When Li Yuan entered the screening room, he found that there were fewer viewers than expected.

In addition to dozens of real movie fans, the kind who are not picky about food, the other more than 100 people came to support the film festival organizing committee, journalists and film studio representatives.

After all, after all, I have been shortlisted for the main competition unit, so a few of them will come over.

Unlike a few decades later, Chinese art films already have a well-known brand (it needs to be acknowledged here that it is mainly due to the contribution of sixth-generation directors such as Chief Jia. Although their films do not have much domestic audiences), they also have a number of international films.

Famous directors and celebrities (such as Lao Mouzi and...Fan Bayi, cough cough). Plus the countless insiders and Internet celebrities who are enjoying the popularity?

I'm not bragging, the 2,000-person auditorium can't even be packed.

However, in the early 1990s? Not many people would be interested. The name of the movie is incomprehensible, and it is not a Chinese Kung Fu movie?

"Hi Li, long time no see!"

"Quentin! My friend. Congratulations! I'm waiting for your celebration dinner."

"Fuck! We have no budget at all. That stingy Jew."

"Should I pay for it? Am I not an investor? Let Harvey, the fat guy, arrange it."

Seeing Li Yuan's beaming face, Quentin laughed loudly: "I understand."

"..."

The two gangsters greeted each other with a warm embrace. Since "Pulp Fiction" caused a sensation in Cannes, Quentin is very proud of himself these days. He also took the initiative to bring some friends over to support him.

After introducing each other, there is no need for any opening ceremony, and there are not even many viewers. It is better to just show it:

During the Republic of China, there was a foreign market in Shili. A young gangster who sold stolen goods on the street and made thousands of swindles. He had three friends...

But the little gangster was targeted by a gang boss. Because the gangster's father opened a small restaurant, the gang boss wanted to occupy this industry...

In the Japanese Concession, a group of young bookmakers specialize in making and selling unique products. Their boss is a book agent disguised as a businessman, who is gentle on the surface but vicious on the inside...

The warlord and several of his men. In fact, they are a family of soldiers and bandits, and they suddenly turned into robbing bandits...

In addition, there are two thieves and a cold-faced killer with his doting son...

In the original version of "Two Smoking Barrels", due to the large number of characters, the relationship between them is extremely complicated. Therefore, a lot of space was spent on the introduction at the beginning of the film, which took almost half an hour.

But even so, since almost all the characters in the film have no distinctive characteristics, words or deeds. In addition, the original version is a British film. No matter whether they are gangster or white, they all wear suits? It is difficult to distinguish them at all. Even their speech is different.

From beginning to end, the word "F" starts with a yellow accent. It looks very aggressive on the surface, but in fact there is no difference?

Therefore, when watching, especially in the first half hour, almost all viewers are confused and may even feel quite boring.

This is why the original version of "Two Smoking Barrels" received extremely high reviews and extremely low reviews. However, in the first film festivals, in addition to winning the Best Director Award at the Tokyo Film Festival, it was almost the "Township Enterprise Award"

Apart from that, he has almost never won any significant film awards.

Because of this epoch-making work with its multi-line narrative structure, the film industry will slowly come back to it, and the more it comes to mind, the more exquisite it becomes. It truly achieves that one handsome man can cover up all his ugliness!

But in terms of other techniques in the original film, there are still quite a few shortcomings.

However, in Li Yuan's adaptation this time, he compressed the first half hour into less than five minutes.

Moreover, these groups of characters can be easily distinguished by their clothing and lines.

What about a little gangster? There are many in Hong Kong and Taiwan films: How about a gangster? There are also many in Hong Kong and Taiwan films: a cruel and ruthless villain with a smiling face? This is not difficult, right? Just bow often and act in a vulgar way; soldiers.

A family of bandits? Aren’t they just bandits?

But having said that, after all, the beginning only lasted five minutes, and the plot was quite trivial, so the audience was still confused.

Until all the characters suddenly came together and performed a very absurd street dance. It was an imitation of the ax dance at the beginning of "Kung Fu".

Just as the whole audience was bewildered, the screen split apart and turned into several sub-shots, which were then quickly connected together to quickly clarify the context...

The whole audience burst into laughter and applause. Not to mention how wonderful it was, let’s just say that this spirit of exploration of film art is completely worth encouraging.

…

The audience present immediately cheered up. They seemed to have found a treasure this time. Since there were very few ordinary viewers and almost all of them were experts, they could immediately judge the subtle points.

The plot of "Two Golden Guns" is actually very simple - it's just that several groups of people make mistakes, and then intentionally or unintentionally commit suicide. In the end, except for the protagonist group, almost everyone receives a box lunch...

But Li Yuan added many comedy elements with Chinese characteristics. He also invited an action director from Hong Kong. Therefore, in terms of comedy and visual effects, it is several levels better than the original "Two Smoking Barrels".

Films with a multi-line narrative structure, as long as the main lines are not confused, are almost always completed in one go. And the audience watched it with gusto.

