1980 My literary era

If it were an ordinary judge, Jiang Ping would never introduce the preparations for the film festival in such detail.

But Lin Weimin is different. He was very helpful in preparing for the Shanghai International Film Festival.

Not only did he serve as a judge himself, but he also attracted film industry figures like Alain Resnais, which immediately raised the international profile of the Shanghai International Film Festival.

Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days" just won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. It was also recommended by Lin Weimin and became an entry in the Shanghai International Film Festival.

In addition, Lin Weimin also donated two computers to the film festival organizing committee.

Speaking of donating computers, we have to mention the financial dilemma at the beginning of the preparations for the Shanghai International Film Festival.

In order to organize a high-standard international film festival, we went to Europe to inspect all three major film festivals. We already had a learning template, but after returning home, we discovered a big problem.

No money!

The funds allocated to the Shanghai International Film Festival from above are limited and earmarked, so everyone can only increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

On the one hand, we are saving money, and on the other hand, we are asking for help everywhere... to solicit sponsorship.

Wu Mian is an actor who graduated from the Shanghai Film Academy and donated 10,000 yuan in salary to the organizing committee; Zhou Xiaoli, the head nurse in "It's All Angels' Trouble", brought in tens of thousands of yuan to the organizing committee. Sponsored; Director Li Shaohong donated a computer to the organizing committee...

Lin Weimin also donated two computers to the film festival after hearing about the film festival's financial dilemma.

After all, it is our own film festival. No matter how embarrassing it is in later generations, at least at this time, the people who organize this film festival are full of enthusiasm.

After visiting the preparatory office, Lin Weimin was arranged by the organizing committee to go to the Peace Hotel.

In the past six months, the Shanghai International Film Festival has tried every means to send out many invitations through various channels. Although there are few big-name stars, there are also many international friends.

According to statistics, during the film festival, more than 630 filmmakers from various countries will come to Shanghai, including many internationally renowned directors, screenwriters, actors, and producers.

The Shanghai Municipal Government has requisitioned several hotels with foreign-related qualifications, and the Peace Hotel is where the judges will stay.

The day after he checked in, Alain Resnais landed in Shanghai, and Lin Weimin went to the airport with the organizing committee to pick him up.

The old man is 71 this year, and he is still working vigorously and is naturally in good health.

Since we parted ways in France that year, Lin Weimin and he had only communicated through a few letters and phone calls, and this time it was considered a meeting between netizens.

Alain Resnais was a little excited when he saw Lin Weimin, "Lin, I saw "Farewell My Concubine" when it premiered in Cannes. It was so great! You found a good director!"

As soon as Alan Resnais met, he talked to Lin Weimin about his feelings after watching "Farewell My Concubine". Lin Weimin felt that if Cheng Kaige were here, he would probably be floating by now.

The arrival of Alain Resnais indicates that the opening of the Shanghai International Film Festival is approaching. More and more foreign faces are appearing in major foreign hotels in Shanghai, and the film festival organizing committee is very busy.

Two days before the opening of the film festival, Xie Jin hosted a meeting of the film festival jury, where everyone got to know each other and communicated.

The Shanghai Film Festival adopts a method where the judges gather to watch the films and try their best to ensure the fairness of the awards.

There are 24 shortlisted films in this film festival. Based on the efficiency of 3 films per day, starting from tomorrow, everyone will start an intensive movie-watching trip in advance.

The day before the opening ceremony, the staff of the organizing committee knocked on the door of Lin Weimin's room with a short curly man.

"Roberto?" Lin Weimin was surprised when he saw Curly Hair.

"Haha, Lin, are you surprised? My friend, I'm so happy to see you again!" Roberto Bernini hugged Lin Weimin enthusiastically.

"Why are you here?" Lin Weimin asked.

He had seen the list of guests invited by the organizing committee, and Roberto Bernini was not there.

"I heard that you are going to be a judge at the film festival. We are friends, so of course I want to come and support you."

What the little bald man said was true, but Lin Weimin didn't believe a single punctuation mark.

The two met once at Bertolucci's party. Where did the relationship come from?

This little bald guy has no good intentions towards me!

However, as a guest from afar, Lin Weimin warmly entertained Roberto Bernini.

On October 7, 1993, the opening ceremony of the first Shanghai International Film Festival was officially held at Shanghai Cinemas.

Shanghai Cinema, located at the intersection of Xinhua Road and Panyu Road, was just completed last year. It covers an area of ​​more than 14,000 square meters and integrates movie screening, entertainment, catering, advertising, exhibitions, conferences and other functions.

At the opening ceremony of the film festival, hundreds of domestic and foreign filmmakers appeared in front of Shanghai Cinemas and murdered countless films.

In addition to the internationally influential jury, such as Akira Kurosawa, Richard Adenbarro, Sophia Loren, Deborah Raffin, Kaoru Momoi, Roberto Bernini, Xie Fei, Zhang Yimou , Zhang Guorong, Ke Junxiong, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li and many other internationally renowned directors, producers and actors also appeared at the opening ceremony.

Before the opening ceremony, the actors' popularity is at its peak.

When Zhang Guorong, Maggie Cheung, Sophia Loren, Kaoru Momoi, Gong Li and others appeared, before they could sign their names on the "signature wall", fans swarmed forward and knocked down the tripod of the TV reporter several times.

After the official opening, the first thing to appear was the jury of this film festival.

