I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 1093 1088. Could have been better

On the evening of the 12th, around 8 o'clock, Zhong Changyou, who was still drunk, came to Xu Xin's room.

After this afternoon nap, Xu Xin finally sweated a little, his body temperature dropped, and he was in a better mood. But it didn't last long. After dinner, his temperature started to rise again.

It's like this with a cold, it comes back over and over again.

But he was in good spirits.

When I saw Zhong Changyou coming, I knew he wanted to talk to me about the movie, but I didn't expect that he had just asked:

"Did you drink?"

The other party's phone rang again.

Then, Xu Xin heard a few words in English:

"Hello?"

"Yes, I am."

"Oh?...Oh, I'm in the hotel now."

"...Now?"

"Okay, see you at the bar."

With just these few words, after the call was hung up, Zhong Changyou shrugged helplessly:

"Director Xu, another company asked me to have a chat."

Xu Xin smiled and nodded:

"Then I'll make my own tea."

"Well, everyone is very interested. Especially Norway's Phoenix Bird Films, their buyout price has been offered to 1.5 million euros. Compared with the Norwegian market, this price is very sincere..."

"You can do it, Brother Zhong, you are a professional in this area."

After getting Xu Xin's attitude, Zhong Changyou also had a bottom line in his heart.

"Then Director Xu, have a good rest. If it ends too late, I won't come here. I'll come tomorrow."

"Okay."

With that, he left Xu Xin's room and went to the appointment.

Xu Xin took all the medicine prescribed by the doctor with this cup of hot tea.

Not long after taking it, he began to feel sleepy again.

He even suspected for a moment that the doctor had prescribed sleeping pills for him...

He lay down on the bed in a daze, and soon he began to breathe evenly.

No words were spoken all night.

On the first day in Cannes, he fell asleep in a "half-awake" state.

On the 13th.

At 6:20 in the morning.

Yang Mi finally boarded her own Gulfstream.

She should be able to arrive at the small airport in Cannes before 7:30.

The airport is very small, and large passenger planes cannot land, but small private planes like Gulfstream are no problem.

Leaning on the comfortable seat, she yawned a little tiredly.

There is a seven-hour time difference between China and France. She boarded the plane at noon in China time, and after nearly 13 hours of flight, she finally arrived in the early morning in France.

There must have been some tossing in the middle, but fortunately the speed was not slow.

And she slept well, a melatonin pill supported her entire journey.

Her time difference was synchronized with France.

Time passed quickly.

The plane had already started to descend almost as soon as breakfast was finished.

The speed of the Gulfstream meant that it would not take long to fly from Paris to Cannes.

Soon, after the plane landed at the small airport in Cannes that looked like a village, she saw Su Meng waiting in the parking space with two Bentleys.

She did not seem to be angry.

Instead, Su Meng felt a little guilty. When she saw her coming down, she quickly apologized:

"Sister, I'm sorry, I didn't take good care of Brother Xu."

"It's okay, I don't blame you."

A cold caused by a viral infection... This kind of thing can't be blamed on others.

After waving her hand, she got in the car directly.

Soon, the luggage was moved and the two cars started to move out.

"How is he?"

"Brother Xu went to bed very early last night, and he should be about to wake up now."

"Does he know I'm here?"

"I don't know."

"... Well. What about the movie? Did you get the movie brochure?"

"I got it."

Su Meng, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, quickly handed over the movie brochure for No. 13 from the central control.

This will select some reviews written by critics who watched the movie yesterday.

And feedback from the website.

It will be updated every day during the film festival.

Yang Mi took it, opened it and started to search.

Soon, she found a review about "Silent Witness".

After reading the first paragraph, she smiled.

[I can say responsibly that the heroines of each film, your biggest competitors have appeared. Yang Mi, an outstanding actor from China, has contributed another textbook-like acting material to us. Her interpretation of the role in "Silent Witness" is the most moving performance I have seen this year. ]

She said to herself, keep praising it, I like it very much.

Then continue to read.

Soon, after reading this not-so-long review, for no reason, in this rainy day, my mood suddenly became much brighter.

This film critic named Nikki seems to be a die-hard fan of her. This review...

Well, the evaluation is very pertinent.

The young comrade has good ideological awareness.

What she liked most was the last sentence in the other party's comment:

"I think Goethe Xu must be very happy. Even happier than Zhang, because he has completely possessed his own muse."

Good job!

Reward!

After silently marking the name of this film critic with a label of "no traitor in the family", she turned the page.

"Not profound enough, but exciting enough. Goethe Xu's trapped beast fight"

Film critic: Martin McDonagh

Yang Mi raised her eyebrows.

This title... is a criticism?

【I have always been a firm fan of Goder Xu. From the moment I saw "The Hawthorn Tree", I fell in love with this young director.

However, my impression of this movie is very complicated. Because my emotions kept turning and subverting in these 100 minutes.

As a screenwriter and director, I don't want to elaborate too much on Goder Xu's signature sense of camera in this movie. I know that he and Zhang have a good relationship, like a master and apprentice. And Zhang's ability to arrange the picture is a world-class master level. It is natural for Goder Xu to be able to do so.

What I want to express in this review is the "problem" of the movie itself.

The creation of art itself should not be disturbed by any external objects. I think it should reflect the most real things that artists see in the context of the era of creation.

However, I am sorry that I cannot understand the constraints of Chinese movies to a certain extent.

Based on this point, I can see the intentions and flaws of this movie.

Goder Xu is very attentive, and he tells a gentle story with his heart.

