I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 1070 1065 Invitation

Chapter 1070 1065. Invitation

In fact, Liang Binning had nothing to do with Xu Xin. She was just looking for someone to amuse her after drinking too much.

But what she said to Yang Mi was true.

The way Xu Xin was sitting aside just now, waiting for others to visit him one by one, seemed to her like he had changed his name to Corleone.

After joking for a while, when she saw the seventeen-year-old movie queen timidly walking over, she pulled the big Mimi who was like a doll in her arms and left. Before leaving, she did not forget to add:

"Goodbye, Lord Corleone."

Xu Xin rolled his eyes.

My heart says, just drink this German beer.

It's really a drink without making a sound.

And Zhang Xueying had nothing to do with him... The little girl just followed Cao Baoping's instructions and came to show her face to Director Xu...

Although children are quite talented in acting, teenagers, no matter how smart they are, can’t hide things on their faces. After Xu Xin saw what she said in a few words, he added her WeChat account as a matter of course.

The happy look on the little girl's face was as if she had won five million.

And at the end of the night, it was Zhong Changyou who found him.

"Director Xu, do we have to speed up the release of "Fireworks in the Day"? Now because we have not determined when it will be released, those dubbing and importing film producers hope that we can speed up the progress, and no one wants to miss the popularity window of the Berlin Film Festival. "

In fact, he has no control over when a movie is released.

But if he mentions it, it will definitely be helpful.

As for when it will be released...don't even think about February. Xu Xin estimates that the factory will work harder and we should be able to meet everyone in March.

But the factory must be aware of this kind of thing.

After the two chatted... he was dragged by Yang Mi to drink.

In the end, everyone went home drunk.

Chinese-language films once again won this Berlin Film Festival.

Everyone is happy.

Then, early on the morning of the 17th, Xu Xin took Su Meng directly on the journey to Los Angeles.

Brackets: civil aviation.

The plane flew the child's mother back to China.

And Xu Xin, who was on the civil aviation flight this way, felt numb... because there were two more naughty kids in the first class cabin.

The eleven-hour journey was a blast.

The first thing he did after getting off the plane was to send a message to Yang Mi:

"We children must be careful in public places from now on. I was tortured badly by two naughty children..."

And Yang Mi’s reply was also very simple:

"I just asked...our dad is in New Zealand."

"?"

Xu Xinxin, why are you talking about this?

Immediately afterwards, Yang Mi replied:

"Sister Bingbing also went. She didn't go back to China directly. She told me yesterday that she was going on vacation..."

"You are simply sick. It's just a matter of clearing things up. Why do you care about their schedule?"

Xu Xin bluntly complained about his wife's lack of discernment.

But his words were soon slapped in the face.

Because, on February 22nd, when he was solo with MR. Wick in the United States, a piece of gossip suddenly came out.

Someone took a photo of Liang Bingning and a man shopping hand in hand in New Zealand.

The angle of the photo is from the side, and you can clearly see Liang Binning smiling like a flower while shopping, holding a man wearing big sunglasses and joking.

This is the first one.

In the second photo, Liang Binning turned her head and saw someone taking a photo of her.

In the third photo, the two got directly into a Cadillac.

As soon as the three photos were released, the newly-minted Berlin-based actress suddenly ignited the spirit of gossip in the entertainment industry even before the domestic enthusiasm about "Fireworks" and the overall rise of Chinese-language films had dissipated.

And when Yang Mi pushed these three photos to Xu Xin, Xu Xin's first reaction was...

My dad's sunglasses look pretty good... and his outfit makes him look really young.

So trendy.

What?

You ask, why are you so sure that it is Xu Daqiang?

Isn't this nonsense?

Can a son recognize his biological father by mistake?

However, what really left him speechless was the last picture.

That was what Liang Binning posted on Weibo...at around 3pm Chinese time.

Someone asked on her Weibo: [/ shed tears/ shed tears, sister, are you really in love? Who is the other party? Please tell me this isn't true. 】

And she left a message on this Weibo.

The reply is:

"Yes, we are in love. The other person is an ordinary man outside the circle."

Then it was gone.

Instead, there was a hot search for "Liang Binning is in love with an outsider."

Fine……

Xu Xin rubbed his chin after exiting Weibo.

When I saw the message from my wife, "Are you saying it was Sister Bingbing's decision or it was our father's decision?", I didn't know how to reply for a while.

