The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 512 The Cannes Film Festival opens

Brother Xiao Ming, Sun Li, and Zhang Yi are all very nervous about this trip to Cannes.

Li Shengyao was actually nervous, but he did not have Dapeng, Zhang Yi and others exposed.

Even if Director Li is nervous and thinking about things, he can force himself to fall asleep.

Li Shengyao did not wake up during the flight from Yanjing to Paris. He slept all the way and slept for a full nine hours. He slept very well.

Then they flew from Paris to Cannes. After getting off the plane, a group of them checked into the hotel. Brother Xiao Ming and others didn't have a good rest on the plane, so they rushed to the hotel and went to sleep.

Lee Sung-yew was in high spirits, but the film festival officially started at 8pm, and now it was only [-]am, so they still had almost ten hours to adjust.

There are no films being screened at the festival at this time and there is no place to watch them.

Although Cannes is beautiful, there are a lot of paparazzi at this time, so it is not appropriate to go out for a stroll. After thinking about it, Li Shengyao decided to take a good rest.

At this moment, Li Shengyao received a call from Feng Bingbing.

"Would you like to walk the red carpet together?"

Li Shengyao shook his head speechlessly, "No, I'm not interested."

"Okay, that's it."

The Cannes Film Festival officially starts at [-] p.m., and most of the regular filmmakers who come to the festival go to the red carpet around [-] p.m.

And people like Yan Bingbing started working in the morning.

The red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival has become a business. You can walk on the red carpet before the opening ceremony, during the film festival, and before the closing ceremony.

The general price is [-] euros.

If you feel that walking on the red carpet is boring and cannot show your pomp, you can also spend two thousand euros, in which case you will get a dedicated photographer.

If you are willing to donate [-] euros, you can also get an invitation to the charity dinner of the Cannes Film Festival or the opening ceremony dinner of the film festival.

Yan Bingbing is going to look gorgeous again this year, and she will definitely walk on the red carpet.

Li Shengyao hung up the phone, feeling a little irritated for no reason.

Many stars around the world are like this, not just mainland stars, but Lee Sheng-yao still feels uncomfortable.

He put down his phone, then closed his eyes and went to sleep.

Because of what happened to Yan Bingbing, he felt a little more sleepy.

When Li Shengyao woke up, it was already noon. He and the rest of the crew had lunch, then sat together and chatted, and soon it was time to walk on the red carpet.

The organizer of Cannes had a special car to pick them up, so Li Shengyao, Xiao Mingge, Zhang Yi, Sun Li, Dapeng, and Bi Gan got on the car together and headed to the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival.

At this time, most of the people walking on the red carpet are professional filmmakers, and there are relatively few stars on the red carpet.

The crew of "1937" has few celebrities and few fans here, and foreign photographers don't pay much attention to them.

Fortunately, China has a large population and a lot of paparazzi, not only in the mainland, but also in Hong Kong Island. The paparazzi saw the "1937" crew and shouted, asking Lee Sheng-yao and others to cooperate in taking pictures.

With this group of friends from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the crew of "1937" is finally not so deserted.

They entered the venue smoothly and sat for almost half an hour. When all the filmmakers arrived, Gilles Jacob, the Seal of the Cannes Film Festival, talked some nonsense about the development of global films, then announced the official start of the film festival, and then invited the filmmakers Watch Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris together.

"Midnight in Paris" is the opening film, screened directly in the Thousand People Hall.

Naturally, Li Shengyao took Brother Xiao Ming, Sun Li and others over, and then they all watched "Midnight in Paris" together.

What can I say about this movie? It's very similar to Woody Allen's past movies.

The composition, picture, light and shadow are very beautiful, but the storyline is average and not very meaningful.

The movie is about a beautiful Chinese young man who travels back to Paris in the 20s and meets all kinds of people.

Most of the actors with lines in this movie are from Britain. The French actor who has the most roles is the current First Lady Bruni. She has an 8-minute scene and it is said that it took eight days to film.

It can be said that this is a beautiful Parisian movie imagined by Chinese people.

Regardless of the male and female protagonists, the second male lead, or the second female lead, they actually don’t have a French temperament.The audience can clearly feel that these are a group of beautiful Chinese people from modern times.

Overall, this is a beautiful Chinese work of Italian silver.

After the movie ended, there was sparse applause in the theater. Woody Allen knew that he had messed up, so he went on stage to give a speech, chatted for a few words, and left in a hurry.

Dapeng laughed mischievously, "I guessed right, this kind of popular movie dies quickly."

After the movie ended, it was too late.

France is not as safe as at home, so the filmmakers dispersed and went back to their hotels.

The opening dinner will be held tomorrow evening.

Li Shengyao and Brother Xiao Ming returned to the hotel, and everyone went back to their rooms to rest.

Early the next morning, they all gathered together, then walked on the red carpet to watch "Martial Arts".

Lee Sing-yew doesn't really support Chan Ke-yan, but since they are all Chinese-language movies, let's come and watch them.

Anyway, if they don't watch "Martial Arts", they have to watch other movies.

Chen Kexin has high expectations for martial arts. He feels that this movie combines action, suspense, and reasoning, and is a new type of action movie.

But the movie was screened at the Cannes Grand Theater. In the small hall of 100 people, there were almost no foreigners. They were all paparazzi, filmmakers, entertainers, or fans from the mainland.

After the first screening, there were not that many Chinese people in the second screening. There were finally more moviegoers from other countries, but the overall number of people watching was still very small. Lee Sheng-yew estimated that only about thirty people would watch.

Chen Kexin's face looked much ugly.

Dapeng whispered: "I think it's pretty good-looking, but it's hard to break through."

"Martial Arts" is indeed innovative in terms of subject matter, but that's all. It is almost impossible for a martial arts movie to win foreign awards like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Li Shengyao greeted Chen Kexin and then left to watch other movies.

It was the fifth day of screening of "1937" in Cannes, so he could relax a little.

A group of them wandered around the Cannes Grand Theater all day, and then hurried back to the hotel in the evening, washed up, and prepared to attend the opening ceremony dinner.

After getting in the car, Dapeng handed his mobile phone to Li Shengyao, "Director, look at this woman, she is so shameless."

Li Shengyao took Dapeng's mobile phone and then saw the news about Yan Bingbing.

Pei Bingbing wore a crane costume for the opening ceremony and walked the red carpet.

Then she walked the red carpet twice more and changed into two different brands of dresses.

This evening, at the opening ceremony dinner red carpet, Yan Bingbing walked twice more, also changing into two sets of dresses.

In other words, Yan Bingbing walked the red carpet five times in total.

It couldn't be an invitation from the dress brand, because the dresses she changed into were all different brands.

It couldn't be an official invitation from Cannes, because the time she walked on the red carpet was different from that of serious filmmakers like Lee Sung-yew.

Most likely they are high-level VIP customers who spend money.

Li Shengyao frowned slightly. For the first time, he felt that Yan Bingbing's behavior was very low. It was really low.

"Don't worry about her, don't talk about her."

Spending money to walk on the red carpet is an open secret. It’s pointless to say it and it will offend people.

More importantly, this is a way for Cannes officials to make money. There is no need to expose it, otherwise it will offend Cannes officials.

Li Shengyao returned the phone to Dapeng. He felt that it was quite unlucky.

Hope it doesn't affect his luck.

(End of this chapter)