"The Silence of the Violence" itself is a very gentle story, hidden under its seemingly cold-blooded background. Except for CHANG who plays the villain, every character actually has two sides. They are all wrapped in their gentleness under their despicable appearance.

Although this gentleness seems a bit naive at first glance.

But when even an angry mother who has experienced the pain of losing her son knows to hold the village chief in her arms and give him a kind of maternal tenderness when she sees the village chief vomiting blood, I know that the ending of this movie must be tragic and anti-routine.

This is also the fact. This is also where Godexu is attentive.

He tells a story with complex human nature with his heart.

But his flaws are also obvious.

Godexu seems to know where the "bottom line" of his story is. And this "bottom line" is actually what we have been discussing all these years, about the basis of his country restricting artists from creating more real stories.

He is very smart and knows that the tone of this story can only be sad but not dark. Therefore, he did not over-describe how bad CHANG is... In fact, friends who have seen this movie should have this feeling. Even if there is no CHANG in this movie, only ZHAODY's own monologue, it will not be abrupt. Even if it is just ZHAODY's one-man show, it can give her more resistance.

Fighting against the system, fighting against those irresponsible people... How "strong" can a mother be in order to find her child or the murderer. Such a point of view may be more attractive.

But if it really follows this idea, I think there is a high probability that Godex's film will be strangled.

Because of this film, the tone of the whole movie is no longer the confrontation between ZHAODY and CHANG, but becomes her confrontation with the entire system.

She will become a retrograde, a mother wolf who lost her child.

This is also the defect I want to express.

I believe that as such an excellent director, he will not be unaware of the extension of this story. But in the end it is just like this.

In this film, in my opinion, Godex is like a tiger with fangs and claws in a small cage.

He can run between the mountains and forests, more freely and wilder. But he is confined to a small place by the iron cage.

But a tiger is a tiger. Even if it is trapped in an iron cage, you can still feel the coldness and wildness from its sharp fangs and eyes.

But it can never escape from the cage.

In general, it is just like the title of this review. It is a very good story, and each character in the story shows his or her character characteristics to the fullest.

Very good and wonderful.

But at the same time, it has flaws. But the flaws are not in the artist who created this work, but in other places.

I am very sorry.

Because... I really like this story.

But I am also very grateful to Godesh.

He did not disappoint us and still brought us a good story.

And I learned that this story was a work he finished last year. And this year, he just won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

I sincerely hope that he can break free from his own shackles in Hollywood, and bring us the next more wonderful story with a more free and open mind! 】

"..."

After reading this review, Yang Mi's mouth twitched.

Not angry... just feel a little like laughing.

I have to admit that what the other party said is indeed quite accurate.

But...

This guy may not know...For my husband, Hollywood is good, but it is not his home.

You are probably overthinking.

As for the rest, she doesn't have any idea.

After all, these two reviews are actually praising.

It's just that this man named McDonald is regretting the movie.

It's a pity that it should have been better.

But Yang Mi doesn't think there is anything wrong with shooting it this way.

The older people are, the clearer they live.

And the more they can understand the starting point of this article.

Obviously, this is a review full of Western values.

What he praised is the excellent commonality in the movie. But in the same way, judging by moral standards, he is more eager to see the Western story of lone heroes fighting.

Perhaps... "The Silence" would be better if it were filmed according to Western values.

Can……

terribly sorry.

My husband is an authentic Chinese.

You are so capable... Aren't you also a director? Ask him to buy the copyright yourself and then remake it.

Don't just talk on paper, just talk without practicing.

She shook her head slightly and continued reading the next article...

The next article is not from "Broken Silence", but from "Princess of Monaco".

She hasn't watched the movie yet, so naturally she doesn't feel anything about it.

After glancing at the title, I turned the page.

Then I flipped through the booklet one after another, and after realizing that the only introduction to "Burst" was these two articles, I put the booklet aside.

His eyes fell on the window where it was raining lightly.

Soon, the car entered the city of Cannes and finally stopped in front of the hotel.

Yang Mi ignored her luggage and directly asked Su Meng for her room number, then walked towards the elevator carrying a small suitcase.

Enter the elevator and press the floor.

Soon, the elevator arrived.

She followed the door sign all the way to the door of the room and knocked on the door.

"coming."

There was a reply from inside.

"Click" the door opened.

When Xu Xin saw the person at the door, he was suddenly stunned...

"???"

Doubt spread from his eyes to his face.

Why is she here?

he wondered.

But Yang Mi was observing.

After looking up and down at her husband's complexion, she put her hand directly on his forehead.

After feeling the unusual heat, she asked directly:

"have you eaten?"

"Uh... no."

"OK."

Yang Mi pushed the small suitcase directly into the house.

Under Xu Xin's confused gaze, which was still unresponsive, he squatted down and opened the suitcase, revealing the pots and pans inside and a small... just like the single-person, single-pot hot pot small induction cooker in the restaurant outside.

Then she tied up her hair with the leather rope on her wrist.

Soon, the woman with her single ponytail standing up, who had traveled thousands of kilometers and exuded a gentle aura, asked her lover:

"Would you like millet porridge?"

"..."

At this moment, Xu Xin's heart suddenly felt at ease.

With an uncontrollable smile, he nodded vigorously:

"Um!"

(Speaking of which, I will change the chapter to a small chapter in the future. It will be about 3K5 or 4K a piece. I will guarantee two chapters every day, and then try to have 3 chapters. For no other reason, I have to start paying back the debt I owed to the leader. But before, it was all big chapters. Well, so two chapters count as one. I have to pay off the debt and thank you for your support of this book. Today is my wife’s birthday, so I work as a coolie during the day and work as a cooker at night.)