I'm the director, I'm not bad

Venice.

"Phew. Good morning, gentlemen and ladies."

Quentin Tarantino, a famous Hollywood director, walked into the small screening hall with his hair in the shape of a bird's nest.

Looking at the five men and one woman inside, he greeted them briskly.

At the same time, he raised the champagne glass in his hand.

You know, it's 10 AM in Venice.

Although the pace of life in Italy is notoriously loose...

But...it doesn't matter if you hold a glass of concentrate, isn't it a bit too much to open champagne in the first half of the day...

Put it in Tianchaofei to give you the nickname Jiumengzi.

But seeing these five men and one woman is not uncommon.

They greeted Quentin one after another.

"Morning, Mr. Quentin."

Gullama Arriga.Mexican screenwriter, producer, director, actor.

His representative works include "The Tower of Babel", which was shortlisted for both Oscars and Golden Globe Awards, and "Three Funerals at Astada", which won the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes.

At the same time, he is also a leader of Mexican films after their rise in the international film art market.

Invited to Venice to serve as one of the judges for this main unit film competition.

"Tarantino, is today a day worth celebrating? You didn't even drink red wine."

Arnaud Debrecien, who was slovenly like Quentin, with the same disheveled hair and a wrinkled suit, laughed.

Arnaud de Blessing, French director, screenwriter, photographer and producer.

If Quentin, who just debuted that year, stunned the film world with "Reservoir Dogs", then Arnold Debrecien set off a storm in Cannes with "The Sentinel".

The two are directors of the same era, and they are also directors with very strong personal styles.

He and Quentin are also old acquaintances, so he is more playful than Gu Limo's rigid and restrained speech.

If you can ignore his French-sounding English.

After hearing his words, Quentin smiled happily:
"Of course, man. It's a sunny day! Isn't it worth celebrating?"

With that said, he sat down on his own seat, picked up the film list and glanced at it, his eyes were full of excitement:
""Inspector Dick and the Mysterious Phantom of Fire"! Wow, it seems my Chinese friends have brought us a fantasy work that is no less than "Harry Potter."

Although everyone here knows that he is obsessed with Chinese culture, but when he heard that a movie was being compared with "Harry Potter", sitting in his seat, Jasmine Trika was swaying iced coffee Speechless:
"Dear Boss, I don't think it compares to my daughter's favorite fairy tale."

"Hahaha, then apologize for me and little Ellie."

Quentin was not angry either, and said with a smile:
"But its name is mysterious enough, isn't it? At least it's more interesting than this...well... RA Bian GO."

"It's DEAD SOULS."

After Trika corrected him, Quentin waved his hand:

"NONONO, beautiful Trika. Please don't doubt my love for that country. Although the English translation is this. But I know this movie, and its Chinese pronunciation is called "RA Bian GO"."

Although he didn't say the correct pronunciation of "Jiabiangou".

But Trika didn't argue with him, she shrugged and said:

"You are Tianchaotong, you are right. So, you can also pronounce the correct Chinese in the other three movies?"

"Of course, my Chinese..."

Quentin proudly raised the champagne, and with the other hand made a "finger bag" movement that Italians like to do when they speak:

"NEWBEE~"

"..."

"..."

"..."

The remaining three judges on the side, the famous Hollywood Oscar-level composer Danny Elfman, the Italian director Luca Guadagnino, and the famous Italian academic director Gabriel Savateres revealed at the same time Speechless expression.

Because they have heard this word too many times these days.

At first I thought it meant New Bee, but after Quentin finished watching a certain movie, he would say: "Wow, the shooting is very NEWBEE", several people finally understood the meaning of this word.

What does it mean in English...

"SUPER COOL", means very cool.

But the literal translation is the cow's... special organs, the cow's.

A few people couldn't accept it at first, and felt that the description of "NEW BEE" was really too NEW BEE.

When asked why, Quentin gave an explanation:

"Because it looks big."

This explanation really made these judges quite funny.

Then I gradually understood the colloquial words of this director who is obsessed with Chinese culture.

Of course...it would have been better if it hadn't been carefully asked for its "literal translation".

As for Quentin, after speaking, he picked up the playlist again:

"Hmm... "Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen", this Chen seems to be Bruce Lee's mentor."

