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Chapter 518 Embarrassed Journey (New Year's Day, Happy!!!)

The next day!

Wu Jianye, He Qing and others stood at the gate of the festival theater to welcome the audience who came to watch the movie today. Like the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, after the opening ceremony, it will be a two-week movie viewing, Berlin The host of the film festival will screen the participating films in major theaters.

For films that have not sold their copyrights, this is a huge opportunity to show themselves, and many filmmakers will shuttle between various theaters to find films they are satisfied with.

Now Matthew Murphy is doing such a job.

But for Wu Jianye, he came here for the awards ceremony on the last day. I don’t know if he can win the award, but at least he must have a sense of participation. The most important thing is to reach a good cooperative relationship with European film producers.

However, it is precisely because "New Dragon Inn" has already been screened in Europe and the United States, so it was screened at the Berlin Film Festival today. Not many filmmakers came, and the most important ones were film critics and audiences from major film magazines.

Even if there is a film dealer, they don't come here for the movies, but for Wu Jianye. Wu Jianye has already used three movies to prove that his movies have a market in Europe, and he will always be on the side of the right people. Side, is their motto.

Since Wu Jianye has already succeeded, the possibility of his future success is greater than that of some new directors.

"Director Wu, I'm Tom Branson from England. This is my business card. I hope I can talk to you after today's screening!"

Wu Jianye has already received many invitations like this, and he always talked with the other party with a smile on his face to find a time to sit down.

Wu Ziniu and Hou Yong also accompanied Wu Jianye and stood at the door watching Wu Jianye talking and laughing happily with these European filmmakers, looking very envious. As the film director of "Evening Bell", he is only a film director. His films have Bayi Factory produced the film, that is to say, it wanted to sell the film, which had nothing to do with him.

In fact, it has nothing to do with the Bayi Factory, but the people from China Film Group are in charge, just like the first film "Raise the Red Lantern" shot by Wu Jianye.

The reason why Wu Jianye has this privilege is not because of Tangting culture, but because of Fengge Entertainment. As a co-production, the overseas copyright of "New Dragon Inn" does not belong to China Film Corporation.

This is also one of Wu Jianye's original intentions when he founded Fengge Entertainment.

Wu Jianye is now a special case in China. Even if he does not have a dignified family culture, Wu Jianye can still use the director of Fengge Entertainment to shoot the movies he wants to shoot, and he can bypass many domestic rules and regulations about the film industry.

But Wu Ziniu and Hou Yong couldn't.

As the main screening hall of the Berlin Film Festival, the Festival Theater can accommodate 1300 seats, and was quickly filled with audiences, media reporters and film critics. With the lights in the screening hall turned off, the screening of "New Dragon Inn" officially began.

Sitting at his seat, Wu Jianye could clearly hear the exclamations of the audience. They had never heard of such a fighting scene, and they had only seen it in this movie.

It gave them a different feeling.

Especially when it came to the last desert battle, the audience on the scene was mesmerized. Wu Jianye could clearly hear the gasping of the audience behind him.

Wu Jianye smiled and didn't say anything. The big scenes of sci-fi movies in this era have not yet begun to bombard the audience's visual effects, and the emergence of martial arts movies is to fill the gap in this technology.

Of course, as Wu Jianye said to Moritz before, the surprise of Eastern and Western cultures made these audiences feel unclear about some plots of the movie, but this did not prevent them from understanding that this is a movie. excellent movie.

In fact, it is not that there are no sci-fi movies, but there are very few. Hollywood, which promotes sci-fi movies, is also limited by technical problems at this time, and has not really produced sci-fi movies that have a global impact.

Even if they have already filmed the "Star Wars series" that influenced them.

"Star Wars" has become the culture of the United States in just a few hundred years since the founding of the country. It can be said that it has influenced a generation of young people in North America, but outside North America, this movie did not cause much sensation.

Especially in later generations, this series of movies can only reap huge box office in North America, but outside of North America, they cannot be compared with the superheroes of the Marvel series.

In fact, by that time, the setting of "Star Wars" has long been outdated, and what is sold in North America is just feelings. It can be seen that feelings can make a lot of money in any country.

