In the premiere of the main competition unit, in addition to the jury, sponsors and ordinary audience who have applied for viewing qualifications, the guests present generally include celebrities from all walks of life invited by the main creative team. How the identities of the guests present indirectly reflects the How confident you are is also one of the symbols of strength.
The closer the film premiere is to the end, the more it can reveal the status and popularity of the director team and participating actors.
The Rick Film Festival is an international event with strong social attributes. Everyone comes here with a purpose, or to make contacts, or to make a deal. It is impossible to just enjoy the film. Everyone has limited physical and energy. Valuable premiere to attend.
In recent years, few new works have been shortlisted in the main competition unit. As a little-known director, Jiang Ping participated in the selection with a Chinese film with an unexpected theme.
A director with no word of mouth, a screenwriter whom I have never heard of, an actor with no reputation, not even a decent sponsor or investor. Jiang Ping has been worried since the third day of the premiere. "Sister" and an action movie by a big director are scheduled on the same day, and there is only a two-hour gap. I don't know how many guests will be willing to attend the premiere.
To be honest, he didn't dare to covet any award at the Rick Film Festival, he just wanted to get more audiences to watch it, and of course it would be great if he could be seen by a reliable distributor. It's a pity that after he finished watching the big director's movie, his heart was completely chilled.
"Xiao Li, Uncle, I'm sorry." During the interval, the main creative members were led to the waiting room of the theater. Jiang Ping didn't want to affect everyone's emotions, so he walked up to Li Zhiqing and apologized softly, "Our movie may be cold, for nothing. Wasting so much of your time."
If it weren't for his movie, the other party would definitely have won better resources.
Li Zhiqing re-tied his bow tie in the mirror, and said with a smile, "Uncle Jiang, where did your confidence go on the first day you came to Rick?"
"Two different things." Jiang Ping also laughed, but it was a bitter smile.
Li Zhiqing put his arm on Jiang Ping's shoulder and shook it: "What are you afraid of, the jury will not stop coming because of the silence, it's their loss if they don't come to see it."
Looking at the handsome young man smiling in the mirror, Jiang Ping felt more and more guilty towards him, and sighed again.
The premiere red carpet and the opening red carpet were both in front of the main entrance of the Palais des Festivals. Compared with the first day, the media areas on both sides of the red carpet were relatively cold, but at least they were not so cold.
As the protagonist of the film's premiere, the main creative team took the lead to make final adjustments in the lounge next to the theater. After about 15 minutes, the invited guests and ordinary audience were seated, and they stood by the door to be on call at any time. The staff led them into the premiere theater.
During this period of time, Jiang Ping had tried his best to calm down his mentality, but when the door of the theater was opened, there was a wave of applause, and the entire theater was full of seats. There are other crew members of the main competition unit, and there are even celebrities in the film and television industry, political and business circles.
The main creative seat is set in the center of the auditorium. Li Zhiqing stood still in front of the seat with his nameplate on it. When the media took pictures, he saw his aunt sitting in the crowd and applauding herself desperately. It was like seeing an idol for the first time. Little fan girl, her face is full of pride, not to mention how excited she is.
Li Zhiqing smiled at her from a distance, and then was amused by the person sitting behind Lou Yu.
I don't know what Lou Yu did. Not only international partners who have reached business cooperation with Lou's family came to watch the movie with him, but also other political and business people from China. It doesn't look like watching a movie. , It seems to be holding some kind of meeting.
After the media filming was completed, the main creative team took their seats one by one, and then the indoor lights were dimmed. After giving the audience a ten-second buffer time, the giant screen set up in front of the theater finally slowly lit up.
At the beginning of the movie, it was pitch black, and the woman's tragic screams and unbearable gasps echoed from the depths. However, when the volume gradually increased, the audience began to distinguish that it was not an echo, but two women's voices intertwined and overlapping.
Soon the screen came on, and on the modern operating table, the pregnant woman tightened the guardrail ferociously, her eyes burst out with maternal viciousness. It seemed that the situation was not optimistic, and the nurse put her hand on her shoulder while speaking encouragingly.
