I become a big star after I sleep

Chapter 383 Several Generations of Directors
There is a saying in college entrance examination composition that a zero-score composition is a masterpiece, and it is better than a full-score composition.

There is a similar legend in the film industry that banned movies are good movies.

If calculated by this standard, it is hard to say which is the best movie in China, but the best director can definitely only be decided between Lou Ye and Jia Zhangke.

Other directors have at most one or two movies banned, but these two are different, only one or two movies have not been banned.

especially……

Qin Muchu glanced at Lou Ye, who looked somewhat similar to Mr. Li Baotian, who played Liu Luoguo. This was the "King of Banned Films". If I remember correctly, he was still in the period of banned directing, right?

"We plan to go to the bar to have a few drinks. Director Qin, how about joining us?"

Just as he was thinking, Wang Xiaoshuai sent out an invitation.

"Ah, no."

Qin Muchu felt that he could not urinate in the same pot as the Sixth Generation director. Besides, maybe he was just being polite, so he waved his hand and declined:

"I arrived in Cannes at midnight last night, and I haven't gotten over the jet lag yet."

He also yawned as he spoke.

A trace of pity flashed in Wang Xiaoshuai's eyes, but since everyone was talking about this, it was not easy to say more, so he smiled and said:
"Then let's wait for another day. Cannes is a long time anyway, haha."

"sure."

……

"Splenic?"

"Beer, I can't bear to drink foreign wine."

"Haha, are you still not used to drinking?"

Wang Xiaoshuai smiled and ordered drinks to the bartender.

"Isn't it a joke that French directors are not used to drinking foreign wine?"

Jia Zhangke, who talks less, also smiled and said something.

It's not wrong to say he is a half-French director.

He took the big beer glass from the bartender and cursed with a smile:

"I came all the way to see you being treated like this?"

"Come on, I don't believe you wouldn't come to Cannes if we weren't here."

Wang Xiaoshuai exposed the truth with his words, and Jia Zhangke smiled and nodded in agreement.

"I……"

Lou Ye was really speechless for a while.

Indeed, even if Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhang did not attend the Cannes Film Festival, he would still come.

Nothing else, here you can see excellent movies from all over the world.

However, the participation of two friends also gave him another reason to go to Cannes.

Without saying much, he raised his glass:

"Come on, take one."

"Walk."

There was a sound of glass cups clinking, a big gulp of beer was taken, and then three neat "ha~" sounds.

"It's a pity there are no peanuts."

Lou Ye clicked his tongue, sighed and looked at Wang Xiaoshuai again:
"The three of us finally got together, and Haozi didn't even come with us, so why did we call Qin Muchu together?"

"Why? Isn't it for you?"

Wang Xiaoshuai said angrily.

"For me? What does it have to do with me?"

Looking at Lou Ye's confused eyes, Wang Xiaoshuai shook his head helplessly:
"Don't you ask anyone to ask about the ban?"

Speaking of this, Lou Ye showed a dissatisfied look, not to Wang Xiaoshuai, but to ban him from directing this matter, and said in a low voice:
"Won't the ban be lifted next year? What else do you have to ask?"

"Are you sure the ban can be lifted next year?"

Wang Xiaoshuai asked back and sighed again:
"When others are banned, they accept the punishment honestly, or make some marginal moves. It's better for you. If you are banned in China, you can just go abroad to shoot. That's fine. The key point is that you secretly returned to China to shoot. Are you fooling a fool or deliberately provoking?"

Although Lou Ye was banned from directing for five years in 06, his works continued during this period.

Some are purely French films, with French producers and actors.

And some are Chinese products with French brands.

For example, "A Night Intoxicated by the Spring Breeze".

The Chinese team, the Chinese actors, were filmed in China, but it was a French film.

The whole filming process was very scary. Because we did not obtain a filming permit and did not report it to the film bureau, we all filmed it secretly with a DV machine.

This kind of behavior undoubtedly puts the film bureau's face on the ground and is a serious disobedience to discipline.

Wang Xiaoshuai raised his eyebrows:

"Believe it or not, you were jailed for prostitution, and you were jailed for theft."

"Fuck your mother's egg."

Lou Ye was amused, smiling and then worry appeared in his eyes.

It's not impossible.

Maybe the day he is lifted from the ban will be the time of the new ban. What if the film bureau really gives him a seamless transition?

"But what does this have to do with that kid Qin Muchu? He has connections in the film bureau?"

"Tsk tsk tsk."

Lou Ye didn't understand why Wang Xiaoshuai's expression suddenly turned disgusting, and he hit his arm:
"What about you?"

