While speaking, Wu Shangjie looked calm and composed.
The two brothers Hou Wen and Hou Wu, who were standing next to them, started to support the actor.
"Brother Wu is so modest. How many Chinese people are there in Hollywood right now? Not to mention that there are almost no Chinese directors. Moreover, the new movie that Brother Wu shot was invited to participate in the Venice International Film Festival. This kind of achievement cannot be achieved by your modesty."
"Brother Wu, you are being too modest. You are just showing off. Brother Wu, besides this movie, you have also directed many hit movies in America. This kind of achievement is the pride of us Chinese!"
Wu Shangjie quickly waved his hands: "No, no, no, if you keep saying that, it will only embarrass me! I believe that in the international film industry, there will be an endless stream of Chinese directors in the future."
Wu Shangjie said this, but he looked like he was the best in the world and didn't seem humble at all.
The four women on Fang Yuan's side also immediately applauded and gave their own rounds of applause.
Nie Yutian stared at Wu Shangjie blankly. She thought to herself, he was just invited to participate in the Venice International Film Festival, and he was praised as the pride of the Chinese people. Then wasn't I also invited to participate? Am I also invited?
Like Nie Yutian, Fang Yuan did not think that being invited to the Venice International Film Festival was anything special.
Fang Yuan even felt a little contemptuous.
What Venice International Film Festival? I guess the award level must not be very high. A crappy script I made up can be invited to participate in the Venice International Film Festival.
Moreover, this was based on the premise that the staff of the Venice International Film Festival had not seen the feature film of "Country Love".
Of course, Zhu Lu also looked indifferent.
He wasn't pretending, he really didn't care.
Originally, Zhu Lu rarely watched foreign movies other than romance and action films.
In addition, Zhu Lu's mind at the moment was completely immersed in how to get the contact information of his sister Catherine, who was wearing a blue battle robe.
Zhu Lu has thought about it. He can accept it even if Catherine divorces and takes care of the two children.
At worst, I can just give birth to two more children of my own later!
Wu Shangjie took in everyone's expressions and found that these three people did not look "very powerful" at all.
He wondered in his mind if they were three young people who didn’t watch movies, so they didn’t know how good he was.
Wu Shangjie's heart sank, and then he continued, "The Venice International Film Festival is a very remarkable international film festival. It is one of the three major international film festivals along with Cannes and Berlin. It is also internationally recognized as the highest level of film awards. It is like the Nobel Prize in the scientific community. Among Chinese directors, there are no more than three who are invited to participate in the Venice International Film Festival."
Hearing this, Fang Yuan's eyes widened.
He thought, is this really true? This award is so high that they invited "Country Love" to participate? It's really not a fake award? If it is really the highest level of film awards, then wouldn't it be a disaster?
When Fang Yuan thought that the Venice International Film Festival might cause "Country Love" to lose money at the box office, he felt a surge of nameless anger in his heart.
What are you doing?
I just wanted to lose some money, who did I offend?
Why did you catch me and prevent me from losing money?
Wu Shangjie thought Fang Yuan's reaction was because he was shocked by the quality of the Venice International Film Festival.
Of course, the film investor, the blue-shirted sister Catherine, spoke up.
She said: "Of course, we were invited to the Venice International Film Festival's peripheral honorary award."
Wu Shangjie didn't expect that Catherine would come out to ruin his plan.
However, Catherine was the financial backer of this film after all, so he couldn't say anything.
The two brothers Hou Wen and Hou Wu quickly rescued Wu Shangjie.
"What do you mean by just being a peripheral honorary award of the Venice International Film Festival? You have to know that it is very difficult to be shortlisted for the peripheral honorary award of the Venice International Film Festival."
"That's right, you don't know that the Venice International Film Festival has very serious racial discrimination. No matter how good the films made by us Chinese are, they can only be shortlisted in the periphery."
Nie Yutian frowned and began to refute: "Isn't that right? Wasn't our director Wei Hua shortlisted for the Venice International Film Festival? He even won the highest honor, the Golden Lion Award!"
Wu Shangjie didn't expect that this little girl actually knew Wei Hua.
Without changing his expression, he said, "Wei Hua's film, Beibeishan, tells a love story between gay men. In addition to the politically correct subject matter, all of his actors are white. In the eyes of the judges of the Venice International Film Festival, this is a white film, so it was shortlisted and won the Golden Lion Award."
Nie Yutian looked at Wu Shangjie's fabricated story and started to criticize him again: "What about the domestic film 'The Red Lantern Lawsuit' directed by Zhang Zhiran? It's directed by a Chinese director and has Chinese actors. How come it was shortlisted and even won the Golden Lion Award?"
Wu Shangjie smiled contemptuously, and then said: "Director Zhang Zhiran's "Red Lantern Lawsuit" is indeed well made. The reason for the award may be more due to the relationship with China. As long as it is a film that satirizes various phenomena in China, it can easily win awards internationally. That is the advantage of the times, which is greater than the advantage of the film."
Nie Yutian laughed out of anger, and then asked, "But I heard that there is another Chinese-directed movie, "Country Love", which was shortlisted for the Venice International Film Festival. How do you explain this?"
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