At the moment when the fingertips were about to touch the shoulders, the hands wearing sterile gloves were suddenly replaced by a pair of weather-beaten old hands. At the same time, the scene switched to another dilapidated small room. He said in a dialect: "Come on, the baby's head is going to be exposed!" Then he returned to the operating table over there with a movement of tilting his head and clenching his teeth.
This kind of picture switching is extremely ingenious. Not only are the shooting angles of the two scenes exactly the same, but even the movements of the characters are surprisingly similar. The director even used the environmental details to reveal that these are two scenes in different time and space. , the relatively modern operating room turned out to be a relatively long time ago, and the earthen house that looks backward and dilapidated is the closest time and space to the present.
After several cuts, the baby's bright cry broke through the air, and the nurse was excited: "Congratulations, madam, you are a daughter!" The next second the old man laughed and said, "Girl! It's a girl!"
The camera pans across the red, wrinkled face of the newborn, and refocuses on the pregnant woman.
The woman in the operating room smiled tiredly: "Great, we have an extra sister in our family." But the woman on the kang closed her eyes and shed tears, feeling relieved: "Well, I can afford it, I can afford it..."
Facing the newborn daughter, the two mothers show completely different attitudes, but for the two brothers in time and space, they have the same love for the sudden extra sister in the family.
As the number of cuts increased, the picture became more and more blurred and chaotic. In the final scene, the little girl in the mountain area threw herself on her brother's back, pointed at the lark on the tree and said with a smile, "Look, brother, the bird is with us." Go home." And the younger sister in the city grabbed her brother's little finger and sang delicately: "I will stop when the red light is on, and I can go when the green light is on. Go home quickly after school, and go home safely."
The singing fades away, the picture fades away, noisy voices sound, and the crowded train station jumps onto the screen. Zhang Manrong, played by Zheng Anlin, pushes her luggage and squeezes into the carriage. She is dressed in standard elite women's clothes. With the mobile phone next to his ear, he smiled and said, "How could I not want to go home, isn't this something temporary in the laboratory?"
The other end of the phone complained: "I said earlier that I didn't want you to study physics. Fortunately, you are also taking a doctorate exam. You are so busy all day long. How can you have time to fall in love? Parents still hope that you will get married soon."
"Talk about it, let's talk right away." The train started, and the scenery outside the window quickly skipped, "Don't worry, I'll be back at the end of the month..."
Before the words were finished, the train entered the tunnel, and all sounds stopped abruptly. The darkness covered Zhang Manrong's smiling face, and also covered her "go home" that she hadn't had time to say.
Only then did the name of the movie slowly appear in the middle of the screen, but soon, the word "Sister" shattered, like a bird swept by the mountain wind, and was swallowed by darkness again.
The picture slowly lights up as Zhang Manrong wakes up. She is placed on the earthen kang, and the rough roof is visible to the eyes, and the strange and incomprehensible dialect is faintly heard outside the house. Because she just woke up, she didn't know where she was, but as the memory fragments of her being stunned and trafficked flooded out of her mind, Zhang Manrong's face suddenly turned pale, and her eyes changed from bewildered to frightened. Into a kind of hollow despair oozing with death.
Just when her lips began to tremble, the locked door was opened, and a tall, thin, handsome young man walked in from the outside. He looked at her with bright eyes by the door, and lowered his eyes shyly. He pursed his lips and smiled.
The audience was just moved by that look, a little girl hugged the young man's leg from behind, tilted her head to look at Zhang Manrong, grinned, and said sweetly: "You are so handsome."
The word "sister-in-law" pulled Zhang Manrong out of her instinctive emotions when she was in a desperate situation. She watched the siblings by the door shed tears and repeated words such as "let me go". The young man scratched his head, gestured to her a few sign language which was not standard at all, and turned out to be a mute.
This is not the first time that people in this village have bought a woman from outside. The reaction to Zhang Manrong is not surprising. In the end, the little girl comforted her: "Sister-in-law, don't cry, brother and I will treat you very well." .”
Zhang Manrong was stimulated again, and her body was still affected by the drug, so she could only cry in half anger and half fear: "Let me go back! I have money, I have savings! Let me go back, and I will pay back how much you spent. You guys! I give you all my money!"
The two brothers and sisters were flustered by her crying, and hurriedly closed the door. The young man covered her mouth, even if Zhang Manrong kicked and beat her, he would not let go.
