Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 644-We need fairness, fairness and fairness

The theme concept map of the 71st Cannes International Film Festival aroused great dissatisfaction from the French transportation department as soon as it was released.

In the huge promotional poster, two sports cars, one red and one white, are running side by side, and their drivers lean out to give a passionate kiss.

The organizers of the film festival originally wanted to invite Chen Yu and Kristen Stewart to serve as the male and female models for this year's theme concept map.

But after communicating privately, the two of them both declined the invitation from the organizer, with the reason being that they did not want to set a wrong example for novice drivers.

The French transportation department and police system immediately sent a joint thank-you letter and fabric commemorative medals to Chen Yu and Christine.

The organizers were still stubborn and refused to change the theme concept map. In the end, Iranian actor Jafar Panahi partnered with French actress Melanie Roff to complete the shooting.

The 71st Cannes International Film Festival first caused an incident in which Netflix withdrew all its works from the festival, and now it is causing an uproar again because of the setting of the theme concept map.

The president of the jury, Ms. Cate Blanchett, also criticized the organizers for messing around with the film festival, and the media published sinister articles implying that the organizers were bought by Iranian forces.

The organizers responded immediately, trying hard to emphasize that no film festival should be mixed with political or religious factors, and that Cannes is an open, inclusive, equal and pure art festival.

Chen Yu, Villeneuve and other practitioners who have confirmed their attendance at the film festival immediately followed up and expressed their views: they hope that the organizers can live up to the sacred concepts they promote.

In fact, the eight major awards in the main competition unit of this year's Cannes International Film Festival have been divided up.

The subsequent award ceremony was just a limited-time reality show whose purpose was to fool the audience.

At present, "Fifty Shades Freed" has already secured the Grand Jury Prize and is expected to win the Best Actress award. Emanuelle is also serving on the jury in Cannes in exchange for the honor.

Originally, Ash Is Purest White (China), Judgment Day (Egypt) and BlacKkKlansman (USA) all had the chance to compete for this year's Grand Jury Award.

Unfortunately, although the production team of "Ash Is Purest White" was willing to do public relations, they were constrained by limited funds and lacked confidence.

On the contrary, "Judgement Day" had no plans for public relations at all. The investors believed that being shortlisted meant success. The publicity and promotion costs of this comedy adventure film totaled US$300,000.

The price of any limited edition bag or pair of shoes from Dilraba Dilmurat would be far higher than this number.

It would be unfair if it won an award at a film festival as a dark horse!

If the organizers and the jury are unable to take care of the big spenders, the film festival will lose its credibility and major sponsors will question the necessity of the festival's existence.

In fact, "BlacKkKlansman" is the biggest competitor or obstacle for "Fifty Shades Freed" to win awards. Unfortunately, director Spike Lee failed to make good use of his skin color advantage.

This black man grew up in a wealthy family and received a complete higher education, so he always uses a white perspective to film the lives of the lower-class black people in the United States.

This unique writing and directing style is also Spike Lee's secret weapon to gain a foothold in Hollywood.

Unfortunately, in recent years, the European film and television industry has not liked this kind of presentation, expression, composition and narrative method.

Because Spike Lee's directing style gives people a sense of God's perspective, all the characters in the film are like chess pieces, unable to struggle out of the cycle of fate.

This is very similar to the fatalism of Hong Kong director Johnnie To, both of whom were deeply influenced by Kurosawa Akira.

In addition, Spike Lee particularly disdains any crooked practices and is very opposed to opposing the public relations jury.

This black man is as stubborn and inexplicably arrogant as those directors in the 1950s and 1960s.

Therefore, "Fifty Shades Freed" easily overcame the expected powerful enemy without any effort. In fact, Spike Lee just wanted to protect his reputation and didn't want to bow his head easily.

After Chen Yu learned that he had a 100% chance of winning the Grand Jury Prize, he immediately instructed Emanuel to turn his guns 180 degrees. He wanted to give Iranian and Russian filmmakers a hard time, which was also a reserved program in the European and American film circles during the awards season.

This year, a total of two Iranian works and one Russian work entered the main competition unit of the film festival.

Among them, "Everybody Knows" (Iran) has been selected by the organizers as the opening film.

Upon hearing the news, Chen Yu immediately changed his flight ticket to Cannes that day.

Di Lieba also had to fine-tune her travel plans, and at the same time complained in a soft voice that Chen Yu was over-acting to maintain his character.

Chen Yu emphasized the sacred words of "never forget your original intention", and Dilireba rolled her beautiful eyes and warned him not to talk nonsense when going out! When quoting famous quotes, you should pay attention to the environment and occasion.

In fact, the content of "Everybody Knows" is very good. Emanuel believes that "Everybody Knows" is qualified to win the award. It's a pity that this work was produced in Tehran.

Moreover, "Everybody Knows" also implies that European society is irresponsible towards Syrian war refugees.

Director Asghar Farhadi also disgusted South America by the way, which made the main investor, French Memorial Pictures, very angry, but the money had already been spent by the Iranians.

Director Asghar Farhadi often makes fun of and criticizes Europe and the United States. In the past few years, this guy has won the Oscars twice.

Today, the Oscars are increasingly interfered with by political correctness, and foreign works with content and plots that are contrary to unity are not favored.

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It is estimated that the organizers fought hard to win the honor of "Everybody Knows" winning the opening film. After all, even the French Memorial Films let "Everybody Knows" go.

Through this work, the organizers hope to convey to the outside world: openness, tolerance, equality and purity, which are the slogans that the organizers have shouted loudly and solemnly promised before.

In addition, Chen Yu, Dilraba Dilmurat and Zhang Zhen are also very interested in the domestic film "Ash Is Purest White".

Jia Zhangke is a familiar figure and frequent visitor to the Cannes International Film Festival.

But to be honest, this year's reviewers did not like the gloomy and dark style that Jia Zhangke deliberately created.

Although director Jia Zhangke had some minor complaints about Chen Yu's professional ability and character, he still set the male lead's age to 25 when creating Ash Is Purest White.

After all, "Ash Is Purest White" is director Jia Zhangke's recollection of the past.

Jia Zhangke wanted to create an image of a gang leader who was mature beyond his years, with a cruel heart and ruthless hands. He initially contacted Zhou Dongyu for the female role, but later gave up because the girl lacked worldly taste.

Jia Zhangke accepted the advice of his wife Zhao Tao and his good friend Lou Ye and simply deleted the female lead.

Unfortunately, Chen Yu is a petty and vindictive guy. When the middleman approached him to discuss this work, he was directly rejected. Therefore, Jia Zhangke had to revise the original version of the script and the character settings.

The timeline of recollection was extended from the age of 25 to the 30s, and the male protagonist also changed from a young man with rosy lips and white teeth to a middle-aged uncle. Jia Zhangke took this opportunity to write his wife into the story.

Originally, Chen Yu wanted to attack Jia Zhangke at this film festival to get some benefits.

But according to a series of feedback messages sent by Zhang Zhen and Emanuel from the front line, he will continue to return empty-handed this year.

In addition, the overseas distribution rights of "Ash Is Purest White" are not easy to sell.

Six European cinema groups have already expressed their refusal to take over unless Jia Zhangke is willing to make further concessions.

Chen Yu wanted Emmanuel to ask for the price so that he could buy it and throw it in the warehouse to collect dust, but was stopped by Dilraba Dilmurat in a stern voice.

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