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Superstar - Chapter 1429

Published at 31st of January 2024 09:46:07 AM


Chapter 1429: Gao Leng Film Festival

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When people talk about the three major European film festivals, it is always easy to misunderstand, "Oh, Cannes, the passionate Cannes; Venice, the carnival above the water city, George Clooney will definitely arrive every year; Berlin Uh... it seems very deserted."

This is indeed a misunderstanding, and to some extent it is also true.

The Cannes Film Festival has opened its mind to world cinema, especially its strong support for Hollywood films. In history, the United States has won the Palme d’Or with the largest number of times, 18 times, far higher than Italy, which ranked second with a record of 12 times. . This has also made the Cannes Film Festival gained great attention worldwide, and excellent marketing makes it easy for them to become a midsummer carnival every year.

As the oldest film festival in Venice, Venice is trying to reform every year. In the early years, it relied on Italy's excellent literary and artistic film market, and its authority and professionalism reached a certain level. However, with the decline of Italian films, Venice's attention has also declined. However, Chinese-language movies have always been popular in Venice, especially Li. Director Ann relied on "Brokeback Mountain" and "Lust-Caution" to win the Golden Lion Award, the highest award twice, which made him very influential in Asia.

Relatively speaking, the Berlin Film Festival has always been stubbornly and arrogantly insisting on its professional line, not to mention the high and low list of awards, because Berlin has always been determined to encourage the new generation of thoughtful and aspiring directors, and they have a lot of attention to politics, society, and war. Waiting for the dark and serious themes to be particularly enthusiastic, which has led to the fact that even the participating films are very remote, and the attention is naturally not high.

Although it is undeniable that the Berlin Film Festival is doing the best job in fostering a new generation of directors, especially the local film industry in Germany; however, due to insufficient publicity and lack of commercial elements, plus the annual It was held in the cold winter, and the Berlin Film Festival also left a deserted impression.

Especially after Venice was taken away by the Toronto Film Festival and Berlin was squeezed out by the Oscars, as time progressed, the Cannes Film Festival became more and more powerful in the three major film festivals.

But in fact, in. The worst record of Chinese films in the three major European film festivals is precisely Cannes, which only relied on "Farewell My Concubine" to reach the top once-and it is still tied with "Farewell Piano"; the best performance in Chinese films is Venice. A total of six times before and after the highest awards, if you include "Brokeback Mountain" directed by a Chinese director, the number can be increased again.

Chinese-language films have won the Golden Bear Award four times at the Berlin Film Festival. "Red Sorghum", "Sweet Soul Girl", "Wedding Banquet", "Tuya's Marriage" and "Day Fireworks" have all been recognized by this honor. ——Among them, "Fragrant Soul Girl" and "Wedding Banquet" were tied for the forty-third prize. It can be said that compared to Cannes, which has a very obvious Hollywood tendency, the Berlin Film Festival's support for Chinese films is also not to be underestimated.

As far as Hugo is concerned, he has always admired the Berlin Film Festival, because the Golden Bear winners who come out from here always allow people to appreciate movies from different angles, such as the Iranian film "A Parting (a.) ", such as the American movie "the thin red line (the.. red., such as the Brazilian movie "central station (tral..

Due to the existence of the "Berlin Wall", the Berlin Film Festival has been strongly influenced by politics since its inception. Therefore, the film praised by the Berlin Film Festival may not be a work that can achieve excellent results in business, but in terms of film ideas, it can make the audience feel the difference in the world, especially for political terror, war artillery, social issues, East and West. The concern of cultural conflict represents not only a film art, but also an ideology of the country and region where the film belongs, which itself is also one of the important values ​​hidden behind the artwork.

To put it simply, last year’s "Before Sunrise" was not a typical genre film. It was a love comedy in name. However, Hugo tried to combine personal thoughts and men’s and women’s love for love. Integrate the impact of life experience on life, try to present the term "spiritual partner" in just one hundred minutes, and try to present the chemical reactions of love at first sight and first sight in a true and complete manner.

This was a very bold attempt, but it was a success in the end. The Silver Bear Award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival is an important recognition.

The works representing the United States at the Berlin Film Festival this year have also continued this style. "Sense and Emotion", "Dwarf in Power", "Death Row", "Twelve Monkeys", "Richard III", it can be said that basically That is, five of the ten best film nominations for the Golden Globes were selected for the competition.

