Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 315 It's Not Easy
"Sister Xiaoxun!"

Li Tang shouted to the thin figure with an innocent smile on his face in the crowd.

"Wow, Li Tang!"

Zhou Xun saw him as soon as he turned around, and came up to him with a face full of joy: "When did you arrive!"

"Arrived last night."

Zhou Xun ran over with open arms and wanted to hug him.

Li Tang said quickly: "No, I just finished running and I'm covered in stinky sweat!"

"fine!"

Zhou Xun didn't care at all, and gave him a solid hug as soon as he came up.

In fact, when I came back from this walk, the sweat on my body had dried long ago, but the smell of sweat was quite strong.

Zhou Xun hugged him and could clearly feel the strong muscles on his body, and the manly smell of sweat added to the strong hormonal smell. She even took a deep breath greedily, unwilling to let go for a long time. open.

She subconsciously compared her boyfriend with Li Tang. To be honest, there was really no comparison.After experiencing the initial novelty, the relationship between the two has long since become dull. Even if it meets physical needs, physical pleasure can never satisfy spiritual needs.

She regretted why she didn't seize the opportunity to take down the person in front of her in one fell swoop, and finally let the seemingly serious Jiang Qinqin take advantage of the loophole.Although she knew that Li Tang had no feelings for her, what if she had been more proactive?

Of course, the reality is that there are no ifs. She suddenly woke up and let go of her hands, looked up at Li Tang and said coquettishly: "Oh, we have been waiting for more than five hours to transfer in Amsterdam, and we are exhausted."

When they hugged each other, Li Tang felt Zhou Xun's little face pressed very tightly against his chest.He has always been very sensitive about the relationship between men and women. When he was having a breakup dinner after filming "Suzhou River", he felt that the other person was interested in him.But at that time, on the one hand, I had just finished filming, so it was normal to be unable to leave for a while; on the other hand, it was mainly because the other party was really not my cup of tea.

After that, the two collaborated twice more. What should I say?In short, Zhou Xun is a very free and easy person, and he is quite good as a friend.

Looking at her coquettish look, Li Tang just smiled and didn't say much.As we all know, friends don’t need too many polite words. Often a look and a smile are enough to express their inner thoughts.

"Mr. Li, hello!"

Only then did he take the time to say hello to Li Xiaowan who was standing aside.

"Hello, Li Tang, hello."

Li Xiaowan seemed very enthusiastic, completely different from when Li Tang visited Zhuozhou Film and Television City.In the final analysis, Li Tang's status in the circle is different now. Perhaps in the eyes of the big guys like them, he can barely talk to him as an equal.

After a few brief greetings, he said hello to Zhou Xun's assistant Tony.

After scanning around, I found that there were many unfamiliar faces around, but Chen Kun was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's Kuner?"

"Kun'er is busy filming and can't come," Zhou Xun said.

Li Tang remembered that Chen Kun is currently filming a TV series "The Golden Family" adapted from Zhang Henshui's novel. This TV series is produced by CCTV. Chen Kun plays the male lead and the female lead is the newly minted girl Dong Jie. , when it was first launched in the previous stage, it was very hot in the media.

Oh, by the way, one more thing, the director of this TV series is Jiang Qinqin’s ex-boyfriend.Of course, the crew is also escorted by director Liu Guoquan, a famous director from Qianer Film Studio and director Li’s mother.

Because almost all the creative people behind this TV series are from Beijing Film Studio, including Director Li himself, who is also a director of Beijing Film Studio.As a second-generation director, Director Li has a normal relationship with Director Xiao Teng, but many of the creators behind the scenes are their common friends, and many of them have a good relationship with Li Tang, so even if he doesn't deliberately inquire, many gossips will reached his ears.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce you, this is director Chen Guofu." Zhou Xun then introduced a small man with gray hair and black-rimmed glasses.

By the way, there was an oversight in the previous article. In addition to "The Little Seamstress" and "The Crying Woman", another Chinese-language film shortlisted for the Un Certain Regard section of this year's Cannes Film Festival is Chen Guofu's "Two Eyes."

Li Tang had seen the promotional brochure for this film festival in the hotel room before, which included an introduction to all the films shortlisted for this film festival.Chen Guofu's "Two Eyes" stars Tony Leung Ka-fai, Rene Liu and an American actor named David Moss. This American actor is also a familiar face. Li Tang remembers that he has acted in "Rush", "Concussion Effect", He can also be considered a prime supporting role in Hollywood movies such as "The Spy".

