Chapter 531: Award Presenter Wu Jianye (4100+ chapters, please subscribe~)
The closing ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival is much grander than the opening ceremony, and it belongs to the gathering of big names, and at a glance it is the stars of various countries.
On the red carpet, there were also screams.
Originally, some media reporters thought that Wu Jianye and Isabel Adjani would walk the red carpet hand in hand, but obviously they were destined to be disappointed, Wu Jianye walked on the red carpet with the members of the crew of "New Dragon Gate Inn" and waved to everyone.
The media reporters were disappointed, but the onlookers were not disappointed, and everyone shouted Wu Jianye's name, hoping to attract Wu Jianye's attention.
Wu Jianye also waved to everyone with a smile.......
They didn't delay too long on the red carpet, and within the stipulated time frame, they walked the red carpet and went straight to the venue, and today is a huge party for the world's top filmmakers.
Coming to the position that had been arranged a long time ago, Wu Jianye found that Wu Ziniu and others were sitting next to him, and they had to enter the venue earlier than Wu Jianye.
At this time, Wu Ziniu seemed much more nervous than Wu Jianye, as a classmate of the same class, Wu Jianye won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, the Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, Chen Kaige won the Silver Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, and Zhang Yimou won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival last year.
He naturally hopes to be able to win the European Film Festival Award like his classmates, although the relationship between everyone is good on weekdays, it does not mean that there is no competition.
Wu Jianye is a big mountain in the hearts of all directors in China now, and it is a little difficult to catch up with him, but Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, everyone can still work hard first and set them as a small goal.
"How old are you, and your legs are shaking!" Wu Jianye teased.
"Damn, did Lao Tzu shake his legs?" Wu Ziniu said stiffly.
"Huh!"
Wu Ziniu originally wanted to ask Wu Jianye if he was nervous, but after taking a look at Wu Jianye's calm appearance, and thinking of Wu Jianye's previous achievements, he really didn't need to be nervous.
At this time, Chen Kaige, who had not appeared during the film festival, also appeared with the jury, as I said just now, this film festival is a big party for filmmakers all over the world, and they will greet each other, and Wu Jianye, who has participated in the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival in a row, naturally met a lot of acquaintances, so he just said hello to Wu Ziniu and began to chat with the people around him.
Chen Kaige couldn't come over at this time, but he just glanced at Wu Jianye's side from a distance and didn't come over.
Wu Jianye also saw Woody Allen, Oliver Stone and others in the venue who had not been seen before, they are all top Hollywood directors, and they have never been to Berlin before, but they still appeared at the closing ceremony.
Although no films of the two entered the official competition unit, some films were selected for the 'special screening' section purely for observation.
Woody Allen brought his new film "Another Woman", and Oliver Stone, who previously won Best Director at the 59th Academy Awards, brought his new work "Talk Radio".
Both of them are top directors, and there are naturally a lot of people around them, and many North American filmmakers are around them.
However, Wu Jianye immediately saw Woody Allen find Isabel Adjani and was talking about something, but saw Isabel Adjani first shook her head with a smile, and then looked at Wu Jianye's side.
Seeing this, Wu also walked over, Woody Allen is not tall, not only an excellent director, but also an excellent actor, known as 'contemporary Chaplin'.
Naturally, he grabbed Isabel Adjani's thin waist, and Wu Jianye smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Isabelle Adjani smiled, "Mr. Woody Allen, invited me to his next film, and I said I have left the schedule for the next few years to you!"
This is Isabelle Adjani's personality, in another time and space, Isabel Adjani retired from the entertainment industry in order to fall in love with Daniel Lewis, and pushed down a lot of classic movies, her agent once told her that the movies she pushed down could hold a film festival.
Because Wu Jianye has not yet decided whether to shoot "Jurassic Park" or "Ghost Love", but Isabel Adjani has decided to leave the schedule to Wu Jianye, so she is not ready to take on other people's movies, anyway, she has decided to rest before.
Although Woody Allen is a master director, his reputation has not been very good in Hollywood.......
