Chapter 254: Explosive Story

Li Yu's *Dam Street* is a rotation, sharing a screening hall with other films, and her film was arranged in the 10 o'clock slot.

This should be considered one of the best slots.

*Dam Street* was originally arranged in the 6 pm slot, but that time period is the dinner time, and the flow of people is relatively small.

Cao Yang coordinated it, and it was screened in the 10 o'clock slot.

Li Yu was still very grateful for this.

Like this kind of rotation, don't even think about holding a premiere or something.

Cao Yang's arrival brought a lot of heat to *Dam Street*.

Originally, only official media came to report symbolically, but because they saw Cao Yang, there were suddenly a lot of media, and some were rushing over after getting the news.

In this Venice Film Festival, Marco Müller tried every means to embrace Hollywood, and even among the seven people in the jury, two were Americans.

Although the jury president is Italian, he has always been mixed in Hollywood.

However, even so, there are still not many Hollywood big shots who came, and there is not a single super big star. The ones with a bit of fame are George Clooney, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, etc.

It is estimated that the previous Venice Film Festivals played Hollywood, so that everyone is unwilling to come?

Fortunately, Cao Yang brought *Black Swan*, allowing the Venice Film Festival to have a great director to participate, which saved some face for Old Ma and the Venice Film Festival, so that there is no great director with global influence.

So now wherever Cao Yang goes, the heat can be brought wherever.

The story of *Dam Street* is indeed a bit explosive.

Li Yu is worthy of being called the Queen of Banned Films in the mainland.

The film has everything it should have, and there is no lack of exposure and gimmicks.

Simply put, this film tells the story of Xiaoyun in a small county in Sichuan in the early 80s who was expelled from school due to an accidental pregnancy. After giving birth to a child, Xiaoyun was told by her mother that the child died, but in fact, it was adopted by someone.

Ten years later, Xiaoyun became a Dan actor in a Sichuan opera troupe, met the adopted child Xiaoyong by chance, and the two became good friends. Finally, after Xiaoyun learned Xiaoyong's true identity, she chose to leave.

Does it look like a normal story?

In fact, the content involves the female lead giving birth, becoming a mistress after becoming a Dan actor...

These are nothing.

The most unacceptable thing is that the female lead Xiaoyun actually developed a mutual affection with Xiaoyong, and then developed feelings!

Xiaoyong likes Sister Yun. He can't wait to grow up so that he can marry Sister Yun. Sister Yun is old and no one wants her, so he wants Sister Yun. Xiaoyun also treats him as a spiritual comfort.

And this person Xiaoyong is actually the child that the female lead gave away ten years ago.

That is to say, it is the female lead's son.

The director has been implying this forbidden love in the film, both explicitly and implicitly.

Female directors are really awesome.

However, if you set aside the ethical gimmick, *Dam Street* vividly expresses a county girl's confusion, helplessness, and helplessness towards the cruelty of the real society.

And the female protagonist's final walk out of the small town is also the awakening of female consciousness after encountering difficulties again and again...

Okay, at least after the film was finished, Li Yu said so when accepting an interview.

And she also talked about her own experience.

"That year I really liked an uncle next door, maybe it had something to do with my lack of fatherly love. I surrounded him all day, and felt it was fun to talk to him. He bought me a red school bag..." (This is what she said herself when accepting an interview.)

Art really comes from life and is higher than life.

On the way back, Dong Xuan was silent for a long time, and then said to Cao Yang:

"If this film removes the mutual affection between the female lead and her son, and changes it to Xiaoyong treating Xiaoyun as an older sister, protecting her everywhere, it also makes sense. Why does the director have to do this?" Cao Yang has no answer. How do I know what the female director thinks? Obviously, the storytelling ability is still very good.

If it were changed to what Dong Xuan said, the story would be just as exciting and make sense, but it certainly wouldn't be as shocking as it is now.

Okay, it's fine to say it's shocking, and it's also fine to say it subverts the three views.

"Probably, Director Li Yu thinks this can win an award?" Cao Yang guessed.

Dong Xuan was silent again. Even if it can win an award, there is no need to be so explosive.

"Don't think about it, let's go, take you to see the film of your biggest competitor, *Don't Tell* starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno."

This film premiered today.

As a popular film in the main competition unit, the treatment is certainly much better than films like Li Yu's *Dam Street* that only entered the Horizons unit. It is not a rotation, and the screening hall is also very large.

Cao Yang put on a duck-tongue cap, put on sunglasses, and led Dong Xuan to sneak into the screening hall.

*Don't Tell* has been playing for a while.

However, it doesn't affect the viewing.

!

Then, after the two finished watching, they were both silent.

I can only say that it is worthy of being the art film of the European guys.

The female lead and her brother were sexually harassed by their biological father since they were young. This is a past event that the brother and sister can't bear to look back on...

And, the female lead not only got married and had a husband, but also had love with another woman who grew up together!

This damn thing is ethics or child abuse. Sure enough, in terms of perversion, the art films of the European guys will never disappoint.

Okay, is Venice popular with ethical dramas this year?

"What do you think of the female lead's acting?"

After being silent for a long time, Dong Xuan finally broke the silence and asked Cao Yang.

She wanted to know what her competitor's acting was like. At least she trusted Cao Yang's opinion very much.

"Not bad, she performed the female lead's hesitation, helplessness, and childhood trauma."

Cao Yang thought for a moment and said.

Dong Xuan didn't speak again. She felt that if the more perverted the film, the easier it is to win an award, *Black Swan* is simply not the opponent of European art films.

Today she also opened her eyes.

On September 8th, *Black Swan* held its premiere.

The organizing committee was quite face-saving, arranging it in the Sala Grande theater that can accommodate 1036 people.

The Sala Grande theater is the temple-level hall of the Venice Film Festival, located on Lido Island, Venice, Italy, and is the venue for the film festival's awards ceremony.

At 7 pm, the scene was full, and hundreds of media reporters and film critics came.

The Venice Film Festival chairman, the organizing committee chairman, as well as the jury president and all jury members all came, and the formation was very large.

Li Yu came.

Xu Ke also came, bringing several actors from the *Seven Swords* crew. They rented a screening hall, preparing to screen until the last day of the film festival, so as to sell as many rights as possible.

There was another crew from Hong Kong, *Everlasting Regret*. Director Stanley Kwan brought Tony Leung Ka-fai, Sammi Cheng, and Hu Jun to come over.

Almost all the directors and actors from Hollywood who came to participate in the Venice Film Festival came, including those few big stars.

Everyone saw Cao Yang's influence once again.

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