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Chapter 683 [109] The legendary old horse!

"Haven't you always been protecting Chen Nian?"

"Why are you so persistent in proving that she killed Wei Lai?"

"If someone really goes to jail for decades because of her injustice, her life will be ruined!"

"But no one will fight rape and murder for another person!"

"You and I won't, but they—"

"Still a teenager!"

After a few seconds of silence, Chen Yu, who was wearing a baseball cap and staring at the monitor, couldn't help but shout, "Click!"

"Whoo~~~"

Luo Jin couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, as the filming of his role as the young policeman Zheng Yi had come to an end.

The above conversation is her conversation with another female police officer.

"Take a half-month break!"

"wait me back!"

Chen Yu stood up and spoke to the entire crew.

Many people knew that Chen Yu had to attend this year's Venice International Film Festival, so the shooting period had to be postponed for another half a month.

Fortunately, many actors are graduates of the Central Academy of Drama, so they have ample schedules. The lighting and other things are all arranged by the crew, so there are no problems.

But even so, Chen Yu gave them corresponding compensation.

So everyone should just treat it as a paid vacation, who wouldn’t want that?!

"That part just now was fine!"

"can!"

Chen Yu said this to Luo Jin who was walking over. Luo Jin felt relieved when he heard this because he and Tang Yan had already finished filming their scenes.

What follows is just a lot of rivalry between Chen Yu and Liu Yifei.

About half a month, that should be enough.

Liu Yifei shot the film quite quickly this time, in just over a month, which was obviously much faster than the filming of "Blind Mountain".

"Blind Mountain" was indeed her slowest film.

The film has completed post-production, and Li Yang's goal is still Berlin next year.

For the three major international film festivals, the organizers are actually mutually exclusive; if you are a well-known director, it would be fine, they need to rely on your fame, such as Zhang Yimou and Takeshi Kitano.

So they can win awards at the three major film festivals because of their fame.

But Li Yang is not very famous. Berlin is where he made his debut, so the label on him will naturally have the mark of Berlin, which means he is an “insider”.

If you go to the other two major film festivals, such as Venice and Cannes, it is difficult to integrate into the circle without connections and relationships.

Even be rejected.

You know, these days it’s getting harder and harder to win awards at the three major film festivals just by relying on your movies.

You need someone who knows the jury, and it would be best if the organizer also knows him!
You also need a film and television company to help you operate it.

You even have to have the academics personally step in and multiple forces work together before you can win the award in the main competition unit.

Otherwise, nominations are your limit.

The Cologne Academy, where Li Yang graduated, is still very influential in Germany.

Therefore, going to Berlin is a wise choice. Chen Yu can also find an influential local film and television company to promote him. Unlike his previous life, he participated in Cannes and was only shortlisted for the Un Certain Regard section.

In this life, his goal is obviously to win a prize in Berlin.

For this reason, the post-production of "Blind Mountain" took so long, and the investment was much greater than in the previous life.

Everything is done to win awards and gain fame.

If you can't win all three, then try winning all three film festivals, which can also be a great achievement.

Li Yang does have a lot of ideas at the moment.

What Chen Yu is doing now is actually the same thing as Zhang Yimou, trying to get to know as many people from the three major film festivals as possible, whether they are judges or organizers. Becoming a judge is the key to becoming one of their own.

What's more, the person who invited him this time was the chairman of the Venice Film Festival, Mark Mueller.

Chen Yu was not familiar with him before, but after this invitation, Chen Yu made inquiries from many sources, and many of the puzzles in his previous life suddenly became clear.

He is almost certain to win Venice next year.

This Mark Muller actually studied abroad in China. His first wife is also Chinese and lives in Shanghai.

This time Chen Yu had to meet him in Shanghai and then go to Venice together.

"All our domestic films that have won awards in Europe were recommended by this Mark Mueller!"

"Including movies by Xie Jing, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Kaige, and Lao Mouzi!"

"Do you remember Zhang Yuan from last year?"

On the plane, Chen Yu was explaining the mystery to Liu Yifei. She was wearing a wig and was shocked when she heard Chen Yu's story about Mark Muller.

"His Best Director award is also thanks to him!"

The fifth generation of filmmakers at Beijing Film Academy were all very familiar with Mark Muller, who studied abroad in the imperial capital, where Beijing Film Academy was one of the schools.

His idol is Mr. Xie Jing.

"In fact, I should thank him for winning the Venice Award!"

