My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 238 Cannes Film Festival, Dreamers Pilgrimage

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On the first weekend of May, the Cannes Film Festival will officially kick off, and thousands of filmmakers and movie fans from all over the world will come to share this grand film festival.

With the changes in the film selection system of the Cannes Film Festival in recent years, and the fact that filmmakers from the third world have begun to attract attention, the Cannes Film Festival has become more and more popular. Among the three major film festivals in Europe, Cannes is even more dominant.

The Cannes Film Festival has an irresistible temptation for 90.00% of filmmakers all over the world.

Of course, if you are a big guy like Woody Allen, you can wait for the "Three Visits to Thatched Cottage" in Cannes with restraint, and then negotiate silent conditions.

Is Wu Xiaozu Woody Allen?
Apparently he wasn't enough... open!

Mr. Woody used his life to tell the younger generation of filmmakers that if you want to maintain a vigorous creative rhythm and have new works released every year, then you must find more lovers...even daughters-in-law.

Numerous artistic predecessors have proved that in the field of art, the muse is an infinite source of creative inspiration.The collision of inspiration between film directors and actresses is the responsibility and obligation entrusted by society.

……

At Nice Airport, Wu Xiaozu got off the plane, Jiang Zhiqiang had already arranged a car to take them to Cannes, 20 kilometers away.

The sea breeze from the Mediterranean is blowing gently, and the temperature in Cannes in May is between 5°-13°, which is a pleasant climate.

There are countless vehicles on the road.There are even many men and women backpackers carrying huge sleeping bags, walking towards Cannes step by step like a pilgrimage.

"During the film festival, there are too many tourists... Every year I feel like I have come to the Kowloon Walled City." In the station wagon, Er Shao Jiang crossed his legs, knocked on melon seeds, and glanced at all kinds of tourists fluttering in the wind.

Hou Xiaochen, a black-faced [-]-year-old man, poked the squint-eyed desolate Yang Dechang and Mr. Wu, who was handsome and handsome, and asked uncertainly, "If I hear you right, is he showing off how many times he comes here?"

"Maybe it's to show that we have a car." Wu Xiaozu thought for a while and answered.

"To express it from a different perspective, maybe I envy the other party for having a huge backpack, doesn't he? The inferiority complex fluctuates the mind unbalancedly, so I use a reason to vent aimlessly. Subjectively, this is in line with the psychological demands of human beings. , objectively..."

Yang De advocated holding up his glasses: "Objectively speaking, he may be empty inside, a kind of material showing off."

"So should we cooperate?" Hou Xiaochen asked in silence.

"Who booked your two hotel rooms?" Wu Xiaozu smiled and picked his nails.

The black-faced forty-year-old man and the elegant and desolate middle-aged uncle looked at each other without saying a word.

"Boss Jiang, these tourists are spiritually empty!" Hou Xiaochen said.

Yang Dechang took a deep breath: "Your observation angle is quite a bit of a mentality of watching two or three things with a cold eye."

Jiang Zhiqiang's face turned dark when he heard the two... three who were mingling together behind him rushing to the street.

There is no direct flight from Wanwan to Nice, so Yang Dechang asked Hou Xiaochen to go to Hong Kong to attend the Cannes Film Festival.When they came to Hong Kong Island, how could the two poor ghosts not be close to the little rich man Wu Xiaozu.

Therefore, it was only natural for the three of them to come to Cannes together.

Wu Xiaozu was selected for the non-competition unit "A Kind of Concern". Of course, the biggest wish of this visit is to promote "Two Heroes" and "Fear Room" by the way.

Although the European market is not large, the buyout quota is considerable, especially in France, Italy, and the Netherlands, where Hollywood is weak. Hong Kong films, led by kung fu movies, still have a certain market share, especially in Chinatowns everywhere.

"The True Colors of Heroes" is off to a good start.For the first time, the Western market has seen "gunfight movies" other than kung fu movies.

At this point in time, action movies on Hong Kong Island belong to the "high-end technology and concept" in the movie action world, and ghosts can only stare dumbfounded when they watch them.

In later generations, after "The Matrix", action guides represented by Yuan Jiaban and Chengjiaban entered Hollywood, which brought exciting and learnable brand-new action concepts to Hollywood.

The reason why "The True Colors of Heroes" is a cross-age classic is not only because of its box office in Asia, but more importantly, the violent aesthetics it expresses, for the first time let ghosts appreciate oriental aesthetics other than kung fu movies.

In the 80s, Wu Yusen was indeed wearing a halo of pig feet.The violent aesthetics he developed unconsciously has had a profound impact on the film industry.

Afterwards, Takeshi Kitano, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and the Wachowski sisters were also affected by this.

Of course, in this life, Wu Xiaozu's rendering of violent aesthetics in "The Birth of a Prefix" is more intense and exciting than Wu Baige.

The reincarnation of the dead on the bridge, the oil painting-like image creation, light, color, processing of the rotating lens and the use of slow motion, combined together, are enough to be used as a violent aesthetic lens in a textbook.

The most intuitive aspect of this influence is the gradual expansion of Western acceptance of Hong Kong films.It is no longer limited to the category of kung fu movies.

