I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

  Chapter 557 555. Italy outrageous

  Xu Xin somehow got into the car of some Japanese.

  But he really missed Director Li a little bit.

  There are so many photographers, if you want to say that the one that suits you best is Director Li.

  Although two of his three films were used by other people... But working with Wang Lei is still a pleasure.

  But... some tastes are indeed worse.

  However, if you think carefully about Li Pingdong's status in the arena, you can actually understand it.

  This is a master who has thoroughly understood all the cultural circles of the Great Heavenly Dynasty. Hou Xiaoxian is so famous, and Li Pingdong, who is the royal photographer, is absolutely indispensable.

   And just as he got into the car, whether it was a baby carriage or a cavalry cart, Wang Minmin finally rushed out his interview.

  In fact, she also interviewed various Chinese-speaking crews for a whole day. Except for "Jiabiangou", she divided out the shots of "Tongtian Empire", "Sword Rain", and "Chen Zhen".

   Only "The Hawthorn Tree", she wants to come in person.

  Because after a whole day, she found that whether it was Xu Ke or Wu Yusen... the interviews with these people belonged to the kind of old-fashioned interviews.

  Every sentence does not mention movies, but every sentence is inseparable from movies.

  All kinds of sales promotion methods are on.

  As for the director's remarks, after the interview, she even forgot what the other party said. Only Xu Xin's interview kept a fire brewing in her heart.

  The more I thought about it, the more I felt that he was right.

  Whether it is cultural independence or universality, this topic is very big, and it can even rise to the entire spiritual level.

   Such as adoring foreigners, such as inferiority and flattery.

  When Xu Xin talked about this topic, she felt that her waist could be very straight.

  Even if "The Hawthorn" hasn't hit all the movies yet, that's exactly what it feels like to her.

  This interview, no matter where it is placed, is enough to make Chinese filmmakers straighten their backs.

Very comfortable.

   So, she doesn't want to give it to others.

  Sort out the process a little bit by yourself, control the time, and edit.

  Finally, after spending nearly 3 hours without even having dinner, she sent it directly to the colleague on duty in China.

  The upload speed is not slow, and the download speed should be fast, so... it is a little past 9 o'clock in the evening. If there are no accidents, this manuscript will be published in the newspaper around six o'clock in the morning.

  One version of text, one version of website video.

   She looked at the file being uploaded and stretched.

Um.

   worth it.

   This trip to Venice is really worth it.

  …

  Time is slowly passing.

  Xu Xin was sitting in a tavern with a glass of beer brewed in a local tavern in his hand.

  Although the four actors did not understand his language, the atmosphere was not awkward with Li Pingdong here.

   "Kangpai~"

   This is the Japanese meaning of cheers.

   It looks like it was passed down in Chinese.

   After everyone raised their glasses and touched each other, Li Pingdong asked curiously:

   "I see you are number one now, sixth in the main competition unit. When will the second round of the film be played? I'll go and see it."

  Xu Xin turned to look at Su Meng.

  Su Meng hurriedly said:

   "Tomorrow morning at 9:30. In Malibrane."

   "Okay, I'll go take a look...Wang Lei is the one who filmed "Li Chun"?"

"right."

   "It's not bad, he also has a strong camera sense."

  Hearing Li Pingdong's praise, Xu Xin nodded with a smile:

   "Yes, Director Wang is really good... How about you? Last night at the University of Venice, "Norwegian Wood" came after Hawthorn, but it was a bit late at that time, and I didn't have time to watch it."

   "Phoenix Theater tomorrow, 4 p.m.."

   "I'm sure I can't go."

  Xu Xin shook his head directly:

   "I just came back from "Road to No Fruit"... I left after the opening ten minutes."

   "...why? It's not pretty?"

   "I don't understand, Director Li."

  Looking at Xu Xin's wry smile, Li Pingdong was taken aback...

  Suddenly, he burst out with joy:

   "Haha~"

   And several Japanese actors are a little curious.

  Li Pingdong seemed to really think Xu Xin's answer was funny, so he turned his head and explained to a few people in Japanese.

   Except for Rinko Kikuchi and Kiko Mizuhara, the other two men showed signs of agreement.

   "You are in the same situation as the two of them. Rinko and Kiko's English is pretty good, but they can't understand it either... Haha, you both have the same disease."

  Hearing this, Xu Xin raised his cup with a smile.

   "Kangpai~"

  With this common topic, the atmosphere is much more harmonious.

   After drinking, Rinko Kikuchi said something to Li Pingdong. While speaking, she held her left wrist with her right hand and palmed her left palm towards Xu Xin, expressing respect.

  Li Pingdong nodded slightly, looking at Xu Xin:

   "She wants to ask you a question."

