I become a big star after I sleep

Chapter 311 Opening Film

"There is really a college student film festival in front of our house. If you don't graduate early, you can still participate."

Qin Muchu rolled his eyes in response to Yang Mi's teasing.

Even if he didn't graduate, he would be ashamed to participate in the college student film festival. Isn't this bullying? .

Seeing his girlfriend smiling happily, his eyes wandered over her close-fitting dress.

Laugh, you have to suffer tonight.

The location of the opening ceremony of this year's Venice Film Festival is different from the last time Qin Muchu came, but it is not much different. It is also the exhibition hall of a theater.

The exhibition hall is large enough to accommodate thousands of people.

After the group sat on the seats arranged by the organizer, the opening ceremony officially began not long after.

First, the organizer came up to express welcome and thanks, and talked about the long history of the Venice Film Festival, and then invited the jury of each unit to give a speech.

After this process went down, more than an hour passed.

"Grumpy~"

Qin Muchu heard a strange sound, and just turned his head to speak, when Yang Mi pushed his head back.

"not me."

However, the next moment, the strange voice sounded again:

"Grumpy~"

Qin Muchu smiled:
"hungry?"

Yang Mi didn't hide it anymore, she clutched her stomach, her whole body went numb:

"starving."

In order to look good in the dress today, she didn't eat much last night, and only drank a glass of milk this morning, and took a couple of casual bites at noon.

It's already digested by now.

The girlfriend's deflated belly is in stark contrast to the upright Mimi, and Qin Muchu feels distressed:
"Why don't we go to dinner, anyway, there is only the opening movie left, it doesn't matter if you watch it or not."

After finishing speaking, I was ready to say hello to the other teachers and leave.

But was stopped by Yang Mi, she grabbed Qin Muchu's hand, frowned and whispered:
"What nonsense are you talking about? The opening movie is our movie, and we don't even watch it to eat. Is this reasonable? It's not auspicious!"

Qin Muchu didn't care,

"Nothing is more important than eating, let's go, I'm hungry too."

He wanted to pull Yang Mi to get up, but Yang Mi pulled him so hard that her little eyebrows almost knit together.

When the two were in a stalemate, someone suddenly touched Yang Mi's hand.

She turned her head to look, and it was Gong Li who was sitting next to her.

"Here, candy."

Gong Li stuffed a few small candies into Yang Mi's hands.

Although Qin Muchu and Yang Mi kept their voices quiet, she could hear them clearly when she was sitting beside them.

"Miss Gong Li..."

Yang Mi was in a daze, wondering where she got the candies.

Gong Li saw what Yang Mi was thinking, and explained with a smile:
"I also used to go on a diet to wear a dress, so I developed a habit of bringing some candies to prevent hunger and nothing to eat. Although I don't care about these now, this habit is still retained."

"Thank you, Miss Gong Li."

Yang Mi thanked her, then turned to Qin Muchu and said:

"Okay, as long as I have candy."

Then with a smile, he peeled off the candy and put it in his mouth, tasting it happily.

And Gong Li looked at Yang Mi and Qin Muchu, his eyes gradually became soft and vicissitudes.

She said a little less just now. Although she developed the habit of bringing candy, the original idea was not her idea, but someone gave her candy...

"Hey, I still have this, and I'll give it to you."

Qin Muchu was a little helpless, and took out a large handful of candies from his pocket and put them in Yang Mi's hands.

Gong Li's eyes became surprised.

"Why didn't you give it to me just now? Say, do you want to steal it?"

Yang Mi muttered, unwrapped two or three candies in a row, and stuffed them all into her mouth.

She wanted to save some candies just now, and persist until the end of the opening film.

Now I have no scruples, open to eat.

"I don't know good people, can candy be enough?"

Qin Muchu pinched Yang Mi's swollen face because of the stuffed candy.

The candy was taken from the hotel when he saw that Yang Mi didn't eat at noon, just in case she was hungry.

"How can candy be eaten as a meal..."

This sentence came to Gong Li's mind, and someone said it to her back then.

ah~
With a sigh in my heart, I shook my head and looked back.

It is also a director and an actor. I hope they can take a different path and don't repeat the same mistakes.

……

"Thank you for coming, the opening ceremony of this year's Venice Film Festival has been going well here, and now, we will have one last event, watching the opening film.

The work of director Qin Muchu from the Celestial Dynasty - "Father Trapped in Time"! "

After the host finished speaking, he left quickly, the stage was empty, the big screen lit up, and the movie started!
It is undeniable that Qin Muchu has gained a great reputation in the circle in the past two years.

"Wen" has the Berlin Golden Bear Award film "Happiness", and "Shang" has the popular "Inception" all over the world.

