Chapter 914: .Opening film

The sky was getting dark. The guests who were present walked into the Festival Palace one after another. According to the tradition of the Cannes Film Festival, everyone in the crew was left behind. After a while in the VIP lounge, the staff came to inform and lead Wang Yifan and his group to enter. In the screening hall. Everyone in the theater stood up and applauded to salute the crew.
Well, don't think that these people's standing ovations are for Wang Yifan, this is the rule!
It is a normal operation! In fact, it is really hard to say how many people applauded sincerely. After all, even though Wang Yifan is in the Asian region, and even in the eyes of many people in the circle, he is considered a great director.
But here is the Cannes Film Festival, a film festival that promotes art, and who is Wang Yifan? Is a commercial film director through and through!
It’s just that although many people don’t want to admit it, they have to say that the Cannes Film Festival advertises art again, but under the public relations of the United States knife, it will still compromise.
Otherwise, how could "Mad Max Fury Road" be the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival?
You must know that the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival itself represents the main film of the Cannes Film Festival. What does this show? It shows that the Cannes Film Festival has also fallen!
More than 2,000 people poured into the main venue of the Festival Palace. In addition to guests and media personnel, there were also a large number of ordinary audiences.
However, there are many audiences from Asia. Their applause is obviously much more enthusiastic. To say the least, Wang Yifan may not be so famous in Europe. After all, his films are not very popular in Europe. In the eyes of Asian audiences, his popularity is evident.
People are grouped together. For the Chinese audience, Wang Yifan can be said to be the pride of Chinese movies. It is natural and proud to be a member of the same country.
Similarly, the scope is expanded to Asia. When facing Europeans and Americans, Asian fans who are also Asians will also be proud of Wang Yifan as an Asian director.
For literary directors and filmmakers who claim to be the supremacy of art, Wang Yifan disagrees, but he never thought of opposing it, but he won't be that kind of person anyway.
Amidst applause, Wang Yifan and others walked to the front row of the crew. After everyone around them sat down, they sat in their respective positions.
"I don't understand, the work of a purely commercial film director. Why can it be the opening film of the festival?"
In the place where the guests are sitting, Quan Youlong, a literary and artistic film director from Bangzi Country, has a slight disdain in his tone: "Cannes Film Festival is simply reckless!"
Next to him, Jiang Yungui, another well-known director from Bangziguo, nodded in agreement. "Indeed!"
But they heard what they said in the ears of another director from the island, Saburo Ono, who smiled and said: "But it is undeniable that director Wang's films are indeed very popular with the audience. I just saw the Asian audience behind. To Director Wang, the applause was quite enthusiastic."
Quan Youlong said with disdain: "When the movie is filmed and produced, the audience is not there, and the audience must be ignored. If it is just to please the audience, what art is there to talk about?"
Jiang Yungui also nodded and said, "Yes, art has always been a minority. If art becomes something that the public understands and becomes something that everyone likes, then it is not art anymore."
Saburo Ono smiled. He sneered at these two guys, Kwon Yoryong and Jiang Yungui. Although what they said is not unreasonable, but since they think the audience can ignore it, after making the movie, he should do it himself. Hiding in the drawing room and enjoying it slowly, instead of showing it publicly.
Since the audience is not respected. When the audience does not exist, the audience has to pay for the film. The ugly thing is, how is it different from the behavior of standing up the archway and doing what?
Why are the same Asian directors, the same art directors, Saburo Ono and Kwon Yoryong, but Jiang Yungui's attitude towards Wang Yifan is completely different?
This starts with the characteristics of their country of origin.
Saburo Ono is an island nation. As an island nation, he, like many island nations, advocates the strong as king. Is Wang Yifan considered a strong? Of course, although Wang Yifan seems to have no achievements in the literary and artistic film circle, he is still a strong man.
Saburo Ono has his own views on movies. He may not like Wang Yifan's commercial movies, but he is not like Jiang Yungui and Quan Youlong, who cannot eat grapes and say grapes are sour.
To put it bluntly, it is the island nation. They admire the strong, but when they treat the weak, they have a different expression.
And the stick country, a country with a small country and few people, naturally has a strong inferiority complex, and when this inferiority complex reaches one extreme, it will become another extreme.
Otherwise, there will be nothing to rush to apply for cultural heritage.
It's a different situation to change to a director of Chinese art and film.
Chen Guanyun is the most accomplished literary director among the seventh generation of directors in China.
He won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, and the Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
However, Chen Guanyun's attitude towards Wang Yifan is very complicated. On the one hand, as a Chinese, he still admires Wang Yifan in his heart.
Because he has also tried commercial films, but he found that commercial films are no easier than literary films, and even more difficult in many cases.
But as the leader of the seventh generation of literary and artistic film directors in China, Chen Guanyun's position is naturally at odds with Wang Yifan.
At this time, another Chinese literary film director Xu Huang said disdainfully: "It’s no wonder that the Cannes Film Festival is not as good as each year, and its influence is declining. Even this kind of copper-smelly commercial film can be the opening. The film, and I heard that "Mad Max Fury Road" has also entered the main competition unit, and it is even possible to win a prize. Tsk tsk, Cannes is also depraved."
Chen Guanyun shook his head and said: "Cannes is actually pretty good. The world is like this. It's nothing. There are so many people who watch commercial movies. If there are more people watching, there will be a market. Cannes compromise with Hollywood to keep it going. If the existing influence remains unchanged, then the influence of Cannes will decrease faster!"
"Besides, I haven't watched the movie yet. Maybe, this movie is more special? Although Cannes has the meaning of compromising with commercial production, the basic morals are still there. Watch the movie. Anyway, Wang Yifan is also our Hua Chinese director, as a compatriot, I think that even if there is anything to say, I have to wait for the film to be judged. At least this is fair!" Chen Guanyun said to his heart.
Although the Cannes Film Festival has said that it has been biased towards capital and commercial compromise in recent years, there is still a little basic morality. At least, if it is really a popcorn movie, it is impossible to enter any main competition unit, let alone become What the opening film.
Because no matter what, insisting that art is the foundation of these film festivals at the Cannes Film Festival!
At the same time, Steven Chris and Bick Downey are also sitting in the Palais des Festivals, waiting for the release of "Mad Max Fury Road".