My Goal
As the artistic director of the Jose-La Roche Film Festival, Wu Yang is warmly received by the local film industry no matter which country he goes to.
There are many social occasions that he doesn't want to attend, but he has to attend them because of the hospitality.
For this reason, Wu Yang rarely has public schedules later.
Many public figures are like this.
Unless there are some schedules that must be made public - with specific meanings to be shown to the public.
This time, coming to China to participate in this International Film Critics Film Festival is such a schedule.
But it is different.
Because this film festival itself is open to the public on a small scale.
After Wu Yang learned that Lu Yanhe and his girlfriend Chen Siqi jointly organized this film festival, he admired their courage.
Because the existence of the film critic group in the film industry has a very special meaning.
Without their existence, it does not affect the existence of the film industry. But without their existence, whether the film is still the concept of film in the current social sense is unknown.
All works cannot be separated from interpretation.
Painting, literature, music and other arts can directly reach the audience, but without a "final interpretation" or "endless debate", it cannot cross the torrent of time and reach a more distant audience.
If movies want to cross the dual distance of time and space and reach a more distant audience, film critics are an inevitable part of it. In a broader sense, everyone who discusses movies is a film critic.
However, it is rare in the world to hold a film festival with a clear-cut group of film critics as the host, like Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi.
Film critics have always been supporting roles in the world of movies.
However, as the helmsman of one of the four major international film festivals, Wu Yang actually appreciates their move.
In today's international film festival landscape, major film festivals have almost occupied all time periods.
If you want to hold a film festival in the conventional sense, it is difficult to succeed, because no matter when you hold it, there is already a successful film festival, and at that time, it has taken away more famous movies and filmmakers.
The competitive pressure is huge and the probability of success is extremely low.
The International Film Festival of Film Critics is a different type.
It will not become a competitor of mainstream film festivals. On the contrary, it can attract helmsmen like Wu Yang to participate.
Its purpose is not to create a film festival that surpasses anyone, but to fill a blank position in the current film festival landscape.
Moreover, it is a new thing organized by two young people.
In the film industry, young people and new things will never go out of style and will always be popular.
So, Wu Yang came.
As the most friendly film festival to Chinese-language films among the four major international film festivals, the Jose-La Roche Film Festival has always been one of the film festivals that Chinese-language films are most willing to go to.
Wu Yang is coming to China, and film company bosses, producers, directors, actors... Dozens of people, big and small, hope to make an appointment with him and meet him. Wu Yang can't say that he will refuse all of them. Interpersonal relationships are not just the "patent" of the Chinese.
On the day he arrived in China, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi went to the airport to pick him up.
Wu Yang only brought an accompanying assistant.
Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi had seven or eight people on their side.
This time, Linyu accompanied Wu Yang throughout the whole process and served as his accompanying translator. Although Wu Yang could speak Chinese, it was limited to basic communication, so Linyu was arranged to accompany him throughout the whole process to avoid some misunderstandings in communication.
Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi first sent him to the hot spring hotel.
"During the film festival, this hotel will only receive official invitations from our film festival. Non-related personnel are not allowed to come in. So, if you like, you can take a hot spring bath or have a massage during your rest time. The hotel provides these services." Lu Yanhe introduced Wu Yang.
Wu Yang nodded.
This hot spring hotel is not very magnificent. Compared with the official designated hotels of the four major international film festivals, it can even be said to be one level lower. This is not a "high-end hotel" route, but a "simple, comfortable and cheap" resort hotel style.
The overall style is actually a bit like the small villa where Lu Yanhe lived when he was filming in Malaysia.
This style complements the film festival's positioning.
"Your arrangement is very considerate." Wu Yang said to Lu Yanhe, "Thank you for your hard work."
In the evening, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi arranged a dinner for more than a dozen people.
Wang Zhong, Shang Yongzhou, Chen Bige, Liu Bige, Zhang Ruozhi, Jia Long, Wan Xin and others all came.
