During the film festival, as long as the crew is not as poor as they are, they often hold cocktail parties after the movie premiere. In many people's eyes, Jia Zhangke is a director with no box office and relatively poor performance. However, after the movie "World", he also held a special cocktail party.

Whether it is the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, or other film festivals, there are a large number of cocktail parties every day during the entire film festival. Filmmakers are usually very busy, and cocktail parties are the best stage for everyone to make friends, talk about business, and expand their connections.

The cocktail party of "The Aviator" was held by a public relations company hired by Zhang Ran and was held in a luxurious hotel. There were many guests present, including the chairman of more than a dozen film festivals, such as the chairman of the Berlin Film Festival, and the chairman of the Sundance Film Festival, Joffrey Gilmer.

There is competition between Class A film festivals. If you are shortlisted for a film festival, you cannot be shortlisted for other Class A film festivals. However, there is no competition between Class A film festivals and other film festivals. Movies that participate in Class A film festival competitions can participate in other film festivals. Therefore, many small film festivals are very willing to invite famous movies in Class A film festivals to participate in their own film festivals, which can attract more attention.

Zhang Ran has become famous worldwide and in many countries with "Space-Time Warriors", and has certain fans in many countries. Everyone is looking forward to his new film. It is definitely a good thing for the film festival to invite "Flyer" to participate in his own film festival.

At the cocktail party, Zhang Ran received many invitations, hoping that he could bring the movie to their film festival for screening, all costs included. Among them, Jofry Gilmer, the chairman of Sundance Film Festival, was the most enthusiastic. He not only invited Zhang Ran to bring "The Aviator" to the Sundance Film Festival, but also invited Zhang Ran to serve as a judge for next year's Sundance Film Festival. However, Zhang Ran declined. The Sundance Film Festival began in mid-January, when he would lead the students in his class to perform.

Zhang Ran was chatting, and Robert De Niro came over with a glass of wine. He looked at Zhang Ran and smiled and said, "Do you know why I saw your movie?"

Zhang Ran smiled and shook his head, really didn't know.

De Niro looked at Zhang Ran and said, "Last year, Martin's "Aviator" started filming, and I went to visit the set. I asked him, "Your "New York Gangster" has just been released, why are you in a hurry to make a new film so quickly? Martin told me that when I was in Berlin, I met a young man, and he was also preparing to make a movie called "Aviator". If his "Aviator" was made, I would probably not have the heart to shoot this movie of the same name. I was shocked and asked who the young man was. He told me that it was a Chinese man, and his name was Zhang Ran! So, when I saw Zhang Ran and "Aviator" in the main competition unit, I said to myself, "Be sure to come and have a look. It is indeed as Martin said, the whole movie is full of imagination and a masterpiece of genius!"

Zhang Ran bowed and greeted: "Thank you Mr. De Niro. I am very happy to hear you say this. Compared to Mr. Scorsese, I am still far from it! I like your performance very much. Mr. De Niro, I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate with you!"

De Niro said seriously: "Of course, I also hope to work with a young man like you. If you have a suitable script, you can call me directly!" As he said that, De Niro took out a business card and handed it to Zhang Ran.

After chatting with De Niro for a while, a French producer named Emmanuel Benby came over. He told Zhang Ran that he would invite 20 famous directors including Zhang Ran, the Coen brothers, Tom Tickway, each director would shoot a 5-minute short film, telling a love story that took place in Paris, paying tribute to Paris and the movies.

Zhang Ran was stunned. Isn't this "Paris, I Love You". He has watched this movie, and several of the short movies are quite interesting. Participating in this project was an interesting attempt. He carefully asked about time, budget, technology and other questions, and finally agreed to participate in the movie.

The reception lasted until three o'clock in the morning before everyone left. Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu held hands and walked on the stone road. The sea breeze blew, which made it a unique flavor.

The next day, the two woke up almost eleven o'clock. They finished washing up and were about to find a place to eat. When they walked to the hotel lobby, Zhang Ran picked up a magazine and flipped it out.

Among the ten film critics in the magazine, 4 of them scored 5 points, 3 of them scored 4 points, 1 of them scored 2 points, and 2 of them scored 1 point. The evaluation was a bit polarized, but it was mainly positive. The average score of the magazine was 3.7, ranking second among all the videos.

The magazine published a commentary on "The Aviator", which sang praises to the movie: "The Aviator" is a story about the glory and dreams of little people. It uses the language of a unique movie to tell the trivial matters of life, and uses strange light and shadow to contemplate the glory of the past. When Qiao Zheng flew into the sky, we saw a fragment of the curtain call about the prosperity and endurance, and an elegy about the burning years of passion.

