Chapter 750

In August, Venice's sky is clear and charming, the water surface is smooth as a mirror, even the reflection of the sun will not have the slightest shock. Looking up, it is blue and quiet, which can be called the same color of water and sky. At this time, Lido island is at the busiest time of the year, and the famous Venice Film Festival opens on August 27.

From the long boat to the red carpet, the guests came to meet.

Today, apart from the jury members of the Venice Film Festival, the most important guests are the crew members of focus. Focus will not only participate in the competition of the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival, but also be selected as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival.

As the opening film crew, Murphy and other stantons were the last to step on the red carpet.

This section of red carpet gives Murphy a cold feeling. There are a lot of media reporters, but few fans.

According to the news he read in the newspapers before, the number of media reporters in Venice Film Festival this year is at least one-third more than that in the past few years. Many of them are aiming at "focus" and Stanton followers.

At the beginning of March, Murphy won the Oscar for best director. James Franco and Margaret Robbie of Stanton party won the best actor and best actress respectively. All these are the capital of multimedia attention. Especially, his contradiction with the Catholic Church has risen to the level of Hollywood film, 20th century fox It's hard to attract the media's attention because it has done enough publicity for focus.

The crowd of protests not far from the red carpet is the best proof.

Prior to the arrival of the focus crew, Barbera, the head of the Venice Film Festival, now takes it as the first task of the oldest film festival to explore films from the marginal regions of the world and countries without a history of film making. At the beginning of his appointment, Italian domestic media once said, "Barbera is trying to separate the Venice Film Festival from Hollywood, independent of art or art." It will be a new feature of the Venice Film Festival. "

This is what Murphy didn't know before. He was too strange to Venice Film Festival.

Therefore, seeing that the Venice Film Festival has become more and more distant from Hollywood in recent years, the number of films with Hollywood background in Venice is decreasing, and it has not won several major awards in Venice Film Festival for several years, Murphy also has great doubts about whether focus can win the Golden Lion Award.

For example, in this kind of Film Festival, the individual will of the controller has a very obvious influence on the final award results.

In the past two days, Murphy has seen clearly that the reason why the Venice Film Festival agreed to take part in the competition unit of focus and was selected as the opening film is that on the one hand, it is the result of the decline of Catholic power in modern society; on the other hand, it is the topic and attraction that the Venice Film Festival needs him to bring with focus.

To put it bluntly, the organizers of the festival want to use Murphy's fame to attract more people's attention.

However, Murphy also needs the Venice Film Festival as a stage for the Vatican to see what they have done.

In the words of Margot Robbie, countless Hollywood colleagues are waiting for Murphy to invade the Catholic Church in Hollywood again!

Entering the Movie Palace, Murphy and the crew soon arrived at the screening hall, where there was a warm applause.

"Focus" will be shown soon.

In a sunny office in the Vatican, the elderly Pope Benedict XVI suddenly put down his pen and asked the people standing next to him, "does the Venice Film Festival open today?"

"Yes, sir." The middle-aged priest looked at his watch and said, "the opening film should start."

Benedict XVI stood up, went to the window, looked at the small square outside, and said, "you are a public relations expert at the Vatican. I ask you, is this a film that has been falsified or poorly made?"

"No The middle-aged pastor was very honest, "the director of the film is Murphy Stanton, who always only makes high-quality films. After becoming famous, the influence of every film is world-class. We..."

He shook his head. "We shouldn't expect too much. I think we should deal with the worst."

"I have proposed at the Council of Cardinals that the Archbishop of Marquez Costello be removed," said Benedict XVI, whose eyes were clouded, "and that he be transferred back to the Vatican to look at the library."