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Chapter 588 Venice Interview

On the 6th, the film festival closed.

The Chinese Legion participated in the red carpet.

Zhang Yimou still did not appear in Lido Island, which became a great regret of this film festival.

Cheng Liu and his wife attended the event in costumes.

"Director Cheng, long time no see." Tang Wei came over to greet her. She had a good relationship with Yuan Yuan, but she was a good girlfriend with Chen Zhixi. When Chen Zhixi got married, she was still a bridesmaid.

"It's been a long time, and I haven't congratulated you on your wedding yet." Miss Tang has survived on the road of love. It's not that she has worked so hard, but that she has survived her original marriage.

Tang Wei said softly: "I am also a science fiction fan. I have read all of Liu's works. Let's make an appointment to communicate together?"

It turned out that they came here to set up almost a role.

Cheng Yu'an smiled: "If you have the opportunity, you must ask for advice. Yawen, come here." Cheng Yu'an quickly changed the topic and called Zhu Yawen who was not far away.

Tang Wei also understood, and said with a smile: "You guys talk first, I'll go over."

It was fine for Cheng Yuan to call Zhu Yawen, he just used him as a shield, chatted with him a few words, and then entered the movie palace.

The couple sit together.

"It's so annoying. Every day, someone seeks me out." Cheng Yu'an complained to his wife.

"Don't talk about you, I don't know how many people I've met these days, and they all want to send you a message through me."

"Who found you?"

"You don't need to ask, anyway, I didn't agree to any of them." Liu Yifei said.

The award ceremony began, and various languages ​​were flying around on the stage, including Italian, English, and French. The two listening to it were exhausted.

In the second half, Cheng Yu'an came to the stage to present the best director award.

Cheng Yu'an delivered a prize speech in English on the stage:

"The director is the soul of a movie. He expresses to the audience, to himself, and to the world. But what a director can do is often very limited," Cheng Yu'an began to enliven the atmosphere of the scene, "A crew has a screenwriter, lighting, and Camera, props, and if you ask me what a director does, I'd say, a director doesn't do anything."

This joke worked well, and the audience laughed very much.

Cheng Yu'an went on to say: "If I have to say it, I would say that the director's job is to perform," he turned sideways to perform, "Please, put the camera here. Then sit behind the monitor and call start and click."

"Hahaha!"

This joke resonated with the directors present, and they all responded with warm applause.

"But the director is still the most indispensable person in the crew. I love the director's career, because I dozed off in the crew and no one dared to wake me up." Cheng Yuan licked his lips in "embarrassment" after finishing speaking.

The audience laughed again.

Festival president Alberto Barbara had the biggest laugh offstage.

"I can't count how many times I've been to Venice. Venice is where my movie dream started. I love Venice as much as I love movies."

This provocative statement is also very effective.

"Okay, now let's present the awards."

Cheng Yu'an presented the award on stage, and Liu Yifei turned on her mobile phone to videotape her husband.

She likes to see Cheng Yu'an's relaxed look on stage.

After all, he is 32 years old and doesn't usually pay attention to maintenance. Cheng Yu'an's appearance is definitely not as high as when the two first met 10 years ago.

But as long as he is on stage or in the crew, Cheng Yu'an will exude a charming ease and confidence.

This kind of temperament is what Liu Yifei is most fascinated by.

Liu Yifei said that she hoped that he would shoot less films and spend more time with her, but she knew clearly that Cheng Yu'an not only belonged to her, but also belonged to the film and the set.

"The best director is..." Cheng Yu'an opened the envelope, "It's an old friend of Venice, Andrei Konchalovsky, "The Postman's White Night."

Andrei Konchalovsky is 77 years old, a master contemporary Russian art director.

He has been shortlisted in Venice three times before, and it has been 12 years since he last came to Lido Island.

Andrei Konchalovsky came to the stage, shook hands and hugged Cheng Yuan, and took the Silver Lion trophy from him.

Cheng Yuan made trouble for him before he gave his acceptance speech, and said into the microphone: "I also have a silver lion trophy."

Andrei Konchalovsky shook the trophy in his hand and said with a smile, "Cheng, who doesn't have one."

Cheng Yu'an didn't expect Andre to cheer him up, so he stood aside and made way for Andre to give a speech. Hearing what Andre said, he leaned forward again: "I still have a Golden Lion trophy."

The audience laughed loudly, the old man who is not easy to provoke Cheng Yu'an.

Andre patted Cheng Yu'an with a smile, finished his gag, and gave a formal speech.

The Golden Lion Award for Best Picture went to Swedish director Roy Anderson's "Quiet Sparrow".

The 71st Venice Film Festival has just come to an end.

The Chinese-speaking Legion failed to collect any particles.

That night, Cheng Yu'an was interviewed by the domestic media and was asked about this: "What do you think of the performance of Chinese-language films at this year's film festival?"

"Now the entire art film market is in a downturn. Awards are one aspect. Just do your job well, and you should treat it with a normal heart."

"Recently, there is a voice saying that it is hoped that the government will support art films like France and provide financial support. If there is no profit, there is no need to return the support funds. What do you think of this matter?"

Cheng Yu'an snorted coldly: "The person who made this suggestion is either stupid or bad. If they really want to do this, these directors will have the guts to make a movie cost [-] million yuan, and then use [-] ways to make the movie lose money , in order to defraud the state subsidies."

"What do you think is the way out for art films? It's true that domestic art films are not very popular right now."

"Art films are not popular in any country in the world. Some of our art film directors have a problem. They want to be teachers. They don't want to make good films for the audience, but want to educate the audience.

"Look, my movie is awesome, you still don't obediently send up the ticket money.

"I also make literary and artistic films. I know the plight of domestic literary and artistic films, but having difficulties does not mean that you can make troubles without reason. Doesn't this mean that I am poor and I am justified?"

"On the other hand, it is indeed much more difficult for literary films to make profits than genre films."

"Then control the cost." Cheng Yuan replied, "Our company has a fund pool dedicated to supporting literary and artistic films. The cost of each film is controlled at 500 million, and the maximum cannot exceed 1000 million. Within this cost, literary and artistic films go Taking overseas copyrights, selling TV stations, plus the box office revenue from the show, is enough to pay back.

"Movies are now released with digital keys. Without physical copies, distribution costs have been further reduced, and literary and artistic films with good quality can be successfully profitable.

"In the final analysis, it's because some of our literary film directors have a problem with their thinking. They want to make a movie with 600 million yuan, but they also want to win awards and fame, and they also want to make money at the box office of 3 billion yuan. How can there be such a good thing in the world? You met. How about "Return"? Zhang Yimou, Chen Daoming and Gong Li, the box office is not over [-] million, which is almost the box office ceiling of domestic literary films at this stage."

The reporter realized that Cheng Yu'an's temper was on the rise, so he cleverly changed the topic to another place.

After chatting a few more words about "The Wandering Earth", the interview ended.

　Chapter 1 was posted at [-] o'clock this afternoon, but the speed was too fast and it was blocked. I will try to lift the ban tomorrow.

　　
　
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