I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

  Chapter 168 166. A Unit

   "Rare, three generations of girls compete in the same frame!" "

  "Yang Mi is young, Zhang Ziyi is stunning, and Gong Li's beauty remains the same as before"

  "Three Generations of Mou Girls Have No Harvests, "Zhang Yimou" Style Is Collectively Frustrated"

   "The first Asian Film Awards came to an end, and all the stars on the red carpet appeared collectively! "

   On the 21st, Xu Xin saw the news early in the morning.

  I also saw the so-called three-generation "Mou Girl" girlfriend in the same frame.

  Sentimental?

Nonsence.

   A pack of dog media! Blind your eyes!

   Obviously she is the most beautiful!

   After reading the news, he directly called his girlfriend.

   "Dudu, hello, is this the prostitute Yang Mi herself?"

   "Goose goose goose goose~"

  On the other end of the phone, the girl who had already driven to the parking lot near the school let out a goose cry. She didn't seem to be disappointed at all last night, but she was full of vigor:

   "Yes, Mr. Sen, are you looking for Sei?"

   "I'm looking for a thousand...thousand-year ghost princess...?"

   "It's a millennium bastard!"

  Seeing that her boyfriend didn't fully explain her new identity, she rolled her eyes directly:

   "When do you leave work? Where are you?"

   "I'm in Shenmu."

   "...?"

  Yang Mi paused, and said in surprise:

   "Shenmu?"

   "Yes, I came back yesterday."

   "Why did you go back to Shenmu?...Why didn't you tell me, I saw you were not there when I came home last night, and thought you were sleeping in the unit again."

   "Well, I was in a hurry yesterday, I came here to choose a venue..."

  After talking about the matter with the girl, Xu Xin added:

"But I can go back in two days. Last night I took Director Fan to meet with the leaders of our county. My dad also came back at night and brought a lot of people to eat together. Now we are waiting for the construction plan. In the future, I may often have to run on both ends."

   "Um... busy."

  For her boyfriend's work, the girl expressed her support:

   "I'm going to get busy soon."

   "... Isn't it just a drama? Also called busy?"

   "I have to ask Sister Zeng to help me continue to find dramas. And I'm not idle, I'm very popular, Yanjing Yang Bancheng!"

   "Yanjing...what the hell?"

  Xu Xin was taken aback.

   "Yang Bancheng?... so loud?"

   "Hey~"

  The girl laughed happily, obviously satisfied with the joke that popped up in her mind, and then said:

   "Brother, let's talk about it when you come back, okay? I'm going to class here."

   "Well, okay, let's talk about it later. I'll hang up first."

  The phone hung up, and the girl walked into the school gate.

  Because it was approaching class time, some people ran into the teaching building from time to time in Beiying's school.

  But she walked unhurriedly, even in a trance... It turns out that the inside of the school and the outside of the school are really two worlds.

  Compared with this boulevard, yesterday's red carpet seems like a world away.

   Walking step by step, suddenly, she heard footsteps behind her.

   Turning his head to look, it turned out to be Bao Wenjing.

  Bao Wenjing, who looked like she had just woken up with disheveled hair, was running here panting.

  Yang Mi saw her, and she naturally also saw Yang Mi.

  So Bao Wenjing stopped running, and when she came to her side, she adjusted her breathing while wheezing and panting, and said:

   "Today is Lao Cui's class, why don't you hurry up?"

   "Just a minute or two late..."

  Yang Mi shook her head, looked her up and down, and asked wonderingly:

   "Why are you here? You look like a lunatic."

   "...I slept outside last night, and it's already this time when I woke up. If it wasn't for Lao Cui's class today, I wouldn't have come here."

  As soon as she heard Bao Wenjing's words, Yang Mi understood.

  No need to ask, there is a dormitory where you can’t live, but if you want to go out to sleep, you must be sleeping in a hotel.

  So, she handed over the rubber band on her wrist:

   "Here, tie your hair up, your image is too easy for people to see that you don't come home at night."

   "Uh...um."

  Bao Wenjing took the rubber band and began to pan her head while saying:

   "Hey, I saw the photo of you walking the red carpet last night... Your black dress is so beautiful. How is it? It's the first time walking the red carpet, how does it feel?"

   "Hmm... pretty good."

  The girl smiles like a flower:

   "It feels good to see the real "entertainment circle"."

  She bit the word "entertainment circle" to death.

  Unfortunately, Bao Wenjing didn't hear it.

