The awards in the Upstream Unit are naturally not as heavy as those in the main competition unit, but being able to win two awards still makes many filmmakers and media look sideways.

Compared with the mentality of suffering from gains and losses before, after winning the two awards in the competition unit against the current, He Xin and Ning Hao began to watch the excitement with relaxed expressions.

The other three awards in the Upstream unit, the Best Actress Award was awarded to the actress Scarlett Johansson, this He Xin is naturally very familiar, the widowed sister who is only nineteen years old at this time is far from being as amorous as in later generations, and she still looks very young.

Best Director went to Italian film director Michael Saul. And the San Marco Award for Best Picture was awarded to an Armenian film.

The highlight of the ceremony was the announcement of the awards in the main competition in the second half of the year, where the previously popular Hollywood star Sean Penn got his wish and won the best actor, and the actress was awarded to the German actress Kaja Lehmann.

Japanese veteran Takeshi Kitano and Lebanese films won the only two silver lions for Best Director and the Jury Prize, respectively.

The Golden Lion was won by Russian films without any suspense.

The Chinese-language films that also got the invitation to the closing ceremony did not receive anything, but compared to the crew's gray and early return home, Cai Mingliang was not empty-handed, at least he had won a professional film critic Fipresci Award outside the venue before the awards ceremony.

So far, the 60th Venice International Film Festival has come to an end.

But the work of the reporters is far from over, when the award-winning crew walked out of the theater, they were surrounded by a handful of reporters, He Xin, Ning Hao, Xiaodouding translation is no exception, and even more reporters are surrounded, in addition to most of the Eastern faces, there are also many Western reporters.

A total of three Chinese-language films were shortlisted for this competition, compared with the two Hong Kong and Taiwan films shortlisted for the main competition unit, nominally not many people paid attention to Hong Kong films at the beginning, on the one hand, they were only shortlisted for the competition unit that encourages young directors to swim against the current, which is somewhat similar to the youth forum of the Berlin Film Festival.

On the other hand, the name Ning Hao is indeed very unfamiliar, if it weren't for the starring He Xin who could still attract a little attention, maybe no one would pay attention at all.

But it was such a work that won the Special Attention Award and the Best Actor Award in the competition unit against the current, followed by the Returning Feather and Cai Mingming's Critics Award, which is not even an encouragement award, which is a real honor.

The mainland media are very excited, because He Xin and Ning Hao are both mainland actors and directors; the Hong Kong media are also very excited, because this is a Hong Kong movie after all; only the Wanwan media have a sour taste even when they ask questions.

After the award ceremony, the organizer had a reception, and the three of them went over to show their faces, mainly to say hello to the organizing committee and the jury of the unit against the current to express their gratitude, after all, they gave such a great honor, He Xin and Ning Hao are grateful.

Then I hurried back to the hotel where I stayed, and called Sister Na who stayed behind to celebrate with me at the small restaurant I frequented.

In the early hours of the morning, He Xin sat on the bed, although he was already very restrained when celebrating, he still drank a lot under the background of the cheerful mood and atmosphere, but this time there was no fragment for Ning Hao to carry back. But he didn't dare to lie down immediately, because the brain was still dizzy, and he was afraid of nausea.

"Bang dang!"

Ning Hao walked out of the bathroom naked, with only a bath towel tied around his waist, and saw He Xin leaning on the head of the bed like an old monk sitting still, and asked, "Is it better?"

He Xin slowly opened his eyes, glanced at the body in front of him with a big shoulder and a round waist, and his lower abdomen bulging before he reached thirty, and said, "It's okay, just slow down." ”

"Hey!"

Ning Hao sighed, lay on the bed on all fours and looked at the ceiling, and smirked: "It feels like a dream, I didn't expect that I, Ning Hao, would also stand on the podium of the Venice Film Festival." ”

"Cut, you kid even secretly prepared his acceptance speech, don't get cheap and sell well!" He Xin glanced at him and snorted coldly.

"Hehe, I'm not prepared!"

"Hey, have you thought about it, how do you want to get this money when you have it?" He Xin asked.

MK2 was very happy, the contract was signed, and the buyout fee of 350,000 euros was paid on the spot. He Xin mentioned it to Ning Hao before and asked him how to shoot next?

If he still makes money like this, if he follows this mode of operation, it will be difficult for him to take advantage of Ning Hao, after all, this movie has no suitable role for him, and he can't do much. Of course, the film is also a very risky project, and his participation can also help Ning Hao share part of the investment risk. But the specific operation still needs to be measured by Ning Hao himself, but there are some things he still has to say in advance.

"Tsk!"

Ning Hao smashed his mouth, looked at He Xin with small eyes, and showed a sincere smile just like when he fooled him, and said very embarrassedly: "This matter, I also discussed it with Nana, she means that since we have established a company, we will follow the company's regular way, I don't know what your opinion is?"

