Tokyo Film Festival.
As one of the world's 15 Category A film festivals, this year's Tokyo Film Festival is as star-studded as ever.
Among the nominated film teams, one from China has attracted much attention from domestic media.
As we all know, international film festivals always prefer literary films to commercial films. But this time, there was a commercial work that stood out from the wave of literary films and was eligible to run for election.
On the red carpet, Meng Chuan, who was walking behind the hero and heroine, looked like he was only about thirty-five years old. His long hair was tied together until his neck. But there is a special melancholy taste, which makes people unable to bear to take a second look.
"What do you think of Director Meng participating in the International Film Festival for the first time?"
"As the only 30-generation director nominated for a category A international film festival this year, what do you expect from this trip to Tokyo?"
After the red carpet, Meng Chuan was interviewed by domestic media at the back.
Although it has not been a few years since he switched from assistant director to chief director, Meng Chuan, who has been in Hollywood for many years, has long been familiar with the media's questions, and his humorous and polite answers made the reporters present favor him. soared.
After everyone got satisfactory answers, Meng Chuan walked to the venue with a sigh of relief.
As soon as he turned his head, a glass of champagne was brought in front of him.
"Hey, long time no see Yifeng!" Meng Chuan was refreshed when he saw who was coming, as if his exhaustion from being entangled by reporters was all swept away.
"Director Meng is unusual now. Even I have to 'queue' to have a word with you." Xie Yifeng said with a smile.
"Don't make fun of me, God knows how annoying I am."
Meng Chuan, like Xie Yifeng, prefers to plunge into work, movies and art rather than the extravagant entertainment life. If this circle is not too closely linked to fame and fortune, it is estimated that they will become the kind of three hundred and sixty-six a year. Fifteen days, I can't wait for a workaholic who has been on the set for three hundred and sixty days.
"How about a drink after the end? I know there is a nice Japanese tavern near the venue." Xie Yifeng blinked and whispered to Meng Chuan.
"Okay, let's go together later." Meng Chuan could not ask for it.
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After the first day of the trip, the two opened the curtain of the tavern and walked in.
"By the way, I forgot to tell you that my friend happened to be there, don't you mind?" Xie Yifeng said with a smile.
"Don't mind, don't mind, your friend isn't mine..." Meng Chuan was talking when he suddenly saw a casual, low-key young man wearing a peaked cap sitting beside the central short table of the tavern.
Meng Chuan's smile suddenly stopped.
"Hello, Director Meng." Zhou Yuhe smiled, the face under the peaked cap was still so beautiful that it was hard to breathe.
If he is watching TV at the moment, the sense of distance from the screen will also keep him three-pointed awake.
But seeing such a smile in reality is really irresistible.
Meng Chuan's face was not embarrassed. He looked at Xie Yifeng and Zhou Yuhe, who was still in the country the day before, and smiled generously: "Dare I come to the Hongmen banquet today?"
Zhou Yuhe made a gesture of "please" gracefully, "Meng Yaoyan is serious, there is no such thing as a 'Hongmen Banquet', it's just a drink among friends, please take a seat."
Meng Chuan sat down, glanced at Zhou Yuhe, and said meaningfully: "It's just 'drinking with friends', can you fly to Tokyo from China overnight?"
"I really can't hide anything from you. I came here this time, and I really want to talk to you about the movie "Cat"." Zhou Yuhe said sincerely, he did not mention how to contact him through various channels before but was caught by Meng Chuan. He refused ruthlessly, and he didn't mention the things that the assistant had messed with when he made an appointment to meet. It seemed that he didn't know anything about those things and just wanted to see him.
Such an attitude and opening indeed avoided a lot of embarrassment.
Meng Chuan's expression slowed, and he sighed: "What do you want to talk about? I thought I had expressed it accurately enough."
Zhou Yuhe pushed the script on the short table in the direction of Meng Chuan, "Please give me half an hour, and let me introduce this script to you well..."
Meng Chuan interrupted: "Okay, I've read the script of "Cat" and I know it's a rare good script, but again, I'm not interested in literary films."
"Is it no interest, or is it because of "Ghost Story"?"
Meng Chuan's face changed.
"How do you know about The Legend of Ghosts and Demons?"
Zhou Yuhe showed such a smile as expected.
He thought about it carefully before deciding to come. At this time in his previous life, Meng Chuan won five nominations at the Tokyo Film Festival but returned empty-handed. Domestic media people were all ready to announce that he was the "light of domestic business". Oh, I didn't expect such a big oolong.
Who would have thought that it is rare for a commercial film to be nominated for five nominations and not win a single award
Meng Chuan suddenly became the object of ridicule on the Internet.
Meng Chuan is also a proud and arrogant person. After Tokyo returned home, he immediately threw himself into the production of the larger super ip "Ghosts and Demons", because he wanted to be ashamed.
Zhou Yuhe thought about it, it is very likely because Meng Chuan has already discussed cooperation with the main creative team of "Ghosts and Demons" at this time, and the situation is even worse, that is, the two sides have reached a preliminary consensus-
That's why Meng Chuan decided to turn down their invitation.
But because of Cai Dong's face, it's hard to say that it was because of a better commercial script that he didn't accept your drama, so he could only find an excuse like "not accepting literary films".
But I didn't expect that they were too tightly entwined later. Compared with offending Cai Dong, a giant in the business world, they had to wrong Zhou Yuhe.
Everyone knows that "Xun Tian" relies on Zhou Yuhe to become a mess. Cai Yuan treats Zhou Yuhe like his own son.
A fledgling cutting-edge director and a superstar, Meng Chuan reckoned that he would never choose Zhou Yuhe, so he boldly said that unless Zhou Yuhe was replaced, he would not direct—
Meng Dao's desire to survive can be said to be very strong.
"Because, the investor of "Ghost and Demon" came to me some time ago, hoping that I could play the leading role, but..." Zhou Yuhe smiled, with a hint of slyness in his eyes, "I turned it down—this is not a bad thing. After the A-level production of "Searching for the Sky", you decided to star in "Cat" instead, don't you want to hear my reasons?"
Meng Chuan stared fixedly at Zhou Yuhe, his expression was hesitant and tangled, and he seemed to be struggling with something in his heart. In just three seconds, it felt like a century.
Finally, just when Zhou Yuhe felt that he could not hold back, Meng Chuan smiled.
"You're amazing, and I'm really aroused by you now," Meng Chuan picked up the script on the little table and flipped through it casually, "Now you have fifteen minutes to prove to me, push It's a wise choice to switch from "Ghost Story" to "Cat"."
Zhou Yuhe looked at the script in his hand and took a deep breath.
At this time, Xie Yifeng, who was sitting next to him, held his palm, and the heat from his palm made him instantly calm down.
He said confidently: "Then, I'll start."