Unknowingly, the film ended with warm applause from the audience.

There are even many film producers who are eager to try it because they have already judged that in addition to its artistic quality, this film also has high commercial value.

Amidst cheers and whistles, Li Yuan and the crew members walked to the stage and were interviewed by the reporters present.

Since "Pulp Fiction" has already appeared in this film festival, the media has praised it as "a great innovation that has not been seen in decades". But I never expected that another work would appear here? That is simply a double happiness!

"Li, it's an honor to watch this wonderful movie. I just want to ask you, how did you come up with the structure of the film?"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "It's very simple. I just thought about it and figured it out."

Amidst the laughter, someone else asked: "Li, we found out that you and director Quentin are good friends. His "Pulp Fiction" has received rave reviews. What do you think of you?"

"An epoch-making and excellent work. In fact, when I was creating "Two Golden Guns", I once communicated with Quentin. And his ideas also gave me a lot of inspiration. "Pulp Fiction" has a wireless narrative structure, and I

This film should belong to a multi-line narrative structure and are all experimental works in narrative techniques."

Here, Li Yuan will definitely exchange business blows. Quentin whistled equally excitedly.

"Li, I heard that this is your first work?"

"That's true. Sorry! There are others on the crew, can you give them a chance?"

"Hahaha……"

"..."

In fact, there will still be fierce competition within A-category film festivals. Especially the Cannes Film Festival has always been arrogant, they want to be the No. 1 film festival in the world!

However, in the 1950s and 1960s, the New Wave first emerged in Europe. As everyone should know, the New Wave influenced several generations of directors and even affected all parts of the world, including a large number of directors from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.

The birthplace of the New Wave is mainly France, which is also the pride of French culture.

But as we entered the 1980s and 1990s, the box office of New Wave continued to decline.

Because the New Wave advertises itself as auteur films, capturing the director’s feelings? But what about the audience’s feelings? Who wants to watch you moaning without reason?

Coupled with the continuous innovation of Hollywood technology, especially the revolution in special effects, represented by commercial films such as "Terminator 2" and "Jurassic Park" introduced before, it suddenly swept the world and greatly squeezed

increased the box office space of the author's films.

If the movie hasn't even made it to the box office yet? Then what's there to talk about?

In the end, it slowly fell into a vicious cycle. Art films began to develop in a perverted and large-scale direction, which suddenly made gentlemen all over the world happy. And this is not over yet. In the future, political correctness will be comprehensive, and it will even spread to the field of commercial films.

Did Mermaid use a black actress?

Isn't there a joke? If the protagonist is a black man, a gay man, a fat man, a single mother, and a marginalized person of whatever faith, congratulations, you have already won the award.

However, human aesthetics cannot be changed?

A good movie is a good movie! A bad movie is a bad movie! This cannot be reversed by giving a few awards.

Therefore, at the Cannes Film Festival in recent years, the organizing committee has been embarrassed. The quality of the films exhibited has become lower and lower, and their reputation has become worse and worse.

But at this film festival, "Pulp Fiction" came out? "Two Golden Guns" became a blockbuster again. If you add a few outstanding films such as Lao Mouzi's "Alive", this is simply a dream.

What time is it?

Especially the first two films, they are not unconventional through abnormal large-scale, they are truly groundbreaking innovations. And even the commercial elements are very good and can attract most of the audience.

Nothing to say, let’s start bragging!

Enter the Dragon, the birth of two classics!

New forces are rising, leading the revolution in film narrative!

"Pulp Fiction" and "Two Smoking Barrels", two rising star directors shine in Cannes!

…

In an instant, Li Yuan and the others went from being unknown to becoming a sensation in Cannes. The organizing committee of the film festival also arranged emergency screenings and added seven consecutive screenings. And the screenings were full.

Even Andy Lau and Leslie Cheung couldn't help but smile from ear to ear. They were still hesitant about Li Yuan's three scripts, but now they immediately decided on "Slumdog Millionaire". They only made one request - it must be

Li Yuan continues to be the director!

Huang Jiaojiao and Ying Xin were even more overjoyed. They actually still had the opportunity to walk on the red carpet of the closing ceremony? Of course they had to make a big purchase to celebrate...

The news quickly spread throughout Cannes, France, Europe, and the world...

I have to admit that the magic of movies is almost unlimited, it will be sought after by all media, and it will also have one of the best influences.

Let’s talk about the United States! If we talk about the film industry, maybe the film industry’s output value is not even in the top ten. But when it comes to the United States, apart from Wall Street, it’s Hollywood, right? Finally, Silicon Valley was added.

For this reason, the influence is so great!

So in an instant, Li Yuan's fame spread all over the world at the speed of light.

As a matter of fact, Li Yuan was also quite famous before and even made several big news.

But someone went too far across industries. One moment he was a historian, another moment he was a businessman running to Africa, another moment he was an Internet entrepreneur, and finally he opened a map to the global scientific community? By the way, he even brought the Rockefeller family with him?
To be continued...