Chef God who doesn't want to be an actor is not a good idol

Not long after New Year's Day, a piece of news from director Song Zhengqing made Chen Mo immediately adjust Du Ruo's original work schedule in January, and abruptly vacated a week in the intensive schedule.

A few days later, Du Ruo appeared at the airport in a low-key manner after completing the itinerary that could not be turned off for the past few days. He deliberately avoided the media and fans, and flew to Oaks overnight.

Oaks is just a small town with beautiful scenery, but it is a utopia in the hearts of countless filmmakers and literary workers, just because the most authoritative independent film festival in the world will be held in the town of Oaks every January - Oakes Independence Film Festival.

Compared with the Golden Mask Award, which emphasizes the coexistence of commerciality and artistry, the Oaks Independent Film Festival places special emphasis on autonomy in terms of entry rules and selection methods.Every year, the jury is also composed of top filmmakers from various countries around the world.

Purely commercial films have never had a name at the Oaks Independent Film Festival, and they will even appear. When the next year's world-famous movies premiere at the Oaks Independent Film Festival, there are not even many people seated.Even if it can win the Grand Prix at the Golden Mask Awards, it cannot shake the opinion of the Oaks Independent Film Festival jury.

At the end of each year, the Oaks Independent Film Festival will call for filmmakers from all over the world on its official website. Candidates do not need to go through any intermediaries. As long as they are willing, they can register on the official website of Oaks.After a one-week registration period and a one-month screening by the jury, the Oaks Independent Film Festival will send out 50 invitation letters in January of the following year, of which 20 films will enter the final awards competition.

It can be said that as long as it enters the first sequence of the Oaks Independent Film Festival, a series of issues such as the release of the film and public relations can be easily resolved at the Oaks Independent Film Festival.

The crew of "I Heard" received the highest-level invitation letter from the Oaks Independent Film Festival.

Due to work reasons, Du Ruo didn't meet the rest of the crew of "I Heard" until he came to Oaks.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

When Du Ruo saw Director Song Zhengqing, he couldn't help showing a tired face due to jet lag, and finally smiled.He hugged Director Song Zhengqing, and they walked into the roadside coffee shop together.

The Oaks Independent Film Festival runs for a full week.

In the seven-day period, the award ceremony held on the fourth day is the highlight, which is also the dividing line.The first three days are mainly for screenings of films that have entered the first series, and the remaining 30 works that have received invitations but have not been able to enter the first series will be screened in the next three days, aiming to provide a stage for these filmmakers, Perhaps any movie can be selected by the distributor and successfully enter the cinema for public screening.

Since the Oaks Independent Film Festival has strict regulations on journalists entering Oaks during this week, it is forbidden for reporters to conduct interviews and filming in places other than cinemas. News agency, five years after being disqualified from interviewing by the Oaks Independent Film Festival.

Therefore, even if Du Ruo was sitting in a coffee shop by the side of the road so generously, the next table was a reporter from a domestic news agency, and the reporter just asked him in a low voice if he could sign, even None of the cameras were out of the bag.

This feeling of sitting on the side of the road without any cover and drinking a cup of coffee quietly made Du Ruo, who has been chased and blocked by entertainment reporters in China, feel a little bit of comfort.

"To be honest, I couldn't believe it was true until I came to Oaks." After Song Zhengqing came to Oaks, his body was tense, and he barely calmed down until the coffee was almost finished. But still trembling a bit.

Until now, when mentioning this matter, Song Zhengqing still has an expression of disbelief on his face.

When he first signed up on Oaks' official website, his greatest expectation was to receive an invitation letter, so that when "I heard" is released later, it may be able to arouse greater influence and attract more people's attention. Vote on the problem of school violence.

But unexpectedly, "I heard" not only got the invitation letter, but also entered the first sequence of the Oaks Independent Film Festival.

Such a result surprised Song Zhengqing, but at the same time, he felt pressure from the bottom of his heart, and he couldn't even express this pressure easily.

When Song Zhengqing started talking, Du Ruo put down the coffee cup in his hand and listened carefully.

"When I started filming, I never thought that the first film I made would be able to enter the first sequence of the Oaks Independent Film Festival..."

After Song Zhengqing finished speaking, Du Ruo opened his mouth and asked the first sentence: "Director Song, do you think "I Heard" is a good movie?"

Song Zhengqing blurted out almost without hesitation: "Although I feel that "I Heard" still has some shortcomings, I still think it is a good movie."

"I also think "I Heard" is a good movie." Du Ruo looked directly at Song Zhengqing, with the corners of his lips slightly hooked, showing a confident smile, "If that's the case, then why worry?"

***

"I Heard" premiered at the festival the day after the opening of the Oaks Independent Film Festival.

