In the premiere of the main competition unit, in addition to the jury, sponsors, and ordinary audiences who have applied for the qualifications, there are generally celebrities from all walks of life invited by the main creative team. How does the identity of the guests indirectly reflect the crew? How confident is it is one of the symbols of strength.
The closer the film premiere is to the end, the more the position and popularity of the director group and the actors will be revealed.
The Rick Film Festival is an international event with a strong social attribute. Everyone comes with a purpose, or makes contacts, or makes a deal. It is impossible to just appreciate the film. People have limited energy, so naturally they have to choose the best Participate in the valuable premiere.
In recent years, few newcomer works have been shortlisted in the main competition. As a little-known director, Jiang Ping participated in the selection with an upset Chinese film, which has made many people feel that he has stopped here as an extraordinary performance.
Directors who have no reputation, screenwriters who have never heard of them, actors who have no reputation, and even decent sponsors and investors.Jiang Ping has been worried since the third day of the premiere. "Sister" and a major director's action film are scheduled on the same day, only two hours apart. I don't know how many guests will be willing to attend the premiere.
To be honest, he didn't dare to covet any awards at the Rick Film Festival. He just wanted to see more audiences. Of course, it would be better to be seen by reliable distributors.It's a pity that when he finished watching the film of the great director, his whole heart was cold.
"Xiao Li, uncle can't help you." During the intermittent time, the main creative members were led to the waiting room of the theater. Jiang Ping didn't want to affect everyone's mood, so he walked to Li Zhiqing and apologized in a low voice. It took you so much time."
If it weren't for his movies, the other party would definitely have better resources.
Li Zhiqing retired his bow tie in the mirror and smiled: "Uncle Jiang, where did your confidence on the first day of coming to Rick go?"
"Two different things." Jiang Ping also smiled, but smiled bitterly.
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 cold. They don't see it as their loss."
Jiang Ping looked at the handsome young man who was smiling and groaning in the mirror, he felt more guilty for him, and sighed again.
The red carpet for the premiere and the opening red carpet were both in front of the main entrance of the Festival Palace. Compared with the first day, the media concentration 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 creative team took the lead in entering the theater and then made the final adjustments in the lounge next to the theater. About fifteen minutes later, the invited guests and ordinary audiences were seated and finished, standing by the door at any time. The staff led them into the premiere theater.
During this period of time, Jiang Ping had tried to calm his mind, but when the door of the theater was opened, a wave of applause rushed in. The entire theater was full of seats, and the best seat on the first floor was not only seated. There are other crew members in the main competition unit, and even celebrities in the film and television industry and political and business circles.
The main creative seat is located in the very center of the auditorium. Li Zhiqing stood in front of the seat with his own nameplate, and when the media took pictures, he saw his little aunt sitting in the crowd and clapping desperately at him, like the first time he saw an idol. Little Mimei, proud of her face, not to mention how excited she is.
Li Zhiqing smiled at her from a distance, and then was amused by the people sitting behind Lou Yu.
I don’t know what Lou Yu did. The people who came to watch the movie with him were not only the international partners who had reached a business relationship with Lou’s family, but also other Chinese politicians and business people. The posture was not like watching a movie , It's almost like a meeting.
After the media shooting, the main creative team took their seats one by one, then the indoor lights were dimmed, and after giving the audience ten seconds of buffer time, the giant screen set in front of the theater finally slowly lit up.
At the beginning of the movie, it was pitch black, and the women's tragic cry and forbearing breath echoed from the depths, but when the volume gradually increased, the audience began to distinguish that it was not an echo, but that the voices of two women were intertwined and overlapped.
Soon the picture came on. On the modern operating table, the pregnant woman tightened the guardrail with ferocious features, her eyes bursting with maternal fierceness.It seemed that the situation was not very optimistic, and the nurse put a hand on her shoulder while speaking to encourage her.
Just as the fingertips were about to close to the shoulders, the hands with sterile gloves suddenly changed to those of a weather-beaten old man. At the same time, the scene shifted to another dilapidated small room. The old man held the pregnant woman on the soil kang and sulked his mouth. In the dialect, "Go harder, the baby's head is about to be exposed!" Then he clenched his teeth back to the operating table.
