In the French film industry, Godard is a godlike being. If you go to the French film academy, if you don’t like Godard’s movies, you will not be admitted at all. You will think that you have a problem with your taste.

This time Godard's movie "Goodbye Language" premiered in Cannes, and naturally received strong attention from the media and movie fans. An hour before the screening, the teams at the six entrances of the Movie Palace had exceeded one hundred meters, and most of them came with a pilgrimage.

Godard did not attend the premiere of the movie. After meeting Zhang Ran, he went back to Switzerland. After several main actors of the movie entered the theater, the lights in Lumiere Hall gradually became dim. The live broadcast prompted: "Please wear the 3 glasses you received when entering the theater. "Goodbye Language" is a 3-movie."

What’s particularly interesting is that after the movie started, the reporters present took out their notebooks in unison like students who came to listen to the class. But after the movie was played for ten minutes, they gave up the record because they didn’t know what they were talking about in the movie.

Godard has always been regarded as the standard-bearer who challenges and competes with Hollywood blockbuster shooting techniques and narrative styles. Naturally, he will not succumb to Hollywood techniques. The film opens with a series of chaotic, fragmented, complex colors, and even different scenes of the left and right eye scenes. In addition, the movie speaks French and the subtitles are sometimes missing. Zhang Ran fell asleep after watching it for more than ten minutes. Of course, not only Zhang Ran fell asleep, but most reporters fell asleep, and the entire screening room snored.

However, Zhang Ran was awakened by snoring before he had not been asleep. When he opened his eyes, the fat reporter on the left snored and snored sounded one after another on the right. He knew the reporter on the right, Anne Bilson of the Guardian, who interviewed him a few days ago. It is said that he was a loyal fan of Godard, but she didn't expect her to sleep.

What surprised Zhang Ran was that the moment the movie ended, the reporters who were sleeping were awakened. The audience stood up and applauded, applauding, and exclaiming, completely like the expression after watching the masterpiece. Anne Bilson even applauded and sighed: "It's amazing, this is a great movie."

Zhang Ran's mouth twitched. Did you wake up just now? He asked deliberately: "Do you think this movie is good? Why do I think this movie is like a semi-finished product?"

Anne Bilson did not recognize Zhang Ran because Zhang Ran was wearing the mask of the clown in "The Dark Knight". She thought Zhang Ran was a Nolan fan and said with contempt: "That was intentional. This is the master's work. He is playing movies and enjoying movies."

When he walked out of the screening hall, Zhang Ran heard several Chinese reporters saying that he had fallen asleep. Only one young reporter went to Cannes for the first time and felt that it was embarrassing to watch the master's movies, so he finished watching them with his thighs. The young reporter said distressedly: "I don't know what the movie is about, how do you write the review?"

The old reporter next to him taught: "I can't even understand Godard's movies. Not only can we not understand them, but foreign journalists can't understand them either. Just praise this kind of movie, and I will directly write about another magical film in Cannes. "

On the second day after the release of "Goodbye Language", major portals and news newspapers around the world published film reviews and praised "Goodbye Language". Anne Bilson wrote enthusiastically: "There is no God in the cinema, only Godard."

At noon, when Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu were talking to her, they told her this as a joke and said: "When I reach Godard's age, I will deliberately make a movie and get it to the film festival to participate in it, and let thousands of reporters and critics applaud and cheer in the hall, discuss and analyze the meaning behind the movie seriously. I crossed my legs at home and said, "I've all played tricks!"

Zhang Jingchu laughed and said, "You must call me such a fun thing, I've booked the heroine!"

After finishing his call with Zhang Jingchu, Zhang Ran was preparing to go to the Movie Palace to participate in the premiere of "The Deaf and Dumb Tribe". Ryan Coogler told Zhang Ran that the movie was inspired by "One Man's Light and Decoration", and the director of the movie really hoped that Zhang Ran would attend the premiere of the movie.

At this moment, Zhang Ran received a call from the Tiangong Quancai VR group, saying that they had arrived in Switzerland. Godard was very interested in VR. After talking to Zhang Ran, he was impatient to return to Switzerland and waited for the Tiangong Quancai to deliver the equipment to the door.

Zhang Ran told Tiangong Chongcai staff to cooperate with Godard and to arrive in Switzerland tomorrow morning.

The next morning, Zhang Ran rushed to Nyon, a small town on the shore of Lake Leman, Vaudar, Switzerland, and came to Godard's house.

Anne Bilson said nothing wrong. Godard was playing movies and enjoying movies. When Zhang Ran arrived at Godard's house, the old man was taking the staff and two actors to test the film in the yard.

The male actor wore a head-mounted VR camera on his head and chatted with an actress while walking. Godard sat behind the monitor and watched the two actors perform happily.

When Godard saw Zhang Ran, he immediately shouted "Stop" and asked the two actors to rest. After Zhang Ran came over, he was like a child who had obtained a new toy and said to Zhang Ran excitedly: "This thing is very interesting, closer to reality than a movie, and more freer than a movie. I took a picture and see how the effect is?"

Zhang Ran really wants to see what the VR movie Godard will look like when he made. Godard has been exploring the language of the movie, expanding the vocabulary of the movie, and his understanding of space, pictures, and cameras is not comparable to that of ordinary people. The VR he made must be different from others, and may be able to inspire Zhang Ran.