"The Aviator" reminds people of many excellent Chinese movies, such as "Farewell My Concubine" and "Living", which use the fate of a small person to reflect the inner persistence under the great changes in society. What is valuable is that when the film deals with emotional treatments about nostalgia and helplessness, it avoids cheap sensationalism, but uses gorgeous lens language to resolve the heavy and sentimentality that the film should have. On the one hand, it is conducive to the audience always receiving information in a relatively excited state, and on the other hand, it does not affect the film's review. It is particularly worth mentioning that the two leading actors of the film, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu, both show the extremely precise life state that the characters should have.

Rather than saying that "The Aviator" is an inspirational story about small people building planes, it is better to say that it is a farewell and nostalgia for the end of a specific era in China. Through the words and deeds of a group of ordinary people, you can see their calmness and calmness in the ups and downs of Chinese society and people's livelihood, and see their helplessness and self-deconstruction of the rapid progress of China's political and economic changes. What is pleasant and sad is that the positive description of the film is not these, but what I really want to tell you is, seeing the big from the small and seeing the small, which is exactly what "The Aviator" shines. It can be said that if you understand this movie, you will understand the changes in China from 1978 to 1997!"

"Movie Shinjo" is the most important film magazine in Japan. It is the most authoritative film award held by Movie Shinjo" every year. "Movie Shinjo" praised "The Flyer": "This movie puts this profound historical change into it with light weight. The glory of the old era fills the film like air, giving the film a tragic background. Qiao Zhengfei in the movie, like Zhang Ran's favorite "Seven Samurai", uses their delusions and overestimate their power to make the last fight for the already disappearing dignity."

Variety Show and Hollywood Reporter are the most authoritative film magazines in the United States. These two magazines are not only the most professional, but also represent the views of the Hollywood industry. Every year during the awards season, the comments given by these two magazines often represent the mainstream of public opinion. However, in the evaluation of "The Aviator", the two magazines give completely opposite reviews.

Variety Show believes that "The Aviator" is an epoch-making great movie, and scored a full score of 100. Variety Show wrote in the comments: "The movie is amazingly beautiful. A picture looks like a painting, independent and beautiful. The unique way of the lens moves has a picture-like beauty. The use of lights in the play also cleverly clarifies several eras and corresponding meanings. For example, the picture in 1978 is the most overexposed, and the picture has a strong sense of burrs; 92

There are many backlight shots in the year, reflecting the conflict between characters and reality, while in 1997, it is close to reality. The creativity of the film in the screen ratio is a highlight. The film's picture adopts the standard ratio of 1.37:1, and the dream part adopts the 1.85:1 format. The most shocking thing is that when Qiao Zhengfei took off while flying the plane, the picture of the film slowly unfolded and turned into a 2.35:1 ratio, just like opening a scroll of painting, giving a strong impact to people's hearts!"

However, The Hollywood Reporter believes that "The Aviator" is a bad movie, with a score of only 50. The article reads: "The Soldier of Time and Space allows us to witness the emergence of a talented director, while "The Aviator" allows us to witness the fall of a talented director. "The Aviator" is not like a movie, but a stage play. The most unlike the movie is its lens language and scene scheduling.

It is a good idea to use different lights to express different eras, but the large number of overexposure lenses and backlight lenses make the picture too dazzling, making it uncomfortable and making it difficult for the audience to get into the role. Because of this, many reporters chose to leave the scene, and everyone felt it was very uncomfortable.

Another thing that makes people feel distorted is that the scenes of the movie lack change. The movie’s pictures do not have depth, only horizontal movements. Therefore, the characters’ movements are like stage performances, borrowing stairs and placing characters on them, like a puppet, and the texture of life is shackled."

Also given bad reviews was the old British magazine "Empire", which read: "The Aviator" had a good idea and applied a large amount of social news to the movies. However, Zhang Ran's use of these news was only superficial and did not discuss it in depth. He did not accurately express the absurd reality of contemporary Chinese society like Jia Zhangke: consumption fanaticism, social collapse, bureaucracy corruption, and the gap between the rich and the poor, and these plaguing social problems in China today.

In the movie, we can see various memory symbols about 78, 92, 97 China, green military uniforms, big-character posters, video recorders, bb machines, and props from the era can easily pull the audience from the big screen into the era they once lived, and then arouse inner resonance. But unfortunately, the way the whole story unfolds is so mediocre and boring. If you choose a specific era background, the story does not have much tangible connection with the era background and dramatic tension.

Zhang Ran seems to be too fascinated by arranging these past memories in the movie. In terms of the plot of the movie, the characters have become useless and become foils of the style of the times. In other words, the people at the core of the movie have begun to disappear, and they only represent the various established characters that we often use in newspapers.

The integration of a large amount of news has led to the understanding of the characters' emotions being on the surface, just like the main line of the Chinese era that is talked about in the movie. As the protagonist of the event, people are only a stereotyped symbol. Large segments of shots look at each other with two expressionless faces, but we cannot feel the hearts of the characters!"

The comments of "The Aviator" are a bit polarized, but overall, they are still mostly positive. People who know these media have discovered an interesting phenomenon. Almost all pioneering media have given positive reviews, while media that give negative reviews are often more conservative.
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