Why don't you ask your biological father?

As soon as this thought arose, he immediately gave it up.

Just sent a message to Xu Miao:

“Have you read Weibo?”

Xu Miao’s reply was also very quick:

"See, I don't dare to ask, why don't you ask?"

Xu Xinxin said that you can't do anything, but you are really the best at using people as guns.

So I simply ignored him and sent a reply to Yang Mi:

"Don't ask. If the old man wants to say something, he will say it himself. If you don't want to say it, just pretend that you don't know... I'm busy."

"It's already past 11 o'clock at night, right? Where are you busy at night?"

"Too busy sleeping."

"Are you sure you're not looking for Ocean Horse?"

Xu Xin did not continue to reply, but recorded the bedroom environment in a short video, and finally showed a middle finger in front of the screen.

It's a little vulgar, but it's enough to put out the boiling fire of gossip in my wife's mouth.

Time slipped away inadvertently, and in the next few days, as far as Xu Xin's attention was concerned, "Liang Bingning's boyfriend outside the circle" actually didn't dig out anything.

Xu Xin felt more at ease.

These days, he has been busy working on "John Wick" here in the United States.

The progress is pretty fast.

Visible to the naked eye, all the remaining work at this juncture in late February was only the soundtrack.

Soundtracking is a technical job, so I can't rush it.

He just wanted to take advantage of this time to return to China and stay for two days.

But on the last day of February, his plan had to change.

On February 28, the Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film were announced.

Films from 9 countries were shortlisted.

1. Italy, "The Beautiful City"

2. "Perfect Strangers" from Italy and China

3. Denmark, "Hunting"

4. Palestine, "Omar"

5. Belgium, "Broken House"

6. Cambodia, "Incomplete Image"

7. Bosnia, "A Page of Little Life"

8. Germany, "Double Life"

9. Hungary, "Diary of a Villain"

9 films were shortlisted.

When the shortlist was announced, the Internet in China, Italy, and the United States suddenly became lively.

The reason is actually very simple.

"One Page" is an old acquaintance. At last year's Berlin Film Festival, it won the Silver Bear from the jury, and it was considered the best film, losing to "Heart of the Sun".

The same goes for "Perfect Strangers".

It lost out to "Beautiful City" at the David Awards.

They are also old enemies.

However, Italy won.

Because it has two films shortlisted.

But the problem is... although two films were shortlisted, only one took first place in the end.

In the end, is "A Page of Miao Sheng" the one who completes "revenge"? Or is it that "Beautiful City" continues to surpass "Perfect", or that "Perfect" is proud of the crowd...

Strangely enough, in Italy and China, 9 films were shortlisted, but at this moment it was as if they had already seen the future results.

Of course, in the final analysis, these are the thoughts of people who pay more attention to the Oscars. For films that are more in line with their own preferences, they naturally have some assumptions and blessings about being close to the film.

The reality is that there are so many foreign films every year, but only 9 are selected for the Oscars.

No matter how you look at it, the gold content is very high.

It can be said that among these 9 films, there is not a weak one.

For Chinese netizens, the fact that "Perfect" was nominated for an Oscar is naturally exciting news.

But can I really win the prize...

For most people, they don't have much hope.

After all, "Perfect" had already lost once to "Beautiful City" at the David Awards.

After losing once, trying to counterattack... doesn't seem particularly possible.

What's more, it's been a year since "Perfect".

It’s been too long…

But no matter what, it is always a good thing that "Perfect" can be selected.

This is undeniable.

As a leader of the new generation of directors, Xu Xin has also successfully created a history.

The first person born in the 1980s to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film Director.

He is also the fourth director to be shortlisted for this award.

The first three are Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and Li Yu.

Moreover, he is also the first director after the fifth generation to be nominated for this award.

In Chinese-language film and television, he has added another personal honor.

But despite this, there is still very little information about him on the Internet. Although countless media swarmed in, wanting to interview him... he had always left all his interview arrangements to Yang Mi.

Everyone in the circle knows that if you really want to find him for something...even if you find him directly, it may not be easy.

But as long as Yang Mi agrees, there will definitely be no problem.

It's a pity that Yang Mi, who has always been good with everyone, is very determined this time.

Although the attitude is very tactful and polite, the meaning is the same: I am not accepting any interviews at the moment.

