The party was held in an old building in Tribeca. The whole building looked amazing from the outside, but after entering, Zhang Ran found that it was not a very vulgar club, which was decorated in a quiet and elegant manner, and had a very stylish look. The walls were decorated with paintings by New York artists, including a painting by Andy Warhol. I don’t know if it was true or false.

Zhang Ran looked around and wanted to see what party it was and who were there. Not many people were there, including men and women, but most of them had never seen him. Since it was a party for independent filmmakers in New York, it was normal for Zhang Ran to refuse to admit it, but he soon saw Robert De Niro.

At this moment, Robert De Niro was sitting on the sofa chatting with several men and women, and Zhang Ran basically knew these people. When Robert De Niro saw Zhang Ran, he immediately put the wine glass in his hand on the table, stood up, said something to everyone, and walked over with a smile.

Zhang Ran is a disciple of Mary Hill. In terms of teacher-education relationship, his nephew belongs to him. Therefore, Robert De Niro was particularly enthusiastic about Zhang Ran and gave him a hug: "Boy, long time no see! When I heard that you had booked a seat in the nobu restaurant, I left you a note, and I thought you wouldn't come!"

"I am also an independent filmmaker. I am very interested in such an independent filmmaker's party!" Zhang Ran turned his head and looked down, "Don't you have a mask? I thought you were having a masked party?"

When Robert De Niro heard this, he directly gave Zhang Ran: "What are you talking about, stinky brat? We are a serious party, just to have a chat with some friends who are talking to each other, and everyone can have some wine and chat casually!"

As an old man in Hollywood, Robert De Niro has never seen any scenes, so he naturally knows that Zhang Ran is teasing himself for a masked adult party. Masked adult party in Hollywood is very common, especially during the awards season. Various adult parties emerge in the name of celebration, and there are also many Hollywood stars participating in it, both men and women.

As long as you have watched Kubrick's movie "Eye Opening", you should be familiar with that kind of masked party.

Zhang Ran laughed: "I thought I could open my eyes!"

Robert De Niro said speechlessly: "I will introduce you to Leonardo when I have time. He is a regular guest at various parties and can open your eyes!"

Zhang Ran quickly waved his hand: "I'm joking!" and said: "I'm here today to find you. At the beginning of the year after year, I have a movie to shoot. I want to ask you to play the second male lead. I wonder if I can leave the schedule for me?"

Robert De Niro said very readily: "No problem!"

Robert De Niro is now 65 years old. At this age, there are very few suitable dramas in the United States, and he also has to support the Tribeca Film Festival. Now he is a little unconventional in taking films, and he has taken on many bad movies. Zhang Ran is a very good director and has rich money. There is definitely no problem with taking his movies, so Robert De Niro didn't even watch the script and agreed directly.

However, Zhang Ran still explained: "It's a science fiction film about the war between humans and robots. Your character is a bit like Rick, the male lead in Blade Runner, and is a very complicated character. When I was writing the script, I was thinking that this bastard looks like Robert De Niro, and I must find him to play it. By the way, the character is a Russian colonel, and I need a Russian accent!"

Robert De Niro nodded: "No problem, when the movie starts, you will hear a skilled Russian accent!"

After a brief chat with Zhang Ran, Robert De Niro took him to the sofa and introduced him to everyone.

"Robin, this is Darren Alenovsky, his movie "Wrestling King" just won the Golden Lion Award in Venice this year; Darren, this is Zhang Ran!"

"Robin, this is Wes Anderson. He is a young director that Martin admires very much. He has directed movies such as "Traveling through Darjeeling" and "The Trembum Family". Wes, this is Zhang Ran, you should know him."

Robert De Niro was about to introduce the third person to Zhang Ran, but Zhang Ran called out: "Jason, this is a party for independent filmmakers in New York. Why did you, the USC, sneak in?"

"You ulca person can come, so I can come!" Jason Retman raised his middle finger at Zhang Ran and said, "Robin, when I heard you go to be the director of the Olympics, I felt that your film career was about to be the end. Later, I heard that you filmed "The Great Tangshan Earthquake", so I went to the cinema to watch it. Your level has been regressed seriously, and it was pretentious and boring."

Zhang Ran immediately fought back: "Your "Juno" is ordinary in technique and you can hardly see any bright spots. You can get such a great affirmation entirely because of the theme of pregnancy underage!"

When Robert De Niro saw the two arguing, he said curiously: "You know each other?"

Zhang Ran smiled faintly and said, "Jason is from Southern California, I am from UCL. We fought several times during the battle in the same city, and he was abused by me every time!"

Everyone present knew the conflict between Southern California and UCL and the battle in the same city. When Zhang Ran said this, he knew what was going on, and they all laughed.

Next, Robert De Niro introduced Edward Norton and others to Zhang Ran, and everyone greeted each other with Scorsese, Scarlett Johnson and other Zhang Ran.

Jason Retman was very dissatisfied with Zhang Ran's shameless claim that he was crazy about himself every time. After Zhang Ran sat down, he retorted: "What do you mean that I am crazy about you every time? When compared with audio-visual language, I was obviously tortured you 5:0!"