Huang Kairen, Li Songfan and Wang Jing were all in the play, or they had work arrangements in advance, so they couldn't come tonight.
In addition to these Chinese filmmakers that Wu Yang knew, Lu Yanhe also invited Lin Desheng of Northern Lights Video and Mr. Huang and Mrs. Huang of Longyan Pictures.
In addition to these people, the rest were all Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi's own people.
Such a dinner was between public and private. So many big stars appeared in one place at the same time, so naturally there were paparazzi taking pictures. The privacy of the dining place was better, and the paparazzi only took pictures of them getting on and off the car and entering and leaving the restaurant.
Despite this, these photos still caused an uproar.
Except for Ning Xiulian, who won the Best Actress Award at the Venice International Film Festival, who did not show up, it can be said that in recent years, the most watched Chinese filmmakers in the international arena are all here.
It was the concentrated release of these photos that suddenly made everyone realize one thing:
In recent years, most of the Chinese-language films that have gained international attention seem to be related to Lu Yanhe.
Outsiders watch the excitement, insiders watch the doorway.
There are more than one domestic film companies in Longyan. However, only the boss of Longyan company was invited to attend the dinner organized by Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi to welcome Wu Yang.
At this moment, everyone's mood was not even to blame Lu Yanhe for abandoning them, but to question their subordinates why they did not receive the news of this dinner in advance so that they could get the invitation in advance.
That is the artistic director of the Jose-Laos Film Festival!
For film companies, that is the person in power who gilds their own films.
Even if they cannot enter the main competition unit, there are other units that can be gilded with the title of "International Film Festival".
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With Wu Yang's arrival, the film festival officially opened.
The opening ceremony of the film festival was held in the auditorium of Zhenhua University.
Yuming certainly has a theater, which is a more suitable place for the opening.
However, that kind of solemn and ceremonial place is not suitable for the positioning and style of this film festival.
On the contrary, the auditorium on the university campus is more suitable.
Besides, because of Lu Yanhe, Zhenhua University is also very supportive in this regard. Whether it is the venue or the organization of volunteers, Lu Yanhe can worry less.
No officials gave speeches, nor did they have those cumbersome and grand ceremonies.
After Lu Yanhe, the planner, expressed his welcome to everyone, Chen Siqi briefly introduced why such a film festival was held, blew a wave of rainbow farts from the film critics in the audience, and talked about several examples of the profound influence of film critics on film works. Finally, he raised the level and deepened the "discussion" to the "meaning" of film art itself.
Afterwards, everyone began to watch the opening film of this film festival together.
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That night, many international film media released reports on the Jump Up Film Critics International Film Festival.
A closer look will reveal that the media that released this report are basically those that have their own cooperating film critics or column film critics attending this film festival.
Wu Yang's attendance also gave this film festival a golden body, making it impossible for those who are jealous or unhappy for various reasons to say that this is a grass-roots film festival.
Of course, those who want to find fault can find fault no matter what.
Just like the Japanese film critic Nagayama Kasamatsu, who has a grudge against Lu Yanhe, directly ridiculed Lu Yanhe on his social media, saying that he had never seen an actor so openly to please film critics.
Such accusations certainly caused Lu Yanhe to fall into some controversy.
Some media also published Nagayama Kasamatsu's criticism and contacted Lu Yanhe to get his response.
Lu Yanhe's media connection is still handled by Chen Ziyan himself.
Chen Ziyan: "People who truly love the art of film will not think in such a utilitarian way about such an action that can make a film receive more widespread attention and respect. Yan He has been a favorite of film critics since his first film, and he never needs to flatter film critics."
In fact, Chen Ziyan did not want to reply.
Replying would become the material for further reports by major media, which would make the matter more exciting.
But Yongshan Hesan's criticism cannot be ignored. Once he does not reply, it is as if he has acquiesced and he has been hit by him.
