Scud invited 37 actors to gather in Rotterdam. Former popular star Amanda Lee revealed that she “talked about coming to Taiwan to develop”

Zhongshi Sun Yixuan

Director Scud was invited to participate in the “Focus on Filmmakers” section of the 2024 Rotterdam Film Festival. All 10 films have been screened in the past, and 37 actors who have participated in his works have been invited to Rotterdam for the first time. The actors who had not seen each other for a long time reunited. Adonis He celebrated his 35th birthday locally and everyone helped him celebrate. Hong Kong star Amanda Lee, who once released records in Taiwan, is still active in the art scene and talks about developing in Taiwan; Eric East has settled in Los Angeles and is working in finance and translation out of the camera; Taiwanese twins Karen Huang and Lina Tsai appeared one after another in sexy wedding dresses, not only The venue frequently attracted people to take photos, and when they arrived at the nightclub, the DJ directly called out “Welcome Taiwan” due to the charm of the dancing.

Adonis He, who has participated in 5 works including “Plato vs Pasolini” and “Ghosts just want to have fun”, once again watched his first Scud work “Utopians” which he filmed nearly 10 years ago on the big screen in Rotterdam. As for his nakedness at that time, “When I watch it again, it becomes a very simple audience perspective. I really like that my body at that time was in a very natural youthful state, without a lot of fitness.” Nearly 50 people from the front and backstage team spent time with him in Rotterdam. On his 35th birthday, he was moved and said that he hoped that all his partners would have such an opportunity to reunite again. Scud said that due to visa issues, Adonis He missed the premiere of “Utopians” at the Palm Spring International Film Festival (Palm Spring). Fortunately, he was invited to attend the Rotterdam Film Festival last year and this year. He studied Peking Opera and currently lives in Hangzhou and continues to shoot film and television works. He also hopes to have the opportunity to film in Taiwan and calls on the industry to find him.

Eric East, who worked with Adonis He on “Adonis, aka Thirty Years of Adonis”, has performed on a large scale in the past, but now almost disappears from the camera. He revealed that he is currently engaged in finance and translation in California. Scud said: ” He was once an international superstar in a certain genre of film, but it is also a good story that he “recovered” and then made my film and appeared on the stage in Rotterdam.”

Amanda Lee watched her old friend Scud take all his films to the international stage and said happily: “Film is a career that has to solve many difficulties every minute. He made these ten films and successfully conquered film festivals and audiences. It is really great.” Happy for him!” Scud said that this was not the first time they went to an international film festival together. “We received the Artistic Achievement Award together in Philadelphia.” Amanda Lee was once a popular best-selling singer and has released 18 albums, including the Mandarin album “Singing on the Rooftop” “, is still active in the field of film, television and singing. After the epidemic, she has continued to make movies and perform. She has served as a judge on singing competition shows and held her own oil painting exhibition. She has always been paying attention to Taiwan’s entertainment trends. She said that she thinks about the development of Taiwan, no matter whether she is making movies. Or musical works, I am willing to try; I immediately reached an agreement with Liu Fengqi, the Taiwanese producer who is traveling with me this time, for future cooperation in Taiwan.

Karen Huang, who was once the “Goddess of Guoguang”, participated in “Plato vs Pasolini” and “Ghosts just want to have fun”. Seeing the large array of nearly 40 actors, she said happily: “The actors who participated in the director’s works came from all over the country this time. Normally, It’s hard to see everyone, but this time we all live together, eat together, send movie postcards, and answer questions together after the screening. It’s so much together that the relationship is really different.” I just filmed the Li Qianna MV a while ago, and I hope to participate in various events in the future. There are suitable works. Scud said that she had been sending photos before departure to ask him to help choose a dress, and sure enough, she made many beautiful appearances at the film festival.

Lina Tsai has been dancing since elementary school and used to be a nightclub dancer. This time she dressed up gorgeously and was noticed at the venue or on the road, and even asked to take pictures. In the evening, she and another Taiwanese actor Huang Wei Kai showed her hot dancing charm in a local nightclub, attracting cheers from the audience. The DJ enthusiastically played Jolin Tsai’s songs and repeatedly welcomed the Taiwanese group. In the end, everyone in the audience received free drinks. In addition to her hot wax hair removal work, Lina Tsai has recently signed an agent and hopes to continue filming film and television productions or participating in advertisements. She heard that director Scud might retire. She felt that as long as the director continues to do what he likes, it doesn’t matter whether he retires or not. Health and happiness are the most important thing.

Scud has become a major focus of Chinese-language films at international film festivals since the beginning of 2024. The “Focus Filmmaker (FOCUS: SCUD)” section has screened a total of 10 of his films since 2008, with 20 screenings and another 1 “Talk: SCUD” Scud’s discussion. So far, almost every show has been sold out. Whether it is the high-standard treatment of the conference, as well as the interactive response from the QA in the hall and the audience outside the hall, the response has been enthusiastic, making him feel warm and honored. Scud loves the actors very much. He said that he has not been taken seriously at film festivals in Taiwan since his fourth film, so he brought the actors to the stage of the Rotterdam Film Festival. “Now, I have no choice but to bring them to the Rotterdam Film Festival.” On the big stage where people really understand and love movies.”

Scud said with emotion: “Have you noticed that since the fourth film “Love actually…sucks!”, none of my films has been admitted to the Hong Kong International Film Festival, even though Zhang Shuping helped me with editing and color grading, Qiu Litao’s photography, and Yu Jia’an’s costumes (although Obviously there are less things to do), Yu Yiyao’s soundtrack, and none. I may not have given them the next few films (in anger), anyway, they all premiered in foreign countries, and my films continued to be Hong Kong’s best in international film festivals (referring to mainstream film festivals, The only representative of the non-gay film festival). A good example is the premiere of the 6th film “Utopians” at Palm Spring (Palm Springs International Film Festival). After I saw the film list, there were only 3 Chinese films, and the other two were “Assassin Nie Yinniang” and “Old Friends in Mountains and Rivers”, 1 each from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.”

“Plato vs Pasolini” and “Ghosts just want to have fun” are expected to be released in Taiwan in mid-2024.