Chapter 465 Taking over the spotlight 7 month 15 number. Xu Kun joined the crew of "The Sound of Wind" four days earlier than expected. This was not because he felt that he had mastered his skills and wanted to join the crew to kill a lot of people. It was because of "Assembly" that it entered the main competition unit list of the Venice International Film Festival. Although according to the information revealed there, the chances of "Assembly" winning an award are not high, it is still a wish. Feng Xiaogang wants to give it a try, so Xu Kun naturally has to accompany him. The opening date of the Hawaii Film Festival is August 8, which is less than a month and a half away. If Xu Kun joins the crew as agreed, he will probably not be able to finish filming "The Sound of Wind". So now he can only work as hard as he can. Fortunately, the villain role of Takeda was basically tailor-made for Xu Kun. The cruelty he showed in front of the camera made everyone shudder, and he even became a loner in the crew for a while. Although there were some improvements afterwards, he remained alone during the more than one month of filming on the set, which was totally inconsistent with his nickname of "Kun Ge" as the No. 1 pervert in the mainland film industry. Of course, this is mainly because Xu Kun has no time to flirt with other women, because most of "The Sound of the Wind" is an indoor scene, and the changes between night and day have little impact, so he basically works around the clock. There was no way around it. The time was tight and the task was heavy, and everyone was trying hard to outdo others. Many times, before Gao Qunshu could find any fault, the actors acting opposite Xu Kun would ask for a reshoot.
When they finally had a break, Gao Qunshu would always drag him to watch the finished film - after all, besides being an actor, he was also the producer of the film. Fortunately, the filming of "Operation Kunpeng" has been completed. Otherwise, with the state he has endured for more than a month, if he were to shoot an action movie again, Xu Kun felt that he would most likely die in front of the camera. However, watching the finished film also gave Xu Kun some unexpected gains. That is, compared with the monologue at the end of "The Sound of Wind", my part about "carrying a heavy burden and moving forward" is obviously a bit thin, not as sensational and profound as others. So he took some time to brainstorm and further elevate the narration. During this period, Xu Kun had no time to watch the Olympics at all. He could only occasionally listen to second-hand information circulating in the crew. He even asked Feng Xiaogang to help him add Lin Miaoke's song "Singing the Motherland" [which he later found out was not the song] to the ending clip of "Operation Kunpeng". As a result, he rushed so hard that on August 8, when the crew of "Assembly" was preparing to set off for Italy, he still had more than 26 scenes to shoot. There was no other way, he could only let Feng Xiaogang lead the team first, and then rush over after he finished filming "The Sound of Wind". This shot lasted another four days. By September 9st, the filming of Takeda, played by Xu Kun, was finally completed. Without caring about any ceremony, Xu Kun left the crew and headed straight to the airport. He then slept all the way from the car to the plane, from China to Italy. By the time they arrived in the water city of Venice, Xu Kun hadn't recovered yet. He was thinking about meeting Feng Xiaogang and asking for leave so that he could get a good night's sleep and adjust to the jet lag. Unexpectedly, as soon as I passed customs and entered the waiting hall, I heard someone pointing at me and shouting something, and then a group of reporters surrounded me. They were so excited as if they had hyperthyroidism. Xu Kun was startled while half asleep and half awake. His first reaction was that he had won the Best Actor award. But then I thought again and felt that it was impossible, mainly because the Venice Awards Ceremony was on September 9th, and now it is the evening of September 6st, and there are still 9 days before the Best Actor winner is announced. And his chances of winning this time are extremely low, because the favorite is an Italian actor who has been nominated several times but has never won an award. The other party's acting skills are not bad. He is a local actor and has missed awards several times. It can be said that he has the right time, place and people. How can you, a foreigner, compare with him? Especially now, unlike in previous years, the China fever has passed, and the voices calling for the protection and support of local European actors are getting louder and louder, and even awards have been set up specifically for European actors. So basically there was no suspense about this matter. If that was the case, why did these reporters come to the airport to ambush him? "Director Xu, Director Xu!" At this time, someone came up to Xu Kun and said excitedly, "I am a reporter from Cahiers du Cinema. Do you have anything to say? I can speak Italian and English. I can help you translate!"
"Uh~" Xu Kun was speechless and said, "Then can you help explain what is going on? Why are there so many reporters waiting for me at the airport?" “You don’t know?!” The reporter was stunned at first, then said excitedly: "This afternoon, Lehman Brothers Investment Bank in the United States officially announced bankruptcy!" If this had been said a year ago, Xu Kun would probably have continued to be confused, but after all, he had made up for some basic financial knowledge, so he still had some understanding of Lehman Brothers. This is an American investment bank. In 2000, it was even hailed as the best investment bank in the world. Although its strength has declined a lot now, it is still the fourth largest investment bank in the United States. In short, the impact of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy is likely to exceed the total of the CD crisis in the previous year! Xu Kun vaguely remembered that this happened, but it seemed to have happened later [the original time was September 9th]. This might be the butterfly effect he brought about. After knowing why the reporters came to interview him, Xu Kun suddenly lost interest - he still remembered all the trouble caused by the prediction last year, so how could he add fuel to the fire? Then he raised his hands to signal the reporters to be quiet, and then said loudly: "This time I came to Venice as an actor. If you want to know me, I hope it is through my works, not other irrelevant things." After hearing this, the reporter from the Film News was somewhat reluctant and even advised Xu Kun to say something more, as it was not often that Chinese people could cause such a big response abroad. However, after Xu Kun agreed to return to China and accept his exclusive interview, he immediately changed his mind and loudly translated Xu Kun's words into Italian and English. The reporters from various countries who gathered here to make a big news were naturally dissatisfied with Xu Kun's words, and they all shouted something. But Xu Kun didn't understand at all and didn't want to bother with them any more, so he squeezed through the crowd and successfully reunited with the crew members who came to pick him up at the airport. When he arrived at the hotel, he was blocked by a group of reporters again. Xu Kun had no choice but to repeat what he had said at the airport - this time using the translator brought by the crew. As a result, the reporters ignored him and chased him to the guest rooms upstairs, even injuring the hotel security guard in the scuffle. Eventually, the local police were alerted, and the chaos lasted until 11 o'clock in the middle of the night before it finally calmed down. As a result, when Xu Kun ordered food for supper, he found another bug on the dining car. Obviously, he, the director who predicted the occurrence and climax of the CD crisis, has become the biggest news figure at this year's Venice International Film Festival. If we expand the scope to the whole of Italy, or even the whole of Europe, or even the entire Venice Film Festival, the impact of this incident is not as greater. So in the following days, the "Assembly" exhibition hall, which had been deserted, suddenly became crowded. Countless viewers who were misled by the media wanted to see the scene in the movie where Xu Kun predicted the economic crisis, but they only realized it was a misunderstanding after watching the movie. But Xu Kun's performance was better than Zhang Hanyu's, and he gradually won the hearts of the people... (End of this chapter)