1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 692 The Most Beautiful Cub at the Opening Ceremony

If it was an ordinary judge, Jiang Ping would never have introduced the preparations for the film festival in such detail.

But Lin Weimin is different. He has helped a lot in the preparation of the Shanghai International Film Festival.

Not only did he serve as a judge himself, but he also attracted film industry figures like Alain Resnais, which immediately raised the international profile of the Shanghai International Film Festival.

Jiang Wen's "Sunny Day" just won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, and it was also recommended by Lin Weimin to become a participating film at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

In addition, Lin Weimin also donated two computers to the film festival organizing committee.

Speaking of donating computers, we have to mention the financial dilemma at the beginning of the preparations for the Shanghai International Film Festival.

In order to organize a high-standard international film festival, we went to Europe to inspect all three major film festivals. We already had a learning template, but after returning home, we discovered a big problem.

No money!
The preparation funds allocated to the Shanghai International Film Festival above are limited, and they are earmarked for exclusive use, so everyone can only increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

On the one hand, saving expenses, on the other hand, begging for money everywhere... soliciting sponsorship.

When giving his speech, Jiang Wen first thanked the investors, the production company and the producer routinely, and then the staff in front of and behind the stage of the crew, and finally said in a deep voice:

Lin Weimin also donated two computers to the film festival after hearing about the financial difficulties of the film festival.

When Zhang Guorong, Maggie Cheung, Sophia Loren, Momoi Kaoru, Gong Li and others appeared, before they had time to sign their names on the "signature wall", movie fans rushed forward and knocked down the tripods of the TV reporters several times.

Wu Mian is an actor who graduated from the Shanghai Film Academy, and donated 1 yuan to the organizing committee; Zhou Xiaoli, the head nurse in "It's All Angels' Trouble", brought tens of thousands of yuan to the organizing committee. Sponsorship; director Li Shaohong donated a computer to the organizing committee...

Since the farewell to France that year, Lin Weimin and him have only exchanged a few letters and phone calls, and this time it can be regarded as a meeting of netizens.

The listed government in Shanghai has expropriated several hotels with foreign-related qualifications, and the Peace Hotel is where the judges live.

As a screenwriter, Oliver Stone has won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay in Film Category many times. As a director, he also has such excellent works as "Born on the Fourth of July", "Assassination of Kennedy" and "Natural Born Killers".

After visiting the preparatory office, Lin Weimin was arranged by the organizing committee to the Peace Hotel.

After all, it is a film festival of its own people, regardless of how badly it will be held in later generations, but at least at this time, the group of people who organize this film festival are full of enthusiasm.

"Haha, Lin, are you surprised? My friend, I'm so glad to see you again!" Roberto Bernini hugged Lin Weimin enthusiastically.

The Shanghai Film Festival adopts the method of focusing the judges on watching movies, and tries its best to ensure the fairness of the awards.

In addition to the internationally influential jury, such as Akira Kurosawa, Richard Aden Barrow, Sophia Loren, Deborah Raffin, Kaoru Momoi, Roberto Bernini, Xie Fei, Zhang Yimou , Zhang Guorong, Ke Junxiong, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li and many other internationally renowned directors, producers and actors also appeared at the opening ceremony.

Shanghai Film City, located at the intersection of Xinhua Road and Panyu Road, was just completed last year. It covers an area of ​​more than 14000 square meters and integrates functions such as film screening, entertainment, catering, advertising, exhibitions, and conferences.

Nagisa Oshima is also one of the three masters of the new wave of Nibo movies in the 60s, which profoundly influenced the innovation of Nibo movie creation in the 70s and [-]s, and has a worldwide influence.

Lin Weimin questioned the decision of the organizing committee, and had an in-depth chat with Wu Yigong and Xie Jin. Finally, the organizing committee changed the film for the opening ceremony to "Sunny Day".

After a somewhat lengthy ceremony, the film of the opening ceremony of the first Shanghai International Film Festival officially began
- "Sunny Day".

The old man is 71 this year, and he is still working vigorously, and he is naturally in good health.

When I was in college, I really liked a novel. He was the author of the novel. I went to him and said that I wanted to play this role. He let me act, not only let me act, but also gave me permission to perform.

Lin Weimin is the winner of Oscar and Cannes Best (Original) Screenplay. As the driving force behind the scenes, he has achieved several works of Golden Bear, Golden Lion and Palme d'Or.

On October 1993, 10, the opening ceremony of the first Shanghai International Film Festival was officially held in Shanghai Film City.

The arrival of Alain Resnais indicates that the opening of the Shanghai International Film Festival is approaching. More and more foreign faces appear in the major foreign hotels in Shanghai. The organizing committee of the film festival is very busy.

The day before the opening ceremony, the staff of the organizing committee knocked on the door of Lin Weimin's room with a short curly hair.

The two met once at Bertolucci's party. Where did the relationship come from?
This little bald man has bad intentions for me!
But as a guest from afar, Lin Weimin warmly entertained Roberto Bernini.

"In addition to the above-mentioned people, there is another person I have to thank. When it comes to him, I think many friends are familiar with it.

Alain Resnais was a little excited when he saw Lin Weimin, "Lin, I watched "Farewell My Concubine" when it premiered in Cannes. The filming is great! You have found a good director!"

According to statistics, more than 630 filmmakers from various countries will come to Shanghai during the film festival, including many internationally renowned directors, screenwriters, actors and producers.

As soon as Alan Resnais met, he talked to Lin Weimin about his feelings after watching "Farewell My Concubine". Lin Weimin felt that if Cheng Kaige was here, he would probably be floating by now.

