Dreams of the Fragrant River

When Xu Ke led the crew members to interact on stage, the opening film of the Venice Film Festival was officially played. (First release) In the ethereal and magical music, a little boy rides on a boat-shaped moon, the moon in the water for anglers.

"Oh, I know this title, so "Shushan" is a DreamWorks movie!"

Immediately, the audience exclaimed, with the growing prosperity of Hong Kong films, Golden Harvest, DreamWorks, and Art City have sold several films to the European market every year. Among them, the largest number of Hong Kong films are shown in France and the United Kingdom, and there are also a few in Italy. There is even a group of European audiences who watch and collect Hong Kong films. Therefore, the title of DreamWorks is not unfamiliar to Italian film enthusiasts.

After the opening title of DreamWorks was over, it was followed by the icon of Xu Ke Film Studio, and then the feature film was officially started.

On the big screen of the theater, the misty mountains of Wanhe appeared, and suddenly a streamer streaked across the sky. Everything in the camera, but an immortal long-bearded old man came with a sword, carrying a person in his hand like a chicken.

Like an offline arrow, the long-bearded old man disappeared instantly, leaving only a small figure in the camera.

"Wow, that's cool, is this a wizard from the East?"

"It should be, they fly with swords instead of brooms."

"..."

Ordinary audiences were instantly refreshed, and they were concerned about the beautiful pictures of the oriental fantasy world and the magical "flying magic". The film colleagues who came to enjoy the opening film were shocked by the special effects technology of "Shushan". The ten-second shot just now was too difficult to shoot.

Of course, the special effects of "Shushan" are not against the sky. Ten years ago, "Star Wars" was an epoch-making special effect change, and then it continued to innovate on this basis. The special effects of "Shushan" were done by Industrial Light and Magic, and they basically used the techniques that were discovered during the shooting of "Star Wars", but occasionally there were still some innovations.

These special effects will look very rough ten years later, but when they are screened at this moment, coupled with the beautiful and novel oriental landscapes, the shocking force they bring to the audience is not much weaker than that of "Star Wars" back then.

"The real person. Deng Yin has brought it back!" In front of the Taoist temple that DreamWorks paid to renovate on Mount Qingcheng, the old man Yu Jianfei threw a young man on the ground.

In the original novel of "Shushan Swordsman Biography", the real Changmei and Deng Yin are brothers and sisters, but in this "Shushan", Deng Yin is the nephew of the real Changmei.

The real man with long eyebrows twitched his eyebrows. He shouted: "Scary, you betrayed Shushan's sect rules and killed comrades indiscriminately, but you still have something to say!"

Deng Yin said disdainfully, "That person plotted against me first, could it be that I stood and let him kill?"

After a questioning, the real person with long eyebrows raised his sleeves, and a palm shot out of the long sleeves. The palm wind hit Deng Yin's chest, but five palm prints were printed on his back. Deng Yin was directly hit by this palm and flew to the foot of the mountain, and his whole body skills were abolished. Became an abandoned sinner of the Shushan Sword Sect.

Planning: Kang Jianfei, Xu Ke

Produced by: Oriental DreamWorks

Screenwriters: Kang Jianfei, Xu Ke

Starring: Li Saifeng, He Jiajin, Zhao Yazhi, Wu Zhixiong

Directed by Xu Ke!

When the six Chinese characters and their English subtitles appeared on the screen, Yu Yingnan, a scholar played by He Jiajin, had already run into the ruined temple in the heavy rain with a bookcase on his back. officially launched.

"Dangdangdang..."

"...,..."

"Boom, boom, boom..."

There are endless magic weapons in the movie, showing a variety of light, shadow and sound effects in the battle, combined with the scenery like an ink landscape painting, the audience can't stop.

At this time, the original three-hour version of "Shushan" was shown. The rhythm is slower than the theatrical version, but it is more conducive to Western audiences to understand the film, and at the same time, it also has some literary and artistic colors of Eastern philosophy.

Especially with the guzheng and the bamboo flute, Yu Ying, who went down the mountain for the first time, was chivalrous and righteous.

That scene was filmed in the Bamboo Sea in the south of Shu. It is a scene planned by Kang Jianfei and strongly requested by Xu Ke to increase the shooting. Originally, Xu Ke was quite contradictory, feeling that this scene was irrelevant and took up precious film time, but after the final cut, it proved that the battle in the bamboo forest added a lot of color to the film.

Three hours is too long for a movie. If it is a slow-paced literary film, you can watch the whole audience fall asleep.

But "Shushan" is not the case. Although most European and American audiences can't understand the deep meaning of the plot, the beautiful pictures and the upgraded plot of fighting monsters are enough for them to watch it happily.

At the end of the film, with the help of everyone, Yu Yingnan and Li Yingqiong defeated the villain Deng Yin. The two carried long swords, stepped on the flying boat, walked through the rolling clouds, and sailed to the sunset on the horizon.

"Clap clap clap..."

There was thunderous applause from the audience, which lasted for a few minutes.

