Chapter 140: Crow's Beak
On May 8, the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival closed. The ceremony will produce all the important awards, including Best Actor and Actress, Best Picture.
When Zhang Ran walked into the venue of the awards ceremony with the crew of "Time Prisoner", it was already crowded. This is not his first film festival award ceremony, he has won awards for short films he made while he was a student, and he has attended some film festivals. The scene of the award ceremony looked no different from what he had attended before.
Zhang Ran was placed in the third row near the middle aisle, I don't know if it was intentional by the organizers, next to them was the crew of "Lost Memories 2009". What is surprising is that Li Shiming did not slip away, but sat in the seat with a golden sword.
Zhang Ran was a little surprised, Li Shiming's "Lost Memories 2009" is now ranked nineteenth, while Zhang Ran's "Time Prisoner" is ranked second, with a difference of nearly 2,000 votes. Li Shiming has already lost, and he still dares to attend the award ceremony, did he forget to bet? Or did he already have a naked **?
He looked at Li Shiming and greeted with a smile: "Director Li, I thought you went back to South Korea?"
Li Shiming said lightly: "The film festival is not over yet, why should I go back to South Korea? I am willing to gamble and lose, if I really lose, I will run naked!"
When Zhang Ran heard him say this, he had two more respects for him, although some of this guy's behaviors were contemptible, but at least he was still a man. He nodded at Li Shiming and came to his place to sit down.
After sitting for a few minutes, Zhang Ran saw Hu Jun sitting precariously with a serious face. He lowered his voice and said, "Brother Jun, I have inside information. I heard that you have a chance to win a prize! Are you nervous, do you want to go to the bathroom?"
Hu Jun glanced at Zhang Ran: "Is it interesting to tease me, a middle-aged woman and man?"
Zhang Ran also felt that it didn't mean much. He leaned his head towards Zhang Jingchu and said in a low voice: "Jingchu, I have inside information, I heard that you have a chance to win the prize!
Zhang Jingchu looked at him and smiled: "What if I don't get it, you will compensate me for one?"
Zhang Ran smiled: "I'll draw one for you, do you want one?"
Zhang Jingchu nodded and said, "Yes!"
Soon, the lights in the screening room dimmed. The scene gradually fell silent.
The host came and said a few simple opening remarks, and then the jury appeared. The five judges, Jang Ran, knew Kim Ki-duk, who was the winner of the last Golden Crow Awards.
The film festival awards ceremony is not like the American Oscars and Golden Globe Awards, which will do a lot of tricks and intersperse song and dance performances. They are always simple and neat, both for the purpose of saving money and for the purpose of expressing their maverick personality.
After the jury appeared, they directly began to present the awards: "Here are the award presenters. Mr. Jensen, President of the Festival, announced the winners of the Best Audience Award. ”
The host invited Jenson to the stage, and the other party took the microphone and opened the list, and the whole hall was silent.
He said slowly: "This year's Best Audience Award came out with a little problem. An hour before the start of the awards film up. There was a movie that rose by 2,000 votes, while the top three movies all rose by only a dozen votes. The technicians checked the addresses of the voters and found that they were all from abroad. So we cleared those invalid votes. ”
After three seconds of silence, the sound of mosquito-like chattering swelled like a tidal wave. In just a few seconds, it turned into a tsunami!
Huge boos rang out. Some people even shouted: "Who? It's so shameless! This is simply an insult to the film festival, and it is not worthy of a film at all!"
"It's a shame that you swiped tickets!"
"This is a ticket swipe, I didn't expect someone to do this at the film festival!" Hu Jun looked at Jensen on the stage in shock, his face full of shock.
The Best Audience Award actually doesn't mean much to a movie, and if you win this award, you can't sell it for more money, so how can someone swipe tickets? Zhang Ran couldn't help but look up at Li Shiming, only to see that Li Shiming was like a deflated ball, and the whole person was spread out on the chair, looking at the stage in a daze. No wonder Li Shiming refused to slip away, and said that he was righteous and awe-inspiring, it turned out that he had found someone to help him swipe the ticket! Zhang Ran secretly rejoiced, fortunately the organizing committee found out, otherwise he would have been miserable.
Takashi Miike and Hideo Tanaka guessed that Li Shiming did it at the first time when they heard the votes, and they cast contemptuous glances at him, which was too shameless. Park Chan-wook couldn't stop shaking his head, it was really embarrassing, fortunately the organizing committee didn't say that the people in that place were voting, otherwise he would have splashed with sewage.
At this time, Jensen closed the cards and announced with a smile: "The winner of the best audience at the 19th Brussels Fantastic Film Festival is "The Knife Goes Sideways"!"
The audience burst into applause and cheers, and film director Vincenzo Natali took the stage to accept the award amid applause. His film "Cube" has a very high status among horror and sci-fi movie fans, and although his film "The Knife Goes Away" film critics gave it a low rating, the audience liked it very much, and he led the way throughout the voting process.
The award ceremony continued, and some people were happy and some disappointed when each award was produced, after all, when they came to the film festival, they still had some desire for the award in their hearts.
Zhang Ran came to the film festival with the purpose of traveling, mainly to play, but now that the awards have begun, he still hopes that he can win the award. No one will have too much honor.
was soon awarded the Best Actress, and it was really not Zhang Jingchu. This is also in everyone's expectation, although the role of Cai Yan is quite popular with the audience, but in terms of performance, there is not much room at all, and the difficulty of the performance is low.