   After asking, "Have you seen many big stars?", after receiving Yang Mi's slightly inappropriate nod in response, she said:

   "That's great... You've become a big star... We're still little ones. I saw a picture of you with Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi last night, tsk tsk tsk..."

"…Um."

  Yang Mi was silent for a while, then responded, and then asked:

   "What about you, I see that you often run out recently, what's your plan?"

   "Hey, what can I do? Just my husband..."

   "Oh, my husband is calling me?"

   "Hey hey~"

  Listening to Yang Mi's joke, Bao Wenjing was quite happy, nodded and continued:

"My husband, he went to the crew, he went to the crew one by one, and then... if there was no group performance, I would join in. Two days ago, I also went to a crew. I saw Wang Zhiwen in it, and I asked for more. What about autographs...Hey, how many autographs did you ask for on the red carpet last night?"

"…ah?"

  Yang Mi was stunned for a while, and seemed a little unresponsive:

   "Want to sign? Ask...them?"

   "Yes, they are all big stars. Didn't you ask for some autographs?"

"Well…"

  Yang Mi blinked again, then said with a smile:

   "I didn't have time, everyone has a process arrangement, and I can't go around asking for an autograph with a notebook, it seems that I have no taste, right?"

  Bao Wenjing nodded with empathy:

   "That's true, but it's a pity... so many big names."

  Yang Mi paused.

   Then he returned to normal in an instant, and responded with a smile:

   "Yes... I'm going to the toilet, you go up first."

   "Well, okay, then I'll go first, you hurry up too, if Lao Cui is going after the roll call, he will be late."

"Uh-huh."

  The two separated on the first floor of the teaching building.

  Yang Mi walked directly towards the toilet, took out her mobile phone while walking, and sent Zeng Jia a message:

   "Sister Zeng, last time you mentioned those magazines, commercials, etc., please contact me. Then see if there are any TV dramas in the past few months. I will go to audition."

   After sending, the phone was adjusted to silent.

  She didn't go to the toilet, but stood in front of the mirror specially prepared for the women's toilet, and looked at herself in the mirror.

   Gradually narrowed his eyes.

  …

  Xu Xin stayed in Shenmu for a total of three days.

   Three days later, he returned to Yanjing, and immediately went to apply for visas to Japan and South Korea.

   The most important part of the "Experimental Field" project is these LED screens.

  For the Olympic team, these LED screens are not the same as TVs, just hang them there and it’s over. First of all, it works under outdoor conditions, and at the same time, it must have a series of functions such as trampling, defense, shockproof, etc., which has high requirements for hardware.

As I said before, the matter of the LED screen was actually put on the plan as early as last year, but at that time it was regarded as the "Guernica" plan. Taste.

  But the people on the team are used to planning ahead, so after the director approved the idea of ​​​​"Guernica", they have already started looking for this kind of screen.

  In the world, four companies can produce.

  Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Sharp.

  Only these four companies.

People from the    team wanted to see it, and Xu Xin was one of them.

   If there are no accidents, he may be leaving in the next few days, as long as the contact over there is successful.

Driven by the power of the state, within two days, Xu Xin, Jiang Haoyang and Yu Luping, one of the assigned ceilings of domestic aerospace engineering technology, was responsible for all technical problems of the Olympic public relations -- a few "apprentices" under his command .

  At the same time, there were a few security personnel sent by the organizing committee from who knows where.

  Don't get me wrong, it's not to protect Xu Xin, nor Jiang Haoyang, but to protect Yu Gong and his disciples.

  Yu Gong is definitely not allowed to go abroad. Although he is doing business for the Olympics, he represents China Aerospace.

  This identity... is too important.

   But someone must come over to understand the hardness and resistance of materials, right? So, Yu Gong sent his buddies whom Xu Xin dubbed the "Four King Kongs". But the identities of these people are also affiliated with aerospace engineering, and abroad...it's too messy.

  So it must be protected by people, and the itinerary is also very rigid.

   Throughout the whole process, the Olympic team has to listen to the instructions and arrangements of those buddies who don't even know the authenticity of their names.

  What time to visit, what time to rest, what route to take, etc. It's all the same. This is the first time he really saw... what is called advanced security.

   It can be regarded as a long experience.

   And the time to go abroad has also been fixed. I will leave on the 28th and go to Japan first. Stay in Japan for four days, two days for Sharp, two days for Panasonic, then go to Korea, and stay for another four days, a total of eight days.

  In the past few days, Xu Xin hasn't seen his girlfriend.

