This director needs to apologize

Chapter 37: Go to the movies
Back at the hotel, Chen Yiming and Gu Yuehe had no sense of experience and no interest in chatting. They quickly covered themselves with the sheets after taking a hot bath.

Thank goodness there are enough hot water pipes for bathing.

As for Lily, she didn't go back to the hotel at all and caught a red-eye flight straight to Los Angeles.

The girl's mentality was shattered. She originally planned to watch the screening together the next day, but after watching "The Void" she didn't want to stay in Montreal for a second, so she left directly.

During breakfast at 9 o'clock the next day, Chen Yiming and Guyuehe finally found the organization, and Shen Pengfei, who only existed on the phone, finally showed up.

The three of them found a seat by the window and chatted while eating.

Listening to Chen Yiming's account of what happened to the three of them yesterday, Sister Shen gloated and said with a smile, "I've long advised you to go to Berlin, but you didn't listen! But it's good to come here to gain experience and get rid of the charm."

International film festivals are not as artistic as you think, it is just a business.Comprehensive evaluation of foreign film festivals, Montreal is considered to be a good one, and I won’t describe the more outrageous ones to you. "

Guyuehe asked the question he had been holding back all night, "I feel that the jury is not very reliable, and the film critics are relatively close. When will journalists and curators be able to be judges? How can we guarantee their professionalism?"

That actress named Lopez, I checked online at night, and it seems that she doesn’t have any masterpieces. The works in her resume have only participated in a few small film festivals in Europe, and she was still nominated! "

Shen Pengfei waved her hand disapprovingly, "Because the original chairman of the jury was sent to the rescue, Qiong was temporarily brought in to save the situation. Can you expect any big names to save the situation?"

Lao Gu leaned heavily on the back of his chair and let out a long sigh, "It's a waste that before I came here, I was still full of dreams. I wanted to follow in Uncle Ming's footsteps and become a Montreal Best Actor. Now, hey!"

Chen Yiming winked at him with a smirk, "It's boring, isn't it?"

Shen Pengfei continued, "This film festival has been in financial crisis since 2000. Old Rothko, an Eastern European immigrant, has always held on to the power of the film festival and conducted various black-box operations, which annoyed the leaders of the Maple Leaf Film Circle. brain.

In 04, the Maple Leaf Film Bureau withdrew its capital, the Quebec Film Bureau withdrew its capital the following year, and last year the city government also withdrew its capital.

Had it not been for the capital injection from a local Chinese consortium this year, the film festival would have been in trouble.

It’s not that Rothko didn’t want to hold the event in the original August, it was because there were never enough registered films, so it was postponed to the freezing December.

How do you think there are so many Chinese-language films on the entry list, and why do you think a pornographic film from Little Japan was shown in the opening ceremony? It's all about money. "

When Chen Yiming heard this, he had no expectations of winning any prizes. His only hope was to sell the copyright. At least he couldn't come here in vain, right?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but ask, "What about our screening? If the opening ceremony is like that, the organizer will definitely not be able to count on it. Should we go to the streets and hand out flyers to attract people to watch the movie?"

Shen Pengfei laughed out loud, "Okay, okay, just keep it in mind, I have plans. Even if there are only single-digit audiences, the media has still received rave reviews."

She opened her phone and clicked on a page, then pushed it in front of Chen Yiming and Guyuehe.

The two of them went over to take a look. It was an English online news article.

""Holiday" debuted at the Montreal Film Festival, and Lily-Collin stunned the red carpet."

The title is quite satisfactory, and it looks like a press release from a public relations company, but the photos of Lily and Lao Gu are quite serious.

The media that released it was more scary, it was actually "The Hollywood Reporter"!
Chen Yiming gave Shen Pengfei a thumbs-up, "Sister, you are really good here. You can even get in touch with The Hollywood Reporter."

Shen Pengfei chuckled, "The scanned copy of the newspaper will be sent over in the afternoon. It's just a drizzle of the fourth page, but it's enough to scare people when it's sent back to China.

Since Director Chen can trust me, then the eldest sister will definitely handle it for you and will never fool you with some Chinese newspapers like the "Ottawa News". "

Chen Yiming and Gu Yuehe looked at each other in confusion.

Fortunately, I came out once and opened my eyes.

Who would have thought about it when we were stuck in the country?
The high-end Montreal Film Festival is in shambles; the high-end Hollywood Reporter is only there for money.

After completing the task of reshaping the two people's outlook on life, Shen Pengfei sipped coffee and explained the work to Chen Yiming.

“You three must be there for the screening on the 8th, moviegoers from the Lighthouse and Gaoya companies will come over.

I'm still talking to the film viewing managers of Columbia and Universal. The schedule has not yet been determined. You may be required to stay here until the 11th.

The rest of the time you can be free, watch movies, or hang out.

As for awards, I have one thing to say: Best Picture and Best Director are both out of the question.

Koo's chances of winning the Best Actor award are also slim. Lopez is a feminist, and the male lead won't win the award if he's not black or disabled. But Lily's Best Actress win is very promising. "

……

On the afternoon of the 6th, Chen Yiming was dragged by Guyuehe to support a friend of a friend’s movie.