Zhang Ran took out a pen from his pocket, then squeezed Zhang Jingchu's hand and drew a crow on her palm. When the crow was finished, he announced in a low voice: "Zhang Jingchu's performance in "Time Prisoner" is good, and her role is deeply loved by the audience, so I will be awarded the Ink Crow Award!"
Zhang Jingchu looked at the crow in her hand and was about to speak, but she heard the award presenter announce loudly on the stage: "The winner of the Best Actor at this year's Fantasy Film Festival is Hu Jun of "Time Prisoner"!"
"I've won the award, it's Brother Jun!"
"We've won a prize!"
Zhang Ran and the others were stunned, and then cheered. Hu Jun couldn't believe his ears. looked at Zhang Ran and pointed to his nose. Zhang Ran nodded with a smile, and then said loudly: "That's right." That's you!"
Hu Jun couldn't believe that at the beginning of the year, he was shortlisted for the Best Actor at the Academy Awards and Golden Horse Awards for the movie "Lan Yu". The calls were very high, but he lost to Liu Ye at the Golden Horse Awards, and Zhou Xingchi at the Academy Awards, which made him quite disappointed.
This time, he knew that "Time Prisoner" was very popular at the film festival and received rave reviews, but he never thought that he could win the award, and now he has actually won the award, which is really a joy from heaven!
"Don't stand. Hurry up and claim your prize. Zhang Ran reminded loudly.
"I didn't even prepare a speech, I didn't know what to say. Hu Jun smiled and tidied up his clothes, and walked towards the stage with steady steps.
"Just thank me a lot!" Zhang Ran shouted at Hu Jun.
In the warm applause, Hu Jun received the trophy from the hands of the award presenters. He raised the trophy in his hand and said into the microphone: "Thank you to the jury for awarding this award to me, thank you to all the cast and crew members, I am very happy to film with you, and I hope to continue to cooperate in the future! Finally, I must thank our director Zhang Ran." Director Zhang, you are the best!"
Back in their seats, everyone naturally rushed to enjoy the trophy.
Zhang Ran held the trophy in one hand, touched his chin with the other and said proudly: "I said it so casually." I didn't expect it to be accurate, if I said that we were going to win the Golden Crow Award, what would the effect be?" and then he said ten times in a row that "Time Prisoner" wanted to win the Golden Crow.
The awards ceremony soon came to an end, and only the Golden Crow Award for Best Picture remained. At this time, the award presenters walked onto the stage. It was Kim Ki-duk, the winner of the last year's Best Picture.
Everyone in the audience held their breath, and the air froze a little. Even Zhang Ran, who was calm-minded, became nervous.
On stage, Kim Ki-duk smiled and waved his hand, unfolding the card printed with the golden crow. He announced with a smile: "The winner of the Best Film Award at the 19th Brussels Fantastic Film Festival is "Time Prisoner", congratulations!"
The grand music suddenly rose, and the applause spread in all directions.
Hu Jun and the others all jumped out and shouted excitedly: "Crow's mouth, absolute crow's mouth, this is too accurate!"
"Zhang Ran, quickly say that I will win 5 million!"
"It's too spiritual, say that Zhang Ziyi wants to marry me!"
Zhang Jingchu pursed her lips and smiled: "What nonsense are you talking about, the good ones don't work, the bad ones are called crow's mouths, and this is called Chrysostom Yuyan!"
Zhang Ran didn't expect to really win the award, he was in a good mood, and threatened everyone: "I'm Chrysostom now, follow my words, don't mess with me, otherwise I will curse you!"
Everyone burst into laughter, and then pushed him to the stage: "Okay, come on stage to receive the award!"
Under the applause and gaze of the audience, Zhang Ran steadily walked onto the stage, took the golden trophy from Kim Ki-duk, and then held it high.
Li Shiming opened his mouth wide and looked at Zhang Ran on the stage with a ghostly expression. Park Chan-wook shook his head, and then applauded vigorously, after watching "Time Prisoner" that day, he knew that Zhang Ran would win the award, but he didn't expect to get the highest award: "What a great person!"
While applauding, Takashi Miike shook his head at Hideo Tanaka and said, "He really has a talent for making horror movies, it's a pity!"
Hideo Tanaka disagreed: "I think it's really a waste for him to make horror movies!"
Zhang Ran stood in front of the microphone, took a deep breath, and said, "Thank you, I'm very happy to win this award." Two days ago, I saw that the house magazine said that I was an idealist, and if I think about it, it is really true. It is the dream that has supported me step by step to get to where I am today and to this stage. Although I have encountered many setbacks along the way, I always believe that hope will not die, dreams will not die, and I will still believe in the future, thank you!"
After the testimonial, Zhang Ran walked off the stage in high spirits. Returning to his seat, he carefully examined everyone's faces, and said with a serious face: "Jing Chu will marry a good man in the future, Brother Jun will definitely be popular next year, and Brother Tao's daughter-in-law will give birth to a big fat son soon......"
Everyone laughed, everyone was waiting for Zhang Ran's joke, but they didn't expect Zhang Ran to say it as soon as he came, and laughed one by one: "As soon as your golden mouth opens, it seems that we all have good luck." ”
In a burst of laughter, the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival came to a successful conclusion. (To be continued......)
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