After that, Wu Yusen, Cheng Long, Sammo Hung, and Lin Lingdong all exported a lot of action movies, hero movies, and gunfight movies on Hong Kong Island.In later generations, the French director Luc Besson, who is most familiar to many people, has a bit of Hong Kong film style in his action film style.

"Double Heroes" and "Fear Chamber" brought to Cannes, so it might not be able to export to domestic sales. If there are really filmmakers who can see it, it will be the best thing for Wu Xiaozu and even New Arts City.

Even if no one cares, there is not much loss.

Wu Xiaozu will never be so idiotic as to attend the film festival simply for "a special attention".

Thinking of this, he glanced at Yang Dechang and Hou Xiaochen.

Uh……

Well, there are always some people who have poetry and distant places in their hearts.

Of course, even Yang Dechang and Hou Xiaochen didn't come to Cannes for nothing.

Wu Xiaozu didn't know Yang Dechong's purpose, but Hou Xiaochen wanted to promote his new director's version of "Love in the Red Dust".

Although I can't participate in Cannes, I can prepare for other awards.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, including the company's translators and assistants, a group of six or seven people checked into a four-star hotel not far from the Palais des Festivals.The arrival of the Cannes Film Festival has brought the entire Cannes hotel industry into the hottest time of the year.

The hotel is not far from the seaside promenade, you can see the sea from the window, and you can walk to the Palais des Festivals in seven or eight minutes.Most of the guests staying in the hotel are filmmakers from all over the world.

Of course, many of Hollywood's biggest directors and stars won't stay here.

too noisy!

Many Hollywood stars will live in small islands not far away or sea view villas, presidential suites, in short, spend money freely.

...

In front of the hotel, countless backpackers went up to sell and entangle the hotel residents who stopped their cars.

"Excuse me, sir, would you mind leaving me an empty shop?"

"I just need a bed, and I'm yours tonight!"

"Handsome, maybe we can have a good night together tonight, if you want."

Girls with exotic styles kept coming forward to sell themselves, just to stay on the side of the road.During the two weeks of the Cannes Film Festival, a park lounger becomes an extravagant venue.

"Gollum—"

Jiang Zhiqiang reluctantly withdrew his green eyes, took a deep swallow of saliva, glanced at Yang Dechong and Hou Xiaochen who were following behind him honestly, and shook his head slightly at Wu Xiaozu: "I regret helping them book a hotel. You say..."

Yang Dechang smiled dryly with crooked eyes, while Hou Xiaochen pulled the suitcase tightly.

Wu Xiaozu turned his head, and the big ocean horses with bumps and bumps were really lovely.Although the smell of inferior perfume is a bit pungent, but with Dayan Mar, who cares about the smell.

"I think you can give it a try..."

"I think so too. The quality of these big ponies is much better than the Portland Street ones, and they're also cheaper!"

Jiang Er Shao couldn't help but wiped a handful of oil back, took out a hotel room key with his fingers, and turned it slightly: "These girls are all pilgrims of dreams. I think it is necessary for them to purify my increasingly dark heart !"

Besides him, many men in the hotel turned the keys.

This scene is like a row of luxury cars with drink bottles at the gates of art, teacher training, and nursing colleges.

Wu Xiaozu was too familiar with this scene.

It's not that girls will become more open after decades, but that the cost of one-night stands will become cheaper after decades.

Hou Xiaochen breathed a sigh of relief, and walked into the elevator tightly pulling the suitcase.

Just when Wu Xiaozu also wanted to communicate technology and friendship with the European people, Yang Dechang said with a serious face: "Azu, there is something I want to talk to you about?"

Wu Xiaozu reached into his trousers and touched the key ring, looking at Yang Dechang's serious expression, and from the corner of his eye, he glanced at the cold eyes that were looking at each other in the corner.He loved that look.

"Very important?" Wu Xiaozu asked unwillingly.

"It's about life and death, it's about the future." Yang Dechang's voice was sonorous and powerful.

"...╮(╯_╰)╭..."

Wu Xiaozu lowered his head and took a deep breath. It seems that this time he has no chance to compete with the European people. He raised his head, showed a poetic smile, and looked directly at Yang Dechang, "Okay, I just have time."

"Well, I know." Yang Dechong responded to Wu Xiaozu's words with a scalpel-like thinking.

The two walked into the elevator together.

In a daze, Wu Xiaozu felt that his key seemed...I mean it seemed to have fallen on the ground!

Wu Xiaozu did not, see, see at all!

At this time, no one will rush out and shout: Sir, is your Yida?

When Wu Xiaozu stepped into the elevator, this incident did not happen.

Of course, there will not be a woman who ran over like Wang Zuzhen who sent the plane off yesterday, and said to Wu Xiaozu: "Little brother, little brother, I have something for you."

"what to give?"

"Give me to you!" This kind of king-like drama with two girls.

"Ding--"

The elevator stopped, and Wu Xiaozu followed Yang Dechang and Hou Xiaochen into their room.

The fat cleaning lady who cleaned the corridors smiled at the three men politely and politely, with a look of understanding.

"Ding!"

Suddenly, another elevator went up to the same floor - what a coincidence!
(End of this chapter)