Chen Ziyan thought about it and felt that she could not silently swallow this loss.
Especially, she could not let Yongshan Hesan take advantage of this matter. Otherwise, if he tasted the sweetness this time, he would not know what he would say next time.
His fairness as a film critic has been distrusted by everyone because of the previous incident.
Now the negative scandals on him are far greater than his professionalism.
So, he does not need to worry about tarnishing his feathers when he speaks. Under the broken pot, who knows what more unscrupulous things he will do.
Chen Ziyan was not optimistic about Yongshan Hesan's character.
Chen Ziyan pondered for a while and figured out what to do.
As for martial ethics, she didn't consider it at all.
Yongshan Hesan's behavior was already shameless, so of course she wouldn't talk about martial ethics with Yongshan Hesan.
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Chen Ziyan didn't do anything else, just found a relationship and made a special report on the disgusting things Yongshan Hesan had done in the past through a friend. About eight minutes in, at the end of the report, the host asked: How could Yongshan Hesan, who had long lost the bottom line of a film critic, have the confidence to question Lu Yanhe?
Then, Chen Ziyan asked someone to translate the program into Japanese, and promoted it in Japan through her relationship in Japan.
How can a person's words be discredited?
One way is to find evidence to prove that these words are lies.
Another way is to find out what this person has said before to prove that his past words and deeds have long been discredited.
Chen Ziyan adopted the latter method.
Let Yongshan Hesan's already stinky reputation smell again, reminding people of how stinky he is.
Nagayama Kazo's reputation among Japanese critics is not good——
He is one of the very few film critics publicly banned from several international film festivals.
Japanese film critics believe that he has tarnished the reputation of the entire Japanese film critics.
Now, Yongshan Hesan is quarreling here again, and Chen Ziyan counterattacks like this. The matter is quite heated.
Immediately, other Japanese film critics stood up to criticize Nagayama Kazo and drew a clear line with him.
These actions of drawing a clear line will not cause substantial damage to Nagayama Kazo - he has already been expelled from the mainstream circle. However, such scandal publicity can bring him a lot of unexpected troubles, whether it is work or daily life.
So far, Nagayama Kazo has no second identity besides being a film critic. He relies on his reputation to make a living. He wants to create an image of himself as someone who "dare to speak the truth". What Chen Ziyan has to do is to make his image of "dare to speak the truth" reveal the truth about "private revenge".
Only the more deeply the whole environment impressed him with his "private revenge", the less harmful his attack on Lu Yanhe was.
As for Yongshan Hesan, he did not dare to offend Lu Yanhe again.
Chen Ziyan has no such idea at all. Because she knew it was difficult, she could only let him suffer enough so that Yongshan Hesan could weigh the consequences of his actions when he had such thoughts again and again. Maybe this will make Yongshan Hesan less villainous.
Chen Ziyan even thought about whether to simply find some connections in Japan and find someone to warn and threaten Yongshan Hesan so that he would never dare to trouble Lu Yanhe again.
After thinking about it again and again, Chen Ziyan gave up the idea.
Now Lu Yanhe is upright and not afraid of shadows. If she finds that kind of relationship and is exposed, it will become an indelible stain on Lu Yanhe.
In particular, Lu Yanhe is a Chinese artist and a high-quality idol who graduated from Zhenhua University.
His image must be clean and away from these gray or even black areas.
Chen Ziyan was still a little unhappy that she couldn't teach Yong Shanhe San a lesson properly.
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Lu Yanhe did not participate in the whole process of the film festival.
In addition to accompanying him throughout the opening ceremony, he only participated in social activities and did not participate in the discussions.
He does have a need to avoid suspicion.
Even though this film festival does not have an awards section, they will not compete for the first, second, third or fourth place, but after all, it involves evaluation, and his status is not suitable to participate in such a section.
Lu Yanhe himself did not respond to the news from Yongshan Hesan.
The response will be priceless.
An official response would be enough.