   At first, I was very busy on my side. Because of the matter of the experimental field, everyone in the team started to hit the back of their heads with their feet.

  The communication meeting with the urban construction department changed from one meeting a day to two, three, or many. And then to the computer renderings based on "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" to cover up, design, conceive and so on.

  From his return on the 23rd to the night of the 27th, he left his rest room and returned home with a bag of dirty clothes.

  Yang Mi just set off for Dalian on this day.

   Zeng Jia found her a TV series called "Ugly Lady", and she went to audition for it.

  Start shooting in the second half of the year.

  Xu Xin was puzzled at the beginning, didn't the girl say that she would be busy competing for Lin Daiyu in "A Dream of Red Mansions" from the second half of the year?

   As a result, Yang Mi dismissed her with a sentence of "I'm busy, I'm fine".

   After the audition for "Ugly Lady", she is going to Shanghai.

   She returned to "Ruili" after she hadn't shot a magazine for a long time, and agreed to shoot a set of covers.

   At the same time, there is also "Harper's Bazaar", which has been looking for her before, and there is also a set of photos that occupy at least 4 pages although they are not on the cover.

Fine…

  Although Xu Xin doesn't know why his girlfriend suddenly started to "enter" the fashion industry.

   But he has no intention of interfering with the other party's career.

  Director Zhang once said that you must not put on a superior attitude to interfere with the other half's career.

   At that time, he was wondering if this sentence had anything to do with Gong Li.

  Although it has not been confirmed...But Director Zhang...will never lie to himself, right?

  So, you can do whatever you want.

  …

  France, Cannes.

  Jesmine Trica, a leader among the new generation of Italian actors, walked into the small screening hall step by step with a coffee cup in her hand.

"Good morning."

   "Morning, Trika the Beauty."

  Hearing her greeting, a middle-aged Caucasian who looked rather rough greeted her with a smile.

  Jesmine Trika responded with a smile:

   "Morning, Kent."

  Kent Jones, an American independent film director, like her, is a judge of the "One Kind of Unit" section of the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

  A unit, or a focus unit, is a competition section of the Cannes Film Festival that focuses on discovering new directors.

   To put it in more common terms...

Well…

  Best new work?

This is almost what it means, but to some extent, it has similarities with the "Best Debut" award unit that also focuses on newcomers - the Golden Camera Award, but it is different from the Golden Camera Award that only focuses on the film itself. "Special Unit" is also full of personal attention from the best actor, actress, and director.

   It's just that the selected best male and female protagonists will not appear in the main unit competition, but will be announced in the form of a list. Only "one type of unit" award-winning films can be on stage to receive awards.

  Including Jasmine and Kent Jones, the five people present, including the famous French director Ms. Pascal Phelan as the main judge, are the final jury of this year's "One Kind of Unit" at the Cannes Film Festival.

  Before the announcement of the shortlist as of the 13th, it was the five of them who selected the film works shortlisted for "One Kind of Unit".

  With the arrival of Jasmine, five people arrived.

  Ms. Ferran opened the box in front of the five of them.

   "Here are the new shortlisted works sent by the internal jury today, shall we begin?"

  Cannes has many invited judges, all of whom are filmmakers from various countries. Every year, the film festival will select a group of people to serve as film judges in different links.

And these judges are equivalent to layers of filters. First of all, the vast number of exhibited works are sent through various channels, and after being sent, they are first passed through the sieve to filter some of them, and then enter the second round. The judged films are screened again, followed by the third round of judging.

   Just such a round of screening.

   But you have to ask how many rounds of internal judging, that is the secret of Cannes and will not be announced. However, it can be said that the films that finally make it into this room are films that the judges in charge of a certain unit are satisfied with.

  The so-called Cannes trend is actually blown from round after round of internal reviews.

After Cannes announced the list of judges, whether it is the main competition unit, a kind of unit, or other units, everyone found that most of the judges were female judges, or a certain style of genre films, so the media can probably infer this year's What kind of movies does the Cannes media like.

  For example, this year, under the speculation of the media, this year's jury tends to favor quiet films.

  Because most of this year's judges are not represented by being good at contradictions or radical styles.

   The same is true.

  What everyone discussed this year is actually a post-millennial aesthetic definition.

   That was the theme that swirled around the reviewers.

   Naturally, no one objected to Ms. Ferran's words, after all, this is their job.

  So, after watching Ms. Phelan take out a box of film, as a gentleman, Kent Jones directly replaced her, picked up the film box and walked towards the projector.

  While walking, I looked at the title on the film box: "SECRET"

   "Wow, I love secrets."

