Chapter 34 Going to Berlin

"CUT!"

"Scarlett, please practice walking with the two pregnant women. Let's rest for an hour first!"

Wu Yuan rubbed his brows in distress.

The shooting of "Juno" went quite smoothly. The estimated shooting period is 40 days. It was already the 23rd day of shooting from January 12th. About half of the plot has been filmed.

But the difficulty lies in the other half.

Scarlett performed other parts very well. She performed a unique, sharp-tongued, quirky, and full of personality Juno, a very cool Juno.

This is actually the biggest selling point of this movie.

The reason why the original "Juno" is so popular is because Juno is very cool. She is not serious at all, not a good girl, nor a typical American sweetheart. She is a cool girl!

Scarlett did a great job and she really delivered the essence of "Cool Girl".

But she has never been pregnant!

In the scene where Juno has a big belly in the movie, Scarlett can't play that pregnant woman no matter how much she plays it!

This is not something that can be controlled by acting skills or talent. What you have not experienced means you have no experience, and no amount of acting skills can make up for it.

In desperation, Wu Yuan could only invite two pregnant women to Scarlett, and they were both young pregnant women, only eighteen or nineteen years old.

Every day, Scarlett held her belly full, learning from them how pregnant women walk, and listening to their pregnancy experiences, mental journeys, and feelings.

It's just that Wu Yuan still felt a little confused. He really couldn't understand how Ellen Page performed it. She was only 20 years old when she played "Juno".

Wu Yuan had no choice but to slow down the shooting speed and accompany Scarlett bit by bit.

Sitting on the director's chair, watching Scarlett studying seriously with the pregnant woman not far away, Wu Yuan gradually began to relax.

Just when he was stunned, the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

Picking up the phone instinctively, Wu Yuan asked in American English: "I'm Daniel, who are you?"

"Daniel, Daniel, I, your senior brother!"

A familiar voice came from the phone.

Isn’t this Wang Xiaoshuai!

Wu Yuan immediately became energetic. As soon as the language system was switched, he blurted out an authentic Beijing movie: "Hey, senior brother, do you have anything to do with me?"

"I said, did you forget something?"

"ah?"

Wu Yuan was stunned, not knowing what Wang Xiaoshuai said.

"'Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle'!" Wang Xiaoshuai said with a somewhat annoyed tone: "This is your first movie starring in it!"

"Why, now that you are a big director and have gone to Hollywood to make movies, you have forgotten about this matter?"

When Wang Xiaoshuai said this, Wu Yuan remembered.

I really can't blame him. There have been too many things going on on the "Juno" crew recently. Wu Yuan, who is busy with this movie, can't even pretend to have other things in his mind.

"Then you can forget it!" Wu Yuan said quickly: "Go to Berlin, right? I will remember this!"

"Senior brother, don't worry, I will definitely come. I will be in Berlin before the closing ceremony!"

"Well, as long as you haven't forgotten, don't be late. You are the number one male!" Wang Xiaoshuai warned him a few more times before hanging up the phone.

"Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" has been shortlisted for the main competition section of the Berlin International Film Festival, and is very likely to win an award.

The Berlin International Film Festival prefers films that tend to be satirical and political.

Precisely, although "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle" tells the story of two teenagers and bicycles, in fact the whole story is a metaphor for the gap between urban and rural areas caused by China's changes at the end of the last century. It can be regarded as a metaphor and satire on society.

That’s what the old guys at the Berlin Film Festival love!

Wang Xiaoshuai then sent the film to Berlin instead of Cannes or Venice. He was also full of confidence in this trip to Berlin.

Wu Yuan, the leading actor in the movie, naturally has to follow the director's baton and cannot be absent.

He didn't want to be absent either. Which director wouldn't want to visit the three major European companies?

Although I am going to Berlin this time as an actor, I can also see the world first and become familiar with the process.

But he really didn't have time to accompany Wang Xiaoshuai to the Berlin Film Festival.

For the "Juno" crew, every day of downtime costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is money we can't afford to waste.

After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuan negotiated with John.

The opening on February 7th will definitely be late, and the crew can accept a shutdown of three days at most.

Therefore, Wu Yuan could only set off on the night of the 16th, arrive in Berlin on the 17th, and return immediately after attending the closing ceremony on the 18th.

In this regard, we should consider that "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle" can win awards. Otherwise, if this movie does not win awards, the crew will not be able to even attend the closing ceremony.

Anyway, John felt that he would not win the award, and Wu Yuan would most likely go to Berlin to experience the atmosphere and then return home.

