China Entertainment: Indulge in Vanity Fair

Chapter 161 The Anti-Japanese War Films in Taiwan Province Must Be Supported
In fact, there is also a domestic crew who came to Venice this time, but they came to participate in the screening, and this crew is "Legend of the White Snake".

Therefore, after the crew arrived in Venice, before walking the red carpet, the crew of "Legend of the White Snake" and the crew of "Scorching Sun Burning Heart" met by chance, and everyone greeted each other.

There are faces on both sides, He Fang is the upstart in the film industry, and Jet Li is the emperor's senior in the film industry.

It was supposed to be He Fang who went to visit the senior, but He Fang was not to blame, because the other party came to Venice stepping on the spot, and He Fang had no chance to visit in advance.

People just come here to rub the red carpet and increase the publicity.

What about this movie?It's hard to say. I heard that the production cost was 1.8 million. I don't know if it's true or not. It is estimated that the post-production team of Huying Group was not hired to produce it, otherwise it must not be so expensive.

Of course, it may also be the reason why Jet Li took tens of millions of salary alone.

Some people say that he received 3000 million yuan, and some say that he received 8000 million yuan. Anyway, everyone doesn't know, and if it is tens of millions, he will definitely not be able to escape.

In addition, it is said that the production of the special effects of "Legend of the White Snake" cost a lot of money, so this makes the cost of "Legend of the White Snake" remain high.

"Brother Jet Li, hello, hello, it's an honor to meet you." He Fang had a better attitude towards Jet Li.

At least he left Cheng Xiaodong aside and shook hands with Jet Li first.

Although many people have criticized Jet Li, but as a business card of Chinese kung fu stars, he has made his global debut, and he has made a lot of contributions and has a great influence.

In particular, his "Jing Wu Hero" is loved by audiences all over the world, and has also been studied by directors and filmmakers from various countries. This film can be said to have opened up a new style of Hong Kong action films, and of course it has also opened up the global action film industry. new style.

"Jing Wu Heroes" is a master of the fourth generation of martial arts styles. From a technical point of view, martial arts films have experienced the first generation of masculine martial arts films in the 70s and [-]s, represented by Liu Jialiang and Zhang Cheh, including the later Bruce Lee popularized this style all over the world.

This style embodies masculine beauty, hard fighting style.

The technical style of the second generation is represented by humorous martial arts, among which Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung are the representatives. They make martial arts movements humorous, and they are no longer hard bridges and hard horses.

The third-generation technical style is elegant and unconstrained, represented by Tsui Hark. The representative figures are Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaodong, Yuan Heping, and the martial arts movements in their martial arts action movies are unconstrained and exaggerated.

The technical style of the fourth generation of martial arts is reflected in "True Martial Heroes", which adopts the style of actual combat and violent aesthetics, and later movies such as "Slaying the Wolf" also follow this style.

This style focuses on martial arts movements that are simple, efficient, and close to actual combat, but without losing the agility of martial arts movements, punching to the flesh, and the aesthetics of violence are concrete.

Of course, the most interesting thing is that this style has developed and grown in Hollywood, and later "Mission Impossible" adopted this simple, fast and effective fighting style.

The martial arts movements of the subsequent Chinese action films still developed for two generations, but after these two generations, the transformation of Chinese action films stopped.

What are the other two generations?
The technical style of the fifth generation is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". What is this technical style?Maybe domestic audiences didn't see it, but it has a very big influence abroad.

The style of this generation is completely poetic and dance-like in martial arts movements, which is more excessive than the third generation represented by Tsui Hark.This is not very optimistic in the eyes of Chinese people, but it is very popular among foreigners.

And domestic action movies have developed to the sixth generation...

It is the film "Traces of the Japanese Pirates" by Xu Haofeng, a film school teacher who participated in the Venice Film Festival this time. This style is de-exaggerated.

However, the points are greatly reduced in terms of viewing, and the authenticity is enhanced.

