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Chapter 515 Invitation from the Chairman of the Berlin Film Festival (Happy New Year to everyone!)

On the plane!
Wu Jianye and He Qing were sitting together, Wu Jianye was resting with his eyes slightly closed, he was a little overworked last night, today he was not very energetic, and He Qing on the side seemed a little excited.

Imagining that tomorrow she will participate in one of the three largest film festivals in Europe, the Berlin Film Festival, she still couldn't help being a little excited. Although she didn't get any nominations, "New Dragon Inn" was nominated for the Golden Bear Award, It still made her feel extremely proud.

This year, she has fully felt the sensation caused by this movie in China. No matter where she goes, people can recognize her immediately. Occasionally, someone will shout her name loudly, which makes her very clear. I became famous myself.

Looking at Wu Jianye next to him, he looked relaxed and at ease. Thinking of the honor he had won before, he knew why he was so calm.

"Take a good rest. It's still a while before we get to Berlin, and we have to turn around in the middle." Although Wu Jianye closed his eyes, he could still feel that someone was paying attention to him, and it was naturally He Qing.

At this time, there is no flight from Yanjing to Berlin in China. If you want to fly to Berlin, you must transfer. Wu Jianye chose to fly to Moscow first, and then transfer to Berlin.

He Qing blushed slightly, "Oh!"

When the plane flew to Moscow, Wu Jianye didn't use this time to visit Moscow, but chose to rest in the airport lounge, and boarded the plane to Berlin after almost two hours.

It was already past eight o'clock in the evening when we arrived in Berlin.

After getting off the plane, Wu Jianye saw Chen Kaige and Hong Huang waiting for him at the airport.

"You're finally here." After seeing Wu Jianye, Chen Kaige gave him a big hug, which made Wu Jianye a little surprised for a while. In the past, Chen Kaige was not so enthusiastic.

Hong Huang also gave Wu Jianye a hug, because the two of them were not very familiar with He Qing, it was just a simple handshake.

"Teacher Wu, there is something you don't know yet!" Hong Huang happily said to Wu Jianye.

Chen Kaige said with a somewhat unnatural expression: "Old Wu has been on the plane for more than ten hours, let him go back to the hotel to rest first, it's not too late to tell him about those things in the future."

Hong Huang showed a disapproving expression, and said with a smile: "There is nothing we can't say, anyway, we have to go back to the hotel together."

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "That's right, what's the matter, it makes me happy too!"

Hong Huang coughed, and then solemnly said to Wu Jianye: "Kaige and I have already obtained our certificates in the United States!"

Wu Jianye immediately smiled and said, "Congratulations, congratulations!"

It's just that when he shook hands with Chen Kaige to congratulate him, Wu Jianye could see a trace of unnaturalness in Chen Kaige's eyes. It's been more than a year, and the freshness of Chen Kaige's talent has already passed.

As for marrying Hong Huang, it was just to stay in North America and have a legal status.

Chen Kaige went to North America on a tourist visa, which expired last year. If he wants to stay in North America, he must marry Hong Huang.

In fact, after Chen Kaige finished his study in North America, he walked with Host Ni not long after returning to China.

"Okay, let's go back to the hotel first!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

Chen Kaige was relieved to see that Wu Jianye was not getting to the bottom of the matter of getting married. In order to be able to stay in North America, he chose to marry Hong Huang. This was actually quite embarrassing for the always proud Chen Kaige matter.

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet. On the phone before, you said that you have already arranged the itinerary here, so where do you live?" Chen Kaige asked.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "It's at the Ritz-Carlton Berlin near the Animal Palace Cinema, let's go, let's go to the hotel first!"

Chen Kaige stood by the side and looked at Wu Jianye with some surprise. The Ritz-Carlton Berlin is only more than 100 meters away from the Animal Palace, the main venue of the Berlin Film Festival. It is also the best hotel in East Berlin. Since its completion Finally, it is the most popular hotel during the Berlin Film Festival, and all the big Hollywood stars will choose to live here.

At the same time, the organizer of the Berlin Film Festival will also arrange these judges here. If you want to book a room here, you have to book it at least three months in advance, and Wu Jianye knows that even "New Dragon Inn" was shortlisted. The Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival was all told to him by himself, and now Wu Jianye can actually live in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Berlin, which once again refreshed Chen Kaige's understanding of Wu Jianye.