In this way, after the crew and Scarlett spent ten days working on the scene bit by bit, Wu Yuan gave the crew three days of leave with a wave of his hand. On the night of the 16th, he boarded a plane to Berlin. .

When we landed, it was already the morning of the 17th Berlin time, and the entire "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle" crew came together to pick up Wu Yuan.

It is said that there are all members, but in fact there are only Wang Xiaoshuai, Gao Yuanyuan, Cui Lin, and two producers from France and Baodao.

Even China Film did not send anyone, because the ownership of the copyright of "17-year-old Bicycle" is a bit vague. Beijing Film Studio requested to share the copyright, but the producers disagreed. Now they are still in the stage of quarreling.

However, the two producers have sold most of the global copyright of "17-year-old Bicycle" in Berlin in the past week.

While walking out of the airport with Wang Xiaoshuai and others, Wu Yuan took the initiative to explain: "Brother, it's not that I don't want to come earlier, but Fox Searchlight won't let me go."

"You also know that the crew of Hollywood will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars if they stop working for one day. Even if I am the director, I can't stop working casually."

"After all, the money is paid by Fox Searchlight. I am just an employee."

After all, he is a senior brother, and he was the one who brought him into the industry. He still has to respect him.

Seeing Wu Yuan's sincere look, Wang Xiaoshuai couldn't blame him for coming late, but just muttered with some jealousy: "You are really awesome now."

"The domestic box office of "The Night the Comet Came" is nearly 20 million, and the copyright has been sold for more than 2 million US dollars worldwide."

"Now you are going to Hollywood to make a movie again."

"Except for Wu Baige from Hong Kong Island, you are the best director in China."

How could Wu Yuan let his senior brother praise him so much? He shook his head quickly: "No, my senior brother is really awesome."

"The Bicycle of 17 Years Old has been shortlisted for the main competition unit. Maybe it can win the Golden Bear in the end. This is a great achievement."

"My box office sales are nothing. I haven't won any serious awards."

Wang Xiaoshuai was a little more balanced.

Indeed, Wu Yuan can sell box office, so what? Can he win the Golden Bear?

The new generation of art film directors in the mainland still have to look at him, Wang Xiaoshuai!

In fact, it's not that he doesn't want to see his junior brother doing well, but everything that happened to Wu Yuan in the past six months has simply made Wang Xiaoshuai dumbfounded.

When filming "17-year-old Bicycle", Wu Yuan was still an unknown directing student, and he was willing to sell himself for 10,000 yuan.

In less than a year, he has transformed himself into a director with a box office of 20 million movies, and the second Chinese director to go to Hollywood to make movies!

Good guy, Wang Xiaoshuai doesn't know how to face this junior brother.

Gao Yuanyuan, Cui Lin and others are even more uncomfortable. The two of them were so nervous when they came to pick up Wu Yuan from the beginning to the end that they didn't know what to say to Wu Yuan.

In the words of Lu Xun, there is already a sad thick barrier between them.

Everyone needs to re-examine and adapt to the current Wu Yuan.

"For you, I specially put the movie premiere today!" Wang Xiaoshuai sighed and patted Wu Yuan on the shoulder.

The film festival opened on the 7th and closed on the 18th. The premiere of the participating films was on the 17th, which was definitely a very bad choice. The reputation did not have time to ferment in the venue book.

But now Wu Yuan is indeed qualified to make the whole crew wait for him alone. If he doesn't come, the movie will not premiere.

He got on the car with everyone who came to pick him up. Instead of returning to the hotel, he drove directly to the premiere theater of "Seventeen Years Old Bicycle"!

In the car, Wu Yuan looked at the streets of Berlin and asked Wang Xiaoshuai curiously: "Brother, can our movie be released in China?"

Wang Xiaoshuai was very satisfied with the word "our" in Wu Yuan's mouth, but he still sighed and said with some disappointment: "It's probably impossible."

"The bureau said that there are too many alleys in the movie, and the modern side of Beijing is not filmed, which affects the Olympic bid, and they will not approve the public screening certificate."

"But I have negotiated with the investors in Taiwan, and it will be released in Taiwan on the 20th, which can be regarded as a domestic release!"

"By the way, there are also Taiwan movies shortlisted in the main competition unit of this Berlin Film Festival, but I don't know if they can win the award."

In reality, "Seventeen-year-old Bicycle" premiered in Berlin on the 17th. I don't know why Wang Xiaoshuai chose such a date. This is a movie participating in the main competition unit!

There is no time for the word-of-mouth fermentation in the program book!