After Zhang Ran put on VR glasses, Zhang Ran found that Godard was as willful as filming VR and filming movies, and was as unruly as filming 3D movies. He didn't care about the rules or whether the audience accepted it. Anyway, I just had to do it. VR could not be edited, but Godard just cut it. So Zhang Ran saw the actresses as if they could teleport, one on his left and the other on his right. Moreover, the two actors were speaking French, so he didn't know what they were talking about.

After Zhang Ran took off his VR glasses, Godard asked with great interest: "What do you think?"

Zhang Ran knew that Godard had a straight temper and said bluntly: "I feel like I'm watching a ghost movie. It's not a human being who talks to me, but a female ghost. She floated around in front of me, whizzing!"

Hearing Zhang Ran's words, the two actors and the staff on the scene laughed, and they also felt the same.

Godard also laughed: "You don't understand now, I'm exploring the authenticity of the world." He looked at Zhang Ran and said curiously: "I heard them say you are going to make a VR feature film. What are you planning to shoot?"

Zhang Ran spread his hands and said helplessly: "Now there is only a big idea. What I want to make is a cyberpunk movie, the story takes place in the future online world. The characters will shuttle in different cyberspaces, which can avoid the scene change and allow me to complete the narrative smoothly. I thought about how to deal with the first scene. But I haven't thought about it yet. I can only try slowly, hoping to find the language belonging to VR movies in this process."

Godard stared at Zhang Ran for a few seconds, and suddenly laughed: "I believe you can find it."

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "You are so confident in me?"

Godard nodded seriously: "At the beginning of the movie, Merrie, Griffith, who explored the language of film, were all talented, and at the same time, they were either rich enough or supported by big companies, so they could explore. You are also talented, richer and more exploratory. I believe you can create a brand new film art."

Speaking of this, he looked at Zhang Ran and said with a little puzzled understanding: "I explore the language of movies because movies are bourgeois. To resist the bourgeoisie, I need to smash all the traditions of movies. So what are you exploring the language of movies for?"

The smile on Zhang Ran's face disappeared and he said very seriously: "Many foreigners do not understand the Chinese and say that we have no faith. This is wrong. We have faith, and our faith is history. What you Christians pursue is to go to heaven."

Godard interrupted Zhang Ran: "I am not a Christian, my faith is communism."

Zhang Ran laughed at this and made a sorry gesture: "For most Chinese people, the highest pursuit is to leave a name in history. There is a commercial film director named Feng Xiaogang in our country. His commercial films are very popular, but two years ago he made an artistic film "1942". Before filming, he knew that the box office would not be very good, because the movie was very depressing and not the type that the audience liked, but he still insisted on filming. He said that he hoped to make several movies that could be remembered. The reason is very simple. He had everything, but he owe a name in history. I am the same.

It has been more than a hundred years since the movie was born, and many popular directors have been drowned in the dust of history, but we still remember Griffith and Eisenstein, because they laid the foundation for film grammar and were teachers of all filmmakers. I hope I can still be remembered like them in hundreds of years."

Speaking of this, Zhang Ran exclaimed: "You just said that you are exploring the authenticity of the world. I have also thought about this issue and have been confused about it. I think that in the lifetime of a person, we always have to leave something to tell the world that I have been here, so I want to create a brand new movie language and a brand new movie."

In a blink of an eye, it was May 25th, and the time for the Cannes Film Festival to close was up. At this time, the movies to be screened were basically all screened, and the awards became the focus of attention of various media.

This year's Cannes is the highest quality session after 2000, and it is a rare year. This year, 5 of the 19 movies in the main competition unit have scored more than 3 points in the magazine, including Zhang Ran's "Scarlet Sun" topped the list with 3.8 points, Mike Lee's "Mr. Turner" ranked second with 3.6 points, Russian movie "Leviathan" ranked third with 3.5 points; Turkish director Ceylon's movie "Hidden" ranked fourth with 3.4 points; Dane's "Two Days and One Night" ranked fifth with 3.1 points.

Among these five movies, the director of "Mr. Turner" Mike Lee and the director of "Two Days and One Night" both won the Palme d'Or, and the possibility of winning another award is relatively small. The Palme d'Or basically emerged in the three movies "Scarred Sun", "Leviathan" and "Hibernation", among which "Scarred Sun" has the highest voice.

The popular candidates for the best actor are Li Xuejian, the starring actor of "Scarlet Body of the Sun", and Timothy Spoel, the starring actor of "Mr. Turner". The media generally believe that Li Xuejian's performance is better, more difficult, and better completion. However, Cannes now has clear regulations that a movie can only win one award. The quality of "Scarlet Body of the Sun" is particularly high and there will definitely be awards. Once "Scarlet Body of the Sun", Li Xuejian will not be able to win the award. Therefore, Timothy Spoel is more likely to win the award.

Of course, this is just a media prediction, and the ownership of the award has never been related to the media. Anyone who can become the chairman or judge of the Cannes jury is very personality and stubborn, and will not be easily influenced by the media and the audience. What really determines the destination of the award is the preferences of the nine judges of the jury.
Chapter completed!