Liu Lan and her group arrived in Venice the day before the opening ceremony, so that they could have plenty of time to prepare for the red carpet the next day. The plane landed directly on the island of Venice, the film festival, the venue of the film festival, which is a slender island about 12 kilometers long. In addition to hosting the film festival, it is also a world-famous resort.

On that day, they checked in a hotel on the island of Lido in Venice. They had no time to wander around in the resort. First, the film festival staff came to register them. During the event, idle people could not wander around the island. Even if it was obvious that the 18th vertices were peering on the red carpet or fans and tourists who came to chase stars would need to apply for their ID in advance.

Liu Lan and Li Xiaoru only had one admission permit for the opening ceremony, while Ye Zi'an and Tao Zhiyao had a pass for the whole audience. But it didn't matter. After attending the opening ceremony, Liu Lan and Li Xiaoru went to Polchano.

In the afternoon of the same day, Ye Zi'an convened everyone to hold a meeting, mainly emphasizing discipline, time, competition rules and precautions. The organizer of the movie gave him a process document. Only then did he know which movies were shortlisted for the film festival. He picked out the important ones and introduced them to everyone, and by the way, he gave popular science to those who were not aware of their careers.

For example, the film festival has several competition units, main competition unit, horizon unit, screening unit... Just like people are divided into different levels, the film festival also divides the shortlisted movies into different levels. The main competition unit is undoubtedly the best, but in the past decade, no Chinese film has entered this unit. This time, "The Dream of the Late Ming Dynasty" did not create miracles, it was shortlisted for the horizon unit. The horizon unit also has awards such as Best Director and Best Actor and Actress.

The Horizon Unit is not that bad, second only to the top main competition unit. Including "The Dream of the Late Ming Dynasty", a total of 18 movies were shortlisted for this. It is hoped that 7 world-class celebrities such as directors, screenwriters, and producers will be judged. After 10 days of taking turns to watch the movie, the winning film was finally selected.

The biggest difference between it and the main competition unit is probably that the directors shortlisted for the film are all newcomers - those who participated in the Venice Film Festival for the first time are also young directors. Ye Zian met the above requirements, so his films were divided into the Horizon Unit.

Ye Zi'an has no complaints at all. The Venice Film Festival has always been known for being friendly to newcomers in films. Here, he is a newcomer. In recent years, the new directors who have gone out of the Venice Film Festival have subsequently appeared on the Oscar stage, which seems to have become a trend. Foreign media have commented that Venice has become a place where masters can be discovered. A young and promising but unknown foreign director. If you want to go to the international stage through a platform, Venice is undoubtedly the best platform.

Ye Zian is 34 years old. It has been a full ten years since he made his debut film "Outside the Window" when he became famous for his youngsters. In the past ten years, he will not talk about the movies he has filmed before. In the past two years, whether it is "Listen, the Voice of the Wind", "The Dream of the Late Ming", or even "Little Walnut", which will be released in China, he feels that he has no breakthrough or innovation. It seems that he is improving - his income is growing in an expanding manner, but he is actually standing still.

Domestic audiences are willing to contribute box office to him, but when it comes to his name and talking about his movies, it seems that he is always worse than Lin Zhi and even Cai Henian. Ye Zian knows very well that his skills are not enough and he has not encountered a better script. It is not that the script of "The Desolate Dream of the Late Ming Dynasty" and "Little Walnut" are not good, but there is always a little lacking, is it spirituality? Is it popularity?

Perhaps this has something to do with opportunities - if Yu Zhan had not acquired Xinghe Film and Television, he would not even be qualified to come to the Venice Film Festival!

Compared to Ye Zi'an's psychological burden, others have almost no pressure.

Liu Lan looked at the information in her hand. The films shortlisted for the main competition unit were all works by internationally famous directors, and American and European films were the mainstream.

One of the American movies "White Soul" attracted Liu Lan's attention because its male lead is alan smith, which is also the opening film of the main competition unit at tomorrow's opening ceremony.

"Isn't that just that Alan will come to walk the red carpet tomorrow?" The ladies who had just talked about Alan's gossip were a little excited.

"It's not just alan, there are so many Hollywood big-name stars and directors on the red carpet tomorrow, they are simply brilliant."

"We should not belittle ourselves, senior Tang Tu is no worse than alan!"

Li Xiaoru exaggeratedly praised Tang Tu and made Tang Tu laugh, "I'm very happy to say that, but I am indeed not comparable to Alan. He is an international actor, a big shot, and a senior. We are not at the same level."

Alan won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, of course, not for a popcorn commercial film like "The Future Hero". In fact, he is better at shooting in-depth dramas. Almost every drama he starred in can be on the stage of major awards in the world. In addition to the Cannes Film Festival, he has two other films that have been nominated for Oscars, but unfortunately, he did not win the award in the end.

Liu Lan and the others have never watched this movie "White Soul". It seems that Venice is the world premiere. The director of this movie is also a Hollywood boss, especially the tragic movie. When watching the name "White Soul", it feels like a tragedy.

Audiences usually don’t like tragedy, but the judges of the film festival like it!

Everyone thinks that this time the Venetian Golden Lion Award is 80% of the things that are in the pocket of Alan.

"Fortunately, we were shortlisted for the Horizon Unit. We don't have to compete with others, otherwise we will definitely not have the chance and we won't even eat rice dumplings," Tao Zhiyao was originally unhappy. "The Dream of the Late Ming Dynasty" was divided into the second ladder, and now he is glad. He won awards such as Best Movie and Best Director in the Horizon Unit, and he can still brag to the sky when he returns!

"Don't alan have a dispute with Mike Pictures? Is he going to have to ask whether he can come to the film festival?" Liu Lan said that based on her experience of unpleasant dealings with Michael several times, she felt that Alan would not get out so easily.

But she was obviously wrong.

That night, alan arrived on Lido Island, and all the media stationed on the island flocked to the airport, surrounding it.

At the same airport, when Liu Lan and the others arrived, only a handful of nine media came to interview, including four of which were Chinese media and two of them were American media. If Tang Tu and Li Xiaoru had not had hype in Milan, there would probably not even be nine media.

Local entertainment news in Italy is pushing content related to Alan, and he is also very popular in Europe.

Liu Lan looked at the video, and he looked at the camera at the airport, and suddenly remembered the photo of him and Yu Zhan holding each other.
Chapter completed!