   "Well, say it."

   After another burst of murmurs, Li Pingdong hadn't translated yet, but the other three looked at Rinko Kikuchi in surprise.

   Seems like she's asking some surprising questions.

  Li Pingdong nodded slightly, smiled and said to Xu Xin:

   "She wants to ask you, are you interested in making a Japanese version of "Secret"? She wants to play Lu Xiaoyu."

   "..."

  Xu Xin was stunned for a moment, and his subconscious reaction was to carefully observe Rinko Kikuchi's appearance.

  The girls...how can I put it, they don't look ugly.

   But the facial features are too handsome.

  It is suitable for that kind of heroic image...and it is also very suitable for playing some marginal people, but purely based on the type, she can't play Lu Xiaoyu.

   It has nothing to do with acting, it's purely because she lacks that kind of quiet beauty.

  So he smiled and shook his head:

   "No plans for now."

  Hearing what he said, Li Pingdong also nodded slightly:

   "I don't think it's appropriate, it's too heroic."

   After getting his answer, Rinko Kikuchi's eyes were full of regret.

   But Kiko Mizuhara didn't seem to be angry when she saw that Xu Xin asked the same question tentatively.

  But in Xu Xin's eyes, these two people are actually similar.

   It wasn't the image of Lu Xiaoyu in his mind.

  And Li Pingdong seemed to be recalled by this topic, and said to Xu Xin:

   "Speaking of which, there are quite a few people who ask me."

"What?"

   ""Secret", after the movie was released, many people from their side asked me through their relationship, and wanted me to ask if you were interested in selling the copyright. They wanted to remake it."

  Hearing this, Xu Xin was a little puzzled:

   "Is this thing still so popular? How many years has it been?"

   "Do you know how much the movie "Secret" is rated in IMDB Japan?"

"How many?"

   "8.4, as far as live-action filmmakers are concerned, you are 0.3 points higher than Shunji Iwai's "Love Letter" in 1995."

   "...good guy."

  He knew that "Secret" had a particularly high rating in South Korea, and it seemed to be among the top five ratings of all movies.

   It is even known as why... the top 10 must-see movies for the nation, and it will have a good box office every summer vacation.

   I didn’t expect it to be so high in Japan.

   is outrageous.

  Looking at his absurd appearance, Li Pingdong continued:

"By the way, I'm a judge at this year's Tokyo Film Festival. I have a place for a surprise film. Do you want to come? ... You are really popular in Japan. If Venice really has a chance to realize your dream this time, I will I feel that we can enter the stage of laying the groundwork for the relationship.”

  Xu Xin understood what he said.

  The film industry has a ranking called the "Nine Bigs".

  Refers to the world's 9 major A-category competition-type international film festivals.

  These nine are Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Tokyo, Moscow, Czech Republic, Egypt, Shanghai, and Canada.

  According to the regulations, any movie can only choose one of the nine majors.

   After submitting one film, other film festivals lose their qualifications.

  "The Hawthorn" participated in Venice, and other film festivals could not participate in the competition. But it can be registered in the form of "surprise movie".

  This kind of surprise film is usually either invited by the sponsor or directly invited by the judges.

  Invited films can appear in the surprise unit, which is a kind of publicity for the crew and the film festival.

   What's more, this is also a kind of...communication similar to Vanity Fair.

  You give me face, and I will give you face.

   Sometimes whether a film can win an award, apart from its own excellent quality, the biggest external factor is the relationship with the film festival, or the subjective preferences of the jury.

   With this finishing touch, a goal may be scored.

   Without this finishing touch, in the greatest degree of fairness, even a little bit of personal preference can become a one-in-a-million flaw.

  So after Li Pingdong finished speaking, Xu Xin nodded:

"no problem."

  Anyway, the Tokyo International Film Festival is in November, and "The Hawthorn" is currently scheduled for December.

   It must be in time.

  …

   Had a drink with Li Pingdong and four international friends. Although it was not very enjoyable, it was a good atmosphere to reunite with Director Li as an old friend.

   After returning to the room, Xu Xin looked at the time at 10 o'clock and knew that Yang Mi must not have woken up.

   After sending a good morning message as usual, I washed up and went to sleep.

   Time flies by.

At 1 o'clock in the morning on September 3, Venice time, it was already 8 o'clock on the Tianchao Network, following the video interview of the crew of "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" brought by "Southern Weekly" in Venice, via Weibo The various news sections headed by topics suddenly became hotter.

  #Italian Pizza No Pineapple# This topic suddenly jumped into the field of vision of many people for some reason.

Weibo has been online for less than a year, but with the "short, flat and fast" news, it has begun to decline in traditional paper media. In the second stage of the overall rise of Internet news, Sina Weibo and Tengxun Weibo have become everyone's favorite news. New love.

