director of the millennium

Chapter 34

"CUT!"

"Scarlett, practice walking posture with the two pregnant women again, let's rest for an hour first!"

Wu Yuan rubbed his eyebrows in distress.

The shooting of "Juno" went quite smoothly. The estimated shooting period is 40 days. It was already the 1rd day of shooting from the start of filming on January 12th. About half of the plot has been filmed.
But the difficulty lies in the other half.

Scarlett played the rest of the parts very well, playing a unique, sharp-mouthed, eccentric, full of personality Juno, a very cool Juno.

This is actually the biggest selling point of this movie.

The reason why the original "Juno" is so popular is because Juno is very cool. She is not serious at all, not a good girl, nor a typical American sweetheart. She is a cool girl!

Scarlett did a great job, she really delivered the essence of "Cool Girl".

But she has never been pregnant!
In the scene where Juno has a big belly in the movie, Scarlett can't play that pregnant woman no matter how much she plays it!

This cannot be controlled by acting skills or talent. What you have not experienced means you have no experience, and no amount of acting skills can make up for it.

In desperation, Wu Yuan could only invite two pregnant women for Scarlett, and they were all young pregnant women, only eighteen or nineteen years old.

Scarlett has a big belly every day, follows them to learn how pregnant women walk, and listens to their pregnancy experience, mental journey, and feelings.

It’s just that Wu Yuan still feels a bit off. I really don’t understand how Ellen Page came to act. She was only 20 years old when she played "Juno".

There was no other way, Wu Yuan could only slow down the shooting speed, and accompany Scarlett bit by bit.

Sitting in the director's chair, watching Scarlett earnestly studying with the pregnant woman not far away, Wu Yuan gradually began to let go.

Just when he was in a daze, the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

Picking up the phone instinctively, Wu Yuan asked in American English: "I'm Daniel, who are you?"

"Daniel, Daniel, I, your senior brother!"

A familiar voice came from the phone.

Isn't this Wang Xiaoshuai!

Wu Yuan immediately regained his energy, and as soon as the language system was switched, he blurted out in an authentic Beijing movie: "Hehe, senior brother, what do you need from me?"

"I said, did you forget something, kid?"

"what?"

Wu Yuan was stunned, not knowing what Wang Xiaoshuai said.

""17-Year-Old Bicycle"!" Wang Xiaoshuai said with a somewhat annoyed tone: "This is your first movie starring in it!"

"Why, now that you are a director of Chengda University, you have all gone to Hollywood to make movies, so you forgot about it?"

When Wang Xiaoshuai said this, Wu Yuan remembered.

I really can't blame him, the crew of "Juno" has too many things to do recently, Wu Yuan, who is so busy with this movie, can't pretend to be other things at all.

"You can forget it!" Wu Yuan said quickly: "Go to Berlin, right? I will remember this!"

"Senior brother, don't worry, I will definitely come. I will be in Berlin before the closing ceremony!"

"Well, as long as you haven't forgotten, don't be late. You are the number one male!" Wang Xiaoshuai warned him a few more times before hanging up the phone.

"17-year-old Bicycle" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Berlin International Film Festival, and it is very likely to win an award.

The Berlin International Film Festival prefers films that tend to be satirical and political.

Precisely, although "17-Year-Old Bicycle" tells the story of two teenagers and bicycles, in fact the whole story is a metaphor for the gap between urban and rural areas caused by China's changes at the end of the last century. It can be regarded as a metaphor and satire on society.

The old men at the Berlin Film Festival like this!

Only then did Wang Xiaoshuai send the film to Berlin instead of Cannes or Venice, and he is also confident about this trip to Berlin.

Wu Yuan, the leading actor in a movie, naturally has to follow the director's baton and cannot be absent.

He didn't want to be absent either. Which director doesn't want to go to the three major European universities?

Although I am going to Berlin as an actor this time, I can also see the world first and get familiar with the process.

But he really didn't have time to accompany Wang Xiaoshuai to the Berlin Film Festival.

For the "Juno" crew, every day of downtime is a waste of 10,000+ dollars, which cannot afford to be wasted.

After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuan negotiated with John.

The opening on February 2th must not be in time, and the crew can accept a suspension of three days at most.

So Wu Yuan could only leave on the night of the 16th, arrive in Berlin on the 17th, and come back immediately after attending the closing ceremony on the 18th.

In this regard, it is better to consider that "17 Years Old Bicycle" can win awards. Otherwise, if the film does not win awards, the crew will not even be able to attend the closing ceremony.

Anyway, John felt that he would not win the award, and Wu Yuan would most likely go to Berlin to experience the atmosphere and then return home.

