Rebirth In Hollywood

Standing next to the entrance of the Sarah Grande Theater, Ryan looked at Natalie who was walking slowly on the red carpet not far away. Every time she waved, she always brought bursts of cheers. The fans on the side were almost crazy, and the flash light on the photography area on the left suppressed the rays of the sun that moved to the west.

"Nate is so beautiful."

Gail Gado next to him looked over there and said to Ryan, "What do you think of this dress I helped Nat choose?"

"It turns out that you praised your vision." Ryan said calmly, "Nate is not white at all, and this dark red dress exposes this flaw."

"Forget it, Ryan."

Over the past few years, Gal Gadot has roughly figured out Ryan's temper, because of his unceremonious criticism, "Your vision for clothing and fashion can't even reach the passing line."

"Okay." Ryan sorted out his dark-colored dress, "I admit it."

"Hi, Mr. Jenkins."

A middle-aged female director came to say hello, and Ryan shook her hand, "Hello, Ms. Campion."

"Why didn't Scarlett come?"

Hearing Gal Gadot's whispered question, Ryan shook hands with another person, and then said, "It seems that I went to Lanai for vacation with Tyler and Christine."

"These guys." Gal Gadot just muttered casually, she knew very well that these people who had known Ryan for more than ten years were privileged, "But, Ryan, why don't you walk the red carpet? Believe it The Organizing Committee would love to have you on the red carpet."

"Darling." Ryan looked at Natalie who was walking slowly towards this side. "It's enough to leave the beautiful place to you and Nate. There is always some work that needs to be done ahead of time behind the scenes."

They came to Venice two days ago. Unlike Natalie, who attended public events and interviews everywhere, Ryan not only negotiated some things with the person in charge of the PR team who came here in advance, but also contacted many people in private. , If you want to get a delicious piece of the big cake of the Venice Film Festival, the work outside the theater is more important.

Compared with the Oscars, the Venice Film Festival, which flaunts art and experimentation, has a more obvious meaning. The same film rarely wins two awards. Ryan is aiming for the Golden Lion Award first, followed by Best Actress.

Natalie came over, took Ryan's arm, and walked into the Sarah Grande Theater together.

Ryan had just taken her to greet the jury members when Cate Blanchett came over.

"Long time no see, Ryan." She smiled to this side.

"Driving straight from Sydney?" Ryan asked.

"Yeah." She pointed to the other side. "I'll go and say hello to Lady Jane Campion."

After that, Blanchett walked away from Ryan, ignoring Natalie who was holding him from beginning to end.

Cate Blanchett's "I'm Not There" is also in competition, this film comes from the investment of Kidman Studio, but their main target is the best actress.

Natalie pouted in the direction of Blanchett's departure. She didn't deal with the actresses in Australia, and it was not something that only appeared in the past few years.

"Dear." Ryan reminded her deliberately, "Your mouth is about to reach your ears. You are the director of the opening film, and you are the focus of the scene."

Pinching Ryan's arm hard, Natalie shook hands with those who came over.

"Hi, Kayla."

"You're so pretty today, Nat."

It was an acquaintance who came over, and Keira Knightley turned to Ryan again, "You're still so handsome, Ryan."

"Thank you." Ryan nodded lightly.

"Nate, I didn't expect you to be a director." She seemed envious. "The film you directed has also become the opening film of the film festival, congratulations..."

Although he could hear a little sourness in Keira Knightley's words, Ryan didn't worry about anything. Unlike her previous life, she and Natalie were no longer on the same level.

Later, Ryan and Natalie greeted Mark Mueller, the chairman of the board of directors of the Venice Film Festival.

The famous Italian producer went to China to study in the 1970s. His first wife was a Chinese. Introduced to the European film industry, Chinese films have been so strong at the Venice Film Festival in recent years, which has a direct relationship with him.

In fact, if you look at the guests attending the opening ceremony, you can see the strength of Chinese-language films at the Venice Film Festival. Their number accounts for nearly a quarter, completely overwhelming the powerful Hollywood gang.

Although Ryan has done some work, he does not have much confidence in whether "Black Swan" can achieve one of the main goals.

After all, this is not the Oscars, nor Cannes.

