Wang Xiaoshuai Venice Film Festival

[Abstract] We experienced a very lively red carpet in Venice. The enthusiasm of photojournalists and fans is as good as that of "Green Red" and "Rizhao Chongqing" in Cannes and even exceeds that of "17-year-old bicycle" Berlin.

Wang Xiaoshuai: Venice Film Festival Notes

September 4 is a red carpet market. Before 11:30, there was a small cocktail party with Art Director Barbara, which is the same in Cannes and Berlin. Barbera said he was glad to hear that everyone had responded well to the movie, and we also thanked him for his invitation. The main problems of the media are not expected to be concentrated on the present social problems and historical reflections in China. The method of handling suspense and ghosts and gods has also been mentioned many times. You will feel a little bit of change and trying to familiarize yourself with your audience.

In the afternoon, the original half past three red carpet premiered a little. Everyone in the lounge ready to get on the train suddenly received a phone call, delayed on the train. The news came over there was a unclaimed package found in the auditorium where the audience, including the judges, had been evacuated and riot police had arrived. About an hour later, the alarm was released, a false alarm. This special episode happened at our premiere can be considered an interesting experience, like a very real "intruder." But my concern is still there, mainly the audience was so frustrating, the schedule is upset, they will come back? The results prove that my little thought is superfluous, the entire upper and lower levels of more than a thousand seats almost filled, and only the first two or three empty a lot. I know that due to the special location of Lido Island, at the Venice Film Festival, if a film without a particularly familiar star made the premiere, a small audience also occurred from time to time. Including the front part of the red carpet, photojournalists and onlookers will also change for this reason, I also pre-order our team shot, the result was beyond my expectations. The organizers said the reporters were all back, and many of the fans who watched the show did not go. They said they were also worried about me as usual.

We went through a very lively red carpet. The enthusiasm of photojournalists and movie fans was as good as that of "Green Red" and "Rizhao Chongqing" in Cannes and even more than the "17-year-old bicycle" in Berlin. Because in previous experience only the most solemn red carpet ceremony was held in Cannes, Venice and Berlin did not pay much attention to this aspect, and in principle there was no dress code. You would like to wear a shirt or go to Berlin, You do not have a guy in a big jacket. Cannes, regardless of the audience entering the scene and red carpet photographers, men must wear a bow tie, you wear a suit and tie are not allowed to enter. I remember the first "Pamonn" nominated for Cannes, no experience, to watch the film game, put on a suit that is fine, the result was stopped by security, life and death did not let it go. Another time I saw Kaige "Jing ke thorn Qin Wang," and before they drink, just come back and change clothes, had to wear suits, or the kind of leisure-style, want to mix in their cast into, the result is still stopped, good The people in the cast desperately explained to me that I was the master of the film and the artist, so I could mix in, but because the heart was too empty, I sat in the middle of full tuxedo and gorgeous skirt, To half secretly ran out, so "Jing Ke Thorn Qin Wang," the complete movie was later returned to fill up.

When it comes to originality, it seems that the Cannes red carpet is an exception to the director or starring because they think you are an artist. You can be informal, but also within a certain number of etiquette, for example, you can dress without a dovetail tie, but at least there is a design A sense of fashion, pants vest that is absolutely essential. Said far away, back to Venice, feeling the red carpet is also more and more grand these years, on the one hand, the Organizing Committee's attention, on the one hand it is also a self-respect for the filmmaker.

It should be nearly 8 o'clock, the film into the last picture, when music and subtitles appear, the applause ensued, after many premieres in Cannes and Berlin, the applause came the most fierce and most real, the surface I suddenly felt overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the upper and lower audiences. I felt that there was no limit to the time. I know that if it is polite, we should leave in time. But this time we have to continue to wave after wave, but we can not go away. Silent meditation, "Thank you, almost it," "Who told me that should not be withdrawn? I saw Lu in the eyes of tears, my tears could not stand, and I pull up when Liu Xuan, saw her already a tearful. Qin Hao mouth has been kept talking about "cry what ah, filming is a happy thing." We all feel after coming out, saying too much thought, more than ten minutes ah. I know that there is no such thing as a situation where the feeling of time has been extended. I had an experience of this sightseeing in Kitakyushu, "Kikujiro's summer," Kitano was alone, and I was upstairs watching him solitary, applause in the soliloquy in front of him under the spotlight The audience bowed from time to time, I was surprised, watch from time to time, ten minutes. To know how long a ten-minute experience can be without stuff,

The first trip to Venice, to this already satisfied. The most gratifying is that several of our investors, CEOs, have taken part in and experienced all this. After the movie reception, Silverrun CEO Chen Xiangrong said he was a businessman and he can not be changed but from now on he will become a cultural businessman. Xu Lin, who is also a silver-winner, also said that he has always believed and persisted to prove today that it is true that the most important thing is to go back and do a good job for more domestic audiences to see that after all we have taken the Chinese thing.

August 31 to September 6, a flash for 7 days. At 4:00 on the 7th take a speedboat to leave Lido Island, 07:05 aircraft transfer from Frankfurt to Toronto. Start the next stop of the "Intruder" festival. In the glimmer of dawn, except for us, an Asian was taken up at a pier halfway through the age of forty or fifty. A grayish-white jacket, dark gray jeans and blue-black Nike sneakers sat down Cabin, feet inside buckle, hands clasped between the two knees, all the way without words, even nodding ceremony are provincial. My mind has turned away, who is this person? From the appearance of a look at the Japanese, the search for a meeting of the Japanese, only the competition "wildfire" director Tsukamoto Jin also. After getting ashore, someone helped us to send the baggage to the airport, because too close, we walked all the way to the airport lobby. The Japanese walked behind, and then walked slowly in the queue to Toronto, for a while, and still without a nodding ceremony. Later, when looking at the Toronto Film Festival magazine, accidentally saw his photos, yes, Tsukamoto Jin also, that made "Tetsuo" Japanese men, was so shy. Strangely, how was he alone that morning? Or originally a person to come, think of that Cannes of Kitano Takeshi, Japanese quite strange. This trip, when Hong Shangxiu, walk Tsukamoto Jin also, the three yellow skin, actually did not greet each other, strange Asian ah. Do not know when they both have the same mind: Who is this Asian? Looks like it must be Chinese, yes, this year China has three short films, one in the film unit, the other two show and closing, but which is he? Who is he? what do you say that is?