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Chapter 202 Blanket Star Lin Dong (monthly ticket plus update 2127)

Chapter 200

All in all, the movie Massage is going to premiere at the film festival.

A total of ten days from August 28th to September 7th.

The first day was the red carpet, and from the second day, in the original old movie palace, the films that participated in the screening began to be screened.

Three Chinese-language films will be screened this year.

It's a little better than last year. Last year only Tai Chi participated in the screening, and it was Huang Da'an and his wife who participated in the screening. Well, they are not married yet, so it can only be said that they are a couple of dogs and men who secretly spread dog food.

Jury member Bernardo Bertolucci promised in an interview last year that more Chinese-language films will enter the main competition next year.

In fact, if you don't count Massage, which entered the competition halfway, there is only one in Wanwan.

Without Lin Dong's blind mixing, there would be no international leader like Du Qixi.

Hua Yan directed Massage, and he will bring the film to the 64th Berlin International Film Festival next year.

And it was shortlisted for the main competition unit at the film festival.

Nominated for the Golden Bear for Best Picture and won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.

Therefore, the quality of this film—if you ignore the level gap between Hua Yan and Du Qixi—is still very popular with international film festivals.

It is a pity that the Venice Film Festival did not nominate this film for the Golden Lion Award.

Nominated for the Silver Lion and two other awards.

The old man Bernardo Bertolucci really doesn't want to see Chinese movies.

For some special reasons, the Chinese people opened the Forbidden City to film for him, which made him famous and won the Oscar for Best Director.

Although he claims to be a friend of the Huaxia people.

However, during his tenure, from 2012 to his death in 2018, the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival has completely closed the door to mainland Chinese films.

No mainland film entered the main competition!

Perhaps, he is a friend of Chinese people, and he really likes oriental culture, but he really doesn't like Chinese movies.

Even though the jury was replaced by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro in 2018, it was still influenced by him.

Until his death, the Argentine director Lucrecia Martel became the jury chair.

Two Chinese films, one Lyceum Theatre and Jiyuantai No. 7 reappeared in the list of main competition units.

And Marco Müller has never made a Chinese film.

But this old man really treats Chinese filmmakers very preferentially, and this name is worth remembering by all Chinese filmmakers.

Lin Dong and the others spent a few days in Venice, and the film festival announced the list of shortlisted films and their respective nominations.

I also know about the schedule of Massage.

The premiere will be held in Hall 4 at 19:15 on August 31.

Saturday night is prime time.

All thanks to Jiang Xiaojun.

This buddy helped to run the front and back, otherwise Du Qixi and Lin Dong, two completely smeared rookies, probably wouldn't know where the door of the screening hall was facing at the premiere.

The screening hall is in the old movie palace.

In fact, after Bernardo Bertolucci, the Hsinchu director of the film festival, took office, he carried out drastic reforms. In addition to preventing Chinese films from entering the main competition unit, he also planned to build a new film palace.

Unfortunately, it's half done.

When the foundation was dug, asbestos and other toxic substances were dug.

Moreover, the geology is not suitable for continued construction, so the plan has been abandoned.

Bernardo Bertolucci had to suspend the project.

Movies still have to be screened in the old movie palace.

Before the screening, there will be a press conference, and the judges will come out to meet with you and answer some questions from the media.

Lin Dong and Du Qixi strolled around the press center and various venues of the movie palace.

There are indeed a lot of hot girls, but Lin Dong doesn't seem to fit their aesthetics after changing his skin, let alone Zhang Sanpang.

Unless he can wear big gemstones on all ten fingers and a big gold chain around his neck.

That way, maybe you can hook up with some hot chicks who are doing business.

There was also a press conference for Gravity during the day, and Lin Dong and Du Qixi went to watch it.

Not how much they liked the movie.

It wasn't that they became fans of stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, either.

They just went to see how other people's press conferences were played.

George Clooney is old, but European and American men, the older they are, the more attractive they are, but the old Sandra Bullock has no charm at all.

European and American women don't see much when they get old.

A little later, there was still a red carpet opening.

The red carpet is important, very important.

At least for those who want to step on the red carpet to catch a wave of heat, whenever this time, the actresses are like beggars with hairy hair.

Looking back on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival in the past 10 years, the demeanor of Chinese actresses is always indispensable.

From Gong Huang, Zhang Caiwei, and Yang Ziqiong in early 2000, to Huang Shengfang, who was dressed in a 100 million yuan bead costume in 2011, surprised the red carpet, to Zhao Yanzi, who was walking slowly in a sky blue tulle skirt last year.

The Venice Film Festival has always been a blessed place for female stars.

Winning an award is a small matter, but showing your face is a big matter.