Whether it's Du Ruo and Lin Zixin as the leading actors, or the director Song Zhengqing, they are absolutely new faces at the Oaks Independent Film Festival.

Although as a movie entering the first sequence, the movie theater was already full of people 10 minutes before the premiere of "I Heard", one-third of them were reporters from all over the world, and the rest were other people who participated in this movie. festival filmmakers and general audience.

But when the main creative team spoke before the opening, all they got was polite applause, which was steady and polite. The audience who came to the theater had a calm smile on their faces, but they didn't reveal much emotion in their eyes.

Song Zhengqing finished his opening remarks in a stuttering foreign language, and sat back in the front row with the rest of the main creative team amid applause.

Director Song heaved a sigh of relief when his butt touched the seat, and then suddenly realized that cold sweat had already broken out on his back before he knew it.

Du Ruo didn't feel Song Dao's nervousness.

Before coming to the Oaks Independent Film Festival, Du Ruo had already seen the finished film of "I Heard".

Amidst the applause that subsided quickly behind him, Du Ruo calmly stared at the big screen in front of him, with a faint smile on his lips.

In any case, at the Oaks Independent Film Festival, the quality of the film is the most powerful calling card.

The next moment, the lights in the theater went out suddenly, and everyone's expressions were plunged into darkness.

The movie begins.

The sudden sound of the get out of class bell pierced the silent darkness. In such a unique opening without opening song at all, the picture on the big screen slowly appeared.

The pictures are full of characteristics, and there are students in school uniforms. Even if the audience is from a different country, they can understand the place where the movie takes place the moment they see this picture——

school.

Different from ordinary campus movies, "I heard" uses a lot of gray tones, which reduces the saturation of the picture, and also adds a lingering gloom to the seemingly vibrant campus.

Robert is a distributor who comes to the Oaks Independent Film Festival every January.

Unlike journalists or other filmmakers, Robert’s purpose of coming to the Oaks Independent Film Festival every year is very clear. He is not here to exchange art, but to find independent films that meet his requirements and can be distributed globally.

Before coming to the premiere of "I Heard", Robert already had a favorite movie in his heart, and the campus theme was never Robert's favorite theme.

After arriving at the premiere of "I Heard" completely casually, shortly after the movie opened, I was bullied in the opening scene.After Ling's first-person view footage came out, Robert couldn't help but let out a soft "Huh" and subconsciously sat up straight.

The movie is still going on. The seemingly beautiful youth campus life at the beginning lasted less than 1 minute. The director took everyone with the camera to glimpse the shadows against the bright campus background.

Although Lin Zixin is the heroine in the play, she rarely appeared in the scenes, and the only scenes she appeared on were on the rooftop.

They watched Du Ruo and Lin Zixin talk about what happened to them in school, and Lin Zixin comforted him every time with a smile;

They saw Du Ruo skipped class and ran to the roof, lying on the roof with Lin Zixin, looking up at the clouds in the sky;

They watched as Du Ruo, with Lin Zixin's encouragement, slowly learned how to reconcile with himself, how to fight back against those who were violent to him, and how to free himself.

Everything seemed to be going in a good direction, but Robert couldn't help frowning, sensing a subtle feeling in it.

According to Robert's point of view, according to the development of the first half of the movie, this will probably be a youth growth story, perhaps with a touch of emotion between adolescent men and women.

But this routine is too vulgar. Even if it is mixed with elements of school violence, there is no way to make this story completely break out of the routine of youth school movies.

If it was just a movie like this...

At this moment, the only close-up of Lin Zixin's face in the whole movie happened to be shown on the big screen——

Under the sun, the girl's skin was so pale that it was almost transparent, revealing an unearthly erratic look. Her eyes reflected the reflection of the boy, and the corners of her mouth slowly and slowly pulled up, revealing a shallow smile.

This smile is very warm, but her eyes are full of silence.

The moment he met that gaze, Robert immediately overturned all his previous assumptions, and suddenly woke up.

wrong!

If this movie is just a third-rate youth movie, it may be able to appear in theaters, and it may be able to earn a lot of box office, but it is absolutely impossible to appear at the Oaks Independent Film Festival!

When he reacted, Robert couldn't help panting heavily, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

At this time, Robert suddenly realized that he was actually brought in by the plot of the movie, so much so that he completely forgot to judge outside the movie.

After calming down, Robert continued to read the next content.

As the movie played, the strangeness of the girl was gradually revealed.

she doesn't go to class;

She is always on the roof;

From the very beginning, she has no shadow;

She has never poked a boy...

When these details slowly appeared in front of the audience, almost everyone in the theater guessed the identity of the girl.

Only the boy in the movie has not changed his attitude towards the girl, as if he is completely unaware of these abnormalities.

At this point, even the most obtuse viewer realizes the weirdness.

