Chapter 81
Qiao Yiqiao and several leading actors landed in Berlin.
This is not his first time in this city. Both "When the Walls Fall" and "Six Masks" have been screened in Berlin and achieved good results.
But this time his mood was very different.
He has to prove himself on this land. He has to prove himself.
Qiao Yi Qiao is not a person who likes to waste his energy, but in his previous works, the main reason why he was not anxious was that he had no time to be anxious. The time for every shoot of every project was too tight.
But "Qiong Yu" had seven years, which was enough time for him to think through every problem.
And finally, only one question remained on his mind.
Is this movie good or not?
He really needs this Berlin Film Festival competition to give him an answer to this question.
His potential audience also needs the answer.
But Chairman Mueller seemed to be joking with him.
"The Sky Language" was selected as the closing film and was the last film to be played among all the films. This meant that Qiao Yiqiao would have to wait half a month before he could see his film screened.
Therefore, he could only "enjoy" this film festival with some anxiety.
The Berlin Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival are actually similar, with screenings in various sections, various film buying meetings, etc.
Qiao Yi Qiao didn't participate in many other activities and just focused on watching movies.
He also discovered that the Berlin Film Festival is indeed a film festival that focuses most on ideology, and the selected films are almost all more or less related to politics.
On average, he watches 3-5 movies a day.
He watched more than 30 movies in just one week, and as usual he wrote a review for each one. Otherwise, he always felt that he had not gained anything.
That day, as usual, he was writing his review in the cafe next to the cinema, but suddenly he heard a very loud noise.
It's K language.
Qiao Yi Qiao looked to the side and saw a group of Asian faces putting three or four tables together not far away, shouting something loudly.
He didn't understand K language, so he just frowned. There were also many people from various countries around him, and he signaled them to lower their voices.
But they didn't care.
After his train of thought was interrupted for the third time, Qiao Yi Qiao finally couldn't stand it anymore and decided to go up and teach them a lesson.
But before he could go up, he suddenly
I found that there seemed to be a familiar face among this group of people.
Park Jong-yu.
If Qiao Yi Qiao hadn't had an extremely good memory, he would probably have forgotten this person.
He is the new director from Country K who once plagiarized Chinese culture and tried to make a horror film.
Of course, seven years later, he is no longer considered a new director.
He made several more films afterwards, all of which were effects-oriented. The quality was neither good nor bad, but the box office was quite good.
Because he and Qiao Yi Qiao were taking a similar path, Qiao Yi Qiao also paid a lot of attention to him.
But he actually came to Berlin? Qiao Yiqiao didn't pay much attention to this.
After Qiao Yiqiao stood up, Park Jong-yu also saw him.
Park Jong-yu obviously recognized Qiao Yiqiao. He grinned and said in very poor English: "Hello, Director Qiao."
Qiao Yiqiao heard the provocation in the other party's tone.
He knew this guy was going to talk some trash.
then.
In full view of everyone, he said, "Your English is so poor, I can't understand what you are saying," and turned and left.
Only Park Jong-yu and his companions were left there, staring at each other.
He had a lot of trash to say but he didn't say a word. He was so angry.
Qiao Yi Qiao was not idle after returning to the hotel.
He knew that Park Jong-yu might have done something, so he asked Xiao He to go out and ask around.
Soon, Xiao He got the answer.
"Brother, do you know that Pu Zi also has a film that entered the main competition this year?" Xiao He said, "It's a fantasy work."
"Really?" Qiao Yiqiao flipped through the brochure again, which contained a list of all the shortlisted works. "Why don't I see his name?"
Xiao He pointed to Qiao Yiqiao and said, "That's it. Pu Zi used his English name, so you can't tell. But you can see that the participating region is written as Country K."
Qiao Yi Qiao took a look and found that it was true.
There is a work from country K called "The King's Journey", signed by "Kimi". When Qiao Yiqiao saw it, he thought it was an independent director from country K, but he didn't expect it to be Park Jong-woo who had changed his name.
"This movie is said to be a fantasy epic. Can you guess who invested in it?" Xiao He asked again.
Qiao Yiqiao thought for a moment and said, "Global?"
"That's right!" Xiao He nodded, "It's them!"
In this way, Qiao Yiqiao is not surprising.
The previous Universal investment was rejected by Qiao Yiqiao, but the film directed by Wang Yige was released five years ago.
Although the reputation did not completely collapse, the box office suffered huge losses.
It was such a shame that even Qiao Yiqiao felt uncomfortable when he saw it.
After that, Universal never had any cooperation with Chinese directors again, and there was no major movement for several years.
It seems that this time we are placing our hopes on the director from Country K.
But Qiao Yiqiao never expected that it would be Park Jong-yu.
After all...in Qiao Yiqiao's heart, he felt that Park Jong-woo was at most a second-rate director, and his achievements and skills were far inferior to Wang Yige's.
I don’t know what twists and turns I went through before I finally chose him.
"Brother, do you know how much the public relations fee for their visit to Berlin is?" Xiao He asked again.