He Xin was happy when he heard it, and said with a smile: "If you follow the company's regular way, you are not afraid that I will take advantage?"

Ning Hao hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't say that! The movie industry is too risky, and I can only say that it is a fluke this time." Actually, Nana and I are still worried that if we smash it, we are afraid that we will not be able to beat you!"

"Don't, just because you helped me get the best actor this time, I will fully support your film. ”

"It's a matter of time before you win the actor for your acting skills, and besides, you have long been the Golden Horse actor. There's something I'd like to discuss with you. ”

"What's the matter?"

"After we go back this time, can we get a little red first? Not much, 500,000 is enough, you are thirty and I am twenty, the main reason is that I still have a little famine here, since the film won the award and sold it at a good price, it is impossible to say that it is not returned to others. ”

"That's fine, if you don't say I'll bring it up. I don't think it's 500,000 yuan, so let's just divide the fraction and leave 2 million in the account for you to film. He Xindao.

350,000 euros, equivalent to about 3 million yuan, after deducting taxes, there are about 27.8 million left.

Then, he said: "Oh, by the way, there is something I want to tell you, the last time I was filming in Yunnan, Yu Dong, the boss of Bona Culture, talked to me when he came to visit the class, and the meaning of this seems to be very interested in cooperating with us, of course, it does not rule out the meaning of solicitation." I thought we'd talk to him about this notebook if we could. I pondered, on the one hand, we can take less risk and save some money, in case of smashing, there will be a comeback of capital; on the other hand, PropNex has a strong issuance ability, and we can cooperate with them in China. What do you think?"

Ning Hao's eyes lit up suddenly, and he hurriedly said, "Of course it's good!" But let's cooperate, just solicit it." ”

There is no director who doesn't want his film to be released in China, and those so-called underground directors are completely because their films can't pass the censorship, so they have to go overseas.

It's completely two ways, and the current script has almost no forbidden places, on the contrary, it is full of positive energy.

He Xin nodded, his meaning was actually the same as Ning Hao, even if it was solicited, it was still possible to cooperate.

He smiled: "Then let's talk to him when we go back, and let's have a co-production with that." ”

The so-called co-production refers to the signing of CEPA between the mainland and Hong Kong not long ago on the sixth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, that is, the cooperation between the two places is an important one.

The cooperation between Hong Kong Plaza Asia and Tianjin Film Studio is a representative work that embodies this agreement, not only Hong Kong sent a strong lineup such as Leung Chaowei, Andy Lau, Li Min, etc., but also Chen Daoming and his younger brother Huang Zhizhong joined in the mainland.

He Xin watched this film in his previous life, and at that time it was just a lively one, and he always felt that it was not as good as the first one, but now that I think about it, it is completely different in the way the actors perform in the two places, so that the performances of Chen Daoming and Huang Zhizhong in this film seem very abrupt and out of place.

"That's right!" Ning Hao also slapped his face and said excitedly, winning the award this time suddenly made this product's self-confidence burst.

At this time, He Xin's mobile phone suddenly rang, and He Xin picked it up and saw that it was Hao Rong's phone. It's two o'clock in the morning Italian time, because daylight saving time is six hours away from the rest of the country, and it will be exactly eight o'clock in the morning. He Xin estimated that Hao Rong must have gotten the news and called to congratulate him as soon as possible.

When He Xin picked up the phone, he was still muttering that this old brother Hao should not be overly excited, because he hadn't slept yet, otherwise his good dreams would have been interrupted.

As a result, as soon as he connected the phone, he listened to Hao Rong on the other end of the phone and asked, "Xiaohe, have you won the Venice actor?"

"No!" He Xin was stunned for a moment, and said busily: "We were shortlisted for the unit against the current, I just won the best actor in this unit, and the actor is Sean Penn." ”

"Didn't you have another one that was also shortlisted for the main competition?"

"Don't mention it, this movie doesn't even have a single hair. ”

"So you won the award?"

"That's right, not only won the Best Actor Award, but also won the Special Attention Award, and we won two of the five awards against the current. He Xin said with a smug face.

Hao Rong on the other end of the phone breathed a sigh of relief and rejoiced: "It's a shame that I didn't rush to report to the dean, otherwise it would have been an oolong, but it's not bad that you can get the actor in the unit against the current, congratulations!"

"Thank you!" Then, He Xin said curiously: "Brother Hao, who did you listen to that I won the best actor?"

"Who else can I listen to, on the Internet!"

Empty joy, Mr. Hao's tone is inevitably a little depressed, if He Xin can really be crowned the Venice actor this time, then my old Hao has one in his hand, well, no, there are two students of the Venice actor. It's just that when Xia Yu won the award that year, he hadn't enrolled in school yet, and this was not only famous, but it meant borrowing light.

"You can't spread it on the Internet, right?" He Xin's first thought was the title party, deliberately attracting attention.

Sure enough, I heard a voice on the phone: "!"

