Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 650-Cannes, France is really boring

The opening film of the 71st Cannes International Film Festival was "Everybody Knows", and industry insiders who watched the film couldn't help but feel a heavy feeling in their hearts.

Veteran Iranian director Asghar Farhadi cleverly used the investment of French Souvenir Pictures to shoot a film that mocks, ridicules and humiliates the people of European and American society.

The film's humorous, poignant, sad, and melancholy contents make it impossible for most of our European and American colleagues who still have a conscience to criticize or refute it.

Since this work cannot be praised or criticized, everyone decided to repackage it and put it in a dark corner, and the Cannes Film Festival will forget "Everybody Knows".

Therefore, Chen Yu, who hurried from Las Vegas to attend the closing ceremony and award ceremony, was unable to appreciate this work, which made both him and Dilraba Dilmurat feel very sorry.

Previously, a group of European and American film critics hired by Chen Yu through industry middlemen had already taken action to praise the film to the point of embarrassment for the director Asghar Farhadit.

Recently, he has been elevated to a historic status comparable to that of director Jerzy Skolimowski in the European and American film critic circles. To be honest, Asghar Farhadi is quite terrified.

Director Skolimowski, this old Polish man, is a master of political innuendo, and each of his works can choke the White House, the European Union and NATO.

Director Skolimowski is deeply admired by extreme right-wing elements in the United States and Europe, and this old man is also known for his anti-Soviet and anti-Russian stance.

When director Skolimowski was young, he suffered deliberate persecution by the Soviet intelligence agencies because his parents were labeled populists.

In order to prove their abilities to Chen Yu and seek long-term cooperation, a large number of European and American film critics deliberately called the Iranian Asghar Farhadi "Skolimowski II".

Asghar Farhadi was instantly labeled as anti-Soviet, anti-Russian and anti-fundamentalist by this group of film industry gentlemen, and now even the Tehran media has noticed this.

Some pro-Western media in Tehran also directly quoted articles written by European and American film critics, highly praising Asghar Farhadi for his courage to innovate and break the stereotypes.

Originally, Chen Yu just wanted to disgust people with Iranian movies, but he didn't expect that the incident would continue to ferment and Asghar Farhadi would be inexplicably trapped in a quagmire.

This caused the two people who accidentally met backstage at the closing ceremony and awards ceremony of the film festival to hate each other. Most of their colleagues around them saw this and quickly left with their wine glasses in hand.

Asghar Farhadi glanced at Chen Yu and took the initiative. He shook his wine glass and said that one should pay attention to small details when tasting the champagne provided by Cannes.

At the very least, you should hold the stem of the glass rather than the belly of the glass to prevent your body temperature from affecting the taste of the champagne.

Asghar Farhadi's words made many guests around him adjust themselves silently.

Chen Yu raised an eyebrow and took out his cell phone to find an old photo. There was an old lady who was not so particular at the banquet. Asghar Farhadi's face changed slightly after seeing it.

The British film and television workers around came forward and asked Asghar to make a formal apology to Her Majesty the Queen. At the same time, many guests adjusted their cup-holding posture again.

"Fifty Shades Freed" director Freddy secretly touched Chen Yu's elbow to remind him to be careful about the scale. The old man didn't want to see Chen Yu beating the Iranians up close.

"I'm wearing a black tuxedo and black trousers today, and the bow tie was chosen by my wife, and I don't want to mess it up."

Chen Yu implied that he would not do it, but after hearing this, Frey praised the unique bow tie again and again, saying that Dilraba Dilmurat has extraordinary taste in choosing both her husband and items!
The literary man really spoke nicely and appropriately. After Asha quietly left the cold food area with his head down, the old man and Chen Yu also turned to the snack area to meet Dakota.

These three were the only ones from the "Fifty Shades Freed" crew who came to Cannes. The film's lead actor, Jamie Dornan, thought he had no hope of winning the Best Actor title, so he took a leave of absence to concentrate on studying the characters for the new drama.

Frey has confirmed that he will direct the Netflix miniseries "Chernobyl" and he has decided to let Jamie be the male lead, although this miniseries mainly portrays and highlights the group image.

Dakota Johnson will not be able to work together again, as the sister has just signed a new film with Amazon Studios.

The name "Suspiria" made Chen Yu subconsciously turn his head to look at Dakota's chest, lower abdomen and thighs. Dakota rolled her eyes and whispered that the film was a thriller. Only a small part of the plot had some erotic elements, but it was not in the same dimension as "Fifty Shades Freed".

Dakota had no idea or plan to come to Cannes at first. It was only because her boyfriend was going on tour in the south of France that Dakota signed up to go to Cannes to join in the fun.

Dakota's boyfriend is Chris Martin, the lead singer, guitarist and pianist of Coldplay.

Chen Yu asked for a bag of autographed albums when he played football with him yesterday morning.

On the other hand, Chris also received a small box of Chen Yu's handwritten cards, dolls and refrigerator magnets.

Frey suggested that Chen Yu invest a little money in "Suspiria". The old man read the first version of the script last Tuesday. If the costumes and props can be good, it will definitely win awards.

"There are still five supporting roles that have not been finalized. If we squeeze one into the group, it will be fine."

Dakota adjusted her simple and neat women's suit and whispered to Chen Yu, then added that it would be better to learn some ballet and modern dance, otherwise the training would be very difficult.

After the filming of "Fifty Shades Freed" was completed, Dakota went to the classroom to learn ballet for nearly four hours every day.

Dakota slightly lifted up her Mary Jane-style high-heeled shoes, which were tightly wrapped at the front and only exposed her heels and ankles. Now, none of her ten toenails were intact.

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Chen Yu gave Dakota a thumbs up and shook it twice. This sister really has great perseverance.

Staff from the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, came over to remind Chen Yu and his party that they could now go to the ceremony hall and take their seats.

During the period, Chen Yu also chatted with Zhang Zhen for a few minutes. The latter was also unlucky to be involved in the dispute because of his identity issue.

The fact that the Cannes organizers listed him as a mainland actor caused objections among some of his Taiwanese fans.

Zhang Zhen’s studio immediately issued a statement emphasizing that it is not wrong to say that Zhang Zhen is from the mainland as his ancestral home is in Zhejiang Province.

Zhang Zhen knows very well that since he now makes a living from mainland film and television capital, he is naturally a mainlander.

Chen Yu began to feel sleepy as soon as he sat down in his seat. Apart from the formal competition unit, the other awards were very boring. Chen Yu felt that they were just dragging out the ceremony time.

After "Yanbian Boy" won the Special Jury Award in the Short Film Competition Unit, the camera switched back to Chen Yu, who had a dull look in his eyes as if he had just been beaten up by a nightmare monster.

Even though Frey coughed a few times, it didn't wake up Chen Yu, who was daydreaming and had unfocused eyes.

This scene will definitely be listed as one of the classic images of Cannes, and European and American film critics will use it to prove that Cannes should be reformed. After all, most of the guests felt it was boring.

As a member of the jury, Kristen Stewart secretly yawned many times; the jury chairwoman Ms. Blanchett also often lowered her head slightly and fiddled with the mineral water bottle.

Director Villeneuve was twisting and turning in his seat as if he were having a hemorrhoid attack.

Only after waiting to enter the official competition unit did everyone show expressions of relief.

As expected, it gave everyone a little shock at the beginning, as the Best Screenplay Award had a double yolk.

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