However, because this time the film festival is very academic and lacks the attendance of stars and celebrities, it is inevitable that the influence and attention will not be very good.
Throughout the entire film festival, the matter that attracted the most attention was Yongshan Hesan's accusation against Lu Yanhe.
Fortunately, several domestic film media are quite powerful.
Even though the public's attention is not very high, they still follow every movie screening and subsequent activities very respectfully.
In particular, the CCTV Movie Channel and Linyu's commentary program on Yuehu TV allocate a certain period of time every day to talk about the film festival.
For this group of people who really care about movies, they are quite excited.
Because it is really rare to see so many internationally renowned film critics gather together to evaluate and discuss a movie at the same time, and there may even be tit-for-tat scenes.
In particular, many film school students were able to grab tickets and be able to hear their arguments live, and even had the opportunity to ask questions. They shared all this on their social media afterwards, and they were in a particularly high state.
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"But it is indeed a bit strange. With Lu Yanhe's connections in the entertainment industry, he wants to invite some celebrities to give a stage to this film festival and gain popularity. Isn't that an easy thing? So many people have been attracted by him before. Get together in private."
"That's because the host is Wu Yang, the artistic director of the Jose Film Festival. What's the matter? This kind of film festival, to put it nicely, has the name of an international film festival, but in fact it excludes those first-tier film festivals. The film critics who are in the eyes come here and hold a serious meeting, who cares."
"Lu Yanhe wants to be a leader in Chinese-language films. He is in full bloom. He is really ambitious."
"If he doesn't do it, can anyone else do it? To put it another way, half of the international influence of Chinese-language films in recent years is related to Lu Yanhe."
"That's what you said, then where do you put Chen Pinhe and Shang Yongzhou?"
"I didn't say that the two of them are not good, but in the past few years, they have not acted in many works, and even less have won awards at overseas film festivals. Don't mention that Chen Pinhe's "White Pearl" almost won an award. In the end If you don’t get a prize, you don’t get a prize.”
"I just think that although Lu Yanhe has indeed done well in recent years, if you look at his movies, except for Wang Zhong's "Three Mountains", they are all small love dramas, "Rouge Button", "Late Spring", and "Love Letter", it's still the same thing when I hear it. I don't like these movies, there are no truly epic movies."
"Then you are too narrow-minded. How old is Lu Yanhe? Do you expect him to make epic blockbusters in his twenties? He can make such achievements at his age. If you can still find fault, I think There is no other person in the world that you can appreciate.”
"Of course I don't mean that. I just don't like people like him who do everything perfectly. It's so fake. He has good grades, he was admitted to Zhenhua, he has good acting skills, he won awards early, he is famous internationally, and If you can write and direct yourself, it’s a blessing to have such talent. Fu, I have nothing to be jealous of, but if you look at his path, he started making magazines and engaging in media, established a media empire, made his reputation sparkling, and now he is doing this kind of film critic film festival. It’s too all-encompassing and not like a real person.”
"I'm convinced, brother, I can get sprayed by you."
"Then how come you can write your own songs without criticizing him? Although he doesn't regard songwriting as his main job, the songs he writes are also very popular and popular."
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The result of this argument was that Lu Yanhe never expected that several people would start fighting because of the argument about him.
While fighting, these people kept insisting on their own opinions and refuting each other's opinions.
Someone at the scene filmed the entire process, and the video was posted online.
"What an unnecessary disaster." Chen Ziyan was helpless.
Lu Yanhe himself didn't know what to say.
Chen Ziyan: "I didn't expect that there would be fights now because of different views on celebrities."
Lu Yanhe: "Why do I feel like I have committed some offense recently? There was Yongshan Hesan before, and then this happened."
"This matter has no negative impact on you. However, the content they are arguing about can easily cause controversy on the Internet. I am worried that this will turn into a war of public opinion." Chen Ziyan said, "You have to try to suppress the heat. Don't Let others set the pace. Once someone sets the pace and says that you are a leader in Chinese-language films, some people from the older generation will definitely be dissatisfied.”
