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Chapter 385 Venice ([-])
"Hunting" has enough cards, but the opening film is "President Killing Bureau", directed by George Clooney, Leonardo invested and served as producer.

Leon didn't come, and George Clooney became the biggest star of this year's film festival - Cheng Yu'an was indeed far behind him in popularity.

However, this film was not shortlisted for the main competition, and the first film to be screened in the main competition was the Bay Island epic "Sedek Bale".

Many people, including relevant leaders, have repeatedly said that Cheng Yu'an and Remote are "not united", and the meaning is obvious.

There are more long-distance cooperation with Hong Kong Island, but less contact with Taiwan.

Since Cheng Yu'an's debut, he has only been to Baodao to promote once, and it's only been half a day.

I have never been to the Golden Horse Awards.

The leader complained a little about this, but he only verbally told Cheng Yu'an a few times that the leader still loved him very much and didn't force him to go.

So during this trip to Venice, the crew of "Sedek Bale" called to invite him to attend the premiere. Since the film bureau also sent people to the festival, Cheng Yu'an simply sold his favor and went there.

Miss Sister doesn’t go, she also has her own activities when she comes to Venice, she has to stand for the brand side, and she also has to shoot various magazines and street shoots, it’s really not just a wave of red carpet and it’s over.

Wei Desheng studied under Cheng Yu'an's favorite Bay Island director Yang Dechang, and worked as an assistant and assistant director in Yang's studio for three years. Later, he felt that Director Yang's film production cycle was too long and he couldn't exhaust himself, so he came out to work alone.

He was a screenwriter. He started writing "Sedek Bale" in 97. It took three years, but no one was willing to invest in this script at the time - the schedule was too large and the cost was too high. it is good.

After 8 years of silence, he took out "Cape No. [-]" to surprise everyone and proved his strength, and then he started to make "Sedek Bale".

Wei Desheng is 40 years old, which is the time when a director is at his most energetic.

"Cheng Dao." Seeing Cheng Yu'an coming, Wei De laughed.

"Director Wei." Cheng Yuan stepped forward to shake hands with him, "Director Wu."

Wu Baige is also there, he is the producer of "Sedek Bale".

"Our crew is really happy that Director Cheng can come." Wu Baige complimented, "Didn't Ms. Liu come?"

"She has her own activities." Cheng Yu'an didn't know why Wu Baige was looking for Liu Yifei.

"It's a pity, I still want to talk to her about the new movie."

"Oh? Director Wu is going to shoot a new work?" Wu Baige has done a lot of work these years after returning to China for retirement, and wants to prove himself.

"Well, the story about the shipwreck is called "Life and Death". If Miss Liu is willing, we can talk about it later."

Shipwreck, "Life and Death".

"Peace Wheel"!

Cheng Yu'an only said that she would tell Yifei about it, but it still depends on her own opinion.

The two sides exchanged pleasantries, and Wu Baige introduced him to the leading actor of "Sedek Bale": "This is Miss Xu Ruoxuan."

"Hello."

Ok?
The little girl scratched his palm during the handshake: "Hello, Director Cheng, I really like your movies."

Cheng Yu'an rolled her eyes in her heart, I brought my wife here.

After speaking, the two parties sat down to watch the movie.

"Sediq Bale" is of course a very good movie, and it is also a rare war movie in Hong Kong and Taiwan that has an epic sense.

But, it's too long!

The film length of more than two hours is too much to test the patience of the audience.

Cheng Yu'an watched it with gusto.

At the end of the film screening, the audience roared with applause and cheers - the basic etiquette of the film festival.

As long as it is not too bad to watch, the audience will applaud and cheer.

It was already noon after watching the movie.

"Director Cheng, let's have a light meal together."

"No, I still need to keep an eye on "Hunting"."

"We will definitely be there when "The Hunt" premieres." Reciprocate.

"Thank you."

After coming out, meet the young lady who finished the activity.

"How about the movie?"

"It's very good, but it's too long. I think some audience members couldn't bear to leave the seat. However," some words are not suitable for the main creator to hear, "The story is very good and atmospheric, and the filming is also very good, but there are problems with the editing. There are some problems with the rhythm and arrangement in some places. But these problems do not affect him to be the best Chinese war film."

"However, these problems will be magnified in the eyes of the harsh Venice judges, and the quality of other films must be looked at."

"Does "Hunting" have confidence in him?" Liu Yifei asked.

Cheng Yu'an smiled: "The two are not of the same type at all."

But he still said: "Venice has always disliked politically inclined films. If "Sedek Bale" is released in Berlin, it will definitely get a good score."

"Anyway, it depends on the taste of the judges, I like it very much."

After eating, the two went back to the hotel to rest.

Cheng Yu'an made an appointment with Warner in the afternoon to continue talking about "Pacific Rim", and the young lady still has activities.

Before leaving, Liu Yifei said: "I have sent the script back to the company."

The filming of "Pacific Rim" will inevitably be postponed, so she found a script and sent it back to the company for preparation.

"Well, what are you shooting?"

""BJ Meets Seattle"." The young lady would really pick such a story.

"Okay, this script is actually quite suitable for you." They haven't broken her over for three years together.

Kroll still did not make a decision on "Pacific Rim", and only said that he would wait for the film festival to return to the United States to discuss with the company.

Cheng Yu'an was driven into a hurry and even wanted to pay a 20% premium to take back Warner's investment share in "Pacific Rim" and do it himself, but Sarah stopped him from doing so.

"This is against the rules." Of course Cheng Yu'an knew that doing so broke the rules.

However, "Pacific Rim" was originally scheduled to launch in November. Warner's delay, the launch time will be postponed for more than a month, how much money will it have to lose?
Cheng Yu'an was so worried that she was so worried that she scolded Warner "Fxxk you" even after the meeting with Thomas Tour.

According to the pre-screening forecast of the show book, the score of "Sedek Bale" is not very high. This year's big hits are Polanski's "Killing" and Russian director Alexander Sokolov's "Faust".

After the premiere of "Sedek Bale", it became cold.

As Cheng Yu'an said, Venetian audiences don't like such politically inclined films.

In the scoring session of the program in Venice, 20 of the 13 foreign media only gave "Sedek Bale" a score of less than two stars, and the overall score was only 5.4.

Both "Killing" and "President Killing Bureau", which premiered on the same day, scored more than 7 points.At the premiere, foreign media left the venue early, and the response to this Chinese-language competition film was indifferent.

Although the film has received a poor reputation, Wu Yusen is still full of confidence in the overseas distribution in an interview, and feels that the filming of this local story has an international temperament.

As the film festival progressed, the score of this film became lower and lower day by day, and finally ranked at the bottom with 4.8 points.

"Let me just say it." Cheng Yu'an was drinking tea with Qin Hailu, and she came to invite Cheng Yu'an to participate in the premiere of "Sister Tao", "Unless there is a shocking cold, "Sediq Bale" basically bid farewell to this year's Venice. "

(End of this chapter)