But overall, the Berlin Film Festival seems to have insufficient attention. The biggest names are Bo Widberg (.) and China, one of the founders of the new Swedish film. National Taiwan. Yang, one of the representatives of the new movie wave in the Bay Area. Germany. Chang, one of the representative figures of French New Wave films, Bertrand-Briet (bertrand.), is nothing else to tell, not to mention that compared with the star-studded Cannes, there is also a big gap with Venice.

Including the entries from the United States, Lee. Ann, Yang. Germany. Chang, Tim Robbins and others, although later generations are well-known figures, they are not yet top-notch existences in 1996, and their international reputations are very limited.

Therefore, when Hugo appeared, he immediately felt the difference between Berlin and Cannes. Simply put, if Cannes is a carnival party, then Berlin is a serious seminar. This description may be a bit biased. But it basically reflects the completely different styles of these two film festivals and these two countries.

Since Hugo arrived late, he missed the excitement of the week before the Berlin Film Festival. The second day after arriving in Berlin was the premiere of "Death Row", so Hugo did not have time to appreciate the Berlin Film Festival. There is no time to enjoy the fun of the film like before in Cannes. The next morning, after arriving at the hotel room to finish dressing up, Hugo rushed to the film festival site.

But when I arrived at the scene, although there were many people coming and going at the door, it did not appear to be particularly noisy and chaotic. It seemed to be just a lively scene at the weekend in the city center. The Berlin Film Festival flag erected at the door was hunting in the wind. , Berlin’s iconic golden bear statue stands alone with its teeth and claws, there are no guards in black suits all around, there is no welcome from the audience, only a red carpet is laid alone on the ground, giving people the illusion: Could it be the premiere The formula is over?

With such doubts, Hugo got off the special car sent by Allen, straightened his collar, and walked forward along the red carpet, but he couldn't help but look around. On the one hand, because of the lack of cheers from fans and the clutter of reporters, the atmosphere of the film festival seems to be too deserted; on the other hand, because the attitudes of people around are too calm, it seems that Hugo is a little out of place, especially with Behind him, the four bodyguards that Joseph insisted he must carry-made Hugo look like fools.

"Hey, Hugo!" shouted a person from the front right, looking up, and seeing a happy face with a slight smile on his face, waving to Hugo.

Perceiving that the bodyguards behind him seemed about to be dispatched, Hugo quickly stopped them, "This is not Salt Lake City." Joseph was obviously worried that the chaos at the Sundance Film Festival last year would reappear, so he asked the bodyguards to be on guard at any time, but in front of him. This peaceful scene is really funny.

Hugo also waved to the other party and said friendlyly, "Good morning, where are you on your way?"

"My friends and I..." The young big boy pointed to several other friends not far behind him. There were men and women. It was so lively. They noticed Hugo's sight and smiled towards Hugo. He waved his hand and said hello, "We are going to watch the screening of'Death Prisoner's Walk.' We have been waiting for this work for a long time, and it's finally released today."

If Hugo understands it correctly, that is to say, this group of people are fans who came to the premiere, but why do they look so wrong... Is it because they are too calm?

This made Hugo stunned. He really didn't know how to deal with such a scene. He stuttered, "Oh..." Then he spoke smoothly, "Oh, thank you, I hope you will like this work. "

At this time, as Hugo stopped talking to the other party, a small number of pedestrians stopped one after another, which made the four bodyguards vigilant. But they didn't surround themselves—even if they recognized Hugo, they just stood there and watched the two sides talk in the air.

"We heard that you gave a wonderful performance in this work, and we have been looking forward to it. By the way, we are a firm supporter of the abolition of the death penalty!" After speaking, the big boy raised his chin to Hugo with a smile on his face~ www.novelhall.com~ It's like saying hello between good friends and good brothers, "I hope we won't be disappointed after the movie is over."

A ridiculous sentence made the group of young people all around laughed. Many people shouted, "After watching it, I will always hold hope before I leave the cinema." These words made everyone smile more brilliantly.

Then, the big boy turned around and left, beckoning his friends to leave like this...Leave...

Hugo looked at the back of the group of pedestrians, but suddenly realized why he felt strange. Perhaps, this is the so-called playing big cards-when a person is enjoying the pursuit of spotlights, flashing lights, cheers, and screams, suddenly one day others stop cheering and just treat him as an ordinary person. This huge difference is often difficult for people to adapt.

Although Hugo has always emphasized that he is just an actor and a singer, but his profession is different from ordinary people, and there is no other difference; but when he really faces such a situation, he is still a little panic.

Realizing this, Hugo not only did not feel embarrassment or shame, but smiled: This is the Berlin Film Festival, a film exhibition platform that showcases his attitude in a proud and professional manner. ()




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