But many foreigners are still confused, they don't know Jiang Wen well, coupled with the lag of translation, their reaction is half a beat slower than that of many Chinese.

Compared with the previous judges, Paul Cox and Xu Ke have less qualifications, but they both have certain regional influence.

After the official opening, the first to appear is the jury of this year's film festival.

Jiang Wen sat in the third row of the projection hall, surrounded by applause, his mood fluctuated.

He had read all the guest lists invited by the organizing committee, and there was no Roberto Bernini.

Before the opening ceremony, the popularity of the actors is at its peak.

After a few minutes of applause, Jiang Wen and many other film creators were invited to the stage by the host.

The little bald man revealed his true feelings, but Lin Weimin didn't believe a single punctuation mark.

There are 24 shortlisted films in this year's film festival, calculated based on the efficiency of 3 films per day. Starting tomorrow, everyone will start a high-intensity movie-watching journey in advance.

Two days before the opening of the film festival, Xie Jin presided over the meeting of the jury of the film festival, and everyone got to know each other and exchanged ideas.

In the past six months, the Shanghai International Film Festival has tried every means to send out many invitation letters through various channels. Although there are few big-name stars, there are also many international friends.

As soon as the seven judges appeared, they were baptized by countless flash lights on the scene. Lin Weimin's eyes were almost blinded by the flashes. He couldn't help but look in the direction of Alan Resnais and Oshima Nagisa. Sunglasses, I still have a lot of experience!

At the opening ceremony of the film festival, hundreds of domestic and foreign filmmakers appeared collectively in front of the Shanghai Film City, murdering countless films.

But for some reason, when his debut film was presented in Chinese theaters and received praise and applause from filmmakers from all over the world, his heart was stronger than when the Venice Film Festival announced that his film had won the Silver Lion Award. More excited, more surging.

On the second day after he checked in, Alan Renai landed in Shanghai. Lin Weimin went to the airport with the organizing committee to pick him up.

Alain Resnais is the flag bearer of the French New Wave film and a master of contemporary film.

Seven judges, with Xie Jin, a famous Chinese director, as the chairman of the jury, Lin Weimin, Alain Resnais from France, Nagisa Oshima from Nibo, Oliver Stone from the United States, Paul Cox from Australia, Xu Ke from the Xiangjiang area can be described as star-studded and has a strong lineup.

The process of the judges meeting is very simple. After the seven judges came to the stage, the host introduced their resumes first, and then Xie Jin, the chairman of the jury committee, gave a speech. Everyone spoke in turn. It was all programmed content, and the whole process lasted for half an hour.

"Why are you here?" Lin Weimin asked.

When the name "Farewell My Concubine" was heard, there was a commotion among the seats in the screening hall.

Nearly a thousand Chinese and foreign filmmakers sat in the [-]-seat screening hall of Shanghai Film City. After Jiang Wen began to narrate, many domestic filmmakers already had guesses in their hearts.

The original idea of ​​the organizing committee was to show the British film "Chaplin" and four French short films in the budding period at the opening ceremony.

In his heart, the status of the Shanghai International Film Festival and the three major European film festivals cannot be compared at all.

Today is the opening ceremony of the film festival, "Sunny Day" was selected as the opening ceremony film, Jiang Wen is destined to be the most beautiful boy tonight.

"I heard that you are going to be a jury member of the film festival. We are friends, so of course I want to join in."

"Roberto?" Lin Weimin was surprised when he saw the little curly hair.

Already holding the Venice Silver Lion Award in his hand, he was full of confidence.

It is difficult for Lin Weimin to understand why the organizing committee chose such a film as the opening ceremony film, which is neither a competition film, nor a premiere film, nor a classic film. More importantly, the production company related to this film, None of the directors or actors participated in the film festival. This decision is really incomprehensible.

Although "Sunny Day" has been screened, it has not yet been screened publicly. Besides, it has just won the Venice Silver Lion Award. No matter how you look at it, it is more suitable for the opening ceremony than "Chaplin", right?
In addition, one more thing, it is Chaplin who is awesome, not "Chaplin".

"Chaplin" was directed by Richard Attenborough, and none other than the later iron man Robert Downey Jr. played Chaplin, the master of comedy. The movie was released late last year.

Although "Sunny Day" did not win the three major European or Oscar awards, this film was rated as the top ten best films in the world by "Time Magazine", and it ranked first, which is enough to prove the film's reputation. excellent.

In that year, I tinkered with the first drama work in my life, directed and acted by myself, it was so cool!
This year, the film adaptation of that novel was released and won the Palme d'Or in Cannes. It is called "Farewell My Concubine". "

Jiang Wen didn't come alone today. He is the director of "Sunny Day", and he also brought the screenwriter Wang Shuo and the film's front and back staff.

At the end of the 134-minute film screening, all the guests stood up and applauded in the largest screening hall of [-] people in Shanghai Film City. The applause lasted for a long time, expressing their love and recognition for the film.

The novel "Farewell My Concubine" has been published overseas for ten years and has sold well in more than 40 countries around the world, most of which are in developed Western countries. The total overseas sales have exceeded 2000 million copies.

In addition, this year's "Farewell My Concubine" movie just won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and its popularity has reached the level of a world famous novel.

The foreign friends present did not expect that the film director who had just won the Venice Silver Lion Award had such a relationship with "Farewell My Concubine".

"I am very sorry that I was not asked to play Cheng Dieyi in the movie "Farewell My Concubine"..."

After Jiang Wen said this, the affectionate and dignified atmosphere in the screening hall changed, and many people burst into laughter.

As far as his image is concerned, how can he have anything to do with Cheng Dieyi!

(End of this chapter)