Chapter 411 Going to Cannes next month~
Milan had told him last summer in Hong Kong that Ma Dudu had set up a “Seahorse Dance Hall”.

Milan: Black! Really black!
In fact, this was not just Ma Weidu’s business alone, but also part of it was contributed privately by Wang Ruohai.

But it doesn’t matter, on the surface it’s still Ma Dudu’s.

At this time, it was still a very trendy thing to use this thing.

Moreover, Ma Dudu had some connections in the Yanjing literary and art circles over the years, so his business was booming at the beginning.

Every day there are bright lights, wine, and traffic.

Ma Dudu was also happy at first!

Hey, now it’s finally our turn to make money! Tens of thousands a month!

However, the good times did not last long.

It can be said that success and failure are both due to Xiao He.

This dance hall has many customers because of its wide network of contacts, and therefore makes a lot of money.

But at the same time, this dance hall had a lot of customers because of its wide network of contacts, which resulted in a lot of losses.

The more you earn, the more you lose.
Until now, many of the customers who insist on visiting the Haima Ballroom every day just come to show their support without making any purchases.

They all claimed to be Ma Dudu’s friends, and as soon as they entered the door, they would ask loudly: I know Ma Ye, can I enjoy free service? !
After these people have eaten and drunk their fill and had fun, they just leave without paying the bill.

Ma Dudu is an old Yanjing man, so he is too embarrassed to chase people for money.

In addition to those who asked for free meals, some even took things home from the Haima Ballroom.

A friend of Dudu came to the Haima Ballroom to have fun. After drinking and having fun, he asked him: Do you have anything here that I can take back as a souvenir?

Ma Dudu looked around and saw that there were only two boxes of drinks left. Since his friend had asked, he felt embarrassed to refuse and had to point to the two boxes of drinks.

The friend was really not polite at all. He picked up two boxes of drinks and left with satisfaction.

Not only do you eat and drink for free, you also have to pay for what you eat~
And there are not just one or two such cases!
Especially those friends of Fang Yan and Feng Kuzi – their drinking buddies were all over Yanjing. None of those who came to support Ma Dudu just for the sake of Fang Yan and Feng Kuzi gave money.

These two gentlemen also patted their chests and said to everyone they met: Let’s go to the Haima Dance Hall to have fun, drink as much as you want, we will treat you~
I’ve never seen them pay a penny for asking them to do a leg massage!
Just like when I first took advantage of Hai Yan’s work hotel, now I’m taking advantage of Ma Dudu.

But that was public property before, this is private!
Now Ma Dudu goes to the dance hall almost every night to take a look around, and often sees familiar faces sitting at every table.

He had a smile on his face, but his heart was bleeding – if this trend continued, the Haima Nightclub would not be far from closing down.

He is so worried every day that his old face is full of wrinkles.

The eyes, which were not big to begin with, became even smaller.

When they went there in the summer, they saw that his face was full of sorrow!
Xia Tian: Old boy, let’s not talk about whether you can make money by opening a dance hall, but don’t worry about getting sick~
That’s right, in the summer, they were a group of people who had eaten and drunk enough and wanted to have some fun.

Feng Kuzi immediately suggested the Seahorse Dance Hall, and Milan rolled his eyes – have you become a conditioned reflex to take advantage? !

However, it has been more than half a month since I came back from summer, and I haven’t been there yet. As a friend, I have to show my support.

Of course, Xia Tian must pay the bill, he doesn’t do such a tasteless thing.

When Fang Yan and Ye Jing ate at the restaurant, he never gave less than a cent for meals.

Of course, their restaurant is also so yellow.

Look at it this way, this is how people get along with each other~
In the summer, there were more than 20 or 30 of them. Ma Dudu’s face turned green at first. Very green!

But when I saw Xia Tian in the crowd, I felt relieved.

Summer is not for free eats and drinks!

Click, click, click. Several boxes of beer and drinks were brought up, as well as fruit plates, melon seeds, and dried fruits.

Everyone started chatting and singing.

Since it was time to sing, Mi Zong got excited! He directly occupied one microphone and passed the other microphone to Deng Jie!
“Come on, Deng Jie, let’s sing!” Then she started flipping through the tapes without waiting for Deng Jie to object.

Finally found a song called “Heart Rain”!
She was still urging Deng Jie, “You sing first, we’ll take turns singing!”

This song “Heart Rain” is the song that was later covered by “Golden Boy and Jade Girl”. However, the original singer was already sung on the island in 87 by the island’s female singer Li Bihua.

