In addition to Zhao Zhenghao's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and Xu Yihan's "Fang Yuan", which were shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's Cannes International Film Festival, there are also a number of Dragon Kingdom films selected for the "Director's Fortnight", "A Special Attention" and other sub-units.

The reason why the Cannes International Film Festival is favored by more and more filmmakers is that its purpose is to pay equal attention to art and commerce.

After all, not everyone can be like Zhao Zhenghao, who has his own aura of popularity, and the director's works do not need to be shouted, and some people rush to cooperate in overseas markets.

Just as during the three major film festivals of Dragon Country, there will be a large influx of foreign films in an attempt to enter the Dragon Country Film Market, and the works of small production companies and directors of Dragon Country want to go abroad and participate in the three major international film festivals in Europe, which is the most convenient way.

As early as more than a month ago, the organizing committee of the film festival publicly announced that Zhao Zhenghao's fourth directorial work "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was selected as the opening film of this year's Cannes International Film Festival!

Dragon Kingdom films have continued to perform well at the Cannes International Film Festival over the years, but there has never been a Dragon Kingdom film that has become the opening film of the festival, and this award has now been won by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

The film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was originally shot by Zhao Zhenghao in order to cater to the European and American markets, and the core of the film is not only strong in the characteristics of the Dragon Kingdom, but also mixed with a lot of Western values, a combination of East and West, which is naturally more acceptable to Westerners than Zhao Zhenghao's previous directorial works.

The film selection and organizing committee of the Cannes International Film Festival, after watching the finished film of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", were amazed and amazed, and their love for this film was beyond words.

Although the film festival has not officially opened yet, and there are many other participating films that have not been seen, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has been recognized as the favorite of this year's Cannes International Film Festival!

Therefore, Zhao Zhenghao did not feel any pressure, but the pressure on Hu Zhenlong and Zhao Tianyi increased significantly.

There is a very important reason why the status of the three major international film festivals in Europe in the international film industry is slightly inferior to the Academy Awards, because there is a clear difference between the selection process of the three major international film festivals in Europe and the Academy Awards.

The three major international film festivals in Europe, and even the three major international film festivals in Dragon Country, have the right to select major awards in the hands of the more than 20 judges of the jury, and the chairman of the jury has more power.

Although these judges are all professional film practitioners and media professionals, and the selection criteria are fair and just, as long as they are people, they will inevitably have tendencies, so the award-winning results of each of these film festivals will cause some controversy.

The Academy Awards are also in the hands of the judges, but the scale of the judges here is far better than other film festivals, there are thousands of them, although it cannot be absolutely said that the number of people participating in the selection will be able to ensure absolute fairness and justice, but the difficulty of publicizing so many people will inevitably be much greater.

Although the increase in the number of judges still does not guarantee 100% fairness and fairness, it is at least much fairer and fairer in terms of perception than handing over the attribution of awards to 20 or so individuals.

Especially in the case of this year's Cannes International Film Festival, where the chairman of the jury is from the Dragon Kingdom, and the award-winning favorite is the Dragon Country film, whether "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" wins the award or not, and the fairness of the jury will cause discussion.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the award, and people will say that the jury, especially the chairman of the jury, gave it to each other privately and favored his compatriots; if "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" did not win the award, the controversy would be even greater, because the quality of the film is obvious, and if such a film does not win the award, is there any reason for heaven?

Therefore, if you want to say that the person with the most headache at this Cannes International Film Festival is none other than Hu Zhenlong.

Hu Zhenlong, as one of the top five directors in the Dragon Kingdom, started by making commercial films when he first debuted, and the films he made repeatedly broke the box office records of the Dragon Kingdom films, but at that time, he was not very accepted by the Dragon Kingdom Film Circle, which had the right to speak in the hands of art film directors, and was outside the core circle of the Dragon Kingdom Film Circle for a long time.

However, when the development of Dragon Kingdom films enters the fast lane, the commercial value of the film, to put it simply, is the box office, which is more and more important, and the box office performance is high, and Hu Zhenlong, who is unmatched among directors of the same generation, will naturally rise in the circle.

However, those "art masters" who stick to their own film concepts, are obsessed with art, and refuse to move closer to business, but they are gradually abandoned by the market, and their appeal and influence are overtaken by Hu Zhenlong.

Forced by the situation, those "art masters" eventually had to bow to capital, change their ideas, and try to find the perfect combination of art and commerce, but the results of the attempts are often not satisfactory.

At this time, Hu Zhenlong, as he grew older, his position in the circle was stable, the resources available in his hands increased, and he could shoot the movies he wanted to make as he wanted.

In this way, it is just in line with the needs of the current film market, and it is natural to receive fame and fortune, and while the box office performance continues to be high, various awards have also followed, including the "Palme d'Or", the highest award of the Cannes International Film Festival.

Although Hu Zhenlong is not the first Dragon Country director to win the "Palme d'Or", nor will he be the last, he is still active among the fifth-generation directors of the Dragon Kingdom who won the "Palme d'Or", while most of the other fifth-generation directors who won the award have not had new directorial works for a long time.

This is one of the reasons why he was invited to be the president of the jury of this year's Cannes International Film Festival.

Why Hu Zhenlong has a headache, Zhao Zhenghao doesn't know and doesn't care.

After entering May 2019, Zhao Zhenghao had to end this long vacation, flew back to Beijing from Sanya, and after a few months, he once again walked into the office building of "Zhenghao Studio" to participate in the mobilization meeting before going to Cannes.

This trip to Cannes is not only the first time for Zhao Zhenghao, but also the first time for all colleagues in the "Zhenghao Studio".