Including the later "Taoist Descending the Mountain" and "The Great Master" all followed this route, but the audience didn't want to see it.

It's far away, but when Jet Li is mentioned, it will involve action movies and changes in martial arts styles.

Jet Li also held He Fang's hand happily.

"Ah, I have long heard that there is an amazing young man in our Chinese film industry. I finally met you today. It's a great honor to meet you."

"Haha, Big Brother Li is awesome. Director Cheng, hello, nice to meet you." He Fang immediately shook hands with Cheng Xiaodong.

Although Cheng Xiaodong was a little unhappy, he didn't make a sound, just nodded with a smile.

Afterwards, the two sides greeted each other, and there were actors and producers in the lineup.

However, this is just a little chatter, there is no time for everyone to chat, because the red carpet will start soon.

The Venice red carpet does not have so much topicality. After all, the domestic media pays different attention to the three major film festivals.

Cannes is recognized by everyone as the place that attracts the most attention. You can tell by reading the news. So many celebrities go to Cannes for the red carpet, why don’t they go to other film festivals?Explain that the degree of execution is different.

The opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival was uneventful. It officially opened at 07:30 p.m. and started watching movies at [-]:[-]. In the middle of half an hour, the chairman of the film festival, Marco Muller, went up and gave a talk, and then the judges will appear.

This time the jury is divided into two parts, the main competition unit and the horizon unit.

The judge of the main competition unit is Darren Aronofsky, a director from the United States. Many people may not know this person.In fact, he is one of the directors of American art-style films, and has won the Golden Lion Award. At the Oscars that ended in February, "Black Swan" he directed also won the Best Actress.

If you are interested in picking up the past jury chairmen of the three major film festivals, you will find that many jury chairmen are directors from the United States, and there are also many films from the United States, and many of them have won awards.

To explain a problem, that is, whether a movie can win an award has nothing to do with whether it is a director-centered system or a producer-centered system. Movies produced by other producer-centered systems will also win awards.

Of course, there is another problem, that is, the United States has always sent people to control the artistic direction of the three major film festivals at any time, and it is difficult to win awards for those who are not good for them.

For example, the film "Sediq Bale" shortlisted in this film festival in Taiwan is like this. It is impossible to award such a film.

Except that the chairman of the jury is an American, one of the other six judges is from the United States. His name is Todd Haynes. The department, called "Carol", won the Palme d'Or, how could he know him.

He Fang is very familiar with this film, not only did he explain it in another time and space, but also in entertainment novels in another time and space, many authors used it to pretend to be an award.

Therefore, there is no shortage of art film directors in the United States, and the United States also controls the three major film festivals.

Of course, one of the reasons why He Fang didn’t like this edition of Venice is that there is a Chinese jury chairman, that is, Jia Kechang, the jury chairman who is in charge of the Horizon single-line judging.

"Okay, now please enjoy the opening film "March [-]th", a film from the United States, directed by George Clooney, starring Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and others."

After Marco Muller finished speaking, there was thunderous applause from the audience.

"Fuck, this kind of exposing the fake American democratic elections can also be made? Why don't we import this kind of movie?" Halfway through the movie, Deng Chao couldn't help but whispered.

"Pfft..." The people around laughed, some things were tacitly understood by everyone.Just as Chinese movies are always promoted to the world to criticize the system and present domestic darkness, or to show domestic backwardness, so the image of China seen by global audiences is also dark and backward.

Oddly, however, there are few, if any, few films critical of America's darkness around the world.Is there no one to shoot?of course not.

Do you find it strange that even China and Russia, which are listed as competitors by the United States, will not introduce films that criticize the United States?
Of course, even if it is introduced, some people will say, 'See how free people are to criticize'.

What is the movie "March [-]th" about?

Probably such a story: the perfect donkey party politician Mike Morris is at the core, he is smart, handsome, ambitious, full of leadership, and he promises the public that he will be honest with what he says.

Stephen is the media spokesperson in his campaign team, and the momentum of this recruit almost overwhelms the old boss Paul in the campaign team.

