Chapter 591 From Guest to Host

The entire industry is very angry with Lu Shan's behavior this time.

Nothing else, Lu Yanhe is willing to support other movies, and he has never been stingy in recommending other movies on his social platform. He has helped promote many movies.

You know, with Lu Yanhe's current influence and his recommendation, many small-budget movies without sufficient publicity funds will not be released quietly because of this.

After what happened, would Lu Yanhe be willing to recommend other movies?

The movie itself is a content product. Some people like it and some don't. This is a normal thing.

This also means that no matter what movie Lu Yanhe recommends, he will be criticized and questioned.

Will Lu Yanhe never recommend it again just to be on the safe side?

Lu Shan was denounced and ostracized by many people in the industry. Not to mention, Lu Shan is also one of the investors in "Happy Events in the World". His motives are questionable and he is looked down upon.

Lu Yanhe didn't expect that he would receive many phone calls, all of them asking him if he would recommend other movies in the future.

To be honest, Lu Yanhe was already thinking seriously about this matter and what to do in the future.

After all, the less you say, the less you make, and the less you do, the better.

Is it necessary to do this in order to "not make mistakes"?

Lu Yanhe knew that many people made this call because they were considering their future movies.

But Lu Yanhe loves this industry and sincerely hopes that this industry can prosper. He is not willing to let the controversy caused by a recommendation affect his future practices.

There are generally no blockbuster movies released on the Friday after May Day.

Because the market potential of the May Day films has not been fully tapped, it is difficult for new films to be scheduled and to attract audiences to the cinema to the greatest extent.

At this time, it is often the case that some low-cost movies with insufficient box office expectations go to theaters during this window period to earn millions of dollars in box office, so that they can use the name of theater movies to win other awards. Channels sell higher royalties.

And this Friday, a literary film called "Liu Ma" was released.

Lu Yanhe once again appeared at the advance screening and expressed his feelings about the movie.

"I'm very nervous and afraid of causing controversy again this time. However, I still love movies. It doesn't matter if you don't trust me anymore, but this is a good movie. It is especially like what I read in children's literature magazines when I was a child. Those stories are true, tender and childlike." Lu Yanhe. Said, "I like the little actors in this film very much. I don't know where the director found them. They are very cute and touching in the film. Audiences who want to feel the stories they read in children's literature magazines when they were young, This movie is well worth going to the cinema.”

"I will continue to recommend movies. I know that there will definitely be times when my recommendations will cause controversy in the future, but I have thought about it seriously for a long time and I am not willing to stop expressing my opinions just because it may cause controversy." Lu Yanhe said, "I also have to accept the fact that even if I like it, others don't like it. What I care about, others don't care about. Thank you."

Many people at the scene began to applaud.

On Friday, the box office of the movie "Horse" exceeded 2.4 million on that day. With the on-demand screenings, the total box office exceeded 3 million, which made the industry watch.

For a small-budget movie, such box office results are certainly enough for them to celebrate.

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"I didn't expect you to recover in such a short period of time. I thought it would take you some time to recover."

On the way to Hexi, Chen Siqi and Lu Yanhe laughed and teased him.

"I don't want to continue to be internally conflicted. I was a little unclear at first and couldn't figure out the scale in between. Then I thought about it and said, forget it. I'm too lazy to worry about it. I didn't lie and deliberately exaggerated what was not good. I can always say that What can we say? If we can’t do this, internal friction is meaningless.”

"Very good." Chen Siqi nodded, "I'm really afraid that because of this incident, you won't dare to say what you want to say in the future."

"Why? Am I usually so fragile?"

"Because this time you are in a completely unwarranted disaster." Chen Siqi smiled, "Forget it if it is your own movie, but this time you are also involved in public controversy because of someone else's movie."

"Brother Qiao feels quite guilty."

"Anyone else would feel guilty asking a friend to help with the platform, only to cause so much trouble for the friend."

Lu Yanhe: "I feel like he will never ask me to help him support himself again in the future."

Chen Siqi: "That won't happen. In a short period of time, everyone will need time to digest the negative emotions caused by this incident. It will be better as time goes by."

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Lu Yanhe originally thought that he would be excited and nervous for several days before heading to Jose this time. However, probably because the Lu Shan incident happened, his attention was completely attracted by this incident. When he arrived at the airport and was about to fly to José, he slowly got into the mood of the film festival.

