Senior Superstar

Li Shixin didn't care about the group taunts of Korean stars.

After all, his reputation in South Korea has already been stinky.

However, Li Shixin felt quite interesting about individual stars and those so-called senior filmmakers on the jury.

Huan Nima will seriously consider cooperating with such a director and is not qualified to accept the welcome from Korean fans.

It's just like the old man is rare!

Is my rebel An Xiaoxiao not beautiful, or is the old man short of fans?

Participating in your Busan Film Festival is all about giving you face, okay?

Others don't know, but as a person in the circle, Li Shixin knows it well. In recent years, the Busan Film Festival in South Korea has not been doing very well, and has always been described by the media as dismal and desert.

It’s no wonder, from the point of view of ordinary netizens’ inertial understanding of film festivals, a film festival with international influence, in addition to being able to gather many excellent international works to participate in the competition, naturally cannot lack the presence of international and domestic big-name stars. .

However, in the last two film festivals, apart from the controversial Lee Byung-hyun, who has always been the mainstay of popularity, no so-called international movie stars have appeared in the Busan Film Festival.

Now the film festival is able to support the popularity, except for the old faces in the Korean film industry, only Korean groups and idol stars are the mainstays in the opening and closing ceremony.

What caused this scene, in the final analysis, is still not a good work.

The scale of the domestic Korean film industry is actually not large. The reason why it can occupy a place in the Asian film circle is mainly because Korean films have always been famous for their daring to shoot and their ability to touch the dark side of society.

However, in recent years, with the decline of the older generation of directors and the exhaustion of their own themes, it is becoming more and more realistic to work with realistic themes such as Suyuan, The Melting Pot, Memories of Murder or The Defender combined with a special social background. less.

The current Korean entertainment industry mainly produces a large number of assembly line idol TV series.

When it is difficult for the country to produce high-quality films, the slogan of providing a broad platform for Asian films to go to the world when the Busan Film Festival was established seems very pale.

The reason why the South Korean government makes great efforts to organize every film festival is actually mainly for the important supporting facilities of the film festival-Busan Film Industry Expo.

What is the expo for?

It mainly deals with video editing technology and video production equipment—to put it bluntly, it sells equipment.

After experiencing a failed Berlin Film Festival, Li Shixin's original plan was to squeeze the wool out of Busan, take advantage of the decline of the Busan Film Festival in the past two years with all his films, and come back to gain his reputation with a grand slam. Seeing a group of Korean artists jumping out in a group, he sneered again and again.

Give you face, you don't want it.

That's it, then let's play in the direction of shame. If we had said that we would play this way, the old man would not be sleepy!

Just when Li Shixin squinted his eyes while looking at the phone, a sudden call interrupted his thoughts.

Hello? Teacher Li? This is Weibo Entertainment. We have noticed that the popularity of you and the Busan Film Festival is increasing, and we understand that it seems that Han Yu There is quite a lot of criticism in the circle. We think this time the Busan Film Festival will be a very memorable and topical experience for you. Therefore, we have prepared a professional documentary filming team here and want to make a report about this film for you. Check out the special interview and accompanying record of the trip to the Busan International Film Festival.”

Li Shixin frowned when he heard Weibo Entertainment's proposal and idea on the phone.

Entourage and featured interviews?

Okay, let's talk about the accompanying record. I just watched the comments of my Korean counterparts on the news. I haven't decided when to leave, whether I will leave or not. But for special interviews, you can send someone over now. .Anyway, I am idle, and I have time anytime.”

Hearing Li Shixin's approval, an excited Okay came from the other end of the phone.

It is impossible for Li Shixin to be interviewed at Zhao Jinzhi's house.

For one thing, strictly speaking, I am a borrower in this family, not the master.

Secondly, if the media finds out that he is in the same room with the chairman of Huaqi, he will probably be in the headlines tomorrow and people will laugh and point to his nose and say, This old man eats soft food!.

God is sorry, our old Li has never been soft food.

You can't let people dirty your innocence.

