Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 567: Chat (23)

In fact, Spark Studio signed Ma Yili for three films: *Sheep Without a Shepherd 2*, *The Vanished Woman*, and *Saving the Suspect*.

From a business perspective, Shen Yan is definitely on Ma Yili's side.

Moreover, Ma Yili's statement, "Love is easy, marriage is not, cherish it as you go," sparked a lot of discussion.

Oh, and a bunch of online movies are jumping on the bandwagon, like "See You on Tuesday" and "See You on Wednesday"...

Those people who make online movies really have no bottom line. Back when Wang Baoqiang got divorced, several online movies were officially announced to start filming, such as "Baby Don't Cry" and "Baby, Keep Going!"...

Before the release of director Feng Xiaogang's film "I Am Not Madame Bovary," at least fifteen online films related to "Madame Bovary" appeared online, such as "She Is Not Madame Bovary," "Madame Bovary Is Me," and "Madame Bovary's Search for a Stick," etc.

Furthermore, in order to attract viewers, online movies often invite Japanese actresses to join the cast…

That's right, just like the actress you're imagining!

—There are no strict censorship standards for online movies, so many themes that traditional movies dare not film can be realized in online movies, such as horror and thriller, zombie themes, gambling movies, and movies that skirt the edge of sex.

This is called the early, unregulated stage...

Oh, back to Shishi, Shen Yan immediately offered a few words of comfort, and then said they would watch "Captain America 2" together the day after tomorrow...

……

Captain America 2 is arguably the best Marvel movie ever!
Actually, the character of Captain America is very difficult to portray—the most challenging characters to create are always the perfect, idealized figures, because they are too contrary to human nature and easily give people a sense of artificiality. On the other hand, the plot of a flawed character becoming a hero is more likely to evoke emotional projection from the audience, and this "anti-hero" trope has become more popular.

Steve Rogers, the Captain America in the first Captain America movie, was impeccable in character and conduct, but he always seemed to have limited abilities and a dull personality, making him seem "too fake".

The second Captain America movie cleverly solved this problem without resorting to bizarre tricks, but instead used dystopian themes and "sacrifice".

On the one hand, by making Captain America feel out of place through the changing times, the alienation caused by his idealized and perfect image is reduced;
On the other hand, the various plot twists and reversals make the audience miss Captain America's unwavering consistency, and his weakness also eliminates the boredom of perfection—his weakness is Bucky.

Finally, through the "Leap of Faith," Captain America chooses sacrifice and trust in a life-or-death situation, completing a religious-like elevation and establishing himself as a true prophet—a truly powerful and persuasive act…

Human "divinity" must originate from human nature. Only by cultivating human nature can we successfully explain how "divinity" can stand.

The Russo brothers truly have a knack for successfully imprinting a character in the audience's mind in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," a character so perfect it's almost unreal.

No wonder Kevin Feige was a staunch supporter of the two in "Captain America: Civil War"!

At the time, the script for Captain America 3 was interfered with by the Marvel Creative Committee, which wanted the script to follow a traditional path, where Iron Man and Captain America reconcile and team up to fight the villain.

The Russo brothers responded bluntly, "If you (Marvel) ultimately agree to film it according to this script, we're leaving!"

Kevin Feige's continued support for the Russo brothers led to the success of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame!

Later, they fell out with Disney, but after Kevin Feige regained control of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, his first action was to negotiate with the two directors, and then invite them to direct "Avengers 5" and "Avengers 6"...

……

After watching the movie, Shen Yan exclaimed, "Marvel is really on fire this time. I estimate each film will gross at least 500 or 600 million!"

Shi Shi shook her head, disbelieving. "It can't be that bad. I think Frozen is more interesting..."

"...You like Frozen?"

"Yes, Olaf is so cute!"

"Then... let's go to Disney World in Orlando for half a month in a while."

“Okay…” Shishi nodded immediately, then asked, “Where is Orlando?” “A city in central Florida, Orlando Disney World, the world’s largest Disney resort, about a fifth the size of Singapore…”

"Then...when are we going?"

“…Late September, I think,” Shen Yan thought for a moment, “I’ll go to Venice in September, and after that, I’ll fly straight to the United States, where we’ll meet up and have a two-week vacation!”

"OK…"

She nodded slowly, then seemed to remember something: "Is 'Burning' definitely going to be nominated for Venice?"

"I've already received the invitation!"

"Can you win an award?"

"It should be possible... but the specifics depend on the public relations team."

"Wow, can you even do public relations for the Venice Film Festival?"

Shen Yan replied, "Of course, anyone can be persuaded... European film festivals mainly depend on the jury's taste. Zhang Yi served as jury president twice, and both times he awarded the top prize to Li An..."

At the Berlin Film Festival, he was the jury president and awarded the Golden Bear to "The Wedding Banquet." At the Venice Film Festival, he was again the jury president and awarded the Golden Lion to "Lust, Caution."
As an aside, at that year's Berlin Film Festival, the Golden Bear award was a tie—the Best Film Golden Bear went to Xie Fei's *Woman Sesame Oil Maker* and Ang Lee's *The Wedding Banquet*…

But now they only praise Ang Lee, and don't even mention the fact that Zhang Yimou served as the chairman of the jury and then presented him with the award!

After all, if you state the facts, wouldn't it make Ang Lee seem inferior to Zhang Yimou?

By the way, the chairman of this year's jury is the French film score maestro Alexandre Desplat—whose representative works include "The Ides of March," "Zero Dark Thirty," "Fantastic Mr. Fox," and "The Grand Budapest Hotel." He later won the Academy Award for Best Original Score twice for "The Danish Girl" and "The Shape of Water"!
The European rights to Shen Yan's "Burning" have been negotiated with MK2...

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the entire operation should be handed over to MK2…

MK2 is a French film company that specializes in distributing art-house films, especially many award-winning ones.

Shen Yan approached them to handle the European copyrights simply to take the opportunity to do some public relations—although most Venice award-winning films perform poorly at the box office even after being released in China, they still have some influence in Europe!

Shen Yan didn't hide anything from Shi Shi and told her everything. The latter was a little puzzled: "What about the movies that won awards before?"

"Before?"

"Zhang Yi has won the Venice Golden Lion Award twice!"

"...At the time, no one really had any public-minded ideas; it was probably all about quality."

Zhang Yimou won the Venice Golden Lion twice for her roles in "The Story of Qiu Ju" and "Not One Less"...

At the time, Zhang Yimou probably didn't have a public relations team.

"Oh…"

Shi Shi nodded, then suddenly asked, "Do you still remember Nazha?"

"Who?"

"Gulinaza, my junior sister at Tangren..."

"Her? I know her, Xiaoxue from 'Xuan-Yuan Sword'!" Shen Yan feigned sudden realization: "What's wrong? Is something the matter?"

"I still have a year and a half left on my contract with Tangren... Lao Cai contacted me, wanting me to mentor Nazha!"

(End of this chapter)