They watched the girl's more and more flaws, but the boy who gradually walked out of the shadow of campus violence smiled brightly as if he hadn't noticed it at all.

The plot finally came to the day when he returned to school to attend the graduation ceremony. The boy smiled and stuffed the gift box into his bag, walked past his father who had been indifferent to him after the divorce, and walked to school humming a little tune.

But Robert's attention was on the boy's gift box.

One black, one white.

Why are there two gift boxes?

While the audience held their breath and concentrated, Du Ruo let out a soft breath.

When filming "I Heard", I actually filmed two endings, and because of the different endings, Director Song also edited two versions.

Seeing this, Du Ruo already knew which version was selected by the Oaks Independent Film Festival.

When the boy ran up to the rooftop with the gift box, he could only cry helplessly, but he couldn't catch the girl who was slowly disappearing.

Du Ruo's crying scene was so explosive that Robert's eyes lit up.

But the plot doesn't end here.

As the girl's story was revealed, low sobs could be heard in the movie theater, and the boy who had heard the story from his classmates said goodbye to them with a smile. Make everyone shudder.

What happened next left everyone dumbfounded.

In a piece of rapidly switching news, three people were stabbed by knives and broke out one after another. Amidst the slowly weakening news broadcast and the louder and louder alarm bells, a black figure reappeared in the school on the roof.

He put his bag on the ground and stood quietly on the edge of the roof. The moment the door of the roof was kicked open, the light of the flashlight illuminated the smile on the corner of his mouth.

The next moment, he fell backwards suddenly, his tattered sleeves fluttered, revealing the scratches on his wrist——

It's a girl's name.

At this time, the get out of class bell rang again.

As the bell rang, the screen suddenly went dark, and then two gift boxes jumped out on the big screen——

The white ones are intact and the black ones have been opened.

The credits had begun to play on the screen, but there was no sound in the theater.

Director Song lowered his head dejectedly, but Du Ruo's gaze was still on the big screen.

After a full minute of silence, with the sound of the first applause, everyone in the cinema stood up silently and clapped vigorously.

The sound was almost twice as loud as before the movie was played.

Amid the warm applause, the corners of Du Ruo's mouth slowly curled up.

The audience who applauded the most before the movie was played were also the audience who applauded the hardest after the movie was played.

The applause at the scene did not stop until one minute after the credits were played.

At this moment, the lights in the theater came on, and Director Song led the creative team to stand in front of the big screen. Before he could say a word, there were cheers in different languages.

"Excellent work!"

"This is the best show I've seen this year!"

"I wish you success in advance!"

"Hey, can we talk about distribution rights later!"

—The last sentence comes from Robert.

Director Song said "thank you" several times in a row, and the applause and cheers in the cinema gradually subsided.

"Actually, this is my first film, and our entire team is basically newcomers." Director Song collected his thoughts, held back the tears in his eyes, and said with a red nose, "But I can say for sure, We've done the best we can with this movie."

"Of course!" "You guys did a great job!"...

Immediately there was a shout from below.

After the premiere of "I Heard" ended, Du Ruo and the others learned a surprising news from the staff of the film festival.

Just now after "I Heard" ended, the applause from the audience lasted for 3 minutes and 21 seconds!

It is also the film with the longest applause so far in this year's Oaks Independent Film Festival!

The Oaks Independent Film Festival has always had an unwritten rule that the appreciation of a film should be reflected in the duration of applause after the film is played.

Generally, the movie with the longest applause will also be the most acclaimed movie at the current Oaks Film Festival.

The surprise was far more than that. After the premiere of "I Heard", several publishers came over one after another, wanting to discuss the issue of distribution rights with Director Song.

They accepted business cards from every publisher, but they didn't agree to any of them.

And when all the distributors' business cards were handed over, Robert put on a gentle smile at this time and walked forward.

"Hi, I'm a publisher." Robert smartly did not tout his distribution company, but asked softly with a decent smile, "Perhaps, you would like to talk to me about the two editions of "" Have you heard about the issue of the distribution rights of "?"

***

While "I Heard" sparked discussions at the Oaks Independent Film Festival, there was silence in China.

Neither Du Ruo nor the crew made any publicity about "I heard" being shortlisted for the first sequence of the Oaks Independent Film Festival, so that when the domestic reporter's report was sent back to China, everyone who saw the news, the first The responses were blank.

[Film Issue [-]: The domestic independent film "I heard" was shortlisted for the first sequence of the Oaks Independent Film Festival. After the premiere, the live applause lasted for more than three minutes, setting a record for the duration of the applause at this year's Oaks Independent Film Festival. 】

"It is said that"?

Which movie is it?

While most people were still confused, there was no movement to hear that the crew's official starlight number had been dug out.

Looking at the eye-catching word "Du Ruo" on the leading role, the melons of the melon eaters almost fell off.

No... no? !