"Is it possible for "Love Letter" to win an award this time?" Chen Siqi asked curiously.

She really wanted to know.

Because Lu Yanhe is relatively familiar with major film festivals, every time Lu Yanhe analyzes whether a film can win an award, it is based on the film festival's awards taste in recent years and the characteristics of the film itself.

Every time Chen Siqi listens to Lu Yanhe's talk, she updates her understanding of the film industry.

The film industry is not static, it is changing all the time.

Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said: "A small half of the films shortlisted in the main competition unit of this year's Jose-La Roche Film Festival are directed by new directors. It is not clear what their films are like. We can only analyze the situation of "Love Letter" itself. Its depth and artistry are still a little shallow, which is an objective fact - the film itself is not going in this direction. The acting awards are basically not competitive. In terms of performance space and role, only Sister Bi Ge has the hope to compete for the award, but it is just hope. This is not one of her best performances. The two roles in the movie do not have too difficult performance space for her. Moreover, she just won the Best Actress Award for "Rouge Button". People will not vote for her for this award in the short term."

Chen Siqi nodded.

"Then according to what you said, "Love Letter" may not win the award?"

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"It may or may not win an award, it depends on the specific situation. I still place more hope on the media evaluation and audience reputation for the performance of Love Letter." He said, "I think the biggest advantage of Love Letter is that it is good-looking."

"If everyone thinks it is good-looking, why not give it an award?"

"It is one thing to like a work, and it is another thing to give an award to a work." Lu Yanhe said, "In fact, it is the same for us. We may like a work very much, but we all think that this is because it resonates with my own experience. But when we have to choose the award, we also inevitably consider one thing, is it good enough? Is it worthy of this award? Compared with what we like, sometimes, we will choose a more correct one."

Chen Siqi suddenly realized.

She understood what Lu Yanhe meant.

This is the same as the manuscripts in Jump Up magazine. In fact, the editorial team likes some works very much, but everyone also knows clearly that if we really talk about literary quality and seriousness, another work is deeper. When they need to recommend some works to apply for literary awards, they will also give up the ones they really like and recommend those novels that they may not like so much, but are more literary.

The establishment of the award itself means that it does not operate according to personal preferences. It's just that in many cases, personal preferences will affect the judgment of value.

Chen Siqi: "I don't know how Liu Bige's "Fake Death" is. I haven't seen this movie yet."

"I am also looking forward to it. In fact, Liu Bige is the kind of director I like very much." Lu Yanhe said, "He will not use the obvious boundaries between commercial films and art films to constrain his creation, but will handle any subject matter and type into his own style."

Lu Yanhe feels that Liu Bige is like Quentin, Wong Kar-wai and Park Chan-wook, and his personal style always far exceeds the subject matter and type. Whether it is a story, a character, or a type, it is just mud in their hands, and the works they mold are always themselves.

Lu Yanhe felt this when he was filming "Late Spring" with Liu Bige.

If you say that he is a director who doesn't care about the rhythm and the appearance of the story, that's nonsense. The story of "Late Spring" is essentially a bloody and cruel story of youth. But do you want to say that he made a bloody youth film? No one will think so after watching this movie. In his movies, the focus is not the bloody, but the anxiety, uneasiness, struggle and the most subtle emotions of everyone in the bloody story.

This makes "Late Spring" a movie that is completely different from other youth-themed movies.

So, although "Fake Death" looks like a very commercial love comedy at first glance, it must not be a routine and formulaic love comedy.

Otherwise, it would not be shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Jose-La-Cebu International Film Festival.

This is just like Johnnie To's movies were also frequent guests at the three major European film festivals before-

He made completely commercial films, but he wrote his own name on all commercial films, and his personal style was extreme, which is also a kind of expression.

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When Lu Yanhe came to Jose-La-Cebu again, he was welcomed by many media and fans who met him at the airport as soon as he got off the plane.

Chen Siqi deliberately distanced herself from him.

They never "show affection" in front of the camera.

Because there were so many people at the scene, Lu Yanhe was delayed for a while and got on the car fifteen minutes later than expected.