And revealed a piece of news to the outside world:

"Xu Xin is preparing a new movie."

As soon as the news came out, the first people to be confused were the viewers.

no……

Xu dogs.

You haven't played "Broken Silence" yet.

Although shortlisted for Cannes...

But you haven’t even made the movie yet, so you’re in a hurry to start a new one?

If we ask further, Yang Mi will also give some "special care" based on the distance of the relationship.

Therefore, a piece of news was revealed from the circle on March 1, on the day when "Perfect" was competing for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film:

"Xu Xin's new movie "Silence" and "John Wick", the Hollywood collaboration with Keanu Reeves, may be screened at the 4th Silk Road Film Festival at the same time. Festival."

oh?

oh? !

oh? ? ! !

The 4th Silk Road Film Festival?

Didn’t it say that it was changed from Xi’an to Fuzhou this year?

Does this mean that in order to build momentum for the film festival, Xu Xin will screen two of his new works at the film festival this year?

oh?

Suddenly, the name of "The 4th Silk Road Film Festival" jumped into the eyes of many people with the popularity of the Oscars.

…

"Yes, if other people want to interview or something, you can lead them to the Silk Road Film Festival. We will start collecting works on March 10. This year's works should be more lively and have more topics. They really need everyone's attention."

"Well, I know."

In the video call, the sunny day on Yang Mi's side formed a sharp contrast with the dim lights on Xu Hei's side.

"What are you going to do tomorrow?"

"To see Makoto Shinkai."

"...Ah?"

Staring at the screen, Yang Mi was surprised:

"That Japanese animation director?...Aren't you in Los Angeles? When are you going to Tokyo? Is Tokyo very hot? What series?"

"..."

Xu Xinxin said a short sentence, and it was outrageous that you rolled the wheels of your car on my face three or four times.

You can drive on this broken road?

He was speechless and continued:

"He will come here tomorrow to work on the film soundtrack. We have an appointment to go to Universal Music tomorrow."

"Universal Music... Universal Records?"

"Yes."

Xu Xin nodded:

"It just so happens... I am also very curious about the world's largest record company. I plan to go and have a look and join in the fun."

"Didn't Lao Qian say he would take you to a few dinners?"

"Sister, it's already the 4th today. By the time you think of this, it will be too late."

He rolled his eyes.

The Oscars are scheduled for April 12.

And the list of nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film has been announced for almost a week.

He has not been idle at all these days.

He frequently goes in and out of various banquets at night.

Some are hosted by Robert, some are hosted by Lao Qian, and some are hosted by others...Anyway, to put it bluntly, they are all held for the public relations of "Perfect".

At the banquet, Xu Xin is a big mascot.

Although this movie is his, in the eyes of the real upper-class "powerful people" in Hollywood, he is just a new director.

It's not a particularly high status for the time being.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

When you go out, you give yourself your status.

But whether others recognize it or not is another matter.

In short, with the box office of "Perfect" of 335 million US dollars, Paramount has obviously been "killing red-eyed" in order to share the profits with Xiying Studio.

And he has seen a lot of Hollywood public relations.

But now his mentality is very stable, inexplicably a little Buddhist.

There is a sense of... I just work hard and leave the rest to God.

In addition, it's past 11 o'clock in the evening, and he has an appointment with Makoto Shinkai tomorrow, so he said directly:

"Okay, I won't chat with you anymore, I'm going to sleep."

"Don't... You haven't told me whether Tokyo is hot or not!"

Beep.

Xu Xin hung up the phone directly.

She is a mother of two children, and she is still not in good shape every day, and she is not embarrassed.

...

Early in the morning on the 5th.

Xu Xin dressed neatly and drove out directly.

According to the address given by Makoto Shinkai, he came to the hotel where he was staying.

Before entering the hotel, he saw his friend standing by the road waiting from a distance.

"Ding."

The Bentley honked twice, attracted the other party's attention, and stopped by the road.

When Makoto Shinkai saw Xu Xin through the lowered window, he laughed and bowed:

"Mr. Xu, good morning."

"Uh-huh, oh ha yo..."

Speaking half-baked good morning in Japanese, Xu Xin waved to him to get in the car.

Then he started to fiddle with the navigation.

The other party had sent him the address of Universal Music.

After Shinkai Makoto fastened his seat belt and the car started again, Xu Xin asked:

"How was your rest?"