This kind of picture cutting is extremely clever, not only the shooting angles of the two scenes are exactly the same, even the characters' movements are surprisingly similar, the director even uses the environmental details to cryptically reveal that these are two different time and space scenes, but what is surprising is , The relatively modern operating room turned out to be a relatively old age, and the ruined house that looks backward and run-down is the closest time and space to the present.
After several rounds of cutting, the baby’s bright cry burst into the air, and the nurse was excited: "Congratulations, Madam, you are a daughter!" In the next second, the old man laughed and said: "Girl baby! It's baby girl!"
The lens flicked across the red, wrinkled face of the newborn and refocused on the pregnant woman.
The woman in the operating room smiled tiredly: "It's great, we have one more sister in our family." The woman on the Tukang closed her eyes and shed tears, relieved: "Well, you can afford it, you can afford it..."
Facing the newborn daughter, the two mothers showed completely different attitudes, but for the two brothers in time and space, they had the same affection for the sister who suddenly appeared in the family.
As the number of turns increases, the picture becomes more and more blurred and chaotic. In the final scene, the little girl in the mountains leaps on her brother's back, points to the lark on the tree and smiles and says, "Look, brother, the little bird is with us. Go home." And the sister in the city grabbed her brother's little finger and sang, "I will stop as soon as the red light is on, and I can pass as soon as the green light is on. Go home quickly after school and go home safely."
As the singing went away, the picture dimmed, noisy voices sounded, and the crowded train station jumped onto the screen. Zhang Manrong, played by Zheng Anlin, pushed his luggage into the car. Dressed as a standard elite woman, she found her seat and took it down and stayed in The phone in my ear smiled and said: "How could I not want to go home? Isn't this something happening in the laboratory temporarily."
The other end of the phone complained: "I said I didn't want you to study any physics. It would be nice for you to take a Ph.D. I am so busy all day long. How can I have time to fall in love? My parents are still looking forward to you getting married."
"Talk about it, talk now." The train started, and the scenery outside the window quickly skipped, "Don't worry, wait for my return at the end of the month..."
Before the words fell, the train drove into the tunnel, and all the noise stopped abruptly. The darkness covered Zhang Manrong’s smiling face, and also the phrase "go home" that she had not had time to say.
Only then did the movie's name slowly emerge in the middle of the screen, but soon, the word "sister" shattered, like a bird caught in the mountain wind, swallowed by darkness again.
The picture slowly lit up as Zhang Manrong woke up. She was placed on the tukang with a rough roof, and strange and strange dialects were heard vaguely 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 sold out of her mind, Zhang Manrong's face suddenly turned pale, her eyes turned from foggy to horror, and she changed after recognizing reality. Into a kind of empty despair that reveals lifelessness.
Just when her lips began to tremble, the locked door was opened, and a tall and thin handsome young man walked in from the outside, looked at her with bright eyes at the door, and then hung his eyes shyly. He pursed his lips and smiled.
The audience was just moved by the look. A little girl hugged the youth's leg from behind, tilted her head to look at Zhang Manrong, grinned, and said sweetly: "Good-looking sister-in-law."
The phrase "Auntie" pulled the desperate Zhang Manrong out of instinctive emotions. She watched the brothers and sisters by the door roll down in tears, repeating words like "Let me go."The young man scratched his head and compared to her a few non-standard sign languages, which turned out to be dumb.
It’s not the first time that people in this village bought women from outside. It’s not surprising that they reacted to Zhang Manrong. 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 irritated again, and his body was still unable to move under the influence of the drug. He could only cry half-angry and half-feared: "Let me go back! I have money and I have savings! You let me go back, and I will pay you back how much you spent. You guys! I give you all my money!"
The siblings were panicked by her crying, and hurriedly closed the door. The young man covered her mouth even if Zhang Manrong was kicked and beaten.
The little girl tried her best to suppress her body and explained to his elder brother: "Hush, don't scream! My mother-in-law heard that the medicine was going to be given. The medicine was not good, and the daughter-in-law in the east was fed stupid. Auntie! "
This paragraph finally gave Zhang Manrong, who was almost crying, a close-up, accompanied by a heart-wrenching sob, the camera was pushed closer to her eyes, and then zoomed out after a while, transformed into her sitting on a dirt pit, through a small Look at the outside scene from the window.