Not far from Zhao Jinzhi's home, that is, in the hotel restaurant where the old fans stayed this time, Li Shixin received the fast-moving Weibo entertainment reporter.

In the past two years, Li Shixin's works have been released, and things have been done, and the hot searches on Weibo have been directly and indirectly no less than 20 times.

Speaking of which, the reporters from Weibo Entertainment are old acquaintances with Li Shixin.

Mr. Li, let's meet again.

Seeing that the reporter sent by Weibo this time turned out to be the girl who interviewed him after the last Berlin Film Festival, Li Shixin was delighted.

Yo, Xiaoliang, long time no see.

Seeing that Li Shixin still remembered herself, Liang Hongyu pursed her lips and smiled, and before turning on the mic, she joked: Mr. Li, I found out that you have a grudge against the film festival! Last time in Berlin, there was a BBC show. Thing, this time is good, you have not left for South Korea yet, and you have formed an enemy with the film industry and fans there. As a reporter, I like to hear about such things, but as an old acquaintance, I would like to advise you, please don’t meddle in this film festival in the future! You can change our schedule and reduce our workload. Look, at noon, the editor-in-chief insisted on stuffing me on the plane I'm running to Shanghai.

Facing Liang Hongyu's teasing, Li Shixin chuckled and spread his hands.

I don't want to either! I feel that I am already very low-key. I don't know why people always look down on me, and I am an old man in his 60s. Maybe I have this kind of physique that is easy to attract black people?

Seeing his innocent face, several staff members of Weibo Entertainment who were doing an exclusive interview with him suppressed their laughter at the same time.

You are so humble!

Also easy to recruit black physique

Think about what you did in the past!

Ms. Li, everything happens for a reason. When you got angry with Korean netizens on Youtube, we will remember it for you.

On the side, the makeup artist who was fiddling with Li Shixin's face and helping him polish his cheeks couldn't hold back, and spat out.

Okay, don't disturb Teacher Li. Are you almost ready? If you have nothing to do, step back, let's officially start.

Seeing that the atmosphere of the interview was too relaxed because of Li Shixin's easy-going, Liang Hongyu regretted her joke just now.

After sorting out her emotions, she sat down in front of Li Shixin with her back to the camera in all seriousness.

Seeing the camera and recorder at the scene making three-two-one gestures, she quickly cleared her throat and started this interview.

Ms. Li, we learned about your upcoming participation in the Busan Film Festival through your Weibo earlier. But recently we have seen that the Korean entertainment industry seems to be quite critical of your participation in the Busan Festival. A big star said something that might not be so polite about your participation in the Busan Festival. So now we especially want to know, under this atmosphere, do you plan to continue participating in the Busan Film Festival?

I think if there is no accident, I should not go.

Facing the camera, the hippie on Li Shixin's face just now disappeared.

With regret on his face, he drooped his eyelids.

Actually, I'm quite disappointed in the Korean film industry. I decided to participate in the Busan Festival this time. In fact, it doesn't matter whether I win an award or not. The main reason is to communicate with my colleagues in Korea. As a realistic work in the Asia-Pacific region Korean movies are always famous for their daring to shoot, to criticize, to expose and not to cover up. I happen to have a script in hand, but it is not suitable for shooting in China, so I wanted to use Busan to meet like-minded Koreans. Shadowman. But now it seems that it is my wishful thinking.

oh?

Hearing Li Shixin's answer, Liang Hongyu was surprised.

Ms. Li, do you really have such a plan? Can I just say something more and ask why this script can't be filmed in China? Is it because I'm afraid that I won't pass the trial, or what?

Faced with curiosity, Li Shixin waved his hand.

It's not what you think. It's quite easy for the old man's works to pass the review in China. But this story was originally inspired by the social form of Korea and some prominent contradictions in the current society. So... my original idea , is to find a Korean director to cooperate with and make this book out.

But it doesn't matter now.

Facing the camera, Li Shixin shrugged.

