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On the third night after the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, the film "Forbidden City" held its premiere ceremony in a small exhibition hall that can accommodate 300 people in the Palace of Film.

In addition to Fang Kaizhi, who has a close personal relationship with Lu Heng, and Chairman Luke Valentino, many other industry peers who have been shortlisted for the main competition unit or other units, some of these colleagues are Chinese filmmakers, some They are filmmakers from other countries, as well as the most authoritative entertainment media reporters in the world, editor-in-chiefs of film magazines and professional film critics, and of course some reporters from major fashion magazines around the world.

In addition, fans of Chinese culture from all over the world, as well as fans who like Lu Heng, also want to watch this movie with a strong Chinese martial arts style at the first time. The crowds came from all directions, all wanting to have a sneak peek, so that 10 minutes before the opening, not only the screening hall was full of people, but even outside the screening hall, there were many movie fans queuing up to buy tickets.

This kind of influence not only made many reporters spontaneously raise their cameras and enter the crowd to interview the movie before the opening of the movie-as expected, almost [-]% of most of the movie fans who are still queuing up are Lu Heng's loyal fans.After getting this data, everyone had to sigh again for Lu Heng's box office appeal on the international big screen.

Lin Chaoyang, who participated in the premiere with the crew, glanced expressionlessly at Lu Heng, who was surrounded by the Cannes judges, international colleagues and media reporters but was still talking and laughing, and licked his lips dryly.

As a veteran actor who has been in the industry for more than 20 years, although Lin Chaoyang has rich acting experience, the number of times he has participated in international film festivals is very small. If you use accurate words to describe it, this should be the first time for Lin Chaoyang to participate in an international film festival. Festival.In the face of these crooked colleagues with different hair colors, different skin colors, and all kinds of crooked words, Lin Chaoyang was so nervous that he couldn't be more nervous.

And this tense mood lasted until the opening of the movie. Watching the storyline slowly unfolding on the big screen, Lin Chaoyang reluctantly settled down and concentrated on enjoying his first Cannes movie.

As soon as the movie opened, there was a narration that sounded upright and upright, and directly introduced the background of the whole movie - the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the court was weak, the emperor was weak, treacherous officials were in power, and powerful enemies invaded...

Accompanied by this narration, the beautiful and graceful misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River first appeared on the big screen, and the pattering light rain beat against the bright spring water. , the setting sun is like blood, between the white lotus and green lotus rustling in the mid-river, a flat boat slowly protrudes out, a young man in white clothes sits on the prow of the boat, blowing his flute slowly against the breeze and waves, in the next scene, suddenly appears in the camera There were several golden cries of sword clashes.As soon as the picture turned, a cyan figure wrapped in a red-shirted woman flew out of the black-covered boat, followed by a dazzling flash of swords, lights and swords.

With Lu Heng's participation in the design, this fight scene can be described as cool and smooth.When the film progressed to about 5 minutes, the entire film completed the first small node of "the previous story introduces the hero to save the beauty".

Obviously, this is a very classic opening scene in a group of martial arts movies with a unique charm of China——

Of course, if you look at it in another way, it can also be said that it is the beginning of a rather vulgar story in Chinese martial arts movies.

Lu Heng, who was sitting in the auditorium, frowned slightly - although he was the second male lead in this movie, before the premiere, Lu Heng had not seen this movie.Naturally, he didn't know that Wu Zhongyuan would actually cut this section into the opening scene of the film.

Of course, Lu Heng didn't mean that such an opening was not good.In fact, it can be seen from the expressions of the few pure movie fans in the screening hall that everyone still likes this kind of movie with big moves at the beginning——

However, the ultimate goal of Wu Zhongyuan's filming of "Heroes Forbidden" is to win awards rather than box office.Under this premise, if "Forbidden City" chooses this routine to start, it may be difficult to please the Cannes judges who like to dig the depth of the film and the humanity of the characters.

Lu Heng frowned in detail. Although he is only a fledgling new director, his rich experience in major film festivals all the year round tells him that the Cannes jury may not like this seemingly Chinese style, but he is still a hero in essence. The routine of commercial films to save the beauty.

Thinking of this, Lu Heng calmly glanced at Luke Valentino, who was sitting in the front row, and several other members of the judging committee—as expected, everyone's performance was slightly uncomfortable, and some even felt slightly disapproving. Shaking his head lightly, even Fang Kaizhi, who is Huaxia's director, frowned in dissatisfaction.

In addition to Lu Heng, who have been observing everyone's feedback, there are naturally other people in the crew.As the director of the film, Wu Zhongyuan's heart sank even more, and he pursed his lips unwillingly——

As a veteran director with rich experience in directing from commercial films to literary films, Wu Zhongyuan knows it well.Some habits are really not so easy to change.To some extent, years of work experience is also a layer of shackles that shackles people want to break through.Just like Wu Zhongyuan, even though he really wants to transform, but when following up the progress of post-editing and other various things, he still can't help but edit the progress of the film according to the thinking pattern——

And this approach is mainly due to two considerations, one is the clichéd worry about the box office (after all, it has to be considered for investors), and the other is that Wu Zhongyuan wants to shoot artworks in the same way as commercial films.

To put it bluntly, director Wu Zhongyuan is very ambitious. He wanted to become a blockbuster when he first went to Cannes, and make a classic work that has both box office and word-of-mouth. The theme of the film is also similar to "Flower and Sword" that conquered Cannes back then. Lu Heng thought to himself, thinking that Wu Zhongyuan probably wanted to repeat the successful model of "Flower and Sword".