   Get up early and check Weibo for a while, when you are free, check Weibo, and then read Weibo when you are bored...

  With the influx of users exceeding 100 million records, it has become an upstart in Internet media channels.

  The rich gameplay and the concentrated discussion atmosphere of interesting topics have been accepted by more and more people in this era when smart phones are becoming more and more popular.

And early in the morning, fans who have been concerned about this Venice Film Festival, after discovering that "Southern Weekly", one of the authoritative domestic entertainment media, uploaded an interview that lasted nearly 40 minutes, saw "Exclusive Interview "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" The title of "The Crew", whether it's Xu Xin's fans, Yang Mi's fans, as well as Sister Immortal, Brother No, and the group of people in the film industry, all clicked in.

  Click on the video, and the opening scene is a picture of Xu Xin, Liu Yifei, and Lin Xingxin facing the camera with the beautiful scenery of the Rialto Bridge in Venice as the background.

   Ho.

  Xu Gou is very photogenic.

   But it’s barely compatible with my honey.

  With this in mind, they start watching.

  The video news was posted at 8 o’clock, and at 8:40, #Italianpizzanopineapple” came out.

  Below it, a group of people who are not film majors themselves, or who just thought it was good after watching the video interview, but didn’t delve into it, began to discuss this topic.

   "Ask if you don't understand, isn't it a basic operation to put pineapple on pizza?"

   "It's delicious to put pineapple, it's sweet, sour and relieves greasy."

   "The Italian study dog ​​said that people here really don't put pineapples. It tastes delicious."

   "They are also studying abroad dogs. I think this is more like a quirk, just like they think that breaking pasta is an insult to them. What's wrong?"

   "What? Pasta can't be broken? Are Italians so hypocritical?"

"Please respect the food culture of other countries. Pizza without pineapple is like making a noise in Japanese noodle, and eating in Korea requires BIA to make a disgusting sound like coughing up phlegm. The third brother is clean and hygienic Same."

   "Brother, are you a counter-dresser? You hacked a lot of people... the hackers are quite advanced."

   "There is a problem with reading comprehension upstairs. What does it mean to hack a group of people? Obviously he hacked one, and the black one is not a human being."

  A group of people, as if they had discovered the New World, were intrigued by Xu Xin's remark that "pineapples are not included in Italian pizza", and they started a heated discussion on the Internet.

  In all honesty, this is like a... popular science.

   It's not that important, and even if you don't know it, it won't change your life in any way.

   It should have been like this.

until…

  A Weibo with the Weibo ID named "Embassy of the Italian State" joined the battlefield.

   “We are grateful to our Eastern friend, the young director Xu Xin, for his role in publicizing and promoting the traditional Italian food—pizza.

  Thank you for letting more Chinese friends know the inclusiveness contained in pizza, a traditional Italian classic, and the persistence and protection of local Italian chefs for thousands of years.

  We do not refuse to adapt to local cultural changes, the world should have become more prosperous because of the variety of cultures.

  But just like what our friend Xu Xin said, the world prospers because of culture, and culture is endless because of its uniqueness.

  It is a great honor that our food can be your biggest source of inspiration and harvest in Venice, and I wish you the best of luck at the Venice Film Festival.

   Finally, our friends. lavirtùèpremioasestessa

  May your virtue last forever. "

  This microblog was issued by the Italian embassy and quoted a video tweet from Southern Weekly.

  The screenshot in the article is the scene where Xu Xin is facing the camera, inspired by pizza, discussing with Wang Minmin... or the person in front of the camera discussing the biggest gain of his trip to Venice.

   itself, the topic of "without adding pineapple" has a high degree of discussion.

  September 3rd is Friday, and it will be a weekend soon, and there are quite a lot of people going to work to catch fish.

  There is no professionalism in adding topics, no matter whether it is teasing, curiosity, or science popularization, there are really many people participating and active.

And when everyone sees...the embassy of a country that should be incompatible with this kind of Internet topic actually ended up participating in the discussion, and his remarks not only showed grace, but also used a... Although I don't know how to pronounce it, but the Chinese translation is After expressing my gratitude to Xu Xin in an article that felt very appetizing, the popularity of this topic began to rise all of a sudden.

   Almost at noon, other topics on Weibo were completely crushed.

  More and more people know what an authentic pizza is, even with "the spaghetti is always three pieces when broken".

  And the Italian embassy didn't show any aloofness. After posting, he saw many netizens leaving messages below, and he even replied one by one.

   "There is no need to thank you, bring back a golden lion for Xu Gou."

  Reply: "[Tears], Director Xu Xin still needs to work **** this."