The little girl tried her best to suppress her body, and explained for his elder brother: "Shh, don't shout! My mother heard that she was going to be given medicine. The medicine is not good, and the daughter-in-law in the east is fed stupid. Sister-in-law! "
At the end of this paragraph, there is a close-up of Zhang Manrong, who was crying so hard that she almost passed out. Accompanied by heart-wrenching sobs, the camera zooms in on her eyes, and then zooms out after a while, changing to her sitting on the pit, looking through a small window to look at the scene outside.
The story officially begins here. In the opening ten minutes, it is clearly mixed into complicated clips. The background of the movie, the relationship between the characters and their respective characteristics, and many other information are all conveyed, which is surprisingly not confusing.
The dumb name is Amao, and the younger sister is Tianniu. Their father died early, and they only have a mother who is not in good health.
After being locked in the room for a long time, Zhang Manrong knew that begging was useless, and there was no hope of escaping. Fortunately, the mute was kind by nature and did not force her to do anything. Amao's family was poor, and she didn't pay the full amount when she bought Zhang Manyong. As Amaoniang became seriously ill, it was difficult to repay the debt in time, and traffickers also came to the house several times to urge her.
Zhang Manyong originally thought that Amao's family would withdraw her, and began to think about how to escape halfway. Who knew that the girl's status here was so low that it was outrageous. The doctor, reluctantly gave his daughter to a trafficker to pay off the debt.
After Ah Mao returned home, he chased after the girl like crazy. He was dumb and couldn't pronounce the sweet girl's name. The tip of the stone raised the bloody bones, but he was dumb and ignorant, got up on the ground, and continued to run wildly.
This passage made many viewers want to cry but also fearful. Li Zhiqing's character is a mute, and his emotions are all in his eyes and movements. The first impression he gave to everyone was that he was a kind and clean young man in a mountain village, but at this moment The ferocious and savage effort like a wild beast broke out directly, and the eyes were so terrifying that they seemed to tear people apart.
Unable to catch up with Tian Niu, Amao limped back home late at night, but Amao Niang cried and pushed her into the small black room where Zhang Manyong was imprisoned: "Aren't you looking for Tian Niu! She just traded your own sister Come!"
Zhang Manrong was frightened by the animal look on his face that hadn't faded away, and was afraid of what Ah Mao would do to her, but when Ah Mao leaned against the wall and cried, she couldn't help crying when she thought about what happened to her and Tian Niu: "A Mao, You send me back, my brother is also looking for me, he must be waiting for me to go home."
Tian Niu was a thorn in Amao's heart, and Zhang Manrong's words obviously pierced this thorn deeper. After hesitating for two days, Amao decided to help Zhang Manrong escape from this man-eating mountain village.
After Tian Niu was taken away, Amao Niang’s old illness worsened, and she went there not long after. Amao’s character image underwent a third transformation here. A normal person can interpret the mute with such a thick sense of hierarchy, which makes The individual directors present showed the look of seeing the baby.
Escaping did not happen overnight. Zhang Manrong obeyed Amao's arrangement, pretended to be pregnant, pretended to accept, learned their words, and did their work. In this plot where she pretended to blend in, all kinds of things in this backward small village were seen through her eyes exposed. exposed.
After nearly a year, Zhang Manrong fled back to the city he was familiar with, with a mute who knew nothing but farm work. The Zhang family was grateful to him at first, but none of them wanted to think about Zhang Manrong's disappearance, but the existence of Amao I will always remind everyone in this family what they have experienced over the years.
Ah Mao didn't want to be dependent on others, but the change of the Zhang family actually helped him. He moved to a small basement in the suburbs alone, and supported himself by picking up scraps. When the police helped him rescue the sweet girl who was forced to prostitute, and now her arms and legs were cut off to sell and cheat money on the street, he carried the sweet girl on her back. Pick up waste to feed the two of them.
Zhang Manrong erased the past, married and had children, maybe she was too busy, maybe she wanted to, but the brothers and sisters never saw her again.
The modern city is a hundred times bigger and better than the village they lived in, but they live here as low-level and pitiful as water rats.
Finally one day, when they were once again disgusted and insulted on the street, Tian Niu persuaded Ah Mao to leave here.
They are homeless people, so there is no reason to stay in one place all the time. It is their way of living from here to there.