He had a lot of work to do in the first week of his visit to the Jose-La-Ciel Film Festival and was also in a tight schedule. For example, today, he had to rush to the hotel to prepare first, and in the evening, he and Chen Siqi would have dinner with the editor-in-chief of "Jose-La-Ciel Film" magazine.

Moreover, because several Chinese-language films were shortlisted for the Jose-La-Ciel Film Festival, there were many Chinese media coming to Jose-La-Ciel this time.

Then they naturally hoped to make an appointment with Lu Yanhe. If none of their Chinese-language media could make an appointment with Lu Yanhe, and could not get an interview or filming opportunity, then they would not even be able to raise their heads among their peers. This also made Lu Yanhe have to cooperate with various media to do some related publicity.

In fact, many big-name stars now rarely accept interviews during the film festival.

Firstly, the schedule is very busy, and secondly, everyone feels more and more that the atmosphere of the film festival has changed a lot.

In the past, the film festival was really a place where everyone could sit together and talk about movies. Now it has become a celebrity show and a publicity channel with great exposure.

The more famous actors are, the more they need to protect their image as actors. When the environment is not good enough, of course they would rather not accept interviews than be asked unprofessional questions.

Reporters who would ask questions like "How do you maintain your current figure" at a professional film festival are no longer just an isolated phenomenon.

When Wang Biao took over the interview job for Lu Yanhe, he had to back up the interviewer——

See how they usually interview other actors.

The workload is huge, but if you don’t do this, you won’t be able to control the quality of the interview site.

Fortunately, Wang Biao had the help of the "Jump Up" movie version team. They know very well which media and which reporters are genuine and professional.

Wang Biao actually had a list in his hands. On the list are the names of media and media people who can be trusted in their work.

This list is updated in real time through everyone.

There is a huge database as supporting material behind it.

When Lu Yanhe knew that Wang Biao had this list, he said with a smile: "Usually, the major media outlets rate our artists. From now on, I will also gather a group of artists to rate you media and media people."

Chen Siqi said at that time: "Maybe we can do one at the end of every year in the future."

Later, Chen Siqi took Xin Zixing to think about it, and I don't know how they got on with it.

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"It is said that the overall quality of the films in the main competition this time is quite high."

In the evening, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi had dinner with Evan Gardi, the executive editor of "Jose Films", and Evan revealed a little bit about this year's situation to them.

"Especially "The Long Rainy Season" directed by Vietnamese director Song Moc Thanh, "Paradise" by American director Lubian Murray, and "Bob Cole" by British director Reynaldo Marcus. These three films are among the most popular. When they screened the selected films internally, the reviews were very high," Evan said. "Of course, your "Love Letter" also received high reviews. Wu Yang said it was the best movie about secret love in the past decade. "

Wu Yang is the artistic director of the Jose Film Festival.

Lu Yanhe nodded, "When selecting films for the Jose Film Festival, we always focus on whether the film itself is good-looking. I actually really love watching movies at the Jose Film Festival. This time I finally didn't have to film on the set, so I could have a good time after work. I’ve watched a few movies, but it’s a pity that I haven’t gotten tickets for several movies yet.”

Evan said: "You can tell me which movie you want to see, and I will help you get the tickets."

As the executive editor of "Jose Film" magazine, he is certainly not lacking in resources in this regard.

"Really? That's great, thank you." Lu Yanhe thanked him.

After Lu Yanhe met Evan Gardi the last time he came to Jose, the two of them established a relationship and occasionally exchanged emails and talked about movies.

Evan Gardi himself is a fan of Lu Yanhe.

As the executive editor of "Jose Films", Evan Gardi naturally has close ties with people in the film industry.

However, he has always told Lu Yanhe that he hopes Lu Yanhe can make more meaningful movies. Especially after "The Mist" became a big hit, he was one of the few people who sent an email to Lu Yanhe, reminding him that an actor should be wary of becoming an actor in genre films in the eyes of others.

"I'm so happy that you came to see everyone with another work so soon after the release of "The Mist"." Evan Gardi said, "I was worried that you would get lost in the success of commercial films. I want to be a star, not an actor.”

Lu Yanhe smiled and said: "Actually, being a star is also my job, but I put my identity as an actor higher. Being an actor is my priority. But if I wasn't a star, I wouldn't have the chance to do it." Director, make a movie like "Love Letter".