After the movie ended, 1300 people in the theater stood up and applauded. This is a customary thing for them, and it cannot be used as a reference for the quality of this movie. Therefore, the 10-minute applause mentioned by the media is not at all. It's just to deceive outsiders who don't know how to do it.

To really know whether the film is successful or not at the film festival, one is to look at the final award ceremony, the other is to look at the score of the film festival catalog, and the last is to see what price the film can sell here.

Wu Jianye came to the stage to thank the audience who came to watch, and today's screening of "New Dragon Inn" is over.

The movie "Rain Man" will be shown here tomorrow!
As for Wu Ziniu's "Evening Bell", it was arranged on the 13th, not in the Festival Theater, but in another theater.

"What's the next arrangement?" After walking out of the screening hall, Wu Ziniu came to Wu Jianye. As for Chen Kaige, it would not be so easy to see him again during the film festival. Even their judging committee will start to watch every film participating in the exhibition, and cast their own votes to determine the list of winners for this film festival.

In order to show justice, even Moritz will not know the specific results of the vote, and can only know it at the closing ceremony on the 24th, just like ordinary filmmakers.

Wu Jianye smiled and said: "Why don't you go shopping in Berlin, come here once, if you don't go around, it will be a waste of time."

Wu Ziniu said regretfully: "Unfortunately, this is not Venice, otherwise I would have let you rent a yacht and take us out to sea."

Apparently Wu Ziniu found out about their participation in the Venice Film Festival from Fang Shu and the others.

"There will be opportunities in the future!" Wu Jianye said.

Wu Ziniu suggested: "Let's go to the Berlin Wall to see it?"

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Didn't you read it when you came here?"

Wu Ziniu and the others did not come by plane, but by train, which lasted seven days and nights.
"Hey, don't mention it, we have been tossing about this journey. We first arrived in Erenhot by train, and then entered Mongolia from Erenhot, and Mongolia entered the Soviet Union. The train stayed in the Soviet Union for five days and five nights. Irkutsk , Novosibirsk, Lake Baikal, and then a special car from Moscow to Warsaw, Poland, and finally arrived in East Berlin, and West Berlin came by car from East Berlin”

"Okay, don't tell me about your embarrassing car journey." Wu Jianye hurriedly interrupted, if Wu Ziniu took his mother with him, it would be a proper journey for his mother.

"When we go back, you have to take care of us!" Wu Ziniu said pestering Wu Jianye.

"Why?" Wu Jianye was unhappy, because he wanted to pay for it.

"It doesn't depend on anything, anyway, if you don't care, we are not classmates anymore!" Wu Ziniu said shamelessly.

Tao Zeru and the others saw Wu Ziniu playing rogue with Wu Jianye here, and it was funny for a while, but they did come out of the psychological shadow by taking the train. It would be great if they could really go back by plane.

Wu Jianye looked at Tao Zeru helplessly, and said, "Let's talk about the future!"

Wu Ziniu said, "Then I'll take it as your agreement!"

When I came to the Berlin Wall, I saw that there was only a barbed wire separating it, and the Internet was full of the names and wreaths of the dead who died because of smuggling across this eastern-western border.

Looking at these names, Wu Jianye smiled. It seems that such things as smuggling do not only happen in Huaxia. Isn’t this the same as the river that swims from Huaxia to Xiangjiang?
In fact, many tourist attractions are more about the stories behind her. Wu Jianye is actually quite indifferent to the so-called Berlin Wall. If the meaning behind her is removed, it is just a story. It's just a wall.

Wu Jianye had no feelings for the Berlin Wall, but the others were very interested. Bi Heqing, a literary youth, was pulling Zhang Manyu to take pictures of himself.

"It's okay to take pictures, don't compare to V, it's too vulgar!" Wu Jianye said.

"I want you to take care of it!" He Qing gave Wu Jianye a look, pulled Zhang Manyu to continue filming, and provocatively made a V word.
But it was also when he was looking at He Qing that Wu Jianye saw another woman, Isabelle Adjani, the most beautiful woman in France now.

Beside her was a man with long hair, three-dimensional facial features, deep eyes, and an elegant and aristocratic temperament. This man was not unknown, but Daniel Lewis, a well-known Hollywood actor.

Some people in later generations called Daniel Lewis the greatest actor in the world. This title naturally has a certain degree of subjectivity, but it also just shows that he is a great actor.