Zhang Ran rolled his eyes and said, "I only learned to learn from the director at that time. I was not very clear about audio-visual language. If it were now, I would beat you in minutes!"

Jason Retman retorted: "My understanding of movies was limited at that time. While you were improving, I was improving. If you were not convinced, we would find an opportunity to compete!"

Zhang Ran responded: "Okay, how do you compare?"

Jason Retman pondered for a while and said, "We have all won the Oscar nomination for Best Director, and the Nomination for Best Director was voted by the directors, which represents the recognition of the industry. So that's it, whoever gets the second nomination first will be the winner, what do you think?"

Zhang Ran said speechlessly: "You are too shameless! I basically shoot Chinese films, and the possibility of nominating for the Oscar for Best Director is slim, which is unfair. If you want to compare, we will compare the awards of the three major film festivals, the best director or best film in Cannes, Berlin, and Venice. Whoever wins one of them first is the winner. If you lose, put on a full page of the advertisement on "Variety Show" and wrote, Mr. Zhang Ran, victory will always belong to you! Signature, loser Jason Retman. Do you dare?"

The success of "Juno" made Jason Retman full of confidence in himself, and Zhang Ran fell into a bottleneck after "The Aviator". He felt that he had a great chance of winning and said with a relaxed face: "Then we are sure, Mr. Scorsese and the others are our witnesses. But if you lose, you must also publish a full page advertisement in the newspaper "Variety Show", writing, Mr. Jason Retman, congratulations on your victory. Signature, loser Zhang Ran!"

Zhang Ran grinned and said, "Then we will make up for it!"

Everyone present watched Zhang Ran and Jason bet with interest. The scene in front of them reminded everyone of Spielberg and Lucas betting in the early 1980s, which movie will be more popular? After that, once Spielberg and Lucas surpassed their box office records, they would publish advertisements in the newspaper to congratulate them. This has become a good story in American movies.

Zhang Ran and Jason Retman are both very young and talented, and their bets may become a new story.

Scorsese looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "It seems that you are all very confident in your new film. Are you ready to shoot something?"

Jason Retman picked up his glass and drank it, and said with ease: "I am going to make Walter Ken's novel "In the Clouds" into a movie. I watched this novel in 2002, but I was working on a female work "Thank You for Smoking". After filming this film, I continued to shoot "Juno". It was not until the beginning of this year that I picked up the script of "In the Clouds". Now the actors have been finalized, starring George Clooney and Villa Farmega, and are expected to start filming in February next year!"

When Zhang Ran heard "In the Clouds", he was slightly stunned. He remembered that the movie seemed to have won several Oscar nominations, but he couldn't remember whether it won the award or not. However, being able to get multiple Oscar nominations means that the quality of the movie is very high. If you send it to the Three O'clock Film Festival, it is easy to win the award.

In fact, if the quality of this kind of movie with Hollywood big stars is good, it is easier to win awards in the three majors. After all, the three majors need to support the event. If the award is not given, then the other person may not come next time!

Zhang Ran suddenly felt like he was falling into a pit!

Scorsese looked at Zhang Ran and asked, "Where is your new film?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said indifferently: "I have been busy with the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games for more than two years. For me, it is a kind of practice. It is not only a tempering of will, but more importantly, it allows me to have a new understanding of the picture, space, music, scheduling, etc. For me, participating in the opening ceremony may be more effective than studying hard in school for five years. Next, I will make two movies, one drama film, and one science fiction film. I hope to apply my insights over the past two years to the movie, and I will try different techniques."

The directors present knew that Zhang Ran liked to try in audio-visual languages, and everyone was a little curious about his next attempt. Darren Alenovsky asked, "I don't know, what are you going to try?"

Zhang Ran smiled indifferently: "I plan to try multi-part montage and overall scene scheduling!"

Scarlett Johnson, Edward Norton and other actors didn't understand audio-visual language very well, so they didn't think so, but the directors present looked shocked when they heard Zhang Ran's words.

Multi-voice montage is a theory proposed by film master Eisenstein, which is to jointly implement montage between shots such as rhythm montage, vertical montage, and polyphonic montage and external shot montage. This technique requires extremely high demands on the director. So far, only two people have shown this technique well in the movie. One is Eisenstein himself and the other is Francis Coppola; and the overall scene scheduling is also a comprehensive application of various scheduling. In the early days of Hollywood, Griffith, Wells and others used it more because the scheduling was too complicated, and few people used it later. The last one who could operate this technique well was Francis Coppola.

After entering the 1980s, Francis Coppola suffered huge debts due to a box office defeat, and his exploration of film language stopped. Multi-part montage and overall scene scheduling also disappeared from his works; since then, these two techniques have never appeared on the screen again.

To some extent, these two techniques have almost been lost!

Now that Zhang Ran wanted to reproduce these two techniques, all the directors present were surprised.

Jason Retman couldn't help saying, "You're such a lunatic!"

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