"What are you thinking?"

Gong Li's voice sounded in her ears, and Lin Youlun withdrew her gaze from the car window.

Gong Li sat next to Lin Youlun, her arms resting on her knees, the hair on her forehead was blown by the wind pouring in from the car window, her delicate face was half-hidden by her hair, and her beautiful eyes were still full of excitement after winning the award, and her face was radiant and charming.

The trophy for Best Actress in Cannes was packed in a delicate box, and she was held in her arms like a baby by Gong Li, but the golden trophy in the shape of palm branches and leaves in Lin Youlun's hand was held by him very casually.

The Cannes Film Festival will give out a total of two Palme d'Or trophies, one of which belongs to the short film section, but the conventional "Palme d'Or" only refers to the palm branch in the main competition unit, which is the one that Lin Youlun is now holding.

It has only been more than half an hour since the closing ceremony, and Gong Li can still clearly remember the situation when "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" won the award.

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the first time a Chinese-language film has won the Palme d'Or......" Lin Youlun was drowned out by stormy applause from the audience before he could finish the first sentence after taking the stage to accept the award.

After the applause stopped, Lin Youlun continued: "As the producer of the film, I must thank the director of this film, Mr. Xie Jin, and the heroine of the film, Miss Gong Li. In order to make this film, they broke through many worldly prejudices and obstacles, and completed the film with a great courage. Of course, I would also like to thank the chairman of the jury and all the members for allowing a Chinese film to win two awards at the same time, and your courage to break through the conventions is also admirable! ”

The thunderous applause seemed to be echoing in her ears, but Gong Li's thoughts had turned back to the present. The Palme d'Or for "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" came as a bit of a surprise. But it also makes sense. As the president of the jury after the closing ceremony, Koons? Tartintino later commented: "It was a difficult decision, and the other films are just as wonderful. Its style, philosophy and Palme d'Or are the most appropriate, so we chose it. ”

After the closing ceremony, Lin Youlun declined an interview with the local media in France and took Gong Li back to the hotel by car.

"I didn't say in my acceptance speech just now, but "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" is not the first Chinese-language film to win an award at Cannes." Lin Youlun padded the Palme d'Or trophy in his hand, turned his head to Gong Li and smiled: "Compared with your title of the first Chinese actress in Cannes, the meaning is much worse." Don't look at the Palme d'Or as the top prize, in fact, it is you who have gained the most this time. ”

Putting aside the jokes in Lin Youlun's words, Gong Li was a little curious about which Chinese film won an award at Cannes before "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily".

"In 1975, Hu Jinquan directed the martial arts film "Chivalrous Girl", which won the highest comprehensive technique award at the Cannes Film Festival that year, after the Palme d'Or and the Grand Jury Prize, and Hu Jinquan also became the first Chinese director to be internationally recognized. Lin Youlun paused, "Hu Jinquan also has an identity as Li Hanshen's brother-in-law. ”

Gong Li suddenly remembered that when she was changing clothes in the lounge before the closing ceremony began, Li Hanshen seemed to have come to Lin Youlun, and Lin Youlun mentioned Hu Jinquan at this time. Could it be related to Li Hanshen?

Li Hanshen is a master of making Fengyue films, while Hu Jinquan is a martial arts film director on the same level as Zhang Che. In future martial arts films, traces of Hu's martial arts can be seen everywhere, such as heroes walking alone in the rain, or fluttering in the treetops, which are almost the stereotype of martial arts films, or common scenes in martial arts films such as inns, bamboo forests, and temples, all of which were originally written by Hu Jinquan.

The first time I heard about the relationship between Li Hanshen and Hu Jinquan, Gong Li felt that this matter was quite fresh.

"Both of them are good at danqing, and the first errand to enter the film industry was to draw movie posters and do art sets. Master Hu has opened his own art exhibition, and Director Li Da is desperately filming to make money, frantically collecting ancient paintings, the number of fine products is enough to open a museum. Lin Youlun explained.

"So what has Mr. Hu been doing lately? Are you still making movies? Gong Li couldn't help but ask.

Lin Youlun had a headache when he mentioned this, if Hu Jinquan didn't make a movie, Li Hanshen wouldn't come to him for help because of Hu Jinquan's matter, the key is that Lin Youlun was still hesitating whether to help or not. There was no one around to help with the details, and there happened to be Gong Li as an audience, so Lin Youlun talked to her about it.