As he spoke, he nodded confidently:

"Yes, that's right, Bruce Lee's master. Wow! And this "Assassins Reign" its Chinese name is "Sword and Rain". You know, it's the sword, and the rain from the sky. It sounds very Romance... so we get three Kung Fu movies today from very good directors!? Wow! Dear Trika, isn't this worth another drink?"

"..."

Trika reckoned that the drunkard really planned to vomit into the screening room today.

Still she said:
"Compared to the four movies you mentioned, I am more interested in the last one."

"The last one..."Under the Hawthorn Tree"? It sounds boring."

Although, as the jury boss of this year's main competition in Venice, he shouldn't have said such biased words...

But after so many days, everyone has a little understanding of Quentin's character.

Open mouth.

It doesn't matter what he said, as long as it doesn't affect the fairness of the film selection.

But Jasmine Trika shook her head and corrected him:

"No, it's not boring at all. On the contrary, I'm full of interest in it. Because the director of this film won the Camera d'Or in Cannes last time. I'm the judge of the Camera d'Or."

"Wow, it sounds like you like him very much. This director is called Goethe Hsu. What kind of person is he?"

"I haven't seen it. He didn't come to the scene last time. The reason why he didn't come is because he was busy with the opening ceremony of the 08 Olympic Games."

"...?"

"!"

"...???"

As soon as these words came out, several people were taken aback.

Gulaimo, who seems to be the least talkative, said in surprise:

"Did you remember wrongly, ma'am, the Olympic Games is Zhang."

"He is one of them."

As soon as Trika finished speaking, Arnaud Debressing seemed to remember something, and said:

"Is it that... that work in Cannes where an actress came up to accept the award after winning the award, and then she quoted a poem by Romain Rolland, which made the French translation in Cannes a laughingstock?"

"Yes."

Trika shrugged:

"So, I look forward to this movie even more."

Arnaud Debressing nodded:
"impressive."

Upon hearing this, Quentin directly put down the playlist:
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's get started."

As he spoke, he raised his glass:

"Hail to my celestial friends."

Champagne held high, the light dimmed.

On the screen, a dragon logo slowly appeared.

……

Xu Xin doesn't know whether "The Hawthorn Tree" will win the award.

However, since he decided to participate in the election, the Venice Film Festival is a very important signal about when the film will be released.

After the list was announced at the end of August, if "The Hawthorn" can be shortlisted, then it will appear in the main competition screening of the "Venice" Film Festival, with fixed theaters and screenings.

At that time, the feedback from the audience can be obtained more intuitively.

At that time, whether it was to build momentum or public relations, in any case, being shortlisted would have a huge increase in the popularity of the film.

At that time, it will depend on how high it can go to make a release plan.

And if you are not shortlisted, then fight for the screening, and then take another way of publicity.

No matter what, as long as you can get the chance to be screened, it can be regarded as a layer of gold plating.

So the factory has never made a release plan, just to wait for the feedback from the Venice Film Festival.

After the feedback is complete, let's arrange for important festivals.

Such as Singles' Day.

Like Christmas.

If the feedback is mediocre...then find a time when the competitive pressure is less.

Therefore, Xu Xin didn't worry much about the screening.

He has already shot the movie, and the rest will be handed over to the factory.

In the blink of an eye, half of August is already over.

And this August is actually not a peaceful month for Xu Xin...or it is really not peaceful for the entire entertainment circle.

The reason is very simple. On August 8st, it was exposed that Li Hezhen, an apprentice of Deyun Club, beat a reporter from Yanjing TV.

Deyun Society was immediately brought to the forefront.

Although Xu Xin didn't think about the specific reason, and he didn't even know about it until he returned to Yanjing, but Guo Degang's sentence "all reporters in the world are prostitutes" directly put Deyun Club It was brought to a point of no return.

Yang Mi had chatted with him before, saying that Guo Degang liked to take advantage of others.

You can suffer from everything, but you can't suffer from your mouth.

Xu Xin still felt that it didn't matter.

One person, one way of life.

But this time, when he saw what Guo Degang said to so many audiences in the small theater, he knew...

Deyun club played big this time.

It is tantamount to offending an industry.

And his first reaction was to run to Yu Ke's house.

When I went, it happened to be the morning of the 6th.

Then I saw Yu Qiang with a sad face...

When asked why, it turned out that Guo Degang's big apprentice and senior brother suddenly backstabbed and quit the Deyun Club, and the separation was clean.

Xu Xin was actually quite puzzled...

I don't understand why the cross talk theater... which was really one of the happiest memories of him and Yang Mi, has been full of messes in the past two years.