"That's right." Evan Gardi nodded, "However, you have acted in too few movies. I didn't expect that you would go back to acting in sitcoms."

"There will be some movie shooting plans next." Lu Yanhe said.

"I heard that you are going to film Huang Tianlin's movie soon?"

"Yes."

"His movies are good." Evan nodded in approval, "Oh, I met with Rubian Murray, the director of "Paradise" yesterday, and he told me that he had just watched "Silent River" recently. ", he is quite impressed by you and wants to get to know you."

Rubian Murray's "Paradise" is not only one of the most watched films in the main competition this time, but he himself is already one of the auteur directors well-known in major film festivals around the world. , are regulars at international film festivals, although they have not won any awards so far.

Lu Yanhe said: "Then if I have a chance to meet him later, I will take the initiative to get to know him."

"The current streaming media has a huge impact on the entire industry." Evan said, "I didn't expect that even a director like Lubian would watch "Silent River" on streaming media. This made me think The future of movie theaters is bleak.”

Lu Yanhe: "The world is changing all the time. If one day the cinema is really going to disappear, none of us can stop it. But before this result comes, we can all try to prevent it from happening. Indeed, I myself prefer to watch movies in the cinema. The big screen and stereo surround sound are completely different from watching on the computer. So, try to make some movies that can attract audiences to the cinema."

Evan said: "I like what you said."

He raised his glass.

"Then let's work together and don't let the cinema disappear in our era."

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi raised their glasses together and clinked them lightly.

The high-heeled glasses made a crisp tremor in the night sky.

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On the day of the opening ceremony, Chen Bige couldn't make it to the opening ceremony because her work in China had not yet ended, and Zhang Ruozhi couldn't come because he was preparing for the exam. Lu Yanhe and Wan Xin and Li Songfan, two old actors who had a lot of roles in the film, walked on the red carpet together.

The crew of "Love Letter" itself has attracted a lot of attention because of Lu Yanhe.

Chen Siqi also walked on the red carpet with Lu Yanhe this time. The rare scene of walking on the red carpet hand in hand was of course the focus of all major media and cameras.

Since the explosion of "The Mist", overseas media have not seen Lu Yanhe much. Now Lu Yanhe finally showed up, and this appearance must be well filmed.

Artistic director Wu Yang stood at the end of the red carpet to welcome every guest.

When Lu Yanhe and his friends came over, Wu Yang took several steps forward to greet them.

This time Lu Yanhe arrived before the opening ceremony and attended the opening ceremony very respectfully, which made Wu Yang feel very comfortable. After all, Lu Yanhe could have come a few days later-

Many big-name actors are actually like this, they will only reserve about three to four days for the film festival, and they will leave as soon as their own film screening activities are over.

Just like Chen Bige, she has a job in China, so it is impossible for her to come so early like Lu Yanhe.

After entering the Film Palace, Lu Yanhe found that he knew more people.

Whether it is people from the film company or the creators of the film content.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi were busy greeting and chatting with people from all walks of life. If they were more familiar with each other, they would chat more, talk about their recent situation, and how long they would stay in Hexi. Some people would organize gatherings or parties and send invitations to Lu Yanhe and others. Lu Yanhe would usually ask them to send him a formal email so that he could confirm the itinerary and time arrangement later.

This time at the Hexi Film Festival, although "Love Letter" was going to participate in the competition, Lu Yanhe's mentality was more like meeting a group of old and new friends. Lu Yanhe didn't actually care about the specific work connection. It was Song Jiang and Wan Qingqing who connected with the official film festival as Linghe Film and Television. He was particularly relaxed and enjoyed getting to know a group of friends in such an occasion.

Lu Yanhe had talked to Chen Siqi about this change in himself before.

Chen Siqi said: "Because when you first went to the film festival, no one knew you, you were an intruder, no matter what other people's attitude was, you were more or less a guest's restraint and uneasiness. Now your situation has changed, everyone knows you and likes you, you can feel at home here, and you have the need to get to know everyone, the combination of these two factors, your mentality has changed."

Hit the nail on the head.

Lu Yanhe nodded seriously, indicating his agreement.

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Updated late.

Sorry. (End of this chapter)