Chapter 398 "Aviator"
"Aren't you tired of replying one by one?"
"No, I just picked up a few replies..."
Shen Xudong didn't look back.
The speaker is Chen Hao...
"The Aviator" stars Huang Bo and Chen Hao.
For the main competition unit, the organizing committee arranged special rooms, but... there were only three.
Not enough room at all!
Tianmei Media has brought two films this time, "The Aviator" and "Witness". The main creative team alone has almost a dozen people, as well as accompanying staff!
I simply booked two suites at the nearby Cipriani Hotel - each priced at US$8,000 per night!
Why are you so willing to spend money?
If you are riding a horse, you will spend more than 800,000 US dollars anyway, so why bother with this little money!
Oh, many brands sponsored half of the party's money - Gong Li will attend.
A luxury!
Shen Xudong stayed at the Cipriani Hotel…
In addition, the Venice Film Festival really costs money. If nothing else, the water taxi costs 250 US dollars per hour. If you want to sell the film, you have to advertise in the venue magazine - the cover and back cover of "Screen" and other venue magazines have the same advertising price. The term is about 150,000 yuan!
Will you buy it or not?
So, I’m very hesitant. Either you don’t go, or if you come, you have to spend money, and money must be spent!
Unless you are sure of winning the award, or you don't care much about overseas copyrights, you didn't spend any money like last year's "Outstanding Citizen" and relied on quality to win a lot of coverage in the event journal...
I don’t want to buy “The Aviator”. After all, it was shortlisted for the main competition. I have to buy “The Witness”, right?
The copyrights of the films being screened are for sale. If you don’t promote them, who will buy them?
Pulling back, Chen Hao sat directly on his lap and read what he had written: "Will you offend anyone?"
"Who did I offend? What I wrote was not true?"
"...That's not good..."
"It's okay, I published everything..."
Seeing what he said, Chen Hao could only nod, and suddenly thought of something: "Do you want me to write a few blogs?"
Shen Xudong thought about it for a moment, and then said: "...It's up to you, but don't deliberately follow the trend..."
"Following the trend? Whose trend are you following? Xu Jinglei?"
"...You said it, not me!"
"Let me see what she wrote!"
Chen Hao clicked the mouse, clicked for a while, and then Xu Jinglei's blog popped up...
After watching it for a while, I saw "My University" and couldn't help but say: "Mad, I'm most annoyed by people pretending to be intellectuals!"
"...People just express their feelings..."
"Pooh…"
Chen Hao rolled his eyes: "As if you don't know about her trivial things!"
Shen Xudong shut up and said nothing...
He will not share his true feelings with others casually!
The senior rubbed it a few times, squatted down skillfully, and suddenly asked: "...Have you slept with her?"
"…without…"
"That's pretty much it!"
…
"The Aviator" premiered at the Venice Cinema Palace on the Marconi seafront.
The Venice Cinema Palace includes four halls, four small halls and an open-air screening area, ensuring that participating films such as the main competition unit and the horizon unit can have more than three screenings.
"The Aviator" arranged a lobby...
The movie is a single-line narrative, based on three time periods, 1978, 1992, 2002...
The first part tells about the hero's life experience and his dream of flying;
The second paragraph is about resigning and going to sea, and the first flight failed;
The third paragraph is about having cancer and having six months left to live, desperate to realize your dream...
Zhou Shen and Liu Lu's camera control is a bit naive, the narrative is plain, and the plot is relatively stretched, but the transition is a bit abrupt...
Shen Xudong simply suggested that they divide it into three paragraphs, each with a subtitle.
But even so, it can still be seen that the two directors are a bit rusty, not that kind of mellow...
A mature director has a delicate design in every transition, which is the product of long-term training.
Another point is that the camera basically revolves around Huang Bo's role as Li Mingqi. Although Huang Bo's performance is very good, it is not organically integrated with the changes of the times and avoids the turbulent changes in Chinese society. It feels unreal.
However, the audience bought it and the story was quite good!
Especially in the last shot, Li Mingqi, played by Huang Bo, flies towards the sun. The camera shows his back and his shouting "Ahhhh..."
The childhood sweetheart's ex-girlfriend played by Chen Hao laughed and cried: "That was the last time I saw Li Mingqi. That day I saw him fly into the sun!" ’
The screen went dark, and a line of small text appeared: "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?"
"Because the mountain is there!"
"Why are you flying?"
"Because the sky is there!"
When the movie ended, the response was very good, and the audience stood up and applauded...
In fact, the only thing that audiences around the world want from movies is: a good story, sincerity, and not artificial.
Including several Chinese-speaking filmmakers who came to support also applauded...
But film critics are not so simple!
"The Aviator"... has a bit of a shadow of "Forrest Gump", but the background is only briefly introduced and not discussed.
And some of the shots feel a little stiff...
The ending is romantic, but romance means cliche - isn't "Goodbye Lenin" romantic? Isn’t “Up” romantic?
In a word, there is potential, but not enough depth.
Moreover, "The Aviator" is a work in the main competition section, who cares if you are a newcomer or not...
You have to spray when you need to spray!
…
During the film festival, as long as the crew is not too poor, they will usually hold a cocktail party after the movie...
Usually, film producers, filmmakers, judges, and, yes, the media are invited to attend.
Last year... there was no cocktail party.
Because the price of a cocktail party starts at least US$100,000...
No matter what, we have to invite more than a hundred people, right?
Venue, food, drinks, waiters…
You calculate the accounts, including food, accommodation, advertising, hosting cocktail parties...can you recover it just by selling the copyright?
Therefore, last year's "Outstanding Citizen" simply did nothing.
This year, isn’t it rich?
Huang Bo's face almost froze with laughter - he really didn't care what these people were saying, but he didn't care what others were talking about, he just laughed.
Shen Xudong accompanied Zhou Shen and Liu Lu to meet various people, and the ones they met the most were the directors of major film festivals - they received many invitations, hoping to bring "The Aviator" to their film festivals for screening, with all expenses paid.
It’s really like what Ning Hao said: if you enter a film festival, you will be invited by other film festivals to travel around the world for free...
——There are more than 300 international film festivals of various titles held individually or in rotation in more than 60 countries and regions around the world. More than 20 European countries have held 144 film festivals...
Moreover, there is also a bonus if you win the prize!
Last year's "Outstanding Citizen" contested for about half a year and won a bonus of nearly 2 million yuan...
As for invitations from these film festivals, Zhou Shen and Liu Lu will not agree to all of them, but they will definitely agree to some - to cooperate in distribution and promotion!
This is a low-cost film, so it is impossible to promote it on a large scale. You can only use film festivals in various places to promote it...