Chapter 99: The First Stop of "Farewell My Concubine" On the International Stage: Venice Film Festival

The class fell silent instantly.

Two seconds later, a burst of laughter erupted in the classroom.

Qiu Xinyu lowered her head deeply, her cheeks turned red and her fists clenched.

I roared in my heart: Damn, you are really my mother!

It's over, there is no place for her on earth anymore...

Just treat her as dead, people will die eventually anyway (ಥ﹏ಥ).

The students in the next class were a little confused, but then they realized what was going on.

Something fun must have just happened!

She showed a gossipy smile and looked around, "Why are you laughing?"

The students in the back row covered their mouths and whispered: "Our math teacher is Director Chen's father."

Boom~

The mobile phone in the girl's hand fell on the table, and the smile on her face froze instantly.

She was stunned for two seconds, then picked up the phone on the table, "No, I'm sorry, I went to the wrong class, I recognized the wrong person, my best friend is next door, I'm sorry."

Then he rushed out of the classroom door as if running for his life.

Qiu Xinyu lowered her head and said, "Yes, she recognized the wrong person."

Chen Mingfu smiled.

After teaching for so many years, he certainly understands what these children are thinking.

He said, "Okay, I'm not that stubborn. You don't have to be embarrassed. Let's collect ourselves and start class in two minutes."

Hearing what he said, the students in the audience felt more relaxed than excited. Especially that classmate Qiu Xinyu.

At the same time, classmate Xiao Yao was chatting with his best friend on the chat software.

"Did you know? Chen Tutu is Director Chen's father!"

"???Really or not? Is your class still in class? I want to go over and take a look!"

"Here! Come on."

"Ouch, this is fate. Don't call him Chen Tutu from now on. Just call him Dad."

"Hahahaha, don't dare."

Xiao Yao put down the phone and rubbed his fingers together for a few seconds.

Xiaoxiao’s father is so easy to talk to, so can he get an autographed photo?

She took a deep breath and mustered up the courage to walk to the stage.

"dad."

Chen Mingfu was startled and stepped back.

No, are today's children so enthusiastic?

There was another burst of laughter from the audience.

Xiao Yao also reacted and quickly explained with a blushing face, "Sorry, teacher, I just made a mistake while chatting with my father."

"Well, does this classmate have any questions?"

"Teacher Chen, I am Director Chen's idol. Oh no, Director Chen is my fan... No."

Xiao Yao was a little at a loss and gestured twice, "Anyway, can I get a signed photo? I promise to listen carefully to every class and work hard to get high scores at the end of the semester!"

"I want it too, please teacher."

"Teacher, I want it too, please."

Chen Mingfu felt dizzy for a while.

Sure enough, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.

Although he is a father, he always respects his son.

It's really not good to agree to these things without your son's consent.

What's more, if you agree to a class, there will be a group of teachers and other classes waiting for you.

Didn’t Chen Xiao break his hand when signing autographs?

He shook his head and stood up.

"I'm not sure either. Let's talk about it in the next class. Are you studying film and television photography and production? If you like him, study hard, okay? Take class!"

"Yeah! Sorry to trouble you."

In the next 45 minutes, every time Chen Mingfu turned around, he could see almost all the students staring at him with burning eyes.

But that look didn't seem to be looking at him or knowledge, but seemed to be looking at something through him.

But no matter what, the scorching gaze made him feel a little embarrassed.

After all, for a public class, it would be good to have 20% of the people attending the class. I haven't seen this kind of scene for many years.

However, what he didn't expect was that there were even more spectacular and unfamiliar scenes waiting for him.

Word has spread quickly among the film school community that Mr. Chen is the father of Director Chen, the best director at Cannes!

Dear dad!

Ever since, after the class continued for 20 minutes, students were standing in the corridor one after another, looking in from the window.

Downstairs, many students were already sitting around the teaching building chatting excitedly. Even a few teachers who were running at night stopped to join in the fun when they heard the news.

In the main building near the public teaching building.

After the principal held an online meeting, he walked to the window to get some air.

As soon as I opened the window, I saw a large number of students surrounding the teaching building.

His face instantly became serious.

what happened?

It's not get out of class time yet, so why are there so many people?

Are students making trouble?

He quickly picked up his cell phone and sent a message to the work group: "What happened downstairs in Houde Building?"

[Director of Student Affairs]: "Principal, I'm going over there to maintain order. They are all here to see Teacher Chen Mingfu from the School of Mathematics."

The principal frowned slightly.

Chen Mingfu? No impression, he is probably not an academic expert.

How could a teacher attract so many students to come here? Could it be that there was a problem with teacher ethics, which caused students to protest? !

Damn it, such a big battle might have spread on the Internet.

He immediately issued a voice message: "Hurry up and suppress it! Let the Propaganda Department respond quickly, and the network monitoring team also quickly follow up!"

[Director of the Academic Affairs Office]: "No, you misunderstood. Teacher Chen Mingfu is Director Chen's father, the father of the Cannes award-winning director. The students are like chasing stars and want to meet and ask some questions."

The principal was slightly startled.

Of course he had heard of the director.

In a previous seminar, I heard the dean of the Film Academy praised Chen Xiao and lamented that Director Chen rarely accepted interviews.

His father is actually a teacher in our school?

Why didn't anyone report such a big thing?

This teacher Chen is too low-key.

This, this, this, he also wants to meet him in person!

If Director Chen can be invited to give a lecture at the school, or even serve as an honorary professor, it will definitely be of great benefit to the discipline construction of drama and film studies.

"Got it, I'll go too."

He picked up his coat and walked out while sending a voice message.

...

Time passed quickly and it was soon time to end the get out of class.

Just when my father was surrounded by everyone.

Chen Xiao had already driven back home and was sitting on the sofa playing games leisurely.

After a game, Chen Xiao put down the controller and said to his mother who was cutting fruit:

"Mom, I will live outside for more than a month. The villa area is closer to the film and television city. It happens that the villa is about to be renovated. I will go over occasionally to keep an eye on it."

Jiahe gave him a villa and rented him a nearby villa for a year. He went to live in the rented building first.

Mom brought the cut fruit and placed it on the coffee table in front of him, sighed and said:

"Go, but don't drink coffee, soda, and juice as water. I can still watch you at home. After you go there, I guess you won't drink water all day again. Drink more water, otherwise you will get sick easily."

"Okay."

Chen Xiao put down the controller, turned off the TV, returned to his room, and simply packed his luggage.

The main work for the next month is music.

Casting and setting are easy, and don't require too much energy.

Oh, by the way, in addition to music, I have to take time to go to Italy in late March to participate in the Venice Film Festival.

The Venice Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and Cannes Film Festival are known as the world's three major international film festivals.

There are some differences among the three.

The Cannes Film Festival focuses on the combination of business and art.

The Berlin Film Festival focuses on politics and society.

And the Venice Film Festival focuses on art.

From the point of view of focus, the Venice Film Festival is indeed the most suitable for "Farewell My Concubine" to register.

However, the reason for signing up for it is not its focus, but time.

It will be held next month.

Let's take this as the first stop for "Farewell My Concubine" to enter the international stage.

Two hours later, it was almost eleven o'clock.

He walked out of the room and wanted to steal a bottle of Coke.

As soon as he opened the refrigerator and touched the Coke, he found his mother walking over with a frown.

Uh, for the sake of peace, I won't drink it.

Chen Xiao retracted his hand holding the drink, but his mother's face was still ugly.

She walked over and said, "Chen Xiao, why hasn't your dad come back yet? He turned off his phone when he called. Is there anything wrong?"