The 182nd Unexpected Award

The news that "Shocking Black Gold" has been paid special attention to above is already an open secret in the Chinese entertainment circle, so this Venice Film Festival, there are very few media in the mainland of China.

There are a few media in Xiangjiang, but they are only interested in Peng Yichen, and they don't care much about the movie "Shocking Black Gold".

But they also know that Peng Yichen almost never accepts media interviews except for movie promotion activities, so they don't find themselves boring to interview Peng Yichen.

Therefore, although Peng Yichen and Yu Jing have been in Venice for more than ten days, they have not been interviewed by any media, and this experience is really very comfortable and novel for them.

Peng Yichen felt that his few days in Venice were the most relaxed and happy days in recent years.

On the day of the closing ceremony of the film festival.

The whole city of Venice seems to have come out.

In Peng Yichen's previous life and present life, he had never seen so many foreigners get together.

Sitting in the vehicle arranged by the organizing committee, he and Yu Jing soon came to the scene of the award ceremony.

Stepping out of the car, the two of them wore casual suits and small dresses, like a pair of golden boys and girls, and walked through the long red carpet.

The domestic media basically did not come, and the foreign media did not know them.

This time the red carpet was very quiet, which made Peng Yichen feel a little unreal.

It would be nice if he could do this every time he walked the red carpet, he touched his chin and thought to himself.

He walked very comfortably and comfortably, but Zhou Jianhao was not as easy as him.

Although this club boss has seen a lot of big battles, those are just a number of talks between clubs.

He didn't have the experience of walking on the red carpet, not to mention that this was the red carpet of an internationally renowned film festival.

Before coming to the venue, he also said to Peng Yichen that when he walked on the red carpet, he must show the momentum of the big guys and deter these ghosts.

As a result, when he really walked up, his whole body was like being wrapped in glue, and he moved forward step by step. When you walk with your arms and legs, you can't even bend your legs.

In Peng Yichen's opinion, the process of walking the red carpet, which was very cold, turned into an overwhelming flash from various angles in Zhou Jianhao's eyes, as well as the earth-shaking shouts of the fans around him.

Of course, the flashing lights and cheers were basically not for him, but he still felt very nervous.

In front of Peng Yichen and his group was the crew of "Excerpts and Revisions", and the film director Brian de Palma, one of Hollywood's famous directors, had obviously been accustomed to seeing this kind of occasion for a long time, and the young actors of his crew walked into the venue as if they were strolling in the court.

Behind them is the crew of "Atonement", British director Joe White is only 38 years old, his debut film is the change of the famous "Pride and Prejudice", and the second film "Atonement" was shortlisted for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Because his films are more in line with the pedigree of European cinema, "Atonement" has been very popular at major film festivals this year and is one of the strong contenders for the Golden Lion.

So the flashing lights and cheers that Zhou Jianhao saw were actually for these two crews.

This arrangement of the order of appearance made Peng Yichen feel that the organizing committee really regarded "Shocking Black Gold" as a seeded player, otherwise how could they be arranged to appear in the middle of these two award-winning popular crews.

When they entered the theater, Peng Yichen and Yu Jing quickly found their seats and sat down, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled, obviously quite interesting about the experience of walking the red carpet just now.

Peng Yichen leaned all his body in the comfortable seat behind him, and in such a lively environment, he actually had a feeling of wanting to sleep.

"Hey, it's Brad Pete!" Yu Jing suddenly whispered in his ear, lowering his voice and excitedly.

"Tim Burton!"

"Cate Blanchett!"

"And Li An, Liang Chaowei!"

The few that Yu Jing shouted out were all internationally renowned directors and stars.

"Bernaldo, Bertolucci! This old man is here too!" Peng Yichen saw the first thing he saw was an old director whom he admired very much.

When Li An and Liang Chaowei passed by their seats, they nodded to them as a greeting.

Peng Yichen still wondered why the actress named Tang Wei, who became popular with this Li An's "City of Eros", didn't come over.

When these big names walked in one by one and sat in their places, Peng Yichen knew that the award ceremony was definitely about to start.

After all, the big names are used for the finale.

Sure enough, the lights of the venue slowly dimmed, and the venue gradually became quiet.

The host took the stage and briefly said a few opening remarks, and then the judges of the jury appeared.

Chen Guozhong, as the chairman, was the first to walk on the stage, and when he saw Peng Yichen in the audience, he nodded lightly to him.

In the past few days, Chen Guozhong has been too slow, and Peng Yichen has not come to visit, just for fear of disturbing his work.

As the chairman, Chen Guozhong walked on the stage, said a few words of blessing to all the filmmakers who came to the ceremony in English, and soon walked off the stage with a group of judges.