But soon he saw Wu Jianye's ability again. When they walked out of the hotel, Chen Kaige originally planned to take a taxi, but he saw two newest Mercedes-Benz cars parked at the gate of the airport, and Wu Jianye He walked over, and the other party opened the car door for Wu Jianye himself.

"Murphy, thank you!" Wu Jianye said to the white man next to him with a smile.

This time at the Berlin Film Festival, it is still the old acquaintance Matthew Murphy who is in charge of Wu Jianye's daily routine. When Wu Jianye participated in the Cannes Film Festival before, Matthew Murphy was in charge of everything. This time Wu Jianye Coming to the Berlin Film Festival still made Linda send Matthew Murphy over.

Matthew Murphy said with a smile, "Director Wu is too polite!"

At this time, Matthew Murphy has already become the general manager of Phantom Entertainment's European branch. Now Phantom Entertainment has begun to set its sights on the European market, which is also preparing for their real entry into the distribution industry in the future.

Matthew Murphy, who was at the top, naturally knew that Wu Jianye was the real big boss behind Phantom Entertainment.

At this time, Matthew Murphy couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that a Chinese director would become the behind-the-scenes boss of the most promising production company in Hollywood.

But believe it or not, but what should be done is still to be done. This time Wu Jianye came to the Berlin Film Festival, and Matthew Murphy naturally had to arrange everything.

As for the rooms at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Berlin, Matthew Murphy, as an American, has always believed that there is nothing in this world that cannot be bought with money.

After several people got into the car, Chen Kaige looked at Wu Jianye in surprise: "Old Wu, I didn't realize that you hid deep enough. You have such great ability even in Europe."

Wu Jianye smiled and joked with Chen Kaige: "Low-key, low-key!"

"cut!"

But after laughing, Chen Kaige told Wu Jianye something serious: "Moritz Harder, the chairman of the Berlin Film Festival, is very interested in your film. He has been telling me that when you come to Berlin, you must I want to arrange for the two of you to meet!"

Moritz Harder is to the Berlin Film Festival what Jacob is to the Cannes Film Festival.

Some people in later generations say that he determined the current form of the Berlin Film Festival and established its current importance.

When Moritz Hader was in charge of the Berlin Film Festival, he integrated films from the Eastern and Western camps to facilitate cultural exchanges; he improved the relationship between the film festival and the United States and made Berlin an outpost for the Oscars; he promoted new Asian films, especially Chinese-language films. On the stage of the International Film Festival, it also moved the host of the Berlin Film Festival from the Animal Palace Cinema to Potsdamer Platz.

In 87, Moritz Hader had been to China and had a very good relationship with Wu Tianming, and he discovered Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum".

In fact, what he fell in love with at the time was Chen Kaige's "King of the Kid", but at that time Chen Kaige insisted on sending his "King of the Kid" to the Cannes Film Festival, and everyone knew the result.

However, this did not delay Moritz Harder's appreciation of Chen Kaige. This time Chen Kaige was able to become a judge of the Berlin Film Festival, which was also invited by Moritz Harder.

The relationship between the two can be said to be both teachers and friends, but they broke up later. The reason for the breakup was that when Moritz de Harder was the artistic director of the Venice Film Festival, he rejected Chen Kaige's film "He You are together".
By the way, Moritz Hader is the only one who has served as the chairman of the Berlin Film Festival and the artistic director of the Venice Film Festival among the three major European film festivals.

Moritz Harder has a very strong obsession with oriental films. Not only Zhang Yimou, but also Chen Kaige has a close relationship with him, even Xu Anhua of Xiangjiang and Cai Mingliang of Wanwan were discovered by him and promoted to Europe.

"Well, after the opening ceremony tomorrow, I will visit Moritz in person!" Wu Jianye nodded.

No matter what, building a good relationship with these giants in the European film industry is a matter of great benefit and harmless to Wu Jianye.

Chen Kaige said: "There are quite a few films selected this time, you have to be prepared for a tough battle."

Wu Jianye smiled: "It wasn't like that when I participated in the film festival!"