"He can basically be considered one of our own!"

"I was wondering why we in Venice have such a high chance of winning a prize!"

Liu Yifei also suddenly realized.

In the past two years, the Chinese in Venice have won many awards, including Tian Zhuangzhuang's "Spring in a Small Town", the best in the Countercurrent Unit!
Last year, the harvest of Chinese in Venice was the best ever.

Chen Yu's "Departures" won the Golden Lion and Best Actor, Li An's "Brokeback Mountain" won the Best Director, Guan Jingpeng's "Everlasting Regret" won the European Art Exchange Award, and Li Yu's "Beauty" won the International Alliance Art Film Award... Mark Muller made an indispensable contribution to all of this.

He is the winner of the Shanghai Magnolia Award and has a title known worldwide - "the first person to bring Chinese films to the world."

And precisely because of his outstanding contribution to Chinese films, he was awarded the China-Italy Friendship Contribution Award.

This award is not something that ordinary people can get.

What made him most famous and sensational among Chinese people was that from 04 to 07, when he served as the chairman of the Venice Film Festival, Chinese people won the Golden Lion Award for three consecutive years.

In the previous life, it was Li An’s “Brokeback Mountain”, Jia Zhangke’s “The Good Man of Three Gorges”, and Li An’s “Lust, Caution”!
Among them, many Chinese were shortlisted for the main competition in Venice, and most of the judges were Chinese.

In this life, in 05 it was "Departures", and this year in 06, as expected, it is Section Chief Jia.

Chen Yu also served as a judge. Even if he disliked Lao Jia in his previous life, he is still a Chinese after all, so it is certainly his duty to help him.

Make it convenient for others and make it convenient for yourself.

Maybe in the future, Lao Jia will be able to help Chen Yu internationally.

At this time, the Chinese people abroad must unite against foreign aggression.

Next year, it should not be a problem for Zhang Yimou to serve as the chairman of the jury, just because of his relationship with Mark. As for Chen Yu's "Better Days", with these two guarantees, plus money to pave the way, everything is possible.

"Mark was in charge of the production of Raise the Red Lantern, the first domestic film to win the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival. Director Zhang's film was produced by Mark!" "He served as the director of selection for the Venice Film Festival in Asia for 18 years, and was promoted to the top position only two years ago!"

"Last year, when we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Chinese Film, he promised to find a way to celebrate in the most beautiful way!"

"It was a carnival for Chinese-language films at that time..."

"So, foreigners also need to understand the ways of the world!"

Chen Yu smiled slightly, but what he didn't know was that after Mark stepped down from the Venice Film Festival in the future, he stayed in China and served as a distinguished professor at Shanghai University, helping to run many film festivals in the country.

For example, the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Beijing International Film Festival, as well as Hainan, Macau, Pingyao, etc., were all organized by him.

Although there are a lot of interests and benefits involved, it must be said that Ma has made an indelible contribution to the export of Chinese films to Europe.

Of course, all the above information was told to Chen Yu by Jiang Wen.

Upon hearing that Chen Yu would also attend the Venice Film Festival next year, Lao Jiang was obviously upset. According to the plan, he would also have to go to Venice Film Festival next year to make a good comeback to the film industry.

Now that my brother is going too, there will inevitably be competition.

The key point is that this guy is the leading actor of "The Sun Also Rises". When Jiang Wen thought of this, his chest felt choked up.

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Damn, isn’t this guy here on purpose to cause trouble for me?

Forget it, Lao Jiang finally figured it out. Since they were competing together, whoever won would owe the other a favor. It would be easy for Jiang Wen to repay him, but if Chen Yu owed him, Jiang Wen would have to ask for a huge amount of money. No matter what, he would have to ask Chen Yu for enough investment for the new movie.

This guy has plenty of money now.

He is the first in the Forbes celebrity list in China who has not been there for a long time. It is impossible for him to be poor.

Thinking of this, Jiang Wen felt relieved, so he told Chen Yu all the information he knew.

……

After more than 3 hours, the plane finally landed at Shanghai International Airport.

Chen Yu and Liu Yifei took a special channel, and fans were unaware of his sudden trip, so there were no fans to pick him up at the airport.

Chen Yu and Liu Yifei hailed a taxi and drove towards a hotel near Mark Muller's home.

One hour later, Chen Yu met a bald man with a white beard and wearing a pair of flat-frame glasses. He was about 1 years old, with a ruddy complexion and was obviously well maintained.

