Chapter 53: Passing By

The look of surprise on Liang Baoguang's face is not a performance, it is completely from the heart, since the opening of the film festival, he has not been a strong candidate for best director, so he never expected to win this award at all, and hearing his name when Jia Zhangke announced the winner of the award made him feel a little bad, which was different from what he had planned before. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The words "Best Director" will inevitably be a first-class award in other places, but the status of the Cannes Film Festival is not embarrassing, and even the Best Screenplay Award is ranked behind it, and it cannot be compared with the actor and actress in terms of weight. Liang Baoguang's plan is to support Quan Duyan to get a movie queen, and then use this achievement to recruit powerful actors at a low price to help him complete the filming of his next work.

According to the convention of sharing the cake at the Cannes Film Festival, after Liang Baoguang won the best director, Quan Duyan can basically say goodbye to the actress, and his follow-up arrangements are basically useless. Compared with "Best Director" and "Actress Maker", the latter is obviously more attractive, and the actors don't care about what honors the director has won, they only care about what benefits they can get.

Liang Baoguang was still very measured when facing the camera, the ugly expression on his face just flashed, and he immediately put on a just right smile and stood up, shaking hands and hugging the people around him. Due to the organizer's arrangement, all the Koreans sitting next to him were Koreans, so he just shook hands with Kim Ki-duk first, and gave Jeon Do-yeon a big hug, "Nuna, I'm sorry this time." ”

"What stupid things to say, you deserve it. Quan Duyan couldn't hide her disappointed look, she also knew that this time she was afraid that she would miss the title of Cannes actress, but she still sent her sincere blessings to Liang Baoguang, since she had made up her mind to follow the new students, the more help Liang Baoguang could get the future, "Hurry up and go on stage to receive the award, don't let so many people wait for you." ”

After that, there was a little episode, Liang Baoguang was going to go directly to the stage to accept the award, but when passing by the first row, Natalie Portman stopped him, not only took the initiative to hug him, but also kissed him on the cheek. Jane Fonda's had just done this a few minutes earlier, and it was unclear whether she meant it as a tribute or something else, which made the unprepared Liang Baoguang almost embarrassed.

Walking quickly onto the podium, Liang Baoguang took a deep breath after standing still, as if trying to calm his emotions, but the excitement and disbelief on his face never faded. These are his acting skills, his heart is actually very calm, and he is faintly disappointed, but he can't keep a straight face when he wins the award. Without any consideration, he spoke in standard Mandarin, "Good evening, Cannes." ”

"I didn't prepare the award announcement, because I didn't think that I would win the award, every director here is very good, and I will take this award as an encouragement and spur. Liang Baoguang opened his mouth to put his position very low, after all, he is only a young rookie director, and he has only made two films in total, "Here I would like to thank my teachers, who helped me on this path, and secondly, I would like to thank Ms. Jeon Do-yeon, who may have contributed more to "Miryang" than me, and finally thank my family, they have given me great support, thank you." ”

"Finally, I would like to say that, just like today, in fact, every filmmaker is standing on a huge stage, and only by the test of time can we know who is just passing by, and who is the real master of this stage. This sentence was domineering, and when he said this, Liang Baoguang's eyes swept over a certain big director wearing sunglasses in the audience, intentionally or unintentionally.

Wong Kar-wai has never wanted to deal with Liang Baoguang, and he has heard some of the previous rumors, but in his opinion, this is just a young man who is in a hurry to get out of the position, and he is not the same world at all. I've always treated this person as if this person didn't exist, but he couldn't help it when he was said like this at the awards ceremony, counting the experience of being a screenwriter back then, he has been making movies for 30 years, can he be called a hurried passerby? It's ridiculous.

Because Jia Zhangke was elected as the chairman of the jury, many media set the tone for this year's Cannes Film Festival a long time ago: China Night. Wong Kar-wai, as one of the representatives of the Celestial Empire films, is naturally rewarded by the atmosphere, even if "Blueberry Night" was sprayed by many people, he also felt that the Palme d'Or belonged to him, which is why he could sit calmly.

There are not many awards, and there are no entertainment performances in the middle of the award ceremony, so the awards ceremony went very fast, and Jeon Do-yeon was named before she had time to be sad, and the title of Cannes actress finally fell on her head. "Miryang" is a double hit!

