Becoming a Movie Star, System Only Finished Loading After Ten Years-Chapter 432 - 424: Talking About Aliens

The task was relatively easy to complete; once you've reached a certain status, the judges just follow suit.

The awards ceremony concluded, signaling the time for socializing.

On the way to the gathering, Qi Hao confirmed this task.

He attended the film festival today, sitting right alongside a group of judges, with no worry about not finding NPCs to capture.

[Task No. 35 completed, reward received: Screenwriting +10, script "Feather Flying to the Sky", future stock trend information for the host]

[Task completed, training opportunity obtained]

[Training NPC - Choose one of three: Gu Changwei / Nikita Mikhalkov / Kang Je-gyu]

[Starting to issue a new task]

[Task No. 36: As we often say, the greatest enemy is oneself. Only by overcoming oneself can one overcome challenges or defeat opponents. Dear host, have you realized that you are your own lifelong opponent? Go play a transformative role, something you've never acted before. Task difficulty: 4 stars, Time limit: 730 days]

[Task completion reward: Acting +10, script "Dying to Survive", metaphysical Guan Gong sculpture]

Rewards for completing the task are in hand.

"Feather Flying to the Sky" is a urban commercial drama, using the relationship and entrepreneurial story of Chen Jianghe and his wife Luo Yuzhu as a thread to depict the tortuous yet glorious journey of Yiwu's reform and development over more than 30 years.

Directed by Yu Ding, written by Shen Jie, starring Zhang Yi and Yin Tao.

In fact, this function that the system recently added is indeed very useful.

It's practically a nanny-level tutorial.

If Qi Hao doesn't fancy this script and doesn't want to fuss about, he can totally use the script information to find the "original cast" to helm it.

Of course, Qi Hao won't be enslaved by this.

The essence of film and television is storytelling; just because one person can tell the story well doesn't mean others can't.

What Qi Hao is most yearning for is the future stock trend.

Indeed, not all stocks have been shown future trends.

If that were the case, Qi Hao ought to feel he's destined to be invincible.

A straightforward open-book exam.

Moving further up, creating test questions by himself.

But creating test questions is too risky; one slight mistake and he could be ruined.

The so-called future stock trend by the system actually offers two types of reward methods—one is that Qi Hao selects one stock to know its trend for the next twenty years.

However, this trend is based on the current situation.

If the host frequently interferes, affecting the original trend, it becomes less and less reliable for reference later on.

The other reward method is for Qi Hao not to choose, but for the system to randomly provide the future trends of three stocks.

Qi Hao decisively chose the second option.

Let the system randomly give three options.

The system quickly transmitted three pieces of information.

Sina.

Tesla.

Apple.

Upon seeing the first one, Qi Hao was somewhat disappointed; what would be good to operate on with Sina?

As for Tesla, it surprisingly brought many unexpected surprises.

This guy turns out to be so strong in the future.

The important thing is its fluctuating stock price, which is indeed very operable.

Apple also didn't disappoint Qi Hao.

In 2016, the drop exceeded 33%, in 2018, the drop exceeded 39%...

What's most pleasing is that after the fall, it doesn't completely fall like Sina did.

Instead, it quickly rises back up.

This provides a possibility for buying low and selling high.

From the stock trend information, one can see that Apple's future market value can be as high as 3.1 trillion US dollars.

Moreover, from the trend chart, one can perceive the development trajectory of the future economy.

Qi Hao continued to settle down further.

Among the three NPCs for training, Qi Hao chose Nikita Mikhalkov, as he is indeed formidable.

Gu Changwei can be captured at any time.

As for Kang Je-gyu, forget it; the people and things from Korea have a certain small-mindedness to them. His "Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War" can't be called terrible but somehow always feels like a weak nation's fantasy.

Does Korea dare to portray the war so realistically?

The new task requires Qi Hao to play a subversive role, something he's never acted in before.

If this task had been released before "Dragon Gate Armor", it wouldn't be so hard, but now it's especially vexing.