Woody Allen needs to look up at Wu Jianye, which makes Wu Jianye form a kind of overlook at Woody Allen.
"You're Wu Jianye!" Woody Allen glanced at Wu Jianye stiffly.
"You are Woody Allen!" Wu Jianye replied lightly, although Woody Allen is famous, but Wu Jianye does not need to give him any respect under Woody Allen's attitude.
Sure enough, when Woody Allen heard Wu Jianye's attitude, the corners of his eyes in his glasses wrinkled slightly, "You're going to Hollywood to make a movie?"
"Can't you?" said Wu Jianye with a smile.
"Hehe, of course you can, it's just that young people, Hollywood is different from Europe, not everyone can succeed, and some people can't get into this threshold in their lifetime. The disdain in Woody Allen's tone was not concealed in the slightest, which was also Woody Allen's confidence.
He debuted in his early years, has a strong influence in Hollywood, such people generally have a strong desire to control, Isabel Adjani was originally regarded by him as his prey, and now the other party actually refused his invitation for a Chinese director, which has made Woody Allen very dissatisfied, not to mention that now this Chinese director is still arrogant, he is naturally impossible to be kind.
Wu Jianye said lightly: "Are you a Hollywood janitor?"
Woody Allen was slightly stunned, and then understood that Wu Jianye was ridiculing himself, and the expression on his face was even more ugly, and said, "I'll wait to see how you walk in!"
Isabelle Adjani waited for Woody Allen to leave, and then said with some worry: "Honey, you shouldn't treat Woody Allen like this, he has a lot of influence in Hollywood!"
Wu Jianye smiled indifferently: "Since you rejected him because of your participation in my movie, I will naturally be responsible for you!"
Isabelle Adjani smiled: "You're going to make me really fall in love with you!"
Wu Jianye laughed, kissed Isabel Adjani and left, as for what she said, who believes who is a fool......
Woody Allen returned to his place, and Dustin Hoffman asked, "I just saw that Wu Jianye also passed, what happened." ”
Woody Allen replied casually, "It's nothing, it's just a young man who has won a few honors and doesn't know the sky." After saying that, Woody Allen said to Dustin Hoffman: "Dustin hasn't congratulated you yet, this time you won the Special Achievement Award at the Berlin Film Festival!"
The Special Achievement Award, also known as the Lifetime Achievement Award, is the only film award in advance of all film festivals, and Dustin Hoffman is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at this Berlin Film Festival.
Dustin Hoffman happily said, "Thank you." ”
As for Tom Cruise, little fresh meat, he could only watch from the sidelines at this time.
"That Wu Jianye does have some ambitions, I asked Spielberg for him before, and wanted to ask him to come forward to discuss with Phantom Entertainment and sell the adaptation rights of "Jurassic Park" to Spielberg, but he also refused. Dustin Hoffman said.
Woody Allen smiled: "This Chinese director really regards Hollywood as their Huaxia!"
The award ceremony was about to begin, and everyone saw this, and they also ended the conversation and returned to their places.
Similar to other award ceremonies, the host came up to make an introduction, and then accompanied by a gag to amuse the guests on the scene.
Wu Jianye has heard all this many times, so there is nothing new, with the same smile on his face as everyone else, anyway, everyone applauds, he applauds, and everyone is happy.
When it came to some Wu Ziniu who participated in the award ceremony for the first time, he was much more excited.
His hands were red.......
The first award was the Lifetime Achievement Award, which everyone already knew, and Dustin Hoffman walked on the podium to win the first trophy of this year's film festival, and began to thank everyone with an elegant temperament.......
As soon as Dustin Hoffman was on the stage, he began to present the Readers' Grand Jury Prize, the winner of the highest score in the magazine, for Barry Levinson's "Rain Man".
The crowd burst into applause again.
Wu Ziniu applauded and whispered to Wu Jianye: "I secretly called Chen Kaige before and asked him about the voting results!"
Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Told you?"
