Millennium director

The 68th Venice International Film Festival was held in Venice, Italy from August 31 to September 11, 2011.

Wu Yuan arrived in Venice, a city on the Mediterranean Sea, in advance on August 28th.

He came alone, not with the Chinese Legion.

There is no way. As the chairman of the jury, he needs to keep a distance from the crew of the shortlisted films for this Venice Film Festival. Not only is he not allowed to have any private contact, even during the film festival, he is not allowed to say anything biased towards the crew of the shortlisted films. if.

For example, "I like your movie", "This movie is very well done", "This movie is not very well done", others can say whatever they want, but the judges on the jury must be silent.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan is the chairman of the jury this time.

This year's Venice, a very troublesome person also came to participate.

Yang Zi came here with the crew of "The Legend of White Snake" to talk about it.

Yes, that's the rich man next to Huang Shengyi.

Yang Zi is really thick-skinned. When he was working on "The Legend of White Snake", he came to Light and Shadow Era licking his face, hoping to cooperate with the special effects company of Light and Shadow Era, and then promote the film under the banner of Light and Shadow Era.

Regarding cooperation in special effects, Light and Shadow Times is of course completely open to the public. As long as you give us money, we can do special effects for you.

But Yang Zi still wants to use the name of the Light and Shadow Era to promote "The Legend of White Snake", which is nonsense.

Anyway, the cooperation finally came to nothing after many discussions. Yang Zi went to Hollywood to find a third-rate special effects company and claimed that he was cooperating with Hollywood. The special effects of "The Legend of White Snake" would be The best in the country and the best in Hollywood.

Well, he really deceived the expectations of many netizens.

Then Yang Zi didn't know where he got the opportunity to participate in the Venice Film Festival. Although he couldn't be shortlisted for the main competition, there was still no problem in having a Venice premiere or participating in the film week activities.

With his cheeky character, if Wu Yuan was not a judge this year, he would definitely pester Wu Yuan from beginning to end, asking him to help support "The Legend of White Snake" and so on.

He had no interest in supporting "The Legend of White Snake," a movie in which Jet Li was tricked into making a cameo, and ended up being the leading actor. There were too many things going on, and Wu Yuan didn't want to get involved at all.

On the other hand, Lou Ye's new film "Flower" held its first media screening at 2 pm local time on August 30, Italy, and Wu Yuan took the initiative to attend.

However, there was a slight problem before the screening. The official film festival title only had sound and no images. The audience started to boo, and the screening was suspended for more than ten minutes.

After struggling for a while, the fault was eliminated and the screening started again.

This "Flower" tells the story of a Sino-French love affair that bloomed in Yanjing and withered away. The heroine decided to quit her job as a teacher in the capital and went to Paris to find her boyfriend.

Well, although Lou Ye is a Chinese-language film director, "Flower" is an out-and-out French film, and most of the characters in it speak French.

And this movie is still very Lou Ye, and the movie is full of a lot of restricted and banned content.

However, the reason why this movie is a French movie is not because it contains too much restricted content.

Don't ask, the question is that Lou Ye can't make Chinese films at the moment.

Lou Ye was banned from directing in China. When he was planning to shoot "Summer Palace", he violated the rules and participated in the Cannes International Film Festival because he did not obtain a review order from the Film Bureau. Although he was shortlisted for the main competition unit, he was also punished and within five years No filming allowed.

Moreover, Wu Yuan heard Director Han talk about it. Although Lou Ye's five-year ban on making movies has expired, the script Lou Ye sent to the film bureau still has not been completed.

The film bureau neither approved nor disapproved. It was like a stone sinking in the sea, without any reply.

Even though Lou Ye himself did not arrive in Venice or even attend the media screening of "Flowers" this time, he asked the French producer of the film to help convey some of his complaints.

"Due to the existence of film censorship, the Chinese film market has been out of touch with the international market for a long time. For directors like me who are making Chinese underground films, their main market is the international market."

When the blond French producer helped Lou Ye deliver these words in front of reporters, Wu Yuan was at the scene.

He sneered, stood up and left the screening.

Lou Ye was indeed very talented.

He is Wu Yuan's direct senior brother and graduated from the directing department of the Film Academy in 1985.

"Suzhou River" caused a sensation in the mainland film industry and was hailed as the hope of the sixth generation of directors.

But this senior brother seems to be obsessed with shooting R-rated things. It seems that if he doesn't shoot R-rated things, he won't be able to express the "art" in his heart.

In order to make the art in his heart, Lou Ye almost always worked against the film bureau.

Then he was spotted by the French.

The French did admire him very much, and later awarded him the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

But the "international market" he mentioned is really funny.

The French support him so much and keep taking money from the film fund to make movies for him. Is it really for the so-called international market?

Lou Ye's French films may not do well at the box office, and they actually lose money.

The content of the movie "Flower" is disguised as a literary film. In fact, to put it bluntly, isn't it just telling the story of a Muyang dog woman?

A Chinese beggar teacher, after a Sino-French love affair failed, she abandoned everything for a French man and ran to France to find him.

As a result, she found a boyfriend in France, but she still couldn't change her mind.

Wandering in a strange city, the lost flower met Matthew, a French blue-collar man. Matthew immediately showed his attentiveness to the Chinese girl and violently took possession of her. The desperate heroine also accidentally fell in love with Ma Xiu developed feelings.

Although Ma Xiu loves Hua crazily, he and his friends seem to have always treated Hua as his female cousin, and the cracks between the two gradually widened.

The unexamined life in Paris and the love-hate relationship with Matthew made Hua start to miss home, become confused, and then all kinds of sex...

The funniest thing is that at the end of the movie, Hua, who was tasted by thousands of people in France, returns to China. Hua’s ex-boyfriend, Teacher Ding played by Zhang Songwen, is obsessed with Hua. Although he has a girlfriend, Hua still chooses to be with Hua after he comes back. together and want to marry her.

Well, after Muyangnu sent her girlfriend thousands of miles away, she still had a spare tire to take over when she returned home. Even if she abandoned her girlfriend, she still had to take over Muyangnu's marriage.

Absolutely amazing!

This is the so-called literature and art, this is the art in Lou Ye's eyes.

Wu Yuan only felt sick.

What kind of good film can the French film fund be willing to pay for?

At this time, why didn't Lou Ye call for creative freedom, swap the genders of the male and female protagonists in the story, and make a film about a French female cousin's journey to find love?

Why did he lick it so thoroughly at this time?

The talented and amazing Lou Ye who was filming "Suzhou River" has disappeared, and was replaced by a good dog that was raised by a foreign fund.

Wu Yuan was so disgusted that the first thing he did after returning to the hotel was to call home.

"Director Han, Lou Ye can't be lifted from the ban. Let's talk to the superiors and ban him for another ten years!"

"His new movie is really disgusting!" (End of Chapter)