I originally set my heart on the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch. Later, I will publish the book on the official website of the Busan Film Festival. If any director is interested, come to China to talk to me. Since everyone doesn't like me, Then this Busan old man doesn’t matter if he doesn’t go.”

Li Shixin's interview was soon posted on the homepage of Weibo Entertainment.

As the leading entertainment edition in China, especially under the premise of accurately predicting news popularity, Li Shixin's interview video has attracted a large number of people eating melons as soon as it was launched.

At the same time, some netizens who watched the excitement and were not afraid of big things, also carefully translated Li Shixin's response to the boycott of Korean filmmakers in the interview, and posted it on the comment section of the film festival's official website.

For a moment, the mocking voice became even louder.

It's really funny, this man! Why is he so confident, thinking that the filmmakers of the Great Cold Republic are so willing to work with him?

I don't understand where his confidence comes from. It's just that the two films just happened to get billions of dollars at the box office, but based on China's culture-poor and deformed society, any film made with a little care will be Can you get a good box office result?

Hehehehehe! It feels like his tone of voice is like charity! This is not any cooperation or communication at all, it feels like he wants to find a follower. If you are so capable, don't come to our Busan Film Festival Why do you have to take so many films and shamelessly come here to win awards?

It's ridiculous! He even said in an interview that his script was inspired by Korean society. Apart from copying our food, how much do you know about Hanguo? What qualifications do you have to communicate with our directors of the Republic of China on an equal footing? ? In front of those masters, you are just a newcomer who is too big, right?

It's because of how much he admires the culture of the cold country that he can say such words!

I'm really curious about his so-called script. Although the promotional film of The Wandering Earth looks good, I feel that it can get such a high box office mainly because he constantly incites the fans' national emotions in the movie. Shameless! Not knowing the script, and what kind of thing it is, gave him such blind self-confidence!

After the video of Li Shixin's interview on Weibo Entertainment was released on the official website of the film festival, the comment section, which was already full of excitement, became even more lively.

It was at this time that a message from Li Shixin himself suddenly appeared on Li Shixin's filmmaker page.

The content of the message is quite simple.

There is only one sentence, and a link to the attachment of the network disk.

If there are Korean directors who are interested in the attached script and are interested in filming together, please come to China to discuss in detail.

Busan, Hall of the Film Festival Organizing Committee.

As for Li Shixin, I think it is better not to make it the focus of our next publicity for the sake of the emotions of movie fans in his country.

As the chairman of the committee, Jin Minghao took a sip of tea and looked at a group of fellow Korean film and television circles around the judging committee.

Although there are not many new faces who can support the film festival's position at the moment, we have always come here in the past. There is no need to hurt the self-esteem of our fans in the Republic of China for the sake of Li Shixin. After all, in the absence of successful internationalization, While attracting a large number of international tourists to Busan to participate in the exhibition, we still need domestic fans and domestic markets.

Hearing Jin Minghao's speech, a group of filmmakers present nodded in agreement.

That's right. In fact, when the committee decided to focus on promoting Li Shixin, we felt that it was inappropriate. A filmmaker who has not won important awards in the world, only relying on two domestic box office films, used it as the focus of publicity. At least it’s a bit biased. We can definitely establish it.”

Just as Park Junxi, who was sitting on Jin Minghao's left, was talking calmly, his assistant walked in suddenly.

Yeah! Can't you see I'm speaking? Is there anything you can't wait for?

Mr. Park, the company asked you to read the script that Li Shixin just released on the official website.

Script? What script?

Seeing Park Junxi's impatient look, the assistant looked around and handed over a tablet computer.

Glancing at the cover of the script, Park Junxi frowned.

Parasite? Is this a horror movie?

Aside.

Jin Minghao, who got the information almost one after the other with Park Junxi, frowned deeply.

Ahem. This is the end of today's meeting. Everyone, I have something that needs to be dealt with immediately.

Clutching his phone, Jin Minghao hurriedly left the venue.

As he walked away, the mobile phones of more than a dozen senior directors and filmmakers in the Korean film and television industry rang throughout the scene.