It's not that there haven't been films that have won multiple awards before, but those films either have a local background or have received distribution support from large companies, and Liang Baoguang has nothing to do with his "Miryang", he can only look at Jia Zhangke's expression. Sony may have made a contribution behind it, but at most they just said hello, and it is impossible to really spend much effort, and it is likely that the chairman of the jury sitting on the stage can contribute to this situation.

Jeon Do-yeon didn't think too much, she only knew that she got her wish, she deeply felt the ups and downs of life in half an hour, and the tears couldn't stop falling after the trophy was in hand. If she won the actress without any waves, she would definitely be in high spirits, but after Liang Baoguang was selected as the best director, she thought that this trophy was really going to be lost to her, "Thank you, thank you very much." ”

In stark contrast to the triumph on the other side, the Palme d'Or was won by "Three Weeks and Two Days in April", while the Grand Jury Prize was won by "Funeral Forest", and the special 60th anniversary grand prize was won by "Psychedelic Park", while "Blueberry Night" was not won at all.

This is very embarrassing, because he is extremely sure that this will be a "Chinese night", so Wong Kar-wai called his friends and called a lot of unrelated Hong Kong stars to Cannes to cheer him on. If he succeeds in winning the Palme d'Or, this trip to Cannes will be a good story, a testament to the world conquered by the Hong Kong film model, but the foreplay is so well done, and in the end he is only a supporting role.

"Director Jia, thank you for your support. Liang Baoguang waited until the end of the awards ceremony, and found Jia Zhangke at the celebration banquet, he was able to win the Best Director award, someone must have worked hard behind the scenes, no matter what, he has to thank people well.

"That's because your movies are really good, and the movies of our Celestial Empire are counting on you young people to carry the flag. Jia Zhangke is very clear about his own positioning, and the path he chooses is destined to be difficult to follow, so he hopes that more mainstream directors will appear to control the development direction of domestic films.

"My own films, how many pounds and taels are still clear. Liang Baoguang is very modest, and he does not have the domineering attitude when he delivered his acceptance speech, "But some people, I'm afraid they don't know." ”

Liang Baoguang's irony is that everyone knows who it is, Jia Zhangke didn't pretend to be confused, in fact, he also had a bad opinion on some people, "It's weird enough to take that kind of movie to run for the election, give him face and let him not know how to advance or retreat after being shortlisted, and he doesn't say anything about it everywhere and hints that the media is putting pressure on the organizing committee, I don't know what to do." ”

"It is said that there are no good Hong Kong films after 97, it is our censorship that harms, but I haven't seen them sell any good results outside the left bank, originally Koreans still watched Hong Kong films, in recent years, hehe...... "In fact, not only South Korea, but also Southeast Asia and other places The situation is more serious, these are what Liang Baoguang has seen with his own eyes.

The biggest problem in the Hong Kong entertainment circle is that they can see money and do anything for money, and everyone in other places is at least concerned about their image, but they can shoot anything in order to be famous or make money. Some big directors or famous actors, obviously don't lack anything and don't know how to cherish feathers, nonsensical films, Fengyue films, and hunting films do not refuse, how ugly and ugly it is to eat. It is these people who have overdrawn the image of Hong Kong Entertainment, turned the results of the hard work of their predecessors into money in their own pockets, and when the audience refuses to buy it, they will finally blame others for being bad.

Liang Baoguang is an authentic Celestial Empire, and when chatting with Jia Zhangke, he treats the other party as his own, and there are not too many scruples between words, and finally Liang Baoguang repeatedly asks for a meal, Jia Zhangke has no choice but to throw someone else, "This time it was Miss Natalie Portman who mediated to help you win the Best Director award, I am at most a favor, if you want to thank her, thank her." ”

"I see. Liang Baoguang felt that if Wong Kar-wai knew about this, he might vomit blood in anger, Natalie Portman obviously killed the people in his crew, but used his personal connections to help an outsider.

Natalie Portman's energy in the French film industry is amazing, not because of a "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", but because she has only made literary films in recent years, and she is deeply loved by the French and deliberately manages her network in France. This time she used energy for Liang Baoguang, she was deliberate, this is a very good investment, and Jude Law said a lot of negative things about Liang Baoguang outside, so it is reasonable for her to apologize.