At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 398 "Aviator"

"Aren't you tired of replying one by one?"

"No, I'll just pick up a few replies..."

Shen Xudong didn't look back.

It was Chen Hao who spoke...

"The Aviator" stars Huang Bo and Chen Hao.

For the main competition unit, the organizing committee has arranged special rooms, but... there are only three rooms.

Not enough to live at all!
Tianmei Media has brought two films this time, "The Aviator" and "Witness of the People". The main creative team alone is about a dozen people, and there are accompanying staff!
Simply book two suites at the nearby Cipriani Hotel - $8000 per night for each!

Why are you so willing to spend money?
Those who are riding horses will spend more than 80 U.S. dollars anyway, so why care about this little money!
Oh, and half of the party money was sponsored by a lot of brands - Gong Li will be in attendance.

A luxury!
Shen Xudong is staying at the Shipriani Hotel...

In addition, the Venice Film Festival is really expensive. Among other things, the water taxi costs 250 US dollars per hour. The period is about 15 RMB!
Do you want to buy it or not?
So, hesitant, you either don’t go, if you come, you have to spend money, and money must be spent!

Unless you are sure of winning the prize, or you don’t care much about overseas copyrights, like last year’s "Outstanding Citizen" you didn’t spend any money, and relied on quality to win a bunch of reports in the show magazine...

Don't buy "The Aviator". After all, it was shortlisted for the main competition. Should you buy "National Witness"?

The films shown are selling copyrights. If you don’t promote them, who will buy them?
Pulling back, Chen Hao sat directly on his lap and read what he wrote: "Are you going to offend someone?"

"Who is offended? What I wrote is not the truth?"

"...That's not so good..."

"It's okay, I've published it all..."

Seeing what he said, Chen Hao could only nod, and suddenly remembered something: "Do you think I should write a few blog posts?"

Shen Xudong pondered for a while, and then said: "...Do whatever you want, and don't deliberately follow the trend..."

"Follow the trend? With whom? Xu Jinglei?"

"...What you said, not what I said!"

"Let me see what she wrote!"

Chen Hao clicked the mouse, clicked it for a while, and then jumped out of Xu Jinglei's blog...

After watching for a while, seeing "My University", I couldn't help but spit out: "Made, I hate this kind of pretending to be cultural people the most!"

"...People are just expressing their feelings..."

"Pooh…"

Chen Hao rolled his eyes: "It's like who doesn't know about her shit!"

Shen Xudong shut up...

He will not share his true feelings with anyone casually!

The senior sister rubbed a few times, squatted down skillfully, and suddenly asked: "...Have you slept with her?"

"…No…"

"It's almost there!"

……

"The Aviator" premiered at the Venice Film Palace on the Marconi Riviera.

The Venice Film Palace includes four halls, four small halls and an open-air screening room, which ensures that the participating films such as the main competition unit and the horizon unit can have more than three screenings.

"The Aviator" arranged a lobby...

Movies are single-line narratives, according to three time periods, 1978, 1992, 2002...

In the first part, the leading role tells about the life experience of the leading actor and his dream of flying into the sky;

The second paragraph is to resign and go to sea, and the first flight fails;
The third stage is suffering from cancer, with six months left to live, desperate to realize the dream...

Zhou Shen and Liu Lu's camera control is a bit immature, the narrative is plain, and the plot is relatively stretched, but the transition is a bit abrupt...

Shen Xudong simply suggested that they should be divided into three paragraphs, each with a subtitle.

But even so, it can still be seen that the two directors are a little rusty, not the kind of very round things...

Mature directors have ingenious designs for each transition, which is the product of long-term training.

Another point is that the scenes basically revolve around Huang Bo's role as Li Mingqi. Although Huang Bo's performance is very good, he does not organically integrate with the changes of the times, avoiding the turbulent changes that have taken place in Chinese society, and has a sense of unreality.

However, the audience bought it very much, and the story is pretty good!
Especially in the last scene, Li Mingqi, played by Huang Bo, flies towards the sun, and the back view shown by the camera also has his cry "Ahhhh..."

The ex-girlfriend of the childhood sweetheart played by Chen Hao smiled and cried: "That was the last time I saw Li Mingqi, that day I saw him fly into the sun!" '

As soon as the screen went black, a line of small characters appeared: "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?"

"Because the mountain is there!"

"Why are you flying?"

"Because the sky is there!"

At the end of the movie, the audience responded very well, and the audience gave a standing ovation...

In fact, audiences all over the world have only one requirement for movies: good stories, sincerity, and no pretentiousness.

Including several Chinese-speaking filmmakers who came to join in the show also applauded...

But film critics are not so simple!

"The Aviator"... has a bit of a shadow of "Forrest Gump", but the background is just a brief introduction, and there is no meaning of discussion.

And some shots are a bit blunt...

The ending is romantic, but romantic means cliché - isn't Goodbye Lenin romantic? Isn't "Up" romantic?
In a word, it has potential, but not enough depth.

Moreover, "The Aviator" is the work of the main competition unit, who cares whether you are a newcomer or not...

You have to spray it!
……

During the film festival, as long as the crew is not so poor, they will usually hold a reception after the film screening...

Generally, film producers, filmmakers, judges, and, yes, the media will be invited to attend.

Last year... there was no reception.

Because the price of a reception starts at least $10...

How about inviting more than 100 people?

Venue, food, drinks, waiters...

You do the math, food, lodging, transportation, advertisements, receptions... Can you get it back just by selling copyright?

So, last year's "Outstanding Citizen" simply didn't do anything.

This year, isn't it rich?

Huang Bo's face was almost frozen with laughter - he really didn't know what these people were talking about, but he didn't care what others were talking about, just laughed and it was over.

Shen Xudong accompanies Zhou Shen and Liu Lu to meet various people, and the ones he sees the most are the directors of major film festivals—he has received many invitations, and hopes to bring "The Aviator" to their film festivals for screening, with all expenses covered.

It’s really like what Ning Hao said: when you enter a film festival, you will be invited by other film festivals and travel around the world for free...

——More than 60 international film festivals of various titles have been held individually or alternately in more than 300 countries and regions around the world.More than 20 countries in Europe have held 144 film festivals...

Moreover, if you win an award, you will also get a bonus!

Last year's "Outstanding Citizen", Guan Hufei spent about half a year and won nearly 200 million bonuses...

As for the invitations to these film festivals, Zhou Shen and Liu Lu will not agree to all of them, but they will definitely agree to some—to cooperate with the distribution and promotion!

You are a low-budget movie, and it is impossible to promote it on a large scale. You can only use film festivals around the world to promote it...

(End of this chapter)