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

Chapter 591 Premiere of "Lost and Found" (23)

In recent years, with the advent of the internet age, many people have lost their mystique surrounding things like European film festivals and the Oscars…

People have noticed that political correctness is the biggest advantage for a film to be nominated, whether it's at European film festivals or North American film awards.

For example, topics such as the LGBT community, feminism, ethnic minorities, marginalized areas, and criticism of the system and political metaphors.

Let's take director Wei Shujun, who has been nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's secondary section four times. Domestic media regards him as a "Cannes direct descendant".

His career has recently taken a sharp turn for the worse, with none of the three new films he directed making it into the "Big Three".

why?
Because he's no longer assigning essay topics!

"Yanbian Boy," which was shortlisted for Cannes for the first time, features a Korean boy from a rural area as its protagonist. This kind of subject matter and creation is likely to win the favor of Cannes.

But later, he started making films about other subjects!
"Youthful Dreams", "White Crane Spreads Its Wings", and "Sunshine Club"...

Just from the name, you can tell it has nothing to do with political correctness...

In comparison, Asian films are not mainstream in the three major European cinemas…

In fact, creators in the three East Asian countries are well aware of this principle.

In recent years, the Shanghai and Beijing International Film Festivals, the Tokyo International Film Festival in Japan, and the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea have maintained a trend of mutual assistance, nominating and praising many of each other's films in the hope of establishing a film aesthetic system that belongs to Asians.

Unfortunately, their overall public profile is only average.

Because the standards for good and bad are in their hands!

As for the award criteria, the three major competitions have around 10 judges who vote on a small scale. The chairman of the judging panel decides the voting rules, so the judges have considerable power. It is very important whether there are judges from their own country or those who have a favorable view of that country.

Zhang Yimou is arguably the most outstanding – he won the Golden Bear Award together for "Woman Sesame Oil Maker" and "The Wedding Banquet".

Zhang Yimou was the chairman of the jury that year. He said that it would be very meaningful for the Chinese people if the two films won awards together, and proposed that the two films jointly win the Golden Bear - the place where the Berlin Wall fell, and the two sides of the strait are one family.

The Berlin Film Festival that year was more politically charged, and these words successfully moved the judges.

Therefore, Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises" was shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival. Jiang Wen said, "Man proposes, God disposes." That year, the chairman of the jury was Zhang Yimou, but Zhang Yimou awarded the Golden Lion to "Lust, Caution," and "The Sun Also Rises" did not win a single award!
There's a picture about Chinese-language filmmakers serving as judges...

The last one is director Wayne Wang – who served as a jury member at the Berlin Film Festival. That year, "Mei Lanfang" was nominated, making a big splash, but it didn't win a single award!
He's an American director of Chinese descent...

If Shen Yan wants to win an award this year, he'll have to work hard against Alexander Desplat and Sandy Powell…

It's highly unlikely that Chen Chong will speak up for Shen Yan, considering that as a Golden Horse Awards judge, she directly 'smeared' Gong Li's award...

……

In the original timeline, Deng Chao rose to fame with "The Breakup Guru" because he won the summer box office champion—a Chinese-language film.

This time will be similar.

As of July 17th, "The Magic Hour" had been in theaters for 21 days, accumulating a box office of 7.85 million yuan, temporarily ranking second in the summer box office, second only to "Transformers 4" with 18.21 billion yuan...

Even the daily box office of "Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon" couldn't match it...

The movie "Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon" wasn't great, but its promotional song "Little Apple" was a huge hit—a divine song of the year!
In the original timeline, this lousy movie grossed over 200 million!
This time it's highly unlikely to reach 200 million...

The estimated final revenue is around 1.8 million.

By the way, "Tiny Times 3: The Golden Age" was released on the 17th, and its box office on the first day was 1.07 million yuan. Adding the 704 million yuan from the midnight screenings, the total box office on the first day was 1.14 million yuan!
However, the number dropped to 7097 million the next day, and then further to 6894 million and 6228 million on Saturday and Sunday...

The box office reached 3.16 million yuan in its first four days.

That's right, it's a pure fan film!

If I remember correctly, Tiny Times 3's total box office was 5.2 million yuan, and its opening four-day box office was 3.16 million yuan... The opening week's box office accounted for more than 50%...

Well, there are still many criticisms.

But to be honest, compared to when "Tiny Times" suddenly appeared last year, there aren't actually that many people criticizing "Tiny Times 3"...

Most of them are just film critics trying to ride the wave of popularity—they're saying "Tiny Times 3" has high viewership because of this!
Haven't you seen Zhou Liming and Shi Hang both stepping into the spotlight? They've done several programs, like "Human Movie Cannon" and "Four Flavors of Poisonous Uncle." The movie channel even made a talk show for Shi Hang called "Parrot's Voiceover," where he reviews movies!

Many people want to follow suit…

But this time, "Tiny Times 3" didn't generate much discussion—the general consensus was that Guo Jingming hadn't improved, the plot was still childish and melodramatic, and it was just showing off luxury…

See, even their insults lack originality!

Oh, Shen Yan has already returned to Beijing—with the footage he shot, and is working with the editor to edit "Burning"...

That's right, filming for "Burning" is finished...

All filming was completed in 16 days!
Almost all of it was filmed on location, including setting fire to a large plastic greenhouse and Shen Yan stripping naked and leaving...

The film wasn't particularly difficult to shoot; it was mostly shot with a handheld camera.

It begins with a long take following the protagonist and ends with a similar long take...

The biggest challenge is... the sex scenes...

There's a bed scene between Jong-soo and Hae-mi...

Shen Yan used a rather 'popular' method: the censorship was approved from Zhong Xiu's perspective, completely omitting the scenes between the two of them, but the film festival segment used more conventional shots…

No nipples are visible.

Shen Yan particularly dislikes overly nude scenes…

Of course, he knew these shots would help him win an award!
Films like "Annora" and "Carol," which are ostensibly feminist, actually contain numerous scenes that cater to male desires, and union voting does not necessarily equate to "fair aesthetics."

But... Dilraba is inherently not a good candidate for awards in this film—her character isn't independent enough, so there's no need for her to showcase her figure or anything like that...

After finishing the editing, Shen Yan felt that even if the play "Burning" didn't win the Golden Lion Award, his portrayal of Zong Xiu would most likely win Best Actor!

By the way, "Burning" was submitted for review immediately after editing—it is against regulations to participate in film festivals without submitting the film for review first.

The review was very quick... the approval was given the very next day.

Then there's the subtitling work...

……

On July 20th, Shen Yan, who was busy with post-production work on "Burning," took some time to attend the premiere of "Lost and Found"...

There's no way around it, this is a 'patriotic tribute' film.

The filming was quite restrained, even humorous—cruel humor!

"My biggest relief is that it was me, not my wife, who was searching for the child. There was a woman who lost her baby, and the whole of China was frantically searching for her. She once told me that right after the child went missing, a scammer claimed to know the child's whereabouts, offering to sleep with him on the condition that she sleep with him. This became her lifelong nightmare."

But all the selling points combined can't compare to Shen Yan!

After all, there are just too many topics worth discussing about Shen Yan!
"I watched a documentary about this movie, then I found Master San, who then contacted Director Huang, and we came together to make it happen!"

　Going out for dinner... There's one more chapter, probably after midnight, everyone can read it tomorrow!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)