"Not bad, I went to bed a little later because of jet lag. This is a normal schedule... Xu-san, congratulations."

He smiled and said:

"Although I saw the news about the Oscars a long time ago, I still want to congratulate you in person. Congratulations!"

"Hahaha, thank you."

Xu Xin nodded, followed the route planned by the navigation, and asked:

"Are you alone? Where are the others?"

"They have already left. I didn't go with everyone because I was waiting for you. Including everyone from La~DuWuYiPus, everyone has gone there in advance."

The "La~DuWuYiPus" mentioned by Shinkai Makoto is the name of a Japanese band, which should be RADWIMPS.

Although the brother speaks English well, for some words that he is already used to in Japanese, he still likes to use this kind of Katakana pronunciation to imitate them.

"They made all the music for your movie?"

"Yes. Have you heard of them, Mr. Xu?"

"No."

"You can listen to their live performance later. They're great!"

When the old man praised these bands, his eyes were shining.

Xu Xin nodded slightly.

In fact, he was more curious about Shinkai Makoto's movie than the band called RADWIMPS.

"Is it all finished?"

"Well...sort of. The voice actor part may still need some adjustments, and some places haven't met my requirements. But it's already smooth enough to watch."

"What's your name? What's it?"

"Your name."

"Xu Xin, did you forget?"

"...Ah?"

Shinkai Makoto was stunned and shook his head subconsciously:

"No, no, no, I mean your name..."

"Xu Xin."

"..."

"Hahahahaha..."

Looking at the suddenly speechless Makoto Shinkai, Xu Xin burst into laughter.

He actually understood from the first time that the name of this movie is "YOUR NAME". But this joke is quite funny, so he used it twice more.

"What is the Japanese title? How do you say it?"

"《君の名は.》"

"What's the Chinese translation?"

"A literal translation will do."

Xu Xin nodded slightly:

"Okay, I happen to have a home theater at home. Do you have anything to do this afternoon? Come to my house if you have nothing to do?"

"Okay. But it depends on the progress of the music recording... Mr. Xu should have nothing to do today, right?"

"No."

"That's good."

The two chatted all the way and drove straight to Universal Music.

Soon after arriving at the company's headquarters building in Santa Monica County, he followed the other person in.

After arriving at the recording environment that was not unfamiliar to Xu Xin, he saw four young people with different looks on the sofa stand up:

"Nice to meet you, Director. We are RADWIMPS. Please give us your guidance."

"Hello, hello."

Xu Xin responded politely, and then shook hands with them one by one.

These people obviously knew Xu Xin, and their attitudes were very respectful.

And then, Xu Xin became a spectator.

He sat on the sofa and watched these young people carry their instruments and walk into the recording room.

To put it bluntly, he has not seen the finished film of "Your Name" until now, but the script was discussed by the two of them.

Just when "Perfect" was exhibited at the Tokyo Film Festival.

The story of two people exchanging bodies and souls is really interesting.

But the soundtrack...

To be honest, maybe it was because he couldn't understand it that he didn't feel anything special.

He even felt a little noisy.

But no matter what he thought in his heart, he would definitely not express it on his face.

He just sat there, watching a group of people singing and listening busy.

Soon, a morning passed.

When everyone had lunch together at noon, Xu Xin got to know this band which was founded in 2001.

Wow... it was quite early.

In 2001, our old Xu was a gangster in high school.

He had already formed a band and started to pick up girls.

Look... the difference is really big.

After lunch, they continued to be busy in the afternoon. They were busy until almost 3 o'clock in the afternoon. After recording the demos of several songs over and over again, the task of the "Your Name" team for the day was over.

After a polite farewell, Xu Xin took Makoto Shinkai and walked directly home.

When they arrived at his home, Makoto Shinkai's first reaction was that it was big.

The second reaction was that it was expensive.

Of course, it's not that this guy is short of money. His family is also in the engineering business, and he is definitely a rich second generation.

But more than 100 million US dollars is still an astronomical figure after all.

Whoever pays will feel the pain.

Xu Xin didn't care so much. After taking him to the audio-visual room, with Makoto Shinkai tinkering for a while, the movie "Your Name" finally began.

And he was immediately attracted by the vivid and brilliant colors in this animated film.

Shinkai-san... has something.