Then Hao Rong said indignantly: "The big title is the four big characters of He Xin and the actor, and there are two exclamation points, and the following content only mentions that you won the best actor in the competition unit against the current." ”

Listening to Mr. Hao's scolding and complaining, and a very sincere congratulations, after hanging up the phone, He Xin hurriedly called his girlfriend again.

Don't look at his extremely sensual words at the awards ceremony saying that his girlfriend accepted his love is the greatest meaning of his life in this world, if it weren't for Hao Rong's phone reminder, he was chatting with Ning Hao at this time, and he would have forgotten about the good news to his girlfriend.

Then Ning Hao, who was on the bed next door, heard a series of sensual words.

"Hey, okay, why did it take so long to answer the phone?"

"Oh, I didn't sleep until early in the morning, so why didn't you call me when you saw the news on the Internet?"

"Oh, you're afraid to disturb me!

"I, of course, am as considerate as you, I'm afraid of disturbing your rest, so I've waited until this time, and I guess it's almost time for you to get up, so I dare to call, but I still woke you up, I'm sorry......"

Hearing this, Ning Hao suddenly "sizzled", goosebumps popped up all over his body.

As a result, the cargo on the bed next door actually glared at him, and then continued: "Thank you! We are tomorrow, oh no, it should be this afternoon's plane, of course I will fly directly to you! Don't you want me?"

"I guess I'll be there tomorrow at noon. ”

"You're coming to pick me up, okay...... Well, yes, bye!"

......

At the beginning of September, the daytime temperature in Shanghai still reaches more than 30 degrees, but compared with the hottest July and August, the night is much cooler, and you basically don't need to turn on the air conditioner to sleep.

In room 1208 of a serviced apartment next to Shanghai Film Studio, the exhaust range hood by the aisle at the door is "humming" at work.

A string of white water vapor emerges from a small hole in the lid of a large casserole placed on the fire, and a strong aroma can be smelled when you get closer.

Three-year-old free-range ducks with eggs, washed, watered again, and then accompanied with ginger, green onion white, rice wine, astragalus, wolfberry, codonopsis, boiled over high heat, simmered over low heat.

He Xin stood by the pool, tearing the soaked flat-tipped bamboo shoots and cutting them into sections, peeling the local red stem taro that had just been put on the market and soaking it in water for later use.

After finishing all this work, he quickly poured some vinegar and washed it on his hands, because the mucus of taro can stimulate itchy skin, and vinegar can play a neutralizing role.

The weather was pleasant today, and he didn't have the air conditioning on in the house. I went to the bathroom and washed my hands again with hand sanitizer, and wiped my face by the way, so I could finally rest for a while.

Sitting in a small living room of only about ten square meters, looking at the cramped kitchen operation space on the side of the aisle, I couldn't help but sigh for a long time: "The house is still too small!"

When flying from Venice to Rome for a transfer, He Xin and Ning Hao took two separate flights, they flew directly to Beijing, and He Xin took the flight to Shanghai Pudong Airport alone.

On the evening of his arrival, he received a phone call from Ning Hao, saying that he was surrounded by reporters as soon as he got off the plane at the capital airport. I can hear that although this is a complaint, the tone is obviously not to mention how much it is. Then I didn't forget to remind him, don't stay in Shanghai for too long, you are still stretching your neck in the capital and waiting for the spoils!

Speaking of dividing the spoils, the total fraction is 780,000, and He Xinzhan can get more than 460,000 yuan, plus the salary has already been in place, which adds up to a million less. This is not counting the sum of the salaries settled in the first half of the year. It's just that he used all these two sums of money to buy the small yard he had fancied on Yushan Road.

It's funny to say, the owner of that small yard bit 600,000 yuan and refused to reduce the price, but later because of the outbreak of infectious diseases, domestic housing prices fell, especially during that period of time experts who sang about the decline of the domestic real estate market, and there were many politicians in the world who sang about China's collapse.

When He Xin left Qingdao, he gave Cheng Ma carte blanche to do this, and Cheng Ma also gave her strength and forced the price to 450,000 yuan.

Now with a small million in his hand, He Xin originally planned to buy Moutai's shares, but at this time, looking at this small apartment, he began to wonder whether to buy a suite in Shanghai.

With the fusion of the two memories, Hara has always had the obsession of returning to his father's hometown in the future. And this obsession seems to have become a responsibility for He Xin.

To be honest, both Beijing and Shanghai are first-tier cities, and if you have to choose, there is no doubt that Shanghai near the sea is more livable than the smog Beijing.

And when he went out to buy vegetables in the morning, he saw that there was a real estate opening on Xingeng Road, which was closer to the Xujiahui business district, and he asked casually, and the price was 13,000.

It sounds very expensive, but he understands in his heart that after this village, I am afraid that there will be no such shop, Xujiahui business district is one of the most prime locations in Shanghai, and after a few years, the housing prices here will at least add a zero to the back.