Millennium director

To be honest, Wu Yuan really doesn't know the movie "Flower".

In his previous life, this movie had no reputation at all in China, and it was banned, so few people knew about it.

Wu Yuan came to the Venice Film Festival this time because Lou Ye was also a Chinese director. In addition, "Suzhou River" was indeed a sensation, so he also came to support Lou Ye.

Unexpectedly, what he saw would be such a disgusting movie.

"Director Han, Lou Ye is making really disgusting movies in France with money from the French Film Foundation."

"The ban on guidance should continue!"

"The domestic market should not be opened to him!"

On the other end of the phone, Han Sanping hesitated: "This."

"Director Wu, Lou Ye's lifting of the ban is basically a foregone conclusion."

"The script of his new movie "The Mystery of the Floating City" has been sent to the film bureau for review."

"There was no reply from the film bureau. They just wanted to show off to him."

Want to lift the ban?

How can this work!

Wu Yuan quickly told Director Han the plot content of "Flower" he had seen in detail, and it had a strong personal subjective meaning.

Now Han Sanping couldn't hold himself any longer.

He didn't know that Lou Ye's "Flower" was so "Muyang Dog"!

"Disgusting!" Han Sanping took a long breath and made the same comment as Wu Yuan.

"I know, I will go and communicate with the superiors." He said angrily: "We cannot encourage this evil trend!"

Only then did Wu Yuan smile with satisfaction.

Although Han Sanping is only the chairman of China Film Group Corporation, he seems to be just the person in charge of a state-owned enterprise and has nothing to do with administration.

But in fact, his influence at the official level is not that great. Whoever he wants to be banned can definitely be banned.

With Han Sanping taking action, it will not be so easy for Lou Ye to lift the ban this time.

The next day, August 31, the 68th Venice International Film Festival officially kicked off.

The opening ceremony of the Venice International Film Festival continued its usual dull and low-key tone.

The main force appearing on the opening red carpet was the crew of "The President" led by George Clooney.

As the opening film of this Venice International Film Festival, in addition to Ryan Gosling, the film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Paul Ge Amati was all present.

In addition, two beauties, Diane Kruger and Cindy Crawford, came to help. Both of them are models, and their figures and tastes are unquestionable.

But the most eye-catching person on the red carpet was Evan Rachel Wood, who was wearing a chic white dress that mixed arts, handsomeness, elegance and other tastes.

She is really beautiful, as beautiful as an exquisite doll.

George Clooney also transformed into a boy on the red carpet, acted cute and interacted enthusiastically with fans, and the atmosphere was very lively.

In addition to the crew of "The President's Killing" that has attracted much attention, the most dazzling ones on the opening red carpet were undoubtedly the Chinese movie stars.

It’s not that Chinese movie stars are famous, it’s just that they know how to attract attention with their dresses.

Like Fan Xiaopang's dragon robe and Li Binbin's dress with the word "Fu", Huang Shengyi, who made his debut at the International Film Festival, also played a gimmick and chose a contrasting silk dress with a rich ethnic style, full of the customs of southwest ethnic minorities. The dress earned her and the crew of "The Legend of White Snake" a lot of attention.

The reporters and media at the scene had no idea about the movie "The Legend of White Snake", but they were all attracted by Huang Shengyi's exotic dress and kept taking various snaps.

In addition, the crew of "Sediq Bale" from Taiwan and "Sea of ​​Crowds" from the mainland also attracted a lot of attention from the on-site media.

As a film that was shortlisted for the main competition as a surprise film at the last moment, the crew of "Humanity" was also surprised and rushed to Venice.

Chen Jianbin, Tao Hong, Wu Xiubo and other leading actors walked on the red carpet one after another and accepted photos and interviews from the media on site.

The Italian film "Inland", the Greek film "Alps", the Japanese film "Mediocrity", the British film "Wuthering Heights", the Russian film "Faust", etc. have been shortlisted for the main competition unit, and they are all favorites to win awards. Walk down the red carpet.

The crews from all over the world really bring a strong international flavor to Venice.

At this time, Wu Yuan was chatting with other judges in the backcourt.

As members of the jury, they were the first to walk on the red carpet. At the beginning of the opening ceremony, the chairman of the organizing committee first led the Lord Competition Unit Jury and the Horizon Unit Jury to walk the red carpet.

Wu Yuan also met with Section Chief Jia, his teacher who had been very optimistic about him when he was in school.

"Brother, what a coincidence that we are both the chairman of the jury this time." Wu Yuan smiled and hugged Jia Zhangke.

Jia Zhangke's face was full of emotion.

At that time in 2000, he was an emerging director who was well-known internationally, but Wu Yuan was only a sophomore directing student.

In just eleven years, Wu Yuan, a junior, had completely surpassed him.

The Golden Lion Award he has, Wu Yuan also has.

But Wu Yuan also got the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film that he didn't have.

The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the waves in front die on the beach.

For a long time, Jia Zhangke had always thought that he was a late waver, but the appearance of Wu Yuan made him realize that he had become a front waver.

"Xiao Wu, you are the chairman of the jury of the main competition unit, and I am the chairman of the first horizon unit." Jia Zhangke said somewhat self-deprecatingly.

In terms of qualifications, Jia Zhangke is definitely more senior than Wu Yuan.

But in terms of achievements, especially in the international arena, Jia Zhangke is far behind Wu Yuan. At most, he is qualified to be a judge on the main competition unit jury, but Wu Yuan is qualified to be the chairman.

"It's all the same, it's all the same." Wu Yuan laughed. He didn't want to show off in front of his senior brother. He just said easily: "It will be a matter of time for my senior brother."

Wu Yuan still respected this senior brother very much.

Not only because when he was still a student, Jia Zhangke was very optimistic about him and advised him to "return once he has lost his way", but also because although they are both from the underground generation, Jia Zhangke has much more backbone than Lou Ye.

Although Jia Zhangke also likes to make some underground movies, he really does it for art. To be precise, he does it for the most primitive path of film art, which is critical art.

The reason why many of his films can only be made underground is because they are full of critical spirit towards some people and events in China in the 1980s and 1990s.

Although Wu Yuan did not comment on this kind of critical behavior, he knew that someone always needs to do it. The world needs this type of critical film to alert and awaken the public.

Just like "Into the Dust".

And Jia Zhangke really has a heart to support and develop the mainland film industry and promote and train outstanding new directors, and he has been doing it for ten years.

In order to support new directors and good art films, he not only solicited investment and set up companies to invest in new directors, but also wanted to create a film festival specifically for young directors to increase their exposure and attention.

This is a good senior who really focuses on supporting and cultivating new directors!

"Brother, has the movie you mentioned last time been filmed?" Wu Yuan asked with a smile.

"'Hello Mr. Tree'?" Jia Zhangke smiled and nodded, "It's finished. The Wang Baoqiang you recommended is really good at acting!" (End of Chapter)