"Director Chen, hello!"

Because it was their first meeting, Li Tang seemed very polite.

"Mr. Li, hello!"

Chen Guofu shook hands with him with a smile and said enthusiastically: "I have watched "The Third Man", it is a very good movie. I hope we have the opportunity to cooperate in the future."

"Thank you Director Chen."

"The Third Man" may not have much impact on the domestic audience. After all, it only had a box office of less than 1000 million. Even if pirated discs are widely circulated, basically everyone is just watching the excitement.

However, it may be a bit exaggerated to describe it as shocking in the domestic film industry, but its influence is definitely no less than that of "The Devil Is Coming" directed by Jiang Wen, which came out two years ago.The reason is very simple, it is to make money, and a lot of it.

Cheng Er has now become another talented director after Jiang Wen, and he also has the same virtue as Jiang Wen, that is, not only is he not arrogant, but he has a very good character, and he has rejected many offers from film companies.

The industry pays attention to Li Tang not only because he is the star of this movie, but more importantly because he is an investor. In addition, now that he has established his own studio, he already has the prototype of capital and has more or less a certain amount of capital. The right to speak.

Then Zhou Xun introduced him: "Director Chen is also the director of the Asian production department of Columbia Pictures, responsible for the production and distribution of Chinese-language films."

Hearing this, Li Tang secretly said in his heart: "The search is dead!" Columbia was the first to enter the Chinese market as the so-called eight major film companies in Hollywood at the time. In recent years, it has invested in many Chinese-language films, such as "The Devil Is Coming", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and so on.

Feng Xiaogang's "Big Shot", which was released last year, also had investment from Columbia, which was responsible for overseas distribution and helped to recruit second-tier Hollywood celebrities like Donald Sutherland to join the film.

Speaking of Donald Sutherland, the domestic audience may not be familiar with it, but many people must know his son Kiefer Sutherland, who is the one who starred in the classic American TV series "24".

In this way, it is not surprising that David Moss, a golden supporting actor in Hollywood, appears in Chen Guofu's "Two Eyes".

Dai Sijie went downstairs to greet the heroine of his movie as usual. He had originally agreed to treat her to a guest at noon, but as soon as Zhou Xun entered the hotel, he shouted that he was exhausted. After nearly [-] hours of long journey, he really needed a rest. Once, and the night is the red carpet for the opening ceremony, the female stars will have to spend at least half a day getting ready.

Zhou Xun couldn't come, but Dai Sijie still kept his word and took his assistant Francois to treat Li Tang and Zeng Jia to a lobster restaurant near the hotel.

Not to mention, compared to the popular lobster sashimi in China, the cheese-baked lobster made here in Cannes is served with onions and spaghetti, which tastes quite amazing.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the fifth Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off, and the world's attention will be focused on the short 60-meter red carpet at the entrance of the Film Palace.

Compared to the hassle of queuing up to take the boat to the island when attending the Venice Film Festival last year, this time it was obviously much easier. The Carlton Hotel is only a short 250 meters away from the Cinema Palace, which is a bit worse than the [-]-meter red carpet in Venice. The distance is still short, just walk there at the right time.

In the afternoon, Zeng Jia helped Li Tang get dressed up. He wore a sleek Panax notoginseng style and a black dress tailor-made by the endorsement manufacturer, including a matching shirt, bow tie and leather shoes.

At around [-]:[-], Zhou Xun called: "Are you ready? It's time to go!"

"Get down now."

The order of the red carpet around the world is almost the same. At the beginning, some local stars warmed up the scene first, and then all the shortlisted crews appeared, interspersed with some big stars invited by the organizer, all the judges appeared, and of course the last The finale will definitely be a big shot.

"The Little Seamstress" was scheduled to appear in the time period from 07:30 to [-]:[-], and the ranking was acceptable. After their appearance, the jury of the main competition unit of this year's Cannes Film Festival appeared immediately.

The chairman of the jury for this year's film festival is American director David Lynch. As early as 1990, he won the Palme d'Or for his film "Wild at Heart". Last year, he won the Best Film Award for "Mulankhedao". Director Award.

As for judges, they generally emphasize diversity, including requirements for region and skin color. This is the hypocritical so-called "political correctness" of the white left world.

The only ones who are somewhat famous are Chinese-American actress Michelle Yeoh, who once played a "Bond Girl", and American actress Sharon Stone.