Lu Yanhe nodded: "I understand."
Even if the trees are beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy them.
Lu Yanhe's previous achievements are already "high-profile" enough.
If we try to establish a "high-profile" image in these aspects, many people will be dissatisfied.
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"You see, we have worked hard for so many years, but the contribution to this industry by a young man who has only been working for a few years is not as great."
At a private party, actor Lan Yuan told others in a joking tone.
Huang Lian, chairman of the Golden Cauldron Award Executive Committee, was also at this gathering.
He smiled and said, "Fortunately, it seems that the situation of our drama series is a little better. At least so far, Lu Yanhe's dramas have not won international awards. Otherwise, we will probably be ridiculed."
"Those people on the Internet always speak harshly, and they don't understand this industry." Liu Teli, who won the best actor for "Mule or Horse", was also there. He looked around the crowd and said, "We Chinese Film and Television It’s not easy to have an actor like Yan Ha in the industry, and a creator who has all the skills in acting, writing, and directing is indeed a genius that’s hard to copy.”
Huang Lian looked at Liu Teli with a smile: "Teli is cherishing his talent."
Liu Teli smiled: "I don't dare to say such things as cherishing talents, and it's not my turn for him to cherish talents."
"He is too arrogant." Lan Yuan said, "It is a good thing that they hold this film critic film festival, and we also support it, but I heard that many people even if they are willing to come to support or participate in some dialogue and exchange activities, he will give up. Rejected."
"Refuse? Why?"
"Yeah, I don't know why." Lan Yuan shook her head, "Everyone wants to help him and takes the initiative to help. Why doesn't he appreciate it?"
"What else could be the reason? He must be afraid that we will steal his connections." Another slightly younger man, about thirty-five years old, twitched the corner of his mouth and showed a slightly sarcastic smile, "Isn't he now? Did he become a leading figure in our Chinese-language films just because he was able to earn a living overseas?"
"Worship foreigners and favor foreigners."
Liu Teli frowned slightly.
There are not many private gatherings like today in this business.
Of course, such private gatherings are usually held in circles of veterans like them who have been around for many years.
When he came here today, he originally thought it was just a small gathering like usual.
But as the topic of discussion unfolded, he vaguely felt that something was not right about the wind direction in the room today.
He had met and dealt with this young man Lu Yanhe.
Liu Teli really appreciates it, from the bottom of his heart.
He is an actor himself, and he knows one thing. Talented actors like Lu Yanhe are not easy to come by, and those who are lucky enough to sing all the way to today are rare.
If there is such a person, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a treasure of the entire Chinese film and television industry.
He really has the mentality of an elder looking down on his younger generation, and hopes that he will grow up smoothly.
As for those voices on the Internet, Liu Teli didn't pay attention at all.
Sowing discord, making trouble over nothing, and excessive flattery. There have been too many such operations in recent years.
Liu Teli thought, everyone is an "old gunner" in this industry. How can he be easily provoked by such a voice if he has never seen anything before? -
"Director Luo, it feels like someone is trying to marginalize Xiao Lu."
In private, Liu Teli thought about it again and decided to call Luo Yuzhong.
He has no personal relationship with Lu Yanhe, but he has been friends with Luo Yuzhong for many years.
Luo Yuzhong is also Lu Yanhe’s teacher.
Hearing Liu Teli's words, Luo Yuzhong sighed.
"As expected."
"Have you known this for a long time?" Liu Teli asked, somewhat surprised.
Luo Yuzhong: "During this period, several people have come to me and told me similar things. It should be the sequelae of the blue ribbon incident at the beginning of this year."
"Oh!" Liu Teli responded.
"Huang Lian and the people behind him probably want to exclude Yan He from the Golden Cauldron Award this time." Luo Yuzhong said.