At the end of the film, it was the crowded train station again, but Zhang Manrong, who was pushing the suitcase, was replaced by Amao, who was carrying the sweet girl on his back. He helped his sister to find the seat, and shrank his legs carefully, so as not to disturb other passengers.
Looking out of the window at the young mother who was cuddling the child, the outrageous sweet girl suddenly asked, "Brother, have you ever had a child with sister-in-law?"
After so long, Zhang Manrong is still her sister-in-law in her heart.
Amao shook his head, recalling Zhang Manyong's fake pregnancy, he lowered his eyes and smiled.
The train started, and the mother and child outside the window were left far behind, Tian Niu said: "I have."
As soon as the voice fell, the train galloped into the tunnel, and the picture turned into a familiar pitch black, but this time Tian Niu left behind the second half of her words: "There have been many births, mine and not mine."
The audience themselves were infected by the film's tragic tone. When they were dying, they were suddenly thrown a metaphor for surrogacy. Applause to the main creative team that has already stood up.
"I never thought there would be such content in a Huaxia movie," a member of the jury said while shaking hands with Jiang Ping, "I'm sorry to say that, but I really mean no harm. You know, even in other countries, There is also the possibility that such filming may not be approved.”
When Jiang Ping was watching the film, he thought of his daughter in China, and his eyes were still red. Hearing what the judges said, he couldn't be more grateful to the Lou family in his heart.
And Lou Yu, who supported this film behind the scenes, took the opportunity to hold Li Zhiqing's hand, pretending to be serious and saying, "Young people are awesome."
This is a special trip to praise my nephew.
Li Zhiqing thanked Lou Yu politely and humbly on the surface, but actually threw a complaining look at Lou Yu: What's wrong with you? Why do you call so many people to watch a movie
Lou Yu gave him a look back: Who called them? I just revealed that I want to come and see, what business do they have to do with me
Li Zhiqing withdrew his hand without a smile on his face, and quickly pulled out a safe distance of "unfamiliarity" with Lou Yu to prevent random media reports.
Anyway, the premiere evaluation of "Sister" was much higher than Jiang Ping imagined.
Popular film critics called it a film full of victims, all the plots are developing in the best direction, but the audience can only see the worst and ugliest of everything.
On the sixth day of the film festival, the score of the program of the main competition unit was finally revealed. The movie "Sister" won 3.1 points under the premise of the highest score of 4, ranking fourth on the list. Almost without any suspense, the main creative team received the invitation letter for the closing ceremony from the organizing committee that night.
In recent years, the first Huaxia film to be shortlisted in the main competition unit was nominated for an award in one fell swoop. This news alone was enough to make the domestic entertainment media compile dozens of real-time news, among which there was no lack of content about the lead actor Li Zhiqing being praised by foreign directors.
Idol can achieve such a good result in the first movie starring in it. Naturally, being a fan couldn't be happier.
[Now I can't wait to tell the whole world that it is a movie played by our young master! Ours! ]
[/doge, suddenly I really want to see Li Li play a play where the character is the young master, even if the plot of Mary Su explodes, I want to watch it. ]
There have been wave after wave of support activities on Weibo, but the enthusiasm of the crowd has not diminished by half. Just as everyone was planning to leave for the awards ceremony tomorrow night, a negative topic appeared on Weibo. Suddenly airborne the fifth place in the hot search.
[Li Zhiqing experienced exposure earlier? ]
Click on it and look again, the popular Weibo is from a trumpet created last year: [Hilda commented on Li Zhiqing: "Whose lost young master"? Now it seems that it is a prophecy! ]
There is a screenshot of the WeChat chat history at the bottom, a person with a mosaic on his head chatting in a giggling tone: [What is "the lost young master of a wealthy family", I don't know what kind of "young master" people mean. It's ridiculous to treat idols like nobles directly. Li Zhiqing's fans probably don't know that his idol used to hang out in red light districts abroad. If it weren't for the fear of being picked on by the boss who praised Li Zhiqing, I would have wanted to expose his dark history. ]
Netizens who saw the picture were all stunned. After scrolling through the rows of question marks, someone finally posted a comment: [What does the blogger mean? Li Zhiqing used to be a "duck"? ? ? ]