Wu Jianye, who has already participated in the Venice Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival, is no longer nervous about the current scene.

What he has to do now is to introduce Chinese-language films to European audiences, telling them that Chinese-language films are not limited to the type of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, and that Chinese-language films can also be diversified!
Several people chatted and came to the hotel.

The appearance of the hotel is very characteristic of this era, with a special style of Eastern Europe, and looks like a castle in appearance.

The Ritz-Carlton, Berlin seems to have an indissoluble bond with the Berlin Film Festival. Shortly after the Berlin Film Festival moved to Potsdamer Platz, the Ritz-Carlton, Berlin also moved there. More than 100 meters distance
When he came to the hotel, Wu Jianye saw Li Lianjie, Liang Jiahui, and Zhang Manyu in the lobby.

The three of them arrived in Berlin yesterday, a day earlier than Wu Jianye. Now that they saw Wu Jianye, they also surrounded them. Chen Kaige and Hong Huang knew them, but they didn't know Chen Kaige.

Only Liang Jiahui knew that Chen Kaige was one of the judges of this Berlin Film Festival.

"Let's go back to the room first!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

At this time, he had already got the key to the room from Matthew Murphy.

A few people first came to Wu Jianye's room. Matthew Murphy booked a suite for Wu Jianye. Everyone was sitting in the living room, and Wu Jianye asked.

"Have you tried all the dresses prepared for you? Does it fit?"

Li Lianjie smiled and said, "I tried it, it's very suitable!"

Although He Qing came here with Wu Jianye, Wu Jianye did not remind He Qing to try on the dress now, because Wu Jianye and He Qing prepared a cheongsam that symbolized Chinese culture, as early as a few months ago Wu Jianye asked Jinxiu Garment to find the top cheongsam designer in China, and designed the cheongsam according to He Qing's figure.

This is also to promote their Splendid brand along the way!

They didn't chat too much with them, Wu Jianye asked them to go back to rest, but Chen Kaige didn't leave, and drove Hong Huang back to their room, and stayed in Wu Jianye's room by himself.

"Old Wu, to be honest, after I came out this time, I discovered the distance between the domestic film industry and Europe and the United States, not to mention Europe and the United States, even RB and Xiangjiang are not comparable!" Chen Kaige sat on the sofa and talked to Wu Jian Ye said.

Wu Jianye smiled: "We will always catch up, aren't we also developing now?"

Chen Kaige shook his head and said: "It's different. After nearly a year in Hollywood, I found that their film industry has already developed into a complete industrial process. It is really too difficult to catch up with them!"

Wu Jianye asked: "Then it's not too much?"

Chen Kaige immediately shook his head and said, "How is that possible? Being behind now doesn't mean you will be behind in the future!"

Everyone knows that Chen Kaige is proud in his heart, especially in the film industry. His pride even surpasses that of Zhang Yimou. It was swaying from side to side, and in the end it didn't please either side.

His pride is also reflected in another aspect, that is, his extreme self-confidence. Chen Kaige always thinks that he can do everything well. Before "Farewell My Concubine", his self-confidence has not been concrete. Show it, but after "Farewell My Concubine" helped him reach the pinnacle of the night.

His pride was completely inspired.

Just like the chairman of the Chinese Football Association, he always takes action in areas he is not familiar with, such as the adaptation of scripts. He stubbornly believes that the scripts he wrote are the best scripts, so the movies shot after "Farewell My Concubine" , and always like to write scripts by myself.

The result is that it is difficult for him to climb to the top before.

That's why Chen Kaige said that now.

Wu Jianye smiled: "Since you want to catch up, then it's useless to say that, just make movies honestly, and just do things within the scope of your duties."

A person like Chen Kaige is only suitable to be a director, and he can't do anything else. As for the sense of mission he gave himself outside of the film itself, Wu Jianye doesn't think Chen Kaige has this ability.

This is a matter for the entire industry. It is impossible for a director to do all this, so Wu Jianye will work hard to develop other aspects of the industry.

To put it bluntly, if you want to overtake a Chinese movie in a corner, this is a matter of burning money, and Chen Kaige has no money, and Wu Jianye has money and ability!
　I wish you all a Happy New Year's Eve!I wish all my friends a happy family reunion and happiness!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)