The story has only officially begun. Within the first ten minutes, it was clearly integrated into the complex fragments. The film background, the relationship between the characters, and their respective characteristics were all conveyed. It was unexpectedly not confusing.
The dumb's name is Amao, and his younger sister is Tianniu. Their father died young and there was only a poorly healthy mother.
After being locked up in the room for a long time, Zhang Manrong knew that begging was useless and there was no hope of escape. Fortunately, the dumb was kind and didn't force her to do anything.A Mao's family was poor, and he didn't pay the money when he bought Zhang Manrong. As A Mao Niang became seriously ill, it was difficult to pay the debts in time, and the traffickers came to the house several times to urge him.
Zhang Manrong thought that Amao's family would retreat, and began to wonder how to escape halfway. Who knew that the girl's status here was so low that he was heinous. Amao Niang gave sweet girl a drug and tricked Amao into the village. The doctor reluctantly gave his daughter to someone.
After returning home, Amao went to chase the girl like crazy. He was dumb and couldn't call the sweet girl's name. He could only ah ah ah desperately to run. In the end, because he rushed too quickly, he rolled down the slope directly, flesh He was lifted by the tip of the stone, revealing bloody bones, but dumb and ignorant, climbed up on the ground and continued to run wildly.
This passage made many viewers feel scared when they wanted to cry. Li Zhiqing’s character was a dumb, his emotions were all in his eyes and movements. The first impression he gave to everyone was just a kind and clean young man in a mountain village, but this time The fierce and wild struggle burst out directly like a beast, his eyes were terrifying as if he was about to tear people directly.
Unable to catch up with the sweet girl, Amao limped back home late at night, and was pushed into Zhang Manrong’s small black room by Amao Niang crying: "Aren’t you looking for a sweet girl! She just traded your sister for you Coming!"
Zhang Manrong was frightened by the animal intent on his face that hadn't faded, for fear of what A Mao would do to her, but when A Mao leaned against the wall and cried, she couldn't help crying, thinking about her encounter with Sweet Girl, "A Mao, You send me back. My brother is also looking for me at home. He must be waiting for me to go home."
Sweet girl is a thorn in Amao's heart. Zhang Manrong's words obviously pierced the thorn deeper. After hesitating for two days, Amao decided to help Zhang Manrong escape from this cannibalistic mountain village.
After the sweet girl was taken away, Amao Niang got sick from her old illness and went away soon. Amao’s character image has undergone a third transformation here. A normal person can interpret the dumb with such a heavy sense of hierarchy. The individual directors present showed the look of seeing the baby.
Escape is not a matter of overnight. Zhang Manrong obeyed A Mao’s arrangement, pretending to be pregnant, pretending to accept, learning from them, doing their work, and in this episode of her pretending to blend in, all kinds of things in this backward village pass through her eyes. Violent. Expose.
Nearly a year later, Zhang Manrong fled back to a city he was familiar with, with a dumb man who knew nothing but farming. The Zhang family was grateful to him at first, but none of them wanted to think of Zhang Manrong’s disappearance, but the existence of Amao. Will always remind everyone in this family what they have experienced over the years.
Amao didn't want to be forced by others, but the transformation of the Zhang family made him complete.He moved alone to a small basement in the suburbs, and supported himself by picking up waste products, and waited for the police to rescue him from being forced into prostitution. Now he has been chopped off to sing and cheat the sweet girl on the street, and he carries the sweet girl on his back. Picking up waste products to feed the two of them.
Zhang Manrong erased the past, marrying a child, maybe too busy, maybe intentionally, anyway, the brother and sister never saw her again.
The modern city is a hundred times larger and a hundred times better than the village where they lived, but they live here like rats in the waterway.
Finally one day, when they were again disgusted and insulted on the street, Tian Niu persuaded Amao to leave here.
They are vagrants, there is no reason to always stay in one place, living from here to there is their way of living.
