director of the millennium

Chapter 61 Huaxia Legion (please read more!!)

After confirming the itinerary to Berlin with Director Han, Wu Yuan said goodbye and left China Film, preparing to go home and pack some luggage.

As soon as he got home, before he could catch his breath, Wu Yuan's phone started ringing non-stop.

It was Zhang Guorong who called first.

"Director Wu, is our film really nominated for Berlin?"

"How can this be fake?" Wu Yuan responded funny.

"I haven't been to the Berlin Film Festival yet!" Zhang Guorong's tone was full of joy.

Among the three major European film festivals, he has only been to the Cannes Film Festival. That year, "Farewell My Concubine" was nominated for Best Film and Best Actor, and eventually won the Palme d'Or.

"Zhang Sheng, I told you at the time that as long as we make this movie well, I will definitely take you to Europe, and I may even bring you a best actor trophy."

Wu Yuan also said with a smile: "I never lie."

"Haha, I definitely believe Director Wu's words." Zhang Guorong agreed with him very much.

"En." Wu Yuan nodded: "We will leave for Berlin on February 2th, and the next half month will be free."

"By the way, hurry up and order a dress. As the leading actor of our crew, you have to dress up for this Berlin appearance."

"No problem!" Zhang Guorong patted his chest and assured: "I have temporarily stopped the preparations for "Stealing Heart", and I have also contacted LV. They will have a special stylist with a dress at that time. Come to Berlin and do my makeup!"

Come on, Wu Yuan was a little envious. He, a "big" director in Hollywood, didn't even provide a dress from a luxury brand, so he had to spend his own money to buy it.

"Okay, let's do this first, and see you in Beijing later."

After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuan called the other actors of "The Undertaker" one by one, from Chen Hong, Li Xuejian to teacher Wu Yanshu, and even Sun Li, who can only be regarded as a small supporting role.

Anyway, Han Dong said, bring all the main actors!
Wu Yuan also felt once again how much the domestic film circle values ​​European film festivals these days.

Teacher Wu Yanshu, who will be retiring in two years, agreed without hesitation when she heard that she could go to Berlin to participate in the Berlin Film Festival. She was not afraid of the discomfort of long-distance flights.

Sun Li and Li Xuejian were so excited that they couldn't speak at all.

Even Chen Hong, whose husband had won the Palme d'Or, was delighted to hear that she could go to the Berlin International Film Festival as the leading actress. Even Wu Yuan could vaguely hear Director Kaigo's laughter on the phone!

After notifying the actors on the set, Wu Yuan's cell phone still didn't stop. He kept receiving congratulatory calls from friends all afternoon. Chen Kun, Zeng Li, and Qin Hailu all called to congratulate them immediately.

Even the international chapter, who only exchanged contact information, called, and Brother Cheng Long politely sent a congratulatory text message.

Throughout the day, he was busy replying and thanking these relatives and friends
A few days later, April 2th.

Wu Yuan took the assembled crew of "The Embalmer" to the Beijing International Airport and prepared to fly to Berlin.

In addition to the actors and actresses, they were also accompanied by the producer Chen Yuan and two specially hired translators.

Feeling that the treatment was really different, Wu Yuan, as soon as he entered the VIP lounge at the airport, he met other Chinese film crews who were also going to Berlin for the screening.

"Hehe, Director Wu, I have admired your name for a long time, so I saw you."

Feng Xiaogang, who was smiling with a chrysanthemum face, saw the crew of "The Undertaker" come in, immediately warmly greeted him, and hugged Wu Yuan.

While hugging, he also said: "Director Wu, you don't know, Director Han has been talking about you in my ear every day for the past two years, and he has praised you to the sky."

"But you are really good. Are you, a director with a professional background, so good at making movies?"

"The rights to make a low-budget film can sell for several million dollars, and if you go to the United States, you can make 2 million dollars at the box office. Now you are making a literary film, and it was also shortlisted in Berlin. What a young genius!"

Feng Pants is really jealous, almost crazy with jealousy.

Is there such a big gap between going to college?
Among the four mainland directors, only Feng Xiaogang has never attended an art academy, or even a university.

This is also one of the reasons why many old men look down on Feng pants.

He didn't take it seriously that he didn't go to college before, he didn't care.

If you haven't studied in a professional college, then you still made the top box office movie in the Mainland!