There are very few people present who can achieve this double flowering of art and commerce, and the two "flowers" are the most beautiful ones.

Most of them are a bit "disciplined" and "liberal arts".

Therefore, a group of filmmakers still pay close attention to Qin Muchu's film.

Is "Father Trapped in Time" another sci-fi film like "Inception"?

The beginning of the movie is a long shot, Gong Li is carrying a bag, walking hurriedly on the road, accompanied by the sound of the cello, and the end of each cello is accompanied by a crisp guitar plucking sound.

The combination of the two is low, vigorous, and lively.

But with Gong Li's every step, the music changed.

The sound of the cello became louder and louder, and its tail sound became heavier and heavier, as if it was punching someone one after another.

The rhythm became depressing, and the aria sounded, as if praying for a sacrifice, which made people feel a little weird and nervous.

Another brain-burning film?
Many viewers who have watched "Inception" smell a familiar smell from the movie screen just now.

This rhythm, the overall feeling, and the color composition of the movie are very similar to the style of "Inception".

When the camera condescendingly shoots Gong Li going up the "back"-shaped stairs, it may be because many stairs overlap, giving people a sense of confusion.

And this staircase is like a cage.

There was only one or two seconds of footage, but in the eyes of a group of professional filmmakers, they could see what was going on.

This kind of shot suggests that they probably have already felt the word "sleepy" in the movie's title.

But why are you trapped?

Some kind of supernatural power?

When the movie was 10 minutes past, they were a little unsure of their speculation.

Doesn't this seem like a sci-fi movie?

Otherwise, you can't have any clues in 10 minutes, right?

Instead, I saw a somewhat mean old man who deliberately framed the nanny for stealing his watch, and refused to admit it after being exposed by his daughter.

The story continues to develop.

The shortcomings of the elderly are exposed more and more, such as selfishness, meanness, and neuroticism.

For more than ten minutes, everyone was confused and didn't know what the movie was talking about.

But there is a weird feeling, as if something is not normal.

Until Liu Yijun appeared, this feeling reached a small peak.

A strange man appeared in the family, claiming to be the old man's son-in-law, but the strange thing was that the old man didn't seem to know this man, but the man was very calm about it, and he didn't seem to be surprised by the old man's reaction.

In the ensuing conversation between the two, everyone vaguely guessed something.

The old man seemed to be ill and had problems with his memory.

So, this is a movie about Alzheimer's patients?

After grasping this point, everyone felt a sense of relief.

The previous suspense and weirdness have been well arranged.

As for Alzheimer's disease, there are quite a few movies of this type, and everyone has watched some of them.

They have already begun to speculate about the next plot. It is nothing more than the daughter taking care of the elderly, and the father and daughter are deeply emotional.

And just when everyone was relaxing, someone who seemed to be hiding in the dark suddenly jumped out and shouted, which made them feel goosebumps again.

A strange woman appeared, claiming to be the old man's daughter.

Not only the old people are strange, but the audience also feel strange?

If this woman is the old man's daughter, who is the woman at the beginning of the movie?

Coupled with the vaguely scary background soundtrack, they felt their scalps tingling, and they couldn't help shivering, as if they were watching a thriller.

"hiss--"

The pain from the palm made Qin Muchu open his sleepy eyes.

Yang Mi was holding his hand tightly.

"Don't pinch it, it's about to break."

He patted Yang Mi's palm.

"Why did you make it look like a ghost movie..."

Yang Mi couldn't help approaching Qin Muchu, as if she could feel more at ease.

She had seen the edited version of the film, not only her, but also the other actors in the crew, but it was the first time for them to watch the final version with the soundtrack.

With the soundtrack and without the soundtrack, it feels different all of a sudden.

"It's okay, the suspenseful atmosphere needs to be full in the early stage, and the ups and downs can only be felt at the turning point later." Qin Muchu replied.

The movie continues.

Gong Li appeared again, carrying a big bag of things, this time really confused the audience.

They had just accepted that Zhang Manyu was the real daughter, and now that Gong Li appeared again, they overturned their speculation.

Gong Li was on the phone with someone, and learned through the conversation that it should be the nurse mentioned earlier.

"He's getting worse and worse, he couldn't even recognize me the other day."

This line reveals the answer.

In other words, Zhang Manyu is the face imagined by the old man, but she is actually Gong Li, but she was not recognized?

Looking at it this way, everything seems to be connected again.

The old man is sick and can't tell the difference between people and places.

In front of the new young nurse, the old man said that his daughter was trying to seize his inheritance, and that he wanted to kill her behind.

Everyone sympathized with Gong Li's sad and unexplainable expression.

What can you do when you encounter such a sick old man?