   While he was speaking, Ms. Phelan also distributed a few lines of recommendations from the next-level judges, as well as detailed information about the film.

  First of all, I saw stills and nationality.

  The photos of Jay Chou and Gui Lunmei are not beautiful or ugly for face-blind Europeans and Americans.

   It's just that Gui Lunmei's temperament is very good, which attracts attention.

  However, they can serve as Cannes judges, so naturally they will not distinguish between good and bad by beauty and ugliness like idol chasing stars.

  After taking a look, it naturally fell on the nationality: China.

  EMMMM…

  “I would have thought they were Japanese when I saw the stills.”

  Jesmine pointed to Jay Chou's white shirt in the stills and said.

  Everyone shrugged, obviously agreeing.

  Through the stills, they can probably tell that this should be a film about young people. Speaking of young people, and the style of this still photo, it is a bit similar to the young high school boys and girls in Japan. When it comes to high school boys and girls, they may not think of "Journey to the West", nor will they think that there will be a Sino-US co-production that only exists on the Internet and has not been filmed for several years...

  But when they saw the first jury's comment, many people raised their eyebrows:

   "I thought I saw Zhang Yimou."

"oh?"

"open?"

   "Aha?"

   Coincidentally, several people uttered a voice of surprise and doubt.

   Followed by the second reviewer's comment:

   "The script is ingenious and the rhythm is great. It's hard to imagine that this is a newcomer's work."

  Article 3:

  “His script design is very interesting. All the different endings led by the story clues are perfectly hidden in the story. The camera style is amazing. If the information is covered, I will think it is happening in Japan.”

  Article 4:

   "Beautiful and moving, this is the most amazing work I have seen among new directors in the past few years."

The fifth:

   "Different from the few Chinese directors we know who are exploring the contradictions of the times, the impressive camera style. Except for the weak acting skills of the leading actor, the whole film gives people a very comfortable look and feel."

  Article 6...

   "It seems that other people think highly of this film."

  At this time, the Romanian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Kristi Puyu spoke first.

   "Then let's take a look."

  Ms. Phelan responded.

   And Kent Jones also turned off the lights in the house. On the small screen, the movie titled "SECRET" was played with a symphony and special effects of European classical music scores and movements, and a distant view of a campus came into view.

soon.

   Nearly 2 hours passed by in a flash.

   When the elegant piano sound suddenly transformed into a rock-style ending song of electric guitar and drum kit, Kent Jones paused the movie.

   Didn't let Jay Chou sing the first line of this song "The Unspeakable Secret".

but…

   No one cares.

Under normal circumstances, if a movie is only watched once, it can be said that this movie has almost lost the possibility of continuing to go up if the voting is not done in the second round, or even the third round and the fourth round after the discussion. up.

   And after the first screening of each step, it is also time for the judges to discuss.

   But at first no one spoke.

  The five people each showed different thinking habits, recalling the theme, core, spirit, camera language, actors' acting skills and many other things expressed in this movie.

   After thinking for about three or four minutes, Kent Jones was the first to speak.

   "Interesting movie. Right? ... Like he's showing off? Showing off his command of the camera?"

   This sentence can be regarded as the beginning of the movie discussion session.

   After the voice fell, Kristi Puyou shook her head:

   "No, Kent, it's not a gimmick."

   "..."

  Kent shrugged and put on a helpless posture, as if waiting for the other party to continue to express his views.

  But Christine Puyou didn't say anything, but frowned.

  Amidst the silence, Jasmine suddenly spoke:

   "I see three endings."

   After finishing speaking, she suddenly paused...

   After thinking about it, I shook my head:

"No, it should be four. The four are carefully arranged by him in a seemingly reasonable closed loop of rationality, but in fact, they are quietly revealed to us in this hiding Although there are not many descriptions, there are four endings that have been given the answer through the screen. Right?"

   As she spoke, she thought about it again, and continued to add:

  "Very interesting script. At first glance, the whole story runs through one line to the end. It is nothing more than this...Ye, this boy named Ye meets a girl from the past, and then through love, piano, Chopin...

   Well, I am very satisfied with the soundtrack in this movie. Especially with the piano room that looks full of classical style, he expresses the aesthetic style through mirroring, composition, and the subtle interaction between men and women. great. But here's where it gets interesting... At first glance, it just tells a pretty mediocre story.