This name is easy to be “colluded with”, there is a female singer on the island, a female writer from Hong Kong (the one who wrote “Farewell My Concubine” in the original time and space), and finally, the woman who makes countless people’s blood boil – Lao Gan Ma!
Although some albums from the islands have not been officially circulated inland, people have heard a lot of them through various channels (pirated).

For example, the Madudu dance hall is naturally well prepared.

Deng Jie did not refuse and started singing: “My thoughts are like an untouchable net~ My thoughts are no longer like a broken sea~”

Milan hugged Deng Jie’s waist and said, “Why do I always think of you so deeply on those rainy days~”

After waiting for Deng Jie to finish singing “Because tomorrow I will be someone else’s bride” and singing the chorus “Let me think of you for the last time”, Milan let go of Deng Jie, sat down next to Xia Tian, ​​and stuffed the microphone into his hand!
Xia Tian was caught off guard and instinctively took over and continued singing…

Deng Jie suddenly heard Xia Tian’s voice, and turned back in surprise with her face blushing!
Fortunately, the lights in the dance hall were flickering, so she couldn’t see clearly, but she felt her face was burning!
There are so many people here…singing a love song duet!
While I was chatting with Xia Tian, ​​my pants suddenly stopped moving – what the hell am I? I jumped!

…After singing the song, Deng Jie refused to touch the microphone no matter what she said. Milan pulled her aside and they each took a can of beer, ate melon seeds and chatted.

By now, Pants had recovered and was bragging to Ma Dudu together with Dachun.

Well, that’s about going to Cannes next month in the summer…

When Kuzi was having dinner before, he heard the news and his mouth opened so wide that you could even see the chicken claws in his throat!

In his impression, it was one of the three major film festivals in Europe!
That year, Zhang Yimou won the Venice Golden Lion Award. What kind of treatment was that?!
Now, Tian Er Ge is going to Cannes? His work was shortlisted?
At that moment, I felt the unreality of this world – this world must be fake, right?
However, when he was bragging to Ma Dudu and his gang, it was hard to tell that just over half an hour ago, he was still questioning the world.

The look on his face was so proud that it was as if he was going to Cannes to receive an award!

In fact, Xia Tian knew this news ten days earlier.

It was April 4th at that time, and Aying and Wang Fei from Hong Kong called.

——Usually the calls come at six or seven in the evening, once every two or three days.

But this time it was in the afternoon, and the call had just been made yesterday.

So Xia Tian knew something must have happened, but when he answered the phone, he heard it was good news.

It turned out that it was Li Heizi who brought the news, saying that his summer short film “Buried Alive” had been shortlisted for this year’s Cannes Short Film Competition Unit, and asked him to prepare early and go to France in May to try his luck.

This is also why Xia Tian was so rushed to shoot the film “I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City” and worked eleven or twelve hours a day – you have to know that he has never worked overtime in his life!
When we were filming “A Bite of China” in the past, we treated it as a funded tour.

He was so leisurely that both Dachun and his pants became fat!

This time, we finished shooting a two-hour documentary in just over ten days, and even the post-production work is almost finished.

It can be said to be extremely fast!

But he always shoots things very quickly.

Before filming began, he knew what he wanted and was not confused.

In addition to the summer short film “Buried”, the film “Ju Dou” by Zhang Yimou and Gong Li was also shortlisted for Cannes this time.

This is the second film directed by Zhang Yimou, “Codename Jaguar” – after it flopped badly, he took a fancy to Liu Heng’s novel “Fuxi Fuxi” and decided to adapt it into a movie.

Japanese producer Yasuyoshi Tokuma admired Zhang Yimou’s talent after watching “Red Sorghum” and expressed his intention to collaborate with him on a film.

After consultation, it was decided that Tokuma Exchange Company, Tokuma Shoten, China Film Co-production Company and China Film Distribution and Exhibition Company would jointly shoot this third film directed by Zhang Yimou.

The film was originally titled “Moan”, but was later renamed “Ju Dou”.

The leading actors are Li Baotian and Gong Li. As for the subject matter, it is not worth mentioning. It is all about exposing the ugliness of human nature.

It’s popular now, but in five or eight years no one will watch it.

At that time, it was the kind of realistic style of marginal characters that the sixth generation Jia Zhangke and others were playing.

After that, there will be no more art films…

Feng Pants’ blowing, coupled with Dachun’s unique Chun’er style of supporting him, brought the scene to a climax.

Feng Kuzi feels that this is his highlight moment. Although he is not the one going to Cannes, Brother Xia Tianer is keeping a low profile and chatting with his close female friends. I am the center of the crowd!
Cool~
Of course, this is only because Fangyan and the others didn’t come, otherwise he would have been criticized!
(End of this chapter)