"Oriental Fantasy Films Invade Venice"

The premiere of "Shushan was very popular, and the applause lasted for five minutes"

"Flying Sword Instead of Broom, Incredible Oriental Magic"

"..."

The premiere of "Shushan" was well received in Venice, mainly due to the excellent special effects and the novel oriental fantasy world, which brought a strong sense of freshness to these foreigners.

Of course, there are also those who scold the Venice Film Festival judges for being degenerate, saying that they actually chose a commercial film with no connotation as the opening film, but this kind of argument doesn't make much waves.

In the next half month, actors such as Li Saifeng and Zhao Yazhi followed Xu Ke and his wife, running between various venues, attending some publicity activities everywhere, and sometimes being interviewed by foreign media. Jiang Zhiqiang and Ye Zhiming began to contact publishers from all over the world, but they never signed a contract.

Because "Shushan" has been shortlisted in the main competition unit, if it can win the prize in the end, it will be extremely beneficial to the box office, and DreamWorks will be able to win more benefits from the publisher.

It was not until the end of September that Hong Kong had already done the preparatory work for "A Chinese Ghost Story", and the Venice Film Festival ushered in the closing ceremony and the award ceremony.

In the Film Palace, the presenter opened the envelope: "What I want to announce is the Special Jury Prize, which is "Tango, Gardel's Exile" directed by Fernando Solanas..."

The special award of the jury is not a fixed award. Sometimes it is only awarded once every two or three years, and sometimes several trophies are awarded in one night. The main award is to those who cannot win the Golden Lion Award and the Silver Lion Award, but there are also some judges. favorite movie.

Xu Ke is self-aware. Although he has expectations for the golden lion and the silver lion, he also knows that it is difficult to obtain the commercial film "Shushan", so the initial positioning is to win the special award of the jury.

When he heard the award presenter read out the Argentine-France co-production, Xu Ke's heart suddenly went cold, realizing that he had missed the only opportunity.

Tang Shuxuan knew Xu Ke's thoughts and comforted: "Next time, there will be opportunities in the future."

Shi Nansheng also held her husband's hand tightly and silently supported Xu Ke. She thought that "Shushan" was very hopeful to win the special jury award after being selected as the opening film.

"I'm fine." Xu Ke sighed and forced a smile.

The time after that was like a year for Xu Ke, and he just wanted to finish it early and go back to the hotel to sleep.

Amidst the endless applause, the Best Actor and Best Actress awards were settled, and the awards ceremony began to enter the main event tonight.

"The winner of the 42nd Best Film Silver Lion Award is Xu Ke from "Shushan", from Hong Kong."

Tang Shuxuan sat up suddenly in shock, Shi Nansheng froze for a moment and turned to look at his husband, while Xu Ke himself seemed to have not heard.

"Old Xu, "Shushan" won the award!" Shi Nansheng pushed Xu Ke violently.

Only then did Xu Ke react. He smiled and hugged the people around him, jokingly said, "I thought I heard it wrong."

The Golden Lion Award of Venice Films is positioned to be awarded to the best film every year, while the Silver Lion Award is much more flexible. It can be awarded to a very distinctive film, or to a good director's debut, or even because of the film. Chinese director's unique approach and award.

The applause at the scene was warm again. Many people knew when "Shushan" was selected as the opening film that this film would probably win an award at the Venice Film Festival. But they, like Xu Ke's expectations, also believed that "Shushan" would win at most one special jury award, but the jury actually awarded "Shushan" a Silver Lion Award.

Jiang Zhiqiang and Ye Zhiming also laughed very happily. "Shushan" won a Silver Lion Award. When they negotiated with the publisher, they had a lot of chips.

"Thank you to the judges of the Venice Film Festival," Xu Ke said after taking the silver lion trophy and holding it in his arms. "For me, this trip to Venice has many surprises. "Shushan" can become the opening film of the film festival. ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is a big awakening. I didn't expect more exciting things to come. I can stand here at the moment, I must thank all the colleagues in the "Shushan" crew, thank my parents and friends, I also want to Special thanks to my wife Shi Nansheng, who has always encouraged me and helped me to complete this film. Finally, I would like to thank my boss, Mr. Kang Jianfei, this film is a huge investment in Hong Kong, and I stopped the filming and denied it. After the previous script, it was Mr. Kang who gave me the financial support to make this film finally come out, thank you, Mr. Kang!"

After the awards ceremony, Xu Ke and all the members of the crew of "Shushan" became the focus of media attention.

There is no way, "Shushan" won the second largest award at the Venice Film Festival, and it is still the opening film. It is impossible to keep a low profile.

As a result, everyone who had planned to return to Hong Kong early had to stay in Venice for a few more days. And Jiang Zhiqiang and Ye Zhiming have also become the targets of many publishers, and they spend their exotic time tired and happy in bargaining.

To win the Venice Film Silver Lion Award, the more important thing is that this film is still a commercial blockbuster with great visual impact.