiction" and "Days of Being Wild" to the screening venue of "Cinema Paradiso".

"Huang, I can see that you are looking forward to this movie." Tommy looked at Huang Ze with an inquiring look.

"I just thought it might surprise me!"

Huang Ze looked at the screen with a slight smile on his face, "Cinema Paradiso, just looking at the name, I see religion and movies."

"The poster shows an elderly person and a child. It is possible that they have a friendship that is even more different in age."

"This friendship between people of different ages is most likely related to the movie."

"Maybe it's possible to connect friendships through movies? I'm very interested in that."

"Oh, no wonder Liang said you can guess who will win the grand prize!" Tommy smiled, "Now that you said that, I am also interested in this movie."

"Me too." He didn't like having grown men on both sides, so Tommy sat on Huang Ze's left and Jennifer Connelly on his right.

She echoed Tommy's words, and naturally was also flattering Huang Ze implicitly.

But she shouldn't have said "me too", which made Huang Ze subconsciously stiff.

After realizing what was happening, I cursed Harvey in my heart.

Damn it, it’s all your fault. I can’t even look at this word directly.

"Huang?" Jennifer Connelly noticed Huang Ze's abnormality and asked with concern, "What happened?"

"No, I'm fine." Huang Ze nodded gently at Jennifer, "The movie is about to start, just focus on watching it, I think it should be a surprise!"

As the movie scenes appeared on the screen, Huang Ze folded his arms, cleared his mind, and savored the movie once again.

It begins with an old lady contacting her son to tell him the news that Alfredo has passed away.

Far away in Rome, the son who already had white hair couldn't sleep for a long time, he was lost in memories.

When he was young, he was called Duoduo by everyone. He worked as a deacon in the Catholic Church. The church had a cinema. The priest reviewed every movie that would be shown. When he came across a kissing scene, he would signal the projectionist Alfredo to cut it out.

What Duoduo likes to do most is to watch movies secretly in the back, and then go to the projection room to find Alfredo. In order to get rid of Duoduo, Alfredo makes an agreement with him to give Duoduo the cut film, but Alfredo needs to keep it...

After a period of friendship between the two people regardless of age difference, the scene returns to reality.

Duoduo has become a famous director. When he walks into the Cinema Paradiso, he finds that no one watches movies anymore due to the rise of television and the cinema looks very shabby. But looking at every corner here, memories from his childhood come to his mind.

After the funeral, Duoduo received the gift that Alfredo left for him after his death, a roll of film.

He returned to the private screening room and played the film.

On the screen were kissing scenes that had been edited out. Duoduo covered her mouth with her hands and watched the scenes in front of her.

Coupled with the moving soundtrack, almost most of the filmmakers had tears in their eyes.

Before the lights came on, Huang Ze had already started clapping. When one person clapped, the entire theater applauded.

"Huang, this is indeed an excellent movie!" Jennifer Connelly applauded and turned to look at Huang Ze, "I feel the director's love for movies!"

“The vast majority of filmmakers will love this film.”

"By the way, I feel like the beginning of this film is very similar to the beginning of your first screenwriting work, The Class of the Poor Student!"

"The same old friend passed away, the same mother still exists, the same protagonist has achieved success and fame, and received the news of the old friend's death while lying in the house."

"But the content of the two films is different." Huang Ze smiled and shook his head, then said, "Jennifer, did you notice a small detail?"

“The projectionist who showed that last reel.”

"What's going on?" Jennifer Connelly asked curiously. "The projectionist is the director of this film, Giuseppe Tornatore."

"Oh! What a wonderful design!"

"It's a really good design!" Tommy nodded, but his expression was not so happy, but rather sad. "Huang, I originally fantasized that you could win the Palme d'Or, but after watching this film, I'm a little bit unconfident."

“This one is good enough, and it describes the beauty of the movie.”

"A movie like this is exactly what the judges like."

"I can already imagine their excitement."

"Haha!" Huang Ze had always said that it was enough to win the prize, but he didn't expect this guy to be so ambitious. Huang Ze smiled and put his arm around Tommy's shoulders, "Don't worry, have some confidence in our film."

"Besides, who told you it's our biggest competitor? Maybe the judges like more than just this one!"

"Huh?" Tommy's eyes widened in shock and he slowly turned his head.

"Huang, thank you for your comfort. You comforted me very well."

"Don't comfort people anymore!"

In order to comfort Tommy, Huang Ze took everyone to watch the second film on display, "Sex, Lies and Videotape".

After watching it, Tommy's face was a little stiff. "In my personal opinion, this movie is not as good as the previous one, but the quality is also quite high. This is a very unique movie."

"If all the films this year are of this quality, I think we will have to rely on the goddess of luck to win the Palme d'Or."

"Maybe the goddess of luck will favor me?"

Huang Ze left a message, stood up and walked to the front to greet Steven Soderbergh, the director who won the Palme d'Or for "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" at the age of 26 in his previous life.

Next to Steven, there is a fat man who is an old acquaintance but has only successfully traded with him once.

It was Harvey Weinstein that Huang Ze complained about not long ago.

"Huang, thank you for coming to watch the movie." Harvey extended his hand to Huang Ze.

You shouldn't hit someone who smiles at you, especially since the other person has no grudge against you. Huang Ze doesn't like him, but he won't stand up for a bunch of Hollywood actresses and become an enemy. He smiled and shook hands with him, "Congratulations, Harvey, for investing in and releasing an excellent work."

"Thank you." Harvey patted the back of Huang Ze's hand with his other hand, "In fact, it is most suitable for us to work together. You are a genius, and I can help your film gain more honors."

After saying this, seeing that Huang Ze was unmoved, Harvey stopped talking and said, "I look forward to the Pulp Fiction you are filming at Warner."

"Tomorrow is the premiere, welcome to come and watch the movie."

"I will definitely go."

Looking at Huang Ze's leaving back, Harvey Weinstein sighed in his heart.

He had long discovered Huang Ze's talent in movies.

Unfortunately, my strength is still not strong enough and I lack sufficient appeal compared to Warner!
“If this film is also…”

Harvey was in a dilemma.

If Huang Ze's new film is mediocre, he would have a chance to cooperate with Huang Ze, but he would not want to cooperate at that time.

If Huang Ze's "Pulp Fiction" is good enough, I'm afraid I will never have the chance to work with Huang Ze again.

""pulp Fiction"……"

"Oh, what a casual name."

(End of this chapter)