Chapter 150

The breeze in September is still sultry and humid in summer, but it is a bit cool in early autumn, with the cool water vapor of Lake Ontario. The branches and leaves at the top of the trees begin to be stained with colorful colors, and the strong red, yellow and orange waves begin to emerge in the green ocean of the city, The blue sky seems to feel this wave, the golden sun is flowing slowly, the air is full of a beautiful and comfortable atmosphere, people can't help but want to go outdoors, even just take a walk in the city square.

Compared with the crowd in New York and the sunshine in Los Angeles, Toronto has a kind of leisure and freedom of letting go and relaxing. The old people walking dogs on the street walk happily with friendly smiles on their faces at any time; Pigeons in the square surrounded the children and scrambled for the bread; The business suit people with briefcase walk to the street quickly, then ride on the bicycle and walk away

It's like the clear blue sky just washed by the heavy rain, but it's full of colorful gorgeous, and the mood can't help but lighten up.

Today's Toronto is particularly noisy. It is full of crowded people in sight. Every corner is crowded, as if the residents of the whole North America were pouring into the city overnight. Maybe that's not the case, but it's not far away, because the Annual Toronto Film Festival officially starts today.

Although the Venice Film Festival is still in full swing at this time, Toronto is easily favored by its neighbors due to the inherent advantages of its geographical location. Almost all the works dedicated to winning in this year's award season will not be missed here.

Toronto Film Festival is very young. It was just held in 1976. In the past two or three years, it has gradually replaced Venice as the outpost of North America Award season, starting from "Slumdog Millionaire".

Canadians are world-famous for their politeness, even a little too polite. "Sorry" and "thank you" are always on the lips, no matter what. Americans always like to tease this point. The most famous reason is that every year when the "black five" rush to buy, American shopping malls are completely battlefield. Even without waiting for the shopping malls to pull up the roller shutter doors, crazy customers rush in and rush in. The rush to buy may even endanger their lives.

But in Canada, all the staff are warmly welcomed in two lines, customers applaud and salute, and orderly follow the queue into the mall. Even when they fight, they talk about "I'm sorry." it's about Canadians.

This kind of tradition also continues to the Toronto Film Festival. Even if the worst film is played, the audience will stand up and clap for encouragement. Compared with the arrogant, cold and inhumane audiences of the three major European film festivals, Toronto is a paradise. Even the film critics here are very gentle. Most of the films shown in Toronto can receive "high praise", as if they were a piece of praise.

Therefore, the real professionals will know that the reference value of the feedback is limited, and it will not be known until the film is released in the United States.

However, such a friendly environment is undoubtedly the best choice for publicity strategy.

What's more, unlike the three major European film festivals that have attracted worldwide attention, Toronto has never been dominated by awards. Instead, it is famous for its large number of film shows. It mainly serves the market. It does not have to struggle between art and commerce. Its ultimate goal is to sell films.

This has also made Toronto a platform for independent film dealers to find films, attracting more and more independent films to seek opportunities.

This year's Toronto Film Festival is no exception. Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman filmed "black swan", Mike Leigh's "another year", Tom Hooper and Colin Firth's "King's speech", Nicole Kidman's "rabbit hole", and the "black swan" Ben Affleck's "city robbers" and others will all be on the stage in the next 11 days.

In fact, many films just came from Venice, such as "Norwegian forest", "Barney's life", "puppet", "fruitless road" and so on. From this aspect, we can see that the average quality of 51 films exhibited this year is worthy of affirmation.

This also makes reporters from all over North America gather here, hoping to grasp the first-hand information and make a synopsis of this year's award season. No one wants to miss such a grand event.

After settling the luggage in the hotel, lanli left the hotel and walked towards the main venue.

Although he has been a man of two generations, he has never even participated in a concert, let alone a film festival or a music festival. Lanli's steps have been brisk, and Andy has not followed him for the time being. He has not only lanli as an actor, but also other work to deal with. He will come back on the day of the "buried alive" premiere. So, before that, lanli's time was free, and he could enjoy the film festival. So, I began to think about what movie I should watch today and what movie I should watch tomorrow.

