上海电影节开放市场浪潮中保护本土电影_时事

上海电影节开放市场浪潮中保护本土电影

SHANGHAI — The Shanghai International FilmFestival may have played only a minor role in theblockbuster success of “Transformers: Age ofExtinction in China last year. The film, which earnedwhat was then a record $319 million after debutingas the closing film at the festival, was alreadyguaranteed a certain degree of success, given thehistory of its franchise in China. But its opening hereraised the international profile of a festival that hasestablished itself as one of the most prominentevents of its kind in the region.

上海——对于《变形金刚4：绝迹重生》(Transformers: Age of Extinction)去年在中国取得的巨大成功，上海国际电影节也许只起到了很小的作用。作为闭幕影片在上海电影节首映后，《变形金刚4：绝迹重生》收获了创纪录的19.7亿元人民币的票房收入。鉴于这一系列电影在中国过去的表现，它本就基本注定会取得成功。不过，上海国际电影节在逐渐成为亚洲地区最重要的电影盛事之一，而《变形金刚4：绝迹重生》在此首映提升了电影节的国际影响力。

This year, organizers are opting for a lower-profile film to fill the symbolic slot.

今年，主办方打算用一部较为低调的影片来承担这一象征性的荣誉。

The event, which kicked off on Saturday and runs through Sunday, opens and closes with twohomegrown productions: The Chinese film “I Am Somebody, a self-financed comedy directedby Derek Yee about the lives of the nameless extras working at the famous Hengdian WorldStudios near Shanghai, will make its world premiere as the opening film of the festival. Theevent will close with a Chinese-Russian co-production set during World War II called “Ballet inthe Flames of War and directed by Yachun Dong and Nikita Mikhalkov. The selection of theclosing film follows an agreement signed last September between Russia and China intended toincrease cooperation in the film domain.