Wu Ziniu said dissatisfiedly: "No, that kid is too bad." ”
Wu Jianye laughed and said, "He may not know it himself, you don't have to blame him for this." ”
Wu Ziniu muttered, "Don't you know that he is a judge?"
Wu Jianye glanced at Wu Ziniu and teased: "Don't you hear that I'm trying to save face for you?"
Wu Ziniu's face turned red: "I know now." ”
Tao Zeru and the others, who were sitting next to Wu Ziniu, laughed.
The award ceremony went very smoothly, with singing and dancing performances, as well as moving tearful winners.
While Wu Jianye was chatting with Wu Ziniu, there was an award for outstanding individual achievement, which was not produced among the 22 films shortlisted for the Golden Bear Award, but was selected from the films screened in the 'Special Screening' section, and the award was given to actor Eric Bergsian in Oliver Stone's "Talking Radio".
He played the host of a special program called "Talk Follow-up" in "Talk Radio".
The program was set up in response to social pathological phenomena, and after the program channel was opened, the audience was accepted to complain or scold each other. The moderator "treats" the audience's common psychological problems with witty reactions.
Prior to this, Eric Pogosian had written and acted in the stage play of the same name, and now this stage play has been brought to the big screen by Oliver Stone, and he still stars himself, because he has already experienced, so he is very skillful in acting.
After this award was awarded, it was time for the highlight of the event, and the first award was the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival.
One of the big hits is naturally Isabel Adjani, but the film festival has always been a hot spot does not mean that it can win awards, so the tension in the venue at this time can be imagined.
At this time, Wu Jianye and Holly Hunt, the best actress of the last Berlin Film Festival, walked onto the podium.
Wu Jianye was not only shortlisted for the Golden Bear Award this time, but also invited by the Berlin Film Festival to be the guest of honor for the best actress this year.
After the two took the stage, the audience burst into applause.
"Hello everyone, I'm Huaxia director Wu Jianye!" Wu Jianye took the lead in saying.
"Hello everyone, I'm American actor Holly Hunt!" Holly Hunt introduced himself in the same sentence.
This is the line that Wu Jianye and Holly Hunt have long been on good terms backstage.
After everyone finished laughing, Holly Hunt asked Wu Jianye: "Director Wu, we all know that you are an excellent director, and your first film is a film shot from a female perspective, so I want to ask you, as a director, what criteria do you use to choose the female lead of your own film?"
Wu Jianye said with a smile: "Image, temperament, and acting skills, I think these three are indispensable, every role is a living character in the eyes of the director, so many times, what an actor has to do on the set is to forget his original identity and devote himself to this role." ”
Holly Hunt asked with a smile: "I just noticed that Director Wu put acting skills in the last place, does that mean that in Director Wu's eyes, acting skills are not important?"
Wu Jianye frowned slightly, the other party was obviously digging a hole for himself, but then he smiled and said: "Of course not, acting skills are naturally very important, but I think an excellent director can train an excellent actor, but his image and temperament need to be born, in fact, at this time, these three things don't matter in order, it's just that I said it casually." ”
"Then what about the actress that Director Wu is most optimistic about this shortlist?" Holly Hunt continued.
Wu Jianye said with a smile: "At this time, I should have said that I am optimistic about all the actresses, after all, it is already an honor to be selected for the best actress, but I still want to say that this film festival, I am most optimistic about Isabel Adjani in "Rodin's Lover"!"
The people present had already known about the scandal between Wu Jianye and Isabelle Adjani during this time, but the award ceremony itself was a scene that could not offend people, and now it was naturally shocked to hear Wu Jianye support Isabelle Adjani so bluntly.
But no matter what everyone thought, the audience applauded.
Isabel Adjani even sent a flying kiss to Wu Jianye at this time.......
Holly Hunt was slightly stunned, and as soon as the conversation changed, he began to comment on the other nominated actresses, and waited until they were all over.
The two opened the list of winners, and Holly Hunt was the first to say: "It was ....... who won the best actress at the 39th Berlin Film Festival"
Speaking of this, he handed the list of winners to Wu Jianye.
“....... Isabel Adjani!"