But the question is, how does he know what's on today? Do you want to go to the official website? Although he was inexperienced, Langley quickly understood the process of field magazine. Every film festival has its own field magazine, and the characteristics of each year are different. In the field magazine, there are not only the arrangement of dates and times, but also the media feedback of the released works every day, as well as the simple interviews of the crew members.

After reading the magazine, he quickly looked through the list of 51 shortlisted works this year. He had seen more than half of them, while the other half had never heard of them. After a careful study of the cast staff list, most of them are Canadian local films. After all, this is the main venue, and the support for local films is very strong every year, For example, this year's opening film chose Canadian forces.

Local director Michael McGowan, together with a group of local Canadian musicians, launched the "ice hockey musical", which is about the most popular ice hockey in Canada. It can be said that the blood is full of Canadian factors.

Although he has seen most of his works, he wants to see many of them again, especially when he walks into the cinema, sits in the audience and appreciates the works on the big screen. For example, Denis Villeneuve's scorched earth city.

So far, lanli remembers the shock and complexity of watching the film. Later, the director also made wonderful works such as "Prisoners", "border killers" and "coming". What he is best at is to use lens switching and construction to complete the brewing and building of emotions, enlarge the details of the actors' acting skills, and capture the essence of the performance.

This kind of movie, watching on the big screen is absolutely a kind of enjoyment.

Yesterday was the opening ceremony of the Toronto Film Festival. Only "ice hockey musical" was released. Today, the show officially started. Lanli browsed the arrangements in the afternoon and planned to see the French cartoon "magician". There were almost no lines in the whole film, but it was as wonderful as an oil painting; If you still have time, you can go to see "beauty and error"

As he thought about it, he turned around to buy a movie ticket. But when he turned around, lanli suddenly saw a figure close to his back, which was only one palm away from his back. This really scared him. Under the inertia of turning around, his whole weight was moving forward, and he was about to jump on the other side. His muscles suddenly made a sudden effort to brake the car. But before he stepped back, the other side stepped back a little. It was too late to react. Lan Li could only reach out his hands and block the other side's back to avoid a collision.

With both hands, Lan Li stepped back. Although he was still worried, he finally avoided the disaster; The other side was blue Li this file, the original back of the center of gravity also lost, forward faltered a small step, action is extremely embarrassed, suddenly turned around, dark brown hair in the air gently fluttering, that pair of water shining eyes clear, flashing bright light, but at this time full of anger, questioning voice suppression and anger, "what's the matter with you?"

Lan Li's brow slightly frowned. It was clearly the fault of both sides. He was wrong, but she was also wrong. But the other side complained first? However, Lan Li also knows that such a thing is ambiguous, and there is no result of argument. Out of gentleman's etiquette, Lan Li shows an apologetic smile, "sorry, my fault."

She nodded gently, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I'm sorry. I was a little absent-minded just now. I should have seen the road ahead of time." She raised her right hand and rubbed her temples. Her long dark brown hair was tied into a bun, hidden under the black beret. The falling hair covered most of her cheek, and only a strong chin curve could be seen.

"Fortunately, no one made a fool of himself." Lan Li politely made a little joke to enliven the atmosphere, but the other party didn't smile, which made the atmosphere a little embarrassed. However, Lan Li didn't mind. Anyway, it was just a chance meeting. He nodded and signaled, and then he was ready to make a detour.

Unexpectedly, at this time, she seemed to see something, flurried to escape to lanli behind, that petite body just to lanli's chest, easy to hide, right hand gently pulled lanli's sleeve, prevented him from leaving.

Lan Li didn't know, so he looked up, but didn't find anything unusual - was the other side avoiding someone? Why does this look like a movie scene? Isn't this the Toronto Film Festival? What details did he miss?

"Paparazzi!" The woman's voice came from behind, revealing a trace of hoarseness and tension. In her panic, she revealed the strength hidden in her bones. "Please help to block it."