Unfortunately not today.

Otherwise, you can also see the beauty.

Regardless of whether the photos sent back to China have been retouched or not, the beauties in Chinese clothes should look very good.

Italian stars walked on the red carpet first, and one of them seems to be Eva Rocbono, who should be the host of the opening ceremony.

As for off-site hosts, there are none here.

So when the guests come up, if no one knows who you are, it's quite embarrassing.

Lin Dong and Du Qixi encountered such embarrassment.

It is estimated that some people will think that they are here to rub the red carpet, and they are the legendary Chinese carpet stars.

Lin Dong and Du Qixi didn't stop there.

Let the media from China take a picture and finish the job.

Even if we are blanket stars, at least we should have a calm and calm aura, just like the real peerless masters in martial arts novels, who don't need big guns and long swords to overwhelm the host.

But domestic media know about them.

This is the only mainland film shortlisted for the main competition.

The camera flickered all of a sudden.

After entering, the opening ceremony is not much different from that in China.

The difference is that there is no singing and dancing performance, and after the lecture, we start watching movies, and everyone watches Gravity.

Gravity is actually a 3D movie.

This is also the first time in the history of the Venice International Film Festival that a 3D film is selected as the opening film.

It is said that before Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Carey Mulligan, Marion Cotillard, Scarlett Johansson They were all considered for this film.

Du Qixi felt emotional on the spot, how complete life would be if these hot girls could be kept in the house.

As for the actor, Robert Downey Jr. was considered at the beginning.

Merlin has a beard, and Lin Dong must observe a few minutes of silence for Tony Stark. If he accepts this film, he will be an Oscar statuette.

Of course, although Lin Dong prefers big shit, if the actors are really changed, it's hard to say how far this movie will go.

It's all CG, how much does it cost? Du Qixi sighed.

He also wanted to make such a film, but it was obviously impossible.

The production cost is 150 million... U.S. dollars! Lin Dong gave him a popular science.

That's a billion dollars.

There is really no such bold one in China, and no investment company can afford it.

In this film, only most of the scenes inside the space station are shot on the set, and the outer space that brings the real feeling in this film is actually the credit of CG.

All - all CG!

Dongzi, let's build our own CG production team. Du Qixi was whimsical.

In his opinion, the most expensive thing in a film like Gravity is the actors' remuneration and CG. One billion is a bit too much.

With this money, it is better to raise a CG team at home.

When you want to use it, you can take it over and use it, and you can use it however you want.

Let's talk about it later. Lin Dong needs to investigate whether it will make money doing CG, and if it makes money, then he will definitely not do it.

That's it for the first day.

The remaining two days are almost like this, watching movies and eating Venetian food.

By the way, let's appreciate the poor girls who are too poor to wear full clothes.

Cough cough, the consumption here is really high.

During the festival, booking a water taxi can cost up to $250 an hour.

Several of the more famous hotels, like the $8,000-a-night suite at the Hotel Cipriani — where George Clooney stayed.

There’s also the Royal Suite at Bauer Palace, which costs $8,500 a night.

If you want to be a little more provocative, certain suites at the Gritti Palace have superb views of the Grand Canal, though they cost $10,000 a night.

So, it's not that Chinese literary films don't like to come to the Venice Film Festival.

But really can't afford it.

Fortunately, Du Qixi still has the publicity budget for Massage, and Lin Dong applied for part of it from the system.

That's why two people can relax in a cheap hotel that charges 1,400 dollars a day.

Two people live in one room.

Two beds.

It's just that Du Qixi's snoring sound made Lin Dong want to use Avada Kedavra on him.

In the end, I really couldn't do it, so I replaced it with the Soundless and Breathless spell.

The whole world suddenly fell silent.

The food was not good either.

Venice is hardly the culinary capital of Italy.

If you think about it with your toes, you will know that this city is located on a small broken island with poor supplies. If you want to talk about special products, I am afraid that you can only think of seafood.

As a Chinese, the only thing I can think of is spaghetti.

After eating spaghetti for a few days, Lin Dong felt that it was a kind of cuttlefish noodles with a unique flavor.

Cuttlefish pasta is one of Venice's most famous specialties. The main sauce is black squid ink, served with olive oil, and a little bit of cheese and garlic. There are some cuttlefish pieces, plus noodles.

The dark dishes that look good can even color your lips when you eat them.

But the taste is not bad, otherwise, Boss Lin wouldn't have eaten it every now and then.

As for the other so-called delicacies, Mr. Wizard King, who has been fed up with Chinese delicacies, really doesn't think much of them.

After waiting for two days, I finally waited until August 31st.

That's right, there is a thirty-first day in August.