In this way, Wu Yuan gave the crew a three-day vacation with a big wave of his hand after ten days of playing with Scarlett little by little. On the night of the 16th, he boarded the plane to Berlin .

When we landed, it was already the morning of the 17th Berlin time, and the entire "17 Years Old Bicycle" crew came together to pick up Wu Yuan.

It is said that there are all members, but in fact there are only Wang Xiaoshuai, Gao Yuanyuan, Cui Lin, and two producers from France and Baodao.

Even China Film Group did not send anyone here because the copyright ownership of "17-Year-Old Bicycle" is a bit unclear. Beijing Film Studio requested to share the copyright, but the producer did not agree. It is still in the quarrel stage.

However, the two producers have already sold the global copyright of "17-year-old Bicycle" in Berlin in the past week.

While walking out of the airport with Wang Xiaoshuai and others, Wu Yuan took the initiative to explain: "Brother, it's not that I didn't want to come earlier, but Fox Searchlight won't let anyone go."

"As you know, this Hollywood crew will lose 10,000+ dollars a day if they stop working. Even if I'm a director, I can't just stop working casually."

"After all, the money is paid by Fox Searchlight, and I'm just a laborer."

After all, he is a senior brother, and he was the one who brought him into the industry at the beginning, so he should be respected.

Seeing Wu Yuan's sincere face, Wang Xiaoshuai couldn't blame him for being late, but he muttered with some taste: "You kid is really arrogant now."

"The domestic box office of "The Night the Comet Came" was close to 2000 million, and the global copyrights were sold for more than 200 million US dollars."

"Now I'm going to Hollywood to make movies again."

"Except Wu Baige from Hong Kong Island, you are the most powerful director in China."

How could Wu Yuan let his senior brother praise him so much? He quickly shook his head: "No, senior brother is the one who is really awesome."

"'17-Year-Old Cycling' has been shortlisted for the main competition. Maybe we can get the Golden Bear back in the end. This is a great achievement."

"It's nothing for me to sell some box office, but I haven't won any serious awards."

Only then did Wang Xiaoshuai regain his mental balance.

Indeed, what's wrong with Wu Yuan being able to sell at the box office, can he win the Golden Bear?
The new generation of mainland art film directors still have to look at Wang Xiaoshuai!
In fact, it wasn't that he couldn't see his junior brother doing well, but everything that happened to Wu Yuan in the past six months made Wang Xiaoshuai dumbfounded.

When filming "17-Year-Old Bicycle", Wu Yuan was still an unknown directing student who would decisively sell himself for 1 yuan.

In less than a year, he transformed himself into a film director with a box office of 2000 million yuan, the second Chinese-speaking director to go to Hollywood to make a movie!

Good guy, Wang Xiaoshuai doesn’t even know how to face this junior brother.

But Gao Yuanyuan, Cui Lin and others were even more uncomfortable. The two of them were nervous from the beginning to the end when they came to pick up the plane, not knowing what to say to Wu Yuan.

In Lu Xun's words, there is already a sad and thick barrier between them.

Everyone needs to re-examine and adapt to the current Wu Yuan.

"For you, I have specially postponed the movie premiere today!" Wang Xiaoshuai sighed and patted Wu Yuan on the shoulder.

The film festival opens on the 7th and closes on the 18th. The participating films will not premiere until the 17th.

But now Wu Yuan is indeed qualified to let the whole crew wait for him alone. If he doesn't come, the movie won't premiere.

They got into the car with everyone who picked them up at the airport, and instead of going back to the hotel, they drove directly to the premiere theater of "17-year-old Bicycle"!
In the car, while looking at the street scene in Berlin, Wu Yuan curiously asked Wang Xiaoshuai: "Brother, can our movie be released in China?"

Wang Xiaoshuai was very satisfied with the word "we" in Wu Yuan's mouth, but he still sighed and said with some disappointment: "It's probably impossible."

"The bureau said that too many alleys were filmed in the movie and the modern side of the capital was not captured. This would affect the film's bid for the Olympics and they would not grant a screening permit."

"But I have negotiated with the management in Baodao. It will be released in Baodao on the 20th. This can be regarded as a domestic release!"

"By the way, this year's Berlin Film Festival also has films from Taiwan that have been shortlisted for the main competition, but I don't know if they can win the prize."

　In reality, "17 Years Old Bicycle" premiered in Berlin on the 17th. I don't know why Wang Xiaoshuai chose such a date. This is a movie in the main competition!
　　Don't give time for word-of-mouth to ferment at all!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)