What kind of bad thoughts can the director have?

Chapter 338 The Emperor's Domination

Just like variety shows have to play tricks and insert advertisements before revealing any answers, film festivals also have to consider ratings, and it is inevitable to tantalize.

The chairman of the jury changed from the compactness before, and chatted for a long time at length.

It's like a high school insisting on summoning the students to the auditorium to announce the results of the college entrance examination, but the principal doesn't know what to do, so he insists on taking advantage of this last opportunity to speak.

Everyone smiled and waited for him to finish, Ning Song muttered in a low voice, "I'll fuck his eighteen generations of ancestors."

But the last bit of patience should be contributed. After all, compared with the procrastination of the Oscars, the Venice Film Festival is quite conscientious, which is exactly the opposite of the pragmatic America and loose Italy in everyone's impression.

What's more, the Venice Film Festival has almost no requirements for guests, and the Oscars, like the Spring Festival Gala, require rehearsals, and more than once.

It can be said that apart from the final announced list of winners, everything else in the Oscars is performances, and Hollywood has developed the performance industry to the extreme.

This is also an important reason why Will Smith could not be forgiven for beating someone at the awards ceremony. It is understandable that he is eager to protect his wife, but the same joke was said more than once during the rehearsal. What do you mean by beating someone during the live broadcast?
(At the Oscars in 2022, Will Smith went up and slapped him because the host laughed at his wife's bald head due to illness.)
The chairman of the jury is a famous director. He not only chatted but also began to analyze the works, commenting on the [-] shortlisted films one by one.

This is the practice of the film festival to award the Golden Lion Award, but Yang Shu didn't know much about it, so that at the beginning, when the film information appeared on the screen, he thought that the final award-winning film had been announced.

However, after carefully reading the introductions of these movies, Yang Shu gradually regained the confidence of reducing dimensionality.

The reason is very simple, seven awards have been awarded, and the films of decent quality in this year's film festival have already won, while the remaining thirteen films are not very good, and they don't look like they can win awards.

"In this way, the Golden Lion Award may only be produced among the seven films that have already won the award."

In the past, the situation where a film won multiple awards is basically the situation today. There are not enough works that deserve the name, and it is really impossible to line up and share the fruit. Someone must eat more and take more.

Don’t look at the Venice Film Festival, which selects [-] films from nearly a thousand films to enter the main competition unit. Films like "Old Cannon" can only be screened and cannot enter the main competition unit, but this does not mean that they are selected. Everything is fine.

Tens of thousands of films are produced in the world every year, but the real high-quality films are actually less than one percent, and not many of them can fall to Venice after being dispersed.

The three major European film festivals are very arrogant, and stipulate that the films submitted cannot be screened in public or participated in other film festivals, so only one of them can be selected for a film.

This kind of exclusivity is relatively strict, and at the same time narrows its own selection. Other film festivals seldom make such regulations, and Oscar does not pay such attention.

The influence of the three major European film festivals is in sync with that of Europe, and is gradually declining. As the world's first film festival, the Venice Film Festival, known as the "father of international film festivals", must ensure its own authority, otherwise The descent will be faster.

Therefore, it is better to be short than to be indiscriminate, and there are a few times when the awards are vacant rather than indiscriminately.

After reviewing a movie, although they are all carefully selected movies, judging from the performance of the actors and the light and shadow processing of the most representative shots, the remaining thirteen movies have not been selected.

Other films can only be judged from the screen due to the language barrier, which may not be very accurate, but the Chinese film shortlisted for the main competition is not only "Peach", but also Zhao Liang's "Sorrowful Warcraft", which is completely understandable.

Although Director Zhao claims that this is a documentary and emphasizes authenticity, it is not. This work has actors and staged shots. It can only be said to be a feature film in the form of a pseudo-documentary, otherwise it would be difficult to enter the main competition.

In the past two years, due to the international negotiations on the global climate issue, the East and the West have been at odds with each other on the issue of carbon reduction and emission reduction. Director Zhao's film reflects exactly this issue.

In the Bible, the sad monster is the largest creature on land, devouring a thousand peaks every day. Director Zhao compared the pollution problem to this monster.

Director Zhao focused on EEDS in Inner Mongolia. Because of the oversupply of real estate, EEDS has been labeled as a ghost town in the past two years.

In the past two years, many cities in mainland China have been labeled as ghost cities. The topic is very hot and anxious, and there are many domestic and foreign reports.

Later, urbanization accelerated, and this voice disappeared.

Therefore, judging from the perspective of Yang Shu's future, the director's selection of materials and stance are not wise, but he is still quite talented. Iron, building materials, etc., were photographed with great care.

And it is quite in the style of director Zhang Yimou, using a lot of huge color blocks, with red, gray and blue representing hell, purgatory and heaven respectively.

This director was good at performance art before, so in this film, the actors often lie naked on various ores to pose, as if they are in hell and purgatory.