There are seven judges, with Xie Jin, a famous Chinese director, as the chairman of the jury. The judges include Lin Weimin, France's Alain Resnais, Nagisa Oshima, America's Oliver Stone, Australia's Paul Cox, Xu Ke from the Xiangjiang area can be said to be star-studded and has a strong lineup.

Lin Weimin is the winner of the Oscar and Cannes Best (Original) Screenplay. As the driving force behind the scenes, he has achieved several Golden Bear, Golden Lion and Golden Palm works.

Alain Resnais is the standard-bearer of French New Wave cinema and a contemporary film master.

Nagisa Oshima is also one of the three heroes of the new wave of films in the 1960s and 1960s. He profoundly influenced the innovation of film creation in the 1960s and 1970s and has global influence.

As a screenwriter, Oliver Stone has won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay in the Motion Picture category many times. As a director, he also has masterpieces such as "Born on the Fourth of July", "JFK" and "Natural Born Killers".

Paul Cox and Xu Ke are slightly less qualified than the previous judges, but they both have certain regional influence.

As soon as the seven judges appeared, they were baptized by countless flashing lights. Lin Weimin's eyes were almost blinded by the flash. He couldn't help but look in the direction of Alan Resnais and Oshima Nagisa. No wonder the two old men were wearing Sunglasses, I still have a lot of experience!

The process of the judges' meeting was very simple. After the seven judges came on stage, the host first introduced their resumes, and then Xie Jin, the chairman of the judging committee, spoke. Everyone spoke in turn, all of which were programmed content, and the whole process took half an hour.

After a somewhat lengthy ceremony, the opening ceremony video of the first Shanghai International Film Festival officially began to be played.

——"Sunny Day".

The original idea of ​​the organizing committee was to screen the British film "Chaplin" and four French short films from the embryonic period of the film at the opening ceremony.

"Chaplin" is directed by Richard Attenborough. The comedy master Chaplin is played by none other than Robert Downey Jr., the later Iron Man. The movie was released late last year.

It was difficult for Lin Weimin to understand why the organizing committee would choose such a film that was neither an entry, nor a premiere film, nor a classic film to be the opening ceremony film. More importantly, the production companies related to this film, None of the directors or actors participated in the film festival. This decision is really incomprehensible.

Lin Weimin questioned the organizing committee's decision, and went to have an in-depth chat with Wu Yigong and Xie Jin. Finally, the organizing committee changed the opening ceremony film to "Sunny Days."

Although "Days of the Sun" has been screened, it has not been screened publicly yet. Besides, it just won the Venice Silver Lion, so it is more suitable to be the opening ceremony film than "Chaplin", right?

One more thing, Chaplin is awesome, not "Chaplin".

Although "Days of the Sun" did not win the top three European or Oscar awards, it was named one of the top ten best films in the world by Time Magazine and ranked first, which is enough to prove the film's excellent.

At the end of the 134-minute film screening, all the guests in the largest thousand-person screening hall of Shanghai Cinemas stood up and applauded. The applause lasted for a long time, expressing their love and recognition for the film.

Jiang Wen was sitting in the third row of the screening room, surrounded by applause, and his mood was ups and downs.

In his mind, there is no comparison between the Shanghai International Film Festival and the three major European film festivals.

But for some reason, when his debut film was shown in Chinese theaters and received praise and applause from filmmakers from all over the world, he felt stronger than when the Venice Film Festival announced that his film had won the Silver Lion. More exciting and surging.

Jiang Wen is not here alone today. He is the director of "Sunny Days" and also brought with him screenwriter Wang Shuo and many of the film's front and backstage staff.

After several minutes of applause, Jiang Wen and many other film creators were invited to the stage by the host.

Today is the opening ceremony of the film festival. "Sunny Days" has been selected as the opening film. Jiang Wen is destined to be the most beautiful kid tonight.

With the Venice Silver Lion in his hand, he is full of confidence.

When giving his speech, Jiang Wen first thanked the investors, production companies and producers as usual, then the crew in front of and behind the scenes, and finally said in a deep voice:

"In addition to the above people, there is another person I have to thank. When it comes to him, I think many friends are familiar with him.

When I was in college, I particularly liked a novel. He was the author of the novel. I ran to him and told him that I wanted to play this role. He let me play it. Not only did he let me play it, he also gave me permission to perform.

That year, I created the first drama in my life. I directed and acted in it myself. It was so exciting!

This year, a movie adapted from that novel was released and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. It's called "Farewell My Concubine." "

Nearly a thousand Chinese and foreign filmmakers were sitting in the thousand-person screening hall of Shanghai Cinema. After Jiang Wen began to narrate, many domestic filmmakers already had speculations in their minds.

But many foreigners are still confused. They don't understand Jiang Wen, and coupled with the lag in translation, their reaction is half a beat slower than that of many Chinese.

Until I heard the name "Farewell My Concubine", there was a commotion among the seats in the screening hall.

The novel "Farewell My Concubine" has been published overseas for ten years and has been sold well in more than 40 countries around the world, most of which are Western developed countries. The total overseas sales have exceeded 20 million copies.

In addition, this year's "Farewell My Concubine" movie just won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and its popularity has reached the level of a world masterpiece.

The foreign friends present did not expect that the film director on stage who had just won the Venice Silver Lion Award would have such a connection with "Farewell My Concubine".

"I'm sorry that I was not cast as Cheng Dieyi in the movie "Farewell My Concubine"..."

After Jiang Wen said these words, the affectionate and solemn atmosphere in the screening hall changed, and many people burst into laughter.

His image has nothing to do with Cheng Dieyi!