But politics will always show its own sinisterness slowly. Stephen has a relationship with Molly, a college student who came to practice, but inadvertently discovers that Morris had a one-night stand with her, and Molly is pregnant with a child.Later, it was revealed that Stephen had a private meeting with the campaign director of Morris' opponent, and he was forced to resign, and Molly committed suicide because of it...

Needless to say, Americans are also merciless in their criticism and satire, but what the whole world sees is the promotion of Hollywood's universal values.

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The Venice Opening Ceremony opened in such a calm and calm way, and of course the country also spent a lot of time reporting it.

After all, there are five Chinese films shortlisted, two from Hong Kong, one from Taiwan, and two from the mainland.

"Ha, Venice looks good this time, will the awards be won by Chinese movies?"

"Upstairs you think too much, how could such a thing happen? Sometimes having more movies is just a kind of promotion, and it's not really for countries with more nominated movies to monopolize the awards."

"Why are there so many Chinese films all of a sudden being shortlisted? I haven't seen a few excellent literary and artistic films released."

"It's not that it hasn't been released, it's that there's no schedule, it's that the audience doesn't like to watch it. Only those movies can be shown and played, and so far, "Single Zoo" has the biggest momentum and the best box office."

"Who can watch it anymore? I have watched a few movies and tried it, but I really can't watch it anymore, so I just watched He Fang's "Single Zoo"."

"Come on, come on, the highlight moment of Chinese movies."

"Your high light sister, the box office is crushed by others. It is obviously the lowest moment, but you want to say it is the highlight moment? How does winning the award promote the development of the film? Is it the development of film technology, or the domestic film? The box office throne has been snatched back? Or is it that we have created a new concept of film?"

"Damn it, movies are art, you people who call the box office every day, what's the use of the box office, art should return to art..."

"Pooh……"

"Oh, it's so noisy, there's no time for the Internet to be safe."

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After the opening ceremony was over, there was nothing to do. He Fang was not very interested in participating in various activities.

Each of them holds a brochure in their hands, which lists all kinds of activities during the film festival.

The main thing is the film screening. He Fang gave the crew a schedule, which is to mark all the premieres of Chinese films. This is where everyone must gather to participate, and the Chinese must support the Chinese.

Then there were three screenings of "Scorching Sun" during the Venice Film Festival, and they had to arrive at the scene to thank the audience for these three screenings.

The rest is free activities, go to the movies if you want to go to the movies, play whatever you want.

Of course, every actor's management team has activities arranged. When will this enthusiasm not go away?Shoot some commercials, take pictures with celebrities, wear some clothes, and then report to the media about "So-and-so's sexy photo shines in Venice" and the like.

In addition, there will also be arrangements for proper relaxation to travel around, and there will be arrangements for going to the movies.

After all, the Venice Film Festival can openly and legally criticize films that are more open than Japanese films with an artistic eye. So, what is it like to watch Japanese films in a cinema with a group of foreigners?
It's a pity that He Fang can't find a companion to watch, so he can't go with Huang Yi, he won't touch Huang Yi.

The first day is over like this, and everyone has to gather on the second day, because there will be a Chinese film premiere today, this film is "Sediq Bale", and we must support it.

At 02:30 in the afternoon, He Fang took the crew of "Scorching Sun" to the Theater of the Palace of the Annual Exhibition.

"Oh, director He Fang, hello, hello, thank you for your support." Wei Desheng greeted him at the gate of the movie palace, and shook He Fang's hand to thank him.

"Director Wei is polite, as a filmmaker, how can you not watch a good movie? Especially a historical movie about the Anti-Japanese War, I like it better. Many real histories of Taiwan province have been covered up, and Director Wei can show these real things To show the world, I admire from the bottom of my heart. It must be supported, and it must be supported.”

That's right, this is one of the reasons why He Fang must bring the crew to support.

"Heh, Director He is so bold, he must criticize more later."

"You're welcome, you're welcome."

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(End of this chapter)