Wu Jianye saw them, and they also saw Wu Jianye.

Although Daniel Lewis came to Berlin this time, he did not walk the red carpet. He was more with Isabel Adjani, who he just met and fell in love with immediately.

"Honey, what's the matter?" Daniel Lewis asked immediately when he saw his girlfriend next to him paying attention to an Asian man.

Although Daniel Lewis has made superhuman achievements in his acting career, Daniel Lewis is not so successful in being a man, and his desire to control women is just like his acting skills.

At the same time, the master and Isabel Adjani did not come to the end. Six years after the two fell in love, Isabel Adjani gave birth to a son for Daniel Lewis, and Daniel Lewis gave it. After the father's reason, the relationship between the two announced the end.

As for the real reason, it was just that when Daniel Lewis was in love with Isabelle Adjani, he visited the writer Arthur Miller whom he had admired for a long time. By chance, he met Miller's daughter Rebecca, and the two fell in love at first sight quickly develop into lovers
"It's nothing, I saw the director of "New Dragon Inn", Wu Jianye!" Isabel Adjani said.

When the movie "New Dragon Inn" was released in Europe, Isabel Adjani also watched this movie and fell in love with it at that time. Wu Jianye came to the Berlin Film Festival, so she naturally knew Wu Jian Ye's appearance, now seeing Wu Jianye himself going to say hello.

But Daniel Lewis didn't care about it, "So he is Wu Jianye!"

This is the attitude of Daniel Lewis. As a top Hollywood actor, his eyes are always on those top Hollywood directors. He is destined to never cooperate with a Chinese director like Wu Jianye in his life, so even if he is Wu Jianye won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival and the best director at the Cannes Film Festival. In his eyes, he is still just a passerby whose name he has heard.

Isabel Adjani didn't hear what Daniel Lewis meant, and walked towards Wu Jianye.

"Director Wu, hello!"

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Miss Adjani, hello!"

"you know me?"

"Of course, I think there are very few filmmakers who don't know Ms. Adjani in the film industry. I've seen all your movies!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

"Thank you, I have watched Director Wu's movies, especially the movie "The Last Emperor", I like it very much!" Isabel Adjani said.

After the two complimented each other, Daniel Lewis said impatiently: "Okay, honey, it's time for us to leave."

Isabel Adjani smiled apologetically at Wu Jianye and left.

This brief encounter was nothing to Wu Jianye. As for Daniel Lewis' attitude, Wu Jianye just put him in an inconspicuous position from his impression.

Wu Ziniu waited for them to leave before saying, "Old Wu, let's go to the TV tower in East Berlin for dinner. I heard that the TV tower in East Berlin is the tallest TV tower in the world."

Wu Jianye turned around and said with a smile: "Even if you want to go, you have to change the money before you go!"

There are two currencies separated by a wall. East Germany uses the East Mark, and West Germany uses the West Mark.

If it is in East Berlin, it is 1:1 to exchange East marks for SMS, but in West Berlin, 1 SMS can be exchanged for 5 East marks.Tourists are spending 5 times the East Mark from West Berlin to East Berlin.

After Wu Jianye and others changed Eastmark, they passed through the Berlin Wall and came to East Berlin!
Passing through the Berlin Wall, you can also see the gap between the two sides. On the side of the Berlin Wall in West Berlin, there are only iron fences, while in East Berlin, there is strict inspection. The high leather boots of East German soldiers with police dogs are black and shiny. Dressed in military uniforms, they are all tall and mighty.

When seeing them, Wu Jianye couldn't help but think of the image of Germany in the World War II movies he had seen in his mind.

The gap between East and West Berlin can also be seen through the same wall. The night in West Berlin is as bright as day, full of traffic, feasting, and full of vitality.

But in the darkness of East Berlin, there are faint lights, and it is silent and deserted.

When they came to the TV tower, Wu Jianye let out another long sigh. As one of the few tourist places in East Berlin, there was a long queue here, and the winding queue went all the way into the lobby of the TV tower. Go to the elevator door.
Seeing the excited expressions of Wu Ziniu and others, Wu Jianye had no choice but to line up with them, but when they came to the revolving restaurant, they saw a pair of people they had just met.

Isabelle Adjani and Daniel Lewis!

(End of this chapter)