Liu Teli asked: "In addition to "Friends", Yan He has other works included in this selection?"
Luo Yuzhong said: "It's "Friends". In fact, there have been voices in the industry, saying that "Party of Six", "Friends", and "Wulin Gaiden". These sitcoms have a very large mass base and the production is also very good, but because of the subject matter The reason is that it has never been favored by mainstream awards. Many people have long called for mainstream awards to pay attention to sitcom works. "
Liu Teli thought for a moment, "I have indeed heard such a statement, but it is a habit that sitcoms are not taken seriously for many years. Did they want to reform this year?"
"I heard that the General Administration above has such a policy trend. They attach great importance to the drama "Friends". Together with the previous "Party of Six", this drama has a wide spread overseas and has a large audience. The most valuable thing is that , after watching this drama, many overseas viewers have truly realized the living and working environment of young people in China, which has made some Western media self-defeating the smear campaign against China. The higher-ups attach great importance to the value of this drama. ”
Liu Teli clicked his tongue, "It's indeed rare. So does Huang Lian want to confront him?"
Luo Yuzhong: "If the entire industry believes that the artistic value of this drama is not high and is unwilling to compromise, it is impossible for the superiors to force the Golden Tripod Award to award "Friends."
"Let me tell you, I feel that the direction of the trend today is not right." Liu Teli sighed, "Yan He clearly supported the Blue Ribbon before, which really offended Huang Lian and his gang. They did all those bad things. After working for so many years, the fig leaf was once pulled away... Ha, they called me over today, isn't it because I have also won the Golden Tripod Award and thought I would support their idea? "
Luo Yuzhong: "There is a possibility. Huang Lian has been saying outside that without his persistence in art and resisting all kinds of external pressure, it would be difficult for you to win the Golden Tripod Award in your year."
In the year Liu Teli won the award, the nominees for Best Actor included Huang Kairen, Jiang Mingzheng, and Chen Jiping. It was indeed a big year, especially Jiang Mingzheng and Chen Jiping, both of whom had very strong backgrounds in the drama industry. people.
Liu Teli: "This——"
Luo Yuzhong: "Teli, thank you for calling me. I received the reminder. Just pretend you didn't call me."
Liu Teli did not expect that Luo Yuzhong would say this immediately and consider him so much.
"Director -" Liu Teli wanted to say something at this time, it's okay. He doesn't appreciate Huang Lian's behavior and he doesn't want to be with them. However, people really can't do things like this, especially when someone like him gets involved. Location, many things are inextricably linked.
Luo Yuzhong: "It's okay, don't say that as long as I'm here, I won't let those people bully my students. Even if I don't have the ability to help Yan He, he won't be short of one or two Golden Tripod Awards. They want the Golden Tripod Award Excluding Yan He is not Yan He’s loss, but the Golden Tripod Award’s loss.”
Liu nodded.
"really."
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After hearing about some trends and changes in the circle from his teacher, Lu Yanhe was silent for a long time.
Unexpectedly, the subsequent turmoil caused by the fight extended to the level of the Golden Tripod Award.
However, Lu Yanhe was not surprised either.
After the Blue Ribbon incident, Lu Yanhe was actually ready for revenge.
He knew very well that his current seemingly "powerful" position was far from being able to compete with the big shots in the circle who had been working together for many years.
However, as Luo Yuzhong and Liu Teli said, he was lucky enough to have accumulated solid capital for himself in the past few years and had won many awards. Even if he did not win an award in the next ten years, he would not be disappointed at all. Affects his status and weight under this honor system.
Not to mention, now it's just a Golden Cauldron Award for minions.
The Blue Ribbon Award is still open to him.
Lu Yanhe was prepared to fight those people to the end.
"Teacher, if they want to marginalize me, then just marginalize me." Lu Yanhe said, "Maxine will do her best to publicize the Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards for "Friends" this year. My goal is not to win the Golden Tripod Award."
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