At the beginning of July, the 23rd West Berlin International Film Festival, the award ceremony, officially began.

The award ceremony proceeded according to the normal process, beginning with the jury taking the stage to thank you.

"It is an honour for me to participate in the West Berlin International Film Festival as the President of the Jury, where we have seen the best filmmakers from all countries, thanks to Satyajit Rey, whose films have taught us a lot, and to Arnaldo Garber, whose talent has blown us away..."

David Robinson, speaking on behalf of the jury, read out the manuscript that had been prepared long ago. Obviously, his manuscript was definitely not written by himself, and the signs of asking someone to catch the knife on his behalf are very strong, and he mentioned basically the filmmakers who participated in the exhibition and won the award.

Even Walter heard David Robinson shout "Thank you Bruce Lee, your philosophical kung fu made us suddenly shine", but the embarrassing thing was that Bruce Lee was not there, resulting in the cast and crew who recorded the video not taking pictures of the countless masters, God knows if the person who wrote this manuscript paid attention to the news and harmed David Robinson in vain.

But fortunately, it's not yet time for the live broadcast in the future, and it is estimated that this section will have to be cut after it is over. As for Bruce Lee, he naturally didn't want to meet Walter at all, and he didn't know that the movie was publicized by Walter, so he didn't come to Berlin from beginning to end, but entrusted Zou Wenhuai to handle things on his behalf, I'm afraid he didn't think he would win the award!

The jury gave a speech, and the audience applauded, and then the organizers thanked them.

After the local representatives in Germany and the representatives of the U.S. Embassy in Germany said something like "film is art" and maybe only they understood it, the previous process finally began with the representative of the U.S. Embassy in Germany and officially entered the award process.

During this time, Mike patted Walter, and then whispered to Walter that the representative of the US Embassy in Germany, who was one of the organizers, was Larry, who agreed to public relations this time.

No wonder, it turns out that he is the American official who directly controls this West Berlin International Film Festival, so he is so sure. Thinking of this, Walter couldn't help but regret a little, he knew that this was the case, he might as well directly publicize the Silver Bear Award, after all, the Golden Bear Award public relations is not available, but there are five Silver Bear Awards, and it should be no problem to spend a little more money.

It's just that the five Silver Bear Awards, which is quite a bit of a cake shared by everyone, obviously a little bit out of momentum, forget it is better to have a special award from the jury, at least one, and after winning the award, even if it breaks out in the dark, it will not make people have too many doubts.

At the beginning of the awards, although there were many shortlisted films at the West Berlin International Film Festival, there were only seven awards actually awarded, one Golden Bear for the best, five Silver Bears, and one special jury award.

Among them, the special jury award was originally changed from the tradition of ordinary fans to select awards at the film festival, and after 1957, all of them were changed to the jury voting system, and the cultural taste slowly appeared, and it was officially established, so the award was presented quickly.

In line with the principle that the worst is the first way and the best is saved for the last, the first award is naturally the Special Jury Award.

When the host spoke, Walter stopped talking, he was inexplicably nervous, although he knew that he had already decided to win the award, but he was still very nervous, maybe this was the first film in his life to be a producer to win the award, empathize......

In addition, the result of the matter has not come out, and the ghost knows if something will happen......

The special jury award was presented to a well-known actress in West Germany, Walter didn't know him, but the other party was not bad, and he didn't say any nonsense, and directly opened the lottery: "My God! Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon!"

There was a sudden hint of restlessness in the audience, although "Enter the Dragon" is a predicted hit, but it is still difficult to accept that this kung fu film won the award.

It's not because this is an Asian movie, after all, before that, many Korean RB films won awards in Berlin, and the most important reason is that the film attributes of "Enter the Dragon" are not suitable for awards.

How to say it, Bruce Lee's movie can be said to be of good quality, and the kung fu and philosophy in it are shocking, but after all, it is a very obvious commercial film, how can it win awards?

Whether it is now or in the future, in the eyes of these European filmmakers, if you make a commercial film, then you should make more box office and let the audience pay more, as for all kinds of famous awards, it is still reserved for art films that have no box office, but are very in-depth, after all, movies are artistic, and no entertainment business dares to insult movies.

There was a lot of discussion in the audience, but Zou Wenhuai, who took the stage to accept the award instead of Bruce Lee, got up on stage with a calm face and a smile. In the end, it is a person who has seen the wind and waves, but it doesn't matter at all what these people say, I'm afraid there are reasons why he can't understand many languages!

In short, regardless of those who may be red-eyed or skeptical, what they say, regardless of what they think, Bruce Lee, who was not present, has already been represented by Zou Wenhuai and won the Special Jury Award at the 23rd West Berlin International Film Festival.

Since then, the West Berlin International Film Festival will have another "shady" history, of course, these have nothing to do with Walter. He only knows that with this, the preliminary publicity for the release of "Enter the Dragon" will be more effective, presumably Mike's subordinates, who are now outside the court, may have passed the news back to the United States, and they will be reported tomorrow.

There is no big surprise in the next awards, and the five Silver Bear awards at this year's West Berlin International Film Festival only have Best Picture, and there is no later Best Actor and Actress and the like, which is still developing.

The five Silver Bears for Best Picture went to Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's "The Seven Maniacs", Yves Robert ("The Man in a Black Shoe" by Yves Robert, Arnaldo Garber "Naked to be Punished", David Hemmings - David Hemmings "Parting Christmas" and Norbert K̈ckelmann's "The Expert".

As for the Golden Bear, it was given to Satyajit Rey, who has not won the Golden Bear Award many times, and he won the crown of the 23rd West Berlin International Film Festival with "Thunder in the Distance".

As speculated by the media, Satyajit Rey and Arnaldo Garber both had a bumper harvest, but it was clear that in the end, seniority prevailed over homegrown advantage.

It can be said that this West Berlin International Film Festival did not cause any big upsets, if there is, it is the belated participation in "Enter the Dragon", which won the special jury award after only a few days of screening, which is obviously suspicious.

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