"Mr. Mueller, you have kept it a secret from me!"

Chen Yu shook hands with Mark, and Liu Yifei also came forward to greet him. Also present was Mark's current wife, the famous French film producer Duamé.

A world-renowned film activist who specializes in Chinese films and is also an expert on China.

"how do I say this?"

Extremely standard Chinese came out of Mark Mueller's mouth.

All four people present laughed.

"I'm ashamed to say that I'm not very good at socializing, so I didn't have a good chat with you last year. If I knew your relationship with our China, I would definitely visit you first!"

Chen Yu was very humble.

Mark laughed and said, "No, no, if you come to visit me, I will feel that you are not very sincere about movies!"

"Wouldn't it be better if we got to know each other again now?"

"Haha, yes!"

The two of them hit it off immediately, mainly because of Chen Yu’s current status and unprecedented influence in the country.

Mueller certainly takes it very seriously.

As for his current wife, Du Amei’s name was given by Xie Jing, the former director of Beijing Film Academy. It is conceivable her relationship with Chinese filmmakers. She was one of the earliest batch of international students from Europe to come to China.

“Oh, by the way, this is a movie collection I wrote!”

Mark handed a carefully edited book to Chen Yu, and Liu Yifei also had one.

The two were immediately flattered.

"Thank you, Mr. Mueller!"

Liu Yifei took it with both hands, very respectful; four Chinese characters on the book were very conspicuous - "The Shadow of Electricity"!
"Good name!"

Chen Yu carefully put it away, but Mark said, "It was only printed at the Venice Film Festival last year. We want to take advantage of the centenary of the birth of Chinese cinema to let audiences around the world better understand the path that Chinese cinema has taken, as well as this century-long film journey!"

“You are so great!”

This voice came from the bottom of the hearts of Chen Yu and Liu Yifei.

In the past hundred years, China's film industry has not been easy. It took a full hundred years for China to go from being ranked among the world's largest film producers to becoming the world's second largest film producer.

A foreigner compiled these into a book and promoted it to the world, he deserves the thanks.

"No, it just so happens that I know Chinese and my wife can help me!"

"It is because of Huaxia Films that I feel I should continue to devote my time to films and even host large international film festivals."

"My idol is director Xie Jing. His The Red Detachment of Women was the first film I ever watched!"

Mark Mueller talked freely and was not at all unfamiliar with Chen Yu.

"By the way, just call me Lao Ma. That's what all you Chinese filmmakers call me!"

Mark was very polite and modest, and Chen Yu immediately replied: "Then Old Ma, you can just call me Xiao Chen or Chen Yu!"

Liu Yifei next to her was chatting with Du Amei.

After a while, Chen Yu stood up and said, "Let's eat and chat while we eat!"

The place was chosen by Chen Yu, and he had stated this to Mark Muller in advance. When they arrived in Venice, Mark invited them. Now that Chen Yu from China was still the host, Mark did not hesitate, and the four of them went to the restaurant booked by Chen Yu.

In the evening, Liu Yifei returned to the hotel feeling relieved. She supported herself on the bed with her hands and sighed.

“I didn’t expect that our Huaxia Film has such a big connection with Venice!”

“No wonder the directing and photography departments of Beijing Film Academy cannot be surpassed!”

"Lao Ma is indeed a great filmmaker!"

Today's meal made Liu Yifei understand a lot of truths.

"The whole world is a world of human relationships, and Lao Ma understands China!"

"It's easy to get things done wherever you have people. There's nothing that foreigners don't understand. Old Ma can handle it better than any Chinese..."

Chen Yu smiled, and suddenly looked at Liu Yifei and said, "So, we have to work hard on this movie. We have to make sure you win a Best Actress trophy at the Venice Film Festival next year!"

Liu Yifei’s popularity in China is unprecedented right now, but she has no trophies to support her status.

And an international film queen is a timely relief for her at the moment.

In China, seniority is the key factor in determining who is promoted. If you are under the required age, only if you have won an award abroad will people in China give you one out of courtesy. This is almost a recognized unspoken rule.

Strictly speaking, the current literary and artistic market is still basically in an era of worshipping foreign things and fawning on foreign countries.

The most feudal circle is actually China's entertainment circle.

Strict hierarchical status, the status of actors and directors, exclusive circles, plus various drinking culture...

“Break the circle!”

“You can only go from the outside to the inside!”

(End of this chapter)