Wang Xiaoshuai still said nothing, gave him a disdainful look, picked up the wine glass and started drinking.

When Lou Ye saw three black lines appearing on his forehead, he was about to curse, but Jia Zhang could speak:

"Tang Wei was the one who helped lift the lockdown. Do you think there is any way?"

"Tang Wei has unblocked it?"

Lou Ye, who was not well-informed about the news in the circle, did not know the news. He was stunned for a moment and then said in surprise:

"Is his relationship so strong?"

At that time, the "Lust, Caution" incident caused a storm in the city. Many people in the industry called for Tang Wei to be unblocked. At that time, a joint application form for Tang Wei to be unblocked was made, and he also signed it.

But the result was that the application was lost and no response was received.

What so many people couldn't accomplish despite their combined efforts was left to Qin Muchu to accomplish it alone?

"The leader of the film bureau named Qin...Director Qin? His family has been incompetent for generations. Is he someone's grandson? Or he is an illegitimate child..."

Listening to Lou Ye's increasingly outrageous thoughts, Wang Xiaoshuai couldn't help but speak:

"You better have some moral integrity, I'm a serious orphan."

"Then why?"

Lou Ye was mentally unbalanced.

They are both directors from China, so why are their words so different in weight?
"Why? Because they want awards and box office, they want box office and they are well-behaved and can achieve results. If you were the leader, who would you like?"

"..."

Lou Ye was killed by Wang Xiaoshuai's words.

Yes.

It's just like women. One can live well, and the other can live well, and at the same time they are obedient and beautiful. It doesn't matter who they choose.

Depressedly, he drank the beer in the glass in one gulp, and the wine glass fell on the bar with a "pop" sound:

"This is how I am, I can't change it. Can you change it?"

At this moment, both Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke fell silent, picking up the wine glasses and bringing them to their mouths.

Yes, who of them can change it?
……

After parting ways with Wang Xiaoshuai and others, Liu Xiqian and Zeng Li took the car back because it was inconvenient to wear formal attire, while Qin Muchu and Zhang Mo walked to enjoy the night view of Cannes.

I don’t know if it’s because of the film festival, but the trees on the roadside in Cannes are wrapped with colorful lights. Together with the neon lights in the city, the dark night is illuminated colorfully.

Although it was already [-] o'clock in the evening, there were still many pedestrians on the street, and many people stopped everywhere to take pictures with their cameras.

Zhang Mo walked around a person taking pictures and followed Qin Muchu:
"You seem to be deliberately not wanting to interact with them?"

Qin Muchu knew that "they" referred to Wang Xiaoshuai and the others, so he did not deny it:

"I'm not familiar with them, and I'm not good at drinking." "Same."

Zhang Mo nodded, took two steps and asked again:
"Xiao Qin, you should have seen the movie between Lou Ye and Jia Zhangke, right?"

"Watched two."

As a director, it is fundamental to know a lot about films, and it is impossible not to have seen the work of Qin Muchu, the two top-notch sixth-generation directors.

"Just two?"

Zhang Mo was a little surprised,

"My dad said you often watch award-winning movies at home and abroad. Don't their movies often win awards in the 'Big Three'?"

Qin Muchu does have the habit of watching movies from film festivals.

After all, there are so many movies, so you have to watch them selectively, and movies that have been to film festivals and won awards are undoubtedly the highest priority.

He has basically watched all the domestic award-winning movies, but he has watched very few of the movies of Lou Ye and Jia Zhangke.

After one person watched one, he never watched it again.

And the reason...

"I don't really like their movie style..."

After a pause, he said again:
"It's not just the two of them. In fact, I have rarely seen the works of the so-called sixth generation directors."

"Why, aren't the sixth generation directors bad?"

Zhang Mo became interested.

She has been back for two years and knows a lot about domestic movies.

There is no standard definition for the division of several generations of directors in the Chinese dynasty, and it is generally a convention.

The first generation of directors is from the 20s, the second generation is from the 40s and 60s, the third generation is from the [-]s, and the fourth generation of directors were those who graduated from BJ Film Academy or were trained by various film studios before the "Special Period".

These are all too far away from the current era, and most of them are no longer alive or have withdrawn from the industry.

Next comes the “main force” in the current Chinese film industry—the fifth and sixth generation directors.

The fifth generation of directors is a group of directors who graduated from Class 78 of the Film Academy, namely Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.

After that came the sixth generation of directors, from the 90s and [-]s. Representatives include Lou Ye, Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai and so on.

The fifth generation of directors is full of honors, and the sixth generation of directors is not bad either, winning many awards.

