The sky gradually darkened. The guests who attended the audience walked into the Film Festival Palace one after another. According to the tradition of the Cannes Film Festival, everyone in the crew fell at the end and waited for a while in the VIP lounge. When the staff came to inform and led Wang Yifan and his group into the screening hall, everyone in the cinema stood up and applauded and paid tribute to the crew.

Well, don’t think that the standing ovation of these people was given to Wang Yifan. This is the rule!

It's a routine operation! In fact, it's hard to say how many people applaud are sincere. After all, although Wang Yifan is in Asia, and even in the eyes of many people in the circle, he is considered a director-level.

But this is the Cannes Film Festival, a film festival that boasts about art, and who is Wang Yifan? He is a thorough commercial film director!

But although many people don’t want to admit it, they have to say that the Cannes Film Festival will still compromise under the public relations of Americana.

Otherwise, how could "Mad Max Furious Road" become the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival?

You should know that the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival itself represents the main film of the Cannes Film Festival. What does this mean? It means that the Cannes Film Festival has also fallen!

More than 2,000 people flocked to the main venue of the Film Festival Palace. In addition to guests and media personnel, there were also a large number of ordinary audiences.

There are many audiences from Asia, and their applause is obviously much warmer. To say the least, Wang Yifan may not be so famous in Europe. After all, his movies do not sell many top-notch movies in Europe, but in the eyes of Asian audiences, his popularity can be seen.

People are all in groups. For Chinese audiences, it is not an exaggeration to say that Wang Yifan is the pride of Chinese films. As a person in the same country, he is naturally proud of him.

Similarly, the scope has been expanded to Asia. When facing European and American people, Asian movie fans who are both Asians will also be proud of Wang Yifan as an Asian director.

Wang Yifan disagrees with literary directors and filmmakers who claim to be the most supreme of art, but he never thought of opposing it, but he wouldn't become that kind of person anyway.

Amid the applause, Wang Yifan and others walked to the front-row crew. After everyone around them sat down, they sat down in their respective positions.

"I don't understand, why can a purely commercial director's work become the opening film of the film festival?"

Where the guests sat behind, Quan Youlong, a literary film director from Bangzi Country, spoke with a hint of disdain in his tone: "The Cannes Film Festival is simply degenerate!"

Next to him, another well-known director from the Bangzi Country, Jiang Yungui, also nodded and agreed. "It's true!"

However, they heard their words in the ears of another director Saburo Ono from the island country, but he smiled and said, "But it is undeniable that Director Wang's movies are indeed very popular with the audience. I just saw the Asian audience behind him, and applauding Director Wang was quite enthusiastic."

Quan Youlong said disdainfully: "When filming and making movies, the audience is not present, and the audience must be ignored. If it is just to please the audience, then what art is there?"

Jiang Yungui also nodded and said, "Yes, art has always been a minority. If art becomes something that the public knows and something that everyone likes, then that is not art anymore."

Saburo Ono smiled and completely sneered at the statements of the two guys Kwon Youlong and Jiang Yungui. Although their words were not unreasonable, they just thought that the audience could ignore them, after making the movie, they should hide in the studio and slowly appreciate it instead of taking it out for public display.

Since we do not respect the audience group, when the audience does not exist, we must also let the audience pay for the film. To put it bluntly, how different is it from acts like standing on the archway?

Why are the same Asian directors and the same artistic directors, Saburo Ono, Kwon Youlong, and Jiang Yungui's attitude towards Wang Yifan are completely different?

This starts with the characteristics of their country.

Saburo Ono is an island country. As an island country, like many island people, he advocates the strong as king. Is Wang Yifan considered a strong person? Of course, although Wang Yifan seems to have no achievements in the literary and artistic film industry, he is still a strong person.

Saburo Ono has his own opinion on the movie. He may not like Wang Yifan's commercial movies, but he will not say that the grapes are sour like Jiang Yungui and Quan Youlong, like he can't eat grapes.

To put it bluntly, it is the island nation that advocates the strong, but when treating the weak, they have another expression.

The country of Bangzi is a small country with few people, and naturally has a strong sense of inferiority complex. When this inferiority complex reaches one extreme, it will become another extreme.

Otherwise, there would be nothing to apply for cultural heritage or something.

If it were a Chinese literary and artistic film director, it would be another situation.

Chen Guanyun is the most accomplished literary and artistic director among the seventh generation of directors in China.

He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, and the Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival.

However, Chen Guanyun's attitude towards Wang Yifan is very complicated. On the one hand, as a Chinese, he actually admires Wang Yifan very much.

Because he had tried commercial movies, he found that making commercial movies is no easier than literary movies, and often times, it is even more difficult.

However, as the seventh generation director of Chinese literary and artistic films, Chen Guanyun's position is natural and incompatible with Wang Yifan.

At this time, another Chinese literary and artistic director Xu Huang said disdainfully: "No wonder the Cannes Film Festival is getting worse every year, and its influence is declining. Even such a commercial film full of copper smell can become an opening film. Moreover, I heard that "Mad Max Furious Road" has entered the main competition unit, and it is very likely to win an award. Tsk tsk, Cannes has also fallen."

Chen Guanyun shook his head and said, "Cannes is actually pretty good. The world is like this, and it's just a waste of time. There are always many people watching commercial movies. If you watch them, there will be a market. Cannes compromise with Hollywood to continue to maintain its existing influence. If it remains unchanged, then Cannes' influence will be reduced faster!"

"And, I haven't watched the movie yet. Maybe this movie is more special? Although Cannes has the intention of compromising with commercial productions, I still have basic integrity. Watch the movie. No matter what, Wang Yifan is also our Chinese director. As a compatriot, I think even if I have anything to say, I have to wait until the movie is finished before judging. At least this is fair!" Chen Guanyun said what he said in his heart.

Although the Cannes Film Festival has become more tempting to compromise capital and business in recent years, there is still a little basic integrity. At least, if it is really a popcorn movie, it is impossible to enter the main competition unit, and it is even more impossible to become an opening film.

Because no matter what, insisting on art is the foundation of these film festivals in Cannes!

Meanwhile, Steven Chris and Bick Donnie are also sitting in the festival palace, waiting for the release of "Mad Max Furious Road".
Chapter completed!