"In Hong Kong movies in the sixties and seventies, the martial arts theme was as popular as comedies now, and there were many powerful martial arts film directors in that era, among which the two most powerful people were Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan. In terms of achievements, Hu Jinquan sublimated martial arts films to the realm of philosophy, and attracted international attention, Zhang Che is much inferior to him; But when it comes to the box office, Zhang Che's movies are almost all blockbusters, while Hu Jinquan's movies are not loss-making, but it is difficult to make money. ”

Hu Jinquan's film cycle is too long, and often overspending, when he filmed "The Heroine", he spent 14 million Taiwan dollars just on the set, which was definitely a big deal at the time, but unfortunately the box office after the release of the film did not want to be so hot as expected, after a lapse of 3 years, Hu Jinquan wanted to send the film to Cannes to participate in the exhibition, the production company did not believe that the film could win the award, and refused to pay any more unnecessary expenses, Hu Jinquan had to borrow money to go at his own expense. At that time, the situation was that if "Chivalrous Girl" could not win the award, Hu Jinquan would become the laughing stock of the entire Chinese film industry, and he didn't know how to repay the debts he was carrying. Fortunately, that film won the award, and relying on European rights, it can finally make up for the loss at the local box office......"

From Lin Youlun's mouth, Gong Li learned that in the past ten years since the filming of "Chivalrous Girl", a director as famous as Hu Jinquan has only made 2 movies, which can be imagined how unpopular he is in the eyes of film studios.

On this issue, Lin Youlun said a fair word for Hu Jinquan: "The reason for such a situation is, on the one hand, Hu Jinquan's own problem; On the other hand, it is also because of the whole environment, martial arts movies are no longer as popular as they were in the sixties and seventies. ”

Because there is no drama to film, Hu Jinquan has basically been in a semi-retired state in recent years. Originally, the name Hu Jinquan was about to be forgotten by everyone, but there was still one person who remembered him, and he sincerely invited him out of the mountain, and this person was Xu Ke.

In addition to preparing for the sequel to "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Huang Feihong", he also won the adaptation rights of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" from Jin Yong, but he is not ready to direct it himself, which is also the characteristic of Xu Ke Film Studio, Xu Ke himself is a director, but he prefers to hang the title of producer.

Hu Jinquan's martial arts films all have a historical background, and the style pursues simplicity and solemnity, revealing the meaning of Zen, which is very similar to Jin Yong's martial arts novel style, and it is also very in line with Xu Ke's requirements.

Xu Ke felt that with Hu Jinquan's ability to control martial arts films, coupled with the amazing visual effects produced by the film studio, he would definitely be able to create a martial arts classic that was ancient and modern, and Hu Jinquan also felt that his sword was not old, so he took this opportunity to revive his strength, and the two sides hit it off.

Before taking on this movie, Hu Jinquan had heard of Xu Ke's production style, and he behaved very seniorly about Xu Ke's love to give opinions during the filming of the film, and felt that this was an artistic controversy.

Hu Jinquan wants to make a simple and romantic martial arts film, but Xu Ke wants to make a political fable that borrows from the past and the present, how to shoot it, Hu Jinquan thinks it can be discussed, but halfway through the film, Hu Jinquan found that he was set aside, the team of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" is from Xu Ke's film studio, and his director's intention cannot be implemented at all.

Hu Jinquan's female apprentice Xu Yuhua rushed to help after hearing about this, but she was also weak and couldn't help, plus Hu Jinquan was ill, so he quit the crew after only half of the filming.

First of all, Xu Ke is not authentic, Hu Jinquan is also a respected predecessor, if you invite someone to be a director, you should respect other people's creative ideas, and you shouldn't point fingers. But Xu Ke also has his own difficulties, Hu Jinquan's filming cycle has been repeatedly delayed, and the budget will run out soon, so Xu Ke has no choice but to use Cheng Xiaodong and Li Huiming to shoot in a hurry.

This matter fell into the eyes of others, and Xu Ke was infamy.

The film has not yet been filmed, but Xu Ke and Hu Jinquan have caused a storm in the city caused by the film, as Hu Jinquan's brother-in-law, Li Hanshen even publicly said: I'd rather starve to death than cooperate with Xu Ke.

This is not the end, Li Hanshen took advantage of the convenience in Cannes and went directly to Lin Youlun to sue Xu Ke, and even more earnestly hoped that Lin Youlun could stand up and say a fair word for Hu Jinquan.

Xu Ke is known as Xu Lao Wei, with a strange temper, he does his own thing, and he doesn't care about the outside world's evaluation of him at all, and Li Hanshen also knows this, so he thought of letting Lin Youlun come forward.

Lin Youlun's current influence in the Hong Kong film industry can be fully compatible, with the cinema in hand, whether it is a film company or a star artist, he has to sell his face, as long as he is willing to stand up for Hu Jinquan, Xu Ke can only pinch his nose and admit it no matter how unruly he is.

Li Hanshen's idea was very good, but he missed a point, in this matter, Lin Youlun was not completely on Hu Jinquan's side.

Lin Youlun felt that Hu Jinquan and Xu Ke were both responsible, he didn't really want to get involved, but Li Han begged him in detail, and he couldn't be completely indifferent.

should have played fifty boards each, but now they have to distinguish between right and wrong, which makes Lin Youlun really feel embarrassed.

[Ask for recommendations, monthly passes] (To be continued.) )