However, Mark Muller is currently reforming the Venice Film Festival, which is good for "Black Swan", and given the gloom and depression of the Venice Film Festival, he has also performed some operations on the festival to make it a "" "Flexible" film festival, especially in the last two years, has invited a large number of Hollywood films.

As for the chairman of the jury surnamed Zhang, Disney's Far East Branch and some partners have already greeted him vaguely. It depends on what he will choose in the end.

You know, this one has always been obsessed with Oscar.

If the other party is willing to help, he will help him get a nomination for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in the future.

The exchange of interests is something that Ryan has long been familiar with.

Enter the theater's projection room and find a seat. Just as Ryan and Natalie sat down, Gal Gadot also came over, and her seat was next to Natalie.

"What happened, Gail?" Natalie asked her.

"It's nothing." Gal Gadot sat down and adjusted to a more comfortable position, "You know what, Nate? People who greet me are always talking about Wonder Woman or Her Royal Highness Princess Diana, and calling me add There are very few people who are Miss Duo."

"The sequelae of superhero movies." Natalie laughed and patted her comfortably. "I'm not like you. When I walked to the fans' autographs, many people were calling Katniss..."

"Gail," Ryan suggested, "try some other types of characters."

"That's the only way." Natalie whispered close to her friend's ear, "Take your time."

"I heard that you are planning a new movie?" Gal Gadot was well informed, and he was not polite to Natalie. "Is there a role that suits me?"

"Sorry, Gail." Natalie didn't hide her meaning, "It was a script about the Iraq War, and the characters with a little weight were all male."

"War?" She wondered.

"It's not what you think, anyway..."

The host of the opening ceremony stepped onto the stage, and Natalie said briefly, "It's not a war epic, it's a reflection type theme. If you have time another day, you can come to me to read the script."

Mark Taylor, chairman of the Venice Film Festival, and director Zhang Moumou, chairman of the current jury, came to the stage to give speeches, and then the opening film kicked off.

"A prince went hunting and fell in love with a "captive" white swan princess who could only appear in human form at night. The prince invited the princess to his birthday dinner, and at that time he would confess his love declaration that he wanted to marry the princess. .

However, the White Swan Princess, who was cursed by the evil magician, failed to attend in the end. Instead, she was replaced by another woman who took the appearance of the White Swan Princess - the magician's daughter, who only wore a black dress like a black swan. Confused the heart of the prince.

In the end, the prince saw through the conspiracy and returned to the White Swan Princess, but was framed by an evil magician. The White Swan Princess went away with the prince who was swept away by the waves and fell into the lake and died. "

The story line of the movie is probably like this. Following the plot of the well-known ballet "Swan Lake", another ingenious and complex "play within a play" mode is adopted, combined with the depression and mental personality split problems that are most used in literary and artistic movies. The auditory hallucinations and hallucination art in the medical field are processed into bizarre visual sensations and jumping thinking equations, and the charm of "lie" can achieve the vividness and mystery that images can only show.

Although Natalie's film is made by Natalie, the focus of Ryan's attention is nothing more than Natalie's performance in it and the shooting techniques used.

After all, these will be related to the film's future harvest in the awards season.

At the end of the film, when Natalie performed Black Swan, it was shocking and full of contagion. In addition to the visual effects of music, dance and camera special effects, her demeanor and eyes were also extremely amazing and penetrating. Full of confidence and magic.

In fact, compared with most of the previous time, Nina's submissiveness and timidity, especially her fearful appearance, are more shocking, and Natalie can interpret both so accurately and vividly, compared to her popularity. of Amidala and Katniss, this role undoubtedly has more room for her to perform.

In addition, every time Nina faces the mirror alone in the bathroom dressing room, it is an extremely difficult emotional performance. In the long-shot shooting, it is the method to test the acting skills to the fullest.

And Natalie does it flawlessly, every time it gets better.

These all reminded Ryan of the movie more than ten years ago, when Nat's performance was shocking enough, and it had the magic power to turn the tigers of the world into butter, and now all this is normal.

There are also a range of directing techniques.

The use of color and light has always been something Natalie is good at. The backgrounds and meanings of pink, gray and black and white have a much stronger impact in the finished film than in the original set.

For the protagonist Nina, Natalie used a lot of follow-up techniques, and the plot of following Nina's filming was extremely brilliant. r1152 ()