It is a pity that director Wu Zhongyuan is not as profound as Fang Kaizhi in terms of directing experience and cultural heritage. Even if "Forbidden Chivalry" is his best martial arts movie, Wu Zhongyuan cannot perfectly balance the artistry and business of a film like Fang Kaizhi sex.In addition, "The Forbidden City" was originally a Chinese film with oriental elements, and the cultural barriers between the East and the West really exist... Taking all the above into consideration, I don't know if the Cannes jury will accept it this year. This set.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Heng did not deny that he was thinking a little too much.Fortunately, the plot of "Heroes Forbidden" is indeed compact enough, ups and downs and exciting enough, and Lu Heng just happens to like this kind of commercial movie very much.So after sneaking away for a while, Lu Heng continued to devote himself to the plot——

After all, after the post-production of this film was completed, Lu Heng hadn't had time to watch the finished film yet.Lu Heng, like everyone else, saw the complete "Forbidden Man" for the first time at the premiere.

At this time, the plot has progressed to the point where the male protagonist played by Zhao Miao heard from the heroine he rescued that the court suspected that General Yue was self-respecting, so he issued twelve gold medals in a row to recall General Yue, and called him back with "unnecessary" excuses. General Yue was accused of beheading—the male protagonist couldn't bear to see his loyal ministers murdered, so he brought the heroine to persuade martial arts heroes to go to Beijing to rob the execution ground.

Then, General Yue was rescued, but he was limited by the "Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Principles" and resolutely died. Before he died, he begged all the heroes to rush to the frontier to fight against foreign enemies.Many heroes came upon invitation. At the beginning, they actually saved the lives of many soldiers with their superb martial arts.However, the good times didn't last long. As the martial arts heroes made more achievements and had more contact with the officers and soldiers of the army, the uncontrolled and unrestrained sloppiness of the green forest heroes became more and more unbearable to the court officials.In particular, Eunuch Sun, the military supervisor who worked hand in hand with Qin Xiangguo, was worried that these martial arts heroes would pose a threat to their own power while taking credit for their arrogance. Big, and even almost caused a mutiny.

The matter has come to this point, and many heroes who have been suspected and rejected by the court officials can no longer stay in the army, so the hero proposes that everyone form an assassination team, intending to sneak into the enemy's camp and shoot the enemy's commander.Become a "surprise soldier" independent of the Song army, but able to exert its own advantages on the battlefield.

Unexpectedly, his plan has already been known by the supervising army Eunuch Sun.

In order to cut off future troubles, Eunuch Sun, the supervising army, secretly communicated with foreign enemies, and secretly disclosed the assassination plan and marching route of the hero and others to the Jin people.Many heroes never thought that everyone would be betrayed by their own people, so that when they sneaked into the enemy's camp, they were shocked to find that the other party had already prepared.

The golden man waited for the rabbit, and many heroes were besieged by the army, shot and killed by thousands of arrows. After a bloody battle, countless people were killed and injured, and only a small number of people escaped in embarrassment.

The sky was full of yellow sand, the setting sun was like blood, and the heart was agitated that day. Because of a promise, he resolutely rushed thousands of miles to join the Song army. There were not a few heroes who wanted to save the court from danger.And one of these ten is also the disabled, the injured.

These heroes who broke out from the encirclement of the enemy silently watched the setting sun that was about to fall to the west, only feeling that the eyes were full of desolation and mess, and even the weeds were dyed scarlet.

This episode became the film's first major turning point.Originally, they only wanted to abide by the agreement with General Yue and serve the imperial court to resist foreign enemies. They were filled with righteous indignation and couldn't swallow this breath.They discussed killing Eunuch Sun to avenge their dead brother.But the male protagonist takes the overall situation into consideration, and doesn't want to cause trouble during the confrontation between the two armies.

However, the martial arts knights who were furious at being betrayed did not listen to the actor's persuasion.And because the assassination plan this time was planned by the male protagonist, but in the end it accidentally leaked the secret and caused countless deaths and injuries to everyone.

The male number two Qi Lianheng, who is in the same brotherhood as the hero, turned against the hero even more.In the end, the indisputable male protagonist was driven away, leaving only the female protagonist Qing'er who had been by his side since the death of General Yue.In desperation, the hero Huo Chenfeng had no choice but to go north alone with the heroine, looking for an opportunity to complete the plan to assassinate the enemy marshal, help the Song army guard the border, and fulfill his promise to General Yue.

And from here on, the male number two who originally played a positive role——played by Lu Heng, the righteous young master Qi Lian, also completely blackened because his father and brother died in this conspiracy.Slowly transforming into a big villain who is even more ruthless than the supervising army Eunuch Sun.He got entangled with the martial arts knights who wanted revenge, regardless of the situation in the world, he only knew that he was against the Song army everywhere, and wanted to kill Eunuch Sun to avenge his father and brother.However, Eunuch Sun had already anticipated his predicament when he learned that these people were not dead, so he ordered tens of thousands of troops to guard him heavily, and did not give Qi Lianheng and others a chance at all.

The final climax of the film is that Qi Lianheng used the wind direction to poison the battlefield, directly poisoning the tens of thousands of enemy troops fighting on the battlefield. After Sun Gonggong and his [-] soldiers of the Song Army under his command, he sneaked into the capital again. Assassinated court ministers, and finally sneaked into the palace to try to assassinate the emperor.

The male protagonist couldn't bear to see the turmoil in the court. In order to protect the country and the common people, he stepped forward again after assassinating the enemy marshal, and called on many loyal and patriotic martial arts heroes to stop Qi Lianheng.

In the end, the frenzied Qi Lianheng finally died tragically under the ambush of the martial arts heroes and the imperial army.However, after this battle, the imperial court was also seriously injured, and after a few years of lingering, it collapsed. Under the pressure of the Jin people, the capital was moved to Lin'an, which was called the Southern Song Dynasty in history.