"How much?" Qiao Yi Qiao had no idea.
Every film has to spend a lot of public relations costs during the film festival.
Most of them are used for advertising, but for directors like Qiao Yiqiao, their works are popular in themselves and basically do not need advertising.
The other part is to take care of the judges.
This part of the price is of course not transparent, but many film producers will deliberately release some information about the price to dissuade other film producers.
However, the Berlin Film Festival's awards are relatively scientific. Not only do judges participate in the voting, but six directors who have won the Golden Bear Award also participate in the judging.
The judges all come from the Central Berlin Film Committee. They are numerous and relatively conservative and strict, and it is difficult for them to be impressed by public relations expenses.
For example, Qiao Yiqiao and his team only gave the judges the most basic gift boxes, including some souvenirs, movie production peripherals, behind-the-scenes footage, etc., as well as some derivative products. It didn't cost much, not even as much as Qiao Yiqiao and his team's accommodation expenses.
Most filmmakers do the same.
So Qiao Yiqiao was also very curious about how much "The King's Journey" cost.
Xiao He held up a finger: "10 million! Euros!"
Qiao Yiqiao was shocked: "Ah? Really?"
"It should be," Xiao He nodded, "It's just that they released the news themselves, but I think it should be similar. They really hosted a banquet for many judges... Earlier in the cafe, they celebrated by inviting Olaf to dinner."
Olaf is a famous European director who just won the Golden Bear Award and is one of the judges of this year's
one.
This guy is known for his difficult personality. Inviting him to dinner means that he is willing to endorse "The King's Journey", and the significance of this is self-evident.
However, for these, it cost 10 million...Euros.
Although Qiao Yi Qiao is very rich now, it is still a little hard to imagine.
It seems that Universal Reunion has learned from its last monster movie.
This time, we will focus on word of mouth.
In fact, even if he was given 10 million euros for free, he wouldn't know how to spend it.
After Xiao He finished speaking, he asked Qiao Yiqiao: "Brother, do you think we should also add some money?"
Qiao Yiqiao thought about it and shook his head: "Forget it."
Although he really wanted to win an award to prove himself, he didn't want to prove himself this way.
But he still spent some money.
He bought a ticket for "The King's Journey" on a second-hand website for a whopping 100 euros.
As the public relations costs have become known to many people, "The King's Journey" has now become a hot film at the entire Berlin Film Festival.
It is really hard to get a ticket.
The screening took place on the penultimate day.
After Qiao Yi Qiao entered the venue, he found that everyone in the audience was familiar, almost all of whom he had seen at previous screenings.
It seems that he is not the only one, many people are still curious about this movie.
The screening begins.
Qiao Yiqiao didn't watch any trailers or anything like that, so he was a complete first-wave moviegoer.
He read for a long time before he realized that "The King's Journey" was actually about the myth of Dangun.
It is probably a mythological story, which tells that the god Hengxiong yearned for life on earth, so he traveled around the world and finally established a village called "Shencun" on the top of Taibai Mountain. Then, after a series of lobbying, he attracted several gods such as wind, rain, thunder and lightning to come and take care of the world together. From then on, the world has been prosperous.
After that, he went through a series of events and turned the bears in the god village into women and then men, and then everyone lived happily together.
The film ends with the peace of the village being broken and an unknown mythical creature about to attack humans.
After reading it, Qiao Yiqiao felt that it was hard to put into words.
Whether this myth is true or not remains to be investigated, but leaving the story aside, Qiao Yiqiao is not very satisfied with the various directing techniques of this film.
Park Jong-woo wanted to shoot the so-called
In order to create an epic and mythical feel, a lot of incomprehensible empty shots were added.
But after reading it, Qiao Yiqiao felt confused.
These shots completely interrupt the film's narrative rhythm, making a simple story even thinner.
However, the overall atmosphere created is still remarkable, and it feels like a lot of effort has been put into the art aspect.
Moreover, since many people discovered that they borrowed from Chinese culture last time, they seemed to pay special attention to this film.
Many stylistic designs seem to deliberately avoid Chinese elements.
After watching it, Qiao Yiqiao felt that the art department had worked hard.
How much time does it take to complete such a workload?
but……
Qiao Yiqiao remembered that although this story was about the birth of ancient Korea, it seemed to come from "Samguk Yusa", which mainly included the content omitted from "Samguk Sagi". "Samguk Sagi" referred to "Book of Wei", "Book of Jin", "Zizhi Tongjian" and other contents...
But if we talk about it bluntly, then the Dangun myth can also be considered a native myth of Country K.
It is even the origin of all subsequent myths.
Thinking of this, Qiao Yi Qiao roughly understood why the other party chose this as the topic.
This is an attempt to open up a new K country mythology universe!
As a Chinese, Qiao Yiqiao was not too moved by this film.
But he was also very curious about how people from other countries and regions viewed the film.
The scene was completely silent...or to be more precise, completely silent.
Qiao Yiqiao observed carefully and found that many people had indescribable expressions. !
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