This is a popular form of expression 20 years ago, and it has to be said that it is a bit artificial.

However, the sweaty bodies of the workers look awe-inspiring, and their humanistic feelings are not bad.

I don't know how to evaluate this kind of movie. The actors are all sculptural. They look quite tragic and feel like the end of the world.

Out of political correctness, this kind of film can easily get nominations and attention at film festivals. Many countries in the third world have such artists who dare to criticize themselves.

But foreigners are not stupid, they will not use their own film festival signs to endorse such films, and in the end they basically stop at being shortlisted, unless they go further and criticize themselves to the point of death.

And Yang Shu felt that the film was sent to the wrong place. The Venice Film Festival paid more attention to the artistry of the work, while the Berlin Film Festival paid more attention to issues such as the environment and ecology.

At this time, Brother Chao said to Yang Shu with an excited and mysterious face across the empress and sister Tao: "I have analyzed seventeen movies, and we haven't talked about our "Peach" yet."

Yang Shu understood what he meant, nodded with a smile, and didn't say anything.

In the final summary link, there are no official rules, and it is not necessarily good news. How to introduce it all depends on the preference of the review chairman.

However, Yang Shu has also noticed that the chairman of this term, Alfonso Cuarón, has a clear pattern. At the beginning, he introduced all the films that did not win awards, and put the seven films that had won awards behind.

Now that seventeen films have been finished, the remaining three besides "Peach" are the two most popular awards this year, "The Louvre Occupied by the German Army" and "The Last Day of Yitzhak Rabin".

However, as Yang Shu analyzed before, "The Last Day of Yitzhak Rabin" is an Israeli film, a feature film based on the historical events of the assassination of the country's former prime minister.

This is more complicated. Europe is different from Hollywood being controlled by Utah capital. Judging from history and religious sentiments, it is difficult for a political film full of regional conflicts to be favored in a Catholic country.

In fact, the European media are well aware of this, saying that this film is a favorite for the award is a bit of nonsense.

The same situation also exists in "The Louvre Occupied by the German Army". This is a Russian movie. Last year, the old Maozi just sent troops to occupy the Kemi area, and it is being boycotted by the whole of Europe. It is not necessary to talk about World War II at this time. Fortunately, it is unlikely that the award will be given to Maozi.

So at this point, Yangshu stands at a historical height and has the confidence to reduce dimensionality.

"The situation in the world is from my generation, once I enter the rivers and lakes, the years will remind me..."

Yang Shu only chanted two lines of a poem in his heart, Alfonso Cuarón had finished talking about "The Louvre Occupied by the German Army" and started talking about "The Last Day of Yitzhak Rabin", while "Peach" played At the end.

Everyone in the team started to commotion, but they all forcibly suppressed it.

"It's coming, it seems that our "Peach" is going to..."

Ning Song reminded everyone: "Pay attention to the No. [-] camera, it is already facing us!"

This should be requested by the director, and the first reaction of the winning team after the announcement of the results must be fully filmed.

"Stay steady, my God!"

"Everyone, calm down, don't look anxious!"

At this time, several staff members rushed over, stood up and held up stick lights, illuminating the entire team.

"I'm sorry, the Buddha's light shines everywhere!"

Alfonso Cuarón paused, and finally said "Peach", with a self-evident smile on his face.

The applause of the audience suddenly became enthusiastic, and their eyes were all focused on Yang Shu and the others.

Sister Tao murmured, "I feel like a goldfish that everyone is looking at, and I can't breathe..."

Yang Shu's scalp was also numb, holding Sister Tao in one hand and Liu Man in the other.

I don't know what Alfonso Cuaron said, but the guests applauded the whole process anyway.

In the sci-fi movie "Gravity" he wrote and directed last year, when the female astronaut Sandra Bullock went out of the cabin to repair the Hubble telescope, she encountered a space debris attack and caused a serious accident on the spacecraft. China's Tiangong Space Station, and eventually returned to Earth on the Shenzhou spacecraft.

The film was a hit, earning four of ten Oscar nominations and grossing more than $7 million worldwide.

However, Alfonso Cuarón was also criticized because of this film, saying that he was doing propaganda for China, and Yang Shu also had a good impression of this colleague because of this.

The music started, his introduction came to an end, he turned to the poplar tree illuminated by Buddha's light, and waved his hand.

Looking at each other, Yang Shu guessed that what he said should be: "I officially announce that the film that won the Venice Golden Lion Award this year is "Peach"!"

When the cheers sounded, all the guests stood up and applauded warmly facing the poplar team.

Yang Shu heaved a sigh of relief, and his heart was full of pride: "It seems that Huangtu Baye is really going to be talking and laughing today, and he will be drunk after a lifetime!"

Then he jumped up first: "Brothers and sisters, copy guys!"

(End of this chapter)