But in front of Brother Qian'er, he didn't ask, say, or chat.

just said:

"If you need help, brother, you can just say something. I will do as much as I can."

He spoke the truth, but not for Guo Degang, but for Yu Qiang.

He might not be able to keep Deyun Club, but it shouldn't be a problem to keep Brother Qian'er.

In fact, Yu Qiang's mentality is not bad.

For Xu Xin's words, he just used a noon drink to express his heart.

As for helping or not...

He didn't mention it either.

From Xu Xin's point of view, maybe things haven't reached the point of no return.

However, there were really a lot of news about Deyun Club in those days.

And Yang Mi did the most amazing thing.

In order to prevent Xiaobing's brain from getting hot, or being blocked by a reporter and saying something that shouldn't be said, she directly pulled Xiaobing to her side.

It's not like taking him with you.

Instead, he directly reported him to a driving school.

Shaobing lived at home for two days, and Yang Miqiang gnawed through the booklet of subject one. On the third day, he took the exam and finally scored 85 points.

Yang Mi got qualified by finding someone.

Then let the kid practice driving.

Don't mention anything else, just rush to practice for a month.

This month you will live in the city, far away from right and wrong places.

Even the student level is the highest level of one car, one teaching.

Protect this child well.

Then, on August 8, Deyun Club was ordered to suspend business for rectification.

Xu Xin went to Yu Qiang's again.

From Yu Qian's point of view, the suspension of business for rectification is really far away.But from Xu Xin's point of view, as long as the business is suspended for rectification, it means that there is still room for relaxation.

I made a few phone calls in front of Yu Qiang and asked about his tone.

Although he didn't say anything to death, at least Yu Qian felt more at ease in his heart.

I drove to find Guo Degang with my bag in my car.

I don't know what to talk about, anyway, the Deyun Club has admitted all the mistakes and promised to rectify them.

But at this time, Xu Xin has really seen what it means to be overthrown by everyone.

Throughout the first half of August, all kinds of news and black material were flying all over the sky.Yanjing TV can't wait to broadcast the black history of Deyun Society... The two sides are completely torn apart.

And the popularity of the news also buried all other news.

At this juncture in mid-August, Xu Xin completed all the location scouting, and the sub-camera was almost done.

And Lu Yang also came back from Xi'an.

Found him.

"I'll introduce it to you."

Pointing to Lu Yang who walked in, Xu Xin said to Guo Fan and the others:

"Lu Yang, Director Lu... I'm familiar with Sister Mo, so I won't say more. These two are one of the three assistant directors of our "33 Days of Broken Relationship"."

"Hello."

Lu Yang nodded politely, and shook hands with eight men and one woman.

As Xu Xin's "Senior Brother and Senior Sister", they rushed back to Yanjing again from vacations or internships in various places under a phone call from the teacher, and came to Shuangwei.

And today is also the day when Xu Xin held an internal preview of "The Hawthorn Tree" in the company.

After all, he also promised a "gift" to his brothers and sisters.

and work outside of this gift.

After school starts on September 9st, they will go to the training institute to register, and they will officially join the filming of the movie "1 Days" with Xu Xin.

Continue to accumulate qualifications.

And Xu Xin will also start his own graduate school.

But the preparatory work for a movie starting from project approval is a rather cumbersome process.

This time Xu Xin will bring these senior brothers and sisters with him.

Help the teacher to carry out systematic "guidance".

So now the preparations have to start.

"What did the film quality factory say?"

After Lu Yang finished greeting them, Xu Xin asked.

"It's okay. The factory has seen the days of film festivals in various places, and plans to let me go to Busan after finishing."

"Busan Film Festival?"

"Correct."

"Oh, all right, let's go. If you can come back with a good ranking, you should have no problem going to theaters."

After communicating about "Cinema for the Blind", Xu Xin led them into the company's screening hall.

Soon, "The Hawthorn Tree" began to be screened in the dark auditorium.

For Wen Muye and the others, there are too many good memories in this movie that they personally experienced.

But looking at those clips in the movie at this moment, they actually don't have a strong sense of substitution.

It's not that the movie is not good, but because when they watched it for the first time, they found that... the scenes of what they were doing when shooting these scenes in the movie always appeared in their minds.

It will be very dramatic.

