Entertainment: God-level director

Just when”Inception” aroused great expectations, Lin Ran did not stay in the United States for long. He flew to France at around 10 o’clock in the evening on the day of the premiere to attend this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Feng Yuanzheng, Tong Liya and others flew to Cannes a few days ago to promote”The Explosive Drummer”.

Cannes does not have its own airport. Lin Ran had to fly from Los Angeles to Nice first, and then take a train from Nice to Cannes. Fortunately, the two places were very close and only took 40 minutes.

After spending nearly 20 hours, Lin Ran finally arrived in Cannes at 6 pm local time.

As soon as he walked out of the passage, Lin Ran heard someone calling him

“Lin Ran, here!”

Looking around, he saw Tong Liya waving to him not far ahead.

Lin Ran walked over quickly and asked with a smile:”Yaya, how long have you been waiting?”

“It didn’t take long.”Tong Liya shook her head and looked at Lin Ran carefully.

Seeing his tired look, she couldn’t help but feel a little distressed:”Lin Ran, you have traveled to several countries in the past few days, are you tired?”

“fine.”Lin Ran smiled.

After a few words of greeting, Lin Ran, Tong Liya and the personal assistant who followed them left the train station, got into a luxury business car and headed to the hotel.

“Yaya, how was the response to our movie? Lin

Ran asked in the car.

During the film festival, almost all the shortlisted films will be screened, and”The Exploding Drummer” is naturally no exception.

“It’s very good, and the critics gave it high marks. With a smile on her face, Tong

Liya asked with a smile:”Lin Ran, do you know how many points the”Exploding Drummer” got in the venue score?”

“I guess it should be able to reach 3 points.”

Lin Ran thought for a while and gave a score.

The program is hosted by the magazine”Daily Screen”. It starts the day before the film festival and publishes one issue every day.

In addition to the film festival process, the content inside , related news about the released films, various advertisements and promotional articles, the most important thing is that the film in the main competition unit is scored on the last page of the program.

Most of the review teams of the program are from”Times”》、《daily mail》、《sight and hearing》、《For professional media such as”Main Feature Film”, the scoring standards are divided into five grades from one to four stars.

Therefore, the highest score in the venue catalog is 4 points, and the lowest score is, of course, all crosses, zero points.

But so far, neither 4 points nor 0 points have appeared.

Generally, a score of 3 points is considered a high score, so Lin Ran was not being modest when he guessed that”Exploding Drummer” got a score of 3 points.

Tong Liya shook her head

“Just over two points?”Lin Ran lowered his score.

“No. Tong

Liya shook her head again, no longer being pretentious, and said excitedly:”Our film scored 3.4 points, which is the highest score among all the films shortlisted for the main competition this year.”The Exploding Drummer” is considered by many media to be this year’s hit!”

“not bad.”

Lin Ran just smiled and nodded, not too excited.

Because the film score only represents the reputation of film critics, it does not completely represent the quality of the film, and it is impossible to predict whether the film will win an award. There is no certainty between the two. Contact.

Not that a high score in the program will definitely win the grand prize, nor does it mean that a low score will mean that there is no chance.

This is because the media and film critics who score the program are all familiar faces who have participated in the film festival for many years. , this group of people has their own aesthetics and standards for the film evaluation system, which is relatively fixed. However, the film festival jury changes every year, and the standards also change every year, so it cannot be a cause and effect relationship. For example, in 2013,”The Life of Adele” came out in Cannes, scoring 3.6 points, directly setting a record. The film finally lived up to expectations and won the Palme d’Or.

Then in 2014, Xi Lang’s”Hibernation” received a high score of 3.5 in the theatrical release, and the film finally won the Palme d’Or.

But in 2016, the film”Tony Erdman” once again broke the record for the highest score in the theater and received the highest score ever. However,”Tony Erdman” received nothing in the end.

On the contrary,”I Am Black”, which only scored 2.4 points in the program, unexpectedly won the Palme d’Or and became the biggest dark horse in Cannes that year.

There is a more extreme example.”Personal Shopper” by Zhang Manyu’s ex-husband Olivier Assayas received”Chacha” in the program that two representatives could not watch, but in the end it won the best director. Award.

Therefore, even if”Explosive Drummer” scored 3.4 points, Lin Ran was not too excited, thinking that”Explosive Drummer” would definitely win the grand prize.

Chatting all the way, he unknowingly arrived at the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel where he was staying.

The Carlton InterContinental Hotel in Cannes was built in 1911 and has always been a landmark building in Cannes. Countless celebrities in the history of film have stayed here, leaving behind anecdotes. In 1972,

George Lucas took the hotel here. He received the first investment in”Star Wars”, thereby creating the American myth of”Journey to the West”;

Orson Welles, the protagonist of the film history classic”Citizen Kane”, came to Cannes with”Midnight Bells” , a large party of 110 people was held at this hotel every night.

Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco fell in love at first sight at the Carlton InterContinental Hotel during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival and made an engagement.

Elizabeth Taylor, She checked in with 8 different names because she had 8 bumpy marriages…

It can be said that the Cannes Carlton Hotel is a living fossil that witnesses the history of film.

It is also worth mentioning that there are many in the Cannes Carlton InterContinental Hotel Suites named after celebrities include Sean Penn, Sophie Marceau, and Chinese movie star Liu Huohua.

Because Liu Huohua is the image ambassador of the French Côte d’Azur Tourism Bureau in China, and it is known that Liu Huohua’s wife is French, so the two just There was a connection.

After settling in the hotel, Lin Ran sent the assistant away and could finally have some intimate actions with Tong Liya.