And then, the plot reverses again.

A new character appeared——Chen Daomin.

He also claimed to be the old man's son-in-law, and this son-in-law communicated with Gong Li.

Therefore, he should be the "true son-in-law".

but……

At the beginning of the movie, didn't Gong Li say that she was divorced?I have to go to Hong Kong Island to find a new boyfriend to live with.

So who is this "true son-in-law" now?
And thinking deeper, another doubt arises: Does this son-in-law exist?

Because with the development of the plot, the old man's time perception ability seems to be lost.

After figuring this out, when the movie is about halfway through, the audience probably caught up with the thinking of the movie and learned how to watch the movie.

After knowing this, in addition to feeling that the movie is more clear, there is a sense of amazement at the director of the movie in my heart.

How did he think that he made this movie from the perspective of a patient?
And it's shot so empathetically, you can feel the confusion, loss and...fear of Alzheimer's disease.

At this moment, everyone understood why Qin Muchu wanted to make the movie like a horror movie in the first place.

Because for Alzheimer's patients, every time they open and close their eyes, it is like experiencing a horror movie.

One second he was still sleeping in bed, and the next second he was eating in a strange environment, sitting next to a stranger who claimed to be his relative, but he didn't know him at all.

How is this life different from a horror movie?

The cognitive abilities of things, space, and time are all lost. Is this the world of Alzheimer's patients?
The atmosphere in the exhibition hall was a little gloomy.

They feel that they are not watching a movie, but bought an "Alzheimer's disease experience ticket" and are experiencing everything about the patient.

Unlike other similar movies, it focuses on the hard work of the daughter to take care of the father, so as to impress people.

This movie focuses on the patient, telling you what the suffering of the patient is, and telling you why the patient sometimes behaves in ways that normal people cannot understand.

This kind of perspective is not as easy to impress people as father and daughter's affection. It uses a calm and depressive style and lens to state an objective fact, but it grabs the hearts of the audience.

Watching the old man gradually change from strong to weak, will the omnipotent father one day become like a child and need the protection of his children?
There was a faint sobbing sound in the exhibition hall.

When the old man finally leaned against the wall helplessly and broke down and cried, he was not the only one who cried together.

The movie ends in lush foliage.

The lights are on, the screen is dark.

There was a short silence, and suddenly, everyone in the exhibition hall stood up, faced the direction where Qin Muchu and others were, and applauded.

Qin Muchu was stunned for a moment, then stood up and bowed slightly to respond.

Li An and the judges standing in the front row let out a long sigh of relief, looked at each other and smiled.

This was the first time they had watched this movie, but they were still moved by it.

Calm narration, turbulent emotions, and the emotions are before the father and children common in the world.

Deep enough and universal enough.

That's why they chose this film as their opening film.

Now it seems that it is very successful.

……

hotel.

Qin Muchu walked out of the bathroom after taking a shower, and saw Yang Mi was still typing on the keyboard in front of the computer.

"Going to take a shower."

He pushed Yang Mi.

"Wait a while, I'll post this photo on Weibo."

Yang Mi clicked the mouse, and the picture on the computer was a group photo of them in the afternoon.

"Post Weibo? Can't the network here connect to our software?"

"Heh, who is Sister Mi? It's just over the wall, it's done!"

Yang Mi twisted her neck, as if she was uncomfortable after sitting for a long time.

Then he patted himself on the shoulder again:

"Xiao Qinzi, I'm still waiting on you, I don't have any eyesight."

Qin Muchu pouted, but still put his hand on Yang Mi's shoulder:

"Queen, how is this strength?"

"Yeah, yes, I'll reward you as a bed attendant tonight, hahahaha."

Yang Mi couldn't bear it anymore and laughed out loud.

She leaned back in her boyfriend's arms,
"So many people applauded at the opening ceremony today, is it safe for us to win the award?"

Qin Muchu showed a smile:
"The old man is sure to win the prize, other..."

He paused:

"uncertain."

Yang Mi didn't want Qin Muchu's massage anymore, she turned around and looked at him:
"Why? I saw that the judges applauded. And this year's chairman is Li An, who is from the Celestial Dynasty and can fully understand movies. There is no barrier. Isn't the chance of winning the award even greater?"

Qin Muchu shook his head:
"The awarding of awards at film festivals is very complicated. Sometimes a good film may not win an award, and upsets are common.

And there are some movie themes that are guaranteed to win awards, such as anti-war films, white, black and yellow racial films..."

The film festival not only pays attention to film art, but also pays attention to political correctness.

When encountering these films, no matter how good the film is, Qin Muchu will be blind. The best situation is to take one of the "double yolk eggs" like Berlin.

(End of this chapter)