The name of the movie was "The Bell", and the main creators on the scene actually didn't know each other, because the producer was a friend of Boss Cai, so Lao Cai sent Guyuehe over.

There were about twenty people sitting sparsely in the cinema, and the organizer of the film festival was nowhere to be seen.

The director of the movie, a baby-faced young man who talked a lot about Trump, came on stage and said a few words, then turned off the lights and watched the movie.

To be honest, the movie-watching experience is much better than "The Void", at least the story is clear.

"Bell" refers to a big bell in a temple. The male protagonist has been looking forward to the New Year since he was a child, because he can go to the temple in the town to ring the bell.When the male protagonist grows up, he goes to the city, marries a wife, has children, and lives a confused life.

On another Spring Festival, his wife and son each had reasons to refuse to go together. The male protagonist returned to his hometown alone to celebrate the New Year. When he went to ring the bell on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he unexpectedly learned that the old abbot of the temple had passed away and his only apprentice planned to leave.

This leads to the eternal topic of chuuni comics, the crisis of the abolished department!
The next scene is both unexpected and reasonable. The protagonist resolutely abandons his wife and children and becomes a monk!
The protagonist tries his best to save the temple, but the director and screenwriter certainly won't let him succeed.

At the end of the story, the protagonist received a notice that the ultimatum was invalid, the monk's membership was cancelled, and the temple was about to be demolished, so he had to leave.

There was a loud noise, the protagonist smashed the big clock, the screen went black, and the movie ended.

This film doesn't have many lines, the editing is smooth, and the actors' emotions are on point, so it's not difficult to understand.

This gave a few viewers a desire to communicate.

Someone asked the director, for the protagonist, which is more important, the clock or the temple?

The director replied, both are important, and none of them are important.

Chen Yiming instantly lost interest in asking questions. He was most annoyed by the Riddler.

In his view, movies can leave blank space, but it must be moderate.

If a movie requires the audience to let their imagination run wild in order to complete it, then it is a sign of laziness on the part of the director, which is completely irresponsible.

On the evening of the 7th, Chen Yiming went to see Xu Zhu’s short film "Night-Scent".

He was very kind and didn't force Guyuehe to go with him.

There were even fewer people in the theater, less than twenty by visual inspection, including the four main creators.

There is no way around it. In Montreal this month, the temperature difference between day and night is extremely large. The wind blows like a knife on the face. Local movie fans will not go out to watch movies at night when the temperature is several degrees below zero.

The short film lasted about 30 minutes, and to his relief, it was not about Xiang.

The background of the story is the old magical city, and the scene is very simple, a nightclub.

Chen Yiming could tell at a glance that it was taken in Chedun.

The heroine's name is Axiang, and she is a singer.

Every day after get off work, Ah Xiang would meet the male protagonist Alai in the back alley of the nightclub.

He rarely speaks, and what he does every day is like a bodyguard, escorting Axiang all the way home.

Once, twice, three times, on the fourth day, Axiang accepted the pursuit of the second male son, and stopped walking in the back alley.

After that, when leaving the nightclub every day, Ah Xiang could still see Alai waiting through the window backstage.

The next development is very routine, hiding the girl, getting pregnant, giving birth to a child, and abandoning her.

After that, it became more routine. The child was sick and there was no money to treat it. The child died and the mother went crazy and was fired from the job.

In the last scene of the short film, Ah Xiang passes by a nightclub muttering about Alai, and security guard A talks about her to the curious new security guard B.

Axiang has always dreamed of catching a wealthy son-in-law, and was teased by various young men, until she was deceived by a young loser named Alai and lost her life and money. After that, she became crazy.

The inaudible background music gradually amplified, and Chen Yiming heard it was "Tuberose".

Only then did he suddenly realize that the title of the film "Scent of Night" was just "Scent of Night" minus one of the characters.

The Alai in the back alley does not exist at all, and even the Alai mentioned by the security guard may not be true. Only Axiang's madness is definitely true.

Except for the two security guards at the end, the rest of the short film is all Crazy Ah Xiang’s imagination.

The short film is quite interesting, with a complete echo structure, and a good match of rhythm, atmosphere and camerawork.

The only problem is that if the title of the film is clever enough, the foreign reviewers will be able to understand it.

The song "Tuberose" was composed in 1944 during World War II, so it also exists in this time and space, and has been covered by Little Days, Apennines, Gaul and Nut singers. It is a famous song sung around the world.

The problem is that the English version of "Tuberose" is not translated from the Chinese original version, but translated from the Little Days version.

As for the Little Days version, I just used the name of the tuberose flower to save trouble.

So the English version of "Tuberose", including the subtitles of Xu Zhu's short film, also used the name of the flower, called "The Tuberose".

This is embarrassing. Chen Yiming, a Chinese, had to listen to "Tuberculosis" at the end of the film to suddenly realize that those foreigners just read English subtitles, how could they understand that the Alai mentioned by the security guard at the end of the film is not the Alai from the back alley?
In the eyes of foreigners, this short film is probably a story about an honest man taking revenge on a bitch.

Alai chases Axiang, Axiang dumps Alai, Axiang is dumped, and goes back to find Alai.

(End of this chapter)