But this feeling of being in a play gradually deepened as the plot deepened, and when I experienced Xu Xin's peaceful atmosphere built like flowing clouds and flowing water, all thoughts began to settle, and finally turned into a kind of calm.

And in this calm, the various versions of "BELLA CIAO" that would sound from time to time became the best fuel for combustion.

The melody lingers in my mind, and I feel the pale and colorful shots at times, as well as the complete details of the story.

When the more than 100-minute film came to an end, unconsciously, applause rang out.

Even though there are not many people, the emotion in the applause is the most real.

The gap is really too big...

Looking at the dark staff list rolling, the expressions on the faces of several people are unified.

But at this moment, the beginning of the film gave them some memories of acting, but it became a kind of... similar to "humble" inducement.

Obviously when these clips were shot, we were there.

I even watched the shooting pictures on the monitor up close.

But why did the thing presented from Xu Xin's hands in the end have such a big difference from the feeling it was photographed...?
That... peaceful atmosphere.

That faint sadness.

And the song with endless aftertaste...

what.

Knew it.

Or the song "Russia" best expresses this atmosphere.

It is also the most suitable for that era.

And amidst the applause, soon, the cast came to an end.

Suddenly, Guo Fan noticed a new line of words appearing in the employee list:

"Executive directors: Guo Fan, Wen Muye..."

"...?"

He was stunned.

Wen Muye was also taken aback...

Everyone was taken aback...

Looking at my own name in the column of executive director...

Executing...executive director! ? ? ? ?
In an instant, the applause disappeared.

A group of people were dumbfounded.

We, in the film crew list of producer Zhang Yimou and director Xu Xin, appear in the column of executive director?
8 men and one woman, a lot! ?

? ? ? ?
And at this moment, Xu Xin, who was sitting in the front row, pressed the pause button with a smile, and turned to look at his senior brothers and sisters:

"How about it, everyone, do you like this gift?"

"..."

Everyone understands the weight of the position.

Everyone also understands that when their names appear here, it will have an impact on their career paths in the future!
This... this gift...

They didn't dare to hope at all before.

Why?
How many people are in the crew?

We, as interns, turned out to be "executive directors"? ? ?
Isn't this noisy...

How can He De He Neng?

Are you guilty?
Want a face?
Can……

But this gift is real... they can't refuse it!

How to refuse?

What a glorious achievement this is!
That's... Zhang Yimou!

That's Xu Xin!

If they act as executive directors in this crew, they don’t mention anything else. When they go to apply for jobs in other groups, as long as their professional level passes the test, an ordinary executive director gets a salary of 15 yuan, and they can get [-] or even [-] yuan... …

This... this gift...

Is this the advantage of the students under Teacher Yu?

Not to mention anything else, if this news is released... Teacher Yu's postgraduate quota must not be trampled down by students from the Department of Directing?
You see, sometimes the ecology of this circle is like this.

As a director, the gust of wind brought by Xu Xin's casual walk is enough for some fallen leaves to take advantage of the wind and take many steps faster than others.

But to Xu Xin, all of this was so simple that it couldn't be easier.

One on one.

It can be seen.

Seeing the group of people in front of him breathing like calves, Xu Xin smiled.

It seems that they like this gift very much.

Just like it.

Anyway, this cake was given away.

Although it was less, there were only 9 people.

But it's still just a movie.

Ten, twenty... Or ten, twenty years from now?
What will become of it?

With this thought, he stood up:
"Let's go, let's go out for a meeting after watching. Didn't the script of "33 Days" be sent to you? I will pass on the homework she left for Teacher Yu. In the next period of time, we will run between Shanghai and Yanjing .

The filming location was in Yanjing, and the interior scenes were shot in a studio in Huairou.

The audition is in Shanghai.

And what everyone needs to do is to design the design drawings of all the interior scenes in this play by themselves.Note that it is all.And your time...give it to me before September. "

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Lu Yang and Zhang Mo:

"It's the same for you two. It's up to you how the interior is arranged."

Hearing this, these people didn't react that much.

Everyone has a director's dream in their hearts, and designing different scenes according to the script is a compulsory course.

However, Fumino still asked:
"Director Xu, the producer of this movie is... the factory?"

"Western Film Studio, Shanghai Film Studio... if there are no accidents, Yindu may also want to send someone. In addition to our own company... the investment amount is not large, it is a matter of several million."

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"..."

"..."

The corners of a group of people twitched...

Indeed, the amount is not large.

But your old man's production method is really scary enough.