The Venice Film Festival has a strong literary and artistic attribute, so it is not at all like the Oscars and Golden Globes that like humor and funny, and the award process is simple and neat.

As soon as the jury walked off the stage, the awards began.

The award setting of the Venice Film Festival is really strange, just like the first "Mimo Roterira Fund Award", which is an inexplicable award name, not to mention Peng Yichen, a person who is not familiar with foreign awards, is that many European audiences are confused when they hear it.

There are also those "Open Awards", "Magic Moment Awards", and "Bastone-Bianco Film Critics Awards", Peng Yichen is even more confused, and he doesn't know what they are!

Although the presenter of the award is talking about music, the language spoken by the guests and the winners is strange, except for French, Peng Yichen can even guess and understand some, and Peng Yichen can't understand other languages at all.

In addition, most of the European filmmakers, he basically does not know.

After a while, he actually fell asleep in his seat.

Until a buddy on the stage read: "The following is a new award established by the Berlin Film Festival in recent years - the Best New Director Award, which is to recognize the young directors who participated in the exhibition......"

After a lot of chatter, he finally said, "Okay, let's see who won this award......"

"Political black gold!"

"Oh my God!"

Yu Jing woke up Peng Yichen, who was still sleeping, in surprise.

Before Zhou Jianhao could react to what he meant, the tour guide and translator who had been following them for the past few days had already stood up and applauded!

"It's us! We've won the award!" the translator grabbed Zhou Jianhao's shoulder and shook it vigorously.

This stupid buddy has obviously regarded Zhou Jianhao and Peng Yichen as his own people, and his performance in the movie is even more exciting than Peng Yichen.

"Is it really me?" Peng Yichen looked stunned and incredulous. "We haven't been nominated for this award. ”

Just woke up, Peng Yichen's mind was still a little confused.

"There is no need to nominate for this award, it is directly selected by the judges!" the interpreter said excitedly as he walked over and dragged him up.

Peng Yichen walked onto the stage slowly, not that he was too excited, but that he had just woken up from his sleep and had not mastered his balance.

It wasn't until he received the trophy from the award presenter that Peng Yichen's expression returned to a clear state, slowed down for two seconds, and slowly said in English: "Thank you! Thank you to the film festival organizing committee! Thank you to the judges! This is really a surprise and surprise to me." Although the movie "Shocking Black Gold" is still very immature, I and all the crew members have put in all our efforts to make this movie. This embodies the hard work of all members of the crew. Being able to win the award is an affirmation of our crew. Thank you! In addition, I would like to thank my parents, they have helped me a lot! I would also like to thank my lover Yu Jing, with her support and encouragement, I have come all the way to today! Thank you!"

This series of acceptance speeches, Peng Yichen said very neatly, obviously he prepared it in advance, but he probably didn't expect to use it so early.

Zhou Jianhao sat in the audience, listening to Peng Yichen's speech, his face was full of envy.

It's a pity that as a filmmaker, except for the Golden Lion Award, other awards can't be his turn to come to the stage.

After Peng Yichen finished his acceptance speech, he finally regained his steadiness in walking, and returned to his seat with the trophy tightly in his hand, and was snatched by Yu Jing before he could sit down.

Zhou Jianhao obviously wanted to take a closer look at the trophy, but seeing that Yu Jing had already got it in his hand, he could only retract his hand.

Seeing that these people were so happy, the translator couldn't help but persuade, "If you win this award, you won't be able to win the Best Director Award." ”

After listening to the translator's words, Yu Jing realized that this was a consolation prize, so she didn't take it anymore, and handed it to Zhou Jianhao, who was staring at the trophy directly.

Peng Yichen didn't care too much, it was already an unexpected joy to get a trophy this time.

"Black Gold" is definitely a classic movie, but unfortunately this kind of movie is only suitable for local audiences, and Europeans still have a big gap when watching it.

But it seems that the judges of the Venice Film Festival really prefer the movie "Shocking Black Gold", and not long after Peng Yichen stepped down, he heard the stage announce:

"The winner of this year's film festival and the Future of Film Award is: "Political black gold"!"

This time, even Peng Yichen didn't fall asleep, and he heard it clearly.

The audience was also a little surprised and discussed, obviously they didn't expect a little-known Chinese movie to win two trophies.

This award can be received by the producer on stage, so Peng Yichen gave the opportunity to Zhou Jianhao

When Zhou Jianhao walked up, he was very successful, but when he said his testimonial, he still felt a tremor in his voice.

Fortunately, as a native of Xiangjiang, his English is not bad, and he finally successfully said the acceptance speech.

After Zhou Jianhao came down, everyone was not as happy as they were just now.

After winning two unprepared awards in a row, whether the following awards that were nominated for will be affected, everyone began to wonder whether the following awards would be affected.

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