Sharon Stone, who was once widely known by Chinese people with "Basic Instinct" and "Cannonball Expert", has not collapsed yet.In fact, from Li Tang's point of view, those who slander China like Sharon Stone are ignorant and arrogant.This is also a common problem among most Americans.They don't understand China at all, and they don't even know where China is on the earth, so they dare to make all kinds of remarks. In fact, to put it bluntly, they just want to gain power.

Of course, as a Chinese, even if Sharon Stone's character has not collapsed at this time, Li Tang feels very uncomfortable whenever he sees her name.

When Li Tang walked out of the room and came to the hotel's spiral escalator, he saw Zhou Xun taking photos on the spiral escalator from the first floor to the second floor.Her lineup this time was much bigger than that of Li Tang. In addition to being accompanied by company owner and agent Li Xiaowan and assistant Tony, she also brought her own makeup artist and photographer.

Seeing Li Tang coming downstairs in a black dress, he quickly waved: "Li Tang, come here, let's take some photos together."

Zhou Xun was dressed in a unique style today, wearing a bright red horse-faced skirt on the lower body and a unique white shirt on the upper body. It was quite a mix of modern and traditional, Western and Chinese styles.

Li Tang felt that the horse-faced skirt she was wearing looked familiar. Before he could ask any questions, he heard Zeng Jia say excitedly: "Sister Xiaoxun, is this skirt the one Xiuhe wore on her wedding day?"

"Yes!" Zhou Xun responded with a smile.

"Yeah, it's so beautiful!"

Zeng Jia also purposely ran down the stairs quickly, took a closer look at the front, and sincerely admired it.

Yes, no wonder it looks familiar.

After the Spring Festival at the beginning of the year, "Orange Is Red" starring Zhou Xun successively landed on major TV stations, triggering a small viewing frenzy, and the response was quite good.In it, she played the role of Xiuhe, a tenant farmer's daughter who married her master and became his third wife.

Li Tang walked down the spiral staircase, and Zhou Xun turned around to meet him. They met about halfway up the first floor. The two looked at each other and smiled. Then Zhou Xun took his arm and they walked down gracefully. The photographer had already had an advantage. The terrain, the lens of the camera in hand was pointed at the two people, and the shutter was pressed wildly.

There are many people who want to take pictures at this famous spiral staircase of the Carlton Hotel, and of course the hotel guests are the first choice. However, for those little celebrities who come to take advantage of the popularity and look for opportunities to increase their popularity, they can only be stopped by the security guards. , and they were not allowed to line up until they finished taking photos.

It was almost 25:[-] after taking the photos, and at the urging of Dai Sijie, he hurried to the movie palace.

In fact, it's not a big deal even if you are late, because there will always be people who refuse to move on the crowded red carpet, just to give themselves more exposure opportunities.

Li Tang, Zhou Xun and Dai Sijie waited in the waiting area for another ten minutes before finally stepping onto the noisy Cannes red carpet.

Again, "The Little Seamstress" is the real son of Cannes. The security guards at the scene deliberately dispersed some of the starlets who were lagging behind and refused to move before the crew came on stage, freeing up the shooting area.

Those photojournalists were also very face-saving and turned their cameras on them. First they took a group photo of the three of them, then posed for a few poses alone, and finally Zhou Xun took Dai Sijie and Li Tang's arms respectively to complete the group photo of the two of them.

In fact, there are still many Chinese elements in this Cannes Film Festival. In addition to the previously mentioned only shortlisted film in the main competition unit - Chief Jia's "Ren Xiaoyao" and three films shortlisted in the "Un Certain Regard" unit, there are also Director Chen's short film "In the Heart of the Flowers" for the British major production "10 Minutes to Age" and his husband-and-wife team's film "With You" with Chen Hong; director Sun Zhou, Gong Li and her male mistress and "Zhou Yu's Train" starring Liang Jiahui; the remake of the classic film "Spring in a Small Town" directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang; and "Looking for the Gun" directed by Lu Chuan and starring Jiang Wen were also screened films or specially introduced at the film festival. Appearance.

It is worth mentioning that Wu Shixian's short film "Che 44", which was a hit at the Venice Film Festival last year, was specially invited by the organizer this time and was shortlisted for the "Directors' Fortnight" section.

It’s not easy. Think about it. It is said that there are more than 2000 and [-] films from all over the world registered for this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Only less than one-tenth of them can be unveiled at the film festival.Nowadays, there are so many Chinese movies participating in it. On the other hand, we can also see that China's influence in the world is growing day by day.

　I'd like to shamelessly ask for your guaranteed monthly tickets to help motivate me. I'll have two updates tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)