But this trip to Berlin really hit him.

Xu Anhua is not a mainland director, and "Forty Men" is a Hong Kong film, so it doesn't start from the capital.

The remaining four directors are all in this lounge now. It turns out that Wu Yuan, Zhang Yimou, and Li Xin all came from film schools, and Feng Xiaogang was the only one who never even went to college.

Moreover, Wu Yuan has not even graduated yet, and he has already surpassed Feng Xiaogang in terms of artistic achievements. Feng Xiaogang has not yet been shortlisted for the top three in Europe.

If the box office of "Juno" is counted, he can even beat all mainland directors at the box office.
The artistic achievements are not comparable, and the box office is not good enough. Facing Wu Yuan, Feng Xiaogang really felt a little inferior, and even began to doubt whether he should enroll in a seminar at the Film Academy and go back to the furnace to learn. .
"Where is it? Director Feng's Lunar New Year movies are also very good, and they all sell well at the box office." Wu Yuan responded with a smile, and naturally he would not belittle Feng Xiaogang for nothing.

In fact, he is not like the fifth-generation directors who always look down on Feng Xiaogang.

Without Feng Xiaogang, the commercial era of Chinese-language films might have arrived ten years later.

Without Feng Xiaogang's "Party A and Party B" opening the era of mainland commercial films and giving the market confidence, there would be no "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou opening the era of blockbuster films!

You know, in the 90s, the people's enthusiasm for watching movies dropped to a freezing point.

First of all, due to changes in policies from above, main theme movies have become mainstream.

But the main themes of the movies at that time were basically the routines of early red movies. Compared with the foreign movies of the same period, they were simply three eras behind.

At the time, I could only sum it up in one word, ugly.

As for art films, they have also encountered the most stringent period. The sixth-generation directors who have just begun to emerge are testing the verge of censorship and banning every day. They do not care about the mainland market and rely entirely on large-scale overseas distribution to recover costs.

Although when "Titanic" was released in 1998, there was a short-lived movie-watching frenzy among mainland movie fans, but this was only a flash in the pan, and it made mainland audiences even more reluctant to go to the cinema to watch domestic films.

At this time, it was the appearance of Feng Xiaogang, which changed the film environment in the mainland.

Although his early commercial films were not much different from sitcoms, they re-attracted mainland audiences into movie theaters and rekindled their enthusiasm for watching movies.

It was he who cultivated the first batch of audiences for mainland commercial films, and it was he who lowered "movies" from a high-level artistic level to an entertainment level that ordinary people can accept and love!

After more than a hundred years, Feng Xiaogang is a director who can be written into the history of mainland movies!
"Director Feng's "Big Whistleblower" collides with me. The theme is funerals, so yours is a comedy."

"Haha, I'm just making a funny satirical comedy, I can't compare with you."

"Where is."

After chatting with Feng Xiaogang and chatting about each other's movies, Wu Yuan turned his attention to director Zhang Yimou who had been sitting quietly in the corner of the lounge.

"Director Yimou, first meeting. I am Wu Yuan, grade 98 of the Film Academy."

"Hello, hello, I have seen your movie, "The Night the Comet Came", it was very interesting."

Wu Yuan deliberately ignored Zhang Weiping who was sitting next to Zhang Yimou, and chatted enthusiastically with Director Zhang Yimou.

Director Yimou has a shy and introverted personality, and he speaks softly and slowly. He has a very, very simple temperament, and it is very comfortable to chat with him.

Both of them have studied in the film academy, and director Yimou is shy, but he is also very talkative, especially when talking about movies, his chatterbox will be opened.

Wu Yuan, who wanted to get in touch with Director Zhang Yimou, soon chatted with him. Li Xin and Feng Xiaogang also came together, interjecting a few words from time to time.

Their topic mainly revolved around the movie "Hero". There is no director who is not curious about the first commercial blockbuster in China.

Director Zhang Yimou also took advantage of the opportunity to invite Wu Yuan to attend the premiere of "Hero".

How could Wu Yuan miss this opportunity to witness the "epoch-making" event, and he readily agreed on the spot.

A director has a circle of directors, and actors naturally have a circle of actors.

The actors of the four film crews knew or were familiar with each other more or less, and they chatted in the lounge.

Everyone chatted while waiting for the flight to take off.

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