Film festivals all over the world basically encounter a kind of embarrassment from time to time, with a vigorous opening and a half-dead closing time, even if the three major European film festivals are included, there is no exception.

Even if it is the Celestial Empire, if you invite foreign stars to attend the film festival, you still can't escape this embarrassing situation, foreign big stars attended the opening, and even brought their works over, saying a bunch of good things, but they couldn't find a figure at the closing, and they went back early.

China has not encountered this kind of egg pain in this matter, because in the year of 03, if you want to invite foreign big stars, you really can't invite them, and people don't look down on them, in the eyes of these foreign uncles, domestic film festivals are about the same as the pheasant awards that we have never heard of in Africa.

This is a fact, it's not self-dwarfing, the reason why they don't come is because we don't have any place to attract them, they don't care about awards, and the market is too small, and there are no people who can let them give face, so naturally it will be like this.

After the domestic box office explodes and grows, major film festivals will appear European and even Hollywood stars, although they will also encounter an embarrassing situation that is purely fun, but at least they are here, so it is beneficial to say that the world is bustling, and it can be applied in most places.

Berlin is one of the three largest in Europe, and it still encounters this embarrassing situation, at the opening of the ceremony, various Hollywood stars cooperated on the red carpet, murdering countless reporters, and at the closing ceremony, there were only two or three big cats and kittens, and the popularity was reduced by more than half.

Hollywood stars come to Berlin, it is a condescending act for them, the reason why they come is purely to sell movies, after attracting a wave of media attention, the movies are almost sold, how can they stay in the cold of Berlin and wait for the lottery?

Nicole Kidman is big enough, Nicolas Cage is big enough, George Clooney is big enough, I didn't see any of them at the closing ceremony, I left Berlin early, and now those who are still in Berlin are either directors or producers, anyway, they are not famous.

This situation is no longer strange to these reporters in Europe, so they are hungry and catch Zhou Bai and Gong Li for a wild shooting, all kinds of interviews, and even all kinds of hot questions are thrown.

For example, Zhou Bai was asked if he had confidence in the actor, Gong Li was asked if the actress was already in the bag this time, how to evaluate the competitor's movies, how many opportunities he thought he had, and even a boring reporter asked if the reason why they had such a good cooperation was whether they sparked when making a movie.

"Koslick is not crazy to be poor, the last time I came to Berlin, there was no such thing as selling tickets for the award ceremony, and the invitations were very popular, and it seems that the president of the festival has really been worried about the funds for a long time. After walking the red carpet, Zhou Bai pursed his lips and whispered to Gong Li that the dignified Berlin has been reduced to selling tickets to supplement the funds.

"Anyway, our hospitality funds are guaranteed, and the treatment is not reduced, at least our accommodations and travel are guaranteed, and we can't control the rest, two sponsors have withdrawn from this year's film festival, didn't your teacher also see that there is no hope of winning awards, and there is no such hot grand occasion as in previous years, so he returned to China early?" Gong Li said with a white look at Zhou Bai.

"Teacher, he still has something to do, and it is true that "Hero" has no hope of winning the award, and now only Ziyi is left here to support the field, so Koslick is very happy. Zhou Bai said with a wry smile, when Gong Li mentioned Lao Mouzi, Zhou Bai always felt that she still had a little resentment in her heart.

"This year is special, a third of Berlin people have taken to the streets to protest, and the protests have continued since the opening of the festival, and these people have spared no effort against the war in Iraq, even if the festival uses the theme of tolerance. After sitting down, Gong Li said in Zhou Bai's ear.

Fan Ye and a few others next to him saw Zhou Bai and Gong Li biting their ears, the gossip in their hearts was simply outrageous, with all kinds of flashes in their eyes, they wanted to know what Zhou Bai was talking to Gong Li, but they were embarrassed to come over, and the nervousness of walking the red carpet slowly disappeared because of the divergence.

Zhou Bai and Gong Li chatted without hanging, after a while, Zhang Ziyi walked the red carpet and sat here, and then the three of them whispered all kinds of complaints about Berlin, and later Fan Ye and a few of them also participated after understanding, and a large group of people actually complained about all kinds of bad things encountered in Berlin in Chinese at the award ceremony party of the closing ceremony.

If Koslick knew about the situation at the moment, he would probably vomit blood in frustration, and it was not his fault that the film festival was not very successful.

Fortunately, Koslick didn't know that at six o'clock, in a round of applause, Koslick in a suit appeared on the stage, and he was the opening host of the closing ceremony, of course, his topic was still inseparable from politics.

It's the same thing, it's nothing more than a protest against the Iraq war launched by the United States, and then all kinds of boasting about how high our film festival is, how difficult it is for buddies to hold this film festival, you are not filmmakers if you don't give applause.

Sitting down listened attentively, but they were all smiling on the surface, and occasionally giving the chairman a round of applause, and in this seemingly enthusiastic atmosphere, Koslick was also satisfied.

After Koslick finished speaking, he appeared on the jury of the festival, where eight judges from different countries who work in film and different positions appeared, including Atom Igoyan, Martina Gedek, Anna Galena, Abdramana Shisaco, Herbert Bhashan......

It is estimated that everyone doesn't know these names, that's right, their fame is really not big, so I skipped it, Zhou Bai, who knows something about the jury, knows that the biggest problem for Gong Li to get the actress this time is how these people choose in the end, and there are more than one or two people who have a good impression of Hollywood.

Many people complain that the domestic awards party is very boring, in fact, the awards in Europe are even more boring, at least our domestic awards party still has a variety of songs and dances to watch, and the European side is filled with many awards and retrospective tributes that everyone has never heard of, in all fairness, everyone must be willing to watch a few minutes of singing and dancing and willing to watch all kinds of crooked and messy awards and dull reviews, right?

The Peace Film Award, the Berlin Grand Prix of United International Films, the Blue Angel Award, the Carrigari Film Award, the One Week Film Talent Award, the Manfred Sazgerberg Award, the Manfred Salzberg Award, the Wolfgang Studch Prize, the German Association of Arts and Cinemas Award are just a few of the awards presented at the festival, and many other awards are just a few of the awards offered at the festival.

However, soon awards related to domestic filmmakers were also awarded, "Hero" still won the award, the Alfred Bauer Award, and under the announcement of the host, Zhang Ziyi could only keep a smile and accept the award on stage on behalf of the crew.

"Congratulations Brother Bai, the movie has won the award, and you have a share!" Fan Ye said with a smile, and the people next to him who couldn't understand also congratulated him.

"Ahem, this award is a consolation prize, but it's okay to win a prize, I hope our movies won't win this kind of consolation prize in the future. Zhou Bai said with a wry smile, Lao Mouzi fortunately did not stay, otherwise it would be uncomfortable for a big director to go up to receive this kind of consolation prize.

"Bah, our movie will definitely win the award!"

"Yes, we can win the big prize!"

Everyone who reacted said one after another, Zhang Ziyi pretended to be happy on the stage to accept the award, are you so disgusted? Eh, it seems that Zhou Bai disliked it first.