Why do you have such a disdain for them?

"It's not that they are bad, it's just that most of their movies are not the type that I like. The various dark sides of human nature and society in the movies are too depressing." Qin Muchu said.

"So you don't like my dad's early works anymore?" Zhang Mo asked again.

When it comes to revealing the dark side of human nature and society, fifth-generation directors have done a lot.

"Different."

Qin Muchu shook his head,
"Old man, Father Se... ahem, I've seen the works of Director Kai Ge and Director Tian, ​​and they've all been done more than once.

Although they all reveal the dark side of human nature and society, how can I put it...the expressions are different, and the core is also different.

The fifth generation of directors photographed the land and traditional culture, while the sixth generation of directors photographed cities and marginalized survivors.

One is a nation, and the other is an individual or a small group.

The former can be resonated with basically everyone, while the latter is relatively niche. "

Zhang Mo nodded thoughtfully. She had never thought about the difference between the fifth and sixth generations of directors. After hearing this, it seemed that this was really the case.

Then she had some doubts:

"Then why is this happening?"

"Well... I think it has something to do with the different growth nutrients the director has absorbed."

Qin Muchu thought for a while and said:

“At the time of the fifth-generation directors, the atmosphere of land and national culture was strong, and they were close to the old feudal society, so their works naturally had a similar atmosphere.

The sixth-generation directors grew up in an era when urbanization had already begun. The biggest hardships at that time came from ordinary people who went to cities to work hard, and these were unconsciously reflected in their works. "

Unknowingly, they had reached the door of the hotel.

Zhang Mo thought for a moment and looked at Qin Muchu:

"What about our generation of directors?"

Although she is not a director yet, it is only a matter of time before she officially directs. Thinking about her future as a director, she can't help but feel a little confused.

"Our generation..."

This question really hit Qin Muchu.

"I don't know. Let's leave it to our next generation of directors to sum up and think about it."

……

5 month 13 day.

On the first day of the Cannes Film Festival, Qin Muchu and his party got up early and set out for the Palais des Festivals.

It was not far away, so a few people walked there instead of taking a car.

"You don't know how popular Fan Shuishui is in China now. The media reports are going crazy, Dragon Robe!"

Listening to Yang Mi's excited voice on the phone, those who didn't know it thought it was her wearing the dragon robe.

"I heard that many big-name fashion resources have found her, and now many media are calling her 'Fantasy Queen'."

"Fan Huang?"

Qin Muchu finally spoke.

"Well, he's already wearing a dragon robe, isn't he Emperor Fan?"

“…a lot of media?”

"Overwhelming."

After a moment of silence, Qin Muchu clicked his tongue:

"She is really ambitious... But if she is Emperor Fan, then who is Sister Gong Li?"

Among the female celebrities in the entertainment industry, only Gong Li is called the "Emperor". This is due to her strength, and no one is dissatisfied.

And Fan Shuishui is called "Emperor" just by walking on the red carpet. Isn't this funny?

"Anyway, Fan Shuishui is in the limelight right now, and many people in the industry are considering going abroad to walk the red carpet, especially in major film festivals. If she can be promoted, she might get resources."

Listening to Yang Mi's words, Qin Muchu frowned.

Gaining resources by walking on the red carpet and becoming a celebrity, what is this, a "carpet star"?

Furthermore, without shortlisted works and not being officially invited, it has always been a very low-level behavior to go to the red carpet.

Can't help reminding:

"No matter what others do, our company does not allow this kind of thing."

"Don't worry, Sister Mi will definitely not allow such a price drop."

After talking for a while, Qin Muchu ended the call with Yang Mi.

"Mimi, are you talking about the red carpet?"

"God's calculation."

Qin Muchu gave Zeng Li a thumbs up.

Zeng Li rolled his eyes, he didn't have any divination, he completely understood Yang Mi's gossipy character.

The group of people quickly arrived outside the Film Palace and quickly found the exhibition hall of "Love Letter" based on the information on the public sign.

Ticket checking has already begun at the door, and people are entering one after another.

Qin Muchu and the others came relatively late and were at the end of the queue.

Qin Muchu took out his mobile phone and sent Qin Hao a text message:

"Are we there?"

Qin Hao is also the second male lead in the movie, so he still has to attend the premiere. This was agreed last night.

Not long after the message was sent, the phone rang. After the call was connected, Qin Hao's voice came out:
"Director Qin, we are inside, are you here?"

"We're here too, checking in at the door."

Qin Muchu replied, suddenly realizing something was wrong.

Qin Hao said "we are inside", is there anyone else?

(End of this chapter)