He has been in the industry for so many years; what kind of role hasn't he played?

Does it mean he should play a woman?

The reward is a metaphysical Guan Gong sculpture...

That's quite intriguing.

Products from the system are bound to be exquisite, and Qi Hao doesn't care much about wealth now; even if he doesn't do tasks and refrains from causing trouble, he won't worry about lacking money for the rest of his life.

But metaphysical items have never disappointed.

Especially the glasses with photographic memory, even giving this thing to an ordinary person can directly change their fate.

Guan Gong... is for worship.

Then what would the metaphysical effect be of worshipping a Guan Gong sculpture?

Qi Hao was simply dying of curiosity.

He decided to go back and assemble a team specifically for researching how to do tasks.

If push comes to shove, well, right?

Sacrifice for art.

Don't misunderstand, just streaking; he's never acted in streaking before.

After concluding the jury work at the Capital International Film Festival, Qi Hao promptly went on to participate in the Cannes International Film Festival.

Having just judged others, it's time to be judged by others.

Reality is just that harsh.

His "Shoplifters" has successfully entered the main competition section.

As the best actor of the Venice International Film Festival, he took on the Cannes International Film Festival this time as a director.

Among the Three Major European Film Festivals, Berlin focuses on current affairs, Venice on niche art, while Cannes balances art, commerce, and the general public; thus, the Cannes Film Festival remains one of the most influential and authoritative film festivals in the world.

This Cannes International Film Festival had 1,859 films registered, with nearly 80 films entering the lineup. Besides Qi Hao's "Shoplifters", it included Mainland Chinese director Jia Zhangke's "A Touch of Sin", Hong Kong director Du Qifeng's "Blind Detective", and Hong Kong director Lau Yuen-fai's "Crossing the Border".

Two mainland directors and two Xiangjiang directors, four films in total made the list.

On May 17th, Qi Hao attended the premiere of "A Touch of Sin" in France and watched the film on site.

His good buddy Wang Baoqiang played a significant role in the film, so he followed along to Cannes, bringing his wife to walk the red carpet.

An Feng's figure, although recovered nicely, didn't find Cannes International Film Festival enough to separate her from her son.

"A Touch of Sin" tells four stories drawn from real events using a four-segment structure.

Each story is quite heavy.

The movie employs many Chinese historical and modern symbols, making it difficult for foreigners to fully interpret, especially as certain dialogue scenes have a slow pace, causing a few members of the foreign press to leave early.

However, after the film ended, the media responded with enthusiastic applause. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Qi Hao also joined in clapping.

Compared to Jia Zhangke's other films, Qi Hao actually prefers this one a bit more.

However, the film is divided into four parts.

This fragmented structure and the lack of a unified core greatly reduce Jia Zhangke's chances of winning awards.

It's somewhat similar to last year's "Cloud Atlas", jointly directed by the Wachowski siblings.

It was meant to be paralleled to "Inception", but the film's performance was mediocre, encountering commercial failures in almost all global markets, with a global box office of just 130 million US dollars; considering a 100 million production cost, the losses reached tens of millions of US dollars in earnings.

One could say its box office and reputation were both dismal.

Most of Jia Zhangke's films cannot be released domestically, and their overseas box office has also been consistently low.

He mainly relies on various bonuses and sustenance for livelihood.

Now, it's highly unlikely that his "A Touch of Sin" will change this situation.

During a dinner with the main competition jury president Steven Spielberg that night, Qi Hao used this movie as a topic of discussion.

Speaking of which, when Qi Hao and Steven Spielberg first met for dinner, the conversation topics were wilder.

Spielberg had directed "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."

And Qi Hao, surprisingly, was so broadly knowledgeable that Spielberg, who initially merely intended a small talk, was caught off guard.

Add to that Qi Hao's obsession with special effects, having just acquired Digital Domain, the world's second-largest special effects company.

As a result, Qi Hao frequently had dinner with Spielberg during the Cannes International Film Festival, and soon everyone was used to it.