At the end of the film is the crowded train station again, but Zhang Manrong, who is pushing the suitcase, is replaced by Amao, who is carrying a sweet girl. He protects his sister to find a seat, and carefully shrinks his legs for fear of disturbing other passengers.
The non-adult sweet girl looked at the young mother coaxing her child outside the window, and suddenly asked, "Brother, have you ever had a child with Auntie?"
After so long, Zhang Manrong is still her sister-in-law in her heart.
Amao shook his head and smiled when thinking about Zhang Manrong's false pregnancy.
The train started, the mother and son outside the window were left far behind, and the sweet girl said, "I did."
As soon as the voice fell, the train galloped into the tunnel, and the picture turned into a familiar pitch black, but this time the sweet girl left her unfinished words in the second half: "There have been many births, it's mine, not mine."
The audience itself was infected by the sad tone of the film. At the end of the day, they were suddenly thrown out a metaphor for surrogacy. The mood was even more complicated. The theater was silent for a while until the ending song was played and the subtitles floated up, and everyone reacted. Applause to the main creative team that has stood up.
"I didn't expect such content in the Chinese movie," a judge of the jury said when shaking hands with Jiang Ping, "I'm sorry to say that, but I really have no malice. You know, even in other countries, Filming of this kind of film may not be approved."
When Jiang Ping watched the movie, he thought of his daughter in China, and his eyes were still red. When the judges said that, his gratitude to Lou's family was even greater.
At this time, Lou Yu, who supported the film, took the opportunity to hold Li Zhiqing's hand, pretending to be serious: "The next generation is terrifying."
This is a special trip to boast that my nephew is here.
Li Zhiqing humbly thanked him politely on the surface, but in fact Chong Louyu threw a complaining look: What's wrong with you?Why do so many people come to watch a movie?
Lou Yu gave him a look: Who called them?I just revealed that I want to come and see it, what is it for them to come here?
Li Zhiqing pulled his hand back without a smile, and quickly drew a safe distance "unfamiliar" with Lou Yu to prevent random media reports.
In any case, the premiere rating of "Sister" was much higher than Jiang Ping imagined.
Popular film critics called it a film full of victims in their comments. All the plots are developing in the best direction, but the audience can only see the worst and the ugliest.
On the sixth day of the festival, the score of the main competition unit was finally revealed. The movie "Sister" won 3.1 points with a maximum of 4 points, ranking fourth on the list.There is almost no suspense, the main creative team received the closing ceremony invitation letter from the organizing committee that evening.
In recent years, the first Chinese film shortlisted in the main competition unit has been nominated for an award in one fell swoop. This news alone is enough to allow domestic entertainment media to compile dozens of real-time news, and there are many content about the starring Li Zhiqing praised by foreign directors.
The idol starring in the first movie can achieve such good results, and being a fan is naturally so happy.
[I can’t wait to tell the world that it was a movie played by our young master!Our family!]
[/doge, I suddenly wanted to see Li Li in a play in which the character is a young master, even if the story of Marie Su explodes, I want to watch it.]
The support activities on Weibo have been going on for a long time, but the enthusiasm of everyone has not been reduced by half. Just as everyone is planning to leave for the award ceremony tomorrow night to make the final recharge, a negative topic on Weibo Suddenly airborne the fifth most searched.
[Li Zhiqing experienced exposure earlier?]
Click to open and look again. The popular Weibo was sent by a trumpet created last year: [Hilda commented on Li Zhiqing: "Who's lost young master?"Now it seems that it has come true!]
There is a screenshot of a WeChat chat record at the bottom. A person whose profile picture has been mosaicked chats in a giggling tone: [What is "the lost young master of the rich"? I just didn't know what kind of "young master" they mean. Treating idols as nobles directly, it's a laugh.Li Zhiqing’s fans are afraid that they don’t know that their idols have been in the red light districts abroad before. If it weren’t for being afraid of being asked by the big guys who are holding Li Zhiqing, I would have long wanted to explode his dark history.]
The netizens who watched the pictures all looked stunned, and finally someone posted a comment with words after scanning the rows of question marks: [What does the blogger mean?Li Zhiqing used to be a "duck"???]