I’m Almost Losing to a Muggle

Chapter 201 The Emperor's Capital (Monthly ticket plus 2027)

Although the Oscar Film Festival is also oriented to the world, it is highly regional and has a strong personality.

It is very demanding to be shortlisted for the main competition unit.

There are many films in China that are so-called nominated for Oscars, but in fact, the shortlisted is the small branch of the best foreign language film, which is very light.

So only Americans value Oscar more.

The three major film festivals in Europe are the most popular in other countries in the world. They are inclusive and treat any film fairly, so they are naturally very popular.

Among the three major film festivals, the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival is the most important in the world.

The oldest one is the Venice International Film Festival.

You go too, Dongzi. You don't even know how miserable we were last time. You couldn't even find someone who can speak Chinese. Du Qixi wanted to drag Lin Dong along.

It was hard to find Lin Dong last time, Lin Dong didn't participate in the show after all.

This time, Lin Dong is the lead actor, so it's no problem to go to the film festival together.

No way, that's an international film festival. Lin Dong didn't believe it.

That's true. I called temporarily to ship one from China. Du Qixi complained.

What's the use of looking for me? That's Italy. I don't speak Italian. Lin Dong was helpless. This guy probably thought that all foreigners spoke English.

English is fine, Dongzi, that's Venice, the most romantic city in the world, with the hottest chicks.

Three days later, Lin Dong and Du Qixi had already appeared on the small boat in Venice.

Everything went smoothly.

When they received a call from here to apply, they learned that the director was Du Qixi, and that the film was about the life and love of a group of blind people, so they immediately offered an invitation.

They are best with this bite.

You make too normal movies and they don't like it yet.

To tell the truth, Du Qixi's status in the international film world is definitely higher than that of Xu Lang and Ning Hai with his New Road, which won the Golden Tiger Award.

And the news was immediately updated on the official website of the film festival over there.

Mr. Du, the Chinese director who made The New Road, will join the family of the Venice Film Festival with his new film Massage.

The Venice Film Festival has changed its mat this time.

The predecessor was Mark Muller, who was the first person to promote Chinese films to the world.

During the years he was there, the Venice Film Festival produced one or two award-winning Chinese films every year, many of them heavyweight awards.

The director most favored by the Venice International Film Festival is Zhang Lue.

Zhang Lue, who became famous from Sorghum Field, almost every film he made in the 1990s was shortlisted for the Venice International Film Festival.

For others, being shortlisted is nothing.

In terms of awards alone, he has won the Golden Lion Award twice and the Silver Lion Award twice.

The new bamboo mat is Bernardo Bertolucci.

This person's name is very long and hard to remember, but he is no stranger to Chinese filmmakers.

He was the first foreign director who was allowed to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing to shoot a film on location.

That's right, this movie is Forbidden Twilight.

In addition, there is an acquaintance here.

Jiang Xiaojun!

Speaking of this person, he is also amazing.

However, he is also known as the worst Chinese person at the Venice Film Festival.

How miserable is it?

As a director and filming by himself, the actor won the best actor in Venice.

When he goes up to act by himself, the director of the filming will be able to win the best director.

The prize is not for you!

He is a frequent visitor to the Venice Film Festival, but every time he goes, he returns empty-handed, so he is really the worst director in China.

Jiang Xiaojun appeared at the Venice International Film Festival as a member of the jury this time.

A domestic film was shortlisted.

Of course, it is impossible for him not to see it, and he enthusiastically took his wife to pick him up at the airport.

In addition, the fact that this movie was shortlisted is also inseparable from his hard-working recommendation in it.

Du Qixi was almost blown into the second Zhang Lue by him.

At this time, the four of them sat in a hired boat and headed for the Lido, the venue of the Venice International Film Festival.

Strictly speaking, the Venice Film Festival is not in Venice.

Lido is an 18-kilometer-long sandbar southeast of Venice, which is regarded as the outer island of Venice.

Usually there are about 20,000 residents, and it takes 15 minutes to get there by steamboat from Venice.

You can also rent a boat, Jiang Xiaojun just rented a boat.

People who come here are used to calling this small boat a water taxi.

I thought we in the mainland couldn't even make a shortlist this time. Jiang Xiaojun welcomed Du Qixi's arrival with both hands.

Otherwise, I wouldn't pick it up in person.

Of course, one of the reasons is that he and his wife have already gone boating in the water city, and picking up people is just a way.

It's so miserable. I heard that there is a Fence and an Outing from the Bayside. Are they not shortlisted? Du Qixi still did his homework.

Lin Dong didn't know anything.

His attention is on these European-style ancient buildings, and this style makes him feel friendly.

The fence is a documentary about mental patients. It was not shortlisted, but the Wanwan film was shortlisted. I didn't expect your film to be shortlisted so smoothly.

Jiang Xiaojun was purely a judge this time and did not bring any works.

Ms. Jiang, can you find out what kind of awards we can nominate? Du Qixi asked curiously.

The finalists have been confirmed, but the nominations for several awards have not yet been announced.

The Venice International Film Festival stipulates that each film can only win one award, and only films that have won the actor award can win another award, but this other award cannot be the highest-level Golden Lion Award.

Silver Lion, Best Actor, and Best New Actor were nominated, and Lin Dong was mentioned in the latter two.

This is why there are people in the court who are good at handling things. Jiang Xiaojun is on the judging committee, so the information in this regard is naturally clear.

Both Lin Dong and Du Qixi were dumbfounded.

Silver Lion is the best director.

And the best actor is the actor.

And there's Best New Actor.

When Lin Dong acted by himself, he didn't feel anything at all. Du Qixi emailed the finished film to the jury for viewing, but Lin Dong didn't know how it was cut.

Is this pace too fast?

Could it be that my Yintang is shining, and I have the qualifications of a great emperor.

It will be announced tomorrow, but whether you can win the award or not depends on how the jury discusses it. Bernardo Bertolucci, that old man, is very bad, not as good as Marco.

The Marco he was referring to was Marco Muller, the bamboo mat before the film festival.

Marco Muller is an Italian, but the Italian media accused him of being too partial to Chinese films and ignoring the Italian film circle.

During his tenure, from Zhang Lue to Li Wen, Jia Kechang, Hou Xiaoxian, Cai Liangming, Zhang Yuan, Liu Jie and Jiang Xiaojun, many Chinese film directors won the Golden Lion Award and other important awards in Venice.

As for Bernardo Bertolucci, although he filmed Forbidden Twilight, Jiang Xiaojun did not trust him.

Actually, we didn't even want to win the prize. We just came here on a whim. Communication comes first, so it doesn't matter if we win the prize. Emperor Dong looked very pleased.

Du Qixi also put away his frown upon hearing this.

That's right, isn't it just to promote the movie?

Regardless of whether we can win the award or not, we have at least been nominated. Many films have been sent from China, and only one of us was shortlisted. What more bicycles are needed.