   "Italy is such a country, don't search for it. I announce that this year's Venice Film Festival "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" won all the awards and won a big victory."

  Reply: "[Dazed], are you serious?"

   "Hurry up, send Xu Gou a silver lion for fun. Otherwise, have you seen the pineapple and pizza in my hand? Traditional, Italian, Margherita pizza! I put pineapple on top!"

  Reply: "[Scared], stop! Don't come over!"

   "Ouch? Do you still play tricks?"

  Reply: “[Handshake] The friendship between Italy and China will last forever, and we have worked hard to integrate into the culture of China.”

  The embassy posted on Weibo that this dude was being molested by netizens all morning just like that.

   Finally updated a Weibo:

  “【Photo】.JPG, today’s lunch.”

  The content of the photo is a corner of pizza, a glass of concentrate, and a traditional pasta with meatballs.

   Then I guess this buddy didn't have a good lunch.

  Because some netizens have already started to tease him, saying something heart-rending like "carb + carb, the fitness trainer is furious".

   But this also led to the growth of fans of the embassy.

   When thanking Xu Xin, the number of fans on the account was only over 30,000.

  But after one morning, the number of fans has exceeded 400,000.

  The speed is like riding a roller coaster.

  At the same time, with this kind of high-energy topic discussion, whether it is Xu Xin or the Venice Film Festival, it has jumped into the eyes of more people who usually don't care much about these international film festivals and movie topics.

  On this September 3rd, there was a bit of a massacre in the entire Weibo.

   It is equivalent to the entire Weibo doing a wave of publicity for "The Hawthorn Tree".

  The teeth of the Xiying Studio people who laughed with this effect were almost crooked.

Then what…

   It looked like 3:00 p.m. or 4:00 p.m. China time, which happened to be less than 9:00 a.m. on the Italian side.

A group of people from the news department just got to work, and they learned from the news from the embassy that a Chinese director of the Venice Film Festival was inspired by seeing the traditional pizza practice in Italy for thousands of years. Pizza, even understood the independence and inclusiveness of culture...

   After passing this news back to the Celestial Dynasty, it actually aroused discussions among hundreds of millions of netizens in the Celestial Dynasty.

  In fact, this is the case between countries.

  It’s like if something from China goes overseas, as a person from China, they will feel that their faces are bright.

  The same goes for the Italians.

Especially this incident itself is quite poking at their pain points. They clearly intend to tell everyone that our Italian pizza really doesn’t add pineapple, and it doesn’t add so many strange things... But it’s usually ignored by people and doesn’t get the slightest respect .

  But now the people of the Celestial Dynasty suddenly know about this matter. While respecting it, it also arouses strong curiosity and demand...

  The entire Italian media also instantly captured the horror of this news.

   After all, this kind of thing is on the news of other countries, and all Italians feel proud.

  So...

  In the morning of Italian time, inexplicable news emerged one after another.

   Why is the Chinese pizza underdeveloped, everyone wants to eat Margherita.

  What kind of foreign food, Italian pizza is the most popular among Chinese people, and countless people want to taste authentic Italian pizza...

  It's the same as the Italian version of the "Jinkela" advertisement.

   Then you have to have news from beginning to end, right?

  How did this happen, how did it become like this, you have to explain clearly to everyone.

  So, news like "the director of the Chinese Dynasty came to Italy to participate in the Venice Film Festival, ate a pizza, immediately had an epiphany, and soared in situ" came out again.

   Okay.

  The work of the Venice Film Festival, Xu Xin, and "Love in the Hawthorn Tree" this morning spread directly throughout the Apennine Peninsula.

  Why Xu Xin has a strong Italian rural plot.

  I feel bad when I don’t eat pizza for a day.

  What is a bite of pizza in the morning and a bite of concentration, that is an authentic...

   Anyway, they all came out.

  Some media spontaneously began to translate the video clip of "cultural tolerance and independence" that Xu Xin said to Wang Minmin.

  In the video clip, he said, Liu Yifei and Lin Xunxin were nodding there.

   At first glance, it looks very agreeable.

have to. Forget it.

  These three people must be friendly troops who did not run away.

   Pour three friends a cappuccino!

  Two men and one woman, we Italian men have to remember these three people.

   Come eat pizza later, it's free!

  So, the whole thing, in the short "day and night" between these two countries, suddenly became strange.

  It is full of absurdity, funnyness, incomprehension, and outrageous surprise that catches people off guard.

   But... everyone found something that could make them happy in this matter.

   It's just off the charts.

   And after things ferment, the most intuitive expression is...

  Our loyal Italian friends Xu Xin, Liu and Lin have brought an excellent movie, right?

   "Under the Hawthorn Tree"?

Well…

  How about...go and see?

  (end of this chapter)