  But in this interlude of time travel and future stories, he expresses the story deeply in the script not through the shaping of any characters, but through the different colors, backgrounds, and decorations of his own shots. Tell us different routes, different endings. Under the mediocrity, he took great pains to hide it, but this kind of hiding is not in a very obscure way, but like...a chocolate bean hidden in a biscuit, which can only be found after eating it. And after you find it, you will understand that it is the feeling of chocolate beans.

He is just hiding, but definitely not showing off his skills. It is just because the rhythm of his main story is very good and the continuity is very good, so we unconsciously ignore the brief but very short story he showed us. Very plausible other highlights... well, personally, I love this story.

His shots are indeed very beautiful, very comfortable, the matching of the piano music is perfect, and even every frame is beautiful... Although some paragraphs in it make me have a youthful perception of the plot, such as the two sides People play the piano to win the score, a tribute to "The Pianist on the Sea". But if you think about it carefully, his story itself is a story that happened in school.

  Even, he grasped the style we had in school, because at that age, I also had these fantasies, and he grasped it and fully reflected it. And, adding the story in the script...the completion of the whole film is the highest I have seen recently...it doesn't look like a new director's work at all..."

   Speaking of this, she paused, then nodded:

   "Great story, made me feel very happy, even... happy to be surrounded by those beautiful scenery."

   "But the actor's acting skills are poor."

   Kent Jones expressed his opinion:

"I admit, it's a great story... and I don't know if you've noticed, but every time that girl named Lu shows up, whenever we're indoors, we always see a... old-looking antique desk lamp. And the stories he filmed are indeed as you said, his main line is very complete, like a dinner. And the other three hidden endings are like desserts after a meal. Only with enough patience and care can you Feeling the nuanced but subtly different is a great by-product. But... the acting, my friend. The leading man's acting, is poor, unnatural, even stereotyped. Every time he shows up, it pulls me out of where the story goes."

   "But the actress's acting skills are not bad, right?"

  Hearing what Jasmine said, Christine Puyou suddenly said:

   "Her acting skills lie in the temperament revealed by her appearance and clothing, not by interpreting the character itself."

  At this time, the last Asian face who had been silent for a long time finally spoke.

  His name is Led Qin, a Chinese-French mixed race, French filmmaker.

   "But being able to choose the right role is itself an affirmation of the director's work."

  Kent Jones asked:

"What about the male protagonist? Why did the male protagonist find this person? He completely destroyed the puzzle of the story. Let me declare first that I also like this story very much. I agree with the conclusion of Mei Trika. But... the acting skills of the male protagonist It is unqualified for me. It is too expressive and immature. If you can change a character, then it must be a work with a very high degree of completion."

   "It is also a highly completed work now."

  Finally, Ms. Phelan spoke:

"For a new director who has no previous shooting experience, it has a high degree of completion. First of all, it can be seen that he has a good taste for classical music, especially when he enters the piano room building at the beginning Concerto at that time. I believe that he has a deep study of European classical music.

  Secondly, for the whole movie, let’s temporarily ignore the issue of the male and female protagonists. From the three aspects of film shooting, expression, and lens, his style is immature, but it is also obvious. Grasping the most suitable tone of this film, a lot of slow shots are used to highlight a little bit of progress and a fast pace of change.

  Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, I agree with this statement. "

   Point to the data sheet:

"His style is very similar to Zhang Yimou. It is really similar...Although Zhang's lens color style is very strong, while his is deep and long, but the two people's styles are very similar. They both like to use the lens color to render a movie. The environmental tone and inner world of the film have given us a highly completed work, regardless of the male and female protagonists, but this is also the main reason why I say his directorial style is outstanding.

Because even if all the protagonists of this movie are replaced, I don’t think it will hinder the viewing experience. This movie is a very typical movie with a strong personal style of the director. He made a mistake that newcomers will make, that is, the use of actors. , too facial makeup, but on the other hand, it is precisely because of this facial makeup that we can now discuss more about the acting skills of the actors, rather than the shortcomings of the movie itself. Therefore, I also think that his degree of completion is very good. high, and..."

  Speaking of this, Ms. Ferlan paused, and after organizing her words, she continued:

   "It's amazing... If there is no comment, I suggest watching the next work first, and in the afternoon, this movie will be played again to determine whether he is on the final list, how about it?"

"certainly."

  Jesmine was the first to express her opinion.

   Kent Jones shrugged.

  Red Qin nodded in agreement.

  The last one is Kristi Puyo.

   "Yes, ma'am."

   Ask for a monthly pass for 14,000! Hand hurts...Grandma's, can't it really be tenosynovitis?

  (end of this chapter)