This work, compared with the previous work "The Garden of Words", feels particularly improved.

The brilliant color and overall texture have been improved by more than one level.

Especially the design and color of the distant view, the fine texture of the picture, which is pleasing to the eye.

And the most important thing is that Makoto Shinkai perfectly fulfilled the time and space argument continued from "Secret", and cleverly integrated the different timelines of the two eras together, resulting in the mystery being revealed later. The moment when the fact that the town where Mitsuha was located had been destroyed long ago appeared, all the clues were intertwined together, and the direction of the whole story was sublimated.

He was very satisfied with it.

Until the end, when the two looked back at the ups and downslope steps and asked the question "your name", his girlish heart was a little overflowing.

These two people... are so sweet.

It was like a feast, starting with the appetizer of time-space shuttle and soul exchange, and finally converging to the dessert of this glance back.

This hint of sweetness...

Just the right sweetness.

"It's really good..."

Looking at the silent subtitles at the end of the film, although the film has not been completed, Xu Xin has unconsciously embedded the song that he heard from the band this morning.

Half-closed his eyes, he finally gave his own evaluation.

After hearing his evaluation, Xin Haicheng also smiled.

Looking at this work of his own, the whole person leaned on the comfortable sofa.

As an excellent leader in the field, it is also an honor for him to be recognized by his friends.

What's more... He integrated the sound of sparkling water that he and Xu Sang listened to during the meal, which ran through the whole summer, into the color tone of the whole work.

Xu Sang's evaluation is not mentioned, at least... when he added this relaxing tone, he also felt the sublimation of the whole film.

Not bad?

Very good!

Even though it was his own work, he still gave it a nearly perfect score in his heart!

This is a child who deserves to be loved for a lifetime!

And just at this moment...

"Shinkai-san! Do you want to come to our film festival?"

Suddenly, Xu Xin said this.

Afterwards, Shinkai Makoto saw a pair of sparkling eyes.

Eyes full of desire.

He was a little stunned...

"Your film festival?"

Then he seemed to remember something and said:

"Silk Road Film Festival?"

"Yes! Silk Road Film Festival!"

Xu Xin nodded vigorously.

"This excellent work will definitely be liked by many people! Come to our film festival, and then... bring it to our country. Let more people see it!"

"..."

Shinkai Makoto's heart was suddenly hooked by this sentence.

To be honest.

Is there a market for animated films worldwide?

Of course.

How much?

A lot.

From the perspective of the global industry, Japanese animation is definitely "the best".

Even though China is now beginning to vigorously develop the animation industry...but their choice is often to rely on 3D engines to make 3D animations. In terms of 2D animation, Japan can be said to have no rivals in front of them.

But... from the perspective of the "film and television" industry, it is still quite difficult for an animated film to get honor and recognition.

Of course, let's not talk about Japan first.

As the most developed animation industry country, they actually have quite a few awards for animation.

But if we talk about international awards... animation is actually quite embarrassing.

Except for masters like Hayao Miyazaki, who can sweep the Oscars, Berlin Golden Bear and other awards with "Spirited Away", most Japanese animations are inherently weak in the film industry.

Even if they are very good, they can't enter those international film festivals with gold content.

It's not that they are not good, but... in this kind of professional selection, the defects of animation compared to live-action movies are very obvious.

Because it must have a deep enough story.

And in these film festivals with so many masters, "story" is exactly the most indispensable link.

A good story, with a group of good actors and a good director, the power is multiplied.

But at this time, the shortcomings of animation are exposed.

Good actors?

No.

Only paper people.

Although the voice actors are excellent enough, compared with those live-action movies that can vividly integrate expressions and lines, the shortcomings of animation are so obvious.

Therefore, many excellent animations in the industry can only be regarded as "barren" in terms of awards.

Unless it is those international animation film festivals... But those film festivals are like those directors who shoot "MTV" in the director circle, they are inherently at a disadvantage.

This is an indisputable fact.

As for the Silk Road Film Festival... He has learned about it, but never thought about it.

Because I always feel that animation is incompatible with this kind of film festival.

It is precisely because of this that he didn't even know how to answer Xu Xin's invitation.

But looking at the other party's sincere eyes...

He thought about it and asked:

"Is animation also okay?"

"Animation is also a movie."

Xu Xin gave his answer firmly:

"What's more, this is an excellent movie!"

"..."

A moment.